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(CNN) - A new group that advocates full disclosure of campaign spending says it's going up Thursday with newspaper ads calling on both the Democratic and Republican candidates in three key congressional races to reject spending by outside groups.
CounterPAC, which is backed by around a half-dozen tech entrepreneurs, says the ads are the first step in what the group says is its national campaign pushing candidates to pledge to reject what it calls "dark" money expenditures by outside groups during this year's midterm elections.
An ad being placed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution will focus on the two nominees in Georgia's Senate contest: Democrat Michelle Nunn and Republican David Perdue. An ad in the Anchorage Daily News focuses on Democratic Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska and Dan Sullivan, considered the favorite to win the GOP nomination. And an ad in the Charleston Gazette focuses on the two candidates in the high profile race for West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District: Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall and Republican nominee Evan Jenkins.
"The CounterPAC pledge is about restoring accountability for voters and agreeing to elections that aren't manipulated by a flood of secret money," said Jim Greer who is co-founder of CounterPAC and a co-founder and former CEO of Kongregate, an online gaming site. "Unlike campaign finance regulations, there's nothing complicated or counter-intuitive about the pledge. Many candidates agree – now it's time for them to put the dark money where their mouth is."
The group says it will act as the arbiter and enforcer of the pledge after candidates have agreed to the terms, which include rejecting expenditures from undisclosed sources. CounterPAC promises to donate 50% of the cost of the rejected expenditure to a charity of the opposing candidate's choice. The group points to a much publicized pledge in 2012 by then-Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren to keep outside money out of their race.
The 2010 Supreme Court "Citizens United" ruling – which removed legal barriers preventing corporations and unions from spending unlimited sums on federal elections – opened the floodgates. It contributed to an explosion in outside spending on the campaign trail by super PACs and by non-profit groups – mainly the IRS designated 501(c)(4) organizations – which don't have to disclose their donors. In a bunch of high profile primary races this year, spending by outside groups dwarfed spending by the actual campaigns.
When it comes to outside spending, there's a partisan gap. Overall, pro-GOP outside groups have heavily outspent their pro-Democratic rivals in the 2010, 2012, and 2014 cycles.
In addition to Greer, CounterPAC is supported by: Matt Cutts, the head of the Webspam team at Google; Ethan Beard, an entrepreneur-in-residence at Greylock Partners; Ted Wang, a Silicon Valley lawyer and Partner at Fenwick & West; Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta, a new venture fund backed by Bloomberg L.P.; Todd DiPaola, Co-Founder of InMarket; and Ron Carmel, Co-Founder of 2dBoy and IndieFund.
The group's push comes as Senate Democrats back a proposed constitutional amendment that would limit campaign spending by outside groups. The measure passed through committee hurdles, but its chances of passing the full Senate, where it needs a two-thirds majority, are extremely slim, due to broad GOP opposition.
Repubs Will never sign that pledge they are getting too much money from China and India to outsource American jobs to their countries by not taxing their big corporate donors when they do so
It's an absolute shame that citizens have to form a PAC to try to right the wrong of a republican led Supreme Court. The GOP as a whole sees nothing wrong with foreign governments having the ability to hide the money they secretly contribute to republican candidates.
Trying to expose "dark" money is like asking "Dick" Cheney to admit to climate change . He will only change the subject .
Citizens United We Stand , More campaign spending means more American jobs .
Funny how these ads are targeted where Democratic candidates will most likely / are going to lose in the midterm elections.
If you limit outside spending; Democratic candidates and president Obama would never be able to get elected. The president didn't collect a billion dollars plus from voters in the United States.
Don't hold your breath thinking for one minute that anyone is going to go for this. Here in MI outside spending had spent over $14,000,000 on our Governors race alone. And that was almost 2 weeks ago. That's more than both candidates themselves have raised.
Good Luck with that!
As a voter I would love to have elections fall back on votes instead of dirty money controlling them!
I am also sick and tired of outside interests placing these ads, trying to sway voters with untruths, quotes taken out of context, and just plain lies!
However, I would like to think that most voters do their own research and do not pay heed to those ads, but unfortunately too many Americans believe everything they see on the boob tube! These super PACS care not for the states and the people of those states where they place these ads. GET REAL! does anyone in Iowa actually think Karl Rove cares about Iowa? If you do, I have some prime swampland, I mean real estate, to sell you!
They are wasting their time and money by calling on the candidates to reject spending by outside groups. The law prohibits them from contacting or coordinating with those types of groups. Besides, current interpretation of the law says that the groups can exercise their freedom of speech to spend as much as they so desire.
Their time would be better spent lobbying members of Congress to change the laws, but we know conservatives would never go for that because they cannot drum up nowhere near as many small donations as liberals can.
As long as the Federal government is in the business (Unconstitutional) of collecting and disbursing money for Social Programs the people have a right to speak about it. Return the Social Spending Programs back to the States where the people in each state decide what and where money is collected, spent and we will have no need for Political Ads.
That will accomplish nothing. The Dems blame the GOP, then turn around and spend far more to win, than the GOP does.
There is no group more dishonest, fraudulent, and lying, then the Democratic Party.
Rick McDaniel
That will accomplish nothing. The Dems blame the GOP, then turn around and spend far more to win, than the GOP does.
There is no group more dishonest, fraudulent, and lying, then the Democratic Party.
Yeah, except this group is talking about "dark" money, the vast majority of which benefits red candidates.
When we live in a world whose definition of success involves making as much money as possible, we put our own safety and health at risk in exchange for looking temporarily successful. We then elect these apparently successful people to offices that give them control over the important decisions that are made about our lives.
So, before we look to see who has the largest war chest to win the next election, perhaps it would be wise to look at the gears that turn this particular machine:
Lots of money can easily be made by telling us what we want to hear or distracting us for a little while longer.
Much less money can be made by telling us what we need to hear and starting conversations few are willing to start.
If you want to have a society that is grounded and sustainable rather than flashy and distracting, perhaps it would be good to start looking for people to elect that have a different version of success than those that have simply amassed great wealth telling people what they want to hear.
If you want to go even further to find good leaders, then you will need to look for ones that listen very well...and do not just speak every time someone shows up with a microphone. After all, the most endearing trait of a leader is the ability to inspire trust and creativity in the public by knowing when...and how...to follow.
It is simply impossible for one person to have all the answers. It is possible, however, to ignite a timeless passion for life by enabling people's own creativity and trusting them enough to save their own little corner of the world. Someone simply needs to believe in the Nobodies of the world because the Nobodies...not the Somebodies....are the ones that truly hold this world together.
"It is simply impossible for one person to have all the answers. It is possible, however, to ignite a timeless passion for life by enabling people's own creativity and trusting them enough to save their own little corner of the world. Someone simply needs to believe in the Nobodies of the world because the Nobodies...not the Somebodies....are the ones that truly hold this world together."
I must admire your ideals. However, you are in need of a small reality check. Your "Nobodies", the "have nots", do have the power to control the world. But, your "Somebodies", the "haves", have made an unprecedented power grab over the last 30 years. Their hands grow bigger by the decade, and they're taking more and more power away from your "Nobodies"
I'm talking about our democracy has been anonymously usurped into an plutocracy. A recent study out of Britain has reported that American democracy has finally died with unlimited amounts of money fueling our politics.
"Dark Money", thats a laugh. We all know the money comes from special interest groups and both sides are on the take. Get rid political commercials on tv, radio and the internet and the money will stop flowing in.


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ISB Ding
I went into hibernation after giving my ISB interview, the only school I applied to. 3 days before the results were actually released, I attended the ISB R1 admits and R2 "hopefuls" meet here in Hyderabad. It was a great meet and I was excited to study with those guys once I get into ISB.
But alas, something else was in store for me and one fine morning, when I was early to office, I got an SMS saying that I was not accepted. It really came as a shock to me and for the next one hour I was feeling, hoping rather, that it is a mistake and cannot be true. I mean, everything was in place now. Last time I had applied with 2.5 years of work-ex and was waitlisted. I screwed up my interview last time. This year, I applied with close to 5 years of work-ex and far better essays. My interview was more mature. Considering all this, I had assumed that I will get through this time and had planned everything.
Anyways, now I have got used to the fact that I will not be doing an MBA this year. Right now, am focusing on my job and keeping myself updated on the news on global MBA front. It's time to do some introspection to figure out the reasons for my reject. That is, before I get a feedback from ISB.

