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Mind Body Connection
Physical exercise is an important part of the detox process. Exercise that involves mindfulness, is grounding for your energy and will leave you calm and centered at the end of a workout as opposed to hyped up and sweaty.
As a Pilates Teacher I am often asked the difference between Yoga and Pilates. Preference of either seems to be likened to being a cat or a dog person. Whilst I am definitely a dog person I can appreciate the merits of Yoga and Pilates respectively and enjoy the practice of both.
As much as I practice yoga I do not regard myself an expert by any means so I will leave the explanation of yoga to the experts.
In my experience Yoga is a more spiritual practice that flows through a sequence of postures known as Asanas with the aim to calm and prepare the mind for meditation. There are various systems and practices of Yoga. and the benefits are similar to those of Pilates in that it will increase strength and flexibility, improves posture and alignment and unites the whole body in movement.
Pilates is a mind body exercise that finds its origins in Germany with a man named Joseph Pilates. Joseph Pilates designed exercise apparatus for rehabilitation purposes during WW1 and developed his method of training from a background in gymnastics, boxing and skiing.
Pilates called his method- Contrology as it trains the mind to control the muscles of the body with the aim to increase both strength and flexibilty. Unlike Yoga it has no spiritual element and focuses on functional anatomy as its base. There is a strong emphasis on the core muscles and creating balance between opposing muscle groups in the body as well as improving posture and alignment. A good Pilates session will flow seamlessly from one sequence to the next. It will be balanced in movement patterns and address any weaknesses, imbalances or tightness that the client may present in order to establish free movement, increased strength and a return to muscular balance. It has long been praised by dancers as it increases strength without creating bulk.
Both Pilates and Yoga will help you to become more aware of your bodies posture, alignment and movement patterns and both require concentration, discipline and presence.
Opposing muscle groups: Muscles that create opposing movement patterns. For example your biceps will flex (bend) the arm at the elbow joint whilst your triceps work to extend (straighten) the arm at the elbow joint.
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I'm starting a new series "Mobile App of The Week".
Each week I will review a Mobile App.
The new series will feature many different types of mobile applications.
App Name: Google Voice
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US Cellular has released the Android 2.2 (Froyo) update for the US Cellular HTC Desire Read more
Connecting to WPA2 Enterprise even if Android doesn't officially support it.
There isn't a lot of documentation on this for Android so I thought I would make a step-by-step how-to.
Here's how to connect your Android phone to a WPA2 Enterprise wireless network.
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Step One: At main screen hit the menu button and select settings.
US Cellular Desire update is now here as of 2/8. More information http://nickescobedo.com/239/android-2-2-froyo-is-now-available-for-us-cellular-htc-desire.
Update: US Cellular has released Android 2.2 (Froyo) for the Acclaim. You can download the Samsung Acclaim update here! They have also pushed back the date for the Desire. Apparently they will have a specific release date for us in about 2 weeks. I will continue to update this post. The other Samsung phones are getting updates in March.
Update: US Cellular has just updated their Facebook page with almost final release dates for their Android phones. The Samsung Acclaim will update next week, HTC Desire end of January, and the other two Samsung phones the Apex and Mesmerize will update in March. See above picture for official Facebook post
UPDATE: US Cellular has updated their Facebook page with the status above. Froyo or Android 2.2 release date is targeted to upgrade later this month, but may be pushed to January due to technical issues with HTC and Samsung.
Feels like a long time coming, US Cellular has finally announced the HTC Desire and Samsung Acclaim will "hopefully" receive Froyo in November. US Cellular seems to adapt more quickly to the market now that they have released Android phones. This is huge for US Cellular because they are always looked at as being slow to bring things to the market.
I'm interested to see how well 2.2 will run on the Acclaim. Hopefully it will smooth things out for the users that say the phone is slow!
To follow US Cellular more closely visit their facebook page.
I recently stumbled upon an awesome website stophcommerce.com, which tells the story about a women who loses an extreme amount of money to scams. H Commerce stands for hacker commerce. StopHCommerce.com defines H Commerce as:
"To make money from the illegal or exploitive use of technology to compromise consumer and business data. Originating from the practice of "hacking", this global industry now generates more money than illegal drug trade and is cited by the U.S. government as one of the most significant threats to the country's security and economy."
People fall for scams so easily because scammers make everything seem real. This happens a lot while trying to sell things on the internet via websites such as Facebook and Craigslist. Also internet scammers can pay for collections of email lists, which they use to send their scheming emails.
Generally Scams consist of:
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The best Black Friday Excel spreadsheet ever. The spreadsheet was created by dealvista.com. Check out the link for all the details. I would also imagine it's getting updated frequently as they find more deals.
After being delayed multiple times, it's official, Gran Turismo 5 (GT5) will be released on November 24th just in time for the holidays. GT5 is Playstation exclusive, and is extremely popular.
Gran Turismo is advertised as a driving simulator, this game will probably be great with a steering wheel.
The car list is enormous and can be found here. Although the list is large many cars are missing. It would be nice to see a Hyundai Genesis or KIA Forte (I may a little bias, I drive a KIA).
I look forward to buying GT5 on the 24th.
It's about that time, people running around trying to find the best gift for their loved ones. Some will decide to return their gift. The gift receiver may be in for a big surprise. Some stores charge up to 15% for restocking fees. If the gift was $100 that's $15 you won't be getting back. Most retail store won't tell you their return policy without asking. Be a smart proactive shopper, know the return policies for the items you're buying and the consequences associated with returning the item.
Below are common retail outlets with links to their return policies.
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*Model by: Joé Thierry Arys Ruiz © Traders & Analysts C.O. 2010 - All rights reserved
Phase A) Apocalypse: Crisis, Panic and Drastic Monetary Policy
After a Crash, Central Banks starts to lower interest rates drastically to stop the panic and incite investors to invest in the stock market motivating risk appetite with a low revenue in bonds. The problem is that confidence is gone and there is panic everywhere, the stock market plunges with short term picks/highs each time there is a drastic move to the downside of interest rates.
Bottom: Bottom in interest rates, Undervaluation and hope
Once interest rates can't go lower i.e near 0% , and the stock market has completely crashed. An undervalued stock market opportunity is pointed out and hope is feeding risk appetite. "Interest rates can't go lower, companies are fundamentally undervalued and the risk/reward worth it."
Phase B) Bounce:
Despite an economy still fragile, the stock market rises sharply principally because of two main factors:
The first is the tendency of the market to oversold a situation in advance in case of a further crash. The equity market often being used as a future indicator for the economy, oversold and overbought situations remain based on discounted future events. Equity is trading near par value and fundamental investors start to raise the buy flag.
The second and probably most important factor is the anticipated inflation who begins to surface, due to a weak monetary policy. Strong hands (Big Bankers, Institutional Investors, money managers...) enter the market: "If it doesn't climb for the economy it will climb because of inflation".
Phase C) Commercialization: Consolidation
Stimulated by a first intensive bounce of the equity markets, weak hands (non institutional investors, buy and hold public funds...) start to enter the market motivated by a strong marketing from institutional sales. Meanwhile, fears of inflation surge and uncertainty for the economy remains, strong hands take some profits and part of the paper is transferred from strong hands to weak hands. A short period of sideways/down fluctuations is the effect of these fears. Sales forces says: "Every drop is an opportunity to buy".
