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It's the final issue of IDW's Godzilla in Hell mini-series. To close out the run, Godzilla: Cataclysm artist Dave Watcher is brought back for art duties. He does more than just draw the comic, though, but also crafts the story and is an overall one man show on producing comic. The end result, while not reaching the heights of the first two issues, does stand above the previous two thanks to its stellar art.
For the comic's plot, the issue starts out with Godzilla traversing across a feature-less plain. This gives away to a fridged terrain, followed quickly by a burning enviornment. The ground eventually gives away, and Godzilla falls to a lower plain, one where his final challenge awaits...
Godzilla in Hell has come full circle. The first issue started off with an otherwordly tale before going into the realm approach where Godzilla fought off demon versions of other kaiju. This comic feels more otherworldly than others that followed the promising series debut, but borrows a slight realm motif. The issue is very light on any sort of text, not kicking in toward the end of the book. Godzilla's rival in the book is a Cthuhlu-like visage, but is never seen in full form. The finale to the series is bizarre as any, but leaves a lasting impact.
Story aside, the real show stopper for this issue is the incredible art by Watcher. The intro shot of the Cthuhlu-like beast at the top of its mountain is breath taking, as are many of the images of Godzilla. The detail placed is top notch and really sells the book. Outside of a few panels, Godzilla almost looks consistently great, and is very movie faithful with how the character looked in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002).
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Today, April 21, 2016, Canonical has officially launched the new version of its widely used Ubuntu Linux operating system for PCs, laptops, netbooks, tablets, and smartphones.
Ubuntu 16.04 is now the latest and most advanced version of the Ubuntu OS, which has been dubbed Xenial Xerus by Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. It is an LTS (Long Term Support) release that will receive updates and security patches for five years, during which multiple point releases will be made available (Ubuntu 16.04.1, Ubuntu 16.04.2, etc.). Best of all, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) uses a long-term supported Linux kernel, version 4.4, which will also receive security updates and bug fixes for a few more years than a normal kernel release would.
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Believe it or not, both doctors, Jessie's pediatrician and the auto-immune specialist from North Carolina, spoke yesterday afternoon. It was definitely a first for us so it gave us a little charge. Jessie was prescribed something to help her sleep for a very short term (10 days worth, if needed) and now we are being sent to a sleep center. Our appointment for a consultation is tomorrow morning. Jessie was really happy about this one (insert sarcastic tone.) Sheesh, this will make five doctors.
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Understanding language is a trivial task for humans, but when it comes to mimic that task by machines it doesn't remain that trivial. For humans, everything(image, text, speech etc.) is in terms for electrical impulses. In the same way for machines, everything is numbers either in the vector form (in the case of text or speech) or matrix form (in the case of images or videos). Deep learning has recently shown many promises for Natural Language Processing(NLP) applications. Traditionally in most NLP approaches documents or sentences are represented by a sparse bag-of-words representation.
A lot of work has been done, which goes beyond this by adopting a distributed representation of words by constructing a so-called "neural embedding" or vector space representation for each word(word2vec), sentence(thought vectors) or document(doc2vec).
1) Introduction and the importance of Word Embedding
2) Old methods used for Text representaion
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not to take anything away from this excellent topic, wanted to highlight that Word2Vec and the extension Doc2Vec are not examples of deep neural nets but are 2-layer NNs.
ref: http://deeplearning4j.org/word2vec
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I agree with you @Gaurav. But talking about deep learning on text, the most important thing is to come up with word embeddings. If your word-embeddings are not good then you will not get good results and porbably your system will just go mad. Hence I hope you understand that these algorithms are as important as the language models that you construct later.


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For years, Curly Haugland's command of the GOP rulebook made him a pariah. This year, he could be the establishment's last hope to stop its nightmare nominee.
To Haugland, extremism in defense of the party rules is no vice. His personal blog—on which he's shared chapters of his forthcoming book, Unbound: The Conscience of a Republican Delegate—is titled Curly Haugland Truthers. (His son named it, as a joke.)
"I don't care who the nominee is, particularly," Haugland says. "I'm trying to save the Republican Party from being destroyed, consumed or rendered useless by the primaries. We can choose our president one [of two] ways: delegates at the convention, or the vote of the mob, if you want to call it that—the general public in the primaries."
Haugland's view, almost extinct today, was common in American political parties until the 1970s. He thinks primary elections ruin political parties. In his eyes, primaries weaken party discipline, making parties vulnerable to infiltration by independents and the undemocratic influence of big money. "The modern smoke-filled room is what's politely referred to as the invisible primary—$150 million for Jeb Bush," Haugland says. "That's what's wrong with primaries."
So Haugland is against primaries of any kind, especially open primaries, winner-take-all-primaries and delegate slates chosen by candidates who win primaries. Above all, he's against binding the delegates to the results of primaries and caucuses. "Actually, I'm for every rule that prohibits those things," he says, "and those rules are on the books."
For every RNC rule that authorizes something he's against, Haugland cites an older rule that, in his interpretation, allows convention delegates freedom to vote their conscience on all matters. For example, Rule 16 explicitly says delegates can be bound "in a winner-take-all manner," but Haugland says that violates the intent of Rules 37 and 38, which prevent majorities in state delegations from imposing unanimity on dissenters. His ideal Republican convention: 1880 in Chicago, where James Garfield chaired the rules committee, wrote rules protecting delegates' freedom, then got the nomination as a dark horse after a deadlock.
Of course, when Haugland starts talking about subverting the will of the people, voters—and politicians who value them—recoil in horror. So there might be a few Republicans who wish Curly could be locked in a bunker this summer, preferably a bunker several thousand miles from the convention. But alas, it is not to be. As an RNC member, Haugland gets an automatic ticket to Cleveland. And at the North Dakota Republican Convention, held in early April at a hockey arena in Fargo, state party members elected Haugland to the national convention's rules committee. Since North Dakota held neither a Republican primary nor a caucus this year, party members also elected 25 unbound delegates to represent them in Cleveland. Ted Cruz came to the state convention to charm his fellow Republicans, as much as Ted Cruz ever charms anyone. Trump sent Ben Carson as his surrogate, perhaps because Trump's personality was thought to clash with North Dakota nice. John Kasich, who is known to despise the movie Fargo, did not make the trek.