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"Fairly often while I was talking quietly with the Shaikh, the name 'Allah' had come to us from some remote corner of the zawiyah, uttered on one long drawn out, vibrant note…It was like a cry of despair, a distraught supplication, and it came from some solitary cell-bound disciple, bent on meditation. The cry was usually repeated several times, and then all was silence once more.
…Later when I asked the Shaikh what was the meaning of the cry which we had just heard, he answered:
'It is a disciple asking God to help him in his meditation.'
'May I ask what is the purpose of his meditation?'
'To achieve self-realization in God.'
'Do all the disciples succeed in doing this?'
'No, it is seldom that anyone does. It is only possible for a very few.'
'Then what happens to those who do not? Are they not desperate?'
'No: they always rise high enough to have at least inward Peace.'
– from Shaikh Ahmad Al-Alawi: A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century,, His Spiritual Heritage and Legacy, by Martin Lings
Something more raw and real
Contemporary concerts are all too often facile exercises in dead culture; no alchemy, no vision, just genre and acquiescence to the limited expectations of the crowd. It's rare and valuable when you encounter an artist able to invoke a more powerful experience, something raw and real, bordering on ritual or the screams for self-realization that Lings encountered in his experiences with Sufi sects.
On March 4th, 2010 Genesis P-Orridge brought Thee Majesty to support the first Chicago showing of the William S. Burroughs documentary A Man Within at St. Paul's Community Center. In a moldering Catholic church converted to an arts venue, a motley assortment gathered to witness Thee Majesty pour vitriol on the idea of blind acquiescence to ideology or organization.
A culture of individuals
I was surprised at how disparate the folks were in the audience. A guy dressed in a well tailored suit sits next to a man, apparently well into his 60's, with a long, stringy white beard and a loose, rough cut, red tunic. This was a community of individuals, bound by active acceptance of each other and not a passive belief in unity.
"I have lied to you…" Genesis howls over the discordant drone of Bryin Dall's guitar and the percussion. The sounds were acrid, melting away blind belief and calling for gnosis. To participate in this ritual was not to loose ones' self in a hazy notion of the All, it was participation as a self-realized unit of the whole. An existential moment of responsibility that tore down the illusion of cohesion in order to place the individual into an unblinded view of their place.
Further on one discovers through the immersive atmosphere of pandrogyny, alchemical marriage and surgical remembering that Genesis evokes, individuality itself becomes a subtle lie to be shed as well. The concert becomes an exploration of the phenomenal mixing of parts expressed in other traditions through shamanic dismemberment, Chod practice, the Great Work of alchemical adepts and the amorphous therianthropic forms of the witches sabbat.
This experience was repeated when Michael Gira resurrected the Swans at the Double Door on October 5th. Gira in a conservative haircut, collared shirt, tore apart the distinctions between raw sound and lush harmonies. Theatrics stripped away, here was the music itself, naked and real.
They were not there to support the expectations of the audience. Our place was as guests, we were invited to accompany him into a temple built of sound, where we could experience what he wryly referred to as his "poor man's religion."
An end to academic rituals
The audience had assembled for a concert in the classic sense. They were expecting what the academics think of as a ritual, with the expected cultural narrative and social interaction accompanied by some fitting genre music. Cat calls from the back demanded that the audience "Fucking dance! This is a Swans concert…" despite the fact that for 30 years of performing Gira has consistently mentioned that he hates the brute and group oriented elements of musical culture.
Gira is an advocate for the individual, with no interest in rituals like moshing that support group think. A Swans' concert is not the place for the cheap parlour tricks of a Human Resource department, the street equivalent of trust exercises. When Gira is your host he is there to, in a very personal way, tear you open to reality.
Laying the foundation
The concert begins with the long, droning squeal of a distorted guitar. The tension builds, at first the audience stands in expectation, as time passes it becomes obvious that this sound is not an introductory element and will play for longer than most songs, the audience becomes nervous. People start to yell and cheer, needing some kind of release. They are not tantrics, the power of withholding doesn't linger long in their mind.
Then the percussion begins, Thor Harris playing what sounds like rhythmic church bells over the continuing drone. All of this the audience interprets as showmanship, they're missing the very simple fact that these sonic elements are serving to sever them from their daily routine, wiping their mind clean for what's ahead. The ground is being laid for an architecture of sound in which the elemental drama will play out.
The architect
Gira's focus, calm and fierce at the same time, Harris and Phil Puelo with alternate looks of agony and release as they hammer an impossible rhythmn. The entire band goaded on by Gira, whipped with looks and pulled forward by his own movement into the sound. If the audience was able they were welcome to come with. Even those left outside the inner chamber of the sound by their own expectations were throttled into submission.
William S. Burroughs compared Led Zeppelin to the Master Musicians of JouJouka, but they were still mired in mid 20th century Western culture. What Gira was able to summon had the immediacy of the Morrocan musicians, sound and vision cultivated from the ruins of Western culture. A ritual fit for the time, the music carrying fragments of traditional narratives torn into an elemental experience of life in the 21st century.
Genesis P-Orridge and Michael Gira are both able to capture the true ritual elements of the concert experience. Untied to tradition, religious, musical or cultural, they pull out the most effective pieces from the cultural drift and create temples of sound, opening up the reality of our times.
(Illustration: Untitled, David B. Metcalfe)


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Entertainment Weekly's Adam B. Vary posted an exclusive 4-page preview of the upcoming Star Wars #2 comic from Dark Horse. Two of them feature the Slave I cruising after the Falcon.
"The issue is written by Brian Wood, drawn by Carlos D'Anda, and set in the heady days between the first film (a.k.a. Star Wars, a.k.a. Star Wars: A New Hope, a.k.a. Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope) and the second film (a.k.a. The Empire Strikes Back, a.k.a....oh, you get the idea). In this exclusive four-page preview of the second issue (out Feb. 13), we see that Solo and his trusty wookiee Chewbacca are still very much free agents -- and a famed nemesis was in pursuit of them well before the events of Empire."


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Led by a group of seasoned returnees, the U16 San Jose Earthquakes Academy team will look to improve on an 11-11-6 mark from last year. The team won its final three matches of the 2012-13 campaign to give them some momentum heading into this season, where they look to jump back into the playoff picture.
Familiar faces will be leading the team as front man Stephen Wondolowski returns to the helm with trusted assistant Marquis White once again by his side. The two have been together with the Quakes since the 2010-11 season and will once again split the 16's and 18's. Both are bay area natives, Wondolowski from Danville and White from San Rafael. Wondolowski played collegately at UC Santa Cruz while White at the University of San Francisco, and they both returned to the bay area after their professional careers.
The list of returning players is impressive as well, headlined by Phillip Hausen and Jonathan Partida, the team's top two scorers from a year ago. Hausen led the team last year with 8 goals in 11 starts, while Partida added 5 goals while starting 20 matches. Veteran midfielder Rory Birse and defender Nils Langstrom also return for their second seasons on the U16 squad.
The net will be minded by Remi Prieur, who started 10 games last season with the 16's, splitting time with JT Marcinkowski. Prieur, a native of France, should see a lot of action with Marcinkowski up with the 18s, and will look to build on what he learned this offseason while attending Manchester United Soccer Schools Camp in Manchester, England. He will be supported in net by Eduardo "Lalo" Solarzano, a native of Modesto.
Returners Theo Huxham, Justin Moreno, Shane Penner, and Dylan Yatsuke should see signicant increases in their roles as they look to make the jump from spot starters to full time. Penner's younger brother, Jacob, has joined this year's squad, continuing the trend of brothers following the leader into the Quakes program.
Rei Dorwart, Kevin De La Cruz and Isaias Pio all gained valuable experience making last year's trip to Dallas for the postseason. The team will also see a boost after receiving two transfers from Northwest Division rival De Anza, as Rhys Pak and defender Chris Poulsen have joined the San Jose contingent.
The U16s will open the 2013-14 season at home Saturday, Sept. 14 at 12:30 p.m. against Crossfire Premiere of Redmond, WA. The Quakes battled Crossfire to a 1-1 draw in early February, before earning a convincing 3-1 victory over the wildcard-bound Crossfire on May 19 in Washington.
On Sunday, Sept. 15, San Jose will meet the Vancouver Whitecaps in Danville for a 1:30 start. The Quakes took both matches from Vancouver by 3-2 scores last season.
- Richter Media


