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Where is mankind going?
by Victor Bayda
machine translation.
Original article
in Russian -
What is the meaning of existence of an individual and mankind in general? Why did we come into this world and where are we going? Possible answers to these questions are the subject of this article.
1. Hologram on a stage
At the end of 2010 in the news on national television was the message: "In Tokyo, held a concert singer Hatsune Miku Japanese, past all the other concerts this singer with great success ...".
The report is interesting in that Hatsune Miku - no ordinary singer, she - ... Hologram: cartoon, cartoon image, fully computer-synthesized, including appearance, voice and dance. And its three-dimensional image is created on stage by a special holographic setup.
Hatsune Miku on stage
One of the spectators so conveyed his impressions of the concert: "It has nothing to do with what you experience when you watch the video. It was as if Mick, in fact - here, right in front of you. It was very hard to tell what is reality and what is an optical illusion. She shone in the middle of the smoke and lights - especially nice was the way she used the smoke to change costumes. This is - better than any ordinary show! The world of anime went into the real world! .. "
Hatsune Miku (in Japanese - "The first sound of the future") - now the star number 1 in Japan, its "live" concerts will take place with the full house, her song clips are incredible success on the Internet, the number of hits for a long time has exceeded 20 million.
Hatsune Miku history began in 2007 when the company Yamaha has released software called Vocaloid (Vocaloid), able to mimic the human voice, based on a given melody and text. To record the voices of the singer uses virtual samples - snippets of performances of real artists, who then reduce to a special program.
According to legend, Mick - a petite schoolgirl 16 years and an increase of 1 meter 60 centimeters. At their first concert in 2009, she suddenly attracted thousands of fans, and then went on tour to Singapore.
Now singing 3D-Hologram Japanese legend has become a major musical stage, causing unprecedented excitement of the audience throughout the country. He has his own fan club on Facebook and a number of roles in the famous anime series.
14,000 fans made a petition, through which the image Hatsune Miku was placed on board the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki, which was launched to explore Venus, writes Daily Mail.
After a successful tour virtual singer in Asia, its creators have decided that it is able to conquer the western market. On a personal page on Facebook Hatsune is now on-line voting on the subject: whether or not she sing in English? "
Actually, this computer-holographic singer, notable for the fact that she - the first timid step towards the creation of a virtual reality that is in contact with ours. Her cartoon image should not confuse anyone as soon as possible will allow computers in real time to render videotochnostyu real person, his facial expressions and movements, cartoon girl quickly become a singer, indistinguishable from the live performers, and which will give odds to many "live" (or Pseudo-alive?) singers.
And when the holographic technology will reach a 'pocket' level of compactness and high image quality, show business will be completely virtual. Each singer will have its own virtual virtual backing vocals, music and backing dancers, stage shows turn into holographic fantastic show.
The problem is only for the capacity of computers, providing a holographic drawing trillion pixels. Which of the producers will be more powerful computers and more powerful team of programmers at that and be more successful project.
In March 2010, Hatsune Miku made not one, but in the campaign with the same holographic singers Megurine Luka Kagamine twins Len and Rin. The Army is growing virtual performers. And this process does not stop ...
Sing not only the holographic model, but also tangible, made of plastic and metal robot-androids. At the annual trade show CEATEC Japan 2010, Japanese scientists have presented a model of such a singing robot. This mechanism looks like a very pretty girl, dressed in a futuristic silver suit.
This model is called the NRR-4C, and it involves some interesting programs that allow her to sing. Realized through the full song imitate the human voice. A mimicry of NRR-4C makes the girl's face, the robot is very realistic, indistinguishable from the face of a living person.
NRR-4C robot
With built-in sensors to the robot takes each person singing pronounced sound, recognize each note. The technology VocalListener is the same design from Yamaha, through which Hatsune Miku sings. But the new robot with a built-in camera is capable of more secure, and subsequently repeated facial expressions of any person
As a result, the robot, one day, "seeing" a singing man can repeat his singing, until the details of facial expressions. During the presentation of a Japanese pop singer has been used as a model for which the observed and followed by repeating its motion robot HPR-4C.
Every movement of the body and the person copied and distributed to the girl-robot with high accuracy. It should be noted that the technologies allow even copying mechanism for the movement breaths singing man, and even synthesize the sound of breathing during the presentation of the song - all as a real person.
Add to this that the robot can still move pretty well ("dance") and you will see that the replacement of a living artist is almost ready.
NRR-4C robot with the girls from backup dancers
The dream of every producer! How many sets of indistinguishable "Maev Tender" and "Mirage" can be made with the help of these "new developments"! And run them on a tour of the country! Moreover, as the name appropriate for an ensemble of virtual singers already have - "Mirage".
However, right now it is hardly feasible, as a singing hologram manufacturing costs while not cheap, but the robot-singer, in general, is about 2.5 million dollars. But it is - until a certain time ...
Show business (and, in general, the entertainment industry) is already the second, after the military, consumer and stimulates the creation of new computer designs. And the producers of the show-business people - not poor, spinning a lot of money there. But their money, they assume they can. Until the live performers will be cheaper virtual, they will remain on the scene. Once the value of virtuality falls (and it's just a matter of time and technology), the lot of "live" will only create samples for virtual performers. As would be blasphemous as it may sound to people. And none of the Luddite rebellion would not stop the new introduction of a new reality in our lives. As they are not stopped in the XIX century ...
(Luddites - the name of the British workers who spoke at the beginning of the XIX century against the introduction of machine tools, replacing manual labor. During the uprising destroyed machinery and equipment. Name - the name of the head of Ned Luddite movement).
Begin it all with the film and television ... More precisely, has already begun.
I am not here talking about this phenomenon is quite predictable, as a complete replacement of 3D-Cinema and Television is really three-dimensional holographic image, where the audience will already be inside the action .. Plus, there's an imitation of smells and touch sensations! This is the 4 - or 5D-Cinema.
By the way, do not confuse this movie with the advertised now, so called, 7D-movie where the viewer when watching a short movie clip is in a special mechanical chair that synchronous events programmed vibrating roller, jerking back and forth, pushing sitting in a chair in the back, creates a the flow of air or water splashes, maybe even hit a weak discharge current ... Of course, the movie does all this have little to do, it's more like an attraction, something like a virtual roller coaster.
And the modern 3D-movies, and attractions 7D, and holographic film - all the same stages of virtualization, but in this new era of cinema, with a direct projection of the image and the whole complex of feelings directly into the brain. Adding interactivity, where the viewer is not only present, but also involved in the plot, already displays for that border, where the movie is completely fused with computer games. Distinguish the virtuality of the "cinema" from the reality it would be impossible.
Film and TV - the most fertile object for penetration of virtuality, as the screen - in itself, a virtual field of action, not what is happening here and now.
Replacement of live actors virtual - it's just a natural and consistent step in this virtualization. And it is right now.
Engines of this virtualisation - cost and entertainment. Where to stay alive at the same actors? They remain behind the scenes on a technological point shooting in the studio. What are they doing? Provides movement and facial expressions of virtual characters - what is now the computer can not do. More specifically can, but cost is very expensive.
But not always.
As dozens of voices voices are used for the synthesis of virtual singing, and the base of the millions of facial movements in the future will need to synthesize the director emotions without live actors. They will not need even in the pavilion behind the scenes.
With so many forecast will be difficult to accept at once, because we've learned that the talented film - it is not only the story and visuals, but also the feelings, emotions, the soul of the actors. What a movie without a soul?
No, of course, there is nothing "wrong" does not occur: at the stage of virtualization, I'm talking about the soul, of course, present. Only this is not the soul of an actor, a director and the soul of the person whose job title does not exist yet - let's call him "an editor of feelings" or "the creator of emotions." Virtual actor, he gives the feeling: here, we will add a bit of desperation loss here - quiet happiness shared love ...
I can not believe that this can be used to? But examples of virtual emotions on the screen right now there is - drawing, cartoons. Is there a soul in this cartoon, if we tearfully worried about these cartoon characters? Oh, it is easy to deceive me, I myself am glad to be deceived ...
