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By Timothy Fitzpatrick
A former high-ranking Illuminati member claims American evangelist Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel and the Jesus freak movement are funded by the Illuminati.
The late John Todd of the Collins Illuminati bloodline revealed, during his tour of some American churches in the '70s and '80s, that part of his job as a witch/CIA MK Ultra agent in the Illuminati power structure was to deliver money to leaders of the Charismatic movement as a payoff for their allegiance to the New World Order.
"The charismatic movement, to the outside people, is the movement that declares the speaking of tongues," Todd explained to his audience in one of several audio recordings.
"The charismatic movement, in reality, was one of three steps declared back in 1964 to do two things: while the main function was to destroy the fundamental church of any type…the Masons was one, and the charismatic church was another…and the political manoeuvres was the third…."
Todd went on to name Smith.
"I was on the Council of Thirteen and had to pay too many millions of dollars to that organization to accept that it be of God and its leaders—since I know most of its leaders by first-name basis. They used the charismatic movement to establish Jesus rock. I had to deliver a $4-million cheque that was the second $4-million cheque that Chuck Smith—that created Calvary Chapel and Maranantha Productions—received from the Illuminati. And he knew it was Illuminati money…I saw $35 million in two years go into the charismatic movement to build the four biggest churches in the United States that lead it, plus the Full Gospel Businessmen."[i]
Chuck Missler, who now runs the Christian Zionist organization Koinonia House, is still a staff pastor with Calvary Chapel, and is considered by some to be a protégé of Chuck Smith. The two are closely associated to say the least.
Who is this sincere sounding "evangelist"?
Charles W. Missler is a respected evangelist in the United States of America and an outspoken supporter of the state of Israel. Missler, through his speaking engagements and for-sale audio and video products, comes off as a sincere and intelligent evangelist. What sets him apart from most televangelists is his speech, which is totally different from the cookie-cutter dialectic—intonation and inflection—of typical televangelists, and his scientific vernacular, making himself more credible and more believeable to his naïve Christian audience. (It has been my experience that North American evangelicals are highly naïve people, but perhaps the Illuminati planned it that way.) In an attempt to further captivate the minds of his unsuspecting audiences, Missler will even expound upon wild kabbalistic "scientific" theories, like strings and the holographic universe (Missler's arcane doctrine of macrocosm/microcosm). This is all a ruse to take the attention away from his unBiblical teachings and leave his audience overwhelmed yet highly impressed.The 1996 Wordsworth Dictionary of the Occult describes the importance of a holographic universe to the occultist as follows:
…for the occultist, the universe is like a hologram: a photograph produced by a laser beam, which appears to be a meaningless pattern until it is suitably illuminated, and is seen to be a three-dimensional image. Furthermore, if a hologram is produced, then torn into tiny pieces, each of these pieces will still provide an image of the whole hologram. The correspondences between the hermetic axiom—the analogy between microcosm (man) and macrocosm (universe)—and the hologram are quite evident…This idea occurs in occultism, perfected: matter and spirit are two sides of the same coin, but we are unaware of this as long as the bad dream (Jung's synchronism). Initiation on the one hand, or divination on the other, enable us to recover this lost unity. Matter is, in effect, the universe seen in terms of a hologram; any support can be a substitute for mythology; success in divination comes from the activation of an "archaic residue" in the psyche. (p. 230)
Yet, how many of Missler's followers know the occult roots of his pseudo-scientific teachings?
Missler's corporate profile
Missler has served in various high-profile positions in Christian academia and in the corporate world, mainly in technology, through companies like Phoenix Group International (Illuminati name), Rockwell International, SWANSAT, and the Western Digital Corp. SWANSAT, which is tied to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, appears to be part of the Illuminati's technocracy wing, which is currently in high gear. SWANSAT is headed by Zionist William Welty, who is apparently using SWANSAT, among other things, in the Middle East to help rebuild the Jewish Solomonic Temple and to hasten the Christian Zionist version of Armageddon. (Welty has also worked for the United Nations' Global Alliance for ICT Policy and Development.)
"Recruited by the Ford Motor Company into a Senior Management position, Chuck established the first international industrial computer network in 1966. Leaving Ford to start his own company, he founded a computer networking organization later acquired by Automatic Data Processing (NYSE) to become its Network Services Division. He subsequently served as a consultant to the Board of Directors of Rockwell International for corporate acquisitions (which included Collins Radio, American Data Systems, and others); and has also participated in over 100 business ventures as a principal, strategic advisor, or turnaround specialist," SWANSAT describes Missler.[ii]
Missler and Welty may also be using profits from the sale of their new Zionist Bible version, the International Standard Version, to fund SWANSAT. Are Missler's book and video sales also funding his military and intelligence endeavours? If this is the case than not only is the Illuminati funding Missler, but Missler is funding the Illuminati!
SWANSAT, which is bringing Big Brother technology (telecommunications, spying, and biometrics) to the Middle East and the rest of the world, is also pushing for a gold-backed currency, the African Union Auric™ Currency through the Global Settlement Foundation. So, not only is Missler's Zionism hastening their concept of Armegeddon, Missler and his cohorts are laying the foundation for the Mark of the Beast system.
The Phoenix Group International/Netcom
Through the Phoenix Group, Missler failed to send millions of computers to Soviet schools and businesses in the 1980s through an informal contract.
Missler explains his failed Phoenix Group—obviously named after the New Age Phoenix, which rises from the ashes—as follows.
"Our venture development firm, The Phoenix Group International, specializing in acquiring and repairing troubled technology assets, was named after the bird of the fable which rose from its ashes. (We should have done more homework: the Phoenix legend is about a mythical bird that burned every 500 years.)"
We know that the Illuminati make or break companies, even breaking their own if necessary. And it's common for Illuminati assets, like Chuck Missler appears to be, to have a list of failed ventures under their name. Saudi arms dealer and Mossad asset Adnan Khashoggi is one example. The Phoenix Group ordeal eventually led to Missler declaring personal bankruptcy.
In addition to Missler's advocacy of the Illuminati-created premillennial dispensational doctrine (from Illuminist Cyrus I. Scofield), Missler also has various troubling associations that line up with what Todd says about Illuminati-funded evangelicals like Smith.
The Council For National Policy
Founded in 1981 by suspected Mason and Christian Zionist Tim Layhae[iii], The Council For National Policy is a neocon version of the Illuminist Council on Foreign Relations. And like the CFR, the CNP is packed with Freemasons and Zionists and meets secretly to discuss and set policy. Other prominent Christian Zionists on the council include: Stanley Monteith, Chuck Missler, Joseph Farah (WorldNetDaily.com) James Dobson (Focus on the Family), the late Jerry Falwell, John Ankerberg, and Pat Robertson.
What's interesting about Missler and his partners in treachery are that almost all of them pretend to oppose the New World Order. Take for example, Monteith's book Brotherhood of Darkness, Missler's writings on the NWO and the Kabbalah (very tame exposes) or Pat Robertson's The New World Order. The few times these guys pretend to expose the New World Order, it's merely to provide an alibi. To strengthen this alibi, Missler accuses his detractors of being "New World Order conspirators."[iv]
Intelligence – Mossad/CIA
Missler's curriculum vitae at SWANSAT reads:
"His civilian career began as a systems engineer at TRW, followed by a Senior Analyst position in a "think tank" serving both the intelligence community and the Department of Defense."
With Chuck's multiple membership in organizations tied with intelligence and the military industrial complex, it is not a far reach to suspect that Missler might be tied to the Israeli terrorist organization Mossad. With his overt allegiance to Zionism, his trips to Israel every year, and his involvement with SWANSAT and other shady groups, he is wide open to either blackmail or recruitment into Mossad as some kind of an asset.
"Previous tours included briefings and Q & A with members of the IDF, Mossad, and/or Shin Bet, the Palestinian Authority Watch, as well as members of the Knesset," reads Missler's website about Koinonia's Israel Tours, where Chuck and his team brainwash participants with the Illuminati's Zionist doctrines.[v]
Then there is Missler's friend Dennis Avi Lipkin (aka Victor Mordechai), a former Israeli Defence Force soldier and employee for Israel's Likud party, whom Missler uses to instill fear and hatred of Islam through his audio and video lectures.[vi] Missler and Lipkin joke that even if Lipkin were a Mossad agent, he would never be allowed to admit it. However, Lipkin does admit to delivering a speech at the Illuminati's Council on Foreign Relations. On top of all that, Lipkin had prior knowledge of the 9/11 "terrorist" attacks, even naming Bin Laden and Hussein.
Perhaps Lipkin is Missler's handler. According to Lipkin, Missler has the "kosher seal of approval."
Lipkin is not a Christian but pretends to be one. But like all Christian Zionists, it doesn't matter to Missler. He peddles Lipkin as a brother in Christ and even prays "with" Lipkin.
In the following video clip, Missler talks about being briefed by the CIA and other groups:
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Missler's Zionism
Zionism is a major hallmark of an Illuminati agent, but Missler makes not attempts to hide his. He is a premillennial dispensationalist who believes that Jews are God's chosen people. It is not clear whether Missler is also a dual-covenant heretic like John Hagee, but it wouldn't be surprising to see Missler advocating a separate form of salvation for the Jewish people. Missler's Bible lectures are bastardized with Messianic Jewish terminology and concepts (Hebrew Roots movement) as well as the Illuminati's dispensational doctrine, brought into the church through the Freemason Cyrus Ingerson Scofield—a convicted criminal and academic fraud.[vii] Without the Scofield Reference Bible—a creation by the Illuminati to align the Church with their plans for propping up the state of Israel and the Jewish people for a massive "end times" deception—Christian Zionism would likely not exist today, at least not in North America. American evangelicals don't realize that Chuck Missler gets his prophetic doctrines from man-made footnotes and not the Bible itself? (For more on the Zionist/Kabbalist subversion of the evangelical movement, see here.)
"The influence of The Scofield Reference Bible resulted from the spread of a revised edition, which Scofield made in 1917," writes Joseph M. Canfield in The Incredible Scofield and His Book (pg. 217).
And how did the revised edition become so widespread? Through the Illuminati's Jewish controlled press and publishing houses, even the theological publishing houses. Then American Jewish Committee chairman Samuel Untermeyer took Scofield under his wing and made sure he was successful.
"Inadequate or no, Scofield's work received highest praise from those who held to its system. And that praise meant that many in the pew failed to distinguish between the words of Scofield and those of the Holy Spirit."
Y2K, Bible codes, and plagiarism
Whether it's predicting catastrophe on Y2K (fearmongering commonly used by Illuminati shills) or advocating and promoting the Kabbalistic Bible codes (Illuminati numerology), Missler has done it all as an Illuminati agent. But it doesn't end there. Missler also admitted to plagiarism in the book The Magog Factor, which he and Christian Zionist fanatic Hal Lindsey supposedly authored. In this book, Missler apparently plagiarized 70 per cent of the material from Edwin Yamauchi's 1982 book Foes from the Northern Frontier: Invading Hordes from the Russian Steppes.[viii]
Back to John Todd
"The purpose of it (Illuminati funding Christian organizations like Calvary Chapel) was to build Maranatha Industries and Productions, which started Jesus rock back when the Christian church was preaching against rock music, not knowing why, but preaching against it just the same and throwing it out of the churches. That scared the Illuminati and the occult world to death. At that time, we almost thought that their end had come because if that really happened within the Christian church, the Christian church would have the biggest mass revival of souls in the United States that this world has ever seen. That's the purpose of rock music, to make sure that that never takes place."
Is John Todd a reliable source?
According to Illuminati expert Fritz Springmeier, yes!
'There are friends of mine who feel very convinced this ex-Illuminatus is the real thing, and that he was really part of the Illuminati. Then, there are some who feel he is not for real. There has been an intense program of discrediting this man which was orchestrated by the Illuminati and their plans within the Christian community. I have listened to both sides of the issue, and then listened to the man himself, and I am convinced he is for real. I believe he really was part of the Illuminati.
I have listened to ours of accusations that were leveled against this ex-Illuminatus even before he was framed, and most if not all amount to nothing. When I have asked people what their objections were to this man, they have said they are convinced he was a Satanist, but that they doubt his Illuminati credentials. But the man is part of one of the most powerful bloodlines in the world, the Collins family. Whether he got high in the Illuminati can be debated, but if he were in Satanism, which many acknowledge, he would have—almost certainly—been taken into an Illuminati coven."[ix]
Springmeier explains why some sincere people doubt the veracity of Todd's claims.
"In the 1978-79 time period, a 30-year-old man, John Wayne Todd, claiming to be an ex-Illuminati hierarchy member, was speaking in Baptist and Pentecostal churches all across the United States. He became somewhat of a minor celebrity among people who have wanted to learn about the Illuminati. Unfortunately, at that point in time, absolutely no one understood the Illuminati and their mind-control. No one was able to understand what John Todd was all about. No one had exposed the modern Illuminati until this author came out with (to date) six books on the Illuminati. This book on the bloodlines, has three sequel books on the Illuminati's mind control. It is imperative that people understand the nature of this total mind-control and multiple personalities.
This author has spoken with John Todd on a number of occasions, and he was without doubt a multiple personality that was programmed by the Illuminati. When he went out on speaking engagements, his talks were full of numerous contradictory statements. That is the nature of a multiple personality.
This author was never in the Illuminati, but as an outsider, I have studied the Illuminati for years, and I know how hard it was to research them. When I have listened to Johnnie Todd's tapes of his speeches, he says too many things that hit the mark that he couldn't have learned if he did not have some acquaintance with the subject. It is clear to me that he didn't gain his knowledge of the Illuminati by reading a few book, which his detractors accuse him of doing.
John Todd should have been given therapy for his MPD and mind control; unfortunately, the Christian churches put him out on speaking circuits for several years. Todd was totally unreliable, and very contradictory in what he said and did. His multiple personality disorder clearly showed itself, as one hour, he'd have a charming personality holding his body, and the next hour he'd have a totally obnoxious personality holding his body. Because no one understood Illuminati mind control, which is done to essentially all their members, the Christian audiences and ministers who supported Todd eventually turned against him. John Todd himself did not understand the mind control he was under, nor did he ever do any therapy work with his Multiple Personality Disorder…."[x]
Jack Chick of Chick Publications, was one of a few prominent Christian leaders to stand by Todd's testimony.
"I back John up 100% with all his faults. I know this brother is doing his best to advance the kingdom of God. We must keep one fact in mind. John is not a minister, but a Christian layman sharing what he knows about a very explosive subject. We should be eager to know about what is going on in the enemy's camp, and to my knowledge, John Todd is the only one qualified to give us that information. I encourage you to stand with him in the face of this onslaught."[xi]


