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With four children and a business to keep up with, the kind of books that I find time for these days is pretty much limited to bedtime stories. The last book my five-year-old son discovered (and timely at that) on his book shelf was My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Christine King Farris.
This book gives a glimpse into the childhood of Martin Luther King Jr., through intimate stories shared by his older sister, and heartwarming illustrations by Chris Seontpiet. I love how the stories and illustrations weave together a memoir filled with tenderness and compassion, and yet evoke a sense of vibrancy, purpose, and character.
This book offers a very gentle and thought provoking way to introduce the struggles of the civil rights era to children, and the progress that our country has made due to the sacrifices of people like Dr. Martin Luther King. When we finished reading the book, my son said, "I want to be like Martin.", which can only make a mama feel good.
--Dana Scherer keeps herself enchanted with little ones, both as a mama and a local children's photographer. She lives in Germantown and is a proud parent of two students at Wissahickon Charter School. You can find more on her photography and family adventures at Bamboo Photography. | <urn:uuid:a2c13a55-0fc6-47bd-a9b6-455af71c4de1> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://bigbluemarblebooks.blogspot.com/2011/01/last-book-i-loved-my-brother-martin-by.html | 2016-02-06T06:50:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701146196.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193906-00134-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962385 | 284 |
August closes with only six investment rounds and a cumulative €13.52M in investment, a very low figure that causes a drop in investment in startups in Spain at the end of the eighth month of the year.
July closed with 137,027 million euros invested in startups in Spain, a very interesting figure but somewhat lower than the investment seen in the same month in 2018 (188.56 million euros). This figure reflects that the accumulated investment in Spain following the closing of the seventh month is maintained at very similar numbers to those seen last year.
Travelperk has closed a 53 million Euro round with the support of Kinnevik, Partners of DST Global, Target Global, Felix Capital, Sunstone, and LocalGlobe.
Emérita Legal finishes its round of funding for €260.000 only after 4 days since its release date on Startupxplore. The €125.000 obtained by this route, in which several recognized lawyers and judicial and technology professionals took part, supplement the €135.000 from known business angels, funds, and other sources.
Adara Ventures, an established European Venture Capital (VC) firm based in Luxembourg, has announced that it has completed the first closing of its third fund (Adara Ventures III) with commitments in excess of €65 million. The new fund is backed by repeat cornerstone investors which include the European Investment Fund (EIF) and FondICO Global, as well as new benchmark investors, such as the Institut Català de Finances (ICF), Prosegur and Draper Esprit.
Ironhack, a Miami based company with 9 campuses in the US, Europe and LATAM, announced today an additional $4 million investment led by JME Venture Capital for the second time in two years, bringing Ironhack’s total funding to date to $7 million.
June does not slow down and maintains ascending constancy regarding investments in Spain, exceeding the figure of 81 million Euro invested in startups in our country in a total of 19 public operations. A figure that keeps alive the hopes of increasing investment this year (476,226 million Euro invested in Spanish technology) compared to 2018, the month ended with €431.3 million, a slightly lower figure.
PANGEA The Travel Store has closed a capital increase of 9 million Euro with which the company intends to complete its value proposition at the technological, product and equipment level. Also Citibox has raised 11 million Euro in its Series A investment round, in which Javier Rubió has also participated, with which the Spanish company accelerates and consolidates its national expansion in Madrid and Barcelona.
Verse, the Fintech App for millennials, obtains European payment license and closes a seed funding round for Euro7M led by Greycroft Partners LLC and international investors to expand to other European markets such as Italy, France and Portugal.
May shows a decrease in investment in startups in Spain after the month ended with a cumulative 28.3 million Euro invested in a total of 13 operations and the hangover from April. Despite the fall in the cumulative investment in May, 2019 (€393.62m) continues to have a higher cumulative investment than 2018 (€333.16m). | <urn:uuid:aa6afc81-b7e4-4ac4-b68f-9a1291f6bd34> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://startupsreal.com/tag/investments/ | 2019-09-16T08:59:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514572516.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190916080044-20190916102044-00012.warc.gz | en | 0.956598 | 655 |
The messenger of God, bearer of news and announcer of the lord, bring home this iconic symbol with the Gabriel with Trumpet Statue. This stunning statue depicts the archangel with his wings spread wide as he holds a cross-capped staff in one hand and is blowing his trumpet in the other. In the statue Gabriel wears an ornate breastplate over chain mail and a leather tasset. The statue is crafted entirely in cold cast bronze and painted to give the metallic finish some eye-catching accents. The Gabriel with Trumpet Statue is a perfect little touch for any who are interested in the angelic lore of heaven.
- Inspired by classic archangel depictions
- Highly detailed with painted accents
- Depicts archangel Gabriel, the messenger of God
- Made from Cold Cast Bronze
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If you use Pages to create documents for your own business or the company you work for, you may want to add a watermark. Whether a word like “confidential” or an image of your logo, you can add that watermark so that it blends into the background and appears on every page of your document.
In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to add a watermark in Pages on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Create and add a watermark in Pages
Add a watermark in Pages on Mac
In this how-to we’re going to start with the instructions for Mac simply because the process is easier on a computer than a mobile device. If you use Pages with iCloud on all your Apple devices, then I’d suggest creating the watermark on Mac where you have more workspace and control over the object.
If you don’t use Pages on Mac, you can jump down to the instructions for adding watermark on iPhone and iPad.
Open a document in Pages on your Mac. You can create a new document or add the watermark to an existing one. If you choose to add it to an existing document, it’s easiest to add a new blank page and create the watermark there where you have more space.
1) Choose an object to insert from the toolbar. You’ll likely pick Text for a simple word or phrase or choose Media > Photos if you have a logo you want to use.
If you want to add text, go ahead and enter the word or term in the text box you insert. And for either type of objects, you can click the Format button to open the sidebar and format, rotate, or change its size as you like.
You should also move the object where you want to display it on each page.
2) If you haven’t already, click the Format button to open the sidebar and then select Style.
3) Make sure your object is selected and then adjust the Opacity using the slider or arrows. This is what gives your watermark transparency.
4) Once your object is on the page where and how you want it, click Arrange from the menu bar.
5) Go down to Section Masters and pick Move Object to Section Master.
Now your watermark will display on every page in your document the same way.
Edit your watermark on Mac
If you decide later that you want to edit or even remove your watermark, you can do so easily.
Click Arrange > Section Masters and check Make Master Objects Selectable from the menu bar.
You can then make your edits or remove the watermark. When you finish, head to that same spot in the menu bar and uncheck Make Master Objects Selectable.
Add a watermark in Pages on iPhone and iPad
As mentioned, you can add a watermark in Pages on iOS, but it may be a bit more difficult because of the area you have to work and amount of control you have over the objects.
To get started, open Pages to a document on your iPhone or iPad. Then, follow these steps to add your watermark.
1) Tap an empty space on the page so that nothing is selected.
2) Tap the Style button (brush icon) at the top.
3) In the pop-up window, choose the Document tab.
4) Scroll to the bottom and tap Document Setup.
5) Tap the plus sign at the top to add your object. Note: If you want to add a text box, this option is in the Shapes > Basic section.
Format, move, and adjust your object so that it’s on the page the way and location you want it.
6) Tap the Style button again, making sure the object is selected, and pick Style.
7) Move the slider for Opacity to give the object the percentage of transparency you want.
8) Tap Arrange in that same window and then Lock. By locking the object, you’ll prevent it from being edited or accidentally moved.
9) Tap Done.
Your watermark will now appear on every page in your document.
Edit your watermark on iOS
If you want to change or remove your watermark, start by following Steps 1 to 4 above so that you’re back in the Document Setup area.
1) Select your object and tap Unlock. You can then edit or remove your watermark.
2) If you simply make edits to it, rather than deleting it, you should lock it again when you finish.
3) Tap Done.
Wrapping it up
Adding a watermark to your Pages document is convenient in some cases and necessary in others. So knowing how to do this on Mac and iOS for your business documents should help.
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Mary Mohan studied the flute from the age of 8, quickly getting to grade 5 and into the school orchestra. Then she discovered other instruments and nagged her mother for a cello. She was promised a cello if she got a distinction in her grade 5 flute exam, and the rest is history!
Mary studied cello, flute, conducting and musicology at the University of Huddersfield and now works as an instrumental teacher and freelance musician teaching a range of instruments.
Her biggest influence in recent years has been Jordi Savall, whose recordings have opened up a whole world of Medieval and Renaissance music. She also runs her own group, Archaedium, which specialises in medieval music.
In Piva, Mary plays viol, recorder, crumhorn and percussion.BACK | <urn:uuid:7d62ec57-a021-4dd2-a9d7-de71dc5bd21f> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://piva.org.uk/classic-shop/about/mary-mohan/ | 2019-03-23T22:46:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203093.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190323221914-20190324003914-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.971584 | 165 |
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Nothing like a crisp fall golden-hour night. Well, maybe a pina colada on the beach. But come on, look at how beautiful Milwaukee is!
I discovered this uniquely lovely riverwalk space on a local photographer’s Instagram and knew I had to go. It’s so gorgeous in person and is the perfect playground for a blogger.
If you haven’t noticed by now, fall is my favorite season. I have never been partial to summer or warmer weather fashion. I mean, if you live in the Midwest as I do, you must love colder weather (better) or you should probably move south. Something about putting on a warm sweater or pair of boots, really gets my spirit going!
I found this beautiful trench coat earlier this summer on my first visit to the Fashion Outlets of Chicago. If you haven’t gone, boy, are you missing out. They have every store from Gucci, to Diane Von Furstenberg, to Burberry. I picked up this scalloped beauty from Club Monaco. I paired it with my trusty Target tank top and of course, added a pop of pattern with the earrings and heels.
What is your favorite season for fashion?
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Castles, cafes and calories
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Where did all the tourists come from? Charles Bridge was jammed with tourist groups and we heard more English, French and Spanish than Czech in the old city center. We thought the week of Carnivale had translated into holidays for many, but in any case, our plan to stay clear of the Olympic hordes was foiled.
Unscathed by WWII, the sights of old Prague are straight out of a movie set
Complete cafe culture. The Viennese pride themselves in the finer arts and delicacies, knowing full well they can not compete with the industrial might of their German neighbors. So they focus on coffee, cakes, music, opera, and chocolate--even if the costs reach exorbitant levels. We wondered where all the affluent descendants of old Austrian aristocracy lived, beacuse someone must afford all these expensive luxuries. For the less affluent, there are city trams for contemplation, and plenty of bookshops and litterati cafes where one can ingest a heap of cigarette smoke and debate philosophiocal thought.
We stuck to the more mundane: Sacher torte and apple strudel.
We were also impressed with the way Mercedes barreling down at demonic speeds would come to screeching halts in order to yield the right of way to pedestrians. Everything is very orderly and regimented. Everything that is, except queing, when it's still every man and woman for themselves. It may be the capital of finer arts and social philosophy, but it's still Europe! | <urn:uuid:42d1401e-176c-40b7-9cf2-4422d69d35e1> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/cherylandreza/europe_2006/1141084140/tpod.html | 2015-08-03T00:02:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042989301.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002309-00102-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941564 | 339 |
- Intelligent vs Dumb Modems
- The AT Command Set
- Operating Modes
- Going On-line
- Speed Buffering
- Error Correction
- Data Compression
- Common Configuration Setup Strings
A modem is a DCE (data communications equipment). A DCE plugs into a DTE (data terminal equipment). Examples of DTE are personal computers, computer terminals and terminal servers.
Intelligent vs Dumb Modems
A dumb modem is one where all the settings and operations have to be performed manually. This includes setting the connection speed, dialling telephone numbers, pushing switches to go on-line, and pushing switches to hang-up at the end of a call.
An intelligent modem has some built-in processing power (i.e., it has a small computer inside it). As a result no switches are needed: the modem can be put into a command mode in which it will respond to keyboard instructions as well as to commands issued by software. Intelligent modems can dial telephone numbers or answer incoming calls automatically. This provides greater flexibility and allows the modem to be used in unattended, software controlled, operation.
Dumb modems are quite rare now. Almost all modems sold are intelligent modems.
Most intelligent modems use the AT command set (sometimes called the Hayes AT command set, after Hayes Microcomputer Products of the USA, who originally designed this now industry standard command set).
The AT Command Set
The AT commands are used to configure the modem to your preferred operating mode and to instruct the modem to do what you want it to do, such as dial telephone numbers and connect to bulletin boards or the internet, or to answer incoming calls.
The AT command set is so named because to get the modems ATtention, so that you can issue a command, the first two characters that are sent are A and T. Following the AT is the command(s) for the modem. The command(s) is executed when a <CR> (carriage return or enter) is entered.
Note that while the AT command set is an industry standard, it has evolved over the years to accommodate the requirements of faster modem speeds. In addition, different manufacturers have added their own commands to perform various functions. In many cases the same function is performed by a different command on different modems. However, there is a core of AT commands that are common to all modems. AdvanCom modems comply with the Rockwell variant of the AT Command Set, which is one of the most common. This documents describe the AT commands of AdvanCom modems.
Once a command is executed the modem returns (i.e., sends to the DTE) a result code (also called a response code). The result code indicates the success or failure of the command. Success is indicated by a variety of responses, depending on the content of the command string. Examples of successful responses are the OK and CONNECT responses. Failure of a command is indicated by the ERROR response.
Result codes can be either text, also called verbose, as shown above, or numeric, i.e., a number that is equivalent to the text response. For clarity the verbose response codes are used in the examples in this document.
The AT commands which effect the result codes are:
- Quiet command. This command controls whether result codes are sent, or not sent.
- Result code form. This command controls whether the result codes issued are verbose or numeric.
- This command controls which result codes are issued.
AT Command Strings
The simplest AT command is:
This results in the response of OK. Meaning that the modem received the AT command and executed it without errors. A typical command is:
AT I4 <CR>
This command requests the modems model and revision. A typical response is:
AdvanCom V.34 bis Modem V2.050_3W 970116
Multiple commands may be placed on a command line.
AT I4 I2 <CR>
Each command consists of one or more characters and one or more numbers. If the characters are entered without a number, the modem treats the command as if the number entered was a zero.
Spaces can be used to separate individual commands, to make it easier to read the command string. The spaces are ignored by the modem. Commands in the command string are executed in the order in which they appear, from left to right. If all commands in the command string are valid then the OK response is issued (or whatever response is appropriate for the commands in the command string).
If any command is not valid then an ERROR response is returned. All commands up to the one containing the error will be executed correctly. All commands in the command string after the one which caused the ERROR are ignored.
The backspace key can be used to delete any incorrect characters in a command string (before <CR> is entered).
The maximum number of characters in a command line is 256, including the AT characters.
The A/ (repeat) command is the only command which is not preceded by the AT characters and not terminated with a <CR>. This command is used to repeat the last command string entered.
The AT can be in upper or lower case characters. The case is ignored by the modem, i.e., AT is equivalent to at.
Each time the AT characters are sent to the modem, the modem detects the DTE's speed, the number of data bits, the parity and the number of stop bits. This means that the DTE's speed can be changed at any time, and to notify the modem simply enter AT<CR>.
The modem has three operating modes:
- Command Mode
- The modem is normally in command mode. In this mode the modem waits for commands to be issued to it. It also monitors the telephone line, and if it detects an incoming ring signal it returns the RING response to inform the DTE of an incoming call. (The incoming call is answered by the modem only if S-register S0 is not zero.)
- On-line mode
- In on-line mode the modem is connected to another modem. In this case all information received from the remote modem is transmitted to the DTE, and all information received from the DTE is transmitted to the remote modem.
- On-line command mode
- In on-line command mode, the modem is connected to another modem, but the escape sequence (see below) has been issued to enter command mode, so that commands can be issued to the modem. If the hang-up command (H0) is not issued, then on-line mode can be re-entered by issuing the O command.
Three different commands can be used to get the modem on-line:
- Dial command
- The most common way of going on-line. The dial (Dn) command is used to dial the telephone number of another modem (such as that of an internet service provider). Dialling a telephone number is also called originating a call. If the originating modem does not detect an answering modem within 30 seconds (the content of register S7) it hangs up the phone line and returns the NO CARRIER response.
If the modems connect then the CONNECT response is returned.
The format of the dial command is:
where nnnn is the telephone number of a remote modem. For more information on the D command refer to Chapter 3 of the AdvanCom AT Command Set Reference Manual.
- Originate command
- When the dial command is issued with no arguments, (i.e., ATD<CR>) the modem goes off-hook (seizes the phone line) and looks for an auto-answer sequence from a remote modem. If the auto-answer sequence is not detected within 30 seconds (the content of register S7) the modem hangs up the phone line and returns the NO CARRIER response.
If the modems connect then the CONNECT response is returned.
This command is normally used to go on-line, to transfer data, after having a voice conversation with someone, without having to re-dial the telephone number. One modem must be in originate mode and the other modem must be in answer mode.
- Answer command
- This is the A command. Typing ATA<CR> will cause the modem to seize the telephone line and perform an auto-answer sequence. This is equivalent to auto-answer mode (see below).
If there is a modem (in originate mode) on the other end of the phone line then both modems will connect and go on-line. Otherwise the local modem will hang-up (release the telephone line) after 30 seconds (the content of register S7) and return the NO CARRIER response.
If the modems connect then the CONNECT response is returned.
To ensure a successful connection, the originating modem (ATD) should commence its sequence before the answer command (ATA) is issued.
The other most common way of going on-line is connecting to a modem that is set to auto-answer incoming calls. Auto-answer is controlled by register S0. When S0 is not zero then the modem is set to answer any incoming calls. The number in S0 defines on which ring the modem answers the call.
If there is a modem (in originate mode) on the other end of the phone line then both modems will connect, go on-line, and return the CONNECT response. Otherwise the local modem will hang-up (release the telephone line) after 30 seconds (the content of register S7) and return the NO CARRIER response. In all cases, once the modem seizes the telephone line and starts looking for a valid carrier from the remote modem, any characters sent from the DTE to the modem, before the modem returns the CONNECT message, will cause the modem to abort the originate or answer sequence and return to command mode.
The escape sequence is used to get the modem from on-line mode to on-line command mode. Typically it is used to change a modem parameter and then return on-line, or to hang up the modem.
The format of the escape sequence is:
type nothing for at least one second
type nothing for at least one second
The delay (called the guard time) is determined by the content of register S12. The escape character is determined by the content of register S2.
Another way of going into command mode is to issue the &D1 setting, and then drop the DTR signal. Refer to the &D command for more information.
There are two ways to cease a connection:
- Enter on-line command mode using the escape sequence and then issue the hang-up command, i.e. ATH0<CR> (or ATH<CR>, because if the number is not entered then 0 is assumed). The modem returns the OK response.
- If the &D2 setting is enabled, then momentarily dropping DTR will cause the modem to hang-up. This is achieved with most communications software using a hang-up command, such as Alt-H or Cmd-H.
For this to work the DTR pin must be wired in the RS232 cable between the DTE and modem.
Often you don't need to worry about the hang-up command, because when you exit from the internet or bulletin board service the remote modem hangs up the call, which causes your modem to hang-up.
It is a good idea to have the &D2 setting as a power-up default, so that if the remote modem does not hang-up and you turn off the DTE, the DTE automatically hangs up the modem (assuming the DTE turns DTR off). In this way the modems don't stay on-line without your knowledge.
Another option is to enable the modem's inactivity timer (controlled by register S30). If no data is transmitted or received by the modem in the time set in register S30, the modem automatically disconnects the call.
The &V1 command provides various statistics about the previous call, (i.e., the modem connection just completed) including speeds at which the connection was made and the line quality.
The modem and DTE can communicate at various speeds: from 300 bps to 115,200 bps. The modem can also be on-line at various speeds: from 300 bps up to 14,400 bps for V.32 bis modems, up to 33,600 bps for V.34 bis modems, and up to 56,000 bps for V.90 modems.
In order to cope with the various speeds there are two options: the DTE-modem link must be at the same speed as the modem-modem link (called variable speed mode) or the modem must provide some form of speed buffering so that the DTE-modem link remains at a constant speed (called constant speed mode).
Constant speed mode forces the modem to maintain the DTE-modem speed, even if the connection speed made with the remote modem does not match the DTE-modem speed. For example, if the modem connects to another modem at 14,400 bps and the initial DTE-modem speed was 38,400 bps then the modem maintains this speed. If the DTE transmits a lot of data (such as a large file), then a bottleneck will eventually develop because the modem can only transmit the data at 14,400 bps (while the DTE transmits it at 38,400 bps). To cope with this the modem stores the data in an internal buffer. However, if the modem's buffer starts getting full then the modem must tell the DTE to stop sending data. This is called hand-shaking or flow-control (i.e., the DTE and modem control the flow of data between them) and is described below.
Speed buffering is controlled by the \N command. \N0 selects constant speed mode. \N1 selects variable speed mode (also called direct mode).
As explained in the previous section the modem contains an internal data buffer to allow the use of constant speed mode between the DTE and modem. This internal buffer is of a fixed size (approximately 32 KBytes). If the DTE-modem speed is higher than the modem-modem speed and the DTE is transmitting a large volume of data (such as a large file transfer) then at some point the modem's data buffer will start getting full. At this point the modem must inform the DTE to stop transmitting data. (Conversely if the modem is transmitting too much data to the DTE then at some point the DTE must inform the modem to stop transmitting data.)
This is called handshaking or flow-control, i.e., the DTE and modem control the flow of data between them.
There are two methods of flow control: hardware or software.
The hardware method uses the RTS/CTS signals on the RS232 serial port. This is the most reliable method because it does not insert anything into the data stream between the DTE and modem. When the modem's buffer starts getting full the modem turns off the CTS (Clear To Send) signal. The CTS signal is turned on once the modem is ready to receive more data. If the DTE cannot cope with the amount of data the modem is sending then the DTE turns off the RTS (Request To Send) signal. Once it is ready to receive more data the DTE turns the RTS signal on again.
The software method is to use the XON and XOFF characters. When the modem's buffer starts getting full the modem transmits an XOFF to the DTE. When the modem is ready for more data it sends the XON character. The DTE can also use this, so if the modem is sending too much data the DTE can send the XOFF character and when it is ready for more data it sends the XON character. This method sometimes interferes with some file transfer protocols. Also you must guarantee that the XON and XOFF characters will not be transmitted as part of the data. XON/XOFF flow control is only used when the DTE or communications software do not support RTS/CTS flow control.
The flow control option to be used is selected with the &K command.
Setting the DTE-modem Speed
The modem determines the DTE-modem speed each time the AT characters are entered, at the start of a command string. The number of data bits, parity setting and number of stop bits are also determined at this point, by the modem.
The modem maintains this data rate, number of data bits and parity setting until the next time the AT characters are entered. If the DTE speed has changed then the modem changes its speed in response.
Setting the Modem-modem Speed
In the default configuration the modem is in autospeed mode, so that it can connect to any modem at any compatible line speed. If both modems are V.34 bis modems then they will both connect at 33,600 bps. However, if one modem is a V.32 bis modem and the other is a V.34 bis modem then they can only connect at the highest speed supported by both modem, in this case 14,400 bps.
The other alternative is to force your modem to connect at a particular speed. This can be done using the F command (for V.32 bis modems) or the +MS command (for V.34 bis and V.90 modems).
All forms of data communication equipment have a probability of an error occurring in the data being transferred, i.e., what was sent is not what was received. With modems the number of errors received is directly proportional to the quality of the telephone line on which the connection is made. To overcome this problem of errors, an error correction protocol must be implemented between the modems.
Error correction is a technique used to guarantee that the data sent from the remote modem is the data received by the local modem.
Two different international standards exist for error correction between modems: MNP and V.42 (also called LAP-M). Most modems support either one or both of these standards.
MNP (Microcom Networking Protocol) was originally developed by Microcom Inc of the USA and has become an industry standard. There are three common classes of MNP error correction: classes 2, 3 and 4. V.42 was developed by the International Telecommunications Union (formerly the CCITT), a European based standards organisation.
A variation of the MNP error correction protocol is MNP-10. This was developed for noisy telephone lines and for modem connections over the cellular telephone network.
In addition to error correction, most modems now support data compression. Often the data transmitted between two modems contains similar data (i.e., per 1,000 characters sent many sequences are repeated). If the repeated sequences are encoded and sent as one character, rather than say 5, the amount of data transmitted between modems is reduced, thus giving an apparently higher data transfer rate. (Of course for this to work effectively the DTE-modem data rate must be much higher than the modem-modem data rate.)
Two different standards exist for data compression between modems: MNP-5 and V.42 bis. MNP-5 was developed by Microcom Inc, while V.42 bis was developed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU, formerly the CCITT).
MNP-5 uses run-length-limited encoding and a variation of the Huffman compression algorithm. It can double the data transfer rate on some types of data. It works best when there are a lot of characters repeated in sequence, or a particular character is repeated.
V.42 bis is based on the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm. It is good at compressing data where sequences of characters are repeated.
MNP-10 works in conjunction with error correction and data compression to improve the modem's performance when working over poor quality telephone lines or over the analog cellular telephone network.
MNP-10 operates at a high level and controls the size of the error correction data packets and the modem-modem line speed. Therefore, as the quality of the data link changes the modem responds by either reducing or increase the size of data packet transmitted or the speed of the link.
Smaller packets mean that the effective data rate is slightly reduced (due to the packet protocol overhead), however, on a poor line this means that more data can be transferred because the chance of getting a data error in a packet is reduced.
The faster line modulation methods provide a higher data transfer rate, however, to operate effectively they need a better quality line than a lower speed modulation method. Therefore, reducing the speed of the link may indeed increase the effective data transfer rate (because less data errors will occur). Whenever MNP-10 changes the line speed (either up or down) there is a delay while both modems agree on the line speed at which to connect.
MNP is the only error correction protocol allowed with MNP-10.
Flow control should always be used with MNP-10, to ensure that no data is lost.
Because of the nature of the way MNP-10 works, and the way it is implemented on some modems, on good quality telephone lines MNP-10 sometimes causes more problems than it solves, i.e., some modems try and renegotiate the link speed on good quality links (this can be seen because there a breaks of up to 30 seconds between data transmissions).
Common Configuration Setup Strings
This section provides some typical modem setup strings. Force V.42 bis data compression with LAP-M error correction:
AT \N4 %C2 -K0 <CR>
Force V.42 bis data compression with MNP error correction:
AT \N5 %C2 <CR>
Force MNP-5 data compression with MNP error correction:
AT \N5 %C1 <CR>
Note that with the above three setup strings, if the modem is unable to negotiate with the remote modem, the modem will disconnect and return the NO CARRIER response.
Auto-negotiate data compression and error correction:
AT \N3 %C3 <CR>
In this mode, the AdvanCom modem prefers LAP-M over MNP-10, MNP-10 over MNP-4 and V.42 bis over MNP-5. If error correction is not negotiated, the modem will connect in normal mode.
This article was took over from the AdvanCom web pages.
Links & Download
- AdvanCom - design and manufacture high quality, high reliability data communications equipment.
- BlueTree - http://www.bluetreewireless.com - Rockwell's AT Command Reference Manual - Rockwell_AT_Com.pdf
- http://frank.harvard.edu/~coldwell AT command set for the Lucent Technologies Venus chip set - VenusCRM.pdf | <urn:uuid:b092b7ba-b86e-4d3e-87fd-8c8fed3e8b9a> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://hw-server.com/node/4344 | 2017-05-24T13:26:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607846.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524131951-20170524151951-00103.warc.gz | en | 0.905056 | 4,812 |
Nigerian rapper, singer and songwriter, Falz releases a brand new single titled “Squander”
On the new single, the rapper teams up with Nigerian Queen of Afrohouse, Niniola who did justice to the song.
The new Amapiano song, “Squander” serves as a follow up for Falz’s previously heard single “One Trouser”.
What do you think
about this song?
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President Donald Trump will “make a decision tonight” on the fate of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price after a scandal involving Price’s use of private jets.
“He’s a very fine man but we’re going to make a decision sometime tonight,” Trump told reporters on Friday. “He’s a very fine man.”
“I think it’s a shame because as a human being I think he’s a very good man,” Trump said. “Something today probably will be announced. I think he’s a very fine person but I don’t like the optics…something is going to happen.”
Many have called for Trump to fire Price after it was revealed that the HHS secretary had racked up $1 million in travel costs on the taxpayer’s dime since May. Price promised to repay the cost of his “seat” on the flights,
“I will tell you personally, I’m not happy about it. I am not happy about it I’m going to look at it. I let him know it,” Trump said about the issue earlier this week. “We’ll see,” he said when asked if he would fire Price. | <urn:uuid:bfc8d4b5-b74f-4262-a240-7abd02b4f42c> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://dailycaller.com/2017/09/29/trump-will-make-a-decision-tonight-on-tom-prices-fate-video/ | 2019-08-20T18:56:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315558.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820180442-20190820202442-00114.warc.gz | en | 0.98181 | 274 |
I was taught that Xmas was a slovenly commercialist shorthand way of writing, and that Christmas was appropriate for the period...... Of course being rebellious I used Xmas when ever I could get away with it.
Nowadays I have reverted to Christmas exclusively if for no other reason than it recalls the spirit of childhood days in wartime when the only bank holidays were Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and if either fell on a Saturday - tough, because Saturday was considered to be a working day even if most stopped at lunchtime.
In those days it WAS a very short but precious period when families met and held good parties.
Only the Scots had New Year Day and probably lost Boxing Day instead.......... A bit of a change now that last night seems to have been the start of a pretty hedonistic three weeks.
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Since March 2015, Berlin coffee lovers in the know have been turning away from the buzzing Hackesche Höfe to Sophienstrasse, following a black sign propped up on the pavement, and nipping through a courtyard, to find Ben Rahim Speciality Coffee.
Thanks to the somewhat furtive location, Ben Rahim feels like a private getaway, a moment’s reprieve from the bustle of Mitte and the blistering wind that rips the streets in winter.
The space was conceived by the Tunisian-born Ben Rahim to be something different: a specialty coffee store in Berlin with an Arabic slant. The décor is distinct from your typical Mitte pairing of soft wood and metal. The glass façade of the one-room cafe faces the inner courtyard. Inside, small wooden tables and benches—best suited for solo travelers and intimate pairs—hug the cafe’s edges and line the window in a horseshoe. The Portland-gray walls and floorboards are lined with Persian rugs, the counter and walls adorned with Islamic tessellated tile highlights, and the space softly lit by a 48-sided geometric lamp.
The mixed décor was all hand-picked item by item by Rahim, sourced from a mixture of Berlin stores and abroad—including the Tunisian painted ceramic plates that hold homemade Sidi Bou baklava, Casablanca cake, Carthago cookies, and other pastries. A West African soundtrack of Tuareg and jazz sets the mood, with the mellow sounds of the Mlimani Park Orchestra from Tanzania playing during my last visit.
On the central counter sits a Nuova Simonelli Aurelia II, as Rahim serves espresso and V60 options, all brewed with beans from London’s Square Mile Coffee Roasters and ground on a Nuova Simonelli Mythos One. He uses a VST LAB Coffee III Refractometer and their ExtractMojo app to hit the sweet spot between 18-20%. But I’m here to try the mocca—a brew method known by many names, including Turkish coffee, cezve/ibrik, and more. While mocca is cheap and plentiful across Berlin’s many Turkish and African cafes, I’ve never seen it before at a specialty coffee cafe or brewed to the same exacting standards as somewhere like The Barn, where Rahim previously worked as a senior barista.
In Tunisia, Rahim grew up surrounded by tea and coffee, which hold a central cultural place. “Always, there is coffee or tea,” Rahim told me. “Instead of describing flavors—for example, this coffee is fruity and chocolatey—Tunisians often speak of their coffees as different types of friends.”
Rahim left Tunisia for Australia seven years ago, where he first started working as a barista. In that time he witnessed numerous waves and trends sweep the coffee scene. “But there has been no wave with mocca,” he said. “It is always the same, no one cares about the mocca.” When he opened his own space, he set about trying to change this. He wanted to show that when treated with the right beans, equipment, and attention to craft, the mocca can become something special and worthy of attention. “I want people to have a good, good experience with mocca.”
On my visit, Rahim prepared the mocca with El Salvador Kilimanjaro Natural from Square Mile, ground on a Mahlkönig EK 43. Rahim adds seven grams of ground coffee and water heated to sixty degrees Celsius to a heavy, dappled copper cezve with a long handle. The cezve is placed over the open flame of an butane burner, gently brewing for several minutes, and Rahim stirs with an olive wood paddle to ensure no grinds stick to the sides or bottom.
After months of searching and experimenting for the right setup—scouring everything from the city’s cheap Turkish stores to further abroad—Rahim got in contact with Turgay Yildizli, three-time Turkish Cezve/Ibrik Champion and 2013 World Coffee Events World Cezve/Ibrik Champion and a rock star of the Turkish coffee scene. Yildizli developed and sells Specialty Turkish Coffee brand equipment, including the Copper Pot, single Coffee Stand, and the butane burner now used by Rahim.
The setup is visually arresting, and curious visitors constantly ask questions, or alternately, recognize the mocca, surprised to see it in a specialty coffee space. Rahim’s mocca is served on a Turkish coffee cup and saucer, with a single date in place of a sweet biscuit or chocolate.
Rahim suggests to let the coffee cool, allowing the grounds to settle. The mocca is designed to be sipped slowly, enjoying first the thick top layer, and then the smooth, gentle, chocolatey flavors, which emerge more fully as the coffee loses heat and thickens.
Last November, Rahim hoped to compete in the Turkish coffee category at the German Barista Championships in Munich, and although the organizers were keen, not enough applicants registered to make the event feasible. If the mocca wave catches on, maybe he’ll get his chance in 2016.
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After a decade of tumultuous upheavals in the 1990s, the currency markets in the 21st century have been remarkably calm. They might not stay that way for long.
In 1992 Europe’s Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) suffered a wave of speculative attacks that caused Finland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom to float their currencies, leaving the ERM “unsalvageable.” In 1994 Latin America was plunged into turmoil by a currency crisis that was triggered by the sudden devaluation of the Mexican peso. The peso crisis spilled over into other Latin American markets such as Argentina.
In July 1997 speculators struck again, this time attacking the Thai baht. Massive speculation against the baht consumed a vast war chest of foreign exchange reverses, forcing the Thai government to devalue its currency. The currency slumped by more than 20%, and the ensuing economic crisis spilled over into Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines, signaling the end of investors’ love affair with Asia’s “tiger economies” and the adoption of a new catch-phrase: the Asian contagion.
