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From our overstocked archivesSam Smith, 2009
This is a lousy time. We're in the worst economic collapse since the 1930s depression. We can't get out of one war we were never able to justify. We are escalating another war we can't even explain, let alone justify. The environment is deteriorating. Nobody around the globe seems to respect America any more, including many of our own politicians. Our manufacturing economy caved, and so did the hedge fund economy that replaced it. Our Constitution is gaining the feel of a long out of print book. Our politics have never been more corrupt. And the president who was meant to be our messiah has turned out to be only the first syllable of that dream.
We've been in a lousy time for some time. What's happening is not new, only worse. We're finally reaping the full harvest of thirty years of greed, corruption, intellectual dissembling, political intrigue, environmental contempt, and journalistic adultery in which the media deserts its readers and viewers to have endless affairs with its sources.
Basically, America is a nation is in a state of collapse. The First American Republic is over. We don't talk about it that way because it's too shocking and embarrassing, but our politics, economy social values, and culture seem to be in free fall and there doesn't seem anyone who is both interested and powerful enough to do anything about it.This does not, however, mean our communities or even our states are in a similar state of distress.
This is a crisis shared by conservatives, liberals, the middle and the indifferent. The conservatives react with anger, the liberals with delusion or depression, the middle by remaining muddled, and the indifferent by clinging to their detachment.
This happens to cultures. Which is why we use Timex watches instead of Mayan calendars to tell what day it is. And while it is happening, other strange and gratuitously disruptive things happen as well.
For example, widespread myths arise that attempt to explain it all. Here are several examples:
The Indian ghost dance
A ceremonial religious dance connected with the messiah doctrine, which originated among the Paviotso in Nevada about 1888, and spread rapidly among other tribes until it numbered among its adherents nearly all the Indians . . . from Missouri river to or beyond the Rockies. The prophet of the religion was a young Paiute Indian, at that time not yet 35 years of age, known among his own people as Wovoka, and 'commonly called by the whites Jack Wilson, from having worked in the family of a ranchman named Wilson.
About the close of 1888, he was attacked by a dangerous fever. While he was ill an eclipse spread excitement among the Indians, with the result that Wovoka became delirious and imagined that he had been taken into the spirit world, and there received a direct revelation from the God of the Indians. Briefly stated, the revelation was to the effect that a new dispensation was close at hand by which the Indians would be restored to their inheritance and reunited with their departed friends, and that they must prepare for the event by practicing the songs and dance ceremonies which the prophet gave them.
Within a very short time the dance spread to the tribes east of the mountains, where it became known commonly only as the Spirit or Ghost dance. . . - Access Geneology
Cargo Cults
The most widely known period of cargo cult activity occurred amongst Pacific islanders in the years during and after World War II. First, the Japanese arrived with a great deal of unknown equipment, and later, Allied forces also used the islands in the same way. The vast amounts of war materiel that was airdropped (or airlifted to airstrips) onto these islands during the Pacific campaign between the Allies and the Empire of Japan necessarily meant drastic changes to the lifestyle of the islanders, many of whom had never seen Westerners or Easterners before.
Manufactured clothing, medicine, canned food, tents, weapons, and other useful goods arrived in vast quantities to equip soldiers. Some of it was shared with the islanders who were their guides and hosts. . .
With the end of the war, the airbases were abandoned, and cargo was no longer dropped. In response, cults developed within remote Melanesian populations that promised to bestow the followers with deliveries of food, arms, jeeps, etc., from their own ancestors, or other sources, as had happened to the outsider armies. In attempts to get cargo to fall by parachute or land in planes or ships again, islanders imitated the same practices they had seen the soldiers, sailors, and airmen use.
Cult behaviors usually involved mimicking the day to day activities and dress styles of US soldiers, such as performing parade ground drills with wooden or salvaged rifles. They carved headphones from wood and wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers. They waved the landing signals while standing on the runways. They lit signal fires and torches to light up runways and lighthouses. In a form of sympathetic magic, many built life-size replicas of airplanes out of straw and created new military-style landing strips, hoping to attract more airplanes. The cult members thought that the foreigners had some special connection to the deities and ancestors of the natives, who were the only beings powerful enough to produce such riches. - Wikipedia
It is not unusual in these situations for the mythology to be driven by a relatively few manipulators and con artists.
This does not mean, however, that the believers are con artists. The believers are trying to maintain their traditional values and culture and have been given little help in moving into a new time. Liberals excoriate them, the media doesn't explain things well, and the politicians take advantage of them.
In a recent interview with Wired, Whitman College sociologist Kari Marie Norgaard, discussed the problem as it relates to climate change:
"Climate change is disturbing. It's something we don't want to think about. So what we do in our everyday lives is create a world where it's not there, and keep it distant. For relatively privileged people like myself, we don't have to see the impact in everyday life. I can read about different flood regimes in Bangladesh, or people in the Maldives losing their islands to sea level rise, or highways in Alaska that are altered as permafrost changes. But that's not my life. We have a vast capacity for this. . .
"In order to have a positive sense of self-identity and get through the day, we're constantly being selective of what we think about and pay attention to. To create a sense of a good, safe world for ourselves, we screen out all kinds of information, from where food comes from to how our clothes our made. When we talk with our friends, we talk about something pleasant. . .
"Stanford University psychologist Jon Krosnick has studied this, and showed that people stop paying attention to climate change when they realize there's no easy solution. People judge as serious only those problems for which actions can be taken.
"Another factor is that we no longer have a sense of permanence. Another psychologist, Robert Lifton, wrote about what the existence of atomic bombs did to our psyche. There was a sense that the world could end at any moment.
"Global warming is the same in that it threatens the survival of our species. Psychologists tell us that it's very important to have a sense of the continuity of life. That's why we invest in big monuments and want our work to stand after we die and have our family name go on.
