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The next couple of posts will probably just be GACs or other random nonsuch. I was going to seriously do a Heartcatch Precure post next, but I was a fool and took too many screenshots. As usual. So that will be on hold until it actually shows up. For those people waiting for action, don't forget to check out my Twitter feed! It's much fun. But now, to the GAC!
Today's Geeky As Charged is:
More classroom antics. In my philosophy class the other day, my teacher was talking about Kierkegaard and whatever he said in that one book he wrote. I was zoning out
as usual but for some strange reason, I kept re-focusing at random times. Then I figured out that it wasn't quite so random: I always looked up whenever my teacher said 'Despair.' If you have no idea what I'm talking about after that last word, watch more SHAFT. Specifically this one. Anyway, after that, the urge to shout "ZETSUBOU SHITAAAAAA!!!" rose a thousand fold.
Here's a picture 'cause I figure you guys like it. What I really like is the Black Rock Shooter reference.
In other news, I spent about an hour making an if-my-life-were-a-video-game playlist instead of studying for one of my midterms. I'm so productive... Not. At least I found out that I have a freakin' lot of video game music...
What's also geeky is that I opened up my emulator version of Super Bomberman 2 specifically so I could take this picture.
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Over the weekend I decided to read A.A. Milne's classic stories and poems of Winnie-the-Pooh, and completely fell in love with them.
I'm about 60% sure I've read at least some of these in my life, but as with most people of my generation, my introduction to the character came from the Disney shorts (and later feature film) of the 60s and 70s. Reading the original text, I was really impressed by how close the films stuck to the source material and just how sweet these original stories were.
I don't know if I could pick a personal favourite character (my wife has long been a fan of Eeyore), but it's probably either Pooh or Piglet as they have some of the best interactions in the stories.
If you've never read the original works, I strongly recommend them, as they are in turns fun, whimsical, enchanting, and honestly, a wonderful look at childhood through the eyes of a young boy's toys.
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I got this here award from Mejis at Did I Say That Out Loud? THANK YOU!!!
So here are the rules:
1. Thank the person who gave you this award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Pass the award along to 15 bloggers who you think are fantastic!
4. Contact the bloggers you've picked and let them know about the award.
7 Things About Me:
1. I do not like to dress up and wear makeup. I feel stupid.
2. I watched all the Weeds series in less than a month.
3. I am addicted to my Netflix account.
4. Wake up every morning still craving a cigarette although I have not smoked since August 2009.
5. Afraid something will happen and The Stand will be real life and I'll be one of the key characters in the new world. But that'd be ok because I've read the book!
6. I can't wait to mary Taranis and have little Taranis Jrs.
7. I miss my family...
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5. The Readhead Bloggette
6. The Perkster
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11. Doc In The Box
12. Auburn Kat
13. All or Nothing
14. ...and hijinks ensued
15. A Super Girl
wow. That's alot of people!!
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Project Africa information!
Project Africa is maybe world biggest reconstruction Project of Africas poorest áreas.
Project Africa is independent project that work to use latest high technology to create and build up a new productive Africa. Reason for the poor situation in the countries is usually economical and knowledge. Project Africa want to create a new economy with taxes so the countries can support them self. New economy will be based on attractive taxation system and cash free system all integrated in blockchain infrastructure.
Cash less blockchain infrastructure makes it possible to create an automatic economic infrastructure. Money together with cashless will all be passed through blockchain system. All cash money together with the country currency in the blockchain system will create a safe economical structure. A safe economical structure is important for a safe economy in a country. When a country has a non-corrupt economy that creates a safe structure in and outside the country. A country gets a very good reputation and economy rise to international standards. New economical structure with a central bank that is part of Project Africa will create stability in the country. Blockchain structure can also take care of taxation, treasures, police economical frauds departments and customs. Most important part of Project Africa's work is to create the economic stability in the country.
National salary:
National salary can be created in a very easy way in Africa. Only by raising the taxation of international mining company's activity would help that in most countries people could have a national salary. We are talking about countries where people live on or less than one USD. By having a national salary of 100 USD/month to all in working ages would eliminate the hunger and suffer in most countries. Other financial options for this, see Production.
Example from Malawi, half of the people lives on 1 USD/Day. A national salary of 100USD/Month is more than 50% raise. In Malawi lives under 20 000 000 people, according to 2012 the labor force was 7.2 Million, we can count today 10 Million people. 1 000 000 000 USD/Month for national salary. Malawi export is today: 1.27 Bn but thanks to a negative import of 2.29Bn USD the country cannot survive. By clean up the economy according to Project Africa structure, we get higher values. Then increase mining activity and make the mining activity according to Project Africa norms: green mining activity. Mainly surface mining that does not affect as high damages in the nature. License and export fees should be raised. Tax on tobacco and other export may be needed. Only 1-2% more in taxes would make big differences.
Energy & water:
Energy production will be produced by solar panels and some parts also with wind turbines. We plan to reconstruct mined holes to energy/water plants.
Part of Project Africa is also to create scientific cities that create new high technology. Thanks to cheap and near or: 0 cost energy we get very atractive countries for to create new technology.
Each mining hole will be like an energy and water factory. Also, other technical production will be used in same mining holes like digital mining for blockchain structure. Eash mining hole will produce Energy, water, money. Thanks to the Hugh potential Africa have in empty land areas and space there is endless potential to build and construct new technologies and also manufacturing of new technology and robotic/automatic technology.
Technically the hole will be folder by a water tank. Inside the water tank, we will have the battery technology to conserve produced electricity from the sun and wind turbines. Inside this could be the computer system that keeps up the blockchain structure. These systems will also be in city halls, police and military bases, government offices and centers. Computers is not any computer that actually anyone is using. The computers will be connected to a network of other computers in the country. Each transaction or money move need to be accepted in the system by 3-10 check points of Millions of check points in Africa, depend on the amount of money and what and where the money goes.
Project Africa plan to use technology that been used in: China, Australia for fast infrastructure.
Very fast road construction:
Fast vertical farming will produce food in hot, dry areas. These food productions need much less water and many times no soil.
Production and manufacturing in Africa. Africa offer lots of space and possibilities for cost effective manufacturing of high technology products like: for energy, construction, manufacturing, robotic, communication and much more. Most of what we will produce in Africa will go to export. In many African countries we may be the biggest tax payer. But calculated that with nearly free space and energy + low cost hard working people we are happy to pay a higher tax.
Some of the manufacturing technology:
3D construction:
Future construction that is here:
Robotic manufacturing:
Drones technology for security and police forces.
There is examples in the Democratic Republic of Congo where legal forces fight against criminal groups. Drones can help police forces locate these groups, track down their activity with micro drones, find them with and take them down with security drones. A security drone can be armed with tasers / gas that help to stop a criminal groups activity. Then police forces can easily take them in with out use any force or risk for the police officers security.
