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Mises Wire
Free Will and the Market Place
[Adapted from an address before the American Farm Bureau "Farm, Family and Christian Resources" Conference, October 30, 1958; reprinted in The Freeman, January 1959.]
Free will is the starting point of all ethical thinking and it plays an equally important part in the business of making a living. If man were not endowed with this capacity for making choices, he could not be held accountable for his behavior, any more than could a fish or a fowl — an amoral being, a thing without a sense of morals. So, if man were devoid of this capacity, his economics would be confined to grubbing along on whatever he found in nature. It is because man is capable of taking thought, of making evaluations and decisions in favor of this or that course, that we have a discipline called economics.
In making his ethical choices, man is guided by a code believed to have the sanction of God; and experience has shown that the good life to which his instinct impels him can be achieved only if he makes his decisions accordingly. The Ten Commandments have been called the Word of God; they can also be described as natural law, and natural law has been described as nature's way of applying means to ends. Thus, we say that nature in her inscrutable ways had determined that water shall always run down hill, never up; that is a natural law, we say, because it is without exception, inevitable, and self-enforcing. Therefore, when we decide to build ourselves a house, we set it at the bottom of the hill so as to avail ourselves of a supply of water. If we put the house at the top of the hill, nature will not cooperate in our obstinacy and we shall not have any water in the house; unless, of course, we discover and make use of some other natural law to overcome the force of gravity.
That is to say, nature is boss and we had better heed her teaching when we make decisions or we shall not achieve the ends we desire. But, her teaching is not freely given; we must apply ourselves diligently to a study of her ways to find out what they are. The prerequisite for a successful investigation is to admit that nature has the secret we are trying to uncover; if we begin by saying that in this or that field nature has no laws, that humans make their own way without reference to nature, we shall end up knowing nothing.
If, for instance, we discard the Ten Commandments, declaring them to be mere manmade conventions changeable at will, we end in chaos and disorder — evidence that we are on the wrong track. Likewise, if we declare that God in his infinite wisdom chose to disregard economics, that in ordering the world he overlooked the ways and means for man's making a living, that in this particular field man has to work out his own formulae, we will end up with a poor living.
"Economics" without Principles
And that is exactly what has happened in the study of economics; many experts in this field are of the opinion that nature can tell us nothing about the business of making a living; it's all a matter of human manipulation. That is why economics is so often a meaningless hodgepodge of expediencies, leading us to no understanding and no good end. I might add that the incongruities of ethical life, such as divorce, juvenile delinquency, international friction, and so on, are largely the result of the current conceit that there is no warrant for ethics in nature, no positive laws for moral behavior; but that is another subject.
I shall try to present some evidence that nature has her own rules and regulations in the field of economics, indicating that we had better apply ourselves to learning about them if we would avoid the obviously unsatisfactory results from relying on man's ingenuity. Come with me into the laboratory of experience, which is the source of much understanding.
The First Pioneer
Let us cast our mind's eye back to the time when there was no Madison, Wisconsin, or any other city west of the Alleghenies, when only the seed of a later social integration was planted here — when a lone frontiersman decided to settle on this spot of earth. The primary consideration which influenced his decision was the possibility of making a living here. He selected what later became Madison because the land was fertile, water was plentiful, the forests abounded with wood for his comfort, meat for his sustenance, and hides for his raiment. This was the workshop from which he could expect good wages for his efforts. Without benefit of economic textbooks, he hit upon a couple of economic laws: (1) that production, or wealth, consists of useful things resulting from the application of human labor to natural resources; (2) that wages come from production.
These laws, these precepts of nature, are still in force and always will be despite the efforts of some "experts" to rescind them. Often the yearning for manna from heaven obscures the fact that only by the application of labor to raw materials can economic goods appear, but the yearning is so strong that men ask government to play God and reproduce the miracle of the wilderness.
Government, of course, can produce nothing, let alone a miracle; and when it presumes to drop manna on its chosen people, it simply takes what some produce and hands it over to others; its largess is never a free gift. And as for wages, they still come from production, even though there are sectarians who maintain that wages come from the safety vaults of a soulless boss. The consequences of disregarding these two dictates of nature are too well known to call for discussion.
Returning to our first pioneer, his initial wages are meager. That is because he is compelled by the condition of his existence to be a jack-of-all-trades, proficient in none. He produces little and therefore has little. But he is not satisfied with his lot for, unlike the beasts in the forest or the fish in the sea, man is not content merely to exist.
And here we hit upon a natural law which plays a prime role in man's economic life: He is the insatiable animal, always dreaming of ways and means for improving his circumstances and widening his horizon. The cabin built by the pioneer to protect himself from the elements was castle enough in the beginning; but soon he begins to think of a floor covering, of pictures on the wall, of a lean-to, of a clavichord to brighten his evenings at home and, at long last, of hot-and-cold running water to relieve him of the laborious pumping. Were it not for man's insatiability, there would be no such study as economics.
A Neighbor Arrives
But the things the pioneer dreams about are unattainable as long as he is compelled to go it alone. Along comes a second pioneer, and his choice of a place to work is based on the same consideration that influenced his predecessor. What wages can he get out of the land? However, as between this location and others of equal natural quality, this one is more desirable because of the presence of a neighbor. This fact alone assures a greater income, because there are jobs that two men can perform more easily than can one man alone, and some jobs that one man simply cannot do. Their wages are mutually improved by cooperation. Each has more satisfactions.
Others come, and every accretion to the population raises the wage level of the community. In the building of homes, in fighting fires and other hazards, in satisfying the need of entertainment or in the search for spiritual solace, a dozen people working together can accomplish more than twelve times what each one, working alone, can do. Still, the wage level of the community is rather low, for it is limited by the fact that all the workers are engaged in the primary business of existence on a self-sustaining, jack-of-all-trades basis.
At some point in the development of the community it occurs to one of the pioneers that he has an aptitude for blacksmithing; and if all the others would tum over to him their chores in this line, he could become very proficient at it, far better than any of his neighbors. In order for him to ply this trade the others must agree to supply him with his needs. Since their skill at blacksmithing is deficient, and since the time and effort they put into it is at the expense of something they can do better, an agreement is not hard to reach. Thus comes the tailor, the carpenter, the teacher, and a number of other specialists, each relieving the farmers of jobs that interfere with their farming. Specialization increases the productivity of each; and where there was scarcity, there is now abundance.
Specialists with Capital
The first condition necessary for specialization is population. The larger the population the greater the possibility of the specialization which makes for a rising wage level in the community. There is, however, another important condition necessary for this division of labor, and that is the presence of capital. The pioneers have in their hams and pantries more than they need for their immediate sustenance, and are quite willing to invest this superfluity in other satisfactions. Their savings enable them to employ the services of specialists; and the more they make use of these services the more they can produce and save, thus to employ more specialists.
This matter of savings, or capital, may be defined as that part of production not immediately consumed, which is employed in aiding further production, so that more consumable goods may become available. In man's search for a more abundant life he has learned that he can improve his circumstances by producing more than he can presently consume and putting this excess into the production of greater satisfactions.
Respect for Property
Man has always been a capitalist. In the beginning, he produced a wheel, something he could not eat or wear, but something that made his labors easier and more fruitful. His judgment told him what to do, and of his own free will he chose to do it. That makes him a capitalist, a maker and user of capital. The wheel, after many centuries, became a wagon, an automobile, a train, and an airplane — all aids in man's search for a better living. If man were not a capitalist, if he had chosen not to produce beyond requirements for immediate consumption — well, there would never have been what we call civilization.
However, a prerequisite for the appearance of capital is the assurance that the producer can retain for himself all he produces in the way of savings. If this excess of production over consumption is regularly taken from him, by robbers or tax-collectors or the elements, the tendency is to produce no more than can be consumed immediately. In that case, capital tends to disappear; and with the disappearance of capital, production declines, and so does man's standard of living.
From this fact we can deduce another law of nature: that security in the possession and enjoyment of the fruit of one's labor is a necessary condition for capital accumulation. Putting it another way, where private property is abolished, capital tends to disappear and production comes tumbling after. This law explains why slaves are poor producers and why a society in which slavery is practiced is a poor society. It also gives the lie to the promise of socialism in all its forms; where private property is denied, there you will find austerity rather than a functioning exchange economy.
The Trading Instinct
The possibility of specialization as population increases is enhanced by another peculiarly human characteristic — the trading instinct. A trade is the giving up of something one has in order to acquire something one wants. The trader puts less worth on what he possesses than on what he desires. This is what we call evaluation.
It is not necessary here to go into the theory, or theories, of value except to point out that evaluation is a psychological process. It springs from the human capacity to judge the intensity of various desires. The fisherman has more fish than he cares to eat but would like to add potatoes to his menu; he puts a lower value on fish than on potatoes. The farmer is in the opposite position, his ham being full of potatoes and his plate devoid of fish. If an exchange can be effected, both will profit, both will acquire an added satisfaction. In every trade — provided neither force nor fraud is involved — seller and buyer both profit.
Only man is a trader. No other creature is capable of estimating the intensity of its desires and of giving up what it has in order to get something it wants. Man alone has the gift of free will. To be sure, he may go wrong in his estimates and may make a trade that is to his disadvantage. In his moral life, too, he may err. But, when he makes the wrong moral choice, we hold that he should suffer the consequences, and hope that he will learn from the unpleasant experience.
So it must be in his search for a more abundant life. If in his search for a good life the human must be allowed to make use of his free will, why should he not be accorded the same right in the search for a more abundant life? Many of the persons who would abolish free choice in the market place logically conclude that man is not endowed with free will, that free will is a fiction, that man is merely a product of his environment. This premise ineluctably leads them to the denial of the soul and, of course, the denial of God.
Those who rail against the market place as if it were a den of iniquity, or against its techniques as being founded in man's inhumanity, overlook the function of the market place in bringing people into closer contact with one another. Remember, the market place makes specialization possible, but specialization makes men interdependent. The first pioneer somehow or other made his entire cabin; but his son, having accustomed himself to hiring a professional carpenter, can hardly put up a single shelf in a cabin. And today, if some catastrophe should cut off Madison from the surrounding farms, the citizens of the city would starve. If the market place were abolished, people would still pass the time of day or exchange recipes or bits of news; but they would no longer be dependent on one another, and their self-sufficiency would tend to break down their society. For that reason we can say that society and the market place are two sides of the same coin. If God intended man to be a social animal, he intended him to have a market place.
Traders Serve One Another
But, let us return to our imaginary experiment. We found that as the pioneer colony grew in numbers, a tendency toward specialization arose. It was found that by this division of labor more could be produced. But this profusion from specialization would serve no purpose unless some way were found to distribute it. The way is to trade. The shoemaker, for instance, makes a lot of shoes of various sizes, but he is not interested in shoes per se; after all, he can wear but one pair and of one particular size. He makes the other shoes because other people want them and will give him in exchange the things he wants: bread, raiment, books, what not — the things in which his interests naturally lie. He makes shoes in order to serve himself, but in order to serve himself he has to serve others. He has to render a social service in order to pursue his own search for a more abundant life.
In our lexicon we refer to a business undertaking by the government as a social service; but this is a misnomer, because we can never be certain that the service rendered by the government business is acceptable to society. Society is compelled to accept these services, or to pay for them even if un-wanted. The element of force is never absent from a government-managed business. On the other hand, the private entrepreneur cannot exist unless society voluntarily accepts what he has to offer; he must render a social service or go out of business.
Profits Come from Patrons
Let us suppose that this shoemaker is especially efficient, that many people in the community like his service and therefore trade with him. He ac-quires what we call a profit. Has he done so at the expense of his customers? Do they lose because he has a profit? Or, do they not gain in proportion to the profit he makes? They patronize him because the shoes he offers are better than they could make themselves or could get elsewhere, and for that reason they are quite willing to trade with him. They want what they get more than they want what they give up and therefore profit even as he profits.
If he goes wrong in his estimate of their requirements, if he makes the wrong sizes, or styles that are not wanted, or uses inferior materials, people will not patronize him and he will suffer a loss. He will have no wage return for the labor he puts in and no return for the capital — the hides and machinery — which he uses in making his unwanted product. The best he can do under the circumstances, in order to recoup some of his investment, is to hold a bargain-basement sale. That is the correlative of profits-losses.
No entrepreneur is wise enough to predetermine the exact needs or desires of the community he hopes to serve and his errors of judgment always come home to plague him. But, the point to keep in mind is that when an entrepreneur profits, he does so because he has served his community well; and when he loses, the community does not gain. A business that fails does not prosper society.
The Distributive Function
The market place not only facilitates the distribution of abundances — including the abundances that nature has spread all over the globe, like the coal of Pennsylvania for the citrus fruit of Florida, or the oil of Iran for the coffee of Brazil — but it also directs the energies of all the specialists who make up society. This it does through the instrumentality of its price-indicator. On this instrument are re-corded in unmistakable terms just what the various members of society want, and how much they want it. If the hand on this indicator goes up, if higher prices are bid for a certain commodity, the producers are advised that there is a demand for this commodity in excess of the supply, and they then know how best to invest their labors for their own profit and for the profit of society. A lower price, on the other hand, tells them that there is a superfluity of a certain commodity, and they know that to make more of it would entail a loss because society has a sufficiency.
The price-indicator is an automatic device for recording the freely expressed wishes of the community members, the tally of their dollar ballots for this or that satisfaction, the spontaneous and noncoercive regulator of productive effort. One who chooses to tamper with this delicate instrument does so at the risk of producing a scarcity of the things wanted or an overabundance of unwanted things; for he disturbs the natural order.
Beneficiaries of Competition
One more social function of the market place needs mentioning. It is the determinant of productive efficiency, provided, of course, it is permitted to operate according to the unimpeded motive power of free will. In the primitive economy we have been examining, one shoemaker can take care of the shoe needs of the community. Under those conditions, the efficiency of that server is determined by his skill, his industry, and his whim. He alone can fix the standard of the service he renders his customers, or the prices he charges. Assuming that they can go nowhere else for shoes, their only recourse if they do not like his services or his prices is either to go without or to make their own footwear.
As the community grows in size, another shoe specialist will show up to share the trade with the first one. With the appearance of a second shoemaker the standard of efficiency is no longer determined by one producer. It is determined by the rivalry between them for the trade of the community. One offers to fix shoes "while you wait," the other lowers his prices, and the first one comes back with a larger assortment of sizes or styles. This is competition.
Now the beneficiaries of the improved services resulting from competition are the members of society. The more competition and the keener the competition, the greater the fund of satisfactions in the market place. Oddly enough, the competitors do not suffer because the abundance resulting from their improved efficiency attracts more shoe customers; "competition," the old adage holds, "is good for business."
If, perchance, one of the competitors cannot keep up with the improving standard of performance, he may find himself out of business; but the increased productive activity resulting from the competition means that there are more productive jobs to be filled, and in all likelihood he can earn more as a foreman for one of the competitors than he could as an entrepreneur. Even those physically unable to care for themselves and dependent on others are benefited by competition; when there is an abundance in the market place, charity can be more liberal.
Immutable Laws Prevail
I am not attempting here a complete course in economics. What I have tried to show is that in economics, as in other disciplines, there are inflexible principles, inevitable consequences, immutable laws written into the nature of things. Exercising his free will, man can attempt to defy the law of gravitation by jumping off a high place; but the law operates without regard for his conceit, and he ends up with a broken neck.
So, if the first pioneer had set up with force of arms a claim to everything produced in the Madison area, other pioneers would not have come near, and the community known as Madison would never have been born. Or, if he could have collected tribute, also by force of arms, from every producer in the area, he would have driven prospective specialists to places where private property was respected. If the first shoemaker had established himself, with the help of law, as a monopolist, barring competition, the shoes that Madisonians wore would have been of poor quality, scarce, and costly; the same result would have followed any legal scheme to subsidize his inefficiency at the expense of taxpayers. If early Madisonians had decreed to abolish the market place with its price-indicator, specialization and exchange would have been thwarted and the economy of Madison would have been characterized by scarcity.
The laws of economics, like other natural laws, are self-enforcing and carry built-in sanctions. If these laws are either unknown or not heeded, the inevitable eventual penalty will be an economy of scarcity, a poor and uncoordinated society. Why? Because the laws of nature are expressions of the will of God. You cannot monkey with them without suffering the consequences.