Phase D) Duration:
1-Monetary Management:
This is where Central Banks have to dose between inflation and growth. Central Banks have to prepare an exit strategy to remove the surplus of money that has been injected trough low interest rates. The whole strategy consist in slowly raise interest rates to fight inflation without stopping economic growth.
2- Deficit Management:
From a government perspective they have to deal between economic growth and budget deficit. After rescue plans, Keynesian policies, bailouts and stimulus packages, the budget deficit has exploded and the whole issue is to restore a balanced treasury by both reducing public spending and raising taxes; all without impeaching economic growth.
Phase E) Exhaustion
*Monetary bubble and the monetary inflation prime:
If both monetary and deficit management is well done then a relative long period of sustainable growth is possible. Meanwhile, by repeating the process from phase A to D over and over again, we notice that the monetary mass has been growing exponentially while the economy has had its ups and downs in a linear fashion. Failing partially in both removing the money that has been "printed" and restoring a government treasury balance simply leads to the effect of adding a monetary bubble to another. The consequence is that each crisis becomes stronger. The same happens for private and public debt, part of the debt and monetary surplus is cumulated as the process is repeated. Precisely this remaining cumulated monetary mass constitutes what we can call a "monetary inflation prime".
*Slow Growth:
While the effects of the several monetary and government stimulus becomes more or less effective. The stock market has been pushed in phase D by general confidence a better shape of the economy, and the consequent inflation generated by growth.
However the previous inflation prime, the inflation created by the quantitative easing, can reduce economic growth.
Top: Interest rates are too high and the share of the interest payment in the annuity is higher than the amortization of the good itself. The investment for example mortgages becomes unattractive since the situation could be similar to a perpetual debt. In this situation, credit delinquencies and default in payment surges resulting in another credit crisis. Bond market yields are high and risk appetite is reduced driving equity down.
*Model by: Joé Thierry Arys Ruiz © Traders & Analysts C.O. 2010 - All rights reserved
Next Crisis:
If the monetary inflation prime is low, then we can barely notice it's negative effects on the economy. Then, the inflation rate released is published and promoted as "a purely natural effect of a strengthening economy". The problem Surges when this "monetary inflation prime" is high enough to entirely compensate nominal growth. This leads to a void or negative effective growth (inflation adjusted GDP) then we could see a Monetary and/or Government Debt bubble explosion.
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You are on the home stretch!
The end of the marathon for 2017/2018 is approaching…
State testing is also rising up like a tropical storm and we are all waiting to see if it will hit the coast or bounce back into the ocean.
Do you still love what you do?
Why or why not?
If you have won the lottery or your side hustle needs to become your main gig, awesome! Congrats! (MLM, alternate skill, small business, other calling)
If the answer is you let things out of your control dictate the calling of your life, I do not believe you will ever have fulfillment.
Currently I feel the pressure, I feel the negativity, I even join in on teacher's lounge complaining occasionally but my heart breaks for students that fear the standardized test before they even sit down with their #2 pencils, water bottle and four hour beating to remain quiet.
Here is the pep talk, you are called to teach! It's probably in your blood, maybe even generational…It is true teachers usually played school as a child ( I did) and you know there is no better feeling than when that one kid gets it!!!
Do not believe the lie that your hands are tied!
Do not believe the lie that you are not appreciated!
Do not believe the lie that you do not get paid enough to put up with this _____! (That one is probably not far fetched 😉
You survived flu season.
You survived ARDs.
You survived lice notices.
You survived grading policies and stomach bug running rampant and drills.
Sometimes in teaching you have to accept the labor pains without seeing the glory but it does not mean it doesn't exist.
Who is that teacher that poured into you? You haven't forgotten! That saying, the smile, the warmth or trick that didn't leave you and influenced your advising meeting in college to pursue education.
That is you for someone else! BELIEVE!
Finishing the school year is like that workout you don't want to tackle but then so glad you did. Finish strong like you tell your students. Drink your own Kool-aid and pray for your love for teaching to be
or to remain.
You'd make more money in a thousand other professions but you would miss your love of classroom structure, labeled bins, visual aids, the perfect THEMES!!!
High-five, chest bump and fist pump you are amazing at what you do! Do all the things you love about teaching and let the "things and pressures" that are out of your classroom bubble be ignored like the kid in the front row digging in his nose and not only can the class see him but lunch is next… Let it go with a sigh and a squirt of hand sanitizer!


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The award is presented to state lawmakers who went above and beyond to uphold agriculture and rural Oklahoma in 2017.
"As a grassroots farm organization, we exist to fight for the betterment of agriculture and rural Oklahoma," said Rodd Moesel, OKFB president. "We are proud to honor these 11 individuals who have worked tirelessly to support family farmers and ranchers across the state."
The 2017 OKFB Champion Award recipients include Senate President Pro Tem Mike Schulz, Sen. Larry Boggs, Sen. Casey Murdock, Sen. Lonnie Paxton, Sen. Roland Pederson, Sen. Roger Thompson, Sen. Greg Treat, Rep. Scooter Park, Rep. Mike Sanders and Rep. Kevin Wallace.
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Horror Collectibles
'A Nightmare on Elm Street' 2010 The Video Game
It's time to make this happen!!!!
How in God's green Earth is it 2010 and we haven't seen one slasher video game, HOW??????
Horror Domain - Cursed Evil Overlord
Friday 5/07/2010 at 05:48 AM | 63769
beats me man, with the technology we have today i think its WAY overdue to have a real good slasher based game
Johnny Bisco
Friday 5/07/2010 at 04:58 PM | 63775
I think that the reason we haven't seen a slasher-themed game for these newer consoles is really due to the lack of gameplay options it would provide. There is only so much you could do with Myers, Leatherface, and Jason; All of these guys are fairly one-dimenonal and are only really effective in specific environments. That's one reason why those old games were effective on the older, more bac consoles like Atari. Gamers today want tons gameplay modes and as many options as posble. The more there is to do, the better. Production companies know this, and the uncertainty of a game like that on the market today is probably stopping them from taking a shot. I'm not saying that making a game like this is imposble, I'm just thinking that the challenge of making something like that succeed in today's gaming community might be too great for these large companies to undertake.
That's why Freddy is definitely the best candidate for an effective game for these newer consoles. With Freddy, your options are virtually limitless. The potential for great visuals is there, plus the story could have you doing anything, anywhere. I'm all for it as long as it's done right.
Friday 5/07/2010 at 05:47 PM | 63781
i would say Saw was a one dimenonal movie but the video game rocked so there is room i think
there could be 2 modes where you are myers freddy etc and do the stalking and killing or where you are a victim
it would work
Johnny Bisco
Tuesday 5/11/2010 at 07:02 PM | 63826
Someone please do it
mple linear platformer with levels degned Dream Warriors Style to stalk them to the end and eventually cornering them and finishing them off God of War style. You can make cinematic death scenes, buildup the tenon by slaughtering their loved ones while they try to stop you. Scare the living shit out of them by annihilating everyone in a phobia specific level based on the characters.
Character that's afraid of spiders, how about a huge labyrinth of tunnel weaver spider webs? finish them off as a demon spider Freddy.
Afraid of the dark, start killing the lights as you slaughter their friends in a darkened set of alleys and corridors. Turn into a monster made of sheer oily blackness and eviscerate them limb from limb and send them into oblivion. It can be done. We have the technology, do it!!!
