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Who were these ancient aristocrats of Peru with red hair and elongated skulls known as the Paracas? Were they aliens? A different type of human? How did they live and what happened to them? Join me tonight with Brien Foerster of Ancient Inca Tours to learn about the mysterious Paracas and much more.
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Brien Foerster was born in Minnesota but grew up on the West Coast of Canada. He holds an Honours Bachelor Of Science degree, has worked as a sculptor and carver, and was assistant project manager for the building of the 62 foot double hull sailing canoe ( ancestor of the modern day catamaran ) Mo'okiha O Pi'ilani ( Sacred Lizard That Pierces The Heavens ) and the restoration of the famous Mo'olele sailing canoe. He has authored the book 'A Brief History Of The Incas' which is available on this site, and is now the assistant director of the Paracas History Museum in Paracas, south of Lima.
Please visit hiddenincatours.com and brienfoerster.com for more information.
Ancient elongated Paracas skull: larger cranial capacity and only TWO plates, with ONE cranial suture! Alien hybrid?
Second hour, 11:00- midnight, my guest will be Don Hayes who is building a new conscious hip hop radio network known as truthtalktunes.com where you can find hundreds of anti-NWO hip-hop songs from over 150 conscious artists. Don hosts a one-hour video podcast every week called 'Truth Talkin Tunes with Don Haze and Solitary Spade' where they discuss recent news relating to the NWO and play music from their awake artists. This is uploaded on their youtube channel secretsocietypro so please subscribe.


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The Gnome 2 BETA1 images for the upcoming GhostBSD 3.0 are now available. This release provides users and developers with a system to test out new installer features in the upcoming release. This beta may contain buggy code and features, so we encourage you to run it only on non-critical systems.
Changes since Stable
- FreeBSD 9.0 r3 to FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1.
- New cleaner look.
- Some installer bugs have been fixed.
- Rhythmbox tray icon has been fixed.
New additions to GhostBSD 3.0 Gnome
- FreeBSD 9.1
- Gnome2 and 3(Gnome 3 will be release later)
- New graphical installer!
- New look!
- Support for ZFS
Support for UFS-SU+J on ZFS
- Improvements to wifi
- and much more!
Know Issues
- If the installer gets an error, it still shows that the installation has been successful.
- ZFS is not fully tested.
Report bugs by the mailing list, the development portal or the forum.
Download to Test 3.0 Today. Paskolos be užstato iš privačių asmenų, kreditai be registracijos mokesčio internetu: www.superpaskolos.lt
GhostBSD LXDE will be released a week after each release of Gnome 2.
Note that GhostBSD LXDE BETA1 does not fit on a CD.
We hope to fix that for the 3.0 release.

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text: A spherical panorama taken at Bournemouth, United Kingdom in January, 2012. It was a cloudy day as usual in the UK winter. It is a good place for a view of the sea because you are high above the beach on a cliff. There are a few hotels to stay in behind.


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This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.
A primal heart still beats in Europe. Deep beneath the gloss of cell phone sophistication lie rituals that hark back to harvests and solstices and fear of the winter dark. Monsters loom in this shadowy heart, but so does the promise of spring's rebirth and fertile crops and women cradling newborn babes. It turns out that Europe—at least pockets of it—has not lost its connection to nature's rhythms.
That connection is rekindled during festivals that occur across the continent from the beginning of December until Easter. The celebrations correspond to Christian holidays, but the rituals themselves often predate Christianity. The roots are difficult to trace. Men—and until recently, it has almost always been men—don costumes that hide their faces and conceal their true forms. Then they take to the streets, where their disguises allow them to cross the line between human and animal, real and spiritual, civilization and wilderness, death and rebirth. A man "assumes a dual personality," says António Carneiro, who dresses as a devilish careto for Carnival in Podence, Portugal. "He becomes something mysterious."
Photographer Charles Fréger set out to capture what he calls "tribal Europe" over two winters of travel through 19 countries. The forms of the costumes that he chronicled vary between regions and even between villages. In Corlata, Romania, men dress as stags reenacting a hunt with dancers. In Sardinia, Italy, goats, deer, boars, or bears may play the sacrificial role. Throughout Austria, Krampus, the beastly counterpart to St. Nicholas, frightens naughty children.
