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Apples of the Golan Now Available to Stream and Download
Amidst the madness of Oscar season, it's often difficult for the smaller, but equally worthy films to make their voices heard. One of our favourite releases this year is Apples of the Golan, which does what all great documentaries do and gives you a new perspective on the world we live in.
The conflict in the Middle East dominates contemporary political discourse, but the voices of the people on the ground are frequently ignored. Apples of the Golan attempts to redress this balance, by following life over four years in the village of Madjal Shams in the Golan Heights. A true labour of love for its directors, Jill Beardsworth and Keith Walsh, the film examines the differing perspectives of the inhabitants of this fascinating place, one of the last remaining vestiges of Druze culture in this fiercely contested region.
An offshoot of Islam that has existed for over a thousand years, the Druze religion incorporates beliefs from all the Abrahamic faiths, and much like their religion, the people of Madjal Shams exist in a sort of in between space. Caught between the forces of Syria and Israel, they must make a choice between clinging to the memories of their ancestral homeland or forging a new future in a country they did not choose to be a part of.
Apples of the Golan is available on VOD and to download from its official website. It's a genuinely powerful and insightful piece of work, and we think it's well worth your time.


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Antique Near Eastern Ring with Green Stone
Antique Near Eastern Ring with Green Stone
This Ring formed part of a large private collection which is now being sold - The age of the Ring is unknown.
The central Stone sits in a Bezel setting - The Stone measures 1.3cm in diameter.
There are no stamps or marks and the Metal is unknown.
This Ring is a UK size 'W' and weighs 2.9g.
The Ring is in good wearable antique condition as shown.
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Christina Grimmie Releases Posthumous 'Invisible' Video
Team Christina Grimmie has released the lyric video of the late singer's "Invisible" single. This is just beautiful!
Republic Records will be releasing new music from the former "The Voice" star on #NewMusicFriday.
Grimmie was killed by a deranged fan in June 2016 while she was signing autographs after a performance in Orlando.
Here's the full announcement about the INVISIBLE release! #TeamGrimmie #CGforever #newmusicfriday #iwontbeinvisible pic.twitter.com/O8xR3uBMku
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This is a good article on how to identify American White Park cattle. American White Parks are not the same as Ancient White Parks, so please do not get White Parks confused with this breed.
1Do a search on the Internet or a cattle breeds book on "American White Park" cattle.
2Study the characteristics of this breed. Note the following:
- Colouration: American White Parks are predominantly white with black points--nose, muzzle, eye rims, ears, hooves, teats/tip of scrotum--though it's not uncommon to find animals of this breed with red points as well. There may be some speckles on each animal, depending on each individual bovine and a herd's colour intensity.
- Body type and characteristics: This breed is a beef breed, with the muscling and body characteristics similar to all other British breeds. American White Parks are a moderate-framed breed, with cows averaging around 1000 lbs and bulls around 1700 to 1800 lbs.
- Head characteristics: Most American White Parks are polled, though there are 3 to 5% of cattle that can be horned in this breed. However, registered American British White Parks are not horned but are either polled or scurred.
Other characteristics: There is some debate as to where American White Parks originated from. Some think that this breed is primarily Angus in origin with some White Park genetics thrown in from some breeding pairs of White Parks that were brought to Canada in World War II. According to this theory the offspring of this original importation were sent to the Bronx Zoo, and from there they were split into two groups. One was sent to the King Ranch in Texas and formed the foundation herd of the White Park in the United States. The second groups was sent to Washington and played a part in the formation of the American White Park. Another theory states that this breed originated from British White cattle. No matter the theories, the American White Park breed association was first formed in 1975, and during that time (in which the association kept an open-herd book policy for 6 months) some British White sires were brought in to improve the breed and help introduce the bloodlines of this breed. This is where, supposedly, the polled version of the breed started and took over.
- American White Parks have the same qualities of that found in British Whites: docile, great carcass qualities, great mothering, calving and milking abilities, excellent foraging ability, fertility, freedom from disease, etc.
3Memorize the details and characteristics of this breed.
4Go on a field trip or road trip and see if you can find farms and ranches with American White Park cattle. Take pictures of what you thought were American White Park cattle, and compare them with pictures of American White Parks on the Internet and in your cattle breeds book.Advertisement
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- Most American White Parks are not horned, unlike the ancient White Parks.
- Colouration between British White and American White Parks can be very confusing for most people, since they do look pretty well the same as the other.
- The only thing that might be useful in telling these two breeds apart is that all British Whites are polled, however most American White Parks are also polled as well. British Whites may also be a few hundred pounds heavier and larger than American Whites.
- There is potential for a lot of confusion between this breed and British Whites, so be careful in correct classification of this breed and BW's.
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Looking at the Priesthood as No-Woman's Land
With an apparent priest shortage and so many Protestant denominations embracing women ministers, some people wonder why the Catholic Church doesn't allow female priests. First of all, it's not because women aren't qualified or that they're somehow not worthy of this calling.
It's a constitutive element of the Sacrament of Holy Orders — any pope, council, or bishop can't change it. The same is true about the use of water for Baptism and bread and wine for Holy Eucharist. The elements of every Sacrament can't be changed, because Christ established it. This belief is shared by the Eastern Orthodox, who also don't ordain women for the very same reason. It has nothing to do with who's more worthy or suitable for Holy Orders in the same way that the ban on non-Catholics receiving Holy Communion has nothing to do with any moral or spiritual judgment on the persons involved. It has to do with Sacred Tradition, which is considered as divinely inspired as Sacred Scripture.
The reason the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches are unable to ordain women — be it to the diaconate, priesthood, or episcopacy — is actually threefold:
- The Church can't change what constitutes valid matter for any of the seven sacraments.
- Sacred Tradition, nearly 2,000 years old, has never had an instance of women priests.
- Jesus didn't ordain any women or call any of them to be apostles — thus excluding his mother even!