text: Gymnae 41 Posted May 16, 2018 (edited) Introduction The H370 chipset powers 8th generation Intel Core-i CPUs. Even though the name H370 rings comparable to Z370, the H370 is based on newer silicon. This it also requires some new approaches compared to the Z370. An example would be on-die USB 3.1 and WiFi support. Since this guide is not a "hold-your-hand-every-step" guide, I assume you know: Clover installation and configuration How to create an install medium for MacOS Access and configure the BIOS Have heard of ACPI patching (I'm a newb at this myself) What works Sleep (via DSDT edits and emulated NVRAM) On-board Audio (via AppleALC and native AppleHDA) Native power management (without any kext or patch) All USB ports (and only those present are active) iGPU for both acceleration and display dGPU (I'm running an Nvidia GTX 1080) Untested NIC --> I'm using WiFi only What doesn't work Native NVRAM via AptioMemoryFix.efi DMVT Pre-alloc higher than 64MB (but not necessary) Community additions User @Panzerschiffe added a helpful post, altering this guide for user with AMD cards and not needing on-board sound. He also runs Mojave, which I don't run yet. Changes to the guide: 22.5.18: Added SSDT hot-patching to enable sleep, replacing DSDT static patching as an alternative. 23.5.18: Add iMac18,1 as alternative SMBIOS config for those relying on the iGPU for output 25.6.18: Added update info 28.8.18: Small changes for clarity, changed info for afps loading & updated USB patch for 13.6 04.10.18: Update to Mojave will come once Mojave is more mature 02.12.18: Removed unnecessary patches, fakepciid and audio patch method & linked to AMD post & added whatevergreen.kext as replacement for previous GPU kexts 02.03.19: Removed unnecessary fakeid and ig_platform_id injections, ACPI patches - this is all handled by whatevergreen & lilu. In testing is a Framebuffer patch, see this post. 04.03.19: Added Germany keyboard layout and updated pre-patched DSDT.aml removed DSDT patching 1. Installation This guide heavy inspired by the work of /u/corpnewt of /r/hackintosh and his (sorta) Vanilla guide 1.1 Create the install media for MacOS Follow this, if you are using a Mac to start off with. If you are totally new to MacOS, then please check the basic guide Creation of an installer media in windows or linux 1.2 Install Clover on the install media Using the Clover installer, ensure you are installing to the USB medium you are using for the installer. Chose the following options, leaving the others on default: UEFI driver: AptioMemoryFix UEFI driver: ApfsDriverLoader UEFI booting only Install to ESP You have to get your hands on an apfs.efi. A google search can help, or extracting it from the Installer package. Make sure you procure a version matching the MacOS version you are about to install. Place the apfs.efi in drivers64UEFI. 1.2 Adjust the config.plist for the installer You can use the config.plist attached as a guideline, but take a look at it before and at least adjust the SMBIOS - otherwise it won't boot. Attention: The attached plist contains audio patches introduced by a post-install step. If you run into problems, you might remove those. It also contains a manual slide value, which should normally not be needed, but works fine for me. It is also tuned for usage with an Nvidia Pascal dGPU as main GPU. The config you create now should serve you nicely for install and running the system. Take care of adding the following basics: SMBIOS: iMac18,3 - You can generate a serial number via Clover Configurator. The creation of a proper SMBIOS is covered in many guides to good extend Note: If you aim at using the iGPU for output, a user reported that iMac18,1 works better - since iMac18,3 produces severe flicker. I'm now also testing 18,1 Look at the graphics section and adjust the injection for Intel to your situation Fixes Spoiler <key>Fixes</key> <dict> <key>AddDTGP</key> <false/> <key>AddMCHC</key> <true/> <key>AddPNLF</key> <true/> <key>FixHPET</key> <true/> <key>FixIPIC</key> <true/> <key>FixRTC</key> <true/> <key>FixShutdown</key> <true/> <key>FixTMR</key> <true/> </dict> Patches Spoiler <key>Patches</key> <array> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>change SAT0 to SATA</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> U0FUMA== </data> <key>Replace</key> <data> U0FUQQ== </data> </dict> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>Rename HDAS to HDEF</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> SERBUw== </data> <key>Replace</key> <data> SERFRg== </data> </dict> </array> Devices Spoiler <key>Devices</key> <dict> <key>Audio</key> <dict> <key>Inject</key> <string>1</string> <key>ResetHDA</key> <true/> </dict> <key>USB</key> <dict> <key>AddClockID</key> <true/> <key>FixOwnership</key> <true/> <key>Inject</key> <true/> </dict> </dict> Graphics Important: Change 0x59120003 to 0x59120000 if you don't use a dGPU as your main display Driver and instead use the iGPU for output. Also note. SMBIOS iMac18,1 has been reported to work better in this configuration. But 18,3 works fine for me. Spoiler Change 0x59120003 to 0x59120000 if you don't use a dGPU as your main driver and instead use the iGPU for output. Also note that SMBIOS iMac18,1 has been reported to work better in this configuration. <key>Graphics</key> <dict> <key>Inject</key> <dict> <key>ATI</key> <false/> <key>Intel</key> <true/> <key>NVidia</key> <false/> </dict> <key>NvidiaSingle</key> <false/> </dict> Kernel and Kext patches Spoiler <key>KernelAndKextPatches</key> <dict> <key>AppleIntelCPUPM</key> <true/> <key>AppleRTC</key> <true/> <key>Debug</key> <false/> <key>KernelCpu</key> <false/> <key>KernelLapic</key> <false/> <key>KernelPm</key> <true/> <key>KernelXCPM</key> <false/> <key>KextsToPatch</key> <array> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>External icons patch</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> RXh0ZXJuYWw= </data> <key>InfoPlistPatch</key> <false/> <key>MatchOS</key> <string>10.13.x</string> <key>Name</key> <string>com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort</string> <key>Replace</key> <data> SW50ZXJuYWw= </data> </dict> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>change 15 port limit to 26 in XHCI kext (credit FredWst)</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> g32UDw+DlwQ= </data> <key>InfoPlistPatch</key> <false/> <key>MatchOS</key> <string>10.13.x</string> <key>Name</key> <string>com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI</string> <key>Replace</key> <data> g32UGg+DlwQ= </data> </dict> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>Prevent AGDP from loading (credit: vit9696) </string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> ugUAAAA= </data> <key>InfoPlistPatch</key> <false/> <key>MatchOS</key> <string>10.13.x </string> <key>Name</key> <string>com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy </string> <key>Replace</key> <data> ugAAAAA= </data> <key>true</key> <false/> </dict> <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>USB 10.13.6 by PMHeart</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> g32IDw+DpwQAAA== </data> <key>InfoPlistPatch</key> <false/> <key>MatchOS</key> <string>10.13.x</string> <key>Name</key> <string>com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI</string> <key>Replace</key> <data> g32ID5CQkJCQkA== </data> </dict> </array> </dict> 1.3 kexts and friends Add the supplied SSDT-UAIC.aml to "patched" - it limits the injected USB Ports to the actual number and ports valid for this board. Required kexts on "Other": FakeSMC.kext Whatevergreen.kext Lilu.kext AppleALC.kext IntelMausiEthernet.kext in case you're running Ethernet USBInjectAll.kext with the HCI-300-series-injector.kext --> These two should be installed to /L/E after install We are leaving sound out at the moment, this is something for post-install. 1.4 Check BIOS and install You should be ready for install. But before you reboot, please take a look at your BIOS and set it up accordingly (copied from the aforementioned guide and adapted): Load Optimized Defaults Disable VT-d setting If your system has Secure Boot Mode, disable it Enable CSM - This is sometimes needed to dual screens to work Set OS Type to Windows 8/10 or OtherOS - I have not seen a difference Turn off internal Serial and Parallel port Turn off Network stack for boot Turn off wake-on-lan (for now) Set XHCI Handoff to enabled Don't enable decode over 4G Depending on your GPU, set priority for boot Set internal GPU (iGPU) to enable - not auto or disabled Set DMVT pre-alloc min to 64MB and max to 128MB. For this selection to appear you might need to reboot after setting iGPU to enable Set USB legacy to enabled Activate XMP profile 1 f your Ram has it (mine doesn't and I added the timings manually) Set ERP to enable, disable platform power management (I need to do more research if this could be enabled) I've attached my current BIOS config "hack2". You can place that on a fat32 drive (the EFI partition of your install USB drive might be an idea) and see if it loads. It's made for and with the F2 BIOS. The install itself should be like other MacOS Hackintosh installs with it several reboots and ensuring to select the correct boot device in Clover. 2. Post-install 2.1 Install clover on target This is a no-brainer, but install a fresh copy of Clover on your target medium. During install select again AptioMemoryFix but also additionally EmuVariableUefi-64.efi Install RC scripts on target volume because otherwise NVRAM doesn't seem to work After the install, copy config.plist contents of "Other" content of "patched" to your new clover install. 2.2 Edit ACPI for slumber Choose one option, not both. The hot-patch is experimental, but for the moment it is stable. 2.2.1 Edit DSDT No more need for manual DSDT patching. If you still do it, you might run into unstable sleep. SSDT hot-patching + sane clover.config edits are enough This is necessary only once on initial install and every time, you edit or upgrade the BIOS. The DSDT.aml attached to this post might work for your system or give you a file to compare to. Don't expect it to work for you, though. EDIT: Since moving from F2 BIOS to F12 I did not repatch and sleep is still somewhat reliable. But to be 100% sure, you can still follow these steps. I won't go into the details of DSDT extraction and patching. There are better guides (the linked guide is a rip-off of rehabman's guide from a different forum). Please follow such a guide to extract your ACPI data. Locate and disassemble the DSDT with the newest iasl binary you can put your hands on, then open it with MacIASL in its newest version you can find (Hint: Here is a good source) You can check if the version is new enough if MacIASL doesn't throw error upon compiling a freshly extracted DSDT.aml or DSDT.dst Add rehabmans repo (as per linked guide) and apply the following patches: Rename _DSM to _XDSM Fix _WAK Arg0 v2 USB3 _PRW 0x6D Skylake (instant wake) Find the CNVW device and remove the _PWR function there. Compile the DSDT and place it in "patched". 2.2.2 Use SSDT hot-patching Instead of having to re-extract and re-patch the DSDT on every BIOS change or update, Hardware change one can also use ACPI hot-patching. It's a combination of config.plist patches and an SSDT, which is hot-patched into the ACPI (if I understand the process correctly) You need to add this SSDT-GPRW.aml to your Clover folder in the designated position at Clover/ACPI/patched You need to add this patch to your config.plist. It goes into the DSDT patch section Spoiler <dict> <key>Comment</key> <string>change Method(GPRW,2,N) to XPRW, pair with SSDT-GPRW.aml</string> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Find</key> <data> R1BSVwI= </data> <key>Replace</key> <data> WFBSVwI= </data> </dict> Note: This works for me, but the patch removes the _PRW method from all devices in the DSDT. This could have side-effects. So far, I have seen none. At the moment I'm also not applying any other patch, compared with the additional edits I made to the DSDT method before. 2.3 Install kexts to system As mentioned in the install section, it's better to follow rehabman's instruction and install USBinjectAll.kext to /L/E: sudo cp -R Release/USBInjectAll.kext /Library/Extensions sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions && sudo kextcache -u / 2.4 Enable onboard Audio - Install AppleALC kext Make sure your EFI partition is mounted and that you have a vanilla AppleHDA kext available. See below for a guide how to get a vanilla AppleHDA if needed Note: Our Audio codec is ALC887 and it's running with layout ID 1. Download the newest AppleALC kext from here and install it together with lilu.kext from here into your usual /clover/kexts/others location. Done. No scripts or config.plist patches necessary. Add layout ID 1 to config.plist, if it's not there yet: <key>Audio</key> <dict> <key>Inject</key> <integer>1</integer> <key>ResetHDA</key> <true/> </dict> If you previously installed any audio patches, please follow this guide to "vanilla-ize" your install. 2.5 Optional steps for Graphics If you have a dGPU, now it's the time to install its drivers and adjust the config.plist for it. The detaisl are specific to your GPU and thus of scope of this guide. Yet, my supplied config.plist is ready to be used with Nvidia Pascal cards and using the Nvidia web driver. Whatevergreen.kext helps with Intel iGPU and NVIDIA dGPU fixes. At the moment I'm also testing out a special bootflag: 'shikigva=12' to enable faster rendering in Final Cut Pro X. Without whatevergreen.kext and a shikigva bootflag, rendering in final cut seem very slow. 2.5.1 Framebuffers If you're facing problems with output from your internal GPU, you can try the framebuffer patches listed by @BackwardMac: 2.6 Install a proper keyboard layout You might not be using a fancy Apple branded keyboard. If you use a PC keyboard, you might be annoyed by the differing layout and usage of keys. As a German, you might find yourself quitting applications, since alt gr + Q won't add an @, but quit your current application. To fix this, you can simply install a different keyboard layout. Copy it to /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ and chose the layout in System Preferences, Keyboard in the section "Other". Deleting the previously selecting layout makes sure that only this one is used. Nice little trick. A keyboard layout for German keyboards is attached and works wonders 3. Updating Updating inside 10.3.x/ 10.4.x point updates doesn't require much attention: Download the update from the AppStore as any Mac would do Allow the system to reboot Before booting MacOS with Clover, make sure to disable extra drivers for dGPUs which require non-native support. If using an Nvidia dGPU: Remove "nvda_drv=1" from your boot arguments and disable Nvidia injection If using a non natively supported AMD card, do the same for AMD (I'm not using AMD, thus I cannot be specific) Boot into the newly created Install MacOS partition Repeat this process until the Install partition is gone Boot MacOS again, still following 3., and potentially install updated drivers Your Audio might require re-patching 4. ToDo Move away from static DSDT patching to SSDT hotpatching --> requires my work Native NVRAM --> requires developer work Audio without AppleHDA patching --> requires developer work 5. Thanks to @MaLd0nfor helping finding the right way with the DSDT @RehabMan, for being a legend and helping me out patching @toleda, for audio patches for the 300 series /u/corpnewt, for his superb vanilla guide @wmchris for his super XPS 9550 guide and introducing me to hot-patching @Panzerschiffe for his addition to this guide all the developers of clover and it's awesomeness SSDT-UIAC.aml win-germany.keylayout Edited March 8, 2019 by Gymnae New pre-patched DSDT for F12 and German keyboard layout 6 5 1 Moviemakergr, KittyCat, buzzvicky and 9 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I'd like to burn some very typical straw men. Hopefully, in the debate over Christianity, these unnecessary issues can be avoided.
Creation - Neither Genesis nor any of the scriptures demands that the earth and universe is only 6- to 10- thousand years old. The Hebrew word for "day" (yom) could mean long periods of time. The words "there was morning and there was evening, the first day" could be translated "there was beginning and ending, the first (yom)".
(BTW, the narrative moves to the surface of the earth in Genesis 1:2. While stars were certainly already in existence, their light was not visible on the surface of the earth until the opaque early atmosphere cleared).
Adam and Eve – While scripture does indicate they were specially created, there are gaps in the biblical genealogies that could place Adam and Eve back 60- to 90-thousand years. This would also predict increasing discovery of a common DNA originating between east Africa and the Mesopotamia.
(BTW, the word for "rib" means "side". The story of Eve's creation could mean God created her from Adam for symbolic purposes. I speculate a biopsy, of sorts, from the side, with a few million variations to the DNA producing a female. )
Talking Snakes - A boa constrictor with vocal cords is not in view here. That image comes largely from medieval art. The "serpent" in the garden was intelligent and used for evil. One can only speculate what sort of being it was (perhaps one no longer extant).
The Flood – The fact that a great flood is found in various cultures indicates that it happened. Two questions emerge: which account is most accurate and whether the flood was global or local.
I'm of the opinion that the flood was regional rather than global for several reasons. First, while the flood was universal in effect, it was only regional in extent due to human's not having moved much beyond the Mesopotamia at the time. A global flood was unnecessary.
Secondly, language like "under all the heavens", "all the earth", etc. are most likely from the perspective of the observer, i.e. a flood from horizon to horizon. "Mountains" could be translated "hills" with rain and water "covering" (or running over) them rather than submerging them.
Thirdly, this would mean there were not polar bears and penguins, etc. on the ark, but only animals indigenous to the region and of special relation to man.
Fourthly, a global flood would have torn the ark to pieces, no matter how well built. And it certainly would not have landed anywhere near its original location.
Fifthly, the scripture itself said a "large wind" was used in the evaporation process. Such a wind would have virtually no effect in a global flood.
Finally, if the flood were only regional why not just have Noah, his family, and whatever animals needed, hike out of the area and be safe? Why a big specifically-built ark? I think because God often operates via symbols teaching important truths or significance, i.e. salvation in Christ or deliverance through troubled waters (trials).
Use of Metaphor – The scriptures use metaphor and other literary devices. One need only utilize common exegetical analysis and context to determine what any author meant as literal or metaphorical (and on a case-by-case basis).
Inerrancy – If there are consequential or factual errors in the Bible that does not mean Christianity is false. However, I find it remarkable how well the Bible holds up to scrutiny and that there are plausible answers to discrepancies. Personally, I hold to the Chicago Statement on Inerrancy.
Hell – is not a place of torture (external) but of torment (internal). There are many descriptions of hell in the scriptures. The "fire" is most likely not the chemical combustion we're familiar with. It, combined with all the other descriptions, reduces to separation from God and the judgment of God.
This does not make hell more tolerable (that's not possible). But it does dispel hillbilly theology that has poor souls swatting flames for eternity! Christ depicted conversation taking place "in the flames". No person could have a conversation while on fire! On our familiar planet, one is in mindless torture if burning.
It is, however, a profound tragedy to be eternally separated from God. It is a "spiritual chaos" one enters when the intact "self" survives the physical body. There are indications that some kind of body could exist in hell.
Heaven – is a remarkably physical place. It is not ethereal or immaterial. It is a combination of a "new heaven and new earth". We will live on earth in physical bodies that are "spiritual" which nonetheless have access to one another and continued exploration of the universe without many of the limits of current bodies affected by entropy, etc. Christ's resurrected body could be touched and he ate food, etc. This describes the redeemed, resurrected body.
This is not to be confused with an intermediary state which is not physical. At death, one goes either into the very presence of God to await the resurrection of the body, or in a state of chaos to await final judgment.
"God will not allow anything to happen in your life that you can't handle" – False! Scripturally, there are plenty of things that happen that one cannot handle! Devastating things! The accurate teaching is that nothing will happen that God's grace will not get one through.
"You must become like children" - Christ said to "humble yourself like a little child". It does not mean to be naïve, ignorant, gullible, or irrational.
Pascal's Wager – This is not an argument for God nor necessarily addressed to atheists. Pascal used a popular gambling motif to shake the French laity out of spiritual complacency and to at least move them in the direction of God.
Further, the Wager, as it is commonly used, is not allowed by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15. He said if Christ was not risen, then the jig is up! Christianity is false! He did not say believe it anyway "just in case" or because it provides a positive way of life.
I hope these internal considerations provide food for thought.
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Unseen - your SoulMate's on the line for you again - you two have SO much in common! Intelligibility, for example --
Maybe we have too many brain cells. It is very easy to become disenchanted with lfe, boored with details, and sick of nuttyness. Remembering most everything, might make us too introspective, unhappy with changing prospects, and worrysome with the awareness of the 'end'.
Sadly, I am not willing to give it all up, it is just getting interesting....LOL
I think an interesting thing about it, is that it tries to explain why male and females seem like they should be equals, but aren't in ancient societies. An "it wasn't supposed to be like this" reference. That is some pretty forward thinking for that locale.
I don't find it 'forward thinking' for anyone local where people have mothers.
It would seem to make sense that a person could tell that the mother is important. However, an example from rural Mexico shows that in cultures like that the children can be raised with the mentality reinforced from an early age.
My wife and I know a woman who lived in Mexico who told me about how she would often see a mother carrying a very young male child while a girl of the same age would be forced to walk. Someone she dated had a mother who would make sure the male children and the father were fed before she ate. It is quite sad, but it is a bit of forward thinking when someone realizes "hey this notion I had reinforced in me since early childhood seems wrong".
I think this disorder was called 'the idiot'.
I'm curious why this loving god didn't just forgive them, after all what children don't make mistakes? If he is all knowing, he must of known they would dis-obey right? Not much of a father figure, and what a freaking mess he made of things.
"Why should I allow that same god to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown his own?"
-- Bertrand Russell --
Did you know that Russell had his own rough version of the Ten commandments?
One of my favorites: Fear not to be excentric of opinion, for all opinions, now accepted, were once excentric.
James is understanding something interesting with the area of Russell writing together: "Fear not to be excentric of opinion, for all opinions, now accepted, were once excentric."
This is nice to see and able to be communicated as "good continuable medicine" to some who are back and forth within the non continuable activity of pressure and separation.
Happy to see this communication life understanding with you and others what is useful.
Actually wasn't it only Adam who was told they couldn't eat of the tree...?


