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Big Ten expansion: Big dollars, little sense
Jim Delany, I have just one thing to say to you: Take Missouri. Please.
Just kidding. I don't want the expansion-happy commissioner of the 11-team Big Ten (Motto: Come for the football, stay for the math) to take any of my beloved original Big Eight teams, even Missouri or Kansas State, my alma mater's bitterest rivals. Yes, I know the Big Eight no longer exists, but those eight teams are the ones for which I feel nostalgia and loyalty. The rest of the Big 12? Not so much, so go ahead, Delany, grab Texas. Come for the Shiner Bock, stay for the thrashings.
Of course, the Big 10-Eleven would love to have Texas, but Texas comes with a list of demands, which the Big 10-Eleven doesn't want as much. It's reportedly issued formal invitations to four schools, including Missouri and Nebraska of the Big 12 and Rutgers of the Big East. But the babe the Big 10-Eleven really wants to take to prom is Notre Dame. Not for the talent or the tradition or even the geography -- the heart of Big 10-Eleven country. No, the Big 10-Eleven wants Notre Dame's television market. (Apparently, having your own profitable TV network isn't enough.) The Irish appeal is not local or regional; it's national, and it's loyal, no matter how badly the team stinks. The Big 10-Eleven's message seems to be: Join us or perish. Cheery.
This is what college football has become: mergers and acquisitions. Just like Wall Street. And we know how that worked out. Rutgers is the biggest puzzle among the quartet, but Delany apparently believes it would give him the New York television market. Which seems absurd.
Missouri has the St. Louis TV market and is the biggest of the state's universities. It's also not terribly happy with the Big 12's finances. When the Big Eight either expanded to include four newcomers from Texas (the Big Eight version) or died, before the Big 12 was magically formed and the four Texas schools allowed its refugees to join them (the version the rest of the Big 12 tells), a rather complicated and unique revenue-sharing plan went into place. It basically boils down to this: Texas gets all the money.
Nebraska, which can remember the glory days when it was beating the snot out of everyone in the Big Eight before Texas began doing the same to the Big 12, has also been an unhappy camper for some time. The Huskers bring to the table a strong football tradition, a dreadful basketball program and the Nebraska television market. Every TV set in the state is turned to the Huskers on game day -- unless the set's owner has driven to the game.
Ah, yes, driving to the game. Regional proximity used to matter. In the Big Eight, when I was in school, you could drive to any other campus in the Big Eight in eight to nine hours, max. Most were much closer. And people did. Nebraska and Oklahoma fans in particular would load up their RVs and come to town early on game days. They'd drive through campus, past the dorms, the scholarship halls, the frats and sororities and dive apartments, blowing their horns, which happened to play their fight songs. Fun.
Who in his right mind would drive from Lincoln, Neb., to Piscataway, N.J.? Even the most crazed Huskers fans would think twice. And how are schools supposed to get their bands, cheerleaders and -- more important -- mascots to the far-away games? And yes, that matters. Those are the ingredients that go into a great college football experience.
But fans who'll drive all night to get to a game no longer matter. Schools want fans who'll pay more money to sit closer to the field or the court. They want corporations who'll buy suites. And they want the rest of you to watch on TV -- preferably on a network they've created, and from which they get all the profits.
The attraction for Missouri and Nebraska is obvious. The Big 12 schools get $7 million to $12 million each from the school's television contract; the Big 10-Eleven schools get $20 million to $22 million.
There is no price tag for the rivalries, of course. Kansas vs. Missouri is the oldest college football rivalry west of the Mississippi. Nebraska vs. Oklahoma used to be the second-best thing about Thanksgiving, right after Grandma's stuffing.
But to hell with that. Let's let Jim Delany decimate an entire conference and sell the parts, like a college football chop shop. Colorado may head to the Pac-10. I heard some talk on ESPN about Kansas and Kansas State going into the Pac-10 as well, to which I say, nuts to you. Texas . . . Texas can go wherever it wants. The SEC, perhaps. Or the Longhorns might start their own TV network. Conference affiliation? We don't need no stinking conference affiliation!
If we're going to tear it up, let's really tear it up. If old rivalries are no longer important, if regional play is no longer important, if the only thing that matters is television revenue, then let's just admit that and move on.
The six BCS conferences include 65 teams. Drop one. There's dead weight in every conference, so put those names in a "Big Ten Rules!" cap and draw one. That leaves 64 teams, or four super conferences of 16 teams. Drop the regional names -- Pacific 10, Southeastern Conference, Big East, Atlantic Coast -- because those don't mean so much in our new system. Heck, they don't mean so much now. Notre Dame is a Big East basketball team despite the fact that it's west of most teams in the league, and of half the country, for that matter.
Now start over, with a giant draft. First, each super conference gets to take a team from recruiting- and television-rich Florida. Then rank the remainders in tiers, according to their Q rating and general TV appeal. That seems fair. Hold the whole horror show in prime time and televise it on the Big 10-Eleven network, so that Delany can squeeze every last dollar out of the mess he's made of what used to be a great sport.


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I am happy to write another From pin to reality post! They are rare these days unfortunately. This is where I acctually use all those pins I pin on Pinterest and make something with them!
Today I want to show you this page that was inspired by this quote. I certainly have a brain with way too many tabs open! And it usually is a bad thing for me since it causes me stress and anxiety. I am working on doing one thing at the time and to really focus, but it is hard.
With this last few weeks with extremly grey and gloomy weather it is a challenge to take a decent photo of my layouts. Bare with me!
I rarely use patterned paper for backgrounds, but it has occured more often as of late. I see now that the journaling I did on my typewriter is a little bit washed out on that patterned, but I will leave it as is. I took that selfie a few months ago and thought it would be perfect for a page like this!
How about you? Does your brain have too many tabs open?

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In the pioneering classic of German queer cinema, Taxi zum Klo, Frank Ripploh writes, directs and stars in a semi-autobiographical snapshot of pre-AIDS West Berlin. An elementary school teacher by day, Ripploh cruises for sex at night, grading papers in the john while awaiting his next anonymous hook-up. But his compartmentalized routine gets shaken up when he meets a commitment-minded new beau. Frank, fierce, explicit and funny, Taxi zum Klo was notorious at the time of its release. Dont miss this rare chance to see it back on the big screen in 35mm!
During the 1920s and 1930s, Japan was one of the world's two largest producers of motion pictures, along with the United States. Though the country's film industry was among the first to produce both sound and talking features, the full changeover to sound proceeded much more slowly than in the West. It appears that the first Japanese sound film, Reimai (Dawn), was made in 1926 with the De Forest Phonofilm system. Using the sound-on-disc Minatoki system, the leading Nikkatsu studio produced a pair of talkies in 1929: Taii no musume (The Captain's Daughter) and Furusato (Hometown), the latter directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. The rival Shochiku studio began the successful production of sound-on-film talkies in 1931 using a variable-density process called Tsuchibashi. Two years later, however, more than 80 percent of movies made in the country were still silents. Two of the country's leading directors, Mikio Naruse and Yasujirō Ozu, did not make their first sound films until 1935 and 1936, respectively. As late as 1938, over a third of all movies produced in Japan were shot without dialogue.The enduring popularity of the silent medium in Japanese cinema owed in great part to the tradition of the benshi, a live narrator who performed as accompaniment to a film screening. As director Akira Kurosawa later described, the benshi "not only recounted the plot of the films, they enhanced the emotional content by performing the voices and sound effects and providing evocative descriptions of events and images on the screen.... The most popular narrators were stars in their own right, solely responsible for the patronage of a particular theatre." Film historian Mariann Lewinsky argues,The end of silent film in the West and in Japan was imposed by the industry and the market, not by any inner need or natural evolution.... Silent cinema was a highly pleasurable and fully mature form. It didn't lack anything, least in Japan, where there was always the human voice doing the dialogues and the commentary. Sound films were not better, just more economical. As a cinema owner you didn't have to pay the wages of musicians and benshi any more. And a good benshi was a star demanding star payment.