In 1998 it was Russia’s turn, as investors piled out of the country en masse after the government tried to modestly revalue the ruble. The currency has taken almost a decade to recover its former value.
If the global currency markets are to avoid another crisis like those of the 1990s, they need to appreciate what caused the crises. Although opinions vary, the general consensus is that both the Mexican and the Asian crises were the result of formidable growth in the volume and speed of international capital movements with the persistence, in some countries, of a fixed exchange rate.
Economists maintain that a fixed exchange rate is difficult and costly to defend if there is an expectation that it will be depreciated in the future. The thinking is that if investors are sure a currency peg will eventually fail, they are more likely to launch a speculative attack sooner rather than later. Investor pessimism is often accompanied by a herd mentality, which results in investors abandoning a currency en masse. Economists believe this is why a currency crisis that starts in one country can easily spill over into neighboring countries.
The currency crises of the 1990s also highlighted the relative economic and fiscal immaturity that existed within some of these markets. As foreign capital flowed into a number of Asian economies in the 1990s, local banks became increasingly reliant on short-term foreign capital for financing domestic growth. As the currency devalued and investors fled the market, the banks could no longer rely on the foreign creditors to roll over existing short-term credit.
“The lesson especially learned by countries affected by the Asian crisis was to be careful about your short-term debt—not only as far as governments were concerned but also companies,” says Valentin Hofstätter, who heads RZB’s foreign exchange team. “A lot of these countries had short-term FX liabilities and were using fixed exchange rate regimes.” Banking and regulatory supervision in these markets was also immature, and hedging of FX risk was not widespread.
Dino Kos, executive vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, notes there has been a general shift away from fixed exchange rates in a number of the countries affected by the crises in the 1990s. In a speech to the Forex Network conference in New York earlier this year, he said: “Earlier regimes for these currencies all too often were overly rigid. Pressures would build, reserves would be exhausted, and massive volatility would follow.”
But, almost a decade on, has enough changed in these markets to avoid a repeat of 1997? Hofstätter believes so. A number of them now maintain floating currencies instead of fixed exchange rates pegged to the dollar, which he says discourages them from stockpiling short-term debt in the first place. “These countries now have huge current account surpluses so there is no need for external financing,” he adds.
In other developing markets, such as those in Central & Eastern Europe, for example, governments have historically run up substantial current account deficits and are still dependent on foreign capital flows. Hofstätter says that although the CEE countries have had huge capital inflows in recent years, in countries such as Slovenia and Poland, for example, this capital is earmarked for long-term investment projects. Additionally, these countries have floating exchange rates, and Hofstätter says they are more inclined to pay attention to currency risk now than perhaps they would have been a decade ago.
“The risk of another currency crisis [similar to those that occurred in the 1990s] happening is strongly diminished,” says Hofstätter. “If there is a crisis, it will be restricted to particular countries, which we have seen a little bit of in the last 12 months in Iceland, for example: Its currency depreciated by 30%, but the economy took it in its stride.” He cites Turkey as another example of a country that has weathered depreciations of its currency but not affected its neighbors in the process.
Brian Dolan, director of research at Forex.com, which is part of Gain Capital, believes increased sophistication on the part of central banks and finance ministries will avert another currency crisis. Unlike a decade or so ago, when Asian countries had minimal FX reserves, Dolan says that trend is now reversed. “Developing Asia is no longer developing,” he says. “They have substantial international currency reserves and increased sophistication in terms of market surveillance functions.”
Commenting on recent events such as the depreciation in Iceland, for example, Dolan distinguishes between a currency crisis and a currency adjustment. “That is the greatest risk out there we see at the moment,” he says. “Sharp adjustments of currency pairs—for example, the New Zealand and Australian dollar.” As the New Zealand dollar is an illiquid currency with high yields, if there was a serious development in the economic fundamentals or an official change in stance, the potential for a sharp fall in the New Zealand dollar is “very real,” he says.
The Wild West Element
While countries themselves have a fundamental role to play in shoring up their currencies through better and more transparent economic management and regulatory oversight, investors also play a role. They were responsible for the “contagion” that spread throughout Asia and Latin America like wildfire, bringing down currency after currency, regardless of the fundamentals.
Dolan:Investors no longer view emerging markets as a single entity.
The industry may have become more professionalized, but the “Wild West” element still remains. Dolan says the biggest risks are likely to come from the fringes of the hedge fund community, noting the impact speculation has had on the commodities markets, where in some instances prices have fallen by 25% to 30%. “There is too much money chasing too few investment options and funds trying to mimic each other,” he says.
Kos of the New York Federal Reserve says some in the marketplace believe that relatively little has changed. “The pessimists believe that the current environment is one with huge uncertainties associated with geopolitical risks, energy prices and productivity that markets are mis-pricing,” he states.
Another debate that has been raging in the currency markets for the past two years is the impact of a US economic slowdown and what that means for Asian central banks, particularly China, which holds substantial reserves denominated in US dollars. If economic conditions worsen in the United States, are countries like China, for example, likely to rebalance their portfolios away from dollars? Hofstätter believes China will continue to support the dollar and says there is only so far it can diversify its reserves portfolio. “Currency reserves should match trade exposure,” he says. “So if 80% of China’s trade is denominated in US dollars, they should hold currency reserves in dollars. They should take a long-term view and match trade flows to that.”
Charles Dumas, an analyst at Lombard Street Research in the UK, says further depreciation of the US dollar hinges on how China handles a slowdown of the US economy. For the past several years, high domestic savings rates in countries such as China and Japan have helped support a corresponding willingness to borrow in the US, which has kept things on a relatively even keel. “For the Chinese, a US slowdown is bad enough anyway, as they are dependent on their exports. A US slowdown and an increase in the yuan’s valuation would be a double whammy,” he says. However, he says there is no reason to believe that the US dollar will substantially depreciate as long as the Chinese and Japanese continue to run huge surpluses.
Another “major subplot” in the currency markets, Dumas says, is the “yen carry,” in which speculative investors borrow yen to invest in higher-yielding currencies such as the Icelandic krona and the New Zealand and Australian dollars. “There could be a potential crisis because of the enormous number of people that are paying nothing on yen,” he says. “If yen goes up, they are likely to liquidate their positions.”
Despite all the checks and balances and the increased sophistication of countries’ currency management and investors’ behavior, a currency crisis remains a possibility. For all their sophistication, many investors will still run with the herd, and this time around it is less likely to be a stampede out of a smaller country’s currency that sets off a crisis. If the investor herd decides the dollar’s gentle decline is about to accelerate, then that is precisely what will happen. | <urn:uuid:2e9177aa-0803-403d-b7a1-a20de87b915b> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/january-2007/g43rf3-cover-story | 2020-03-29T15:42:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370494349.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20200329140021-20200329170021-00166.warc.gz | en | 0.963627 | 2,039 |
OK me hearties it is now time for another one of our great tailgates this coming Sunday the 30th day of September. The house address where the tailgate is held is at 3316 West Ohio Avenue, Tampa, FL. 33607.
Sorry I am getting this out a bit late, but things have been very busy as of late. After getting off to a great start against the Panthers at home our Buccaneers have taken a step back, but it is simply a bump in the road as we plan to stay undefeated at home against those Washington Redskins.
No matter the game the tailgates are always a winner as Mother Nature herself could not stop us a …couple of weeks ago.
Kickoff is around 4:20 pm. The 4 pm games are normally the best next to the prime time night games as of course it gives us more time to tailgate. Also the games are not so hot.
There is always people out there early by 10 am, but most people get there around Noon.
Even if you’re not going to the game many people come out for the tailgates alone as trust me they are that good and there’s a big screen out there for those who do not go into the games.
You say how can a tailgate be so good? It takes a lot of effort from everyone involved as it’s our passion and we all work hard at that passion. What can I tell you about our very own “Chef Red” ? His food is always off the chain and the best around as he never ceases to amaze with his food. He pours his heart and soul into his food and it shows. It’s the best tailgating food you will come across with the use of his incredible “Grillzilla” an 8′ x 15′ monster of a smoker/ grill.
The open bar is always a favorite and you’re always welcome to bring a gift to add to it. One of our 3 corporate sponsors “Turbo Chill” has an incredible device for our kegs of beer that keep the beer as cold as any around and all ours are perfect with very little head. I know all the jokes that can come out of that!
I also try to add something new every year and this year is no exception for sure! I have hired a live band this year to play throughout the tailgate. I have thought about it for years and i finally did it. They’re a great local band called “Jaded” who play some classic and current rock from Van Halen, Zepplin to Nickelback and others. It’s your donations that make things like this happen.
Our tailgates are a mixture of family and friends and you’re more than welcome to join our group as my motto has always been the more the merrier and that’s how this small little tailgate has grown to the monster tailgate it has over the years. I started out in 1997 with a little grill, a flag and a canopy with a boom box now we have as many as 300 people at a time. Of course my merger with “What the Buc” 5 years ago made the whole thing explode.
Derek “Old School” Fournier is of course the owner and CEO of “What the Buc” a growing online web site with Buccaneers reports as Derek has been a guest radio personality on many area sports talk shows like Hooters nation, the new 98.7 The Fan, 1010 am CBS sports radio among many more. He keeps us all in line and drums up our sponsors. Myself Cap’t Rino I am the tailgate czar who is the leader of the tailgates, but of course I cannot do it on my own as it’s taken on a life of it’s on, so the wonderful Cheryl “Spent” Stewart is an incredible help as she’s good at telling how things should be done. and she works hard at helping to put things together.
Cap’t. Bones helps tremendously in his PR work drumming up local celebrities who have joined our tailgates over the years and he works hard with his impeccable organization of things at the tailgate. Buc Krazie is also a tremendous help who helps us organize everything. Jerry “BUCamaniac” Jordan is a tremendous help in his own right helping Chef red with the food as he is a great Chef in his own right with the food preparation and Chef Red’s right hand man.
Curt “The Radio personality” Creel is an area DJ in his own right over in O-town and he is the newest addition as of last year to our group, but has been a tremendous help as he helps with the PR and the kegs of beer of course being a beer expert. Matt “BucNutz” Algeri is part of the “Bucs WildBoyz” along with “Cap’t. Bones” and “Buc Krazie” who helps out also and the “Bucs WildBoyz” are a tremendous PR group for our tailgates. I know I am probably leaving out some as I always do, but I have already mentioned “Chef Red” who you never can forget.
I mentioned the family atmosphere earlier? This is why we will never charge an entrance fee to our tailgates. I have been asked by many people over the years why don’t you charge for your tailgates as I know there are plenty around who do, but we want it to stay as a casual family type atmosphere. Of course we stick out a treasure chest out front for anyone who wishes to donate whatever as we have people who are always generous in appreciation of what we offer. You can show your appreciation in monetary donations into the chest or many other ways like bringing your own side dishes and desserts as they’re always welcome and needed or bringing something to add to the bar like I mentioned earlier.
Also chairs are always at a premium. I have about 30 chairs myself I keep stored on site, but that’s never enough so you my want to bring your own to the tailgates. I have a Shed on site for storage, so some bring chairs to leave there and i store them so you’re welcome to do that too. No fee! Like I said this event has grown and grown and is now an incredible event as we have a house out there with full power, full men’s and women’s bathrooms, a captains wooden deck out back, big screen TV’s and we have plenty to drink and great food. Oh Yea? We also have some great games out there as we have some serious “Cornhole” tourneys out there, which is run by “The Commish” or Rick Conchiglia.
Parking is at a premium. My buddy Brian who owns the house has a huge piece of property which probably holds 100 cars, but they do go quick and they are $15 per car, which is the cheapest around Ray Jay as most of the others are $25. We are also adjacent to Lot 14 along Ohio Avenue so you can park in Lot 14 for $25 and walk over. The address to the site is 3316 West Ohio Avenue, Tampa, FL. 33607. The house is about 800 feet down Ohio Ave. off of Himes Ave. Maps will be included. Here are some pics of the tailgate and there are maps within:
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I attended my first baseball game ever yesterday. I went to Safeco Field in Seattle to see the Mariners play the Kansas City Royals. We had seats over third base and the Mariners won. We were out of the sun for the entire game and the weather was beautiful. I carpooled with a knitting friend as part of the annual Pitch & Stitch event. The vendors on the concourse had some great stuff, but I only bought a single pattern book. Karolyn and I hit major traffic on the way home though and, by the time I dropped her off at her car and got back home to bed, it was after 1 am.
I've always considered baseball a boring spectator sport, but found that I could miss a play simply by looking away to change yarn or get a drink from my water bottle. I've always loved the quote, "Life is what happens while you're busy doing other things." Baseball too!
Meanwhile, I was busy coping with work, my health, and SO's unemployment. For the SO, his life happened while I was busy doing other things. Now I'm not sure if we can bring our "lives" back together again. Or how much work that would take. Is it worth it?
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Futur Dacia 2020 Just when it appears the automotive business has misplaced its method with ridiculous horsepower or a crossover for every countryman, a easy automobile emerges. For over 50 years, this car has been the Futur Dacia 2020.
Usually derided by enthusiasts as appliances, the no-frills commuter car gets the overwhelming majority of consumers where they need to go in the method they wish to get there, safely and at a value. The Futur Dacia 2020 does it even better.
Exhibit A that the automotive trade has gotten somewhat nuts: the common transaction worth for a new car is more than $37,000, based on Kelley Blue E book. Simple responsible the automakers on this era of no accountability however we’re those paying these massive prices for giant vehicles loaded with stuff we don’t use all that much.
For just below $23,000, the Futur Dacia 2020 puts every dollar to practical use.
Although it rides on a brand new platform, the Futur Dacia 2020 blends in unremarkably like a ballcap at a baseball recreation. On nearer inspection, the Hybrid will get blue accents around the badging, 15-inch wheels with low resistance tires, and it appears more composed than the youthful outgoing model that tried too laborious to be completely different. The Fu Manchu entrance fascia is more streamlined and less offended, and the whole look is smoother front to again. However nonetheless, the one time the four-door compact turns heads is when it makes that whir-whir-whir lunar landing gear sound when creeping at low speeds or in reverse in EV mode.
The first-ever Futur Dacia 2020 in the US is constructed on Toyota’s two decades of success with hybrid powertrains. It uses the identical Hybrid Synergy Drive as the current Prius, with two motors and an efficient 1.Eight-liter inline four-cylinder engine. Complete output with the fixed ratio transmission is 121 horsepower to the entrance wheels. The system uses exhaust warmth to heat engine coolant and get the engine heated quicker. The cabin heats faster, too, which might be significant for cold-weather consumers wary of the chilly range loss in a plug-in hybrid or electrical car.
In Sport mode it doesn’t drag as a lot because the Prius. Anticipating nothing, it has a shocking little bit of pop. More importantly, it’s rated at 53 mpg city, 52 mpg mixed, same as hybrid versions of the Honda Perception, Toyota Camry and even the Prius. For traditional hybrids with no plug, the Futur Dacia 2020 trails solely the Hyundai Ioniq’s 58 mpg.
Around city, with the electronically managed brake set in the drive mode, the Futur Dacia 2020 averaged greater than 57 mpg in our week around town. Setting EV mode helps conserve energy underneath low throttle as much as about 20 mph, and then again at cruising speeds of about 40 mph, as long as there may be enough cost within the battery.
The battery is situated below the rear seat, so you don’t lose a lot cargo room. 60/40 rear seats fold flat for a good load floor. Rear seat room is adequate sufficient to fit two teenagers, and general it felt roomy enough for a household of 4.
The one trim in the Hybrid comes customary with Toyota Security Sense 2.zero, with automatic emergency braking, lane centering, adaptive cruise management that works each at freeway cruising speeds and in commuter site visitors from 24 mph down to a stop. It additionally comes with the eight-inch touch display screen with Apple CarPlay, and a seven-inch cluster show to remain competitive.
Priced at only $three,000 greater than the Futur Dacia 2020 and $1,200 less than a equally outfitted Honda Perception (EX trim), the Futur Dacia 2020 is the perfectly practical, remarkably affordable around-town automobile.
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Posted: March 5th, 2013 by Militant Libertarian
Sometimes the cashier at the grocery store asks people whether they would like to donate one dollar to some charity. Most of the people I’ve seen say no. Whenever that happens, I think to myself how statists must be grinding their teeth in anger and rage when they hear that. If it were up to them, the state would enact a law requiring everyone to donate that one dollar.
How can I be so sure about that? Because that’s the entire foundation of the welfare state that statists have foisted upon our nation. Statists hate the idea of people being free to say “no” when it comes to charity. So, they’ve erected an enormous system that coerces people into making charitable contributions.
Consider Social Security. That’s a mandatory charity program in which younger people are compelled to donate their money to seniors. It’s the same with Medicare. Medicaid forces people to donate to the poor. Foreign aid forces Americans to donate money to brutal foreign dictators.
Whenever libertarians say that all welfare-state programs should be dismantled and repealed, what is the inevitable response of statists? They say that people can’t be trusted to make those donations. When given a choice to support their parents, the poor, brutal foreign dictators, and everyone else who receives federal welfare, they will refuse to do so. Therefore, the statists argue, it is right and just to force them to do so.
But let’s assume that the statists are right — that if people weren’t forced to help others, they would refuse to do so voluntarily. Isn’t that what genuine freedom is all about? Isn’t that what freedom of choice is all about? Isn’t that what free will is all about? If people are forced to donate to someone when they would otherwise choose not to, then isn’t the state being used to denigrate and destroy free will and freedom of choice?
What’s fascinating to me is how a Christian can endorse this type of compulsion. On the one hand, Christians acknowledge that God endowed man with free will, which necessarily entails the right to make choices as to whether to donate to someone or not. When God did that, he knew that that would necessarily entail the freedom to make whatever choice a person wants to make, including the possibility that the person might say “no.” Nonetheless, God proceeded to trust people with that large ambit of freedom by vesting them with the great gift of free will.
Thus, while God might want people to donate to a particular charity, he doesn’t force anyone to do so. Having vested people with free will, God lets people freely make their choices.
But Christians statists hate that. Deep down, they believe that people can’t be trusted with that much freedom. They’ll point to all those people at the grocery store who refuse to donate just one dollar to some charity and declare, “You see, you libertarians are all wrong about people. People can’t be trusted to voluntarily help others. We obviously need a law to force everyone to care for others.”
But what they’re really saying is that God was wrong to entrust people with such freedom. The only way to correct the error of having granted them free will, the Christian statist reasons, is to force people to care for others. That’s where the IRS and other welfare-state tax-collecting agencies come into play, along with the threat of liens, foreclosures, fines, and imprisonment for refusing to participate.
I wonder how statists would react if Congress enacted a law requiring every American to donate $100 a year to a libertarian non-profit educational foundation. My hunch is that they would immediately abandon their statist inclination to force people to donate to others and scream like banshees.
They need not worry. We libertarians would never support such a law or accept the money if such a law was enacted. Unlike statists, libertarians believe in freedom, freedom of choice, and free will. That’s why we favor a total separation of charity and the state, in much the same way our ancestors separated church and state. | <urn:uuid:9cdb74c7-cc1f-4cf1-a9b0-4f86cd34368f> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://militantlibertarian.org/2013/03/05/statists-hate-free-will/ | 2015-03-05T14:32:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936464193.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074104-00089-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95646 | 887 |
The following is an after action report for my time spent volunteering in Ft. Dix, NJ, while attending a ceremony to see off approximately 3,000 National Guardsmen, This past Saturday, June 14th:
After Action Report- Ft. Dix, NJ
My day started way too early, just after 0400 on Saturday morning. This was prior to driving down with to NJ to carpool with Elyse to her folk’s house on Friday night and staying up pretty late hanging out with Rich. Elyse and I stopped by Karl and his wife’s house on the way down, to drop off a megaphone that is almost as big as I am, with which to yell at Moonbats at Ft. Monmouth, NJ, like he does every Saturday. After catching up and settling down, we all got a few hours sleep. Just a few…
We were up at 0:dark-thirty, dressed and hit the road. I was having problems with my contact, which turned out to be defective (and not a scratched eye), and ended up doing my whole day with one in and one out. That was weird! We arrived at the base about 0600, drove around looking for the field for a while, and as soon as we found it, we went to work. Set up behind the bleachers, I started mixing lemonade and iced tea in big Army green coolers and other such stuff. By the time I made it to our tent, Rich was effectively supervising and I helped sort cakes that had previously been cut.
In our tent, we served Keebler and Girl Scout cookies, Home made coffee cake, angel food cake with pineapples and coconuts (sooooo good!) and pound cake, Entenmann’s cakes, pies and pastries and had tubs full of candy and Beanie Babies for the kids. I sort of assigned myself to this task, going back to my southern roots, I decided that these people were too good to serve themselves, but rather, I invited them in and served them whatever they wanted and as much of it as they cared for. They just needed to stick out the place that was handed to them.
I was assigned a few volunteers, the most adorable young men, who were Cadet Airmen, and I taught them the basics of said southern hospitality, and they really got into it. They officially announced the coffee cake was the best thing to try, because it was made with love. They don’t know it, but I say that about home made food all the time. Their names were Cadet Maj. Peter Daigle, Cadet 1st Sgt. Mark Untizs, Cadet Airman 1st Class Dan Krakower, Cadet Sr. Airman Steve Young, Cadet TSgt. Justin Zacher, Cadet Airman Basic Ryan Werner, Cadet Airman Basic John Mane, Cadet MSgt. Mike Cunningham, all under the command of Commander Captain Ulrich Gordon Lewis.
These young men took orders well, I’d like to thank their commander for a job well done there, and they were easy to manage. A big help when we would get several people at a time. I instructed them to hand out the plates and load it up with everything, and they followed my lead where being outgoing and customer service oriented went.
It was fun to get to know the people I was working with, joke around with the Cadets, many volunteers were there, and I was primarily around ARMS and Eagles Up. While I worked, as Rich reported, he handed out flags to so many people, and I loved watching the kids come get candy from us, after having received a flag from Rich, somewhere down the field. Elyse helped load stuff up and did a lot of networking to meet other folks, and get the Eagles Up name out there. I am surprised she didn’t get more sunburned!
After a while, I left my men at the table to continue serving and Elyse and I went to take pictures. Because of my one-eye thing going on, she took more than me, because I couldn’t see (I’m pretty blind). We watched and waited and cheered and yelled when our troops went marching by, and the crowd roared with love and those men and women walked ten feet tall. After standing in the heat for hours and then going to march, they paraded around the field for all to appreciate. It was truly moving.
Watching these brave men and women marching, I was filled with gratitude for them, and was so honored that I was able to be there and help give back to them. They sacrifice so much for our country and for me to be here in my climate controlled environment typing this, and I was just humbled by them. I was also very sad to know that some won’t make it back home alive. Some won’t come back physically whole people, or will be psychologically different people. This is the risk they take for us. They know full well what they’re walking into, and they volunteered to do it. I wouldn’t have taken any amount of money to be out there that day, supporting my men and women in uniform.
When the ceremony was over, we had quite a bit of food left over, and were puzzled over what to do. “Give it away!” Elyse’s mom said. I asked her, “Whole cakes?” She said, “YES!” Well, okay! I loaded up my arms, six and seven boxes at a time, and proceeded to walk all over the field, both behind and in front of the bleachers, handing out cakes to anyone who didn’t have a box in their hands. “Free cakes! Take one, God Bless you!” is what I would tell the soldiers, thanking them for their service (and for taking a cake). I did this over and over until there were no more cakes to give. We then had to deal with candy- donated were tubs of candy but divvied into Ziploc bags with about 7 or 8 pieces in each. Rather than hand a bag of candy out at a time, which could have taken hours, I grabbed a whole tub and walked around looking for kids. When I found them, I yelled, “Free candy!!” They looked at me like I was joking, and I assured them I was not! They came from everywhere, happy to dig into the bucket of sweets, and the parents were very happy about it as well. I did that again, until there were none left.
After cleaning down, being in the sun all day and busy working with very little sleep, we sat around and chatted while watching the Guards come with their huge forklift trucks to get the pallets of ice, bottled water and other soft drinks. Elyse and I watched this girl, who slugged those bags of ice and carried the heaviest things like any other man would. THAT was neat to witness. It was nothing to her- all in a day’s work.
In the end, this was, like Rich and Elyse, one of the most moving things I was ever able to be a part of, and it affected me deeply. The first time I went to DC, March 17, 2007, I felt that feeling; that humble yet proud feeling. I had it again the following September. This was that same feeling, only a bit different, in addition. It was like looking at the ocean or the mountains for the first time; that feeling of being very small, maybe even insignificant, in the grand scheme of things. But the awesomeness of being able to see those things is really something that you take with you. And I had that sort of feeling this weekend. It’s one of those things that you can take with you when it’s your time to go. I got to go there, serve them, to witness the love and admiration from the family and the pride and bravery of those men and women that numbered just under 3,000.
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These days, it seems every man and his dog are on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest and a host of other social media platforms.
Love it or hate it, brands that have a clear social media strategy stand to gain a whole lot more than increased sales. Want to build brand loyalty and get your brand joining the conversation? You need a social media agency that will get your customers talking about your business for all the right reasons.
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When it comes to social media, it is important to be consistent with how often you post. It’s no good spamming your follower’s news feed with content only to go AWOL for a month.
Content should be planned and regularly posted throughout at specific times of the day for certain days of the week. As a general rule, 3 x posts per week is considered a healthy minimum. Social media isn’t just about telling the world how awesome you are — the clue is in the name — it’s about being social.
Imagine heading to a party and talking to someone who only talks business. You’d soon start thinking of excuses to get away and make a mental note to avoid him/her at the next BBQ.
The same goes for businesses on social media. Don’t bombard your followers with a constant stream of business-focused media, mix things up, get involved with trending conversations, have something funny or interesting to share? Share it.
Of course, you are a business so you will have to have some degree of business-focused material. A good rule to follow when planning your social media strategy is to always remember the rule of thirds.
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The aim of social media marketing is to increase brand awareness and to ensure your business remains at the forefront of your customers’ minds — but all business and no play makes for a boring brand.
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This is the easiest bit for any business to talk about. As with all forms of marketing, the aim is drive sales and increase conversions. Get a new product in? Take a few pictures or even better yet — a video — and show your customers how awesome it is. Have a sale on?
Show people how good of a deal your promo is!
Top Tip: Show, don’t tell.
Social media provides your business with a platform to talk and interact with you customers and followers. Try sparking brand-relevant conversations with your audience and listen to what they have to say.
Again, this doesn’t (and shouldn’t) always have to be about business but making it relevant to the work that you do should be a priority. Simply, ‘liking’, sharing, or commenting on a follower’s post is an effective way of engaging with your audience.
Show people that you are up-to-date with what’s going on in your industry and what’s going on in the world around you by sharing interesting stories.
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Everything that your business does on social media should include some from of C2A (call to action). This C2A could be a phone number to ring, an email address, or a product page, but at the very least your social media posts should include a link back to your website. Why? The more backlinks you have pointing back to your website the more popular search engines such as Google assume your website is.
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The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding agreement to the international treaty called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Its objective is “the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.”
The Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce global emissions by five per cent by 2010. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that reductions of 50 to 85 per cent by 2050 are needed to stabilize the climate at safe levels.
Under the Kyoto agreement, Canada is committed to reducing emissions to 563 megatonnes. At current trends, Natural Resources Canada projects Canada's emissions will exceed this level by 36 per cent--or 265 megatonnes--by 2010. By international law, countries that exceed their targets are required to make up the difference, plus an additional 30 per cent, in the next commitment period.
In a detailed analysis, the Pembina Institute concluded in 2005 that oil sands are the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions growth in Canada, with a rapidly increasing share of the country's total emissions. Emissions from the oil sands are projected to increase between 450 and 560 per cent between 2003 and 2020.
Commercial development of the oil sands began in 1967. In 1995, the Alberta Chamber of Resources laid out a strategy that envisioned tar sands production doubling or tripling by 2020. This timeline was exceeded by 16 years--oil sands production more then doubled by 2004 to 1.1 million barrels per day. Current projections range from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers' estimate of 2.7 million barrels per day by 2005 to the government of Canada's estimate of 6 million barrels per day by 2030.
Greenhouse gas emissions projections for the oil sands are complex. For example, high pressure steam is used to melt the bitumen so it can be extracted from the sand--for this reason, producing oil from bitumen results in three times the greenhouse gas emissions compared with the equivalent barrel of light or medium crude. While relatively clean-burning natural gas is currently used to provide the steam, proposals for coke or bitumen could double the emissions, while nuclear power would lower greenhouse gas emissions but produce nuclear waste.
The federal government has not publicly released its projections of future GHG emissions from the oil sands since December 1999. However, the rapid growth of the oil sands corresponds with the dramatic increases in the government's estimate of how much Canada will overshoot its Kyoto target. In 1997, Canada anticipated its emissions would exceed its Kyoto target by 137 MT, whereas the most recent estimate in 2005 was 270 MT, a one hundred per cent increase.
Pembina Institute offers the only concrete numbers. In 2003, emissions from the oil sands accounted for 3.4 per cent of Canada’s total. As the oil sands continue to grow, Pembina projects that by 2010 they will account for 7.5 to 8.2 per cent of Canada's total emissions, under current trends.
Between 2000 and 2020, the Canada Research Energy Institute anticipates that development and production activities in the oil sands will lead to an increase in GDP of $885 billion, reaching three per cent of the country's total GDP by the end of 2020. As Stéphane Dion famously stated in an interview when he was environment minister: "There is no minister of the environment on Earth who can stop this [oil sands development] from going forward because there is too much money in it."
At the UN emergency meeting on climate this October, Stephen Harper stated, “The core principle of Canada’s approach to climate change is balance. We are balancing environmental protection with economic growth.”
Harper's greenhouse gas emissions strategy is based on carbon intensity. This means that instead of reducing overall GHG emissions, oil sands projects can successfully meet the Harper government targets while, reports Pembina, quadrupling output with the end result of tripling emissions. The regulations also give new oil sands projects a three-year grace period from any emissions restrictions, with an unknown impact.
The Pembina Institute is calling for the oil sands to be carbon neutral by 2020 by using a combination of offsets and carbon capture and storage. Such a strategy has its detractors; organisations such as Carbon Trade Watch argue that offsets encourage a business-as-usual approach, when in reality dramatic changes are required.
Source: The Climate Implications of Canada’s Oil Sands Development Matthew Bramley, Derek Neabel and Dan Woynillowicz. 1995- the Pembina Institute.
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She’s just released an album with a plethora of fantastic collaborations and performed her biggest headline London show to date, so we had a natter!
You’ve not long released your album, Honey, which reached number 22 in the Official Charts. It might not have been a number 1, but were you happy with the outcome? Yeah definitely, I mean, for me that week unfortunately Prince passed away and Beyoncé released an album so competition was pretty fierce. It was kind of an interesting project that I wanted to do and have some fun with so I didn’t put too much pressure on myself.
It features a lot of collaborations. Was it exciting working with a bunch of other artists? It was amazing – a lot of different people I’ve always wanted to work with. It was really fun and I love collaborating and being part of a team.
Gay clubbing is such a massive part of my life. They were the first clubs I went to and still go to regularly and I’m still part of that community
Is there anyone else you’d like to collaborate with on your next album? My dream collaboration would be Alicia Keys. I love her new song and her whole vibe is amazing.
We heard the title of your album is a sort of reminder that you still love to gig at underground clubs, and that’s what you’re about. Could you expand on that? I guess it’s the culture that I’m from and what I’ve grown up with. I love raving and dancing and I love club music in general. I find the music progressive and rich in history. I find it very fulfilling being a part of that.
You performed at Birmingham Pride the other month. Especially after the Orlando shootings, do you feel that Pride events are still just as important as they once were? Definitely as important, it’s such a pleasure to be able to perform. I always get booked for Prides. Two of my best friends are gay and I’ve seen their struggle coming out and just life in general. Also gay clubbing is such a massive part of my life. They were the first clubs I went to and still go to regularly and I’m still part of that community. I feel part of the community and I’m so happy to be part of that.
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Medical Research Futures Fund awards $7.9m to Brain and Mind Centre’s multidisciplinary research into neurological and mental health disorders.
The research programs, awarded by the Australian Government’s Medical Research Futures Fund (MRFF) and announced by Health Minister Greg Hunt this week, support collaborative research projects that bring AI technology out of the lab and into clinical and public partnerships – unlocking key questions for treatments in Multiple Sclerosis, youth mental health, and childhood development.
Brain and Mind Centre co-Director and head of Translational Research, Matthew Kiernan, said the MRFF grants support the scope and capacity for creative research afforded by multidisciplinary research.
“Patient-centred research draws on collaborations across disciplines and sectors, and with these MRFF projects we continue to stretch those collaborations – we’re now working with engineers, economists, physicists, local and international community partners and health providers – who bring a unique depth of knowledge to each program.
“Significantly, the research awarded in this round take AI in very different directions, to ultimately benefit clinical outcomes for people diagnosed with MS, and mental health outcomes for young people. We’re excited to see this research take shape in the clinical and public health sphere.”
The $4.02 million biomarker program – TRANSCEND (Translating AI Networks to Support Clinical Excellence in Neuro Diseases) is a partnership between the Brain and Mind Centre’s Computational Neuroscience researchers, Sydney Neuroimaging Analysis Centre (SNAC) and health provider networks. Project partners will build a new hybrid learning system to look deep within the brain for disease biomarkers. These biomarkers, which signify progression of the disease beyond clinical presentation, make early diagnosis and intervention possible and will change the course of MS for people diagnosed with the disease.
Co-Director, Mental Health and Policy, Professor Ian Hickie, said the $3.1 million youth mental health will see mathematicians, statisticians and data analysts working with the Brain and Mind Centre’s Youth Mental Health Team to develop a dynamic AI infrastructure: “A useful tool to inform the best timing and sequence of mental health interventions, particularly for people with complex needs.
“From a clinical perspective, these new approaches could result in real-time decision aids that would help us to make much more accurate decisions about which early interventions are of greatest benefit to young people with emerging major mood or psychotic disorders. They will also guide our efforts to provide the most effective forms of secondary prevention.”
In total, three Brain and Mind Centre programs received funding from the Australian Government’s MRFF grants. Professor Mark Dadds, head of the Child Behaviour Research Clinic located at the Brain and Mind Centre, was also awarded a MRFF grant for neurological disorders and researchers from the Brain and Mind Centre’s Child Development team will be working with chief Investigators from Deakin University on a transcranial magnetic stimulation study for adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder.