But I have to disappoint: the further course of virtualization make a movie of the unemployed and the "editor of feelings" - it also will replace a computer, only more powerful, with all pre-programmed set of facial muscles and motor man, able to simulate the visual display of all human emotions. It is not itself an emotion, but only a manifestation of ...
As a result, we see that the progressive virtualization of our lives over time creates spatial images of virtual humans that can deceive the human eye. Person's vision will not be able to answer the question: who we are dealing with a virtual or a real person?
How to cheat the other senses, give yourself to think out. I can only say that theoretically the hologram can be created not only in the optical range, but with the help of other radiations. Standing waves and antinodes "gravitational" radiation (conventional term) will create a tangible hologram with the parameters of the physical body. (The desired concentration in the right place at the elementary particle-waves).
American scientists since 2005 developing a system that will allow you to create three-dimensional and it is a copy of the material objects. And even send them via the internet. Professors Todd Mowry and Seth Goldstein of the University, "Carnegie Mellon" in Pennsylvania believe that very soon, within a generation, people will learn how to replicate the three-dimensional material objects - from small synthetic "atoms".
Of course, this is another level of technology, the level of the new Creator of the universe. But more on that later ...
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Pretty simple. Go here for a radio interview with Rob Grant. Pity it's in bloody Real Audio, but never mind. Being the excellent journalist that I am, I've not actually listened to all of it yet, but the presenter Graham Seaman sounds an excellent fellow, and the interview would appear to cover Grant's ENTIRE CAREER, as opposed to simply someone who co-created the word smeg. And Rob Grant himself sounds lovely as well.
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Five Lost Recipes Of India To Keep You Drooling
Lost recipes of India Owing to the existence of diverse cultures in India, we can term it to be the salad bowl of various beliefs and cuisines. From north to south, and east to west you can have numerous dishes to pamper your taste buds.
All you need to have special affinity towards food, food and food.
Often in the crowd of variation, past loses its existence with time. There are several recipes which has slipped from our platter owing to its age. With time, we are prone towards calorie-based diets, we have special attraction for continental gastronomies. It seems like because of inattentiveness, many recipes are willingly lost in the pages of our great-grandmothers.
Here in this article, we would try to introduce five such lost recipes of India from the past, that will surely keep you drooling.
Lost recipes of India
The traditional cooking methods & delicacies has lost its charm in the era of frozen foods & instant recipes. The spirit of traditional culinary, be it in royal kitchen or in humble hearth was in the methodology& fresh ingredients of the recipes.
Lets start with the starter, nowadays we savor seekh-kababs before the main course, similarly tujji-chicken was relished amongst the royals of Kashmir. It is a classic barbeque recipe; whose essence lies in the Kashmiri red chilies and aniseed powder used to prepare this dish. Nowadays it is making its way to the salvers in many restaurants, who likes to hold on to the tradition.


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This course begins where Sensual Massage ends...
A very safe sacred space will be created to learn massage, breathing, meditation, Tantric, Taoist and middle eastern techniques that will greatly increase genital sensitivity, strength and sexual energy.
Sexual energy is our basic energy in the body. These high levels of this powerful energy act as a medical elixir to heal illness and to increase wellbeing and bring passion, love, bliss, ecstasy and other higher states of consciousness.
Rejuvenation and transformation follows in your life and all your relationships.
Comments from previous courses...
"... provided a safe environment, and encouraged me to let go of old fears and blockages. For the first time I felt truly able to do this." - R.B
. "I have experienced many personal growth workshops and therapies but I felt the most empowered in my entire life after an erotic massage! Nothing touches it!" - J.C
."Given the new plateau of bliss/energy (as promised) I evaluate this as amazing/wonderful/mind-blowing etc et al. Your ability to create a safe space, your love and your candid approach made what was potentially challenging and fearful an experience not to be missed. I was more relaxed and open than ever before." - P.S.
N.B. There is direct genital massage in this course.
We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot
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January 26, 2018
BrandKings and MoPop Museum present the 5th Annual
"Through the Eyes of Art"
A Black History Month Celebration
BrandKings and MoPop Museum proudly present the fifth annual "Through the Eyes of Art," a special event designed to help foster stronger communities in the Puget Sound region. In recognition of the evening's theme, "The Tie between Sports & Activism," the program will include a panel discussion, live performance, the presentation of the Community Servanthood Award, a Poetry Slam and an Art Showcase highlighting paintings by members of the African American community.
The evening will feature a panel discussion centered around the theme of "The Tie between Sports & Activism." Guest panelists will include: Donald Watts, former University of Washington Basketball Player; Joey Thomas, former Green Bay Packer & current Garfield High School Football Head Coach; Mario Bailey, former University of Washington Wide Receiver and others. "We wanted to pull together a collection of local athletes to have a conversation about what inspires them to act and how athletes can use their platform for good." Says Draze, event organizer.
In the spirit of celebrating Seattle's rich sports history, Through the Eyes of Art honors Daryll Hennings and Dan Finkley as the recipients of the 2018 Servanthood Award. For over 20 years this duo has mentored, trained and cultivated some of the Northwest's greatest basketball talent. From names like Aaron Brooks (Minnesota Timberwolves); DeJounte Murray (San Antonio Spurs); Marvin Williams (Charlotte Bobcats); Peyton Siva (Louisville) and to the hundreds of other young people who will never play in a college or NBA arena. Daryll and Dan's commitment to youth development is unmatched. Through their belief that youth basketball is about building character and lifelong memories that has turned the Rotary Boys & Girls Club AAU Program into a community gem and nationwide power house.
This year's event features the Byrd Barr Place Art Exhibit from local painters creating works around the theme. "Every year this event takes a look at a different issue impacting the Black community. Art is a language that everyone understands. This exhibit is going to be nothing short of amazing." Says event coordinator, Ja'Net Williams. Capping the night off will be live performances by Northwest Tap along with a Poetry Slam featuring some of the region's top spoken word artists.
Tickets now on sale at MoPop.Org.
Date: Saturday, February 10, 2018
Time: 7:00pm-11:00pm
Venue: MoPOP's Sky Church; 325 5th Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109
Tickets: $15 general admission ($12 MoPOP members, youth ages 5-17); all ages
BrandKings and MoPop Museum present the 5th Annual "Through the Eyes of Art" Black History Month Celebration
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Because of the olympic/competition sort of mood, I'd like to hold a little compertition. Here is what you do…
There are 3 possible entries for each person, and you are allowed to choose which ones you want to do.
All you have to do is think up something that would fit into one of the 'Things to do' Pages, comment it, you are allowed one for each of your 3 entries. The best will be displayed on a post, with your name and (optional) blog, and will also be put into the 'things to do' page! So if you think about it, there can be up to 6 winners!
Just in case you are confsed, here is an example of ow to do this
My Entry (Not Counted in Contest)
Name: Willworkforbeer
Blog: This one (click here)
My 3 entries
All Purpouse Store: Sell your own food
In Class: Fart Loudly
To embarrass parents: Sniff your dogs butt.
Have fun!


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Green Sand Beach Overview
The Big Island of Hawaii's green sand beach is located at the southern tip just west of South Point. The sand is actually a green olive color caused by eruptions from what was once a volcano. In fact, green sand beach itself is within what was once a cinder cone. Three sides of the cone are still present, with the ocean coming in from what would have been the eastern edge. Imagine swimming in an ancient volcano's cinder cone with green sand? You can and it is a site not to be missed when traveling to the Big Island.
Green Sand Beach is named Papakolea. The green sand gets it's color from olivine crystals created from eruptions to a dormant volcano years ago. Nestled in Mahana Bay, this is truly a unique place and one of only two green sand beaches in the world. While there are no organized tours, this isolated place is about a 2 1/2 hour drive from most of the resorts up along the Kohola Coast. In our video directions to green sand beach the route to and around South Point's green sands is covered. Keep in mind, driving to the actual beach is out for all but the most experienced off road drivers. Instead, most opt for a 2 1/2 mile hike each way along the wind swept and hot dusty deep rutted jeep roads.
Best Book To Help Design Your Big Island Hawaii Vacation "The Big Island Revealed" by Andrew Daughtry. This book details some of the Big Island's hidden gems and can't miss attractions. Plus you'll be able to read about hidden black beach, green sand beach, hawaii waterfalls, and where to eat on the big island.