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These are all d process for week 8. Lg 5mggu ktrg kne finished wit d artworks to exhibit. So stressed inside beb. Seperti yg anda maklum, sy memilih subj Isu Kesan Tsunami as Diploma Show final works research;
Painting. Sadness of old ppl. In progress
Painting. Women's heart. Becoming background- dead bodies. In progress
Drawing. Dead lines show btp byknye korban tsunami kesan dr peristiwa. In progress
Drawing. Contour lines kt potrait. Colour tones 4 upgrading d black&white becoming background ( Destroid environment frm Tsunami Effects )
Nowadays, mkn tdo bgn main sme ngadap artworks. We'r all out for grad. Doakan kami:). Patik stuck kat subj printmaking and sculpture cuz no enough material. 4 Dip show, we must have 10 items to grad successfully. Another two is timebased media dat is computer subj. D tasks is to create art videos. U all klo ade ideas pape plz to give me 4 all d subj cth ats tu. Give me ur opinion n commentary. Tq:)
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If you're struggling to find your way from A to B, satellite navigation could be just the thing to get you back on track. A global positioning system receiver is the secret weapon of the HP iPAQ hw6515 Mobile Messenger's battle for the ultimate hand-held device, allowing it to run applications such as Sensis' Whereis Navigator turn-by-turn vehicle navigation software. The hw6515 comes pre-loaded with Whereis Navigator and a one-month trial.
After entering our destination we chose "faster time" or "shorter distance", with a no-tolls option. It took the Sensis servers about 10 seconds to come back with a route, which we viewed on the screen before setting off. A female voice guided us on our journey, compensating for wrong turns without chastising us - and not tensing up when we took corners too quickly. It warned us of upcoming turns but, annoyingly, didn't tell us street names (Sensis says this is under development), causing us to panic and turn too soon when we came to two streets close together.
We thought Whereis Navigator had discovered a new shortcut while we drove to the next suburb, as it took us on a tour of back streets. The same search on Sensis' whereis.com produces a more direct route. Whereis Navigator still got us there in the end, and we found subsequent longer journeys took a more orthodox route, which is what you're more likely to use it for anyway.
When it comes to a short hop between suburbs, Whereis Navigator is still no match for local knowledge. As for the iPAQ hw6515, it's a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone running Windows Mobile 2003SE and handling email, SMS and MMS as well as voice. It sports a 240x240 colour touchscreen with a QWERTY keyboard and a stylus for handwriting recognition. Under the bonnet is a 312-MHz Intel PXA270 processor and a 1.3-megapixel still and video camera. It also comes with a USB charge/sync cradle, along with a removable rechargeable lithium-ion battery.
We were disappointed that only 12MB of its 55MB of memory is non-volatile memory to protect data if you lose power. Palm's Treo 650 has only 22MB of memory, but it's all non-volatile. The iPAQ hw6515 has Bluetooth and infra-red, along with a SDIO/SD/MMC and mini-SD slot, but no wifi. Dedicated telephone talk and end buttons, along with a touchscreen dialer, help this iPAQ rise above its PDA heritage and feel more like a true SmartPhone. If you're going to use it for in-car navigation, buy a car mounting kit rather than have it slide around on the passenger seat.
The Mobile Messenger costs $1199. Phone 131347 or visit hp.com.au
Space saver
If you believe you can never have too much storage, Western Digital Caviar's 400GB SE16 Serial ATA hard disk drive should help quench your storage thirst. A 7200-rpm drive with a 16-MB cache, it is targeted at those working with graphic design, video editing, gaming, advanced business computing and other high-end desktop applications.
The drive costs $425. Phone Achieva Technology on (02)97423288 or visit westerndigital.com
Off the wall
Altronics' H8181 extendible LCD monitor/television bracket lets you increase desk space in the study or mount an LCD TV in the bedroom or kitchen. The bracket moves horizontally and vertically and has an extendable arm.
The standard VESA mounting bracket suits most LCD screens and costs $65. Phone 1300797007 or visit altronics.com.au
Lock it away
Centennial Software's DeviceWallv3.0 helps stop important data walking out your front door hidden on portable storage devices. It lets you lock down CD and DVD drives, USB memory sticks and other portable devices to Read Only, as well as blocking Bluetooth, wifi and infra-red connections to computers on your network.
It costs from $44.10 a computer. Phone (02)99734151 or visit centennial-software.com
Making waves
PowerTec's P-C18 Wireless Landline allows boats to have a landline phone, fax machine and internet connection while docked or at sea. A CDMA device, the P-C18 is just like a mobile phone - choose the plan that suits your needs. It offers coverage up to 150kilometres offshore and has a 1XRTT high-speed data connection.
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Driver whose car killed Mhairi Convy and Laura Stewart branded reckless
A man whose car mounted a pavement in Glasgow killing two students has been accused of lying and being reckless for not disclosing he suffered blackouts.
William Payne appeared as a witness at an inquiry into the deaths of Mhairi Convy, 18, and Laura Stewart, 20, in Glasgow on 17 December 2010.
The 53-year-old refused to answer some questions after being advised he did not have to if it may incriminate him.
A previous criminal case against Mr Payne was dropped by the Crown.
Following this, the fatal accident inquiry was then arranged to look at the circumstances of the deaths of Ms Convy and Ms Stewart.
Sheriff warning
They were killed by Mr Payne's Range Rover on North Hanover Street in Glasgow.
Appearing as a witness, Mr Payne was advised that his examination did not constitute a bar to criminal proceedings.
He was warned by Sheriff Normand that he was not required to answer any question which may show him to be guilty of a crime or offence but he did have to answer questions that did not incriminate him.
During his appearance, Mr Payne faced a series of questions from Dorothy Bain - the QC representing the families of the two women - but he refused to answer many of them.
Ms Bain still quizzed him on the renewal of an HGV licence in July 2010 - five months before the accident.
The QC said the "no" box was ticked on a document asking if Mr Payne had suffered any blackouts in the last five years.
However, the court heard a number of claims Mr Payne had collapsed during that time - including once while taking his dog to the vet.
'Utterly unreliable'
Ms Bain accused Mr Payne of being "totally and utterly unreliable about his medical history".
She went on: "If you had answered 'yes' (on the document), you would not have been allowed to drive.
"You were reckless to the safety of other people using the streets because as we have seen today you are just looking out for number one.
"That should be your mantra - number one, that is what matters."
Mr Payne replied: "I don't want to answer that."
The QC also said: "Your selfishness has taken the lives of two young women. What more serious thing has happened to you.
"Two young women perfectly innocently going out doing their Christmas shopping.
"You could have prevented that by telling the truth."
'Sorry' claim
Mr Payne again replied he could not answer what was put to him.
The QC later referred to Mr Payne's police interview after the accident in which he claimed he was "sorry".
Ms Bain said to Mr Payne: "You could have been stopped driving in the July. Do you know what would have happened?
"You would not have to be sorry or even be here today as Mhairi Convy and Laura Stewart would be alive.
"The responsibility rests squarely on your shoulders."
He replied: "I cannot answer that question."
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Oh my gosh don't you just love Pinterest. When I need inspiration I love to pour through art and craft books and magazines, I am one of those people who have stacks and stacks of ripped out pages of things that caught my eye and journals full of quickly jotted down ideas. Then along comes Pinterest, I don't have to dig through my closet anymore to find that one page of inspiration or try to find my long lost idea in one of my many journals. I cherish these journals and stacks of stuff and still rely on them.... but really love that quick fix of just looking through my Pinterest boards.