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Over the years, I've seen a number of entrepreneurs try to adapt a B2B contract template to use in their B2C business.* This is like using a hammer to tune a piano – they're using the wrong tool for the job. I just doesn't work. Entrepreneurs who have B2B clients or B2C clients have similar needs when it comes to their service contracts, but the nature of the relationships are drastically different. (The reverse is also true – don't try to adapt a B2C contract for use with B2B clients.) There are several reasons to not use a B2B contract with B2C clients:
You're Going to Scare Your Clients
If your clients are Joe Average people, not entrepreneurs, a heavy-duty business contract is going to scare the bejezus out of them. I would be worried that they will be intimidated or confused by the verbiage.
A contract is a relationship management document. The purpose is to put everyone involved on the same page. Ideally, your contract will have all terms outlined in a single document so that either side can refer to it when they have a question. And contracts don't have to be in legalese to be effective; I recommend using plain English and keeping the terms short and simple whenever possible. The goal is to prevent confusion, not create it.
A well-written contract can build rapport with your client. An effective contract will lay out the value you're giving them and provide security in regards to how you perform the scope of work. A poorly-written or confusing contract may make a client apprehensive about hiring you.
Unnecessary Provisions
There are provisions that may be essential in a B2B contract that would be absurd to include in a B2C contract template, such as an independent contractor provision. I'm pretty sure the Smith family knows when they hired you to take their portrait, that they knew they weren't hiring you as an employee. Likewise, non-solicitation and non-compete agreement would be bizarre in a contract for consumers. The nature of the relationship often doesn't warrant provisions like this.
When I write a contract template (B2B or B2C), I start by trying to envision the full relationship between the parties, how they're going to interact, what each side is giving and receiving from the relationship, and what my client's pain points and concerns are. That gives me a starting point for writing an effective contract that fits their needs and addresses common problems in advance.
The Value of B2B Contracts for B2C Companies
There's nothing wrong with an entrepreneur using a B2B contract as part of their research for what they might need for their business. It can provide ideas for what terms or phrasing they may want to use. Additionally, there are some terms that are frequently found in B2B and B2C contracts, such as scope of work, payment, intellectual property, and dispute resolution. Note: even when the headings in the contracts are similar, how the provisions are written may vary vastly based on the needs of the situation where they are used.
If you need a contract for your business, don't just use a contract from a fellow entrepreneur. Instead, if you get a template, have a lawyer review it to make sure its suitable for your needs. They can also fill in gaps in your provisions and ask questions you didn't think to consider. And if you have business that does B2B and B2C work, consider using different contract templates to suit the needs of your clients.
A contract template is an investment in your business. If you sign a contract and later regret it, you may be stuck in that situation. If you have questions about your contract needs, you can contact me directly or connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or LinkedIn. You can also get access to more exclusive content that is available only to people on my mailing list, by subscribing here.
*B2B = Business to Business
B2C = Business to Consumer

