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By The Editors By The Editors | November 22, 2020 | Holiday Gift Guide,
Make your list and check it twice, we have something to thank everyone who has been nice.
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Do you like birthdays? Do you?
I do!
So I like the idea that this blog will be celebrating its first year birthday soon, on the 14th of October.
We all like birthdays because it is a good reason for presents.
Of course, any presents for this blog are welcome.
But I'd like also to announce that some presents will be given away. All you need to do is to take part in competition.
There will be 2 competitions this time.
Both will end up on the 15th of October and results will be announced soon after.
Let's start...
Competition number one requires your artistic skills.
This blog lacks a logo, as you can notice. So, please use your drawing skills, GIMP, Inkscape, LibreOffice Draw or any other editor to create a logo.
To take part in competition, please send your variants to firstname.lastname@example.com
Your work should be licensed under Creative Commons license and not copyrighted by you in any way. It means I should be able to use image by any method I like.
The logo will be used for branding the blog (title and favicon), Twitter account, Facebook page. So, you can suggest different sizes and resolutions if you want to. But one image will also do, because I can resize image myself when needed.
There will be only one winner, although I may publish several images when I end up the competition and announce results.
What is the prize? Winner will get:
- Winner will get book from Linux Blog Book Shelf - see it in the left column. Book should be priced at 20 GBP or below.
- 1GB USB stick branded with logo of famous magazine. Not Linux-related though...
- CD or DVD with Linux distribution from the Buy Linux CDs site or any of your choice.
- Acknowledgement of image author on this blog.
You need to have Facebook or Twitter account to take part in this competition.
- Twitter user: Please tweet following text:
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Clicking on link above simplifies your job. Please do not change the text or links - only tweeters with exact quote will qualify for final draw. You do not need to be follower to qualify, although I appreciate if you follow me on Twitter.
- Facebook user: simply like this blog using the button on your right. If you have already done this, you automatically qualify, even though you could let your friends know one more time by some method that you like this blog.
Final draw will include both Facebook and Twitter users and who completed the task. You can have 2 entries into the draw if you have Facebook and Twitter accounts both. Winners will be selected by random choice between all contestants.
What will be the prizes?
- Winner will get 8Gb USB stick and CD or DVD with Linux distribution from the Buy Linux CDs site or any of your choice.
- Runner-up will get 1Gb USB stick branded with logo of famous magazine (non-Linux) and CD or DVD with Linux distribution.
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What better way to celebrate 30 years of the Warped One than with this stunning, stunning painting by Dave Kendall? This is seriously one of my favourite Slaine paintings ever; an intense MacRoth holding his bloodied Brainbiter over a recently beheaded Skull Sword, cool.
There's a lovely story of how this beautiful image ended up in your prog. Dave says "It was a fan piece I did at the start of the year. Pat Mills saw it and and said he loved it, a real jaw to the floor moment! He suggested to Matt that it would make a nice bonus for the 30th anniversary and he agreed. It's a real honour to have this in the Prog."
Dave also recalls just why he did the piece, he said "One of the reasons I did this image was because of a Facebook friend; He'd shared a page of my French graphic novel with a comment suggesting that Tharg should give me a shot at Slaine. I smiled and didn't really think much of it. I'd love to do some Slaine work but didn't really have a way of realising it."
"Start of the years can be a bit slow work-wise, and I was also feeling a bit jaded. I wanted to get back to some traditional work. I remembered the kind Facebook comment and thought I'd have a shot at my favourite character, Slaine. That's how the image came about..."
However, the image itself came from somewhere else entirely. "A couple of years before I had a dream of a silhouetted Slaine, standing amongst standing stones, in a grey and damp atmosphere. I used that as a jumping on point for this image. Design wise I wanted dark damp leather, evoking Glenn's leather hero harness, and I wanted the celtic head to be a dominant design element throughout, on the axe and his ornamentation."
Below we have the pencils for the piece, however the image will have been laid out electronically. Dave says "All of my work now starts of digitally, even if it's destined for a traditional finish. The ability to use layers, and the flexibility they give, really allow you to refine the composition. Once I'm happy I print the blueline image on Bristol board and then pencil it traditionally."
What a pain in the neck
"That is then scanned and printed onto high quality, smooth watercolour paper. I paste it onto MDF and then seal it with an acrylic matte medium. This helps keep the acrylic paint finish bright without it soaking into the paper..."
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Just wonderful, I really hope we get to see a lot more of Dave in the Prog. Readers with eagle eyes will have spotted that Dave has completed an excellent cover for the forthcoming Flesh series, let's hope there's many more follow. Of course, that won't be Dave's first cover for Tharg the Mighty, he provided this fiery image of Jenny from Caballistics, Inc back in 2007...
The Crazy World of Jennifer Simmonds
Those clever Zarjaz boys had Dave in mind for Slaine on the cover of their Pat Mills Special in 2009. Below is the breakdown for that fine wraparound (or should that be 'warparound?) cover, starting with his digital composition...
Kiss my axe!
Followed by the sublime pencils...
I adore these pencils!
And the final, Zarjaz painting!
Slaine didn't think it too many
Dave is keen to do more work on Slaine in the future, maybe even working on the strip. He said "Hopefully someway down the line I might have the opportunity to contribute to Slaine's saga. It would be a career topping project if it happened. However I'm really looking forward to what Simon Davis has in store. As a fan of Slaine I just love seeing what new artists bring to the character. Pat Mills is one of those writers that bring out the best in his artists. I would jump at the chance to work with him again, on any project!"