The Sacrament of Holy Orders
No pope, bishop, or council can change the constitutive elements of any of the seven sacraments, and a valid Sacrament of Holy Orders requires a baptized male to be ordained by a validly ordained bishop. Maleness is as essential to the Sacrament of Holy Orders as wheat bread and grape wine are to the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. So just as the pope can't change the requirements of valid matter for the Holy Eucharist, he can't change the requirements of valid matter for Holy Orders.
Sacred Tradition
Both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches believe that the revealed Word of God is both written (Sacred Scripture) and unwritten (Sacred Tradition). When the Bible is silent or ambiguous, Sacred Tradition authentically fills in the gaps. Sacred Tradition shows that women were never ordained, and Pope John Paul II's encyclical, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (1994),clearly states that women can't be ordained.
It's not considered a matter of injustice, because not all men are allowed to be ordained. Just having a personal vocation isn't enough. The local bishop must call the man. No man can demand or expect ordination, because it's a gift, not a right. Think of it like this: Just as it's not unjust for men not to be able to give birth, it's not unjust for women not to be ordained.
Jesus and his apostles
The Church points to the fact that Jesus was both God and man. From all eternity, he was divine with a divine nature, intellect, and will. But he was also born of a human mother and took on a human nature as well. In his divinity, Jesus was God and pure spirit, but in his humanity, he was a man. His gender was more than accidental, because the Church is his bride. And because the priest acts in persona Christi (in the person of Christ) as an alter-Christus (another Christ), then the priest reflects Christ to the entire Church whenever he celebrates any of the sacraments. The maleness of Christ was part of who he was, and therefore, Jesus only called men to be his apostles even though his mother would've been a far better choice. But if a woman were to be ordained, she couldn't be espoused to the Church, because the Church is considered mother. A mother needs a father to complement the equation.
Catholicism regards Jesus as the groom and the Church as his bride. The priest is another Christ who acts in the person of Christ. The male priest represents the male Christ, and the priest is in a spousal relationship with the Holy Mother Church. Women priests don't fit into that typology.
The changing roles of women
Women have come a long way since the early and medieval Church. Although they can't be ordained priests, women have equal rights to be sponsors at Baptism and Confirmation. In Matrimony, they're treated and regarded as 100 percent full, equal partners with their husbands. Women can serve on the parish council and finance committees. They can be readers at Mass, extraordinary ministers (laypersons who assist the priest at Mass to give out Holy Communion) if needed, and ushers. They can work in the parish office, teach religious ed, and so on, just like their male counterparts. And many parishes have women pastoral associates — usually nuns or religious sisters who help the pastor with many spiritual and pastoral duties. In addition, women can hold positions of influence and power even in the diocesan chancery. The Church has women who are canon lawyers, judges, and chancellors across the country. The Church has allowed local bishops and pastors the option to permit female altar servers at Mass. Now many parishes have both altar girls and altar boys.


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On Friday I had both lunch and dinner served with hot stone. The Bloke & I had errands in Civic and decided to lunch at a favourite place of mine: Godori. There is not much better for lunch on a cold day than a hot stone bowl of BiBimBab. You can warm your hands by it (don't touch!) and your lunch stays nice and hot all the way through your meal. A cup of lemon and ginger tea was also very welcome - their variety includes some honey-preserved lemon, kind of like marmalade. You get a little sweet nibble at the bottom of the cup.
Dinner was a friend's birthday do at Maddison's way down south in the Tuggeranong Vikings club. This is a big club restaurant, and a big club, too. The club seems like a pretty good thing for people down south: they have a lot of different sporting groups affiliated with them. it's not just football or bowls. We even bumped into another inner-northie friend who was there selling tickets for a bicycle club fundraising raffle.
So, Maddisons - it's big, it's the usual clubby thing. You have to be a member or a guest, but as with most clubs that's easy. There's a big batch of pokies to the left of the entry way, but you can ignore them in the main body. The club has a Zierholtz beer on tap. I'm told there's a nice view of the Brindabellas, but it was dark.
You line up cafeteria style to make your order, but they serve your meals to you at your table. There is a self-serve salad bar stocked with a decent array of fresh salads. The lettuce is iceberg and there's tinned beetroot, but there's also some more modern styled options. I tried some of the chickpea salad, celery salad, and a very good potato salad with skin-on new potatoes.
I had a prawn cocktail ($10.30), which was an off-menu special. A totally retro construction of prawns, iceberg and pink sauce, it was a good one. The prawns were large, fresh and sweet. I had their "hot stone" specialty for a main course. This is a gimmick: you get a hot rock with a slab of raw meat on it - in my case a thick sirloin. A tiny space at the side of the stone houses a small potato and a bowl of gluey cheap pepper sauce. The idea is that you cook the meal to your own satisfaction - and it works more or less. It was also quite handy for reheating the Bloke's cold chips. The main difficulty is that the non-stone space is very small, so getting your steak off when it's done enough is a little tricky.
They do steaks, chicken, kangaroo and seafood options in this hot rock style, as well as other more standard meals. My steak would have been $19.50, but we got a meal deal: for $30 you get a stone grill, coffee or tea and dessert, and a Hoyts movie ticket. You don't have to have the coffee & cake option at the same time as the main, though I did since I'm not planning on returning any time soon. This is not bad value at all. Now we have to pick a movie.
Dessert was a "Murray Mudcake". This was described to me as their gluten-free option - I'm not 100% sure that's true, not that it's relevant to me. It's a chocolate cake base with a chocolate mousse filling and chocolate ganache topping. Not the greatest by any means, it was too sweet and not chocolatey enough for me, and the mousse seemed rubbery with too much gelatine. I googled it and find that it was bought in from Albury-Wondonga, probably frozen. They didn't stock any herbal teas, but there was a jasmine green tea, so I had that. It was a Lipton's teabag in a cup of off-boiling water.