The research awarded in this round take AI in very different directions, to ultimately benefit clinical outcomes for people diagnosed with MS, and mental health outcomes for young people. We’re excited to see this research take shape in the clinical and public health sphere.”
“Software-generated ‘artificial neural networks’ have demonstrated a remarkable capacity for (generic) image recognition. Despite the clear potential for this technology to transform health delivery, particularly through advances in medical imaging, AI research and implementation has remained the purview of research institutes and technology companies with limited access to real-world data.
TRANSCEND will redress this imbalance by building a new, hybrid AI learning ecosystem that links a premiere research institute (University of Sydney) and industry specialist (Sydney Neuroimaging Analysis Centre) with health provider networks (IMED Radiology and clinical Neurology partners) to generate clinically-relevant biomarkers of disease progression for the common, disabling neurological condition, multiple sclerosis.
The project will establish a unique central-federated AI learning environment, yielding algorithms that, validated in a clinical neurology environment, will set a benchmark in diagnostic MS imaging; track subclinical progression of the disease; direct therapeutic strategy; and mine untapped quantitative imaging data. Our novel approach will enable new AI research and technologies within the health sector, while preserving patient privacy and data security.”
Professor Michael Barnett, Chief Investigator for TRANSCEND, head of Computational Neuroscience at the Brain and Mind Centre and in partnership with Sydney Neuroimaging Analysis Centre (SNAC)
“Mental disorders are the leading cause of disability and death among young people. A key challenge for youth mental health care is how to make effective clinical decisions about the timing and sequence of interventions, particularly for those with complex needs. This three-year project will use AI to model youth mental health outcomes and quantify the impact of interventions on these outcomes.
This will provide the foundation for a decision-support tool that leverages health information technologies and data science methods to improve clinical decision-making in health services. to translate innovative machine learning and systems simulation modelling into useful clinical tools for youth mental health care.
We are excited to be working with Professor Sally Cripps, director of the University of Sydney Centre for Translational Data Science and the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Data Analytics for Resources and Environments. This work will develop an important workforce of Early Career Researchers, data scientists and computer scientists based at the Brain and Mind Centre, who will work together with clinicians, Sydney Local Health District and young people. With this grant we look forward to building on the multidisciplinary collaborations we have established between capabilities in complex systems science, health services research and health information technologies.
Dr Frank Iorfino, Research Fellow, Youth Mental Health and Technology at the Brain and Mind Centre
The Brain and Mind Centre’s Child researchers will be working with Chief Investigators from Deakin University, on the rTMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) study for adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Professor Mark Dadds, head of the Child Behaviour Research Clinic located at the Brain and Mind Centre, was awarded an $800,000 MRFF grant for neurological disorders. His project will trial a new intervention for childhood autism spectrum disorders.
“This project will test an innovative parenting intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) so that it is ready for national and international dissemination. We will use data from the trial to better inform how different elements of treatment can produce positive outcomes for young children with autism. This will be the first integrated treatment program of its kind made available to parents and families of people with ASD.
This unique program targets and is effective in creating synergistic change in core ASD symptoms, associated behavioural regulation problems, and family adjustment to having a child with ASD. It is brief and implemented without creating an unnecessary commitment and burden on f amilies and is compatible with the recent review and recommendations for improving the NDIS by providing greater flexibility, empowerment and skills development to parents.
It is not, and will not be, copyright protected, and thus is ready for national roll-out without incurring training and delivery costs to parents and the Australian public health system.”
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Well, that’s it, kids – that’s all she wrote.
Summer’s over, and all too many adults of personal acquaintance are struggling with job layoffs and benefit cuts (thanks so much, right wingers and corporate types, for devaluing the individual in favor of maximizing profits for the already bloated tenth of a percenter multinational moguls – you’ve given so much to the world). Did I mention the farmer’s almanac, of all things, is predicting another bad winter?
As Laaz Rockit once sagely penned, “shit’s ugly”.
So to get our minds off of all the serious shit and the unpleasant vagaries of man’s inhumanity to man, let’s dig in to yet another month of bone crunching metal.
Whether it lets you escape into worlds of fantasy and personal empowerment or just gives vent to all that pent up rage at the evildoers that set themselves up in “authority” over men (as if we were expected to actually recognize or respect any such “authority”…keep dreaming, fuckwads. Revolution’s coming, best duck your fat heads), there’s no better accompaniment to the imminent fall of Western Civilization and the world as we know it than some energizing, pounding thrash and punk, dark and brooding, sinister goth and black metal or anthemic, spirit lifting traditional or power metal and hard rock/AOR.
So without any further ado, queue up, grab yourself a tall cold one and prepare to fuck shit up – I want to see a mosh pit out there!
AXIS – No Man’s Land (No Remorse) (August 5)
Very strong mid-80’s LA metal with strong NWOBHM influences. Vocalist Douglas Bjerke sounds a whole hell of a lot like Biff Byford of Saxon crossed with some Bruce Dickinsonian stylistic touches.
I’m surprised a band quite this good didn’t achieve greater acclaim, were it not for the (for the era) unusually throaty vocal approach and comparatively late arrival of their sole album here in 1988 (by which time trends had shifted towards a more self consciously glam and/or tattooed junkie Aerosmith wannabe thing courtesy of Poison and Guns N’ Roses).
Opener “long live the king”, “bringin’ me down” and to a lesser extent, “top of the hill” are real standouts, though the title cut is a slightly disappointing take on Metal Church’s “watch the children pray” with an overly long build. The overriding sense is that Axis was trying desperately (and nearly succeeding, rhythm guitarwise) to be Ratt, but without Warren DiMartini. While the songs are generally quite well constructed and catchy, the leads fall sorta flat, being acceptable enough but decidedly workmanlike. Think David Carruth from Bitch and you might get the general idea of his skill level.
But don’t let those minor setbacks dissuade you: this is one of the strongest “lost” traditional metal albums I’ve come across to date, with a whole hell of a lot of Ratt meets Saxon feel. Songs are melodic, catchy and full of grinding old school metal riffing, and the vocals and leads, while perhaps a bit unusual, do work.
If they’d have stuck around, I could picture having an Axis pin on my denim jacket back in the day – they’re really surprisingly good, and No Remorse have resurrected one hell of a blast from the past here.
Raise your fist and yell.
HIGH POWER – Les Violons De Satan (No Remorse) (August 5)
Most obsessive traditional metal fans should be well aware of France’s High Power, who delivered a surprisingly strong debut back in 1983.
While hardly up to the quality of the self titled, second release Les Violons de Satan is playing more or less in the same ballpark, with very NWOBHM inflected metal, vaguely Don Dokkenesque vocals (perhaps crossed with a bit of Grim Reaper’s Steve Grimmett) and surprisingly classy, even a bit flashy lead guitar.
Another rip from a likely LP-only source, there’s plenty of that thinness and hiss on the treble range, but sufficient clarity and beef on the bottom end to make fans of vinyl more than happy. A more practiced audience accustomed to the surprising clarity of the CD may be less enamored of all this distortion and missing information, but the rarity of the material and quality of the band in question may well override any such concerns. Your call.
It’s not even close to being “High Power – the sequel”, but Les Violons de Satan is a respectable mid 80’s offering that should leave fans of the more British end of the metal spectrum quite pleased.
WASP – Radio Single “Last Runaway” (Napalm Records) (October 2)
Wow, W.A.S.P. is still around?
I remember being fascinated by Blackie Lawless and his drunken pal Chris Holmes back in the day – the debut is a flawless heavy metal classic that remains in rotation to this day, and followup The Last Command, while a bit more pop radio oriented, still contained some of their best material.
After that, things kind of went South, with Ghoulies soundtrack appearances, questionable live albums and Who covers. My drummer and a bass playing acquaintance (who subsequently joined a prominent and still active Latin-themed Nu-metal act whose name you’d all recognize immediately) seemed to like their Headless Children, but for the life of me, I couldn’t understand why.
The simple fact is, by the end of the decade, I turned off.
So here we are in 2015. Apparently Blackie kept on a’rolling all these years, and in fact has a new album coming up on notable Euro label Napalm (home of Leaves Eyes, Xandria, Delain and far too many personal favorites to list off herein). Has anything changed since I last heard the band?
Well…yes and no.
It’s hard to judge by a single (we’ll get a better picture next month with the full album release), but it seems that Lawless has taken half a step back from the more unrelentingly glum and faceless sound he adopted for Headless Children (and presumably going forward, though I’m hardly the one to ask about the intervening decades).
“Last Runaway” is surprisingly hopeful and major key, offering a sort of wistfulness in place of their former anthemics, a casual listenability where their old material was simultaneously catchy and “edgy” (at least to the unwashed non-metal masses).
Let’s put it this way, I can’t picture the man sawing a woman in half, tossing raw meat into the audience or sundry suchlike elements of the band’s famed stage show to a lighthearted summertime cruising song like this.
Decidedly unspectacular, but interesting…we’ll see what next month brings.
AHAB – The Boats of The Glen Carrig (Napalm Records) (August 28)
Damn, has it been three whole years since the last Ahab album?
When I had former Midnattsol six stringer Christian Hector on the show, I found him to be likeable, articulate and unusually thoughtful – with his band’s orientation towards turn of the century whaling literature, you’d have to expect such. And yes, I did (shortly after our chat) finish the oft-omitted Poe novella The Giant was based upon.
Sticking with the fin de siecle nautical horror thematics, the band now takes on William Hope Hodgson’s likewise named novel, which the promo materials note as being a “survival and adventure story with elements of psychedelic horror in the form of weird weed monsters and dangerous snail-like creatures”. I’m familiar with and appreciative of Hodgson’s shorter, Weird Tales oriented material, so my interest is decidedly piqued…
Similarly, the band sticks with the (frankly more evolved) progressive approach of The Giant over its earlier (if still quite listenable) straight up funeral doom material. While the gritty, Sabbathlike stuff does in fact appear (and constitutes a more than reasonable percentage of the album’s running time), there are similarly lengthy, dreamy clean sections, both in vocal approach and in terms of the crystal clarity of the guitars and recording.
Like their last effort, it’s an excellent balance, and alongside the welcome literary orientation (when’s the last time you’ve heard that mentioned about a band outside Iron Maiden?), to these ears puts Ahab well ahead of their ostensible stylistic peers.
Thanks, Christian. Now you’ve given me another novel to dig into.
Anyone up for a sea voyage?
DIEMONDS – Never Wanna Die (Napalm Records) (September 4)
Decent late 80’s style hard rock/heavy metal combo out of Canada. Their secret weapon is smoking hot desi gal frontwoman Priya Panda, who pulls off both aesthetics and vocal skills with equal aplomb.
Tapping into the same vibe that informed hard driving female fronted combos like Saraya, Princess Pang and particularly Femme Fatale back in their circa 1988-9 heyday, Diemonds offer a particularly melodic bar band style of heavy rock that we haven’t seen since.
Figures it’d originate from north of the border – Widow and a few Midwestern occult rock and black metal/blackened thrash acts aside, we still haven’t gotten over all this hip hop and nu metal/aggro/alterna-grunge bullshit Stateside. It’s just fucking sad at this point…
What’s interesting is how you could arguably place Diemonds in company with the sort of retro-AOR/classic hair metal thing Frontiers Records has made their specialty…and yet, the band is actually too aggressive and “heavy” for them!
The band takes the countrified/street junkie grit of Princess Pang and When the Blackbird Sings-era Saraya (which is an entirely different animal from their impeccable and very traditional oriented debut, mind), the melodicism of Vixen and the meaty traditional metal meets hard rock riffing (and oversell of the sex angle) of Femme Fatale with arguable touches of later Girlschool or even The Runaways. It’s a nice mix.
Seediest cut: “secret”. Put that together with Panda’s pleasing visuals, and you’ve got a sure bet to get the hormones surging.
Party like it’s 1988, preferably with Ms. Panda in tow (nudge wink).
Stahlmann – CO2 (AFM Records) (September 18)
More “poppy” and “gothicized” than the similarly oriented Rammstein, the third full length from Germany’s Stahlmann treads closer territory to the gothic-industrial metal likes of Gothminister or Megaherz. The music is simple and to the point, with plenty of melody and actual instruments being played – check out the emotional, bluesy solo on “die klinge”!
While martial enough to satisfy fans accustomed to a more Rammstein/Laibach template, make no mistake, Stahlmann are laying down an even more listenable terrain than Lindermann and company. The anger is there, but so is a certain vibrancy, a level of humanity and melancholy that the presence of a song like “sadist” would not suggest.
It would certainly be a stretch to call this warm, but it’s unquestionable that more genuine emotions are being tapped here than the pure rage and self-disgust that marks more veteran industrial outfits (whether stretching back to chilly pioneers like Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, more gothic followers such as Skinny Puppy or dance oriented bands like Meat Beat Manifesto or Nitzer Ebb or height of popularity acts like Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson or yes, Rammstein).
Hey, I really dig Gothminister, which is why I had him on the show, and Megaherz similarly has not left the iPod since being reviewed a year or so back. Stahlmann’s CO2 may in fact be more hook-filled than either of the aforementioned, so are you expecting a slag?
U.D.O. – Navy Metal Night (AFM Records) (August 21)
Udo Dirkschneider and company take a leaf from Satyricon and Empyrium. This is another pairing of a hoary metal concern with a symphony orchestra, with the difference being that it actually works quite well.
What’s truly surprising is how tracks like “Future land” and “Animal House” manage to sound like they were always composed for symphonic performance, with the blend between the band per se and the Marinemusikkorps Nordsee being that of a seamless interplay.
Seriously, the flow of acoustic through electronic parts and vice versa is so particularly sinuous, you have to wonder just how much rehearsal went into this project, and who took on the arrangements hereof. Whomever is responsible, my hat’s off to you.
So if you can picture Accept-style martial cum neoclassical guitar riffing, drumming and the gravelly vocals of the one and only Udo Dirkschneider fronting and taking part in a reasonable scale symphony orchestra, that’s what this is – but so well done.
Hell, Udo even takes the opportunity to step out with a jazzy little number called “cut me out”, which is so unlike what listeners have come to expect from the man as to be jaw dropping…and yet guess what, it works. Really good stuff across the board.
Hey, Satyricon, this is what Live at the Opera should have sounded like, rather than a half-assed Satyricon show with a little added chorus for garnish. This sounds nothing like a typical U.D.O. album…and yet, it sounds exactly like one, fully realized.
Raise your fist in salute to the metal king.
Pyogenesis – A Century In The Curse Of Time (AFM Records) (September 18)
Catchy emo act with strong metal overtones gives a steampunk history lesson.
Apparently they were a 90’s act who crossed over from some variant of metal (or even gothic metal) into alternative and punk, which is wholly believable not only based on musical trends of the decade but the (essentially emo, but often quite confused) hybrid we see here.
I guess if you crossed a typical act of the emo genre (don’t ask me to name names, AFI and a brief debut album flirtation with My Chemical Romance were about as far as I ever delved outside of random radio or comp encounters) with Weezer (“the best is yet to come”), Urge Overkill (“the swan king”) and modern metal cum melodeath (“steam paves its way”), you might get something like A Century in the Curse of Time.
I appreciated the steampunk thing and all the turn of the century business about the dawn of the industrial era, and the music was quite likeable, though more generally ‘punk’ in the late 90’s-present sense (think poppy, safe mallrat stuff like Good Charlotte, The Offspring and Lagwagon over the real deal living on the streets stuff like the Dead Boys, Iggy Pop and Minor Threat here) than it ever gets “metal”.
The alterna-elements seemed something of an ill fit, though they certainly pull off all of the disparate styles they choose to adopt with sufficient aplomb to recognize and give respect to their skillset.
Not bad for what it is, and sure to be playing at your local Hot Topic soon.
To Die For – Cult (Massacre Records) (September 18)
Finnish dark melodic rock with gravel/growly vox and melancholic midtempo songs. Guitars are detuned, it all feels quite modern, and another one sure to be popular with the mallrat goth/punk crowd, though if we’re comparing apples to oranges, I’d much rather be listening to Pyogenesis.
It’s sort of bland and reminiscent of what happened to the aforementioned My Chemical Romance on subsequent albums. Sure, it’s not horrible if that’s your thing, but…nah.
Sinister – Dark Memorials (Massacre Records) (September 4)
I have the impression I have an old copy of Sinister’s second album Diabolical Summoning laying around somewhere.
The fact that I don’t know for sure says a lot about this band and their relative standing in the annals of old school death metal, a genre I revisit regularly and keep in at least annual rotation.
They were there back in the day. People knew they existed, and I’m sure they had their fans. But it’s just sort of…hmm.
The band has not really altered its style and gone djent or whatever – this is still old school style death metal. It’s just…Sinister. You know, it’s listenable enough, but there’s nothing there to really stand out, no melodies or catchy riffs to stick in the listener’s head, no gimmick to hang their collective hats on.
The production’s fair but unspectacular, and you could say the same about the playing. Adrie Klooserwaard goes for the throaty but aggressive vocal style, with his mouth in an “O” and freaking out throughout, the guitars and drums are OK, and it’s an album filled with covers of (mostly) classic thrash and death metal hits.
They do respectable takes on death metal classics “beyond the unholy grave” (Death), “ridden with disease” (Autopsy), “radiation sickness” (Repulsion) and “blasphemies of the flesh (Carnage), but are mediocre at best covering thrash (“under the guillotine” (Kreator), “necrophiliac” (Slayer) and “beneath the remains” (Sepultura).
Some tracks are actually unrecognizable, like their take on “exhume to consume” (Carcass), and they also cover some lesser material from Bolt Thrower (why not something off the IVth Crusade?) and Master (meh), but where they finally seem to come alive is in (surprise, surprise) two covers of their own material, namely a speedy “compulsory resignation” and a middling to noisy “spiritual immolation”.
Seriously, the energy just picks up all of a sudden, as if they were trying to get listeners to think “damn, that band Sinister is so much better than all those bands (read: comparatively lackluster covers) before!”
Look, it’s old school death metal, being performed by a band who was actually there back in the day. They cover a lot of truly choice classic tracks from some killer bands, some of which actually sound fairly decent, for covers. So far, so good.
But you have to ask: why not just listen to the (far superior) originals?
New Light Choir – Volume II (High Roller Records) (August 7)
well, there’s a Jimi Hendrix intro that turns into black metal, then it goes sorta occult rock/doom. But that’s just the opening track – there are no further concessions to the corpsepaint crowd hereafter.
It’s two guys, a drummer and an otherwise one man band handling everything but. There’s a strong 60’s feel* to the clean guitar bits and the Britpoplike whiny clean vocals, but the heavier bits do play into the general ballpark of occult rock and/or doom metal.
* or perhaps more aptly, 80’s style retro-60’s ala The Smithereens or Echo & the Bunnymen.
What are we to make of this? Who the hell knows. It’s definitely listenable, particularly for fans of the aforementioned 80’s Britpop with 60’s leanings, and I guess that’ll have to suffice.
Not bad at all, if you’re so inclined.
Last Red Ransom – Snubnose (self released) (September)
Interesting – electronic rock cum dance music with gothic elements?
I really liked “the electric sky (digital sunshine)” with its female vocals and catchy hooks; “burning buildings” was a bit more gothic/industrial oriented and brought both Antichrist Superstar era Marilyn Manson and Lacuna Coil to mind (simultaneously!). Hell, the male vox even smacked of Fallen-era Evanescence a bit…
“Been dead before” sounds like a long lost Curve outtake, “Lanterns” is like Type O Negative with much lighter tenor vocals (and a guest chorus by Theatre of Tragedy-era Liv Kristine!). “The living trust” feels a tad Garbage, the piano line in “etch” makes me think of Sabine Dunstler-era Elis somehow.
The other tracks didn’t impress me quite so much, though I did think “the house” vaguely reminiscent of a more aggressive variant of the sort of sound bands like Lush, My Bloody Valentine and the Darling Buds were going for back in the 90’s.
In fact, the entire affair seemed quite 90’s, but not in the crappy grunge sense – this is more like one of the many odd subcultural musical trends I was prone to explore during those dark days.
Particularly in terms of the tracks listed above, I liked this one a lot. Well worth checking out for those whose interest I’ve piqued.
De Profundis – Kingdom Of The Blind (Wickerman Recordings) (September 28)
Pretty good melodeath with an (early) Desultory meets Baphomet vocal approach. Too bad about the shitty “we’re so black metal” cover art, which gives the prospective listener a completely wrong impression about what awaits within.
There are definite touches of latter day Death or early Cynic to the proceedings, which leaves me with mixed feelings. While I appreciate the complexity on the drumming, this sort of “technical death” cum “math metal” approach always leaves me flat.
But don’t count De Profundis out yet, because the band’s core orientation appears to be towards melodeath above and beyond all that tech bullshit (Death ended after Rick Rozz and James Murphy left, I’m sorry), leaving this as a very listenable death metal take on more palatable progressive thrash acts like, say, Watchtower or perhaps even Believer.
In fact, I found myself quite happy with this band and album, both on a scale of pure listenability and in terms of musicianship. It’s not perfect by a long shot, but overall proves well deserving of the nod.
They tread the razor’s edge quite well – a stronger “tech death” focus would have sunk their asses like a stone, but on the flipside, too much of a “melodeath” leaning could have left them comparatively generic. De Profundis actually manages to walk the tightrope and boil the blend at just the right temperature to emerge with one of the more palatable souffles of genre-blend to cross the virtual desk of late.
Raise the horns.
My Silent Wake – Damnatio Memoriae (House of Ashes) (June 29)
Strange variant of doom metal with overly clean (possibly heavy overdrive?) guitars and a questionable vocalist.
Apparently they’ve been poking around for a good decade, with almost as many album releases as there were years in their recorded career. But is it any good?
They’re what used to be called a “power trio” (Triumph, Rush, Nugent, you get the idea), with mainman Ian Arkley handling both vocals and guitar. Something about this feels fairly straightforward, despite the often snaking guitar/bass unison lines and orientation towards atonal sustain – they almost feel “modern/Watain worship black metal” therefore, though that’s really not what’s being tapped into here*. In fact, Arkley and company tend more towards pseudo-psychedelic rock in their overall playing style, with straight ahead rock drumming and a lot of negative space (think early Danzig).
* that said, check out “black oil” and tell yourself that’s not what’s going down…
Honestly, I’m not really sure what to make of these guys. What sound were they really shooting for? Is it doom metal? Gothically oriented hard rock? Watain wannabe schmutters? Psychedelic stoner rock? The answer to all of those is “yeah, sorta…but not really.”
I guess it’s listenable enough if you’re in a depressive mindset – the Chuck Biscuitslike drumming from Gareth Arlett is certainly quite palatable, and the use of negative space definitely helps as well.
I just really don’t get what the hell they’re trying to be, and find the vocals…questionable. Not horrible, and certainly not good…just…hmm.
While I’ll rate the music itself several degrees higher than the vocals (if nothing else, then for the drumming alone), it’s something of a mixed bag.
Designs Of Chaos – The Darkest Storm EP (self released) (June 28)
Emo screamo with a strong tech metal orientation. For those interested in the human interest angle, they’ve apparently soldiered on past tragedy, as they’ve recently lost their former drummer due to a workplace accident (!)
It’s only three songs, and some of the riffs are likeable enough, but I’m sorry, I have to laugh at these all too typical scream till your face goes red and I can see your tonsils shake “vocals”. I’d replace the vocal chair and have the band integrate some of those cool riffs into a more musically inclined outfit.
For the teenage screamo crowd, likely playing at a Hot Topic or college “metal” radio station near you.
Disfago – S/T double 7″ EP (Witch Ghetto Productions) (August 6)
Punk meets underground black thrash/D-beat. Parts of this are just too damn fast and poorly recorded (what the fuck is guitarist/vocalist Miika saying?), but it’s definitely in line with the sort of thing you hear on much beloved labels like Hell’s Headbangers, Iron Bonehead and Nuclear War Now! – grimy, filthy, sloppy, noisy and all around fucking awesome.
Sometimes the drummer speeds the tempo in the middle of a verse, and the whole thing feels like it’s about to collapse at any time, but look, I was a punk before I was a metalhead (and was again, during metal’s long death here in the States during the 90’s and early to mid millenium), so this sort of barely controlled chaos is right up my alley.
No question about it – their shows must be anarchic in the extreme. Enter pit at your own risk while this level of insanity is playing…
Think bands like Midnight and Shitfucker are too sedate and technical? Try Disfago on for size…
AmoK (Norway) – Necrospiritual Deathcore (Edged Circle Productions) (September 25)
Reissue of a 2006 album that came and went on (of all places) Mysticum’s vanity label. Given that band’s very public problems with substance use, one can only imagine these guys would’ve been lucky to see a paycheck for this, much less any widespread marketing…
An essentially blackened death metal act, Amok uses their horror film sounclips in a particularly odd manner – rather than starting off or ending a given song, they’re integrated into the song proper and played over (making them kind of hard to hear at points).
There’s not a lot to say about the music, it’s reasonably straightforward and, let’s be honest, a bit boring. Chugga chugga chunk chunk chunk ad nauseaum…
Nothing particularly outstanding or horrible here, just prone to leave the listener drifting off if not falling asleep in its very genericness.
Horna – Hengen Tulet (W.T.C.Productions) (September 22)
Ah, one of the few dependable standbys in black metal. Alongside Gorgoroth and…uh…well, nobody really…the band has maintained a steady standard of blazing northern darkness without fail, despite numerous changes in vocalist over the years (from longstanding guitarist Ville “Shatraug” Pystynen to Lauri (“Werwolf”, “Nazgul von Armageddon” and sundry other aliases) Penttila through personal favorite Tapsa “Corvus” Kuusela to current frontman Tuomas “Spellgoth” Rytkonen).
Through it all, they’ve held the banner of darkness aloft, raising the horns where most all of their peers and predecessors fell into various sorry trends and a more particularly “radio friendly” straightforwardness, keyboards, simplified structures, even the black metal equivalent of “death n’ roll”. Bands whose first demos and early albums (or trilogies and quartets of albums) are revered far too often hung around long after their sell-by date, diluting the brand and scene with various levels of effective crap.
But Horna? Never.
Like Gorgoroth, the band has never gone “Viking”, “melodic”, “progressive” “post-black metal” or whatever other ridiculous appellation labels and press can come up with for “sellout”, instead delivering the dark goods mainline over what is now nearly a quarter century’s worth of releases…and a whole hell of a lot of ’em at that. Want a laugh? Go ahead, take a look at the Horna discography. Good luck collecting ’em all…
Respect to the band, and “Shatraug” himself, whose side projects tend to be of similar (if inevitably lesser) quality, for staying true for all these years.
Sure, I’d prefer to hear “Corvus” back in the vocal chair – his era contained some of the very best of Horna releases. But that’s like saying I’d rather have Hat fronting Gorgoroth again – true, but you take what you can get.
There’s nothing here you haven’t heard from them before – and trust me, when it comes to Horna?
That’s a compliment.
Hail to the Finnish lords of northern darkness.
Shrine of Insanabilis – Disciples of the Void (W.T.C.Productions) (September 22)
I swear, was that the same exact song over and over?
Much like Dark Funeral (at least circa Secrets of the Black Arts, after which I gave up), their whole schtick is ascending and descending in lazy man construction transposition (you remember how all those crappy hair metal songs in the late 80’s used to transpose up a whole step at the end for no apparent reason and ruin the entire atmosphere of the song?). Up and down, up and down, endlessly searching…
Other than that, it’s actually not bad for modern black metal, owing more to old school second wave stylistic flourishes and aesthetic than far too many of their peers.
Even so, it’s noisy, often poorly produced (check out the fast half of “still of this earth”, if you dare!) and like I hinted at earlier, I’d gone through three whole songs wondering when the first track was going to finally end!
Look, it goes without saying that I’ve been exposed to (and forced to listen to and review) far, far worse here at Third Eye. The endless succession of Watain wannabes and subpar Aussie acts cluttering up the black metal scene of late is staggeringly voluminous, and quite frankly, pointless. At least Shrine of Insanabilis is sort of trying, though I can still hear a bit too much of Danielsson in there for their band’s own good.
So as the pigs would say, I’ll let you guys off with a warning.
Next time, I may have to bust ya.
Kaiserreich – Cuore Nero (De Tenebrarum Principio) (September 7)
Wow, musically I really, really dug this one. That same mournful, hypnotic feel of acts like Vardan and the Sepulchral roster, but with a bit more “in the moment” presence and aggression.
The only thing that throws the mix off a bit is the vocals, which are screeched in such a fashion that they seem to shift back and forth between a particularly Burzumesque black metal shriek and that distinctly teenage emo/aggro screechy screamo shit.
I did appreciate the little At the Gates-isms (the occasional shout of “go!” or what have you to kick off a song or phrase) and seriously liked the band’s approach and sound, not to mention the fact that, confusing moniker aside, they hail from the motherland (viva l’Italia!), so I’ll pretend the vocals are more extreme black metal than mallrat wannabe. But it’s up for grabs, folks. Take a listen and deny it.
Fucking awesome, aside from the questionable vox.
Carma – S/T (Labyrinth Productions) (October 1)
A pair of interesting trance electronic tracks both kick off and conclude what turns into more of a black metal meets funeral doom affair between.
I liked the ambient tracks (“sonhos” and “adeus”) and the more black metal inclined (and comparatively “speedy” midtempo) “procisso”, but when they go straight up funeral doom (albeit with BM vox), it kinda sucked.
There’s only 6 tracks, so if one decent track with a good intro and outro justifies a blind buy, have at it. Just don’t blame me when it all goes south for the other 3.
Antagonist Zero – No Tears MCD (Inverse) (August 14)
“Dark metal” with strong doom flourishes. Nice and often catchy solos from Ben Pakarinen (who also does vocals) and Juho Suokas. The clean sung sections work pretty well. Unfortunately, the barfed growly bits are questionable at best.
There’s two covers, one of which works pretty well (“the lachrymal sleep”), and the whole EP is sort of early Paradise Lost-ish with perhaps a touch of Candlemass (minus the essential “Messiah” Marcolin vocals).
Bottom line, it’s pretty good – just not so sure about the bleeeeaaaggghhh barrrffff huaaggghhh bits.
Scythe For Sore Eyes – Dawn Of a Darker Horizon (Inverse) (June 12)
Modern day punk-meets-metal act. It’s all pretty uptempo, with crystalline production, chunky, in your face guitars and odd sprechtgesang vocals that approximate baritone (think a less melodically inclined Voltaire and you’ll get the picture).
There’s a thinness to the center of the mix that makes me wonder if this is a bassless combo – dual guitars (or single guitar dual tracked), drums and vocals only. Oh, wait, there’s a really understated bass riff that appears out of nowhere for a bridge in “selfkiller”, then vanishes. I guess there is a bass player plucking away entirely unheard there after all…
Either way, there’s a definite feeling of something missing here – the sonic fullness, energy and emotionalism of modern punk and emo is entirely absent, with the band laying down some pretty good riffs backed by fair enough drumming, yet never really reaching the proper intensity to get a pit going (or heads banging).
In pure music terms, I liked these guys well enough – it’s actually a pretty decent debut. But despite all the stuff they do get right (which is quite a bit, mind), you just can’t shake the feeling that something both basic and essential just isn’t there.
Embassy Of Silence – Verisimilitude (Inverse) (August 28)
Led by vocalist Ines Lukkanen, this is a band with something of a confused orientation. What’s in question is just who they want to be or appeal to.
“Shame, spin & click” feels very retro-60’s, somewhere off to the side of the “occult rock” and psychedelic rock revivalists, but still filled with Hammondlike keyboard and that bouncy feel that marked the era. Then it goes all gothic metal for “thimble” and sort of symphonic with radio rock touches for “absurdoscope”. The rest of the album sticks to the latter approach, for better or worse.
Look, they’re not bad, and the sound is definitely smooth on the order of Die Laughing (whose Rachel Speight Lukkanen’s vocals uncannily evoke). It just didn’t work for me, being neither fish nor fowl.
Simulacrum – Sky Divided (Inverse) (August 28)
Thrash meets prog, befouled by some pretty crummy vocals where I think he’s trying to be Bruce Dickinson but gets too growly for his own good.
It’s a concept album, some sort of postapocalyptic nonsense, but I got bored with all the disjointed flourishes of notes, overly bombastic keyboards and over-dramatic vocals that devolve into raspy growls.
I guess if you’re really into prog and concept albums and don’t mind things leaning well into the thrash zone, you may or may not dig this – I sure as hell didn’t.
V FOR VIOLENCE – The Book Of V (Inverse) ( August 28th)
Nu metal meets aggro and everyone loses.
Did someone just flush a clogged toilet? S for Shit.
Black .44 – No Blanks (Inverse) (August 28)
Oh, geez. Another groove metal outfit. Black Label Society meets Pantera and post-relevancy Metallica with touches of nu metal crap like Korn (can’t disguise that corner of the mouth “ironic” vocal thing).
Skip it and put on some Black 47 instead. “Funky funky Caeli!”
TODESSTOSS – Hirngemeer (I, Voidhanger Records) (September 25)
OK, they claim Martin Lang to be some sort of ersatz “renaissance man”, not only “musician” but “poet” and “painter”.
If so, why is he producing crap like this?
Disjointed bits of cultural detritus like Atari Teenage Riot meets noise rock with touches of “post black metal”. It’s very electronic, very schizophrenic, and very lousy.
Yeah, I know the Germans gave us Einsturzende Neubaten, but they can be a lot more musical than this foolishness.
Zero stars isn’t enough. This deserves negative numbers.
BLOODWAY – Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams (I, Voidhanger Records) (September 25)
Detuned modern metal riffing with slight black metal touches, particularly in the screechy vocals and atonal open sustain Watainishness. There are moments where the drummer breathes some life into matters, but the guitars are too off kilter and rigid to wake up and follow him.
Somehow, they got Mika “Dr. Mikkanibal” Kawashima of Sigh to drop by for a brief, Ornette Colemanesque noise solo on sax, but that’s less than a minute of the playing time.
If you’re going to sit through this as an endurance test, do it for the drumming by Alex Ghita, who deserves a much better band to strut his skills with.
Noisy and pointless mess that occasionally lapses into near-recognizable melodic structure before falling apart yet again.
MARE COGNITUM – An Extraconscious Lucidity (I, Voidhanger Records) (September 25)
Another one where a quiet electronic ambient intro gives way to a relatively traditional, speedy black metal outfit.