"That sense of continuity is being ruptured. But climate change has an added aspect that is very important. The scientists who built nuclear bombs felt guilt about what they did. Now the guilt is real for the broader public."
And there is another aspect that psychologist Bruce E. Levine noted:
"When one already feels beaten down and demoralized, the likely response to the pain of shame is not constructive action, but more attempts to shut down or divert oneself from this pain. It is not likely that the truth of one's humiliating oppression is going to energize one to constructive actions.
"In the United States, 47 million people are without health insurance, and many millions more are underinsured or a job layoff away from losing their coverage. But despite the current sellout by their elected officials to the insurance industry, there is no outpouring of millions of U.S. citizens on the streets of Washington, D.C., protesting this betrayal. . .
"U.S. citizens do not actively protest obvious injustices for the same reasons that people cannot leave their abusive spouses: They feel helpless to effect change. The more we don't act, the weaker we get. . .
"The U.S. population is increasingly broken by the social isolation created by corporate-governmental policies. A 2006 American Sociological Review reported that, in 2004, 25 percent of Americans did not have a single confidant. (In 1985, 10 percent of Americans reported not having a single confidant.) . . .
"Today, increasing numbers of people in the U.S. who do not comply with authority are being diagnosed with mental illnesses and medicated with psychiatric drugs that make them less pained about their boredom, resentments, and other negative emotions, thus rendering them more compliant and manageable.. . .
"When human beings feel too terrified and broken to actively protest, they may stage a 'passive-aggressive revolution' by simply getting depressed, staying drunk, and not doing anything -- this is one reason why the Soviet empire crumbled. However, the diseasing/medicalizing of rebellion and drug 'treatments' have weakened the power of even this passive-aggressive revolution."
A good politics would recognize the problems and help people do something about them. For example, recycling has moved into our culture with little fuss; natural foods are prominently featured in supermarkets and buying locally makes both liberals and conservatives happy. But our politicians and media, from Obama on down, are tone deaf when it comes to climate change. They don't know how to sing the song. And so they talk endlessly about cap and trade when most Americans don't know what the hell it's about. And so the right has a field day.
It's the same way with healthcare. The healthcare bills have good parts but they are buried in payoffs to insurance companies, policies that raise unnecessary issues such as mandated purchase of insurance, and a massive indifference to the individual costs of some of the programs. So, again, the right has a field day. An earlier generation of Democratic politicians would have come up with something simpler and much more weighted toward what real people wanted. This crowd could never have gotten Social Security, a minimum wage or Medicare passed. They are too technocratic and autocratic. And they don't know how to listen.
Many liberals think everyone opposed to them is just another Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly. But Noam Chomsky described it much better:
"If you look at those people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances. I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the world and just enter into the world of the people who are calling in, you can understand them. I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, 'I've done everything right all my life, I'm a god-fearing Christian, I'm white, I'm male, I've worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I'm supposed to do. And I'm getting shafted.'
"And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there's nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is. Well - Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the media, and they don't care about you-they just want to give everything away to illegal immigrants and gays and communists and so on.
"The reaction we should be having to them is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi Germany. Hitler was appealing to groups with similar grievances, and giving them crazy answers, but at least they were answers; these groups weren't getting them anywhere else.
"The liberal Democrats aren't going to tell the average American, 'Yeah, you're being shafted because of the policies that we've established over the years that we're maintaining now.' That's not going to be an answer. And they're not getting answers from the left. So, there's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything-a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don't ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer. . . "
And Levine notes:
"When people get caught up in humiliating abuse syndromes, more truths about their oppressive humiliations don't set them free. What sets them free is morale.
"What gives people morale? Encouragement. Small victories. Models of courageous behaviors. And anything that helps them break out of the vicious cycle of pain, shut down, immobilization, shame over immobilization, more pain, and more shut down.
"An elitist assumption is that people don't change because they are either ignorant of their problems or ignorant of solutions. . . An elitist who has never been broken by his or her circumstances does not know that people who have become demoralized do not need analyses and pontifications. Rather the immobilized need a shot of morale."
Where is morale for these people coming from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party? It's a rare commodity. Just consider how little attention liberals paid to foreclosures, job loss, credit card interest rates and so forth? It's so much easier just to dump on Glenn Beck and his viewers and feel superior about it.
So if the liberals won't help the way they did in the New Deal and the Great Society, where is the help going to come from?
When politics fail, you need movements, movements formed around issues, not a political institution. Movements that deal with things people really care about - like where they are going to find a job or how they are going to keep their house - not things that are, at best, 23rd on their list like that "transparency" the Obamites never stop talking about.
It's happened before. The abolition movement, union organizing, the civil rights movement, the 1960s. . . All you need is a big enough space - like the one the two parties have created - for someone else to fill.
And it doesn't initially have to happen on a national level. In fact, it seldom does. The sit-ins of the civil rights movement and the anti-apartheid movement are examples of local action transforming a whole county. We are not limited by either Sarah Palin or Obama. We can create oases of environmental, economic and political decency wherever we live and with the aid of the Internet share what we've learned and learn what others have discovered. Along the way we may find allies we never expected, even ones who own guns and don't like abortion.
If Obama can't save you, as appears to be the case, maybe you're part of a real answer. Why not give it a try?


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Google Earth Blocked in Bahrain
Now we know why the Ministry of DISinformation is so desperate to control the Internet:
According to Al-Wasat this morning, the Ministry of DISinformation has instructed the Bahrain Internet Exchange to block Google Earth. Possibly because through Google Earth, the whole world, let alone the Bahraini users, can zoom in and have a good look at palaces and islands which a normal Bahraini wouldn't even dream of one day coming close to, let alone stepping foot in, and the glaring confiscation of virtually all but 3% of beaches of the islands.
