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In a world where the consumers dictate your success, you never want to leave money on the table. You don't want a potential customer to remain a potential customer. The key is to turn this person into an active customer, and without understanding them, who they are, what they are looking for, and why they are looking...you WILL BE LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE!
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This is when things become real, and you look back and realize the whole reason why you have been successful....
You took a NICHE and you understood that NICHE!
How do you understand a niche? Well, this is a lot of hard work and does take time. There are many ways in which you can research consumer habits online, including the reasons why the buy, when they buy, and where they buy...
300+ hours... That is the time it would take you to research the material that we provide within each NicheQ report...if you were an expert at research. If you were just starting out, you could probably double this time investment!
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The single most common reason why Internet marketers fail is because they do not have the time to perform adequate research. People are all too eager to advertise industries and keywords that have little chance of making a dime. Rather than invest your hard earned money into a blind market where you rely on trial and error, let NicheQ give you the facts.
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5000+ Niche Keyword List - One of the toughest jobs people have when entering a new niche is finding keywords. These keyword lists are very niche specific, cover many different sub-categories and reveal many topics. If you are in search of some ideas, dig through the keywords within the Niche Keyword Lists and you will have a ton of them!
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25 Niche PLR Articles - The keyword specific, 500-word articles were created with both content and article submission in mind. You can use this articles however you like, whether it be for your website content, article marketing campaigns, email campaigns or you could even resell.
3 Niche PLR Guides - The 15+ page PLR guides are very powerful additions to any campaign and will lead to higher ROI. Offer them as a bonus to your "buyers" or for signing-up to your list. These guides come in both PDF and text format so you have the ability to re-brand them with your own affiliate links. The Niche PLR Guides are industry specific and are very complimentary to any niche related product.
Niche Community Forum - each niche has it's very own private forum where you can discuss anything about that niche with fellow members. Each niche you "unlock" grants you access to a brand new exclusive forum where you can chat about the niche, ask questions, work with others, share additional resources, share insights and ultimately build a profitable campaign.
Private Coaching - Have a question about your niche that is specific to your campaign (and don't want to share it with others)? You can ask one of us (Kyle or Carson) personal questions and we will give you our "straight shooter" answer. We have made $1,000,000's online niche marketing and can definitely point you in the right direction if you get stuck.
Exponential Earning Potential - There are 100,000's of niches out there, all of them with potential to earn you a lot of money. It is possible to make $1,000,000 per year from a single niche...in fact, many companies online make $10's of millions within a single niche. Affiliates and merchants alike will have access to complete industry breakdowns within each NicheQ, and will have the ammunition they need to be highly successful online. The Internet is vast, and with the right "niche" knowledge, so is the earning potential. NicheQ delivers this on every level.
Every month you get to choose the NicheQ that you want to "unlock". We are always adding new NicheQ's within different industries, so you will always have a bunch of different ones to choose from.
Next month you get to unlock another, and so on.
Want to tackle the Dating industry...no problem, choose that NicheQ your first month. Want to try something new the next month, choose your new NicheQ and reveal a brand new industry.
After a year, you will have FULL ACCESS to 12 NicheQ's....which means you will have access to all the knowledge you need to succeed within 12 Niches online...not to mention the 100's of sub-niches that will also be covered within these reports!
In a good way that is (for you anyways). Originally when we started developing NicheQ we thought that it would be a really good valued membership site at around $197/mth! These reports save you thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of work, and each one cost us well over $10,000 to develop, so we knew this was more than fair.
BUT, we changed our minds. Now this decision was based purely on the fact that we like to under-hype and over-deliver with everything we come out with. When we over-deliver, our customers are happy. In fact, we have 1000's of people that buy anything that we come out with just because we don't release anything unless it meets our quality standards (which are very high).
In other words, we do not produce garbage!
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THE FIRST thing I said when I approached this stall, no doubt drawn irresistibly to it by a sudden wave of patriotism induced by the Union Jacks, was (in French) "I imagine you speak English?"
"Ah, non, pas du tout, Monsieur," (Ah, no, not at all, Monsieur) came the answer, very decidedly, as though speaking English would make her hair catch fire. H'm. This seemed bizarre to me, a stall calling itself So British and proclaiming itself to be an outlet for good British things to eat.
NO, IT'S not easy, writing a Christmassy piece before Christmas has come along. It just makes you think, though: all those Christmassy bits in the media must all be illustrated with pics from earlier festive seasons. They have to be ghosts of Christmas past, don't they?
We went to Montpellier the other day, towards the end of November. It's the big city for us, 90 minutes distant, over the hills and far away. (Montpellier? 250,000 people. Huge university. Teaching hospitals, a tradition stretching back to the 14th century. Centre of regional government. Municipal opera. Heineken Cup rugby team. Ever-expanding public buildings and tramway system. Showcase of modern civic architecture. Flourished under the leadership of the charismatic (and late) Georges Frêche, slow decline since. French premier league football champions 2011, under the aegis of a local man, Louis Nicollin, boss of the privatised municipal cleansing contractors. Oh yes, and according to Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes came here incognito, in that mystery period between being wrestled into the Reichenbach Falls by Professor Moriarty and his Return, to study coal-tar derivatives. Just thought you might like to know.)
I SHAN'T forget 11/11/11 (Onze-onze-onze if you prefer it in French). An unusual combination of numbers. My son's birthday, as it happens. And a public holiday in France to commemorate the 1918 Armistice marking the end of the First World War. Unlike in the UK, when Remembrance ceremonies take place on the nearest Sunday to November 11th, in France the day itself is a public holiday marked by ceremonies great and small throughout the country. Our village was no exception.


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Brush Control¶
- Set brush size F
- Set brush strength Shift-F
- Rotate brush texture Ctrl-F
You can then either adjust the value interactively or by typing in numbers. After pressing the hotkey move the mouse to increase/reduce the value (additionally with precision and/or snapping activated). Finally confirm (LMB, Return) or cancel (RMB, Esc).