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This is easy! Each week on Thursday I post my homily idea...my main focus for preaching this coming Sunday. What I am hoping for is a reaction from people in the pews. Does my "focus" connect with your daily life, faith, and experience? Or not? Either affirm the direction I am going in (by giving me an example from your life) or challenge me, ask for clarification! Questions are the best! Reaction rather than reflection is what I'm looking for here. Don't be afraid, get in the ring. Ole!
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the whole oars vs spears, if they had used/had oars then the ship would have needed a weapon storage facility. the set size is great it does any longship proud. as for sea serpent vs viking voyager the one thing left out is that the sea serpent has 1 oarsman and relys on a square sail the square sail cannot be used to tack with (according to my 5th grade history textbook) and thusly the 3 oarsmen (maybe 4 if the dude in the aft used his oar spears) and the streamline shape of the voyager would let it run circles around the clunky ship with one set of oars.
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These are the words I never ever wanted to write again. I have cancer AGAIN.
When I first started this blog last March I wrote something very similar. Back then there was hope. I went on to have so much horrendous treatment. I really thought that I'd killed the cancer. Now it turns out that the cancer will kill me.
This is the third time I've been diagnosed with the disease. I have advanced cancer, the kind you can never get rid of. All I can now is try to destroy each tumour every time I get one. I'm not terminally ill but I will die a lot sooner than I ever imagined.
The crazy thing is that I feel so well and yet I might be dead by the summer.
The worst case scenario is that I have six months to live. So little time. I've been told that it's a good idea to 'get my affairs in order'. That's such a hateful phrase. I've started to write my will and think about my funeral. You may be finding this hard to read, I'm finding it almost impossible to comprehend that this is actually happening. It's unbelievable. This is the most difficult thing I've ever had to deal with.
Can it really be months?? I'm an optimistic person and I just don't think so. I reckon it's better to believe that I have ages left to live and be proved wrong, than think I don't have long and be proved right.
Even so, I have to be realistic. I probably only have a few years left to live. Most likely I can expect five years. Maybe ten or more if I'm very lucky.
As you can imagine I'm utterly devastated. I feel upset, angry, emotional, sad…..it's just so unfair. I cry so often especially when I break the news to someone. It's all so traumatic. At times it seems like my head is going to explode as I have so many thoughts swirling around. Right now, the world seems pretty meaningless and irrelevant. Nothing really matters.
It was all so different a few weeks ago. I celebrated my D Day. It was 11 years since the first time I was diagnosed. A big happy cancer-versary to me. To be honest, I didn't really celebrate too much as the next day I had a check-up with my consultant, The Professor. It was a scheduled appointment, three months after my last one.
"Any symptoms, any pain?" The Professor asked as I sat down in the bare white room.
"Well, some. A little pain near my scars from the operations," I casually replied not sure whether it was serious enough to mention it.
"Right, you need a scan straight away." He didn't need to tell me anything else. The way he looked at me said it all.
And that was it. The moment my life changed forever.
It was at that very second I realised the stupid cancer had returned. I desperately wanted to take my words back. I tried to persuade The Professor that the pain wasn't really that bad. I'd only had it occasionally at night for a couple of weeks.
"No matter what you say, you need a scan, you won't convince me otherwise," the consultant told me firmly.
Of course I had that scan. As I waited for the results, I was overwhelmed by worry. I've never been more frightened.
A few days later it was Christmas Eve and I was back at the hospital for the results. The nursing sister brought round a plate of homemade mince pies but it just made the grim atmosphere seem even worse. Only the urgent cases were being seen. Why else have an appointment on this day of the year?
Just as I feared the cancer had come back. Or maybe it never really went away. The tumour is tiny. Just 9mm. It's so small, I could barely see it when I was shown the scan. Precisely 11 years and 1 day after being told I first had cancer, I have it again in exactly the same spot.
What I felt was likely to have been the tumour growing inside me. With ovarian cancer you normally don't get any obvious symptoms. That's why most women die from the disease. It's incredible that for the third time in a row, my body had told me about a tumour.
This shocking news is still just sinking in. I've had a few weeks to start to come to terms with it but it doesn't seem real. Next Tuesday though the reality will hit me. I start another round of chemotherapy.
My hair will fall out; I'll get sick and be so incredibly tired. But my time is limited. I can't afford to put on my life on hold any longer. I want to carry on as normal as much as I can. I'm still going to work, and plan to drink the odd cheeky vodka and flirt with unsuitable men. Maybe not all at the same time!
When I had cancer the first time I came up with my List for Living. It was a five year plan of things I always wanted to do. Thanks to the list I became a BBC foreign correspondent and had the most amazing adventure abroad. Now that the cancer is back for good I'm so glad that I followed my dreams.
I've been writing a book about my List for Living. I want to get the book published so doing that will be going on my new list. Every day I have more Ideas about what else I want to do before I die. Some people have asked me if there is anything they can do. Once I've come up with my new list, you could always help me with something on that.
I want to have fun and enjoy my last few months/years. Especially as chemo will now be a part of my life forever. It will keep me alive. The aim is to shrink the tumour and all its friends that follow. I will have an evil chemo cocktail every week for 18 weeks in the very same hospital as before.
It's a case of here we go again. It's so frustrating after all I've been through. With this stage of cancer my treatment options are limited. There are only a few types of drugs that can help me. This is terrible, terrible news but it could be worse. I could be terminally ill.
I know how I'm probably going to die and roughly when it'll happen. It's weird having a likely expiration date. I really hope my Best Before is at least 2023. But you know it's not the years in your life that matter; it's the life in your years.
Once I have my affairs in order I'm not going to dwell on the dying, I will soon have a new list and a whole lot more living to do.