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When the Baylor University Research and Engagement Librarians moved off the reference desk in 2013, they ramped up their research consultation program, using LibCal's appointment scheduler as a convenient way for students to book appointments with the librarians. In 2017, they came to the realization that there was an untapped opportunity for assessing their program, through LibCal's automatic email system, which sends a follow-up email to each person making an appointment. That year, they inserted a link to a survey (created through LibWizard) in that follow-up email with questions about the research consultation. This process was a very easy and low-maintenance way to perform assessment with what is virtually a captive audience. This presentation will present the results of what they learned through assessing a year and a half of responses about their research consultation program. Spoiler alert: students love it!
Ellen Filgo is the Assistant Director of Research and Engagement, Baylor University Libraries. As such, she leads, coordinates and organizes the training for the team of public services staff; administrates the online tools used by the department; coordinates departmental statistics; and assists in managing the daily operations of the department, which includes 11 liaison librarians. She is also the liaison librarian to several academic departments (Modern Languages & Cultures, Film & Digital Media, Communication, and Journalism, Public Relations & New Media). She received her BA in Comparative Literature from Oberlin College and her Master's in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Library Type: Academic
Demographic Served: 1 campus, undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs, mostly in person, but a growing number of online graduate programs, strong undergraduate focus, but a current push for R1 status.
Population Size: Baylor serves approximately 16,500 students.
Staff size in the library: The library has a faculty staff (librarians & archivists) of 30 and an additional staff of 107. The library also employs 42 students.
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Top 5 Hide SMS App For Android to Protect Your Privacy
Top 5 Hide SMS App For Android to Protect Your Privacy.In this modern world everyone need privacy for himself. Hide sms app is one of the best app for hiding sms on android mobiles. There are many hide sms applications on internet. Today, I am going to share some favorite sms hiding apps.
Why Hide SMS App is Necessary:
In this modern world we are depends on conversation on smart phone or social media. So, we have a lot of privacy and private messages in our mobiles. Mostly people use social messengers like Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, Instagram etc. There is a lot of chat and messages are not the kind of you would like to share it with someone else or with your friends. Therefore you need to protect them and you need an app which can hide your sms on android.
Thus, Hide sms app is very necessary for everyone now days.
Today I am going to share top 5 hiding sms application on Android.
These apps will protect your privacy and no one can get their hands on your sensitive material. Sometime our friends humbly request us to give our smart phone for using internet. But we want to hide our personal data from them. So in this way these apps are very helpful and can your sms protect.
Also Check: Use WhatsApp on PC without Mobile
Here are the top 5 apps to hide sms on Android.
Private Message Box : Hide SMS
Private SMS and call hide app is working by creating a separate space on your mobile phone. It is called private space. The process is very simple.
- First of all download and Install the application From Here.
- Install it your phone and open it.
- The app will prompt you to setup a pin.
- Simply import your contacts to the app.
- These contacts will be hiding and you have the option to hide them from address book.
- You can also hide call logs and history from your phone.
- When new message will arrive you will be notified through an alert.
- You can also select a specific ringtone for that message and you will know that and other people will think it is normal message.
Go SMS Pro
Go SMS pro is one of the favorite and mostly used app hide sms to in whole world. This app is available on Playstore. It has a lot of features. It has minimum 100 million users. So you can think from here how mostly used app is that.
- First of all download the app from Here.
- Install the app and open it.
- When you will open the app a prompt up for setup pin.
- Then hide whatever you want.
Go SMS Pro Features:
- Private box to encrypt your message and protect your privacy.
- Go chat supported for free chat group.
- Dual SIM support is also available.
- Pop up for quick replying.
- Smart block for blocking sms and chat.
- It also has pro featurs.
Calculator Vault
How to hide photos to Calculator Vault?
Click the app hider interface gallery icon use the 'Gallery Module', add 'input folder name' to create folder and select pictures or personal photos, then click the save button to import the picture into the created private file.
How to add app to Calculator Vault?
In the hidden display interface click add app button, you can see the phone within the application, select the app to add to the Calculator Vault-App Hider, click the import apps button.
How to delete apps from Calculator Vault?
In the hidden apps interface long press the hidden app, drag the application to the delete icon to delete the hidden application.
How to hide photos or videos to hidder?
Click the app hider interface gallery icon use the 'Gallery Module', add 'input folder name' to create folder and select pictures or personal photos, then click the save button to import the picture into the created private file.
Download Calculator Vault app from Here.
Vault – Hide Pics & Videos, App Lock
Vault is a mobile app designed to hide private pictures, videos, sms, call logs and contacts on your phone. Currently there are more than 100 million users worldwide using Vault to protect their mobile privacy while enjoying App Lock, Private Bookmark, Incognito Browser, Cloud Backup and many other helpful features for completely free.
Top Features:
- Hide and Protect Photos & videos: Photos and videos imported into phone can only be viewed or played after the correct password is entered.
- Call Reminder: Whenever there is an incoming call, you can search for the phone number through the inquiry box.
- Private Browser: With Private browser, your internet surf will leave no traces behind. There is also Private Bookmark feature.
- Cloud Backup: Back up your photos and videos to Cloud so they never get lost.
- Data Transfer: With Cloud Backup feature, you can easily transfer your data to a new phone.
- Password recovery: Worried about forgetting your password? Set a security email in Vault so you can retrieve it.
Message Locker – Chat lock / AppLock
Message Locker helps you keep your messages to yourself and away from curious eyes. Need to lend over a phone to a friend? Got a curious Mom who'd love to know what you're up to? Message locker secures and adds a PIN / Pattern lock to all your messaging and email apps on your device.
Message locker ensures that your messages and emails are safe from anyone using or browsing your phone.
Message locker locks and adds a password to all your messaging, SMS, chat, texting, email apps on your device. It does this by simply adding a PIN / Pattern to enter any of your messaging and SMS apps. Message locker ensures to safe guard your messages and emails from anyone using or browsing your phone. Without the PIN/Pattern no one can see your private messages.
Trust no one and keep your conversations secure with Message Locker.
– Add a PIN / Pattern Lock to all your messaging and email apps.
– One PIN / Pattern to lock multiple apps.
– Automatically detects messaging apps on device.
– Intuitive and simple interface for great experience.
– Keeps your conversations safe and secure.
– Fast and Easy unlock.
– Optimized for HD tablets.
– E-Mail based password recovery.
– Third party and system apps supported including Whatsapp, Snapchat, Gmail, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Viber, Hangouts and many more.
Download Message Locker from Here.
Well, these are the top 5 apps for hiding sms on android mobile. We recommended you to use them all and try all. Then select one which is best hide sms ap for you.
People also ask:
What is the best app for hiding text messages?
Top 5 Hide sms app are these below.
- Private sms and calls.
- GO SMS Pro
- Calculator Vault
- Vault Hide
- Message Locker
How do you hide text messages on Android?
- Message Locker.
Download and install the app form Google Play store.
Then setup the pin for protection
Now import the contacts and messages you want.
You can also set pin or pattern for privacy.
How do you hide your Messages app?
There are some favorites sms messages hiding apps.
- Block call and SMS
- Vault hide
- Message locker
- Go pro sms
- Private sms and calls
- Private space
Can you hide text messages on Samsung?
Yes of course you can hide sms in you Samsung mobile. But it does not have built in option to hide sms. You.