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The Carpenters Arms shortlisted for White Rose Award
We are thrilled to hear that we have been selected as a finalist for this year's White Rose Awards in the category 'Inns & Restaurant Rooms'. Hard work and dedication pays off! Well done to all the other finalists, the winner will be announced at the award ceremony on Monday 12th November. The Awards recognise the very best of this county's thriving tourism industry including pubs and restaurants, food and drink, hotels and caravan sites, visitor attractions, cultural events and customer service.
Sir Gary Verity DL, Chief Executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, said:
"The White Rose Awards are the largest and most prestigious in the UK's hospitality and tourism industry and we have some really exciting finalists this year from both new and established businesses. The awards are a brilliant opportunity to shine the spotlight on the fantastic experiences to be had in Yorkshire. As well as the coveted gongs expect a night of first class entertainment – an event not to be missed!"
Professor Colin Mellor, Chair of the White Rose Award Judges, said:
"Winning a White Rose Award is a real accolade for Yorkshire's tourism businesses and the task of shortlisting has been harder than ever. The standard of entries has been exceptional which is evidenced by the strength of the shortlists. It is testimony to the remarkable range and quality of the region's tourism offer. With such tough competition, and a record 170 entries, selecting the winners this year is going to be extremely difficult."
Thank you to everyone for all your continued support.


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OK, so yesterday we were a little bit down on some of the sweet treats of summer. But we're not total killjoys. Today we're going to sing the praises of that good old-fashioned summer treat, ice cream.
We started thinking about ice cream the other day when we heard a pediatric dentist come and speak to a group of kids. She declared that ice cream was "thumbs down" and yogurt was "thumbs up." We were left with a vision of kids downing Gogurt after Gogurt (10 grams of sugar in every 2.25-ounce tube) rather than having a "treat" of a simple scoop of vanilla ice cream (14 grams of sugar in a 4-ounce or half-cup serving). After hearing this, we're starting to get the feeling that many parents are likely to say, "No, you can't have ice cream, but you can have yogurt, fruit leather, teddy grahams, raisins, Honey Nut Cheerios or [insert your favorite sugary treat here] instead."
Where's the perspective? When you line up some of those others, is a scoop of ice cream really so bad? One thing we worry about is "treat creep," in which the real treats are demonized, but the substitute treats seem to get worse and worse. For example, why would fruit leather (a sugary, chewy, tooth-destroying snack) be a more "appropriate" treat for a kid than a scoop of ice cream?
Let's be clear about one thing: When we talk about ice cream, we're not talking about, say, Cold Stone Creamery Peanut Butter ice cream (33 grams sugar, 28 grams fat per 170-gram serving according to Nutrition Data) topped with brownie bits and M&Ms. We're not advocating that you start serving desserts instead of regular meals. But if your kids are looking for a sweet treat, a scoop of ice cream isn't all that bad. You'll get a little bit of protein and a bit of calcium with each serving, and if you choose lower-fat or low-sugar varieties, the nutritional picture will look even better.
Plus it is summertime, after all. Doesn't a scoop of ice cream sound really, really good right now? Go on, have some. We say it's OK.


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Client: Redbull / Space Ibiza
Producter: The Lighthouse
Redbull visuals to present the new flavours at Space Ibiza Opening Party, Summer 2016.
We created 4 visual worlds to differentiate the 4 new flavours. Each of them with a different shaped surface and matching colour to the can.
We also played the live VJ set.


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I'm so pleased to welcome Vikki VanSickle to the blog today to discuss some of the inspirations behind her new book, The Winnowing – or as she calls them, her Winspirations. I've had the pleasure of reading this book ahead of publication, and can tell you that it's likely going to keep you up reading until the wee small hours. It hits all the right sweet spots for me – action, suspense, telepathy, mysterious centre holding kids under mysterious circumstances … the list goes on!
Vikki is the well-known author of the Words that Start With B trilogy, as well as Summer Days, Starry Nights and the picture book If I Had a Gryphon. Welcome, Vikki!
I get it. The Winnowing seems like a hard left turn for me. My previous novels are coming-of-age stories about ordinary kids dealing with family and relationship-based drama. What is this slightly dystopian, conspiracy-driven thriller?! Where did it come from? In a series of Winspiration guest posts I will attempt to answer this question.
Winspiration: INTO THE DREAM
For a long time I had a foggy recollection of this amazing book I had read as a kid. I was desperate to find it, only I had forgotten the title. I would describe it to friends, colleagues, librarians, anyone who would listen to me about the book about two kids who are having the same dream and it has something to do with a baby, a hotel, a Ferris wheel and oh, there was a dog, too! Eventually, with the help of my good friend google, I stumbled upon a (bad) review of a book called Into the Dream and realized I had found my long-lost grail.
I soon discovered that the book was out of print and ordered a used copy online. Despite the bad online review, I found I still enjoyed Into the Dream. It held up as an eerie, uncanny read. Also, the novel is an impressively compact 127 pages.
I trace my long-time interest in dream interpretation and telepathy to this book. As a kid I read up on lucid dreaming, convinced that if I could control my dreams then surely telepathy, telekinesis, or a similar supernatural ability was next. I still keep a dream diary and a dream dictionary on-hand today, though I have mostly given up on the possibility of developing any psychic abilities.
There are a couple of subtle references in Into The Dream in The Winnowing, but the most obvious one is the name of the roadside diner—The Starlight Diner—which is a nod to The Stardust Motel in Into the Dream. In this way I feel I am acknowledging the work of William Sleator as an inspiration in my book and also thanking him for the joy and wonder his book (and his impressive canon) brought me and many other readers.
The Winnowing is available from Scholastic Canada, and may be purchased from your local independent, chain or online book retailer. ISBN: 9781443148863, 280 pages.
UPDATE: Thanks to the fine folk at Scholastic Canada, I'm delighted to offer a SIGNED copy of The Winnowing to one lucky reader! To enter, simply comment on this post OR send me a tweet telling me why you want to win this book. Winner will be randomly chosen by end of day Friday, September 22.
Marivic Stone lives in a small world, and that's fine with her. Home is with her beloved grandfather in a small town that just happens to be famous for a medical discovery that saved humankind — though not without significant repercussions. Marivic loves her best friend, Saren, and the two of them promise to stick together, through thick and thin, and especially through the uncertain winnowing procedure, a now inevitable — but dangerous — part of adolescence.
But when tragedy separates the two friends, Marivic is thrust into a world of conspiracy, rebellion and revolution. For the first time in her life, Marivic is forced to think and act big. If she is going to right a decade of wrongs, she will need to trust her own frightening new abilities, even when it means turning her back on everything, and everyone, she's known and loved. A gripping exploration of growing up, love and loss, The Winnowing is a page-turning adventure that will have readers rooting for their new hero, Marivic Stone, as they unravel the horror and intrigue of a world at once familiar but with a chilling strangeness lurking beneath the everyday.


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Welcome to ZipTight™ custom sewing, custom design and manufacturing, specializing in the design and manufacturing of commercial sewing and industrial sewing needs such as you desire in a safety harness, lockable fabric security covers for shopping centers, malls, cart and kiosk manufacturers, retail stores and outlets, airports, automotive companies; anywhere that has an RMU, Kiosk, concession, or any type of display that need to be secured, we can custom design a ZipTight™ security cover to fit your industrial sewing or commercial sewing needs.
ZipTight™ patent pending, provides that extra measure of security you want in locking security covers. We have a diverse product line ranging from lockable toolbox covers and lockable security covers to awnings, banners and parasails to name just a few of our products which may also be custom designed with your logo and colors.
ZipTight™ provides and does repair as well as custom sewing; offering a divers product line including:
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Chief RINO is Back
Mark my words, McCain will continue to be the death knell of the party, and Democrats will own the nation for generations, unless a 3rd party arises or those in charge of the Republican Party wake up and throw the liberal Republicans like Kirk, and the just plain ignorant like McCain, overboard. The (R) after the name isn't going to fool enough people to win an election. The Republican Party is still badly in need of moving to the right, or we will continue to see the loss of Republican seats. If H.R. 3200 gets passed with Republican assistance, a 70-30 Democrat Majority in the Senate is on the way.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Where's Ted?
