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**½/**** Image A- Sound A- Extras B
starring Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan
screenplay by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson
directed by Susanna Fogel
by Bryant Frazer The Spy Who Dumped Me is a lot--femme-centric rom-com, violent action-thriller, dopey spy farce, and genial paean to friendship in the face of adversity--and director Susanna Fogel revels in the tonal disparities from its opening sequence, which intercuts an enthusiastically mounted, bullet-riddled chase scene set in Vilnius, Lithuania, with scenes from a birthday party for Audrey Stockman (Mila Kunis), a 30-year-old grocery clerk who's just been blindsided by a break-up text from Drew Thayer (Justin Theroux), her boyfriend of one year. The party's been organized by Audrey's devoted pal Morgan (Kate McKinnon), an aspiring actress whose ceaseless shenanigans help blunt Audrey's sadness. It quickly becomes clear that, somehow, the guy hiding out from Lithuanian thugs in the gloomy, desaturated espionage thriller is Drew himself. When Morgan grabs Audrey's phone and sends a text calling him a "worthless nutsack" and promising to "set his shit on fire," Audrey gets a returned phone call from that other movie, in which Drew beseeches her to reconsider. Fogel keeps this up for a solid 10 minutes before the film's title appears on screen, and it's an intriguing overture.
The idea of a female-fronted, R-rated spy movie isn't especially novel in the aftermath of Atomic Blonde and Red Sparrow, but there is something delicious about the notion of a couple of completely ordinary millennials boasting and bluffing their way through a multinational conspiracy plot. The funny business isn't as funny as it should be--too many gags don't land, and some of the scenes have a choppy quality, suggesting they never quite came together in the cutting room. But Fogel cuts no corners getting her spy-movie pastiche on screen, which helps propel things forward. Second-unit director Gary Powell is a veteran of Jason Bourne, James Bond, and more, and with his assistance Fogel pulls off stunts and executes camera moves that shouldn't really be possible in a romantic comedy--including a great shot that begins inside an apartment, then follows closely behind and beside Theroux as he takes a running jump off a balcony, rolls off the back of a panel truck, commandeers a motorcycle, and rides off. Scenes shot in Vienna have the sophisticated gloss of a Mission: Impossible movie, and the large-scale modernist architecture of Budapest provides some especially imposing locations as the film's mood grows darker near its midpoint, when Audrey and Morgan are taken hostage and briefly threatened with torture. That's when we meet Ivanna Sakhno, who gives an intensely deadpan performance as Nadedja, a round-eyed, tightly strung Olympic-gymnast-turned-assassin with a sadistic streak and a probably unhealthy attachment to her balance beam.
Before long, the picture springs back into a more broadly comic mode, even developing a second, more devastatingly handsome spy, Sebastian (Sam Heughan of "Outlander"), as a love interest for Audrey. More than anything else, though, The Spy Who Dumped Me builds a showcase for Kate McKinnon, who first appears high-stepping her way into the frame as she sings "Happy Birthday" like the love child of Liza Minnelli and John Cleese. And she swings, struts, and sashays her way through the increasingly violent proceedings with brio as Kunis plays straight woman to her lanky, savvy jester. Her outfit for the first third of the movie is a black-and-white tank-top, suspenders, and capris combo that suggests a knockabout lineage dating back to vaudeville and silent movies. It is possible Fogel is so smitten with McKinnon that she allows her to overplay this shtick--the extended climax has Morgan fulfilling her longtime dream of performing on stage in a Cirque du Soleil-style trapeze act. ("Remember your training from the New Jersey Circus Center," she tells herself.) This bit of business is meant, I think, as a triumphant sally into surrealistic lunacy--and there's something so spectacularly unflattering about McKinnon's outfit, as well as the way the harsh stage lights hit her face, that you have to admire her commitment--but it seems to go on forever and, worse, separates Morgan from Audrey.
If McKinnon's constant mugging threatens to deprive her co-stars of oxygen, she nevertheless brightens the film considerably and even gives it a measure of poignancy. The love life described by the title belongs only to Audrey; Morgan is single when the movie begins and single when it ends, and there's the faintest hint that her surface outrageousness hides a loneliness and insecurity underneath. (She's stunned into silence when Drew responds to one of her jokes by calling her "a little much.") But she's not bitter about it--far from it, she plays Cupid. In one scene, the pay-off to a long-running gag, she's delighted to learn that Audrey has the film's MacGuffin hidden inside her vagina. When Audrey retrieves it and hands it to a nonplussed Sebastian, the look on McKinnon's face is, well, not lascivious, exactly, but kind of wicked. She's watching a connection being made, and she's excited for her friend--though not sappy about it. It's a broad moment, yet well-observed and almost precious in context. The Spy Who Dumped Me isn't totally successful, but with character beats like this in her wheelhouse, Fogel deserves another shot.
Lionsgate has prepped The Spy Who Dumped Me for 4K home viewing despite having released it to theatres only in 2K, so it's likely this transfer is upscaled from a 2K master. Whatever its origins, the picture does right by DP Barry Peterson's rich, often moody cinematography. The drastically desaturated opening action scenes, drab and dusty in HD, take on an almost hyperreal quality thanks to the illusion of sunlight and depth conveyed through HDR encoding. (I viewed the HDR10 version and can't speak to how the Dolby Vision metadata may offer further enhancements.) HDR works as beautifully in the birthday-party scene, where strings of red lights create beautiful patterns of crisply-rendered colour as they drop out of focus in the background, as it does in the trapeze-swinging climax, where the picture still pops with sharpness despite the preponderance of the sort of luscious blues, purples, and magentas you might expect to swamp shadow detail. Exterior scenes, too, are uniformly bright and colourful, adding punch to the action. Skin tones are gorgeously flush from start to finish, except at moments when they've clearly been taken one direction or another by on-set lighting or in the colour grade. Owing largely to its digital origins, the picture is mostly grain-free; when a little bit of noise does appear, it's never obtrusive. Encoding at a generous average bitrate of 83 Mbps helps keep any artifacting at bay.
Audio quality is as impressive as the imagery. (While a presumably more detailed Dolby Atmos stream is included, my system supports only the Dolby TrueHD 7.1 presentation.) Listen to the scene where Audrey and Morgan meet "Verne" at the Viennese restaurant. In the first part of the sequence, the expected prandial ambience--low-key voices murmuring, piano plinking, plates clanking, etc.--fills the room before all hell breaks loose to the tune of screams, gunfire, and breaking bottles echoing all around. Bass-heavy effects hit with a satisfying wallop, and the film's score, by Tyler Bates, makes itself comfortable across the soundstage.
The main behind-the-scenes content here is split into two talking-heads-and-B-roll featurettes. First up, "Covert Operations: The Making of The Spy Who Dumped Me" (11 mins.) is devoted mainly to a discussion of casting, although Fogel and her co-writer, David Iserson, take a few moments to talk about the origins of the project, which they intended to use as a bridge from their backgrounds in indie-style comedy to the bigger-budget feature films they wanted to be making. "I knew I didn't have, on paper, the resume to back it up," Fogel says, "but at the same time I had this friend who would constantly ask the question, 'What would a man do in this situation?'" Thanks to the involvement of producer Brian Grazer, she says, their eventual road to the screen was a smooth one. Also weighing in briefly are Grazer himself, executive producers Karen Lunder and Guy Riedel, McKinnon, Kunis, Theroux, Heughan, and Sakhno, and supporting players Hasan Minhaj (who provides a clip from his audition tape) and Gillian Anderson. More engaging, the single-minded "Gary Powell: The Action Behind the Film" (9 mins.) covers the beloved second-unit director's contributions to the film's stunts and action scenes with interviews that are illustrated by a generous assortment of behind-the-scenes footage related to the major action scenes.
Last and least is "Makin' Friends with Hasan Minhaj" (7 mins.), a content-free supplement that has a grinning Minhaj bothering colleagues (Heughan and Sakhno among them) in Budapest and pretending that various members of the cast and crew, including some locals, are his buddies. This bit is alternately tedious and uncomfortable, as it's clear that some non-English-speakers aren't in on the joke and at least one female crew member finds Minhaj genuinely annoying. Not sure how this made the cut, frankly, unless Minhaj is a much bigger star than I thought. Bundled with the disc are Blu-ray and digital copies of The Spy Who Dumped Me.