Selection Masking¶
If you have a complex mesh, it is sometimes not easy to paint on all vertices. Suppose you only want to paint on a small area of the Mesh and keep the rest untouched. This is where "selection masking" comes into play. When this mode is enabled, a brush will only paint on the selected vertices or faces. The option is available from the header of the 3D View (see icons surrounded by the yellow frame):
Selection masking has some advantages over the default paint mode:
- The original mesh edges are shown, even when modifiers are active.
- You can select faces to restrict painting to the vertices of the selected faces.
Details About Selecting¶
The following standard selection operations are supported:
- RMB -- Single faces. Use Shift-RMB to select multiple.
- A -- All faces, also to deselect.
- B -- Box selection.
- C -- Circle select with brush.
- L -- Pick linked (under the mouse cursor).
- Ctrl-L -- Select linked.
- Ctrl-I -- Invert selection Inverse.
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In this mode you can select one or more vertices and then paint only on the selection. All unselected vertices are protected from unintentional changes.
Face Selection Masking¶
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The Face Selection masking allows you to select faces and limit the paint tool to those faces, very similar to Vertex selection masking.
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You also can hide selected faces as in Edit Mode with the keyboard Shortcut H, then paint on the remaining visible faces and finally unhide the hidden faces again by using Alt-H.
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Did you know that this year in the United States alone, the number of adults expected to be wearing dentures is a whopping 37.9 million? That's about 4.3 million more people than just 30 years ago!
So, you're not alone if you think you may be headed down that path. Even people that take great care of their teeth sometimes end up requiring dentures, simply due to the many years of wear and tear.
To help you recognize if you may need dentures - now or in the near future - we've provided the top five warning signs that you may require dentures.
Note, if you're currently experiencing warning signs #1, #2 or #3, it may not be too late to save your teeth, assuming you visit a dental provider in a timely manner. However, if you're experiencing warning signs #4 or #5, it may be too late. Regardless, we'd strongly urge you to schedule a consultation with your dentist right away, as there is still some opportunity available for preserving your valuable teeth.
Warning Sign #1: Severe Toothaches
The first and most prominent denture warning sign is a painful toothache that won't go away. This type of nagging toothache could indicate that tooth decay is occurring and has already made its way to your nerve. At this stage, a routine root canal could save the tooth. However, if the decay is too excessive, you'll need a dental implant or partial denture. So, it is important to promptly visit your dentist if you are experiencing any tooth discomfort. It may be the difference between saving your original teeth or requiring dentures.
Warning Sign #2: Inflammation and Bleeding of the Gums
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The political ascent of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has created some unease in Washington, and in an attempt to counter that, the group dispatched a delegation to the U.S. capital this week for meetings that range from administration officials to think tanks and universities.
The Brotherhood has rapidly evolved into a powerful political force since former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power in February of last year.
Since then, the Brotherhood has won parliamentary elections and just last week announced that it would be fielding a presidential candidate, despite saying previously that it wouldn't do so.
The delegation from the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, which includes three men and a woman, is on something of a charm offensive. But at an event Thursday at Georgetown University, the group was pressed on its vision for Egypt's future.
"It's not necessarily just a PR campaign, but mainly we would like to get to know one another more," said Dr. Abdul Mawgoud Dardery, a lawmaker who is part of the delegation. He said it's "very important to understand the American concerns and they understand our aspirations as Egyptians, after the Egyptian revolution."
The delegation drew a full house at Georgetown for a program titled, "To Know One Another." The Brotherhood members talked about restoring dignity and hope to the Egyptian people, providing better services and promoting democracy.
Delegation Is Pressed For Details
The group fielded questions for well over an hour as members of the audience tried to nail down the Brotherhood's stand on issues such as women's rights, religious minorities and the role of Islam in government.
It's not necessarily just a PR campaign, but mainly we would like to get to know one another more. [It's] very important to understand the American concerns and they understand our aspirations as Egyptians, after the Egyptian revolution.
"Our interest really is looking at what's best for the Egyptian people," said delegation member Khaled al-Qazzaz. "We evaluate things based on what is good for Egypt in the short term and in the long term."
But audience members continued to press the Islamist group on certain issues.
One asked why the Brotherhood said it wouldn't have a presidential candidate and then changed its mind.
Two members of the delegation said the decision came after much discussion. The Brotherhood selected Khairat el-Shater, a prominent businessman who is already considered to be a strong candidate for the election planned for next month.
Michele Dunne, the director of the Rafik Hariri Center at the Atlantic Council says the Muslim Brotherhood's flip-flopping is part of the evolution of a group that was banned for so many years. But Dunne says it bears watching, especially as it seeks to rewrite the constitution and consolidate power.
"I hope that in these conversations in Washington this week, these members of the Muslim Brotherhood will hear from American officials about thinking about how they should conduct themselves in power," Dunne said. "In other words, just because you have the majority doesn't mean that you should dominate the process so utterly."
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Steven Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says U.S. officials also need to listen carefully to what the Brotherhood's delegation is saying. He says the Islamist group has been short on detail during its events this week.
"In the ambiguous answers to some of the questions, you got a sense of how things might change on the U.S.-Egyptian front, whether it's related to Egypt-Israel relations or whether it's just on the bilateral relationship," Cook says.
He says if the Muslim Brotherhood holds power, Egypt is less likely to be as cooperative with the U.S. as it was during the Mubarak era. This could have an impact on regional security. Of particular concern to Americans and Israelis is how a new Egyptian government will approach the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
Although the Brotherhood has repeatedly said it will honor the agreement, Cook says the Brotherhood was savvy to send this particular group to the U.S. to make its case. They're fluent in English and comfortable speaking with Americans. Cook says it's unclear whether the delegation is representative of the broader group.