And typical of the Bahriani government, they think that by forcing people to stick their heads in the sands, they no longer will complain about the disproportionate distribution of wealth, the dirth of lands (more than 95% of the whole of the country of Bahrain is in private hands, leaving nothing for development projects and low income housing etc) and the various other top-secret nature of land ownership in this country.
This step completely shows the moronic nature of the Ministry of DISinformation, and BIX with its unconstitutional board and the typical "control" mentality that the Bahraini government seems to think is the proper management ideology to adopt to run the country.
Well, they blocked it…
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Still seems to work as of last night up to the last time I checked, 0900 this morning.
I suggest that since people can still view it, take shitloads of pics from various important places in Bahrain, including the confiscated beaches and huge lands. Then publish those pics on various websites, not just flickr, any website which offers free accounts for image hosting should have these images featured. To show them that their scandalous confiscation and occupation of lands is not only shown in Google Earth. But in many other sources on the net.
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What's next??! What's next?!?!
thanks mahmood for the instructions on how to ublock it!
Oh NO! Now they will tell me that they're gonna block "World of Warcraft" WTF?
Google Earth still seems to be working, but Google Maps and Wikimapia (which uses the Google Maps API) aren't working for me. Google Maps isn't giving me a "403 Forbidden" error though. It just isn't loading and giving a timeout error after a while, so I don't know if Batelco is reponsible for it. Is anyone else having the same problem?
Look at Israel on Google Earth. Places like Haifa, Tel Aviv are so blurred you would think you were turning blind. And then when you turn to the Arab town of Nazareth in Israel, you can see again!
Next move to Beirut, where you can count the cars on the streets!!
Google Earth has detected a network error. Please check your network connection and try again.
"Google Earth could not contact the authentication server to activate your session"
That sucks. Many an hour has been whiled away at the office looking at palaces and seeing if I can find my car anywhere in Bahrain.
btw, great link!
this is horrible man…
we're going backwards
*Moody shrugs , started a notepad document to list all kind of insults and swearingZ * …
Pile of poo poos … wht a Morons!
ArggHHH!!!! Wait a cotton-pickin' minute!!! I PAY for Google Earth Pro, and now I can't access what I pay for??!! Mo', do you have a contact at MOI that I can call to ask them who and when they will refund my money? As I use this for my business, they are hurting my customers (the Bahrain Gov't)!
I just cant grasp the concept of not being able to view what I want at the time I want, why? all this for a couple Beach's and Palaces?
I really can't understand it, it was one of the really cool gizmo's on the INTERNET and turned out to be a very useful tool, not only to the public & average Joe, but to people who travel alot and the list goes on.
the Government in this country is just against technology and appears tome they would like to see us back on Camels and Donkey's, as the new methods of transport might carry information as well and become a threat!!
I mean, why are we always running back wards? wifi and Blue tooth needs to be licensed, we are the only country that requires that, why? its a freaking license free technology? for gods sake, cars, laptops, mobile phones..etc comes equipped with that!!!
I need to stop or I will use the whole blocs bandwidth ranting about this amazingly retarded system we have as a country.
Just for the recored, the bored members of BIX don't even know about it being shut.
Still working fine here
Unless something is done, soon everything will be regulated.
Can't have the people thinking freely, can we? For the good of the nation and Islam and our 'culture' we need more robot drones who will believe everything we tell them on the evening news and the newspapers. Free thought is sinful and evil. We want to control you for your own good!
… assholes.
I guess its just another American dream experiment, where the general public see, believe and live what the political leaders want them to.
something should be done, and we as people living and still willing to live in Bahrain do something, I for one, don't want to have kids that are not free to think the way they want and learn what ever they want to learn.
this is extremely annoying me.
Presently, its working on my PC.
It is really stupid for them to block Google earth.
I concur with alfanan and the rest of the panel – MORONS!!!!!
working fine with me also
Yeah, Google Earth is back up, but Google Maps ( http://maps.google.com ) is still blocked.
You can also try NASA WorldWind
You know, this reminds me back in the day when you were only allowed to use Batelco telephones and fax machines…. when having a cordless phone or a funky Mickey Mouse phone or even a modem meant that you had to smuggle it in from somewhere like Saudi or mail order it. Sheesh, hey, remember Wildcats mahmood? hehe.. okay, I'll stop, makes us all look older.
Its just sad that its started to come to this.
Funny progression of blocking too – Porn sites ——————— Google Earth.
So Google Earth is now nearly equitable to porn?
*Bangs head against the wall till he wakes up the next day in a confused stuppor, dragging his body up from the floor*
Ah… it all makes sense now…. perfect sense
Vaseline Sales will be going up noooo!!!???
A certain MOI spokesman was heard saying "Pr0n's to blame! It's not our fault Google Earth gets blocked as well!"
The pitfalls of a pornocracy (a pornocracy is a pseudo-democracy based on a meriterious view of censorship.) 😛
LOL! That was a great scroll down seeing the next headline…of course you knew how to unblock it..who works for them anyway?
When it comes to the net, the MoI's formula seems to be: something needs to be done, this is something, ergo this must be done. Even in its own terms it doesn't work since it can be simply bypassed by use of a proxy, so as with everything to do with the MoI's attitude to the net – what's the point? The only practical result is bad PR with collateral damage to Bahrain's image.
Nasrawi, that's a very interesting if Google Earth is censoring Israel – especially if its not doing the same with Lebanon. If you're right you could be onto something big. Look at the storm when Google censored itself in China. Anyone want to blog about this? You could be breaking a big story.