There’s some decent kitwork going on when not lazily falling back on the sadly standard blastbeat thing, the vocals work well enough for the style and while the guitars are poorly (and noisily) recorded, there’s a feeling of clarity and ambience that surrounds all of this.
They’re trying to set up some sci-fi concept having to do with explorations of deep space and such, which is pretty cool, but other than the drumming, there’s nothing too special about this one – just questionably produced but respectable underground black metal with busy, fast paced and generally quite excellent kitwork.
Lux Ferre – Excaecatio Lux Veritatis (Altare Productions) (October 1)
Wannabe Watain clones once again. Whatever…
They’re from Portugal this time.
ABIGAIL / SHITFUCKER – Bloody Your Lovely Pussy! (Split 7″ EP) (Hells Headbangers) (September 30)
As you can tell from the crass, oversexed title, this is a pair of tracks from long running Japanese blackened thrashers Abigail, who follow the above with “you are still slut!” Gotta love broken English…
Unfortunately, Shitfucker actually bring things down a few pegs with some poorly recorded, extremely noisy speed-thrash that makes their last album look like a carefully crafted, well produced masterwork.
Get it for the Abigail tracks and consider the rest a bonus (or better yet, just stick to the A side).
MIDNIGHT / SHITFUCKER – Split 7″ (Hells Headbangers) (September 4)
And here they are again, this time paired with the likeminded Midnight. That band drops an aggressive blackened thrash track in the vein of Venom by way of early Bathory, which once again sounds quite well produced by comparison with their companions Shitfucker.
At least this time, the noise is somewhat less egregious, and you can make out the puked vocals better…
Let’s rinse and repeat: get it for the Midnight track, and consider the other side a bonus (or better yet, just stick to the A side).
EVIL ARMY – Violence and War (MLP) (Hells Headbangers) (October 2)
Coming at ya with much improved production over their prior I, Commander, Evil Army drops four tracks of vicious thrash in the At War meets Slayer vein.
It’s straightforward and over before you know it, but blazing all the way.
Pentagram (Chile) / Unaussprechlichen Kulten – Ritual Human Slaughter / La Mujer, El Diablo y El Permiso de Dios – split 7″ EP (Iron Bonehead) (October 2)
Pentagram delivers the same brand of South American blackened thrash they were known for back in the late 80s (and as compiled on Under the Spell of the Pentagram), albeit with considerably better production.
Unaussprechlichen Kulten, for their part, continues in the vein they’d begun to pursue on the split with Godless, somewhat overly technical feeling and vaguely Suffocationesque.
Whether the two bands are evincing any real measure of “growth” or change from their prior work or no is arguable, but this time around the material doesn’t seem quite as special, or stand out so much from the crowd as they had previously.
Perhaps it has to do with the quality of the company they keep – it’s unquestionable that we seem to be seeing a generally stronger caliber of releases of late (hence a more positive trend in reviews here).
But either way, this one’s certainly acceptable in objective terms…just didn’t do anything for me.
Venefixion – Defixio TAPE (Iron Bonehead) (October 2)
Poorly produced, trebly but hyper-aggressive blackened thrash. Promo materials reference Grotesque and Repulsion, both of which are fair signposts as reference.
Four tracks of old schoolish black thrash with slight death metal elements. Solos are brief and somewhat sloppy, but that’s very much in the tradition of acts like Slayer, Celtic Frost or early Kreator, so it works.
There’s some business about death and burial practices around the world, but all that means is a track about voodoo and another about India’s Aghori – not that anyone could hear the lyrics anyway!
Under all that hissy noise is a very good retro minded act waiting to emerge. Better production next time might give them the gold star.
I liked it.
Tetragrammacide – Typhonian Wormholes: Indecipherable Anti-Structural Formulæ 12″ MLP (Iron Bonehead) (October 2)
I think I mentioned Atari Teenage Riot earlier. Cross that with the more noise-oriented moments of Guitar Wolf (you know, the ones the label warned you not to play too loud for fear of damaging your speakers?) and then throw Zom in the middle of all this, buried under electronic noise, wobbly record distortion and hiss, and you’ve got this one in a nutshell.
Apparently this painful slab of shit comes from India, which would be of interest were it not utter trash.
Veiled – Omniscient Veil TAPE (Iron Bonehead) (September 25)
You can pick up some of the old schmutters in the overlong, unappealing slow sections in “I” and “IV” and some hissy production, but this is such an enormous step forward from that former apellation’s output, it cannot be overstated – it’s a tectonic shift of shocking proportions.
Apparently “II” features vocals from the label’s head, which is odd – he comes off like a sort of drunken Paul Baloff, all throaty slurring and short, spat out phrases. It’s odd, but the band keeps the atmosphere going and almost makes it sound credible.
That’s actually the main thing to take away here: Veiled, unlike the decidedly flawed Gnosis of the Witch, is all about atmosphere, thick and oppressive, with speedy, almost trancelike tremelo riffing not too far removed from, say, Gorgoroth over slowly repetitive chordal patterns.
Whatever happened to these guys, more bands out there could use a hearty swig of.
Raise the horns high for a true redemption from the ashes.
Abominor (Iceland) – Opus: Decay (Invictus) (September 4)
Uber-generic underground black metal.
Long, semi-acoustic atonal bits that smack of Watain? Check.
Indecipherable belch vocals buried under metric tons of slap echo and reverb? Check.
Boring as hell?
VI – De Praestigiis Angelorum (Agonia Records) (September 25)
French black metal of the modern variety. Some of the rhythms and cadences here are quite quirky, and therefore of interest…
The only thing I wasn’t fond of was how some of the drum parts sounded canned. They do list a drummer (formerly of Merrimack, yet), but there are blastbeat phrases and snare rolls here and there that sound too fast to be realistic – and I don’t mean that as a compliment. Some sort of tweaking was probably involved, particularly as there are other electronic elements sneaking their way through the album.
Once again, a bit too much of that Watainish feel to the guitars, but there are plenty of odd signatures unique to this particular band, which ameliorates things somewhat.
There’s a strong saminess to their sound, and while the strange, off kilter feel does save them from getting thrown on the usual slag heap, I wasn’t exactly enamored of the electronic bits, the occasional (likely) tweaking of the drums to hyperspeed, or the slower, more Watainish bits, which have gone well past “typical” to being utterly boring at this point in black metal history. Enough already!
Definitely worth a listen, the strangeness of it may well appeal.
TEMPLE OF BAAL – Mysterium (Agonia Records) (October 2)
Quite similar to their prior Verses of Fire, Temple of Baal delivers a particularly listenable strain of modernist blackened death metal, complete with some strong (if unfortunately blastbeat-ridden) kitwork and decent enough production. Yes, they improved the production this time around, though it still remains a bit noisy with all the open string, bent quaver Watain bits (and how is that death metal, I ask?).
There is a strong sense of fullness to the mix despite this, the vocals are a bit more Glen Benton than Desultory this time around, and the bottom line is, the band retains that fast paced, Marduklike listenability they displayed an aptitude for last time around.
While hardly playing in the same ballpark as the sort of bands veterans like Rick Rozz, James Murphy and Nicke Andersson were famed for taking part in, Temple of Baal deliver yet another comparative winner in a genre whose bounds are increasingly decaying and being subsumed into, or absorbing from, genres both newer and if not soulless, then certainly far less listenable and comparatively musically disinclined (aggro, modern Swedish style black metal, math metal).
Bottom line, I liked it, and it even represents a slight improvement production wise over their last album.
But since when do comparisons like Watain and Marduk say “death metal” to anyone?
Ares Kingdom – The Unburiable Dead LP/CD (Nuclear War Now! Productions) (September 18)
Now this feels a bit more properly death metal.
Chuck Keller’s guitars are thick and chunky with decent, relatively melodic solos in classic death metal fashion. Alex Blume’s vocals are raw in a very Malevolent Creationlike manner. Mike Miller’s drumming is right up in your face and comfortable with both the slower, more steady paced material (“salient and redoubt”) and the more Morrisoundesque patterns of “nom de guerre”.
Touches of black metal influence do bleed in with Miller’s occasional reliance on blastbeats for the faster bits, but generally speaking, this is the sort of (arguably second tier, but still) death metal you don’t really hear anymore except from the old guard (or long-awaited resurrections thereof, such as the excellent Eldritch Horror).
Sure, it may not rank with the all time classics, but that’s a lot to ask for.
Compared to the modern stuff? There is no comparison.
Bang your head until it bleeds.
Procreation – Incantations of Demonic Lust for Corpses of the Fallen CD (Nuclear War Now! Productions) (October 1)
The challenge here is how to differentiate in description a very raw, blackened thrash-style variant of what is very clearly death metal…and the now-standard “blackened death metal” which has overtaken the latter scene (you know, Watain and/or Marduk wannabes with a base, if distinctly modern, death metal orientation to their playing).
If you can wrap your head around the (major) difference between “fake death metal that’s really black metal in disguise” and “blackened thrash style death metal”, you’ll understand what I’m trying to get at here.
These guys are the real deal, an old school death metal band gone wrong (or right, depending on how you look at things), who are apparently part of BC’s “Ross Bay Cult” (read: Blasphemy’s circle of friends and bandmates).
While they sound in no way shape or form akin to the Beherit-style “war metal” of that storied act, Procreation does date from the heyday of death metal – like the aforementioned Eldritch Horror, almost to the day on both the front and back ends thereof (1989-1993). This is a compilation of the band’s two demos, dating from “the year death metal broke” and its arguable peak years of 1990 and 1991, remastered for superior sound.
Yeah, I love me some Blasphemy, and I sure do love the glory days of death metal.
Sure as hell I dug this one. Another great unearthed find from Nuclear War Now.
Sadistik Exekution – 30 Years of Agonizing the Dead LP (Nuclear War Now! Productions) (October 15)
I’ve tried these Aussie nutcases out before, after such tomes as Metalion: the Slayer Mag Diaries (questionable) and Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult (excellent) came out, and found them somewhat wanting. The Magus? “Fukk” that. Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.
That said, what we have here is a compilation of two demos from 1991-2 and two EP singles (1996-7), which bar two or three tracks and much to my surprise, actually work. I don’t mean it’s not bad.
I mean this fucking slays.
Sure, “suspiral” is noisy, seemingly live pure shit, “ipsissimus” is unlistenably hissy and compressed, and “bastard bass” is a joke – literally somebody trying to be Joey DeMaio.
But that’s three tracks out of nine.
The others? Two come with thick, meaty production (“agonizing the dead” and “magus”) and a generally death metal approach, making them the clear standouts. The others sound more iffy on the production end, but are still speedy, Sarcofagoesque slabs of raw blackened thrash with David Vincentlike vocals.
Sure, a lot of my positive impression here comes from the surprise factor. A band I discounted as pure crap turns out to have some killer material in their closet after all. But listen to this stuff – especially given better production like on those first two tracks.
Is it worth a horns up? “Fukk” yeah!
Black Grail – Misticismo Regrisivo (Tyrannus) (October 2)
Chilean black metal.
You read that right. Not blackened thrash. Black metal.
The drumming, particularly the bass drum and floor tom, are right up there in your face, but the guitars don’t impress – both recording and playing style are overly noisy and very modern once again.
The vocals are raspy and raw, but overreliant on slap echo and reverb (as are the guitars). It’s very typical black metal underground nowadays, and I don’t know about any of you, but I’m sick of this style already.
Sacrificium Carmen – Ikuisen Tulen Kammiossa (Saturnal) (October 30)
Looks like Saturnian Mist have their own proteges. At the very least, these guys have availed themselves of the aforementioned’s “Frater Zetekh” on production duties…and there are some definite stylistic similarities to be reckoned with as well.
As such, it’s a reasonably strong sounding offering on the production end, with an oddly dry and up against the speakers-style mix with plenty of bottom end on (session) drums, bass and rhythm guitars (at least chordally speaking – the modernist open string schmutters is always unavoidably noisy). Think of the unusual drum production on Gorgoroth’s Under the Sign of Hell and you’ll get the general idea, though it’s thicker and more present than that.
As one might expect from not only Finnish black metallers in general, but particularly those under the wing of Saturnian Mist, they lay claim to being more serious about their aspirations than most, though given their choice to record nigh-exclusively in Finnish, I can’t comment on that one way or the other. I have my suspicions.
They also pulled in Horna frontman “Spellgoth” for backing vocals on one track, so think about it. Can’t get much more connected in the Finnish scene than that…
It’s melodic enough, anthemic and clearly old school inspired, albeit with some very modern production and stylings coming into play.
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By Travis McKinney
A lot of people ask me how I developed such a deliberate and at times long follow-through and why it’s an important fundamental. They think it’s because I started playing when I was young and that the fundamentals of the game naturally “came to me.” Sure, I started young (I was 10), but that follow-through was something I worked for by dint of hard training with my coach (my father). It has nothing to do with talent but repeated effort at, and concentration on, creating perfect form with every shot.
What is the value of a follow-through? First, it does not cause but indicates a complete stroke. Once the cue tip contacts the cue ball, the shot is over—but a quality follow-through indicates the quality of your delivery. A good follow through occurs when your cue tip moves past the cue ball and toward the object ball at which you’re shooting. Your forearm, which swings freely like a pendulum from your elbow, moves back in preparation and then forward once the shot is taken, to the point that you may even lightly touch your chest with your shooting hand.
On the diagram below is an exercise that my father and I used to practice a few hours per week. It is a simple shot; it is straight in; and by being fairly simple and straight in, it forces you to watch your cue tip as it moves past the cue ball and toward the contact point of the object ball.
Place the cue ball at about the third diamond up from the corner pocket, three or four inches from the rail, and place an object ball two diamonds up from the lower corner pocket. Be sure the shot is straight in. Then, go ahead and aim to your liking, but when you shoot, I want you to say to yourself what my father always said to me before each shot—“Reach out and touch the ball.” In other words, imagine your cue tip pushing past the cue ball in an attempt to reach out and touch the contact point of the object ball. Stay down; don’t move your head or your body—commit totally to the shot. Feel your elbow move forward in its smooth pendulum arc toward your chest and pocket the ball. If you miss the shot, that’s okay; shoot it again.
At first, make the shot 20 times (notice I didn’t say shoot the shot 20 times—but make it that number) practicing just the stop-shot. Then shoot the same shot on the other side of the table and make it 20 times. Do this for 20 minutes or so, on both sides of the table, until you gain some consistency, and then add variations to the shot—draw the cue ball back to your bridge hand; then follow the cue ball into the corner pocket with the object ball. But make each of the variations 20 times before changing. The point here is to build consistency with your stroke. Pay attention to reaching out and (figuratively) touching the object ball with your cue tip.
After you have practiced the shot for 30-40 minutes, throw out some balls and just shoot. But pay attention only to reaching out on every shot and delivering a complete follow-through. Notice the difference in the quality of your stroke and demand perfect form. I guarantee that this simple shot, if practiced correctly and in earnest, will vastly improve your pocketing ability, the action you get on the cue ball, and your confidence.
Travis McKinney started playing pool at the age of 10 and won his first junior state title six months later, to be followed by over 35 junior, regional, and open wins in the next six years. After a 15-year hiatus from the game, during which time he committed to earning his education, Travis returned to professional competition in 2013. That year he won the Mezz Pro/Am event in February and continued with high and respectable finishes in many other professional events.
He currently divides his time among the practice room, competing on a busy tournament schedule, and the classroom, where he is a professor at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.
Travis is a player representative for Mezz Cues and plays out of Amsterdam Billiard Club in New York City. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Browser vendor Opera Software is well-known for its support of open web standards. So hot on the heels of the release of Opera 10.52 for Mac, I thought I’d chat to Bruce Lawson, a web evangelist at Opera, about the Open vs. Closed debate, which we’re covering as an ongoing series on the GigaOM Network, to get his take on why open standards matter for web workers — and the web as a whole. Below is a lightly edited version of our conversation.
Simon: Can you briefly outline Opera’s stance on open standards?
Lawson: Of all the browsers currently available, Opera has been around the longest, and has always supported open standards. Note I don’t mean open source; although there are overlaps between the two movements, they’re not the same. You could make an open-source Photoshop (s adbe) clone, for example, but as the Photoshop data format PSD isn’t an open standard, so you couldn’t use it in your clone. We believe that if data is transferred in open, royalty-free formats then it is more future-proof and more manipulable than data that is held in proprietary formats. You’re also protected against being locked into one company’s products — if you don’t like us tomorrow, you can change. I have university essays in a proprietary Tasword format that I can’t open any more as the format was tied to one program, which is now discontinued.
And we put our money where our mouth is: Out of 600 employees, about 25 devote most of their time working on actually making the standards — both the “sexy” standards like HTML5, CSS (our CTO Håkon Wium Lie was co-creator of CSS), SVG, geolocation and widgets, and also the “industry standards” that drive the TV and mobile applications industry, such as CE-HTML, JIL and BONDI.
Simon: The web designers and developers in the WebWorkerDaily audience should all be aware of the benefits of open standards as they use them daily in their work, but why are they important for everyone else? If I’m, say, a copywriter or a lawyer, why should I care?
Lawson: Apart from the future-proofing aspect I explained before, you also have the advantage of portability. An HTML document, for example, will open just about anywhere — PC, Mac, Linux, mobile devices, netbooks etc. Documents authored to W3C standards can work with all the world’s languages, and can be run on mobile devices, TVs and even the much-vaunted web-enabled fridge. There’s also the question of accessibility. Open web standards developed by the W3C have to go through a process to ensure they are accessible — that is, the information contained in documents developed according to the standard can be made available to people with disabilities so, for example, a blind person can hear a description of an image, or a person who can’t use a mouse can navigate a web page using only the keyboard. That accessibility isn’t automatic — the developer has to be professional and take care to use the language correctly — but there is nothing inherently blocking that accessibility. It seems to me that a copywriter would want her purple prose to be available to as many people as possible, and the lawyer would know that in many jurisdictions it’s illegal to discriminate against people with disabilities.
Simon: Opera has been championing support for standards for some time now. Was the decision to support open standards primarily an ideological one, or a commercial one?
Lawson: Both. Our customers (for our embedded browsers, our mobile browsers, etc.) require us to adhere to industry standards, so if we don’t then we don’t get the business. Open standards, as I explained before, ensure the widest possible reach, so it’s sensible to champion them and support them.
Fundamentally (and here’s the ideology) we believe that you should be able to reach any website from any device: a desktop, a phone, an in-car browser, a digital picture frame. It won’t necessarily look exactly the same everywhere (in fact, it shouldn’t — a web page might be easier to read if reformatted to fit a mobile phone screen, for example), but you should be able to access it and interact with it.
Simon: It seems to me that open standards take a long time to develop, due to the amount of wrangling it takes to get agreement from all interested parties in reaching the most acceptable solution. Do you think that open standards hinder or slow the pace of browser innovation (and the web, generally)?
Lawson: It does take a long time to develop open standards. But that standardization process pays off very quickly. Developing a typical web page now is much quicker if you do it to those standards than it was during the dark days of the last Browser War, when you had to develop parallel code bases for IE and Netscape, or choose one of them and lock out people who used the other browser.
As to whether open standards slow the development of the browser — that could be true, if we were selfish. If, for example, you wanted to include some new feature in a browser it is indeed much faster just to develop it and add it in, rather than wait for it to be standardized. But that definitely inhibits the development of the open, interoperable web, and for us that’s much, much more important.
In fact, open standards can speed up browser development. Take, for example, XMLHttpRequest — XHR — the technology that powers Ajax-driven websites that feel as responsive as desktop apps. It was invented by Microsoft (s msft). Every other browser vendor saw the value of this technology and spent countless man-hours reverse engineering it to get into their browsers. Now, XHR has been standardized. Any new browser vendor wishing to implement XHR just picks up the spec and implements it, with no need for all that reverse engineering. And because the specification is well-written (disclosure: it was edited by Anne van Kesteren, a colleague of mine at Opera) it can be implemented in a way that is interoperable with existing browsers and websites. Everybody wins.
Simon: There’s new browser war raging at the moment — the major vendors all have pretty good products. Competition in the market is fierce, and seems to be being waged on three fronts: features, speed and standards. What future developments are you looking forward to the most?
Lawson: Personally, I’m excited about HTML5 (so excited, in fact, I’m writing a book about it). HTML is the language that the web
is based on, and it hasn’t been overhauled in a decade. The new version — which already has great support in modern browsers — allows websites to
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Widgets are very exciting, too. You can write an app that behaves like a native app, has access to the file system but is written using web standards, so
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Especially when you have a homemade (boxed) Sponge Bob birthday Cake. I am not sure where the fascination lies with that television show but it is like crack for kids. Personally I would prefer Chocolate Crack Cookies, but I will not digress.
We celebrate my nieces birthday there each year. BIG themes are necessary when you are small. The kids get so excited to choose the theme and bake the cake. Which is of course served first thing in the morning with giant tubs of ice cream.
Finger licking good Sponge Bob cake…..
That is my daughter. Not my niece.
Sure does look pillowy and good, eh? Dunno, I did not have any. The blue frosting was a hit with the kids. I made everyone Champagne Vanilla Pudding. More my cup of tea.
I guess even adults like Sponge Bob Square Pants. I guess. Aren’t my sister-in-laws purty?
The Cayman’s are pretty. Very Pretty. Even when storm clouds roll in. Many cruise ships enter the ports of the Caymans. You will never find me on a cruise ship (Cuz, I turn seafoam green.). I just like that sign.
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Look at this cutie, he is the youngest member of our family. Well protected from the sun I might add.
Little cousins hang out with little cousins. And big cousins hang out with little cousins.
Isn’t that water splendid! The sand in Grand Cayman is powdery bright white and the ocean is where mermaids dwell.
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[kwlug-disc] Asking questions of candidates during the election.
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:12 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:
> Russell - sorry to put you in this position, but is it your impression that
> Peter Braid tended towards the FOSS perspective, or not?
Woops -- I just realised I may have been giving a wrong impression.
Don't just talk to the "leading" candidates, of those who seem the
most likely to win. Talk to all of them. The more that understand
the issues, the more they may express this at debates, and the more
influence these ideas will have on whoever is elected.
Elections Canada hasn't started publishing the list of candidates
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Conducting a successful background investigation is not as simple as just entering a name into a computer. For one thing, there are still a number of manual checks that need to be completed. On top of this, there are hundreds of other sources of information that need to be researched. Some businesses rely on a single database for their background investigations, but the fact is that there is no single database that captures all the data. Private Investigators use several databases plus other research methods to obtain recent and reliable information.
Google can be a useful tool, but it doesn’t have all the answers. Until Google indexes all the world’s information answers need to be found elsewhere. All of the free internet searches which charge you to actually obtain the information use data that has never been verified. They are often filled with false or stale information. Private Investigators are skilled in locating information and people who do not want to be found.
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The cost of a thorough background investigation is a figure that most people and businesses are reluctant to pay. The best proprietary databases are expensive and a large amount of valuable information, for instance court records, is not available online and may require a physical visit to multiple record offices. As the above illustrates, a proper background investigation can be a time-consuming and expensive proposition. However, compared to the potential fallout from not conducting one at all, or conducting one on the cheap, it can be a cost-effective and time-saving tool.
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Kentucky Veterans Cemetery in Radcliff to begin $4.5 million expansion
Rumors have been flying that Kentucky's busiest veterans cemetery is running out of room.
RADCLIFF, Ky. (WDRB) -- On a beautiful October afternoon, four siblings took their mother to visit their father to wish him a happy birthday.
Bill Farris wanted to be buried at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central in Radcliff.
"It's just the military, you know. He had served, and he wanted to spend eternity with the rest of the people he served with," said Julie Hayes, one of Farris' daughters.
"We asked him all the time, why do you want to be buried all the way out there, so far from us? We all live in Louisville."
Now, she says, the family understands.
"It brings chills, every time I come in, every time I drive into the place, it gives me chills," Hayes said. "It really is a special place."
Rumors have been flying that Kentucky's busiest veterans cemetery is running out of room. The Kentucky Veterans Cemetery in Radcliff says it has had a plan from the beginning to add more space.
Chuck Heater, director of the cemetery, says more than 4,700 veterans from all over Kentucky have been buried at the cemetery since it opened nearly ten years ago.
"They feel special to be able to be laid in rest among their brothers and sisters," Heater said.
More than 600 veterans are buried each year, with around 15 burial services a week.
"Veterans know that the cemetery will be taken care of," Heater said. "Perpetual care is one of the benefits of being buried here. This cemetery will always be taken care of. Grass will always be mowed, stones will be cleaned ... it will always be taken care of."
Heater says room is running out in phase one. There are just about 1,600 spots left right now, but that will change.
"The rumor is that we were going to be full like Zachary Taylor is in Louisville ... cannot take anymore," Heater said. "But that's not it. We're just coming to the end of our first phase, and we just need to expand."
With a $4.5 million grant approved, work will likely begin next summer to finish all 53 acres in phase one. It will add 5,000 grave sites for caskets and cremains. Years down the road, another 45 acres are designated for phase two for thousands more graves.
"We've got plenty of room to expand," Heater said. "This cemetery will be around for a long time."
Heater says the cemetery will not run out of space for at least 30 years.
If you are a veteran interested in being buried at the Veterans Cemetery in Radcliff, click here for more information or call 270-351-5115.
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We’re looking for another graduate student for a two-year MS-level graduate research assistantship with an expected start date of fall of 2014. The student would work with Dr. McGuire and Dr. Brian Strahm.
This interdisciplinary research project is focused on understanding the role of reforestation on the quantity and quality of water emanating from drastically disturbed landscapes. Specifically, the project will combine field and laboratory experiments to quantify the effect that mined land reforestation has on the delivery of total dissolved solid (TDS) loads to surface waters.
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Classic rockers to share stage with Rascal Flatts
The vast number of musical activities in New Orleans revolving around the Super Bowl this weekend includes the CMT Crossroads concert by Journey and Rascal Flatts.
Journey, the classic rock band responsible for such enduring anthems as “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Anyway You Want It” and “Open Arms,” and Rascal Flatts, the big-selling country trio that’s obviously been influenced by classic rock, join forces Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Sugar Mill.
CMT’s Crossroads series specializes in pairing country acts with rock, pop and rhythm-and-blues acts. Collaborations have included Carrie Underwood and Steven Tyler, Bon Jovi and Sugarland, and Def Leppard with Taylor Swift.
Journey and Rascal Flatts previously appeared together at the 2012 CMT Awards. The two groups closed the show with a joint rendition of “Don’t Stop Believin’.”
“That was unusual for a rock band,” Journey charter member and bassist Ross Valory said last week. “But it was just a great experience and well received. We made some good friends with the boys in Rascal Flatts.”
Valory also found Rascal Flatts to be a well-rounded group of musicians.
“They mix a lot of styles together and we really enjoy their music,” he said. “And they made an endearing comment while we were talking backstage after the awards show. They said, ‘When we break out the beer and the barbecue in the backyard, we’re blaring Journey music.’ ”
Besides their Crossroads show with Rascal Flatts, being in New Orleans during Super Bowl weekend, in the midst of Carnival season, makes Journey’s visit all the more exciting, Valory said.
As long ago as 1978, the year Journey released “Lights,” its first hit featuring singer Steve Perry, the group believed its music could cross over into country. The band’s manager, Walter “Herbie” Herbert, even approached the powers-that-were in country music with the idea.
“Herbie pitched ‘Lights’ to several country power brokers,” Valory recalled. “They got back to Herbie and said, ‘This is a wonderful song, just great for country. But we’ve got one problem: It’s got an electric guitar solo in it.’ ”
Journey was ahead of its time, at least in country music. But in the decades since, country music has gone electric, rock, pop, even hip-hop.
“Ten years later, or less, country music had absorbed all styles,” Valory said. “When was the last time you didn’t hear an electric guitar solo in a country song?”
In the pop world, Journey went on to record a run of powerhouse hits, including “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’,” “Who’s Crying Now” and “Any Way You Want It.”
Journey’s hits of the 1970s and ’80s remained popular through succeeding decades. The inclusion of “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” in HBO’s The Sopranos’ 2007 finale and a 2009 episode of FOX’s music-filled Glee brought the song even more attention.
“That’s the blessing, that the music is still popular,” Valory said. “It’s become part of everyone’s lives. ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ ’ is an anthem for graduations, weddings, professional sports teams. You hear it everywhere, because it’s got a simple, universal message that is applicable to so many different things.”
Journey disbanded in 1989, reunited briefly in 1993 without Perry and reunited again in 1996 with Perry. Following the singer’s ill health, Perry dropped out of the band in 1996. The group carried on for eight years with singer Steve Augeri. Current singer Arnel Pineda, a native of the Philippines, made his recording debut with Journey’s 2008 album, Revelation.
Despite Journey’s new albums, including 2011’s Eclipse, Valory knows the band’s fans want the classics.
“Arnel brings the songs alive in the traditional sense, as they were originally recorded and performed with Steve Perry,” Valory said. “But Arnel not only makes that music his own, he brings the Journey signature to songs that we’ve recorded more recently with him. But for the bulk of our set, we give the audience what we call the dirty dozen: At least a dozen hit songs that we know they want to hear us play.”
On a side note, Valory used his Super Bowl week in New Orleans to promote his animated shirt line, Mouthman. He and other members of Journey, NFL stars and more sports celebrities gathered on Jan. 31 at Razzoo Bar & Patio on Bourbon Street for the Mouthman launch party.
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Knowles Centre is proud to present a professional development conference featuring Dr. Kennith Hardy.
Trauma Recovery, When Love is Not Enough
November 6 and 7, 2014
When Love is Not Enough: Trauma Recovery and Foster/Adoptive Families
Foster and adoptive family systems are two of the most challenging family structures to understand and to engage with clinically. Not only do these families have to successfully negotiate the “normal crises” of everyday family life, but they must do so against a backdrop of attachment disruptions, ambiguous loss, invisible and divided loyalties, and challenging family legacies. Well-intentioned foster and adoptive parents are often ill prepared for the enormous emotional, psychological, and physical demands that frequently accompany the fostering and adoptive experiences. For children involved in fostering and adoptive experiences, their lives are often characterized by pervasive and profound layers of trauma. The hidden trauma wounds associated with foster care and adoption require constant attention, which often is a challenge for many families, as well as the human service professionals trying to help them.
For therapists and other human service professionals working with foster and adoptive families, the clinical demands we face are endless and the change we hope for is much too slow. Trapped between trying to decide which crisis to focus on first, coupled with the families’ entanglement with numerous social service agencies, frequently deems even the most experienced workers frustrated, exhausted, and teetering with hopelessness.
This workshop will take a fresh look at the intricacies of foster and adoptive family systems. A Relational Approach will be introduced as a model for providing intensive trauma based systemic therapy. Specific strategies will be provided for addressing hidden trauma wounds, the dynamics of oppression, complex family processes, and the myriad of diversity-related issues that often underpin effective work with foster and adoptive families. Relevant Self of the Worker/Therapist issues also will be addressed.
with Distressed and Traumatized Youth
Whether economically impoverished inner city youth or young people sequestered in the sanctuary of the suburbs, exposure to trauma is often an inescapable reality. Sadly, much of the stress, distress, and trauma confronting today’s children and youth is connected to untimely experiences with loss. Traumatic loss is a pervasive condition in the lives of children and youth whether it’s the loss of one’s home, victimized by senseless gunfire from being in the right place but at the wrong time, or the loss of a parent surrendering to the advance stages of a chronic illness. This workshop will take a fresh look at working with distressed and traumatized youth and provide innovative clinical strategies for effectively working with them. Innovative interventions for unmasking trauma, assessing the hidden effects of tangible and intangible losses, and promoting effective grief work will be highlighted. Relevant Self of the Therapist issues will be explored.
1. To provide a trauma informed clinical approach for working with distressed and traumatized children and youth;
2. To provide innovative strategies for nmasking and effectively treating traumatic loss;
3. To provide effective strategies or promoting effective grief work; and
4. To identify relevant Self of the Therapist issues that may impede or facilitate clinical effectiveness.
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9am - 4pm
Love is Not Enough: Trauma Recovery and Foster/Adoptive Families
Early Bird (Sept. 26 deadline) $150
Regular Registration $200
9am - 4pm
Friday, November 7: Innovative
Interventions with Distressed and Traumatized Youth
Early Bird (Sept. 26 deadline) $240 (Nov 6 & 7)
Regular Registration $275 (Nov
6 & 7)
The November 7th session draws
heavily on information from the November 6th session.
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About Dr. Hardy
Dr. Kenneth Hardy is an internationally recognized clinician, author, educator, and consultant. Dr. Hardy is a Professor of Family Therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia and is the Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York City and specializes in family therapy with oppressed and traumatized populations.
He has received considerable acclaim for the contributions that his numerous publications and videos have made toward challenging the field to think critically about issues of diversity, trauma, and oppression. In addition to his own writing, Dr. Hardy is a frequent contributor to the popular media and has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, and 20/20.
Dr. Hardy is the co-author of the following books: Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Class, Gender and Culture; Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions for Breaking the Cycle of Youth Violence; and Minorities and Family Therapy.
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A deadly combination of drugs killed OSCAR winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The NYC Medical Examiner released their findings on Friday, saying heroin, cocaine, benzodiazepines and amphetamines were all found in Hoffman's blood.
He was found on the floor of the bathroom of his Greenwich Village apartment on February 2nd, with a needle sticking out of his arm.
The medical examiner called it an 'acute mixed drug intoxication', as the official cause of death.
Mixing heroin and cocaine is commonly known as 'speedballing' and was the cause of death of Chris Farley, River Phoenix and John Belushi.
Hoffman won an OSCAR for his role as Truman Capote in the film 'Capote'. He was also nominated three times for an award. In 2013 for 'The Master', in 2009 for 'Doubt' and in 2008 for 'Charlie Wilson's War'.
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Biographer Claire Tomalin complains it is full of "what seem to be schoolgirls giggling". Historian Lady Antonia Fraser is cross that she had to wait 20 minutes to get in, 20 minutes to deposit her coat and 15 for her books. Fellow historian Tristram Hunt worries that it has become "a groovy place to get a frappuccino" rather than a place to study books.
What is going on at the British Library? Two years ago, admission policy was changed: undergraduates and anyone engaged on research (even riff-raff like me) could apply for passes to the lovely St Pancras building. Since then, more scholarly library users claim it is harder to get a seat.