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From BWALYA NONDO (Public Relations Officer, Zambia Ministry of Tourism, Environment & Natural Resources), Nevada, USA
The Daily Mail 27 January 2007
ZAMBIA has launched a campaign to lobby the United States government to recognise elephant trophy hunting as key to the conservation of the earth's largest mammal. The American government does not allow its citizens to participate in elephant safari hunting in Zambia, and advances the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) banning, dealing in ivory among others, as the reason for its position. Zambia has since met the United States Fisheries and Wildlife Services authorities to argue that increased quotas for trophy hunting in selected areas with trans-boundary elephant populations, was necessary. These areas include the Zambezi valley, where the elephant population was shared by Zambia and Zimbabwe. Zambia considers a quota of eight for the Lower Zambezi, far below the limit settings recognised for elephant trophy hunting quotas.
Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources, Kabinga Pande, who is leading a delegation of Government, Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA), and Zambia National Tourist Board (ZNTB) officials to the annual hunters convention in the American desert city of Reno, said he was concerned that while Zimbabwe was allowed a gigantic 500 quota in the shared trans-boundary elephant population for sport-hunting, Zambia was restricted to a paltry 20, annually. Speaking when he met United States Fisheries and Wildlife Services, director, Ken Stensil, at the Reno Convention Centre, Mr Pande observed that sport-hunting had the potential to bring large financial benefits to the country and empower local communities economically and motivate them to participate in conservation projects. He said sport hunting would also go a long way in easing animal-human conflicts in game management areas and therefore enhances conservation of animals such as elephants. He said sport hunting was a conservation tool that would help Zambia plough back proceeds into the community. He regretted that in the past, the government has been subsidising conservation of elephants through funds raised from other species when the elephant could itself contribute to its own management. Between 2001 and 2005, 115 elephants were killed on control programmes, resulting in a loss of US$1.1 million in licence fees. If the same animals were hunted for trophy, communities would have realised US$575,000 for investment in various socio-economic areas to reduce poverty. Mr Pande said although many elephants were killed on control programmes every year, the only benefit to the community was meat. He said it was for this reason that communities supported the resumption of trophy hunting.
The United States was an important market for Zambian trophies and appealed to authorities to rescind the decision not to allow their citizens to bring trophies from elephant-hunting safaris. Mr Pande also cautioned the American government to be wary of some safari hunters who were maligning the Zambian government through e-mails, suggesting that safari hunting in Zambia was corruptly handled.
And Mr Stansell assured the Zambian delegation that US authorities would study the Zambian case. He appealed for more information to enable the American authorities appreciate Zambia's elephant situation clearly. The five-day convention organised by Safari Club International, has attracted 19,000 delegates from around the world.

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Argumentation:Software patents
A patent is a government grant to an inventor of the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention, usually for a limited period.
Software patents are becoming a major threat to the software industry. The risk of software patent lawsuits forces software companies to obtain defensive patents in order to obtain cross-licensing agreements and discourage patent lawsuits through the threat of counter- suits. An entire industry of patent trolls extorts businesses with bogus patents by taking advantage of the fact that many businesses prefer to pay licensing fees than go to court.
One prominent form of patent abuse is "submarine patents" – patents which lie dormant until someone discovers their similarity to a popular technology. The patent on the GIF image format surfaced a decade after its widespread adoption on the web. The Eolas patent on web browser plug-ins cost Microsoft $521 million and forced tens of millions of web pages to be crippled or redesigned. The RIM patent cost Blackberry $612.5 million and nearly shut down service to millions of people despite the patent itself being invalidated.
The problem of software patent enforcement
A software algorithm is an abstract description of a general way to solve a problem, such as a mathematical formula. Many algorithms are popular because programmers have found them to be useful in different fields. Algorithms, such as sorting lists and organizing shopping carts are widely recognized as non-patentable. But how can one distinguish obvious ideas from patentable ones? Does the application of an existing algorithm to a new field deserve a patent?
Software patents cripple software development
Software patents make software development risky because it is so difficult to know whether an idea has been implemented before. Over the years, millions of software programs have been written using billions of algorithms. Is it not feasible to have to study thousands of patents to make sure one does not violate the rights of others, while at the same time designing an integrated product. As a consequence, innovative companies are faced with the constant threat of discontinuing products or paying enormous amounts.
The success of companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Apple was not due to monopolizing certain features, but on continually improving on each other's innovations. In a 1991 memo, Bill Gates wrote
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today…The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.[1]
Probably the best evidence that copyright and patents are not needed and that competition leads to thriving innovation in the software industry, is its thriving and innovative portion developing open source software.
Note: much of this page was based on The One Minute Case Against Software Patents, which is in the public domain and was kindly provided by David Veksler - big thanks to him!
- ↑ Bill Gates. "Challenges and Strategy", May 16, 1991. Quote continues: "I feel certain that some large company will patent some obvious thing related to interface, object orientation, algorithm, application extension or other crucial technique. If we assume this company has no need of any of our patents then the have a 17-year right to take as much of our profits as they want. The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.". Referenced 2011-10-13.