When the rules committee convenes in Cleveland the week before the convention, Haugland will be at the table, ready to raise hell. And at least one of the causes Haugland will take up is thoroughly mainstream. Like many Republicans, he wants to rewrite Rule 40(b), the 2012 Mitt Romney concoction that says only candidates who have the support of a majority of the delegates from eight states will have their votes counted. At a contested convention, Rule 40(b) would've created a high bar for Kasich or a dark horse such as Paul Ryan to challenge Trump or Cruz, even on a third or fourth ballot. Haugland proposes to count the votes of any candidate with even one pledged delegate. That'd revive seven expired candidacies, from Jeb Bush's to Mike Huckabee's. "Rand Paul!" adds Haugland. "He worked his tail off!"
But if Trump comes into Cleveland with 1,237 delegates, as he's now expected to do, axing Rule 40(b) won't matter. He'll be the nominee, unless the Never-Trump Republicans do something drastic. That's where the party establishment could, in desperation, turn to the gadfly they've long brushed aside.
Haugland won't say what else he'll propose to the rules committee. "The element of surprise is important," he says. But he'll likely challenge his least favorite rule: Rule 16, which binds delegates to their state's primary and caucus results.
Specifically, Rule 16(a)(2) says that if bound delegates go rogue and try to vote for someone else, the secretary of the convention will ignore them and record their votes "in accordance with the delegate's obligation." Haugland claims Rule 16's language on binding is "fraudulent"—by which he means it was added in violation of proper procedure. He also says it contradicts the intent of older rules meant to preserve delegates' right to vote their conscience. The bound-delegate language was "written into Rule 16 by a bunch of Progressives who thought they could get away with it," he grouses. (That's capital-P Progressives, the 1910 reformers who introduced primaries, to Haugland's chagrin.)
Snip out Rule 16(a)(2), and the binding unravels. Some states' laws require the binding of delegates, but Haugland says they can't be enforced because of Supreme Court rulings. And rogue delegates could escape state-party sanctions back home, he suggests, because most convention votes are announced by state, not individual roll call. "See, people haven't thought this stuff through," Haugland says.
So here's how the nuclear option works: If Trump comes to Cleveland with a delegate majority, axing Rule 16(a)(2) could instantly dismantle it. Since delegates are typically longtime party activists, many delegates pledged to vote for Trump might be open to voting against him if unbound. Still, Haugland insists restoring the rules is his only motivation: He hoped to unbind the delegates in 2012, too. "I'm standing on principle," he says. "I'm not trying to obtain special advantage or disadvantage for anybody." Ask about the three candidates who lasted into May, and he praises them all, including Trump: "Why would he be a good president? His ability to manage large, complex enterprises." Cruz, he says, impressed lots of North Dakotans with his conservative stump speech. Kasich? Well, he's "a serious-minded person."
Dig deeper, and Haugland's desire for a stronger party is rooted in a deeply conservative impulse. Republicans in Ohio, where the state party committee is chosen in an open primary, are "RINOs," he complains. He says the party's post-2012 "autopsy," which called for compromise on immigration, clashes with its base's belief in "borders, language and culture." The past two "primary-chosen nominees," John McCain and Mitt Romney, "didn't work so well," he says. "Maybe the party should choose the nominee. Maybe we can do better."
Josh Putnam, whose blog Frontloading HQ tracks the delegate selection process, doesn't think much of Haugland's theories. "Mr. Haugland is oftentimes a committee of one on the RNC rules committee," says Putnam, a political science lecturer at the University of Georgia. Haugland's complaints about Rule 16 aren't new, and "fell on deaf ears" at the RNC, says Putnam. The idea that older rules allow delegates to follow their conscience? That's based on a selective reading, Putnam says. "I don't think it holds water."
Still, Putnam concedes, the Republican delegates really could choose to unbind themselves.
"That's an awfully dangerous game to play, though," says Putnam. "They'd face immediate backlash from Trump supporters and damage to the party's prospects in the national election." If Never-Trump forces challenge Trump at the convention even though he's the presumptive nominee, Putnam thinks an anti-chaos faction will emerge: Party regulars who may not love Trump, but would fight radical rule changes meant to block him. "The national party has said over and over and over again, if someone has 1,237 delegates, they're the nominee," Putnam says.
But Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the new book Primary Politics, calls Haugland's arguments "very sound."
"Curly is historically and legally right in saying there is a lot of discretion in the action of delegates," Kamarck says. "The argument he's making is that ultimately the decision is a party decision—which is in fact true." Party activity is protected by the First Amendment right of free association, Kamarck agrees, so state laws binding delegates don't matter. "The only way delegates will be bound is if, when they vote on the rules of the convention, they vote to bind themselves," she says. "Otherwise, they're not."
Haugland's argument is a lot like Ted Kennedy's at the 1980 Democratic convention, Kamarck says. Kennedy thought he could snatch the nomination from President Jimmy Carter if he could unbind the delegates. He even mocked the binding rule as the "robot rule," creating programmed delegates with no free will. On the first night of the convention, the robot rule became the test vote that revealed the candidates' strengths. Carter was in control of the convention, so the robot rule was overwhelmingly upheld.
Kamarck thinks the Republicans may choose chaos over Trump.
"I think the Republican Party is facing two bad choices," Kamarck says. If they unbind the delegates, Republicans will anger Trump voters, who might stay home on Election Day. "On the other hand, if they don't do that, they're saddling themselves with a deeply unpopular candidate who might have consequences down-ballot."
So the Republicans could execute a Full Curly in Cleveland. But should they?
Former Ohio governor and U.S. Senator George Voinovich, a Kasich convention delegate, thinks not. "If that happened, I think we'd have a real problem," Voinovich says. "I just think it's not democratic. People are pledged to vote for a candidate on the first ballot. We have an obligation to do that."
Schafer, the former North Dakota governor, predicts Haugland will lose this fight, like he's lost all the others. "I think what happens is the establishment takes over and nothing changes," says Schafer, "and he gets that cute little resolved smile of having tried and failed."
Haugland isn't worried that he could wound his party by thwarting the will of primary voters. He's convinced true conservatism will win in the end.