Gigantic thanks to Dave for sending the images for a seriously beautiful poster. Check out Dave's Deviantart gallery here and his website here!


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People in marginal housing may have higher stroke risk
By American Heart Association News
People who are homeless or who live in marginal housing where they are vulnerable to homelessness are at higher risk for strokes, even at younger ages, according to a new study.
Researchers worked with 228 people who lived in substandard hotels in a low-income neighborhood in Vancouver, Canada, over a three-year period. Participants were given neuropsychological assessments and interviewed in detail about their substance, medical and psychiatric histories. Each completed a set of lab tests and received an MRI brain scan. The participants' average age was 44.
The scans revealed 11% of people had experienced a stroke, a rate much higher than expected for their age, researchers said in the report. Almost none of them – 23 out of 25 – had reported a history of stroke, suggesting they were not aware of it previously.
People who had strokes also performed worse on cognitive testing related to decision-making.
Much has been written about the impact social determinants of health have on a person's well-being and life expectancy, but very little exists on the brain health of individuals who are homeless or living in marginal housing, said Dr. Thalia Field, a stroke neurologist and senior author of the study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
The people interviewed in the study lived in single-room occupancy hotels where toilet and shower facilities are shared among a dozen or so people, she said. The buildings were more than 80 years old, in need of repair and have bedbug, cockroach and mouse infestations.
"This is a vulnerable group of individuals with a high burden of (multiple medical conditions) and a greater burden of cerebrovascular disease than expected for their age," she said.
About three-quarters of the people in the study had a history of homelessness. A history of drug and alcohol abuse was common, and a substantial proportion of the group tested positive for HIV and hepatitis B and C.
While risk factors like high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity were lower than the general Canadian population, the 94% smoking rate for the group was extraordinarily high.
Researchers wanted to better understand how mental health issues and substance abuse impact "things like mortality, health services effectiveness, and interactions related to health care and the justice system," said Field, who in July will be an associate professor with the University of British Columbia.
"A more detailed understanding of the burden of disease in this vulnerable group allows for the planning and development of targeted health care and social initiatives."
Dr. Travis Baggett, research director at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, said he was impressed by the study's use of imaging to capture the brain health of participants.
Most research of the homeless and marginally housed rely on self-reporting or charted diagnoses, he said.
"To my knowledge, it's one of the first of its kind in describing the neuroimaging findings in a marginally housed population. The neuroimaging component is especially novel," said Baggett, who was not involved in the study. Researchers "could actually examine, in an objective sense, what's going on in the brain."
Traditional risk factors, like smoking, could help explain why marginally housed individuals may be at higher danger for stroke, said Dr. Stephen Hwang, a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto who was not involved in the new research. But social elements like poverty, deprivation and chronic stress also could play a significant role.
"This is a really understudied area. Addressing the cognitive and brain health of disadvantaged populations is probably of enormous importance, and we often neglect it," said Hwang, director of the Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
"We always think about heart health, but we don't often think about brain health in disadvantaged populations," he said. "In many cases, having neurological deficits and impaired decision-making leads to a cascade of ill health in a whole host of systems, so it's really important that we try to address this."
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The Brat was at the game with her fellow referees and said that they were all blowing the South Africans offside at nearly every ruck. She says to look out at the wings, which are definitely forward of ruck very often
And before I forget: Tracey's stats
What, nothing on the yellow card that wasn't? The All Blacks would still have won though - unimaginative attacking play seemingly can't stand up to pinpoint razzle dazzle under the new rule interpretations, so long as the defence also works. When was the last time the Boks strung a decent attacking move together against NZ? They can do it against Aussie...
My first ABs game was that dull RWC quarter-final in Edinburgh. The best thing was the Scottish fans singing "You only beat us by 40" as tens of thousands of us made our way back into town, completely blocking all traffic.
What, nothing on the yellow card that wasn't?
So at 0:57-0:59 in this clip Rossouw doesn't kick McCaw [the offence he was sent off for]
That's not a kick, though it does look worse in the original wide angle shot at 00.54 than the slow-mo replays which had everyone in my lounge scratching their heads.
Girls kick each other harder than that in football. You know, the round ball code.
And before I forget: Tracey's stats
Showing McCaw, who didn't top any of the metrics last week, stepping up when he was needed this week, as a real captain does.
It's not the kick that's the problem, it's the bit where he tries to gently brush some of the sweat out of Richie's eyes for him...
Showing McCaw, who didn't top any of the metrics last week, stepping up when he was needed this week, as a real captain does.
And remembering that Tracey's stats are a little "Richie Centric" :) But in the booth the most notable players were Muliaina, McCaw, Mealamu and Franks.
Don't forget Weepu, thought he had a blinder. Kinda glad also to see Ranger left out, just don;t think he is the goods for test matches. Too many mistakes.
Safa complaining aside, you have to take your chances, which we did, you could argue that SA's first try shouldn;t have come after the dodgy Ranger penalty. We were the better team and deserved to win, simple as that.
Regarding the yellow card... it seemed to me that in all fairness if Rossouw was going to get sent off for starting the fight, then McCaw should have also been yellow-carded for continuing it.
I thought refs were pretty tough on players who fought back, and I was kinda surprised that McCaw stayed on the field when Rossouw got sent off.
I was particularly impressed by Israel Dagg's try - his zig-zag running to get through the defence reminded me of Christian Cullen - and it was GREAT to see that Mils still has the ability to put on a serious burst of speed when he needs to. Great tries!