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Ultimate Guide to Positive Thinking
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Thinking positively implies understanding what thought power is and how to master thought and how to practice thought transformation.
Understand Everything as Opportunity for Growth
Positive thinking is understanding that everything is an opportunity for growth.
Swami Sivananda taught that "Life is a great opportunity provided by the Lord for His children to evolve into Himself…The great central aim in life is the conscious realization of our Oneness with God."
This means that to turn a negative thought and feeling around, we need to consciously see things from the point of view of our Oneness with God, and not from our separate individual points of view.
Source of Wisdom
Positive thinking is connection to the Source of wisdom within.
"There is a Power, an Energy, which each person can tap into if he knows it is available. This Force inspires, encourages, reinforces and gives strength to those who seek to grow in a positive direction."
– Swami Vishnudevananda
Multidimensional Universe
We live in a multidimensional universe. We experience a subtle reality of thought, and at the same time experience the gross body and the gross universe. What we think upon, is what we become.
Thought is Subtle
Thought is a subtle force. Thought can build and it can destroy. We all need to learn to manipulate these subtle forces in our minds for our own progress and well being. Negative thinking can be destructive and bring about depression, stress, illness, and friction.
Here is a blog post on transforming negative emotions.
Thought Vibrates at Different Wavelengths
Thought is an energy. Thought is prana. Thoughts are not of equal value. Some thoughts are of higher vibration and some of lower vibration.
Our duty is to increase our vibratory wavelength to the maximum, by purifying our mind through appropriate methods of Yoga. If our energy is high, our thought will be of a higher frequency automatically.
Thoughts are all-pervasive. We are at all times swimming in an ocean of thoughts. This article is on how to conserve prana.
Thought Atmosphere Influences
The energy of a place or a thought atmosphere is composed of all the thoughts generated there for a very long time. It is composed of similar dominant thought.
For example, financial districts of big cities generate thoughts of greed, shopping centers radiate thoughts of "Buy! Buy!", a red light district generates thoughts of lust, and some dangerous neighborhoods generate thoughts of fear.
Keep your mind in a healthy environment and choose your company. If you take a bath in dirty, filthy waters, you will come out dirty and filthy. If you swim in an ocean of unidentified negative thoughts, you will pick up the energy of the place like picking up a virus or flu. Find out more on how to keep the mind elevated.
We are like Radio Transmitters and Receivers
We tune to different thought wavelengths, transmitting thoughts and receiving thoughts of the same nature as our own.
Our bodies and minds are like radios. Through yoga, we keep them strong so we can receive and transmit powerful vibrations.
Here are some tips on dealing with stress.
Help others by Maintaining Positive Thoughts
One student of a Positive thinking course said to me: "Before, if my husband is down, and I feel okay, I have to lower my vibration and happiness in order to be at the same wavelength as him. Now, when he is not happy, I remain positive and he becomes positive like me."
Positive Thoughts have a high vibration
Positive thought wavelengths are more difficult to get because they take more prana.
Negative thought wavelengths are easier to produce because they take less effort.
That is why it is easier to be negative than positive as you can just relax and complain.
The 5 Points of Yoga bring back Positivity
1. Asanas – Yoga Postures help move the prana. The most important energetic benefit of asana practice is the circulation of the flow of prana; through moving the prana, we can unblock mental blockages and restore positivity.
To do so, the sequence of the asanas needs to be respected, and proper concentration and relaxation in between postures should be observed. This article is and in depth explanation on how hatha yoga heals.
Recharge the Battery for Positive Thinking
2. Proper Breathing or Pranayama balances and supplies new energy. Do regular breathing exercises such as abdominal yogic breath and alternate breathing to recharge and balance the two hemispheres of the brain.
Imbalanced personality such as too much right brain thinking (emotional) or left brain thinking(rational) brings about negativity. When both flows of breath through both nostrils are balanced, you will experience well being and centeredness. This article goes in depth on the topic of understanding our prana and what to do with it.
We should not only do pranayama, but also make wise choices that will help us increase, conserve, balance and channel our prana.
Spending time in retreat, limiting outgoing senses and too much activity, and offering selfless service are some ways to rekindle your energy and positivity.
Conscious Relaxation removes Stress
Proper Relaxation includes physical relaxation, when there is no tension in the body, mental relaxation, when the mind is concentrated on something positive–such as the breath–and also spiritual relaxation, when one develops faith and knowledge .
The main causes of stress are failure to adapt, lack of prana, and existential unresolved questions about life, death, and our nature and purpose. This article explains in depth the science of relaxation.
Relaxation allows you to Recharge and go deep inside
- Physical letting go brings awareness that you are not the body
- It frees your mind from concerns and anxieties.
- It helps you get in touch with your inner peace
This article gives relaxation techniques to release tension and stress
Proper Diet and Lifestyle Lifts you up
Proper diet includes taking wholesome and organic food at regular intervals that is easily digestible and full of life force. Avoid substances like drugs, cigarettes, and intoxicants, which clog the energy channels and create damage to your energy system.
An unwholesome diet contributes to an unsteady, distracted and weak state of mind.
Here is our blog with proper diet recipes and articles and here are upcoming courses in diet and nutrition.
Meditation Calms, Connects, and brings Positive Thinking
Meditation recharges and purifies thoughts. In the meditative, silent mind, you feel reconnected with your purpose and God.
Reserve a set time for your meditation practice. Let go of the past, present, future, and all ideas who you are and what you are doing. Practice meditation without expectation, fear or judgment.
To prepare for meditation, keep the mind concentrated and live a simple life. Read about what is yoga meditation.
This articles gives guidance on how to meditate for beginners.
What you think is what you become
You create your destiny through your thoughts. You attract thoughts to you of a similar nature and repel other thoughts.
Think "strong", and you will become strong. Think "weak", and you will become weak.
Here is an article on transforming fear into faith an courage.
Take Responsibility for your Thoughts
As much as you do not throw trash around and pollute the environment, do not throw negative thoughts around and pollute the thought atmosphere. You are not a victim. Know that you can create a sustainable positive life for yourself by practicing Yoga and meditation.
This practice will wake you up, calm you down and make you realize your blessings!
Here is an article on creating positive health.
Positive Thinking is Now!
Do not wait for an ideal situation to come for you to become positive. Let go of expectations and preconceived ideas about yourself and others.
Learn to turn all situations into blessings and realize that all is perfect and no one is to blame!
Life brings you exactly what you need, not what you desire.
You are the Prime Victim
Negative thoughts afflict you, the thinker first, as they drain your prana (energy), separate you from others, occupy your consciousness and prevent you from enjoying the peace of your soul.
They make you sick and keep you in a sort of prison of your own negativity.
This articles talks about how to progress towards Peace of Mind.
Take Care of the Problem Immediately
You can be your own doctor or paramedic.
Thought is fast, and negative thoughts can be triggered without warning.
Therefore, you need to take care of it yourself, immediately, like an emergency.
This articles talks about the power of here and now.
Techniques of Positive Thinking
There are different methods to deal with any negative situation or thought. Just like in a first-aid kit of an emergency doctor or paramedic, you have different tools or medicines to respond to any emergency.
- Try different things the best you can.
- Allow yourself to explore alternatives and different attitudes.
- Do not get stuck in one way of reacting.
Your habitual way of reacting has become your personality and identity.
Allow yourself to explore other ways. This is an opportunity to expand your horizons and your knowledge of yourself.
Technique Number 1 – Replace a negative thought with its opposite thought
This is a Raja Yoga technique. Examples of how to change our thoughts are:
- Fear change to Courage
- Anger change to Non-attachment
- Hatred change to Love
- Attachment change to Detachment
- Grief change to acceptance
- Desire change to contentment
Here is an article on 10 ways to overcome negative emotions.
Technique 2 – Be Indifferent to Negative Thoughts
This is a meditation technique.
The moment the thought appears, observe it with detachment and let it go.
Do not dwell on it or identify with it.
This article talks about why we need to meditate and the benefits.
Technique Number 3 – Sublimation
Sublimation means to use up the energy for something positive or higher. Turn negative thoughts into less harmful thoughts.
Channel your thoughts, or In other words, refocus and redirect the energy.
Our blog category on Karma yoga gives insights on how to do this.
Technique 4 – Positive Visualization
- Have a mental image of yourself endowed with the positive quality you seek.
- Keep visualizing the virtue you seek in a symbolic image.
- Example: Siva the meditator and a detached personality, Lakshmi the Goddess of Love and prosperity, Saraswati the Goddess of Knowledge and Wisdom, Ganesha the remover of obstacles.
You can learn more in our teachings on Bhakti Yoga.
Technique Number 5 – Positive Self Affirmation
Like taking regular doses of medicine or vitamins to prevent the re-occurrence of habitual thoughts, consciously repeat the opposite thought to yourself.
"I am becoming better and better everyday,
in every way"
– Swami Sivananda
This article has 17 affirmations that one can use.
Technique 6 – Concentration Technique
Concentration brings calmness and clarity.
Focus the mind on positive thoughts only.
Keep the mind engaged at all times. A distracted mind is a source of negativity.
Swami Sivananda said that "an idle mind is the devil's workshop."
Technique Number 7 – Maintain a Cheerful Attitude
Do not take yourself so seriously.
If you can laugh at yourself, the worst is over. Keep having a sense of humor.
This article gives guidance on finding the guru and how to turn within.
Technique 8 – Change one thought at a time
Be careful of your impatience and the tendency to want to change everything at once. It might lead to setbacks and disappointment.
Change one thought at a time and go on with business as usual.
Technique Number 9 – Invite Positive thoughts and their friends
Beware that negative thoughts never come alone.
One negative thought allowed in will invite many friends of the same nature to bring you down.
In the same way, one positive thought will bring a host of friends to uplift you.
This blog post is on the topic that your mind is your best friend or worst enemy.
Technique Number 11 – Yoga and Meditation Calms and Connects to your Self
Yoga asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing exercises) and tuning to your Self through meditation are still the best techniques for positive thinking.
Here you can see images of Swami Vishnu doing all the yoga asanas.
Tuesday: Courage
Wednesday: Compassion
Thursday: Faith
Friday: Charity
Saturday: Patience
Sunday: Forgiveness
Technique 12 – Cultivate Virtues
Do not wait for a negative situation to happen to learn to be positive.
Be pro-active, cultivate virtues daily.
The blog post is on how to tune to positive thoughts.
Karma Yoga Formula
- Karma Yoga means to get out of yourself and serve someone
- It is not about me, I am here to serve
- I am doing my duty, I do the best I can
- I offer the results of my actions to God. I am only the instrument.
"The best way to find yourself is lose yourself in the service of others"
– Mahatma Gandhi
Karma Yoga Formula continue
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world ". Mother Theresa
This post is on how and why to be selfless.
This post explains how to find your dharma.
Bhakti Yoga Formula
In Bhakti Yoga we say –
- "Everything happens all the time for the best."
- "There is always a good reason for things to happen the way they do."
- "It is the doing of the Divine Mother, she is perfect and beautiful."
- "Let go, let God."
- "It is not my will, it is God's will, I surrender to God's will."
This article talks about how emotions works.
Yoga Philosophy Formula
In Jnana Yoga we say –
- "Why would I be so upset when in reality, I am not this?"
- "I am not my emotions"
- "I am the silent witness"
- "I am the observer"
- "This is not real"
- "This too shall pass"
- "Everything changes"
Learn more in our blog posts about jnana yoga.
We are One
There is no "other". Everybody is my own Self.
- "I am in you and you are in me. "
- "I see my own self in you."
- "I am what I think is separated from me."
- "I am like the drop in the ocean that is identical with the ocean itself."
- "I am your own Self."
- "Love thy Neighbor as thyself."
- "Names are Many, but God is One."
- "Paths are many but Truth is One."
- "I am Sat Chit Ananda – Existence Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, Bliss Absolute. "
This article talks about how to be aware of that Self in all beings.
I am Free
"Real freedom is freedom from the bonds of karma, from egoism and desires, from thoughts, likes and dislikes. Real freedom is identification with the supreme Self. "
– Swami Sivananda
This pages explains what is true freedom.
Everything is all the time Perfect
- May the whole world attain Peace and Harmony!
- Asato Ma Satgamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya – Mrityor Ma Amritam Gamaya
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- Purnasya Purnamadaya Purnameva Vashishyate
- Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
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Often in airsoft competitions, the idea of creating some form of explosive device is raised. After all, it's just not a simulated form of combat unless you are also hucking things in addition to blasting each other with foam pellets at high speeds. But that's pretty hard to do with airsoft pellets. Unless it seems you are airsoft innovations that have invented the effects of Tornado grenade.
It's actually a pretty clever piece of technology. Powered by propane, the grenade has no moving parts to track, even if you want to keep an eye on the pin. You just fill it with pellets, gas it up, and when you're ready, pull the pin and throw it.
As you can imagine, it beats off on impact, not on a timer, and in fact, they can give you a good shake it and it will still be functional. The spiral design inside means it can shed pellets in a full, three-dimensional explosion. It is also built, as you may have guessed, to take much abuse. In fact, Airsoft Innovations claims that they still have to actually break their own grenade, although of course they will keep trying.
If the idea behind it sounds familiar, that's because it's at least something based on an actual tactical weapon. The GSG-9, essentially in Germany version of Special Weapons and Tactics, has a weapon that works on similar principles called the stingball grenade . When triggered, spray the area with rubber pellets; it hurts, how would you not believe, considering you have dozens of highly compressed rubber balls hitting you, but it will not kill you.
On the other hand, they are also hard to find for sale and they are sort of a one-time item, so really, they're better off just to buy the impact Tornado. It is currently available at Amazon for $ 100.