So sorry to hear of this….arrghh..this makes my blood boil! Time for some virtual guerilla warfare! 🙂
Is it possible to have a website access google-earth without having the google-earth URL go through the Bahraini ISP? I wonder. If that is the case, then we need someone nice enough on the outside to do just that, and send the new URL over. When its discovered, change the name, etc etc.
Now GOOGLE VIDEO appears to be blocked also!! Can someone else in Bahrain confirm this?
And Google Earth is once again blocked.
yep i can confirm that. Apparently Batelco banned the IP address of Google Video and Google Earth, blocked wikimapia.org and maps.google.com.
What's next? Youtube.com? flickr.com???
Incase you are wondering why.. some guy put anti-government and/or misleading labels all over the royalty's palaces. Something like, here lives Michael Jackson and here lives the King's wife etc. Ruined it for the rest of Bahrain :/
"Incase you are wondering why.. some guy put anti-government and/or misleading labels all over the royalty's palaces. Something like, here lives Michael Jackson and here lives the King's wife etc. Ruined it for the rest of Bahrain :/ "
It's unfortunate that some jackass can ruin it for the rest of the country. It's inevitable that things like these arise, but banning more and more sites only results in frustration and outrage among the public. We have a constitution that guarantees our freedom of publishing, printing and expression, so our gov't must hold its part of the bargain! Let's hope that BIX along with our Ministry of Info will discard its earlier decision and allow google earth to once again operate in the Kingdom.
Yousif, I don't think Wikimapia itself is blocked, but it gets all of its data from Google Maps (which IS blocked), so that's why it isn't functioning.
I'm with you all the way until you said someone ruined it for the rest of us. As far as I understand, that person labeled pictures obtained from Google Earth. What exactly is wrong with that?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but talking about where Michael Jackson lives or which palaces belong to the King's wives is not a crime! The King is not the Prophet. We should be allowed to point out that royalty are stealing beaches and building palaces, and drawing arrows to point them out isn't a reason to punish anyone.
Unfortuantely this is a trap we fall in all the time. First comes the collective punishment, leading people to focus on the "punishment" part and focus on the "collective" part.
To borrow the Israeli analogy from above, everyone is saying Lebanon is collectively being punished for the actions of Hezbollah, but that statement in itself is an admission of guilt towards Hezbollah.
I haven't seen what the guy put up anywhere on the Bahraini webosphere, so I'm guessing it wasn't that big of a deal anyway. As for condemning something because it's "anti-govermnet", that's such a broad undefined statement it makes me sick. What exactly is anti-government… this post? Mahmood's blog? How about anyone with a pulse and an opinion? Seems to me "anti-government" can be used as an excuse to lock up anyone, whether they are complaining about electrical outages or supporting prisoners in gitmo.
Anyway Google Earth is back up for me this morning. I wish they'd make up their mind so we know what to do about this.
You can only change the proxy and everything will be all right..
If you don't know.. I'll write here the instructions..
any one used tor?
I did and GE is still not working.
Hey Mahmood,
I've downloaded the Tor thing, but I can't get it to work. I'm currently in the UAE and I'm really sucky at the inet. =p
Anyways, everything is blocked over here.
Steps? O__o
What steps? xD
Question: The little island of Um Na3san, between Saudia and Bahrain, is that where the King's residence is? The building at the top of the Island?
If that's so, then the palace controls the bridge to Saudia as it passes inside its territory!
What about that private island resort from the seemingly-palace? is that one of the things which the government doesn't want the people to see?
Just an innocent question 🙂
I'm lokking for a kmz file to view the subject.
Hi All Experts,
Does anyone use google earth images as ground image planes for use in aerial scenes. I know how to stitch them together but are there any tools or tricks to make sure that the images are at the same height, angle and such to make sure they stitch well. I know in the pro version you can get bigger images but im not going to pay for the pro version when i could stitch multiple images together…
I guess folks are going to need democratic access to geospatial imagery content, which is coming soon…
can't be blocked
Congratulations on being mentioned in the Feb. 2007 issue of "Maximum PC" magazine.
:wub: الكره الارضيه
Story in L.A. Times today about Google, Bahrain, and our host Mahmood.
Is this old?
it is. dec 4, 2006.
it is easy to access google earth, even if the country deny it.
you have just to use a public proxy server.
look for a "public proxy server' on internet and take one an configure your PC with it.
The traffic will be pointed to porxy server rather than the google earth server, this connection will be invisble for the filters that the provider is putting there.
This one makes sence "One's first step in wisdom is to kuesstion everything – and one's last is to come to terms with everything."

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A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) update emphasizes that the road to economic recovery is paved with eggshells. The budget office predicts an improveing economy and lower inflation; but it also says this forecast depends on "highly uncertain factors."
The reports adds the CBO to a lengthening list of those who believe the fight to balance the budget by 1984 is just beginning.
"CBO's updated economic forecast shows substantial improvement in the economy compared with the lackluster performance of recent years," says Alice Rivlin, director of the CBO.
But she adds that Congress must face the painful task of further budget cuts. These cuts, Rivlin says, "many have to be even larger than now being contemplated if a balanced budget is to be reached by 1984.
The guardedly optimistic report was released to a worried Congress. During the recess, legislators discovered that their constituents are screaming about high interest rates. Now the talk in "For Members Only" elevators on Capitol Hill runs to ways of coaxing the prime rate down from its mountaintop of 20 percent.
Among the possibilities being discussed:
* Credit controls.
* An added tax on interest income.
* Reorganization of the Federal Reserve Board.
Also being discussed are wage and price controls.
But Thursday House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr. indicated it was up to President Reagan to act first. "I don't know that we need legislation," he said.
Still, CBO sees the economy picking up late this year. From the fourth quarter of 1981 to the fourth quarter of 1982, real growth is predicted to average 4 percent. Inflation is projected to slow its spiral to around 7 percent for the same period.