I thought Ranger did pretty well actually - although he did have a bit of a case of Nonu-like dropsies a couple of times - but his work rate was pretty high I thought - he seemed to be everywhere at once for quite a bit of the game - and his try was very cleverly done, so I'm quite surprised they've left him out for the next test.
It was also great to see Weepu have such a blinder of a game. Of course, Hurricanes fans know how awesome he can be - and I'm still bemused as to why he was left out in the cold by the All Blacks selectors for so long. I think he runs rings around Cowan every time he plays... Very nice to seem him in the starting line-up for a change.
We (Wellington Batucada) were invited to march around the edge of the field and play samba to the arriving crowd for half an hour before the game started - you could hear us (very clearly) in the background as the guys up in the commentary box did the pre-match warm-up.
At one point they had a commentator on the field doing a little summary to camera as we marched and played behind him - I was amazed we didn't drown him out, but I guess that's the wonder of modern microphone technology for ya.
He referred to us as Batucada Sound Machine (not us) instead of Wellington Batucada but never mind. It was heaps of fun to play, and the half-hour seemed to go by in a flash.
I was quite surprised how well we were received by the crowd - they really seemed to be enjoying us - I just hope our playing didn't distract the commentators too much! We were very loud...
Actually, I think you'd find that deliberately kicking another player on the ground would get you an easy red card in soccer.
But I agree with Mark. Ritchie reacts to the attack on his eyes, not the kick.
Actually, I think you'd find that deliberately kicking another player on the ground would get you an easy red card in soccer.
Just ask Felipe Melo. Or David Beckham.
What freaked me at the time was how easily after he swung at Rossouw the Boks managed to surround McCaw and get him away from his support.
It reminded me of a certain 1984 NBA game between the 76ers and Celtics where Larry Bird had been on fire, was on 42 points, then Julius Irving got sick of being scored on and snapped. Charles Barkley and Moses Malone actually had Bird in a headlock on national TV while Irving laid into him. Could have easily happened there.
The yellow card - the Springboks have shown a surprising level of foolishness around foul play these past two tests. He did it right in front of the referee almost as if he was challenging the referee's authority. The referee had no choice but to tell him who was boss. My view is player goes from fresh and boundlessly fit at the beginning of his career, then as he gets a bit older and a bit slower cunning and experience keeps him in the hunt, then, imperceptibly at first, cunning becomes dirty and experience becomes just old.
Despite all the euphoria over the All Black wins - and they are fine wins indeed - I am still uneasy. I am not sure if the style we are playing is a RWC tournament winning style. All I see is the same coaching panel playing the same sort of "total" rugby and heading for the same sort of ignominious exit at the hands of a negative, penalty kicking, stifling defensive effort as the last few RWC's.
All I see is the same coaching panel playing the same sort of "total" rugby and heading for the same sort of ignominious exit at the hands of a negative, penalty kicking, stifling defensive effort as the last few RWC's.
Given that two of the last three times we've been knocked out of the world cup it has been France that knocked us out, I'm not sure that's an accurate description of how they played.
All I see is the same coaching panel playing the same sort of "total" rugby
You see that with the Deans coached Wallabies against most sides. They struggle to win that way against the Springboks, but it's simply awful to watch against a side like Fiji, who just get shut out completely.
Something I forgot to mention anywhere but the title: this was the first time I had seen the All Blacks live.
I guessed that.
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Women's Health Alert: Fighting Heart Disease in Your 40s (2010)
Steady Increase in Cardiovascular Deaths Affects Younger Women

Dr. Holly Andersen of the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute Offers Women Tips on Recognizing a Heart Attack and Reducing Their Risk of Heart Disease
Feb 1, 2010
The risk for heart-related death is increasing in young adults ages 35 to 54, and the numbers are even more alarming for younger women. It is the number-one cause of death for both men and women in the United States, yet every year since 1984 more women have died of cardiovascular health problems than men, according to the American Heart Association.
"Although there has been a general decline in deaths caused by heart disease, the last decade has seen a steady increase among younger women ages 35 to 44. Women account for more than 50 percent of deaths due to heart disease," says Dr. Holly Andersen, the director of education and outreach for the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
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- Enjoy yourself. Eat right, attempt to get a good night's sleep, practice stress reduction, and have some fun — all have been shown to lower the risk of heart disease.
- Know the warning signs of an attack. Women may not always experience the typical crushing chest pain that is associated with a heart attack. Many women have symptoms that include neck, shoulder and abdominal pain; some may also have nausea, vomiting, fatigue and shortness of breath, along with chest pain.
- Test for the silent attack. Some women feel no pain at all and experience what is known as a "silent heart attack." Silent heart attacks lead to long-term shortage of blood and oxygen flow to the heart. If you are a post-menopausal woman and have at least three risk factors for heart disease you should ask your doctor for a cardiac stress test to determine if you have experienced this type of attack and permanent damage.
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Resident Evil 6 is scheduled for release in the US on October 2nd and in Japan on October 4th.
It's been a while since actual zombie zombies have shown up in a numbered RE game, but now they're finally back. Mindless victims of bioterrorism, these infected instinctively attack any surviving humans. Unlike previous incarnations, these zombies will run, leap, climb, and even use weapons.
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If you have a neighbor that's playing their music too loudly, you can get them back by hijacking their speakers with a little DIY project.
Some people are more than a little inconsiderate, and when a friendly note or call to your landlord doesn't solve the problem, sometimes you need to take matters into your own hands. Evil genius and electrical guru junkyardmessiah over at Reddit came up with this DIY solution:
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the real way to cause problems with her system is pretty simple. You need a Cheap CB radio, A linear amp, and a bottom loaded CB antenna (easier to build a ground plane for it). See if you can get a good guess where she has her [speakers] set up and get your antenna close as you can to it. You should be able to talk to her THROUGH her stereo system. The amplifier sections are not shielded in these plastic ready made toys and the resulting AM signal will impact it. In my case I ran a continuous 6khz tone from a signal generator which was more than enough to blow it up good. ENJOY!
