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On a village green in The Woodlands, north of Houston, Friday evening, an enthusiastic crowd of approximately a thousand tea partiers joined U.S. Senate hopeful Ted Cruz in a "Yes, We Can" chant parodying the current occupant of the White House and gave a rapturous welcome to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who told the crowd that those "who cling to our guns, God and Constitution" have a friend in Cruz.
A relaxed Cruz, wearing boots and faded Levis, his wife Heidi standing on an outdoor stage with him, told the crowd on a hot, sultry evening they had the power to restore the U.S. Constitution, retake the U.S. Senate, retire Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, repeal Obamacare and "retire President Barack Obama." The crowd responded with a long ovation. "That, my friends, is change we can believe in."
Palin, who endorsed Cruz before the May primary, also mocked Obama, who predicted during a recent Texas trip that the Lone Star State soon would become "a battleground state."
"There will be an Alaskan-sized blizzard on the Brazos before Texas turns blue for Barack," said Palin, who wore dark sunglasses and black boots given to her by Gov. Rick Perry, who's backing Dewhurst. Palin assured the crowd they would all be back on the same team after Tuesday.
Earlier in the evening, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., the leader of the Senate's tea party caucus, predicted a landslide Cruz victory.
"We're on the two-yard line," Cruz told the crowd. "It's the very end of the game. We have marched the entire length of the field, we started out deep in our end zone – we started out up at the hot dog stand – and I tell you the other side has brought in the 1978 Pittsburgh Steelers to guard that end zone. But we are facing a battle to push those final two yards. I gotta tell you that collectively when the men and women here got us to this runoff, there was a collective shriek of terror from the Austin political establishment."
Palin spent most of her 20-minute remarks lambasting Obama and what she called "the permanent political class" in Washington. Palin called Cruz's election "a come-to-Jesus moment."
"There is good news," she said, "and that is, there is nothing wrong with America that a good, ol' fair election can't fix."
She described Cruz as "a proven, common-sense constitutional conservative, and he's a fighter and he will bring new leadership to the United States Senate. He will shrink government, he will be putting government back on the side of the American working man and he will defend the Constitution."
"Ted is not going to D.C. to make nice with the foo-foo, chi-chi cocktail crowd," she said. "He's going to do the heavy lifting to rein in our out-of-control government."
Luis Nieto, 72, a retired engineer from nearby Oak Ridge, liked what he heard. "I've already voted for Ted Cruz," he said, "and I'm definitely going to vote against Barack Obama. I've never been a fan of Dewhurst. He goes with the flow. I don't think he really takes a stand against anything."
Palin also injected herself into the Chick Fil-A dustup over its owner's support for traditional marriage. "Jason," she said, talking to an aide, "you're going to have to take me on our way back to the airport later. We drive back a Chick Fil-A. We don't have that in Alaska. Love me some Chick Fil-A. So, we'll go there, Jason, on the way, OK?" The crowd cheered.
Sandy Robinson, 53, a Woodlands business consultant, said she wasn't sure who she supported until her mother-in-law in Dallas complained to her about "some nasty TV ads that Dewhurst was running. She was thinking they didn't reflect the character of a man that ought to be in the U.S. Senate. Because my mother-in-law's pretty sharp, she convinced me. Before I talked to her, I couldn't really find the differentiation between the two men."
Robinson said she had voted earlier in the day for Cruz. "They're both Republicans, so I don't thing we could go too far wrong either way."


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Penn State York's Drama Club takes to the stage for David Ives' popular and critically acclaimed collection of one-act plays, "All in the Timing." The performances are set for 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Dec. 1 and 2, in the campus' Pullo Family Performing Arts Center. The performances are free to all Penn State students with ID and $5 to others. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
"All in the Timing" has been celebrated for its comic ingenuity, for its ability to explore and challenge conventional views of language, time, history and drama. According to "The New York Times," Ives is "wizardly…magical and funny…a master of language." "Time" magazine writes that Ives' work "aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart … Ives is a mordant comic who has put the play back in playwright."
The five plays to be performed are "Sure Thing," "The Philadelphia," "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," "Arabian Night" and "The Universal Language." Members of the cast are Penn State York students and Drama Club members.
"Sure Thing" is a contemporary comedy about two people who meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love. The cast features Adam Sontag portraying Bill and Margaret Kramer as Betty. The director is Josie Moore, instructor in communication arts and sciences at the campus.
In "The Philadelphia," a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a "Twilight Zone"-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma is to ask for the opposite of what he wants. Characters are Al, played by Jacob Brown; Marcus, played by Tyler Stonesifer; and the waitress, played by Caitlyn Hughes. The play is directed by Ivana Greene, a Penn State York student.
"Death of Trotsky" fictionalizes the death of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky on the day of his demise as he desperately tries to cope with the mountain climber's ax he's discovered in his head. The cast includes Joseph Dickerson as Trotsky, Jenn Montooth as Mrs. Trotsky, and Julius Ludena as Manuel. The play is directed by Stuart Stelly, instructor in English at Penn State York and adviser for the Drama Club.
In "Arabian Nights," Norman, who is considered completely normal, walks into a shop owned by utterly ordinary Flora, looking for a souvenir of his travels and together they find whirlwind romance, spurred on by a wacky translator. The cast includes Fabiola Miranda as the interpreter, Joe Lombardi as Norman, and Hannah Barlow as Florida. The play is directed by Josie Moore.
"The Universal Language" brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics, and of course true love. Adam Sontag plays Don and Jasmine Graham is Dawn. The play is directed by Stuart Stelly.
For more information on the plays or the Penn State York Drama Club, contact Stuart Stelly at 717-771-4185 or email@example.com.

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FunStuff: Charlottesville events February 23 and beyond
Batters up
Can you believe that UVA Baseball has already begun? But better than that, the boys of spring are opening an incredible 9-game homestand on Tuesday the 21st of February with additional games on the 24th, 25th, 26th, 28th as well as the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of March. March 3 is a particularly big day, as it's a "Cavman's Crew Day" with bonus activities for kids, and there are back-to-back games that day: first against Seton Hall and then against Wright State.
March 3, Davenport Field, noon and 3pm, $8 adults & $6 kids
Tainted love
Love modern dance? Well, here's your chance to catch an excerpt from a new work called "True Love" by the visiting Starr Foster Dance Project. Here, seven company dancers promise a jaded view of "relationships that have been adorned by delusion, lust and deceit." With choreography by Starrene Foster and an original score by Bentley Cobb Jr., it happens under the watchful eye of Miki Liszt whose venerable dance company, for 31 years located in downtown's McGuffey Art Center, has just moved to studio #11 within the building. Best of all, this happens amid the bustle of First Fridays with two performances, each one followed by a Q&A with the performers.
March 2, McGuffey Art Center, 6pm and 7pm, $8
'Cutch is back
The Renaissance Man of the folk world, the formerly Charlottesville-based master instrumentalist and storyteller John McCutcheon, returns for a concert at Piedmont Virginia Community College. This oft-nominated guy plays banjo, guitar, fiddle, autoharp, and the instrument he helped popularize, the hammered dulcimer. And here's a nice little detail we just learned: Johnny Cash once called him "the most impressive instrumentalist I've ever heard." Find out this Saturday if you agree.
February 25, V. Earl Dickinson theater, 7:30pm, $15/$10
Coffee and classic cars
You've heard of first First Fridays, but soon folks may be talking about "first Saturdays," as a bunch of classic car lovers have decided to descend upon C'ville Coffee, from March to November, for an informal cruise-in. "There is no judging, trophies, or DJs playing loud music; and it doesn't last all day," says a release. Instead, it's like a pick-up basketball game– for early risers. The idea is that it'll continue on the first Saturday of the warmer months. "The event is open to the public and it's all free, except the coffee." The inaugural event happens in March at this popular Harris & McIntire caffeinery.
March 3, C'Ville Coffee, 7-9am, free
Humanistic religion?