About a year ago I saw some wonderful work on Pinterest using book pages, something I have always loved to do. As a recycle artist I have tons of old and rescued books and love the old pages, even the smell of an old book page puts me in heaven. I combined a little gesso, Zentangle® and Inktense pencils and had a great time drawing quirky little birds. I recently filmed a YouTube for Design Originals demonstrating this fun art project.
I also have a passion for stencils, so many artists are turning their personal styles into really beautiful stencil designs. When I went to the Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show earlier this year I finally got to meet one of my favorite artists, Mary Beth Shaw aka Stencil Girl. What I wouldn't give to have every single stencil in her line...but alas I had to choose. I had some fun with them recently, Mary Beth graciously posted my project on her blog today. Take a minute to scoot over there, she has guests artists on her blog all the time...and they come up with some fabulous ways to use stencils.
Since I am in love with these stencils I decided to combine one of them with my birds and book pages, this page was created with Shattered, I used gesso on the stencil and then colored it in with Inktense and outlined it all with a Sakura micron pen......fun!!


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James died in 1910. His brother stayed near him for six weeks after James' death. James had asked him to do this to see if they could communicate after death. James never communicated with his brother during this time.
Peirce was found almost dead in 1907 and James cared for him until he was somewhat healthy again. Peirce used morphine daily because of the pain caused by the cancer that ravaged his body. He continued to write until his death, but never contributed anything valuable. He died in 1914, leaving his wife, Juliette, to survive him. She stayed at their farm and lived as a recluse until her death in 1934.
Holmes thought of his later years as the happiest part of his life. He sat on the Supreme Court for 34 years, serving as Chief Justice before retiring in 1932. He died in 1935.
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ANTARES EXPLODES!!! Panic at the press site! Orbital's rocket blows up and destroys Cygnus Orb-3
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Month: October 2014
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ANTARES EXPLODES!!! Panic at the press site! Orbital's rocket blows up and destroys Cygnus Orb-3
"Are Americans ignorant or apathetic?
They don't know, and they don't care."
– John Loeffler on Caravan to Midnight, 10/1/14
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Introduction from Chuck Baldwin:
Oh, Great! Another Bush might run for President in 2016. News reports say Jeb Bush will pursue a run for the White House. Hey! Maybe Hillary will get the Democratic nomination for President, and we can have a choice between another Bush and Clinton. GAG!!!!!
Folks, dismiss what I'm saying if you want to, but it is an absolute fact that the Clintons and Bushes have been best buds since before GHW was President and Bill was Governor of Arkansas. It is also a fact that the Bushes and Clintons should be regarded as one big giant organized crime family. They make the Mafia look like amateurs. The crimes committed by the Bush wing of the crime family date back to before the days of Hitler.
I've interviewed too many people close the situation who know the truth and are not ashamed to say it–in private, that is. They wouldn't last a week if they told all they know in public. If you don't believe that, just visit the graves of Barry Seal, George Morales, and Johnny Molina. And don't forget Vince Foster and Ron Brown.
For those of you who dare to do a little research into the matter (and aren't afraid of what you will discover), you can start by reviewing this web page. And know this: several of the names mentioned in the report are people I know personally and what those people are quoted as saying in the report matches what they told me.
And what is absolutely disgusting is the way the mainstream media covers up the truth about these miscreants, the way Democrat and Republican hacks turn a perpetual blind eye to the crimes of these creeps, and the way pastors and Christians continue to idolize many of these criminals. It's so disgusting!
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Jeb Bush and the Murder of CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in 1986
This blog is about how the Bushes and Oliver North murdered CIA drug smuggler Barry Seal in 1986 in order to keep a lid on Iran-Contra and government's and Bush family participation in CIA drug smuggling to support the Nicaraguan contras (and no doubt to skim some off the top for themselves). Read two books "Barry and the Boys" by Daniel Hopsicker and "Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA" by Terry Reed and you will never look at modern American politics in the same way again.
All of my George Bush Family posts at ToBeFree (10 posts per page, latest appear first)
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This Adams Retouching Machine Helped Old School 'Photoshoppers' Touch Up Negatives by Hand
Last week we shared an example of beauty retouching that was done by hand in the early 1900s. …
While this machine wasn't used for the Joan Crawford photo — the Adams machine was patented in 1947….
The machine, which holds negatives measuring up to 8×10 inches, works by vibrating the negative while the retoucher works on it with a dye brush or retouching pencil. The tiny movements help smooth out the strokes, allowing for clean and (hopefully) undetectable modifications to the negative.
This type of work required a steady hand, a sharp eye, and a great deal of time and patience. Edits on single images could take many hours to complete (the Crawford photo required six hours without the help of this machine).
From: zooniversity.org/our-animals/teddy-bear-the-porcupine
Birthdate: May 4, 2003
Birthplace: Found as an abandoned newborn by a rancher in a barn in West Texas, cord and placenta still attached.
His early life: Teddy arrived at Zooniversity with lots of medical problems (dehydration, peritonitis, anorexia, "failure to thrive," you name it…) and required intensive human interaction, resulting in him being fully imprinted on humans. …
How'd Teddy get his start in the viral video world? It was all accidental. In May 2011, one of his keepers wanted to try-out a new video camera, so she recorded him eating an ear of corn and making noises and posted it on YouTube, "Teddy Bear the porcupine doesn't like to share…" It sat unwatched for 6 months, until someone else found it and posted it on a viral site — it skyrocketed to more than 1 million views in a matter of days, with clips showing on all the major networks. It was a BIG surprise and the rest is viral history.
Why are Teddy's videos so popular? People think his porcupine noises are his attempt at "talking" and they hear human words in his sounds, so viewers think he is speaking English, or Japanese, or Dutch – and teenagers around the world just thought he was saying naughty things.
Is he REALLY "talking"? That's for you decide. All porcupines make some guteral noises when they're happy or when they want to communicate something – Teddy is just more vocal than most. And, we agree, a lot of Teddy's mumblings sound remarkably like human words. …
Why doesn't he shoot his quills at you? It's an old wives tale that porcupines shoot their quills — they can't. Teddy does have 35,000 barbed quills underneath all that soft, fluffy guard hair. The quills cover every part of his body, except his face, paws and belly. We don't often get "quilled," as we are not a threat to him and he doesn't feel the need to ward us off. If he did feel threatened, Teddy would first flair his tail hair and show you his quills as a warning. If you didn't heed his warning, he'd then spin like a top and whack you with his tail full of quills. Does it hurt? Yes…a lot.
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A talking porcupine! Zooniversity's North American porcupine, "Teddy Bear," gets a cob of corn for a treat — but, he doesn't like to share. Listen carefully to see what he has to complain about!
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Pumpkin, pumpkin, and more pumpkin! What respectable porcupine could resist this Halloween feast? Teddy Bear, the talking porcupine, sure can't resist — he indulges! Listen carefully, as he's talking with his mouth full. (Sorry fans, Teddy just would NOT wear a costume, we tried!)
(Come visit us at zooniversity.org and facebook.com/zooniversity)
Only 1-minute long, shows what it's like to try to photograph humpback whales bubblenet feeding, while listening to their communications through the hydrophone!
I've never tried this, but this is actually really amazing, especially when knowing the coordination that's going on among the whales to fish a school of fish this way! The fisheye lens makes them look further away than they really are.
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This is NOT the best video overall… the real point of this video is to show you how truly hard it is to know where these guys are going to pop up. The coolest part is the sound (from the hydrophone)!