However, at the end of the piece, Lord, states that, "Right about now, Ronald Reagan is welcoming Ted Kennedy home. And after the pleasantries, I have no doubt Reagan is saying, "Teddy, about that health care reform, well…"
I know we humans should not judge and assume that someone is burning in Hell. But on the other hand, is it any better in the eyes of God to assume that someone who has publicly supported abortion and has committed God knows how many sinful acts, to be assumed to be residing in Heaven? And for that matter, in 2 days? Perhaps Lord stood bedside and witnessed a perfect Act of Contrition a few days ago, but short of that, at least us Catholic brethren (of which Teddy is a member) believe there is rarely an express ticket to the pearly gates. Yet so many of us recite the likely false yet comforting line that, "he/she is in Heaven now". God's mercy is infinite, but since when has it become understood, that it is extended instantly to most all?
McCain (W)
There is no politician more committed to the irrelevant than John McCain. He is not an (R) or a (D), he is only a (W), from the Party of Wrong. This man seems to buy into every left-wing idea and give it credence with his high level of respect gained from when he was shot down in a plane and kept as a POW; not from any actual act as a Senator. You may think that other than he and his family's grief from the years of captivity, this would not matter much in the vast configuration of things, but just like in the case of Ted Kennedy's death, you'd be wrong. For we live in a society which debates vigorously the merit of completely opposite views, even on the definition life and death, and waits for the irrelevant emotional moment to break the tie.
Whether it was Barack Obama's race breaking the deadlock between he and Hillary, or John McCain's former POW status as the horse he rode in on to capture the Republican nomination, there is always the irrelevant emotional story which holds the nation hostage at its arrival. How fitting for Ted Kennedy to die in the middle of a stagnant healthcare debate, to provide once again, the emotional moment we Americans need to submit and give away our freedoms. What Kennedy's life story has to do with H.R. 3200, I have no idea. He received health care from the Congress Cadillac plan, and likely received whatever medical care he wished. He didn't go to Canada or Great Britain to experience their taxed system.
But, lurking once again after months of silence is the great Democrat Party enabler, the opportunist, self-acclaimed Reagan footsoldier, Mr. Soundbite, the loser, the man who gives away the store time and time again; McCain (W). The man from the Party of Wrong, will prove once again to be the Democrat Party's knight in shining armor, to rescue the wretched usurpers of freedom once again. And once again, he will endure a little bit of whining from the conservative media, after yet another McCain "compromise", but they'll shrug and shut up soon after H.R. 3200 becomes inevitable, as they did leading up to McCain's 2008 nomination. The reliable dust bunnies in Arizona will re-elect him again and he'll remain in office until he gets sick and dies, to provide yet another irrelevant emotional reason for Americans to hold the gun to their heads once more.
Monday, August 24, 2009
And There It Is!
I won't be surprised if Obama comes home from vacation refreshed and with the brand new talking point that Obamacare must be passed to combat Swine Flu. And, I won't be surprised if the RINOs once again go along and take the bait. I better keep up with the excercising. Personally avoiding the need for Obamacare has become my life long goal now. My wish is to live until 90 and die in my sleep, but if need be, I'll spend my last days lying on a mat of some sort, reading Psalms and waiting for the clock to run out. I'll do my best before then to give as much comfort and care as I possibly can to my loved ones, friends, and neighbors in their time of need.
Who Wrote H.R. 3200?
In the spirit of burning legal advisors at the stake, I'd like to know the names of everyone who participated in drafting House Bill 3200. Tell us who they are, so that any inhumane portions of the bill can also be grounds for prosecution. Prosecute those who made coding errors at the VA, resulting in 1,200 veterans going through months with fresh copies of the "VA Death Book" believing they had ALS (Lou Gerhig's Disease). I'm sure the coders were only trying to do good when they made clerical errors, not at all unlike the good intentions of the "torture memo" authors and authors of H.R. 3200. I'm sure there are plenty of other authors who Eric Holder doesn't like; the list could go on and on. Make sure little Barak and Eric get what they want; they deserve so much more opportunity to remake America: GM, check; Banks, check; Healthcare, working on it; CIA, check; worldwide apologies, check; Closing GITMO; check; begin to lose Afghanistan, check; begin to lose Iraq, check; nuclear Iran, almost; negotiation with Kim Jong Il, check; salary caps, check.
Friday, August 21, 2009
What If We Blow This? and Lamenting Labor Unions
At the end of the McCarthy's column he writes,
Obama, of course, wanted health-care "reform" done — all 1,000-plus pages
of it — before the summer recess. In essence, Democrats want to repeal
individual liberty; move one-sixth of the private sector into the same
government-controlled model that has produced bankruptcy in Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid; add additional trillions to the already exploded
national debt; and they want to do it all right now — no discovery, no
settlement negotiations, no five-week trial, no delays.
Given this Democratic whirlwind, I don't see why we owe them better than "death panels." They are what we're sure to get if Obamacare isn't killed first.
And I think this is where we are now. It is time to scrap H.R. 3200. It was an overdone high octane bill surely written by life long bureaucrats with God knows what motivations. I'd like a list of everyone who was involved in writing it, so that I can charter a bus "AIG Style" and lead the ever angry mobs to demand these bad neighbors resign their posts and get out of town. Another question I have is why the SEIU states that if the "public option" isn't included in a bill, that the Democrat majority will cease. Why is the SEIU so hell bent on the passage of this legislation? Why doesn't the SEIU suck it up, and put together its own health insurance program for its members, and leave the rest of the hard working self-reliant country alone? (BTW, Isn't it sweet that Andy Stern, the SEIU Pres., thinks maybe super RINO Olympia Snowe might help pass the bill?)
This leads me to my last thought for the week. At what point is it realized by the majority of Americans that labor unions have outlived their original purpose, and when is Obama planning to "re-make" them? Unions have become a refuge for the lazy, stagnant, and uneducated who have won life's lottery of being born into a union family. In Chicago, a damn thing can't get done without caving to the extraordinary costs of union labor, yet it's healthcare costs we are supposed to cry over (union workers have infiltrated health care as well, by the way). Unions have likely caused churches to close their doors as well as other non-profits who needed their buildings repaired, but could in no way be allowed to do it without paying top dollar. They have likely caused our new architecture to look as sterile as an operating room. Show me a building with any ornate features that was built after the time of the stranglehold of the unions. If Obama really wants to re-make America, he will rid us of this tyrannical element that defines the word "workforce", for they force us to hire them to work. Unions are made up of adults who behaved like punks in high school, because they knew daddy had a leg up for them in the trade school after graduation. Where they went on to make $30+/ hour by the age of 25, to watch along with about 5 others, one guy open a manhole cover. These selfish wretched leaches; send them to the communist nations they so desire for us to become.
On the other hand, unions are also made up of the most liberal, fantasy world contingency of them all; the educator. So mired in the exhausting educational system, which truly doesn't pay what these glorified cattle herders derserve; these apple shirt wearing loafers are constantly under the whip of insane school CEO's or big city superintendents who always expect them to raise the test scores of a classroom of hoodlums whose parents instill in them only the morals of the latest R rated movie. TIME and Newsweek are quick to cover the latest 20 hour per day working school superintendent such as the wonder woman in Washington D.C., who arrogantly believe that even if the kids live in a neighborhood filled with drug dealer jobs and negligent parents, somehow the 25 hours/ week that they spend in school is going to prepare all for the Ivy League as long as you whip the teachers enough. Don't forget to cue the action shot of the superintendent and the kid pretending to read. Maybe the teacher's need unions after all. Although if I were a teacher, I'd trade the union for the right to speak religion to the kids. No, not the religion called the labor union.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Future Lifesaving Slaves
With the government trying to control the practices and compensation of doctors, we may soon end up with a small number of Mother Teresas, a modest number of bitter poor performing doctors, and a large number of talented physicians and surgeons who say, "the hell with em", and leave the field all together. These ridiculous elected officials in both parties have done little to defend the very people who make healthcare possible. If I was an M.D., I would refuse to be a lifesaving slave to this pathetic bunch of couch potatoes, who have done so little to educate themselves, that they've elected socialism; the ruin of most all good things that this nation has ever had.