Essentially, with a few tools, you can transmit your voice, play an annoying tone, or even blast your own music through their speakers—even if their speakers are turned off. If you're truly evil, you could probably blow out their speakers too, but that could have repercussions. Different states have different legal issues pertaining to these types of devices, too, so check with your area's laws—if such things concern you—before you start plotting. There's also this organization called the FCC that will probably have a thing or two to say about your transmission, too, so it may be wise to think of this as more of a very interesting proof-of-concept rather than an actual prank you should pull off.
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When you're late for work and you're for sure going to get fired if you're caught, it's time to resort to your sneaking ability and a handy friend on a cellphone to guide you to your cubicle.
LEVEL 22 did provide an adventure, albeit in frustration. It is played through the touch-screen (a bit of a given, since it is an iOS game), but the trouble is precision. You move Gary and have him interact with objects and places to hide with simple taps on the screen, while touching and holding down will allow you to pan and scan the level to check out your surroundings. It's almost too easy to scan ahead to see where you need to move next or to see if there's a co-worker coming towards you, then, as you pan back to Gary, accidentally tap a part on the screen and begin moving. Once this happens you're in a mad scramble to get back to Gary to have him stay where he is. Usually you'll end up being spotted and then it's GAME OVER on your screen. Luckily LEVEL 22 has a great checkpoint system that generally puts you right back before you get caught, but if you're stepping away from the application and restart the game, it's generally just a tad farther back.
The frustration is increased when you're trying to sneak past co-workers while using hiding objects like a newspaper or a cardboard box (a callout again to the Metal Gear Solid series that warms my heart); there are times when you think you're out of view and range from the eyes of co-workers when you're really not. When you start facing security guards that can instantly spot you (and give you the GAME OVER), the difficulty is ramped up. This is further compounded with the amount of real estate that you can see on the screen – it's dangerously zoomed in too much. This zoomed-in view, while giving appropriate attention to the amount of detail in the pixel-art graphics (necessary for some clues to unlocking safes or finding secrets), makes it extremely tough to gauge your surroundings and where co-workers and security guards are. What would have been helpful is either the ability to zoom out or a mini-map to keep tabs on preying eyes.
Frustrations aside, LEVEL 22 is fun to play when everything is working out. Sneaking around security guards that are distracted by donuts that you leave behind or hiding out in a closet to wait for a co-worker to walk by certainly requires a bit of skill and timing. After making it through several levels, you'll face off against a boss. Each boss has a certain way to defeat them, and luckily you have a helpful friend that offers words of wisdom and hints to aid you.
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A Visit to a Steampunked Home
If you dropped by my house you'd probably be disappointed. Because (with the exception of my office, which is more post-apocalytic than anything else) it's simply not very steampunk. I do have plans, but none have come to fruition. However, a couple of weeks ago I was invited by Bruce Rosenbaum to visit his home in Sharon, Massachusetts and what I found there was just stunning!
Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum started ModVic (Modern Victorian) Home Restoration in June 2007 and have now moved onto steampunk Home Design. ModVic's mission is to authentically restore historic Victorian homes (1850 – 1910) to their original beauty and richness while completely modernizing the home's systems, functional layout and conveniences for the family of today (sound familiar?). Bruce and Melanie also love the steampunk design aesthetic of combining the best of Victorian high design and craftsmanship with modern functionality and usefulness.
Bruce's home is a Craftsman style Victorian built in 1901. It has a great deal of history associated with it and Bruce has filled it with unusual Craftsman era antiques. But we're interested in steampunk here rather than the merely historical so I'm going to gloss over almost all of that and get to the mods and the steampunk art!
We'll start the tour in Bruce's kitchen with a lovely Victorian heater restored by David Erickson, a local craftsman and restorer of antique stoves who's workshop is just down the street from my own. David did a fabulous job restoring this wonderful old stove, repainting the iron and cleaning and re-plating the nickel brightwork. In addition, he added a firebrick lining in places so the stove will continue to burn well and should last for decades to come.
Bruce designed and built the fire-back and hearth to compliment the stove and installed the back-lit stained glass windows to brighten the entire kitchen.
The hearth is cultured stone done by Brendan Mostecki of Cultured Masonry. The look of the stone matches closely to the real fieldstone on the outside of the house. The stain glass was salvaged from a home in New York that was being demolished. The panels are from the entryway of the home and Bruce turned them on their sides to fit above the fire back.
The center of the kitchen is dominated by an antique printer's bench topped with engineered quartz stone. The bench wasn't quite large enough to fit the space so Bruce found a salvaged pedestal from a girl's school near Boston and used it to extend the bench. The pedestal is actually the dog's food storage bin. The wide flat drawers of the bench were already ideal for kitchen utensils and have just been repartition into appropriate sized sections for cutlery and sundry implements.
Quarters where a bit tight and I had to crouch in the corner to get this shot, as I was taking it I felt something poking at my backside and turned in time to catch the perpetrator! A big fluffy pup–one of two big white Samoyeds named Zasha and Kolya–nosing in through a doggie door!
Many of the features of Bruce's kitchen were designed with the pups in mind. At the lower left below are a pair of stainless steel doggie dishes in a cast iron bracket that nicely matches the cast iron bar stools.