Monday 7/05/2010 at 07:42 PM | 64878
ya i think they should make a terror drome- like game for the consoles. it would be much too diffucult for game creators to get the environments down for horror icons for a story based game. most if not all the movie based games i have ever played were fucking terrible. i just think that if it were not a fighting game, it would get butchered like what ronny yu did to jason in vs. :(
Friday 10/15/2010 at 12:11 AM | 66974
I like that Idea, there could be 2 modes where you are myers freddy etc and do the stalking and killing or where you are a victim
it would work
Friday 10/15/2010 at 02:25 AM | 66996
I would love to see this game. I think with a bit of creativity this could be a good game. Hopefully it actually happens because I would be the first one in line.
Friday 10/15/2010 at 03:57 AM | 67004
I certainly think it is about time BUT I hope they don't make it as bad as Friday the 13th for NES. lol
Friday 10/15/2010 at 07:05 PM | 67030
I want them to make a Halloween game based off the first two films and with some xtra added suprises.
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Canada student protesters plan mass rally• http://www.aljazeera.com,
Demonstrations have continued in Canadian city of Montreal despite the introduction of a new law aimed at ending three months of protests against proposed tuition fee increases.
More than 300 people were arrested and at least 10 injured injured on Monday, following clashes between protesters and police, authorities said.
But the new law has only served to fuel the student movement. Student groups have panned the law and said they would challenge it in court and continue demonstrations.
On Sunday night, protesters smashed store windows and opened a fire hydrant that flooded a downtown Montreal office building.
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Testing possible presentations for the echolocation
What I think I want to do is use the echo location recordings and exploit them as a possible way to suggest a certain presence in a space. I was thinking of combining the abstract sounds with more recognizable sounds such as doors, squeaking wood, etc. Since I was going to suggest a presence and I had been thinking about Kosuth's chairs I thought why not…so I took a chair, recorded some sounds while giving it slight, gentle and a few harder pushes. I attached two very little cheap speakers(therefore also quiet poor sound but it was just a test so at this point I don't care …) to the bottom of the seat and sent the recorded chair sounds through them.
Small, rather low sounds of the chair wobbling a bit, still worked o.k. At some point while watching it and listening to the sounds I sometimes even started to really doubt whether the chair really wobbled or not. The bigger sounds like the legs scratching the floor, didn't work so well. Probably because the sounds sounded comming from the seat instead of the legs, which would be more logical. However getting tired of this disappointing result, I sat down on the chair with the sounds still going. Suddenly it all worked better. Why? Well because the sounds sounded like they came from under the chair, which made sense from my new perspective. Second thing was that the vibrations of the speakers started to feel similar to vibrations I would feel when wobbling a bit or when slightly moving the chair in a certain direction.So as I realised the gap between the data from one sense and the data from another sense (in this case, hearing and touch) was smaller then the gap between the info comming through ears and eyes.
So feeling more lucky, I decided to switch to my echo location sounds which actually represent my movement through a few rooms/spaces. I will have to continue tomorrow, but it felt quiet O.k. for now. It kind of felt like there was something beneath my chair, sometimes hitting the seat from beneath in a quiet hard way, at other times it seemed/felt, more distant. I am quiet certain that if I would expand my setup with speakers in the room and use them to give direction to the 'creature'/'object' suggested by the sound, it would work quiet well.
To be continued …
Presence and/or Telepresence (A summary of what I am working on)
The last few years I have been interested in what Roy Ascott would call our Variable Reality. This reality is composed of physic space (apparitional presence), ecospace (physical presence), nanospace (vibrational presence) and cyberspace (telepresence).[i] As a consequence, our sense of place becomes very complex. Our so-called unified self doesn't feel so unified as we tought but instead seems distributed or at least transpored from one (part of) reality to another in a very fast way imposing a disorientated feeling upon us.
One of the main questions therefore became: What happens to the self under the influence of this new reality, or as Ascott calls it this variable reality?
I think what I have been doing with my mapping project when graduating from Graphic Design, was trying to create a tool to be able to keep track of myself. However I don't feel like I understand what is actually happening or where this feeling of being taken somewhere else originates from. During a discussion last year with Frans Evers, I talked with him about the difference between when being in a (video)chat with somebody or calling somebody on a phone. Our conclusion was that when chatting online, you seem to be going over there, as when talking on the phone, you have more the impression that the other person comes to you. Therefore I think it would be usefull, for my future work to try and understand how different media as image and sound affect our feeling of presence and/or telepresence. In the future it might even be appropriate to understand the same sort of effects when talking about smell and touch.
A final question is maybe, how can the boundaries between presence and telepresence be blured (when talking about difference in space/location but also in time, past versus present)? Or how can Variable Reality become just reality again?
[i] Roy Ascott The Ambiguity of Self: living in a variable reality, in New Realities: Being Syncretic, Ascott/Bast/Fiel/Jahrmann/Schnell (eds.), SpringerWien, New York, 2009. P. 22-25.
Blueprint – Hans Demeulenaere & Esther Venrooy
This project took place in Ostend (Belgium) starting from 28 March till 5 May 2009.
According to Hans Demeulenaere and Esther Venrooy, all architecture
is alive. Taking this as their starting point, the artists built a site-specific
installation in a grand, vacant belle-époque-era mansion in Ostend,
Belgium. The architectural and acoustic qualities of the house were
analysed with the purpose of being reconstructed and transposed to
spaces across the building. Through their collaboration Demeulenaere
and Venrooy attempt to reconcile architecture and sound in a suggestive
and poetic manner, whereby memory of and movement through the
space will dictate the subjective, physical and mental experience of
this unique house.
Hans Demeulenaere (1974, Ostend) is a visual and installation artist.
His work has been featured in Be-Part (2006, Waregem) and BUDAFest
(2007, Kortrijk).
Esther Venrooy (1974, Rosmalen, The Netherlands) is a composer
and sound artist working in the field of electronic music.
(text source entracte.co.uk) If you are interested you can also have a look at this pdf)
What I found interesting is that I also came to the same conclusion that all architecture is alive. Even though I came to this thought under the influence of reading about Toshiya Tsunoda, a quote from Georges Perec one can read in the pdf was equally inspiring especially since I like questions that can not be solved by chewing bubblegum. Perec's quote ends with 'The problem is not to invent space, and certainly not to re-invent it … the problem is to question space, or even more simply, to read space'. … I would already add '…let space trigger you'…but this would take me to far from the actual subject.
What I wanted to add is that Esther Venrooy has started a PhD with the subject Audio Topography and is especially interested in the sculptural/physical value of sound. Being interested in cartography, mapping, … she had me at 'Topography' but connecting it to 'Audio' or sound…that was really making things interesting as I decided not so long ago to pay more attention to sound when working on my own research in creating some sort of personal/subjective spatial map.
Another interesting riddle by Georges Perec, taken from the pdf mentioned before to end this post maybe? …'If, in a given room, one changes the placement of the bed, could you then say that you have changed rooms or not?'
Building a Mediated Environment (video documentation)
I have put a small sample video online to illustrate the experiments I have been doing with the minimal setup of a projector, a see-thru-mirror-wall and 2 rgb-pixeltracks. The video images porjected on the mirror foil and the wall behind it are of my own creation, even though they are a temporary version. The sound is a mix of my own remix of solar sounds provided by the SOHO (SOlar Heliospheric Observatory) with added sounds and bleeps from COH for the final part.