But the situation is worse than Hunt suggests. They don't sell frappuccinos at the British Library cafe. Instead, yesterday I bought a cappuccino and pestered two readers on a coffee break. Is it difficult to get a seat? "It's like booking online for Glastonbury", said a PhD student working on a Spinoza thesis. "If you don't get a seat in the first few minutes, you might as well give up." "Rubbish," says his friend, who is researching a book on the history of gardens. "It's crowded, but I've never had a problem."
Yesterday, the first-floor humanities reading room was filled with non-giggling readers, but by the simple expedient of going upstairs to the second-floor humanities reading room, I was able to find a quiet seat for a power nap.
Hunt suggests that passes be restricted to third-year undergraduates working on dissertations. Instead, the BL has offered 70 more seats, increasing the total to 1,480. "Dedicated staff" are available to point readers to free seats. Screens give them updates on quiet areas.
Was it any better before? Novelist AS Byatt recalls working at the library in the British Museum, which housed part of the collection until 1997. "In the afternoon, there was no oxygen. Everyone fell asleep. It was the haunt of mad old women. Angus Wilson [novelist and superintendent of the reading room] once told a woman that it was forbidden to eat oranges. 'Mr Wilson,' she replied, 'I'm not eating oranges. I'm squeezing them into the books.'"
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Intuit welcomes Project Onward for a Portrait Slam this June! Let Project Onward’s artists create a unique masterpiece for you or a loved one that will be cherished for years to come. Perfect for Father’s Day gift giving!
Project Onward will have seven artists available to create custom portraits on site at Intuit. You can sit for a portrait or you can bring a photo for the artists to work from. Each portrait takes 30 minutes to complete.
David A. Holt
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Portraits start at $40 (includes one person or pet); add $10 for each additional person or pet in the portrait.
Limited spaces available! Schedule your portrait session by calling Robyn Jablonski, Project Onward Studio Manager, at (708) 990-0041 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.org. Walk-ins are also welcome, pending artist availability. Payments will be accepted onsite at the session (cash or credit card accepted).
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12/17/2005 Over 1,400 Articles Posted! Nearly 150,000 People Downloading A Salvation Page Per Year! (Psalm 127:1)
A cake not turned is uncooked on one side; and so Ephraim was, in many respects, untouched by divine grace: though there was some partial obedience, there was very much rebellion left. My soul, I charge thee, see whether this be thy case. Art thou thorough in the things of God? Has grace gone through the very centre of thy being so as to be felt in its divine operations in all thy powers, thy actions, thy words, and thy thoughts? To be sanctified, spirit, soul, and body, should be thine aim and prayer; and although sanctification may not be perfect in thee anywhere in degree, yet it must be universal in its action; there must not be the appearance of holiness in one place and reigning sin in another, else thou, too, wilt be a cake not turned.
A cake not turned is soon burnt on the side nearest the fire, and although no man can have too much religion, there are some who seem burnt black with bigoted zeal for that part of truth which they have received, or are charred to a cinder with a vainglorious Pharisaic ostentation of those religious performances which suit their humour. The assumed appearance of superior sanctity frequently accompanies a total absence of all vital godliness. The saint in public is a devil in private. He deals in flour by day and in soot by night. The cake which is burned on one side, is dough on the other.
If it be so with me, O Lord, turn me! Turn my unsanctified nature to the fire of Thy love and let it feel the sacred glow, and let my burnt side cool a little while I learn my own weakness and want of heat when I am removed from Thy heavenly flame. Let me not be found a double-minded man, but one entirely under the powerful influence of reigning grace; for well I know if I am left like a cake unturned, and am not. (C.H. Spurgeon, "Morning and Evening Devotions"; Emphasis was in the original)
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Significant upgrade over #1. This is a 3-DVD set, whereas #1 was only one DVD. Much more material, many more examples -- "And the whole earth went after the Beast in amazement and admiration ... they also praised and worshipped the Beast..." (Rev 13:3,4)
How can everyone on earth be convinced to worship the Beast in "amazement and admiration"? The answer is "Subliminal Seduction", a Mind Control art whose roots are deeply embedded in Satanism and Witchcraft!
If an average person watches 4 1/2 hours of TV daily and is exposed to 1,000 hours of commercials, their minds are being molded so they will "rush after the Beast".
People find it difficult to believe that Subliminal techniques are being used in Mass Media today because they incorrectly believe that Congress outlawed the practice in the 1950's.
"Subliminal Seduction" will not only open your eyes to how you are being manipulated, but will enable you to live in the most occult-inspired times in world history. Don't let the devil seduce you! fight back by getting equipped with the truth today. -- http://www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=1252
Proves Presidents Bush and Clinton, plus officials like Henry Kissinger and Colin Powell, are practicing occultists!
Alex Jones presents his newest film, "The Order of Death", an amazing and horrifying look into the rites and rituals of the modern day descendents of Babylonian mystery cults. "Dark Secrets: Inside the Bohemian Grove" documented the first ever hidden camera incursion into the Grove and the bizarre pagan ritual, the Cremation of Care, practiced by its members, all men, including both Presidents Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, and Henry Kissenger to name but a few.
"The Order of Death" picks up where "Dark Secrets" leaves off. This new work exposes the connections between the Bohemian Club and Skull and Bones and other occult secret societies. Jones explores the roots of the Grove and its links to occult networks dating back to ancient Egypt and Babylon.
This new film delves deeply into the history of the Grove where powerful men make decisions that affect the world but are completely hidden from public scrutiny. "The Order of Death" details how the Grove has been the backdrop for some of the most earth shattering events in human history including the development of the Starwars program and the Manhattan Project.
"The Order of Death" also features never before seen footage captured by a daring former Grove employee including an astounding look inside the owl worshiped at the "Cremation of Care" ritual.
Note: "Cremation of Care" is a know Illuminist Satanic ritual; therefore, Presidents Bush and Clinton and all other American leaders participating in Bohemian Grove are proven to be Satanic! -- http://www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=1249
Modern Fundamental Bible Scholars are united on the doctrine that Antichrist will come from a "Revived Roman Empire". Most assume that means he will come from Western Europe -- which is the Western "leg" of the Ancient Roman Empire.
When studying prophecies concerning the AntiChrist, we should remember that the Roman Empire had an eastern leg that, in fact, survived the western leg by a thousand years!
There may be far more relevance to Iraq and the mid-east region than is commonly recognized in most books and articles on end-time prophecy. All of us tend to equate the Roman Empire with Western Europe. However, we may have been subject to myopia by overlooking an important fact. The Roman Empire had an eastern leg. Could Antichrist come from that Eastern portion?
While Cutting Edge does not entirely subscribe to this possibility, we do recognize that Missler has done some very strong and thorough Biblical Exegesis to arrive at this possible conclusion. We also continue to disagree with Missler on his politics. But, this DVD is thought-provoking!
http://www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=1248 -- Please read defense of the traditional belief that Antichrist will come from the Western Leg of the Revived Roman Empire -- "The Antichrist & A Cup of Tea" -- http://www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=178
Here's how the Roman Catholic Institution, as the "Mother of Abominations" (Rev. 17), caused many wars. This is the subject the Catholic press is afraid to mention.
After you read this comic book, you will understand how the Catholic Church's Pope could be the prophesied False Prophet, serving Antichrist.
These 12 sermons would cost you $48.00 if ordered separately! These sermons are classics which will bring joy and fulfillment to your heart.
# 1) Persecution Beatitudes Matt 5:10-12
# 2) What Are You Doing With Your Talents?
# 3) The ''How Longs'' Of Your Life -- How Long, O Lord?
# 4) The Enemy Who Is With Us -- Wheat vs Tares
# 5) Biblical Problem Solving - Habakkuk's Solid Rock
# 6) The Just Shall Live By Faith - Greatest Single Verse
# 7) The Lord's Dragnet - Matthew 13:47-50
# 8) Three Crosses & Your Life's Choices
# 9) The Man Whom Jesus Called A 'Fool' -- Is This Man You?
# 10) America Under Attack; Israel Under Attack
# 11) Faith - Mighty Faith - Faith of Our Fathers
# 12) Comfort, God's Sweet Comfort
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Demonstrating The Technology By Which God Will Destroy America, and By Whose Hand
Finally! Scalar Wave weaponry and technology explained and fully illustrated so a simple average person can understand! Ltc. Bearden, America's foremost expert in Russian Scalar Weaponry, writes the book we Americans must read at the lateness of our national hour. Bearden explains:
* How Russia is getting ready to destroy America with Scalar Weaponry -- the title says it best: "Oblivion: America At The Brink".
* How Scalar electromagnetic waves are daily bringing the Yellowstone Supervolcano closer to an explosion which will wipe our entire continent out with fire and brimstone
* How American scientists still cannot understand scalar because of our misunderstanding of basic physics of electricity and electromagnetics
* How Weather is being engineering by the KGB
* How the new "Energy-From-Vacuum" Electrical Systems works.
* How lethal strikes with Scalar flies at Speed of Light and are totally unstoppable, striking with horrific disasters
* How Gulf War Disease was aided by use of scalar waves to decrease the natural immune systems of our soldiers
* Electromagnetic Biological Warfare - How scalar waves can cause you to catch a biological disease
* How Russia's Quantum Potential Weapons can "dud" every nuclear warhead, every ICBM, every nuclear propulsion system, every bomber carrying nuclear warheads, within 10 minutes! Our entire arsenal of nukes would be totally "dudded" -- neutralized -- so that we will be totally at the mercy of the Russian KGB.
* Provides Mind Control through Scalar, through which living minds and biological system engines have been created in laboratories. Such "living minds" can be inserted into key persons, awaiting activation. Can take over entire enemy leadership with this capability.
368 pages, many dozens of pictures and/or illustrations
Cutting Edge note: Our time of Divine Judgment is at hand; Russia is God's avenger. One other Cutting Edge realization is that this global control of the weather is in accordance with global Illuminati concerns. -- http://www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=1201
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---------- This Weeks Hot News ----------
I. On Thursday, 12/15, a Kadima MK let it slip that he believed Israel should no insist upon controlling all of Jerusalem. Immediately, conservative Likud members pounced on this statement as proof that PM Sharon really did plan on compromising on control of Jerusalem. Almost instantaneously , support for Kidma dropped 17%!
NEWS BRIEF: "Sharon 'plans to share Jerusalem with Palestinians' ", The Guardian (London), December 15, 2005
"Ariel Sharon was forced on to the defensive yesterday after Binyamin Netanyahu accused him and his new party, Kadima, of planning to give up part of Jerusalem in a future peace deal with the Palestinians. Mr Sharon denied a report in Newsweek which said he was willing to give 90% of the West Bank to the Palestinians and compromise on Jerusalem in return for peace. According to the article, Mr Sharon's opinion poll expert, Kalman Gayer, said the Israeli prime minister would 'in theory' accept 'a compromise on Jerusalem, in exchange for peace'."
A leading Minister of the Knesset added further fuel to this fire: "Yesterday, Haim Ramon, a Kadima member of the Knesset, said he did not know of one sane person who wanted to keep the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Jerusalem. He told Army Radio that it would be a mistake for Israel to retain large Palestinian areas "because it would mean Jerusalem would be the capital of a non-Jewish, non-Zionist Israel".
As you can imagine, words like these are simply incendiary! As Sharon is forming a new "Centrist Party" -- Kadima -- and is promising IDF soldiers that they would never have to force another Jewish settler out of their home, a revelation like this could prove to be politically disastrous. As you can see, below, Sharon reacted vigorously to deny this allegation.
"Mr Sharon rejected his aide's remarks as 'senseless and absurd', adding: 'The entire united Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel forever' ... But Mr Netanyahu, prospective leader of the Likud party that Mr Sharon left, was quick to emphasize the ideological divisions in the new party. He said: 'The cat is out of the bag. Sharon's aides are revealing what he is trying to hide but everyone already knows Sharon will divide Jerusalem and bring the Palestinians back to the 1967 borders'."
Even though Benjamin Netanyahu is just as committed to the Oslo Accords as is Sharon, he knows that is not the public stance he is to take; for this moment, his presence is needed on the opposite side of Sharon. For this reason, Netanyahu is campaigning to lead the conservative Likud Party. Further, Netanyahu knows exactly the power this type of charge carries, for he successfully used in when running for Prime Minister.
"Mr Netanyahu defeated Shimon Peres in the 1996 general election using the slogan: Peres will divide Jerusalem. Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 1967. The east is home to approximately 200,000 Palestinians who do not share the same rights as other Israelis despite annexation." (Ibid.)
I suspect that the real understanding at this juncture is to realize that Sharon is making a play on words. He said, "The entire united Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel forever' ". When you define what he means by "united", you realize that he is promising only that the portion of Jerusalem now occupied homogeneously by Jews will 'remain the capital of Israel forever'. But, what happens to the 200,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem? That is up for negotiation.
Do not be deceived: the Plan calls for Jerusalem to be an international city, controlled by forces outside of Israeli control. Cutting Edge has written extensively about this portion of the Plan, to which the following articles will attest:
* NEWS1529 -- "Is The United Nations About To Take Step 3 In The New Jerusalem Covenant Project Plan Concerning Jerusalem?
* NEWS1573 -- "Is Jerusalem About To Be Declared An International City In Which A Combination Jewish Temple/Muslim Mosque/Christian Church Can Be Built"
* NEWS1587 -- "On 2/15/2000, Pope John Paul II Signed A Covenant With Palestinian Arafat Calling For Internationalization of Jerusalem!"
* NEWS1635 -- "U.N. Has Officially Controlled Jerusalem Since 1999"
* NEWS1842 -- "Israel's Former Foreign Minister Peres Drops 'World Capital" Bombshell: Calls For Holy Places of Jerusalem To Be Controlled By U.N."
* NEWS2087 -- "International Control of Jerusalem Just Jolted Forward!"
Israel's Jews do not realize that "the fix is in" concerning international control over at least a portion of Jerusalem. Their leaders have already sold them out, but no one has yet told the citizenry. All the current political turmoil is just "window dressing" to cover the reality until the time has arrived to tell the poor Jews that they have lost control of their capital!
The reaction against this revelation from Prime Minister Sharon's pollster did not take long in coming.
NEWS BRIEF: "Kadima Leaders Worried: Support Dropped 17% in One Week", Israel National News, December 15, 2005
"Internal polls by Ariel Sharon's Kadima party show a drastic drop in its public support. Its showing last week translated to 41 Knesset seats; this week - only 34 ... the controversial defections by Likud leaders Tzachi HaNegbi and Sha'ul Mofaz to Kadima have hurt Sharon's party, rather than helped. Both HaNegbi and Mofaz were widely accused of opportunism for their sudden moves ... According to the not-yet released polls, support for both the Likud and Labor is increasing. Likud is showing 15-16 seats, while Labor, led by Amir Peretz, is up to 24 ...
"The Likud is to choose its leader this Monday in nation-wide party primaries. If no candidate receives at least 40% of the vote, a run-off between the top two candidates will be held the Monday afterwards, Dec. 26. It is widely felt that after a leader is chosen and the party begins to recover from the blows it has recently suffered - namely, the departure of its leader Ariel Sharon and a third of the MKs - support for the Likud will further increase."
Most observers will expect that the race will tighten once Likud and Kadima parties line up their leadership and formulate their plans. But, remember that the Plan to implement the Oslo Accords and to compromise over the control of Jerusalem will advance no matter who "wins" this upcoming March election. Each leader of each party is equally Illuminist: Sharon of Kadima, Netanyahu of Likud, and Peretz of Labor.
NEWS BRIEF: "Jerusalem Again Takes Center Stage: PA, EU, US, Want City Divided, While Labor Leader Peretz Just Wants 'Peace' At Any Cost", Jerusalem News Wire, December 13th, 2005
"As Israelis prepare to choose a new leader and the international community circles, waiting for the day after when it will unleash renewed pressure for the birth of a Palestinian Arab state, the future status of the divinely-chosen city of Jerusalem has again taken center stage. All leading candidates for the Israeli premiership vow they will never allow the city to be divided between Jewish and Arab states, holding fast to the traditional position that a united Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel. But cracks are beginning to show in that stand, at least as far as two candidates are concerned."
"Finance Minister Ehud Olmert, the prime minister's top deputy and a man known for releasing 'trial balloons' regarding future policy, has on more than one occasion stated Israel would eventually have to relinquish the dream of an eternally united Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty. In refuting the accusations, Sharon also insisted he remains committed to the internationally-backed Road Map peace plan, which he inferred guarantees a united Jerusalem under Israel's control. The Road Map in fact does no such thing, and instead defers the issue to final status negotiations ... Sharon's Labor Party rival Amir Peretz has also gone on record as backing Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem, but made clear last week his primary goal, if elected leader of the nation, will be to conclude a final peace agreement with the 'Palestinians' within one year."
Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas then reminded all Israeli leaders that no deal on a Palestinian State can occur without compromise on Jerusalem.
This article then shows how the E.U. and the U.S. stands on this issue:
"The European Union recently clarified its position on Jerusalem in a still-unpublished report slamming Israeli activity and the imposition of Israeli law in the eastern half of the city, where several hundred thousand Jews live in the neighborhoods of Gilo, French Hill, Ramat Eshkol and others ... For its part, Israel's top ally, the United States, has never come out in support of Israel's biblical and historical claim to all of Jerusalem, and instead refers to the city as 'disputed'.”
Jerusalem is, indeed, "disputed", just as the Bible foretold in Zechariah 12. In days to come, we shall see even greater hysteria breed in the debate as to who will control Jerusalem.
However, Sharon may have a trump card up his sleeve in this issue after all, as this next news report indicates:
NEWS BRIEF: "Half of Israelis favour deal on Jerusalem - poll", Reuters News, December 16, 2005
"JERUSALEM, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Nearly half of Israelis would support giving up parts of Arab East Jerusalem under any eventual peace deal with the Palestinians, a poll published on Friday showed. The survey in Yedioth Ahronoth said 49 percent favoured giving Palestinians control over largely Arab neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War and annexed in a move not recognised internationally. Another 49 percent said they would oppose relinquishing any of the city Israel regards as its 'indivisible capital'. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as capital of a would-be state."
"The fate of the city, holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians has always been one of the toughest problems facing any peace negotiations."
Year after year of incessant public propaganda directed at the Jewish citizenry has finally brought forth fruit. Now, nearly one-half of all Jewish citizens are so muddle-headed they actually still believe the lie that peace can be obtained with the Palestinians if only Israel would give up more land -- this time Jerusalem!
A top Palestinian chief immediately weighed in on this discussion:
"Senior Palestinian Authority Chief Says: ‘No Jerusalem, No Peace’ ", Israel National News, December 13, 2005
" 'No Jerusalem, no peace', declared PA Prime Minister Ahmed Quriea at a special cabinet meeting of the Palestinian Authority’s government on Monday. Quriea, also known by the name he used as a PLO terrorist, Abu Ala, is a senior PA official, second to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas. He promised that the Palestinian Authority would never give up its demand for sovereignty over Jerusalem and goal of making it the capital of a Palestinian state. That goal, he said, has become the PA’s primary consideration for peace with Israel."
Many people believe that East Jerusalem will become the capitol of the new Palestinian State, while Israel will retain sovereignty over the traditionally Jewish segment.
But, all people do agree: Jerusalem is becoming a more contentious issue every week. What did God foretell at the End of the Age?
"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about..." (Zech 12:2)
NEWS BRIEF: "Lebanese Largest University: "Just Like Hitler..We Should Fight Jews & Burn Them", MEMRI Research, December 15, 2005
"Lebanon's Largest Government University Hosts Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV Symposium Calling to Wipe Israel Off The Map: 'Just Like Hitler Fought The Jews.We Too Should Fight The Jews and Burn Them'. The following are excerpts from a symposium of students at Universite Libanaise, hosted by Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV and broadcast on November 29, 2005."
"Hisham Sham'as: "The state shouldn't be only within the 1976 borders... Or rather, 1967... Israel must be wiped out."
Mediator: "You mean, reviving the motto of erasing Israel from the map."
Hisham Sham'as: "Israel should be completely wiped out, so the Palestinians will have a country to return to."
Mediator: "If someone tells you this motto is unrealistic, how would you respond?"
Hisham Sham'as: "There is no such thing as unrealistic. ... Just like Hitler fought the Jews - We are a great Islamic nation of Jihad, and we too should fight the Jews and burn them."
As undiscerning people reiterate their naive belief that Israel can achieve peace and security with her Arab neighbors under any circumstances, they need to ponder this unbelievable hatred toward the Jews expressed in these statements. The vast majority of Islamic peoples throughout the world hate Israel in their heart of hearts and want her dead. An admiration of Adolf Hitler and his nearly-successful attempt to wipe out all Jews worldwide also beats in the heart of most Arabs.
Of great interest also is the fact that this TV interview occurred at the state-run Lebanese University, which means that the views expressed probably are shared by the Lebanese government, which is supposedly pro-American. Therefore, you must understand that anti-Jewish hatred flares in the heart of virtually all Muslims, whether they are nominally pro-Western or anti-Western. Hatred of the Jew is the one common denominator linking the entire Islamic peoples worldwide.
Iran's new hardline President uttered two very hateful broadside remarks recently to fuel the fire of Anti-Semitism threatening to engulf the Islamic world.
NEWS BRIEF: "Iranian President Ahmadinejad says Holocaust 'myth' was created by Europeans", Ha'aretz News, December 12, 2005
"Lashing out again at Iran's hard-line president, the Bush administration dubbed as "just astonishing" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad description of the Holocaust as a myth, and said he was digging a diplomatic hole for himself. The assertion by Ahmadinejad 'can only be characterized as outrageous', State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Wednesday. 'These comments are certainly reprehensible'."
"Ahmadinejad, in his latest salvo against Israel, said the Holocaust was 'a myth' and a pretext for establishing a Jewish state in the heart of the Muslim world. The Holocaust, carried out by Germany and its allies during World War II, was designed to destroy European Jewry. An estimated 6 million people were killed."
"Wednesday was the first occasion when the Iranian president said in public that the Holocaust was a myth. 'They have fabricated a legend under the name 'Massacre of the Jews', and they hold it higher than God Himself, religion itself and the prophets themselves', he told a crowd in the southeastern city of Zahedan. His speech was broadcast live on state television."
I find it curious that this new hardline Iranian president would stoop to trying to deny the Holocaust. Curiously, the Lebanese TV interviewers, quoted above, believed that Hitler's genocide against the Jews was an historic event. Therefore, the spectacle of seeing a head of state joining the Holocaust deniers is strange and pitiful, indeed.
But, if you view these remarks as those of a master propagandist trying to stir the hatred of the masses under his sway, this denial of the Holocaust makes a whole lot of sense. If the time has come in world history to stir up 1.4 billion Muslims against Israel, this kind of remark makes complete sense. If the time is drawing near for hordes of Islamic armies to begin swarming against Jerusalem as Zechariah 12 foretells, then this remark will probably hit the very target for whom it is aimed: the rank and file Islamic citizen. Such remarks will inflame those uneducated, uninformed Muslims who will eventually march against against Jerusalem, or who will send their sons to march.
With this in mind, the following article also makes sense.
NEWS BRIEF: "Iranian President Calls To Transfer Israel to Europe: Dismantle the Jewish State and rebuild it in Europe", December 9, 2005
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested Thursday to dismantle the Jewish State and rebuild it in Europe: 'If the Europeans are honest they should give provinces in Europe… to the Zionists'. Speaking in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Ahmadinejad implied that guilt for the holocaust led European countries to support the establishment of the State of Israel ... Although we don't accept this claim," Ahmadinejad said, "if we suppose it is true, our question for the Europeans is: Is the killing of innocent Jewish people by Hitler the reason for their support to the occupiers of Jerusalem?"
"The Iranian president then suggested that the State of Israel be dismantled and rebuilt somewhere in Europe: 'If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe, like in Germany, Austria or other countries, to the Zionists, and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe, and we will support it'."
When you marry all these stories together, you can see the master propagandist at work, stimulating the hatred among hundreds of millions of Muslims for the Jew, for their capitol at Jerusalem and for their nation, Israel. If the world does stand at the brink of the appearance of Antichrist, we should understand that we then stand at the brink of the fulfillment of Zechariah 12, where God foretells that He will bring wave after wave of armies against Jerusalem and shall personally guarantee their destruction.
What does prophecy state concerning God's protection of His nation, Israel, at the End of the Age?
"FOR BEHOLD, in those days and at that time when I shall reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
"I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and there will I deal with and execute judgment upon them for their treatment of My people and of My heritage Israel ..". (Joel 3:2; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary)
IV. People the world over are continuing to view President Bush's wars and his torture scandal as symptomatic of a perverted brand of Christianity. The danger continues to grow that, if President Bush is discredited enough, the brush could become wide enough to paint all genuine Christians with the same hue as President Bush's brand of Christian, thus setting up the expected Christian persecution.
NEWS BRIEF: "The Iron Fist of Jesus", by Jason Miller, Scoop, New Zealand, 15 December 2005
"How much damage will men like George Bush, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Sam Brownback, Ralph Reed, and Rick Santorum inflict before reason prevails and they are unmasked as the twisted, malevolent charlatans that they are? Fundamentalist Christians, adherents to a nauseating perversion of Christianity (conjured from their twisted imaginations and their distorted interpretations of the Bible) wield a significant amount of power in the United States, socially and politically ... Despite recent blows, Republicans still control the Executive and Legislative branches of government, and are well on their way to dominating the Judicial branch ... "
Before you discard this editorial totally because of its anti-christian tone, you should be aware that the views expressed here by Jason Miller, are becoming more and more pronounced throughout the world. Greater numbers of people worldwide are coming to view Christianity in this light because of the horrific wars and terrors unleashed by "christian" President George W. Bush. On the one hand, foreigners can see bombs falling, civilians dying, and entire populations being slowly murdered by Depleted Uranium Munitions; on the other hand, people hear President Bush espouse his Christian beliefs, and they can see and hear terribly misguided Evangelical leaders backing the President and telling their constituents that he is a genuine Christian, and calling his wars "Just".
Let us now return to this editorial.
"One of the rationalizations for the illegal occupation of Iraq (and the murders of over one hundred thousand innocent Iraqi civilians) is that the United States is engaged in a struggle of "good versus evil". In spite of repeated heinous acts committed for years by the United States in the Middle East, including state terrorism resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, installation and/or support of ruthless dictators (i.e. Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran) ... these pseudo-Christians have managed to convince many Americans that the US is 'good' and the 'terrorists' (i.e. the Resistance to US occupation in Iraq) are 'evil' ..."
Mr. Miller then identifies his religious background as Methodist.
"Growing up Methodist, my indoctrination into the Christian faith was rather moderate. I do not recall our ministers preaching fire, brimstone, or eternal damnation. Somehow I missed the interpretation of Revelations in which the Christo-Fascists have determined that Christ will return to Earth to 'judge and make war'." (Ibid.)
While it is prophetically true that Jesus will return to earth in great fury and anger to judge the peoples of the world, it is not true that Christian forces operating under the flag of the Christian Church must first seize control of the world for Jesus. That is the teaching of Dominion Theologians, like Pat Robertson and George Bush. Increasingly, peoples of the world are beginning to view President Bush's wars and his calls for "Regime Change" as the logical outworking of Bush's "christian" viewpoint. If allowed to continue, will one day bite genuine Christians in the neck, and probably fatally so.
I believe that genuine Christians are being set up for persecution by these horrific events, and that if the "patron saint" of the Dominion Theologian position -- President Bush -- is ever brought down into disrepute, the prosecution of Christians will not be far behind.
This following article is in much the same vein as this Scoop editorial, which we considered, above. However, "Christo-Fascists" gives way to the term, "Christian Zionists". Both terms refer to President Bush and his Evangelical allies.
NEWS BRIEF: "Christian Zionism - Terror In Jesus' Name", by By Yoginder Sikand, CounterCurrents.org, December 14, 2005
"Christian Zionism is a call for global war. The belief that Christianity is the sole truth, that all other faiths are 'Satanic' or 'false', that the Jews must all gather in Palestine to fulfil so-called Biblical prophecies, and that a grand global war will soon erupt leading to the massacre of hundreds of millions and heralding the 'second coming' of Jesus, who will establish his Christian kingdom extending till the four corners of the world, clearly indicate the hate-driven, global expansionist project of Christian Zionism."
Carefully read this entire article, for it does express the growing antipathy of the peoples of the world toward anything hinting of Fundamentalist Christian. You and I are the ultimate targets for this persecution.
V. As anti-war sentiment threatens to engulf his presidency, Mr. Bush decided to take a different tack: he "apologized" for the "Intel errors" which led to his invasion of Iraq.
NEWS BRIEF: "Bush Takes Blame for Iraq Invasion, Intel", by Jennifer Loven, Excite News, December 14, 2005
"WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Wednesday the responsibility for invading Iraq based in part on faulty weapons intelligence rested solely with him, taking on the issue in his most direct and personal terms in the 1,000-plus days since the war's first shots.
" 'It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong', Bush said. 'As president, I'm responsible for the decision to go into Iraq'."
"The president's mea culpa was accompanied by a robust defense of the divisive war. 'Saddam was a threat - and the American people and the world is better off because he is no longer in power', Bush declared, as he has before. During the same week he took the 'blame' for the Iraqi War, the President tried to justify the wanton killing of civilians, saying that 'only 30,000' had died since the invasion."
Of course, by taking this approach, the President avoided having to admit to his people that he and Rumsfeld, and Rice, and Cheney and Powell boldly lied to justify this war. We have posted numerous articles demonstrating strong proof that the President and his top Cabinet officials, boldly lied and schemed to deceive in the run-up to the Iraqi invasion.
Our most potent articles in this vein are:
* NEWS1870 --- "BUSH/BLAIR JUSTIFICATION OF IRAQ INVASION: NOW PROVEN TO BE LIES, DISTORTIONS, EXAGGERATIONS!" Part 1 of 2
* NEWS1870b -- "BUSH/BLAIR JUSTIFICATION OF IRAQ INVASION: NOW PROVEN TO BE LIES, DISTORTIONS, EXAGGERATIONS! Part 2 of 2
Now, let us examine President Bush's incredible statement in his defense that "only 30,000" civilians died.
NEWS BRIEF: "30,000 Iraqis killed since 2003 -- Bush official estimate", Dawn International News, December 13, 2005
"PHILADELPHIA, Dec 12 ... In a rare comment by a US leader on the toll, Mr Bush said in a question and answer session after a speech here that roughly 30,000 Iraqis had been killed since the March 2003 invasion, while 2,140 US troops have lost their lives. Mr Bush was in Philadelphia to give the third in a series of speeches ahead of Thursday’s parliamentary elections in Iraq, touting political progress there in a bid to shore up public support for the unpopular war and his strategy to end it"
"He also had harsh criticism for ‘Arabic television stations’ that were ‘constantly just pounding America’ — without naming names. Washington has previously assailed the Qatar-based Al Jazeera satellite television. At a time when the Pentagon has been accused of using a contractor to plant stories in Iraq’s media, Mr Bush said the anti-US ‘propaganda machine is pretty darn intense’. After being pilloried last week for bucking the question-and-answer tradition at the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr Bush took five queries from the crowd — the first a request for an estimate of Iraqis killed.
“How many Iraqi citizens have died in this war? I would say 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis. We’ve lost about 2,140 of our own troops,” he said. —AFP"
Of course, what Mr. Bush did not remind his constituents was that, 13 months ago, a respected British Think Tank said that they had carefully calculated that over 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died -- and war has raged for 13 months since that estimate!
NEWS BRIEF: "100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, says study ", The Guardian (London), October 29, 2004
""About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of air strikes by coalition forces, according to the first reliable study of the death toll from Iraqi and US public health experts. The study, which was carried out in 33 randomly-chosen neighbourhoods of Iraq representative of the entire population, shows that violence is now the leading cause of death in Iraq ... Last night the Lancet medical journal fast-tracked the survey to publication on its website after rapid, but extensive peer review and editing because, said Lancet editor Richard Horton, "of its importance to the evolving security situation in Iraq". But the findings raised important questions also for the governments of the United Sates and Britain who, said Dr Horton in a commentary, "must have considered the likely effects of their actions for civilians".
The Bush Administration has worked proactively since the beginning of our invasion to downplay both the counts of American soldiers killed or wounded, and of civilian deaths. The official total still stands, as President Bush himself stated, at 2,140 troops, much less than the 14,000 casualty total which Col. David Hackworth estimated in October, 2004.
Let us quickly return to this Guardian article for more insights.
"The researchers criticize the failure of the coalition authorities to attempt to assess for themselves the scale of the civilian casualties. 'US General Tommy Franks is widely quoted as saying 'we don't do body counts'," they write, but occupying armies have responsibilities under the Geneva convention'. This survey shows that with modest funds, four weeks and seven Iraqi team members willing to risk their lives, a useful measure of civilian deaths could be obtained." (Op. Cit, Guardian)
Of course, 100,000 civilian deaths pales in comparison with the ultimate price of the number of people who will ultimately be killed with Depleted Uranium poisoning, but it still serves as a reminder to all Americans that our current President is committing genocide in Iraq. Now can you see why President Bush refused to invade Iraq before he had officially received immunity from war crimes from the International Court? (Read NEWS1933 for full details)
Once again, President Bush continues to hold to fanciful figures and even more fanciful justifications for his "wars and rumors of wars" foreign policy. In fact, his thin line of reasoning and of defense of his policies is getting so "fanciful" that the President even fielded a question as to whether he lives and works in a "bubble" at the White House! Listen:
NEWS BRIEF: "Bush says he does not live in a bubble", Reuters News, December 12, 2005
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday that he does not live 'in a bubble' and that he is well aware of what is going on outside the White House, rejecting critics' claims that he is out of touch ... 'I don't feel in a bubble', Bush said in an interview on 'NBC Nightly News'. Bush said he gets 'really good advice' from 'very capable people' and that people from all walks of life provide information to him and his advisers."
" 'I feel very comfortable that I'm very aware of what's going on', Bush said."
"Asked how much television news and newspapers he regularly consumes, Bush moved to dispel a myth that grew a few years ago after he told an interviewer that he does not read newspapers. 'Every morning I look at the newspaper', Bush told NBC. 'I can't say I've read every single article in the newspaper. But, I definitely know what's in the news'."
" 'Occasionally, I watch television. I don't want to hurt your feelings. But it's occasionally', Bush said jokingly."
Why would President Bush even be asked this type of question? Might it not be because the world he presents in his public appearances is so at odds with the harsh reality which most of the people of this nation, and of the world, see when they look at current events? Certainly, as President Bush continues to defend the indefensible -- Iraq War -- he is being viewed by more and more Americans as being "out of touch" with reality.