"I don't think a lot of voters are motivated to a single candidate," he says. "They will stay with the party. Voters want good government. They're not fussy about who delivers it."


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Mere SurgeryDark Lane, MereWarminsterWiltshire, BA12 6DTTel: 01747 860001
Patient Feedback
"The calling to speak to a doctor is extremely efficient. There is nothing I would change." (May 2019)
"I think the care and treatment at Mere Surgery is exemplary: empathic, tailored, wise and kind. We are exceedingly lucky to have such great people here" (May 2019)
"Having the physio available in the surgery is wonderful"
"The staff are friendly and helpful. I can think of no improvements at present. Thank you all for your care, consideration and treating me as an intelligent human being" (May 2019)
"I strongly feel that the care my family and I receive from the Mere Practice is excellent and that everyone in the practice has that "can do" attitude that makes it work so well"
"I feel totally at ease with the care, advice and help provided by the practice"
At Mere Surgery we hope to accommodate both people wishing for an appointment at short notice and those wishing to plan ahead. We therefore run two different appointment systems:
We encourage people to plan and book routine appointments ahead so maintaining continuity of care between doctor and patient. This can be done up to 3 months in advance.
We appreciate that at times you will need to be seen that day, often in the case of emergency or frequently because your busy diaries allow a visit only at certain times. If you wish for a same day appointment, unfortunately we cannot often offer your specified doctor but the duty the doctor for that day.
If you phone reception between 8.30 and 9.30 for a morning appointment and 1.30 and 2.30 pm for an afternoon appointment then the duty doctor will return your call and if necessary will arrange a time to be seen.
We operate a return call system as many questions and problems are satisfied by telephone advice saving you time.
Please bear in mind Dr Andrews works part time and only available two days a week.
A Practice Nurse or Health Care Assistant will be available each day and have pre-bookable appointments only. Unfortunately nurse appointments are not available to book online as some nurse procedures take more than the normal 10 minute appointment time. It is therefore extremely useful if you inform the receptionist of the reason for your appointment so that they can book out the correct amount of time for you.
A phlebotomist is available every morning Monday to Friday. Blood tests have to be completed before 12 noon as a courier comes to the surgery each day at this time to take the samples to the laboratory.
Please make it your responsibility to ensure you know the results of any investigations that you have had. (see Results Page)
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Please note that if you have provided a mobile number you will automatically be sent reminders for GP appointments unless you inform us that you do not wish to have this service.
If possible please try to telephone reception before 10am if you require a home visit.
A doctor or nurse may phone you back as it may be that your problem can be dealt with by telephone advice, or that it would be more appropriate to send a nurse, or indeed arrange a hospital attendance.
House visits are only available for patients who are housebound because of illness or disability.
Please remember that several patients can be seen in the practice in the time that it takes to make one home visit. There are also better facilities for examining and treating patients at the Health Centre.
Improved Access is a Wiltshire-wide initiative where local practices are working together to offer increased availability of services and appointments in the evenings and at the weekend.
Appointments are available 18:30-20:00 Monday-Friday, and Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays.
This collaboration by practices will ensure all patients in Wiltshire have this option, but this might mean you will be offered an appointment at another practice.
Appointment types will vary - some being face-to-face, some on the phone - and there will be a mixture of bookable and same-day appointments available across the week. We will be offering appointments with GPs as well as with other healthcare professionals, such as a Practice Nurse or Health Care Assistant.
We are keen to balance the importance of continuity of care with convenient access for patients, while ensuring that the service is safe.
To book such an appointment, contact your local Surgery during normal opening times. A receptionist will explain the process, and ensure the booking is appropriate. You will need to give consent to use this service.
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SC raps Delhi Police for callous probe in cash-for-vote scam
"We are not happy at all with the probe done by the Delhi Police. This is not the way to probe the offence of such serious nature," a bench of justices Aftab Alam and R M Lodha said.
The court expressed concern that no progress has been made by the police in the case. "Investigation has been done with callousness on the complaint filed by Lok Sabha Secretary," it said.
The bench said it was "fully dis-satisfied" with the status report filed by the police and pulled it up for not carrying out custodial interrogation.
"No substantial progress has been made in two years. We are really concerned. Investigation must move fast and it must be brought to its logical conclusion," it said.
Additional Solicitor General Haren Rawal assured the court that the investigation will be completed in two months after the bench severely criticised the police for not conducting proper probe and failing to take action against those involved in the scam which relates the trust vote faced by the UPA government in July 2008.
The court was hearing a petition filed by former Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh seeking directions to the government to take action against politicians involved in the scam.
As soon as the matter came up for hearing, the bench expressed surprise over the contents of the status report filed by the city police in the case containing just the statements made by some MPs.


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|We arrived in Monkey Mia (named after a boat) just shortly after noon. The beaches were gorgeous. We stopped off at Shell Beach, which was a really neat place. The shoreline is made up of millions of tiny little white shells for as far as you could see. In some spots, they say the shells are 15m deep!!! Further down the shoreline, they actually mine the shells for livestock feed (for the lime) and for landscaping products (instead of using bark mulch).
We caught a great sunset on the beach and had our first hostel cooked meal since Scotland. WAH we miss you, Kent!!!!!!


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STOCKTON – A 15-year-old McNair High student is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle while she was walking to school.
STOCKTON – A 15-year-old McNair High student is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle while she was walking to school.
Stockton Police Officer Pete Smith said the student was walking westbound across West Lane at Westmora Avenue at 7 a.m. when the car, which was not immediately described by police, struck the teenager in the No. 2 southbound lane.
She was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and later airlifted to the University of California, Davis, Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition this morning.
Smith said the case is pending investigation. There is no evidence of alcohol or drugs playing a factor.
"There is nothing to indicate this was anything more than a traffic accident," Smith said.
McNair Principal Jim Davis said the accident was the first vehicle vs. pedestrian incident involving a student since the school opened in 2006.
Davis said the school is providing counseling for students who need it but that the school would resume its day as normal otherwise.
"We really are just hoping for the best," he said.
Westmora Avenue is a residential street roughly one-eighth of a mile south of McNair High's entrance point at West and Morada lanes. There is not a crosswalk across West Lane from Westmora where the girl was hit. West Lane has a center divider between northbound and southbound traffic lanes.