But everywhere there is the wild man. In France, he is l'Homme Sauvage; in Germany, Wilder Mann; in Poland, Macidula is the clownish version. He dresses in animal skins or lichen or straw or tree branches. Half man and half beast, the wild man stands in for the complicated relationship that human communities, especially rural ones, have with nature.
The bear is the wild man's close counterpart—in some legends the bear is his father. A beast that walks upright, the bear also hibernates in winter. The symbolic death and rebirth of hibernation herald the arrival of spring with all its plenty. For festival participants, says Fréger, "becoming a bear is a way to express the beast and a way to control the beast."
Traditionally the festivals are also a rite of passage for young men. Dressing in the garb of a bear or wild man is a way of "showing your power," says Fréger. Heavy bells hang from many costumes to signal virility.
The question is whether Europeans—civilized Europeans—believe that these rituals must be observed in order for the land, the livestock, and the people to be fertile. Do they really believe that costumes and rituals have the power to banish evil and end winter? "They all know they shouldn't believe it," says Gerald Creed, who has studied mask traditions in Bulgaria. Modern life tells them not to. But they remain open to the possibility that the old ways run deep.


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Join us for a full investigation of this amazing location with hundreds of years of history.
A very exciting place for the perfect ghost hunt
Situated in Bursledon, Manor Farm was once nestled in the heart of Botley. However, as the main road was built away from the farm, the village grew and left the farm isolated in the middle of 400 acres of woodland and open space.
The medieval farmhouse dates back to the 15th century and has been added to over the years, with the last rooms being added in the 18th century. The blackened roof timbers, evidence of the domestic fires used for heating and cooking, can still be seen in the small 15th century open hall. With reports of unusual smells, auditory phenomena, poltergeist activity and full body apparitions from staff and visitors alike, do the farming families who once inhabited the farmhouse still visit their past home?
Once part of the original farmhouse, we will also investigate what is now known as the Wartime Cottage, so named after the BBC programme 'Wartime Farm' which was filmed in the house and broadcast in 2012.
We'll also have the opportunity to investigate the now deconsecrated chancel of the 13th century St Bartholomew's church. Surrounded by gravestones dating back hundreds of years and overlooking a duck pond which was mentioned in the Doomsday Book, can we make contact with the monks who once travelled from Beaulieu to Netley Abbey via this quaint church?
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==The Bloominglabs side-lit LED sign This was a collaborative effort with Sam Cranford, who has a really nice CNC machine. He helped us carve the logo into a sheet of acrylic, Nick chiseled out all the molten plastic gunk that hardened in the grooves, I built a little stand and a black backing for the sign and attached a strip of very bright blue LEDs from AutoZone to the top, and Jenett attached a wall-wart so's we can plug it in. It's been in our front window for months and is still a sight to behold.
Haptic Belt
A belt with cell phone vibrator motors distributed around the belt. A compass module and Arduino determine which motor is (closest to) North, and then the motor is turned on, so the wearer is always aware of which direction he/she is facing. I've built a working prototype, but it is clunky looking. I wore it to a meeting and even felt self-conscious in that safe place for nerds. v2 is in the works.
Homing Geocache Box
Based on the 'Reverse Geocache'. This one works pretty nice and was built for the ill-fated 'Wisdom of Play' project connected to TEDxBloomington. Some people played with it at the 2011 Open House. I really need to do a write up.
Shoot the Windows Logo, Win Candy Game
A silly thing I hacked together w/ a 555 timer, one of those 'motion detecting candy dispensers', and some stiff wire and a cardboard box. At the center of the box is a circle with the Windows Logo on it. Hit the circle and it triggers the candy dispenser. Very Pavlovian. Did this for Indy Linuxfest and it was a hit, especially with the kids.
Hack the Rhinocerous Beetle robot toy
General hacking of the toy - make it remote controlled, add sensors, etc. RhinoBeetleRemote
RFID System
Part of the bigger project more or less everybody is working on. There have been spin-offs like:
doorbot is the IRC bot that tells us when people badge in. It also records this info and info from a motion sensor in the front room in a SQLite database. It also sends this info to Cosm. It also sends Pushingbox notifications to whoever subscribes to them. It also provides info about recent badge-ins and sensor readings to people in the IRC channel who ask 'last sensor' or 'last access'. For a while it greeted people as they came in using Festival. What can't doorbot do?