"They said many of the right things, or enough of the right things to make a good impression," he says. "They were convincing on a variety of issues."
But Cook adds that the U.S. needs to judge the Muslim Brotherhood not by what it says in the U.S. but by what it does back in Egypt.
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Solar energy applications are not just the solar electric panels that convert sunlight to electricity, or the majestic large, spinning, wind turbines we see on the great plains or in offshore clusters. Solar applications also include the use of biomass…..organic materials grown and then processed into fuel or useful products.
Here is what the National Renewable Energy Laboratory [NREL] has to say about biomass applications:
- Biofuels — Converting biomass into liquid fuels for transportation
- Biopower — Burning biomass directly, or converting it into gaseous or liquid fuels that burn more efficiently, to generate electricity
- Bioproducts — Converting biomass into chemicals for making plastics and other products that typically are made from petroleum
Biofuels can be used to supplement our energy sources, replace existing petrochemical energy sources, reduce dependence on foreign sources of energy, and reduce the environmental impact/greenhouse gas emissions of petrochemical energy use.
Every time the price of a barrel of oil goes up a dollar, it costs the Navy $31 million in extra fuel costs. The U.S. military is very interested in alternative fuels — in particular, the wood-based biofuels being researched and produced at the University of Maine. Check out this amazing process.
Professor Clayton Wheeler of U of Maine holding a bottle of biofuel made from wood materials. This biofuel can be used as is as a substitute for heating oil or refined a bit more for use as a premium transportation fuel/jet fuel.
It is fascinating to remember Thomas Edison experimented with biomass back in the late 1920s, trying to find common plant materials that could be processed to become a viable substitute for rubber. In his painstaking years of work, Edison and his staff evaluated about 17,000 candidate plant species, to develop a giant cross-bred goldenrod plant that could grow as tall as 12 feet; and whose structure contained about 12% rubber. In 1927, Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone formed the Edison Botanic Research Corporation of Fort Myers. Plants were collected in Florida and throughout the southern United States by field collectors. Plants were grown under controlled conditions in Florida and at Edison's laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey.
Editor's Deep Dive:
- http://www.nrel.gov/learning/
re_biomass.html - http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_
energy/our-energy-choices/ renewable-energy/how-biomass- energy-works.html - http://www.eia.gov/kids/
energy.cfm?page=biomass_home- basics - http://www.biofuelsjournal.
com/articles/University_of_ Maine_Researchers_Work_to_ Develop_Biomass_Jet_Fuel_For_ U_S__Military_-122983.html
Thomas Edison said … "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had more years left."
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A degree of precision in every aspect of the economy impossible before the IoT is one of my fav memes, in part because it should encourage companies that have held back from IoT strategies to get involved now (because they can realize immediate benefits in lower operating costs, greater efficiency, etc.), and because it brings with it so many ancillary benefits, such as reduced environmental impacts (remember: waste creation = inefficiency!).
I'm reminded of that while reading Jeremy Rifkin's fascinating Zero Marginal Cost Economy which I got months ago for research in writing my own book proposal and didn't get around to until recently. I'd always heard he was something of an eccentric, but, IMHO, this one's brilliant. Rifkin's thesis is that:
"The coming together of the Communications Internet with the fledgling Energy Internet and Logistics Internet in a seamless twenty-first-century intelligent infrastructure, "the Internet of Things (IoT)," is giving rise to a Third Industrial Revolution. The Internet of Things is already boosting productivity to the point where the marginal cost of producing many goods and services is nearly zero, making them practically free."
Tip: when the marginal cost of producing things is nearly zero, you're gonna need a new business model, so get this book!
At any rate, one of the three revolutions he mentioned was the "Logistics Internet."
I'm a nut about logistics, especially as it relates to supply chain and distribution networks, which I see as crucial to the radically new "circular enterprise" rotating around a real-time IoT data hub. Just think how efficient your company could be if your suppliers — miles away rather than on the other side of the world, knew instantly via M2M data sharing, what you needed and when, and delivered it at precisely the right time, or if the SAP prototype vending machine notified the dispatcher, again on a M2M basis, so that delivery trucks were automatically re-routed to machine that was most likely to run out first!
I wasn't quite sure what Rifkin meant about a Logistics Internet until I read his reference to the work of Benoit Montreuil, "Coca-Cola Material Handling & Distribution Chair and Professor" at Georgia Tech, who, as Rifkin puts it, closes the loop nicely in terms of imagery:
".. just as the digital world took up the superhighway metaphor, now the logistics industry ought to take up the open-architecture metaphor of distributed Internet communication to remodel global logistics."
Montreuil elaborates on the analogy (and, incidentally, places this in the context of global sustainability, saying that the current logistics paradigm is unsustainable), and paraphrases my fav Einstein saying:
"The global logistics sustainability grand challenge cannot be addressed through the same lenses that created the situation. The current logististics paradigm must be replaced by a new paradigm enabling outside-the-box paradigm enabling meta-systemic creative thinking."
wooo: meta-systemic creative thinking! Count me in!
Montreuil's answer is a "physical Internet" for logistics, which he says is a necessity not only because of the environmental impacts of the current, inefficient system (such as 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions in France), but also its ridiculous costs, accounting for 10% of the US GDP according to a 2009 Department of Transportation report! That kind of waste brings out my inner Scotsman!
Rifkin cites a variety of examples of the current system's inefficiency based on Montreuil's research:
- trucks in the US are, on average, only 60% full, and globally the efficiency is only 10%!
- in the US, they were empty 20% of miles driven
- US business inventories were $1.6 trillion as of March, 2013 — so much for "just-in-time."
- time-sensitive products such as food, clothes and medical supplies are unsold because they can't be delivered on time.