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Investment Grade Snakes — Royal Blue 'Precious Metal'
The recent multi-trillion-dollar orgy of federal spending has many economic experts worried about the "I word" — inflation. As the government borrows more and more money, these experts caution we can expect the dollar to fall and prices to rise. Are there "safe havens" in inflationary times? Real estate is depressed, the stock market has been devastated, and as for bonds… well if interest rates rise in the months ahead, you have to be very careful about buying low-return bonds right now.
We are NOT qualified to hand out investment advice, particularly in these troubled economic times when all the "conventional wisdom" has gone by the wayside. Nonetheless, it appears that demand for fine firearms remains high. In particular, "classic" high-grade revolvers have been appreciating even while stocks tumble and home values sink.
Colt Python — An Appreciating Asset
Among the most desirable of double-action revolvers is the Colt Python, preferrably with Colt's famous high-polish Royal Blue finish. Pristine blued Pythons sold for $800.00-$900.00 just a few years ago. Now the same revolvers are fetching up to $1900.00 at auction. The mint-condition 1977 6″ Python shown below sold for $1850.00 just last week on Gunbroker.com, and there were 15 bidders! (See Completed Auction 125683644.)
Would a Python be a good short- or long-term investment? You have to decide that for yourself. But consider this: Colt stopped producing Pythons in 2005, so the supply is fixed. And the recent Pythons are not (yet) considered as desirable as Pythons made in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. So the price of the older Pythons keeps rising. Pythons were produced with 2.5″, 4″, 6″ and 8″ barrels. All lengths are popular, but the 6″ Python seems to be the most sought-after currently.
If you've ever carefully inspected a Royal Blue Python, and worked the action, you'll understand why they are so popular. The liquid-like ultra-smooth blued finish is simply the best ever offered on an American handgun. Chuck Hawks writes: "Colt's Royal Blue is the ultimate polished blue finish for steel guns. No other blued production revolver can compare to the beauty of Colt's Royal Blue Python." And the Python's double-action trigger is considered by many to be the smoothest ever made. The triggers on S&W Performance center revolvers are very, very good, but the trigger in a 60s or 70s Python is better — right out of the box. Typically, Pythons are extremely accurate, shooting sub-inch at 25 yards. Ergonomically, Pythons are a pleasure to shoot because the bore axis is lower than on most other large-frame revolvers. Chuck Hawks agrees: "Subjectively, this finest of all DA revolvers is a soft shooter… most shooters feel that the Python kicks less than other DA magnum revolvers of comparable weight."