The bar stools look to be Victorian, but they are actually 1940 reproductions of stools from the late 1800s. I guess even reproductions can someday turn into antiques!
Next to the stove (below) is a copper water heater tank. In the past, tanks like this would be connected to a heat-exchanger in the stove and a day's cooking would produce a nice quantity of hot water for the household.
Here the cast iron base from a second antique water heater has been fittied with a copper bowl for the afforementioned doggies refreshment and the hot water tank has been modified with a water filtration and purification system to fill the copper dish for the pups.
The stove itself is another restoration form Erickson Stoves and has been fitted with a hi-end electric Miele halogen cooktop so there's no longer a need to stoke it with firewood. Two electric ovens have been fit into the body of the stove as well.
These switches imediately caught my eye as I have always loved this style of toggle. What's particularly neat about these is that, while the switch in the background is original to the house, the one in the foreground is actually a modern dual switch/dimmer combination!
Another small feature that caught my eye was this antique timed set-back theromstat! Bruce tells me that it's fully functional and his heating technician had little trouble integrating it into his modern steam heating system.
Throughout the house there were wonderful pieces of art and craft, this clock being a fine example, it's been assembled from various vintage bits that Bruce has collected, notable a steam whistle, fire hose nozzle and an old hat and coat stand.
The fire hose nozzle forms the base of the clock and the steam whistle is at the top.
In Bruce's living room I found this mantle piece with a plasma TV installed in place of the mirror. The mantel was acquired from an architectural salvage company and then modified by adding a few inches to the mirror frame to accomodate the TV. Bruce's carpenter did a marvelous job seamlessly stretching the frame. See if you can figure out where the additions were made.
Below, a late 1800s fireplace insert from a coal fired train station heater in Kansas has been installed to contain the electronics and sub woofer for the surround sound installation. The insert has been restored – but Bruce was able to save the original faux marble paint that was part of the original design.
The mantle piece and stove front both swing out to allow access to the electonics and the system's wiring.
Bruce works from his home and the pièce de résistance of this steampunk house is the office in what were formerly the servant's quarters on the third floor. This is the view from the doorway as you enter the room.
The wainscoting is galvanized tin (not wood) and was likely salvaged from a restaurant or government building. Bruce's craftsman had to cut the wainscoting down about 10" inches the fit, and painted it with Benjamin Moore Bronze Metallic paint. He also used leftover outside porch balusters to make the separators between the panels.
A ships binnacle guards the view from the window, the binnacle I'm told will eventually contain the household file and media server.
Above the binacle is an example of another of Bruce's passions, a Puffin – this one steam-powered and on the wire!
Moving to the other side of the office we find the door to the file room and a display shelf for some of the steampunk artwork Bruce has collected.
There is something about this door, every time I looked at it I heard the theme from MYST in my head and imagined that it lead down a long coridor to a machine room of some sort rather than to a file storage closet. The lock wheel is functional and the signal light over the door illuminates along with the interior lights when the door is opened.
To the right of the door is a World War II battleship telephone that he found at Old Chicago Telephone, a fully functional one too.
And below the phone this exquisite model Bruce found on eBay of the contraption from the movie adaption of the classic H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine.
A vintage optician's instrument is cleverly positioned to give you a closer, and fully adjustable look!
The project that I travelled out to Bruce's house to see is not yet complete, so I have not included any photos of it in this article. It will be a truly magnificent mod, judging by the portions that have been completed to date and I'll give you a hint as to what it is by showing you this keyboard which Bruce acquired from the maker Brian Arieno to serve with–well you can guess what. But believe me when I tell you, the reality of it is going to blow you away! Stay tuned we'll have a full set of pictures here for you when it is complete!


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This article originally appeared on PRDaily and also on Entrepreneur.com.
For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. Starting a Facebook or Twitter account was free, and hiring a part-time intern to manage them didn't cost much.
In reality, social media marketing has never been free. Sure, there aren't usually any hard costs required to set up social media accounts, but someone is still had to create the content, engage in the conversation, monitor and manage those conversations, etc. As we've seen time and time again, turning over your brand's reputation to an intern isn't always the wisest choice. Most brands now know the real costs of social media marketing are not as great as the opportunity costs of bad social media strategy.
Fast-forward a few years, and we're seeing more and more organizations hire entire teams to create content for Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, and whatever hot new social media startup launched last week. Content marketing, the creation and distribution of content to attract leads and generate sales, has become a $118.4 billion industry. According to data from DOMO and Column Five Media, every minute of every day sees over 2 million Google searches, 571 new websites, and 48 hours of new YouTube video. It's become overwhelming.
Unfortunately, it's only going to get more difficult as brands compete in a social media arms race. Rather than creating a slow and steady stream of high-quality content, most brands believe they're better off creating a ton of low-quality content in the hope that one or two pieces will have real results. Yet a recent study by InboundWriter shows only 10 to 20 percent of a company's website content drives 90 percent of its online traffic.
Meanwhile, social networks realize that brands will pay big money for access to the millions of users in their online communities, and they're going to charge more and more for that privilege. According to a recent Advertising Age article, Facebook reports: "Content that is eligible to be shown in news feed is increasing at a faster rate than people's ability to consume it."
This means the organic reach of any one particular piece of content is going to decline even more from the 16 percent rate it's at now. Some may see it drop all the way to 2 percent.
Increasingly, to compete effectively in social media, brands realize that to play, they must pay.
