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Sorry, Israel, but the recent flurry of stories coming out of the American MSM, mainly dominated and controlled by some Zionists and their equally shifty buddies, the neoCONS about how you didn't want the U.S. to invade Iraq are nothing more than disinformation, lies and propaganda.
Since the war against Iraq has gone to hell with AMERICANS being wounded and killed fighting a war which is only benefiting one ME country, Israel, you're looking for scapegoats onto which to hang the blame for the US war against Iraq.
A war that has cost the U.S. close to ONE TRILLION DOLARS so far and will cost several times that by the time this fiasco is over.
A war which has sunk U.S. prestige and honor around the world. A war which you Israel, helped engineer by supplying false intelligence to the U.S. and by turning loose your American media attack dogs to inflame public opinion in favor of the war. In articles like this one:
Israel To U.S.: Don't Delay Iraq Attack
Sharon Government Urges Prompt Action Against Saddam
JERUSALEM, Aug. 16, 2002
(CBS) Israel is urging U.S. officials not to delay a military strike against Iraq's Saddam Hussein, an aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Friday.
Israeli intelligence officials have gathered evidence that Iraq is speeding up efforts to produce biological and chemical weapons, said Sharon aide Ranaan Gissin.
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To use the brutal words of Ranaan Gissin, an aide to then Israeli PM Ariel Sharon: "Any postponement of an attack on Iraq at this stage will serve no purpose."
Maybe not Israel's purpose, but what about the rest of the civilized world?
And this article:
Israel Says War on Iraq Would Benefit the Region
By James Bennet New York Times February 27, 2003
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations last week that after Iraq, the United States should generate "political, economic, diplomatic pressure" on Iran. "We have great interest in shaping the Middle East the day after" a war, he said.
"The shock waves emerging from post-Saddam Baghdad could have wide-ranging effects in Tehran, Damascus, and in Ramallah," Efraim Halevy, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's national security adviser, said in a speech in Munich this month.
Until recently, Mr. Halevy was the chief of the Mossad, Israel's spy agency. He said, "We have hopes of greater stability, greater enhanced confidence from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic shores of Morocco."
Israelis have also suggested that that an Iraq war may salvage their economy and even prompt the opposition Labor Party to join Mr. Sharon's coalition in a new government of national unity.
NYT article
How cold, cruel and calculating can a nation be to hope for a war so that nation's economy would be salvaged? Salvaged from what?
Saved from the financial machinations of your own people? An economy revived with the blood, death and suffering of another nation, while your nation remains above the fray and uses that war to ramp up the ethnic cleansing of its indigenous people?
Israel, it's time to face the music. You had a big hand in getting the U.S. to launch the illegal and immoral war against Iraq. Your "Useful Idiot" in the White House, Bush, was easily swayed by your agents whispering ideas of grandeur into his delusional brain. And doing the same to then NSA advisor, the vain and conceited Condi Rice.
Time to pay up Israel, for your role in these war crimes. Between the criminal neocons and the equally guilty Zionists, the International Court of Justice in the Hague should be busy with Nuremberg type war crimes proceedings for years to come.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Israel DID urge the U.S. to attack Iraq
Posted by Greg Bacon at 6:32 AM
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|Anointed, Cut-off, and Not Yet Accepted as King!
September 2, 2003
Anointed, Cut-off, and Not Yet Accepted as King!
Part 1
Daniel 9:24 – Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, AND TO ANOINT THE MOST HOLY.
The Son of David, who is the Son of God, has been anointed as king by the Spirit, but has not yet been accepted and crowned as king by his own people. John testified that his own people, the nation of Israel, did not accept him as their king.
John 1:11 – He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 19:15 – But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
But Jesus finished the work he was sent to do as the one God anointed to be king of Israel. For more than three years Christ ministered to Israel, but they cut him off between the third and fourth year following the time of his anointing by God, and he has yet to be accepted by Israel as their king.
John 17:3,4 – And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. [4] I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
John 19:30 – When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
In the same week he was cut off from the land of the living on the cross, he told them that his rejection as their king would result in their worship in the temple no longer being acceptable to God, because it would become spiritually desolate and all the sacrifices and oblations would cease to be accepted by the Spirit of God. However, he further advised them that one day he would return and, at that time, they would accept him as king, saying, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."
Matthew 23:38,39 – Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. [39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Israel will eventually be driven into the Negev wilderness, and only one-third of its population will survive the fire of the last 1260 days of the tribulation period. At the end of the tribulation period Jesus will return with his kingdom and Israel will receive him as their King and God.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
It was many years, from the time that David was first anointed as king of Israel by God, before he was actually crowned as king by his own people.
Psalm 89:18-20 – For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. [19] Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. [20] I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
Jesus, the Son of David, and of God, was promised the throne of David as his descendant and, like David, many years have passed, and he has still not been crowned king on David's throne.
Luke 1:31-33 – And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. [32] He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: [33] And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
The Spirit used Samuel the Prophet to anoint David as king when he was a teenager.
I Samuel 16:10-13 – Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chosen these. [11] And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither. [12] And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he. [13] Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
David's own people did not crown him as their king for many years after Samuel anointed him. He had reached the age of 30 when he was finally crowned.
II Samuel 5:3,4 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they anointed David king over Israel. [4] David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
Lord willing, in Part 2, of "Anointed, Cut-Off, and Not Yet Accepted as King," I will deal with the anointing of the Messenger of the Covenant, who is to sit on the throne of David forever.
Malachi 3:1 – Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
September 4, 2003
Anointed, Cut-off, and Not Yet Accepted as King
Part 2
In Daniel 9:24, in Part I, we were advised that seventy weeks, or seventy weeks of years, which equals 7 X 70, or 490 years, were to be experienced by Israel, and that during this time period the anointing of their expected Messiah would occur.
Daniel 9:24 – Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and TO ANOINT the most Holy.
In Daniel 9:25 we are advised that from the time a certain proclamation was to be issued, until the Messiah was anointed, a period of 69 weeks or 483 years would pass. Daniel predicted this proclamation more than 140 years before it was actually issued.
Daniel 9:25 – Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
The Proclamation of Artaxerxes Longimanus, which allowed all classes of Jews to return to Jerusalem, was issued in 457 B.C., and the anointing of the Messiah the Prince from above occurred 483 years later in A.D. 26, at his baptism by John the Baptist. Jesus was born in 4 B.C., and was 30 years old when he was anointed in the sight of men.
Luke 3:21-23 – Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, [22] And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. [23] And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, (Joseph was the son-in-law of Heli, who was the Father of Mary).
Mark 1:14.15 – Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, [15] And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
September 4, 2003
Anointed, Cut-off, and Not Yet Accepted As King
Part 3
We closed Part 2 with an exposition of Malachi 3:1 and Daniel 9:27, and will continue this exposition after reviewing Daniel 9:26.