We were in Chatham Strait – just south west of Juneau, Alaska and we were in search of humpback whales who were bubblenet feeding. This cooperative feeding technique is not only unique to humpbacks but also only exhibited by a small number of those that cruise the inside passage of Alaska. Only around 70 of the 20K humpbacks even do this… when they break the surface it's incredible not only to see but to hear (especially the calls and song as they prepare – Jon had a hydrophone)! There's a caller, there are bubblers, there are pec flappers (who use the whites of their pectoral fins to help scare / herd the herring into a tighter ball) – they all have a role. But when they break the surface – incredible!
In this video, you can hear their calls (through the hydrophone) and see how difficult it is to predict where they will come up!
If you want to learn a bit more and see some great video as they emerge – check out:http://video.nationalgeographic.com/v…
[WARNING – heavy photos in this IMPORTANT video. Guard your eyes to be free!]
I was a psych major for about a year during my three years in the '70s at the University of Minnesota. I discovered how sick and disjointed their version of psychology was. It made no sense to me, and I couldn't figure out why it was so perverted. This video explains much of the reason why.
Ted Pike has shown how Judaism is largely based on the Talmud and Kabbalah, which is filthy and racial supremacist. Jesus warned:
(audio) Ted Pike Discusses "Pedophilia: The Talmud's Dirty Secret" — Balanced, LOVING presentation of how Talmudic Jewish thought, the LEAVEN Jesus warned about is hijacking Christian thought through Hollywood and the media
This is at the heart of what's destroying America. We're bringing this filth into our homes through TalmudVision, and we've learned it in school. It's important to get a handle on this very important principle.
It comes from Satan's hatred of Christ. The Illuminati want to destroy US in order to dominate the world — a key goal in the Talmud:
Ted Pike: The Jewish Kabbalah – Root of Mideast Violence — Kabbalah's description of Gentiles as ANIMALS who must be slaughtered before "ORDER" can be restored helps explain not only Israel's notorious MISTREATMENT of her Arab neighbors but also JEWISH POWER worldwide in *government*, *finance*, and *media*!
Demonic forces are behind this, and drive porn, hatred and greed. The Jews are getting deceived and destroyed too!
Nobody is happy, unless we're porn free!
LUST 'the poison that kills the soul' FREEDOM! My experience: How DEMONS DRIVE heterosexual and homosexual lust in 'Christians' — The bad news is that demons drive lust. The good news is that demons drive lust, because freedom lies straight ahead!
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Sigmund Freud is credited as being the father of the Sexual Revolution. He [stated] that he found sexual morality "contemptible." In fact Freud was a Jewish supremacist and Stalwart Zionist who saw himself like Hannibal conquering Rome, (Rome signifying the Church and European morality). This video show how the Jewish dominated media has promoted a destruction of higher human values. It shows from mainstream Jewish sources how resentment against Europeans and Christians is a motivating factor in promoting sexual degeneration and even pornography.
(audio) Ted Pike Discusses "Pedophilia: The Talmud's Dirty Secret" — Balanced, LOVING presentation of how Talmudic Jewish thought, the LEAVEN Jesus warned about is hijacking Christian thought through Hollywood and the media
Ted Pike: The Jewish Kabbalah – Root of Mideast Violence — Kabbalah's description of Gentiles as ANIMALS who must be slaughtered before "ORDER" can be restored helps explain not only Israel's notorious MISTREATMENT of her Arab neighbors but also JEWISH POWER worldwide in *government*, *finance*, and *media*!
(video) "Zionism and Christianity: Unholy Alliance" – real-history, full-length film by Ted Pike — "They were supposed to be WATCHMEN on the wall, yet they failed to utter even a hint of warning" (contains many links to my other posts)
Walter Veith: Hidden Agendas — The deity worshiped in the shrines of secrecy is not the Deity of the Bible. "There are very, very, very few Rabbis in the world today that are not Kabbalists."
(video) How The Jews Mock Jesus Christ — Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, Israeli TV…
Study: American Jews Rate Evangelicals as Low as Muslims
(video) The Shocking Jewish Role in Slavery, I & II: What Jewish Historians Say | The Media Coverup — Unlike Hollywood's portrayals, slave shipping was mainly a Jewish enterprise, and Jews were 2000% more likely to own slaves than whites!
Israel, the highest rate of prostitution in the world (CNN) | One million visits made by clients every month to brothels in Israel (population 7 million) | "For this we yearned?"
Lately again, I've been fairly actively involved in forum discussions at DPReview, posting these comments. For some reason, aspect ratios are important to me — the shape of the rectangle or square. Most cameras only work best in one aspect ratio. I was thrilled to see Panasonic continue their multi-aspect ratio feature in this camera. This is some of what I've learned.
Panasonic is releasing its latest compact camera in the LX series, the LX100, that also has their multi-aspect ratio feature, introduced in the LX3 in 2008, which I tremendously enjoyed in the LX5.
The LX100 uses the huge M43 sensor from their GX7 camera. In the video below, Gordon Laing briefly explains what Panasonic has done, including some of the drawbacks and advantages at minute-5.
The huge advantage of the multi-aspect ratio sensor is that at 24mm, the LX cameras maintain true 24mm field of view diagonally in the 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9 aspect ratios! In comparison, the Sony RX100 series camera loses field of view in the 4:3 and 16:9 ratios, so getting a true 24mm wide is impossible, except in 3:2. Having been shooting with the RX100 for a few years now, I greatly miss this feature.
This article points out how fun this is for 16:9 at 24mm:
Panasonic going down with a fight: the new LX100
At 24 mm-e, the 16:9 aspect ratio of the LX3 has the same horizontal angle of view as a 22.8 mm-e lens on a 3:2 aspect ratio sensor (or 135-format film). That's seriously wide for a compact camera with a zoom lens. The LX100 retains this fun feature.
I discovered this anomaly. Like with the LX7, Panasonic used a 4:3 ratio sensor, instead of the ideal sized 3:2 sensor, so the 16MP sensor is a bit too tall for maximum efficient use of its pixels, so it loses more megapixels with their multi-aspect ratio tweak, which results in only 12+ MPs, much lower than the 20MP 1-inch sensor competition.
Panasonic's aspect-ratio madness
Now the LX7 has an off-the-shelf 1/1.7″-type sensor (PDF) like the rest, but it uniquely treats that sensor as 'oversized' (the image circle never fills the sensor). The result is that the active sensor area in the LX7 is noticeably smaller than direct competitors, never mind the likes of the Sony RX100 with its 1″-type sensor.
What's more, instead of having a sensor of the ideal ~3:2 aspect ratio, the LX7 sensor has the usual 4:3 aspect ratio. That means more of the sensor area is never used. And that's why the difference between the 'total megapixels' and the 'effective megapixels' has risen compared the LX5: those figures are now 12.7 and 10.1 (compared to 11.3 and 10.1 in the LX5).
The LX100 is large, and only zooms to 75mm. That and with only 12+ MP makes it less than compelling, unless the image quality ends up being superb because of the lens — results aren't out yet.
The bigger pixels of this sensor will probably make it the low light champion in a camera of this size.
I'd prefer to see a multi-aspect ratio camera designed from the smaller pixels that the Sony 1-inch sensor has, or an oversized 1-inch sensor version. Panasonic could do this in the LX8, if they still have plans for it.
If the current 1-inch 3:2 sensor was used in a multi-aspect ratio design, a 3MP or so loss in pixels would result, but the smaller image circle wouldn't stretch the limits of the small lens so much (like the G7X*), and greater image quality could result, or even greater zoom range if the lens were made larger (the RX100 III only zooms to 70mm). It still could be smaller than the LX100 and have superb image quality.