"CBO expects that both short-term and long-term interest rates will soon begin to fall," the report adds.
But this good news depends on two highly critical factors, according to the report.
First, there must be no sudden jump in commodity prices, such as the food and fuel price shocks that have bedeviled the economy over the last several years. Bumper world grain prices should help keep food prices moderate, says the report , and oil prices should stay soft for at least a year.
But "if poor weather, unrest in the Middle East, or other uncontrollable factors should once again cause sharply increased food or energy prices, the economic outlook would be much less optimistic," says the report.
second, the Federal Reserve Board's target of slow money growth might not provide enough cash to pay for a strong rise in real CNP. Some forecasters say this is the tragic flaw in Reagan's economic program, and may cause its downfall. But the CBO says this problably won't be a major problem, as "many observers believe that a given level of money will now accommodate more growth in GNP than in the past."
"The CBO forecast may be optimistic on this issue," said Alice Rivlin, "but not overly optimistic."
CBO also believes the US will be helped by the continuing strength of the dollar overseas. It predicts the dollar will remain stable through 1982, although the dollar fell sharply Thursday, while the price of gold rose at least
The CBO report also voices publicly what everyone in Washington has been saying privately for weeks. Unless DAvid Stockman and his axmen find further government funds to cut, budget deficits over the next three years will be larger than the administration has predicted.
CBO predicts the deficit next year will be about $65 billion, instead of the administration's oft-repeated target of $42.5 billion. And, under current economic assumptions, CBO says 1984 will bring a $50 billion deficit, instead of the balanced books Reagan foresees.
The government won't be in the black anytime soon "unless the proposed growth of defense spending is curtailed, nondefense spending is scaled back even further, or increases in revenues are generated," says the report.
And a large portion of the 1984 budget suah as defense procurement programs, sill be determined by 1982 and 1983 appropriations levels.
"Thus, the budget problem facing [Congress] is not only difficult and painful ," says Rivlin, "its solution cannot be delayed."


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The March 2011 draft in the IDF began yesterday at the Central Reception Base (Bakum) near Tel Aviv. Precise numbers of new recruits are not released, for security reasons, but other stats showing record-high motivation levels are known.
Continuing a three-year trend, motivation among new recruits to serve in combat units hit a record level, with 79.5% of all those fit for field unit duty requesting to serve in combat positions. This compares with 75.8% last year, 73.7% the year before, and around 70% in 2008.
In addition, 54.7% asked to serve in infantry units, compared with 51.3% the year before.
For the first time, two new service frameworks have been opened for hareidi-religious soldiers serving in combat-support positions: Ongoing-security drivers and engineering-mechanical equipment operators. Dozens of new draftees joined up in these tracks this month.
100% of the new enlistees were recruited for one of their top three choices.
IDF Personnel Branch Commander Brig.-Gen. Avi Zamir said, "The impressive rise in the youth's motivation to serve in combat roles is no accident. It is the result of ongoing joint activity by various IDF bodies and Israeli society. It is important to strengthen and continue this activity. We are very committed to the concept of the IDF as a 'people's army,' and as such, we will continue to work to integrate different population sectors into the army, with a qualitative and values-based view."


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This bright small house is designed in cubic shape. This house shape is a trend in the modern architectural designs using minimalist style. Besides of concrete application as the main building materials in this house, wooden elements are also used as the exterior elements. The wood is used as the exterior divider wall. The design of this wall is in wooden beams. There are well treated green plants between these divider walls. This wooden color producing earth color fits well with the exterior flooring that are structured from concrete and pebbles.
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The Sonic Articulation of Sunbeams
Constructed for the Bakken Museum of Electricity. This project uses the sun to create and ever changing auditory landscape. As the sun passes overhead, small solar actuators harvest the energy and propel sounds through the large megaphone structure.
The Sculpture was on view at the 2012 Minnesota State Fair at the Eco Experience Building. It has since been finished with a rust patina to provide a long life with a nice finish.
This project was a collaboration between Daniel Dean, Emily Stover, and myself. Construction of the steel and wood was carried out by TandemMade in Minneapolis.
View the process blog of the project creation here.


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Love Games (Raglak-Swasan-Zaya-Sahil) INTRO
Hello guyzz well i am new here. Let me introduce myself. I am anny i am a silent reader but today i idea came in my mind so i thought why not to write this. So lets start.
LAKSH: A f**kboy. A sweet,handsome,pure hearted boy. Was forced to be a f**k boy but then start liking it.
SANSKAR: Second f**kboy. He is rude,arrogant but at the sametime also very caring. Is f**kboy for fun and all
ZAIN: A f**kboy. Love he's job. Sweet,dashing,handsome.
AHIL:A f**kboy. Handsome,dashing,charming,sweet and a little bit rude.
Ragini: A normal girl. In a realtionship with yuvi malhotra. Modern,stylish,pretty girl.
Swara: A normal girl. In.a realtionship with sidhart malhotra. Modern,stylish,gorgeous girl.
Aliya: A normal girl. In a realtion ship with karan Modi. A sweet, Beautiful girl, Modern,stylish girl.
Sanam: A normal girl. A sweet girl. Love to live life. In a realtionship with Wahi modi. Modern,Stylish,beautiful girl.
Anaya: Madam of f**kboy's.
Let me clear it:
Laksh-Sanskar-Zain-Ahil kniw eachother
her are besties. Live with eachother.
Yuvi-Sidhart-Karan-Wahi: They are not so important in my story.
Ragini-Swara-Aliya-Sanam: Are bestfriend live with eachother.
Let see what will happen when the f**kboy and girl will meet and how will love blossom between them. Will they be ever together or not. What have god planned for them.