Montreuil's "physical Internet" has striking parallels to the electronic one:
- cargo (like packets) must be packaged in standardized module containers
- like the internet, the cargo must be structured independently of the equipment, so it can be processed seamlessly through a wide range of networks, with smart tags and sensors for identification and sorting (one of the first examples of the IoT I wrote about was FedEx's great SenseAware containers for high-value cargo!)
With the Logistics Internet, we'd move from the old point-to-point and hub-and-spoke systems to ones that are "distributed, multi-segment, intermodal." A single, exhausted, over-worked (and more accident-prone) driver would be replaced by several. It's a little counter-intuitive, but Montreuil says that while it would take a driver 240 hours to get from Quebec to LA under the current system, instead 17 drivers in a distributed one would each drive about 3 hours, and the cargo would get there in only 60 hours.
Under the new system, the current fractionated, isolated warehouse and distribution mess would be replaced by a fully-integrated one involving all of the 535,000 facilities nationwide, cutting time and dramatically reducing environmental impacts and fuel consumption.
Most important for companies, and looping back to my precision meme, "Montreuil points out that an open supply network allows firms to reduce their lead time to near zero if their stock is distributed among some of the hundreds of distribution centers that are located near their final buyer market." And, was we have more 3-D printing, the product might actually be printed out near the destination. How cool is that?
Trucking is such an emblematic aspect of the 20th-century economy, yet, as with the neat things that Union Pacific and other lines are doing with the 19th-century's emblematic railroads, they can be transformed into a key part of the 21-st century "precision economy" (but only if we couple IoT technology with "IoT thinking."
Now let's pick up our iPads & head to the loading dock!
PS: I'll be addressing this subject in one of my two speeches at the SCM2016 Conference later this month. Hope to see you there!
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Read on for results of the UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Kampmann 2 main card...
Underdogs got their moments to shine on the main card of UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Kampmann 2 in Indianapolis, with TUF's poster-boy last-pick Kelvin Gastelum scoring a fast finish and lesser-known Rafael dos Anjos upsetting Donald Cerrone.
Donald Cerrone vs. Rafael dos Anjos
Before their co-main matchup, Donald Cerrone said he didn't know much about his opponent, Rafael dos Anjos." In response, the tenth-ranked lightweight put on a stellar, high-energy show, outboxing the exciting lightweight, controlling the fight and letting everyone – including Cerrone – know plenty about who he is and what kind of fighter he is.
From the get-go, Dos Anjos bounced on his feet while Cerrone stayed more in place, preferring to look for the clinch to unleash knees and uppercuts – which he did most successfully in the first. Standing southpaw, dos Anjos tried to use the body kick that Pettis scored with, but Cerrone wasn't buying. Still, dos Anjos' combinations were short and fast, and a hard right dropped Cerrone. Cowboy stood but dos Anjos got it back to the mat, where he found himself nearly triangled. He tried to get Cerrone's back but wound up in guard instead, again being manipulated into a triangle by Cerrone's unbelievably agile legs. He stayed safe and drew blood before rounds' end with solid elbows from inside guard.
Dos Anjos continued pouring it on in round two, coming forward with body blows and combos as Cerrone used kicks to keep distance. Finally fed up with the Brazilian's onslaught, Cerrone got a takedown midway through the second and tried to escape his flexible foe's half-guard. They met in the middle by standing back up, where Cerrone ate several straights before being taken down himself. Dos Anjos was unable to make much progress from guard, but easily shook off the armbar attempt that ended the round.
In short succession, dos Anjos threw a fake switch-kick followed by a real left, a left-right, a kick to the body and another straight, signaling to the still-stymied Cerrone that he wasn't letting up in the third. And then he worked for the takedown. Cerrone's kicks took dos Anjos off-balance a few times and though the crowd loved them, they weren't damaging.
"Since I moved to California I've worked so hard to become a better fighter," explained dos Anjos. "I had a perfect training camp for this fight and it showed out there." The 28-year-old black belt moves to 20-6 with the defining win (all
three judges had it 29-28), notching victories in nine of his last 11. Cerrone, who was ranked 6th in the division going in, sees his slide to 20-6 (1NC).
Check out dos Anjos' Post-Fight Interview
Kelvin Gastelum vs. Brian Melancon
TUF 17 underdog-cum-winner Kelvin Gastelum did more than prove he could hang in the UFC; he proved he could finish, tapping out Brian Melancon (7-3) in a speedy welterweight thriller.
Two two stocky fighters – 5'8 and 5-9" with nearly identical reaches -- stood like mirror images with Yuma, Arizona's Gastelum in southpaw. Twice Melancon landed right hands, and both times Gastelum answered with takedowns. The two then closed thing ups and exchanged wildly, until a Gastelum left hooks dropped Melancon hard. Gastelum pounced, sunk in the rear-naked, and drew the tap at 2:26.
Gastelum, who dropped to welterweight for the first time for this bout, remains undefeated at 8-0. "I feel great and I'm very happy," he said afterward. "I wanted to show a bit of everything and I think I did that."
Check out Gastelum's Post-Fight Interview
Court McGee vs. Robert Whittaker
Former middleweight Court McGee made it 2-0 at welterweight, edging out fellow TUF winner Robert Whittaker of the Smashes edition in a gritty split decision win.
McGee opened aggressively, showing off the combinations to the body and head that he introduced in his welterweight debut against Josh Neer in February. Whittaker seemed hypnotized, but was fast enough on his feet to avoid most danger. His best weapon throughout was his left straight, though it likely wasn't enough to override McGee's three takedown attempts, one convincing.
McGee dropped Whittaker once in the second with shots, took him down once and continued his relentless peppering of the Australian with body shots. Whittaker seemed willing to wait for McGee to get close enough to retaliate with elbows, which land often but did draw blood. Both men seemed to do best in the phone booth, getting so into things in the second that referee Herb Dean had to physically separate them.
McGee mixed in leg kicks in the third and the points of contact lessened, but generally round three was the same. A more winded Whittaker was staggered a couple of times in the round but also more relaxed and ready with his defensive striking. The crowd cheered the entire final minute, and more loudly when the decision was read.