VI. Iraqis trooped to the polls December 15, 2005, to elect their first permanent government.
President Bush has long been touting the "democracy" he says is taking shape in Iraq. There have been two centerpieces of this fledgling democracy: the passage of a constitution and now an election which will put into place a permanent government. That election occurred Thursday, December 15. Let us view this news story from several angles.
NEWS BRIEF: "Praises for Iraq election", Newsday, December 16, 2005
"WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush hailed yesterday's voting in Iraq as 'a major milestone' in establishing a democratic ally for the United States in the Middle East and moving toward withdrawal of American troops."
Notice the tie-in which this article presents, linking this election with the ultimate withdrawal of American troops. President Bush is hoping for the same type of "window of opportunity" which the North Vietnamese graciously extended to President Nixon, where they allowed American troops to be withdrawn amidst glowing official White House expressions of admiration for the South Vietnamese government and military, and they did not mount a serious attack until one year later. President Bush is hoping for that kind of "window of opportunity".
"The appearance of a buoyant Bush in the Oval Office alongside six smiling Iraqis displaying fingers stained with purple ink - applied at the polls to ensure against multiple voting - was an attempt to capitalize on positive news in Iraq. The parliamentary elections carried high stakes for a White House confronted with increasing public and congressional dissatisfaction with the war. Bush said, 'There's a lot of joy, as far as I'm concerned' about the voting, adding that he was happy with the turnout even without final tabulations. 'We're certain that the turnout was significant and that the violence was down', he said. He congratulated Iraqis for 'refusing to be cowed into not voting' and assured them the United States would stick with the mission there 'until we complete this job'." (Ibid.)
What did the United States expect out of this election?
NEWS BRIEF: "US expectations at stake in Iraqi election", By Paul Tait, Reuters News, December 13, 2005
"BAGHDAD (Reuters) - After losing more than 2,300 troops dead and spending over $250 billion in Iraq, the United States and its allies have an awful lot invested in Thursday's parliamentary election. The vote will not just determine Iraq's first full-term government since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, it will also act as significant waymark toward withdrawing U.S. troops from a war that is increasingly unpopular with Americans ... Turnout rose to 64 percent in October's constitutional referendum, which Sunnis narrowly failed to vote down. Hussein al-Hindawi, chairman of the U.N.-backed Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, told Reuters this week he believed the turnout in Thursday's poll would top 70 percent. U.S. President George W. Bush is likely to need such numbers before he can tout the election as an unqualified success."
Note that the President truly wants to declare "the election as an unqualified success".
Mr. Bush has also lately been touting the success of the rebuilding effort in Najaf and Mosul. However, this next segment gives the lie to that claim.
"Bush has held up Najaf and Mosul as examples of progress in reconstruction efforts, but the plaudits ring hollow to foreign journalists who still cannot walk the streets of those cities without body armor and significant military protection." (Ibid.)
It also seems that the word has spread throughout the Iraqi citizenry is that the one best way to get foreign troops to leave is to vote!
"Predictions of the turnout in Sunni strongholds like the western province of Anbar vary wildly ... 'The Sunni Arab community as a whole understands in a way that they did not understand in the last election that having strong representation in the national government is in their interests', said a Western diplomat in Baghdad."
Indeed, when Iraqis see their government officials -- who owe their jobs and continued life to American power -- setting timetable demands for American withdrawal, and when they see these same officials traveling to Iran, to court Iranian favor, they can understand that the Americans can withdraw more easily if they can create the perception that Iraq is now a democracy and is now strong enough to govern and protect herself.
For goodness sake, that perception is so strong that the Insurgency even cut back their attacks greatly just before the people trooped to the polls. You might even see a lower level of insurgent attacks after the election, if the insurgency is going to make it easy for President Bush to declare "success" and begin withdrawing troops.
However, angry public rhetoric did not cease. Extremists branded this election "satanic".
NEWS BRIEF: "Islamic extremists: Iraqi vote 'satanic'", USA Today, 12/13/2005
"BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Soldiers, patients and prisoners began voting Monday in national elections, three days ahead of the general population, while insurgents denounced the balloting as a 'satanic project' but did not threaten to attack polling stations ... In a rare joint statement, al-Qaeda in Iraq and four other Islamic extremist groups denounced the election as a 'satanic project' and said that 'to engage in the so-called political process' violates 'the legitimate policy approved by God'."
"The groups vowed to 'continue our jihad (holy war) ... to establish an Islamic state ruled by the book (the Quran) and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad'."
"However, the statement contained no clear threat to disrupt voting as in the run-up to the Jan. 30 election and the Oct. 15 referendum on the constitution."
For the most part, this statement seems to be an exercise in empty rhetoric.
But, amidst the official euphoria over this election, seasoned observers saw a very dark lining in the official clouds.
NEWS BRIEF: "Only negotiation with Iraq's resistance can bring peace: But the US remains blind to daily national humiliation", The Guardian (London), December 16, 2005
"A more inclusive political process should grow out of the elections. But the US remains blind to daily national humiliation. A thousand days after the American invasion, yesterday's Iraqi election was promising ... The poll is not the only cause for hope. Iraqi leaders from across the political and sectarian spectrum, including members of the current government, recently met in Cairo for an under-reported 'reconciliation' conference that may prove as important as yesterday's vote."
"They agreed to meet again in two months, and to 'demand the withdrawal of foreign forces in accordance with a timetable'. So it is not just the foreign 'cut and run' merchants, whom Washington and London pillory, but also senior Iraqis who are getting impatient. The Cairo meeting condemned attacks on non-military targets as terrorism and stressed that 'resistance is a legitimate right for all people'. The phrase is crucial since it concedes - bizarrely, perhaps, for ministers in the present government who work with the Americans on counterinsurgency - that armed struggle against the occupation is justified."
Did you catch that bit of startling statement? These Iraqi leaders, representing a broad spectrum of politics within that country, have just issued a statement in which they legitimized much of the military struggle of the Insurgency! While paying lip service to the position that "non-military targets" should not be targeted, these leaders then turned around to state that "resistance is a legitimate right for all people" -- in other words, these leaders took the position that "armed struggle against the occupation is justified."
These Iraqi leaders are facing reality after the Americans leave, and they do not like what they see. Their lives and the lives of their families, depend upon separating themselves from the American government. While cooperating with the Americans on many issues, these leaders are beginning to act like Muslims: they are talking with other national leaders, including Iran; and, they are passing resolutions which confirm that military struggle against the American occupation is justified.
As soon as the last American leaves Iraq, the entire "democratic government" is likely to tumble into the dustbin of history, giving total victory to the radical insurgents, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, who have the most actively opposed the American invasion and subsequent occupation.
Is it any wonder that officials at NBC Nightly News felt they had to ask the President if he felt that he was "living in a bubble"?
VII. During this past week, Australia passed through the same Western / Muslim confrontation which rocked France some weeks ago; again, as in France, new emergency laws were enacted which gave police new authoritarian powers. We thus see the same Hegelian Dialectic in play: Create the crises, Step in to "solve" the crisis -- or, to put it another way: "Planned Crises = Planned Authoritarian Powers".
NEWS BRIEF: "Hate at the beach", The Australian, December 13, 2005
" THE bashing of two North Cronulla lifesavers by a gang of Middle Eastern youths a week ago was the trigger for an outbreak of the ugly mob violence on the weekend. Certainly the retaliatory text messages calling on 'Aussies' to attack Lebanese youths visiting the southern Sydney beach fueled what NSW Premier Morris Iemma labelled 'the ugly face of racism', which erupted in two beachside suburbs on Sunday ... And there are threats of more retaliation and violence to come. The latest mobile phone message being circulated yesterday said: 'all arabs unite as one/we will never back down to anyone/the aussies will feel the full force of the arabs as one/brothers in arms unite now/let's show them who's boss/destroy everything/gather at cronulla 18/12/05 midday/spread the message to all arabs/meet up at the lighthouse'."
This is how the riots started. And, just as in France, the trouble spread, nationwide.
NEWS BRIEF: "Mobs riot again as Sydney race tensions explode", The Telegraph News, 13/12/2005
"Racial violence flared in Sydney yesterday in apparent retaliation for earlier clashes in which a mob of 5,000 white youths chanted abuse and attacked people of Middle Eastern origin. The second night of violence brought terror to one of the city's best known beaches. It flared when young men of mostly Lebanese background clashed with police, throwing stones and other missiles. Police reinforcements were drafted in as thugs attacked cars and shops with baseball bats and threatened to do battle with rival white gangs with guns and crowbars. About 200 young Muslim men gathered outside one of the city's largest mosques, some armed with pistols. A white woman in a car was said to have been approached by some men and told: 'We are going to rape you, you Aussie slut'. It was claimed that a shot was fired at the vehicle."
"The cycle of violence tarnished Australia's reputation - often promoted by the government - as a bastion of tolerance and racial integration."
Riots continued to spread even more throughout the country, another parallel to the riots in France.
NEWS BRIEF: "Australian Race attacks spread to Perth, Adelaide", smh.com.au, December 13, 2005
"Attacks on a Middle Eastern family in Perth and a Lebanese Australian taxidriver in Adelaide have been linked to Sydney's race violence. In an alarming sign Sydney's race-fueled problems may be spreading, a family of Middle Eastern origin was attacked in Perth by a group of 11 Caucasian men, who threw eggs, shouted abuse and kicked the garage door ... meanwhile, Islamic Council of Victoria offices in west Melbourne have been vandalized for the second time in a month. A brick was thrown through the front window of the building. Islamic Council of Victoria chairman Malcom (Malcom) Thomas said he believed yesterday's attack was linked to race violence in Sydney."
And, now, the government steps in to pass new emergency powers which they insist are needed to restore order.
NEWS BRIEF: "Emergency powers said needed to stop Australian riots", smh.com.au, December 13, 2005
"An emergency session of NSW parliament will give Sydney police tough new powers to crack down on racial and mob violence, amid signs the city's race tensions are spreading to other states. A massive force of 450 highly-mobile police also patrolled Sydney streets tonight to try to prevent a third successive night of violence following Sunday's Cronulla race riot. Eight people were injured last night as groups of Middle Eastern men in fast-moving convoys of cars roamed southern Sydney suburbs, trashing vehicles and shop fronts.
"Today, with Australia's and Sydney's reputation for racial tolerance under threat, the NSW government moved to end the spiraling violence. An emergency session of parliament on Thursday will give police powers not seen since the 2000 Sydney Olympics. 'These criminals have declared war on our society and we are not going to let them win', said Premier Morris Iemma, who said the criminals had brought 'shame' to Sydney. Under the laws, police will be able to lock down parts of Sydney and search and confiscate vehicles - measures aimed at ending night-time 'smash and bash' raids by carloads of young Middle Eastern men."
"Under the new measures, police will have the power to:
- declare lock-down zones
- confiscate vehicles
- shut down licensed premises
- impose temporary alcohol-free zones
- remove the presumption of bail for the offences of riot and disorder
- increase the penalty for riot by five years to 15 years in jail
- double the penalty for affray to 10 years in jail."
It sounds like Australia may yet get its own version of Patriot Act II, awarding police more power and dictatorial type authority than they heretofore possessed. Advanced countries throughout the world are getting these dictatorial laws passed one way or another, with one crisis or another. The world is marching lock-step toward imposition of a global dictatorship, a global martial law.
NEWS BRIEF: "Hollywood Rocked", Drudge Report, December 6, 2005
"Arriving with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys, UNIVERSAL/FOCUS FILMS's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has quietly become an award season frontrunner, interviews with Academy members reveal ... 'There was not a dry eye in the house at the screening at Telluride [Film Festival in Colorado]', says the producer, who asked not to be named out of respect for the cast and crew of the producer's own Oscar contender. 'Watch it come out of the gate at the Golden Globes with super controversy'."
The Illuminati knows that controversy sells a great amount of product, so they have never been shy about producing works full of "super controversy". Note in this next segment that even Madonna finds this movie shocking.
"NEW YORK DAILY NEWS critic Jack Mathews predicts the gay cowboy movie, which takes place in Wyoming, may be 'too much for red-state audiences, but it gives the liberal-leaning Academy a great chance to stick its thumb in conservatives' eyes'. Director Ang Lee's movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall. But will a movie even Madonna calls 'shocking' sit with the heartland?"
Hollywood right now is not worried about how America's "heartland" is going to view this movie. The movers and shakers in Tinsel Town are lining up the awards, which will confer great legitimacy upon this "Gay Cowboy" movie.
NEWS BRIEF: "Gay cowboy romance 'Brokeback Mountain' positioned itself as a key Oscar competitor Tuesday", My Way News, DECEMBER 13, 2005
"BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - The gay cowboy romance 'Brokeback Mountain' positioned itself as a key Oscar competitor Tuesday, roping in seven Golden Globe nominations, including best dramatic picture and honors for actor Heath Ledger and director Ang Lee ... The Globes were a triumph for smaller budgeted films over big studio productions. 'This is the first time in the history of the Golden Globes that all of the best (dramatic) film nominees are independent movies made for under $30 million', said Philip Berk, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the awards ... he Globes were the latest recognition for "Brokeback Mountain," a critical darling that has received top honors from critics groups in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston."
"Still, the film has an uphill trail to the Oscars, whose voters may hesitate to anoint a gay-themed movie as its champion."
This next story is from an "alternative" source, and its writers are not shy about their excitement over the "Gay Themed" movies -- such the rage today in Hollywood.
NEWS BRIEF: "Gay themes grab hold", Award Central, Variety, December 13, 2005
"It's red meat for the culture warriors. This year's Globe nominations highlight a year in which lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters played major roles in crossover titles. 'Brokeback Mountain', 'Breakfast on Pluto', 'Capote', and even 'The Producers' put gay characters front and center. 'Transamerica' has a transgender lead, and Pierce Brosnan Pierce Brosnan plays a bisexual man in 'The Matador'."
" 'These are films with universal themes that everyone can identify with', said GLAAD spokesman Damon Romine. 'Brokeback Mountain' is a great American romance where two men happen to be in love with each other'. Gay characters have become routine in film and TV. For the most part, though, those gay characters didn't have any actual sex -- at least, not onscreen. And they were often there to provide sage advice to straight leads."
In fact, this movie is just part of the "gay themed" movie wave cresting to unprecedented heights in American film making, as this quote, above proves.
Just as Scripture foretold, the world is rushing headlong into the abyss called "Sodom and Gomorrah". Remember Jesus' Words?
"Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed." (Luke 17:28-30)
IX. Teaching in Cutting Edge Seminars One and Two were further confirmed as we learned of one more prominent instance where a major scientist who founded a major company was thoroughly practicing the occult.
NEWS BRIEF: "NASA's John Whiteside Parsons: Anti-Christ Superstar", By Richard Metzger, Red Ice, 2005 12 09
"When the history of the American space program is finally written, no figure will stand out quite like John Whiteside Parsons. Remarkably handsome, dashing and brilliant, Jack Parsons was one of the founders of the experimental rocket research group at Cal Tech and the groups seven acre Arroyo Seco testing facility would eventually become Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's rocket design center. Werner von Braun claimed it was the self-taught Parsons, not himself, who was the true father of the American space program for his contribution to the development of solid rocket fuel..."
"... what is little known about this legend of aerospace engineering is that Parsons was an avid practitioner of the occult sciences, and for several years, Aleister Crowley's hand-picked leader of the US branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis, the Southern California-based Agape Lodge ... Parsons interest in the occult apparently commenced at an early age and in one of his diaries he claimed to have visibly evoked Satan at the tender age of 13 ... After discovering Crowley's philosophy of Thelema (Greek for true will), Parsons joined the Agape Lodge in 1941. Wilfred T. Smith, the expatriate Englishman who started the order in the early 1930s with a charter from the Great Beast himself, wrote of Parsons in a letter to Crowley: "I think I have at long last a really excellent man, John Parsons. And starting next Tuesday he begins a course of talks with a view to enlarging our scope. He has an excellent mind and much better intellect than myself... John Parsons is going to be valuable."
"Parsons rose quickly through the ranks, taking over the Agape Lodge from Smith at Crowley's decree within a year.
"For I am BABALON, and she my daughter, unique and there shall be no other women like her." - Crowley's 'The Book of Babalon', verse 37
"In one of the most celebrated feats in magickal history, Parsons and pre-Dianetics L. Ron Hubbard (whose role is too complicated to describe in this short essay) performed The Babalon Working, a daring attempt to shatter the boundaries of time and space and intended to bring about, in Parsons' own words, 'love, understanding, and Dionysian freedom' ... In its initial stages, The Babalon Working was intended to attract an elemental to serve as a partner for Parsons elaborate sex magick rituals. The method employed was that of the solo VIII Degree working of the O.T.O, the quasi-Masonic organization reformulated by Crowley in the earlier part of the century in accordance with his Do What Thou Wilt mythos of Thelema ... Parsons used his magickal wand to whip up a vortex of energy so the elemental would be summoned ... Apparently, it worked. In a letter to Crowley dated February 23, 1946, Parsons exclaimed, 'I have my elemental! She turned up one night after the conclusion of the Operation, and has been with me since'."
"The elemental was a green-eyed, flaming redhead named Marjorie Cameron, (later of Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome film, an artist of some reknown and a primary force in the New Age Goddess movement). Cameron was only too happy to participate in Parsons' sex magick and now Parsons could get down to the real business of The Babalon Working: the birthing of a moonchild or homunculus. The operation was formulated to open an interdimensional doorway, rolling out the red carpet for the appearance of the goddess Babalon in human form, employing the Enochian Calls [angelic language] of Elizabethan magus John Dee and the attraction of the sex force of the duo's copulation to this end." (Emphasis added)
Literally, these sex magick rituals were designed to produce the "goddess Babalon in human form" during sex between the human, Jack Parsons, and this demonic "elemental" who had taken the female form. Virtually everything that Crowley and his "Crowley-ites" did was related to staging Antichrist on the world scene; therefore, this radical Black Magick sex ritual must have been geared to this end. Certainly, the occult author of this article believes that Parsons was trying to assist the appearance of Antichrist, or he would not have entitled this piece, "NASA's John Whiteside Parsons: Anti-Christ Superstar".
Can you imagine that the scientist who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and who was instrumental in developing rockets and the fuels by which they were powered, was this involved in Black Magick Satanism?
But, if you had listened to both Seminars One and Two, above, you would not be too surprised, for we demonstrate that the meteoric rise in scientific knowledge the world has experienced since World War I is the direct result of "discoveries" which key scientists who were involved in the occult received. We demonstrate that Satan could not have fulfilled all the Bible prophecies required of him with the technology which existed in 1900. In order to fulfill just the "Mark of the Beast" prophecy Revelation 13:16-18, Satan will have to create a global economy which is cashless and which operates according to an implantable chip. Until the advent of the computer, Bible scholars had no idea how an economy could eliminate cash or how a human being could have something implanted within him which would regulate the buying and selling of merchandise all throughout a global economy.
Today, we know how these prophecies will be fulfilled and we are simply amazed at the unfolding of the requisite technology.
But, did you know that famous scientists through history were members of secret societies? Consider just a short, simple list:
1) Benjamin Franklin -- Freemason, Rosicrucian
2) Henry Ford -- Member of House of Theosophy
3) Thomas Alva Edison -- Member of House of Theosophy
4) Nicholas Tesla (invented fluorescent light bulb, alternating currents and the engines by which they are run, and Scalar Electromagnetic Waves) -- Was identified by one author as a "mystic", but we are not sure of which society he was a member.
These are just a few of the many prominent scientists whose works formed the foundation of modern, technological society. There are many others, as we list them in these seminars.
As we stated, above, Satan could not have fulfilled all the Bible prophecies required of him with the technology which existed in 1900. God has allowed Satan to impart scientific knowledge at specific eras of time -- consistent with God's overall prophetic timetable -- which will allow the Evil One to move toward fulfilling all God's prophecies. In fact, you can rightly think of a secret society as "Satan's church", for it is through these societies that Satan passes doctrine and plans down from generation to generation, and it is through these secret societies that Satan has passed scientific knowledge.
Now, to this list, you can add Jack Parsons, was one of the founders of the experimental rocket research group at Cal Tech, and the founder of Jet Propulsions Laboratory. When not working in his lab, Parsons was engaging in Black Magick sex rituals with a female demon, trying to produce a human/demonic child!
Now you know the real reason Satan loves his secret societies!
Before we begin this segment, please understand we have not reviewed this Senate action in depth. It is possible that a thorough review will produce some more surprises, and if that is the case, we shall come right back to you with that news. But, from the strength of this present news story, we offer this explanation.
First, the news:
NEWS BRIEF: "Senate Rejects Extension of Patriot Act", Excite News, December 16, 2005
"WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Friday rejected attempts to reauthorize several provisions of the USA Patriot Act as infringing too much on Americans' privacy and liberty, dealing a huge defeat to the Bush administration and Republican leaders. In a crucial vote early Friday, the bill's Senate supporters were not able to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a threatened filibuster by Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and their allies. The final vote was 52-47.
"President Bush, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Republicans congressional leaders had lobbied fiercely to make most of the expiring Patriot Act provisions permanent, and add new safeguards and expiration dates to the two most controversial parts: roving wiretaps and secret warrants for books, records and other items from businesses, hospitals and organizations such as libraries. Feingold, Craig and other critics said that wasn't enough, and have called for the law to be extended in its present form so they can continue to try and add more civil liberties safeguards ... If a compromise is not reached, the 16 Patriot Act provisions expire on Dec. 31."
Sometimes, the give-and-take nature of the Dialectic Struggle makes it difficult to understand when the Illuminati takes one step back. You know that one of the infamous provisions of the Dialectic is "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back". According to this portion of the Plan, forward advance is always ensured because the one step backward is not nearly as much distance as the two previous steps forward. But, taking a step backwards is sometimes deemed necessary for a couple of reasons:
1) Perhaps the enemy has gotten fierce enough that the Illuminati decides a temporary retreat is in order, so that the enemy may feel they have won a great victory;
2) To enduce the enemy to relax their vociferous opposition;
3) To accomplish some other goal along the way.
To see how one or more of these reasons the Plan sometimes envisions taking a step backward in order to achieve more movement forward at a later date, let us go back to this featured news article.
"If the Patriot Act provisions expire, Republicans say they will place the blame on Democrats in next year's midterm elections. 'In the war on terror, we cannot afford to be without these vital tools for a single moment', White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. 'The time for Democrats to stop standing in the way has come'." (Iib.)
My blood ran cold when I read McClellan's statement: "In the war on terror, we cannot afford to be without these vital tools for a single moment".
If another terror attack occurs in an American city -- which is the Plan -- then the Bush Administration could point an accusing finger toward the Democrats, accusing them of allowing this terrorist attack to occur because they stripped the Patriot Act provisions out of the law books. If this type of action occurs, you can bet that, immediately after blaming the Democrats for allowing the terrorist assault, the Administration will demand, and probably get, an even more draconian dictatorial act than Patriot Act I.
Does this action make another terrorist attack on American soil more likely? No, because such an attack is already planned.
Further, you must understand that this Senate rejection of the original Patriot Act is in itself a planned event. Therefore, you have to ask why Democrats equally committed to the Plan have acted to vote against the Patriot Act. We believe it is possible that this vote will be seen as another event in the act of discrediting President Bush, a trend we have been viewing for almost two years now. This next segment speaks to that discreditation campaign.
"But the Patriot Act's critics got a boost from a New York Times report saying Bush authorized the National Security Agency to monitor the international phone calls and international e-mails of hundreds - perhaps thousands - of people inside the United States. Previously, the NSA typically limited its domestic surveillance to foreign embassies and missions and obtained court orders for such investigations."
" 'I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care', said Feingold, the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act in 2001. 'It is time to have some checks and balances in this country', shouted Sen. Patrick Leahy, ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. 'We are more American for doing that'." (Ibid.)
As we noted above, it is likely that President Bush is planned to be thoroughly and completely discredited, and maybe even taken out of office. If he goes down to complete and utter defeat, he will drag down with him the two institutions which the Illuminati fears the most: 1) National Sovereignty; 2) Christianity.
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* "BELIEVE AND BE SAVED" -- "Look to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other" Isaiah 45:22 (Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary).
* "THE THREE "WISE MEN" -- HOW DID THEY KNOW IT WAS TIME TO COME?" -- This story represents the culmination of THE most precise, most exciting fulfillment of prophecies in the whole Bible. Sir Isaac Newton stated that the proof of Divine authorship of the entire Bible could be proven from this one prophecy. Jesus proved Himself to be Messiah by this one prophecy. -- http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n2096.cfm
* "LEADING ORTHODOX JEWISH SCHOLARS CONFIRM CUTTING EDGE TEACHING THAT TODAY'S PALESTINIANS ARE THE "HOUSE OF ESAU" (Obadiah 15-18) - Debate Settled: Palestinians Are "House of Esau" - This remarkable article in "Israel My Glory" Christian publication also sheds a new light on the plight of the destruction of "Edom, the descendants of Esau", foretold in Isaiah 34. Remember, the destruction of the Palestinians in Israel and the Palestinians in Edom, province of Jordan, is likely to occur simultaneously -- and by the same hand: Israel. -- http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n2095.cfm
* "Chronicles of Narnia - Part 3 -- A postmodern path to faith and salvation? by Berit Kjos - December 2005 -- http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/db061.htm
* "Chronicles of Narnia - Part 2 -- A Four-legged Creator of Many Worlds - by Berit Kjos - December 2005 -- http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/db060.htm
* "Chronicles of Narnia - Part 1 -- Dialectic Synthesis: Myth+Truth=Deception -- http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/db059.htm
Even in this world saints are God's children, but men cannot discover them to be so, except by certain moral characteristics. The adoption is not manifested, the children are not yet openly declared. Among the Romans a man might adopt a child, and keep it private for a long time: but there was a second adoption in public; when the child was brought before the constituted authorities its former garments were taken off, and the father who took it to be his child gave it raiment suitable to its new condition of life.
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be." We are not yet arrayed in the apparel which befits the royal family of heaven; we are wearing in this flesh and blood just what we wore as the sons of Adam; but we know that "when He shall appear" who is the "first-born among many brethren," we shall be like Him, we shall see Him as He is. Cannot you imagine that a child taken from the lowest ranks of society, and adopted by a Roman senator, would say to himself, "I long for the day when I shall be publicly adopted. Then I shall leave off these plebeian garments, and be robed as becomes my senatorial rank"? Happy in what he has received, for that very reason he groans to get the fulness of what is promised him.
So it is with us today. We are waiting till we shall put on our proper garments, and shall be manifested as the children of God. We are young nobles, and have not yet worn our coronets. We are young brides, and the marriage day is not yet come, and by the love our Spouse bears us, we are led to long and sigh for the bridal morning. Our very happiness makes us groan after more; our joy, like a swollen spring, longs to well up like an Iceland geyser, leaping to the skies, and it heaves and groans within our spirit for want of space and room by which to manifest itself to men. (C.H. Spurgeon, "Morning and Evening Devotions)
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A video discussing pi. This video talks about what pi is, how to calculate pi, where pi is found, and fun facts / activities with pi.
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- Pi Infographic - A banner graphic with some fun facts about pi and its history. A great resource for teachers!
- What is pi?
- What are properties of pi?
- How is pi calculated?
- Where is pi found in the real world?
- What are some facts about pi?
- What are some songs and activities about pi?
- How can you memorize pi?
This is great for a person who wants to learn more about pi, especially on or around Pi Day. Ideas are presented clearly and thoroughly with a brief introduction to several aspects of pi. The resources also do a great job providing more information on pi.
This is not suitable for middle school children. They cannot understand most of it. Also, this is not clear on the big screen.
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Shuttle’s From Disney to Universal
Exclusive Universal Tickets with Round Trip Transfers from your Disney Resort. Now you can have the best of both worlds at your fingertips. There are two options to choose from below. The Universal 1 Day Park to Park pass with round trip shuttle transfers or the 2 Day Park to Park pass with round trip shuttle transfers..
Universal Tickets with Round Trip Transfers from your Disney Resort
(1) Day (2) Park pass with Shuttle Transfers
(Adult) $207.05, (Child) $201.73 with tax included
(2) Day (2) Park pass with Shuttle Transfers
(Adult) $334.22, (Child) $323.57 with tax included
Ticket Add On’s that would work great with your package.
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Universal Dining Plan – Quick Service, Orlando
Make your meals at Universal Orlando® Resort fun and easy when you purchase in advance with the Universal Dining Plan – Quick Service.
Each day lets you enjoy one counter service meal, one snack, and one non-alcoholic beverage, per guest, per day from food carts and counter service locations.
(Adult) $25.55, (Child 3-9) $17.03
- The Universal Dining plan card is valid at OVER 100 dining locations (not valid at Full Service Locations) throughout Universal Orlando’s theme parks and the Universal CityWalk® dining and entertainment complex.Guests simply check the menu boards in participating locations for the items honored by the plan (indicated by the Universal Dining Plan symbol) and present their card when placing their order.Each day of the Dining Plan lets you enjoy:
- One counter service meal consisting of one of each: Entree & Non-Alcoholic Beverage
- One Snack such as popcorn, ice cream, frozen beverage from food carts or counter service locations
- One Non-Alcoholic Beverage from food carts or counter service locations Participating Locations:Universal Studios:
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- & many more! Islands of Adventure:
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- Blondies: Home of the Dagwood
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- Green Eggs and Ham
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- Restrictions: The Universal Dining Plan – Quick Service is non-refundable. The Universal Dining Plan – Quick Service card cannot be returned or refunded, and will not be replaced if lost. Gratuities are not included. Theme park admission is required for dining in Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. Children ages 3 to 9 must order from the Kid’s menu. Only valid during normal operating hours and excludes dining during all separately ticketed events. Participating locations are subject to change without notice and venue operating hours may vary by location. Merchandise is not included. Additional restrictions may apply and subject to change without notice.
When purchasing your Universal Tickets with Round Trip Transfers from your Disney Resort. You can then add on to those tickets with many different options the two above are just two of the most popular ticket add on’s. Some other examples are Blue Man Group. The Universal Express Pass or Character Dining with the Marvel Characters..
So why not take advantage of this great option Shuttle’s From Disney to Universal
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You can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org, or by phone at 917-494-5771. Book your tickets at least 3 days prior to your arrival to Universal Studios, to give Universal time to print your tickets. If you need them sooner just call us direct. We will then place your order right away and you will have you E-Travel Documents right away. All Universal Studios tickets are picked up at the electronic kiosk or Guest Services at Universal Studios.
Check out Universal’s E-Brochure to plan your next visit to Universal Orlando
Disney Package Transfer – If you booked direct with Disney with in the past 30 days you can add us onto your package to get our FREE Services. Along with a $25 Gift Card for you to use during your visit. Everything remains the same on your reservation, including your confirmation number. We will just be added as your Travel Agent.. Why not take advantage of our FREE Services now!
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The p_file_20 log contains numerous occurrences of an "L-ERROR-CODE 00" message. What does this mean?
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Presumably it will be removed in some future version of the program.
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Quectel Demonstrates ASIL Solution for Advanced Automotive Applications at CES 2023
Quectel Wireless Solutions, a leading global IoT solutions provider, today demonstrates an advanced automotive safety integrity levels (ASIL) solution for the automotive market.
The industry-leading positioning solution will provide optimal precision, availability, and reliability for maintaining absolute in-lane positioning, satisfying level ASIL B and appropriate for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) systems. The design utilizes Quectel’s LG69T-AB automotive module and will be compatible with the Trimble software positioning engine, Trimble RTX correction service, the ST Micro ASIL-rated TeseoAPP GNSS chipset, and the Murata SCHA600 ASIL inertial measurement unit (IMU).
Mark Murray, Vice President Sales – GNSS and Automotive, Quectel Wireless Solutions added:
“We’re excited to demonstrate this advanced ASIL solution. The interoperability of Quectel’s leading hardware with Trimble’s industry-leading software and service enables us to deliver an advanced positioning solution that will ensure optimal precision, availability, and reliability for all automotive OEM and tier-one manufacturers.”
Reducing time to market and saving cost, the integrated positioning solution will remove risk for OEMs and tier one automotive manufacturers, satisfying the requirements for developing ADAS and automated driving solutions. First generation engineering samples are being tested on the road today.
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THE CAPITALIST'S COUNSEL - A greater Boston law firm specializing in business locally, nationally and internationally. The Trinity Law Group's proven experienced corporate lawyers help your business during every stage of development.
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The Trinity Law Group is a greater Boston law firm that practices a broad range of business, corporate and securities law throughout the United States and the world with well-recognized attorneys of stellar academic and professional accomplishment who leverage technology and relationships. Founder Attorneys Walt Wright and Dan Clark are business savvy and entrepreneurial lawyers who will leverage their skills, knowledge and relationships to do everything they can for your business.
GREATER BOSTON FIRM
The Trinity Law Group is located in the beautiful Westwood Executive Center just off Rt 128/95, 200 Lower Brook Drive, Suite 2600. Less than thirty minutes outside of the heart of Boston it is an excellent practice location for a business law firm. Started in February 2007 by former President of the Boston law firm Rich May, Dan Clark, and former Managing Director of Rich May, Walter Wright, the Trinity Law Group has over 55 years of experience combined helping clients from a broad spectrum of business backgrounds. Critically acclaimed as “Super Lawyers” and described by their clients as the “most experienced corporate lawyers practicing today,” the Trinity Law Group is dedicated to provide competence, commitment and communication to all of their clients.
BEHIND THE NAME
Boston attorneys Walter Wright and Dan Clark founded Trinity Law Group and wanted a crisp and memorable law firm name that communicates the value propositions sharply differentiating their new firm from other law firms.
Building a Corporate Law Firm Name
Walter Wright and Dan Clark, the firms founding attorneys, both have solid reputations in the legal and business communities and are known for excellence in business negotiations and closing deals. However, to name the firm some combination of Clark & Wright, Wright and Clark, Clark/Wright or WrightClark would not fully reflect the law firm’s special context, guidelines, and values.
In conceiving the law firm, Walt Wright and Dan Clark continually came back to the notion of “Threes”: three sets of three components underlying the reality and the aspirations of their combined law practice and professional commitment – each set constituting a “Trinity.” So the Trinity Law Group it is.