I hope guys u all will like it. Plz do comment and tell me if you all wanted me to continue. Your comments will decided.


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Kim Kardashian's Butt: Plastic Surgery Or Genes?
July 27, 2007 in Celebrity Plastic Surgery by Rachelle Farnsworth | Leave a Comment
Iconic sex-pot Kim Kardashian can be spotted just about anywhere a flashing camera, red carpet or where Paris Hilton is propped. This Armenian bronzed brunette beauty has caused quite an uproar and gained serious Hollywood status for her choice in entourage ranging from Paris, to just about anyone in the spotlight at the moment. In addition to her notorious sex tape with Ray-J, the 26-year old step-daughter of plastic surgery addict Bruce Jenner is equally notorious for her behind. A statement is rarely made about the party queen without including graphic comments of her derriere. Many think buttock implants are the culprit behind its distinct ample shape, but perhaps quite the contraire.
While Kim Kardashian's buttocks are very large and shapely relative to her thin body frame, there are quite a few women who have this body shape from natural genes. While Kim is a fan of plastic surgery, it does not appear that she boosted her butt with implants, as she would have likely opted for a smaller behind if she was getting augmented.
Plastic surgeon Dr. Tony Youn said, "While her [Kim's] bottom does appear to jut out unnaturally, this may, in fact, be hereditary. I have seen some patients with similar figures who have not had any work done."
For the many that remain a fan of her bum, and lack those freak of nature genes, the procedure is truly quick and simple. Solid silicone implants or via "fat grafting" are used to create the enhanced size and shape. An incision may be made in any one of the following places: where the cheek meets the back of the thigh, or down the buttock crease. The incision is usually made on the buttock crease to avoid noticeable scars. The surgeon then creates a pocket large enough to insert the implants, either under the gluteus maximus muscle, or on top of it. The entire procedure usually takes two or three hours to complete and the patient is free to return home within a few hours.
Along with the chatter of Kim Kardashian having buttock augmentation is word of her having her breasts augmented, also. Comparing pictures of her in the late teens to present-day pictures, there is certainly a "huge" difference. The size is much larger and more defined, and the only explanation to the burst of perfect growth would be breast implants. Kim sports the tell-tale signs of breast implants, including the rounded and super-projected boob look. Just as her twins have gained some plump-age so have her lips when comparing different photos. Lip injections would be the tool at hand used to create that beautiful pout you see glossed and flawless in all of Kim's photos. One last possibility in her transformation from a little drab to gliterratti fab would be a nose job. The older black and white photo reveals a larger, more bulbous version of her now teeny tiny perfect little bump. The nose bridge is narrowed and more chiseled compared to her wider tip.
When trying to piece together a shred of explanation to Kim's drastic sky-rocketed fame that's been achieved with no real accomplishment, one may find it a little difficult for any tangible conclusion, other than this girl has a few good plastic surgeons, a few good friends, and one very good behind.
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Welcome to SEMPO Canada
SEMPO Canada is Canadian Non-Profit Professional Search Marketing Association working to increase awareness and promote the value of Search Engine Marketing in Canada. This Working Group was founded in November 2006 by Ken Jurina & Alexandre Brabant and focuses on improving the growth, awareness and understanding Search Engine Marketing (SEM) in Canada including Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Link Building, Pay Per Click Management best practices in this new field of marketing and how it uniquely pertains and is of relevance to Canadians worldwide across any sector, vertical or industry.
SEM-SEMPO Vancouver Meetup: October 14, 2014: Demystifying Bing in Canada & Technological RevolutionOctober 6th, 2014 :: Posted by Alexandre Brabant
Announcing a new SEM Meetup for The SEMPO Vancouver Search Engine Marketing Group on October 2014 in Vancouver!
SEMPO Vancouver SEM Meetup: October 14, 2014 at Microsoft Office in Vancouver on Demystifying Bing in Canada & Technological Revolution with Acquisio PPC Management Software & Predicative Geo-Mapping Technologies.
After the summer break we start our new fall series of Vancouver SEM Meetup with presentation of Andrew Yang from Bing Ads Canada, that will cover latest developments with Microsoft's PPC network as well as James Stewart from Acquisio PPC Management Software & Ben Critchfield from Predicative Geo-Mapping Technologies which will present on the technological revolution in PPC management. That should be a very interesting presentation. Our not so formal get together are all about the latest development in search marketing industry, obtain advanced knowledge in different aspects of SEO, PPC, Social Media Marketing and stay in touch with other SEM/SEO professionals in the area.
5:30 to 5:45 – Welcome and Introductions
5:45 to 6:10 – Demystifying Bing Ads in Canada
6:10 to 6:35 – Acquisio Technological Revolution
6:35 to 7:00 – Predicative Geo-Mapping Strategies
7:00 Onwards, in a Bar nearby for happy hour (TBD)
Microsoft Office – Downtown Vancouver
1111 West Georgia St. Suite 1100
Vancouver, BC V6E 4M3
Price: Free (for SEMPO Members & Non-SEMPO Members)
Register for this meetup on the SEMPO Vancouver SEM Meetup page.
Demystifying Bing Ads in Canada
Did you know that according to comScore the Yahoo Bing Network is at 10% query share in Canada? That Bing Ads Editor is now 3x faster than a year ago? Join Andrew Yang, Search Evangelist for Bing Canada as he talks about the improvements made in the Bing Ads platform and why you need to be consider Bing Ads for your PPC campaigns.
Presenter: Andrew Yang
Technological Revolution of Digital Marketing
The term digital marketing automatically brings to mind thoughts of technology, however in recent years the reliance on technological tools or processes has become a mainstay in the world of SEM. In order to compete in the fierce world of digital marketing, automating, optimizing and efficiently managing are a must. James Stewart from Acquisio will be addressing the modern SEM agency's reliance on technology and how best to streamline digital marketing operations.