Judges' scores were 30-27, 29-28 and 27-28 for "The Crusher," who improves to 16-3 overall. Whittaker, just 22, moves to 12-3. "I feel good but I definitely feel like I was just in a fight," said McGee after the war. "My beard looks phenomenal so I can't complain. It was an honor and a privilege competing against Whittaker."
Check Out McGee's Post-Fight Interview
Takeya Mizugaki vs. Erik Perez
Mexican prospect Erik Perez owns the fastest knockout in bantamweight history, but what happens when he faces someone with a chin as solid as his own fists? WEC veteran Takeya Mizugaki answered that question in a three-round Fight of the Night candidate, ultimately handing the 23-year-old his first UFC loss.
The fight started out in reckless, rock-em sock-em style, with both men throwing nonstop hooks and Perez' nose bleeding within the first minute. But perhaps surprised by Mizugaki's chin, his evasive head movement or just the sting of his strikes, Perez went for a takedown roughly 1:40 in. A minute later he got another, and what ensued was largely a battle against the fence for control. Mizgaki got his own takedown late in the round and tried to take Perez' back as Perez recklessly crawled up to his knees.
Round two brought more rock-em sock-ems that definitely rocked both men, as Perez mixed in kicks that couldn't quite find a home on the taller Mizugaki. The Japanese fighter scored repeatedly with right counters from Perez' diverse, if unpolished, attacks, but did slow a bit after eating a huge leaping right hand from "Goyito" and a knee after that. Mizugaki warded off all of Perez' takedown attempts in the second.
The frenzied exchanges continued in the third, with both men again seeming on the verge of finishing. Perez continued scoring takedowns, but it was Mizugaki who locked in a rear-naked so deep that the crowd yelled when Perez escaped. Mizugaki employed heavy pressure against the fence as the clock wound down, breaking only for one last crowd-pleasing Hail Mary flurry from both.
Judges' scores were 29-28, twice for Mizugaki (18-7-2) and once for Perez (13-5). "I felt that people were pushing Perez," said Mizugaki. "I wanted to stop this guy because he had so much momentum coming in. After I survived some of his big shots in the first round I knew I had the advantage."
Check Out Mizugaki's Post-Fight Interview
Brad Tavares vs. Bubba McDaniel
TUF 11 vet Brad Tavares showed off his kick game over three rounds with TUF 17's Bubba McDaniel in a three round middleweight battle that opened the main card.
Tavares, who'd previously shown his ability to control a fight with wrestling, this time used kicks to keep things going his way. He started early, throwing low legs, one of them loud enough to cause winces in the crowd. McDaniel looked for openings, but his only offense was to rush in and try to close the distance, then either muscle things to the fence (which worked early on) or throw leather, which Tavares returned in equal. The kinetic force generated by the latter regularly resulted in the fight hitting the mat, where submission expert McDaniel tried in vain to keep things.
Tavares' kicks continued to work in the second, pushing McDaniel backward, taking the power out of his strikes, reddening his leg and torso and generally keeping him off balance. From the clinch, each man earned one takedown. McDaniel trying to goad Tavares into keeping things on the mat when he wound up on the bottom, but Tavares popped up and continued to damage McDaniel's legs with kicks from above until the referee backed him up so McDaniel could stand.
McDaniel returned the pressure early in the second, landing two solid right hands in a row, but Tavares closed things up and push them to the fence. Both men got a break when one of Tavares' searing kicks landed painfully low on McDaniel, and a remotivated McDaniel then punched his way into a takedown. McDaniel tried to get strikes through from Tavares' guard and half-guard, but the Hawaiian's ability to pressure was on display even from bottom position.
Judges all gave the bout to Tavares with scores of 29-28; he improves to 11-3 overall and 6-1 in the UFC. "It was a frustrating fight," he said. "I couldn't find his chin; I didn't get to show off my ground game like I wanted to." McDaniel's record dips to 21-7.
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Bad boys, bad boys, whut you gon' do? Whut you gon' do when they come for you? The ever wonderful Jon Davis-Hunt is back (where he belongs!) on the Galaxy's greatest this week with a Sinister Dexter cover that simply oozes cool!
Jon is a truly lovely guy and an amazing talent so I was thrilled last year when I heard he'd landed a high profile gig as artist on Clean Room for a little publisher called Vertigo. However, despite my best efforts at getting my clone-o-tron machine working, this meant that 2000AD was robbed of one of it's most exciting droids, albeit temporarily!
Getting such a high profile droid back required something massive, and it doesn't get much bigger than Sinister Dexter finally whacking that fat shite Holy Moses Tanenbaum! Over to Jon to tell us how he went about it
First Sketch – Possible Layout
Ohhh Vic, I've fallen...
"This was my first initial sketch, based on the idea of Sin and Dex making a last stand. However, my wife pointed out that just having them blasting away with their guns reminded her of a host of other covers (many which I had already drawn). She suggested 'Why not try something different – maybe draw them as they would look after a battle had finished'. As always, she was right."
Ha, how pathetic! Jon is so under the thumb! You wouldn't catch m... Oh, hi dear. Nothing! Nothing! Just doing some work. A cup tea? And a sandwich? Of course, right away. Excuse me a minute folks...
Second Sketch – Bruised but not beaten...
Finny and Ramone exposed in this weeks' episode of Dodgy Builders...
"I ran with that idea and almost instantly came up with this layout. I wanted to convey a real '80's action hero' pose. Low angle, Sin and Dex looking cool – almost like they had been in a battle, and more adversaries were possibly on their way, but they were completely undeterred."