At some point, I think public school teachers should also say, "discipline your damn kids, or don't blame us for his/her failure". We would be better off if more kids would just shut the hell up for 4 hours a day and listen to the teacher. Instead, we feel bad for them because they are expected to sit still and listen. Well, most of a kids day doesn't require them to sit still and listen, but many do it voluntarily in front of the TV. So put away the kleenex.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Finite Resources At National Review
Key section:
I don't see any wisdom in taking a shot at Governor Palin at this moment when,
finding themselves unable to defend the plan against her indictment, Democrats have backed down and withdrawn their "end-of-life counseling" boards. Palin did a tremendous service here. Opinion elites didn't like what the editors imply is the "hysteria" of her "death panels" charge. Many of those same elites didn't like Ronald Reagan's jarring "evil empire" rhetoric. But "death panels" caught on with the public just like "evil empire" did because, for all their "heat rather than light" tut-tutting,
critics could never quite discredit it. ("BusHitler," by contrast, did
not catch on with the public because it was so easily
The editors implicitly concede that Palin is on to something. Indeed, from an Obamaesque perch, they find themselves admonishing both "Sarah Palin's fans and her critics." With due respect, there's a right side and a wrong side on this one. Above the fray is not gonna cut it.
At the very beginning of the editorial, this quote appears: "not everything that might be in a patient's best interest can be done in a world of finite resources". Yes, we do live in a world of finite resources, but a finite amount of steel and cardiologists is not the reason why we would give the 100 year old lady a pain pill instead of a pace maker. If the 100 year old lady receives a pacemaker, it would not mean that the 60 year old heart patient down the hall gets nothing. There are a finite amount of donated organs such as livers, lungs, etc., and we accept that an ethical decision process is in place for such disbursement, but there is no excuse to deny care that comes from renewable resources like the doctors themselves and manufactured medical equipment. It seems to me that advancements in medicine are all about increasing that finite number of resources. What begins as a rare breakthrough procedure may turn into a reasonbly priced, widely used procedure over time. Treatments advance and become more readily available to a larger number of people, and then the legal system kicks in and demands access to such care.
It seems that some have bought into the notion that you CAN put a price on life; and as soon as this happens the moral bankruptcy begins. We are expected to be seen with jaw-dropping expressions when told of the $2+ trillion we Americans spend on healthcare each year. We find that the Blue-dog Democrats are mostly concerned with the unsustainable cost of the proposed health care bill, while they don't bat an eye regarding the bill's infringement on liberty. This high regard for the dollar is what fuels the large number of abortions in this nation; kids are expensive; college first, they say. A price has been put on life. And now, government leaders, so incensed with the high costs of healthcare, and obsessed with the 45 million without health insurance, want to take on the remaining 270 million of us who cover our own healthcare costs, so they can lower that price which bothers them so much? They are overcome by mere dollars and cents, but should we be surprised? One party fights hard for the right of women to abort, while the other does little to stem the tide. For many, it is the dollar before the breath, relegated to a finite life, with little faith in that which is indeed infinite.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The GOP's Last Chance for Victory
It always comes down to the cloture vote, and there always seems to be a GOP Senator waiting in the wings to either vote against cloture if the President happens to be George W. Bush, or for cloture if the President is Barak Obama. The 60 vote requirement to end debate was used by the 45 Senate Democrats to block the nomination of John Bolton for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as well as to block numerous judicial nominations made by George W. Bush. Bolton was eventually given a recess appointment by Bush, but judicial seats which would have been filled with judges selected by Bush were kept open for judges to be named by Obama. The Democrat Senate prior to 2006 voted as one, and many times got their way, acting as a majority party while demanding rights for themselves as the minority party. The election of 2006 put the Senate and House in Democrat hands and the concept of rights for the minority party has since disappeared.
Today, whenever GOP defections occur, you can bet that Democrats reap the benefits in multiple ways. For example, when Collins/ Snowe/ Specter voted for the stimulus, the door was left open for Red State Democrats to vote for the bill and claim it to be a bi-partisan measure. If the 3 would have voted against it, it is likely that a small handful of those Red State Democrats would also have voted against it, which would have made the vote closer and even if it had passed, it would have 100% owned by the Democrats. GOP defections can also lead to Democrats benefitting politically from voting against their party. In the House, the cap-and-trade voted which took place earlier this summer, was supported by just 8 Republicans, and passed 217-215. Had all House Republicans voted NO, a.) the bill would not have passed, or b.) an additonal 8 Democrats who voted NO on the unpopular legislation would've had to vote YES in order for the bill to pass. If scenario (b.) had taken place, 8 additonal Democrats would now have the cap-and-trade albatross around their necks come election time. As it often goes, they were spared by Republican defectors.
A party line vote probably rarely happens in the House, but when 1000+ page freedom limiting legislation comes up for a vote, it is important for Republicans to hold firm at least in order to moderate future legislation that comes to the floor. There is no way to limit the overreach of liberal legislation if Republicans continue to provide cover to their colleagues in the Democrat Party with just the right amount of Republican YES votes.
This brings me back to H.R. 3200. If 8 random Republicans in the House vote YES on this bill, as happened with Cap and Trade, and/or if 3 random Republicans vote YES on the Senate version, conservative voters will know that we have become a nation represented by Democrat and Democrat Lite, and will clearly see that Republicans are the party of the maverick, and of the politician whose narrow plans are made not for America's future, but for their own bi-annual election cycle. The GOP will clearly be known as the party unable to hold the line in order to save the U.S. from the other party; in this case, one with a vision of a Government grown so large that whatever one might call it, be it Socialist, Facist, Communist, it will have become so strong with oversight powers that it will allow its providers to engulf the citizenry in the flames of their every whim.
If this day comes, if the citizenry have enough freedom left to fight the spread of government's cloud, it's seems only a 3rd political party can be relied upon to grow from a diet of moral principle dedicated to inalienable rights. I only advocate for this sprout if it becomes neccessary and clear that it is the only hope left for countering the failed experiments of Godless leaders and return to a land and beacon for the world which we once proclaimed God shed his grace upon.
Becoming Europe
Great paragraph. (my italics)
When I talk to well-off Italians and Greeks who have substantial homes by
the sea not available to most others, one of three realities leak out: one, they
have family money made decades ago by their ancestors that includes ancestral
estates permissible before the period of supposed mandated equality of result.
In other words, theirs got theirs and then helped make laws so no one else could.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Latest Thoughts on the Healthcare Debate
So, David Brooks and even Charles Krauthammer have issued the latest obligatory scolding to the unwashed masses, in exchange for sitting next to Mark Shields and keeping jobs as the resident conservatives at the New York Times and Washington Post. Oh, the respect these fine gentlemen receive from liberals, conservatives, and the ever important independent fence sitters who make the world go round when they decide to pay attention 2 months out of every 4 years. If only more of us could extract from our blood our passions of ignorance and stay above the fray. Let me say though that Charles Krauthammer is usually right on, but even he is not immune from looking downward from the perch at the little guy.
Fresh in my memory are the heavy street tactics of the Iranian Basiji and the lack of "meddling" on Obama's part. I fear the Republicans will put forth the same effort in defending those who once made up a large portion of their base from unwarranted verbal assaults and modest physical attacks and threats from hardcore Democrat activists. Those attending these townhall meetings along with Sarah Palin have received double barrel criticism from the MSM and the great moderates will slowly begin their criticisms as well. If the healthcare bill is passed, many Americans will have nowhere left to go but a 3rd party; one of great financial poverty, but perhaps the only party left with a penny of inspiration for individual freedom.
- Sarah Palin wrote a Facebook message recently, decrying the "death panels" that would result from H.R. 3200. Where does this woman come up with such rhetoric of the reactionary? Hurry David Brooks and David Frum, tell me why she is "insane" and how she is cursed with such troubling discourse! Then tell me of the time of reason when Ted Kennedy valiantly sounded the alarm and saved the U.S. from a Supreme Court Justice who would've forced women to rely on "back alley abortions". All I keep hearing about is cost, cost, cost, getting rid of those wasteful medical tests, we spend $6,000 more per person each year on health care than other western nations, stopping tonsilectomies, giving the 100 year old lady a pain pill instead of a pacemaker, cost, cost, cost, deficits, spending too much on healthcare, red pill, blue pill, end of life counseling, panel of experts. Just where oh where does Sarah come up with such delusions?