So, not a gourmet destination, but it was cheap and cheerful and easy for a large group including kids. We had a good time, and my steak was cooked just right :)
Oh, if you've been wondering what else I've been doing in the last week, the answer is not much. Continuing my slow recovery from the flu, I made up some simple basic meals: a spaghetti bolognese and a keema. I cheated a bit using pre-sliced mushrooms for the spag, and a curry powder for the keema.


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Property Insurance Program: Summary of Protection
CFSA administers the Alliant Property Insurance Program for California's fairs. This is commercial coverage and there's no risk sharing or pooling. The Property Insurance Program protects all fair buildings located on your fairgrounds; your fair's premium is based on your individual property values. There is a $50,000 all-risk deductible; flood deductibles vary starting at $100,000. Note: Participating fairs must maintain at least $100,000 in business personal property coverage.
Here's a summary of the Property Insurance Program's highlights:
Coverage Limits:
- All-risk protection for buildings – $1,000,000,000 per occurrence, subject to the fair deductible.
- Flood protection for buildings NOT located in a designated flood zone – $50,000,000 per occurrence/annual aggregate, subject to the fair deductible.
- Flood protection for buildings located in a designated flood zone – $25,000,000 per occurrence, subject to the fair deductible.
- All-risk protection resulting from acts of terrorism for buildings – $250,000,000 per occurrence, subject to the fair deductible.
- Boiler and machinery coverage for covered objects at fairs -$100,000,000 per occurrence, subject to a deductible of $2,500 per loss.
- Business personal property, contractors/mobile equipment and business interruption/rents coverages – limits selected by fairs and subject to a deductible of $50,000 per loss. (Business Interruptions/Rents covers loss of rental income if a covered building can't be rented due to physical damage. The Rents portion of the coverage covers any loan payments on damaged property that can't be rented out.)
Valuation basis: Actual replacement.
Protection period: 07/01/2016 to 07/01/2017.
Lead Policy Layer: Insurer – Lexington Insurance Company.
Boilers and Machinery: Insurer – Lexington Insurance Company.
Earthquake Coverage: None.
If you have questions about this program and what it does or does not cover, please contact Tom Amberson at firstname.lastname@example.com or (916) 263-6180.


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"He who does not travel does not know the value of men." – Moorish proverb"
The first ever traveler on the Earth was Adam, certainly he was expelled from the heaven to the Earth.
Do you agree with me…? Don't you? Anyways it makes sense that the first travelers were Adam and Eve.
So, we have the virus or the germ of traveling in our blood, every human being is inherent the quality of a traveler.
I agree what Dalai Lama is said, "Once a year goes someplace you've never been before."(Dalai Lama)But most of the time we find difficult in the hectic lifestyle to spend some time in traveling; the busy schedule of life doesn't give some moment of leisure. So, try to steal some moment for yourself from your life. Better be a traveler not a tourist…! Jokes apart I like traveling whenever I steal the time. Now the Malaysian Government has given the opportunity to every blogger to visit Malaysia as a guest…ha…ha...but it is not a joke, on a free trip to Malaysia. If the blog is chosen among top 10 blog posts. I found it as a golden opportunity and First of all I visited the Malaysian Govt. official site to acquaint myself about Malaysia.
As I know India and Malaysia both countries historically and culturally are of same up to an huge extent because Once Malaysia was known as Malay, basically belonged to the Hindu Dynasty. Though Malaysia is now an Islamic country but culture of this country is very familiar to the Indians, so I can take this country my second home.
I was overwhelmed when I saw the images on the official site. Wow… What a picturesque sites in Malaysia …! Splendid! Marvelous…! I was spell bound. Very captivating, very…exotic locations are in Malaysia. I complete package is in front of me, by raising a hand I can touch it but it is not so that easy…
I can't define myself a traveler but after seeing the official site of Malaysia… I want to declare myself a traveler and a tourist. I agree with Ray Bradbury-""We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost."(Ray Bradbury).
Malaysian govt. has given the opportunity to choose the five locations of my dream choice to visit, but I think it might be injustice if the remaining tourist spots would not be seen. Through the images, anybody can easily understand that every tourist segment of Malaysia is a worth seeing place, so why injustice with the tourist…? I think Malaysian govt. should ponder over it. Anyways I have to fulfill the ritual of 5 tourist spot of my choice.
I am staunch nature lover. So I first choose:-
Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak- As I read the description of Gunung Mulu National park and I came to know about it. It is home to one of the longest amazing networks of caves in the world. And that really excites me to watch it. I don't know whether it was my dream to have an opportunity to visit such natural caves because I heard a lot and also watched some documentary on Discovery and National Geographic channels. I am dying to see it and may be, I will overcome my fear of darkness.
|Arial view of Gunung Mulu National Park
The amazing pinnacles at Mount Api are absolutely stunning to witness. A visit to Mulu NP will bring my holiday in Malaysia to new heights! I don't see any pinnacles like structure- this will be my first encounter with any Pinnacles.
2-Taman Negara National Park- What specific feature about Taman Negara National Park attracts me...? No one can guess...? when I read that this is is one of the oldest tropical rain forest in the world. It features massive trees, waterfalls, jungle treks of various duration and the world's longest canopy walkways. Several trails enable the visitor to explore the forest without a guide.
|Taman Negara
|Taman Negara Canopy Walkway
3-Batu Caves- I put Batu Caves at third place to visit. A limestone outcrop located just north of Kuala Lumpur, Batu Caves has three main caves featuring temples and Hindu shrines. I am a Hindu, so it would be a special visit for me except India, It would be a special treat and special feast for my eyes to visit this place. As in the image, a large statue of Goddess is seen-I can say I never ever see such a huge statue in my life. So I won't miss the chance.