*It's too soon to see if the G7X has sacrificed image quality in order to get the very useful 24-100mm zoom range in a 1-inch sensor camera of this small size. Gordon discusses the G7X at minute-43 in this video.
The ultimate would be made with an OVERSIZED version of the 1-inch sensor, so it wouldn't take a MP hit in the 3:2 format, and would gain MPs in 16:9 and 4:3, and allow the same aspect ratio diagonally in 16:9 and 4:3 as in 3:2.
I can't understand why this hasn't happened yet.
My passion is for all mirrorless cameras, including full frame to have either ROUND sensors that capture everything the lens throws into the camera (the sensor would be the same size as the image circle), or an OVERSIZED SQUARE sensor, which would be just as wide as Panasonic's multi-aspect, but taller, so that 1:1 would also completely fit into the image circle, and would also not lose pixels or field of view. An oversized square sensor has many other advantages too, especially for tripod mounted cameras, discussed here:
Square sensors for mirrorfree cameras
Up With Squares! More on Square Sensor Cameras
THE GOLDEN RATIO (also called the golden mean)
1.618:1 has been known for 2000 years to be the most pleasing rectangular shape, but no camera offers this ratio. Panasonic could add it to their ratio options without hardly any extra cost. One photographer suggested 3:2 is close enough, but to me, 3:2 looks like a fat golden mean, not close enough at all.
The golden mean wouldn't always be the preferred ratio, because the subject often determines the best ratio, but it could prove to be more preferable than 3:2 in many situations, if camera companies would only give us this option. It's difficult to shoot in the golden ratio currently, because we would only be guessing where the borders are.
I've been saying: "THINK OUTSIDE THE (SLR mirror) BOX," now that mirrorless cameras are no longer so limited. We may as well use the entire image circle with sensors big enough to capture all that the lens sees.
This is even more important in full frame, interchangeable lens cameras in which lenses are big and heavy. Why are we only capturing the 3:2 horizontal strip, and not what's above, below and on the sides?
It makes no sense. Camera companies are stifling artistic creativity, big-time!
The LX100 is apparently the first compact to sport 4K video. Gordon explains in the video at minute-7 two advantages of shooting in 4K that many don't realize.
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LX100 at minute-5
Published on Oct 1, 2014
In this video I'll show you all the most exciting new cameras, lenses and accessories launched at the Photokina 2014 show! You'll find out about all the latest camera gear that's coming soon! It's a big video, lasting 53 minutes, but I've divided it into sections for each company, so if you want to skip to your favourite, you can use the guide below. As always you can find my latest reviews at http://www.cameralabs.com
Running order
1:56: Panasonic
7:46: 4K Video
10:39: Red Digital Cinema
13:11: Sunbounce
13:36: Olympus
16:52: Fujifilm
18:39: PhotoMadd
19:55: Sony
22:44: Three Legged Thing
24:26: Sigma
28:48: Zeiss
33:18: LEE Filters
34:00: Samsung
35:42: F-Stop
37:54: Nikon
40:09: Canon
50:08: Bonus!
[videos] Charlie Waite: Watch what can be done with a compact camera | The LX5 to replace my G11?
(TWIP video) Panasonic Lumix LX100
Doug Kaye at minute-32:15:
"As much as I like the LX100, I really don't know why someone would buy that over the Sony (RX100 Mark III), and spend the extra $100, unless they wanted that questionable 4K video. It's bigger. It's more expensive. The image quality of both cameras are excellent. The controls are better on the Lumix. Menus are better on the Lumix. But I would much rather have one that I could put in a pocket."
(B&H video) First Look: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX100
Matt Frazer, Panasonic rep says:
"This is the successor to the LX7, which is frankly a series of cameras that has been very successful for Panasonic. And we decided to take the camera in a direction where it gets a little bit bigger…."
Also: the lens has 5 "all glass" aspheric lenses with 8 aspheric surfaces, with two of them ED glass. And their new milling technique gets rid of the 'onion rings' in the bokeh balls.
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At minute 7, this is a taste of JESUS' GREAT HEART-CRY for His people who are so far from Him, doing their own thing — and are not only approaching disaster on Earth, but for all eternity too — unless we get right with each other and Jesus now, before it's too late.
I experienced this in an elder's meeting at Abbott Loop in the late '90s. JESUS IS GRIEVED by what has happened, and the lack of willingness to repent!
Josh prayed a prayer, mentioning reconciliation, and this horrible agony came over me in which I cried out in this great pain that Jesus' shared with me!!!
Carter got up and put his hand on my shoulder….
Many of the elders may not have know where that came from, but Jesus was sharing how He feels because of the lives slain at Abbott Loop, and the leaders act like everything is okay — trying to cover up!
He wants His people….
Jesus' heart is really, REALLY AGONIZING!
What Gary Clark Jr. expresses through his guitar here is just a taste of THE AGONY JESUS FEELS right now.
Most don't realize.
REALLY serious!!!
And we can do something about this — and turn this thing around!
'ONE' will happen, "that the world will know" (Jesus' heart-cry in John 17)! And we'll be FREE for the world to SEE!!!!!!!
See my Jesus' Heart-cry prophecy, below this video.
Published on Sep 15, 2014
Let Us Be ONE, Part 3 of 33
Jesus' Heart-Cry: Let Us Be One
Let us be one. My cry is out to you to come near. I want My people, please? May we be one. I need you to pray, to fall on your face and not give up. Press in, overcome temptation. Be not afraid to obey. I will give you life, all those who follow. You will not faint. You will grow strong when you give up the ghosts that hold you back, the sins of iniquity.
Feel My hurt. It is great. My people have vanished from My life. I am sad, and you are lonely. There are few that remain close to Me where I can nourish their souls.
In Me there is life. There is no other way. I in you; you in Me, where we belong—together. Let us be one, together in love, where we can pray, enveloping each other in goodness. We can do that. It's not all one way. I am life. There is no other to follow. We can be friends. I will lead, but I will receive as you repent and draw close to Me. For I love My people. I love to pray. I intercede for the saints to bring them pleasure. We can be one. We can be close, you and I.
There is a place of holiness, where you will always be at My feet, a place of blessing. Let it come. Let it envelop you. Let it take over your pride.
Come, My people. Let us rest. Follow no other. I am your place of security, where power dwells, power to overcome sin, pride and temptation. I have life to give.
You are My friend. Get up and be counted among the sheep. For there is error. Life has ceased for a reason. The church is dirty, a place of filth. It is not My home. How can I dwell among an unclean people who hurt each other, who tell each other stories, who hurt from the heart those that care?
Let Us Be ONE: Table of Contents
My 1990 Key-to-Revival Prophecy: "There is might and there is power and there is glory, but it is being withheld until these relationships are made right, until we love our brother enough to…"
The Welsh Revival of 1904-05 by J. Edwin Orr: A Countrywide Asbury-like REVIVAL! The 4 Points: #1 Confess any known sin, and put any wrong done to man right again. #2 Put away any doubtful habit. #3 Obey the Spirit promptly. #4 Confess your faith publicly.
Effects of the WELSH REVIVAL 1904-05: Whole communities were radically changed FROM DEPRAVITY TO GLORIOUS GOODNESS. The CRIME RATE dropped, often to nothing. THE POLICE had little more to do than supervise the coming and going of the people to the chapel prayer meetings. THE UNDERGROUND MINES echoed with the sounds of PRAYER and HYMNS, instead of nasty jokes and gossip. People who had fallen out BECAME FRIENDS AGAIN!!!!!!!
(video) Asbury Revival, 1970: RECONCILIATION the KEY! — "'Dr. Kinlaw, I am a liar. Now what do I do?' … Three days later, she came to me radiant, and she said, 'I just hit my 34th person and I'm free!'"