To see the video click here to be directed to the vimeo site.
Building a Mediated Environment – Transmedia Research/1.1 (Transmedia Input Year 2009)
The mediated environment I was planning to build was supposed to become a mirror room, made of 4 see-thru-mirror walls. The single visitor inside would be confronted with a virtual landscape, projected on the outside of the mirror walls. However as the viewer moves around the space, he will trigger the lights on the inside of the mirror room, eventually making it so bright inside that the walls become mirrors again. At this point they would reflect each other and take the visitor to a sort of endless space. The displacing effect would be a reference to the displacing effect of media, connecting us to different spaces than our own. At the same time I would be researching the integration of media in architectural space, connecting myself to the field of Interactive Architecture.
As this project depended strongly on the effects and characteristics of the used materials, it took a little more time than my other works to get it going. At this point I have started testing different see-thru-mirror foils/filters and built one wall in order to try and combine it with a projector. The images below are all taken while experimenting with this first, basic setup (not yet using the landscape images). As this led to some unexpected results, showing the projected image slightly on the see-thru-mirror foil, showing the same image more clearly on the normal wall behind the mirror wall and creating a distorted, reflected image on the opposite wall, I decided to stick with these effects a little longer. I also added RGB-Led-tracks that originally reacted to the footsteps of visitors, however in the video documentation I will post soon it responds to music which I find less appealing.
As every new step exposes new possibilities I feel like I have to take my time to document each result and evaluate its possibilities in order to find new solutions, to change direction or to use some revealed effects for other projects.
As this is clearly a work in progress, I will post new documentation regularly, also commenting on the results, problems that need to be solved, new inspirations, etc.
Kurt Hentschläger vs Luc Coeckelberghs
Contrary to what the title might suggest, I am not really going to compare the two works of both artists I have seen these last weeks. More important for my own research is how both of the influenced me.
First of all about a week ago I have seen 'ZEE' by Kurt Hentschläger at the STRP festival in Eindhoven. 20 minutes of sound and light in a space filled with smoke, just being guided by some ropes near the walls of the space. I was surprised the smoke and stroboscopic lights didn't make me feel as uncomfortable as I had expected. The experience did have a great impact though. Both mentally and physically you could feel what the sound, light and smoke was doing to you. Physically, because of the smoke, it had a strong disorientating effect and as I was trying to get away from other participants, I found it hard to isolate myself, because every time (especially when the stroboscopic light was turned off again) I noticed I was standing next to somebody again without being aware of this immediatly. I never really bumped into somebody though. Also during the periods of stroboscopic light, it was strange to feel how my eyelids where 'trembling'. Finally, feeling alone, even if it were just for a few seconds, I could really feel how my body was relaxing. On a mental level this also was the case and I don't know if other people had this similar experience, it might have to do with my interest in mental landscapes and mapping/cartography, but seeing nothing but smoke, I started imagining the space, filling in the blanks and mentally exchanging the smoke for some kind of 'imaginary space'.
This work of art was so powerful that I started doubting my own research. I was wondering if I could make a strong impact like this with my reflective room that becomes transparant at certain moments and will be supported by colored light and 'spacial sounds'. Luckily I decided to go see Countour Light in Mechelen yesterday night, where I experienced 'Lighthouse' by Luc Coeckelberghs. (IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO GO SEE IT, I THINK IT IS BEST NOT TO CONTINUE READING THIS POST AND READ IT AFTER YOU HAVE SEEN EVERYTHING YOURSELF!)
Even though I especially went to see the work of Erki De Vries and Tim Vets, I was surprised especially by Luc's 'Lighthouse'. This construction (container with LEDs, Perspex, synthetic canvas, computer; 390 x 280 x 800 cm) is built in the courtyard of 'Hof van Busleyden', a small garden recently renovated in a modern, rather minimalistic way. As a white light emitting geometrical building it fits right in. Once you get inside and close the door the real experience begins. All walls are covered with rgb-LEDs hidden behind blurred Perspex and change color in a continuous cycle. Of course I expected every color would have a different feel, but I couldn't have imagined it to be this strong. I think I will go back to have a second go to be even more aware of what every color does to you, but it was clear that darker, bluish colors made me feel kind of heavy, like I was undergoing some kind of presure pushing me with my feet to the ground/floor, I thought the green collor, but also the yellow colors, seemed to take away this presure and even made me feel lighter and almost like I was going to float. Even though the construction was not floating, at some points I had the feeling as if it were detaching itself and starting to lift from the ground, very strange experience. Luc Coeckelberghs might be best known as a painter, but I must say I wouldn't mind if he would continue making this kind of light art.
Lenses Augment Reality
This post is related to an article of March 2008 on the WIRED-blog.
If you would ask the Pentagon and DARPA (the technological department of the US military that also 'invented' the Internet), soldiers will, in three to five years from now, see all information needed in front of them at any given time. How they want to do this? Simple, you create a new kind of lenses that work as a projection screen, but remain transparant, thus adding a digital layer to reality. Of course it sounds really easy like this but how do you create this kind of 'screen' and how do you feed it with power and data? DARPA is thinking about lasers, light-emitting diodes, …, 'metamaterials' . Like they said before they will be spending about 3 million $ on technical research, no doubt this will pay off. Maybe they even could be exchanging know-how with the University of Washington, since they are working on a similar 'gadget'.
Wearing these lenses would be like walking around in the 'real-world' as if you were playing a first person shooting game. Of course I don't need to say this technology will be found usefull in non-military situations as well. Why not use this kind of lenses to replace these gps-devices we carry around? Or even use them to get all kinds of information when walking around, lets say the supermarket? Think of looking at products and seeing the prices, ingredients, etc. right in front of your eyes without having to take the product of the shelf. Will this be a positive evolution? Maybe if you didn't, you should now read another post related to augmented reality titled 'Augmented Unreality'.
I will of course keep an eye on the development of this technology and if any of you knows more, please leave a comment. I am sure I will be more interested in the way this could be used to play games in the 'real world', than how it will be used as a navigation-system. As with maps I prefer the power of subjective/personal cartography to the so called 'objective' maps.
Carlos Cruz-Diez
About a week ago I found this colorful spread which had to promote a work by Carlos Cruz-Diez (°17/08/1923, Caracas, Venezuela). The 'folder' was published by Hans-Ulrich Obrist of the Serpentine Gallery in London, but the most interesting information I found on the homepage of Carlos Cruz-Diez. The work, which was promoted, is called Chromosaturations and is an artificial environment. As a visitor you enter three small rooms, next to eachother. One is a filled with green light, a second one with red light and the third is colored by blue lights. On pictures I thought it looked already interesting because you can really see the mixing of color on the 'borders' between two rooms. Then again I realised the effect in reality must be a lot stronger since color is perceived and generates 'after-images'.
As Carlos Cruz-Diez has been researching color in art for a long time, and since he also wrote the most important information in a pdf on his site, people interested in color should really read this document.
What Is Reality?!