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Robert Pollack, Rami Nashashibi, Lisa Lampman, Leon Weinstein, and M. Scott Peck — The Problem of Evil
Many around the world labeled the events of September 11 as "evil." President Bush in his recent State of the Union speech described "an axis of evil." But what does the word mean? It is a subject of enduring theological debate, even of scientific argument. It drives to the heart of the question: What does it mean to be human?


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Known for their one recording on Chess, "It's got to be a great song", which was released on Chess in 1967, The Tiffanies were formed in 1963 and were Roberta [Ferguson] Rivers, Mary [Young] Seymour-Williams, Karen Buncam and Eula McNair.
The record was originally issued on the KR label (Koppelman-Rubin Associates) in April 1967, with distribution by US Chess on number KR 0120; in the UK the record was issued by Pye on Chess CRS 8059 on 14 July 1967.
It is not known if the three ladies pictured on the video are The Tiffanies and no other photos of the group have been located.
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Bitcoin, Ehereum, Ripple, Litecoin and a few other high visible cryptocurrencies have made early investors very rich, very quickly. And they could make many more investors rich, provided that they continue to rise at the recent feverish pace that parallels big lottery Jackpots.
But that's unlikely, as these investments cannot defy the numbers game. This means that would-be rich investors must look for the next lucky coin elsewhere on the cryptocurrency list, while the hype for the digital currencies lasts.
|Bitcoin (BTC)
|Ethereum (ETH)
|Ripple (XRP)
|Cyder (CYDER)
|RubleBit (RUBIT)
Source: Coinmarketcap.com, Saturday, January 13, 2018, 10:30 a.m.
Still, picking up the next winners in the cryptocurrency space is a very difficult thing for a couple of reasons. One of them is that there are more than 1,000 cryptocurrencies to choose from — 1,426 to be precise. Another reason is that there are no "fundamental" metrics to appraise the "intrinsic" value of each coin, as is the case with conventional assets. The only thing available is a site with a promise the coin holds to change the capitalist world, should it be adopted to replace national currencies in day-to-day transactions.
Here's a quote from Eric Pichet, a KEDGE professor, regarding the "fundamentals" of Bitcoin, which applies to other cryptocurrencies: "Bitcoin has some of the attributes of a headless currency. Nevertheless, it has no intrinsic value ‒ not even as a collector's item because it is intangible," emphasizes Eric Pichet. "Nor is it a financial asset like a stock or bond because it has no returns. Its only investment value lies in the possibility of appreciation bestowed on it by those who hold it: it is an asset with no underlying."
[Ed note: Investing in cryptocoins or tokens is highly speculative and the market is largely unregulated. Anyone considering it should be prepared to lose their entire investment. Disclosure: I don't own any cryptocoins or tokens.]
Of course, these tips should be taken with extreme caution. Investing on hype rather than fundamentals is an extremely risky game, as it's hard to predict when the hype will fade, and coins will become near-worthless.


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A couple weeks ago we posted a tip on a fall favorite – caramel apples. Another favorite treat during the holiday season, and a growing snack trend this year, is popcorn. This week's tip is quick and will help increase the shelf life for your popcorn.
To increase shelf life, we suggest air popping your popcorn. Because popping with oil increases the chance for rancidity, if you air pop your popcorn, the shelf life of your product is increased. It's that simple but it works!
While we're sure your popcorn is so good it'll be flying off the shelves, we hope this quick tip will help you be able to pop your popcorn ahead of time so you can meet the demand for this great treat!
P.S. We're having a great week in Buffalo, New York for our Fall Regional. Be sure to check out event photos on the RCI Facebook page!


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The abs, the hair and the grimace (otherwise known as "Twilight" stars Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart) are featured in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, and so far one incredibly enjoyable soundbite has leaked.
During a discussion of Kristen's recent rape comment [she equated the constant onslaught of cameras to being sexually assaulted], the actress offered up this very legitimate mea culpa. "I used the wrong word. I should have said 'violated.' But I'm young and emotional. It's just the way it goes sometimes," she tells EW.
And that's exactly why PopWrap didn't cover the inciting incident — she had obviously misspoken and we didn't feel the need to make a big deal out of it. However the fact that so many other outlets did hasn't escaped Kristen attention. Or Rob's.
Kristen: I probably shouldn't say this, but I just feel like people got so excited once they saw that it was me. It was like, "Sweet! Let's get her!" And then for the people to exploit it under the guise of being morally upstanding is disgusting — and it embarrassed me because I was a part of it.
Robert: None of those associations came out and gave a statement [criticizing Kristen] without being called upon by the media first — who were doing it specifically to get hits on their websites. That whole system of Internet journalists, where no one is called to account, is almost entirely about hate. All these people get away with doing it because they have no responsibility to anyone. All they need is to get a salacious headline and people click on it, because it's easy. And it's quite good being part of these "Twilight" films because you have to give so many interviews all the time, you can defend yourself. That's the only way. All of us stick together, as well. There are so many little nerds behind their computers.
Kristen: See, if I said that? Crucifixion. You can say so much more than me. It's insane.
Robert:: That's not true at all. When did I say anything [controversial]?
Kristen:: You're really good, but you could say, "I just took a s***on the Queen's face," and people would be like, "Oh, I love him! I love him!"
A joke, I love it! Well played Miss Stewart!
But she also makes an interesting assertion — does Robert get a free pass in the press because he possesses some attribute (hair, cheekbones, personality) that Kristen lacks?
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- Can I eat honey with cholecystitis
- Features of the use of honey in cholecystitis
- Useful components of honey
- Can the honey in pancreatitis and cholecystitis
Honey is a natural monosaccharide, which is glucose and fructose. A simple carbohydrate, due to which the pancreas loses less enzymes for its cleavage (if you compare honey with sugar). Of course, we are talking about properly cooked honey without impurities. In artificial honey healing properties not found.
Can I eat honey with cholecystitis
Honey with cholecystitis use is permitted and encouraged due to a number of advantages. In particular, the product has a choleretic effect, is able to neutralize the pain and prevent from stagnation of bile (important for chronic cholecystitis).