"Are certain forms of evil 'unthinkable?' Is evil beyond the realm of ethical evaluation?" When Phi Beta Kappa sponsors a lecture, you know your gray matter is ready for a workout. This time, the speaker is Dr. William Schweiker, a well-known bridger of religion and humanism as well a faculty member at the University of Chicago Divinity School. In Charlottesville, he'll try to provide answers to the above questions by discussing religious myths about evil and the reality of evil in human experience. This Thursday afternoon event happens in an usual location for most Charlottesvillians: inside "Hotel C" on the hallowed UVA Lawn's West Range, off of McCormick Road near Alderman Library.
February 23, Jefferson Hall, 4-6pm, free
A sticked Ensemble
The UVA Jazz Ensemble kicks off the new year by bringing in Greg Howard, the well-known king of the Chapman Stick, to headline its winter concert on Saturday night. If the words "Chapman Stick" are drawing blank stares, that's the unusual stringed thing which is played, as music writer Vijith Assar has noted, using "Van Halen-style fretboard tapping." Directed by local trumpet god John D'earth and performing in the building at the South end of UVA's hallowed Lawn, the Jazz Ensemble will perform several originals by Howard as well as classic jazz including Thad Jones' composition "Backbone," D'earth's arrangement of Charles Mingus' "Reincarnation of a Lovebird," and "500 Miles High," Chick Corea's fusion classic.
February 25, Old Cabell Hall, 8pm, $10/$5
Scratched art at Blue Moon
If the local art scene sometimes seems a little trapped in the ivory tower, here's an exhibition that reaches into a fun part of Charlottesville: the restaurant scene. It's a series of portraits of local chefs and restauranteurs. But it's also a whole new medium using pastels and then removing layers that artist Bart Lanman has created called Scribble Scratch. "It's not just a technique," he says. "It's a mode of experience, a mode of expression." And on Friday March 2nd, it gets its unveiling with a cash bar amid free finger foods at a favorite West Main Street diner.
March 2, Blue Moon Diner, 6:30pm, free
Virginia Festival of the Book
It's not here just yet, but you might wanna start planning for this event that brings together noted authors and eager author-meeters, which now celebrates its 18th anniversary. This year's Festival hotshots–- besides the winner of the John Grisham-judged Hook short-story contest–- include historian Ed Ayers, Grundy native Lee Smith, Ian Fleming successor Jeffery Deaver, and NBA icon Jerry West (along with his co-author, Charlottesville's own Jonathan Coleman).
March 21-25, all over town, various times, mostly free
Hand-cranked Airplane?
Could there really be an American blues-rock band spun out of Jefferson Airplane? Oh yeah. It's Hot Tuna, and was built by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, and they're bringing an acoustic show to downtown's ever-zesty Jefferson Theater. What started back in 1969 as a side project when Airplane front-lady Grace Slick was recovering from throat surgery has remained loyal to the blues, jazz, bluegrass, and folk influences of the small clubs where these guys got their start before Airplane (later Starship) become the monster success it was.
March 1, Jefferson Theater, 7pm doors open, $32/$35
Impact, indeed
Imagine a "wrestling" league that's been said to include has-beens and trouble-makers tossed out of the other big professional "wrestling" league, WWE, and you have some idea of the "Superstars" who are going to Charlottesville's biggest venue on Sunday. Yes, it's Total Nonstop Action Wrestling– perhaps better known as TNA– which brings its live world tour as seen on Spike TV. And get this: "The loudest Charlottesville fans will be invited backstage for a special Impact Wrestling experience." Don't say they didn't warn you.
February 26, John Paul Jones Arena, 6pm, $22-52
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So I realized after posting about tips to beat the summer heat that there was one thing I hadn't mentioned: Coast when you can! This is probably because I often forget to do this myself. You know those small dogs who, when held above the water, automatically start paddling?
That's me when my feet are placed above bike pedals.
But here in Nashville, the upside of all the hills are all the downhills! (Well, I guess technically the downhills are the downside, not the upside, but you know what I mean.) And when it's hot, I try to remind myself to take a break from pedaling and glide down them.
Are you a phantom pedaler too? Make me feel less alone here. :)
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Larmer Tree Festival 2011 Review, Friday: Bellowhead, Russell Kane, Yoga, Bane
There was a plethora of music and activities to enjoy on Friday at Larmer Tree Festival: loved one man drama Bane, folk from Goodnight Lenin, Bellowhead and Kidnap Alice... and quiffed comedian Russell Kane rocked my world.
Written by Amelia Gregory
Russell Kane by Finn O'Brien.
We woke up early on Friday at Larmer Tree Festival, order baked out of our tent by the brilliant sunshine… and turned up to witness the very end of the traditional morning yoga session on the main lawn… hundreds of people sat on mats in front of the Garden Stage in what has apparently become a Larmer Tree ritual. That was swiftly followed by Tai Chi… see if you can spot Tom Leadbetter. I'm gutted I didn't get to sample these classes, viagra but rain was to blight Larmer for the rest of the weekend.
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At last week's Hannover Fair, ODVA announced two initiatives to strengthen industrial Ethernet standards for process automation, along with a working group that will take a look at exchanging information between machines to optimize machine integration.
Process automation focus
ODVA members, including Cisco Systems, Endress+Hauser, Rockwell Automation, and Schneider, are collaborating to improve and accelerate the adoption of EtherNet/IP in process systems. The first goal is to provide end users with a complete Ethernet solution and choices starting with connectivity down to field-level devices. Longer-range plans would expand standards into a more complete portfolio covering issues such as safety, explosion protection, long distances, and extensive diagnostic coverage.
Katharine Voss, executive director for ODVA, said at the show that acceptance of EtherNet/IP has created convergence between automation platforms for discrete and hybrid applications. Based on this experience, the next logical step is to address standards that would fulfill a spectrum of process industry requirements. ODVA's plans include the formation of a working group to determine strategic market requirements for new areas of technical work, and the completion of a white paper to describe its vision and technical approach to process automation.
Machinery information standards
A special interest group has also been formed to look at new standards for the exchange of information between machines and between machines and supervisory systems. The goal is to develop new data models and network services to address areas such as production, energy, condition monitoring, business intelligence, batch and recipe management, and multi-line machine control.
One focus is models for logically grouping machines' attributes and the services required for effective data exchange. This would allow heterogeneous systems using EtherNet/IP and CIP, servos III, and/or OPC UA to use a technology-neutral approach to developing reporting methods and tools.
Voss said the working group will further the vision of how the optimization of machinery standards can define open and interoperable standards for the integration of machinery assets into the production domain. The first step is to study the information and communication technology needs for use cases related to machine-to-supervisory communication. Future work will address the use cases related to machine-to-machine communication.
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FDA looks to revamp nutrition labels
They're supposed to help consumers make healthier choices, but a lot of the time, the nutrition labels on packaged foods end up confusing people.
"What I always tell people is that the only shortcoming of these labels is that they don't come with a dietitian to explain what they mean," said Erica Christ, a dietitian and certified diabetes educator at Greenwich Hospital.
The current labels, she said, look like a bunch of meaningless numbers, and people often have to be walked through them to get the information they need. Other nutrition experts agreed that the labels are outdated and unhelpful.
It looks like officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration feel the same way.
The FDA is looking to change the nutrition fact labels that appear on packaged foods. Among other things, calories and the number of servings per container would be listed in larger type, which Christ said was encouraging.
Also, serving-size guidelines would be changed to reflect how much people actually eat and drink.
"When you get a 20-ounce soda, the label says it's 2 1/2 servings," said Judy Prager, president of the Connecticut Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
"But I don't know anybody who would only drink eight ounces. They drink the whole thing."
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants feedback on its proposed changes to the nutrition labels. The proposed new guidelines will be published in the federal register for a 90-day comment period; to read them and comment, visit FDA's official docket at www.regulations.gov.
It makes sense to make serving sizes realistic, said Prager, of New Fairfield.
The labels were developed about 20 years ago, and other than requiring in 2006 that manufacturers include trans-fat information, there hasn't been an update.
"It's long overdue," said Dana White, clinical assistant professor in Quinnipiac University's athletic training and sports medicine program.
"I think this is definitely a step in the right direction," Gavin Pritchard, a registered dietitian and chef at Stamford Hospital, said of the proposed new labels. "I think people are wanting more information, and more-helpful information."