During my last talk with Mr Malcolm Le Grice, we talked about augmented reality and the fact that reality is always discussed. It is obvious that our definition of 'reality' has become problamatic. Since I think Malcolm Le Grice had an interesting defenition I had to post this:
'Reality or the real is the arena of irreversable consequence(s).' Malcolm Le Grice
To me this definition makes a lot of sense. The level of 'irreversability' could be a measure in situations like this: Somebody goes on Second Life every day, all of a sudden gets in contact with some other user/avatar and starts to fall in love. You could say Second Life is virtual, yet the feelings are real and I am sure if you digg deeper, you will find other irreversable consequences in relation to this example.
Augmented Unreality
This post is based on the interesting article 'Disputing Augmented Unreality' by Keir Neuringer in TAG MAG 06 'Augmented Reality, Superimposing the Virtual, published by <>TAG
Imagine this, I am walking a mountain trial and all of a sudden the weather changes so I have to get as quickly as possible to a shelter, but there is no such place for hours. I panic but then again I have this Augmented Reality device with me. These glasses function as a projection screen on the inside adding a layer of digital/virtual information to the reality I see watching through the glasses. The device calculates my route to safety, using GPS data cross-referenced with weather info from Internet and thus taking also into account the conditions of the environment, access to water and my own physical condition as it also monitors my heart rate with a sensor, etc. All this superimposed information makes me calm down and I am on my way to safety. Still I would rather leave the device at home. this story was told by the writer of the article, Keir Neuringer and I agreed, which I will explain later.
1) Neuringer states that Augmented Reality doesn't actually change reality as we can not qualify or quantify reality. Disputing reality we would end up in insanity or art. Augmented reality, like mobile phones, the Internet and anything that can be abstracted from specific perceptions of time, space and connectivity, threatens the notion of the local. The largets entity that we can grasp as local is this planet and all its tangible, physical aspects that others experience. If we watch somebody drink water, we can not taste it but our memory can trigger a memory of the taste of water, which is empathy. An AR device might allow us to ctually taste water even though it is not there, which is insane.
2) Keir Neuringer remarks that with ubiquitous computing, data of things we make can be networked. He is actually convinced that birds, earthworms,etc.and people awake to their unaugmented senses are also networked and syncing too. He knows this because if he spents a certain time away from devices, walking in the mountains, the more he feels alive to the world around him, he doesn't need devices to connect his perceptions amongst them or to facilitate the connectivity to his surroundings.
3) As his conclusion he writes: There is a layer of experience and perception and action that is augmentable. He believes art can dispute reality when artists address it forthrightly and bring creativity to bear on the enigma of being, on problems and beauty embedded in our perceptions. And by sharing in reality, consciously and with clarity. Which is to say sanely.
Personally I agreed earlier with his conclusion of his little story about the mountain walk because I feel the same way just using a GPS navigation system. I rather use a map or get lost. Why? Because these devices feel so totalitarian, telling where to go and which way to take, but more importantly, these devices stop you from thinking. Outsourcing 'thinking' to me feels like a dangerous thing to do. I don't want to make this sound too conservative, I just want to say we have to think about what these devices do to us and make sure they don't make us weaker in the end. Somewhere in the article Neuringer also mentions that he also could have used a map, could hav learned about the fauna and flora in relation to this mountain, etc. but it is easier to just take a device and make it tell us all of this and turning ourselves into passive receivers. I would just want to be someone who is not a fool for gadgets but takes their consequences into account and decides afterwards if it is a necessity to have this or that device or not. And to put in a positive note, I still believe for every device that makes us stop thinking, there is always a way to use it to exercise our thinking.


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Former Red Wings goalie Kevin Hodson, veteran of two Stanley Cup victories in the late 1990s, was on the Sportsplex ice Monday evening, taking part in a lively scrimmage with the Squirt AA Junior Blue Devils and their coaches. Hodson, who resides in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, received an invitation from the parents of one of the Squirt players and made a special trip to be there for the scrimmage. Details and photos will be in Saturday's paper.
€GHS senior forward Brad Fewins closes out the 2003-04 basketball campaign as the seventh-leading scorer in the Big North Conference. The 6-3 Fewins, who was one of the Blue Devils' most consistent performers, scored 172 points in 14 conference games, averaging 12.3 per game.
€The Char-Em Ice Devils Squirt AA hockey team, which features several players from Gaylord, finished fifth overall in the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association (MAHA) state tourney that was held at Griffin Area in Harbor Springs over the weekend. The Ice Devils roster includes goalie Dylan Snider; defensemen Kyle Ruggles, Willie Gelow, Matt Bell, Bryan Wonski and Regan Quaal; and forwards Ricky Townsend, Dustin Derrer, Hunter Stinger, Rourke Sylvain, Charlie Green, Robbie Payne, Mike Potes, Dugan Kelly and Devin Chiodini.


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Monthly Archives: February 2013
THE NEXT BIG THING: Madeline McDonnell
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Life and Other Transient Storms
Susana Santos Silva trumpet/flugel
Lotte Anker tenor/sop Sax
Sten Sandell piano
Torbjörn Zetterberg double bass
Jon Fält drums
I put together this band on a period of my existence where I'm delightfully discovering the blessing and beauty of impermanence in my life, in the world and in all the things that are… at least for a while… until they change. Accepting this and living accordingly to this truth has changed me tremendously as a person and as a musician. It's a peaceful state of being that is far from being still. On the contrary, it's restless and resilient.
I felt that energy on Lotte, Sten, Torbjörn and Jon's music from the first time I've heard them play live.
Together, they/we brought the urgency, intensity, and honesty of their/our beings to create this music, that existed for a moment and that will change every time someone listens to it.
What better score could I bring to the stage then just tell these amazing musicians we are playing Life and all those Transient Storms that hold existence together in the most ethereal and mysterious way?
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It was a another beautiful blue sky summer day for MLC's annual member picnic. About 75 people arrived to enjoy one of our favorite conserved properties. Val and Deanna Truelsen hosted us at their beautiful 311 acre conserved property along the Dolores River for the annual member picnic.
Val gave a short talk on the history of the property and then took folks on a walk in the beautiful meadows across the river where to the delight of all continued to tell many stories about the history of the people who lived and worked there. The property has been in the Trueslen family since the 1940's and was once the location of a thriving fish hatchery. Roaring Fork flows through the property into the Dolores River which is surrounded by towering Blue Spruce, red cliffs and several beaver ponds.
Dan and Anita Fernandez, MLC members who also have an easement on their property in Dove Creek, braved the heat and manned the grills preparing burgers and hot dogs with plenty of great food and conversation for everyone to enjoy.
Jon Leibowitz, our outgoing Executive Director, spoke about his time at MLC, sharing the many accomplishments of the last year, the promising future ahead and giving us all a chance to say thank you for his years of wonderful and innovative leadership at MLC.
Jay Loschert, MLC's Outreach and Education Coordinator and manager at Fozzie's Farm, gave an update on the wonderful things happening as MLC reaches out to the community at Fozzie's Farm. In the last several months over 150 students have had hands on experience learning about water resources, irrigation and soil conservation as well as over 100 adults who have had the opportunity to attend workshops or volunteer on the farm.
Lindsay Yarbrough, Administrative Assistant, and the person who keeps everything at MLC running smoothly, talked about her work as the administrator of MLC's fiscal management of the Montezuma Inspire Coalition and what lies ahead with the submission of the final implementation grant to Great Outdoors Colorado. If awarded the grant will provide three years of funding to create opportunities and access to get kids outside and connected to the land.