Daniel 9:26 – And AFTER threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Expositors of Daniel are agreed that the seven weeks (49 years) of Daniel 9:25 must be added to the threescore and two weeks (434 years) of Daniel 9:26, and that it would complete the 69th week (483rd year) of Daniel's 70 weeks (490 years). So, this makes the word "AFTER" in Daniel 9:26 of immense importance in the interpretation of the narrative concerning "the Messiah," which begins in Daniel 9:24 and ends in Daniel 9:27. It clearly teaches that Messiah was cut-off (crucified) AFTER the 69th week (483rd year), which means his crucifixion occurred at some point in time during the 70th week of 7 years. And, since Daniel 9:27 indicates that someone causes the sacrifices and oblations to cease in the "midst" of the week, it seems more than reasonable to believe it is talking about the last week, the 70th week, in which Messiah was cut-off. The "he" in Daniel 9:27 is not the antichrist, it is the Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah, who is the contextual subject of the entire discourse that began in 9:24.
Malachi 3:1 – Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Daniel 9:27 – And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The messenger, who was John the Baptist, was the prophet sent by God to anoint his Son, the messenger of the covenant, to sit on the throne of his forefather David, to whom God had sent Samuel the prophet to anoint many years before David was accepted by Israel as their king. Jesus did confirm, by his baptism in water, and his immersion in the Spirit from above, that he had arrived to fulfill the gospel message of the kingdom, which he preached following his water and Spirit anointing. And, in the "midst" of the 70th week, between the 486th and 487th year, he fulfilled the covenant in his own blood on the cross. Daniel's clock ceased ticking at Christ's death. We do not have a full seven years (2520 days) of Daniel's 490 years left to fulfill. I believe we only have 1335 days remaining once the clock begins to tick again.
Daniel 12:12 – Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Messiah was anointed to be King of Israel many years ago, but he has yet to be accepted as King by his own chosen people. This will happen at his Second Advent, which will complete the 490 years of Daniel's prophecy, and he will sit on his forefather David's throne forever.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Ezekiel 37:22-28 – And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: [23] Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. [24] And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. [25] And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. [26] Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. [27] My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [28] And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Daniel 7:14 – And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
September 7, 2003
Anointed, Cut-off, and Not Yet Accepted as King!
Part 4
In Parts 1 through 3 we established that "the Messiah the Prince" was the contextual subject of each verse in Daniel 9:24 to 27, which entails 490 years of events that would occur before he returned to rule and reign as the King of Israel. The three "he's" in Daniel 9:27 are not antichrist, they are the Christ, the Anointed One, "the Messiah the Prince."
Daniel 9:27 – And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
"He" confirmed the covenant by beginning his earthly ministry at the close of the 483rd year of Daniel's prophecy when he was anointed by God to begin his work as the messenger of the covenant. He was cut-off from fully completing the seven years by his rejection and crucifixion by his own chosen people between the 486th and 487th year of his ministry. But he confirmed the covenant in his own blood with as "many" as would put their faith in him as "the Messiah the Prince." When he was cut-off in the "midst" of the last seven years of Daniel's prophecy, God ceased to accept the sacrifices and oblations offered daily in the temple, which the Messiah declared to be spiritually desolate.
Matthew 23:38 – Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
He declared it spiritually desolate because he had to cleanse it when he started his ministry at the first of his three Passover Feasts, only to find it necessary to cleanse it again at his third, and final Passover. So, for the overspreading of abominations by the priests and moneychangers, he made it spiritually desolate. And it will remain spiritually desolate until the return of "the Messiah the Prince" as King of Israel.
Matthew 23:39 – For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
His coming will mark "the consummation" of this present Gentile age, and "that determined," the wrath of God, will be poured out on all the spiritually desolate on this earth in seven vials of his great wrath, just before his Second Advent.
Luke 21:25-28 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Zechariah 12:9,10 – And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. [10] And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
I do not believe the hands on Daniel's clock have moved since the death of "the Messiah the Prince." I believe it stopped ticking with 1335 days yet to be fulfilled in the 490 years that were determined on Jerusalem and the Israelites. But when Israel actually believes it has attained "peace and safety," then it will begin to tick again, and will not stop until the Second Advent.
The vast majority of God's children on the earth today are waiting for a period of three and one-half years of peace in Israel, which will then be followed by a second period of three and on-half years of tribulation. If that happens, I am certainly willing to accept it. But I do not believe the first three and one-half years of peace are found in the Scriptures. I do, however, believe that the last three and one-half years of tribulation are found many times in both the Old and New Testaments. I am convinced that from the time that Israel actually believes it has "peace and safety," until the time of the beginning of the last three and one-half years, there will only be a passing of some two and one-half months.


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text: Robert Shiller shares his outlook for the stock market, the housing market and where he's seeing bubbles now. Shiller, professor of economics and finance at Yale and co-creator of the S&P-Case/Shiller Home Price Index. Robert Shiller echoing remarks from former Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan says there is no irrational exuberance. Both remarks are similar to comments from actress turned stock expert, Mila Kunis. The video is embedded below:


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As a nail technician, you have the potential to make a very good living. Many people will pay up to £40 for a set of gel nails applied by an expert. If, however, you haven't taken any nail courses to learn the best ways to apply different types of false nails, then you probably aren't making as much money as you potentially could. What's more, many people like to see that their nail tech has received some formal training, and they are often willing to pay more for services from trained professional.
You may be arguing that you are far too busy to take time out of your schedule to take nail courses. The good news is that when you take your courses from Essential Nails, you don't have to worry about how busy you are, you fit in your courses to your schedule, not the other way around. The reason this is the case is because you don't have to attend traditional classes to learn about doing nails. Instead, you'll learn from DVDs that are sent to your home from Essential Nails.
In addition to teaching thousands of men and women how to do nails through their at home nail courses, Essential Nails also offers a line of products that you can use after you finish your classes. Because your courses include training that includes the Essential Nails product line, you should have the easiest time incorporating their products into your services. In fact, they should be the easiest products for you to use altogether because you are accustomed to their consistency, mixing times and so on.
The ability to create beautiful acrylic, gel or fiberglass nails is an art. In addition, including air brushing and other techniques is an art as well. Unlike other forms of art, however, this is an art that can be taught. If you're willing to put in some time and some practice into creating beautiful nails, then you can benefit from at home nail courses that will teach you all of the skills that you need to provide your customers with quality work that they will come back for again and again!


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Ironstone Cottage
Ironstone Cottage is a comfortable self-contained 3 bedroom cottage on the east side of the township of Penneshaw. It has most modern conveniences to make for a comfortable stay. The ocean is only 200 metres away where the local dolphins are sited on a regular basis. Situated across the road from Baudin Park where you can see many Tammar wallabies, the red tail cockatoos are also a regular local in the area due to the many sheoak trees surrounding the cottage, a bird lovers paradise. The beach, ferry terminal, shops and food outlets are only a 2-3 minutes drive. There is scenic views from both sides of the cottage, towards the town and the mainland. Perfect spot for families to enjoy or couples to relax and take in the natural beauty of beautiful Kangaroo Island.
Rates are based on Twin Share Per Night
Extra Person: $30 per night
Minimum Stay: 2 nights
Minimum Stay: 3 nights (Easter 19 – 22 April 19) (7 – 10 Jun 19) (4 – 7 Oct 19) (24 Dec 19 – 2 Jan 20) and (6 – 9 Mar 20)
Linen: Included
Children: 3 years and over are charged at extra person rate
Infants: 0-2 years of age is free of charge
Pets: Pets Allowed – A $50 Bond is required. Please contact Ironstone Cottage directly to make arrangements for payment.