By manufacturing much of the machinery, technology in Africa we will get potential products for export. Also by offering many of these company's possibilities to produce their products and machinery cheaper in Africa would help up the economy.
Today 60 Billion USD is donated to Africa, year after year, 60 + 60 + 60 +60 and so on. Where is the results? Are you also tired of no results and organizations pump in more money for nothing? Project Africa could save entire African poor countries with one 60Bn USD donation.
- Economic reform.
- Food, energy and water production.
- Manufacturing
- Infrastructures
- Export.
Also, Project Africa goal is to make Africa an attractive place for international business and production. Project Africa have an own map and time for to reach the goal to changes Africas GDP from 1.3 Tr to 100 Tr USD by 2030. This is possible if all work on it and as many as possible join and support us.
Africa can easy be self-productive and in near future no need for any external economic aid. The World also need Project Africa to build up Africa. Africa could in 10 years time bring balance in World economy. Western economy going down, Africa could bring balance and things could be reversed in the future.
We are used to this today, it's when people migrate from Africa.
But look at this page from 2nd world war time. People actually migrate from Europe to Africa.
We may soon need Africa again to keep up the balance in the world.
Welcome to take a look at www.project-africa.net
To contact us: email@example.com ..
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Monday, January 24, 2011
If I were a boy....
Lacoste has a new shoe collection out, Lacoste Legends. The little green alligator has teamed up with 12 different taste makers to create 12 limited edition sneakers (or as I still say to many people's dismay - tennis shoes). Some of the collaborators are colette (personal fav), I-D, Bodega, DJ Jazzie B, Sebastien Tellier, and Sneaker Freaker. I die for I-D's spin on the green alligator high tops and colette's lizard skin low tops with bright blue laces. And for the special guy in my life I would outfit in Stones Throw take in rich brown leather high tops.
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Home > Uncategorized > Give your helpers proper credit.
Give your helpers proper credit.
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The guy playing the new Lone Ranger(Armie Hammer) is on The Tonight Show and I thought about giving proper credit to people who help you get your job done. In this case the name says it all: Lone Ranger.
How far would he have gotten without Tonto? People like a front man to represent a group effort, I think, because it keeps things simple but the people that make the magic happen need proper credit too. What is Tonto? Chopped liver?
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This is all the cadunkadunk I ordered! my hubby opens the box and says, "wow you got so much stuff!" ..lol
Enter in the code "carolina" and get 50% off purchases $15.00 or more. That includes shipping. I paid $24.40 for all of this and that included 3-day shipping.
The complexion brush.
So how is it? It's not fully rounded, it's actually flat with round edges. BUT, the brush is incredibly soft and feels good on my skin. I love the handles of these brushes.
In my honest opinion I was expecting it to be more full, BUT (again) I tried applying my foundation with this brush and it is *SPLENDID*. Very soft and I didn't have to use a lot of product to get the coverage I wanted with this brush. It is worth every one of my $3.
Flash. I will have to say I was scared that this would be sheer but it's not. It's totally pigmented, I personally need a light hand when applying both blush and bronzer. So I use my highlighting brush to do so. I love that it's pigmented, it's well worth the price.
Eyeshadow Primer and Liner Sealant.
i must say..i loooovvee the primer. i am not much of a liner person but i can try my mac carbon to see how it runs. the primer is easy to apply, sorta reminds of me of a concealer but this stuff grabs hold of your shadows!
The eyeshadow brush ($1 version). I didn't know what to expect from this really, I sorta just threw it into the basket. It's full and I have not had any shedding problems so far. I'm actually using it as a blending brush. It's worth the $1. lol maybe even more though in my honest opinion.
Swatches from my shadow/liner stick in smoke. It's very pigmented as you can see and the liner is a gel liner. It seriously just glides on with no tugging. The lasting power could be better though.


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Last Saturday, Gillette and Compete's "Can You Beat an Esports Champion" gave amateur players the chance try and take on some of Street Fighter V's top pros. Specifically, the line up consisted of Team Liquid's Du "NuckleDu" Dang, DTN's Bryant "Smug" Huggins, and Echo Fox's Justin Wong.
Well, it seems that an amateur does have a shot at beating out a pro, given the chance (and likely copious amounts of practice). Compete has now shared some highlights from the event, including this amazing match where an "average Joe" going by the gamertag Option is actually able to stand up to Justin Wong, even mounting a comeback against the latter with his Ibuki.
Of course, there were other noteworthy matches during the event as well–especially when some of New York's more well-known players also showed up. NuckleDu for one found himself having to face another Guile master in the form of Kevin "Di3minion" Landon.
Smug, however, found himself doing much better in his match against New York veteran Sanford "Santhrax" Kelly.
Now, these aren't all of the highlights from the event. Head on over to Compete for more matches: including a young kid trying his best to go up against Justin, and a head-to-head match between Smug and NuckleDu.
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As a friend once said, "Love is a gift. Trust has to be earned."
So how do you know when someone trusts you?
In academia, in business and in life, your reputation is built on trust. A high level of readiness of trust informs people's decisions to:
- employ you
- buy from you
- promote your interests
whether you're a university researcher or senior executive. The quality of your work gets you talking to the decision maker…..but it doesn't get you trusted.
I gave a presentation "Becoming The Trusted Adviser" to a group of corporate financiers last week and asked them – "How do you know when you are trusted?"
One said, "Ah, it's when they sign your first cheque!"
"No," I replied, "that's when they demonstrate a willingness to take the risk of finding out. However many testimonials or trusted friends who've referred you, they don't know yet whether to trust you themselves. The only evidence you have to believe they trust you is when you get the second and subsequent cheques."
The same could be said when you get hired. They've chosen you out of a pool of candidates in the hope you can be trusted. The initial 3 month probationary period gives them the first chance of finding out.
There's a process of 6 steps to be undergone to achieve this state of trust. We start with:
- I don't know you – the vast majority of the world fall into this category!
- I know of you – they've heard your name in passing or maybe have seen reference to your name in a paper or conversation.
- I have met you – they now recognise your name and possibly your face. They don't know you yet though they're willing to give you the time of day.
- I like you – they've found out you've got alot in common. You are welcome to join them at the bar at the end of the day and they'll probably relax in your company. Be warned though, they still don't trust you yet. The next step needs time and attention to achieve.
- I trust you – this will take a while, certainly in British culture which is reserved and conservative.
- I advocate you – they are utterly confident in you. They'll promote you and your ideas, your theories and your advancement. They're ready to face opposition and champion you with others.
I imagine there are only a few people who'll be within your 6th sphere of influence including, I hope, friends and family. This happy state of grace is your ultimate objective.