Marianne Mate, Director of Philanthropy and Special Events thanked everyone for attending, thanked them for their support and gave an update on MLC's new Conservation Partner business membership program as well as inviting members to join her and get out on the land to see and learn more about the work that MLC has done and continues to do.
As another summer begins MLC is grateful for the opportunity to say thank you to our members and share what your support means to conserving land in this beautiful place we live.


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So fun to catch and it can be on your grill or frying pan in minutes. This is one of the primary target fish down here in the waters off of Key West. Very tasty, they are sold all over town in the bars and restaurants. A little lesson on how to cut your fish is just what I needed.
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Oklahoma City, OK – Attorney General Mike Hunter today sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions requesting the federal government pursue opioid manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
The letter comes one day after Attorney General Sessions was in Oklahoma to discuss criminal justice issues across the United States.
Attorney General Hunter said the letter's intent is to open communications to develop a federal and state partnership to combat the opioid epidemic.
"My letter to Attorney General Sessions is another necessary action as the state tries to pull itself out of this deadly epidemic and deal with those responsible for it," Attorney General Hunter said. "The opioid industry has knowingly flooded the market with these deadly drugs and it is past time to hold them accountable. There is clear evidence of these companies spending millions of dollars on lobbyists and fraudulent marketing campaigns in order to get these drugs into communities across the nation.
"For nearly two decades, these companies pursued profit at any cost and without a conscious for the more than 90 men, women and children who, on average, die each day from opioid overdoses. We need to start treating the industry from the top down like the criminal enterprises they are."
In the letter, Attorney General Hunter says he believes the most powerful tool to fight the epidemic is through the federal government and states' RICO statute to pursue manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors of opioids.
"For too long, the industry has been allowed to deceive medical providers and the public as to the efficacy and the addictive quality of opioids and has avoided meaningful regulatory enforcement in recent years as well as civil and criminal liability," Attorney General Hunter continued. "The time has come to hold them to account."
Closing the letter, the attorney general requested a personal meeting with Attorney General Sessions to discuss a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Justice and Oklahoma law enforcement officials to address the epidemic in Oklahoma.
Read Attorney General Hunter's letter, here: http://bit.ly/2grAuT6.
Read about Attorney General Hunter's continued efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, here: http://bit.ly/2yCsp68.
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On October 15, 1970, the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 became law. Title IX of the Act is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, commonly referred to as the "RICO" statute. The purpose of the RICO statute is "the elimination of the infiltration of organized crime and racketeering into legitimate organizations operating in interstate commerce."
However, the statute is sufficiently broad to encompass illegal activities relating to any enterprise affecting interstate or foreign commerce.
Section 1961(10) of Title 18 provides that the Attorney General may designate any department or agency to conduct investigations authorized by the RICO statute and such department or agency may use the investigative provisions of the statute or the investigative power of such department or agency otherwise conferred by law.
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by Joe Wilhelm Jr.
Staff Writer
Downtown Jacksonville will experience a swell in its number of parks Friday.
Jacksonville will join cities nationwide — including New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles — in recognizing the importance of green space in their metropolitan areas. Four temporary "parks" will be constructed in parking spaces at four areas Downtown.
"We hope the event will encourage people to take a walk Downtown on Friday," said Andrea Goldman, senior project associate at The Trust for Public Land. "Each spot has its own creative license to build whatever kind of park they like."
The idea is to take individual metered spots across Downtown, apply a little creativity and create mini pocket parks. Meters will be bagged and spaces will be reserved for the parks so they won't have to be driven around the block every two hours. Two spaces will be reserved in front of the Ivy Ultra Bar at 113 E. Bay Street from 4-8 p.m., and two spots will be open in front of HDR, Inc., at the corner of Hogan and Forsyth Streets from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Three spaces near The Jacksonville Landing, at the intersection of Independence Drive and Laura Street will be temporarily converted from asphalt to green space from 4-8. The largest park will be at the corner of Newnan and Bay Streets where Bailey Publishing has donated its parking lot to the event.
Goldman said the Downtown-wide project is simply a demonstration and none of the parks will be judged.
"I got involved through my relationship with the Trust for Public Land," said Steven Davis, of the American Society of Landscape Architecture. "We've got some great sponsors lined up and it should be an interesting event."
Davis and LMI Landscapes will be in charge of designing the park at the Bailey Publishing lot. He plans on using sod, mulch and outdoor furniture to transform the lot. But, some the park will remain asphalt to serve as a playground court.
Jacksonville Scene and Thursday Night Drinking Club will creating the park at The Landing. People from HDR, Inc. and Ivy Ultra Bar will build the parks in front of their businesses.
The event is being coordinated with the help of the City of Jacksonville's Office of Special Events.
The event was founded by San Francisco art collective REBAR, which developed the event as a way for the public to explore "the creative potential of streets."
The Trust for Public Land is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for public benefit with projects that have included parks, community gardens, historical sites, rural lands and other natural places. Since the organization's debut in 1972, it has protected more than two million acres nationwide.


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In Alabama Rain, Heather McCutchen tells the tale of five sisters living in a mythical southern town where it has not rained in 40 years. The play examines the perils of a stagnant existence as the sisters' thirst for fertility and growth. Monty Lou's been pregnant for 10 years; Laurie Laurie's dead spirit sings from the old magnolia tree; Pheenie's walking the entire coast of Florida; Rachel's gone to fetch the Ouija board; and little Dallas LaDean is determined to save them all. When the order of their lives suddenly deteriorates the LaDean family begins a magical quest for water. They struggle with a mysterious well that runs deep in their own backyard, which may or may not have water somewhere at the bottom. In Alabama Rain, these women do battle with the powerful force of "the way things have always been.
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HMRC consultation on Newry jobs 'farcical' – SDLP
April 7, 2014
A 12-week consultation period proposed by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) into the future of jobs in its Newry office has been criticized by SDLP MLA, Dominic Bradley, who termed the exercise "a farcical stunt".
Questioning the British government's real commitment to boosting the economy in the north, both Mr Bradley and party MP, Margaret Ritchie, have reacted angrily and vowed to support the local workforce in Newry.
Explaining the situation to date, Mr Bradley said Newry staff "were told of plans to offer voluntary redeployment or voluntary redundancy in the coming months, which will no doubt be followed by compulsory redundancies after this 'consultation' exercise".
"In reality there are little or no opportunities for redeployment, so HMRC are being dishonest from the outset. The bottom line is that HMRC and the British Government intend to close their operations in Newry either by stealth or by force," he said.
Voicing his party's opposition to HMRC's actions, he says the proposed closure of the agency's Newry office is "driven purely by an unhealthy appetite to make cost savings at the expense of front line services".
"HMRC have already closed their Tax Office located in Downshire House on Merchants Quay and they have reduced the number of days the Enquiry Office is opened to three days per week on a part time basis. The closure of this facility will cut off vital personal support for pensioners, migrant workers, and disabled people including those with learning disabilities and both Margaret Ritchie and I have been to Westminster and brought this issue to the Treasury to express the our opposition to these proposals."
South Down MP Margaret Ritchie also reacted angrily saying: "David Cameron and his government are constantly telling us they want to support the Northern Ireland economy, and yet they continue to run down and withdraw vital public services and jobs in the local economy.