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I've been nominated as one of the ten finalists for the Best Cooking Blog for Singapore Blog Awards 2014! I'm extremely honoured to be nominated, and I would like to give a shoutout to all of my family, friends and readers for supporting me on this journey!
This blog post is coming a little late, since I was in the United Kingdom when the results were announced so I had to resort to a very inconvenient and uninteresting way of sharing my nomination details with you all.
Now that I'm finally back in Singapore, here's a post dedicated to you all, to make voting a much smoother process, and of course, as a little thank you note to you.
Voting Process:
It is quite a hassle when you first vote, but after the first time, all you need to do is click a button and your vote for that day is done!
1) On your first time, you'll be required to fill up a form with your personal particulars. After this, everything will be a very smooth process, so do bear with the slight inconvenience at the start!
2) When you click on this link here, you will be redirected to this page on Facebook:
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smartphonea.k.a. smart phone, Internet on the go
Considered a killer app, a smartphone is a cell phone that's integrated with a data device, containing the features of a PDA and more. Think iPhone, think Android. Smartphones, which are mobile phones that act like minicomputers, can access the Web and email and a bunch of other technology features including thousands of apps. But beware of smartphone face!
Historical perspective: In a watershed moment in the history of computing, global shipments of smartphones exceeded those of PCs for the first time in 2010. As of 2011, 83% of people own a cell phone, and more than 50% use a smart phone to access the Internet. The competition became so fierce that during 2011-2012, tech companies in the smartphone industry alone spent as much as $20 billion on patent litigation and patent purchases—a sum equivalent to eight Mars rover missions. In 2011, for the first time, Apple and Google each spent more on patent lawsuits and purchases than on developing new products.
By September 2018, roughly 89 percent of teenagers have their own smartphone, up from 41 percent in 2012. Children were reported as getting their first smartphones at around age 10, down from age 12 in 2012. And in the first half of 2018, the Chinese tech giant Huawei sold 95 million smartphones, shipping more phones globally than Apple as sales rose steeply in Europe, the Middle East, and India.


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A new week-long festival celebrating the creation of art in the moment firmly establishes Chicago as a thriving center of vital, groundbreaking dance. Presented jointly by the Dance Center of Columbia College and Links Hall, the fest pulls national and local artists together to teach, perform, lecture and discuss in venues across the city. Highlights include contact improvisation workshops with veteran Nancy Stark Smith, a performance and a workshop by Bebe Miller, an artist talk and performance inspired by the sculptural installations in Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall at IIT, and a free improv jam in Grant Park, timed to get the city amped for SummerDance. The fest also quite rightly takes ongoing musicians-meet-dancers improv series "Collision Theory" under the umbrella. Individual tickets to events are available; fest passes get you in to three, four or five performances and discounts on workshops. (Sharon Hoyer)
June 12-June 19. For information, call (773)281-0824 or visit linkshall.org/DanceImprovFest.shtml. To register for workshops or purchase tickets, call (312)369-8330.


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Asked recently if there was an update of the old SDP landscape weblog entry, I was shocked at how out of date it had become. The categories needed updating, lots of companies had come and gone. The 2012 SDP landscape can be downloaded here, and is also shown at the end of this entry, though its best to download than read in the Slideshare widget.
The types of SDP are broken down into:
- IPTV: platforms that deliver video content and services to STBs (Set Top Boxes) or connected devices, e.g. tablets.
- Mobile content / app store: platforms that deliver applications and content, e.g. videos, games, music, ring tones, wall papers, etc. to customers' mobile phones.
- Messaging: SDP focused upon messaging services, e.g. USSD services or premium messaging services.
- Converged voice / SIP app server / SCIM: SDP focused on voice applications.
- Business: SDP focused on business services and integrating into business processes.
- Cloud services broker: Aggregators of cloud services, this does overlap the Business category so likely these two categories will soon merge.
- Real-time charging: SDP component that enables real-time charging for services.
- 3rd Party / APIs: SDP that enable 3rd parties, the operator and its partners to re-use services and network capabilities.
- Service creation /management: SDP component focused on the operational processes for creating and managing services
- Converged / Unified SDP: An SDP created specifically to unify all the previous categories into a consistent framework. Features include being standards based, unified policy management, and extensive pre-integration.
I've tried to capture most of the IPTV and real-time charging providers in the landscape, as they are also consolidating into a converged / unified services domain framework, as discussed in the Services Domain report. The Cloud Service Provider (CSB) category and the business SDP could be extend into many more enterprise focused technology providers, I've tried to keep it focused on those selling in / through telcos. If I've missed any please let me know.