To keep up with social networks' efforts to monetize their massive online audiences, companies are allocating more resources to keep up. Simply creating valuable content and then authentically engaging with your audiences often is no longer enough, especially when you have to spend more to reach those audiences. Brands know they now must create distribution strategies for that content, sometimes at a substantial cost.
Here are seven ways brands will spend more money on social media and content marketing in 2014:
- Creating content. If brands wish to rise above the glut of content that's being created, they're going to have to improve the quality of content they create. That viral video that looks like it was shot on a family member's smartphone was actually just a bit created by the "traditional" media.
- Promoting content. Expect social platforms to reward brands that spend a lot of money in ads on those platforms. It's a vicious cycle. Paid ads and sponsored content will help drive the "organic" reach of your other content. In addition, brands with more Facebook likes are going to see a lower cost for paid distribution because paid social ads will show greater social context. If more "likes" and followers = cheaper ads, guess who's going to start to investing in more contests, giveaways, and other tactics to reach more eyeballs and then subsequently buy more ads and sponsored content.
- Increasing reach. As brands acquire more and more fans, followers, and "likes," and as these social networks get larger and larger, the cost to reach them will continue to increase. When a brand makes an investment in creating high-quality content, you can bet they'll ensure it reaches the largest number of people.
- Syndicating content. Likewise, expect more dollars to go companies such as Taboola andOutbrain that specialize in placing content where it's most likely to be discovered. In a sea of content, these companies help more people find yours.
- Monitoring, filtering, and analyzing conversations. Social media monitoring platforms have been around for years, but their hefty price tags often relegated them to a wish list for many organizations. However, as more people and brands create even more content, it's going to become more difficult to identify and act on what's relevant to you. As a result, pricey monitoring and analytics tools will be migrating from the wish list to the approved budget.
- Paid sponsorships. Those "influencers" you're always trying to reach? They're realizing their influence is in demand and that it's not cheap. According to a recent IZEA survey, 61 percent of marketers have paid someone to mention their product, and that number is only going to rise in 2014. It's not just celebrities and athletes, either. Everyday people are also asking for more money and more product, because they can and because brands will meet those demands.
- More full-time employees. As more content is created and more money is spent promoting and distributing that content, more people will be needed to create, moderate, measure, and analyze it. Demand for data scientists, SEO specialists, media buyers, and creatives will increase as brands try to optimize the money they're investing.
If you thought the days of trying to persuade your bosses to invest in social media were over, get ready to go back, hat in hand, and ask for even more money. With bigger budgets come bigger expectations and more pressure. Are your social media, content generation, and content distribution strategies ready?


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'AJ' faces IBF Mandatory Challenger at The O2 |
Unified Heavyweight Champion of the World Anthony Joshua OBE will defend his IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO World Titles against Mandatory Challenger Kubrat Pulev at The O2 in London on Saturday December 12, live on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK and on DAZN in all of its nine markets including the U.S., on a show promoted by Matchroom Boxing in association with Top Rank and Epic Sports and Entertainment. Joshua (23-1, 21 KOs) recaptured his belts and position as the Unified Heavyweight World Champion with a masterful unanimous decision victory over Andy Ruiz Jr at the Diriyah Arena in Saudi Arabia on an historical night in December that saw the Heavyweight World Titles contested for the very first time in the Middle East. December 12 will be 'AJ's' first fight on UK soil in over two years, since he defended his crowns with a devastating seventh round knockout of Russia's Alexander Povetkin at Wembley Stadium, and the former Finchley ABC man will be aiming to deal with Pulev in style to set up an Undisputed showdown against WBC Champion and fellow Brit Tyson Fury in 2021. Pulev (28-1, 14 KOs), the IBF's No.1-ranked Heavyweight Mandatory Challenger, gets his second shot at World honours after his defeat to modern legend Wladimir Klitschko in 2014 – the only loss of his 29-fight professional career. He has won six fights in a row since then, including victories over Derek Chisora and an IBF Eliminator win over Hughie Fury in 2018. The Bulgarian superstar was set to challenge Joshua at Cardiff's Principality Stadium in October 2017 but was forced to withdraw through an injury and will now get his opportunity to ruin the champion's plans to face Fury in an all-British blockbuster showdown in the future. "December 12 is the date and once again the Heavyweight belts go up in the air and it is my sole focus to make sure that come December 13 they are in their rightful place in the UK," said Joshua. "The O2 is the original lion's den, I have a lot of history with the arena, but without the fans something huge is missing. I am really hoping that, safety permitting, we might be able to bring some boxing fans in, but we will have to see. I respect every opponent and I respect Pulev. I wish him well during his preparation." "For a small country of Bulgaria to stand up for the Heavyweight Titles is a great accomplishment," said Pulev. "This fight is for my late father and all Bulgarians around the world! I'm coming to London to seize the Heavyweight Championship of the World." "After a challenging year for everyone, to end with the unified World Heavyweight Championship is very special," said promoter Eddie Hearn. "Over a year after regaining his crown, Anthony Joshua takes on yet another dangerous opponent in Mandatory Challenger Kubrat Pulev. AJ's resume is unrivalled, and this is the final hurdle until we challenge for the undisputed crown next year. "Whilst it's unusual to think of an AJ fight without tens of thousands of fans in attendance, we will be doing everything we can to lobby for the safe return of fans to this event, we have to move forward together. I know Team Pulev and Bob Arum will be doing all they can to become World Champion on Dec 12 but AJ constantly evolves and improves and I expect a dominant performance and a spectacular KO to close out 2020." Bob Arum, Top Rank Chairman, said: "Eddie Hearn better watch out. Kubrat Pulev is going to destroy his plan for a Joshua-Tyson Fury unification fight." 