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Miranda Lambert to Lead Another Mutt March at CMA Fest, Benefiting Rescue Dogs
Calling all dog lovers! Miranda Lambert's MuttNation Foundation will put paws on the pavement at 2019 CMA Fest, with the country superstar leading an official "Mutt March" on June 6.
The event is in celebration of MuttNation's 10th anniversary and will kick off CMA Fest that Thursday, with the walk beginning at 8:30AM from Nissan Stadium.
Jimmie Allen's "Make Me Want To" Live Version Is Addicting
The parade of pups and humans will find their way across the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge and into Music City's Walk of Fame Park, where Storme Warren will interview Lambert for a live broadcast on Sirius XM's the Highway. After the pup walk, there will be activities and refreshments available for both dogs and their owners.
"We're hoping that 1,000 or more people, some with their furry friends, will join us walking in support of shelter pet adoption," Lambert — the proud owner of eight rescues herself — says. Fans can register to take part in the MuttMarch now.
This will mark the third year that MuttNation will have adoptable dogs from the Nashville Humane Society available inside Xfinity Fan Fair X at Music City Center during the festival.
"Country music lovers and dog lovers, they go hand-in-hand," says Lambert, "and CMA Fest provides the perfect setting to make that special connection."
The dogs will be on site from Thursday through Sunday, 12-3 PM. Bev Lambert, Miranda's mom and co-founder of MuttNation Foundation, will be there, too, to help take photos of the animals and their new forever families. At 2018's event, 55 dogs were adopted.
MuttNation was founded by Bev and Miranda Lambert in 2009. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to "promote the adoption of shelter pets, advance spay and neuter and educate the public about the benefits of these actions." MuttNation also works with transport partners to relocate animals under threat of euthanasia and during natural disasters.
These Country Singers Sure Love Their Dogs


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The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) works on the basis of consensus. Overall responsibility for activities lies within NSG Plenary meetings that are held once a year. A rotating Chair has the overall responsibility for coordination of work and outreach activities.
NSG Plenary
The NSG Plenary can decide to set up technical working groups on matters such as the review of the NSG Guidelines, the Annexes, the NSG Procedural Arrangement, information sharing and transparency activities. The NSG Plenary can also mandate the Chair to conduct outreach activities with interested countries. The aim of the outreach activities is to promote adherence to the NSG Guidelines. In addition to the Plenary meeting, the NSG has two other standing bodies that report to the Plenary. These are the Consultative Group (CG) and the Information Exchange Meeting (IEM) with Chairs that also rotate annually.
NSG Troika
The current NSG Chair, together with the previous and the future Chair, form the NSG Troika.
NSG Consultative Group (CG)
The CG meets at least twice a year and is tasked to hold consultations on issues associated with the Guidelines on nuclear supply and its technical annexes.
NSG Information Exchange Meeting (IEM)
The IEM precedes the NSG Plenary during the Plenary week and provides another opportunity for NSG Participating Governments to share information and developments of relevance to the objectives and content of the NSG Guidelines.
NSG Licensing and Enforcement Experts Meeting (LEEM)
Under the IEM, the Licensing and Enforcement Experts Meeting, or LEEM, discusses issues relating to effective licensing and enforcement practices.
NSG Technical Experts Group (TEG)
The 2013 NSG Plenary in Prague, Czech Republic, agreed to establish a Technical Experts Group (TEG), which will, at the request of the CG, be tasked with ensuring that the NSG control lists are complete and up-to-date with technical advancements. The TEG will meet to discuss and make recommendations to the CG on all technical questions referred to it by the CG, on an as needed basis by the CG.
NSG Point of Contact
The Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organisations in Vienna, acting as a Point of Contact, carries out a practical support function. It receives and distributes NSG documents, notifies meeting schedules and provides practical assistance to the NSG Plenary, the CG and IEM Chairs and Chairs of the various working groups established by the Plenary.


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I didn't expect my job search process to take so long. I didn't even expect myself to go through this process because I thought I would go straight into full time Real Estate salesperson work since I got my license last July. Nonetheless, I began this journey, and am now still deciding if I want to enter the Fashion related industry or go back to Real Estate… It will more or less depend on what the results of my last interview is, in two weeks times. I still continue to trust in God to provide the best way and career for me. 🙂
I have been home most of the time during this holiday, if I am not out meeting my friends for lunch, coffee and movie or church related activities.
Recently I began to watch documentaries on Youtube channel "My Shocking Story" and have been so inspired by the families and individuals who didn't let their handicap or disabilities let them down! I am so inspired to want to live my life to the fullest as well.
I have also been doing a fair bit of reading. I've finished reading and or gleaming through a handful of books on Emotionally Intelligence. Did you know that we first FEEL in our brains before we THINK and rationalize? That's why every decision we've ever made was first based emotionally before rationally. And therefore it is important to let ourselves cool down and take time to think through before we make big decisions in life. Also, when we are in conflicts, to breath deeply to allow our rational mind to think clearly before we act or react based on our emotions which often can be reckless.
Recently finished reading this handy book based on the life of young Thai businessman who is the founder of Tao Kae Noi, a famous fried seaweed brand. The book and his life is inspiring because he is innovative, saw every problem as an opportunity to overcome and develop his business to become bigger.
It is stories like his that inspires me.
I want to become someone like Tao Kae Noi founder, but there are also many things holding me back, fear of failure, lack of resources, fear of lack of discipline, consistency and perseverance. That is why I want to first overcome all these fears with work experiences and gain the network and experiences and successes before I will embark on my own business and projects with hopefully the right partners that God will send.
That is all for now!
Be Beautiful, Inside & Out. 🙂
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- The Billionaire (thesubtlelessons.wordpress.com)


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This week marked the relaunch of a Baltimore institution: the Ed Schrader Show! Long before Ed helmed Ed Schrader's Music Beat, he was known for hosting the always-unpredictable Ed Schrader Show, a live talk show held at various spots around Baltimore. The show would present various notable (and often unsung) people of Baltimore and sitting them down for a chat with Ed in his unique interview style.
After taking some time to focus on music pursuits, this week Ed brought the show back to Metro Gallery and interviewed artist Dina Kelberman (check out her project I'm Google) and rapper DDM (who is also in the stellar group Bond Street District), both long-time members of the creative scene here in Baltimore.
It was a great show, full of funny moments as well as heartfelt, insightful ones. I'll add a podcast link here when it goes up- this is just the first in a monthly series of new shows, so you can come to Metro Gallery in march for next month's taping.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The next generation of local musicians are hard at work and preparing for their next rock show.
It's all happening at the School of Rock in Colorado Springs, which had its grand opening in late April.
The School of Rock is one of the newest schools to open in the area, and it works very similar to the popular movie "School of Rock," which starred Jack Black.
Aspiring musicians, ages four and up, attend weekly lessons to fine-tune their skills, so they can get ready for a live audience at a local venue.
"When people come here, and they say 'hey, is this like the movie?' and I say it absolutely is,' said Baylee Parks, studio coordinator and instructor for the school. "We have kids come in, they get to learn rock instruments, and they go out, and they put on a show. One of my favorite parts about being an instructor is working with children and seeing their growth and excitement about music."
At the performance-based school, instructors teach iconic rock songs to aspire musicians.
First are the one-on-one classes, then come the band rehearsals. Students can learn to play instruments like guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, drums, or vocals.
"I think it's really fun because you get to know people and you get to make friends," said Sophia Montero, a vocalist who's 9. "Being a vocalist is also fun because you get to be in front of the stage and say 'hi' to the audience."
"To be able to do something that I'm passionate about, with a group of people that are genuinely the nicest people on this planet, is an amazing opportunity," said Abigail Marsh, a vocalist, and guitarist who's 16 years old. "Honestly, for my first performance here at School of Rock, I was really nervous at first, but the moment that I got on stage, it was an amazing experience, and I was really comfortable."
Students also learn how to perform in front of large crowds at local venues and interact with the crowds.
Eventually, they would like to have musicians play at Red Rocks Amphitheater.
"We hope School of Rock becomes a household name in Colorado Springs, because we want to be playing at every venue, at every event at every festival," said Parks. "We'd like for you to eventually always count on seeing School of Rock when you go to an event with your family in Colorado Springs.
The school is open all year-round school.
During the summer, there are still opportunities to practice during the summer season, with a show booked in the fall. There are also some week-long summer camps students can attend.
For more information about the School of Rock, click here or call 719-888-7625.


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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008The Honeynet Project were asked to present at the 20th FIRST conference in Vancouver last week, as part of their Network Monitoring Special Interest Group on Fast Flux Service Networks. We set up a two hour session broken down into three equal sections:
- An introduction to the basic mechanics of fast flux (David Watson, UKHP)
- Current ATLAS fast flux statistics (Jose Nazario, Arbor)
- Detection and mitigation (Christian Gorecki, University of Mannheim)
The NM-SG session was open to FIRST members only, so the slides are not publicly available, but we hope to have a public release of similar material shortly. We had a number of questions, and feedback from the attendees seems to have been positive.
There were three additional short demos:
- Florian Weimer of RUS-CERT showed some new passive DNS tracking information
- Tillmann Werner from the German Giraffe Honeynet Project Chapter demonstrated how Honeytrap, LibEmu and Nebula can be used to analyze unknown attacks, which is looking very promising as a long term replacement for Nepenthes
- Piotr Kijewski of the Polish CERT/NASK gave a brief demonstration of their still under development HoneySpider web interface, which shares many of the features of client honeypot systems that we are currently working on but instead uses Java and Rhino instead of Python and SpiderMonkey
Overall it was an interesting event, with some good talks and lot of opportunities to meet up with a different group of people very active in the security operations and incident response fields. Quiet a few Honeynet Project members were also present, which always encourages a little extra R&D discussion. Hopefully we'll see some spin off activity in the coming weeks.
Many thanks to Carol Overes from GovCERT in Holland for the invite.