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2012 looks like it could be a very interesting year- in terms of what some of the more notable names on the web are shooting with.
Firstly, David Hobby announced that he had bought a Phase One, and rather eloquently put his case forward as to why he made this choice.
Now, another big name on the web Zack Arias has chosen a Phase One, this time in the shape of the cutting edge IQ140.
Well, if you read his blog you will see he shares many of the reasons that David Hobby does.
Image Quality, Sync Speed, Slowing Down and 'That Look', amongst others.
Image quality is on a higher plane from anything else, without doubt in my mind and you can reach the heady heights of 1/1600 Sec sync speed with big flash which is unparalleled but I want to take a closer look at the two later points, Slowing Down and 'That Look'
'That Look' is rather difficult to put ones finger on but it is a massive factor for me. I believe that it is a culmination of sheer physical sensor size, dynamic range, 16 bit capture, optics.
There are other factors too, Zack does allude to it but I believe sitters sometimes do behave differently when in front of a medium format camera, even the most non camera aware sitter is often aware that this camera is different.
So, a sense of occasion and the formats sheer difference should be overlooked as in my opinion they are a factor.
Slowing down is such a big deal.
When you slow down you think, when I slow down my attention to detail is greatly enhanced, which makes a massive difference to the final shot.
Great photography happens in the brain.
At the end of this month I have a major exhibition (more details very soon.....), and not one of the prints are smaller than a meter along the longest edge.
I would not consider anything else other than a Phase One for this.
The photograph of Shala at the top of this blog, taken at the excellent 'Nordlandsdagarna' in Sweden where I was invited to speak at last year, is shot on a (Borrowed) Phase One IQ 180 (and other than downsized is untouched)
The excellent IQ180 is not cheap, by any stretch of the imagination.
But take a look at David Hobby's approach, he bought a Phase One P25+, he wanted the big sensor and 16bit capture to give his photographs 'That Look'
I shot my 'Alice' series entirely on the Phase One P25.
These backs are available secondhand at very modest prices, if you want a foot on the ladder you could do much, much worse.......