Rates valid until 31st March 2020
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3 Bedroom Cottage
2 Nights: From $390
Pets are allowed at Ironstone Cottage – $50.00 fee per pet is applicable per stay.
If booking via the website please phone Kangaroo Island SeaLink 13 13 01 to add to your booking.
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Last month I was invited to meet a band: Thabo and the Real Deal, who via their work and manager Kienda Hoji, have been talked about as one of the most exciting bands in 2014.
The background to meeting the 4-piece Huddersfield group was they'd been asked to come to London to play a set to industry insiders. Only 100 tickets were issued inside a venue that could take 800.
Their manager, Kienda Hoji, wanted to know if I would like to hang out with them. I'd previously seen their track World War Free and was utterly mesmerised. So I said yes, but had no idea what I would film or where, so everything in the video above emerges from incidences that need to be pulled together quickly to form a narrative.
Telling a story about a band or artist often involves the ubiquitous music video. Its inbuilt logic acts to reinforce the bands intended branding: how they see themselves, or want to be viewed.
Miley Cyrus Wrecking ball, bookending twerking, is everything James Dean did to stick two fingers up at suburbia in the 50s - a brand legend was born. Madonna has successfully done this too. The music video serves an important function between artistry, commerce, the fanbase and identity and is often a fictionalised story.
MTV and various music outlets will regularly feature news on a band; nothing new here. News offers the audience facts and representations of the musicians, however, it fails as a pieces of visual artistry to offer some of the tangible effects you might get from a documentary.
That is because while a doc maker follows the band, they get themselves into privileged areas and see/ hear things news maker miss, unless its caught by the world's citizens journos.
The music industry has a rich history of documentary making on musicians. Some of my favourites e.g. Maysles Gimme Shelter (1970) featuring the Rolling Stones and Madonna's Truth or Dare (1991).
|Hanging out with Albert Maysles behind the epic doc Gimme Shelter (1970)
However, though we've come to accept the elasticity and mutability of the documentary form in the 21st century, in that the form called documentary is now so listless that anything can be called a doc, there are still identifiable tropes.
- It's recognisable by its Cinéma vérité feel.
- The films authorship is muted to often reflect the subject.
- The making and posting occurs over a period of time e.g. 1 month - a year.
Somewhere on the peripheries of these two established forms: documentary and news making is one of several new factual art forms. One of them is called: videojournalism-as-cinema.
From Wars to Music Video
|Discussing conflict and digital with Christiana Amanpour at the Front Line Club
It is a form that is as malleable for covering wars as it is music videos and is as much about the subject matter being produced as the artist behind the lens.
Unlike docs, it has a quicker turnover and is what I call a 'visual plenitude'. It has many styles and hybridises the music video genre between news-docs and music videos, yet paradoxically it has a unique line of identity and origin. It is corporeal, sonic (sound is crucial as an assault on the senses) and it is haptic.
The videojournalism-as-cinema form is a style that I have had the pleasure of demonstrating at SXSW, the International Journalism Festival and speaking at Apple.
|Showing a video made on Moby playing in France, at Apple store, London
Among many news socially engineered terms describing 21st Century media, a feat that took 6 years travelling across the world, videojournalism-as-cinema is featured in my PhD thesis. Inside and over 100,000 pages I provide evidence of how it works, where it came from and what it does and how it wraps around discursive new media forms e.g. websites, mobile etc.
I won't bore your here. However, what I would say is the videojournalism-as-cinema is as much a philosophy as a form that provides a cinema experience imbricating news and docs. It is highly decorative and shares authorship; it is much my film as it is about the subjects. It can be subjective but adheres to the principles of 'truth telling'.
Here below is one of the UK's most innovative film scholars, Mark Cousins, talking briefly about what he thinks it is.
Given the appetite for fan bases to know more about their idols, the form offers more than news and docs in meeting audiences demands.
It's also tied to a social media ideology of creating bespoke sites to reflect the videojournalism-as-cinema form and thus populates the indentity of subjects. Below is one of my films and sites for 8 Days.
I'll be speaking more about this at the British Film Industry event, examining the future of news. One thing to bare in mind, videojournalism-as-cinema is implicitly driven by the audience and unlike videojournalism which connotes a certain news form, it is paradigmatic of the way we consume media in the 21st century.
David Dunkley Gyimah is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster and videojournalist. He is an industry presenter on new media forms and has consulted for several brands e.g. BBC, Press Association etc. He is next talking at the BFI event on next generation TV.


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Open Source Stuff for DASH7
This page does not cover the Physical Layer (PHY), but it does show how Data Link Layer, Network Layer, and M2QP Transport Layer all fit together. DASH7 fits mostly into the OSI rubric for layering, but not entirely – there are some shared data elements between some of the layers. These elements, however, could be easily ignored if some non-DASH7 transport or network layers were integrated, and when the full DASH7 protocol stack is used, they provide greater efficiency than possible with true OSI stacks.


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Play RoboSockets on different devices: iPhone & iPad here, Android here.
Build connections between broken robots to create chains of five or more. Each cleared chain fills up the energy bar to your left. Energy is needed to revive the RoboCivilization and restore the RoboPlanet, which lies in ruins left without electricity by a short circuit.
RoboSockets: Link Me Up is a juicy mix of tetris, pipes and match 3 game mechanics resulting in the truly unique gameplay. It's as simple as genius and brings a breath of fresh air to the tried bejeweled-type games. The game introduces a whole RoboCivilization, its hierarchy, history and legends with each level's setting fitting in the storyline. Apart from introducing brand new gameplay, RoboSockets: Link Me Up boasts of classic for a quality title virtues: cheerful UI, elaborate story, intense graphics and a vast replayability potential.
- Highly addictive gameplay
- Challenging game modes
- Stunning graphics, Retina Display support
- Memorable characters with exclusive anatomy
- Explorable facts of RoboCivilization
- GameCenter support, Achievements
- Facebook integration
- Universal App
Media Reviews
"RoboSockets is pretty impressive - it puts an interesting new spin on one of the oldest game genres out there." – TUAW.com
"definitely one of the more interesting falling block games that I've seen in a while" – TouchArcade.com
"...you start playing for five minutes over your lunch break and the next minute, an hour has gone and you've forgotten to eat anything." – (4/5) 148apps.com
"...brain-tickling challenge that feels entirely unique. A great choice for anyone after an original puzzling experience." – (4/5) AppSpy.com
"RoboSockets is quite a good bit of fun, and worth checking out if this twist on Tetris-style gameplay sounds appealing to you. Lend those robots a helping hand." – (3/4)SlideToPlay.com
"If you like cleverly designed puzzle games with a decent amount of strategic depth, this is absolutely worth it." – (9/10) MacWorld/GamePro
"RoboSockets is a 4.5-Dimple polished puzzler that's worth picking up." – (4.5/5) AppSmile.com
"...a permanent fixture on my iPhone." – (9/10) Maroonersrock.com
"An entirely new formula capable of giving many hours of fun, engaging the brain a little more than the standard tacitly adopted by modern puzzle games. " – games365.it
"If you're in the mood for a very good and well-put-together puzzle game, RoboSockets could be just what the doctor ordered." – (4/5) Appolicious.com
"While I've grown tired of plenty of casual puzzles games lately, RoboSockets has been a go-to game for me over the past week." – (4/5) Loot-Ninja.com


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Seas and Oceans E-magazine
Date : July – August 2011
About Issue
The seas, the Arabian and the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean, hold untold wealth. It is time we treated our waters with respect and elevated their position from mere all purpose dumping stations. The overall scenario is somber, corals dying dead oceanic patches with increased eutrophication and coastal hypoxia, floating dumps and more. Beginning with awareness, we need to fix the big picture, piece by piece.