258 Managing Director Freddie Cunningham said: "Anthony again shows his willingness and desire to chase the Undisputed Title with another tough mandatory fight and despite the challenges of making a fight of this scale during these times it is important for AJ to keep momentum. It will be an exciting way to end the year and unique in every way. We will be working with Matchroom to build a card full of 258 fighters to give the fans entertainment throughout the undercard." John Wirt, President of Epic Sports and Entertainment, said: "Crowd or no crowd, we are coming to AJ's backyard to claim the titles. Come December 12, there will be no more excuses or delays. I guarantee that it will be an epic battle and that Kubrat will stop AJ inside the distance." "Anthony Joshua returns to the ring, a year after recapturing his World Titles from Andy Ruiz Jr, and Britain's Unified World Champion will be determined to reign supreme in a hotly-contested Heavyweight division," said Adam Smith, Head of Sky Sports Boxing Development. "Kubrat Pulev has proven pedigree, with just that sole defeat to Wladimir Klitschko, and he'll be hoping to send more shockwaves through the sport with an upset victory, but I know that AJ has been training tirelessly, priming his explosive power for another night of fireworks. "Tyson Fury will of course be watching – as an Undisputed World Title fight is within touching distance – and AJ cannot afford a slip-up in a blockbuster ending to the boxing year." "We're thrilled to bring the Heavyweight Championship of the World to all DAZN subscribers," said DAZN EVP Joseph Markowski. "AJ-Pulev will have major consequences for the entire boxing landscape as both men aim to end the year in emphatic fashion." DAZN is currently available in the U.S., as well as Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland. |
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It was a stunning moment of moral clarity. As the South Vietnamese refugees clambered onto rickety boats in the South China Sea to escape the victorious Communists, the American Left that orchestrated the US defeat through a sustained campaign of propaganda and fake calls for peace stood silent.
As Pol Pot, the "progressive" dictator tortured and murdered a third of his people in Cambodia, the leftists "peace" activists in the US and Europe who never saw a US military operation that was justified, turned a blind eye.
The silence of the likes of Susan Sontag, Jane Fonda, Noam Chomsky and their fellow travelers came to mind last week when the Western media and intellectual elites averted their gaze as Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the long exiled spiritual guide of the Muslim Brotherhood spoke before a crowd of millions at Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Qaradawi, who had been living in exile in Qatar during Hosni Mubarak's reign, became an international jihadist superstar thanks to Qatar's unelected potentate Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani who gave him his jihad indoctrination show on Al Jazeera. From his internationally televised soapbox, Qaradawi regularly preaches international jihad and genocide of Jewry to millions of fans worldwide.
Two important things happened during Qaradawi's appearance in Cairo. First, his handlers refused to allow Google's Egyptian Internet revolutionary Wael Ghonim to join the cleric on the dais. For anyone willing to notice, Qaradawi's message in spurning Ghonim was indisputable. As far as the jihadists are concerned, Ghonim and his fellow Internet activists are the present day equivalent of Lenin's useful idiots.
They did their job of convincing credulous Western liberals that the overthrow of Mubarak was all about sweetness and light.
And now they are no longer needed.
The second message was Qaradawi's call to destroy Israel. With millions of adoring fans crying out "Amen," and "Allahu Akhbar," Qaradawi called for a Muslim conquest of Jerusalem – that is, for the destruction of Israel. As a first step, he demanded that the Egyptian military open the Egyptian border with Gaza.
In the dismal tradition of its Vietnam-era teachers, today's international Left had nothing to say about Qaradawi's genocidal speech. In the New York Times' write-up of Qaradawi's triumphant return to Egypt for instance, the murder-inciting cleric was referred to as a champion of democracy and pluralism.
Leftist writers like Peter Beinart have spent the better part of the past month whitewashing and belittling the significance of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The same Muslim Brotherhood that was founded in 1928 and got its first boost from the Nazis who funded their anti-Jewish pogroms in Cairo and Alexandria in 1939 is seen as nothing to worry about. US President Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assured Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular. This is the same Muslim Brotherhood whose motto is, "Allah is our objective; the prophet is our leader; the Koran is our law; Jihad is our way; Dying in the path of Allah is our goal."
THE SAME Left who champions Qaradawi as a liberal is absolutely adamant that the revolutions now raging throughout the Muslim world are a mere sideshow to the region's chief drama. The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan, Oman, Morocco and Saudi Arabia are nothing. And the anti-regime protests in Iran have no strategic significance whatsoever to the West, which is mortally threatened by the mullocracy.
Who cares if the Arabs are ruled by tyrants, democrats, jihadists, or fascists? The only thing that matters is that "Palestine" is free of Israeli "occupation."
How can anyone get excited about the future of the oil-dependent global economy when Jews still reside in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem?
The Left's essential indifference to the plight of hundreds of millions of Arabs and its significance for the West was exposed in a news analysis by Brendan O'Neill in The Australian on February 16. O'Neill noted that whereas the demonstrators in Cairo were fairly silent on the issue of the Palestinians, anti-Mubarak demonstrations throughout the West prominently featured anti-Israel slogans and chants of "Free, free Palestine!"
O'Neill concluded that the contrasting messages, "reveals something important about the Palestine issue…. [It] has become less important for Arabs and of the utmost symbolic importance for Western radicals at exactly the same time."
Actually, it is important to Western leftists and jihadists, which is why the Palestinians only became a salient issue in Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhood began taking control over the opposition movement with Qaradawi's sermon on February 18.