- I read in the Wall Street Journal that as a nation we spend nearly $2 trillion per year on healthcare, but still 46,000,000 Americans are uninsured. O.K., so are these 2 numbers supposed to convince me we have a problem? According to www.census.gov, the U.S. currently has 307,147,983 (307+ million) people living within its borders. If we were to subtract 46 million from this number, we see that over 261 million are insured. This would mean that people in the U.S. spend on average $7,629 per person in healthcare costs. Using this $7,629 figure; if the entire U.S. was insured, the U.S. would be spending just over $2.35 trillion per year on healthcare. So, if I changed what I read in the Wall Street Journal to read, "the U.S. spends just over $2.35 trillion on healthcare each year and everyone is insured", how does that sound? You know the saying; "your money or your life".
- If the H.R. 3200 or any bill quite like it passes, those who are so vehemently opposed and the great majority of Americans who say they are opposed to this kind of health care reform need to hang on to the memories of these latest months. Do not forget those representatives who admitted they don't have time to read the bill, said you reminded them of KKK during debates over civil rights legislation, or made news by saying that you brought swatstikas to visit your congressman. These are the words of the overprivileged court of 535 kings and queens, many who have reigned for decades and regularly re-districted their kingdoms to keep their electoral advantage and ruling power. These are the rulers who do as they please during off-election years and take full advantage of today's short memories the election year after. These are rulers who refuse to retire their power at 80 or 90, when many of us break our backs for 40 years and pray that we might live a little while past 65 to enjoy at least some years off the clock. There are so many bright and wonderful contributors to this society yet we have a political system with a door closed to most all except the very rich and connected. We all should know that this is not how it needs to be. A campaign can likely be won these days with less money than it took to win 50 years ago. This information age can make anyone relevant overnight. All it really takes is a vigilant public; perhaps an unlikely hope and wish, yet not one out of the realm of possibility.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Protester Fashion Plates
Where is Everybody?
It makes you wonder if some of the conservative media outlets just want this garbage passed. Where are they? Why aren't they on the front lines right now, letting us know what is happening in the back rooms? I know some insiders who say that a compromise has come about this morning. Yet the media messengers are hours behind. Where's Paul Revere when you need him. The Democrats telegraphed their message war late last week, while National Review, etc., were busy planning the next cruise. We whine about the MSM being so powerful, while we busy ourselves talking about Obama Joker posters, or having a Star Trek discussion (see the cutesy Jonah Goldberg side of National Review's corner)
As for elected Republicans, lets see, 55 Senators to 40 Senators in less than 4 years. I'm sure we can get down to 30 by 2010. Just KEEP COMPROMISING!!! Keep following your ridiculous election strategies. Third Party, your table is ready.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
A Sweet Home Chicago Counter Rally
Blue Dog Republicans
Case number 1 is the Stimulus Bill. All House Republicans (over 170) voted against the bill making it a bill owned 100% by the Democrat Party. Until however, 3 out of 41 Republicans in the Senate, crossed the aisle, met for tea with Obama, and voted Yea on the stimulus bill. The 3 Senators? Specter, Collins, and Snowe; Republicans in Blue States. If these 3 had held firm (something they are incapable of doing), cloture on the stimulus may have failed and fiscal conservativism, prevailed. But instead, these unreliable 3, from really, more purple than blue states, lived up to the spineless compromising self-serving hacks that they are.
Case number 2 is the House Cap and Trade Bill. Given that the Democrat Super-majority in the Senate won't bring it up for a vote, shows how bad this bill really must be. Still though, 8 Blue Dog Republicans in the House voted for it. They are Mark Kirk (IL), Mary Bono Mack (CA), Mike Castle (DE), John McHugh (NY), Frank LoBiondo (NJ), Chris Smith (NJ), Dave Reichert (WA), and Leonard Lance (NJ). All from what these 8 must see as hopelessly blue states.
Being a resident of Illinois, I have seen clearly, since Election '08 what a fraud of a Republican Mark Kirk is. Watching local PBS (WTTW), I saw a campaign spot featuring Mark Kirk, and the first thing out of his mouth was that he was proud of his pro-choice record and support of planned parenthood. Since his vote on Cap-and-Trade, he has elected to run for U.S. Senate, and has voted against an ammendment stripping government funding for abortion heavy Planned Parenthood. He lived up to his PP support just like he said he was so proud to do. Before announcing his run for U.S. Senate, he sat tight until Illinois Democrat, Lisa Madigan announced she wouldn't be running. Kirk just assumed she would automatically win, and would have sat out had she run. At least now, he might get the liberal vote. It's the calculating politicians like Kirk and the Blue Dog Republicans that dumb down political representation. Kirk's a "realist" and definitely an opportunist, but he is creating a political reality for himself and Illinois Republicans that is sub-par to the core.
For politicians like these blue dogs, it isn't about priciple or doing what ought to be done. It isn't about seeing the world as it should and could be. It is about seeing the world for what it is and assuming that what is now, will still be later, and it is about maintaining the political status quo as the safest route to a meaningless victory, and a fast road to hell. For what good is it anymore to have these Blue Dog Republicans, clogging up primaries with the uncertain promise that they are the best bet for the general election. They assumed victory to John McCain back in February '08. He was the best bet to beat Hillary Clinton; the polls said so. Only Hillary didn't become the opponent. Nice theory, too bad the variables were changed. It is these calculating predictions leading to political concessions, that will continue to doom the GOP. It's voters would be wise to imagine the possibilities at all times, and not settle on what seems to be the sure shot, too far in advance. The Blue Dogs for both partys would be wise to do the same.
Obama Promises Healthcare by the End of the Year, With or Without Republican Support. Ain't He Talked to the Maine Gals Yet?
Monday, August 3, 2009
It's the Liberty Stupid
If you had a teenager who wanted a tattoo and asked you for the money to get one, you could say, "no that is too expensive", when your main concern isn't the $100 cost, but that your child will be making a lasting decision and may be harmed by the procedure. So, the kid gets a job and saves the money to pay for one himself. Now what? Is all concern out the window since your wallet won't be tapped?
Mark Steyn, one of my favorite writers, picks up on this reasoning in his latest article. He also mentions that the war over Hillarycare was won only fiscally, and that the battle on the government's grasping at freedom by taking full control of healthcare had not been waged. Therefore, the attempts at government control of health care are back again and will continue until Americans see this war as an issue of freedom and not solely economic.
Mark Steyn
Also, Jed Babbin provides suggestions on what to ask during these August townhalls.
Jed Babbin
I've heard some of the audio clips of townhall meetings filled with concerned, angry, and informed citizens. What it tells me is that these Congress mainstays have had it too easy for too long. They have operated and lived off of political connections, special interest groups and bundled campaign donations. Even in this information age, the one with the most money to buy soundbite heavy commercials, still ends up the victor. McCain/ Feingold may have tried to take the money out of politics, but the big money givers have found the loop holes leaving only the small honest donors under control.
Politicians have shown great concern for those flavors of the election cycle, such as soccer moms, the hispanic vote, the youth vote, senior citizens, and evangelicals; and have received big dollars from environmentalists, gay rights advocates, unions, and a plethora of other lobbying groups. Well, now the rest of us are here to say, "here comes the individual, baby". We don't fit into a neat little control group, comforted with mere incomplete sentences, talking points, or a living and breathing constitution. Questions will be asked and explanations will be required. Either earn your keep, or find a new job. Once the mainstream media earns the mis-trust they are so warranted and their laughable double standards and partiality to Democrats becomes apparent to more Americans, perhaps voters will take advantage of all the data and information available to them and take a little time to come to an educated conclusion on who they should vote in. When that time comes, the big dollars ain't gonna get 'em thru the chamber door anymore.