Make the product is as follows 1 tablespoon dissolved in a glass of warm water and drink on an empty stomach in the morning. After receiving the go on your right side. Course of treatment 5 to 7 days. When calculous cholecystitis it is recommended to take corn on the cob with honey is one of the means for dissolving stones. Of course, any such treatment should be agreed with your doctor.
Features of the use of honey in cholecystitis
Honey therapy is not an alternative to drugs and diet. Honey recommended for use in General complex of treatment only in such situations its useful properties would be appropriate.
After attending physician to determine the recommended daily dose of honey, do not immediately consume the entire amount. It is better to begin consumption with a 0.5 teaspoon, and see how the body will react. If there are no side effects as skin rash, dysbiosis, you can use honey in the recommended dosage. There are several methods of consumption
- morning and evening drink 100 ml of diluted product
- 3 times a day to eat 1 tbsp. spoon
- each of these methods are designed for the use of honey in 1-2 months, with further interruptions
- with frequent constipation, you can eat 1 tablespoon of honey 1 tablespoon of aloe juice for 30 minutes Before eating
- honey, you can sweeten tea, juice, juice, yogurt
- allowable casserole with honey and other dishes.
Useful components of honey
The main beneficial properties of honey with cholecystitis and pancreatitis include antiseptic product has antifungal and antibacterial effects, strengthens the immune system. Honey stimulates the healing process of the connective tissue of the pancreas. The product stimulates appetite, optimises digestion and metabolism (especially fat metabolism). Honey improves the process of education in the bone marrow red blood cells, updates the composition of blood, eliminates free radicals, resulting in inflammatory processes.
Can the honey in pancreatitis and cholecystitis
Categorically it is forbidden to eat honey in acute pancreatitis as well as other carbohydrate foods. Banned product and in exacerbations of chronic cholecystitis and its use may worsen the patient's condition, as the product activates the function of the pancreas. It will manifest itself in the form of fever, vomiting, violation chairs.
The honey is allowed to take only 1-1,5 months after the period of exacerbation. In this case you must strictly adhere to dietary recommendations, otherwise there will be the risk of developing diabetes.
With pancreatitis the basis of the diet is the rejection of carbohydrates. Therefore, honey is only recommended to eat sweet product. In addition, it has a beneficial effect it is important not to break the regimen, to monitor the overall state, control the blood sugar.


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Photographs from the front line
Photographers write about their experiences from conflict zones around the world
Since the 1970s, William Wegman has been photographing his dogs in costumes and poses that are both funny and unsettling. It was all to do with 'putting the ordinary out of sync'
The Guardian's picture editors select photo highlights from around the worldGallery
PSG forward Edinson Cavani reacts after missing a chance to score during during their Ligue 1 football match against Lyon. Later in the match Cavani was smiling after scoring PSG's third in their 5-1 trouncing of Lyon
A selection of the best pictures from around the world this weekendGallery
The Fuhrer's fairytale artworks sell for £280,000 as Shrigley unveils Kingsley, the new face of Partick Thistle. Plus Joseph Cornell's dreamy collages, American outsiders and the secret lives of phone sex workers
The Guardian's picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the worldGallery
Pictures taken by women photographers featured in the Observer's New Review this weekend take courage to a new level, writes Tracy McVeigh
From fairgrounds to ladybirds: your best pictures on this week's theme, flyGallery
From bubbles to spider webs: your best pictures on this week's theme, patienceGallery
Photographer David Rochkind tells the story behind the powerful images from his book Heavy Hand Sunken Spirit, Mexico at War
Associated Press photographer Narciso Contreras describes the harrowing situation on the ground in Aleppo and tells the story behind some of his powerful images
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Dems Prepare Unemployment Benefits Plan
Associated Press Writer
House Democrats, seizing on words of support from President Bush, readied a plan to extend payments to laid-off workers through the middle of next year. Republicans drew up their own proposal and the issue of unemployment benefits is likely to be one of the first the next Congress takes up.
Under current law, benefits will run out for more than 800,000 people three days after Christmas, and the last session of Congress ended with the parties blaming each other for failing the needy in a faltering economy.
Incoming House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other top Democrats are to outline their benefits plan on Friday and press the GOP-controlled House to move swiftly to assist those who will lose their financial support over the holidays.
They picked up an important ally on Saturday when Bush, after declining to get involved in the issue for months, said in his weekly radio address that extending benefits should be "a first order of business" for the new Congress.
Bush's statement came with unemployment hovering around 6 percent, an eight-year high, and Democrats blaming the administration for the sluggish economy.
Congress, in an economic stimulus package passed last March, approved a 13-week extension in federal unemployment aid for people who have exhausted the 26 weeks of payments they typically can receive through states. That program expires on Dec. 28.
In the waning days of the last Congress, the Democratic-controlled Senate approved a $5 billion plan to extend benefits an additional 13 weeks, through the end of March 2003, for people currently receiving them. The House passed a more modest $900 million plan of five extra weeks for workers in a few states with high unemployment rates. They failed to reach a compromise.
The House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., presented data Thursday showing that the Democratic approach was too expensive and poorly targeted. Republicans said the unemployment rate is significantly lower than in past economic downturns, that there are fewer long-term unemployed and that sending federal money to states with strong economies was not fiscally responsible.
The committee also put the cost of the Democratic plan at $17 billion, saying that would eat up more than half of the $29 billion currently in the federal unemployment insurance trust fund, which is financed through payroll taxes.
Democrats said their proposal would cost $17 billion over five years, but only $10 billion over 10 years as the trust fund is replenished.
The Democratic proposal, sponsored by Reps. Charles Rangel of New York and Ben Cardin of Maryland, would extend the federal compensation program until June 30 for workers running out of benefits in 2003, and guarantee that workers in every state would be eligible for 26 weeks of benefits. It was estimated that some 2.5 million workers would receive these extended benefits in the first half of 2003.
Those whose initial 13 weeks of compensation ran out in 2002 would receive an additional 13 weeks under the plan.
On the Republican side, Rep. Phil English, R-Penn., said he would introduce a bill that would also extend the compensation program until June. He said his plan would provide 26 weeks of federal assistance to people in "high unemployment" states and give an additional six weeks of benefits to anyone who has exhausted their assistance without finding work.


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The Fowey Estuary has some outstanding, award winning hotels. Choose from boutique or grand, traditional style, all fabulously located with stunning views over the river.