IN A groundbreaking study of the propaganda war against Israel entitled "The Big Lie and the Media War against Israel: From Inversion of Truth to Inversion of Reality," published in Jewish Political Studies Review in March 2007, Joel Fishman showed that the Muslim Brotherhood's propaganda war against Israel, like the Left's propaganda war against Israel, relied heavily on Nazi propaganda against Jews.
The early partnership between the Brotherhood and the Nazis, brought together by Palestinian Arab leader and Nazi agent Haj Amin el Husseini imported European anti-Semitism to the Muslim world. Beginning in the early 1950s, Nazi war criminals immigrated to Egypt. There they recreated much of Josef Goebbels' anti-Semitic propaganda operation for Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Fishman also documented how in the aftermath of World War II, and particularly after Israel's victory in the Six Day War, the Soviets adapted Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda to demonize Israel as the new, collective Jew and in turn demonize the collective Jew as the new Nazi Germany.
Two sources fed the Soviet anti-Jewish/anti-Zionist propaganda machine: former Nazi propagandists in Egypt; and former Nazi propagandists employed by the East German Communist regime. According to Fishman, the messages developed by these ex-Nazi propagandists were the basis for the Soviet campaign to delegitimize Israel which began in earnest after 1967. The call to arms was published first in a Pravda editorial in October 1967. There, Zionism, the Jewish national liberation movement was reviled as dedicated to "genocide, racism, treachery, aggression, and annexation…all characteristic attributes of fascists."
With both the Soviets and the Arabs spewing the same inverted message, it didn't take long for it to become the rage in Europe. Europe's adoption of the Nazi-inspired propaganda in which reality was inverted and Israel – the victim of Arab imperialist, genocidal aggression – became the imperialist, genocidal aggressor was facilitated by France's embrace of the Arab camp after its withdrawal from Algeria and effective withdrawal from NATO.
By 1975, with the UN General Assembly's adoption of the Soviet-Arab sponsored resolution 3379 defining Zionism as racism, most European governments had fallen in line with the Soviet-Arab propaganda war.
They in turn spent the next generation bringing their message to America.
TODAY, THAT message has become the sum total of Europe's Middle East policy. From their massive global funding of anti-Israel NGOs, to their financing of anti-Zionist films, plays, art exhibitions and educational curricula throughout the world and their bankrolling of the Palestinian Authority, the Europeans have put their money where their mouths and well-washed brains are.
As Norway's plan to run the Israeli embassy out of Oslo because its security measures annoy its neighbors; to European authorities' refusal to provide police protection for their threatened Jewish communities; to initiatives like the Dutch Parliament's current bid to outlaw Jewish ritual slaughter all make clear, hatred of Israel runs seamlessly into outright governmental aggression against Jews.
So too, as The Guardian's recent onslaught against the PA for its leaders' willingness to make minor compromises with Israel in the framework of a peace treaty demonstrates, mainstream forces in Britain and throughout Europe now side openly with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in their annihilationist war against the Jewish state.
It is this obsessive campaign against Israel that explains the so-called Middle East Quartet's insistence that the most urgent item on the international agenda is coercing Israel to surrender land and rights to the PA.
Whereas the EU cannot figure out a coherent policy regarding Libya even as Muammar Gaddafi massacres his own citizens and sets fire to his oil fields, Europe's leaders are unified in their firm conviction that the so-called "peace process" must be reinvigorated.
So too, the Obama administration remains incapable of lifting a finger to prevent an Iranian proxy from taking over Bahrain or a consortium of al-Qaida terrorists from taking over Yemen. Obama refuses to take any action to help the Libyan people overthrow Gaddafi. As for Iran, Obama maintains his steadfast refusal to take any action to help the Iranian people overthrow their nuclear-proliferating, terror-supporting regime.
But at the same time, the president and his advisors are absolutely committed to coercing Israel to block Jews from building homes in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and ensuring that everyone is clear that Jews have no legitimate right to our capital city and historic heartland.
As for the Left itself, as Ron Radosh reported in Pajamas Media this week, attendees at J Street's annual post-Zionist confab could barely muster polite applause for the mildly Zionist MKs from Kadima that spoke at the conference.
But they broke into raucous applause when Arab and Jewish anti-Zionist speakers proclaimed that all progress in the region is tied to Israel ending its so-called "occupation."
AND THIS brings us back to 1975, to the boat people in the South China Sea, the killing fields in Cambodia, and the Left that couldn't care less about them.
It could be argued that the Bill Ayres, Howard Zinns and Jean Paul Sartes of the world can be forgiven for their decision to side with the Soviets and their Third World proxies against the US and the Western alliance.
After all, they had nothing personal at stake. The Soviets were not threatening their freedom.
And what did they owe to "unprogressive," "reactionary" people from Southeast Asia who agreed with America that Communism was evil and wished to be free?
But the situation is different today. By waging its war against Israel through Palestinian proxies, the West threatens itself. The Nazi propaganda recycled by the Soviets which has enslaved the peoples of Europe and much of America's intellectual elite has not only turned them into willing participants in the new war against the Jews. It has turned them into instruments for their own destruction.
By focusing their attention entirely on Israel and its imaginary crimes, the Europeans and their American admirers ignore the fact that the Islamic war against Israel is itself a proxy war for global jihad.
That war, informed by the same Nazi propaganda, but refined through the prism of Islamic Jew hatred and totalitarian imperialism, does not see Israel's destruction as its ultimate aim. The jihadists, whom the West so happily ignores and whitewashes, have made it absolutely clear that destroying Israel is but the first skirmish in their great war. Their ultimate aim is the conquest of what remains of Western civilization.


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