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The mission of the Washburn University Employee Wellness Program is to promote a culture of wellness by facilitating a supportive environment that encourages university faculty and staff to initiate and maintain behaviors that enhance their total health. Total health emphasizes the eight dimensions of wellness which include elements of emotional, intellectual, physical, social, occupational, environmental, financial and spiritual wellness.
All benefits-eligible employees of Washburn University and the Washburn University Foundation have the opportunity to participate in the employee wellness program.
The Employee Wellness Program was established in 2006.
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The mission of the Washburn University Employee Wellness Program is to facilitate an environment encouraging faculty and staff to enhance their health. Washburn University has made a substantial investment in this program, but it is really an investment in you. Most of us spend almost as much with our work family as we do with our own family. We are attached to, invested in, and care about each other. Our wish for every member of the Washburn employee family is to be happy and healthy.
Your wellness has direct benefits to Washburn University beyond how much we care about you as a person. Your health and wellness helps our university enjoy a level of energy and drive allowing us to be a culture of achievement and excellence. We want you to be at the top of your game and your health is an essential element.
If you are part of the Wellness Program, we are delighted you want to continue. Recruit a co-worker. If you are new or considering participation, just start. Do what you can to enjoy a better life.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Check it out! Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Gallery/Finished Work View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Check it out!" sacreliciousmemberMember #Joined: 27 Oct 2000Posts: 1072Location: Isla Vista, CA Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 10:54 am Gor blimey, I posted this just before the forum split! Although nobody would've looked anyway. Heh. Anyway, I thought it would be cool to post my first works in the digital medium. This, an addition to the first post, was my first entirely digital piece. It was made with Ulead's PhotoImpact, before I had Photoshop. Filtered to death, of course; it was based on a charcoal sketch of a man transforming into a wolf with the glowing eyes of another shapeshifter behind him. My first dabble with Pshop. A scanned pencil image "improved" with smudging, clouds, and a discreet lens flare. Of course it was a little more work than that, but it's still funny as hell to look at. A piece created for a local contest, this won top honors (and 200 bucks!). I love this piece and consider it one of my best. So let me know what you think! It's fun to dig through your hard drive and find that old stuff you'd forgotten about. Feel free to comment, to post your own old "masterpieces," or even do a repaint if you so decide. Later! EDIT: Forgot to say, these are from Spring of 2000. I think I was better then than I am now. More productive, anyway. Adios. ------------------ mmm... sacrelicious [This message has been edited by sacrelicious (edited January 02, 2001).] Back to top Wyatt TurnermemberMember #Joined: 18 Oct 2000Posts: 501Location: Everett, WA, USA Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 10:59 am nice cyber feel. the middle one looks cool. y@ Back to top JerrymemberMember #Joined: 28 Oct 2000Posts: 306Location: Canada, Ontario Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 11:09 am I like the tiger one... awesome stuff ------------------ -KARN- Forever. Die? Never KARN's Page Back to top A.ButtlememberMember #Joined: 20 Mar 2000Posts: 1724 Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 1:29 pm Alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.... ------------------ Larry Flint's right! You guys suck! Joe Dillingham email@example.com Three Times A Day Back to top Bishop_SixmemberMember #Joined: 13 Dec 2000Posts: 646Location: Arizona, US Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 1:58 pm Nice stuff. I like the tiger pic too. A. Buttle: What's with the homer quote? Back to top DarkMemoriesjunior memberMember #Joined: 23 Dec 2000Posts: 16 Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 3:36 pm That tiger one looks cool, the glowing lines looks like a scene near the end of the anime Spriggan. Back to top sacreliciousmemberMember #Joined: 27 Oct 2000Posts: 1072Location: Isla Vista, CA Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 4:00 pm Hey everybody, thanks for all the replies! I guess now that I've dumped these oldies I've got to come up with some new stuff. I'd hoped to get a 6x8 Intuos from a friend for Christmas, but that hasn't happened yet. Looks like I'll be mousing it for a while. By the way, I still want to know what everyone thinks. Comments, ideas for the future, anything- just let 'em flow. "I hope I didn't brain my damage!" ------------------ mmm... sacrelicious Back to top AxlmemberMember #Joined: 11 Mar 2000Posts: 411Location: London, England Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2001 10:51 am Some nice work there, I especially like the first pic and the way you've made his eye stand out. If you hadn't have said that those are eyes in the bg I would have thought that they may have been headlights. The second piece is weird. H.R Giger inspired? Back to top sacreliciousmemberMember #Joined: 27 Oct 2000Posts: 1072Location: Isla Vista, CA Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2001 3:33 pm Hey Axl, when I made the second piece Giger was surely on my mind. Mostly, I had been looking at muscle diagrams and anatomy charts and trying to depict a creature as a sort of biological machine (which, duh, is what we are... just noting my own dorky language). Originally, there were lots of arteries, joints, muscles, and stuff, all exposed to their inner workings. The piece evolved away from that, though it probably would have been cooler that way! Maybe that'll be my next piece. Anyway, thanks for the comments. Keep em coming... ------------------ mmm... sacrelicious Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Gallery/Finished Work All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Just win baby.
Just win baby.
Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmylou
Dunn/Bailey for Kemp
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand
Dead cats simply do not deserve to be swung around at weeknight Reds games. Dead cats should be reserved for Mike Brown's front yard. You think if we dump 5,000 of them on Mike Brown's lawn that he would get the message? Whoops. Wrong site.
As for Jocketty in as GM, Krivsky out, I was surprised like many on this board. But I shouldn't have been. No matter what Jocketty said to reporters (toeing the company line) that he didn't want to be GM, he was just saying that to not be a jerk to Krivsky. It should have been obvious that if the Reds got off to a crappy start that he would be out and Jocketty would take over the baseball ops. However, I fully expected Krivsky to get the full year.
Does seem like a kneejerk reaction, but if Cast is bent on winning, I can't argue with that. I like that he seems a bit desperate to win. Beats the alternative that we've had here for years with owners who are so-so about doing what it takes to win. Who knows if Castellini will reach his goals, but I like that he's aiming high and putting his money where his mouth is. I'm comfortable with our payroll and a good GM could do a lot more with it. Once we get rid of cripping contracts like Griffey's, Freel's, Ross', Coffey's, Gonzalez's, Stanton's, Castro's, etc... hopefully Jocketty will be able to put a much better team on the field with roughly the same team salary (Reds are something like 19th in MLB, not too bad... and I bet Castellini would be willing to up that a little bit more.)
The good news is we have a great base of young players to build a franchise around. Not so sure why everyone is so down on Jocketty. All I remember is he used to put good teams on the field for the Cardinals every year. He would make good trades like bringing McGwire and Edmonds to town. Carpenter came for cheap from Toronto. The Cards always won while he was there. No reason to believe he can't get the job done here. He is certainly qualified for the position and I'm anxious to see what he will do with the best crop of young talent the Reds have boasted since the 70's. We've had some solid crop of young players over the years, but few better than Cueto, Volquez, Bailey, Bruce, Phillips, Votto... And even our ace pitcher (Harang) is just hitting his prime at 29 and signed for the next three years. If anything, Jocketty's track record with the Cardinals tells me good times are ahead in Cincinnati. And if he made some mistakes trading young studs in StL, then I bet he learned from it. Looking at his overall resume, he did a great job. The Cardinals were willing to spend money, but they were actually closer to the Reds than they were to the Yankees/Red Sox in spending. We're not talking about some Brian Cashman with unlimited funds who still has no clue how to formulate a good pitching staff.
After listening to the press conference I have a real bad headache.
Hey, been busy the past two weeks. Anything noteworthy happen with the Reds?
For the record, I think this is the best Reds team to take the field in eight years even if it is still a flawed enterprise. I don't think the 9-12 start is reason for concern and it certainly isn't reason to dump Krivsky.
Krivsky got fired because as soon as Walt Jocketty showed up he was always going to be fired for the first convenient excuse. That's just unconscious knowledge.
Friends don't let friends fWAR.
Coddle thy pitchers.
Meanwhile, we'll work on getting our ownership to actually be able to articulate it's vision perhaps first by making ownership actually come up with one....
"This isnt stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
wow he "fought for over an hour for his job this morning at an 8:30AM meeting"
Go Reds!
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Cindy Morgan
Best known as "Lacey Underall" in CADDYSHACK, and "Yori" in TRON, Cindy Morgan was born Cynthia Ann Cichorski on September 29 in Chicago, Ill, not far from Wrigley field. The daughter of a Polish factory worker and German mother, Cindy survived 12 years of Catholic school and was the first in her family to attend college.
While studying communications at Northern Illinois University, Cindy spun records on the radio. A commercial station in town wanted her to report the news for them as well, and so a slight deception was needed. She used the name Cindy Morgan, taken from a story Cindy read about Morgan le Fay when she was twelve years old.
After graduation, Cindy gave all the latest meteorological news on a TV station in Rockford, Ill. She also kept her hand in radio by working the graveyard shift at a local rock station. Then she returned to Chicago and deejayed on WSDM (now WLUP). During a labor dispute at the station, she literally quit on the air and walked out with a record still spinning on the turntable.
She found employment at auto shows for Fiat, which took her to both coasts. Cindy moved to Los Angeles in 1978, and became the Irish Spring girl. While she did TV commercials, she studied acting, and was rewarded with her first screen role in CADDYSHACK, playing the role of Lacey Underall, an over-amorous ingenue.
Disney made film history with TRON, the first computer-generated film. Cindy played two characters: Lora, a compute programmer in the "real" world, and Yori, her alter-ego in the film's computer generated flights of imagination.
Cindy Morgan's television credits to date include "Falconcrest", "The Larry Sanders Show", "Amazing Stories" and "Bring 'Em Back Alive".
Cindy also associate-produced five films with Larry Estes, best known for "Sex, Lies and Videotape".
She's now finishing her first book, a story about how a nice Catholic girl became Lacey Underall in CADDYSHACK.