Rick Joyner: "REPENTANCE includes RESTITUTION for the wrongs that have caused injury to others"
Can 'Christians' use Paul's "Forgetting the things which are behind…I press on" statement as an excuse to not get right with those they've hurt? Paul also said: "I also practice ALWAYS having a conscience void of offense toward God and men." What if you don't repent? And what will happen when you do? The Third Great Awakening can start with us!!! We can all be happy — 'ONE'!
The Achan Factor — Because of one man's disobedience the entire nation of Israel had to deal with the "Achan factor" among them before they could come under the umbrella of Almighty God's blessings once again!
Paul's Elders' qualifications revisited: What does 'BLAMELESS' mean? — Most pastors are biblically disqualified
(video) The Azusa Street Revival (1906-15): The biggest move of miracles in the history of America — The fire of God's glory on the roof! "Even the fingernails grew back!" In 1909, Seymour prophesied the next, even greater revival will come in about 100 years! We're due!!!
Wes Hall [IHOP] on William Seymour's *1909 prophecy* of the SHEKINAH GLORY RETURNING to the church *in 100 years*: "Let me tell you about the church in the book of Acts. ..the fear of God was on the community, and…they were highly esteemed" | My theory …
The Didache (70-100 AD): Reconciliation was required to attend early church meetings! "How upside-down the 'church' is today."
The R-Word: 'Reconciliation' is Required to Worship in Spirit and in Truth — Why is this key to revival a taboo subject?
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible"
Leaders Who Have Hurt People But Refuse to Repent
My comment on Francis Frangipane's post: "Francis, do you remember how you prophesied in Wasilla, Alaska about the REVIVAL happening up here to such a great degree that…" | Paul made sure he was right with everyone, but how many pastors can say that today? | "There is might and there is power and there is GLORY, but it is being withheld until these relationships are made right…
My Dream of 'ONE' Happening at Abbott Loop CC!
Awakening Meetings End at IHOP. Why?
Benny Hester: "When God Ran" — God will RUN when we come back to Him!
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God? — "There is therefore now *no condemnation* to those who are IN CHRIST Jesus, who don't WALK according to the flesh, but ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT."
'Let Us Be ONE' Prophecy Continues 10/8/08: "It's TOO LATE to REVERSE what's been done for MY MEN have been REJECTED … Now is the Time to OVERCOME and GET RIGHT With ALL … FREEeeeeeeeeeeeee———DOM at last … Your HEART will SWELL with LOVE and it will be EASY to REMAIN In Me when others are On The BOAT With You"
If we build it He will come:
"Let Us Be ONE" (A Revival Prophecy)
[photo] Abbott Loop Christian Center (Abbott Loop Community Church) — 1985
All of my Revival posts (latest appear first, 10 posts per page)
(video) Demon Kicker Things-NOT-Right Song! Gary Clark Jr: 'Bright Lights' (Live at Farm Aid 2014) / 'Blak and Blu' / 'When My Train Pulls In'


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The fast-food, home-care, and childcare workers protesting had talking points of their own, as they staged Iowa's first-ever fast-food strike day to demand, once again, $15 and hour and the right to form a union. Local community and labor groups have joined a wave of organizing, supported by the SEIU, that originated in New York over three years ago and has since spread to various low-wage sectors, and hundreds of cities nationwide and abroad. The movement, which has spanned roughly the length of the current presidential term, has introduced a social-justice policy platform for the 2016 race. On top of a $15 hourly wage and a union, campaigners demand accessible and affordable childcare, quality long-term home care, and action on two broader issues that affect low-income communities: addressing anti-black racism and pushing for immigration reform.
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I am nervous to walk off the job, but it is also empowering to join with other underpaid workers who are coming together this year to finally make a change…and for the first time I feel like my voice matters. Since moving to the U.S., I've felt so invisible that I never bothered to vote in any election.
Now Serrano and her fellow protesters are becoming visible on the national stage. According to the campaign, the roughly 733,000 workers earning less than $15 an hour in Iowa, or nearly half the workforce, could form a significant voting bloc. Based on turnout estimates from a National Employment Law Project survey, the campaign estimates more than 480,000 of those low-income Iowans would be more likely to vote, or would register to vote, if there were a candidate who advocated a $15 minimum wage. The same survey also found that nearly three-quarters of sub-$15 workers supported the demand of a $15 hourly wage and a union.


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Big Sean doesn't give a fuck about you. But you know who does? Coach Kanye. He's cheering you on from the sidelines, urging you to "focus" when you start to daydream. Catch him in this video for "I Don't Fuck With You," and let us pray that a leaked locker-room speech appears in the very near future. Imagine the tears! (Mine.)
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I'm a avid gamer, and while I don't have the latest 'cool' games, I enjoy the somewhat older games, such as Civilization III & IV, Making History, and Rome: Total War
Is the original game a floppy-disk or CD?
Ok...several questions. 1) Where is the .rar file located, the original, or the copy? 2) How do you extract all the files within? 3) Where is the SWFOC.EXE located?
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Have the bugs been fixed? This looks awesome. Can't wait to download it!
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Ok...why is the USS Enterprise from Star Trek included? I'm simply curious to know.
Can someone provide English translation to this? I also would like to know how come all the Star Trek mods for FoC are .rar files
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Glee Casts the Changs!Matt Richenthal at . Comments
Harry Shum Jr. is now a series regular on Glee and, as he told me at Comic Con, this means we'll get to know Mike Chang a lot better on season three. Case in point: we'll meet his parents.
And who will take on these roles?
Entertainment Weekly reports that Tamlyn Tomita (Law & Order: Los Angeles) and Keong Sim (Southland, The Last Airbender) will guest star on the October 4 episode of Glee as the mother and father who spawned William McKinley's best dancer.
Ryan Murphy has emphasized that season three will focus on character, character, character - and this sort of scoop helps us believe that the series really will return to a focus on the students.
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Lady Scarlett, a 1950s-inspired speedboat, will enchant you as much with its elegant curves as with its family and recreational sail plan. The hull, with its V-shaped and very high bow, was designed for the sea, for a quick and supple passage through choppy waters.
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Designer: Joubert-Nivelt
Hull Shape: Deep Vee
LOA: 7.50 m
Beam: 2.70 m
Minimum Draft: 0.40 m
Maximum Draft: 0.90 m
Dry Weight: 2200 kgs
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Fuel Tanks: (400 Liters)
Number of cabins: 1
Number of heads: 1
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- PVC upholstery
- Built in round ss sink
- Pressurized fresh water system
- Refridgerator (option)
- Built in dashboard
- Mahogany wheel
- Double berth with dralon mattress
- Storage under berths
- Chemical toilet (option)
Engine Equipment
- Standard version equipped with 250hp Z-Drive
- Sound proofed engine compartment
- Engine housing with jacks and lock
- Forced ventilation of the engine compartment
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Barcelona are pursuing a historic treble of the domestic double and the Champions League this term, seeking to emulate an exclusive club numbering only Manchester United (1999), PSV Eindhoven (1988), Ajax (1972) and Celtic (1967). Even more importantly for the Catalans, it would strike a huge prestige blow against arch-rivals Real Madrid.
The quest for the treble is backed by an attack which has plundered 125 goals in 46 matches, allied to the best defence in Spain with just 24 goals against in 29 league games. "Barça are coming very, very close to footballing perfection," enthused El Periódico this week. Club president Joan Laporta described his men's flair and skill at a time of economic crisis "the best anti-depressant there is."
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Josep Guardiola, who became head coach last summer, is credited with the revival in Barca's fortunes. "Pep" embodies the spirit of the club like no other, starting out as a ball-boy at Camp Nou, becoming a member of Johan Cruyff's "Dream Team" in the 90s, and serving for years as club captain. As a coach, he has now assembled a record-breaking team.