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Glenn Danzig v. The Internet
Glenn Danzig should be widely recognized as an important and pioneering figure in American music. He founded horror-punk legends the Misfits in 1977, a band who perhaps single handedly created the world where bands like Gwar, White Zombie, or Marilyn Manson could exist. The springboard to sub-genres like deathrock, death metal, and other forms of extreme music, the Misfits legacy cannot be overlooked. As a solo artist, Danzig has produced albums that have been certified Gold and Platinum, written songs for Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash, and released two albums of classical music that charted in Billboards Top 10. Rolling Stone has called him a visionary, heavy metal legends Metallica have covered his songs, and he continues to maintain a large and devoted international fan base.
Nevertheless, due to the dark and ultra-serious image he has cultivated over the last 30-plus years, coupled with the rise of social media, he is most often portrayed today as the punch line to a joke. While this is a sad fact, many argue he brought it on himself.
Throughout his long career, Danzig's image has been one of brooding darkness and relentless intensity. Often shirtless and emphasizing his muscular build, 80s and 90s Danzig was a powerful and intimidating figure. Today's Danzig isn't as fit as 90s Danzig. The guy is 61 years old, after all. But, that didn't stop him from posing shirtless on the cover of his Skeletons LP that was released last year. In fact, other than his physical appearance, nothing has really changed about Danzig's image since he bellowed his first "Whoa!" All that said, he did appear as himself on an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and last year played a character on IFC's Portlandia, demonstrating that he does, in fact, have a sense of humor.
But, as Danzig has gotten older, the internet and social media has rapidly emerged as a veritable obsession of many peoples daily life. Other than the many positives that social media can offer, it is often the place where rumors are born and spread, where people celebrate the embarrassing moments of others, and where one's image can be eternally stamped by a carefully timed photograph.
No one in the rock/punk/metal community has suffered more from the internet warriors of social media than Glenn Danzig. In fact, the history of Danzig and internet culture is particularly colorful.
It all started in 2004, when some dude from a band you've never heard of threw a weak fisted punch that Danzig sort of slipped into. The guy who threw the "punch" scurries down the hall. End of story. Nevertheless, DANZIG GETS KNOCKED OUT was irresistible click bait and the video went viral. Three years later, an equally uneventful video surfaced, DANZIG FALLS OFF STAGE! In fact, Danzig does fall off stage, but it's so quick and obscured by darkness it really just looks like he disappears for a second. He didn't fall on his face, he kept singing, and the video isn't even funny. Nevertheless, "Did you see that video of Danzig falling off the stage?" was a thing.
In 2010, artist/cartoonist Tom Neely, published the first issue of Henry and Glenn Forever, an independent comic that imagined Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins as roommates who often find themselves in ambiguously gay scenarios. The comic became a cult hit and has gone on to produce several more issues (the project also spun-off a gallery showing). A few months later, an unknown individual capitalized on an incredibly unique opportunity: A chance to photograph Glenn Danzig, in broad daylight, doing something so impossibly ordinary no one would believe you if you didn't take a picture of him buying kitty litter. Not only was Danzig buying kitty litter, he was wearing a Danzig logo t-shirt while doing it. For a guy who has always presented himself as deathly serious, maybe even pure evil, this case of vanilla became something haters would hate with never ending joy. Truth is, a photo of any rock star caught carrying a bag of kitty litter would be funny.
In 2011, the case of Danzig versus the real world became even more fascinating. If you thought Danzig buying kitty litter couldn't be any more ordinary, how about Danzig versus his Home Owners Association? Well, not really. But, disgruntled neighbors and Danzig throwing a hissy fit? How could anyone resist? Turns out Danzig had a pile of bricks in his front yard for a prolonged period of time (there's evidence, so much evidence) to the dismay of his neighbors who argued it was lowering the neighborhoods property value. Danzig had a dumpster delivered and went out to his front yard screaming, "Here I am motherfucker, just cleaning up my motherfucking bricks, bitch!" as he hurled the bricks into the dumpster. Not only did this story go viral, it also produced a spin-off art exhibit. That's two art exhibits based on making fun of Glenn Danzig. Seriously, what other rocker can claim that?
At this point (the punch, the Henry and Glenn comic, the kitty litter, the motherfucking bricks), Danzig just can't catch a break. One of my favorite music writers, D.X. Ferris, even wrote a four-part series, "Defending Danzig," as a means to recoup some of Danzig's street cred. Sadly, it would be only a month later when Ferris would publish a "never mind" piece. Scheduled to play 2011's Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas, Danzig was in full-blown diva mode. An outdoor event, Danzig complained about the wind and requested side-barriers be built on each side of the stage, obviously setting back the festival schedule as result. To make matters worse, Danzig also wasn't feeling well. He demanded French onion soup and a Wendy's chicken sandwich. I'll say it again, he demanded French onion soup and a Wendy's chicken sandwich. Eventually, Danzig went on late and played an abbreviated show – that he blamed on the event organizers. Even metal-legends Slayer, who also played the event, couldn't resist laughing at Danzig.
In 2012, creepy fans would continue to try to find the next kitty litter picture, but would only manage the side of Danzig's head in an Asian market. However, there were fans present to capture Danzig going ape shit over a photographer during his Bonnaroo performance.
On tour last year, Danzig was also the victim of a false internet rumor. This time generated by a Facebook post by a bloodied fan who claimed Danzig beat him up at a show in
Toronto Montreal, Canada. Apparently, this fan didn't get the memo that Danzig doesn't allow photos and videos during his concerts. After multiple warnings, Danzig's security removed the fan from the show. Whatever happened, the fan got some kind of cut on his forehead and would go on to wipe blood all over his face. Of course, this fan would post a selfie of his bloodied mug claiming that Glenn Danzig actually beat him up. The story got enough buzz to initiate a police investigation, but nothing has resulted since. And here we have more fodder for Danzig diva behavior. As the story went viral, the internet commenters relentlessly called out Danzig for "being a bitch" or not allowing photos "because he's a fat ass now." When in truth, it seems one nutty fan got kicked out of a show after several warnings.
Because the last decade plus has been unkind to Glenn's image, it begs the question: Will history remember Glenn Danzig as a music legend or just that metal dude who one time bought kitty litter? More compelling perhaps, is the question: Is Danzig hate somehow a by-product of his own cult of personality?
– J. Kevin Lynch
Glenn Danzig v. The Internet


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By Dustin Rowles | Politics | November 2, 2016 |
By Dustin Rowles | Politics | November 2, 2016 |
I have written a lot of bedwetting articles in recent days as a part of our site's Get Out the Vote Effort, an effort that around the office we are unofficially calling the "Vote Or We Will Banhammer You Into Oblivion" campaign. By using the same sophisticated algorithm that produces those incredibly obnoxious ads around the holiday season (we apologize, but we really, really appreciate those of you who tolerate them), we can track your IP addresses, match them to voter records, and not only ban you from the site, but from the Internet if you don't vote. I'm sorry. We opted into the program before we really read the Terms of Service, and it's too late to get out now. So, please vote.
Anyway, many of those bedwetting articles have been focused on North Carolina and Florida, the two most pivotal states in this election. Putting everything else aside, what we do know with almost mathematical certainty is that Donald Trump cannot win without winning Florida. Based on polls and early voting, the state has looked like a toss up. In fact, according to raw, early numbers, as of 5:30 a.m. this morning, 21,212 more Registered Republicans have voted than Registered Democrats, and with over 4 million votes cast in Florida already, close to 50 percent of the vote in the state has already been tallied.
A 21,000 vote advantage for Republicans in early voting is not exactly comforting, is it? Well, here's the good news: A William & Mary Poll released last night polled those early voters, so in effect it's as much an exit poll as a predictive one. Based on this poll of people who have already voted, 28 percent of Registered Republicans have crossed over to vote for Hillary Clinton.
Twenty-eight (28) percent.
That is decisive. Better news still is that only 6 percent of registered Democrats are crossing over to vote for Trump. So, if we apply that exit poll to the raw early voting numbers, we see Hillary Clinton leading early voting by a 53-40 margin.
That's a good number. That poll also predicts that Clinton ultimately will win the state by a 48-40 margin. That's the ballgame for Trump.
The bad news, which is also kind of good news, is that based on that exit polling of early voters, Marco Rubio holds a 49-43 advantage over his Democratic challenger, Patrick Murphy. The bad news is that Rubio is likely to hold his seat in the Senate, but the comforting news for me is that exit polling showing that Rubio wins decisively means that it's probably not a poll weighted heavily for Democrats, which suggests that the 28 percent number is solid.
And if you think I'm being dramatic, listen to Lawrence O'Donnell. His voice pattern is human clickbait.