"It was at this point that I started to tweak their clothing (particularly Finn's). Sin and Dex have such a strong, iconic look, and their clothes are so important. I kept Dex in a neat, tailored suit, then loosed his tie and roughed it a bit, to give him that slightly night-after-Vegas, almost Rat-Pack look. With Finnegan, I made his clothing more casual and then picked out the red from Dex's suit on his gloves (which I changed to leather) and added baseball boots. I also gave him a more James Dean haircut and chrome aviators. I was just thinking 'make em look as cool as possible'."
"I do all my sketching now straight into Photoshop (although I will still do very small, quick thumbnails, normally in biro on a piece of A4 or A3 paper). When I rough ion Photoshop, I uses a large brush and keep my sketching quick. I'll then drop the opacity of that layer down and sketch again over the top. I'll keep doing this several times (sometimes discarding layers) until I get the proportions and composition correct."
Ramone teabags the invisible man.
"My next step is to start inking over my worked up sketch. I ink completely digitally, using a simple set of Photoshop brushes. I vary brush size, to get a nice gradient and granularity to my line work. I like to vary images now with some heavy blacks (for clothing) but keep faces and hands almost always shadow free. I also like to add more detail to hair and then any clothing or prop features (e.g. clothing seams, gun clips etc)."
Background inks
Cool as der cucumber - oops, wring strip...
"I knew in my head what I'd like the background to be, but hadn't bothered to rough it in (lazy!). Once the figures were drawn, I simply roughed it out very quickly, reduced the opacity of that layer (in Photoshop) and inked it in.""Flat Colours"
Finny models the North East Winter Collection
"I flat in Photoshop. Here I knew that the Red was going to be important, so I added that first, then went in and coloured the remainder of the figures, keeping the palette quiet subdued."
Artist in artistic licence shocker!
"I then added some highlights and shadows. My lighting for this uses a fair amount of artistic license."
"Final Colours"
"And finally, I added all the finishing touches. BOOM!"And here's how the prog looks in your local Thrill Merchant, coooool!!!
Thanks soooooooooo much to Jon for sending the images! Be sure to check his website out at http://www.jondavis-hunt.com/


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New Release Round-Up 10-08-21
Thrice - Horizons/East�-�Epitaph
To emerge from a global pandemic with a renewed sense of situational awareness, hard won insight, and a new album is the kind of move we�ve come to expect from Thrice over the last twenty years. With Horizons/East, Dustin Kensrue and his bandmates address, with candor and courage, the fragile and awkward arrangements that pass for civilization, while inviting us to dwell more knowingly within our own lives. Without surrendering any of the energy and hard edge of their previous albums, they�ve given us a profoundly meditative work which serves as a musical summons to everyday attentiveness. Since forming THRICE with guitarist Teppei Teranishi, bassist Eddie Breckenridge, and drummer Riley Breckenridge in 1998, Kensrue has never been one to back down from a mental fight. This mood is set by the opening synth-driven number �Color of the Sky,� which sounds well-suited to accompany the closing credits of the Stranger Things season finale. Think Flying Lotus giving way to Elbow and setting the listener down in a new dimension. A self-recorded effort, Horizons/East conveys a palpable sense of danger, determination, and possibility.
Reba McEntire - Revived Remixed Revisited�- MCA Nashville
Revived Remixed Revisited is a reimagined collection of Reba McEntire's most iconic songs. REVIVED features exciting new arrangements of fan favorites like �Is There Life Out There� and �Can�t Even Get The Blues� recorded with Reba�s touring band. REMIXED takes songs like �Little Rock� and �I�m A Survivor� and spins them in ways like you�ve never heard Reba before. REVISITED produced by the Grammy� award-winning Dave Cobb strips back songs like �Somebody Should Leave� and �Consider Me Gone� to let the raw power of Reba�s vocals shine and features a long-awaited pairing between Reba and Dolly Parton on Reba�s most famous duet, �Does He Love You.� The collection spans Reba�s entire career and offers something for every Reba fan.
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Illusory Walls�- Epitaph
Sometimes, the best place to begin is at the end. If you really want to dig deep into Illusory Walls, the fourth album by The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, it definitely helps to do that. That�s because epic closer �Fewer Afraid��all�19 minutes, 44 seconds of it�doesn�t just revisit the themes and ideas on the ten songs that precede it, but also offers a self-aware summary of the Connecticut band�s entire history. It�s the conclusion of all the stories within the record as well as a nod�to all the lives that helped make them�little glimpses of everything that�s come before, on both a micro, immediate level, and a�more universal one. �That song is a higher level look at my whole life and the whole world,� explains vocalist/guitarist David F.�Bello, �as well as the album, our band and our discography. It places the band in the context of the rest of the world, as if we�re�listening to everything that came before. It touches on all the themes of the previous songs, but there are also callbacks to songs
from earlier in our career. But in this song, they�re the object, not the subject�I�m talking about a world in which these things�happen, not talking about these things happening.� �Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the band�completed by Steven K. Buttery (drums and percussion), Joshua Cyr (bass/vocals) and Katie�Dvorak (vocals/synth)�had nothing but time to realize the full extent of their musical and thematic aspirations. And so, four years�on from lauded third album Always Foreign, they were able to make what is undoubtedly the band�s most ambitious and epic record to�date. Written and recorded remotely�a first for the band�Illusory Walls takes on the weight of human existence while it�s buckling�under the pressure of today�s near-dystopian society. Personal anxieties and political struggles collide with a series of portentous,�apocalyptic and dramatic tunes, resulting in some of the darkest music the band has made since forming in 2009.
Various Artists - The Best Of Bond...James Bond�- Capitol
The Best Of Bond...James Bond is a compilation featuring celebrated theme songs from the longest-running franchise in the history of cinema. This updated collection includes "No Time to Die" by Billie Eilish, the title theme song from the highly anticipated new film. New additions also include Adele's "Skyfall" and Sam Smith's "Writing's On The Wall," Oscar winners for Best Song in 2013 and 2016, respectively.