The quality is not confined to world-class strike trio Messi, Eto'o and Henry. "Even bad strikers would score in this team," admits Eto'o. The play is orchestrated by midfield maestro Xavi, a master at changing the pace of a match. Alongside crowd hero Andrés Iniesta, Xavi ensures his side remain 100 percent in control. "Possession is key to the way Barca play," El Periódico noted.
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For all their strengths, the Catalans are more than wary of their German opponents. "We have huge respect for Bayern. You simply can't trust them," Guardiola admonished. That attitude has not been affected by Bayern's heavy defeat in Wolfsburg at the weekend. "There couldn't have been a worse result for us," the coach insisted, "after losing 5-1, Bayern will be aggressive and totally motivated. They'll be desperate to make amends."


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A man has been charged with arranging the trafficking and prostitution of children in Oxfordshire.
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Mr Mahdi was charged with conspiracy to rape and trafficking persons within the UK for sexual exploitation.
He was also charged with conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15 and arranging to facilitate prostitution/involvement in pornography of a child aged 13 to 17 years.


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NYCUP SIP is a residential leadership development program that uses New York City as a classroom to provide leadership, vocational clarity, and practical steps towards whole-life stewardship. Our staff work with students in full-time internships that connect their area of interest or demonstrated capacity with NYC non-profits, businesses and traditional discipleship ministries with a focus on restorative biblical justice; as well as those interested in entering fashion, business, medicine or another sector of the marketplace. This year we have 10 amazing participants!
The Good Journey: Jade Gleason (Rutgers University) and Gloria Park (Vassar College)
Good Journey exists to educate, compel and celebrate businesses and consumers that integrate stewardship into their every practices. Jade and Gloria will work to grow this platform to reach a wider audience to end exploitation of people and the planet and inform more and more people that a different way of life is possible.
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Those children not attending a parochial school are expected to attend these classes.
Classes are held at Mater Dolorosa School located on 25 Maple Street in Holyoke.
Grammar school (K through 8th grade) classes are held Saturday from 8:30am to 10:00am.
Confirmation (9th through 11th grades) classes are held Monday from 6:30pm to 7:45pm.
**If schools in Holyoke are closed on Mondays due to inclement weather, Religious Education classes will be cancelled as well.
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I don't think game of thrones would be what it is without the general goings on that it's full of.
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Some Aussie slippers, hot chocolate, fluffy hand warmer, lavender heat cushion and take the heat products - cream and spray. Not to mention it was all wrapped up with a pretty purple ribbon (pictured)
This was to mark their 'take the heat' event on bonfire night, in which I was invited to attend. Unfortunately, I was ridiculously ill, and couldn't make it, which I'm still upset about. But anywho, I have wanted to blog about this for age, cause it is pretty much the perfect package for winter, and is so tempting to replicate this as a gift for friends and family! Who doesn't want hot chocolate and slippers in December? Amazing.
As part of being in the tribes, around summer we all got to attend a tribe party, and I happened to go to the one in London, which I never actually blogged about.. I don't think anyway. I'm not sure, but it was an amazing night in which I got to stay in a hotel in London and invite my friend Josh and hang out with the amazing Hannah and Charlie, but back to the story. The incredible people at Aussie had thrown these parties with themes to match the tribe, ours was fairytale. They have now compiled a book together to show the pictures from the parties and tips us tribe members have given -
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This is such a lovely thing to have and I am so grateful to be apart of the aussie tribes, so a big thankyou to the Aussie team and all the other tribe members! I've wanted to blog about these thing but never got the chance, so sorry it's all abit late! I'm jetting off to another Aussie event in London on December the 4th and have a little surprise, but all will be revealed sooner to the date. Contest winner announced tomorrow!


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Chinese biotechnology companies have long copied American drugs for use in their home markets. But one Chinese imitator may now save a novel cancer treatment from oblivion after it was abandoned by its American developer.
Shanghai Sunway Biotech, a biotechnology company in Shanghai, has licensed worldwide rights to the therapy from Onyx Pharmaceuticals, based in Emeryville, Calif., people at both companies said.
It is a sign that China is plowing ahead in certain areas of medicine that are regarded more cautiously in the United States.
The therapy uses a virus that has been genetically modified to attack cancer cells but avoid normal cells. The treatment, called Onyx-015, elicited great interest among cancer researchers a few years ago when it showed the ability to shrink tumors in midstage clinical trials.
But there were challenges delivering the therapy to tumors because the immune system attacks the virus. Some scientists also considered the treatment a form of gene therapy, a technique that fell into disfavor after the death of a teenager in a gene therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania.Continue reading the main story
Onyx stopped work on the virus treatment in 2003 to devote its money to a more conventional cancer drug that is now in late stage trials with Bayer, the German pharmaceutical company. Onyx could not find a partner willing to pay for further development of the virus therapy.
Unbeknownst to Onyx, however, Sunway researchers duplicated its approach after reading a paper published by Onyx scientists in 1996. Sunway has taken the treatment through clinical trials in China and thinks it is close to winning approval to sell it for head and neck cancer.
"They cloned our work after our paper came out," said Frank McCormick, founder of Onyx and the main inventor of the technology. He said Onyx had known nothing about Sunway's activities all these years.
Onyx's technology was not protected by patents in China because the company had not applied for them. But Sunway now says it wants to develop and sell the treatment in countries where Onyx does have patents, including the United States.
So Sunway has licensed the rights, according to Dr. McCormick and to Hu Fang, the president of Sunway. Dr. Hu said his company was paying $1 million up front, and might pay up to $10 million more if the drug won approval in the United States and Europe, plus royalties on sales. A spokeswoman for Onyx confirmed that an agreement had been reached but would not provide financial details.
"They weren't fazed by the negative publicity around gene therapy in the U.S.," said Dr. McCormick, who is now director of the cancer center at the University of California, San Francisco. "They just had a different attitude."
The first and only approval of a gene therapy by any regulatory agency in the world happened in China in 2003.
That therapy, developed by SiBiono GeneTech, based in Shenzhen, uses a virus to deliver to tumors a gene called p53 that helps kill cancerous cells. SiBiono's approach is very similar to one being tested in late stage clinical trials by Introgen, a company in Austin, Tex.
Even if the Onyx therapy wins approval in China, Sunway will need to conduct clinical trials in the United States to get approval in this country and to conform to tougher American manufacturing standards.
Dr. Hu said his company had made some improvements to the Onyx therapy to make it more effective. Dr. McCormick agreed, and said he was happy his work had been imitated. "I was a bit shocked at first," he said. "But since we haven't been able to find anyone in the U.S. to support the project, it's better than having it die on the vine. Over all, I'm actually delighted."
He said he expected to go to China soon to celebrate the first approval anywhere of the therapy he invented.
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Dating back to 1851, the Marshall House in Savannah was used as a Union hospital during the Civil War. Today, staff and guests oftentimes see visions of men donning Civil War uniforms, including a man holding up a severed arm. Other reports include water faucets turning on, doorknobs wobbling, unseen children heard playing in the hallways and guests have reported waking up with their arm outstretched as though a nurse was taking their pulse.
Known as one of the most haunted cities in the U.S., the sweet southern city of Savannah has several ghost tales due to it's rich Confederate history and deadly past.
If you've ever longed to see true performances of the greatest and most well-known plays in literature, Shakespeare Tavern is the place for you. The experience reaches beyond the stage; a full menu resembling that of a historic English pub is offered, and the staff dons clothing contemporary with the style of the late 1500s. Most importantly, the actors perform in the liveliest and most entertaining way possible, in order to draw average American "groundlings" into the story. This innovative
Ghostly laughter, footsteps and objects that move. It all seems pretty standard at first glance at The Pirates' House in Old Fort, Savannah. But the name of the location reflects a lot of the spirit or spirits of the place. Yes, The Pirates' House is haunted by sailors, seadogs, privateers and perhaps even real (and, of course, very dead) pirates.