Presenter: James Stewart
Optimizing PPC Investment through Geo-Mapping Strategies
Search Engine Marketers should be aware of the real world factors that influence online conversions. Location means much more than just proximity and geofencing, it's a new dimension of PPC strategy giving marketers an edge over their competitors and the ability to gain top position for their best customers. Ben will share some war stories discussing the theory of location influencers for SEM, how current tools fall short, and give examples from clients.
Presenter: Ben Critchfield
Many of us at SEMPO Canada will be there along with the official organizers, Dmitriy Minenko, & Alexandre Brabant, Co-Chair of SEMPO Canada.
Any questions, ask those guys:
• Dmitriy Minenko, firstname.lastname@example.com Meetup Organizer
• Alex Brabant, email@example.com Meetup Co-Organizer
RSVP to this Meetup:
Like our regular SEM-SEMPO Vancouver Meetups, it is FREE to attend if you are a SEMPO Member and it is exceptionally free as well for Non-SEMPO Members. Please become a SEMPO member here at the discounted membership fee at only $125 with the same great list of benefits available to all SEMPO members.
OMMYEG: Event ReviewOctober 24th, 2013 :: Posted by Admin
"Join us for refreshments, food and knowledge sharing!" If you're a member of Online Marketing Meetup Edmonton (OMMYEG), you hear this every month. Yesterday evening, we were excited to welcome Andrew Yang, Search Evangelist at Microsoft, Canada, as our feature OMMYEG presenter! Andrew shared his expertise of the online marketplace with a focus on pay-per-click advertising campaigns via Bing's adCenter, statistics on usage across Canada and coverage of some of Bing and Microsoft's other products.
Everyone went home with a Bing giveaway bag, which contained a branded Bing notebook, pen and USB hub. We had an excellent turnout (ended up being standing room only at the back) and a lot of positive comments. We look forward to hosting our next meetup in November!


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Don't have to go very far in this article to show what's truly wrong with America.
I think anyone who claims Hitler would be better than Obama should visit a concentration camp. Then stay there.
The struggle in America seems to be less and less a political struggle, and more and more a cultural one. I get tired of fighting a group of people (and this in no way extends to all on the right) who would prefer to turn back the clock 100 years (in some cases, 138 years) and attempt to continue America's global dominance merely by strict militarism (ironically, a view much more in common with the USSR's global strategy than anything the "socialist" left might propose). A group of people whose politics is governed by hate; hatred of the poor, hatred of the blacks, hatred of the gays, hatred of those who may want to come to America from the south for economic prosperity (while in the same breath complaining that the evil commie left would destroy the desire of those same people to come here in the first place).
A whole segment of our population has political motives whose best strategy for staying in power are the economic oppression of their citizens and the suppression of minority (read: black) votes. Meanwhile, while forcing Constitutional dogma which never existed, they willingly engage in a massive religious autonomy movement. Personally, I'm becoming intolerant of the intolerant.
As I was watching the typical Martin Luther King Day fare, it occurs to me the 1960's were a study in contrast between both the great things and the terrible things this country is capable of. The civil rights movements were inspiring, but only necessary due to the immoral behavior of our people. The ability to send men to the moon was the greatest technological achievement in human history, but that technology was used to massacre a people across the world in a war which meant nothing and protected nothing. And though movements against such a war were noble and legitimate, they were capped by the desecration of the men and women whose only crime was fighting for their right to produce it. And the three people who could most likely take us to a very special place in civilization's history were assassinated in the same year: LBJ figuratively, RFK and MLK literally.
I'm getting tired of this cultural fight. I'm tired of hearing the banalities of the opposition, and I'm tired of seeing its effects (from my side as well as theirs). Most of all, I'm tired of feeling like I have to engage in it. For a country supposedly founded on the ideals Christ exemplified, we seem to be ignoring much of His teachings.


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I would say I skipped last week because it's time for the fall slowdown, but that would be fibbing. I actually got lazy. Yes, the school year started and my schedule has been all over the place. That doesn't mean my garden can do without me. If the weather holds as it usually does, I have close to a month left before it goes to bed for the winter.
No rest for the wicked, in other words.
Although I did enter my yarrow and coneflowers in the Interstate Fair, I never made it in to see how I did. If I actually got a ribbon, it will be mailed to me. But I'm sorry to miss the floral display, which I've enjoyed in past years.
Despite my own least efforts, the takedown process does continue. Just one of my cucumbers has a fruit left growing. The others are down from the trellis. In Bed 4, I cut back the overgrown coleus and foxgloves. Now the smaller perennials can get some sun before they have to go dormant.
In the main vegetable garden, I've begun clearing parts of the grid and seeding with buckwheat as a cover crop. Since so much of the garden was really hit hard by intense heat, it isn't a tough job to pull things out this year. On the other hand, some of my sunflowers blew down on a recent blustery day. They practically pulled themselves out!
Over the next few days, I expect to clear away all but the tomatoes and maybe one hot pepper. The bush beans are still bearing, so I'll let them be a while longer.
Indoor Forest
The echeveria leaf I was trying to sprout has come through. Two tiny, lavender-tinged clusters are peeking out from the parent leaf. I also salvaged a stem from a trailing sedum and I have that inside sprouting.
Those hens have gotten quite used to my yard now. They seem to wander down the alley most mornings. Even when we have the gate shut, they flutter over the fence. So far I don't mind, though they did pull down one of my tomatoes for a snack, and they seem to have excavated a sort of dust wallow. The bird netting might have to come back out, I guess. On the other hand, I do get to collect some manure and add it to my compost heap.
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Currently On My Workbench
Hi All!