Cosm sends notifications to my (Steve's) iPhone if it hasn't heard from doorbot in a while. Sometimes that also means pogobox in down. It's nice.
web interface
I wrote a site in Django w/ a SQLite backend to manage user RFID info. It also manages Pushingbox notifications. There is a last 'handshake' piece that needs to be written to keep the database in sync w/ the EEPROM on the Arduino better.
Twisted Networked Server
I used the Twisted networking library (Python language) to turn the Serial interface into a network (TCP) interface. This eliminates a lot of the clunky duct-tabe and bailing wire of the initial logging/admin setup using screen and minicom and looking at a tail of the access log and blah blah blah. With twistd it can be setup as a daemon that runs on start-up of the pogobox.
Pachube (now Cosm) Online Sensor Data
I like taking sensor readings (light, temperature, motion) and putting them on the web. Pachube (now with the pronounceable name Cosm) makes this pretty easy. See my home and Bloominglabs feeds here.
Scrapped or Dormant Projects, Just left here for laffs
Bloomington Crime Stats
I've scraped a bunch (12,000+) of local crime reports and geocoded them. Now need to open that up to Bloomington/the world. Actually eventually the crappy 'B-Aware Bloomington' site went subscription only and this project fell by the wayside
FM (or AM) radio
Get a radio station up and running which will broadcast lots of text-to-speech goofiness, but preferably some useful info too.
Audio with Arduino
Get the Arduino to make all manner of freaky noises. May end up as a workshop at some point.


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Lessons in leadership with Sir Alex
Or… 'what the Church can teach Manchester United about choosing their leaders'
And so Easter Sunday passed this year with a hostile crowd and a vaunted leader sacrificed, but it wasn't at Calvary and it may take a lot longer than three days to sort out (h/t David Keen). The inevitable finally took place as David Moyes was sacked as manager of Manchester United.
Regular readers will know that I'm not a fan of Manchester United so I have no football axe to grind here.
I am tempted to write about the fact that he wasn't given enough time (see the photo right for all you need to know about the need to be patient).
I'm also tempted to write about how Moyes was set-up to fail because he inherited an ageing squad well past its best. A squad that had been propped up last year by world-class players in the twilight of their careers (Scholes & Giggs, and to a certain degree also Van Persie). Fergie hadn't left him very much.
But what I'd like to write about is how I could see all this coming a mile off because it looked very, very familiar to me from the world of the Church. Specifically, what happens when one Vicar leaves and their replacement is chosen. So, here are a couple of quick lessons on what the Church could have taught Manchester United.
The Vicar has no voice in choosing their replacement
When a Vicar leaves a parish (whether by retirement or by moving on to a new role), they have absolutely no say in who replaces them. Once they have left, there is always an 'interregnum' (space between two reigns) and then the people of the parish are asked what they would like to see in their new leader. The comments of people like the Bishop and other overseers are also fed in, in case they are aware of some strategic things that may not be known at local level. But the one person who gets absolutely no say in the matter is the outgoing Vicar.
What does this guard against? Well, firstly, it's very hard to be objective about your parishes when you leave. You may be tempted to try and justify your work or even cover up mistakes or failures. You may not have a good sense of what they need now, and (of course) it's hard to be honest about your weaknesses and allow space for a new leader who may be gifted in those areas. There is also that temptation in human beings to choose their successor by finding someone not quite as good as we are, so that it makes us look all the better when they fail.
What you definitely don't want is for the outgoing Vicar to choose a carbon-copy of themselves as their pre-anointed successor. That pays no attention to the way in which the parish has changed and grown in the intervening years since that outgoing Vicar was first appointed. The people have changed, society has changed, the local culture will have grown and evolved. You need an appointment now that reflects the Church as it is, now how it used to be.
It also means the new Vicar has slightly more freedom to be his own man or woman. If you've been chosen to be a carbon-copy of the last leader, what chance do you have to be yourself? If you divert from their well-established model, people aren't going to like it and you're going to get unnecessary flack.
The outgoing Vicar is not seen or heard from again
Now this is a tricky bit because it doesn't always work out this way. But there is an unwritten rule amongst Clergy that you never, ever go back and that when you leave a Parish, you very definitely stay out of the new Vicar's way. For many Clergy keeping this unwritten rule is easy. Their new parish or retirement residence may be some considerable distance away from the old parish. Indeed, there is an unwritten understanding that (if you are retiring) you put some serious geographical distance between you and the parish in which you served (although there are sometimes very good reasons for wanting to be more local).