"We now need the Prime Minister to live up to his commitments to the Northern Ireland economy, it is all well and good bringing world leaders to Fermanagh for the G8 and encouraging them to invest here, and yet at the same time Mr Cameron and his colleagues are withdrawing jobs, it's a bit rich. The SDLP have been and will continue to work with the staff at Custom House in Newry. We will campaign to retain the jobs there," she added.


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Putting my oxygen mask on first/
100 day projects are all the rage right now. Just look on any social media site and you'll see hundreds of thousands of people documenting their progresses. Some people are committing to flex their creative muscle and make something new daily. Others are committing to a healthier lifestyle with regular yoga or cycling. Many are committing to shifting their perspective of happiness and gratitude.
After sharing my story with you about dealing with some recent anxiety, I've decided to make a commitment too.
But before we get to that, let me tell you what inspired me.
A few weeks ago I re-watched Almost Famous (it's still so good), and there's this one scene where Kate Hudson acts out the flight attendant safety schtick by heart. I don't even remember if she actually says this quote in the movie or not, but, these words have none-the-less been on repeat in my brain ever since...
That's it. That's what I've been forgetting to do. I spend all day helping people secure their oxygen masks before I've even secured mine.
I'm worth more than that.
And so is everyone around me. The best way for me to help my patients get well is to treat myself well first. I'm no help to them when I'm a bundle of nerves from this or stressing out from that.
So here's my commitment. My pledge.
I pledge to work on me as much as I work on everyone else. I pledge to care for myself as much as I care for everyone else. I pledge to do something for myself everyday that betters my life and my health. I pledge to secure my own oxygen mask first.
I'm excited to see what these next 100 days hold for me. Self care is the best care.
I also pledge something to you. I pledge to update you on my progress through this process. Especially for all of you out there struggling with your own oxygen masks.
If you want to view my progress, follow me on Instagram @amykuretsky. Or feel free to share your own daily self care with the hashtags #mymaskfirst and #amykacu.
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Fallbrook Vintage Car Show
Posted by Fallbrook Pop Warner on May 21 2015 at 01:57PM PDT
SUNDAY!MAY 24th
FPW will be set-up at the 50th Annual Fallbrook Vintage Car Show at the Pala Mesa Resort. We'll be set-up with the High School Football Booster Club and the Band. Look for our Pop-Up Tents and banners!! As always we'll be registering and taking paperwork.
For more information on the show go the the Vintage Car Club Website: http://www.fallbrookvintagecarclub.org/fvcccarshow.html
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A few things I'm happy about:
*Today I'm happy about a day off, it has been a full week
*My work with Young Life Committee. I'm meeting some great new people and getting a feel for where I can most contribute.
*My daughter Kelly. I have been helping her edit papers for college and she is a wonderful thinker who challenges me in a good way.
*Going to a Youth Specialties One Day seminar on teaching the Bible. These are great times of encouragement and I love being with our leaders.
A few things challenging me:
*I have a lot of writing assignments due in the next week or so.
*Finding times to "unplug." My mind is going a thousand miles a minute with some good stuff but I would like to "turn it off" at times.
*The thought of a possible salary cut due to the recession.
A book I'm reading: A biography on John Quincy Adams. I am reading biographies of all the presidents in chronological order. It is interesting to read about their lives and their leadership styles.


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Great Powers are those nations that throughout history have shown themselves both able and willing to order the population of the globe by slicing and dicing territory and nations to their desired ends, or by keeping the peace through treaties and trade, or both, depending on the time and one's view.
Rome was the first such. In the Age of Exploration, Portugal and Holland led the way, Britain and Spain ultimately dominated. Following Spain's demise as a Great Power (due exclusively to her internal-only, closed market system of trade rather than Britain's free trade and open markets), Britain and her empire set the world on the path to the longest sustained growth of trade, wealth and liberty ever known.
From 1945 to 1970, the Great Powers were the USSR and America, and the pretenders Britain and France. With Nixon's opening of China to use as a strategic pawn against the USSR, and China's economic and nuclear advances, China became the third Great Power.
Four Great Powers exist today.
Two have the nuclear capability to reduce the globe to ashes, or to absolutely achieve destructive ends and/or regional hegemony they deem necessary to advance their ideals: Russia and America. Neither seem to have the sustained willpower to achieve their ends, whether recombining an expired empire (Russia) or sustaining liberty around the world (America). Both lack also the demographics (personal preferences) and economy (leadership preferences, whether the leader is chosen through moderate fraud (America) or extensive fraud (Russia)) to mount the serious and sustained conventional campaigns necessary to those ends.
In short, two of today's four Great Powers are perfectly happy to initiate regional misery in half-measures toward stated goals, rather than bite the bullet, re-order the world, and enable a return to peace and prosperity.
Half measures, throughout history, have never worked. They leave behind more misery than before. Iraq, 2014, is a case in point; Afghanistan, 1989, is another. The leadership of the early 21st Century shows no awareness of this.
One Great Power has the ability to make a strategic attack on Russia and America, and a moderate ability to adjust their region and to attack – but not control – regional opponents: China, though China, too, seems to lack the willpower to act as a Great Power to either establish peace between nations, or to intervene to bend them to her will. At least thus far. As America retreats from strategic alliances, as we are implicitly doing across the globe, the world will see how China will respond to the invitation and will see a test of her willpower v. Japan, and no one knows what she will do, perhaps not even China.
Or perhaps the goals of the Great Powers are not what they seem to most of their residents.
Obama, for example, is destroying the Middle Class through economic policies proven always to fail in achieving prosperity, widening the income gap and further impoverishing the people, as these policies always do. Whether he is doing this purposefully, as all dictators have throughout recent history (no dictator wants a Middle Class, whether it be Stalin (Kulaks), Mao (Cultural Revolution), Pol Pot in Cambodia or the Kim family in DPRK, killing millions, or tens of millions of their own), or because he's an incompetent fool (which is denied by his electorate, leaving only purposefulness) is an open question.
These are unfortunate situations for the world's population.
Absent the will of Great Powers to establish a peaceful order, disorder and violence reign until another power grows to fill the vacuum created by this absence. This new power fills the gap through willpower alone, as it takes generations to build competent modern armies. As this new power rises, it becomes the only power demonstrating the will to use its power – either hard or soft – to become not only a Great Power but the only power bending the population of the world to its will.
Today islam has become a Great Power, perhaps THE Great Power.
Islam is the ONLY power with the demonstrated willpower to achieve its ends. Willpower it is displaying in the 50-odd shooting wars around the world today which involve islam as the aggressor. Willpower it has exercised – successfully – in kicking the much larger and militarily more powerful USSR out of Afghanistan, and the US out of Afghanistan and Iraq, because both lacked the will of their islamist opponent. Willpower it is exercising by using the barbarism of whipping, stoning and beheadings to march across the Third World to bend these once- (but no longer-) developing States to islam's will.
Willpower that is NOT being opposed by the civilized world in any meaningful way.
Islam always has advanced by the sword; it is inherent in its worldview and theology to do so. A refusal to recognize this does not negate it.
Islam gives a theocratic blessing to the illiterate masses for the pre-modern 'Might makes Right' worldview. It gives pre-modern men the ultimate power over the weaker members of society, women and children, including the power to murder them at will.