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Alcohol-related social problems
Alcohol-related problems can be divided into two groups: problems caused by individual occasions of drinking and those due to prolonged consumption. Typical examples of problems caused by occasional and often rather heavy drinking include alcohol poisoning and various accidents linked with intoxication, such as drowning, or injuring oneself by falling. Alcohol-related violence like fights and batterings, including domestic violence, is also commonplace. Some of the best known consequences of prolonged, excessive consumption of alcohol include hepatic cirrhosis, alcoholism and diseases of the pancreas.
Alcohol-related problems have increased considerably in Finland after the Second World War. During the periods of increase in alcohol consumption, in the late 1960's, early 1970's and during the latter half of the 1980's, the increase in ill-effects was particularly rapid, as it was again in the latter half of the 1990's and following the cut in alcohol tax in 2004. After the mid-1970's the consumption and the ill-effects of alcohol remained constant for approximately 10 years. A decrease in alcohol consumption in the beginning of the 1990's was accompanied by a decrease in alcohol-related problems. The development of alcohol-related problems has, in other words, followed the development of alcohol consumption.
In Finland, the problems related to occasional drinking - social problems and trouble with law and order - have traditionally been more frequent. When alcohol consumption has been on the increase, however, the health hazards caused by prolonged high-scale consumption increased more rapidly than alcohol-related social conflicts. Deaths due to alcohol-related liver disease increased very sharply following the cut in alcohol tax in 2004. Still, alcohol-related social problems continue to be a problematic issue in Finland.
International studies constantly show that we have more social problems related to heavy, individual occasions of drinking than most other countries. The social ill-effects of alcohol are significant also because they do not concern only the so-called problem drinkers. Even those who consume alcohol very seldom are exposed to accidents, relationship problems and violence, if the amount of alcohol consumed on a single occasion is high. The hazards caused by heavy long-term drinking are certainly not limited to health problems. Heavy long-term drinking also affects the drinker's family life and causes problems in interpersonal relationships and at work, as well as financial problems.
Esa Österberg
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National Institute for Health and Welfare


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The trailer for Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism by Dr. Paul C Vitz:
More about the book:
Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism
by Dr. Paul C Vitz
• Also available in Electronic Book Format
In this updated, expanded edition, starting with Freud's "projection theory" of religion - that belief in God is merely a product of man's desire for security - Professor Vitz argues that psychoanalysis actually provides a more satisfying explanation for atheism. Disappointment in one's earthly father, whether through death, absence, or mistreatment, frequently leads to a rejection of God.
A biographical survey of influential atheists of the past four centuries shows that this "defective father hypothesis" provides a consistent explanation of the "intense atheism" of these thinkers. A survey of the leading defenders of Christianity over the same period confirms the hypothesis, finding few defective fathers. Vitz concludes with an intriguing comparison of male and female atheists and a consideration of other psychological factors that can contribute to atheism.
Professor Vitz does not argue that atheism is psychologically determined. Each man, whatever his experiences, ultimately chooses to accept God or reject him. Yet the cavalier attribution of religious faith to irrational, psychological needs is so prevalent that an exposition of the psychological factors predisposing one to atheism is necessary.
Paul C. Vitz, is Professor/Senior Scholar at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Arlington, Va. and a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at New York University. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan and his Ph. D at Stanford University. He was an atheist until his late 30s. Professor Vitz is the author/editor of a variety of books including: The Self: Beyond the Postmodern Crisis, Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship, Sigmund Freud's Christian Unconscious, Censorship: Evidence of Bias in Our Children's Textbooks and numerous articles in professional and popular journals.
Praise for Faith of the Fatherless:
"Vitz offers a radical new thesis about the psychological origins of atheism. By studying the lives of numerous famous atheists, from the old atheists Nietzsche, Sartre, and Freud to the new atheists Hitchens, Dawkins, and Dennet, Vitz discovers a startling common pattern: atheism arises in people with dead, absent, or abusive fathers. By contrast, prominent defenders of religious belief-including Blaise Pascal, John Henry Newman, and G.K. Chesterton-were blessed with attentive, loving and caring fathers. Vitz's provocative book raises important questions about psychology, religious belief, and the importance of fathers."
- Christopher Kaczor, Author, The Seven Big Myths about the Catholic Church
"Quite simply, Paul Vitz's Faith of the Fatherless is a minor classic, a book that should be on the short list of all those who want to understand, in the deepest terms, the ill effects caused by the failures of fatherhood. Faith of the Fatherless should function as a gateway book to research in all fields examining our current, highly-secularized culture, a culture marked deeply by both unbelief and hostility toward the family and especially fatherhood."
- Benjamin Wiker, Author, Architects of the Culture of Death
"In deploying Freudian theory against atheism itself, Paul Vitz has proven beyond a doubt what's missing from secular accounts of secularization: namely, actual human beings. His thesis is intellectual jujutsu of the first order, as anyone reading this timely revisiting will appreciate in full."
- Mary Eberstadt, Author, The Loser Letters and Adam and Eve after the Pill
"Paul C. Vitz has republished one of the most profound books in the emperical psychology of religion, Faith of the Fatherless, now with additional data. Here he skillfully demonstrates objective analogies between the family experiences of articulate atheists and their pronouncements concerning the family of God. Of course, since there is "nothing" more personal than God-and our beliefs and relationships to God-our capacities for personal relationship matter tremendously in the formation of our divine beliefs. Everything is interconnected, we know. However, Prof. Vitz's engaging style makes his demonstration of these objective analogies especially memorable and useful for understanding unbelief and ourselves."
- Paul de Vries, PhD, President, NY Divinity School
"The reasons for belief in God and unbelief are complex and varied and hotly disputed. Paul Vitz makes a striking contribution to the current debate with an elegant and thoroughly plausible explanation for much atheism that turns the traditional Freudian critique of religion on its head. Relying on the biographies of well-known modern atheists, he finds significant evidence that negative childhood experiences with regard to one's father can severely compromise one's capacity to believe in God. Whatever one's beliefs, there is much to ponder in this well-written and well-researched book."
- Eric L. Johnson, PhD, Director, Society for Christian Psychology


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The difference between the running back and the fullback is an important one. Many times they can be grouped together but if there is any team that shouldn't happen, it's the Raiders. After all, they have their lone Pro Bowl player at the fullback position. Here is how the position currently stands:
Marcel Reece - 15 starts, 46 carries, 32 catches, 549 yards from scrimmage, 4 TD's
Jamize Olawale - 1 start, 7 catches, 3 carries, 69 yards from scrimmage, 0 TD's
Marcel Reece has been the most dynamic fullback in the league the past few years. Well known as a mismatch at the fullback position, he is very dangerous in any facet of the game. When he's not pass blocking to help make Matt McGloin the least sacked quarterback in the NFL, he's blocking to help Rashad Jennings be the second best running back in the league behind only Adrian Peterson in the month of November. He got one start this season in place of Jennings and had 19 carries for 123 yards including a 63-yard touchdown run. Otherwise, he is lethal as a receiver out of the backfield tallying 331 yards on the season, which is actually a down season for him (he had 496 yards receiving last year).
Olawale holds his own usually as primarily a blocking fullback. They like to throw in a wrinkle and have him catch a pass from time to time just because the defense isn't expecting it. For being a former receiver, he has not shown a lot as a receiver but as a blocking backup, he isn't too shabby.
Grade: A
Team need: Low
Reece was signed to a 3-year extension last off-season to remain with the Raiders. Olawale is an exclusive rights free agent which means he will likely be back as well. They could try and find an upgrade. If they do, so be it. If not, Olawale is serviceable.