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Super Furry Animals Announce New Album
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Super Furry Animals have announced the release of their 9th studio album. They have a working track listing, but no album title yet. The band says "Musically it's based around riffs and grooves we've been playing around with over the last few years. We have enough now for a whole album so even though it's still very melodic we thought we could leave off the acoustic ballads for the time being."
"It's recognizable as a melodic SFA record, but is very focused musically as a cohesive album. And no country rock as Daf has developed a pedal steel phobia. Which has confined the great Nashvillian instrument along with the Saxophone to the banned instrument directive of the SFA board. There's only one slow number which isn't slow at all."
Longtime cohorts Pete Fowler will combine with legendary Japanese artist Tanaami for the album artwork, which is sure to result in a feast for the eyes. The album is due out as a digital release on March 16th via the Super Furry Animals website, with the physical release on April 13th via Rough Trade Records.
Apparently Super Furry Animals have some more tricks up their sleeve which they will be announcing a little closer to the release date. Not quite sure what that means, but it will be interesting to find out.
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What benefits would I get from boxing training ?
You can increase your coordination and agility. You will definitely loose weight, muscle tone and gain high fitness level. All results will come from our boxing classes. Lots of people think that boxing training is all about the arms and you only train your upper body but it is wrong and actually it is a cardio workout for your whole body. It is especially perfect for toning your quadricep muscles and bottom, that is great for women who want to lose weight around their thighs and bottom as part of an overall reduction regime.
You don't have to be worried about bulking up, either. Boxing is a great deal of high repetition training so you will see tone rather than muscle. That is also so empowering. Even though it is not only a self-defence lesson, by the end you finish our class, we are sure that you will throw some hard punches
Should be cautious of anything in training?
Maybe If you have got a weak wrist that may cause a problem however once we teach you how to punch and keep your wrist properly, you shouldn't be getting any problem with your wrists. You will definitely need hand wraps to prevent wrist and hand injuries. You can also wrap them with tape If you need some extra support.
In Your Classes, Will I Get Hurt?
In our classes,the risk is minimal as the sparring is optional and we make sure that you do the proper moves. If you do boxing classes somewhere else you should make sure that your boxing instructor is full qualified. There are lots of boxing trainers who train people but lots of them neither have done boxing before nor trained any competitive boxers. North London Boxing Club trainers make sure that they take some time out to explain you the moves.


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GCSE Science
From September 2016 girls will follow the new Edexcel GCSE (9-1) course.
Girls begin their GCSE Science course in the September of Year 9. They either study for the Combined Science Award or the Separate Science GCSE's.
All girls study Biology, Chemistry and Physics and are taught by three subject specialist teachers. Girls taking Combined Science will gain 2 GCSE's across the 3 Sciences, whereas those doing the Separate Sciences will gain 3 GCSE's. The Separate Science course does not have any additional teaching time, meaning that the course is intensive and girls must do extra work at home. Due to the rigorous and traditional nature of the new GCSE's both courses are a suitable basis for A Level Science study.
Of those taking Combined Science the vast majority will sit the Higher Level papers. A very small number of girls will sit the Foundation level papers where this the most sensible option. The girls are monitored throughout Years 9, 10 and 11 to ensure that they are doing the course most suited to their ability and work ethic.
The GCSE Physics courses require all equations and formulae to be memorised. A Periodic Table is issued to candidates for the Chemistry exams.
Extended-Curricular Activities.
Girls have the opportunity to take part in the Biology and Physics British Challenge competitions. Some Astronomy Club members will go on to take GCSE Astronomy in Years 9 or10. All Year 10 visit the Science and Natural History Museums in South Kensington. Traditionally a number of girls have been selected to attend the Salters Chemistry Camps.
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Technology really delivers competitive advantage when used to bring a whole organisation together, Graeme Hughes, MD of FM software company Innovise, tells Fiona Perrin.
Technology really delivers competitive advantage when used to bring a whole organisation together, Graeme Hughes, MD of FM software company Innovise, tells Fiona Perrin.
Lifts are considered by many to be one of the safest forms of transport. A well maintained lift will provide years of incident-free travel for thousands of people. But like everywhere else, the technology is moving fast.
The traditional one-size-fits-all maintenance approach uses interval-based inspection, planned maintenance and reactive repair. Alistair Clements makes the case for a better solution.
Given what we already know, why isn't everyone making changes to create these, asks John O'Brien.
Chris Kenneally, CEO of Cordant Group, is 18 months into the journey to turn a commercial giant into a social business. Fiona Perrin met him to discover it's all about improving individual lives.
Cornwall Council was an early adopter in setting up a wholly-owned FM operation; and Cormac is now winning third-party business. Fiona Perrin reports on the model.
Eindhoven University of Technology's Atlas Building is reckoned to be the most sustainable educational facility in the world following a 'smart' refurbishment.
Rodrigue Zbinden considers the evolving role of access control systems and their benefits beyond the traditional use as a security technology.
As workplace needs and expectations change, 3D mobile mapping is becoming a key tool in building management, from construction to streamlining the process of maintenance and upgrades.
FMs put wellness and the protection of the workforce right at the top of the agenda. So why, asks a new report, is no progress being made on the UK's highest reported workplace disease: hand arm vibration syndrome?
It's an old saying but it still rings true: "your most important assets leave your organisation every day".
Andy Chappell, now head of global corporate clients for ISS, has risen fast up the corporate ladder. As he settles into his new role, he shares advice for young FMs who might hope to emulate his success.
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Welcome on the homepage of the chair "Computer Graphics Systems" of Prof. Jürgen Döllner and his team. We like to inform you about our teaching and ongoing research activities in the analysis, planning and construction of computer graphics and multimedia systems.
Our group includes PostDocs, PhD students, and student assistants, and is headed by Prof. Jürgen Döllner. If you are interested in joining our team, please contact Jürgen Döllner.
Members of the research group are presenting recent research results at the Intergeo 2015, wich takes place in Stuttgart from 15th to 17th September. Visit us in hall 8 booth D8.071.


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Huntingdon, Pa.- The Juniata men's basketball team jumped on Moravian early on their way to a 76-65 win Saturday afternoon at Memorial Gymnasium.