Why? Because anytime you turn up, it has the potential to undermine the new Vicar. They may be very talented, very strong as a leader. They may not mind your presence at all (although they might). But if anyone has a grievance or a problem with the new leadership, seeing the old Vicar in the congregation can be an opportunity for the aggrieved to stick the boot in. If a new initiative is announced, some may look at the old Vicar and see if he or she is in agreement. It never works. It always undermines.
Now, of course the Church makes mistakes. There's plenty of bad decisions out there with the wrong people in the wrong places. But these ways of doing things in Church circles are used because, over the years, considerable wisdom has built up through countless situations. Many, many times we've learnt that its far better to move on and not look back. It's the new Vicar's ship now, not yours. You need to butt out for the good of their leadership, for the good of the community you led and also for your own good too. Move on.
So perhaps you can see why I thought this was always doomed. One working-class Glaswegian with red hair anoints another working-class Glaswegian with red hair. It seems that the fans, the players, the Board don't have much of a chance to comment or consider what Man United need in the 21st century. The Board give Sir Alex far too much latitude in making the choice. The old Manager joins the board and goes to watch every game. Every time a goal is conceded, the television cameras don't cut to the new manager, they cut to the old one.
Sir Alex, if you truly care about Manchester United, you need to disappear. Don't get involved in the choice of the next manager. Don't comment on who you would like to see replace David Moyes. Become a sleeping member of the Board (or better still resign your membership). Don't turn up to games and very definitely don't comment publicly on anything to do with the club. Only then can you give the new Manager a fighting chance to lead.


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CES 2010 in Las Vegas saw a very interesting device launch from UK based Light Blue Optics. The great news is that they've received really positive press and comments from users that are eager to get their hands on the Light Touch.
So what is it? Effectively it's a projector for rich media, but it's laser based which gives it the ability to project onto different surfaces while maintaining a sharp focus and bright colours. LBO used the Flash Platform to provide a rich user interface engine for applications, games, photos and even H.264 video playback. The device is also multi-touch enabled using infra-red, but employs an invisible grid projection onto the surface, which enables much more accurate and speedy response times.
As a user you can envisage a huge array of different use cases, maybe your calendar projected onto your desk, or video playing on your bedroom wall. We saw a huge array of 3D TVs, ever larger, thinner and brighter televisions this year at CES. Could the future require no screen at all?
Just think of the options for this kind of device in the auto-industry, gaming and entertainment. The great news is that the device spec's make it capable of running Flash Player 10.1 in the future, reaping the benefits of our consistent Open Screen Project runtime for all platforms.
- Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 on WinCE 5
- ARM11 CPU @ 600Mhz
- 10-inch touchscreen with WVGA resolution
- Laser based pico projection
- Infrared multi-touch detection
- WiFi and Bluetooth radios
- 2GB of on-board storage (+ microSD)
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Butch and gatling gun. 2 piece resin model base supplied, the gun is separate at the wrists. Supplied unpainted. Butch is a special character in Tombstone but can also be used as a standard gang model with a Gatling gun. Butch is a mountain of a man and approx 36mm tall to the top of the hat.
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The Aeros™ Down Pillow combines the softness and supportiveness of the Aeros™ pillow series with a luxurious down pillow top. Technical fabrics from the Spark/Flame sleeping bags keep the weight down and the packed size almost impossibly small.
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After I nearly hijacked the Legolas swooning thread for Maedhros, I realized we really need a place to appreciate all the guys who came before the War of the Ring. It is my hope that this thread can be a place to combine both lighthearted swooning and serious discussion of JRR's wonderful characters from the histories.
I shall begin with my first truly on-topic sw n for Russandol!


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Or any music what was created for any volvo games?
Or any music what was created for any volvo games?
You can use any Valve soundtracks for the Dota 2 Short Film Contests, yeah
Game files, purchasable soundtrack albums, etc.
Also if not hard, can you tell me about sounds? I mean sound steps when hero moving or hit swords each other, or other sounds. This can be used without rights? Can i found them on youtube or other internet resources for example and use them? Or i need make it by myself? Thanks for help man.
You can use any of Valve's own sounds and music. You can extract them from the game files with the use of GCFScape and/or the Source 2 Decompiler tool.