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Opening reception: Thursday, May 22nd, 6 – 8 pm
Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg.
In 1968 the Soviet Union, unable to tolerate reforms, such as freedom of speech, that were being granted within its satellite state of Czechoslovakia, invaded Prague. Prague's inhabitants had little military prowess to resist, and so one of the many inspired ideas the residents came up with was to paint over all of its street signs and destroy all municipal maps within hours of the invasion. The Soviet tanks wandered aimlessly for days.
There is a kind of doxic order to street signs that interests Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg: the way signs stand within a city, generally unquestioned, followed by a city's inhabitants in the belief that to maintain some kind of order within public spaces is beneficial to a democratic society. But for Hanson & Sonnenberg, it is not the order that is of interest but the disorder, not the agreement but the fight. What if all the street signs were painted over? Would we wander directionless? Would chaos ensue? Is order always advantageous to society, or, as the art historian Rosalyn Deutsche contends, is a democratic public sector predicated on the existence of conflict and instability?
For this exhibition, the artists have constructed over thirty buckets from discarded New York municipal street signs, bringing to bear the question of the function of both a city sign and a bucket simultaneously. Each bucket is comprised of a myriad component signs (for example, "Yield," "One Way," "No Parking") bolted together in a seemingly rudimentary and provisional fashion. It is as though these buckets are attempting to be useful (most sincerely- for what else is a quotidian object like a bucket to aspire to?) but fail (most blatantly: there are gaping holes in each bucket, not one would hold water). In most cases, the very street signs that make up these buckets have been relieved of their former purposes by the bending, sanding, and painting over by the artists. These are buckets bereft of use made out of metal signs that no longer indicate direction. A kind of absurd, doubled over futility.
Hanson & Sonnenberg explore this futility on a formal level situated somewhere between Donald Judd's approach to art making and those criteria set forth by the Italian Futurists in the early 20th Century. Smithson identified the surface and structure of Judd's works as existing "simultaneously in a suspended condition," while in 1912 the Futurist Umberto Boccioni insisted that sculpture portray dynamism by extending itself into space, entering its surrounding environment. Like Boccioni's "Development of a Bottle in Space," Hanson & Sonnenberg's works exist precisely between a tension and a balance, synthesizing a kind of form in motion.
Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg's life-size sculpture of a zamboni made entirely of polystyrene is currently on view through June 8th in the exhibition "Arena: The Art of Hockey," curated by Ray Cronin, at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax. They have exhibited widely, including at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), P.S. 1/MoMA, White Columns and the Public Art Fund. They live and work in New York.
The exhibition will open on Thursday, May 22nd with at reception from 6 – 8 PM, and will remain on view through July 11, 2008. For further information, please contact the gallery at email@example.com, or call (212) 680-9467. Friedrich Petzel Gallery is located at 535 West 22nd Street New York, NY 10011.