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Strong Thunderstorms Form As Heat Wave Continues
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for parts of Ocean County as New Jersey's heat wave continues.
A strong storm near Barnegat with heavy rain, strong winds, quarter sized hail and frequent lightning is moving to the east.
A seperate storm has formed to the west of this cell taking the same path. There are some storms further back west in Pennsylvania that could affect New Jersey
Officials are urging New Jerseyans to check on their elderly or disabled neighbors during the heat wave.Forecasters say temperatures in the 90s will combine with humidity to make it feel like 105 degrees in parts of the state Thursday.
Experts say the heat poses the biggest threat to the very young, the very old and pets.
The National Weather Service expects the heat wave to break in the form of showers and thunderstorms on Saturday.
Utilities are monitoring usage as people rely on air conditioners to stay cool.
Cities, like Hoboken, have set up sprinklers in parks. Others are keeping swimming pools open later.
Amtrak says the heat loosened overhead power lines on the Northeast Corridor and that caused train delays on Wednesday afternoon.
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What's your next local adventure?
I've said it before and I'll say it again. You don't have to go far to experience an adrenaline-filled adventure. Get your endorphin's flowing locally.
I've spent this morning looking through a couple of Swedish trails I'm interested in. They are all on the outskirts of Stockholm which makes it close. But the further you go away from urban Stockholm the flora gets thicker and the trails get rougher.
Which is exactly what I'm looking for. So far the trail Sörmlandsleden is on top of my list, as well as exploring Tyresta Nationalpark. I'm planning ahead. If you're interested in finding it where you can experience your next local adventure I suggest you use Google as a tool.
Search your way through with combinations of "trail" "local adventure" "hiking" and followed by where you're located, eg: Local Adventures Stockholm, Hiking Trails Sweden and Swedish Adventures,
Whats your next local adventure?


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Adams, Ansel - incl. one postcard with typescript message, thanking Camp for the color photo he sent, noting that he usually does not enjoy color prints but does this one, Oct. 24, 1978
Aulen, Michael, 1982
Bly, Robert - incl. four notes (TNS), re advice on writing poetry, 1968-1972
Jones, Thom - one letter (TLS) re Jones' story in the New Yorker, short story writing, and possible novel about Vietnam, 1992
Nichols, John - two letters (TLS), 1984
Willson, Lawrence (UCSB English professor and friend of Camp's family) - 48 letters (TLS), 1968-1995
Journals / Reviews
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Alaska Review, 1969
Apalachee Quarterly, 1973
Ararat: A Quarterly Magazine (Armenian General Benevolent Union of America), 1973-1974
Aspect (Somerville, MA), 1971-1974
Ball State University Forum, 1969
Beyond Baroque, 1972
Box 749, 1973
Cimarron Review, 1970
Confrontation (Long Island University), 1973
Contemporary Literature in Translation, 1975
Cottonwood Review, 1970
December, 1973
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 1974
The English Record (New York State English Council), 1971-1972
Everyman, 1974
Forum (University of Houston), 1968
Foxfire, 1971-1972
The Goddard Journal, 1974
Harper Square Press, 1972
Harper's Magazine, Inc., ca. 1972
Harvard Advocate, n.d.
Hudson Review, ca. 1968
The Humanist (Buffalo, NY), 1972
Journal of Popular Culture, 1971, 1974
Kansas Quarterly, 1968-1970
Kayak, ca. 1969
Laurel Review, [ca. 1970]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Creative Photography Facility, 1973
Midwest Quarterly, 1971-1972
The Miscellany: A Davidson Review, 1972
Mustang Review, 1970, 1972
New Orleans Review, 1972
New York Quarterly, 1972-1973
Nimrod: A Literary Review (University of Tulsa), [ca. early 1970s]
Northwest Passage (Bellingham, WA), 1974
Northwest Review (University of Oregon), ca. 1970, 1975
Oyez, 1972
Partisan Review, ca. 1963
Poet & Critic, n.d.
Poetry Northwest (University of Washington), ca. 1968
A Pulp Art Form, n.d.
Southern Poetry Review, ca. 1969
Southwest Review, 1968-1973
Truck, 1974-1975
University of Kansas City Review, n.d.
Voyages, 1973
Wetlands: New Writers Forum, 1973
Wisconsin Review, 1970
Zahir, 1973-1974


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Unlike other travel trays, our Travel Tray pulls shut with a drawstring so it can be used for more than just organizing the top of your bureau. Need to depart with some degree of alacrity? Simply leave some or all of those little things in the tray, pull the drawstring and hit the road.
$22. In stock, ships within one business day.
Available in four colors: Steel, Solar, Ultraviolet, and Iberian.
Watch a video demonstrating the Travel Tray. (It's no maverick video, but it'll have to do for now.)