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Bumper Stickers 5The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.
Sorry I missed church. I've been busy practicing witchcraft and becoming a lesbian. (thanks to Tananda)
Let's skip the insults and get right down to your butt kicking!
I don't have a beer gut, I have a protective covering for my rock hard abs.
My drinking team has a bowling problem. (thanks to Bromond)
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
I am not infantile, you stinky poopyhead.
I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability. (thanks to Kenneth Dockery)
If you can read this, you're not the president.
To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.
You read my bumper sticker. That's enough social interaction for today. (thanks to Jacob)
Liberal Arts major: will think for food.
Adjure obfuscation. (thanks to Betty)
Visualize Whirled Peas
If you can read this, I've lost the trailer!
Stoplights timed for 30 mph are also timed for 60 mph.
I didn't climb all the way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.
Don't treat me any differently than you would the Queen.
Practice safe lunch: Use a condiment.
What we need is a patch for stupidity!
Follow that car, Godzilla - and step on it!
Frankly, Scallop, I don't give a clam.
Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up!
I fought the lawn, and the lawn won.
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RUSH: We are thrilled to have with us James Farrior, number 51 of the Pittsburgh Steelers, who just finished practice. Mr. Farrior, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
FARRIOR: Oh, welcome! Thanks for having me, man.
RUSH: I have got to ask you a question. I'm going nuts. I just had Rodney Harrison on the program.
FARRIOR: Okay.
RUSH: Everybody that's talking about this game says that you guys can be had with four or five wides, keep Polamalu off the line of scrimmage, that the secondary is vulnerable. I mean, I'm sure you've heard this. Without giving away any secrets… They're making it sound like you guys have no chance. All they've gotta do is spread you out and the Steelers have no hope. Have you got a counterattack for this?
FARRIOR: Oh, most definitely, man. You know, we've been hearing that all week, and we've been prepared for it. Coach LeBeau has put together one of the greatest game plans in history for this Super Bowl right here.
RUSH: All right. (chuckles)
FARRIOR: So they better be ready for it.
RUSH: Well, I'm not gonna ask you what it is, but I can't wait. This is what year for you in the league?
FARRIOR: This is number 14.
RUSH: Number 14, and now you've got the CBA and the potential lockout and the 18 games. I know you don't really want to think about this front-and-center with this game coming up and I know you don't want to quit playing, so where is this all going?
FARRIOR: Man, I don't know man. It seems like it's inevitable that we're gonna get locked out. Hopefully doesn't last too long. Hopefully we can get a deal done. Everybody puts their emotions to the side and let's get it done.
RUSH: James, is this game as exciting to you as the previous Super Bowls?
FARRIOR: No doubt about it. It never gets old, man. You know, you play the game to win championships. This will be my third opportunity to get a championship, and it feels like my very first time.
RUSH: A guy named Joe Posnanski for Sports Illustrated had a great piece this week about the Steelers: 40 years, they haven't changed. You know what the Steelers are gonna do, you know what the uniform is gonna look like, you know how their players are going to be behave. You were a Jet; you got traded to the Steelers. Is the Steelers way…? Is it all just marketing or is there really a Steelers way of doing things in the NFL?
FARRIOR: There's definitely a Steeler way. You know, we look back at the history of the organization and the franchise and the Rooney family, and they've been doing business the same way for 70-some-odd years so. You know, there's definitely a formula they have that's been very successful over the years and I don't think it's gonna change.
RUSH: Well, how do you approach a game like this? You've got a chance here to win more Super Bowls than any team in the National Football League has. You have to hear all the hype about, 'Well, these guys are great on indoor carpet, Rodgers with his quick release.' Hardly anybody's talking about the Steelers offense other than Ben and how he can scramble and play sandlot football better than anybody else. But they're making you guys out really as if the Packers are on their game you don't have a chance. Do you like that? Do you like that underdog position they put you in?
FARRIOR: Oh, yeah, we definitely like it. We feel like the pressure is on those guys more than anything, and we're just gonna sit back and let everybody do all the talking, and when 6:30 rolls around and those pads start popping, we're gonna see what happens.
RUSH: James Farrior of the Pittsburgh Steelers here, the quarterback of the defense. Is Troy Polamalu a hundred percent?
FARRIOR: Oh, yeah. He's ready to go. He's had a couple days to rest. He's had almost a week and a half of good rest, and he hasn't really been doing much but rehabbing. So he's gonna be ready to go — and this is the biggest game of the year, so no matter how he's feeling he's gonna be out there making plays.
RUSH: Aaron Smith, any chance he'll play?
FARRIOR: I don't know. I think it's gonna be a game day decision, but, you know, just having that guy in the locker room with us is gonna be inspirational for us. We know he had a hard time this year with injury, and just having him out there on the field, just being on the sidelines, it'll be enough boost for us.
RUSH: Well, best of luck. I know that you have Larry Foote there and I'd like to say hi to him, but best of luck. It's really a thrill to talk to you, and you really are, James, a prince of a guy. Everybody on that team represents the city of Pittsburgh well, the NFL well, and it's genuinely a special thing. I hope you're not one of the teams moving to LA.
FARRIOR: Oh, no! Not a chance.
RUSH: (laughing) I'm just kidding.
FARRIOR: Definitely not a chance.
RUSH: Just kidding. Anyway, is Larry Foote there? I know you guys have one phone that you're passing back and forth.
FARRIOR: Yeah, he's right here, man. He can't wait to talk to you. Hold on.
FOOTE: Yo, Rush!
RUSH: Mr. Larry Foote!
FOOTE: What going, man? Thanks for having me.
RUSH: You bet. Let's see, the last time you were in this game, it was in Detroit, right, which is your hometown?
FOOTE: No, no, that was the first one, the first one. The last one was in Tampa.
RUSH: That was the first. Okay, but you were with them. That was the Jerome Bettis game.
FOOTE: That was the Jerome Bettis game, yeah.
RUSH: Now, you spent one year with Detroit and you're back with the Steelers. Is this…? I just asked Farrior the same question. Is this game…? It's not old hat to you, right? This game is as exciting as any of the others have been to you?
FOOTE: Oh, yeah. I mean just the team that we're playing against — and out of the three Super Bowls, it's probably our biggest challenge as far as their balance on defense and offense.
RUSH: Do you like the defensive game plan that you have?
FOOTE: Oh, yeah. You know Dick LeBeau is gonna put something together for the Super Bowl. Any time he's leading this ship we are always confident and know he's gonna give us his best.
RUSH: Well, but the Packers say Dom Capers is Dick LeBeau Lite that you guys are basically identical defenses and you both play three-fours, and are both very cerebral and so forth. I asked Farrior, I'm gonna ask you: Does it bother you when you hear all this talk that you're easy to beat if they just spread the field, put four wide receivers, take Polamalu off the line of scrimmage and basically it's no contest?
FOOTE: I mean, the last ten years we've got the number one overall defense. So teams have tried everything to attack us, and we keep answering the call every time.
RUSH: (laughing)
FOOTE: But it's gonna be a challenge, no doubt about it. Defenses are similar — same style, same type of attack and approach — but at the end of the day, you know, which dog's gonna hunt the longest?
RUSH: Did you have a good practice today?
FOOTE: Oh, yeah. We prepared. We're ready to go. You know, it's kind of like that quietness before the storm.
RUSH: What's the toughest part of that between now and the game? What's the toughest part of these days? I imagine these are two really long days ahead of you. How do you keep from blowing your energy way too soon?
FOOTE: Well, the tough part is a majority of guys' family and friends are in today. They come in on Friday, so they gotta entertain them for the day. Then Saturday we're more isolated, do some walk-throughs and we go off to a separate hotel so we get ready.
RUSH: Oh, yeah: The super-secret hotel that ESPN will find out about.
FOOTE: (laughing)
RUSH: (laughs) What do you have for the pregame meal? You eat much?
FOOTE: Yeah, I eat a little bit. Try to get some pasta, get some carbs to keep me going. You know it's gonna be a long day. And the difference about the Super Bowl and the other games is the halftime is a little longer, so they'll have snacks in there for us.
RUSH: Right. That's right. You've got a long pregame here. After you go out and warm up, you've got an hour while that pregame show goes on, and you've got a longer halftime than usual. By the way, that's something else that people are talking about: You guys have many more players that have actual Super Bowl experience than the Packers have, and Mike Tomlin said that he thinks once the game starts that doesn't really matter. Do you?
FOOTE: Well, I hope it helps to our advantage, but it's a little different, because our first Super Bowl we were a little tight. You know, we were caught up in the lights and just playing in the Super Bowl. But I think it might… The biggest distraction would be the bye week last week and this week with all the parties and the hoopla. So hopefully they got caught up in that and so we can take care of business.
RUSH: I remember that. The Super Bowl in Detroit, was that Ben's first against the Seattle Seahawks?
FOOTE: Yeah, that was the first.
RUSH: He said he was never more nervous before a football game than that one, and this is Aaron Rodgers' first Super Bowl. So I think this experience stuff — knowing how to win, knowing how to close people out in games like this — clearly you guys have an advantage and an edge if that kind of thing exists here.
FOOTE: Absolutely. I mean, I don't care how much you prepare for it and study the game plan: When you step foot on the biggest stage, your mind gonna be talking to you telling you you're in the Super Bowl. So we get 'em rattled a little bit and it'll help us get the victory.
RUSH: Well, best of luck, man. The whole country is pulling for you. You guys travel better than any team in the National Football League.
FOOTE: (chuckles)
RUSH: There's gonna be a lot of gold in that place because the Packers have it in their color scheme as well. Look, I appreciate your time here. It's a thrill to be able to talk to you and tell James Farrior I said thanks as well.
FOOTE: Thanks for having us. It's truly an honor. I appreciate it.
RUSH: You bet. That's Larry Foote.