Other proposed changes include requiring information about the amount of "added sugars" in a food product. The FDA also plans to eliminate the "calories from fat" on its label, as research shows that the type of fat is more important than the amount. Listings for saturated fat, trans fat and total fat would still be included.
The FDA is accepting public comment on the proposed changes for 90 days. If the FDA follows that period by implementing new labeling requirements, packaged-food producers would be given two years to comply.
The changes would affect all packaged foods except certain meat, poultry and processed egg products, which are regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Although nutrition advocates were mainly positive about the proposed changes, some have reservations. Christ said she worried that people still wouldn't understand the labels and could even be confused by the larger serving sizes.
"The fear I have is that people will see the larger number as the amount they're supposed to eat," she said.
Prager said she's also concerned that people won't understand the new labels.
"I really hope the government is going to provide some sort of education on how to use these," she said.
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Skeleton cruise: House edges closer to demolition
It had a full life for more than a century as home to various members of the Coles family, but the house at 1301 Park Street is now just a skeleton.
Stripped of its marketable parts– including siding, floors, and appliances– the house has a decidedly haunted air about it.
"You could probably go by and push it over," says Hannah Sylvester, spokesperson for Southland Homes, which purchased the place from Weather Hill homes earlier this fall. (Weather Hill bought the house from the Coles family and had planned to put a 54-unit townhouse project in its place; Southland has essentially taken over the same plan.)
So what's the demolition hold-up?
Sylvester says Southland is waiting for demolition permits from the city. As soon as they arrive, says Sylvester, the walls will come tumblin' down.
Jerry Tomlin in the City's building permit department says the city is waiting for a response from utility companies and will issue the demolition permit as soon as it gets confirmation that utilities have been disconnected.
For the Coles family, demolition means the end of an era.
Rod Coles, the last of the family to occupy the historic dwelling, most recently used it as a recording venue, Studio 1301, for acts including the Hackensaw Boys and Richmond-based Meanflower.
But while Coles is sorry to see the house demolished, he's resigned to the idea.
"I don't see the house as a landmark or anything," he said back in August, "nothing you would put a plaque up for. It was really just a guy in his room doing something he was passionate about. Now I'm out of my room."
AFTER: Once a recording studio, the Coles family house at 1301 Park Street is almost gone.


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Microsoft CEO should be ...January 23, 2014: 2:08 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
Microsoft is still searching for a new CEO to replace Steve Ballmer. But I have a suggestion. Hire Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen.
I'm a bit surprised that Narayen's name hasn't been mentioned at all.
For one, Adobe (ADBE) and Microsoft (MSFT) both share a common enemy in Apple (AAPL). The late Steve Jobs famously wrote about the many misgivings of Adobe's Flash media player in a blog post in 2010.
Interestingly though, Adobe has evolved in the past few years and is no longer a "Flash" in the pan. Under Narayen's leadership, the company has successfully morphed into a cloud computing powerhouse. And that's exactly what Microsoft needs to do.
Related: Steve Ballmer's legacy at Microsoft
I wrote in November about how Adobe's stock was at an all-time high despite some serious security problems related to its software.
The reason why Wall Street was willing to look the other way on the breach was the excitement about Adobe's growing cloud revenue for its creative suite of tools, such as Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat.
Adobe is abandoning the "old" model of selling software in shrink-wrapped packages at retailers in favor of a subscription model. And guess what? Investors are even more enthusiastic about Adobe's prospects now than a few months ago.
Since my November column, Adobe shares have gone up another 8%. Microsoft's stock has fallen 4% in the same time frame.
And looking even further back, it's clear that Wall Street likes Narayen -- who has been with Adobe since 1998 and was named CEO in 2007 -- and is not a fan of Ballmer.
Now, there are also several internal candidates at Microsoft who could be a good fit to fill Ballmer's corner office.
First is Stephen Elop -- the ex-Nokia (NOK) CEO who has rejoined Microsoft now that Mister Softee is buying the device business of Nokia.
Former Skype head Tony Bates is also said to be on the shortlist. Microsoft bought Skype in 2011 and Bates is now a Microsoft executive VP.
Finally, there's Satya Nadella, who heads Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group.
Of those three, I think Nadella makes the most sense -- for precisely the same reasons why I think Narayen would be a great choice.
Related: Microsoft is one of the stocks in CNNMoney's new Tech 30 index
Forget about how Microsoft is embracing hardware more with its own tablets and the Xbox/Kinect home entertainment franchise.
Forget about Bing and Microsoft's many other mostly mediocre online offerings.
Microsoft is still, at its core, a software company that caters to big business. And doing that well in the 21st century means embracing a subscription model and the cloud.
Office can still be a cash cow but Microsoft has to really go all-in on the cloud if it wants to stay competitive in a world where Google's (GOOG) Docs are starting to gain more and more users.
So why do I think Narayen is a better pick than Nadella? It seems pretty clear that investors would prefer that Microsoft hire someone from outside the company. Plus, Narayen already has experience as the top dog of a public company.
Think about it. If Microsoft really was that excited about one of its in-house candidates, wouldn't it have already named one of them to succeed Ballmer?
Instead, we were subjected to numerous speculative reports about Ford (F) CEO Alan Mulally rescuing Microsoft. That pipe dream finally seems to be put to rest. It only took about 408 denials from Mulally and other Ford sources.
Related: Mulally quashes Microsoft rumors again
But there also has been chatter recently that Microsoft may be considering Ericsson (ERIC) CEO Hans Vestberg.
And you have to think that Microsoft also seriously looked at Qualcomm (QCOM) COO Steven Mollenkopf for the job. Last month, Qualcomm announced it was promoting Mollenkopf to be its CEO -- one day after a Bloomberg report suggested that Mollenkopf was in the running for the Microsoft top spot!
This is not a knock against Nadella or any other internal candidate. But Microsoft probably should look outside the company.
Related: Can activist investor Jeffey Ubben shake up Microsoft?
Some fresh blood and a new perspective would not be the worst thing in the world for the company. Just ask shareholders of Yahoo (YHOO). Marissa Mayer still can't do anything wrong.
And then there's BlackBerry (BBRY). New CEO John Chen -- who was not a BlackBerry lifer -- has excited investors during his short tenure.
The stock is up more than 35% this year -- although admittedly from a low base. That's mainly due to hopes that the worst may be over and that Chen could work his turnaround magic just like he did at Sybase.
One final thing in Narayen's favor? He probably has a good understanding of the inner workings of Microsoft considering the 2010 rumors that Microsoft wanted to buy Adobe.
Now I doubt that Microsoft is going to take my advice. But I think it would be making a big mistake if it did not reach out to Narayen. He's got the most relevant experience that the company needs and he's an outsider. At the very least, Wall Street would probably love the move.
Reader Comment of the Week! This week's winner is getting the award for a sports-related tweet ... that isn't about Richard Sherman! Imagine that. In fact, it's not even about the Super Bowl. It's about a lowly basketball team playing in the capital of California.
The Sacramento Kings may be the most high-tech team in sports thanks to the recent news that it's accepting Bitcoin and will be featuring Google Glass as part of their broadcasts.
But their 15-26 record is not very regal. It's certainly not befitting of the sky-high prices for Bitcoin and Google.
That's why one Twitter follower joked that the Kings need to return to their roots.
I like it! They could then change their name to the Kansas City Fiber ... brought to you by Google.


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Prophecies and Predictions
"only now in the new millennium everything gets even worse, because nature will revolt even more mightily against your environment-destroying insanity and will reach a scale equal to the primeval times of the Earth."
Billy, May 2009
The prophecies and predictions have a mixed origination when taken together, but are always individually labelled. They may originate from the mouth's and minds of extraterrestrials; Asket, from the DAL-Universe; Sfath, Ptaah, Semjase and Quetzal from Erra / Plejades / Plejares. From impulse transmissions received by Billy from the highest-Spirit-form plane which is called Petale, subsequently written down word for word by him. From individuals in ancient times and prehistory, where then the texts have been retrieved by the Plejaren from the either the Storage Banks or their own records and translated into a modern understandable language and form, into German. And they may also partially originate from Billy's own calculations.