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To take this course, you must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organisation) and at least 10 years old.
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Cashiers du Cinemart is a zine based in Detroit, Michigan. Started in 1994 by Mike White, it was originally a cut and paste zine done on a Smith Corona word processor. It went to DTP with the sixth issue, to a more professional format with the seventh issue, and to its current form with the eleventh issue. Often called "CdC" for short, this magazine may look more professional than it used to, but it still holds on tight to its grass roots. There is little continuity in content from issue to issue.
Cashiers du Cinemart focuses on film (primarily), but also books, music, and other pop culture items. Some have described it as "a thinking person's Entertainment Weekly" while The Factsheet Five Zine Reader called it "the magazine Film Threat wishes it was."


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I receive a cute sms today...
from an insurance company....
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please get 'arrested' by ISA.
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I know it has been a long time writing. I have been packing, moving, moving and packing more and finally after 4 weeks or more feel like I'm not living out of boxes or cleaning the house we are selling and or cleaning the house we are moving into.
We have settled into a small town up North just outside both Salem and Albany, depending on which way you go. I'm enjoying seeing the new things that are now surrounding us, and finding little spots to go. We have discovered the fish pond behind the house we are renting, a new movie theater, the super Walmart, produce stands, and other wonderful places.
Now that things are more settled, I will get back to writing more often, hopefully about the wonderful foods of summer.
Oh and for those of you who were playing the Albertsons game? It's over. On the last day, I won the daily prize. They sent me a 50.00 gift card for Albertsons. If you won something, let me know! No more flipping burgers and fish for me!


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Apparently baby Spanky is giving mommy too much testosterone because she agreed to use all of her (and daddy's) birthday money to do this. You should see how big the Wonder Pets are! - Love, Fin
Sunday, September 16, 2007
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Only the third fee mannequin resulted in actual price financial savings, and even there a caveat is so as. The one demonstration using a bundled cost method (for coronary bypass surgeries) resulted in a commendable ten p.c reduction in spending with no apparent impact on affected person outcomes. Nevertheless, for the seven collaborating hospitals, CMS provided a big incentive: each was named a Medicare Participating Coronary heart Bypass Heart, potentially boosting its quantity of bypass surgical procedures. In other phrases, the hospitals got the chance to increase their revenues (albeit on the expense of competitor services), by agreeing to simply accept the lower bundled payments.
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Fuck. You. And I mean that from the heart.
The House majority leader, who did most of the talking for the Republican side, said those taking out student loans should start paying interest right away, rather than being able to defer payments until after graduation. It is a big-ticket item that would save $40 billion over 10 years.
This is the Republican leadership, people. If you're in a financial bind, you get screwed as much as possible. If you're wealthy? Well then we're just gonna keep kissing your ass and making your life even sweeter.
It makes sense, I guess. Poor college students aren't filling Eric Cantor's pockets with much money. The top 5%, on the other hand, probably are.


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Thanks to Tanvi for nominating me for this blogger award!! I'm so excited to answer these questions she gave me. So without further ado….
Liebster Award
1. Each nominee should link back to the person who nominated them.
2. Answer the questions which are given to you by the nominator.
3. Nominate other bloggers for this award.
4. Create questions for your nominees to answer.
5. Let the nominees know that they have been nominated by going to their blog and notifying them.
Here are the questions:
1) What gear do you normally use for photography?
I use a Sony NEX-C3. I switch between 2 lenses, a long-distance one when I'm shooting birds, and a macro lens for insects.
2) What has been your favorite spotting (sighting of nature)?
I really don't know the real answer to this. For me, every spotting, even if its common or rare, is special and something unique. But if I had to choose, I'd probably say the Club Silverline for butterflies and for birds- every time I see a Oriental Pied Hornbill I literally go crazy. I have also seen one of the largest moths in the world, the Luna Moth- in Taman Negara which I found fascinating.
3) Why do you love nature?
Personally, nature gives me a sense of freedom and a place I can just explore and discover amazing things. Every time I go out to explore there is something new to see and being out in nature makes me feel grounded and connected with Mother Earth. The best thing is that I can share my love for nature with so many others through this blog.
4) Where would you want to go most in the world?
The Amazon Rainforest or the Congo Basin. I love rainforests, and I really want to see some exotic and wild creatures. I also really want to see a bonobo ( pygmy chimpanzee) which is found only in the Congo Basin. I became really fascinated with bonobos after reading this excellent book called Endangered by Eliot Schrefer.
5) Why did you start blogging?
It all started when I discovered my passion for photography and nature in Sengkang Riverside park. I was fascinated with the beautiful natural world and was even more excited when I was able to capture every moment and sighting through the lens of my camera. I was pondering what to do with so many pictures, so I started this blog. Initially it was just for keeping my passion alive, but now it is so much more. I get to share my love for nature and learn so much in the process, through my research, others comments and suggestions. I never knew that blogging would teach me so much!
I nominate:
Miranda from Miranda Andersen
Nikita from Ihengbok
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1) Where did you find your love for nature?
2) Where is your favourite getaway?
3) What are your other passions and hobbies?
4) If you were given 3 wishes, what would they be, and why?
5) What equipment do you use when you go out exploring?
6) What change do you wish to see in the world in the future?


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When I thought about this week, the first thing that came to mind was that there was nothing particular about it. It was ordinary. Nothing outstanding came to mind. Not bad, mind you. Not boring. Just ordinary.
So what do you say about an ordinary week?
So I thought about the guests, who are such a major part of the experience of this place. When I did that, I found that actually I wouldn't describe this week's guests as ordinary. They were as interesting and diverse as our guests usually are. One was a Southern Baptist pastor from Poughkeepsie (think about that for a minute). He pastors a congregation that was established by southerners who came to the mid-Hudson Valley to work for IBM and wanted some religion that was familiar to them. Then when IBM downsized, they returned to the South, leaving the Church as a sort of outpost in these parts. He was a warm, friendly and outgoing man, who was here to do some discernment about going into foreign mission work.
We also have here a nun from a nearby contemplative community who has come for retreat. Her community and ours have had a relationship of friendship for many years, and we share each others' celebrations from time to time, but to have one of them here for retreat is a new experience. It's a nice experience, too. It's very good to get the know her and her community in this way.
We also have 2 monks from a fledgling Benedictine community in Mississippi with us. We first got to know them when one of the brothers, who is a musician, came here for our Flute Master's Classes in the summer several years ago, and the relationship has been growing ever since. Now the whole community - both of them - have come to visit for a while to experience our life and deepen our sharing. Tonight several of us are going to our favorite Chinese restaurant in Woodstock. A very monastic thing to do on a Sunday night. A growing relationship - how ordinary is that? Quite ordinary, of course, full of quite remarkable moments.