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4-Langkawi Island, Kedah:- Langkawi is the world class resort destination- as it is mentioned in so many places. , Langkawi's tropical splendor should not be underestimated despite the tinge of over development that includes a gondola that takes visitors to the top of the mountain for great views (never mind that it is intrinsically an eye soar against the brilliant blast of green jungle. It is located just south of the Thai-Malaysian border on the developed west coast of peninsular Malaysia. Enjoy the clear waters, duty-free shopping, and sneaky monkeys. Such description catches anyone's attention to visit the place. The amazing pictures give Langkawai in fourth place.
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5-Kuala Lumpur: - This city is the capital of Malaysia is the tourist attraction in so many ways. As the shopping point of view it offers a lot to the tourists. Affordable rates give the tourist an awesome experience of shopping. The unforgettable experience of Kualalumpur is the Petronas Twin Towers. It was the world's tallest buildings till 2004. However, the towers are still the tallest twin buildings in the world. But the worth remembering feature is a sky bridge between the two towers that I can say after witnessing the bridge.
Some other places that I put in my chart of visiting are as:-
Pertentain Islands-
It is situated off the coast of notherneastern Malaysia not far from the Thai border. It is must go place for the budget travelers. Some most beautiful beaches and great diving are there. These beaches are a beautiful blend of white sandy shore ad turquoise blue sea.
Pulau Tioman:-It is a small island. It is selected as one of the world's most beautiful islands. It is an ideal for marine life forms. It has white coral reefs.Certainllly a paradise for scuba divers. I would to see it, if I get a chance.
There are so many destinations, tourist spots, worth seeing places, travelling sites in Malaysia and I am helpless to count them. So I am finishing my blog. I last thing I want to mention here that I am a vegetarian and I don't think, if I visit Malaysia I will find any difficulty for veg food.
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Missing kayaker named as search continues
A man whose kayak overturned on a river swollen by Storm Katie has been identified as Grant Broster.
The 56-year-old got into difficulties as he used his family's kayak on the River Wey in Guildford city centre on Monday afternoon.
Surrey Police is continuing its search for Mr Broster with Surrey Fire and Rescue and Surrey Search and Rescue along the River Wey near the Guildford Borough Council offices.
Searches continues on the River Wey in Guildford for missing kayaker Grant Broster
Mr Broster's wife, Rachel, from Guildford, said in a statement released through Surrey Police that their son went into the water to help her husband - but the youngster was pulled to safety.
She said: "Grant was using the family kayak which capsized. He had not seen the flood warnings.
"Our son entered the water to try and help his father but was pulled to safety. Although there have not been any further sightings of Grant, the extensive search continues.
"The family would like to thank all the emergency services and agencies who are involved in the search for Grant, particularly Surrey Police, for their dedicated help."
The Environment Agency had issued a flood warning for the river in the Godalming area after it was swollen by Storm Katie.
Officials warned the river was "rising steadily throughout the day in response to recent rainfall".
The Wey Kayak Club warned on Twitter on Monday that the river had "dangerous conditions".
Onlookers said the kayak "was being dragged around like a bottle very fast" and while the boy made it to safety, the man vanished in the water.
Christopher Jackson wrote on a community Facebook page: "(I) heard (a) dad telling (his) son how to paddle in passing ... we could see the canoe was being dragged around like a bottle very fast."
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Eep, Doc Fox got a little close to the wall with that hip-wiggling Vette. Turns out hooking a car up on the street isn't quite as easy as easy as it looks on TV. We have hundreds of cars in line for Woodward Ave racetrack, and as you can see from the photos, there's some real skill required to keep it straight all the way down the 8th-mile.
Like all good street races, there's no score board, but as our timing guys Brock and "Corn" told us, "The fast ones look fast." So far the fast ones have been Tom Bailey's 69 Camaro (of course) and Bryant Goldstone's 73 Javelin (duh), but we saw a nasty-quick Charger make a pass too. Gonna go hunt that one down. Both Bailey and Goldstone's passes were full-track smoke, and the Camaro got a bit out of shape at the top end. "You do that for showmanship?" we asked Tom. "Can we say I did?" he answered. Turbo cars are hard to pedal because they keep building boost so if you get off and back on, you're putting more power down. See for yourself.


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Apple has put in a bid to buy AuthenTec, a mobile security company specializing in fingerprint recognition. Apple has offered $356 million for the company, though the merger still awaits final approval from AuthenTec and the US government, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission Filing (link via NYT).
So what does this mean? Assuming the purchase happens, Apple could gain an edge in security. AuthenTec makes software to help people manage their digital identities, security processors, VPN security, NFC products, and fingerprint sensors that are quite robust. On its website, AuthenTec claims that its fingerprint sensor can independently remember all five of your fingers and can act as a touchpad as well. For instance, if you swiped your ring finger across the pad, it could automatically launch eBay, or another app of your choice.
Imagine if future iPhones and iPads had a round Home button with an embedded fingerprint sensor. It could be used to automatically launch an NFC Mobile Wallet app and as an added layer of authentication during any interaction. You would no longer need to unlock your phone. It could detect your thumb print and unlock for you. The sensor can also replace passwords for you. After all, a fingerprint is a better security measure than a password.
Future MacBooks could have this functionality built into their touchpads or somewhere nearby as well. If an Apple TV came out, this functionality could be integrated into the remote control, assuming there is one.
The original Motorola Atrix had a fingerprint sensor built into it (shown above). Motorola didn't take full advantage of its potential, but you could unlock the phone with it.
The great thing about Apple potentially implementing a fingerprint sensor like this is that if it integrates it into the iPhone and opens it up for developers, many of them will begin to write apps and games that utilize it in new ways, enabling a whole wave of new innovation. This is thanks to there being only one iPhone. Android developers, on the other hand, never supported the Fingerprint sensor on the Atrix (assuming they could) because the Atrix is only one phone of hundreds of new Android devices.
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The Wenger Matterhorn Plus is a large 85mm model similar to the Tool Chest Plus.