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EXHIBIT: Allure of the Fish featuring Joseph Rossano January 10 - 31, 2019. Artist reception: Thursday, January 17, 5-8pm. Exhibit features the artwork of Joseph Rossano, whose work is influenced by his passion for protecting our natural resources and improving salmon and steelhead habitats in the Pacific NW.
January 10, 2019, 10:00 AM - February 23, 2019, 5:00 PM @ Schack Art Center
EXHIBIT: Salmon School Ambassadors
January 10 - February 23, 2019
Artist reception: Thursday, January 17, 5-8pm. With the help of Joseph Rossano we are celebrating the 40 glass artists who have volunteered countless hours to School: The Joseph Rossano Salmon Project. This exhibit is an opportunity to thank these talented makers for their environmental advocacy and showcase their individual artistic talents.
January 23, 2019, 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM @ City Council Chambers
Weekly meeting of the Everett City Council
January 23, 2019, 6:30 PM @ City Council Chambers


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Gilda Sneed dreamed of going to nursing school as a young adult, but her life responsibilities and some health problems forced her to put it off for a while. "I started out as a licensed vocational nurse, and really developed a love of caring for people," says Gilda, who grew up in Columbus, Georgia. Eventually, she moved to Richmond, Virginia, became a Registered Nurse, and got a foot in the door in at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System—her employer still today.
A fulfilling 45-year career
Over her 45 years at VCU Health, Gilda has worked in various capacities and areas—from the coronary care unit to the cardiac transplant unit—and she made her way to the kidney/liver transplant center in 1990. She's been there ever since. "I love my job as a transplant coordinator," she says. "I have no plans to retire, and I just enjoy my patients so much."
When the hospital announced the organization's intent to pursue Magnet status, Gilda and other RNs were required to return to school for a BSN—something Gilda had wanted to do for many years anyway. "It was a good push," she says. Several colleagues who had pursued the BSN and MSN recommended American Sentinel, and after doing her own research, Gilda followed in their footsteps, enrolling in 2014. "I was raised to believe you can do anything you put your mind to if you put one foot in front of the other. I was a little afraid of the computer part of college, but I knew I could do it if I kept going."
Newfound skills – and renewed excitement
Once Gilda started the BSN, there was nothing stopping her—even at the age of 66. And thanks to her nearby son, who offered technology help every weekend, and her seven grandchildren, who rooted her on, her enthusiasm grew by the week. "I just kept saying, 'I can do this,' and I kept on working," Gilda says, adding that her supervisors at VCU Health were also supportive. "The program invigorated me. It's easy to get caught up in the daily grind of a workplace, but there's always something to learn. Being back in school reminds you of that."
In June 2016, Gilda graduated with the BSN. "One thing that made this such a wonderful experience was that I learned what new nurses are being taught today, which means I am much better able to help them," she says. "I also feel so much more knowledgeable about evidence-based practice. I feel more comfortable researching and applying that research when I'm working with patients and other nurses."
Proud and motivated
Gilda never pictured herself going back to college at her age, but she's happy that she did. "Age is just a number, and while my employer pushed me to earn the BSN, it is something I'm so proud to have achieved," she says. American Sentinel, she adds, was the perfect learning environment for her. "American Sentinel really does support the students, which is what I'd heard from others when I was doing my research. To anyone considering it, the BSN is a challenging program, and you're going to work hard, but you will have support. I appreciated that every step of the way."
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Alpha Flight is a fictional superhero team published by Marvel Comics, noteworthy for being one of the few Canadian superhero teams. Created by John Byrne, the team first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #120 (April 1979).
Within the Marvel Universe, Alpha Flight is described as "Canada's answer to the Avengers." Most team members have distinctly Canadian attributes, such as Inuit or First Nations heritage. Throughout most of its history, the team has worked for Department H, a fictional branch of Canada�s Department of National Defence that deals with super-powered villains.
The team was originally merely a part of the backstory of the X-Men�s Wolverine but, in 1983, Marvel launched an eponymous series featuring the group, which continued until 1994. Four short-lived revivals have been attempted since. After the resurrection of the team in the one shot comic Chaos War: Alpha Flight which was published as part of the Chaos War event, they went on to star in an eight-issue limited series in 2011.


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When I decided to apply for the Engaged Anthropology Grant of the Wenner-Gren Foundation it certainly seemed to be the right thing to do. After all I had spent years in Sierra Leone observing organisations of people with disability. It was obvious that the people who nourished my thesis with their infinite patience, tolerating my presence … More I have made it! Have I?


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Tuesday, Aug 9 2016 3:00PM - 4:30PM
Anaheim Marriott
Elite Ballroom 2
TIM Conversations in Open and Collaborative Innovation: Development of an Open Innovation Strategy
Open Innovation Strategy
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Elena Novelli
Cass Business School, City U. London
Track A: Open & Collaborative Innovation
The cogs and wheels of open innovation: The role of mechanisms in the capability lifecycle
Henry Lopez-Vega
Linköping U.
Nicolette Lakemond
Linköping U.
External knowledge search involves the identification and formulation of technology needs; the selection of an appropriate search tool; and the integration of solutions to innovation problems. To understand how firms build a capability to search over time, we use a capability life-cycle framework and the social mechanisms theory to explain how a collaboration mechanism links technological needs or opportunities to solutions. This paper reports upon a longitudinal study of a Brazilian multinational –Natura Cosmetics – and explains the evolutionary process of a collaboration mechanism over 14 years. We identified that the implementation of an open innovation strategy occurs in three phases: initiation, implementation and establishment. Moreover, the collaboration mechanism can be described by six explanatory practices and three sub-mechanisms. These three mechanisms help to explain the chain of external knowledge search. The phases as well as the collaboration mechanism enrich previous studies of knowledge search in open innovation by explaining the evolution of the implementation of an open innovation capability.
Search Terms: Knowledge search | Open innovation | mechanisms
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Overcoming open innovation's conceptual ambiguity: Mapping the innovation collaboration landscape
Kathleen Diener
RWTH Aachen U.
Dirk Luettgens
RWTH Aachen U.
WWith Chesbrough's (2003) introduction of open innovation, the landscape of collaboration concepts for innovation has gained a new facet. The scientific relevance of this topic is strongly supported by the exponential growth of the open innovation literature within the past decade. Despite all this research, scholars like Dahlander, Gann or di Benedetto still criticize a conceptual ambiguity of the term open innovation and demand better precision of this concept in contrast to earlier forms of collaboration for innovation. Our paper investigates the mutual understanding of open innovation and its reflection in research and practice. Analyzing 1305 academic articles in the field by a novel form of co-citation analysis, we create a scientific map of the innovation collaboration landscape. We are able to capture the conceptual ambiguity underlying the open innovation and provide an integrative framework to resolve this discrepancy. Our framework contributes to the consolidation of open innovation research and supports further progress in this area. We find that different forms of collaboration for innovation can be structured by different degrees of proximity and formalization. This enables us to define four general collaboration types, including new forms like open innovation (low proximity with control distributed among the participating parties). We validate this framework by survey data from 64 intermediaries facilitating a collaborative innovation process.Data allow us to isolate a clear mental representation of open innovation viewing it as collaboration at low proximity and formalization in terms of distributed control among the collaboration participants.
Search Terms: Open Innovation | scientific mapping | conceptual ambiguity
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The crafting of physical spaces in an open innovation environment
Altair Hazel Marroquin Cruz
Cass Business School, City U. London
The way of doing innovation is changing, organizations are opening organizational boundaries and new models of collaboration take place in emerging innovation spaces such as FabLabs and hackerspaces. I undertake a qualitative case study research that explores the relation between spaces and innovation with four Open Source Hardware (OSHW) organizations. From the finding I developed a framework that link organization's objectives with socio-spatial experiences. The findings suggest that efficiency, productivity and collaboration with local communities are the main drivers and I argue that by crafting liminality organizations convey experiences that create the conditions and potentiality of new idea generation and collaboration with skilled resources. The implication for managers and public policy makers are to first define clear objectives to guide the creation of innovation spaces and find resources with the skills to manage them.