An Alanon group that has come yearly for about 30 years now is also here with us this weekend. We have watched them grow (and watched some of them grow old), and they are a very established part of our life in May. And other people, singly or as couples, have come to be here with us. Yes, it's just an ordinary week, full of people who are actually not so ordinary.
I suppose that a week of ordinariness might introduce some boredom into the life. I suppose. But actually that's not the way it takes me, because I just seem not to be inclined to boredom. When things just go along as usual, my mind turns to noticing small things that sometimes go by without much attention paid. I've spent nearly 50 years now listening to the sound of the train whistles and don't pay much attention, don't even notice them most of the time. But last night I found myself paying deep attention to the plaintive wail of a train as it hurtled through the Valley on its way to Albany, and maybe points beyond. It was a beguiling sound that seemed to speak of many half-heard things, and it was a comforting sound. It was good to really open up to it, and to pray for the people on the train, and to wonder if any of them were noticing us as they went by.
And one evening this week just before Compline a bird in a tree just outside the Church sang the most amazing song. I don't know what kind of bird, and I wish I did. It hasn't sung again since that night, but it was sure singing it's heart out on that one evening. Just for just a few minutes it filled the area with an extraordinary sound of beauty, and made me glad and grateful.
I watched the slow growth of the pansies that I planted just outside the sacristy. They are putting out their first blossoms now, and each one is a revelation, in the manner of pansies. They are such wonderful combinations of bold color. With the weather suddenly turning warmer, the plants should begin to grow this week and then the display will get really nice.
The ordinariness also makes it possible to turn my attention more closely to the Psalms as they come and go through the week. What an amazing combination of emotions and thoughts float by, sometimes in the course of singing a single Psalm. People sometimes complain about the completely unashamed way in which the Psalms put all of human experience before God, and before us, but I'm a follower of an English Benedictine Abbot who said: "If you don't cope with the anger in the Psalms, you're unlikely to cope with it in yourself." True for me. And not only the anger, but the sorrow, and the joy, and the complaining and the self-satisfaction and the suffering. The Psalms are truly a mirror in which I behold myself, and I find that in an ordinary time my beholding can go deeper.
In this ordinary week, I found myself giving thanks for the gift of living in this extraordinarily beautiful place. And one evening before Compline I was overtaken by a renewed sense of how lovely our Church is and how deep the atmosphere in it is. And one morning the sky was a really extraordinary color of blue.
Ordinary? I suppose so. But this ordinary week has given me some freedom to see how very unordinary life really is,if our hearts and our attentions are alert. Then we see that the fabric of ordinariness is woven of many colors and patterns and the experiences of an ordinary time is really full of wonders. I love discovering small amazing things!


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"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. - Vaclav Havel
"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not." - Vaclav Havel
"A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning." - Kim Jung Il
Great ideology creates great times." - Kim Jung I
"The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has a passion for cinema. But he could never find a director to realise his vision. So he kidnapped one from the South, jailed him and fed him grass, then forced him to shoot a socialist Godzilla." - The Guardian
Showing, once again, that irony is the is the glue that holds the universe together, Kim Jong Il and Vaclev Havel died in juxtaposition.
I've always wondered at the complete absence of humor in the Bible, given the Creator's universally impish qualities in the real world.
Havel was like a dream of a leader. Creative, thoughtful, humane, he presided over one of history's rare bloodless breakups of a country. Kim Jong Il, on the other hand, was a sociopathic lunatic, who almost certainly died of lifestyle diseases, gorging himself on the richest foods, the best liquors, the finest cigars - all while the people, the children, of North Korea starved to the point of eating grass.
I just finished the book "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick, which tells the stories of a handful of North Koreans who managed to get out. Orwell couldn't have imagined a more hellish, perverse, cruel place. I don't exaggerate. North Korea is hell on earth, stage managed by a freakishly mad family of sadists. It is a place where a neighbor overhearing the tiniest complaint about the miserable reality of your life can lead to a death sentence. The "Dear Leader" required that the illusion of complete adoration and joy be maintained - he had the methods to confirm this - even while your children were dying of starvation.
When Bush and Cheney decided to rid the world of despots one wonders why, were their intentions pure, they didn't start with Kim Jong Il. North Korea is the world's biggest lunatic asylum. Good riddance to the alpha lunatic.
I have a series of picture of people who are my heroes on the walls of my library. One of them is Vaclav Havel. Rest in peace.
Read more: Vaclev Havel Obituary The Guardian
Read more: Kim Jung Il Dead BBC
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Ready to Move On!!!
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I'm with you about moving on, and come on Fall!ReplyDelete
Also, I am agreeing with you on your mom good report and healthy quick recovery. God is good. Praying for you, too.
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Thank you for your prayers. We know that prayers move the hand of God!! Blessings to you!!Delete
So glad your mom is doing well ! Enjoyed your "fall" words. I am so ready, too. I had just this afternoon put out a quick, very short post.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you dear lady!!! I'll pop over for a visit to check out your newest post. Thank you for the prayers! Keep them coming!!!Delete
wonderful news about your Mom and yes, we serve a mighty God. as to the hot chocolate...too hot for hot chocolate but a glass of chocolate milk wouldn't go amiss.ReplyDeleteReplies
It's too hot for hot chocolate here . . . but a girl can dream :)!! Bless you my friend!!!Delete
What wonderful news!! May the Lord continue to give His peace and comfort in this midst of these things....He truly is good. Always. In His Love, CamilleReplyDelete


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I'm sorry
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This morning you woke up normally. To the sound of your mother's footsteps fretting around your room, getting your clothes ready for the day all while trying to rouse you up to eat breakfast. So you sit up and carefully climb down your bunk bed, grabbing your phone off the vanity table before heading out to the dining room. As you eat, you check the notifications that have accumulated during the time you were asleep, and pore through them lazily and sleepily. One particular link, however, captures your attention more than usual.
It's heartbreaking. People deem it unimportant, trivial compared to the actual problems and issues the world face today, but to you it's a become a constant influence in your everyday life. You cry. Your sister asks you what's wrong, watching worriedly as you sob into your bowlful of centra that all to suddenly taste more like cardboard than a combination of sugared cornflakes and stars. You mother and father ask what's wrong but they won't understand.
You want to miss school but it's not a viable reason enough. You soldier on through the day, avoiding talking about the dilemma even though almost everyone around you know and want to ask you about it, eager to hear the opinion of the few people they know that we're affected by the issue. Your friend goes out of their way to make time for you and comfort you: eat with you, hang out with you, listen to you, talk to you and keep you distracted until you feel like the heavy weight hanging above you has finally been put to the back burner.