Discontinued model.
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Layer Tools
- Large Knife Blade
- Nail File - Nail Cleaner
- Metal Saw - File
- Wood Saw
- Fish Scaler - Hook Disgorger - Line Guide
- Mineral Crystal Magnifier with Precision Screwdriver
- Scissors
- Orienteering Tool - ruler and compass for navigation
- Universal Wrench
- Phillips Screwdriver - pressure activated lock
- Bottle Opener - Locking Large Screwdriver - Wire Stripper - pressure activated lock
- Can Opener
Back Layer Tools
Scale Tools
Standard red synthetic scales.
This is a discontinued model and the Matterhorn name has been reissued to another newer model. See related knives below.
There is a left-handed version (1.31.103).
- 16996 Wenger NA Model: standard red Cellidor scales
- 1.31.03 Wenger AN: standard red Cellidor scales
- 1.31.03.02 Wenger AN: standard black Cellidor scales
- 1.31.103 Wenger AN: standard red Cellidor scales (left-handed)
Related Knives
- Matterhorn Original - Missing the ruler compass and replaces the nail file with a clip-pointed utility blade
- Matterhorn New Style - Completely different knife that includes a high decibel whistle
- Tool Chest Plus - Adds pliers


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True Canadian Taste
Yeah, I was pretty surprised too when I saw he was drinking a Molson.
Thanks to Jeff for this photo, which he stole from his friend's Facebook page.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
I don't really go out on the weekends because of my crippling bacne, so instead I stayed home and made a new blog. Hope you like/hate:
Wheels of Steel
Teenage girl giving lapdance to another girl in a wheelchair while many other teenager girls look on? Has someone been rifling through my wet dream journal?
Friday, April 23, 2010
Ladies' Night
I recently had dinner with my 40-something cousin, who told me that one of his cousins on the other side of his family,Andy, had just become Alice. His words to his cousin on the decision were: "do what makes you happy, but why the fuck would you want to be a 55-year-old woman?"
If you enjoy middle-aged men dressing as middle-aged women, then please check out my new blog, Woman FAIL.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
World's Worst Party Trick
Basically a human version of my favorite commercial ever:
Strangely, I found this picture when searching the term "shitfaced" on Flickr.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Try It, You'll Like It
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Man Day Thursday: Man Shotgunning
It's been a while since a proper Man Day Thursday, mostly because I've been too lazy (do you have any idea how much right-clicking and ctl+v'ing it takes to make a Man Day Thursday post? At least 3 minutes worth!). But each week that passes, I get more and more thirsty for some man-quenching. I need to get it in my body sa fast as humanly possible. I want the laws of physics to pump it into me almost faster than I can swallow. I WANT MAN SHOTGUNNING!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
I Hate the Homeless
There's the same homeless guy always begging outside my office building every day. I call him Moondog, and he looks like Kris Kristofferson + Gandalf. The other day I saw him working a different block. It was weird - we sort of acknowledged each other in the way you would nod at someone who was a friend of a friend, and he didn't try to panhandle from me. It was almost like some sort of professional respect or something, since he wasn't working my block. It's kind of like when I see my liquor store guy at the gym.
I guess the difference with Moondog and this girl is that I've fucked Moondog.
You Can Never, Ever Go Back
Try as you might, unless one has a hot tub time machine, you can never go back and relive your prom and do it WAY better.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Comes Full Circle.
Match the colors on each side. Complete the chain. Ourobouros.
Rubix cube contestants Ramones tees:
Ramones interviews on Squirt TV:
I'm about 85% sure I sat next to Jake Fogelnest of Squirt TV on bench waiting for customer service at the bank recently. I desperately wanted to tell him how much I love this video clip of Joey Ramone throwing chairs of the balcony, but I was afraid for the 15% that it wasn't actually Jake Fogelnest and I'd just be harassing some hapless bank customer.
This was just the most boring celebrity sighting story ever told.
Fondue Party
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Amish Dads Are Right
This Amish guy's dad was amazingly accurate when he warned him that when his son went out into the normal world to see what it was like, he'd be surrounded by people who planned on corrupting him.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
I don't really understand the physics of what's going on here, and mostly I'm referring to that really ugly coat.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
OMG This Guy is Super Fucked Up!
This people are so Eastern European I can't believe there's not a stray emaciated kitten somewhere.
Oh here it is!


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The club starts at 12.05pm, but you can come earlier and eat your lunch in the classroom. It usually takes place in room E13, but look out for any changes.
We play games and quizzes (with prizes!), watch videos, and then usually leave you with something to think about.
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Prior to 1946 there was no unified approach for preserving historical state records in Oregon. The Secretary of State had custody of the Legislative Assembly and the Governor. Other agencies cared for their own records. Some records of defunct agencies were deposited with the Secretary of State or the State Library, but some were destroyed. The Oregon Historical Society in Portland held the Oregon provisional and territorial government records due to a lack of storage space in Salem. Many records documenting state government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries disappeared over the years, and the fire at the state Capitol in 1935 consumed additional records.
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Many developers, both inside Linden Lab and in Open Source, are constantly implementing new features and fixing problems with the viewer. One of the most important ways that you can help with that process as a user is to install and try these development viewers and provide feedback.
All of the viewers here are under active development - there may be some problems with existing features; if you want a more stable experience, use the released Second Life Viewer.
There are several places to look for viewers that need testing:
Snowstorm Team Builds
These are issues being put through our pre-integration team QA.
- Scripts Progress windows Missing
- Music stream does not always restart after teleporting
- Change size of Block button in dialog boxes to help prevent accidental clicks
- [#STORM-1816] When I upload a texture, the "preview as" dropdown in the preview window is hidden under the texture
- [#STORM-1821] As a user, I would like more resolutions to the dropdown for changing viewer size.
Details for these builds (build logs, included changesets)
- Mesh deformer test version 0.3.2 This version appears not to be deforming; update coming.