Darren Criss - A Very Darren Crissmas�- Decca
Celebrate the holidays with A Very Darren Crissmas! Darren Criss is a multitalented musician, songwriter, Broadway star, and Emmy/Golden Globe-winning actor famous for his award-winning roles on VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY, GLEE, and HOLLYWOOD. His holiday record with Decca Records will be his first full-length album. It showcases creative reimagining of classic tunes and rarely covered hidden gems. Featuring guest artists Lainey Wilson, Adam Lambert, and Evan Rachel Wood.
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James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Silver LP]
We Are Scientists - Huffy
Noah Gundersen - A Pillar Of Salt
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Dr. Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde dead, probably murdered Update 10.2.
Monday, 09 February 2015 11:22
Yesterday medical Dr. Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde died in her homeland Finland by severe cancer all over her body, her Finnish cousin told White TV today. White TVs Dr. Henning Witte talked to Rauni about ten days ago on telephone in Finland, not knowing it was the last time. She complained about that she suddenly got cancer as a result of beaming technology, mind control scalar waves. Her complications got so severe that she was forced to leave her home in Norway to a hospital in Finland, where her caring cousin is living.
Rauni Kilde complained over the rude manner of the Norwegian ambulance and that they refused her choice of Norwegian hospital, and over the doctor at the wrong hospital, which wanted to give her morphine against her will. She was allergic against morphine, which she told the doctor. She said to her friend Elisabeth Nyström Barringer that she was afraid, that the Norwegian hospital would kill her, and that she was better in the Finnish hospital and out of danger for her life.
During the last week it was not possible to talk to Rauni any longer and the doctors indicated death.
Here one of her last emails to a friend sent 14th January 2015:
Thank you XXX,I was badly attacked 17-18.decwith psychotronicweaponslayng at the floor with EXTREME pains until after midnight I had to call an ambulance 19th to go to hospital where malpractice started from first minute,male dr hit my right kidney so hard that My urine wasbloody the next day, for three daysfemale dr did not touch meAT ALL, I had said it all comes from beaming-she said noone will believe you-I said insiders doEven my heart was not listened to...she stood 2-3meters away from me all three days until I said Iwant to go home and did I have a seriousillness now which they have caused with radiation and it was now activated After some bedrest I got assistance to travel with wheelchair to Finland where I will have all tests redoneFinland is not a NATO country having to follow USorders and it is right now much better for me to be here and go tohospital here.In addition my old cat dissappeared and at nightI got a flash vision they hit and smashed her skull with some wooden blanck...Even if they tried toeliminate me-by giving 2 times an injection i was allergic to I WILL SURVIVE says my automatic writing even to be able to perform later.. But it takes time,I am totally out of energy still,mostly in bed all days..Please DONOT sperad the wordbut if you kow any healers I would appreciate to get their help because I try to get better ONLY with altrnative methods and if it would succeed it would be a medical miracle showing the power of thought and healing.Geetings to YYYYYY,too Love and light Rauni
Dr. Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde was very well known all over the world for her enlightening on the topics reincarnation, ufos and mind control. She taught that we must not fear death because there is no real death, only that the astral body and the soul leave the human body. She knew because she had out of body experiences.
She was a very courageous woman and suffered from many attempts to her life and harassment of all kinds, especially electronic harassment. The dark forces did not like her eye-opening work for humanity.
Dr. Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde with Elisabeth Nyström Barringer at the first world conference on mind control in Brussels 20th November 2014 (photo Henning Witte)
When Henning Witte met Rauni Kilde personally the last time on the Covert Harassment Conference in Brussels the 20th November 2014 she was very fit and healthy. No sign of illness especially no cancer; take a look to her body language in the video below when she was giving her last speech on chips in mind control.
Rauni and Henning sat together with ti Magnus Olsson on the board of EUCACH, the first association for European targeted individuals (ti), victims of electronic harassment, mind control. The dark forces had severely pushed for an other candidate to join the EUCACH board in order to control it, but Rauni Kilde and Henning Witte stand firm. Here could be a reason to murder her to open the way for puppets of the dark side, as they did with all the other mind control groups, especially the German one.
A second reason to kill Rauni Kilde could be her last book. She had complained about problems with her publisher, which caused a severe delay of the book. We can only hope it will be published in a way that Rauni wanted. She was the only author.
The death of Dr. Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde is a huge loss for humanity, because no one combined so much knowledge and pedagogical skills as she to explain the most secret topics of the world.
Rauni we miss you terribly! Thank you for all your efforts and gifts to all of us! You really made a difference! See you soon!
Svensk översättning av det här inslaget hittar ni hos Yrsa Häggströms viktiga sida Bakom Kulisserna:
Watch at White TV: Dr. Rauni Kilde on chips in Mind Control;
Läkaren Dr. Rauni Kilde förklarar Mind Control;
Världens första Mind Control konferens i Bryssel;
Ny europeisk förening för targeted individuals/Mind Control: EUCACH;
USA misstänks mördad Hugo Chavez då cancer kan induceras med strålningsvapen;


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By: Joseph Jacobs, M. Abrahams
House in London founded by order of Henry III. in the year 1232 to provide a home and free maintenance for Jews converted to Christianity. As, up to 1280, on conversion all their property was escheated to the king, they were left destitute. The buildings and the chapel attached to them were erected in Chancery Lane, London, on the site now occupied by the rolls office. The hope was entertained that by the establishment of this refuge there would result a conversion en masse of the English Jews. The conception of the scheme for the Domus originated with the clergy, a similar institution on a much more modest scale having been commenced by the clergy of Southwark in 1213. A chaplain was appointed to instruct the converts, and a warden ("custos"; in Norman French, "le gardien") to attend to their temporal affairs. Each male inmate received 1½d., equal to about 2s. 6d. of the present currency, and each female 1d. During the fifty-eight years that elapsed from the time of the founding of the Domus until the year of the great expulsion (1290), about a hundred Jews in all participated in the benefits of the institution—a small proportion of weaklings out of the 16,000 Jews in England. All the expenses of the Domus were borne by the royal treasury, while some of the bishops left bequests to augment its funds. In addition to these sources of income a poll-tax, called the "chevage," was levied upon all Jews above the age of twelve in support of their converted brethren. The treasury grant amounted annually to £202.0.4 (in present currency about £4,000). At times this contribution was not forthcoming; and the "conversi" were reduced to sore straits of poverty. In 1271 the king addressed a letter to the mayor of London and to the warden of the Domus, complaining of numerous irregularities in the management of the house; and it was not until the year 1280, under the custos John de St. Denys, that definite regulations for the control of the institution were drafted. In 1281 a rabbi of Oxford, Belager by name, entered the home. Nine years later, when the expulsion of the English Jews took place, the number of converts stood at eighty.