However the night comes and there's a lull in the household, everyone asleep and it's only you and your mind awake and reeling, still processing and trying to make sense of everything.
And suddenly it's gotten so hard to breathe, like the anvil above your head had migrated to your chest cavity and is therefore, weighing down on your lungs and crushing your heart into your vertebrae. Your nose stings and you can feel your eyes welling up with tears but nothing comes out. You want to cry so hard and so bad and so desperately but your body does not want to cope, resisting the need to let go.
But maybe it's because you don't want to let go. Maybe it's because you still hang onto that slim chance that this may all just be some nightmare you haven't woken up from. That you'll wake up and everything would be back to normal and you can breathe easy once again.
It's all just a pipe dream, though. The reality is that we are all human and have our breaking points, kind of like you with your overwhelming emotions and anchor-heavy heart. It's true when they say that bands save lives, but they never said that they devastate too. But then, isn't that also human nature? We make things strong only to break them down only to know that we can.
And I'm sorry for that. I know you are too. And I forgive you.


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Fundamentalist Christians
"Clinging to Guns and Bad Religion"
Gospel of Luke 6:27-42
Love for Enemies
27 "But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29 If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. 31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.
32 "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' lend to 'sinners,' expecting to be repaid in full. 35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Judging Others
37 "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
39 He also told them this parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40 A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
41 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 42 How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
"Bad Religion: A Compendium"
"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."
1 John 4:18
Some of the good Christians who make American gun culture possible.http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-bible-belt-is-delusional.html
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For the 4th year in a row, the City of Minneapolis has released its GreenPrint report, an annual update on the work to make Minneapolis a more sustainable place. The innovative and nationally recognized report measures our ecologically friendly practices. The GreenPrint report provides a realistic framework for protecting and enhancing our environment based around 11 key environmental indicators. In the 2008 report, the City of Minneapolis:
Added an indicator that focuses on green jobs to define, develop and track the green job economy in the city. City investments will provide strategic job opportunities in areas such as green construction, transportation, food production, energy efficiency, conservation and renewable energy.
Met its target for zero combined sewer overflows all year during rainstorms – for the second year in a row. Upgrades to the sewer system in Minneapolis have resulted in a dramatic reduction in overflows, which are harmful to our lakes and river.
Adopted an ordinance that restricts vehicle idling in the city and raises awareness about the effects of vehicles on global warming and air quality.
Supported biking as a transportation choice by adding more trails, building the Midtown Bike Center, launching the Bike Walk Ambassador program and revising the zoning code to require bicycle parking for most building developments.
Awarded a second year of climate change grants to support grassroots efforts motivating residents and businesses to take action to reduce global warming.
Completed the City Hall and Courthouse building's 5,000-square-foot green roof with plantings as part of a waterproofing and storm-water management project. Plants will be irrigated with rainwater from a 10,000 gallon cistern installed as part of the project.
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Well we are finally feeling better around here and I am so excited to be getting back into some kind of routine! Yes, I realize that next week with the Christmas festivities my schedule will again go down the drain, but don't burst my bubble, okay?
This morning I decided that I wanted to make vegetable soup for dinner. Shawn and I love this recipe mainly because the secret ingredient is canned tomatoes from my grandparent's garden. Yum-O! I can't even begin to explain what that jar of tomatoes does to the soup, but it is fantabulous. Seriously. Anyway, then I just throw in a bunch of veggies and browned hamburger meat and let it cook in the crock-pot all day long!
I decided that today was the day Lauren got to help me! She was absolutely adorable and I just couldn't help posting these pictures. She sat so well on the counter (don't worry, I was right there) and stirred and stirred.
She was so proud of her stirring abilities! I'm sorry - is that smile not the best? How did I get so lucky to hang out with that bundle of joy (most of the time) everyday?
I let her add the potatoes after I peeled and cut them and she loved dropping them into the soup mixture. P.S. Notice how much of the sauce is splattered all over the bowl, and the counter, and the tile, and the toaster, and the girl... Oh well, it sure was fun!
P.P.S. Yes, she washed her hands before handling the food! ;)
Monday, December 14, 2009
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
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- Barry said...
I agree on the voices, the animation and the general look and feel of this one. There are a few scenes, a few moments, of pure magic. I like the way the witch is animated, and there are scenes when Snow White is dancing around where it looks like a real person moving.
I would give this one a 16 or so as well. Its obvious they were still working the bugs out a little on this rather new technique.
- April 7, 2011 at 11:11 AM
Also a 16, mainly because of what it represents in film history. I don't know if Walt was bedding the woman who voiced Snow White, but I'm trying to find a logical reason that we are forced to endure one of the most cloying speaking, and grating singing voices in movie history.
In your remake, I hope she dies from eating the apple, since it would serve her right for being so incredibly stupid.
- April 13, 2011 at 9:51 AM
- Shane said...
You wouldn't eat an apple offered by a creepy hunchbacked woman wearing all black?
The more I think about her character, the more I think that Snow White might be mentally challenged. She talks to animals, thinks it's perfectly acceptable to break into and clean the homes of people she doesn't even know, and she takes candy from strangers. A 'Snow White 2' (Wait...is there one? There's a 'Sleeping Beauty 2,' right?) would most likely be about the prince trying to figure out what to do after realizing he's married somebody with the mental age of four.
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Another game I was quite looking forward to was "Ben Jordan: paranormal investigator – case 3". And I must say, it excelled all my expectations.
The plot is quite strong – Ben is investigating a Scottish village in which rumours of witchcraft have spread. This time, it develops as the player progresses into the game, a great addition that was not present in previous installments of the series. Another outstanding idea by Francisco Gonzalez is to create two different ways to finish the game – each one worth playing, with different events, graphics and puzzles. This actually makes the game more or less non-linear, which I really fell for.
The graphics are in the same style as in the previous games, quite solid. There are even more animated character portraits and places to visit.
Music was a great part of the previous two Ben Jordan games, and this one is no exception. The digital music pack, which is included in the game download, enhances the wonderful atmosphere even more and often you will find yourselves doing nothing but just listening to the background music.
As for puzzles, they are various and fun to solve. There is one for which you will need to swap to another application, though, which can be quite distracting – in my opinion the creator should have put the book with the code not in the package as a html, but in the game as an inventory item… or something.
On the whole, the third case Ben Jordan solves is the best so far, and we are most certainly looking forward to the next ones!
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Jose Mourinho's best hope for silverware with Manchester United will be in the Europa League next season, according to former striker Teddy Sheringham.
United confirmed the departure of Louis van Gaal on Monday and are expected to appoint former Chelsea boss Mourinho as manager this week.
Van Gaal won the FA Cup final in his final game in charge but failed to secure qualification for the Champions League, meaning United will spend next season in Europe's secondary tournament.