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- Ternary/graded shadow support. Translucent things cast light shadows.
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- This viewer implements an alpha version of a deformer for mesh clothing. This is a very early version - clothing should not be designed on the assumption that the transformations in the this viewer will remain stable. It is made available only to explore the feature and its limits; report results in STORM-1716 please.
Source: https://bitbucket.org/oz_linden/storm-1716
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- Contribution by Tonya Souther and Sione Lomu
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- Add a Local tab to the texture picker that allows a local file on the viewer system to be used as a texture when building, with the option to have it auto-update when modified. The texture is only visible to a viewer on that system (is gray to everyone else)
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Why is Bloomberg the fall guy for Ground Zero Mosque protestors . . . isn't GE facilitating its construction?
Your issue isn't with Bloomberg Andy . . . follow the money. Like all politicians he is influenced by powerful money interests. For example, GE (an American icon corporation) indicates that they "want to become a regular sukuk issuer over time," having already issued a $500 million bond.
In fact, besides "tapping" Islamic investors as part of an $8 billion strategy, GE, expressed their hope that "other Western players would follow GE Capital's lead and issue sukuks." Isn't this sleeping with the enemy Andy?
Like any politician, Bloomberg will one day be gone, yet the power money intent on cultivating the Islamic financial pool- including the driving force behind the Islamic Financial Platform (and other similar vehicles) will remain. Why not go after GE? Bloomberg is after all just a political pawn for big business and Wall Street in America.
from a Facebook conversation stream with 911 Hard Hat Pledge Founder Andy Sullivan
I have never understood why those opposing the building of the Ground Zero Mosque constantly paint Bloomberg as the bad guy, referring to "his" Islamic Financial Platform as being an economic Trojan Horse.
In an earlier post I had made reference to the fact that within the context of the traditional London-New York financial rivalry, there is concern within the American business community that British capital is already streets ahead in terms of the race to become the global center for tapping into the wealth of Muslim investors who are as one article put it "sitting on piles of oil-generated cash that needs a home."
Bloomberg is merely catering to the most powerful influence that often times trumps everyday American citizen interests, which is money. In particular, corporate America and the Financial community including Wall Street.
By following the money I would write, we can now understand the driving forces behind New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "launching" as Pamela Geller put it, of the Islamic Sahri'ah Finance Platform, which is based in large part on the desire to maintain New York's leadership position in the world of global finance.
In the race to tap this lucrative reservoir that is Islamic money, neither Bloomberg, American businesses such as GE, or for that matter the financial community including Wall Street view the Ground Zero Mosque debate as anything more than a welcomed polarizing misdirection that like waving a red flag to a bull, distracts the public from the real game that is being payed out on the global stage. To these financial moneychangers, currency has no allegiance to any one nation, religious beliefs or societal sensibilities beyond their convenience in forwarding their own interests.
Think I am wrong. Well let's look at my extensive coverage of the pharmaceutical industry where companies such as GlaxoSmithKline recently paid a hefty settlement for knowingly selling tainted baby ointment and an anti-depressant drug about which they were fully aware was little more than a placebo.
Let's also not forget the illegal off-label marketing practices of Johnson & Johnson and Astra Zeneca in which they willfully violated the law to promote a secondary use of an FDA approved drug even though the target market to which their efforts were directed were susceptible through its use, to a heightened rate of mortality.
Of course there are few examples where the soulless and faceless pursuit of wealth is more evident than it is on Wall Street, with its maze of Ponzi schemes and obfuscating self-regulatory practices, the existence of which Alan Greenspan had at one time denied.
Even going back to the Second World War, and the pervasive belief that American corporations, lawyers, bankers and financiers who collaborated with the Nazis during that global conflict, exerted tremendous influence to thwart investigators delving into their seditious activities after the war, speaks to the interests of a purported hidden American society in which the universal language is money.
To what degree the above is true is a debate for another day. However it is safe to say that in the overall scheme of things, Mayor Bloomberg and the controversy surrounding the Ground Zero Mosque are like the proverbial iceberg, in that they are just the tip of a much larger story.


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1. Parle-G Biscuits
Because it was value for money biscuit and tasted good.
2. Shaktimaan
Because he was our first desi superhero and we just could not get enough of him.
Superman and Spiderman still had a long way to go before their foray into mainstream Indian entertainment.
3. Doordarshan
The first channel we knew existed and only for the sole purpose of watching Shaktimaan. The only other purpose the channel served was to help you get bored to sleep.
4. Hum Paanch
Because every Indian girl knew she was similar to one of the five girls on the show.
And that fact that Vidya Balan had acted in it then made absolutely no difference to us.
4. If you spent a lot of time figuring out which one was better
Big Babool or Boomer
But it did not matter, because wrigley's wiped out the market soon enough
5. You got used to seeing two roses kissing and electric lightning and hearing sound of thunder at the start of any passionate scene in a Bollywood movie.
6. When you played Mario and Alladin on the PC
8. Acronyms like DDLJ, DTPH, KKHH, HAHK make complete sense to us
10. When you have seen Antakshari on the tv so many times, yet you do not remember anyone else other than Anu Kapoor being on the show
11. Sunday morning tv meant "Jungle Jungle Baat Chali Hai Pata Chala Hai! Chaddi Pehen Ke Phool Khila Hai Phool Khila Hai!" The Jungle Book aired every Sunday morning at 9.a.m and we just loved mowgli, bhalu and bagheera.
For elders, and especially if you have grandparents living with you, Sunday mornings could also very sadly turn into Mahabharata with the televised series of the epic tale aired on Doordarshan. Which tormented child can forget the unmistakable sound of "Mahabhaaaaaaaaaraata" playing in the background during the show?
12. When you catch yourself humming the tune of "Main to raste se jaa raha tha, Main to Bhelpuri Kha Raha Tha. Tujhe mirchi Lagi to Main Kya Karoon."