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Great with The Strip Tube RulerTM!
It's amazing what you can do with just strip fabrics and borders! With just handful of 2 ½" strips and the tube technique, you can complete this striking quilt in no time at all. It is one simple block twisted and turned to create the intertwined effect with popping pinwheels. So grab your favorite strip bundle and get going!
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Names Released in Fatal Ravalli County Officer Involved Shooting [AUDIO]
The Montana Department of Justice and Ravalli County Sheriff's Office have released the names of the deputy and the deceased man involved in last Thursday's shooting near Hamilton.
The officer involved was Ravalli County Sheriff Deputy Tod Wofford. The deceased is 47-year-old Lonnie Gene Roberts of 808 Cuf Lane.
Deputy Wofford remains on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation into the incident.
At the request of Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman, the Montana Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation is looking into the incident.
Powell County Coroner John Pohle is the coroner on this case. Once the investigation concludes, the case file will be presented to Coroner Pohle and the Ravalli County Attorney for review. A coroner's inquest will be scheduled and held in Ravalli County.


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Set in a quiet and very secluded rural location in Connemara among the idyllic surroundings of lake, woodlands and mountain Nonaim Lodge Bed & Breakfast is the ideal "get away from it all" holiday for nature lovers, outdoor enthusiasts, walkers/hikers and fishermen. The Lodge is located on a three acre site, bounded for much of its length by the charming Shannawagh stream, the gentle sounds of which can be heard throughout the grounds.
One of the area's native timber woodlands of Oak, Ash, Birch and Holly provides another boundary and there are stunning views of the lake and surrounding mountains from the Lodge. Indeed our most frequently heard comment is to the calming and restful effect of our location.
Nonaim Lodge is owned and run by Connie and Donal Connolly. Our aim is to provide;
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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
The sufi is the son of the Moment, O companion! Saying 'tomorrow' is not among the conditions for (being on) the Path.
– Rumi, from the Mathnawi 1:133
The Sufi is of the River, not of time, for 'with God is neither morn nor eve': there the past and the future and time without beginning and time without end do not exist … He (the Sufi) is son of that 'moment' by which is to be understood only a denial of the divisions of times, just as 'God is One' is to be understood only as a denial of duality, not as a description of the true nature of Unity. – Ananda Coomaraswamy
Ya Haqq!
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Just found this comparison interesting. Sorry if this has already been posted & discussed on another thread, was not sure whether I should post this on the Felton thread or the Lin thread.
The caveat to the stat breakdowns above is Jeremy Lin's averages as a starter over 25 games last year were:Given the relative talents and relative costs of both players, is the decision to bring back Lin as clear cut as many fans think? Do the dollars and cents speak loud enough in favor of Felton as to trump whatever advantages that Lin may represent in terms of X's and O's?
Jeremy Lin
Age = 23
Total Value of New Deal = 3 years $25 million
Career Games With Knicks = 35 (25 started)
Points = 14.6
Assists = 6.29
Rebounds = 3
W-L Record = 20-15
Career Non-Knicks Stats = 2.6 PTS, 1.4 AST, 1.2 RBS
Raymond Felton
Age = 28
Total Value of New Deal = 3 years $10 million
Career Games With Knicks = 54
Points = 17.1
Assists = 9
Rebounds = 3.6
W-L Record = 28-26
Career Non-Knicks Stats = 12.8 PTS, 6.5 AST, 3.3 REB
*All stats via ESPN.com
18.2 points
7.7 assists
4.7 turnovers
So basically, both of these guys excelled in D'Antoni's uptempo style system, except Felton was able to do it over a longer stretch of games & was more of a ball facilitator while Lin was more of a ball dominant scorer.
We've seen that Mike Woodson prefers to play a more structured style of offense while D'Antoni allowed his players a lot more freedom to shoot at will. Which of the 2 PG's do you guys feel is the better match for our current roster, head coach & style of play? Jeremy Lin or Ray Felton?
Perhaps more importantly, who is more likely to be respected by Melo & STAT on the basketball court & in the lockerroom?
* Please let's not discuss anything about the contract that Jeremy Lin signed, or how stupid James Dolan was for not matching on this thread. I would like to hear your thoughts on which of these guys you feel is better suited for this current Knicks' team & why.


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It's hard to know what to say about Yahoo at this point. They have a lot of page views, but their internal organs seem to have been liquified from the inside by some flesh-eating plague.
Barely alive, they are of course responsible for their own continuing undoing. A great example is the failure to do something useful with the email user base. The purple crew has missed every opportunity to exploit the email product, from Google-style ads to Facebook-style social networking (back when they had a chance). And there's the infamous CEO with her Napoleonic airs.
But I digress.
See, here's the thing. On the Internet, unless you're lucky enough to be a telco, you actually have to compete. Which means when Google gives away IMAP-enabled mail, and Windows Live gives away POP access and 25+ GB of online storage, you need to rethink your strategy of making your mail product harder to use while praying that the nine people on earth who haven't heard of Google will sign up for your deluxe mail service (now with undercoating!)
But Yahoo has never been able to think one thing at a time. It's not so much that they excel at multitasking than that they are schizophrenic. So while one group is committing ritual suicide with the email product, another realizes that to reach the mobile market, exposing mail via open protocols might help.
And hence they offer endpoints called something like imap.mail.yahoo.com and smtp.mobile.yahoo.com. Before you get all excited and ask me to check the hostnames and port numbers, though, I'll drop the punchline: it appears Yahoo filters access to these services based on IP, and opens the service to mobile carrier address blocks (and carrier proxy addresses).
After seeing my phone successfully configure itself for these services, I couldn't resist trying them from a desktop client. No joy. I guess if I were really hardy I could grab the public-net-facing IP address for my phone (by having it connect to my own server) and pretend to be that IP. But … really … is it worth it? No… with Yahoo still living in 2002, I'm afraid it's just not.


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Sweet Memories
A Candy Cabin destination atop a soaring, snow-covered peak; the voyage of a tiny, first-time snowboarder off to conquer a swift-moving quad chair lift; reminiscing notable firsts and unfortunate falls as our boots dangled with the tops of trees; the gratification and reward of a true-to-life 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' pillage; and the winding trek back down the mountain. It was a bittersweet farewell to another season, melting slowly into the commencement of beloved springtime adventures.
The Tale of the Candy Cabin
As the story went… there once was a cabin, brimming with confections. There were barrels of taffy, jars of gummies, tubes of chocolates, and shelves of delicious treats. However, this particular cabin was precariously placed far from reach. It required a Candy Cabin adventure to an elevation most children wouldn't dare (without a responsible adult, a ski lesson or two, and proper winter gear that is).
The tale was alluring, and the venture intriguing. I was mostly sure that if I didn't pack our bags right away, I might wake to find my little Hansel and Gretel trailing breadcrumbs through the forest.
"Beaver Creek is our favorite family staycation!" It's the pitch I was given. Luckily for my adorable little negotiators, they were right – we all love Beaver Creek – and, a visit from the Auntie was in the works. Beaver Creek would be the perfect destination for our last hurrah of the season.
The Candy Cabin was everything they had dreamed, and the joy of braving the terrain to arrive safely at our destination was all part of the enchantment. The twinkle in their eyes and the giddy giggles as they hugged barrels of sweets told the stories of their hearts. I knew this was a day they wouldn't soon forget!
The sugar rush contributed to a delirium of bravery as we sped our way safely back to the bottom of the mountain to have a relaxing patio lunch and après ski Colorado brew – the perfect toast to another amazing escape at Beaver Creek.
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Top of Strawberry Park, Avon, Colorado 81620
Operational Hours: Mon-Sun 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Price Range $
Phone (970) 754-5539