There are essential differences in the definition of the words Prophecy, Prediction and Probability Calculation. The source of the translation and translator may differ. The differences between the English and German languages makes a perfect translation near impossible, and it's especially apparent with these particularly complicated texts.
List of texts containing;
Prophecy (Prophezeiung), Prediction (Voraussage), Probability Calculation (Wahrscheinlichkeitsberechnung), Visiting the future (Zukunftsreise), Vision of the future (Zukunftsvision), Future-dream (Zukunftstraum), Clear-dream (Klartraum), True-dream (Wahrtraum).
Chronological order by original authoring date, not by first published date.
- Contact Report 215 - The Henoch Prophecies - Henoch, ~9000 BC, presented by Quetzal, 28th February 1987.
- Contact Report 692 - FIGU Zeitzeichen 085 - Predictions of Hilak, Source PDF (German) - Hilak (Great-great-grandfather of Ptaah), 1446 BC, presented by Ptaah 29th October, 2017.
- Contact Report 230 - Predictions of the Prophet Elia - Elia, ~700 BC, presented by Quetzal, 11th October, 1989
- Contact Report 229 - Predictions of the Prophet Jeremia - Jeremia, ~600 BC, presented by Quetzal, 31st July, 1989
- Talmud of Jmmanuel - Prophecy of Jmmanuel, Jmmanuel, ~90 AD.
- Sfaths Explanation - Sfath, 3rd February, 1945.
- Contact Report 697 - FIGU Zeitzeichen 086 - Talks with Sfath, Source PDF (German) - Sfath, 17th February, 1945, presented by Billy 4/5th January, 2018.
- FIGU Special Bulletin 101 - Talks with Sfath - Source PDF (German) - Sfath, 5th May 1946
- Contact Report 670 - Sfath Predictions - Source - Sfath, 1st September 1948
- Open Letter to all Human Beings of Earth - Source - Billy, 5th July 1951.
- Askets Acquaintanceship - Asket, 3rd February, 1953.
- Askets Explanations - Part 1 - Asket, 3rd February, 1953.
- Askets Explanations - Part 2 - Asket, 7th February, 1953.
- Warning to all the governments of Europe! - Billy, 25th August 1958
- Prophecies and Predictions 1958 - Source - Billy, 24th August 1958.
- Where are you going humanity? - Billy, 16th September 1964
- Contact Report 007 - Semjase, 25th February, 1975
- Contact Report 025 - Semjase, 16th June, 1975
- Contact Report 029 - Semjase, 7th July, 1975
- Contact Report 031 - Semjase, 17th July, 1975
- Contact Report 035 - not translated yet - Help to
- Contact Report 038 - Quetzal, 13th November, 1975
- Contact Report 045 - Semjase, 25th February, 1976
- Contact Report 060 - not translated yet - Help to
- Contact Report 066 - not translated yet - Help to
- Contact Report 069 - not translated yet - Help to
- Contact Report 070 - Semjase, 6th January, 1977
- Contact Report 071 - Semjase, 10th January, 1977
- Contact Report 088 - Semjase, 17th October, 1977
- Contact Report 094 - Semjase, Predictions for the year 1978, not translated yet - Help to
- Contact Report 213 - Quetzal and Billy, 2nd December, 1986
- Contact Report 215 - Quetzal and Billy, 28th February, 1987
- Contact Report 236 - Ptaah, 26th April, 1990
- Contact Report 251 - Billy, 3rd February 1995
- A Prediction - Billy, 20th July 2008
- What is announced comprehensively for the third millennium - Billy, 20th August 2008
- 2012 - What we've brought upon ourselves - Billy, 3rd February 2009
- Human being of the Earth it is urgently time to the good - Billy, 21st May, 2009
- Contact Report 544 - Ptaah, 1st September, 2012
- Contact Report 583 - Billy, 19th March, 2014
- Contact Report 620 - Billy, 23rd April, 2015
- Contact Report 625 - Billy, 15th August, 2015
- Contact Report 692 - FIGU Zeitzeichen 085 - Billys Probability Calculations 2017, Source Source PDF (German) - Billy, 29th October, 2017
Prophetien und Voraussagen (Book) in English.
Common misconceptions
List of common misconceptions about the FIGU information by subject
Explanation about the broad subject of why
- The things of the future can and must only be influenced or prevented in the present i.e now.[1] [continue reading]
- Presenting the prophecies and predictions alongside the solutions and remedies in the same way we currently present the German alongside the English, instead of presenting them in separate documents. Some individuals have postulated that this could theoretically reinforce the explanations given about evolution, progress and offer an option. - It doesn't quite work this way, an explanation was included in 'Prophetien und Voraussagen' which says, "nothing would be more paradox than a prophecy of positive a nature, which the recipient would try to influence negatively."[2]
- When Quetzal produced the translations of Predictions of the Prophet Jeremia he rewrote the original source text in a form that would be as close to the original as possible while simultaneously being easily understandable for today's modern readers. He recognised that normal readers would be interested in the core of the message, so didn't insert footnotes about the four year prophet of the new age birth date disparity. The modern reader is capable of realising that Jmmanuels second successor would be born in 1937, according to the chronology of our present calendar. Quetzal's very skilled translation abilities of the German version have been described as refreshing and astonishing how it is even possible to explain details of the future within the limited word range remit of the past for the today.[3]
- Billy, having been given detailed information about his own future has been able to describe forgetting about a future event that has been predicted to you as not normal, but that doing so helps one to lead a normal life. It prevents one from concentrating on things which cannot be avoided and will happen with certainty.[4]
- There are several predictions which have been openly-concealed.
- 1) We will continue to age at an unnatural rate with all of its unknown associated afflictions, such as cancers. It was Taljda (most have only heard of Semjase) who discussed the prediction in Contact Report 184. Numerous discussions about it have been archived (non-exhaustive) on the ageing page. The prediction is particularly monotonous-boring apparently so has rarely been reported as integrally associated with Billy Meier nor as integral to understanding Billy Meier's body of knowledge. It's rarely been investigated by scientists, so few articles can be found on google scholar about it and its not commonly known about in the general population so has never featured as a conspiracy-theory before. However individuals through out history have known about various aspects of the open-secret. The prediction has a similar concealment method as the WCUFO[5] where a no impenetrable art-house enigma with a massive plot twist allowing for emergency escape; has been incorporated into a special fold. The Plejaren presumably have to learn about it during their training else many explanations simply wouldn't make sense to the trainee. What is more; shock and confusion may occur were they not given those evaluations with sufficient clarity. Ptaah in a far more recent contact report (cannoned a different way) has discussed the special formula of delusion 'reality-estranged-naivety',[citation needed] among many thousands of specialist delusions necessary for evolution purposes at various different times and stages. The ageing rate calibration has needing to say been with us for a long time.
- 2) The undiscovered fundamental forces will take a very long time to discover. Billy revealed his oath to keep those secrets confided to him about those undiscovered fundamental forces by identifying the co-ordinates of those secrets as known, in Contact Report 544. In another compartment of the body of knowledge he revealed that the Spirit Teaching is that; whether that will be recognised as being as is or not at some time or another remains undisclosed as being there, openly-concealed, and as being what it is. Living beings are where we'll find the 6th and 7th fundamental forces.
- Only shortly before the prophecy Billy received from Petale on the 30th of January[6] has been fulfilled. Will the recognition that electromagnetic radiation must be curbed immediately and the diesel and lead gasoline engines should be banned as soon as possible because they are really large culprits in the health of nature and humans.[7]
- The eruption of the volcano Vesuvius in Italy, Europe signifies one of several last signs that the long forecast third (fourth)[8] world war/global conflict is imminent in the chronicle of proceeding time. However as it's classified as a prophecy it doesn't necessarily have to be fulfilled/happen and thus could theoretically be avoided with many reasonable preventative actions and decisions by political and military employed individuals.[9] If it does however regrettably breakout the scale described in the prophecies has been estimated as being somewhere between the given collapse of civilization all the way to the destruction to the entire northern hemisphere.[10]
- In Contact Report 670 some of the predictions of Sfath[11][12] from Wednesday, 1st of September, 1948, are presented. Where he explains to Billy that:
4. Further predictions extending beyond the year 1963 and up to the year 2250, which I have fathomed by means of foresights into the distant future, I have recorded in comprehensive annals, which primarily however are only intended for your knowledge and which, at a later time, you can request of those who will come after me.