Because you were bored of listening to Vico Turmeric then and now.
Vicco Turmeric,Nahi cosmetic.
Vico Turmeric Ayurvedic Cream
Keel-Muhaso ko Jad Se MItaaye
Haldi-Chandan ke Gun Ismein Samaye.
Twacha ki Raksha Kare, Ayurvedic Cream
Vico Turmeric WSO cream.
14. And also
Ghadi detergent-Pehele istemal kare fir vishwas kare
15.When we thought of MTV in 90s, Cyrus Brocha was the main face.
He was the coolest thing back then on the tv.
16. When you watched it badly to impress that girl, in your class, with your quizzing ability.
17. When you know which detergent brand hema rekha jaya aur sushma like.
Washing powder nirma
Washing powder nirma
Doodh si safedi
Nirma se aaye
Rangeen kapde bhi
Khil khil jaaye
Sabki pasand nirma…
Washing powder nirma
18. Because Windows 98 was in vogue and Road Rash was the third coolest game around. Nothing gave us more pleasure than beating the policeman who came chasing after us.
19. When lattu, gilli danda, golli were not played for the sake of passing time, but as a matter of prestige.
20. Also when it was raining outside, you'd rather just play with your trump cards. Of American WWE stars.
21. When Frooti came in green packets and not yellow
22. Every school kid had a Milton Water Bottle hung around their necks.
23. Maruti 800 was the car of the decade and Ambassador came second.
24. Yeh dil maange more was not a movie but a style statement
25. Casettes and tape recorders were still considered cool
26. Fashion TV was the only thing closest to Porn.
27. Excite Bike
Again, the 4th coolest game of the last decade.
28. Brick Game
Who hasn't spent hours at this?
29. Because summers meant chuski and rooh-afza
32. Because Melody was there way before Eclairs
31. Because this gadget was as cool as it got


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Discussion in 'Election Forums' started by beretta304, Sep 17, 2012.
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Just a heads up, we have a new Election Forum. These type of threads can go there. Thanks!
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It's still political Last I looked this is the politics section and polls and elections are part of politics. When did that change?
What? There is a new whining nutter bitch forum? Where is it?
We just created it so the Politics forum doesn't get so overloaded in the next month.
I posted a link in my post.
Um..........sarcasm alert.
Wouldn't it have been easier just to create a beretta304 forum?
Hmmmmm. I wonder what name we could give a forum like that............?
Go fuck yourself. Why don't you run from this section like you do all the others.
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Last month, I wrote about the psychological dynamics behind the sacred spaces we create together and the ways we might utilize the power of sacred space to create a better world. This month, I'll be writing about what happens when the people to whom we have given power abuse it, and in doing so weaken both the internal and external cultures of the imagination we've worked so hard to build. Specifically, I'll be writing about the work of Marion Zimmer Bradley (MZB), its influence upon a generation of Pagan women and the destructive effects of the recent pedophilia allegations against her.
The younger Pagans among you might not recognize the name, but if you're a Pagan woman of a certain age, you'll remember that MZB is the author of a much-beloved novel called The Mists of Avalon. This novel tells the Arthurian story from the point of view of its women and follows the life of Morgaine, otherwise known as Morgan le Fay. It was released in 1983, just a few years before I left an abusive family of Jehovah's Witnesses to live with my grandmother, who was also a Christian conservative. An avid reader, I found the novel in 1986, and it changed my life in ways that echo even now. It was the world I wanted to live in; a place where women existed in community with one another, where they wielded the ancient power of the divine feminine, where the sacred was protected from the mundane. Because of that book, I was drawn to Western European Paganism, and then to Celtic Pagan spirituality, and then to a degree in Celtic Studies, and then to Cape Breton. In a very real sense, The Mists of Avalon shaped my own culture of the imagination and helped make me the woman I am now.
In hindsight, it sounds uncomfortably like what Moira Greyland has written of her mother. Interestingly, that passage struck me a
C.S. and Carol: I actually have found a paragraph from one of the Avalon books which could, in a certain light, be construed as a
In re: Diana Paxson and the MZB situation, please see Diana's public statement here: http://www.diana-paxson.com/writing/avalon/ma
Thanks for this, Anne.
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In this tournament HIARCS ran on a HTC Touch HD (ARM/528Mhz) mobile device.
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(This is part 3 from the script of a presentation to the Offshore Alert (Europe) conference in the City of London on November 13 2018.)
Ten to 12 years after the Brinton raids Thai Police were still making the occasional raids on 'call centres' under pressure from embassies or when whistle-blowers made statements. They knew there was always money there.
It was a familiar pattern.
Rooms raided. Rank and file scammers deported.Bosses 'talked to'. Whistle-blower runs for his life. Scammers return.
The scammers were even (53) allowed to hide their faces at press conferences before being deported. This was unusual in Thailand. There are rules in place banning this form of 'perp walk' but they are ignored. Now being a whistle-blower in Bangkok was even more dangerous than the UK.
One of those raids was on a Hayward room in (54) a detached house in Thonglor Soi 25, Bangkok.
The whistler-blower was Canadian Stephen Sharpe (55) who had been deported after the Brinton Group raid and had worked for many boiler rooms since.
Recently he worked for Hayward, whom he hated. But after he went to police it wasn't Paul Hayward who was on the run but Sharpe. And he came to me panic-stricken and leaving a computer file. I put him in a hotel but the next we spoke (56) Sharpe was crying down the phone from Manila, the worst place in the world to have run to.
It was boiler room central and home-turf for Hayward where he had an operation in the Pacific Star building, according to the Guardian. Worse, Sharpe had been banged up for drugs possession and the rape of a minor after being spotted at the LA Café in Ermita, a hangout for boiler room boys and prostitutes.
Now he was in a police station where (Senior Sergeant) SPO4 Carlos Cabrera had demanded to know what he had given to police in Bangkok.