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There is a saying in the South that Savannah was built on the backs of its dead. It is true that nearly anytime construction workers dig into the thick red clay earth they discover bonesâ??remains from the Native Americans in the area, remains from the Revolutionary War and Civil War. And it seems that with all the history below the gorgeous gardens and fountains of the city, some ghosts have decided to remain.
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Abhiyan Foundation Recruitment 2018, UP Bihar Parvishak Vacancy 2018: Abhiyan Foundation latest jobs notification we will update here as soon as the department will announce the news. We'll here discuss the detail about states vacancies qualification, age limit, number of vacancies, pay scale etc. These vacancies are open in all districts of UP and Bihar state. Abhiyan Foundation Recruitment 2018 Notification, Abhiyan Foundation Jobs 2018 for 40000 Vacancies will declare soon to 33072 (Expected) posts in UP & 16536 (Expected) posts in Bihar.
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Pukka tends to evoke the height of 18th- and 19th-century British imperialism in India, and, indeed, it was first used in print in English in 1776, in transcripts of the trial of Maha Rajah Nundocomar, who was accused of forgery and tried, in 1775, by a British court in Bengal. The word is borrowed from Hindi and Urdu "pakkā," which means "solid." The English speakers who borrowed it applied the "sound and reliable" sense of "solid" and thus the word came to mean "genuine." As the British Raj waned, "pukka" was occasionally appended to "sahib" (an Anglo-Indian word for a European of some social or official status). That expression is sometimes used as a compliment for an elegant and refined gentleman, but it can also imply that someone is overbearing and pretentious. These days, "pukka" is also used as a British slang word meaning "excellent" or "cool."
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|Today's guest post comes from Christian Arno, the founder of Lingo24, a global translation company specializing in website localization and optimization. Lingo24 has been helping some of the world's biggest global brands with their localization campaigns since 2001.I appreciate Christian taking the time to share his thoughts on the international aspects of social media and some tips on taking your content beyond your own borders.
The aptly named world wide web has opened up new methods of marketing for businesses both great and small. The benefits of localizing company websites to target foreign markets are now widely recognized (Common Sense Advisory studies suggest an average return of US$25 for every $1 spent on localization) and many businesses now use social media platforms for domestic marketing, but very few appear to be using those platforms to promote their services abroad.
For example, Econsultancy's 2010 Social Media and Online PR Report reported that 83% of marketers were planning to increase their spending on social media this year, yet only 26% had plans to run campaigns in more than one country.
The Benefits Of Social Media Engagement
While search engine marketing is generally geared towards increasing sales conversions for your website, social media marketing is best seen as a PR tool, for building and maintaining brand awareness, gathering customer feedback and managing negative feedback about your brand. These can, of course, all have a major impact on your sales, even if they're not directly related to creating sales.
In a survey of 1,100 owners of small businesses, conducted by market research company Ad-ology, the respondents listed the ability to generate leads, to keep up with developments within their industry, and to monitor the online conversation about their business, as the greatest benefits of social networking.
Which sites to choose
The social media sites you might already be familiar with – sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – are all global brands with their own localized settings for foreign language users.
Facebook is the single most visited social media platform worldwide, and figures released last year showed that Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic had the highest growth rate of languages used on the site, reflecting the growth of usage in Latin America and Arabic-speaking countries.
(Source: www.insidefacebook.com/2010/07/28/among-facebooks-top-languages-portuguese-arabic-and-spanish-lead-growth/)
There are, however, social media sites that are huge within their own countries but largely unknown outside these markets. In Brazil, for example, Orkut is the biggest site, with about 20 million monthly visits. Started in California and still boasting modest levels of traffic within the US, Orkut is now hosted within Brazil itself and gets the vast majority of its traffic from there, and from India. With its format and content geared toward a South American audience, Sonico is also popular throughout the continent.
Mixi.jp is the most widely used site in Japan, with around 30 million users, while the huge Chinese market is dominated by Renren and Qzone. Qzone alone claims to have a staggering 380 million users and, while it's thought many of these are dormant accounts, it's still a huge number.
Effective communication
Once you've selected the most appropriate platform for your social media engagement efforts (it's little use concentrating on Facebook if you want to do business in China), it's time to create your profiles and open up the lines of communication.
For translation, you could use any of a number of automatic translation programs, like Babelfish or Google Translate, or rely on the site's own translation facilities, if it has any.
Be wary, though, as machine translation can throw up mistakes which can distort the meaning of your posts and other copy, or simply leave you looking amateurish. While machine translation is fine to get the gist of your followers' responses to you, you're best off using professional translators for your posts and tweets.
One benefit is that you can construct posts, tweets, etc in your native language and then have them translated for the various languages you're targeting. Using social media management programs like Hoot Suite, which allows you to schedule tweets in advance, you can maintain a steady output on your various international social media networks, gradually building followers and generating buzz about your brand in every targeted market, for far less investment than it would cost to run advertising campaigns.
Your only outlay is to have your tweets and posts translated, which, considering tweets are less than 140 characters, means you're not looking at a massive monthly outlay to translate your social media interactions. With a little planning and effort, you'll find the response to your international social media efforts far outweighs the investment of time and money.
|Thanks, again, to Christian for sharing his thoughts and tips! Any business that offer their products and servers on an international basis is going to have to consider how to engage via social media in different languages and will need to understand the cultures and language differences of their target audiences, as well as the appropriate channels where their international audience engages. I'd love to hear thoughts, experiences and feedback in the comments. Share your experiences with us!


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Welcome to the all-new web site for Bookie's, a neighborhood independent bookstore on the South Side of Chicago. We've been helping our community to find their reading material for over 28 years.
Only July 1, 2017, Bookie's moved to a brand new double storefront on Western Ave.
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Misc Soundtrack A Mighty Wind - Just That Kinda Day tab
...JUST THAT KINDA DAY... by The Main Street Singers -------------------------........................... *from 'A Mighty Wind Original Soundtrack' (2003)* Intro: F F/G G7 C G7 It's just that kind-a day... Verse 1: C F C It's time to kick on back, F C G Toss your cares a-way. C F C Cartwheels and piggy-backs, F G C It's just that kinda day. Verse 2: C F C Tell mean old Mister Blues, F G C He's welcome here no more. C F C Put on your happy shoes, F G C And chase him out the door. Bridge 1: D9 Today when I awoke, G7 All my cares went up in smoke. E7 I thought about the sad-eyed folk, A G/B Who've never eard this song. Verse 3: C Don't cry, F C Don't fret, don't frown, F G C You'll only bruise your heart. C F C The sun's a circus clown, F G C The moon's a lemon tart. Interlude: (Whistle over Verse Chords) C F C, F C G, C F C, F G C Verse 5: C F C I'm sittin' on a hill, F G C A-watchin' clouds at play. C F C Love clouds, I always will, F G C It's just that kinda day. Verse 6: C F C Let's give our-selves a break, F C G From sorrow and dis-may. C F C The world's a birthday cake, F G C It's just that kinda day. Coda: F G C It's just that kinda day, F G Ab Bb C It's just that kinda day....... C9 Hmm. CHORD DIAGRAMS: --------------- F F/G G7 C G D9 EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE 133211 30321x 323000 x32010 320003 x5455x E7 A G/B Ab Bb C9 EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE 020100 x02220 x20003 466544 x13331 x3233x Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2005 (email@example.com)


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