Marcus Lee (Carrolltown, Pa./Bishop Carroll) had 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists and Seth Brewer (Lancaster Pa./Manheim Township) had 16 points and seven rebounds. Paul Martello (York, Pa./York Catholic) had 14 pints and three steals off the bench while Brandon Martinazzi (Cresson, Pa./Bishop Carroll) had 11 points and five rebounds. Damon Rickens (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle) added eight points while Wil Peralta (Hagerstown, Md./North Hagerstown) had seven points, five rebounds and three assists.
Juniata got off to a rollicking start, opening the game on a 14-0 run.
Brewer scored off an offensive rebound, Rickens found Lee inside before Brewer set Lee up for an easy two. Brewer found Lee again, hit Peralta for an easy two before Lee found Peralta slicing to the hoop. Peralta returned the favor, setting Lee up for an easy deuce as the Eagles were up 14 in the first five minutes of the game. The Greyhounds tossed in a three to get on the board, and over the next five minutes got within 10 at 20-10.
Moravian continued to chip away at the lead, and with a little under eight minutes to go narrow the gap to five at 22-17.
The Eagles scored the next seven points, twice breaking the press for fast-break layups. Brewer took the inbounds pass and went the distance on one and Martinazzi broke through on the other as JC led 29-17. Two foul shots from Martell made it 35-17 with four minutes left in the half, but the Greyhounds closed the half on a 12-6 run as JC led 41-29 at the half.
The Greyhounds press began to frustrate the Eagles in the second half. Over the opening nine minutes they managed to hold the Eagles to seven points and with 11:34 to go, pulled within five at 48-43. Cameron Keck (Waynesboro, Pa./Waynesboro) nailed a three from the left wing, Moravian countered with a three of their own and Lee scored inside off a pass from Martello to make it 53-46.
Following an Eagle timeout, Martello drove from the right wing and finished off the glass with his left hand while being fouled. Following the free throw, JC led by 10 56-46. Rickens drilled a tough fall away jumper along the right baseline and Moravian hit another three to get back within nine. Following a stop, Martinazzi grabbed a long rebound and raced the other way. One on one with a Greyhound defender, he euro-stepped right to left and finished high off the glass. Lee threw a nice pass out of a double-team to Peralta for a layup before Martinazzi added to his fast break highlight tape. This time he hit his defender with a quick spin move and laid it in off the glass to pushed the lead to twelve, 64-52. JC's lead never dropped into single digits the rest of the way.
Juniata shot 53.8% from the floor and held the Greyhounds to 36.1%. JC also held a 41-28 edge on the glass and a 40-18 edge in points in the paint.
The Eagles return to action Wednesday against Elizabethtown. Tipoff is 7:00 p.m.


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TAB and Non-TAB Meetings
Nominations for all meetings can be made online here or via fax on (02) 8580 5301 and close at the time set by GRNSW.
Limited phone nominations are taken between 8-9am on weekdays only.
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To download a copy of GRNSW's Nomination form that can be used at both TAB and Non-TAB meetings, click here.
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This page contains important information on Nomination Closing Times for TAB and Non-TAB meetings along with
the order that meetings will be graded in so that preferences can be maximised.
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ICEpdf is moving to Java 8! Are you still using Java 5?
The sixty-four-million-dollar question we ask today is why are you still using Java 5? Perhaps you lost the root password to your development box? Or you like your applications slow and insecure? But seriously folks, Java 5 gained end of life status way back in 2009, that's two presidential terms ago, most people don't hold on to their cars that long!
The ICEpdf development team is currently heads down reworking our imaging pipeline and moving to a pure ImageIO implementation. This will speed up image processing, simplify our code base, and hopefully fix some long-standing issues. Because of this development work it looks like we will be moving our code base forward and supporting Java language level 8.
Moving to Java 8 is going to be a big deal for a lot of our customers. For the few unfortunate clients that can't update, don't worry as we will offer support packages for Java 5 through 7.
To help back up our decision to move to Java 8, we present to you some benchmarks we have completed with our current ICEpdf 6.2.1 code base. This test consisted of running our capture example on a two thousand document test suite. We captured a maximum of three pages per document using two threads per document capture. The test was executed five times each on JRE 5 and JRE 8 and the results were nothing short of amazing! By simply running the same code on Java 8 vs. Java 5 the test execution time was reduced by almost 1/3! So, we ask again, why aren't you running JDK 8?
Community feedback is extremely import to us. Please take a couple minutes and fill our ICEpdf survey and let us know what you think.
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Released Russian physicist remains defiant
A Russian physicist convicted of spying for China has been freed after nearly a decade in prison.
Valentin Danilov, jailed for selling classified information on space technology to China, said the charges against him had been "fantasy".
Now 66, Danilov has reportedly said he intends to pursue his case with the European Court of Human Rights.
His 14-year sentence was cut by three years on grounds of good behaviour and his state of health.
"I would really appreciate it if somebody finally told me what state secret I sold," Danilov said shortly after emerging from the prison colony near the industrial Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
New law
He said he considered himself a political prisoner but refused to criticise the Russian president directly.
"As for President Putin, I guess everybody would be the same as him in his place. The court makes the tsar. In many cases it's the people around him that are guilty rather than he himself," he said.
Danilov, a former professor at Krasnoyarsk Technical University, has maintained that the information on satellite technology he passed on to a Chinese engineering firm was already publicly available.
Human rights campaigners saw his arrest as an attempt to intimidate academics with ties to other countries.
His release comes days after a new law comes into force broadening the definition of treason which critics fear could be used against politically inconvenient figures.
Danilov was initially arrested in 2001, acquitted in a 2003 trial but convicted in a trial the following year.
Asked about his health, the physicist said: "I'm fine. Otherwise I wouldn't be here."
Under the terms of his parole, he must contact police each month.
He is understood to plan to live with his wife in their home in the Siberian town of Novosibirsk and to return to the field of science.
"I will work in science but not space because everything [in Russia] to do with space is always [seen as] a state secret," he said.


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Trainspotting: Bentley Continental GTC
It's pretty awesome to drive your expensive Bentley Continental GTC to Italy or the south of France. It's even better to skip the very long drive and park your car on the overnight-train from Holland to Bologna, Italy. Last weeks train transported these two Continental GTCs to Italy. The cars are British. Beside the Bentleys there were also some nice Austin Healey, MG and Alfa Romeo classic cars.


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12 Steps to a Happy Family
Everyone strives to have a happy family. Today's world throws a lot at families that makes this an ever challenging goal.
You have likely seen the good news posted by some "experts" that divorce rates are down. Unfortunately, those reports are only telling part of the story. While it is true that divorce rates (at least in the US) are dropping, the truth is that the rate of people getting married is dropping faster.
You can see the details as reported on the CDC Website.
But divorce isn't the only problem. With so many distractions and time stealers in this digital age, many children and teens are feeling forgotten and unloved.
What can you do to ensure that you have a happy family? Here are 12 steps you can take:
Lesson 13: I've Learned that friends may come and go, but family is forever and must be cherished.
1. Talk to Each Other
Communication is most effective when there is a true sharing of feelings and words between family members. Getting all family members to talk is sometimes a challenge. Teens especially may tend to be closed off and silent.
The matter is not hopeless. Take the time to change a few of the things you are already doing and communication will flow more freely.
Talk when you are together.