- There are several future events that have not happened yet (as of 2017) such as tsunamis, tidal surges, inundations and heavy flooding in northern and western Europe, north Atlantic, north America, New York, south Atlantic and Japan. As well as an opposite reversed type of effect where some Atlantic and Pacific islands are lifted higher and out of the water; plate tectonics and earthquakes. He also mentions two dozen volcanoes; Mount Etna, Mount Vesuvius Stromboli, Mount Marsili many of which are submarine.[13]
- Keridwena explored the future through a voraussagen and later gave the information to Myrddin (Merlin)[14] who later called it prophecies,[15] some of which may have been handed down generationally in the form of myth through United Kingdom history.
- Sfath explored Earths future through an extensive investigation which included visits to the actual future. From which he chronicled a series of voraussagens.[16] Later in 1946 this information was given to Eduard (Billy) when he was 9 years old and who later still had it resent telepathically to him allowing him to write the documents we're familiar with (see listing above) which have become synonymous with him. However in 2016 he partially released some of these source documents up to decade 2020[17] with precise omissions in order to avoid unnecessary angst of impending events that will (sometimes need to) occur one way or another prematurely.
- Appreciating the abnormality in Earth's Ageing rate is generally considered necessary in order understand certain aspects of the prophecies and predictions. Such as why prior to the 19/20th century a much smaller minority in society could read and write, to why the mainstream adoption of science has been relatively recent in the scheme of time, to why religions have formed close alliances to governments as a feature we can still observe today, to the formation of our laws, decision, politics, continuous national and international conflict, why social changes including revolutions have always been rapid and why the release of Eduards documents was scheduled for the invention/roll out of the internet in spite of often being too complicated for individuals due to dealing with a rapid succession of events and falling after our time yet being in the graspable near future within the overall scheme of time.[citation needed]
- Overpopulation features prominently in the prophecies and predictions. As does national and international politics even if in a moderated way. The Plejaren have explained how their laws and directives forbid them from certain forms of involvement and how they instead had to embroil individuals from another universe to break those rules in order to prevent a catastrophe that had been building for a long time. Our emphasis on politics and military spending and thinking is pivotal to the unfolding of Earth's future.[18]
- Alternative way of viewing the prophecies and predictions. Over a certain perspective they could be viewed as good and seen positively for future generations but only if their viability for fulfilment has been checked thoroughly. Another way of saying it is that there is probably a good reason why on Erra they don't any longer live near coastlines, mountains, volcano's, floodplains, pollution sources, certain desert biomes etc. presumably because their ancestors had learnt something and decided to pass on that information in a useful form. Well we have not learnt that something yet on certain fronts, but have on other fronts. We will learn and do learn, one way or another if there is danger and there is viability for a reality of the event. The Japanese tsunami of 2011 demonstrates that a great many individuals did know something i.e had learnt about the dangers presented by the local ocean from a compound of historical incidents which had made its way to certain town governors who had built a 40m wall, without that history and scientific advisor's checking they may not have built it. Those that built a 40m wall were slandered for much of their careers as wasting money, a megalomaniac etc. because the norm was to build a 30m wall, seen as sufficient as they'd never experienced a tsunami greater than that before, seen as improbable. So their towns 40m wall became a spectacle of slander up and down the coast for years, but remains there to this day. If events in the prophecies and predictions have their shock taken away from them i.e presented in a religious format "I told you so" and are not checked by scientists and do not test what is known then its probably just as well they happened, because nothing is learnt and on some level we could call those events necessary. With the plagues from the dirty water of the middle ages we only decided to roll out international water purification systems after those many disasters, i.e having learnt something. Surgeons once upon a time would use the same equipment with blood all over it for several patients, without them having done that we may not know as much as we do today about hygiene and blood etc. With the asteroid which may very well hit in 2036, apophis, its tricky because the Plejaren have advised us that it will definitely hit unless we do something, anything. But in terms of scientists checking the data, they can calculate it won't hit in 2029 but are not completely sure it will in 2036. Either way its an incredibly expensive endeavour for us to do anything during any epoch, and don't destroy asteroids we don't have to, so the data has to be there. Unfortunately we can't go exclusively on the advice and testimony of any individual, even if that individual is particularly reliable, it just can't ever happen that way. The storms, mudslides, coastal events, volcanism, earthquakes etc. if we are not prepared for them, then its perhaps good they happened and that they were shocking and disastrous, because from that we can learn something and prepare ourselves. Its not a particularly sensational idea, individuals who have never had an earthquake don't need to fit earthquake dampeners to their home do they? Individuals in tornado alley in north America expect tornado's and build special fortified rooms in their homes, individuals who live in an area which has never experienced a tornado but has experience a flood won't do that will they, they'll put their home of stilts or raise it high above the water level. Ultimately Billy Meier's prophecies and predictions are an attempt at boosting our evolution, i.e instigate us preparing ourselves and assessing ourselves properly before inevitable events. There are other predictions which are of a different nature however and are there for individuals assessing where we going and there are other's which are in the form of a riddle because its important that they happen or else we turn down a different developmental avenue. Ultimately we're looking at a global government which restricts a whole range of different activities and promotes other activities because we've learnt where those activities lead to and what happens when do that etc.
- There is a particularly strong glaze over the perception of danger i.e 'i'm in Gods hands' and 'it could never possibly happen to me' and not having any one of any value to listen to. Because its as the Plejaren has explained the middle ages were not 10k years ago they were 1k years ago as would be normal, so there has not been a normal amount of adjustment time. We can see that natural disasters happen; we've just not been around long enough for normal awareness. The prophecies and predictions basically have to happen if you think about it that way.
Further Reading
- Future American Civil Wars
- Three Days Of Darkness
- The Avaricious Usurers
- A Hundred Atomic Suns
- Pope Francis
- Escalation of the Ukraine crisis will be a windfall for the IS
- Event Timeline - Please see each source reference, verify and decipher.
- Climate change - The facts and an important Plea
- To the Statesmen in Power and to Mankind of Earth:
- ↑ http://forum.figu.org/us/messages/12/13020.html?1390692613#POST68645
- ↑ Prophetien_und_Voraussagen_(Book)
- ↑ http://forum.figu.org/us/messages/12/9270.html?1217218224#POST33768
- ↑ http://forum.figu.org/us/messages/12/13020.html?1390692613#POST68645
- ↑ Investigation of WCUFO by Rhal Zahi: http://rhalzahi.com/docs/WCUFO-EN-v2.pdf
- ↑ Prophetien_und_Voraussagen_(Book)#Friday.2C_January_30.2C_1976.2C_21:05_PM – for Reference: Only short still is the duration of Scorpio, reigning in unrighteousness and malicious madness, soon he will be caught up by his just recompense, feels penetrating into him the evil death-tooth, when over the ocean the clouds bale together, slowly creating the great monsoon, while across the land his death-cry sounds, and the Scorpio ends his poisonous doings. The elephant stomps and trumpets aloud, because now the death-sting of Scorpio breaks, the reaper of life cuts up the stinging beast, which uselessly defending himself fights the last time. Burnt red is the land - in sun-embers, dried up, fruitless - for almost a year; now being drenched by a flood of tears, but now of government it is bare. So fate fulfilleth itself in a short time, when the peacock struts its feathers before the rain, who in the South at the ocean bay already lies waiting, to be coming then gives fulfilment to the word.
- ↑ Contact_Report_182_Part2
- ↑ fourth world war/global conflict when the the seven years' war fought between 1756 and 1763 is counted as the first
- ↑ Contact_Report_182_Part2
- ↑ Contact Report 251
- ↑ http://au.figu.org/sfath_predictions.html
- ↑ http://beam2eng.blogspot.co.uk/
- ↑ Contact Report 670 221. Other countries will also suffer great changes, whereby, for example, a large part of Japan will sink into the sea, as also northern coasts of Europe will be swept away by wild floods.
222. Off the east coast of America, in the Atlantic and the Pacific, islands will be lifted from the waters, and New York and parts of the coast destroyed, while in the South Seas great upheavals will take place.