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He's Doing Funky Grooves with His Kung Fu Moves. The Hoff that is. Wow.
Somewhere in Asia…
An orphaned child is washed up at sea and raised by a family somewhere in Asia. Ikki (Lucas Grabeel) grows up to be a teenage boy who wants nothing more than to become a Ninja. His parents love and respect him but his peers give him a hard time. Even worse, Master Sabu does not invite Ikki into his Dojo.
Devastated he practices dancing on an arcade machine and keeps approaching Master Sabu for a year. He also learns of an ancient legend from somewhere in Asia about an orphaned child whose feet will fly. This blessed child will know his destiny and will need to overcome many enemies in order to find his true love and home. Hunted by nightmares, Ikki is convinced, he was the Dancing Ninja. Sabu is not and never question his training methods…
Master Sabu is very knowledgeable and even has an ancient Ninja Training Machine. Ansel LaDouche (David Hasselhoff) wants to conquer the world and is interested in exactly this machine but Sabu would never share ancient secrets for money. Trained by Sabu, LaDouche wasted his talent in the American entertainment industry. He is a bit washed up and hasn't had much of a career since the 90s.
I have taught you a secret and you have turned it into a mockery. You are a disgrace.
I am loved by millions!
Mhmmh, maybe in your own mind LaDouche. In the real world you are despise-ed.
Determined to play a major role in the soon to be launched 24 Hour Fighting Channel, LaDouche attacks his Master. LaDouche is not in incredibly good shape and somewhat of a douche, so he shoots him in the back, takes off with the ancient papyrus rolls and Ikki finds Sabu on his death bed.
It's a sign! It's clear to me that you had to die for me to fulfill my destiny.
Ikki, did it ever occur to you that not everything is about you?
No, Sabu I don't think so.
Find a woman, become a man. Only then you will know who you really are.
Ikki decides to travel to America to revenge Sabu's death and says farewell to his parents. Their instructional video business 'Happy Lovemaking' will open doors for him in America… Master Sabu passed on to the other world, which looks a lot like a hot tub with bikini girls. Since he is a bit worried about Ikki, he sends his best student Kimi (Judy Jung-hwa Kang) to follow him.
In the meantime, Ansel built his own Ninjaziser and has been 'promoted' spokesperson for the 24 Hour Fighting Channel. His television interview with tough Heidi went like this…
Can I ask you a really tough question Ansel? 5 years ago, you're last film bombed. You were shunned, you were outcast, you were box office poison. So you disappeared from the LA scene, no more movie premiers, no more charity events, no more weekly card games with the A List or B List for that matter. So what was it? Emotional problems? Insecurity?
Heidi, I've given so much to so many. I just needed time to recharge my batteries. To see what I had left.
Looks like you found quite a lot, haven't you?
Yes, I have. Ha ha ha
I mean, Don't you just wanna struck yourself a bit? Splash your peacock feathers a bit and say to the world, look at me, I'm a douche! I mean, I'm LaDouche! And I'm here to stay.
I just wanna wake up in the morning and be the best Ansel LaDouche I can be.
To top this, the Hoff turns around, looks directly at the camera and breaks into a "Hooked on that Feeling" montage. Marvelous.
At first, Kimi helps Ikki secretely but soon they fight side by side and every time they get closer to each other, Ikki gets closer to his inner Ninja… Ansel LaDouche has a flashback to his childhood. At nine years old, his mother (David Hasselhoff) took him to a fortune teller who predicted, he will find death by a Dancing Ninja. You know we're headed for a showdown from here and for once I won't give away the ending. (It might involve a helicopter explosion.)
Even if you are not wild about David Hasselhoff, you will very likely like him after watching Dancing Ninja. The cast is in great spirits and movie buffs will be surprised about the love of detail! It borrows from karate movies and comes complete with slow motion fight scenes and mullets. Who cares about the plot? Even though it looks a bit like Hanna Montana, Dancing Ninja is not a family movie. Ikki only grows as a ninja whenever he has an encounter with a lady, which is a bit awkward at times, and they even use language.
David Hasselhoff does what he does best, simply being The Hoff. He has the amazing ability to laugh about himself and is incredibly sympathetic. We all screw up at times but nobody will see that on morning TV. It seems redeeming to mock himself and simply move on with life. As David Hasselhoff grows older, his movies also carry more meaning. Fugitives Run (2003) questions values in Canadian society while Dancing Ninja (2010) presents a whole bunch of artificial, ignorant Americans, driven by wrong values. If you had the choice where to live here, you would go for somewhere in Asia.
Why we love it: this is the kind of movie, that David Hasselhoff should be making every year.
Recommended for: if you like good music, you may have trouble watching this film. Give this a go if you like Kung Fu movies, Glee and, of course, David Hasselhoff.
Directed by Mitchell Klebanoff and Kelly Sandefur
Written by Mitchell Klebanoff
Lucas Grabeel as Ikki
David Hasselhoff as Ansel LaDouche / Ansel's Mother
Judy Jung-hwa Kang as Kimi
Patrick Gallagher as Sabu
Terryn Westbrook as Heidi Holdom
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A very simple and easy homemade pizza dough recipe that is perfect for any topping…
Easy Homemade Spiced Dulce De Leche
Cinco de Mayo is here and I, from a corner if India – Chennai was invited for an Instagram Collaboration and to be honest I'm not that good with anything Mexican Food – Never had a chance to explore them.
So you can imagine my excitement on doing something sweet, traditional to make my presence in the collaboration. That's when I thought about the Dulce De Leche – The famous Sweetened Milk caramel, which I have seen in several posts.
Getting influenced and improving one's knowledge is all I care about in Instagram, so decided to make some Shortbread cookies and Sandwich them with the Dulce de Leche. Now we know, due to isolation and quarantine, there is no way I can look for a can of it. So decided to make my own with sweetened condensed milk well before the collaboration post day – So I can perfect my technique of making quick and easy Dulce De Leche in Microwave.
Again, there are several ways to make this delicious sweet sauce like slow cooking, bake for hours. ME, being me sometimes[Read that always] look for easier ways so I can save time and hence adopted the microwave method. All you need is 18-20 minutes.
Trust me the first time was a success and the second time too, which is when I decided I had to step up and spice things up – Literally, by adding Cayenne and Vanilla powder. Here we have the results, the so creamy, caramel and spiced DULCE DE LECHE.
All you need are 4 ingredients for this spicy Dulce De Leche and a large microwave safe glass bowl. Large bowl because, for the first few minutes in the microwave the condensed milk will come to the top and may boil over if you missed it. So be very carefully keep an eye on the bowl inside and stop microwaving if it seems to be boiling over – but only for the first few mins.
I used the store bought sweetened condensed milk and the volume will remain the same so if you are adding one cup of condensed milk, you will get 1 cup of Dulce De Leche.
While in microwave the condensed milk will start getting thicker that is when you need to start adding milk little by little whisking well to ensure no lumps of caramel is found and the sauce is smooth.
Use them for your cookie sandwiches, swirl some in the brownies – heck, have it by spoonfuls!!
Without any more back stories or introductions, let's jump into the recipe.
Homemade Spiced Dulce De Leche – Microwave method
- Microwave
- A large Microwave Bowl
- 75 Gms Sweetened Condensed milk I used a full can of it, which was 75 gms.
- 3/4 cup Warm Milk
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- 1/2 tsp Cayenne Pepper Powder
- Empty the can of Condensed milk in a large microwave safe bowl.
- Set the microwave in medium power and time for 2 minutes. Keep an eye on the microwave as the condensed milk may boil over.
- Stir once and keep cooking for 2 more times, 2 minutes each.
- Add the spices and cook for another 2 minutes.
- When the condensed milk will start getting thicker to stir, add some of the milk and loosen the condensed milk. Put it back in the microwave and keep cooking in 1 minute interval.
- Add milk only if so thick and mix well and cook until the milk mixture attains the caramel brown color, and shiny.
- Let it cool and store in a clean jar until you want to use.
- Enjoy with cakes, cookies, ice cream and all the things you like this spiced Dulce De Leche with.
- For the first few minutes, be very watchful and ensure the milk doesn't boil over. If it comes to a full boil, stop and stir once and put it back in the microwave.
- The mixture will be very hot, so be careful and use heat resistant gloves or oven mitts.
- Add any spice you like in the mix – Cinnamon, nutmeg will all taste good and warm.
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March 7, 2017
In the spring of 1860, Col Charles Henry Churchill was well into his interviews with one of the great personalities of his era. As a British military officer and former diplomatic representative in Damascus to the Ottoman Empire, Churchill finally found the opportunity to record first-hand the extraordinary life struggle of Emir Abdelkader al- Jazairy (the Algerian) who was living in exile under watchful French eyes.
Since the early 1830s the emir's jihad to contain French colonial ambitions in North Africa won him admirers around the world, even as far as the Missouri Territory. A frontier lawyer named Timothy Davis even named a settlement in his honor in 1846 shortened to Elkader, today the county seat of Clayton County, Iowa. Abdelkader's resilience and chivalrous behavior on and off the battlefield, and his humanitarian treatment of French prisoners essentially turned him into a David versus Goliath figure in the eyes of many.
By 1847 a determined French commitment to dominate all of Algeria convinced him that further resistance would cause useless suffering of his own people. Once believing he was doing God's work by leading the jihad, the emir argued with his council that God must want France to have its turn to rule.
Abdelkader negotiated an armistice agreement that was approved by the governor of Algeria, the youngest son of King Louis Philippe. In sum, the Emir and his extended family would be taken to the Middle East. In turn, Abdelkader gave his word that he would never return to Algeria or make trouble for France. Fifteen years of experience in peace and war with the emir had taught the French generals in the field one thing: Abdelkader was an honorable opponent who considered his word to be sacred. Churchill admired the emir first as a resilient and wily warrior-statesman, and then as stoic prisoner who was betrayed within months of his submission by a change of government in France, leading to a five year detour. Before Churchill finished his interviews, the emir's fame rose to new heights. This time it would be as a courageous humanitarian honored by heads of state around the world, a hero for his faith, and even adopted by French, Syrian and American Masonic lodges.
On July 6 1860, Churchill witnessed the governor in Damascus's punish Christians who were no longer paying the head tax. Abdelkader and his sons organized the rescue and protection of thousands in the neighboring Christian quarter, even offering bounties for Christians brought safely to his enormous French paid residence. Around 10,000 were saved over several days, many then escorted to Lebanon with protection. Letters of gratitude poured in from around the world, one of which was from Bishop Louis Pavy in Algiers, to which the emir responded:
"That which we did for the Christians, we did to be faithful to Islamic Law, and out of respect for human rights…. The law places greatest importance on compassion and mercy and all that preserves social cohesion." Abdelkader ended his letter with a pointed observation for today: "Those who belong to the religion of Mohammad have corrupted it, which is why they are now like lost sheep."
His most valued letter, however, came from fellow freedom fighter, Emir Shamil, living under house arrest in Moscow: "May the laurels of distinction always bear fruit for you...you have put into practice the words of the Prophet (to protect the innocent and minorities) and set yourself apart from those who reject his example. May God protect us from those who transgress His Law."
Indeed, false religion can produce monsters – and so can false patriotism.
Humans can become monsters and they come in all nationalities, races, and religions. Deranged by zeal of bitterness and false teaching, they can become ticking time bombs. What, however, are their triggers?
Abdelkader's mother, Zohra, often warned that ritual purity was only half of faith, and that the harder half – to purify one's inner self – was sorely forgotten. A true instrument of God's will restrains egotistical desires and violent passions of anger, envy and revenge: what the Prophet Mohammad called the greater jihad and Catholics called the seven deadly sins. By resisting his fanatical 'dead-enders', convincing them to lay down their arms and spare their families from imprisonment or death, Abdelkader had waged the greater and truer Jihad.
Amongst a plethora of life experiences, skills, and principals, Abdelkader believed foremost that the pursuit of knowledge was the highest good and ultimate purpose in life, for knowledge ultimately leads to right conduct. But his was a world of hierarchy. Social relations were hierarchical, and so too was knowledge. In his famous Letter to the French written in 1856, the emir laid out his understanding of what made man different from the rest of creation : love of knowledge, pursuit of truths that transcend the senses – truths of mathematics, geometry, philosophy, the moral truths. The most important knowledge is political.
Why? He believed man is a social animal who needs to cooperate to survive. No knowledge is more important than that needed for living in and engaging with political society, thus guiding human behavior justly. Such justice requires access to higher wisdom, transmitted via the prophets--vessels for mediating God's wisdom. Nor is there any contradiction between them. They all subscribe to the fundamental moral rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. No religion owns God, yet they have a common message – glorify God and show compassion for His creatures.
There is evidence that his story can inhibit radicalization, especially in young Muslims. Mohammad Sammak, advisor to the grand Mufti of Lebanon, stated in 2011: "The spirit of Abdelkader is the spirit of liberal and tolerant Islam. I believe we Muslims should do something together to revive Abdelkader's spirit to guide our societies out of the tunnel. Pakistani scholar and editor of al Sharia, Mohammed Khan Nasir wrote to me after reading about Emir Abdelkader for the first time: He is not only a symbol of the Muslim concept of resistance and struggle against foreign domination, but an embodiment of true theological and rational ideas taught by Islam. His life story has been used by madrasas since 2011 to discuss the true meaning of jihad—to live righteously and control unruly interior spirits."
What, then, makes him applicable to forming counter-narratives of modern Jihad? First, he was simultaneously "local" and "universal." He was deeply and authentically a pious Muslim (which means one who submits). Yet his religion wasn't a safety belt holding his identity together, but a platform for probing the meaning of God's creation. He also grew spiritually, especially during French imprisonment, where he saw the goodness in France and experienced the goodness of Christians and non-believers alike. His Islam made him bigger not smaller.
He was a unifier and a reconciler. The plurality of beliefs was, to him, a reflection of the infinite nature of God and the inexhaustible ways to praise God. He didn't see any conflict between politics, religion and science. Politics should be governed by a desire to guide people to live in harmony; religion should provide a common moral base of shared values and common origin. Science will teach us to grasp the basic unity of mankind. Finally, his was a life of virtue in action. True leadership requires a value system akin to the Cardinal Virtues of the Christian world, which Abdelkader possessed in abundance: a strong intellect capable of making distinctions, moral courage which includes compassion, justice and self-control.
The emir's behavior followed the now forgotten foreign policy philosophy enunciated in 1797 by President George Washington during his farewell address "…Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all…. Religion and morality require it." Washington did not say "with democracies" only, with "Christian countries" only. Perhaps he instinctively knew the wisdom of the Koranic verse: "If God wanted, he could have made us all the same, instead God created different tribes and nations so they might learn to know one another and compete in good works."