Islam is tailor-made for illiterate barbarous men. Unsurprisingly they take advantage of it, from covering their women with tents, to killing their own daughters, to throwing acid in the face of any woman trying to advance herself, to strapping bombs on their 3-year-old sons.
If you want to watch a real "Thousand Year Reich" forming – you are, and you are watching it NOT being opposed.
Europeans condescendingly complain that Americans don't know history. European voters and leaders – closer to the problem of islam that their forebears created in 1919 and 1979 (when France let Khomeini loose), seeing a greater impact by muslims on their cities today, and having experienced the brutal destruction of the last major power allowed to grow unopposed as Western leaders talked – don't seem to know their history, either.
Or, perhaps, a voluntarily and quickly-depopulating Europe simply does not care about a future in which they won't be participating.
Not only was islam not recognized as a growing Great Power when Carter enabled its rise, it is not recognized as such today. Whether listening to the inane mutterings of America's stupendously ignorant and boorish Secretary of State, to the entire EU leadership, or to a majority of the voters of a Western Civilization under an existential attack, islam's rise as an aggressive Great Power determined to achieve its goals is blithely unacknowledged by Western leaders who should know better.
Islam is a pan-national power rather than State or empire. But make no mistake, islam has become one of the four Great Powers. It is achieving its will not through huge trained armies and the threat or use (yet) of nuclear weapons, but through untrained, illiterate masses and small arms. But it is achieving its will.
Who overthrew Rome? A bunch of illiterate peasants with small arms.
Who overthrew the British Empire in America? A bunch of illiterate peasants with small arms.
Who overthrew the Czars? A bunch of illiterate peasants with small arms.
Who overthrew Louis XIV? A bunch of illiterate peasants with small arms.
Who overthrew the modern armies of both France and America in Vietnam? A bunch of illiterate peasants with small arms
Who is overthrowing the post-war order, peace and the civilized world? A bunch of illiterate peasants with small arms.
See any trend?
To fantasize that we are stronger than they so we need not take them seriously enough to annihilate didn't work for Rome, King George, Czar Nicholas or Louis XIV any better than it worked for LBJ in Vietnam.
What was it Einstein said about doing the same thing and expecting different results?
History is a hard teacher. It is good to understand its lessons: You annihilate your enemies or they annihilate you. Why do you think China's leadership reacted as they did to Tienanmen Square? They know their history.
Islam represents an unrecognized (by the ruling elites across the West) upheaval and rejection of the Westphalian, post-Enlightenment world in the name of a pre-Westphalian, pre-Enlightenment worldview: "Allah said it, I believe it and that settles it, and if you don't agree you will be killed."
Overturning our Westphalian world will cause carnage not before experienced across the globe. Pretending words can stop it, or that it can be stopped by hard power available but not used, nor even seriously threatened, is fantasy.
The "leader of the Free World," the American president, not only is presiding over the forced unilateral strategic decline of American power, the power that has kept global peace for 70 years, the longest sustained Great Power peace in history, but seems to many not even to be on the side of liberty. In saying "islam was revealed" (a statement that, had it been made about Christianity, would have gotten him kicked out of any major university in America or Europe, but that went unchallenged after he said it in Cairo), and, "I will stand with them [writing of muslim immigrants] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction," and who quickly sent billions of dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, seems to many to be on the side of the enemies of freedom and Civilization. Yet Americans fantasize his words do not parade his intentions.
Islam is a real – not an imaginary – threat to the liberties and freedoms taken for granted by the entire West for over a millennia. Yet we neither recognize nor fight it.
Islam has grown so large that it is more than likely only the strategic destruction of its homeland can stop it, much as the strategic destruction of the homelands of NAZI Germany and Imperial Japan were required to stop them, both of which were far less barbarous than sharia islam.
This strategic destruction not only is necessary, it can be, and must be, accomplished at the push of a button. No Great Power today can, let alone will, assemble the millions of men that annihilated NAZI Germany or Imperial Japan, nor should we. Productivity counts in warfare, too; irreplaceable lives are lost unnecessarily when combat is undertaken with lower productivity than possible. We have sacrificed too many of our educated kids – our future – to this barbarous ideology; to sacrifice more when it is unnecessary to do so is a moral abomination.
There is nothing guaranteed about the survival of Western Civilization. Civilizations have come and gone throughout history. American hasn't won a war in 69 years, regardless of the unmatched physical capability of our military or all of today's "thanks for serving!" rah-rah. This is not the fault of our men. It is the fault of our leadership.
We, like Russia, lack the will. We talk loudly but carry no stick we are willing to use, not recognizing this behavior can impact affairs only negatively.
Those on the Left proclaiming that a dying West is good for the world are intentionally ignorant that their very proclamations come only because of the freedom of that West, along with rights for the interest groups they hold so dear – women, gays, the environment, etc.
Not to trivialize, but when Judy Collins sang, "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone," the parking lot was only a metaphor.
Now we are talking about the civilized WORLD, and it isn't a metaphor.
It is time to pay attention to the kind of world in which we live, and to the kind of world we want to leave to our children.
Islam as a Great Power willing and able to achieve its barbaric ends is NOT THAT WORLD.


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Dear Retail Bandit,
I went into Meijer's last night and on the clearance shelf they had multiple items that were mark on the scan tab as reduced $0.00. I then read the big sign that said "Item will scan at clearance price." I picked up a few items and proceeded to check it out on their in-house scanner and the items scanned in at $0.00.
I filled my cart and made my way to the check-out isle and attempted to purchase these items, but of course the clerk said that they would need to enter the correct amount into the register.
I said, "it's marked right there $0.00 and I believe you need to sell it to me at that price."
Well, the clerk called the manager and he said we do not have to sell it at that price, that is a scan me tag, which means we enter a corrected amount into the computer at the time of sale.
Some items had other price tags some had none, except the reduced scan me tag at $0.00.
I called and talked to the district manager and explained to him that every time I point out an error, his clerks just say, "well I can only go by what the scanner says" and they make no further attempt to fix the problem, and now I want that same courtesy as I had received all the other times an item has scanned wrong.
That's when I got told to bring any future errors to a managers attention, i.e., "Kick Rocks Dude."
Are they required to sell me the items at the scanned price and if they don't, am I entitled to a refund under the scanner law?
Thanks in advance,
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Freston Road, Hammersmith
Location: London W10
Architect: Envelope design by T. A. Colbourne Ltd.
Main Contractor: T. A. Colbourne Limited
Sector: Commercial
Scope of Project: Parts of this building dated back to the 1930's and for many years it had been used as a garage workshop. The open brief was simply to refurbish and upgrade the building to current standards and transform the shell to accommodate prestige offices. T. A. Colbourne replaced the roofs and clad the outside of the building with insulated panels. New windows and doors were installed, and a shiny black stone rainscreen façade transformed the street side elevation.


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Don't tar all ships or cruise lines with the same brush. Try cruising with Carnival on another ship next year. Do some homework. Even try other lines different than what your family cruises on. Meet with a consultant and determine what YOU want out of a cruise and work from there. But don't quit on account of one experience. I know you won't regret trying it again.
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Is the link for the review broken?
Suggestion, book early and pay in installments
Also if you have 4 people try to get a cabin that has an ajoing cabin, why not you're paying for two cabins and only living in One
Ships get old, but carnival is up grading many of their older ones