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The Twitter showdown between Elon Musk and the head of the World Food Programme has made headlines around the world.
In October, David Beasley, head of the U.N. food agency, tweeted a cheeky congratulations to Musk for reportedly earning $36 billion in a single day. "1/6 of your one-day increase would save 42 million lives that are knocking on famine's door," he wrote.
A few days later, Musk tweeted: "If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it."
While Beasley quickly clarified that his earlier tweet referred to feeding "people on the brink of starvation" and not solving world hunger, he invited Musk to meet "anywhere—Earth or space" to discuss the potential donation.
So far, Musk has made no commitments to the agency. Still, the conversation prompts the question: How much of a dent would $6 billion make when it comes to feeding millions? After all, WFP raised $8.4 billion last year, yet the global food crisis has only worsened.
In fact, since Musk and Beasley first started their Twitter conversation, the total number of people at risk of famine has risen to 45 million, along with the cost to help them, which now stands at $7 billion, according to WFP.
"Tens of millions of people are staring into an abyss. We've got conflict, climate change and COVID-19 driving up the numbers of the acutely hungry," said Beasley in a statement this week.
We asked experts in humanitarian aid and global hunger to give their perspective on the $6 billion debate.
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Was it fair for Musk to ask WFP to explain how it planned to spend the $6 billion?
Yes, say the specialists we spoke to. "Although some may see the exchange as frivolous, Musk is right to expect WFP to have a plan for putting the money to good use," says Ian Mitchell, a senior fellow at the think tank Center for Global Development. "International organizations should have specific plans that are clear about the outcomes they will achieve."
WFP has compelling details to share about its track record
Researchers are confident that WFP, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 for its work, can offer a thorough answer to Musk's query.
"What WFP does, and is good at, is dealing with food crises, emergencies and, if it ever gets that bad, famines," says Steve Wiggins, a research fellow who focuses on humanitarian policy at the London-based Overseas Development Institute.
Last year, WFP said it helped provide emergency relief to 115.5 million people in 84 countries. It did so with a massive delivery fleet of 5,600 trucks, 30 ships and 100 planes owned and operated by WFP, which transports food, workers, storage supplies and other supplies needed to coordinate and execute the operation.
Its 60-year experience in delivering aid helps the agency reach some of the world's hardest-to-reach places. In a May study, Wiggins and Simon Levine, also of the Overseas Development Institute, looked at what was done to help people in the biggest, most-drawn-out conflicts over the last three decades — from the conflict in northern Uganda, which ended in 2006, to the current conflict in Afghanistan.
They concluded that WFP made a difference in these situations – but only up to a point. "The scary thing is that so little was done," says Levine — but when there was emergency relief, it came in the form of food aid, mostly from WFP.
This assistance, wrote the authors in the paper, "probably protected recipients from unacceptable hardship."
And what would $6 billion buy?
In response to Musk's request for details, Beasley tweeted him the math: "$.43 x 42,000,000 x 365 days = $6.6 billion."
That's how much it would cost to provide one meal a day for one year to this population in need, says WFP. The agency would deliver this "meal" in the form of food aid, cash or vouchers.
The food aid, says WFP, consists of commodities such as rice, maize and high-energy biscuits.
But there's more to food aid than a plate of food.
Keep in mind, says Levine, it's not entirely accurate to think of 43 cents as just the price of one meal per day per person for a year.
It's the per capita calculation that WFP has made of what it needs to pull off this operation, he adds. So in addition to the actual food, cash or vouchers, it would likely cover the cost of what it takes to make sure the aid is going to the communities that need it the most and monitoring to make sure the money is well spent.
When you look at the figures this way, says Mitchell, it makes you realize "just how little income the world's poorest have. Half a dollar per person per day can make the difference between life and death."
But there's another way to spend the hypothetical $6 billion
Some experts want to move away from delivering short-term emergency relief altogether. "WFP says they want to feed 42 million with a meal a day for 365 days," says Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, a professor, director and chair at the African Research Universities Alliance's Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. "What about on Day 367?"
Sibanda argues handouts can make countries overly dependent on aid. Instead, she says, large donations should go toward long-term solutions that address the root causes of famine and hunger — for example, teaching farmers better techniques, encouraging average folks to grow nutrient-dense crops for themselves and to sell as well, and making sure countries have a stronger social safety net to meet food needs in times of crisis.
Such systemic changes will cost much more than $6 billion, or even the $8.4 billion WFP raised last year. "We've had governments [together] spending upward of $100 billion a year on extreme poverty and hunger, with everyone agreeing it's nowhere near what we need to tackle this problem," says Mitchell.
Nonetheless, $6 billion would be very, very helpful
Despite the debates over the best way to help people on the brink of famine, our sources all agree that $6 billion from Musk could do a lot of good.
For one, it's a pretty impressive amount. "$6 billion would be a very significant single-year charitable contribution for an individual, certainly one of the largest ever," says Mitchell — and targeting that sum to assist the world's poorest and hungriest "would likely make the biggest difference to human welfare."
Now, if other billionaires could get on the bandwagon, that would be great, says Levine. "If Jeff Bezos stumped up another $6 billion, that'd be $12 billion, and we could do twice as much."
Joanne Lu is a freelance journalist who covers global poverty and inequity. Her work has appeared in Humanosphere, The Guardian, Global Washington and War Is Boring. Follow her on Twitter: @joannelu.
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Keith Urban headlined as entertainment for the 2019 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series outdoor game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday (Feb. 23), and he was on fire...literally!
Urban performed during the intermission of the first and second periods with pyro blazing behind his set; a striking look for a show celebrating a sport played on ice.
"It's crazy! We went out there this afternoon to soundcheck and it's just so surreal seeing that rink in the middle of this massive stadium," Urban tells NHL Network.
Urban is an avid hockey fan, regularly showing up to Nashville Predators games, but admits it's taken time to figure out the best way to observe the action. "It's so fast—that's one thing I think you don't really get until you come and see a game, right there with the ice in front of you. Someone said to me one time, 'If you really want to watch the game just pick a player and watch him for an entire period. I've done that many times and it changes the whole perception."
When asked what he feels after a performance compared to an athlete that's spent from a game, Urban joked, "I have all of my teeth, so that's good."
He did admit that he still gets butterflies before big performances, "Anxious definitely, that's why I hate this sitting around and waiting. I just want to play, I want to get out there and get going."
Next for Urban is traveling across the globe for more shows. For the first time in nearly a decade, Urban will be touring through Europe this March. The Graffiti U World Tour will be hitting up Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Glasgow and Dublin.