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Comic Info
Comic Name: Star Wars: Darth Maul
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Writer: Cullen Bunn, Chris Eliopoulos
Artist: Luke Ross/Chris Eliopoulos
# of Issues: 5
Release Date: 2017
Reprints Star Wars: Darth Maul #1-5 (April 2017-September 2017). Darth Maul has been trained in the shadows. Under the tutelage of his master Darth Sidious, Darth Maul has become a Sith, yet he hasn't quenched his hunger to kill a Jedi. When Maul learns about the proposed sale of a Jedi padawan, he finds himself teamed with Cad Bane and Aurra Sing's bounty hunters in a quest to fulfil his desires…but Maul could find an unlikely ally when he discovers he's been led into a trap.
Written by Cullen Bunn, Star Wars: Darth Maul is a five issue limited series. The collection features art by Luke Ross and a short story from the first issue written and illustrated by Chris Eliopoulos.
Darth Maul was one of the best parts of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Despite much malign for the film by fans, Darth Maul was a shining point and with a true fighter played by Ray Park portraying him, he brought real fighting to the Sith and Jedi that had only been talked about. Here, Darth Maul starts to get more of a backstory…and it makes his death in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace even worse.
The story can be broken into three parts. Maul first learns about the auction, the auction, and then the fight for survival on the moon. All three parts have their merits and introduce different aspects of Maul. The first part shows how driven he is and is intense hunger to kill a Jedi. The second part demonstrates his cunningness and his intelligence in finding a way to get ahold of the Jedi. The third part shows how ruthless Maul is…Eldra gives Maul plenty of chances for an out, but he sees to have nothing but the desire to kill. It is a decent story and moves fast.
I love the addition of Cad Bane and Aurra Sing. They are also fun fringe characters in the Star Wars Universe and I wish that they would be more developed (I'd like to see a Star Wars: Bounty Hunters film of some sort with the expanding of the Star Wars saga on the screen). I would have read a whole comic with just their team of mercenaries.
The art for the series is also solid. Luke Ross has an easy task in that the character's style and look has gone through multiple artist renditions. Though Ray Park is the actor behind the make-up, it is the make-up that takes center stage on the character and that gives Ross more freedom for the visuals…plus, Maul's fluent movement and fighting style allows him almost a martial arts style.
The series is a fun, quick series. With a character that has so much potential, Darth Maul could have even been longer. There were tons of suggestions that Darth Maul survived his "death" in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, but Darth Maul was never seen again in the film series (the character had some extra life in the animated series). Until we get more Darth Maul, this will have to suffice.
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Course Description
Course Name
Psychology 4H Single: Forensic Psychology
Host University
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland
Area of Study
Forensic Science, Psychology
Language Level
Taught In English
Course Level Recommendations
ISA offers course level recommendations in an effort to facilitate the determination of course levels by credential evaluators.We advice each institution to have their own credentials evaluator make the final decision regrading course levels.
SCQF Credits10
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits2.5
Recommended U.S. Quarter Units1
Hours & Credits
Short Description
This module looks at ways that psychology can contribute to the legal system, informing the evidence process, witnessing and the courts
Examination 70%
Coursework 30%
Main Assessment In: April/May
Course Aims
This module looks at ways that psychology can contribute to the legal system, informing the evidence process, witnessing and the courts.
Intended Learning Outcomes of Course
By the end of this course students will be able to :
- Explain psychological profiling from the contrasting UK and USA perspectives
- Explain geographic profiling as a strategic information management system employed to support serial violent crime investigation, examining both quantitative (objective) scientific geographic techniques and qualitative(subjective) components e.g. a reconstruction and interpretation of the offender's mental map
- Describe the contribution of psychology to the detection of deception in the legal process including a wide variety of approaches adopted historically and currently
Course Disclaimer
Courses and course hours of instruction are subject to change.
Credits earned vary according to the policies of the students' home institutions. According to ISA policy and possible visa requirements, students must maintain full-time enrollment status, as determined by their home institutions, for the duration of the program.
ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) credits are converted to semester credits/quarter units differently among U.S. universities. Students should confirm the conversion scale used at their home university when determining credit transfer.
Please note that some courses with locals have recommended prerequisite courses. It is the student's responsibility to consult any recommended prerequisites prior to enrolling in their course.


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This morning Nike dropped their newest collection of football boots, which we can look forward to seeing on the feet of the world's biggest stars this winter. My personal favourite from the Liquid Chrome Pack is the Mercurial silo, with both the Vapor and Superfly being very well complemented by the shiny design.
Nike always treat their Mercurial players well and this new Liquid Chrome Pack design is another example of that. The purple and shiny tone looks incredibly fresh and suits the boots fast-paced and flashy nature very well.
Although just about everyone I've asked agrees that the new Liquid Chrome Pack may be Nike's best looking collection of boots in a very long time, most still point to the Mercurial, as the clear winner among the highly rated range. There's just something about the way it feels that suits the new colourway so well.
One of the people at the Unisport office who was most enthusiastic about the new design was Patrick from our customer service. When I asked him to describe his thoughts on the new look he had the following to say: "The new colourway manages to do what so many boots try and fail at, it manages to look stylish and still have an element of cheekiness to it. I can definitely dig that!"
Can't argue with that, because that pretty much nails it. Here at Unisport we aren't easily impressed by new boots, but the new Nike Liquid Chrome Pack Mercurial has us pretty excited. What do you think?


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The Jamaican novelist Roger Williams, who is based in the United States, attended the New York Film Academy (NYFA) in order to expand his abilities in the area of screenwriting after already having achieved success with his novel "Turn Back Glow." This book, which is based on a true event in which a dog was used in a Jamaican community as live bait to lure a crocodile, made Williams the first Jamaican author to advocate for animal rights and to focus attention on cruelty to animals. Since its release, the novel has been made part of the catalogue at Princeton and Yale universities and at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
Williams has now decided to enter the world of film and is writing two screenplays he began to develop at the New York Film Academy. The first is a full-length adventure drama "Murder for Sale," which is going to present to Jamaican producers. He has also done an adaptation of the screenplay as a novel, also called "Murder for Sale" that is now available on Amazon.
Williams says that his experience at the film academy was "great," noting that he learned things he would not have learned on his own. The knowledge he attained at the NYFA will be valuable to him as he adapts his book into a screenplay, he stated.
Williams also took a course in acting at the academy in Los Angeles, where he wrote and acted in a short called "Redemption Irony." He then did some directing at NYFA in a short entitled "Shutdown." This was well received by viewers, particularly women who provided positive feedback on Facebook and YouTube as they could relate to what was happening on the screen. Of his directing efforts, Williams says, "I never dreamed of working behind the camera, and working on "Shutdown" was a tremendous experience." Williams is hoping to educate his audience through his films as he did with his novel.
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This is a Pioneer Woman recipe. So you know it's good. (and you also know it has a stick of butter in it.) It arrived from Food Network to my inbox this afternoon while at work. And today was really windy, overcast and cold. So, it seemed like a perfect soup night.
I did a quick glance through the recipe on my phone and thought to myself, "Hum, I think I have all of those things at home."
So, when I got home from work, I pulled everything out and got busy. It came together super fast and it was delicious. Kevin (who HATES soup) even ate it all and said, "Wow, this is really good!" haha. Success!
You should try it out. I did make a few changes.
1. I didn't add 4 cups of whole milk. This is for two reasons. First being that I don't like overly creamy soups and secondly because we never have milk in the house! 🙂 We only have almond milk, and I wasn't sure how that would turn out. I buy the unsweetened kind, but it still tastes a tiny bit sweet. I didn't think slightly sweet broccoli soup sounded good. So, I added 4 cups of chicken broth instead. Worked perfectly. And it was still super creamy!
2. I added three potatoes that I cubed and boiled for a few minutes first. I had them and it seemed like a good idea. And it was! 🙂
Here's the recipe….
Broccoli Potato Cheese Soup
- 1 stick butter
- 1 whole onion, diced
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 cups whole milk (I added 4 cups of chicken broth instead)
- 2 cups half-and-half
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- 4 heads broccoli, cut into florets
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 potatoes, cubed.
- 3 cups grated cheese (mild Cheddar, sharp Cheddar, Jack, etc.)
- Chicken broth, if needed
- a dollop of sour cream and a bit of cheese for garnish.
Melt the butter in a pot over medium heat, and then add the onions. Cook the onions for 3 to 4 minutes, and then sprinkle the flour over the top. Stir to combine and cook for 1 minute or so, then pour in the milk and half-and-half.
In a separate pot, boil the cubed potatoes for a minute or two. Drain.
Add the potatoes, nutmeg, and then the broccoli, a small dash of salt and plenty of black pepper to the milk and flour and onion mixture.
Cover and reduce the heat to low. Simmer until the broccoli is tender, 20 to 30 minutes. Stir in the cheese and allow to melt.
Taste the seasonings and adjust if needed. Then either serve as is, (that's what I did) or mash with a potato masher to break up the broccoli a bit, or transfer to a blender in two batches and puree completely. (If you puree in a blender, return the soup to the heat and allow to heat back up. Splash in some chicken broth if needed for thinning.)