All our hotels boast restaurants where you can dine in style, menus featuring the best of Cornish produce and extensive wine lists.
Some also have swimming pools and spas so if you're looking for a truly indulgent break in a beautiful part of Cornwall look no further. Most of our hotels have been assessed for quality.
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Small luxury hotel offering stunning river views from all rooms. Most bedrooms have a balcony and fantastic river views
A luxurious, family-friendly hotel in a stunning location. Equipped with a staffed nursery to amuse the children, while their parents enjoy the luxury of tea by a log fire or lunch on the terrace. Spa with swimming pool. Dogs welcome.


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Bali is a scuba, spear fishing, and snorkeling center, famous among divers for marine life, superb visibility, and sensational drop offs. Six hundred km of coastline and numerous offshore islands offer a wide range of snorkeling and diving locations. Your options include one of many operators offering snorkeling and diving trips or join an all-inclusive package that sails to dive sites around Bali and islands to the east. If it is not monsoon season October - April, count on warm tropical waters around 80 F degree.
Snorkeling is an excellent and safe activity for children. Abundant marine life can be enjoyed of the reefs off Sanur, Nusa Dua, Lovina and Padangbai, all accessible by boat. Snorkeling can be enjoyed anywhere there is scuba diving-if an area has good coral reefs, there will be snorkeling gear for rent.
Scuba diving is more expensive, frequently requiring land or sea transport to the best dive locations. The best diving on Bali is from around five to twenty meters, though during the wet season storms may reduce visibility.
Drift diving was made popular on Bali because techniques were needed to accommodate the deep currents surrounding the island. Divers usually suit up on the beach in front of the dive master's favorite restaurant.
Most operators take divers (two people per boat) to the dive site in outriggers (jukung) fitted with small outboard motors. Passengers often get soaked, no matter how skilled the boatmen, and sometimes you have to clear the boat off a fringing reef.
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How To: Maximize the Relationship with Your Development Partner
In the course of my work with brand managers, I've noticed a common set of complaints about web developers in general: we're poor communicators, we seem to miss obvious details and we're expensive.
While I am sure there are some truly unreliable teams out there, I can't help but think that a lot of this disappointment comes from a lack of understanding. In the spirit of progress, I'd like to share some insight on how I think you can get maximum value from your web development partner:
1. Show us your passion and vision
As web developers and marketing professionals, we learn about your school vicariously through you. Our mission is to help you succeed, so understanding what inspires you and your schools helps to get our creativity flowing as we tackle different elements throughout your project. We're in this together, so learning about what you're working on and why it matters is extremely important to us. The next time you're meeting with your web developer, be sure to spend a few moments up front talking about the "why" before you jump right to the "what."
2. Remember: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
The biggest time suck in a web project isn't usually slowness of work or poor workmanship, but time wasted due to poor communication. The web design process can frequently feel like a game of "telephone"; you know — the game where one person starts by whispering something, but by the time it gets to the end of the line, the message is totally confused? We can work nights and weekends to get a job done for you, but it won't matter if it turns out there was a miscommunication about what was supposed to be built in the first place. A few lengthy meeting to review and iron out the finer details of a project can be arduous, but remember: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
3. Set up regular check-in meetings
Web developers tend to be introverts, so impromptu meetings and phone calls don't come as easily as they may for some. Solve this problem by establishing a schedule of meetings or status updates up-front that will keep you in the know about what's happening with your project.
4. Express gratitude
A little bit of gratitude goes a long way. We once had a client bring in a pizza as a surprise for the development team when they were in the middle of a big project. Let's just say I've never seen so much good will purchased for so little money.
And for all you web developers out there, there was a great article on Happy Cog a while back about how you can also help bridge the communication gap and make the development process for seamless for everyone involved.
Good luck out there! Here's to setting correct expectations and effective communication all around.


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Work Tips: Have You Picked The Wrong Career?
Do you find yourself wanting to turn the alarm clock off when it buzzes loudly each morning or do you dread the idea of walking into your workplace everyday? You may have picked the wrong career path if you find yourself experiencing these signs. There is nothing worse than completing a course of study or internship in your field and realizing that you have chosen the wrong career path. Below are some additional signs that you may need to change careers before you find yourself in the daily grind in an unhappy way:
Being a pharmacy technician is a great job and wonderful responsibility for the right individual. Doing as much research as possible on the career of your choice is best and will keep you from making a big career faux pas later on.
1. Efron, Louis. "Six Signs You're In The Wrong Job." Forbes.com. Web. Date of Access: 17 Aug 2014.
2. Green, Steven. "6 Warning Signs That You're In The Wrong Job." Careerealism.com. Web. Date of Access: 17 Aug 2014.
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Silent 22
Silent 22 is a Lots For Soldiers group. The group meets on the 22
nd of each month from 5-7 p.m. at the Lots For Soldiers office at 112 N. Vine Street, Celina. Veterans are invited to join for conversation and coffee at this monthly "buddy check."
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Michael Martin Garrett, 33, a felon who escaped from a California state prison on Sunday, January 14th, was captured in front of a Vons grocery store in Encinitas at about 6 p.m. Monday, less than 24 hours later.
San Diego County sheriff's deputy Giovani Pantoja responded to a call of "a suspicious person" at a shopping center in the 400 block of Santa Fe Drive. Deputy Pantoja assisted a team from the California Department of Corrections to take Garrett back into custody, which was described as "without incident."
"The San Diego's Sheriff's office responded to the location where they observed Garrett standing in front of the store," according to a Department of Corrections news release.
The Twitter account for California prisons tweeted out at about 7 p.m. Monday night that their escaped prisoner had been captured.
"At around 9:15 p.m. Sunday, January 14, it was discovered that Garrett was not accounted for during the evening inmate count," according to Department of Corrections spokeswoman Krissi Khokobashvilli. "He was there at the 4 p.m. count. This was an escape from within the perimeter of the prison, which is very unusual."
Garrett's time at liberty was an "escape" and not a "walkaway" from any public service work, which inmates sometimes perform. Khokobashvili declined to provide any details of how Garrett managed to get out of the Chino facility, which is described as minimum-and-medium security for 3400 inmates.