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Step by step guide for Permissionless access on UniLend Protocol
Today we are launching the biggest product update in UniLend for the entire DeFi community. We are going permissionless and bringing support to any ERC20 asset for lending and flash loans.
Evolution of DeFi with permissionless
The current state of DeFi limited the access to lending of the majority of DeFi projects. But the permissionless nature of UniLend brings the decentralized access to protocols in DeFi to list their tokens without the need of UniLend's permission or intervention.
This true nature of DeFi will allow projects to start their liquidity pool on UniLend and allow the lending of their tokens and provide rewards to their community.
How to access permissionless nature of UniLend
In this example we will create a lending pool of DAI on ethereum chain and give a demo of adding and redeeming liquidity to the pool.
Visit UniLend Dapp on the https://app.unilend.finance/ and connect your wallet and access the Ethereum chain.
Look for DAI token in the already created pools in the UniLend dapp. Since DAI liquidity is not yet available on UniLend we will create our own pool and add liquidity to it.
1/ Select the token from the Dapp to access the token and their liquidity on UniLend.
2/ Click on the manage icon at the bottom of the token list and access more from coingecko or custom token address.
3/ Enable the Coingecko list to fetch access to more than 7000 tokens for permissionless listing.
4/ Look for DAI token in the search list again and import it to start a new pool of DAI on UniLend
5/ Or Import a token from address if the information of the token is unavailable from Coingecko.
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Nasturtium Jewel Mix 30 seeds
Nasturtium Seeds Jewel Mix produce bright flowers throughout the summer. A great ground-cover and popular in hanging baskets too.
Nasturtiums (Tropaeolum majus) are not only easy to grow and pretty to look at, they are hard-working, edible flowers that more than earn their spot in any home garden. These cheerful little annuals flowers thrive on neglect and will work hard for you both above and below the soil level without needing anything in return. There's an old adage that applies to these growing annuals flowers - be nasty to nasturtiums. Use these seed-planting tips and get ready to enjoy a colorful bloom harvest and improved garden soil structure by growing nasturtiums.
See also:
- Nasturtium Tall Climbing mix seeds
- Nasturtium Tom Thumb Alaska mix seeds
- Nasturtium Bloody Mary Seeds
- Nasturtium Whirlybird mix seeds
Planting Location
Nasturtiums are hardy in all growing zones and are not picky about the soil in which they grow. Select any sunny location to plant these hard working annuals. They will grow in partial shade, but will not produce many blooms.
Soil Preparation
A light tilling to break-up the top soil is the only soil preparation needed prior to planting. Do not work in organic matter or fertilize as this will actually cause the plants to produce fewer blooms.
When planning to plant nasturtiums in the vegetable garden as a companion plant, try to limit the usage of organic matter in the areas where the flowers will be planted.
Plant Seeds
The nasturtium seeds are large and have a hard exterior shell, for faster germination, soak the seed in warm water overnight prior to planting.
Seeds can be started indoors in a flat container or pots 6 weeks before the last spring frost in your region. Seedlings can be transplanted into the soil once the plants have developed their second set of leaves, called true leaves, and all danger of frost has past. Space plants 12 inches apart. The plants grow rapidly and will fill in all the gaps very quickly.
If you prefer to plant seeds directly into outdoor soil, wait until all danger of frost has past. Sow seeds into prepared soil, then cover with 1/2 inch of soil and water in well. Thin plants to 12 inches apart by plucking the extras ones out of the soil after the seeds germinate.
Nasturtium Seeds will germinate and plants will be visible in 7-10 days. Keep soil moist, but not soggy, at all times during the germination process.
Plant Size
The mature size of nasturtiums depends on the variety planted, Dwarf varieties will make a compact mound of about 15 inches tall and climbing varieties can reach over 10 feet in vine length. Dwarf varieties can be grown as outdoor potted plants, mounding varieties make perfect edging/border plants and climbing varieties will need a trellis or other structure on which to climb on for best results.
Bloom Time
Nasturtiums begin to bloom in late spring and will continue producing until the first killing frost of fall. Blooms are funnel-shaped and have single, semi-double and double flower petals. Blooms colors are bright yellow, red, salmon, apricot, peach and cream.
The abundant and colorful nasturtium blooms are irresistible to hummingbirds and butterflies. You will have constant flying visitors to the plants all summer. The blooms also makes nice cut flowers for you to enjoy in a fresh floral arrangement.
After Care
Only water during times of drought and never feed the plants.
Deadhead spent blooms to keep the plants producing new bloom throughout the summer. When grown as a potted plant, nasturtiums may need to be cut back by mid-summer to keep them looking neat. The plants will bounce back after a severe pruning, so you don't have to go easy on them.
Edible Annuals
The flowers and leaves of nasturtiums are edible and rich in vitamin C. Both the leaves and blooms have a peppery flavor. Most often the leaves are used as part of a green salad and the blooms are used as plate garnish, and they also make a great ingredient to use to create flavored vinegar.
Natural Pest Repellent
Nasturtiums are a natural pest repellent and will protect garden vegetables from harmful pests when planted as a companion plant. These colorful flowers will repel aphids, squash bugs and cucumber beetles so they won't start home steading in your home garden and devour your plants.
Improve Soil Structure
The roots of nasturtiums also increase the nitrogen level in garden soil and help to improve plant growth by strengthening plant roots. This hard working annual is a must-have in an organic vegetable garden for both pest control and soil amending.
Seed Saving
The plants will develop their own flower seed pods, after the flowers are spent, but they are not a self-seeding plant. Harvest the pea-sized nasturtium seed pods and spread them out in a single layer in a warm, dry place for the winter. Come spring, and if you want to grow nasturtiums again, you will have your own nasturtium seeds to plant and save yourself a little money.


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Kidderminster Harriers are set to make an approach for Gloucester City forward Ed Williams.
The 22-year-old enjoyed an impressive season with the Tigers last term.
Williams progressed through the youth ranks at Cheltenham Town to earn a professional contract for the 2013/14 season.
He spent time on loan at Bishop's Cleeve, Evesham United, Cirencester Town and then Gloucester.
Williams rejoined the Tigers on a permanent basis in December after recovering from a groin injury.
Zack Kotwica left City to join Tamworth at the end of November, just before manager Tim Harris resigned, leaving Will Morford in caretaker charge.
National League North Kidderminster are now thought to be keen on signing Williams, who can play on the wing, in an attacking midfield role, or up front.
The Hartpury student was an unused substitute for Saturday's 2-0 home defeat by Chelmsford City.
He is studying for a masters degree in coaching science and is in his fourth season of playing for the college.


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So you decided to invest your hard-earned money, and now you want to evaluate whether it was the right decision. To do so, you need to calculate the Alpha of your portfolio.
How to calculate Alpha of your portfolio
But before we immediately dive into the nitty-gritty of the Alpha formula, let us define the Alpha first.
What is Alpha?
Alpha or Jensen Index (invented my Michael Jensen in the 1970s) is an index that is used in some financial models such as the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to determine the highest possible return on an investment for the least amount of risk.
In other words, Alpha measures how well an investment performed compared to its benchmark.
In finance, Jensen's index is used to determine the required excess return of a stock, security or portfolio. It uses a relationship between risk and return (technically called "security market line") as a benchmark. The number you get shows how much better or worse an investment performed relative to its benchmark. Thus, it allows the investor to statistically test whether portfolio produced an abnormal return relative to the overall capital market i.e. whether the manager's skill has added value to a fund on a risk-adjusted basis. Bluntly speaking, it tells you if investment decisions were good or bad.
Jensen's Alpha causes some debates, however, as some economists argue that most managers fail to beat the market over the long run due to the efficient market hypothesis, and therefore attribute Alpha to luck instead of portfolio managers' skills.
How does it work?
Mathematically speaking, Alpha is the rate of return that exceeds a financial expectation. We will use the CAPM formula as an example to illustrate how Alpha works exactly:
r = Rf + beta * (Rm – Rf ) + Alpha
Alpha = r – Rf – beta * (Rm – Rf )
r = the security's or portfolio's return
Rf = the risk-free rate of return
beta = systemic risk of a portfolio (the security's or portfolio's price volatility relative to the overall market)
Rm = the market return
Now we will have a look at three different scenarios of market performance accompanied with the diagrams. In all the scenarios, the excess returns on the fund are plotted against the excess returns on the market.
First Market Scenario
The excess returns on the fund are plotted against the excess returns on the market as shown above. The regression line in the first scenario has a positive intercept. This is the abnormal performance.
Interpretation: the funds (represented as dots) above the line performed better than the market.
Second Market Scenario
The second scenario shows what is known as market timing.
If the portfolio manager knows when the stock market is going up, s/he will shift into high beta stocks. If the portfolio manager knows the market is going down, he will switch to low beta market. In the high beta stocks, these stocks will go up even further then the market and in the case of low beta stocks, these stocks will go down less then the market.
In this case, Alpha is positive, signalling strong performance.
Interpretation: If the stock is expected to be bearish, low beta stocks will produce lower returns but also smaller losses, and vice versa when the stock is anticipated to turn bullish.
Third Market Scenario
The third scenario assumes that the fund manager has an outstanding sense of market timing as in this case his portfolio does not have negative returns at all.
In this case, the fund goes up by more than the market, yet the Jensen measure/Alpha, in this case, is negative. Even though the manager has shown strong market timing skills, the performance evaluation criterion reveals that he is not doing a superior job as Alpha is negative.
Interpretation: this is a classic example when the interpretation of Alpha should be put into the context within which a fund manager operates.
To sum up, Alpha can be a useful tool to estimate the performance of a stock or your entire portfolio, yet it is important to look at it from the market and investment thesis prospectives.
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Space Math is a NASA website containing space-themed math lessons for students in elementary school through high school. You can search for lessons according to grade level or mathematics topic. The bulk of the materials seem to be PDFs of directions for carrying out the lesson plans. The exception to that pattern being the middle school (grades 6-8) resources which include the use of some of NASA eClips videos.
The featured lesson plans on the Space Math homepage today are designed to have students use some free apps on their smartphones to record data and learn about sound, light, radiation, and magnetism.
Applications for Education
Each of the Space Math lessons align to different NASA missions. The NASA missions provide the context for the math lessons. That alignment makes Space Math lessons a good option for an integrated science and mathematics lesson.