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Nine Practices to Help You Say No
by Peter Bregman
Irene* is a great colleague. A senior manager in a large consulting firm, she pitches in when the workload gets heavy, covers for people when they're sick, and stays late when needed, which is often.
She's also a leader, serving on boards and raising money at charity auctions. She tries to be home for her kids at dinner time, but often works into the night after they've gone to sleep. That is, on nights when she's not at a business dinner.
But if you catch her in a moment of honesty, you'll find out that she doesn't feel so great. In fact, she's exhausted.
Irene can't say no. And because she can't say no, she's spending her very limited time and already taxed energy on other people's priorities, while her own priorities fall to the wayside. I have experienced the same thing myself. So, over time, I experimented with a number of ways to strengthen my no.
Here are the nine practices I shared with Irene to help her say a strategic no in order to create space in her life for a more intentional yes.
Know your no. Identify what's important to you and acknowledge what's not. If you don't know where you want to spend your time, you won't know where you don't want to spend your time. Before you can say no with confidence, you have to be clear that you want to say no. All the other steps follow this one.
Be appreciative. It's almost never an insult when people make requests of you. They're asking for your help because they trust you and they believe in your capabilities to help. So thank them for thinking of you or making the request/invitation. Don't worry; this doesn't need to lead to a yes.
Say no to the request, not the person. You're not rejecting the person, just declining his invitation. So make that clear. Let him know what you respect about him — maybe you admire the work he's doing, or recognize his passion or generosity. Maybe you would love to meet for lunch. Don't fake this — even if you don't like the person making the request, simply being polite and kind will communicate that you aren't rejecting him.
Explain why. The particulars of your reason for saying no make very little difference. But having a reason does. Maybe you're too busy. Maybe you don't feel like what they're asking you to do plays to your strengths. Be honest about why you're saying no.
Be as resolute as they are pushy. Some people don't give up easily. That's their prerogative. But without violating any of the rules above, give yourself permission to be just as pushy as they are. They'll respect you for it. You can make light of it if you want ("I know you don't give up easily — but neither do I. I'm getting better at saying no.")
Practice. Choose some easy, low-risk situations in which to practice saying no. Say no when a waiter offers you dessert. Say no when someone tries to sell you something on the street. Go into a room by yourself, shut the door, and say no out loud ten times. It sounds crazy, but building your no muscle helps.
Establish a pre-emptive no. We all have certain people in our lives who tend to make repeated, sometimes burdensome requests of us. In those cases, it's better to say no before the request even comes in. Let that person know that you're hyper-focused on a couple of things in your life and trying to reduce your obligations in all other areas. If it's your boss who tends to make the requests, agree upfront with her about where you should be spending your time. Then, when the requests come in, you can refer to your earlier conversation.
Be prepared to miss out. Some of us have a hard time saying no because we hate to miss an opportunity. And saying no always leads to a missed opportunity. But it's not just a missed opportunity; it's a tradeoff. Remind yourself that when you're saying no to the request, you are simultaneously saying yes to something you value more than the request. Both are opportunities. You're just choosing one over the other.
Gather your courage. If you're someone who is used to saying yes, it will take courage to say no, especially if the person asking doesn't give up easily. You may feel like a bad friend. You might feel like you're letting someone down or not living up to expectations. Maybe you'll imagine that you'll be seen or talked about in a negative light. Those things might be the cost of reclaiming your life. You'll need courage to put up with them.
After Irene tried these practices she started working less and spending more time with her kids. She's still doing great work and she's still valued by her boss and co-workers, but they've noticed the difference too, she told me. And not all of it is positive.
They're respecting her boundaries — they don't even seem to resent her for them — but she's had to give up something she never knew was important to her: her sense of herself as someone who could do it all. It's been hard for her to feel as valued and necessary as she did when she always said yes.
"Would you rather go back to saying yes all the time?" I asked her.
She answered me with a very well-practiced "No."
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Jason Bourne Is Getting a TV Spinoff Series, 'Treadstone'
It's one of Robert Ludlum's lesser known spy novels: The Bourne Spinoff.
Okay, that's not a real thing. But a Jason Bourne spinoff is coming to television soon. Variety reports that USA Network has greenlit a Treadstone series, based on the clandestine spy group featured in the Ludlum novels and films
The series, which was originally ordered to pilot back in April, centers on the fictional CIA black ops program Operation Treadstone, which was the program that created superspy Jason Bourne. The covert program uses behavior modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins. The first season follows sleeper agents across the globe as they're mysteriously "awakened" to resume their deadly missions. The series will go into production in 2019.
The Bourne franchise became the signature spy series of the 2000s, thanks to Matt Damon's haunted performance as amnesiac secret agent Jason Bourne, and Paul Greengrass' taut, handheld action scenes. But previous attempts to extend the franchise were less successful. The Bourne Legacy, with Jeremy Renner as a similar Treadstone agent (with a hunger for chems!), was as critical flop and remains the series' lowest-grossing film. After that, Damon and Greengrass were coaxed out of Bourne retirement for Jason Bourne, though that was a bit of a commercial disappointment as well.
Damon and Greengrass aren't involved in the spinoff, which will be produced by Tim Kring and directed (at least for the pilot) by Ramin Bahrani. The Treadstone series goes into production in 2019.
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I've been thinking. We need more recipes thrown onto the blog once in awhile. That stuffed peppers one has been really getting a lot of attention. (I'll have to go back and check -- did Crabby advocate stuffing in some illegal herbage into those peppers or is there some other reason it's so incredibly popular?)
It occurred to me that another post might be welcome if it were centered around recipes for... wait for it...
Anybody who's got a garden and been foolish enough to plant one little wimpy-looking squash plant is now up to their uvula in squash plants. (Oh come now. That's a perfectly decent word. Honest.It's not the poor word's fault that it looks funny.)
Sneak Your Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night was celebrated a couple of weeks ago. (Note: the womanagement at Cranky Fitness wish to stress that they in no way encourage the Zucchini sneaking methods listed at Allrecipes.com -- but only because we don't want anyone to complain about us. They do sound fun.)
If you missed that, you might be in the mood for some ideas. I mean, these guys are healthy, they can be served in a tasty and tasteful manner, but even so... after a few back-to-back meals of these vegetables, you'll come to fully appreciate why they're named Squash.
Coincidentally, peasant women rarely spend large amounts of cash on therapy.
- Cook squash with tomatoes, freeze for later on. Come November, it's dark out and rainy and you forgot to got to the store, serve this with some pasta and you'll feel virtuous.
- Make squash fritters with beer. I read somewhere -- can't remember the cook book -- that you should let the beer stay out until it goes flat for best results. Of course, this presumes you live in a household where you have beer around and more importantly where you can leave a half-empty can of beer out to go stale without someone drinking it or throwing it away (or both, hopefully in that order). There are various recipes out there for this; it makes a tasty treat. Not as healthy as some recipes, but it beats the hell out of deep fried twinkies. Really, doesn't taste bad.
- squash-with-basil soup. Can be served cold, which makes it nice on hot days. We still have a few of those left, don't we?
- squash cake. The nice thing about this type of thing is that you can grate the zucchini, freeze it for a couple months, and then whip up a healthy-but-the-kid's-eat-it-anyway cake. (I always feel more motivated to bake on cold Saturday mornings when the weather is horrible outside. Which it will be in a couple of months, I have a feeling.)
- stuffed zucchinis! Why should peppers have all the fun? Hell, you can scoop out the squashy insides and use the shells for salad bowls or Mai Tai drink holders.
- save them for a month or so and make... Carved Zucchinis!
And the fun doesn't stop there!
Start a new tradition: Hannukah Squash! They make highly original gifts.
Give Aunt Marge a gift she'll talk about for years.
(Incidentally, I do love the word "Hannukah." I swear you can spell it several different ways and they're all correct. The people who thought up "obsolescence" and "chrysanthemum" should take note.)
What do you do with excess vegetables? Got any good squash recipes/gift ideas?


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Where most people saw chaos, Viktor Bout saw opportunity.
Bout, a 55-year-old Russian, was the world's most notorious arms dealer before a U.S. court convicted him in 2011 and sent him to a prison in Illinois. He's now the focus of a potential prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia, which holds two Americans the Biden administration hopes to free.
Bout was in his mid-20s when the Soviet Union fractured in 1991, leaving vast quantities of Soviet military hardware scattered across 15 newly minted countries. Most all of them were ill-equipped to pay their troops or keep track of the weapons they'd just inherited. Almost anything was available for a price.
Trained by the Soviet military as a linguist, Bout began acquiring Soviet military transport planes and loaded them up with weapons. The U.S. says he sold them all over the world. Various reports linked him to wars in Afghanistan, Angola, Congo, Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen and more.
He was entrepreneurial, not ideological, selling to governments that were fighting rebels, and to rebels who were fighting governments. Separating fact from fiction has often been difficult when documenting Bout's work, but many reports said he even sold arms to both sides in the same conflict.
Bout always denied he was selling weapons, claiming he was flying flowers and frozen chickens to some of the world's most violent places.
He was always hard to pin down, but he lived openly in Moscow, traveled widely, occasionally spoke to reporters and seemed to welcome at least some of the attention. He became so notorious that Hollywood made a 2005 movie loosely based on his life, called the Lord of War, starring Nicolas Cage.
Bout was nicknamed "The Merchant of Death," which was also the title of a biography.
Despite facing international sanctions and threats of arrest, Bout managed to stay a step ahead of law enforcement until 2008, when he was captured in a sting operation in Thailand, organized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
The Thais extradited Bout to the U.S. two years later, where he was charged with conspiring to kill Americans. He was convicted in a Manhattan court in 2011, and is a little less than halfway through his 25-year sentence at a prison in Marion, Ill.
The Kremlin's angle
So why would Russian leader Vladimir Putin want to bring Bout back?
After all, he made his money selling weapons that had been intended for use by the Soviet Union's military and successor countries.
When CIA director William Burns was asked this question last week at the Aspen Security Forum, he said succinctly: "That's a good question, because Viktor Bout's a creep."
Dan Hoffman, a former CIA officer who served in Russia, said Putin's motives should be viewed through the lens of his ongoing battle with the U.S.
"Every opportunity he gets, Vladimir Putin wants to show that he can go toe-to-toe with Russia's main enemy," Hoffman said. "It's a real good public relations move for him to show that he's taking care of his own."
The U.S. and Russia have a history of working out deals to gain the return of their own citizens. In April, the U.S. released a Russian pilot convicted or conspiring to bring drugs into the U.S., and Russia freed Trevor Reed, a former Marine who'd been convicted of assaulting a Moscow police officer.
More commonly, the countries kicked out suspected spies in tit-for-tat deals.
But the current negotiations appear uneven in some respects. The U.S. would be freeing a convicted arms smuggler who operated on an international scale for close to two decades.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the two Americans, Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan have been "wrongfully detained and must be allowed to come home."
Griner, 31, is the pro basketball star who has pleaded guilty to having hashish oil in her suitcase at a Moscow airport in February. Whelan, 52, a former Marine who traveled openly to Russia for years, was arrested in 2018 and convicted on espionage charges in a secret trial.
Limited options
Dan Hoffman says he supports the efforts to win the release of the Americans.
"These are dirty deals, but there's two bad options," he said. "One is letting American citizens get sick, and potentially even worse, in jail. And the other one is make essentially a dirty deal. If it's me, I'll get my U.S. citizens out."
Blinken said he's presented a plan to Russia for the return of two Americans, though he did not mention Bout by name. Blinken plans to speak with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, though it's not clear when that might be. The two have not spoken since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
A U.S.-Russian prisoner swap would signal the two countries can still do business on some level despite the terrible state of relations and the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, where the Americans are the leading arms supplier to the Ukrainians.
But analysts say there's no real prospect that the overall atmosphere — which has been going from bad to worse — is likely to improve.
Greg Myre is an NPR national security correspondent. Follow him @gregmyre1.
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St Enodoc Awarded in Golf Digest World's 100 Greatest Courses
Rock, Cornwall, England, July 23, 2022 / TRAVELINDEX / The championship links at St Enodoc Golf Club in north Cornwall, England, has been awarded 82nd position in Golf Digest Magazine's recently-released 'World's 100 Greatest Courses' rankings.
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This is the first time that St Enodoc's Church Course has featured in the influential US golf magazine's rankings since 2014 – the year it was inaugurated – when it was listed at number 99, signifying a noteworthy rise of 17 places in eight years.
The biennial rankings are compiled by 350 panellists who reside not just in the USA but around the world which brings 'a truly international perspective to the list' says Golf Digest.
Courses from 25 different countries made this year's rankings with designs from the UK and Ireland, where golf was born, featuring prominently. Scotland leads the way with 17, followed by 13 from England including St Enodoc.
The Church Course, founded in 1890, is generally regarded as one of England's finest championship links courses.
Designed by the legendary James Braid, this ancient course is famous for its characteristic fairway undulations and firm greens as well as the breathtaking panoramas of the north Atlantic Ocean and the Camel Estuary that can be seen from every hole, giving the course a sense of drama and tranquillity.
The club is also home to the Holywell Course which has established itself as an ideal layout for a more gentle and speedy round of golf. Also boasting a number of Braid holes, the Holywell receives the same attention in terms of maintenance as the championship course and is popular amongst higher handicappers and junior players as well as holiday golfers.
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St Enodoc Golf Club
The Church Course at St Enodoc is highly regarded the world over and regularly features high in golf rankings compiled by the golfing media. Thanks to the temperate micro-climate in north Cornwall, the green keepers at St Enodoc are able to maintain the links in immaculate condition throughout the year and ensure they remain open all year round.
Off the course, visitors to Rock can enjoy the stunning beaches of Polzeath and Daymer Bay and visit the charming fishing village of Port Isaac, now well known through the country as the location for the popular television series Doc Martin. Just across the Camel Estuary from St Enodoc, Padstow is a magnet for those looking for excellent restaurants such as Rick Stein's collection of seafood outlets and independent shops offering local arts and crafts.