By mid-day Tuesday, January 16, Garrett was back in Chino, not in his usual cell but in "administration segregation" because "he is facing discipline."
If Garrett faces any additional court action or additional prison time, that matter will go through the San Bernardino County court system because that is the jurisdiction where the escape occurred, according to Khokobashvilli.
Garrett was arrested in San Diego County in June 2017. He was convicted of all charges at trial: four felonies and three misdemeanors. His convictions were: first-degree burglary of an inhabited dwelling, evading an officer with wanton disregard, possession of a stolen vehicle, concealment of a stolen vehicle, resisting an officer, and hit-and-run.
Garrett arrived at Chino prison three months ago, on October 30, 2017. His sentence was for four years and eight months. Garrett might have been eligible for parole in October 2019, before his unauthorized exit.
"He made a very bad choice," according to Khokobashvili.
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We can only speculate about how he was able to travel so far from the prison. He sure didn't walk from Chino to Encinitas in 24 hours. The prison staff isn't telling much about what/how it happened, probably because it would be embarrassing to them. What there was about him that was suspicious isn't explained either. Lots to this story is missing, and likely will never be revealed. Can we assume he won't get an early parole? Hope so.
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Austin Loper gave up only two earned runs in 6 innings of work for the Bobcats baseball team, but Landmark took advantage of some defensive miscues to win by a final score of 8-3. John Keuler led the offense with two hits, including a triple, and Loper was 1 for 3 with single in the first inning. Loper came around to score to give the Bobcats an early 1-0 lead.
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HighlightsBiskhek | Son Kul | Yurts and ancient caravanserais | Bukhara | Samarkand | Khiva | Osh | Kokand | Fergana Valley | Margilon | Rishton | Kyzyl Kum Desert | Tien Shan mountains | Tashkent
Description of Silk Road cultural holidayKyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are Central Asian neighbours which couldnt be more different. While Kyrgyzstan is a land of epic mountain scenery and semi-nomadic shepherds, Uzbekistan is home to the atmospheric towns of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, garlanded with legends befitting three of the fabled Silk Road's most renowned trading centres.
In these cities and others like ancient Osh - merchants still ply their wares in the shadow of some of the worlds greatest architectural achievements. You'll also stay in fantastic traditional accommodation yurts, medieval caravanserai and village home stay in experiencing the timeless charms of the Old Silk Road.
After a relaxed dip into the Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek, head to the mountain lake of Son Kul, where you'll visit local nomads and perhaps see traditional Kyrgyz horse games. Heading south through the Tien Shan mountains, you'll reach the ancient caravanserai of Tash Rabat, nestled in a lush mountain-ringed valley.
Solomon's Throne is a highlight in the ancient city of Osh, ushering in the crossing to Uzbekistan via the glorious Fergana Valley to visit two beacons of timeless crafts the silk weaving centre of Margilon, and the ceramics hotspot of Rishton. Then Compare the Khan's Palace in Kokand with some of the glories in the UNESCO protected old town of Khiva, whose architectural treasures include Mohammed Khan Madrassa.
You'll cross the Kyzyl Kum Desert to the colourful atmospheric city of Bukhara, then drive the Royal Road to Samarkand an amazing town whose major sights including Tamelane's Tomb & Shah-i-Zindar the street of the dead.
Journey's end is Tashkent, a thriving city rich with the history of its pivotal role in the imperial power games between Britain and other global powers that became known as the Great Game.
**Price includes all activities/equipment, tour leaders, local guides and drivers, meals, mineral water, all transport (excluding international flights) , all accommodation and all entrance fees as outlined in the itinerary.
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What this trip includesTrips are on full board basis, and include transport as outlined in itinerary, twin-share accommodation, mineral water and entrance fees.
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Carbon reduction
Your holiday will help support local people and conservation. We must also reduce CO2. Learn about the CO2 emissions of this holiday and how to reduce them.
In Central Asia we have developed unique relationships with many of the semi-nomadic peoples of the region and through our form of interactive, socially conscience tourism have helped them adapt to the modern, changing world by providing important income opportunities. With Sogan Bai, an eagle hunter from the shores of Lake Issyk Kul, or Noorgul, a shepherdess from the pristine Son Kul, or Nazira and her family at Tash Rabat, we have been responsible for introducing them to the homestay market, helping them to provide good, clean and interesting accommodation which in term allows them to educate their children, improve their standard of living and look after their ill.
The wonderful thing about this kind of interactive tourism is that everyone gains the nomads financially and us with the wonderful welcome and experience they give us. On our horse treks, we work exclusively with the fine horse-man Anar Bek, who along with his family and members of the local community, ensure that the horses we trek with are well treated, well fed and well looked after. Wherever possible we stay in locally owned accommodation, eat in locally owned establishments and purchase supplies from the local nomads.
3 Reviews of Silk Road cultural holiday
Reviewed on 21 Aug 2016 by Anne Teal
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?
Every day was different with a very well thought out balance between stunning scenery, fascinating cityscapes, modes of transport, levels of activity, types of accommodation and cuisine.
We were able to get a small sense of what the Silk Road merchants must have experienced, and also an insight into some pretty remote parts of Central Asia.
2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?
Read up on the history and cultures of the Silk Road countries before you go.
3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?
Well planned and organised by the holiday providers and expertly led by Jude.
Reviewed on 29 Sep 2015 by Joan Godman
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?
This was a holiday of two completely different parts: - Staying in a Yurt by Son Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan - beautiful, peaceful surroundings, lovely shepherds & their families, contented cows, horses, sheep & goats & then travelling across the mountains to see the amazing blue tiles of the mosques & minarets in the heat of Uzbekistan
2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?
Be prepared for basic conditions in the yurt camps - no washing facilities (& don't
mention the toilets)
Take head torch, plenty of wipes (!), gloves for horse riding or trekking in Kyrgyzstan.
Need to pack carefully for very cold & very hot conditions.
3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Definitely in Kyrgyzstan - we were supporting the families in the yurt camps and the people in the homestays and supporting the way of life of the shepherds
4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?
One of the best trips I have been on !!
Reviewed on 27 Aug 2013 by Roger Slade
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?
Walking in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?