And Sheringham, who won the treble under Alex Ferguson in 1999, says a focus on that competition will be Mourinho's safest bet to deliver early success at Old Trafford.
"It'll be tough for Mourinho to win a trophy in his first season and the Europa League title is probably the best hope," he said, as quoted by The Mirror.
"The league stages of the competition aren't too hard, so United should fly through that while he's assessing his squad and figuring out his desired starting line-up.
"He'll also have the chance in January to dip back into the transfer market if necessary and hopefully towards the latter part of the season United will be hitting top gear."
Sheringham believes Mourinho's experience of winning Premier League titles with Chelsea will stand him in good stead, but he expects United to fall short of challenging for Leicester City's crown in 2016-17.
"The Premier League may be a step too far in his first season, based on United's performances this year, but you never know," he said.
"If he can get things rolling and clicking very quickly then those odds will tumble. Mourinho is proven. He knows what it takes to win the league, giving him the edge over Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, Antonio Conte at Chelsea and Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp – but it'll be very difficult."
Van Gaal paid the price for inconsistent results and a refusal to change his much-maligned style of play, but Sheringham expects Mourinho to be more willing to embrace United's demands for attacking football.
"Van Gaal has not lived up to expectations. The legacy of Sir Alex Ferguson might be making it very difficult for other managers to come in after him at Old Trafford and compete," he added. "Now it's not just about winning games, it's about winning them in style.
"He [Mourinho] has a winning reputation and more than anything, United have to get back to winning ways – yet it has to be done with style. Mourinho has been around English football long enough to understand that.
"He knows what people expect. That winning mentality is there for all to see, but he'll be clever enough to change his philosophy and get into the Manchester United mould."
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Hey Simon, thanks for getting back to me. Hrmmm....I was afraid of that. In fact the exact pattern is "javerules/rulesets/ruleset/rule/*/message" which matches nothing in my ruleset. I did move all the pertinent sub-elements to the outer level, which means I'm going to have break down and actually write a DTD and use xml validation. I guess this is all the motivation I need to force me to do things correctly. Just out of curiosity, is the RegExRules just broken or simple not-ready-for-prime-time? After the Extended rules didn't work out, I wasn't too keen on heading down an even more complicated path so I'll admit I didn't even try... I have not looked into the plugins. And now, looking for the plugins docs, I realized I've made a huge mistake. The "Guide" link goes to a page that appears to be Javadoc generated...and I thought it was JUST javadocs. Therefore I didn't scroll down to the actual guide...doh! Man, have I been working in a vacuum. :) Just now I went to a co-worker and he thought exactly the same thing. We were just under the impression that Digester was grossly under-documented and secretly cursing all of you under our breath. Glad to know how wrong I was. Maybe you could move some of the guide links up above the class references stuff for those of us too dumb to scroll down. I don't think the plugins are really related to what I'm doing. I could probably use a plugin to clean up a few classes here and there. However, the substitution extensions might be terribly useful, since I'm already using them by using commons-config to hold all my configurations. This is my first serious foray into Digester and I put the Jakarta Commons Cookbook and Apache Jakarta Commons: Reusable Java™ Components onto my Safari bookshelf, used my download tokens to get the chapters on BeanUtils and Digester, and a toolbar-level link to the wiki page (thanks!) on my browser. Since I wasn't smart enough to actually read the guide, I sort of wandered through the desert blindly for a few days. I believe I can tell you some things about how I'm using Digester without describing the domain. Or maybe I'll get fired. :) My current work implements a java-based rules engine that performs some VERY basic validations. Currently our customer base uses a desktop app to reach our backend systems. We're making a struts-based alternative to that. The customer base uses VBA inside the desktop app to do customizations, and we're porting the ability to use that VBA on the browser through the use of browser helper objects (yikes!), but that's just gross. One of the two primary functions they use this code for is to perform implementation-specific validations (field X must not be greater than field Y + field Z). I'm using digester to build up the rulesets inside a singleton ObjectFactory that produces an instance of the specific runtime validations for a given context. Another part of this is an extension to DynaBeans that lets me define arbitrary code that generically retrieves data and places them into a DynaBean instance by intercepting the "get" call of the bean. I use Digester to generate the my extended DynaClass definitions from XML. I then have an ObjectFactory that produces instances of the DynaClass. A third part is another Digester call that parses xml definitions of our domain data and provides an overall view of the domain data for a given context. I haven't implemented an ObjectFactory for this yet, because of the fourth element of the effort. The fourth and final Digester call processes a services definition file that ties all the contexts together to another (usually identical) context that is specific to our application (usually a screen name). An intercept inside our base-level action class will do a jndi lookup for a service context based on the current form and if one exists, it will use that to populate the rules engine instance with the working data (as DynaBeans) and run the rules against them. The result of the rules should be "errors" so it's another level of struts validation but behind the action class because we retain the previous copy of the form bean and we'll pass that to the rules instance as "previous" and the current form bean as "current" and so you can make a rule that says 'if current.fieldx <> previous.fieldx then message("You're not allowed to change fieldx")'. My boss is sort-of allergic to drools for some reason so he wrote the first cut of this rules thing and I carried it forward from there. Funny thing is, if we would have used drools this entire process would have been complete weeks ago. The drools implementation of the rules engine is something like 3 classes and maybe 100 lines of code. This validation engine is some 40-odd classes and I don't even want to know how much new code I've written. :) Thanks again for your help and for suggesting the plugins since that helped me pull my head from a nether orifice and actually read the guide :) On 6/23/05, Simon Kitching <email@example.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 22:16 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > > > It looks like an interesting layer you're building on top of digester. > > Are you at liberty to discuss what you're trying to achieve? > > And by the way, have you had a look at the "plugins" module for Digester > (example usage is in src/examples/plugins). It *might* be related to the > kind of stuff you're doing. > > Regards, > > Simon > >
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By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael Achterling, USS Bonhomme Richard Public Affairs
EAST CHINA SEA – Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) with Marines of the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), celebrated the 234th anniversary of the ship's namesake, Feb. 4.
Sailors and Marines honored the anniversary by gathering on the mess decks to share stories of the legacy of the Bonhomme Richard and enjoy a cake prepared by the ship's culinary specialists.
"The history of this ship's name goes back to the war that founded our country," said Capt. Daniel Dusek, Bonhomme Richard's commanding officer. "Carrying on the proud traditions of this ship, and her name, is something that all of the crew should take a great deal of pride in."
The first ship to bear the name Bonhomme Richard was an East Indiaman merchant ship with the name Duc de Duras, given on loan by King Louis XVI of France and placed in service of the Continental Navy where it was renamed under the command of Capt. John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
While under the command of Jones, Bonhomme Richard battled the HMS Serapis off the coast of Great Britain in the Battle of Flamborough Head Sept. 23, 1779, of which the American's emerged victorious. During the engagement, Jones responded to the request to surrender with the celebrated phrase, "I have not yet begun to fight!"