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About 10 years before I heard of infant psychiatry, I was a child care provider for infants exposed prenatally to illicit substances. Some of these babies were developing right on track, and made emotional connections, and could be soothed when they were distressed. Other babies were struggling-falling behind developmentally and in terms of their regulatory capacity. I tried to make sense of the difference. They had all experienced more stressful events than any person should in the first year of life. Was it their genes? Their neighborhoods? exposure to violence? It seemed to me that the more resilient children had mothers who were in recovery and who were there for their babies, but all these other factors seemed important too.
10 years later, I learned that there was a specialty of child psychiatry that would allow me to care for young children and continue to explore these questions. Infant and early childhood psychiatry focuses on the promotion of mental health in infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families. Because we meet children so early in life when experiences are beginning and brain architecture is highly malleable, we have a chance to intervene before maladaptive patterns are firmly established and potentially to prevent later problems. Our goal is to enhance the child?s mental health, and to that end, we focus on families and the relationships within the family. The interventions in the field include the full range of biological, psychological, and social factor. Importantly-physicians in this field commonly provide psychotherapy.
Increasing multidisciplinary attention to the importance of early brain development means that child psychiatrists with training to work in this age group have an enormous range of professional opportunities. Many work with high-risk families to attempt to mitigate social and economic risk factors. There are also more and more opportunities to work beyond traditional child psychiatry settings, including child care, community services, and pediatric settings. There are tremendous opportunities for research in this field, and like the clinical areas, research in early childhood mental health builds upon a rich interdisciplinary history.
In short, infant and early childhood psychiatry is an exciting and growing field that offers a broad range of clinical, public health, and research opportunities. Not to mention that our patients are among the cutest around!
Mary Margaret Gleason
My own journey to infant psychiatry was through the intensive care nursery. As an intern in pediatrics, I found the ethical dilemmas of what to do for very sick babies especially wrenching. Too often, it seemed, crucial decisions were being made based on powerful feelings stirred up in attendings, residents, nurses and families. After I became a psychiatry resident (then at another institution), I wanted to return to the ICN to try to make sense of the place and my own reactions to it, as well as to determine what I might have to offer.
In this work, I became especially curious about development: What was the likely future development of these babies? What were the factors that led very sick babies to recover or to remain compromised? What I read surprised me greatly. Setting aside a few extreme conditions like prolonged perinatal hypoxia, the best predictor of outcome for preterm infants was not any characteristic of the baby or even the illness, but rather, the social class of the family. Stunning! Family characteristics were more important than infant or illness characteristics. Now, I was really curious about development.
I still am, nearly 25 years later. And for someone interested in development, there is no period more fascinating than the first few years of life. The miracle of the fertilized egg becoming a human infant in only 9 months is followed by another astonishing miracle. In a mere 36 months, completely dependent human newborns become remarkably complex creatures who understand that they can share thoughts, feelings, and intentions with others, who come and go as they please, who express themselves abstractly using symbols, who empathize with others, and who read and understand subtle social signals from others. Brain development in the early years is so extraordinary that the rapidity and profundity of behavioral development in first 3 years of life is unprecedented in human life cycle.
Increasingly, we have learned how the nature of early experiences during those first few years of life impacts and shapes current and later development. Although development continues throughout the life cycle, and change is always possible, the appeal of trying to make changes early, at a time when the central nervous system is still so enormously plastic, is obvious. That is the business of infant psychiatry.
Although it appears unlikely that the same kinds of neurobiological critical periods will be discovered for social and emotional development that exist for some forms of perceptual development, it is likely that interventions in the early years will have more profound effects on developmental trajectories than interventions at later ages. There is no longer any question that experience sculpts brain development—that is neurochemistry and circuitry--the remaining questions are details of how, under what circumstances, and to what degree. The most exciting developments in psychiatry that I see as I look ahead towards the next 25 years will be in detailing the processes of gene environment interactions. Infant psychiatry stands to gain enormously from our increased understanding of these processes, as they will have enormous implications for the design of more meaningful and more powerful preventive interventions.
Infant mental health, which is actually a more accurate term than infant psychiatry, is the field that has emerged to study and treat young children and their families. The World Association for Infant Mental Health has a multidisciplinary membership on every developed continent, and the Infant Mental Health Journal has been publishing articles for more than 20 years.
A national professional advocacy organization, Zero to Three, has defined infant mental health as the "young child's capacity to experience, regulate, and express emotions, form close and secure relationships, and explore the environment and learn. All of these capacities will be best accomplished within the context of the caregiving environment that includes family, community, and cultural expectations for young children" (Zero to Three, 2002). This means that the field of infant mental health encompasses multidisciplinary approaches to enhancing the social and emotional competence of infants through their biological, relationship, and cultural contexts. Infant-caregiver relationships are the primary focus of assessment and intervention efforts, not only because infants are so dependent upon their caregiving contexts but also because infant competence may vary widely in different relationships. Assessments in infancy always are considered a form of intervention, as they may have important impacts on both infant and family. Moreover, intervention efforts always involve prevention because the young child is constantly developing, and the developmental trajectory must be attended to in addition to the child's here and now adaptation (Zeanah and Zeanah, 2001).
Infant mental health is multidisciplinary because the complex, interrelated nature of human development and its deviations requires expertise and conceptualizations beyond the capabilities of any particular discipline. The complexity of the clinical problems of infants and toddlers invite multidisciplinary collaboration to minimize suffering, and to enhance development and promote competence. For the same reason, it is likely that the field of infant mental health will remain pluralistic, a subspecialty within a number of different disciplines rather than an integrated and distinct discipline itself. Child and adolescent psychiatrists have been vital contributors to this effort from its earliest beginnings, and their role will remain powerful in the future.
How does one become an infant psychiatrist? Infant psychiatrists are child and adolescent psychiatrists who have special interest and expertise in the early years. Many infant psychiatrists have completed postdoctoral fellowships in infant mental health under the mentorship of established investigators and clinicians. There are several established training programs in which these interests can be pursued, and the AACAP Infancy Committee maintains a list of such programs.
What does one do as an infant psychiatrist? First and foremost, one sees an array of troubled young children and families: young children who have been traumatized, infants who are failing to thrive or have other feeding disturbances, toddlers who are overly aggressive or impulsive and self-endangering, maltreated young children and their maltreated parents, infants with sleep disturbances, and many others. At our program, infant psychiatrists provide direct clinical services to young children and families, consult to community and state agencies, consult to juvenile courts, consult to pediatrics, train mental health professionals in a variety of disciplines, conduct research on early experiences and brain and behavioral development, evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of early interventions, and work collaboratively with state government officials on policy initiatives.
Prevention is the great uncharted territory in child psychiatry. If the idea of using relationships to effect powerful changes in the brain that have lasting impacts on children appeals to you, then you should consider infant mental health as an area of focus. I have been privileged to watch it grow from an exciting but obscure area to one that has grabbed the attention of the Surgeon General (1999), the Institute of Medicine (Shonkoff and Phillips, 2001), and the authors of Healthy People 2010 (DHHS, 1997), the nation's blueprint for public health in the first decade of this century. What we need now is to grab the attention of you, the future leaders of child and adolescent psychiatry.
Charles H. Zeanah, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Tulane University Health Sciences Center.
Institute of Medicine (2000). From neurons to neighborhoods: The science of early childhood development. Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, Board of Children, Youth and families, Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development. J. Shonkoff and D. Phillips (Eds.).
Task Force on Infant mental Health (2002). Definition of infant mental health. Zero to Three, Arlington, VA, www.zerotothree.org.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1997). Developing objectives for healthy people 2010. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1999). Mental health: A report of the surgeon general, Rockville, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse, Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health.
Zeanah, C.H. & Zeanah, P.D. (2001). Towards a definition of infant mental health. Zero to Three, 22, 13-20.