223. But also in the south of Europe, the all-transforming consequences will be enormous when the volcanoes of Mount Etna, Vesuvius and Stromboli as well as the submarine largest active volcano of Europe, Mount Marsili off the coast of Italy, together with about two dozen further submarine volcanoes in the Mediterranean, begin to erupt.
- ↑ Contact Report 471
- ↑ Contact Report 469
- ↑ The German word for Prediction is voraussagen. Words by Ptaah from Contact Report 670 from 11/01/2017: "Predictions happen through true-dreams, true-visions, through real foreseeing and 'future-consciousness-wandering', that is to say 'future-consciousness-feeling', wherethrough the real future is seen, just as it is seen through time-jumps, that is to say, time-travel into the future. The future-seeings, that is to say, the future-viewings arising from it, are based on happenings that unchangeably effectively arise in the future, which are impossible to change." http://dict.figu.org/node/15668
- ↑ Gespräche mit Sfath Kontaktgesprächsauszug vom Sonntag, 5. Mai 1946. Sfaths Voraussagen Contact Report 670: http://www.figu.org/ch/files/downloads/bulletin/figu_sonder_bulletin_101.pdf
- ↑ Asket's_Explanations_-_Part_1 "120. The list of the politically leading men who would be killed through the hand of murder would be very long in the coming time, yet we may not change that."..."123. Unfortunately, this requires that we must influence leading powers of the Earth to peace, using impulses, whereby, however, they would create deadly enemies, whereby, unfortunately, many good humans will die, which we really cannot, however, prevent."


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In many ways Cory Arcangel's solo show, on view now at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is about the failure of art and technology. This isn't to say the show is a failure; far from it in fact. Instead it's the way in which Arcangel's work frustrates the expectation that art, particularly art that engages with technology, somehow demonstrate a kind of expertise that justifies its elevation to the status of art. If the purpose of technology, broadly speaking, lies in its use-value, then it is his decided refusal of the kind of productive functionality that one expects from technical objects that makes many of the pieces on view so frustrating. Equally frustrated is the desire for an artfully crafted object expressing a unique critical vision. Instead Arcangel offers us objects that have been hacked and broken, that refuse or distort our interaction, or whose simplicity, effortlessness, nostalgia, and humor mask complex socio-technical systems. As Ed Halter noted in an interview with the artist for Rhizome in 2008, Arcangel's work seems to operate in two extremes:
You either introduce a ridiculously enormous and therefore pointless amount of work into it, or you reduce the work by using automation, or defaults, or outsourcing. So you either extend the amount of work to an enormous extent that makes it absurd, or you reduce it to nothing which undercuts its legitimacy.
Arcangel exerts incredible effort to accomplish the most banal of tasks, or produces aesthetic works that require little if any effort to manufacture — on the part of the artist, at least. In this way the works reflect on the process by which both art and technology are produced, and the means through which we ascribe value to artistic and technological objects.


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See main article "Stocks: A Hard Sell."
"Individual investors have many enemies: high frequency trading algorithms, dark pools, rogue hedge fund managers, fat-finger traders and Fed interventions, just to name a few. But none is as damaging as the individual investor himself.
Investors are worried about money-printing and yet shun the inflation hedge, which are stocks. Investors are worried that government intervention and hedge fund trading distort asset pricing and damage price discovery mechanism, yet they run away from U.S. stocks, one of the very few investment tools whose intrinsic value can be ascertained through fundamentals found in transparent financial reports.
Investors are worried about complexity but pile into complex derivative instruments and alternatives, away from stocks. Investors are worried about liquidity but buy up the new esoteric illiquid instruments. Investors are worried about lack of income, but sell the shares of the cash-rich corporations that pay dividends.
Oftentimes pointing out those contradictions to an investor makes them think and reconsider. It is the job of the financial advisor to make sure investors are emotionally as well as intellectually comfortable with their investments. That may be achieved by education, building out a portfolio with brand names that are familiar, and often just plain hand-holding and positive reinforcement. Just because stocks have been shunned by lots of investors doesn't mean they are a bad idea."


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There was a time when I was the family "tech guy." Assembling sounds systems and debugging computers was my household contribution. These days, however, I'm not sure I could pick an HDMI cable out of a box of snakes.
When did I get so old?
For years, parents have relied on their younger, more digitally savvy children to solve their tech woes. Mom and dad buy the game system, Junior hooks it up-usually with a thinly veiled contempt for the electronic idiocy of their elders. ("It's so simple! How can you not do this?") It was a good system. A curious youngster who works for free dinner and laundry is the best tech support one can have.
My parents were first-wave Baby Boomers, so they could be forgiven for not figuring out DVDs and SIM cards right away. When you've never had to replace the needle on a turntable, burning rewritable CDs comes a little more naturally to you. But now I'm the one who has never had an HDTV. 802.11n, b and g? I'm supposed to play video located on my computer's external hard drive on my TV ... using my XBox? I'm in my 30s and I'm not sure I'm qualified to buy my next telephone. How did this happen?
It wasn't that long ago that I considered myself to be pretty tech savvy. I've never written programming code or built a robot or anything, but when it came to computers and the internet I was usually on top of things. I have replaced my own hard drives and RAM and ordered computers from customized specs. (Never built one myself, but how hard can it be?) I could create HTML pages from scratch and can still format pictures and cut simple videos. I even know how to edit Flash files. (Maybe the occasional .fla, at least) I know how CSS styles work and can usually spot errors in the code if I had too. PHP? I sort of get how WordPress works. Java? No clue. Ajax? Gimme a break! There's an HTML 5 now?
As time slowly marched on, technology has marched much faster than I can keep up. Computers are now hand held and video games are now platforms and I'm running out of the little wires with the red, white and yellow plugs almost as fast as I'm running out of boxes I can still plug them into. Unfortunately, I don't yet have kids who can do these things for me. You shouldn't have to start a family in order to have surround sound in your living room.
So what's aging, out-of-touch technophile to do? Well, there is one advantage that I do have over my parents and that's the internet. I'm smart enough to know what I don't know and where I can find what I need. It takes a lot longer and separating the useful information from the nonsense is much trickier, but at least I know the knowledge is out there. Eventually, I will figure out if the Evo is worth the money my phone company is asking for or if that netbook has the power to do what I need it do and someday, I swear, I will learn how to make copies of DVDs. My iTunes library might never be organized, but at least I know how to get a podcast on my various machines and listen to it. I also know what Newegg.com is, so that's a head start.
When searching for answers, I found that there is one thing you can count on. You will never find the solution from the company that sold you your problem. Owner's manuals are practically non-existent these days. Electronics store employees? Mostly hired goons that aren't even allowed to work the cash registers. Phone support? Online support? Forget about it. Would you let a mechanic fix your car over the phone? When doctors don't make house calls-and your "insurance" (the warranty) runs out-you must become your own physician. You are relying on the kindness of strangers, but thankfully, most people are nicer than companies.
Where can I go to snare this information? Not to sound like too much of a company man, but pretty much all PC/Windows issue are solved by (or at least begin with) a Lifehacker search. Gizmodo tells me what's out there-when I can figure out what the specs mean; thank you, Wikipedia-and Lifehacker tells me how to make it work. Beyond that, it's Google and the thousands and thousands of message boards and forums and random blogs (techie or not) that, if I phrase my question in just the right way, might point me toward someone who has the same problem I did. (There's enough lost people out there, that someone usually has.) If I'm really lucky they've also found the solution and written some sort of freeware that will implement it. It might be a post from 2007 or it might be a bug report for Windows XP, but buried in that swamp is the nugget of code that saves my day.
You must go online to seek out other nerds-slightly smarter than yourself, but not so smart they talk over your head-and pray that one of them deigns to answer your question. And they will. Solving each others' problems is what geeks do, even if they occasionally mock your ignorance while doing it. Not unlike the precocious child who helped you hook up your internet connection in the first place. And you don't even have to feed them dinner.
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Matrix (mathematics) facts for kids
In mathematics, a matrix (plural: matrices) is a rectangular table of cells of numbers, with rows and columns. The rows are each left-to-right (horizontal) lines, and the columns go top-to-bottom (vertical). The top-left cell is at row 1, column 1 (see diagram at right).