No doubt there is time that is spent sharing meals or taking trips in the car of by public transportation. How are you using that time? If you are on your phone the entire time, there is no strengthening of the family.
Instead, take that time to talk to your family. Ask questions of each other and listen carefully as they speak. Try not to react too quickly, even if you hear something from your youngster that upsets you. Stifling them will only lead to more silence.
Limit distractions.
Phones and other electronic devices are wonderful tools for staying connected to the world around us. They can likewise be large impediments to family communication. Checking text messages or social media alerts when a loved one is speaking will not show them that you care about what they are saying.
Set times for your family that are media free. Turn off phones or put them in another room during family dinners or when your teens come home from school. Take that time to listen to your family uninterrupted and you will draw closer.
Be flexible.
Family communication often cannot be scheduled. Your teen may want to talk late at night when you are ready to go to sleep. A younger child may want to tell you everything as soon as you pick them up from school.
Do your best to make yourself available to listen even when you are tired or have other things to do. Granted, you cannot stop every action to give your loved one your full attention. But if they see you making a consistent effort, they will feel valued and more likely to talk again later.
You can read another post about choosing your words carefully in this post.
2. Forgive Each Other
The silent treatment is a go-to response for hurt feelings in many families. This treatment may go on for days and even weeks when one family member refuses to forgive another for some offense.
As a result, this wall creates division in the family. Work hard to forgive each other quickly.
Sometimes it's a matter of just asking yourself a few questions. Will what hurt me matter in 10 years? Is an apology necessary, or can I just overlook the offense? Am I being too sensitive?
Forgiveness means letting go of resentment and the offense that hurt you. It doesn't mean that you need to pretend the offense never happened or should minimize it.
Holding on to resentment damages not only the family but you often on an emotional and physical level. It can create a rift in the marriage and distance parents and children.
This means if there has been a wrong committed, you should take the time to sit down and talk it out. Both of you should listen as the other explains their point of view. Then, do your best to move forward. Don't continue to bring up offenses that you have forgiven.
3. Be Loyal to Each Other
Loyalty is at an all time low in this world. Too many people are quick to throw away relationships at the first sign of difficulty. This lack of loyalty is why divorce rates are high and why less people are getting married.
You chose your spouse for a reason. Continue to show each other proper consideration and love and your loyalty and commitment to each other will grow. Decide in your hearts that you will stay together come what may.
Take divorce and separation off the table from the start of the marriage. Divorce rates were lower in times gone past for that very reason. Most people did not consider divorce to be an option.
Family loyalty starts with your mind. How do you think about your spouse? Do you imagine someone else may be a better fit for you? Are there times you regret your marriage?
If any of those answers show weakness in your relationship, take action now to strengthen ties with your mate. Schedule time together and work on open communication. Examine what areas of your marriage are creating stress and then work together at fixing them
Children that are raised in an environment where their parents are loyal and committed to each other grow up to have strong relationships both with their parents and with their future families.
4. Support Each Other
The expression goes, "There is no 'I' in 'team'." Your family is your most important team.
For a couple, this means changing a mindset from "What do I want to do?" to "What would be best for us to do?"
A family should be more than just a bunch of people living together. Make a united front on dealing with money, making family decisions, and child rearing.
Some couples try to keep separate lives in many respects and then wonder later why their marriage failed.
Work toward the success of your team by always working together.
5. Plan With Each Other
Closely associated with teamwork is setting goals. For a plan to be most beneficial, it involves flexibility, planning and plenty of hard work.
Both family and individual goals should be encouraged. Plans may involve necessary things like nutrition and exercise, or a reward to work towards like a special family vacation or weekend trip.
Decide as a family what things you would like to work toward. Pick a realistic deadline and set out the steps that will be needed to reach your goal. Think of any hurdles that may come up and how you'll be able to overcome them.
In addition to family goals, help your children to set personal goals. Achieving goals can produce more happiness, stronger friendships, and more self-confidence among family members.
6. Value Each Other
Valuing your spouse includes showing them respect. Expressing value is demonstrated in how you interact with your family. Do you frequently criticize each other, or are compliments more common? Are you quick to listen to each other, or do you walk away from or dismiss conversations?
Strengthening your respect for your spouse and family members is a very internal process. Meditate on a list of qualities about your mate, perhaps even writing them down. Then tell your spouse why you appreciate those qualities.
Think too of how you would like to be treated. What actions make you feel valued and appreciate? Think of several areas and have family members do the same. Then take some time to discuss what everyone came up with and how you can do better as a family.
7. Lead Each Other
Parental example is a vital step in achieving a happy family. Leading involves not only stating what you think should be done, but making sure you are doing the same thing yourself.
For example, you may want to teach your children that lying is wrong. Will you later ask your child to tell an unexpected visitor that you are not home simply because you don't want to speak to that person? Or will your teen hear you call in sick to work when you are not sick?
Think about the guidelines that are important to your family. Do you have rules about what movies or video games can be played? Are there friends you want your kids to avoid? Does your family value words like "please," "thank you," and "I'm sorry"? How do you act in these areas?
The way you live your daily life will affect the way your family lives theirs. Show your family how they should live by the example you set.
8. Instruct Each Other
Every family has a core belief system. For many this involves honesty, strong work ethic, and politeness.
To have a truly happy family, these areas must be clearly defined and effectively taught.
A good work ethic can be taught from a very young age.
Give your child chores to complete and make sure they follow through. Chores not only teach responsibility but the importance of doing things for others. Learning to care for what's important creates stronger and more independent adults.
Standards for politeness should also be taught to the very young. Saying "please" and "thank you" and learning to share are essential lessons. Set the example in these areas and your child will more likely follow suit.
9. Trust Each Other
Trust engenders confidence and consistency. Believe in your family and that they will do the right thing.
Learning to be trustworthy is not an automatic process. Teach your children the relationship between trust and freedom. A teen that respects a curfew will be more likely to receive occasional exceptions.
Teach your children to be honest at all times, even when they might upset you. Show them the consequences when they are not honest. Set the example in being honest yourself.
In addition, patience adds to contentment. Rather than giving your child everything they want when they want it, teach them to work towards something and to wait until the right time. Teaching patience can go along with teaching how to handle money and the importance of savings.
Lessons should likewise be taught about being reliable. Teach your family to follow through. Dependability is sadly lacking today. If you assign a chore, see to it that it is completed. If your teen commits to doing an activity, make sure they do it.
Again, set the example. Show that you are dependable in the way you treat your job and commitments. If you make social plans, make every effort to stick to them. Demonstrate your patience by telling your family something you want and then let them see you patiently work toward it.
10. Strengthen Each Other
Standing up for what you believe in is the key to identity. Core beliefs, moral character, and ethical standards all shape that identity.
Help your family develop their identity by assisting them to discern their weak and strong areas. What traits stand out? Which traits need improvement? Consider aspects like generosity, punctuality, and work ethic. Make sure your young one knows their strengths. If they have trouble coming up with a list about themselves, tell them what strengths you see in them.
Teach conviction. Does your family follow a moral code? What is the basis for that code? Why should it be supported?
Have a family discussion about identity. Remind your children that they have both a personal and family identity and that their actions affect both.