For three years, he languished in jail supported by me morally and the FRG with money to buy food until the (57) Philippines Human Rights Commission investigated and found the 'minor' was a 27-year-old prostitute who'd never met Sharpe and had been paid to make it all up and I.D. him at the police station.
All charges were dropped (58) and their report called for the prosecution of Cabrera and five other Manila policemen.
Then in 2014 another angry but terrified young Texan called me (59) Philip Bean said he was being held against his will in a boiler room run by a Canadian in a private house in near Bangkok airport.
The place was full of drugs and his passport had been seized. The boiler room was run by a Canadian called (60) Frank Giannini. I'd read about him. Giannini should've been in jail.
He'd run down and killed two Thais, one a woman, in the Thai resort of Pattaya a year before. Police said they had also found drugs paraphernalia in his car. But the case had simply vanished as they often do. (Even child abusers complain about the cost of dropping charges in this city).
I told Philip to run and I'd pick him up outside Bangkok airport and meanwhile phoned a contact in the US DEA to act as go-between with the Thai police. It was a nightmare. He wrongly picked the Crime Suppression Division without telling me. I'd assumed he'd go for the Narcotics Suppression Division who'd let us see any computers or documents.
So, although the house was raided and Giannini and one other were charged with Ice and Heroin offences, the officer in charge, a moody Lt. Colonel Akkharawut Limrut wanted to charge Philip as well and locked the DEA out of the room (legal, but unusual) also refusing DEA access to Giannini's computers.
Both the DEA and I were puzzled at the Colonel's attitude. He had got a free arrest for which would be rewarded financially. But of course, as it became clear later, this was peanuts compared to what he was getting elsewhere.
Thankfully the DEA man stood his ground insisting that Philip was an informant not a suspect. Other officers were apologetic. One even reach into his pocket and gave him a 1000 baht note (about US$30)
I took Philip straight to the airport, but as he was leaving, he was searched, and police took that and all his remaining cash, calling it a charge for the inconvenience, and he was warned not to return to Thailand. (another reason I would not be departing Thailand through the airport with cash from my bank)
(61) I subsequently put up the story on my website, which, as my role as foreign correspondent had morphed into crime correspondent, had become a compendium of foreign crooks in Thailand. It was bit like Offshore Alert, but I also included property fraudsters, and resident wanted villains.
I also put up stories naming the scams Philip had been told to work on.
Then came a call from Hayward's go-between. The message was: "This is your get out of jail free card. Sell us your website."
As if that was not enough, this was followed by a call from the assistant to Colonel Akkharawut. The Colonel regretted we had got off to a bad start. A misunderstanding. Could I go in and help him with his investigations into call centres.
I could scarcely believe my ears. The DEA told me to stay away. That was rather my intention.
The next I heard about Colonel Akkharawut was that he'd fallen to his death during an investigation ordered by the Crown Prince of Thailand on the Central Investigation Bureau which included the Crime Suppression Division.
Police Colonel Akkharawut had been the boyfriend of the CIB chief General Pongpat Chyapan the most villified person in the affair so it was clear he had something coming to him. The CIB and CSD were the Prince's fiefdom.
Although a picture of the King was displayed prominently, as per Thai custom, pictures of the Crown Prince were up in most offices.
This was billed as a corruption crackdown. They were corrupt, naturally. Officers were accused of pretty much all the rackets in Thailand from human to wild life trafficking, to running illegal gambling dens and taking bribes. Houses full of loot had been found. All were jailed or disappeared after a one-day trial
But it was not a corruption crackdown. The Prince, now King, was merely doing some housekeeping. Out with the old. In with the new. Akkharawut and many others had got their positions through the Prince's latest wife, Princess Srirasmi. General Pongpat was her uncle. Now the Crown Prince had banished her from the palace and arrested her parents for insulting the Monarchy.
Hayward is the sole survivor of the Bangkok 5. Prather left, his remaining colleagues are all dead, Bell of a heart attack I'm told. Bullard of a drugs overdose in 2015 two weeks after his wedding. Then Hutcherson, who left Thailand after Bullard's death, died in Plano, Texas three months later. I don't know how. Probably a coincidence, but of course all the deaths are rife with rumours.
Hayward is the sole survivor and his Eclipse Group is now called (61) the Panthera Group which, per its website, says with no sense of irony that it takes its social responsibility seriously. But, like many of the boiler-room websites, uses generic pictures and does not list 'the team' or directors.
Many years have passed since my first boiler room story and I should say that all this time of course, I've had to do my real job in countries from Turkmenistan to Fiji. There had been many murders, the 2004 Tsunami. Two coups in Thailand, drugs wars, bombings in Bali, repression in Burma, I'd stood on the podium for the Great Turkmenbashi's birthday bash in Ashgabat and had tracked down Gary Glitter and exposed his activities in Vietnam, (the latter for a newspaper, which has since died of shame) not forgetting Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt collecting children there and in Vietnam.
Today boiler rooms in southeast Asia are run like franchises with the operators paying for the websites, products, and scripts. (63) Recently I've have named a couple more in Cambodia. But in 20 years nobody has been able to put an end to the scams.
The City Fraud Squad has passed on its enquiry to the Panama Papers Task Force which was formed in a fanfare in 2016. Apart from a short burst of publicity it has done nothing since to garner much media attention. I'm willing to be converted but I do not have the feeling that U.K. Law Enforcement is on top of cyber crime at all – and why nowadays would any British fraudster worth his salt defraud Britons from Britain, or Australian from Australia, when he can do it with impunity from abroad?
But all is not lost. Ken Gamble, who understands southeast Asia well has had some remarkable success, successfully banging up these people and getting cash back from Philippines based boiler rooms. Ken/handover
(NB Ken Gamble runs IFW.) You can see one of his operations at this aljazeera link. This was two months ago and the main men are still banged up.


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