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The Film Corner presents the 3rd Annual Top 10 Heroes of Canadian Cinema - 2013 Edition
as selected by Greg Klymkiw - filmmaker, writer and film critic
in alphabetical order by first name or first letter of company name
A tireless supporter and promoter of genre film, his magnificent Toronto After Dark Cinema Film Festival just celebrated its 8th year and over the course of nine days over 10,000 fans filled the seats. Most importantly, Lopez has continued to showcase the work of Canada's best genre filmmakers by screening an insane number of Canadian shorts and features. And guess what, audiences go nuts over them - thanks to Lopez and an amazing team of collaborators. Lopez has, over the years, assembled a crew of brilliant, dedicated genre-freaks and festival professionals and while too numerous to name here, a few who make the whole event such a great one include such inimitable forces as Peter Kuplowsky, Christian Burgess and Stephen Landry. The list goes on, but an organization can only be as great as the captain of its ship and I can think of fewer people as obsessed with providing a classy event as Lopez. Greatness MUST flow from the top on down and that's certainly the case here.ALAN ZWEIG
He made two of the best feature length documentaries of the year - in Canada or anywhere. One took Hot Docs by storm, the other TIFF, where he won the Best Canadian Feature Award as well as being named to TIFF's Canada Top Ten. As a filmmaker, Zweig subverts all expectations and plunges you into the least expected territory in a style uniquely personal and finally very much his own – so much so I predict that we'll eventually see new generations of filmmakers drawing from his approach and using it as a springboard for their own work. This, of course, is what all great art inspires. And Zweig is nothing if not inspirational. He's also a curmudgeon and a comedian. The best curmudgeons, of course, are lovable softies beneath the fleshy layers of malcontent grumbling and the best comedians NEVER try hard to make you laugh - they just DO. And hell, in one year he gave all of us 15 reasons to live and proved that when Jews were funny was that time in everyone's life when family and the cultural hearth that nurtured us is still alive IF we keep it alive and never forget who we are or where we came from. BONNE SMITH
Bonne is a veteran film publicist. I first met her in the 90s via the late, great and inimitable film distributor Jim Murphy where she oversaw the publicity and marketing of several important Canadian films at Malo. Her company StarPR, continues guiding our films and filmmakers into the maw of p.r. and she does so with cheer, aplomb and boundless energy. Recent offerings she's shepherded include Stories We Tell, Empire of Dirt and Ingrid Veninger's The Animal Project. She's a class act. One of only a few I can count in that profession on my two hands.COLIN GEDDES
He is the "Oskar Schindler of Toronto Cinema" - at least according to his pal Matt Brown who coined the phrase to describe Colin's Herculean efforts to save and preserve all manner of film culture in the Centre of Canada's Universe. (I've seen but a fraction of the archives and experienced multiple orgasms over it.) As a programmer with TIFF, he's presented some of the finest Canadian films in his Midnight Madness and Vanguard series and he's now got his hands on The Royal Cinema and it looks like great news for Canadian independent filmmakers. Even more exciting are Colin's efforts as an executive producer - most notably, his incredible job bringing the brilliant Manborg to the world. More, I can assure you, will follow. Of course, there is a cliche that behind every great man is an even greater woman. Here, it is no mere cliche. With Colin, he is in cahoots on most matters professional and artistic with his brilliant wife Katarina Gligorijevic and they're a formidable duo. She has the edge, though. She is, you see, of the Serbian persuasion. (Like my old man once said to me after seeing Underground, "The Serbs are our ["our" = Ukrainians] brothers and sisters in the fight against the oppression of communism." This really has nothing to do with anything, but it sounded good at the time.)GLEN WOOD
Via his production company Viddywell Films, Glen Wood continues to display the sort of vision he's always applied to his trajectory in the Canadian film business (including a visionary stint as Mongrel Media's home entertainment division head honcho). He collaborated with an old partner in cinematic crime, the "I don't take no for an answer (but so politely and gently and with even Karma, if you please)" Jordana Aarons and together they brought "Stage To Screen" to life, a series of cool, short films celebrating the illustrious career and opulent architecture of Toronto's legendary, magical and still majestic Wintergarden Theatre. With a gala premiere, support from BravoFact and other notable cultural institutions, one of the six films, Wakening, from director Danis Goulet and writer Tony Elliot, historically took the honour of being the first Canadian short film to open the Toronto International Film Festival's Opening Night Gala. Glen and Jordana collaborated a few years ago on the TIFF Sprockets award winning Chris Trebilcock short Adam Avenger and while they have their own companies and slates (Aarons' company is Cedar Avenue Productions), one assumes this professional marriage made in Heaven will continue onwards and upwards. JORDANA AARONS
He is a national treasure. He is one of the most important filmmakers Canada has ever unleashed. He is a great teacher and mentor and a fiercely committed human rights activist (as human being and filmmaker). On his way to Gaza with Canadian emergency room doctor Tarek Loubani (to explore the potential of making a new film), he and Loubani witnessed the savage, brutal slayings and assaults upon innocent civilians in the military-controlled dictatorship of Egypt. Loubani sprung into action with medical assistance as Greyson began to shoot the carnage, his camera and unflagging eye capturing the truth of events most mainstream media couldn't begin to imagine doing. He and Loubani were illegally arrested, tortured and incarcerated in a Cairo prison. They never gave up hope and conducted themselves as friends to and advocates of their innocent fellow prisoners. John and Tarek are free now. Loubani continues to offer healing in the emergency room in London, Ontario whilst Greyson, one of the sweetest, most intelligent and committed artists in our country continues to teach and make cinema. Greyson will even be making an appearance at the TIFF Bell Lightbox to discuss activist cinema. Don't miss that, folks. It'll be a rare opportunity to shout: Bravo Maestro!
She's ambitious, talented and the camera loves her. She's the host and engine driver (along with her mother, producer Joanne Uhlmann) of the Smithee TV web series "Katie Chats". I love her style, which is getting slicker with every interview. She genuinely, as the title of her show says, "CHATS". She asks the kind of questions that let film practitioners deal with all aspects of their work - everything from thematic issues to the basic nuts and bolts. She's logged and uploaded over 1200 interviews online and her importance to the Canadian film industry cannot, for even a second, be underestimated. Why? Her goal is to build the largest database of interviews with Canadian filmmakers - ever. And she's well on her way. What's great is that she not only interviews directors, but writers, producers, editors, sound recordists, the list goes on. Her interviews are painting a valuable portrait of Canada's film culture. Oh, she'll interview non-Canadians, too. :-) Jesus. Did I just use a smiley face? Well, that's what she inspires - smiles all round. She's friendly, good-humoured, spirited and genuinely interested in chatting with people about their important work so necessary to building our vibrant cultural heritage.MITCH DAVIS
I met Mitch Davis online in the mid-90s (it was dialup access back then kiddies). Newsgroups were the rage amongst movie geeks and it made sense I'd be trading quips with someone like Mitch on alt.cult-movies. Mitch was in Montreal producing a feature film directed by his best pal and roommate Karim Hussain (one of the best cinematographers out there these days having spectacularly shot Richard Stanley's L'Autre Monde, Jason Eisener's Hobo With a Shotgun and Jovanka Vuckovic's The Captured Bird). The feature took several years to make and was fraught with all manner of difficulties (negative impounded, absconded with and general fucking over due to the film's delectably vile content). I was producing a film around the same time - not necessarily "vile", but extremely controversial - and I started having a whack of trouble getting my footage processed at the National Film Board of Canada lab in Montreal. It turned out the NFB were getting flack for processing footage for Mitch and Karim's film and when I strolled in there with a movie starring Nina Hartley, Annie Sprinkle and Daniel MacIvor (sporting the hugest life-like penile prosthetic known to man), the proverbial merde hit the fan in the dank hallways of NFB, the sounds of outraged bureaus' splattering resonating over the endless drone of flickering fluorescent light. Several email quips followed, along the lines of "Hey Mitch, thanks a fucking lot for getting the bureaucrats' hair standing up on end before I got the pleasure, bud. Thanks a fucking lot" and replies along the lines of, "No problem, anytime." Luckily, I was prepping the film for a screening at the World Film Festival (Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal) and a couple of telephone calls from fest toppers Daniele Cauchard and the formidable Serge Losique kept the bureaus at bay and I got what I needed. My path crossed with Mitch briefly in 1997 when he and Karim became co-directors of the magnificent FantAsia film festival, but as the years churned on, I found myself in Montreal less and less. Newsgroups are pretty much long-gone, but now there's Facebook and Twitter and I'm able to keep abreast of Mr. Davis' exploits. It's 2013 and Mitch is STILL the co-director of what's become a genre film festival as important to international buyers, critics and fans as Sitges, L'Etrange, TADFF and, of course Midnight Madness at TIFF. And here's the deal, Mitch, like his colleagues in Hogtown, Colin and Adam, has been a constant champion of Canadian Cinema - programming a myriad of shorts and features every year along with the tremendous foreign offerings. He's still rocking and Mitch has become one of the foremost finger-on-the-pulse guys in this business. And he proudly posed for a photograph with Mayor Rob Ford. It's enough to make anyone who trolled newsgroups in the 90s green with envy.SARAH POLLEY
Okay, so this is the third year of this formidable list and for a third year in a row, I've simply decided - here and now - that this magnificent human being is probably going to keep doing endlessly heroic deeds to keep me doffing my hat in her estimable direction. Not that she wants it, needs it or asks for it. Sarah Polley is the real thing. She makes great movies and never stops working to make life better for other people. This year, she's being inducted into the Order of Canada and her extraordinary Stories We Tell has taken the world by storm. It's even a finalist leading up to the Oscar nominations for Best Feature Documentary. The thing, however, that filled my heart with a heavenly body worth of warmth, on an almost daily basis this year, was how she moved mountains to fight for the release of John Greyson and Tarek Loubani from their illegal incarceration in Egypt. She rallied the troops at TIFF, put the plights of the pair on the lips of movie stars and wags from all over the world, pinned "Free Tarek and John" buttons on everyone in her path, distributed buttons to an army of volunteers who, in turn, did likewise. She never stops. Ever. And on top of it all, she's still a Mom - a normal, loving, wonderful Mom who can be seen on the streets with her sweet little girl, getting sun, going for walks - being a Mom of Moms. She IS a national treasure and of anyone I know, she is probably the greatest ambassador to the world of what it means to be TRULY CANADIAN!!!SILVA BASMAJIAN
It's because of people like Silva Basmajian that the National Film Board of Canada continues to hold the high reputation that in recent years, it would NOT have if it wasn't for her warm, gracious, inviting filmmaker-friendly approach to her work. Silva Basmajian was with the NFB for 30 years. This year she retired. Sure, she probably wanted a change of view after three decades of service - NOT so much to the NFB (true bureaucrats serve their bureaucracy, not their clients) - but to the art of Canadian film culture and all the filmmakers who benefited from her wisdom, experience and kindness. Personally, my feeling is that no matter how insistent she might have been to retire is that it's to the NFB's utter shame that the whole organization didn't get down on its knees (something bureaucrats know how to do better than most) to do everything possible to keep her within the organization. It's typical of such bureaucracies - especially in Canadian government agencies - just how petty they are and how little they have by way of honour and commitment to those who MAKE THEM. For example, a recent visit to the NFB's institutional website yielded NOT ONE HIT when I plunked her name into a search engine. NOT ONE!!! I tried again and again and again. Put all other names of NFB types - past, present and, uh, soon to be leaving - and there were plenty of hits for THEM. I went there in search of a page that might have provided a nice summary of her career and service with the NFB - some small online tribute. Nothing. I will tell you, as someone who has benefitted from her wisdom and guidance and as someone who knows veritable bucket-loads of people who've garnered only the best of what someone like Madame Basmajian has offered, she has been one of the most important driving forces at the National Film Board in English Canada - ever. In recent years as the Executive Producer of the NFB's Ontario office, she led the way with numerous quality productions, cutting edge initiatives and, of course, Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell. I'm too lazy right now to find an equivalent to the word "mensch" to describe this truly great lady. Whatever it is, if it even exists, it wouldn't be good enough, anyway. Silva Basmajian IS a mensch of the highest order and I wish her the very best in the next phase of her brilliant career.