There are rules for adding, subtracting and "multiplying" matrices together, but the rules are different than for numbers. As an example, does not always give the same result as , which is the case for the multiplication of ordinary numbers. A matrix can have more than 2 dimensions, such as a 3D matrix. Also, a matrix can be one-dimensional, as a single row or column.
Many natural sciences use matrices quite a lot. In many universities, courses about matrices (usually called linear algebra) are taught very early, sometimes even in the first year of studies. Matrices are also very common in computer science.
Definitions and notations
The horizontal lines in a matrix are called rows and the vertical lines are called columns. A matrix with m rows and n columns is called an m-by-n matrix (or m×n matrix) and m and n are called its dimensions.
The places in the matrix where the numbers are is called entries. The entry of a matrix A that lies in the row number i and column number j is called the i,j entry of A. This is written as A[i,j] or ai,j.
We write to define an m × n matrix A with each entry in the matrix called ai,j for all 1 ≤ i ≤ m and 1 ≤ j ≤ n.
The matrix
is a 4×3 matrix. This matrix has m=4 rows, and n=3 columns.
The element A[2,3] or a2,3 is 7.
The sum of two matrices is the matrix, which (i,j)-th entry is equal to the sum of the (i,j)-th entries of two matrices:
The two matrices have the same dimensions. Here is true.
Multiplication of two matrices
The multiplication of two matrices is a bit more complicated:
So with Numbers:
- two matrices can be multiplied with each other even if they have different dimensions, as long as the number of columns in the first matrix is equal to the number of rows in the second matrix.
- the result of the multiplication, called the product, is another matrix with the same number of rows as the first matrix and the same number of columns as the second matrix.
- the multiplication of matrices is not commutative, which means in general that
- the multiplication of matrices is associative, which means that
Special matrices
There are some matrices that are special.
Square matrix
A square matrix has the same number of rows as columns, so m=n.
An example of a square matrix is
This matrix has 3 rows and 3 columns: m=n=3.
Every square dimension set of a matrix has a special counterpart called an "identity matrix". The identity matrix has nothing but zeroes except on the main diagonal, where there are all ones. For example:
is an identity matrix. There is exactly one identity matrix for each square dimension set. An identity matrix is special because when multiplying any matrix by the identity matrix, the result is always the original matrix with no change.
Inverse matrix
An inverse matrix is a matrix that, when multiplied by another matrix, equals the identity matrix. For example:
is the inverse of .
One column matrix
A matrix, that has many rows, but only one column, is called a column vector.
The determinant takes a square matrix and returns a number. To understand what the number means, take each column of the matrix and draw it as a vector. The parallelogram drawn by those vectors has an area, which is the determinant. For all 2x2 matrices, the formula is very simple:
For 3x3 matrices the formula is more complicated:
There are no simple formulas for the determinants of larger matrices, and many computer programmers study how to get computers to quickly find large determinants.
Properties of determinants
There are three rules that all determinants follow. These are:
- The determinant of an identity matrix is 1
- If two rows or two columns of the matrix are exchanged, then the determinant is multiplied by -1. Mathematicians call this alternating.
- If all the numbers in one row or column are multiplied by another number n, then the determinant is multiplied by n. Also, if a matrix M has a column v that is the sum of two column matrices and , then the determinant of M is the sum of the determinants of M with in place of v and M with in place of v. These two conditions are called multi-linearity.


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Posted: Mon 29 Nov 2010, 17:26
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VMware Player 3.1.5
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You'll need the devx and kernel source files for whichever Puppy version you plan to use. (I've tested it on Puppy 431, Lucid 511 through 528, and on Slacko 531.)
EDIT: There is a note and an additional dependency for Lucid 520 through 528 in the thread's third post.
Before anyone gets their hopes up too high, VMware's license (if I've read it correctly) states that I can't (re)distribute the actual binary, so you'll still have to get that from their site yourself.
Having said that, I've put together a dotpet to install their binary *.bundle file. Arguably, it abuses the pinstall.sh and puninstall.sh scripts' purposes, but it works, and the ultimate aim is to use it to allow everyone to package up their own VMware Player SFS, if they want to.
VMware Player may not work with 3-series kernel versions. More information to come after confirmation and some tests.
Sometimes, the limited user "spot" and the "su" command can get messed up and rendered inoperable in Lucid Puppies when loading multiple large SFS files. (I don't know the underlying cause, but the problem is not present in Slacko 530/531.) The VMware SFS, if you choose to make one, is no exception. Keep that in mind, and plan accordingly.
Here's the dotpet:
Use this if you plan to make an SFS file with my script later.
There is also an alternate installer which instead installs the VMware Player software to a folder in /mnt/home, freeing up savefile space without the need to later build an SFS.
Note that this package may not be made into an SFS later, unless you do so on your own, by hand.
md5sums for both packages
The dotpet itself it only a few KB, but it will be used to unpack VMware's *.bundle file, and in doing so you'll end up eating about 300 MB of disk space or savefile. Make sure you're ready for it.
For the dotpet to work, place a copy of the VMware *.bundle into /mnt/home, and then install the pet package. The install script will help it along and fix the *.desktop file. Assuming you have the necessary space, this is all you really need to do.
(Keep a copy of the *.bundle- my script deletes the one at /mnt/home.)
After you've installed the pet, you can opt to create an SFS module from that installation. There's a big, 300 MB reason to do so, if you have a frugal installation and did not elect to use the alternate PET.
I've made a script that will pull together the required files and create an SFS module.
Here it is
extract it to "/mnt/home/", run it in a terminal, and follow the prompts
. The SFS it created on my test runs came out at around 95 to 100 MB.
The SFS it creates is at least to some extent not reliant on the specific kernel of the Puppy you installed the pet and bundle into. I never could get some of the darned drivers to be recognized as a part of an SFS, and it would just recompile them. I eventually just accepted this and omitted the troublesome drivers from the SFS. As a result, it compiles these drivers on the first run from the SFS, and I've been able to run the same SFS on Lucid 511, 520, and 528 and on Puppy 431. If you're adventurous, you could try other versions of Puppy, too.
Once you've made the SFS, you can just uninstall the dotpet from the package manager. I've utilized the puninstall.sh script just as much as pinstall.sh, so it should remove all of VMware's files like a normal package should, and then you can run the SFS cleanly.
If you decide to unload/uninstall the SFS later, there are a few files that will stay behind unless you remove them yourself.
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Posted: Mon 29 Nov 2010, 17:30
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Altogether a bit hacky, but this seems easier to me than blundering about with the *.bundle has always felt.
The following thread was a big help:
Finally, if using the install scripts like I have is a taboo, let me know right away so I don't do it again. It's actually kind of fun to watch a dotpet installation or removal do so much work!
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Posted: Fri 07 Jan 2011, 16:12
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I've only just begun testing Lucid Puppy 520 in preparation for moving all my personal junk to it, and I discovered another dependency for 520.
On the first run, when the VMware drivers compile, I ran it from a terminal and received complaints about GNOME settings that weren't set, and VMware refused to run.
Turns out, the HAL daemon that was in 511 isn't in 520. (Why it instead complains about GNOME stuff is beyond me.)
There is an additional dependency for Lucid 520 and 525!
I've repackaged some Ubuntu Lucid binaries, and they seem to fill the need:
The dot-pet is about half a megabyte, installed roughly 1.7 to 1.8 MB.
After installation of this package, you should reboot unless you want to try starting up the HAL daemon manually.
There are also some GConf complaints that amount to nothing important, and you might need to install the higher-performance graphics drivers for your system.
If you opt to create an SFS with my script, it will not include HAL. You'll either need to keep this dot-pet installed or add this dot-pet's contents to the SFS manually.
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Posted: Thu 13 Jan 2011, 17:56
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Thanks for the effort to make these .pets and the sfs creation script. I have tried this using Lucid Puppy 5.20 and have received a bunch of gconftool errors when I run the vmplayer from a terminal. I have installed the hal pet you provided. The player seems to run though, so I'm not sure if it matters.