Relationship, Technology & Strategy
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We are trying to paint with high gloss enamel after using oil base Kilz. We have allowed two hours in between, it is very tacky. Not painting evenly on this smooth wood headboard – we have just one coat of paint on so far but its not pretty, flowing brush stroke as we think it should be. Any suggestions or ideas as to what we are doing wrong?
Is the primer still tacky or is it the paint?
Either way you likely need more dry time. Try increasing the heat and air flow in the room, a fan will help. Don't put heat directly on the drying paint as it will likely cause cracking. As well don't point the fan directly at the drying paint you will likely cause dust and debris to land in the fresh paint. Their are additives that can help paint dry faster, but unless you are spraying I would not advise this. Also if you are using a dark color or a bright color you will need additional drying time as their will be a large amount of machine colorant in the paint which is designed to not dry! Be patient some paints take a full 24 hours plus between coats depending on temp. humidity, thickness of each layer (its best to-do 3 thin coats than 1-2 heavy coats), # of coats that you have put on with out letting previous layers cure etc…
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Since One Day’s screen version came out in August 2011, and the book appeared everywhere, I’d been making a conscious effort to have nothing to do with it. Neither the film nor the novel. From all descriptions I had heard, it sounded as if Nicholas Sparks had re-written the Before Sunrise trilogy. Sacrilege, I know. Sacrilege, cheese and tears.
I like Sasha Grey. While Anal Cavity Search 6 doesn’t sound like my type of film, I love the idea of a (former) sex worker who campaigns with PETA, participates in a kids’ reading program, stars in an experimental drama and writes her own book, which is not entitled My Fucking Life.
I hesitated for months before reading Susan Sontag’s diaries. I knew I’d love them, of course – as a devout fan of Sontag, I’d adore a Tesco press release if she had written one. The reason of my reluctance was that I don’t like the thought of peeking into someone’s private journal – published when they’re dead and cannot object, or even unfriend me on Facebook as a punishment for reading it. | <urn:uuid:caf79349-e518-4acf-8897-040e46f79357> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://coverrated.wordpress.com/category/monday-review/book/ | 2018-10-22T08:25:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583514879.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20181022071304-20181022092804-00175.warc.gz | en | 0.965952 | 256 |
Superfan Sarah Ridge took her love for Rihanna a whole other level, inking 14 tattoos of the "FourFiveSeconds" crooner on her body, according to the UK's Daily Star. Half of the tats are of the singer's face, with five on the 23-year-old's back in a mural with "Queen of Barbados" emblazoned above it. She also has a portrait of Rihanna on one of her arms, and another on her thigh.
As for why Sarah got so many Rihanna tattoos, she said, "I have loved Rihanna for nearly 10 years, and I'll love her forever. Some people say I've ruined my body, but I just laugh it off. Rihanna's face is gorgeous, so having her image on my body makes it look better in my eyes."
She isn't concerned with criticism from people close to her either. "My friends think it's a weird obsession and I know my family would prefer it if my tattoos were more discreet," she added. "Guys might be put off dating me, but to be honest, I'm only interested in men who are Rihanna fans anyway."
To get the body art, Sarah has spent over $2,000 and over 48 hours under the needle, the site reported. Still, she's not done yet. She's saving up her money for her next two tattoos – another Rihanna portrait on her arm and a gun tat like Rihanna's on her ribcage. | <urn:uuid:11f3b3ff-52d2-4fcd-bdd5-dedc50300b7f> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://www.cambio.com/2015/03/11/superfan-covers-body-tattoos-rihannas-face/ | 2017-04-27T05:25:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121869.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00328-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98356 | 310 |
Afraid Project Free Download Full Version
Afraid Project Free Download PC Game Cracked in Direct Link and Torrent. It Is Full And Complete Game. Just Download, Run Setup And Install.
ABOUT THIS GAME
Jesse Fox, a sneaky drug smuggler that works alone, is finally caught by the police and jailed by the well-known judge Stevenson. His fate seems to be sentenced, but a mysterious organization, code name “Afraid”, manages to free him. As a exchange, Jesse will have to work for them for a year.
In the game, among other characters, you will play the role of Jesse Fox, working for the Afraid organization distributing their drugs. You will have to manage to deliver in time the drugs, substances and other stuff they tell you to carry.
Do this in the game and, thanks to a secret system that connects the game to the reality, the same actions will take place in real life.
No receiving emails, or having to search anything in real webs. Your actions will be executed in real life by some people whose identity can’t be revealed.
How it works, who is involved and what does it will look like are going to be unveiled on the KickStarter campaign, the 4th of April of 2018.
- OS: Windows XP or later
- Processor: 2Ghz or faster processer
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512MB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce) There can be problems with INTEL graphic cards
- DirectX: Version 8.0
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- Additional Notes: To play normally, screen must be no smaller than 1280×720. Best resolution is 1920×1080. There can be problems with INTEL graphic cards
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This Disco Chic handbag is in perfect Retro condition! It is shiny, cool to the touch and ready for a hot night out on the town! It is extremely moveable material, the strap is coiled and firm, the inside is perfect and clean! Zips on top and has one section inside and one smaller pocket. Inside fabric is black. Feel free to contact me with any additional information and thanks for looking! | <urn:uuid:52f17111-5aaf-4150-8b58-7f874559d690> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | https://www.etsy.com/listing/159104362/sparkly-disco-chic-coiled-handbag?ref=shop_home_active_3 | 2015-02-27T21:48:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936461416.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074101-00145-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933994 | 85 |
The non-TV story at CES was all about the Internet of Things, whether it was wearables or smart homes/cars. There were hundreds of new products on display, but few of them seemed to actually solve any real problems and in some cases would seem to create them.
Now let me preface this by stating that I am the proud owner of a both a Pebble smartwatch and a smart home system from Verizon. I find them both very useful, the Pebble in particular as well as the piece of the Verizon system that texts me when someone has unlocked the door. (It’s a good way of keeping tabs on whether the kids are home from school.)
Unfortunately, much of what I saw on display did not reach that level of utility. And every exhibitor seemed to gloss over the dirty little secret of the Internet of Things: In order for it to work, you’ve got to buy new things. You can’t retrofit your existing stuff. So while it’s great that a smart home app can tell your oven to start roasting a chicken, you’re going to have to buy a whole new stove in order to do that. Ditto blinds that raise and lower themselves according to the position of the sun: great idea, but do you really want to refit your house with new window treatments?
This is not to say that we won’t eventually get there with a lot of this stuff, just that it’s going to take a while. (It’s expensive to replace all your blinds.)
There’s also the utility issue I mentioned before: the answer to “why” for so many of these products is “because we can.”
Take Belty, the smart belt, for instance, winner of a CES Innovation Award. In addition to serving as a fitness tracker, it loosens and tightens itself as you (over)eat and then digest. Is this really a problem for people? Maybe I’m just a light eater, but the occasional Thanksgiving meal aside, I just don’t ever find myself wishing my belt was looser.
Ditto the “smart jar,” which helps you keep a running inventory of what’s in your pantry and whether you need to refill anything. A task I currently accomplish by opening a cabinet door and looking.
Volkswagen’s touch gestures seemed to fall in the category of creating problems. They claim that they are eliminating buttons and replacing them with hand gestures. Which looks sort of cool at a trade show, but would seem to cause problems in real life. For example, you open the sunroof by waving your hand near the roof of the car in a front-to-back swiping motion. (The opposite motion closes it.) Think of how many times people are going to be gesturing with their hands and have the sunroof fly open. Think too of how many people are not going to swipe hard enough or far enough as a sudden rain shower is drenching them.
That same VW concept car has a bar that runs along the dashboard. Swipe it with one finger to control the music, two fingers to control the navigation system, three fingers for something else. Think anybody’s actually going to remember that?
(In VW’s defense, they did show off a feature that’s part of their new navigation system that identifies open parking spots and directs you to them. That actually seemed quite useful… unless, of course, there’s a high concentration of VW drivers in your town.)
My final beef are the large tablet-sized control panels many car manufacturers were showing off. (Tesla’s was the size of two tablets.) They just seem dangerous. Drivers don’t need to be reading all that and the lack of a physical button makes the no-look push that much more difficult.
On the other hand, that may not be a problem if things like self-driving cars take off. Nvidia’s smart recognition software (below) , that identifies types of cars in real time, definitely provided a Wow! moment.
To leave on a positive note, there was one thing I thought was very cool, mostly because it resembled a science fair project: it’s called the Rockr2 and it’s a bluetooth enabled tube that has something that looks like half golf ball attached. The ball part emits vibrations and it able to turn everyday objects like empty cardboard boxes into speakers.
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I am a 30 year old male. I have had these brown spots forever-probably congenital. They are not growing in size nor changing color-not present in any other part of my body Dermatologists seem not to know what it is exactly but one told me it could be a "dilated sabaceous cyst/gland " I have tried some bleaching creams with no effects. I wonder if laser can work on them or tattooing the whole upper lip if possible?
How To Treat Upper Lip Dark Spots? (photo)
Doctor Answers 1
Fordyce spots on lips
It looks like what you have is a variant of Fordyce spots on lips. These are exuberant proliferation of sebaceous glands, sometimes triggered by sun exposure and/or smoking. I would start with conservative prescription topical retinoid. | <urn:uuid:7ab4d76b-1598-43a9-a372-a54455fe2cd0> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://www.realself.com/question/upper-lip-dark-spots | 2017-07-24T09:52:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424770.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170724082331-20170724102331-00253.warc.gz | en | 0.946685 | 174 |
The Maryland Food Truck Festival
The Maryland Food Truck Festival is great for our community. It was packed and I'm sure it was because of great food, music and amazing cocktails. Italian food truck is delicious and is my favorite.The amount of food was enough for two people for sure at a reasonable rate. Everyone was having a great time and a great atmosphere!
I had a blast! Tons of great food, lots of craft brews and ran into a bunch of friends. We will be back for sure!
We took the whole family and had a fantastic time. Lots of entertainment for the kids, music was great and so many food options. We ate from 3 trucks and they were all awesome. Can't wait until the next one. | <urn:uuid:fd8264a9-7113-4b81-90b5-afb7479755c3> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://marylandfoodtruckfestival.com/ | 2020-10-26T21:38:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107892062.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20201026204531-20201026234531-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.992991 | 152 |
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To get connected with other people and to make a video call, users have to spend their gems. Our Azar clone also allows users to handle video calls with their followers/followings easily by just swiping up and down. So, users can have an instant video chat with their preferred matches without the need to search for them again.
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The user of the app can use the ‘Share QR code’ option available on the profile page to share his/her profile in the QR code format with the preferred contacts on the social media platforms. Similarly, nearby users can get connected instantly by using the ‘Show QR code’ option on the profile page. Users can also use the user name to search for a particular profile on Randou.
After the successful registration process, new users will get a certain amount of free gems. The users can also then get more gems by watching promotional videos with which they can make in-app purchases.
In our Azar clone, users have an option to purchase gems by using different payment methods such as debit/credit cards. The purchased gems will be then added to the user’s account which can then be used to make video calls and to access additional features in the app.
In our Azar clone, users can use their earned gems to purchase gifts from the gifts store. During a video call, users can send these purchased gifts to other people to surprise them.
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With this beneficial feature of our chatroulette clone script, users can convert the gifts they have so far into gems which they can utilize it to make video calls or for any other activities.
As a user-friendly app, our Azar clone provides a more convenient option for the users to convert the gifts they have received into money easily through various payment gateways that are integrated into our app.
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Users can just tap the image sharing icon on the screen to send innumerable images to their matches and thereby making the conversation much more funfilled.
In our Azar clone app, users can view the online status of their contacts, i.e. ‘online’ indicates that your contact is currently online and ‘last seen’ shows the last time your contact was online.
If the user wishes to block any contact for some personal reasons, our app allows to do the same effortlessly. Once contact is blocked by a user, he/she will not be able to see that particular contact’s online status and cannot make a call to them.
Prime members of our Chatroulette clone can enjoy discounts on in-app purchases, gems, etc. With the discounts feature, business owners can have complete control over the promotional activities and other monetization features within the app.
With this most wanted feature of Azar clone, users can hide their age; can make necessary adjustments on message settings, ad settings, can manage activity controls, etc.
Users with prime membership can switch camera views in the app to improve video calls. They can swap the camera from from-facing to rear-facing and vice versa whenever required.
Users can be connected randomly with other people by setting up their personal choices. This is the place where our Appkodes Randou shows prime users on the search of other users.
Make sure that the Azar clone application is wholly safe to use with this striking feature. Our Azar clone app will block a user immediately for 24 hours in case he/she is involved in any undesirable activity during the video call.
If the user reports the other user during a chat, this interesting feature captures the screenshot of both the users and sends it to Admin to take the decision and further action on the respective user.
Invite friendsOur Azar clone allows users to earn more gems by inviting their friends to join the app. So, the number of app users will also increase eventually with more reference day-by-day.
EarnUsers of our app can get more chances of earning gems by watching promotional ad videos or by inviting their friends. These earned gems can be then used for purchasing gifts and to get benefit from other additional features of the app.
Admin can make use of the highly-advanced notification techniques of our Chatroulette clone in order to inform the users then and there regarding any security updates, app updates and other important details with no delay.
Our Azar clone allows users to manage notification settings. If the users feel that they don’t want to receive notifications from their followers, they can also block those notifications.
Our Azar clone allows users to manage their profiles effectively and to make the decision on what they want to share with other people.
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It is one of the coolest features of Appkodes Randou. Users can just swipe to start a video call, live chat, etc within our user-friendly and visually stunning app.
Our app allows users to create account easily in a few simple steps either by using their phone number with OTP verification or through their Facebook credentials.
With this feature, users can see all video chats that they have done recently. So, they can easily make a video call or can have a live chat with those users and can also clear recent chats if required.
Users can make their conversations more engaging and interesting by sending stickers during the chat instead of just having only a text conversation.
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During the video chat, if the user prefers to blur his image for any security reasons, he/she can make use of the video blur option available on the chat screen. So, with this Video blur feature of our Azar clone, you can ensure security for the users on the random video chat platform
For app protection, our Azar clone makes use of the system lock by default. Therefore, the pattern, password, PIN or fingerprint lock that is already set by the user for the system protection will be used as an app lock for Randou application
Attractive landing pageOur Azar clone comes with an elegant landing page to attract more users within a short span of time. So, it is of no surprise that our visually stunning and smooth platform will grab more eyeballs and drive more conversions.
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In our app, eye-catching and informative graphical charts are used to provide the analytics and key metrics to boost your business growth rate.
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Our Azar clone provides the most reliable and secure platform for the users to have an uninterrupted and private conversation with other people. This, in turn, will enhance customer confidence.
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Only a fraction of unknown authors will be published this year. And memoirs–forget it! Unless they come from celebrities or authors with instant name recognition, a traditional publisher won’t pause before replying with a standard rejection slip. So, why is this unknown author smiling? Because I’ve done a football end-run around the big wigs, and I’d be happy to let you in on just how I did it.
Every family has stories, what about yours? Do you have treasured anecdotes that grow with every telling and can always be counted on to bring laughs or tears? I bet you do, and if you’re reading this, you must be a writer. So, what are you waiting for? Look no further, your memoir awaits!
My family had dozens of these stories. Last summer I wiped them off, shined them up and made them into a little book called Lessons Learned on Bull Run Road. Like any memoir, my book isn’t just about my family. It’s also full of the people who live in my memories of the close-knit rural community where I grew up. At the end of the book I included an excerpt of recipes from the women that sustained us all.
Being a type-A personality and headstrong to a fault, I took a detour around the traditional publishers who said it didn’t have a large enough audience and published it with Angela Hoy and Booklocker.com. While the book was being printed I opened a web site and launched a FREE weekly emag called All Things Southern, using Angela’s book, Profitable Email Publishing. I set out to bring readers a truly enjoyable emag about a subject I was already passionate about and relied on viral marketing concepts to see the list grow. My little cyberspace porch is growing daily and the last laugh now belongs to me and not to Mr. John Q. Publisher at Publishing Universe.
The first shipment of books arrived on a Tuesday. I placed them in small gift shops and pharmacies along the Mississippi River where I grew up. They were sold out by the following Friday evening. The second shipment is almost gone and I’ve just place my third order. Why? Everyone I mentioned in the book now has a circle of friends and relatives that want the book. The buzz is also affecting people who have moved into the area in the intervening years as well as the sweet readers on my emag list that just enjoy reading about all things southern!
On the 8th and 9th of December, I’ll be signing books at “Star Hill”, a gift store in St. Francisville, LA. If any of you are in the area, please stop in. I’ll be happy to meet you and answer any questions you have about turning your memories into money and having the time of your life along the way!
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson is a farmer’s wife, interior designer, girls’ basketball coach and the youngest member of the Bull Run Road Gang. She lives in Louisiana with her husband and teenagers. In addition to her humorous and inspirational memoir, “Lessons Learned on Bull Run Road”, she has recently released “‘Twas the Night before the Very First Christmas.” You can find more information on Shellie and her upcoming projects by visiting http://www.allthingssouthern.com. While there, be sure to subscribe to “All Things Southern”, Shellie’s FREE weekly emag bringing you the charm and heritage of the south. | <urn:uuid:d98e4650-e509-44a7-9214-ae6a256d08ee> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://writersweekly.com/this-weeks-article/my-memories-are-selling-and-yours-will-too-by-shellie-rushing-tomlinson | 2019-01-16T11:46:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583657470.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20190116113941-20190116135941-00284.warc.gz | en | 0.966443 | 743 |
Kathy and Paul Obringer first began experimenting with sheep’s milk cheesemaking out of necessity, as some of their children were unable to digest cow’s milk. The experiment quickly turned into a passion for the whole family. They founded Ancient Heritage Dairy in 2005 after years of experience raising sheep.
After Kathy passed away in 2010, Paul and his sons Hank and Neil decided to move to the Cascade Foothills in the Central Oregon high desert, to a larger facility of 85 acres of irrigated land, enabling them to take their craft to the next level.
Here in the eastern shadow of Mount Jefferson, Paul and his sons produce a range of artisanal, handmade sheep and cow’s milk cheeses. The cow’s milk is supplied from the nearby Poland Organic Dairy, a certified organic dairy with award-winning milk.
The sheep’s milk is sourced from the Obringers’ own herd of 100 Laucaune and Friesian ewes, milked twice a day. The ewes graze freely on pasture during summer, and during the winter they’re fed alfalfa that’s been grown on the property. The Obringers don’t use any hormones, pesticides, chemical fertilizers or antibiotics unless necessary for an animal’s health.
Valentine is a soft ripened, farmstead sheep’s milk cheese with a bloomy rind. It’s named after one of the Obringers’ first and most beloved ewes, born on Valentines day. “We thought it would be perfect to name such a velvety, sweet little jewel after one of our favorite girls,” says Paul. In making Valentine the curd is hand scooped, drained and dry salted, then aged for 2 weeks, during which it’s flipped every other day.
The cheese is buttery and herbaceous, with a rich finish. When aged perfectly, its luscious paste oozes from its rind.
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Adam was called up to Buffalo once Ted Nolan took the team over and has had plenty of chances to get on the score sheet. He says it felt good to finally get the goal he got last night.
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Adam played arguably his best game of the season last night in Buffalo's 3-2 overtime win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. He was around the net constantly, where he said he scored most of his goals for Rochester,
Adam will hope to start a scoring streak for the Sabres, who broke a few slumps with last night's victory. The Sabres went into their game against Toronto losing their last five, and scoring just one goal in each of their last four games. To make a long story short, the Sabres are desperate for production from Adam, and the rest of the team for that matter.
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Welcome to my Content Artemis review.
So recently, I came across Walt Balyliss’s new product, which he claims to be one of the best products out there for curating content for your business.
Whether on social media or the web, having good content out there online is pretty important to a business’s success online.
However, while content is so important, it requires time and effort, and unless you are investing money into writers, there aren’t any other shortcuts you can take.
So when I saw words such as ‘Autopilot’ used to describe this product, I started to become quite sceptical, as anything suggests that you don’t need to do anything tends to be rubbish.
Walt is therefore either trying to change the game or looking to increase his bank account with his new product.
In this post, I will bring the lowdown on it and what you need to know if you are on the verge of taking the plunge.
I will also tell you whether it’s worth it or whether it’s best on this occasion to keep your CC in your wallet.
Content Artemis Summary
Content Artemis is a system that grabs content from around the internet on any topic of your choice.
It then gives you the tools to curate content that can be used for your own websites and social media pages.
While at first, it does sound good, in essence, it’s all about taking other people’s hard work and then using it yourself.
That is where the ‘autopilot’ comes into it because you are using what’s already out there apart from doing some editing.
To be fair to Walt, his system automatically adds links to the sources, so it’s not stealing.
However, when you look at the name ‘Artemis‘, there really isn’t anything god-like about using other peoples work.
It is set to launch on the 9th of June 2021 at 11 am and will be priced at $67.
Who Are The Owners?
Now there are two people at the forefront of Content Artemis. You have Walt Baylis from Australia, the product creator and Simon Warner, the main Affiliate manager.
Walt is a successful vendor who, combined with Simon, has generated over 8 figures as a digital marketer.
He has created several products over the years too, one of the most recent products includes Social Post Magic.
A product that is quite similar to Content Artemis, where you are posting content out from one place.
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How Does Content Artemis Work?
So as I briefly explained earlier, this product works by finding you content, which you can then use to your own advantage.
You put into the system what topics you want content around and where you want it to be found.
After doing that, you will get a list of posts. There are two methods you can use.
Either you can respin to articles or take the content and then just post it out.
Now on Walt’s JV website, he has shared a webinar where he demonstrates how it works.
From what I learnt from watching it I will now take you through each method briefly.
1) Respinning Content
The first way is to use the content found by the system and then use a tool integrated into Content Artemis called SpinRewriter API.
This does change the words used so that you don’t have to link back to the website where you took the work from.
In theory, that does sound great, but when you use tools like this, and you will find these across the internet, what you get back is stuff that makes no sense.
Now Walt does recommend going back over the text and make sure it can be read.
However, from my experience, using any tools like this is just not worth it, even if it takes a second to press the button.
The content is now not only a lower quality but also from someone else.
He also says how the idea is to have good SEO. However, it doesn’t matter how good you optimize.
Because the content sucks, people will leave your website, giving search engines an indication that people aren’t getting the answers they want.
Walt talks a lot about quality, but I just fail to how this system can deliver that for you
2) Curating Content
For both examples, you can use RSS or someone’s website to find content. For the respinning example, he used Neil Patel’s website to take one of his posts and respin.
However for the second way he went over was curating a piece of content, using one or multiple posts found online.
Doing it this way, he used RSS and searched for website content under certain topics, of which he took parts of each post and put it into one.
Now when it comes to putting everything together, he uses an editor, which is very similar to WordPress Gutenburg, that allows you to structure everything how you want it.
You can add things like images fairly easily, and it is quite straightforward to put it all together.
However, like with the respinning, the idea of quickly taking peoples work and then using it for yourself, for me, feels quite lazy.
My Thoughts On Content Artemis
If we’re talking about efficiency, then Content Artemis has it.
You do have everything you need, from finding content to then publishing it out where you want it.
So in that department, it’s not too bad.
What I really don’t like is the idea of taking big chunks of text from elsewhere and then making ‘your’ own post out of it.
It’s just not possible to have any quality work if your either taking parts from others or using some respin tool, which, let’s face it, are all pretty bad.
For those who are wanting to create content online, there are much better ways to go about it.
Two ways being, one writing it yourself.
Now yes, it can be time-consuming, but by doing it this way, you know it’s all written yourself, and you know it’s going to be quality.
Secondly, you can outsource your work to other people.
Again you do pay the price quite literally with money this way.
However, if you find some good writers, you can get unique and, very importantly, some quality work for your businesses.
If you still want to try out Content Artemis you can do it by clicking here
Better Way To Build Your Business Online
Now, if you’re trying to find a good content strategy to build your business, while Content Artemis can work, it’s nowhere near the best out there.
The product lacks any real quality and relies on you using other people’s stuff to get traffic.
If you use the re-spinner tool, it will lead to little to no conversions because the translations tend to make sense.
Not just that, but if you’re looking to build an authority business online, you need to be unique, and you need to offer good value.
Something that you won’t get from just using other content out there.
As a much better option, I recommend Wealthy Affiliate, a platform that teaches you how to build up a website from scratch using unique and written content made by yourself.
Not only is it free, but they don’t do shortcuts. Instead, they simply teach you how to properly build a business/website online that will make you money.
I will leave a link to my full review below so you can learn more about it.
I hope this Content Artemis review gave you the answers you needed and hopefully helped you decide whether to or not buy the product.
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Looks like I am headed to CHI 2007 to participate in a session on user interface description languages. The session will explore the use of markup language UI’s (such as XUL, XAML and Flex) in prototyping user interfaces before handing them off for system integration. This could allow the interaction designer/engineer to become a more integral part of the iterations in the development cycle.
I’ll be demonstrating using XUL to create a mockup user interface. Scott Stanfield will be building the same interface in XAML. Hopefully, we’ll get people interested in using UI markup.
User Interface Description Languages: XUL & XAML
Thursday 11:30AM – 1:00PM
Scott Stanfield, Vertigo Software
Mark Finkle, Mozilla Corporation
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Nube de Oro - Pushed up by Maguey Juice
25 Nov 2012
Case study:Fiesta de Maguey
The first pieces of the 'Nube de Oro' (Golden Cloud) are installed upon the rapidly growing stalks (quiotes) of some agaves in the etnobotanical garden in the historical center of Oaxaca city.
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We have heard countless stories from mothers-to-be who have been bullied, ridiculed, mocked or laughed at by medical professionals for even considering to carry on. Many more negative stories of how a diagnosis was delivered. I myself had a bad experience with a consultant obstetrician with my subsequent pregnancy after Seb because I said I didn’t want an amnio “What? Why would you put yourself through that again?” she said, aghast,
After I posted about our trip to London, I was overwhelmed by some of the comments and messages of support I received. Some from personal friends merely saying they were thinking of me, or felt sad that I was so upset, some from friends who work with kids with special needs telling me how fulfilling their jobs were, some who know Seb personally and some on this page which just echoed my own feelings and made me feel less like I was going mad. Thank you every one of you.
But best of all, I received a message from a mum-to-be and, with her permission, I would like to share her experience.
“I’m currently 33 weeks pregnant with a little girl who will be born with Down syndrome. We know because we paid for the test, just because for us we knew we needed some certainty, so we could enjoy the pregnancy and we were not going to risk loosing her through an amino. We’ve been very lucky and had great support from all consultants, nurses and midwives and have never been made to feel that the diagnosis was a bad thing. In fact at one scan our consultant described our baby as perfect…I could have kissed him because that was just how we felt.
I’ve purposefully not read any of the press about the testing as I still have to protect myself a bit but I have read many of the posts from parents like yourself. The people who, without even knowing, reassured me through this pregnancy. It’s been my turning point. Seeing you all post pictures proving to the world that Down Syndrome is not debilitating and all the other horrific worlds that have been used, made me so excited to meet my little girl and also show everyone who will listen just how amazing she will be.
I’m not sure that I’m really making much sense but I just wanted you to know that I may only be 1 person but you and Seb have helped me no end!
I just wanted to share an experience I had today at my 34 week midwife appointment.
I was lying on the bed as she worked out what wonderful position my little lady had got herself into. She asked me if I had any more scans coming up.
I said ‘yes!’ She hadn’t mentioned anything about the diagnosis, I was unsure if she had really read my notes so I told her that my baby had Down Syndrome. She looked at me and said, ‘I know’. It was like it just didn’t matter to her, this was just a routine appointment and it made no difference. Which is just how it should have been!
She then said to me, ‘Can I just say that I am so happy that I get to see you today and you chose to keep your baby. I have no idea when testing is going to stop or where it will lead but you and your baby are going to have a wonderful life. You made the right decision.
At that point I cried!
I guess there are people out there in the medical profession who feel the same as us. Today gave me hope!”
So there you have it. The most wonderful message I could have read. I know many of us within the DS community who are speaking with midwives and student midwives, The DSA has been running it’s Tell It Right, Start It Right campaign for several years now and I have been lucky enough to speak in Yeovil, in my role as a mum, and also at The Universtiy of the West of England in a couple of weeks.
Keep doing what you’re doing people. Every single one of you. Living your typical lives and creating little whirlwinds of magic. By being seen and heard and included, you and your children ARE making change. By going to schools and clubs and parties. Parent bloggers, facebook posters, advocates, mums and dads, aunties, uncles, grandparents, friends, carers, professionals – you are all changing things. Super slowly and, at times, frustratingly so.
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Pooling their resources to form one of the largest real estate companies in the region, ERA Cornerstone Realty Group, Century 21 Gold Dust and Century 21 Foothill Realty have merged to form a new company, Century 21 Cornerstone Realty.
The announcement was made on Friday that the three companies had joined forces, aiming to grow market presence in Nevada County and the Auburn area, specializing in residential and luxury sales.
Century 21 Cornerstone Realty will also be a member of Select Real Estate Services, one of the leading real estate service providers in Northern California, already owning ERA Cornerstone along with 14 existing Century 21 select offices in the greater Sacramento region.
Daniel Jacuzzi, president and owner of Select Real Estate Services, has close to 40 years’ experience in the real estate industry, and says the impetus for the merger was to connect their other offices in the state with local operations in Nevada County, bringing all 20 of the Select Real Estate offices under the Century 21 banner.
“Year to date, which is only seven weeks in, the combined three companies that have just joined together have sold more real estate than any other company in Nevada County,” Jacuzzi said.
“We believe we have found the best possible management and business practices in the real estate industry, and for us, the future looks bright.” J.D. Miller former owners, Century 21 Gold Dust
The three companies combined in 2014 had $161,240,560 in sales volume and represented over 500 sellers and buyers in Nevada County.
Select Group Real Estate Services began in 1980 when Jacuzzi purchased his first real estate office in Yuba City, where the company’s headquarters currently resides. The organization is home to six companies with 60 offices throughout Northern California, Lake Tahoe and Northern Nevada, and is ranked in the elite group of Top 100 real estate firms nationally.
Through the merger, Century 21 Cornerstone Realty will run six total offices with seven employees, and 65 licensed sales agents managed by the company’s new regional sales manager, Eric Hatch, who owned Century 21 Foothill.
Hatch has more than 20 years’ experience as a real estate agent and manager, and says the company will retain all of its employees.
“I wanted to merge with a company that had the same kind of beliefs that I had,” Hatch said. “And to be able to help more agents and teach them how to give amazing customer experiences, and exceed the customers’ expectations, while being affiliated with a larger company, and utilizing the tools necessary to build the successful careers of these agents in all the offices.”
J.D. and Erin Miller, the former owners of Century 21 Gold Dust, felt that being part of a larger organization such as Select Real Estate Services is what was needed to bring the company to the “next level.” “It is another life achievement to transform Gold Dust into a key component in a new, larger real estate organization with the best infrastructure and offerings for all,” J.D. Miller said. “We believe we have found the best possible management and business practices in the real estate industry, and for us, the future looks bright.”
Miller will continue as an agent with the newly merged company, but will not serve as a manager.
Hatch will supervise operations for all local offices, working out of the company’s Nevada City and Lake of the Pines locations.
Linda Kaneko, a branch leader and manager with Select Real Estate services, said the merger will not only consolidate company resources, but it will also provide agents in Century 21 Cornerstone Realty with access to a larger network.
“Our scale now of 700-plus agents in 32 offices in two states, allows us to develop tools for the agents that are bigger, better and stronger than what other smaller companies can offer,” Kaneko said. “We have a full five-person marketing team, nobody has that in Nevada County. We have graphic designers, social media specialists, database management staff that are hugely beneficial to the agents that are coming on board with us.”
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I'm also curious for the reasons of his questions, so I asked him this question in his last thread. Anyone who is 'on trial' should at least get the opportunity to defend himself, don't they?
If his reasons are valid, I owe him an apology, but up
until now freak has used his right to remain silent. To me that is not a good sign.
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Combine children with weather to create very powerful photos.
Young boys run through the sprinkler to keep cool on a hot summer day in Lowell, Ma. (© 1980 Michael Maher, The Lowell (Ma.) Sun).
It was an oppressive summer afternoon and I was searching for a picture of someone coping with the hot weather, when I spied kids playing in the water spray from a yard sprinkler. I watched for several minutes, trying to devise a unique picture. The sun was backlighting the kids and the water spray against a perfect background of dark trees, so it made for a nicely lit photo. I stood at the perfect angle to capture the backlighting, shot several images of the kids playing, including this shot that was more artistic and beautifully lit than most sprinkler photographs.
1) One great weather-related picture is kids cooling off from the summer heat.
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Method for correcting non-reproducible geometric errors occurring during
operation of a C-arm device
In a method for correcting non-reproducible geometric errors occurring
during the operation of an x-ray C-arm device, having a C-arm carrying an
x-ray source, during orbital displacement of the C-arm during a scan for
3D reconstruction of a subject volume, a 2D dataset, which is not
impaired by non-reproducible geometric errors during the scan, is
determined. This 2D dataset is compared to known projection matrices of
the x-ray C-arm device, which compensate reproducible geometric errors of
the C-arm device. The result of the comparison is used to modify the
projection matrices of the scan to compensate non-reproducible geometric
errors that occur during the scan.
Primary Examiner: Kao; Chih-Cheng G
Attorney, Agent or Firm:Schiff Hardin LLP
I claim as my invention:
1. A method for correcting non-reproducible geometry errors during operation of an x-ray C-arm apparatus having a C-arm on which an x-ray source and an x-ray detector
are mounted, said non-reproducible geometry errors occurring during orbital movement of said C-arm during a scan implemented for 3D reconstruction of a subject volume, comprising the steps of: during said scan, determining a 2D dataset impaired by a
non-reproducible geometry error; comparing said 2D dataset with known projection matrices for said x-ray C-arm apparatus that compensate reproducible geometry errors due to said orbital movement of said C-arm, thereby obtaining a comparison result; and
automatically using said comparison result to modify said projection matrices of said scan to compensate said non-reproducible geometry error.
2. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising: generating a sinogram representing a trajectory T1 of a high-contrast subject during a scan involving said orbital movement of said C-arm; generating a trajectory T2 of a virtual subject point from
said known projection matrices; and automatically determining a difference function between said trajectory T1 and said trajectory T2, and using said difference function to modify said projection matrices to compensate for said non-reproducible geometry
3. A method as claimed in claim 2 comprising generating said sinogram as a 3D sinogram.
4. A method as claimed in claim 2 comprising generating said trajectory T2 based on projection matrices acquired with a calibration phantom using said C-arm apparatus.
5. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising: acquiring a first 2D dataset during a scan at a first orbital position of said x-ray source, and acquiring a second 2D dataset, correlated to said first 2D dataset, at a subsequently assumed second
orbital position; determining an existence of a deviation between said first and second 2D datasets that is not caused by said first and second orbital positions being different and, if said deviation exists, comparing said second 2D dataset with said
known projection matrices of said second orbital position to obtain a further comparison result; and using said further comparison result to alter the projection matrices of said second 2D dataset to compensate said non-reproducible geometry error.
6. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising correcting only geometry errors that occur in a plane proceeding at a right angle to a projection axis of said C-arm apparatus.
OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention concerns a method for correction of non-reproducible geometry errors of an x-ray C-arm, which occur due to orbital movement of the C-arm during a scan implemented for 3D reconstruction of a patient volume.
2. Description of the Prior Art
An x-ray C-arm apparatus of this type has a base frame on which the C-arm is supported such that it can move orbitally around an isocenter. One end of the C-arm carries an x-ray source and the other end an x-ray receiver, for example a planar
detector. Such apparatuses (used in a mobile or stationary manner) are used for, among other things, the 3D reconstruction of a patient volume. 3D exposures are acquired from a number of different angle positions and the patient volume of interest is
reconstructed with known calculation methods. The image quality of 3D reconstructions is decisive for its usability, for example for diagnostic purposes. An important parameter for error-free imaging of the 3D world in a 2D image plane is the optimally
error-free reproducibility of the position and orientation of the x-ray receiver relative to the isocenter of the C-arm. Due to its own mass and the masses of x-ray source and x-ray receiver, the C-arm twists more or less severely depending on the
orbital position. These distortions (that can lie in the centimeter range) are typically compensated in that the movement track of the C-arm is calibrated in an offline method. For this purpose the projection matrices of the C-arm or, respectively, of
the x-ray system borne by it are determined using a calibration phantom. Mechanical distortions of the C-arm that occur in at least approximately the same manner given every orbital movement of the C-arm can thereby be compensated. Depending on the
type of bearing and drive of the C-arm, a non-reproducible wobbling of the C-arm (ascribed, for example, to tolerance-dependent play) cannot be avoided. A geometry error caused by wobbling leads to a limitation of the spatial resolution to values of
approximately 7 to 10 lp/cm for a scan implemented for 3D reconstruction of a patient volume.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the invention is to provide a method for correction of non-reproducible geometry errors in such C-arm systems.
This object is achieved according to the invention by a method in which a 2D data set impaired by a non-reproducible geometry error during the scan is determined; this data set is compared with the known projection matrices of the x-ray C-arm
apparatus which compensate for reproducible geometry errors of the C-arm apparatus; and the result of this comparison is utilized to alter the projection matrices of the scan so that a non-reproducible geometry error occurring during the scan is
compensated. The 2D data set determined in one of the methods described further below can be compared with the known projection matrices in a simple manner via known methods and a correction of the 2D data set can be effected. An increase of the
resolution of the 2D data sets and correspondingly a 3D reconstruction generated from these can be achieved in this manner.
In a preferred method variant a sinogram reflecting a trajectory T1 of a subject is generated during a scan of the high-contrast subject arranged within a patient volume, which scan is implemented for 3D reconstruction of the patient volume. A
trajectory T2 of a virtual subject point is generated from known projection matrices of the C-arm apparatus that already compensate for reproducible geometry errors and the difference function between the trajectory T1 and the trajectory T2 is
determined. The difference function now corresponds precisely to the non-reproducible portion of the C-arm movement, such that the projection matrices of the scan effected on the patient can be optimized such that a non-reproducible geometry error of
the C-arm that does not occur during a scan is compensated. An advantage of such a method is that a geometry correction can thus be improved without technical expenditure on the part of the apparatus in a simple manner with the aid of known and
frequently used algorithms from the field of 3D reconstruction. Moreover, the inventive method makes it possible to use C-arm apparatuses with lower requirements for their mechanical stability or for the movement precision of the C-arm.
In principle it is possible to implement the proposed correction of geometry errors with the aid of 2D sinograms. However, in a preferred method a 3D sinogram is generated which supplies information about the spatial coordinates of a
non-reproducible path deviation of the C-arm or of the x-ray system supported thereby. The generation of the trajectory T2 is advantageously based on projection matrices which were acquired with the aid of a calibration phantom on the C-arm apparatus.
In a further preferred method variant a first 2D data set acquired for a first orbital position of the x-ray source is correlated with a second 2D data set acquired given a subsequent second orbital position during a scan. If a deviation between
the two 2D data sets exists that is not dependent on the different orbital positions, the second 2D data set is compared with the known projection matrices of the second orbital position and the result of this comparison is used to alter the projection
matrices of the second 3D data set for compensation of a non-reproducible geometry error. In this method variant, no sinogram is generated from individual 2D exposures made at different orbital positions of the x-ray radiator apparatus; rather,
successive 2D data sets in the movement direction of the C-arm are compared with one another and a comparison of the respective incorrect 2D data sets with the known projection matrices and a corresponding correction are effected given a significant
deviation. Here as well known methods and algorithms can be used.
It is conceivable to apply the proposed method variants to a correction of further degrees of freedom of movement of the C-arm. However, non-reproducible geometry errors are advantageously only corrected in a plane proceeding at a right angle to
the projection axis of the C-arm apparatus. Path deviations in this plane reduce the spatial resolution significantly more strongly than deviations in the remaining degrees of freedom of movement of the C-arm. A correction in the cited plane is
possible with relatively slight computation effort. In contrast to this, a correction of further degrees of freedom of movement would entail only a comparably slight improvement of the spatial resolution of a 3D reconstruction given a high computation
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of an x-ray C-arm apparatus.
FIG. 2, 3 are schematic representations to explain the generation of a sinogram.
FIG. 4 shows a sinogram acquired during a patient scan.
FIG. 5 shows an averaged sinogram of a C-arm apparatus acquired using a calibration phantom.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The x-ray C-arm apparatus (called C-arm apparatus 1 in the following for short) shown in FIG. 1 is mobile or stationary and comprises a base frame 2 on which a C-arm 3 is supported such that it can move in an orbital direction 5 around an
isocenter 4. An x-ray source 6 is arranged at one end of the C-arm 3 and a planar detector 7 is arranged as an x-ray receiver at the diametrically-opposite end. The radiation or, respectively, projection axis 8 of the x-ray source 7 intersects the
isocenter 4 given an ideal geometry. The acquisition surface 9 (formed from a number of individual detectors) of the planar detector 7 extends at a right angle to the projection axis 8 or, respectively, at a right angle to the spatial axis designated
with X in FIG. 1 and is established by the coordinate axes u and v of the C-arm 1.
During the 3D reconstruction of a patient volume, a patient is located on a table (not shown) such that the isocenter 4 is located within the body region of interest. Starting from the start position shown in FIG. 1, the C-arm 3 is moved
clockwise in the orbital direction 5 until its end position and thereby generates a number of 2D data sets of the patient volume. For such a scan, a 3D sinogram of an easily-identifiable subject of the patient volume is now acquired. Suitable subjects
for this are, for instance, bones, air enclosed in colon, stomach or lungs, vessels enriched with contrast agents, orthopedic endoprostheses and markers. Either a punctiform subject or the edge of a high-contrast subject (for instance the border region
of a bone) is now tracked during a scan to generate the 3D sinogram. During a scan the projection of a subject point (provided with the reference character 10 in FIG. 1) passes through a detector line 11 (FIG. 2) extending in the direction of the u-axis
given an orbital movement of the C-arm 3 on the acquisition surface 9 of the planar detector 7. If such a detector line 11 is plotted over the time t, given a maximum travel angle of the C-arm 3 a curve of approximately 190.degree. results that
approximately corresponds to half a sine curve. The individual time segments t.sub.1 through t.sub.n thereby correspond to different orbital positions of the x-ray source 6 or of the planar detector 7 or to different alignments of the projection axis 8
relative to the subject point 10. If only one detector line corresponding to FIG. 3 is plotted, a 2D sinogram arises which can be extracted from the relative movement of the subject point 10 or its projection onto the acquisition surface 9 in the form
of a trajectory T1. Assuming that the subject point 10 lay in the orbital plane of the C-arm 3 spanned by the x- and y-coordinates, a geometry error acting only in this plane would be recognizable as a more or less strongly pronounced deviation 12 (FIG.
4) from the curve course of the trajectory T1. In contrast to this, a wobbling acting at a right angle to the orbital plane or in the direction of the v-axis would be less well recognizable, for instance as an interruption of the curve course of the
trajectory T1, because the deviation 12 would effectively extend out from the paper plane or into this. However, if a 3D sinogram is acquired which implements a plurality of further detector lines flanking the detector line 11 in the direction of the
v-axis (not shown in FIG. 3), the cited path deviations of the C-arm 3 (acting in the present case from the orbital plane in the z-direction or in the direction of the v-axis) can also be recognized and quantitatively detected.
In comparison to CT scanners, a somewhat less sturdy mechanism for the orbital revolution of the x-ray source 6 an the x-ray receiver is used in x-ray C-arm apparatuses. For example, the open shape of the C-arm entails that this widens in the
situation shown in FIG. 1, whereby the projection axis 8 experiences a slight inclination relative to the x-axis. Therefore x-ray C-arm apparatuses used for 3D reconstructions must be calibrated in an offline method. The projection matrices are thereby
determined once using a calibration phantom. A number of orbital movements are effected in order to eliminate non-reproducible geometry errors.
For correction of non-reproducible geometry errors occurring during a patient scan, these projection matrices are now resorted to and a trajectory T2 of a virtual subject point is generated. The subject point is thereby located in the region of
the isocenter 4 or in a space that corresponds to the patient volume to be reconstructed. The trajectory T2 corresponds to the trajectory T1 except for phase, amplitude, offset and deviation 12. A fit of both trajectories T1 and T2 in these three
parameters directly yields the difference function between T1 and T2. The difference function now precisely corresponds to the non-reproducible portion of the C-arm movement and allows the projection matrices determined during an offline calibration to
be corrected so that a non-reproducible path deviation of the C-arm is eliminated. Another possibility to eliminate non-reproducible path deviations with the aid of the cited difference function is to interpret the deviation of the two trajectories T1
and T2 in the direction of the u-axis and the v-axis as a corresponding translation of the planar detector 7.
A further possibility to detect the occurrence of a non-reproducible geometry error provides that during a patient scan successive 2D exposures or 2D data sets, thus 2D exposures or 2D data sets made in successive orbital positions of the x-ray
system (in particular of a planar detector 7) in the movement direction of the C-arm, are correlated with one another. Due to the number of the 2D data sets generated during a scan, two successive 2D data sets differ only slightly with regard to the
acquisition angle or the x-ray radiation direction, such that an image point alters its position in the direction of the u-axis and/or v-axis only by a slight measure (and which measure is known due to the known C-arm geometry) relative a preceding 2D
data set. However, if a geometry error (for example as a series of wobbles) occurs given the movement of the C-arm from the one orbital position to the next, the position deviation of an image point resulting from this is significantly larger and thus
such an event can easily be recognized. As in the first described method variant, here as well the known projection matrices of the respective C-arm are resorted to for correction or, respectively, compensation of the occurred error and a correction of
the incorrect 2D data set is effected, whereby known methods and algorithms are again available for this purpose.
Although modifications and changes may be suggested by those skilled in the art, it is the invention of the inventor to embody within the patent warranted heron all changes and modifications as reasonably and properly come within the scope of his
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A few years ago I was lucky to find a watery “Venetian lagoon blue” silk velvet Fortuny gown. Old…of course. Very early and without a label…but clearly authentic. Ladies would send their pleated silk gowns back to Fortuny after sitting would eventually press their pleats flat…and he would use his secret process to re-pleat the silk and send it back to his clients. The entirely pleated Delphos gowns were light enough to inspire Venetian Murano beads to weight them, and could be coiled into a small round box for storage. Mariano Fortuny (more here) used proprietary techniques for both pleating and hand dyeing and stenciling his silks and silk velvets. The hand created texture and colors, and even the slight wear of time at the edges, elevate the dresses to a piece of art. Foruny’s father was both a celebrated painter, and ardent collector of 18th c and earlier textiles…and early textiles clearly influence Mariano Fortuny’s work. Here is a one of my favorite 18th century pieces…a French silk satin “Bizarre” patterned cape, with large swirls of stylized peach pomegranates. So futuristic…and exuberant…from three hundred years ago. If you study Fortuny patterns you can see the reference to 16th-18th century design.
The fabulous pleats…waves of teal blue…
The sleeves and edges of the gown tied and set with Murano beads…
Fortuny Palazzo website here if you want to plan a trip around an exhibit.
I am no longer blogging at Trouvais, but keeping the best of the site as is for those who would like to travel through some old content.
As evidenced earlier in my blog, my love for 18th c costume and textile continues. Some of my collection can be viewed here Trouvais Collection
And occasionally sell pieces on Etsy here
I enjoyed sharing my discoveries and delights with all of you!
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Images: Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition supported by the total force [Image 3 of 4]
Photo by Staff Sgt. Amanda Smolinski
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brett Andress, drill sergeant assigned to the 108th Training Command, prepares Soldiers for the M4 rifle qualification event during the 2013 Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition at Fort McCoy, Wis., June 26, 2013 (U.S. Army photo by Staff. Sgt. Amanda Smolinski/Released)
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Panasonic updates today its popular ZS series with the Lumix ZS7 and Lumix ZS5. These new compact high-zoom cameras add geo-tagging functionality and manual controls to the 12x optical zoom range of the previous generation.
The 12.1 megapixel Panasonic Lumix ZS7 and Lumix ZS5 will both record 720p HD video. Before it, the ZS3 was touted as an all-purpose creative tool that was both a camcorder and still camera. The latest ZS models carry on in the same direction, adding to the list of features manual exposure settings including manual, aperture priority, shutter priority, and program modes.
Fans of automatic shooting will still find Panasonic’s iA Intelligent Auto mode here, a function that worked reasonably well in our testing of the ZS3. In fact, the Lumix ZS3 merited an Editor’s Choice award from DCR, producing high-quality images with minimal distortions. Part of that distinction is thanks to a Leica-branded zoom lens. The “L” is back for this ZS generation, and both models sport a 25-300mm equivalent 12x optical zoom lens. It isn’t particularly fast lens with a wide angle maximum aperture of f/3.3, but the telephoto end starts at a nice f/4.9.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7
The Lumix ZS7 will feature GPS functionality and will record latitude and longitude information in the image’s EXIF data when a photo is taken. Later, users will be able to pinpoint the location in which the photo was taken when they add it to the map function of sharing sites like Flickr.
The ZS7 will also offer a large 3.0 inch, 460k dot LCD, and it will record those 720p video files in AVCHD Lite. Additionally, Panasonic has added a new feature called “intelligent resolution” to the ZS7 – it’s a feature that’s designed to reclaim the image detail lost when using digital zoom. The new Venus Engine HD II processor seeks out the distortions and jagged edges that digital zoom often creates and smoothes them over. The feature is put to work in the camera’s Intelligent Zoom mode, which boasts an increase in zoom power from 12x to 16x.
In a similar vein, Panasonic has added a feature called Happy Mode to the ZS7. Like other manufacturers, they’ve attempted to create a sort of shortcut to capturing more vibrant, saturated images of subjects like sunsets. High Dynamic mode is new as well, a feature that should help shooters in situations with both light and dark areas.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS5
The Lumix ZS5 doesn’t have the GPS functionality or new tech features that the ZS7 boasts, but otherwise it’s very similar to the ZS7. Though slightly smaller, a 2.7 inch, 230k dot monitor should be sufficient for composing and reviewing images. Rather than recording video in AVCHD Lite, the ZS5 spits out motion JPEG video files.
Panasonic claims that the results are on par with images that use only optical zoom. At the very least, it’s an interesting solution to the problem of digital zoom.
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The scenario is familiar to many curly-haired ladies: you’re getting ready for work, makeup is done… But what to do with that mop of hair on your head?! You’re not alone. Curly hair can be hard to style, and even more difficult to “tame” for a professional setting. Professional gals look no further, here are some fantastic and easy hairstyles for wavy and curly haired women. So, put down that straightener and embrace those bouncing curls!
Lovin’ the bob!
Cutting your hair short and rockin’ a bob is a great way to show off your curls while giving it a professional and controlled feel. Maintaining this adorable short cut will require visits to your stylist more often than usual, but it will show as your hair will look healthier than ever.
The curly bob is not for everyone, though. If you have a heart shaped face or a round face, you may want to steer clear of that lovely bob because it can make your face look even more round.
Braiding – simple and chic
Braids not only dress up any look, but they are simple to do – quickly making them a curly haired ladies’ best friend. Regardless of what type of braid you decide to do on your hair, it will it a perfectly polished look. Try a French braid along your hairline with the rest of your curls loose, or pull it all back into one braid for total control.
Want to jazz up that everyday braid? Add a headband or jeweled clip to give it that extra something!
High ponytail or bun
When in doubt, throw it up! High ponytails and buns are both popular and simple, and look extra cool with curly hair because it adds so much texture. Pulling all of your hair back and putting it into a curled ponytail or bun will keep your hair out of your face and out of your mind – and you will still look fantastic. Try this look with a small braid in the front or the ever-elegant (and easy!) sock bun.
Letting it all down – embrace it!
Of course – some days you put your hair down and you aren’t even sure HOW the look came together – but you aren’t pleased. There are ways to tame that occasionally haywire hair and you don’t have to put it up to hide it. Let your hair down for once!
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Back by popular demand, for the third year in a row, Mainstreams has planned a series of six events to honour, celebrate and explore our local watershed. Mainstreams is a non-profit organization based in Kimberley, whose focus is local water education and awareness.
All events are planned for Thursday evenings, 6:30 – 8pm:
May 17 – Mark Creek Riparian Walk
May 24 – Lois Creek Natives & Invasives Plant Walk
May 31 – Burdock Pull ‘n Learn
June 7 – Eimer’s Wetland Walk
June 14 – Knapweed Pull ‘n Learn
June 21 – Summer Solstice by the Creek
Ranging from investigating plants to human history, the series is designed to offer greater insight into different aspects of our watershed. Mainstreams is looking for community members interested in committing to a ‘Streamers’ group, engaged in learning about and stewarding our watershed – a precious resource we literally can’t live without.
The first Thursday, May 17 Mark Creek Riparian Walk, will be led by Laura Duncan. The land close to the creek is called the riparian zone and generally hosts a different variety of plants due to its proximity to the water. Take the time to notice the finer details and learn more about specific plants and ecosystems while delving into the history of the Creek and its relationship with our community.
“There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion,” says Duncan, who is a wealth of information on local plants as well as the history of our community’s creek. A passionate naturalist, she has been involved in the restoration of Mark Creek since the 1990’s.
“We will meet at the parking pull-out just past the turn-off to the dump road from Rotary Drive.”
It’s a powerful time of year to be near the creek, with spring freshet at its height and plants vibrant with fresh green growth. Come out and get energized!
More info or questions: Follow the Mainstreams Facebook page or contact Shannon (250)427-7981 or email@example.com
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams accused woke Democrats of using away minority electorate all the way through an look on MSNBC.
While responding to President Biden’s State of the Union, Mayor Adams mentioned “There’s a hemorrhaging of our Latino community, our AAPI communities, that’s leaving the traditional Democratic base, because we’ve allowed the loudest and those who consider themselves to be ‘woke.’”
He persisted, “Some of us never went to sleep, and we hear and speak directly to people, and I think the party is now understanding that we have to speak at those issues that are important: Jobs, public safety, educating our children, good health care, just these common kitchen table issues that we run away from.”
NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS PLEADS WITH WHITE HOUSE FOR MORE HELP ON MIGRANT CRISIS
Adams made the case that Biden did a excellent task in his speech by means of shifting clear of “woke” rhetoric in choose of that specialize in kitchen desk problems.
“This president’s focus on working people is exactly what the nation needs, and his focus on helping Americans care for their children, provide for their families, and put money in their wallets will resonate from coast to coast,” Adams launched in a commentary following the cope with. “The agenda he laid out goes hand-in-hand with what we are doing in New York City — this is a blue-collar president, I’m a blue-collar mayor, and we’re both pursuing a blue-collar agenda for working people in New York and across the rest of the nation.”
Tony Melone, a spokesman for the New Kings Democrats, a left-leaning faction throughout the Brooklyn Democratic Party, puzzled why Adams would echo Republican rhetoric whilst speaking about participants of his celebration.
“Perhaps the Democratic mayor of NYC shouldn’t amplify Republican talking points on national TV?” Melone wrote on Twitter.
Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders additionally railed towards “woke” Democrats in her celebration’s Tuesday evening rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union.
“At 40, I’m the youngest governor in the country,” the Arkansas governor mentioned. “At 80, he’s the oldest president in American history. I’m the first woman to lead my state. He’s the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is,” she mentioned.
“The Biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality Americans face every day,” Gov. Sanders persisted. “Most Americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace, but we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn’t start and never wanted to fight.”
Since being elected to place of work, Adams, who was once a registered Republican between 1997 and 2001, has clashed many times with revolutionary wings of his celebration.
ERIC ADAMS ‘SLEPT LIKE A BABY’ AT NEW NYC MIGRANT SHELTER FOLLOWING MIGRANT STAKE-OUT SCANDAL
Jeremy Cohan, a co-chairman of the New York City bankruptcy of Democratic Socialists of America, has claimed Adams has accomplished not anything for the operating elegance and other folks of colour.
In remarks to a bunch of commercial and civic leaders on Wall Street in December, Adams took pictures at progressives who wish to tax the well to do at a better charge.
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“It blows my mind when I hear, ‘So what if they leave?’ No, you leave!” Adams mentioned of progressives wondering why town wishes ultra-wealthy citizens. “I want my high-income earners right here.”
Mayor Adams isn’t up for re-election till 2025.
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Chambers of Commerce Join to Celebrate Texas Chamber of Commerce Week
October 09, 2017
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE COME TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE TEXAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WEEK
- In celebration of Texas Chamber of Commerce Week, four Collin County chambers will present a joint Business After Hours event to be held at Valliance Bank, 5900 S. Lake Forest Dr. in McKinney at 5:30 PM on October 19, 2017. The four participating chambers are Allen Fairview Chamber of Commerce, Frisco Chamber of Commerce, McKinney Chamber of Commerce, and Plano Chamber of Commerce.
Texas Chamber of Commerce Week (October 16 - 20, 2017) is a celebration of the contributions and dedication of chambers of commerce and the professional staff that serve them. Beyond ribbon cuttings and groundbreaking ceremonies, local chambers of commerce work with their school districts and local colleges to ensure an educated workforce. They offer training and education in areas including entrepreneurship and leadership. Chambers advocate at the local, state, and federal levels to ensure a healthy business climate. As recently witnessed, chambers of commerce also act as a resource or “ground zero” in times of disaster.
The Plano Chamber recently adopted the Dickinson Chamber of Commerce, which serves a community that was seriously impacted by Hurricane Harvey. They are working together to identify Dickinson Chamber’s short-term and long-term needs.
“We look to support not just the chamber, but also to see how we might best assist the business community in Dickinson, one of the hardest hit areas,” stated Jamee Jolly, President/CEO of the Plano Chamber of Commerce.
The four Chamber Presidents/CEOs will each speak briefly at the joint Business After Hours to address four specific areas of importance for chambers of commerce: community, advocacy, connections, and prosperity.
“Chambers are in the business of promoting strong and prosperous business environments throughout the communities we serve. Through positive economic policies, advocating for job creation, and providing valuable resources for our members, we are fostering prosperity and economic stability,” said Jolly, who will speak about prosperity.
Registration for the joint Business After Hours is free to chamber members through their prospective chambers websites: Allen Fairview Chamber of Commerce at allenfairviewchamber.com; Frisco Chamber of Commerce at friscochamber.com; McKinney Chamber of Commerce at mckinneychamber.com; and the Plano Chamber of Commerce at planochamber.org.
About the Plano Chamber of Commerce: Established in 1946, the Plano Chamber represents over 1,200 businesses and community organizations in Plano and the surrounding area. Accredited as a 5-Star Chamber by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Plano Chamber of Commerce is committed to maximizing business development and economic growth of the community through advocacy, education, innovation, and collaboration.
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The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy announced today that they will be pouring $1 million into Frank Gehry’s comprehensive analysis of the L.A. River. The funds granted originate from a state bond (the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006) that exists to support projects like this one. The grant was awarded to the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation, the city-created nonprofit behind Gehry’s study, and must be matched by an additional $1 million before it is applied. According to Dash Stolarz, director of public affairs for the SMMC, the final price tag for Gehry’s analysis will be around $3 million. It’s unclear at this point how the remaining cost will be covered.
The analysis itself has already been underway for over a year. “Gehry organized all these teams to actually survey and model the river and come up with a sense of where it’s high and low, how high the walls are, and things like where the drainage enters the water table,” says Stolarz. She estimates that the study will be completed easily within a year.
The information obtained in the analysis will be compiled into a database covering “hydrology, public health, ecology, open space, land use, water resource demands, economics and transportation,” according to a statement released by the SMCC. It will serve as a baseline for any further developments along the river.
Like Gehry himself, Stolarz says the involvement of Gehry Partners is not meant to eclipse the work of groups like Friends of the Los Angeles River. “Our point of view is that all the groups that have been working on the river have made it prominent and brought all the information to bear,” she says. “You have an architect of Gehry’s prominence come in, and it’s more additive than anything. It’s not to exclude anybody—it’s more to include everybody.” | <urn:uuid:9d93f56c-599a-424f-ba5c-2fad53885e46> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/river-update-frank-gehrys-analysis-project-gets-a-1-million-boost/ | 2020-02-22T00:35:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145621.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20200221233354-20200222023354-00393.warc.gz | en | 0.955601 | 425 |
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is TECHNICAL and PRECISE
Have you ever seen an SEO company say something like:
“SEO is not Rocket Science”?
SEO may not be as difficult as rocket science but SEO is TECHNICAL and takes a thorough understanding of what works and what does not. Good SEO requires a certain skill set. A Good SEO will be a bit on the nerdy side, will like working with numbers and must possess a lot of Patience!
In a recent survey, SEO companies were asked to prioritize the necessary skills required for proper SEO
The same recent survey asked SEO companies to list the current skill qualifications of their staff in order of Expert to NEED to IMPROVE.
MOST SEO COMPANIES DON’T KNOW HOW TO DO SEO PROPERLY!
The first chart shows the 7 areas of knowledge or skills that an SEO possess with the larger circles being MORE IMPORTANT.
- Technical SEO
- Google Tools
- On-Page SEO (website SEO)
- Backlink Management
- Keyword Research
- Mobile SEO
- Local SEO
The second chart shows that the actual skills of typical SEO Companies are exactly the opposite of what it takes to provide high quality or EXPERT SEO services. Most companies are not focused or trained in the skill sets needed for SEO results.
The typical SEO company process begins with “keywords” which then becomes their #1 focus. From there they work on Google maps (for quick results) and then backlink management, and on-page (website) optimization.
Ranking factors and Technical SEO are not seen as high a priority.
Intenet Marketing is the Answer
Focus on the Big Picture – The Whole House, not just SEO Results
When it comes to advertising and marketing your business online, a solid well designed functional website is the FOUNDATION. Your business website is the where your customers and prospects find information about your products and services. Your website is where decisions are made whether to do business with you or not.
Having a “Nice” or “Good Looking” Website is Not Enough…
If you plan to hire a company to do SEO, it is essential that they understand how search engines work and which items are most important in SEO.
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In general, there are different types of air conditioners, but the broader classification was room air conditioners and commercial range of air conditioners.
The room air conditioners category consists of both the window and split ACs for the use in residential and commercial spaces.
The commercial air conditioning comprises of the ductable split ACs to large sized chillers. This segment comprises of retail chains, MNCs, IT/ITeS sectors, BPOs, call centres, institutes, malls, etc. The market is of around Rs 3,600 crore, and is growing at the rate of approximately 25 per cent annually.
Although the commercial air conditioning segment has been tepid with the slow down in the new infrastructure projects, the room air conditioners category was expected to perform well on the back of extended summer.
Around 35 per cent of the sales generally take place in summer, ie in the months of April and May 09. Blue star which has recorded sales of around 1.5 lakh units of window and split AC's in the fiscal ended March 09 is expecting a growth of around 10-15 per cent in this fiscal.
The subdued spending in metros has taken its toll in the commercial air conditioning segment. However, expectations on the government stimulus for the infrastructure will enhance the growth in this segment.
Record production of Window type air conditioners for the month of April 09
The production of window type air conditioners has reported 32 per cent increase in no of units to 174391 in the month of April 09 as against 13,2518 units in the corresponding previous period.
After a steep fall in the month of December to 16616 units, production ramped up on sequentially basis and recorded highest ever production in the month of April 09. This is due to the extended summer as well as the increase in the temperature levels of the tropical country.
On the other front, the production of refrigerators has improved by 13 per cent on y-o-y basis to 924.92 thousand units as against 815.79 thousand units in the corresponding previous period. However, on a sequential basis the production has observed a dip by marginal 4 per cent in the month of April 09.
Pre Budget Expectations of the air conditioners industry
The air conditioning and refrigeration industry is now on a high growth trajectory with an overall growth rate of 25 per cent per annum.
Since manufacturing activity of this industry is mostly in the organized sector, the government collects a good amount of excise duty, sales tax and service tax. The market penetration of air conditioners is a very low around 2 per cent.
Even refrigerator, which is a relatively mature product, has achieved a penetration of 15 per cent only. Hence there is a huge potential for growth for all the segments of the AC&R industry.
In order to improve growth of industry rapidly through rationalization of excise structure; to reduce disadvantage to the domestic manufacturing industry on account of anomalies in the FTA agreements and import duty structure; refrigeration and air conditioning manufacturers association - RAMA has submitted pre Budget memorandum to the Government of India. Some of the suggestions were as follows:
Recommends import of R 22 refrigerant gas and refrigeration and air conditioning equipment filled with R 22 gas should be allowed under open general license.
The inverted duty structure of duty on raw materials, while nil in the fully assembled air conditioners should be taken off, by including components or raw material for manufacture of air conditioners in Thailand FTA.
The provision of payment of excise duty on sale to EPCG license holder and the refund from DGFT should be removed. A specific exemption notification under central excise rules can be issued.
The Due date for the payment of service tax should be extended by 10 days to 15th of the next month.
Withdraw restrictions on input credit to the extent of 20 per cent of the output tax.
As against Notification no dated 19/03 dated Aug 2003, which provides for service tax to be paid on 33 per cent on the composite contract, reduce the valuation to 15 per cent in line with VAT legislation.
Service tax should be collected on 70 per cent of the maintenance contract value and the applicable VAT be charged on balance 30 per cent of the contract value.
As part of works contracts, all HVAC Electromechanical and refrigeration contracts are work contracts, provision of acts and rules should be applicable instead of erection, installation and commissioning service.
Clarification is requires to make it clear that all works carried out for airports railways transport terminals bridges tunnels and dams are exempted from payment of service tax.
After some weakness, there was improvement in demand for air conditioners in the past couple of months. With monsoons getting delayed, the premium demand continues.
Meanwhile, the players are straddling across price points to optimally capitalize on demand across the spectrum. Air conditioners are transforming from being luxury goods to the requirement goods category.
Also, with the penetration of air conditioners remaining low, and as greater thrust on infrastructure will also add to demand for centralised ACs etc, on an overall basis, the Union Budget 2009-10 can turn positive for air conditioners.
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If you really want the seams to show and want a neat finish. You could single crochet them together. You would have a wonderful raised ridge where the seams are and it would also be very neat looking.
Well crud, I can't seem to find anything on the net concerning single crocheting seams on knitted items anywhere. Well shucks, Hmmmm,
All I can think of doing is, get a crochet hook that is 1 or two sizes smaller than your knitting needle size, Use a contrasting color yarn or matching (depends on what you want the finished item to look like) and place squares wrong side together and right sides facing out, matching stiches on both pieces, insert the crochet hook in the end of the rows (each piece) and single crochet across. or if you are joining end to end then do the same thing (might have to adjust the amount of crochet stitches as they are a bit wider than the normal knit stitch) and just sc across, making sure not to pull too tightly or put too many stitches so that the piece starts to ruffle. That's the only thing I can think of. Sheesh, maybe I need to make a tutorial on my blog for seaming knitting with crochet etc. hmmm or maybe someone else can. It's a thought though huh?
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Uncharted Territory: The Law & Self-Driving Cars
Are Self-Driving Cars Legal?
It's a fixture in science-fiction stories – cars, planes, and spaceships that pilot themselves. For nearly as long as the automobile has existed, it's been the dream of drivers to press a button, put their feet up, and relax while the car does the driving.
It seems that those ideas aren't sci-fi any more. A number of popular car manufacturers are nearly ready to release driver-assisted automobiles – the first step toward driverless cars. But an important question arises: Are automated automobiles even legal?
The answer, according to many in the field, is "it depends."
State and Federal Regulations
As it stands, there are only a few states that acknowledge self-driving cars in their legislation. These states include California, Nevada, Michigan, Florida, and the District of Columbia, where legislation was put in place to regulate the testing of automated vehicles.
However, the vast majority of remaining states do not have laws regulating driverless or hands-free automobiles. This leads to the debate: Is it legal or not? According to many in the field, it's technically not illegal. If there's no regulation stating self-driving cars are against the law, then it can't be defined as illegal.
Many states are considering how to approach automated driving-assist features. Some lawmakers are curious to see if there will be federal regulations that address driver-assisted cars. This seems unlikely as states are typically left to create their own laws regarding traffic, whereas the federal government enacts laws to regulate production and crash-test safety.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA)
Another conundrum facing automated vehicle legislation, as pointed out by the NHTSA, is that there is a lack of data regarding the dangers of self-driving vehicles. Without evidence of risk, they can't take steps towards regulation.
Ultimately, until something happens, there's no precedent to form new laws. Some states have decided to push ahead of the curve, which means that certain vehicles with driver-assist functions can't be sold until the laws are clearly defined.
The Balancing Act
One thing is certain, lawmakers are interested in finding the perfect balance between laws that secure safety for drivers but don't stifle technological developments. If too many limitations are put in place, the self-driving car may never reach its full potential.
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