Search Terms: liminality | : open source innovation | user communities
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Perception vs Reality: the Adoption of Open Innovation in European Companies
Daria Podmetina
Lappeenranta U. of Technology
Roman Teplov
Lappeenranta U. of Technology
Ekaterina Albats
Lappeenranta U. of Technology
Justyna Dabrowska
Lappeenranta U. of Technology
Since 2003, certain perception of open innovation has already managed to emerge both in academia and in business society despite the ongoing debates on the essence of the concept. In response to criticism of open innovation and continuing discussions in the academic literature on what open innovation actually is, by this study we examine whether there is any gap in understanding open innovation between academia and business (practitioners). Moreover, we investigate were exactly it lies. To undertake this research we use the data of the survey on open innovation conducted in 2014-2015 among 254 managers representing companies operating in Europe. Using logistic regression, we analyze the impact of the set of innovation activities (acknowledged by academia as open innovation) on the probability of firms to identify themselves as open innovation adopters. Our results prove that a gap between companies' self-perception and actual open innovation adoption exists, and show that only three activities admitted by scholars as open actually effect companies self-reported status of open innovation adoption. We found that companies do not perceive commercialization of unused technologies as open innovation (practice/activity) and other nine activities being open according to academia do not yet determine the general open innovation adoption.
Search Terms: open innovation | open innovation activity | openness
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sam Goldberg // Mark McGuire // Telecult Powers mini-tour this weekend!!!
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For the concert on Sunday, April 4.ReplyDelete
What time? and do you have the exact location.
And For Friday night, at Wesleyan. I'm in New Haven and want to come out but have spotty knowledge on the wheres and hows of wesleyan. Time and place on campus? I haven't found anything on their website about it yet..ReplyDelete
got the info off of sams pizza blog.thats the only info ive seen, so i really dont know! : 0
hmm....will try to figure more details!!
Mark, I think I emailed you but I don't think I got a response. I am doing a festival in Maryland this summer (Aug 7) with tons of noise, ambient, drone, other experimental artists. Skin Graft from your hometown is coming down to play. Would you or Emeralds be interested? Here is the flyer. I will be adding to it and changing it as time goes on. I will be able to pay you whatever I can but I must pay the venue first. No profit for me. http://www.ifitmoveskissit.net/rainbowbridge/rainbow%20bridge%20fest.jpgReplyDelete
Vundebarr... I'll try contacting the grogshop and add you to the email in case answered!ReplyDelete
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In the previous articles in this series you've read how we created the villages from concept art to actual 3D models. In this post we'll explain how we're giving them color. Since we'll have multiple buildings of the same style and structure. It seemed wise to use a system in which we can share the textures across multiple buildings in stead of creating a unique texture for each building. This solution saves time, reduces the total texture size and it has less impact on the performance, which is import to keep the game running at a steady and fluent frame rate.
Textures are unique images that are applied (mapped) to the surface of a shape or polygon in the game. Usually everything you see in a 3D game has a texture. Above you see some examples of textures we use in CotD, below you can see them applied to the butchery and carpenter model.
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Three members of Liverpool's notorious Fitzgibbon crime family will be sentenced today over a plot to smuggle £7 million of heroin into Britain.
Brothers Ian and Jason Fitzgibbon and their mother, Christine, were caught after authorities seized 126lb (57kg) of the class A drug in Turkey, beginning a trail that led back to Liverpool.
A listening device was planted inside the family's home in an affluent Merseyside suburb, and the family "convicted themselves by their own words, in their own house", police said.
Officers found £137,000 in cash stuffed under the floorboards at the property.
Jason, 40, of Crofton Mansions, Crofton Estate, North Sudley Road, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import heroin and Ian, 39, of Heigham Gardens, St Helens, admitted conspiracy to supply heroin.
The brothers - both fathers-of-three - will be sentenced at Manchester Crown Court, along with their mother and several associates.
Christine, 60, of Edale Road, who claimed £1,500 a month in benefits with husband William, pleaded guilty to money laundering.
Matt Burton, of the Serious Organised Crime Agency in the North West, said the family "revelled in their notoriety".
He said they "held a very tight rein on areas of Liverpool for quite a number of years".
"They thought they were untouchable," said Burton. "Their motive? Financial greed, and greed in terms of their status and notoriety."
The family had a network of international contacts across Europe and South America, sent criminal associates on overseas deals and even monitored exchange rates to optimise profits.
In an attempt to cover their tracks, the brothers would travel on false passports and by circuitous routes, booking flights they never caught and which they paid for with cloned cards.
Jason was in charge of transport, while Ian dealt with logistics, sources said.
"If they were to have channelled their thoughts and efforts into a legitimate business I have no doubt they'd be very wealthy individuals," Burton added.
"What we have here is a criminal family running a criminal business. Mum, very much the company director, finance director and consultant. Father a consultant, adviser to the two brothers. And the brothers, very hands-on managing directors involved in source countries and face-to-face meetings.
"Mum, as the finance director, would be well aware of the exchange rate between the euro and the pound. She would be aware of the impact of that in any importation.
"She's very acutely aware of our tactics... and would advise her sons on forensic strategies and ways to avoid detection.
"But these individuals have convicted themselves by their own words in their own house."
The family was traced after five suspected drug traffickers were arrested in a Turkish police operation in September 2011. Officers found 57kg of high-grade heroin wrapped hidden in a car boot.
After their arrest, one of the Turkish conspirators were overheard making comments linking them to Jason Fitzgibbon, who had visited Turkey several times.
The Fitzgibbons were caught as part of Operation Bistro, an investigation into drug dealing and associated money laundering between 2008 and 2011.
One of the exchanges recorded by police included an argument between the brothers over who was the better drug dealer.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) said: "The scope of the enterprise was truly breathtaking. Those involved had established criminal networks not only in the United Kingdom but in foreign countries including Turkey and Holland."
Police say the Fitzgibbon brothers, both of whom have served eight-year prison sentences for drug supplying offences, also had contacts in Colombia and Mexico.
Daniel Smith, 26, of Warren Road, Liverpool, and Neil Harrison, 40, of Capella Close, Liverpool, will appear alongside the three Fitzgibbons at court to be sentenced for offences of conspiracy to supply drugs. Neil Williams, 32, of Wellington Court, Liverpool, will be sentenced for money laundering.


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The free Summer Olympics Pack is done. This is great set for those kids that want to learn some of the many sports and items you will find at the Olympics! There are many types of pages with many variations for kids to work on. This was made with Tot, Prek and Kinder in mind.
These Summer Olympics printables are to be used with children from 2 to 7. These printables were made to go with the book G is for Gold Medal: An Olympics Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Press Sports & Hobbies) by Brad Herzog and Doug Bowles.
Graphics: Summer Olympics Sports Kids, Summer Olympics Sports Kids Clip Art, Tennis Kids, Sports Balls, Sports Ball Clip Art, Basketball Kids, Soccer Kids, & Gymnastic Kids by Scrapping Doodles purchased from Scrapping Doodles
Summer Olympics Pack contains over 100 pages:
(Part 1) 3 Part Cards, Which one is Different, What Comes Next?, Prewriting Practice, Pattern Cards, Matching Cards, 4 Piece Puzzles, 10 Piece Puzzles, Clip & Count to 15, (Part 2) Beginning Sound, Find the Same, Cutting Practice, Size Sequencing, Sorting, Sorting by Size, Wall Cards, Trace Beginning Sound, Trace the Word, Write the Word, Medal Math Hands on Page (Addition, subtraction, Greater Than/Less Than, Counting), (Part 3) Color the Pattern, Color by Size, Fill in the Missing Pattern, Read Write and Count the Room, 8 page Small Books, Ring Color By Number, Dot Marker Olympic Rings, Stamp Beginning Sound
Tot Pack:
Solid Line Prewriting, Counting, Cutting Practice, 2 Piece Puzzle, Color the Ring Book, Matching Cards, 9 Piece Puzzles
Other books and other items we plan on using with this pack:
Also check out the Free Winter Olympics Pack.
Other Summer Olympic Printables:
- Make Learning Fun – Olympic Theme
- 1+1+1=1 Summer Olympics 2012 ~ Calendar Connections
- Homeschool Share – Olympic Lapbook
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com


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