"Jones's phrase symbolizes overcoming obstacles, and that is something that service members do every day," said Master Chief Fire Controlman (SW/AW) Thomas Ward, Bonhomme Richard's command historian. "The victory of the original Bonhomme Richard is a true tale of an underdog showing American resilience in the face of adversity, and how Sailors fighting side-by-side with Marines can accomplish any mission they are faced with."
During today's celebration, Sailors and Marines were told of actions taken by brothers-in-arms in the late 18th century.
Warships of the Continental Navy carried approximately three times as many Marines as their British counterparts. Marines helped shape the close-quarters combat that was common among the early engagements of the Navy.
"It has always been one team, one fight, in terms of Sailors and Marines working together," said Gunnery Sgt. Leonel Lora, assigned to the 31st MEU. "The technology has changed over time, but the core goal remains the same."
The second ship to bear the namesake, USS Bonhomme Richard (CV/CVA 31), earned one battle star for actions during World War II in the Pacific theater of operations, and five battle stars for events during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
The second Bonhomme Richard operated exclusively in the Pacific just as the current Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) now serves as the lead ship of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) in the Western Pacific.
Bonhomme Richard ARG reports to Commander, Amphibious Force 7th Fleet, Rear Adm. Jeffrey A. Harley and is currently conducting operations in the 7th Fleet area of operations.


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I understand more than ever why people get their cats declawed.
I pray this phase doesn't last much long, my legs can't handle it.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
1 comment:
- craige said...
Hi. Did your vet show you how to clip his claws? If you start him on it now, he will get used to it and it will be very easy to do all his life.
- August 29, 2007 at 8:51 AM
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The crew aboard a Generation Starship are many and their roles and responsibilities are varied. Only the very best are available for selection in an away team. Here are the various types which are eligible:
Nobles - As owner and captain of the Generation Starship, the player must create a noble. The noble is in command of the rest of the crew and it is technically the noble's away team which the player generates. Nobles are tough, having spent much of their youths often dabbling in the sport of zero G boxing (which is harder than it looks to the layman). Their responsibility is to tens of thousands of people (in some rare cases; millions) and they seek out new worlds to colonise so these people can have a place to call home. Nobles serve the Galactic Monarchy and are answerable to the Starcrown. They must be commanding to inspire the necessary confidence for others to follow them. Nobles have full clearance for weapons and battle armour, allowing them to lead from the front and protect other crew members when embattled.
Klarvian - These are an alien species that resemble people but have large, fearsome and frightening horned heads, wider than they are long, mouths dripping with narrow teeth. Klarvians began first contact with earth with an attempted invasion! In the mighty war that followed much of earth was devastated, however the counter attack under earth Queen Em pushed the attacking army back right to their homeworld, the hollow planet Klarvia. In a daring behind enemy lines attack by special forces, the Klarvian Mastermind was assassinated, paving the way for the Klarvian defeat and eventual assimilation into the Galactic Monarchy. A hundred years later, the Klarvians are trusted allies, and their honourable culture and ethos has won them much respect.
Medic Officer - Medics look after the health and safety of the crew using a unique high tech device call the Handheld All Purpose; or HAP for short. The medic prepares various configurations for the HAP and then loads them into the device. Once on the field the medic can then utilise the HAP to cure wounds and poisons (and so forth) according to how it was configured. As medics become more experienced they learn new ways to configure the HAP -an almost wondrous device that only medics gain access to. Medics have some military clearance but are restricted in the weaponry they can use as their role is mostly a supporting one.
Vell - The Vell are a highly logical alien race that predates humanity's rise to the stars. When first contact was made they were eager to trade. As the Vell have large ears that often protrude from their hair they became fascinated by the earth custom of wearing hats in winter. This became a key point that trade revolved around. They offered knowledge of their mysterious Multipurpose Energy Replicator (MER) technology in exchange for a constant supply of the finest hats earth could offer. Since then the Vell have been strong allies to the Galactic Monarchy. They utilise a Multipurpose Energy Replicator to good effect and have a good security clearance for weapons and armour. MERs are a type of all purpose device that can function as a weapon or even a defensive or utility item.
Technomonk - Technomonks are a psuedo-religious group that worships a vast artificial intelligence called The Mind. After successive earth governments proved beyond doubt that self rule was ultimately harmful to humanity a machine was put in charge of all of the earth's resources. This machine is The Mind and the Technomonks are those that work to maintain it. Due to their advanced scientific knowledge they are also highly valued aboard starships. Their primary equipment is a Multipurpose Energy Replicator which the Technomonk charges up with various configurations to alters its role on the field. Despite the MER having alien origins even the Vell (who invented it) cannot match the Technomonks in operation. Technomonks have very little military clearance and so are restricted in the weaponry and armour they can use.
Globling - Looking somewhat blue and blob-like in appearance this unusual race of humanoids are recent allies of the Galactic Monarchy via a controversial marriage of Princess Farah to Globling Cyan. First contact was made after the Globling mothership crash landed on earth's antarctic. After some initial 'misunderstandings' they were integrated into human society. They are by and large a sneaky race that prefers indirect confrontations and ambushes. Often they prefer to strike at a distance and run. Globlings are often excellent marksmen and have a reasonable security clearance rate for military items.
Engineer - Engineers are skilled in operating and overriding electronic devices. They are masters of their domains on board a starship and regularly navigate the weird n dimensional Escherist nature of ship engine compartments. Engineers can get into (and out of) tricky technical situations and tend to have excellent balance. An engineer's skill set improves with experience. Engineering officers have fair military clearance but are restricted in the armour they can use. They are well versed in the use of energy weapons and pretty good shots.
Android - Androids are crewmen that have been brought back to life via a consciousness transfer direct from brain to neural network. Androids are not common on board the ship with a population distribution of less than 1% of the total. Access to the consciousness duplication technology is strictly prohibited. Androids are not built for durability but they are very effective at close quarters in a battle scenario; often employing just their hands for deadly effect. Androids have very little military clearance for armour.
What are the available crew choices for an away team in Coincident Split?
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If you're even the slightest bit interested in sports, you know that this weekend marked the start of one of the year's biggest sports events – typically called "March Madness" for its exciting games, surprise finishes, and buzzer beaters; the NCAA College Basketball Tournament is underway.
And so, on Monday, April 8, a National Champion will be crowned, the iconic theme song "One Shining Moment" will be played and one team will celebrate their spot at the top of the college basketball world.