11. Work With Each Other
Many devalue hard work. Some have a "gimme" mentality and expect to be taken care of and served.
Teach your family to be industrious. Show them the value in learning to do new things. Help them to feel pride in a job well done. Whether it is homework, a job, or household chores – look for ways to be more do better and more quickly. As skills develop, so will work enjoyment.
Learning balance is about finding the right middle ground between laziness and overworking. Take time for recreation for your family, but also show them how you complete the necessary things first.
The world is a big place. Even small actions can have a mighty effect. Show your young ones how even small chores benefit others. As they grow, this lesson will carry with them and help make the world a better place.
Demonstrate your work ethic by doing more than expected. Show your children how to take pride in their work and that there is often more to a job than just completing it. Taking out the trash is important. Cleaning up any mess that might be created in the process is the extra step.
12. Guide Each Other
Discipline is on the decline. Crime and violence are increasing. There is no doubt there is a connection.
Your family should know that there is right and wrong and that consequences result from doing the latter.
Discipline and guidance are more than yelling and spankings. When your child does something wrong, sit with them and explain to them why it was wrong. Help them to see how the bad conduct affects others. Affirm your love for them while helping them to understand the importance of reasonable rules.
Guidance comes into play with you spouse as well. Is one of you working too much? Are budgets being properly followed? How much quality time is being spent with the family?
It's too easy to develop blinders to the things you are doing. You should be willing to talk, and listen carefully with an open mind if you are corrected.
Discipline must be consistent. If something is wrong, it is always wrong, no matter where you are or who you are with. Just like the law is always the law. Speeding is speeding whether you see the police or not. Family rules should be the same.
Love Each Other
Love was not included as a step because a truly happy family knows that love is an essential part of all 12 steps. Discipline in love. Speak in love. Forgive with love.
Love is more than just a warm feeling. It's that effort to always see the good in your family. Peace and calm are fruits of love. Love first, and all the other steps will come easier.
Even in this dark world, a happy family is possible. If everyone works together and keeps love at the forefront, your family will achieve this goal.
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(ISN) – Victoria, BC- The Victoria Royals 2014-15 regular season was acknowledged at the fourth annual Awards Ceremony on Sunday afternoon at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.
This year's event included New York Rangers' executive Mike Barnett and BC Minister of Finance Michael de Jong as special guest speakers.
Cliff Lequesne, from 100.3 The Q!, hosted the event that saw the organization hand out 10 awards in total and celebrate the personal achievements of the Royals' players on-and-off of the ice.
Joe Hicketts was chosen as the team's most valuable player as he took home the National Bank Financial MVP Award. The product of Kamloops, BC also earned the Wilson's Transportation Top Defenceman award and The Keg Fans' Choice award, which was chosen by a vote on www.victoriaroyals.com.
Austin Carroll was presented with the Mayfair Optometric Top Scorer Award as he finished the season with 77 points (38g-39a).
Tyler Soy was chosen as the Coca-Cola Unsung Hero award, while Coleman Vollrath was named the winner of the Investors Group Community Service award.
Logan Fisher was the recipient of the 2 Burley Men Hardest Worker award. The Wallace Driving School Most Dedicated Player award was given to Travis Brown.
Ralph Jarratt was named the winner of the Ron Neal Rookie of the Year, while Jared Dmytriw took home the Live Virtual Help Desk Scholastic Player of the Year award.
The Royals will have home ice advantage in the first round of the 2015 WHL Playoffs vs. the Prince George Cougars, with Game 1 & 2 of the best-of-seven series occurring at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Game 1 will take place on Friday, March 27th and Game 2 on Saturday, March 28th. Puck drop for both contests is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.


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The comics you love needn't be embarrassing – instead you should learn to love them. Embrace your comic book guilty pleasures (even if everybody else hates them!)
So the trailer for the latest DC/WB game Injustice 2 was released today, and it got me thinking about the comic book series that has been coming out pretty consistently since the first game was released over 3 years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if it ranked pretty highly on people's lists of comic book guilty pleasures. The comics themselves lead up to the events of the game, where Superman, driven somewhat mad by the death of Lois Lane at the hands of The Joker, establishes a new world order. He is the head of a totalitarian regime, which seems unlike him. Batman, obviously against this sort of thing, enlists the help of fellow Justice Leaguers to bring down said regime.
If you read all of that as "something-something-video-game-logic now all your heroes fight each other", you'd be pretty much spot on. The comics meanwhile, using a structure of 5 separate seasons or 'years' of comics, brings the reader from a 'standard (if alternate)' DC Universe to an 'Oh God no why are my beloved heroes knocking seven bells out of each other?!' DC Universe.
To say the reception has been mixed is an understatement. I've never known a comic to be more polarising than this one, from people loving the over-the-top action and freedom that an alternate history provides, to complete bafflement at it's sheer dumb awfulness.
I've yet to dive in to the series, but now that a trailer for the inevitable sequel has brought the franchise back onto my radar I'll have to give it a go. A massive part of me has avoided it – at least subconsciously – due in some small part on the very nature of it. The cynical side of me sees it as nothing more than a glorified advert designed to sell the game. The snobby part of me sees it as 'not real comics' because it's a weird prequel/adaptation of a video-game. The downright weird part of me worries that if I read it and enjoy it, those first two reasons would force it into my list of 'comic book guilty pleasures': a truly random category in my mind.
Why the hell do we feel guilty about things we enjoy??
Saying that something is a guilty pleasure of yours is in some way admitting that liking it is wrong, and making light of (read: dismissing) the fact that you like it in order to compartmentalise it – heaven forbid it sits in your mind next to more socially acceptable books to enjoy, like Usagi Yojimbo or Stray Bullets. If you like something that other people hate, then for some reason that enjoyment needs justification. If enough people hate the thing you love – be it hundreds, or hundreds of thousands – then sometimes it'd be easier (and less damaging on your 'street cred'…do people still say 'street cred'?) to call it one of your 'comic book guilty pleasures' and move on.
So when does a comic book guilty pleasure become just a regular pleasure? Logic would suggest it's when you no longer feel guilty about enjoying it, when you can openly and confidently admit that the thing other people dislike, deride or straight up hate is something very dear to you. So that's what I'm going to do – by admitting my love for the books that I have, in the past, firmly categorised in the 'guilty pleasure' category I can shed myself of the burden of guilt and get back to actually just enjoying these comic books! Therefore I present to you:
My Comic Book Guilty Pleasures
Heroes Reborn/Return
I cut my teeth on the Heroes Reborn comics. Back in the late 90's, Marvel – dsperately trying to stave off bankruptcy – ended some of their core comics after decades of continuity and hundreds of issues, rebooting four of them with new number 1's under the coolest, most sought after creative teams of the time.
Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America and The Avengers were all cast off to an alternate dimension for a year where they got new origins, new costumes and new adventures under creators such as Jim Lee, Brandon Choi, Rob Liefeld, Scott Lobdell and more.
These were among some of the first American comics that I got my hands on and I lapped them up. While some of the sheen has been taken off them with subsequent re-reads, I still enjoy them to this day. The whole Heroes Reborn – and it's follow-up/conclusion Heroes Return- are pretty universally panned by critics as a cheap gimmick that worsened the franchises it touched. For me though, that 4-part Heroes Return mini-series still stands up as super fun.