Be flexible. Don't expect a 5 star beach holiday but it is a much more rewarding experience. Engage with local people. Read the holiday information before going. There is much good advice there, some of which is from previous travellers.
3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
Yes to all three.
4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?
A series of memorable experiences that will continue to be thought about in the weeks and months to come.
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A debut album is a very important thing these days. Gone is the time where listeners had the patience to see potential in an artist's early releases and support them through their growth pangs. In our time, a first statement must be definitive, meticulously crafted, and whole. Enter Destroying Angel, a collective from the urban dregs of Philadelphia with a penchant for psychedelic genre-bending, masterful song writing, and a touch of something more. Their debut full-length, Conversations with Their Holy Guardian Angel, presents a fully realized band who at the same time avoid many of the modern clichés and pitfalls of groups in this scene.
Destroying Angel entered the post-industrial milieu with 2015's Mother Is Dead 7-inch. This three-song EP was a short introduction to Tony Cesa's soaring voice and strumming 12-string guitar, Lindsay Baukert's droning yet melodic violin lines, Mario Lima's snapping bass, and Joey Patrone's pounding use of the full drum kit (a rarity in a genre that loves to rely on floor-toms) that form the backbone of the band. This album also sees Melissa Santangelo adding female vocals, accordion, and a variety of other instruments, plus piano provided by none other than everyone's favorite water-fowl advocate, David E. Williams (who is now a full-time member). The EP immediately showed that Destroying Angel would bring something fresh to the genre, but exactly what form it would take in its full maturity was still to be seen.
Post-industrial music, or more specifically neofolk, if you prefer, undeniably has a problem with repetition and unoriginality. I won't go on another tirade about Death in June clones but to say Destroying Angel is not one. They have successfully taken the playbook of those early bands (simple chord structures, evocative lyrics, and a pounding rhythm) and added sonic influence from the golden age of sixties and seventies rock, especially darker psych and progressive bands like Amon Düül II, and even shades of freak-folk like Comus. They also like to add samples and noise in a way comparable to a contemporary band like Rome. Often, the samples are snippets of bizarre Christian activities like exorcisms, glossolalia, or other American protestant religious ephemera.
Like singers of the best bands of yore, Tony Cesa has a voice that is instantly recognizable. Oh, and is it ever a voice. The man often rises to a fever-pitch shout while elongating the note he's singing. It's boisterous; it's powerful; it's just great. In a conversation I overheard after Destroying Angel performed in Vermont, Cesa related how his Italian grandmother would chastise his volume by saying, "Tony! Your mouth goes BLAH BLAH BLAH!" It's to all of our benefit that it does just that!
Conversations with Their Holy Guardian Angel was released last summer by T. J. Cowgill's Seattle-based label, Not Just Religious Music—a stable that includes some of North America's current best, like King Dude and Night Profound.
Lyrically, the band doesn't revolve around a single theme. Destroying Angel doesn't rely on a heavily crafted aesthetic as much as some modern groups do. It's still apparent that they are a band in the classic style. The golden thread that could be said to run through their work is disdain and frustration with modernity and an attempt to deal with the personal problems it creates. For example, the album's closer, 'The Drowning Man', is a song that beautifully relays the problems of cutting the perpetrators of selfish emotional use and abuse from your life. 'Pigs in the End' laments the betrayal of friends. 'Stumbled Through the Years', another standout track, speaks of distancing oneself from programmed consensus reality ('Soon you will change / and you'll rearrange all those symbols they burned in your brain'). But the personal nature of the lyrics, and even the album's title itself, reveals an underlying spiritual current, albeit one that is understated and not obviously an expression of any one given tradition. 'Paralyzed' seems to reference magickal experimentation, as does the album's hazy photos featuring the band members in ritual garb surrounded by their tools. This is indeed music that the listener can feel is deeper than mere entertainment.
However, Destroying Angel doesn't have the hard-line humourless approach to spirituality that anyone involved in alternative paths will invariably come across. The music video released for 'Stumbled Through the Years' provides a great example for some tongue-in-cheek humour that often gets overlooked in the genre. It features the band going for a very gothic afternoon stroll, Cesa running slow-motion through a field, and giving some very cheeky looks to the camera. One is reminded of Douglas P., Albin Julius, and Boyd Rice's silliest moments on the album covers of their collaborative records. I've always seen this kind of humour as strength. Today's world demands a little absurdity, even as a survival mechanism. After all, those who can't bend a little will invariably break.
The band has just finished recording their second album, which I await with great anticipation. Having heard some of the songs live this summer, it seems to me that the follow-up may well surpass the debut. This is saying something, as Conversations with Their Holy Guardian Angel has successfully established Destroying Angel as a band I'll be following with top priority in the future. The thought of hearing more from them really does excite me—something that comes less and less as time marches on and we think we've heard it all. Bands like Destroying Angel come along every once in a while and reinvigorate us to the possibilities that there's more out there waiting to be discovered, laying just beyond what we can see in front of us.
Track List:
A1) Oil Town
A2) Paralyzed
A3) Lindsay's Song (Red Sea)
A4) Kill Age Boys
A5) Wall of Ice
B1) Pigs in the End
B2) Idle Hands
B3) Stumbled Through the Years
B4) Drowning Man
Written by: Ian Campbell
Label: Not Just Religious Music (United States) / NJRM-015 / 12″ LP
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10 Apps That Are Killing Your Phone Battery Really Really Fast
Having a dead phone is probably one of the most inconvenient things in the world ever. I know, #FirstWorldProblems, but seriously, have you ever tried to find somebody in a crowded mall at Christmas time without a phone? Yes, the struggle is just too real.
To save you from having a breakdown in the middle of Westfield, the smart people at AVG have just released the Android App Performance and Trend Report with a complete list that tells us exactly why our phones are dying so fast.
According to the report, between January and April of this year there were 10 apps that we can point the finger at in terms of making our phones die constantly. While the report was based on Android phones, experts say that the conclusions are likely to be very similar across iOS and Windows phones too.
1. Facebook
2. Google Maps
3. Facebook Messenger
4. Instagram
5. Blackberry Messenger
6. ChatOn
7. Kik
8. WhatsApp
9. WeChat
10. The Weather Channel
There you have it. If you want to save battery, turning off Facebook could save you. Sorry, Zuckerberg.
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