And then they'll return home as champions. Their home town will throw a victory parade. Fans will line up on the sides of streets that serve as the parade route, shouting for the team's attention, hoping to get a glimpse of the championship trophy, maybe even an acknowledging glance in their direction. The cheers of adoring fans will be so loud that they'll be heard from miles away.
If you're a fan like me, then maybe you even tuned in last Sunday evening when the brackets were announced on CBS. Perhaps you watched with eager excitement to see where the Michigan Wolverines would play or who would be Michigan State's first opponent.
No doubt there were certain amounts of cheering when the pairings were announced, especially for those teams whose tournament futures were less-certain than others. However, I'm not sure that there were any ticker-tape victory parades thrown last Sunday. I'm not sure that fans lined the streets to cheer their teams for making it into the tournament. To use an over-used cliché, throwing a victory parade before any tournament games were even played would be "putting the cart before the horse." Even in this world of star athletes making guarantees of victory, you just don't throw a parade until that victory actually happens, because nothing is certain.
That's what makes the scene of today's Gospel reading so surprising. This wasn't just your everyday, ordinary trip into Israel's capital city for Jesus. This was his trip towards his final battle in the spiritual war for mankind's soul; yet before the final battle was even fought, here was Jesus riding in to Jerusalem on his victory parade! And what a parade it was: in fact, it was a victory parade unlike any other.
You know the scene and the back-story. Jesus and his disciples were heading to Jerusalem, like so many other Jews, to celebrate the most important of Jewish religious festivals – the Passover. As Jesus and his disciples gathered outside Jerusalem, on that famous mountain known as the Mount of Olives, Jesus gave a few instructions to two of them. Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.
That might seem a bit of a strange request from our Savior. It might seem that he's almost encouraging "borrowing" something that didn't belong to him. Yet, knowing that Jesus never committed any sin, we can understand that a few possibilities might be more realistic. Perhaps, Jesus was good friends with the colt's owners; they might have even some of his disciples. Maybe, Jesus had even set up a little arrangement with them, and had asked them ahead of time if he could borrow their colt for just this purpose. Finally, however, it doesn't really matter, does it?
Jesus even prepared his disciples for the answer they were to give. If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?, tell him, 'The Lord needs it.'
And so the disciples did just as they were told. And imagine that – despite any skeptical thoughts they may have had, everything was just as Jesus promised. There was the colt, tied up as Jesus said. And sure enough, as they were untying it, its owners asked them what they were doing. And what a surprise, they even allowed them to borrowed it as they responded the way Jesus told them to!
Fast forward to the top of the Mount of Olives where these disciples had brought the young donkey to Jesus. Watch as Jesus' disciples remove their outer cloaks – likely their finest pieces of clothing – and lay a few of them across the donkey's back to create a make-shift saddle. Watch as the others lay their outer cloaks on the dusty, dirty, rocky road ahead of Jesus. Others cut palm branches and laid them down, too.
And as Jesus' began making his way down the mountain, the word began to spread that Jesus was making his way into Jerusalem. People from all over began to gather along the roadside. Some had seen Jesus' miracles: maybe they had been there for the feeding of the five thousand or the wedding at Cana; maybe they had heard of his miraculous healing, or his driving demons out of the possessed. Some had probably even come from the nearby village of Bethany, where not too long ago they had been grieving outside the tomb of Lazarus when Jesus miraculously raised that young man from the dead.
Now, they gathered, hoping to catch another glimpse of their favorite teacher. One by one, voices joined together until the shouts became one: Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!
As faithful Jews, they had likely memorized the Old Testament promises regarding the promised King of kings, and they knew this scene looked familiar. The whispers in the crowd may have aided their memory: remember what the prophet Zecheriah said? See your king comes to you…riding on a donkey, on a colt – the foal of a donkey. Do you see what this is? Here's the one we've been waiting for!
But I don't think that they really understood the significance of this victory parade for Jesus. You see, he wasn't riding into Jerusalem as a king; he was riding into Jerusalem as the Savior-King. He wasn't riding into Jerusalem to fulfill their wildest dreams – be it freedom from Rome, a daily supply of their basic desires and wishes, or the restoration of glory days long-gone.
No, Jesus – as the Savior-King – was riding into Jerusalem to fulfill their deepest need. And so, he was riding into Jerusalem to die. Jesus knew it; in the verses following today's lesson, Jesus mourns the Jewish rejection that would happen four days later. Yet he rode in anyway.
Why? Because he knew that this was a war that we could not win. Try as we might, the stage was too big and the task was too much to handle. We were overmatched and dead in the water. So Jesus mounted that donkey, rode into Jerusalem through cheering crowds – all to make his way toward's Calvary and his death. As the Apostle Paul once wrote in Romans: at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Yes, Christ rode in to Jerusalem this Palm Sunday so many years ago that he might lay down his life – the ultimate sacrifice – in order to win the spiritual war for your soul and mine.
But this isn't the way that you would imagine for a Savior-King riding on his way to war! In times of war, Kings rode war-horses, not donkeys! But Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey was a symbol of peace. You see, donkeys used for the everyday tasks of transporting grain or plowing fields, tasks more often during times of peace than times of war. So what's the Savior-King doing riding a donkey on his way to war?
You know that answer too. It's because the battle was as good as done already! Yes, from the very moment that God promised our salvation in the Garden…even now as Jesus' rides into Jerusalem…the end result was never in question, but always as good as done! Why the Palm Sunday victory parade? Because from God's perspective, victory was already won and in hand!
It was that victory which was announced at Jesus' birth, where the angels sang words similar to those shouted by the crowds lining the streets for the Savior-King. Thirty-three years earlier, the angels sang, Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests above the hills outside Bethlehem. Victory was just as certain then as it was here on the path down the Mount of Olives; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!, the people shouted as Jesus made his way into Jerusalem.
Had the Savior-King's enemies remembered this, then perhaps they might have been cowering in fear instead of bold in defiance. Yet, the devil even then was at work, using the religious leaders of Israel to come up with bloated charges false charges of religious blasphemy. Even now, the Savior-King's enemies plotted his death while dreaming of their own victory.
But any victory that they imagined would be short-lived. For on this day, from the back of a donkey, surrounded by waving palm branches, the Savior-King announced victory over his enemies – a victory for you and for me! A victory that meant peace in heaven; peace between God and man.
This Thursday night, as the altar is stripped and words sung which remind us of our Savior's abandonment in the Garden of Gethsemane – remember that he had already held his victory parade! As we remember our Savior crucified on Golgatha, the blood, the agony, the suffering of hell which he endured – let us remember our Savior's victorious ride into Jerusalem!
Yes, he rides into Jerusalem this morning to declare the war won for you and for me! It's in the bag! It's a victory parade like none other: The Savior-King is victorious before its even begun! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Amen!