The value of the history of the Domus after the year 1290 consists in the testimony that its records afford of the steady stream of Jews into England in spite of the edict of expulsion. A few of these persons allowed themselves to be baptized, and accepted the shelter of the Domus. These people came from France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and the Barbary states.
In 1305 there were twenty-three men and twenty-eight women, whose baptismal names are all known, residing in the Domus. From 1331 there exists a series of manuscripts in the rolls office giving valuable information upon the important subject of the presence of Jews in England from the reign of Edward I. to that of James I. These documents range themselves under three heads: (1) orders for the admission of a convert, frequently supplying personal details; (2) the statement of annual expenses of the warden, who from about the year 1330 also held the post of master of the rolls (in these returns the names of the converts are inserted); (3) a large number of receipts, some signed in Hebrew, given once a year by the converts.
Names of Converts.In 1330 there still remained eight men and thirteenwomen from the pre-expulsion period. By the year 1353 the Domus possessed only one convert, a woman named Claricia of Exeter, who had been admitted several years before the expulsion. She died in 1356; and a month after her death a Spanish Jew, John of Castile, found his way to England and the Domus. From the year 1330 until 1393 eighteen men and two women were admitted. Two of these, Aseti Briarti and Perota Briarti, of France, were husband and wife; while Thomas Levyn (Levi), of Spain, ran away suddenly after a stay of thirty-two days. In 1399 a woman named Elizabeth, described as the daughter of Rabbi Moses, episcopus Judæorum," joined the converts. She remained for seventeen years, and married a London tailor named David Pole. In 1409 two women, a mother and her daughter, who had apparently been living in Dartmouth for some time, were admitted into the Domus. There is no indication in the records of how they came to be in Dartmouth or of their native country. The mother, Johanna, died after a stay of forty years, and the daughter, Alice, after forty-five years. The longest period of residence was that of Martin, son of Henry of Woodstock (1413-68); while other converts who lived in the Domus for many years were John de Sancta Maria of Spain (1371-1405), Henry of Stratford (1416-41), John Durdragt of Dordrecht, Holland (1425-55); John Seyt (1448-88), Edward of Westminster (1461-1503), and John Fernando of Spain (1487-1503). In the year 1400 there were two inmates; by 1450 this number had grown to five; and in 1500 there were four converts. The expulsions from Spain and Portugal appear to have had little effect in increasing the number of residents of the Domus. A woman called Elizabeth Portingale (of Portugal) is mentioned in the records from the year 1492 to 1538, Edward Scales from 1503 to 1527, and Elizabeth Baptista from 1504 to 1532. In the latter year two women were admitted, and were given the names "Katherine Wheteley" and "Mary Cook." In 1506 Thomas Cromwell, the vicar-general of Henry VIII., who had been appointed master of the rolls and warden of the Domus Conversorum, lived in the home.
After 1551, in which year Mary Cook died, the Domus remained empty until 1578, when an interesting convert, Nathaniel Menda (formerly called Jehooda Menda), was admitted. He remained till 1608. This man had come from the Barbary states and had been publicly baptized in London by John Foxe, the author of the "Book of Martyrs." The receipts given by Menda for his annual pension are, with one exception, all signed in Hebrew characters. In 1581 Fortunati Massa (originally "Cooba," i.e., Jacob, Massa) joined Menda until 1598. The presence of these two quondam Jews in the Chancery Lane home is coincident with the production of Marlowe's "Jew of Malta" and Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice."
In 1598 Philip Ferdinandus, a learned Polish Jew, became a recipient of the benefits of the Domus. This man had been professor of Hebrew at Oxford and Cambridge, and later on at Leyden University. He died in the Domus in 1600; and three years later there entered Elizabeth Ferdinando, perhaps the widow of Philip. In the year of the Gunpowder Plot, Arthur Antoe was admitted, and in the following year, Jacob Wolfgang, a German.
The records end at the year 1608; and summing up the results of these investigations it is foundthat from the year 1331 to 1608 thirty-eight men and ten women entered the Domus Conversorum, while mention is made in the records of the period of four other converts of whom nothing is said in the archives of the Domus.
As late as the year 1717 a London converted Jew petitioned King George I. for a grant from the funds of the Domus. The buildings once occupied by the converts were later used as storehouses for the rolls of Chancery, and have since been demolished. It is a curious fact that in the year 1873 Sir George Jessel, a professing Jew, was appointed to the post of master of the rolls, which formerly was combined with the office of warden of the home for converted Jews. The last trace of the Domus was legally swept away by an act of the year 1891.
- M. Adler, Tr. Jew. Hist. Soc. Eng. iv.;
- Lucien Wolf, Papers of Anglo-Jew. Exh. i. 53;
- Sidney Lee, in Jewish Chronicle, Jan. 26, Feb. 16, April 27, June 15, 1883;
- Publications of the New Shakespeare Society, series i., 1888;
- C. Trice Martin, Tr. Jew. Hist. Soc. Eng. i.;
- Tovey, Anglia Judaica.


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