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Acquired in preparation for a long-planned shoot coming soon.
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In 2007, I began to forsake sleeping for a chance to shoot
in the morning "magic hour." I knew I had a problem.
This erratic blog, and work on my web site and Flickr are the partial result.
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What does preposition means?
Here is a definition of preposition: It is a word, one of the parts of speech, that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.
For instance:
- The cat is in a basket;
- I don't want to go to school today;
- He leaned against the wall;
- My mother reached before me, etc.
There are various types of prepositions categorized under various sub-headings.
1) Simple prepositions:They are simply the prepositions involving only one word. This is the list of simple prepositions.
About,Above,Across,After,Against,Along,Amid,Around,As,At,Before,Behind,Below,Beneath,Beside, Between,Beyond,But,By,Despite,Down,During,Except,For,From,In,Inside,Into,Like
2) Compound prepositions: These prepositions contain more than one word. Here is the list of most commonly used compound prepositions.
In between, Because of, In front of, On behalf of, In the middle of, According to, By means of, In addition to, In 'back of, In case of, In front of, In place of, In spite of, Instead of, On top of etc.
Prepositions are also categorized on various other basis. For instance:
- Place, which can be explained under examples such as: on the roof, over the place, round the world, within the area, went towards Delhi, etc.
- Time, which can be explained under examples such as: came before me, into the daylight, lasted through an entire episode, under the rule of the British, etc.
- Manner, as in worked with eagerness, spoke with courage, etc.
- Cause, reason, purpose, as died of fever, shivers with fever, took syrup for cold, etc.
- Possession as the temple of, the girl with glasses, etc.
- Measure, standard, rate, value, as it was one by the door, interest at 9 %, etc.
- Contrast, concession, as I accept him with all his faults, after all the attempts, one might fail, etc.
- Inference, motive, source, or origin, as He was brave from valour, he did it out of gratitude, etc.
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As a native of the Lafayette, Louisiana, area, Vincent grew up with a love of food and culture, and naturally found himself in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he attended law school at Loyola University. With his bachelors in Science, majoring in Biology with a minor in Chemistry and Political Science, Vincent became immersed in intellectual property law, a melding of technology and law. Following his love of culture, Vincent studied Comparative Intellectual Property Law in Munich, Germany, in Santa Clara University's study abroad program and interned at the prestigious Zimmermann & Partner law firm there in Munich, Germany.
Since graduating from Loyola University, Vincent has practiced in the areas of business and intellectual property, helping clients obtain and protect their brands and intellectual property, while navigating legal pitfalls and obstacles found in everyday business.
As of Counsel Attorney to LaBorde Legal Group, Vincent looks forward to helping resolve your legal problems with a fresh look and unparalleled customer service.


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Hair loss products – Do they really work
Thinning or falling of hair is nothing short of a catastrophe for anyone who is experiencing it. It is quite a common condition seen in modern times with all the pollution and stress that the present generation goes through. Some hair growth products can help reduce or control this hair loss though it cannot be reversed. Before we start out, let's take a look at the reasons behind the hair loss:
Chemical products such as hair dyes and styling products
- Skin problems
- Illnesses such as anemia
- Medications
- Heredity and genetics
- Age
- Menopause
- Unexplained weight loss
- Lack of essential nutrients in the diet
When you have zeroed in on the reason behind hair loss, only then you would be able to treat it effectively. We lose hair on a continuous basis, and natural regrowth keeps happening at the same time, so we do not notice hair fall. But there may be times when hair is rapidly thinning so that the fall is more than the regeneration. A loss of about 150 strands is considered normal. Anything more than that on a regular basis is a matter of concern. You will need to get to the root of the problem to effectively control hair loss.
There are some hair growth products that can help in getting fragile hair back to a normal, voluminous state. Vitamin supplements such as Folgen, Biotin, Dr. Formulas Hair Omega and low-level light therapy such as iRestore. Shampoos such as Hair Restoration DHT Blocking Hair Loss shampoo, Pura d'Or Anti-Hair Loss Premium Organic Argan Oil shampoo, Art Naturals' Argan Oil shampoo can help in getting healthy hair and skin but need the support of medical treatments to be more effective.
Treatments and hair loss products to some extent are helpful in hair regrowth or slowing down the fall. Hair loss is a treatable medical condition because when the underlying conditions are treated, then hair loss can be controlled.
Some manufacturers market their product and treatments as more than what they are. Just like any other cosmetic product this industry is also rife with misinformation, false claims, and questionable products. There are medical treatments to stimulate hair follicles and improve blood circulation to promote hair growth. But beware of certain products that do not have medical backing. Low-level light laser therapy would be effective, but a hair loss brush might not work.
Good diet and certain nutritional supplements not only enhances hair quality but also improves general health. Once a hair follicle is dead no amount of treatment or hair loss product can alter it. Only an FDA approved medical treatment has been proven to slow, stop or reverse hereditary hair loss.
While hair loss is common in both men and women, men can experience hair loss and still be attractive while it can be devastating for women. Hair loss products are to be used with caution and by keeping expectations realistic, as one can end up spending lots of money and time on ineffective treatments.
It is essential to talk to a medical professional before starting any hair loss products or treatment. Routine follow-ups will help to track the progress and to change the regimen if required. It would also help to avoid complications at a later stage. With advancements in technology, many new hair loss products in combination with medical treatments have been found to work well for both men and women. These when used correctly and consistently do their work of hair restoration effectively.


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AUSTIN, Texas – Clint Chelf ran for two touchdowns and No. 12 Oklahoma State stayed in the Big 12 championship chase by beating No. 23 Texas 38-13 on Saturday.
Chelf also threw two scoring passes as Oklahoma State (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) won in Austin for the third straight time. This one may renew pressure on Texas coach Mack Brown, who was dealt his worst home loss in 16 seasons at a time when speculation about his job security had just begun quieting down.
The Longhorns (7-3, 6-1) ended a six-game winning streak and lost control of their destiny in the Big 12. Chase McCoy threw for 221 yards and was picked off three times.
Oklahoma State next faces undefeated No. 4 Baylor, which was playing later Saturday.


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Paper art is quite familiar to most of us. But we make articrafts from paper in miniature sizes and medium sizes. But can you imagine the paper art the size of a big room? And a 3D ard of course. Designer Jeff Nishinaka is an expert in making paper sculptures. You can view his wonders by viewing the full post. Really awesome.
Designer: Jeff Nishinaka


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Gift Bag Week, Project Number 2
The Wow Factor! Hey guys, today I'm sharing project number 2, I think this is my favourite gift bag I've ever made! I love the colour combo and again using my favourite 'Jar Of Love' stamp set. The bag is easy, it's all about the beautiful detail. To make this bag you will need… 2…… Continue reading Gift Bag Week, Project Number 2