Marvel Civil War
Ok, this one I don't love per se, but I genuinely don't see what all the negative fuss is about, and why people are coming out in droves almost universally hating this book. Overall I prefer my books to be about the heroes fighting the bad guys and not, you know, each other, but Steve McNiven's art was fantastic and Captain America's escape from theHelicarrier in issue one is awesome. At the time I enjoyed reading it and subsequent re-reads haven't really changed that.
Brian Michael Bendis
Not him as a person you understand – I've never met him – but rather his body of work so far. I'm starting to see what people mean when they say his 'realistic' way of writing dialogue is tiring. His latest books for Marvel (Invincible Iron Man and International Iron Man mostly) have irritated me more than normal, but I'm loving the new Spider-Man series he's writing, and the complete over-sized hardcover collection of Ultimate Spider-Man sitting on my shelf right now is proof I love his work on that series.
When it was coming out I had nothing but praise for his Avengers/New Avengers run. Looking back on it I get frustrated that it's so ground-level, you know? The Avengers I love are cosmic adventurers, not trapped in a building fighting Hood over and over again (rubbish character in my humble opinion). But that was a particular era of The Avengers and the ground-level stuff was sort of a consequence (in universe) of stories like Breakout and Civil War, as well as being very much a product of their time. So while I have in the past consigned Bendis's Avengers run to the pile of Comic Book Guilty Pleasures, today I admit that I am guilty no longer!
Now those in the know would never consider this a comic book guilty pleasure, but for many more casual fans in the west, Manga is an extremely niche interest at best, and weirdly fetishistic at worst. While some books definitely do fall into the latter category, manga is becoming ever more prominent thanks to series like Attack on Titan and Deathnote. So why do I still feel guilty?
To dismiss Manga is as ridiculous as dismissing comics or movies. The genres and diversity of content is as vast as either of those two mediums and I guarantee you'll find something that you'll love. Yes there's seedy, creepy manga out there, but there's seedy, creepy movies and comics from the west too.
I've never felt particularly guilty about enjoying Manga, but there's still a stigma attached to it that may raise a few eyebrows among the uninitiated. But I'm currently deep into FullMetal Alchemist and loving books like Nisekoi, One Punch Man and Requiem of the Rose King, all of which are as brilliant as they are unique.
Just…90s comics in general
If you have a list of comic book guilty pleasures, there's no way there's not a few of these on your list. I feel like there's actually a turning tide in favour of 90s comics, and there's a couple reasons behind that. Firstly, we're far enough out of that time period that we can really examine it 'from the outside' so to speak; it's a lot clearer to pick out the wood when you're not surrounded by the trees you know?
Secondly all the creators coming up in comics and really shaping the landscape right now grew up reading those 90s comics, and as we've already established in this very article, nostalgia is a big thing. That's why you get people like Remender and Zdarsky building stories around characters like Onslaught and Howard The Duck.
The thing is, the books they're referencing are the very books I grew up reading too, so while people of a slightly older age-bracket might have been frustrated with the endless knifes and pouches, there's a whole wealth of awesome 90s comics just waiting to be rediscovered with fresh eyes.
I can only imagine that if I dig deeper through my long boxes I'll find more and more books that I love despite the haters, but I think the list above is certainly enough to keep me going. The big question now though is:


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Hue is a fascinating city located in Central Vietnam and is the provincial town of Hue Province. It was once the capital city of Vietnam under the reign of Nguyen (1802-1945). Hue is famous for its array of temples, palaces, tombs and architecture associated with the natural landscape. Located nearby the Perfume river, Hue is an object of cultural heritage significance and national spirit, a unique cultural region of Vietnam and the world. In 1993, Hue was recognized as a UNESCO world cultural heritage.
On this tour you will be picked up from your hotel by your local guide who will outline the program for you. We will travel by car, which is approximately a 3 hour drive to reach the city center. On the way, we will stop at Hai Van where you can take beautiful photos of the natural and mountainous landscape the pass has to offer.
Once we arrive in Hue, we will visit the Citadel (a walled fortress and palace spread out over 2km of land) where your guide will give you insights on what life was like for those living in the Citadel during its time as the capital city. After visiting the Citadel, you can enjoy a delicious local Vietnamese lunch before heading out on the afternoon's adventures.
In the afternoon, you will take a boat cruise along the beautiful Perfume River to the Thien Mu Pagoda. Built in the early 17th century, this is the tallest pagoda in all of Vietnam and is regarded as the unofficial symbol of the former imperial capital.
After visiting the Pagoda, we will then visit a king's tomb, either Tu Duc or Khai Dinh. Tu Duc was built for the Nguyen Emperor, Tu Duc and took 3 years to build from 1864 – 1867. Khai Dinh was also a Nguyen Emperor and his tomb was built in 1920 – 1931, taking 11 years to build. Khai Dinh worked closely with the government of France and therefore the tomb was built with a lot of French architectural influence.
Once we have visited the king's tomb we will take the car back to Hoi An, which is approximately a 2 hour drive.
|From 1 to 4 pax : 95 $/pax (From 5 pax up to 70 $/pax)
Children from 6 to 10 years old half price.
|A minimum of 2 people is required to book this tour.
The tour guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel. On the way to Hue, we stop at Hai Van for photo opportunites.
Once we arrive at Hue we will visit theCitadel and have lunch.
In the afternoon, we will take a boat trip on Perfume river to Thien Mu pagoda and stop off at King's tomb (Tu Duc or Khai Dinh) before heading back to Hoi An.
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It took a long time for Pixar to reveal they were at work on a sequel to 2004's "The Incredibles," the animated feature from director Brad Bird ("Tomorrowland," "Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol") that some still consider the company's best to date.
Talking about the Signature Edition re-release of his early work "The Iron Giant" with Collider, Bird confirmed that he's at work on "The Incredibles 2" script, and the team in place is already making progress:
"I have the story arc. I'm probably three-quarters through the script, first pass through the script, but we're already boarding parts of it. I've got a lot of people that worked on the first one working on it, so we're all having a good time with it."
He says the second film's plot will be adjusted to reflect how the superhero genre has changed over the past decade or so:
"What's changed is there were only two other superhero franchises at the time Incredibles came out. One of them was X-Men and the other was Spider-Man, and now there are 400 billion of them and there's a new superhero movie every two weeks.
What you don't want to do is trot over the same turf in the same way everyone else is. So we're trying to keep it focused in the area that our film was, which was a little bit more about characters and relationships and stuff like that, and see where that takes us. But we're having a good time."
Bird admits he's not sure when the film might hit cinemas as these kinds of projects are always in flux:
"We were originally – Incredibles was supposed to happen after Cars, and our wheels just happened to click a little earlier so they moved us up. Release dates are a little fluid when you're making films so far in advance. Some films are tougher to come together and tough nuts to crack, and other ones comes together a little more quickly, and so I'm just going to work as fast as I can work well with a relatively small team because I like small teams better until you've got everything firmly figured out."
Pixar's next film is "The Good Dinosaur" opening November 27th.