Don't trust what you find on YouTube; you must have all rights to what you put in your Short Film Contest entry. Valve gives you the right to use any of their stuff, but if you want to use a song that's not made by them or you, you must buy the license rights to it, for example. There are some sites out there like freesound.org that make other sound effects available, but you have to be careful because most of its sounds use a license that is not legally compatible. (CC Zero or anything that is just attribution would work, I believe)
The music section of dota2 wiki also has some cool stuff:
Also the sound page for every hero including sounds for each hero:
And the response page of heroes has their lines:
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Jan 17, 2017
Hello Ros,
I have now paid the invoice, but I would like to write to you just to say a big THANK YOU for getting me the Penguin!
The ChatterMate Penguin became a nice memory for me when I was in New Zealand, and I am so greatful to you for arranging so that I could have it! :-)
Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Ros,
Many thanks for your very kind email. I really appreciate your prompt reply!
I appreciate your advice regarding the decorations and customs. These are a gift for my daughter's exchange student family so when she returns home on the weekend I will show her and see if she loves them as much as I do!
Thanks so very much again - I am truly grateful for your kind assistance.
Kind Regards
Thanks again for the great customer service. It's a refreshing change!
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Hey Roz,
Thank you for your emails. Just loved my first order. The cute little Aussie bush critters are going to be used for an office Christmas decoration. My colleagues also liked them and talked about making an order to your site. I'll send you a photo when completed.
I'll be ordering more to send to my daughter's host family in America.
Fabulous service from you.
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The Detroit Lions have been here before; 0-7 isn't a huge stretch for a team that's experiencing its eighth consecutive losing season and that has won only one playoff game in 56 years. But it is a huge comedown for a team that started 6-2 last year.
The Detroit Lions have been here before; 0-7 isn't a huge stretch for a team that's experiencing its eighth consecutive losing season and that has won only one playoff game in 56 years.
But it is a huge comedown for a team that started 6-2 last year.
That now seems a lifetime ago. The Lions come to Soldier Field Sunday to play the Chicago Bears (4-3) having lost 13 of their last 14 games.
"Last year is last year; 0-7, no matter if we had won the Super Bowl last year, would still be tough to swallow," quarterback Dan Orlovsky said in a conference call. "We had much different expectations than where we're sitting right now.
"It's tough to swallow, but at the same time there is a lot of season left. We know it's a long shot, but we're focused on getting better, trying to get win No. 1 and taking steps to try to get No. 2."
The Lions talk about winning once, twice and then going from there. The national media talks about their chances to be the first team in the history of the NFL's 16-game schedule to go winless.
"We know the schedule we have ahead of us, so, yeah, it's difficult not to hear it," Orlovsky said.
But he says the Lions aren't listening.
"I'd be lying if I told you a losing streak doesn't weigh on your mind, but it's a matter of getting up every day and fighting that," Orlovsky said. "Our guys have done a good job of that."
Third-year coach Rod Marinelli, wildly speculated to be the next coach fired, makes the Lions sound heroic, not Quixotic, in their quest to win.
"It's a tremendous challenge. It's fun," Marinelli said. "We've got great players here. In terms of attitude, it's unbelievable. I wish you could feel the spirit and energy here. It's awesome.
"I don't know if I've ever been as challenged and as excited about every week that starts. It's a bunch of guys who are just alive and wanting to get better. I don't know if I've been more proud of a group of men that I've been around. These guys work every day. We just have to do things a little better."
They needed to do things a lot better then when Chicago drilled the Lions 34-7 in Detroit five weeks ago. And that may not have even been Detroit's lowest point.
"Unfortunately, we've had a lot of low points," Orlovsky said.
That marked the fourth game in a row Detroit trailed by at least 21 points in the first half. Since then, the Lions traded star receiver Roy Williams, replaced veteran quarterback Jon Kitna with Orlovsky, a fourth-year, fifth-round pick out of Connecticut and played respectably in losses to Minnesota (12-10), Houston (28-21) and Washington (25-17).
"That says a lot about their team," Bears coach Lovie Smiths said.
"Just by looking at their record, people may think they are playing bad, but they are actually playing good," Bears running back Matt Forte said.
Well, playing better anyway.
But they'll have to play much better to reverse course against the Bears, who handed them their most lopsided loss of the season in October.
"It was a low point, sure," Orlovsky said, "but we have a chance to make up for it. That's all we can ask for."
Matt Trowbridge can be reached at (815) 987-1383 or firstname.lastname@example.com.