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Had to share this stunning track, discovered via a recent Future Disco show. It's the sort of music that just lets the mind unfold, encouraging some really powerful comments and imagery to spill out onto the pages of YouTube:
this track changed my life, this is like reborn feeling.
Im shaking and flying all the time.
I can cry and laugh at the same time.
I wonna listen to this song on the moment I die.
You spin my inner universe….thank you forever
i dont know what to do now it has finished
160 quid on discogs to buy. sounds good to me. i wont be playing it tho, il be framing it and putting it up on the wall and buying the mp3 to play. 300 copies in the whole world of this beauty. one of the finest tracks i will ever hear.
omg at :45 i knew i was in for a ride but DAMN
it's 6am, and the sun is just starting to peak it's head. the engine is purring on my white ferrarri 355 cabrio. the wind blowing through my hair, relaxed and loose from a night of dancing. i inhale on my last muratti cigarette. as the smoke fills my lungs my brain sharpens and i remember the name of the girl sitting next to me. it's a fifteen minute drive back to the villa but i wish it could last forever. pure bliss. pachanga, boys. pachanga.
I was trying to make an awesome comment but it's impossible. Nothing can describe the beauty of this track.
Cattaneo played this song at the end of moonpark last April 14th, and sudenly, without warning, some of my friends and myself looked at eachother, stop dancing and started hugging eachother, some of us even couldn't help crying, it was a moment I'll always remember, time stopped, we were there, we were happy, life had a meaning.
Thanks Pachanga boys. Thanks.


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HTML5 offers several useful new elements, to add further meaning to the markup of a page. These new elements include time
, mark
and here is another one, meter
. It is an inline element so it can be used inside most elements, including a header or a paragraph.
What does it say in the spec?
The meter element represents a scalar measurement within a known range, or a fractional value; for example disk usage, the relevance of a query result, or the fraction of a voting population to have selected a particular candidate.
When I first read about the meter tag, I immediately thought it would be useful for profile pages, such as height and weight, and maybe age, marked up in a nice definition list. However, the third line of the spec says
The meter element also does not represent a scalar value of arbitrary range — for example, it would be wrong to use this to report a weight, or height, unless there is a known maximum value
So there goes my idea. The emphasis of the spec definition is "a scalar measurement within a known range"
. We'll go through some sample usage now but I still think it would add useful meaning to a sportsman's profile page for example.
There are six attributes allowed with the meter tag: value, min, max, high, low and optimum. As we'll mention later, the emphasis is on the author to use these correctly.
- Value
- This is what will be parsed out – the actual value. If you do not use the value attribute, then the first number inside the tag is the value:
<meter> 2 out of 10</meter>
. If a real number is not used, then the value is zero. - Min
- The minimum allowed value. If there is no min attribute, then it assumes the minimum is zero. If it is not specified then the value is 0.
- Max
- The maximum allowed value. If the maximum value is less than the minimum value, then the minimum value is used as the max. If it is not specified then the value is 1. However, if it is possible to specify the value of this in the content – such as a percentage sign, as the maximum then will be 100%
- Low
- This is considered to be the low part of the value range. It must be less than or equal to the value of the high attribute. Also, if the low value is less than the min value, then the low value is the same as the min value.
- High
- This is considered to be the high part of the value range. If the high value is less than the low boundary, then the high value is the same as the low value. Also, if the high value is greater than the max value, then the high value is the same as the max value.
- Optimum
- This is considered to be the optimum value and needs to be somewhere between min and max. It can be greater than the high attribute
Let's have a look at some examples
A voting or rating tool

Your score is: <meter>2 out of 10</meter>

We can give this further meaning by adding min and max attributes

Your score is: <meter min="0" max="10">2 out of 10</meter>

Your score is: <meter value="91" min="0" max="100" low="40" high="90" optimum="100">A+</meter>

Without the attributes
You do not always need to use an attribute with the meter tag. You could use
Because the max value is going to be 100% (unless you always give that extra 10 :P ). You can also use fractions as the range is within itself, such as
Some real world examples
Christmas Calendar/Countdown

Christmas is in <meter value ="30" min="1" max="366" title="days">30 days!

Notice that the title attribute can be used to specify the unit (so we can use "centimeters" or "lbs", and so on).
Just Giving
We could also use meter
on the fundraising website Justgiving.
This page, for example, would use

<meter min="145" value="145" title="pounds">£145</meter>

Amount raised so far

<meter min="0" max="1000" low="50" high="125" value="145" optimum="145" title="pounds">£145</meter>

Incorrect use
Empty tag
If you used
<meter min="0" max="100" value="75"></meter>
Nothing will display on your page – it is noted in the spec
The recommended way of giving the value is to include it as contents of the element
So you need to put something in the content of the tag and it doesn't necessarily have to be a number. The spec has a good example of this

<meter value="0.5">Moderate activity,</meter> Usenet, 618 subscribers

<meter value="0.25">Low activity,</meter> Usenet, 22 subscribers

<meter value="0.25">Low activity,</meter> Usenet, 66 subscribers

Which could be used to produce on-screen information as shown
As I noted earlier, it is incorrect to use as a weight or height, unless there is a maximum value. The spec gives this example:

The grapefruit pie had a radius of <meter>12cm</meter> and a height of <meter>2cm</meter>.

Instead, one would either not include the meter element, or use the meter element with a defined range to give the dimensions in context compared to other pies:

The grapefruit pie had a radius of 12cm and a height of 2cm.

Radius:
 <meter min=0 max=20 value=12>12cm</meter>
Height:
 <meter min=0 max=10 value=2>2cm</meter>

Whilst the above is now a correct usage of the meter tag, how do I know the max height or radius of a grapefruit? I would prefer to use a meter tag there but instead I'd probably just use a definition list to display the information.
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