However, when I run the create sfs script, I get an error "cp: cannot stat `usr/bin/vmmouse_detect': No such file or directory"
Also, is it possible to have the sfs file include a desktop icon for the player, so that when the sfs is loaded it appears on the desktop, but when it is not loaded it doesn't (in the same way that the open office one does? I know it is only a very minor thing, but it would be extremely helpful
Many thanks,
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Posted: Sat 15 Jan 2011, 19:10
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dickieblack wrote:
Thanks for the effort to make these .pets and the sfs creation script.
No problem! It kind of became a quest for me, as I've struggled with VMware's *.bundle installers in the past.
I have tried this using Lucid Puppy 5.20 and have received a bunch of gconftool errors when I run the vmplayer from a terminal. I have installed the hal pet you provided. The player seems to run though, so I'm not sure if it matters.
If it matters, it's not terribly critical. Most of those same errors presented themselves on all the versions I tested, but the VMs all run just fine, creating new VMs works, etc.
However, when I run the create sfs script, I get an error "cp: cannot stat `usr/bin/vmmouse_detect': No such file or directory"
That file is (
) created after running a VM, so I wrote my script to package it up. If it isn't present, my somewhat hacky script will just return that error. It's nothing to worry about.
Also, is it possible to have the sfs file include a desktop icon for the player, so that when the sfs is loaded it appears on the desktop, but when it is not loaded it doesn't (in the same way that the open office one does? I know it is only a very minor thing, but it would be extremely helpful
I'll see if I can't figure out how to do that. If and when I do, I'll update my script and note the change somewhere in this thread.
In the meantime, there should be a menu entry under "Menu -> System -> System Status and Config -> VMware Player" if you just don't want to launch it from the terminal. If it's not showing up, let me know.
EDIT: Oops! That's where the menu entry is in Lucid Puppy! In 431, it's just "Menu -> System -> VMware Player" instead.
Many thanks,
Glad I can help!
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Posted: Sun 23 Jan 2011, 13:12
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Hi TheAsterisk!
I'm having a bit of trouble. on lucid puppy 520
i've installed the 'devx', and the 'hal-0.5.15-i386.pet', and the install goes fine.
But when i try to start vmware though i get this error, ... any ideas?
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Posted: Sun 23 Jan 2011, 14:31
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It's ok i found the solution in this thread.........
i needed the 'kernel_src_L4-22.214.171.124-patched.sfs' which works fine with lucid puppy 520
Thanks for the good work TheAsterisk!!!!
i really appreciate it. I think it breaths new life into puppy!
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Posted: Sun 30 Jan 2011, 10:23
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Updated the sfs script. Now it will present an option in the terminal to include a desktop icon/shortcut.
Note that the sfs-creation archive (script and a few extra files) must be extracted to and run from /mnt/home/ to work correctly.
Nothing else has changed, so if a desktop icon isn't important to you (or you can create one by hand), you
need to start over, replacing the older gzipped script. In all cases, the dot-pet that installs the *.bundle is unchanged.
@666philb: If something bugs me and I can help remedy it, then I give it a shot. Thanks for the kind words!
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Posted: Wed 16 Mar 2011, 04:22
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Hi. I am a Puppy newbie and this is my very first post here.
I've been testing Puppy for a couple of days, I find it very interesting. VMplayer is one very important component for me. I never bothered to research the particulars of its installation on Puppy. I just went ahead and installed it the regular way, i.e. the way it is installed in other distros. It didn't work, of course. Slap on my forehead. Now I want to try following this procedure here, but first I want to uninstall the existing installation. If only I knew how to do that. Do you, people?
I suppose I could just run vmware-uninstall, but I thought that maybe I should come here and ask for some input before I do something stupid in this peculiar distro.
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Posted: Wed 16 Mar 2011, 04:52
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I've tested several linux distros on Puppy using Vbox. How does VMware player behave compared to latest pet for Vbox for Puppy?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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I haven't tried Virtual Box on Puppy. I have tried it on Slackware, Suse and Ubuntu several times over the last four years and the result was always the same -- painfully slow, unusable.
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Posted: Wed 16 Mar 2011, 08:38
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I'd have to disagree with Luluc's post about Vbox being way too slow, I've been using it on puppy for a while now to run XP and 7 and it works just fine, maybe not as fast as they would run installed but just fine none the less. Vbox is also alot easier for me as I run live-cds and Vbox doesn't take up all that much space whereas putting VMWARE together in a live cd is a pain and winds up being Huge due to requiring the kernel source files and devx sfs
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Posted: Wed 16 Mar 2011, 08:48
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I know nothing about VMware that is why I got curious on this thread.
Vbox are rather easy to learn how to set it up but are slow while VMware are fast executing but steeper learning curve how to get everything working smoothly together.
Edit ah so Vbox is not that slow? DPUP5520 that sound reassuring but then it must have been me doing it wrong because some linux distros took forever to and locked up all the time.
But I love all such things so good that we also have VMware for puppy.
We have Qemu too and what about that Zen thing. Are them painfully slow or hard to set up?
The good thing about them all are that one can test drive doing installs in the virtual so one get a bit experience of how programs behave but it is so different from the real thing so it is not so easy to know how a real install would behave.
One way would be to use VMware on lupu and then install lupu again and compare the speed of things?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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Nooby I think the bigger possibility why it runs fine for me is because of my box, I only have a few older boxes and run different OSs on them and all the puppies I test are on boxes that have been put together/built in the last few years. I use Vbox on the puppy that I run on my laptop that I use for work at home I suppose if I ran it on a bit of an older system with a slower cpu and less ram it would probably slow down signifigantly
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Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2011, 11:27
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I tend to use VMware, only because VBox holds my hand so much that it occasionally limits my options. For instance, VBox will throw up loads of warnings and sometimes refuse to run if you assign >50% of the physical RAM to the VM, but VMware just nods and chugs on merrily. When running a bloated system like Windows on top of the minimally demanding Puppy, I don't feel like I should have to reserve 768 MB of memory for Puppy just because I've already assigned 768 MB to Windows, when really Puppy can just make do with maybe 384 MB while running the VM. (A Windows VM needs all the extra help and muscle I can spare it, in my experience.)
For trying out other distributions, though, VBox's comparative simplicity does pretty well, and it's fine if you aren't trying to push your machine farther than you really ought to. I run FreeDOS in VBox, too, since the memory and processor demands are almost inconsequential.
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| |___ Users ( For the regulars )
| | |___ Usuarios de habla Hispana
| | |___ Für deutschsprachige Anhänger
| | |___ Pour les francophones
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| |___ HOWTO ( Solutions )
| |___ Bugs ( Submit bugs )
|___ Advanced Topics
| |___ Additional Software (PETs, n' stuff)
| | |___ Package Collections / Repositories
| | |___ Browsers and Internet
| | |___ Business
| | |___ Compiling
| | |___ Desktop
| | |___ Documents
| | |___ Drivers
| | |___ Educational
| | |___ Engineering/Science/Simulation
| | |___ Eye Candy
| | |___ Filesystem
| | |___ Games
| | |___ Graphics
| | |___ Multimedia
| | |___ Network
| | |___ Security/Privacy
| | |___ System
| | |___ Utilities
| | |___ Virtualization
| | |___ Unsorted
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| |___ Cutting edge
| | |___ Multi-session live-CD/DVD
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| |___ Hardware
| | |___ Audio
| | |___ Networking
| | | |___ Dialup
| | | |___ Ethernet
| | | |___ Wireless
| | |
| | |___ Printers
| | |___ Video
| |
| |___ Puppy Derivatives
| |___ Puppy Projects
| |___ Next Puppy Development
| | |___ 4.x
| | | |___ Bugs (4.x dev)
| | | |___ Usability Issues (4.x dev)
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| | |___ 5.x
| | |___ Bugs (5.x dev)
| | |___ Usability Issues (5.x dev)
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| |___ Localization Project
| |___ Documentation Project
|___ Taking the Puppy out for a walk
| |___ Announcements
| |___ Puppy Power
| |___ Suggestions
| |___ Misc
|___ Off-Topic Area
|___ Programming
|___ Security
|___ Truly off-topic conversations
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