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Friday, December 08, 2006
New Stuff, Like I needed More New Stuff
The deal is, for every hour I spend sorting, folding and making order in the studio I get at least two hours of messing around with stuff. Today I went the lazy mystery route and picked a few pieces from the stash to discharge. This fabric was from a very old nightgown. White cotton with the shoulders and bodice crocheted from pearl cotton. This interesting effect on this turquoise commercial batik came from putting dishwasher gel on dry fabric, waiting about 15 minutes then misting it heavily with water and popping it into a hot oven on a cookie sheet for about 5 minutes. and yes, yes Anti-chlor for everyone at the bar! Ain't it cool?
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Conflicted reviews
Yesterday, I read Anne Applebaum's reportage of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of a new book entitled "Infidel". I recommended the piece to people around the office here because Ms. Applebaum's "The Gall to Speak Her Mind" was such a well-written, unbiased article about this brave Somalian/Dutch woman who is currently targeted by Dutch of "Asian decent" to suffer the same fate as her co-producer, Theo VanGogh;
For those who haven't encountered her name yet, suffice it to say that Hirsi Ali is a European of African descent with an almost American rags-to-riches life story. As a young woman, she escaped from her Somali family while en route to an arranged marriage in Canada, made her way to Holland, learned Dutch, attended college and eventually won a seat in the Dutch parliament. Along the way, she also made an intellectual journey — beautifully described in her new book, "Infidel"— from tribal Somalia, through fundamentalism, and into Western liberalism. After Sept. 11, 2001, horrified by some of the things Osama bin Laden was saying, she reached for the Koran to confirm a hunch: "I hated to do it," she wrote, "because I knew that I would find bin Laden's quotations in there."
Partly as a result she lost her faith, concluding that the Koran spreads a culture that is "brutal, bigoted, fixated on controlling women, and harsh in war," and that should not be tolerated by European liberals. The conclusion led her into a series of controversies — and to the murder of a Dutch filmmaker with whom she had co-produced a film about the mistreatment of Muslim women. The murderer was the son of Moroccan immigrants, born in Holland; he pinned a letter threatening Hirsi Ali onto his victim's chest. Ultimately, she left Holland for Washington, where she remains, ensconced at the American Enterprise Institute.
I commend Ms. Applebaum for giving unbiased exposure to this brave woman. I highly recommend reading the piece as well the book.
But then, I see, from Little Green Footballs, Newsweek isn't so kind. Neither are all of the reviewers at Amazon. For those reasons alone, I'd buy the book.
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E3: Postal 2: Paradise Lost Expansion
The last year was a good time to go Postal again, with the massive update for the 11-year-old game. However, that update is not the only thing to keep Postal 2 in the spotlight anymore. Running With Scissors have announced a new expansion for the game at E3 – Paradise Lost. Quite conveniently, the action will take place 11 years after the ending of the previous Apocalypse Weekend expansion. Judging by the announcement trailer, we will see the good old city of Paradise with the scars of events that happened in the meantime. There are also new human, undead and demonic enemies to fight against. The expansion should be available in the Fall of this year.
I dont see any new enemies other than Garry Coleman riding a gimp, pretty much all of the other ones are from the Apocalypse Weekend expansion pack. From what I know, it will take 10 years after the events of Postal 2, after the nuke goes off on Saturday, and the people of Paradise think they are the only ones left on Earth. Judging by a comment they responded to, it will also follow Postal 2's format of "5 days with tasks in each one"


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Under $100: The Perfect Basic White Sweatshirt
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This basic white sweatshirt is the perfect addition to any wardrobe. Whether you're a minimalist or a workout enthusiast looking for a stylish layer, this top is guaranteed to flatter any outfit. Oh, yeah and did we mention it's made from organic cotton and is under $100?
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+ Baserange Basic Off White Sweat
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The Upwind Hoop earrings clicker ring pair is from our popular 316L Surgical Steel manufactured. This segment ring has a hinge. The piercing is available with one Inner diameter of 10 mm, 12 mm, 14 mm as well as one Size of 1,6 mm and 2 mm. The segment has a Thickness of 0,8 mm.
This ring is available in Silver, gold, rose gold and Black.
The creoles are offered as a pair.
This piercing is suitable tragus, conch, helix, forward helix, smiley, earring, lobe, nose ring, lip ring, septum, nostril, daith, nose piercing.
The body jewelery is like all Basics of the Steel Line easily sterilizable and kind to the skin, All piercings from piercinginspiration are also available with a sweet jewelery box.
The delivery time is 2 - 4 business days.
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Celestica unveils new microelectronics lab in Toronto
by Canadian Manufacturing Staff
Microelectronics lab open to firms looking to "quickly commercialize" ideas for miniaturizing electronic products
TORONTO—Celestica Inc. has officially opened a new microelectronics laboratory open to firms that hope to "quickly commercialize" ideas for miniaturizing electronic products.
Located at the company's Toronto headquarters, the 1,100-sq.ft. lab is available to start-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as well as large original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), looking to get their microelectronic ideas to market through prototyping and volume production.
"Microelectronics is in demand for high-reliability markets such as healthcare, aerospace, defense, communications and renewable energy. As optics and photonics technologies permeate these high-reliability sectors, it is becoming increasingly more important to miniaturize and cost reduce," Celestica senior director of technology and innovation Shawn Blakney said in a statement.
"Smaller electronics provide the flexibility for lighter, portable and potentially more affordable devices, a trend that is already proven in the consumer market."
The ISO class-6 cleanroom lab is a controlled environment for temperature, humidity and airborne particles, and offers new miniaturization solutions using bare die packaging technologies.
According to Celestica, the goal of the lab is to reduce production costs, enhance signal integrity and improve thermal performance for high-reliability applications.
"The new microelectronics laboratory complements our existing capabilities in Toronto including our materials laboratory and surface mount technology manufacturing," Blakney said. "As we look to the future, microelectronics will play an increasing role in technology, and with this new capability, we can help our customers to keep up with the pace of change and stay competitive in their markets."
The new lab was launched not long after Celestica unveiled a new industry-led incubator aimed at commercializing made-in-Canada electronic products and technologies.
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Empower your team to succeed
With Footsteps of Discovery, our Survival Skills and Self Sufficiency days teach your team the skills that will empower them not only to be confident in the outdoors but also creates greater confidence and team work in the workplace.
Whether you choose our popular daytime programme or our inspiring overnight experience you can be sure of a very rewarding time.
With a range of tasks including shelter building, fire lighting, wild food gathering, orienteering —to name but a few—this course always seems to provide pleasant surprises.
For larger numbers please ask for a quote. Food can be provided to suit your needs at an extra cost.
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With the additional tasks of cooking over your campfire, understanding direction and using your senses to track, this course will challenge your perceptions of what it is like to live out in the woods.
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Elham is a young, divorced Iranian woman. Seeking to find herself after a near-fatal beating by her husband, she finds solace and salvation in the water and soon makes her mark as a formidable endurance swimmer. In the fight of her life, Elham faces political, religious, and personal obstacles in search of her goal: the Guinness World Record for swimming the longest distance with hands bound.
Added: 2023-10-06 12:35:57
Release: 2021
Language: Persian
Duration: 1 hr 43 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8
Genres: Drama


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On 4 and 5 May in the Center for Riudoms Arnau de Palomar, in Riudoms, will carry out the agrarian reflection Days 2012, an initiative for dialogue, knowledge and exchange of experiences in the new agriculture contemporary organized by the Section of CERAP Agrarian Studies.
The first day will be a talk about organic farming by Andreu Vila, associate professor of ESAB and agricultural adviser and founder of Can Perol.
The second day will be a discussion on business models where intervene, among others, Anna Mas as Aprodiscae Hortus representative.
Find out more information here.