So following my last article this is just a small showcase showing the models I am currently painting. I usually have quite a few projects going on at any given moment to keep my limited attention span always entertained.
Following my work on my Wraithlord I wanted to paint a model with some large surface area to experiment with some blends and try out some new techniques, this is the point when I realised that I have a Wave S. that has been sitting on its sprue for about 2 years! I decided that this model deserved better and I took it off the sprue and cleaned off all the mould lines and primed it! Till now all I managed to paint was the pilot and cockpit. I've been struggling to get a very smooth basecoat on the actual armour panels of the tank due to it sitting around for so long collecting dust, which just goes to show that I seriously need to get painting!
I'm not entirely happy with his hair so im still trying to think of something to darken the recesses in his hair. I'd love some comments and critique on my current work so far!
I also acquired some old school metal warlocks from some Ebay sales and local trades. I converted a bit of the weapons to vary the look of the models and maybe give myself a platform for some different techniques!
My main aim with these guys was to keep them different from each other but tie them together with a common theme. So I basecoated them with different dark colours and did progressive blends up to Temple Guard Blue to keep to the army theme of bone and blue whilst still keeping them relatively unique. Gold and Bone are also recurring themes in my Warlocks and Farseers and this colour plays extremely well with the Temple Guard Blue.
Although these sculpts are probably as old as I am they are just pure pleasure to paint! When these guys are finished you will definitely see them in a showcase feature! I also plan on using them in my tutorials on how to paint gold.
Also I'm shamelessly asking if you have any ideas regarding the fur and hair on the models I'd love some input!
So let me know if you have any comments and critiques, I'd love to hear from you! If you wish to share projects that are on your workbench just drop a comment below and I'll make sure to check it out.
If you wish to see more of my work, see my opening post here.
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Never before in the history of the city did not develop as quickly as it is present. Unfortunately, in many cases, this development is not supervised by relevant ordinances related to the spatial planning of cities. On the periphery of large cities, numerous housing estates, much of it takes the form of condominiums.
Condominium – a residential complex, separated from the city, closed surrounded by a high fence or wall, guarded and monitored. A characteristic feature is the so-called international architecture – unified architecture used for of housing estates all over the world (at least in the Western circle of civilization).


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1314?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Filipe Manana closed COUCHDB-1314. ---------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Fix Version/s: 1.2 This issue is fixed by the recently committed security changes. Consult the following wiki pages: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Security_Features_Overview http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Breaking_changes > Couchdb _replicator documents should not show passwords in clear text > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: COUCHDB-1314 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1314 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Replication > Affects Versions: 1.1 > Reporter: Dario Freire > Priority: Critical > Labels: replication, replicator, security > Fix For: 1.2 > > > The documents stored in the _replicator database show passwords in clear text. > Imagine a scenario where a developer provides a couchdb app that runs in a central location and must synchronize with user's local couchdb instances. > The users would need to pull updates to their database by adding a document to _replicator: > { > "_id": "great-app", > "source": "http://great-app-provider.com:5984/great-app", > "target": "my-great-app", > "create_target": true > } > Now if the developer doesn't want his central couchdb instance to be public, he needs to protect it by creating an admin party. > The problem is that he cannot longer share his database for replication because doing so would reveal the admin credentials to the app users. > i.e. in order for the synchronization to work the users would need to update their _replicator documents to: > { > "_id": "great-app", > "source": "http://admin:firstname.lastname@example.com:5984/great-app", > "target": "my-great-app", > "create_target": true > } > All in plain text. > Thus, the users would know how to access the restricted central couchdb instance. > This is just a possible scenario where showing credentials in plain text is a problem, but by no means is the only scenario where it is a problem. > Since one of the "selling points" of couchdb is its outstanding ability to synchronize databases, the security concerns caused by this issue make it impossible to use in practice. > Because of this, it looks like an improvement on this matter is of critical importance. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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CAP wants to run the U.S. and can't even make a workable website
The Center for American Progress has redesigned their website, and it's far worse than what it was before. I don't usually comment on technical matters here, but there's a political angle: CAP is deeply linked into the Obama administration and they want to control policy. At the same time, they can't even put together a website that works.
1. Despite the new design and commenting system, their site still uses Wordpress. Beloved by many, WP is mainly just a blogging platform and not a full Content Management System ("CMS"). This site uses the Drupal CMS which has a much steeper learning curve than Wordpress but which is also much more powerful.
2. As the reader can plainly see, I have absolutely no design skills whatsoever. I can't even rise to the level of mixing blue and green. Yet, I know that their new design is horrible. There's no real left margin, the plain text of the posts is bold (if they want to bold some part of the text maybe there's a bold11 they can use), and so on. Then, of course, there's the Matt Yglesias avatar at the top that makes him look like he's hosting a 60s political talk show.
3. They've gotten rid of Disqus comments and replaced them with comments from Facebook. For all its faults, Disqus is at least not Facebook. It sometimes takes a few tries to login using Facebook (or using Yahoo via Facebook), when Disqus logs in right away. For instance, when I tried to comment on Mediaite using Facebook, I had to frequently refresh the page several times to get it to "take". Further, Facebook has a stringent set of nanny rules and basically wants to take over the web. And, CAP is tying themselves into Facebook rather than realizing that and opposing it (maybe this has something to do with it). I recently added some Facebook features to this site, but I would never move to Facebook comments because I have a fairly good idea of what they're after and I oppose it.
4. CAP has divided their content into various issues areas: economy, green, health, justice, lgbt, and security. Notice what very vital and important topic is missing? Yes, that's right. And, poor Andrea Nill appears to have been consigned to the security issue.
5. For all Facebook's faults, they try to enforce people using their own names. If CAP had required the use of a Facebook login to leave a comment, they could have cut down on the use of sockpuppets and cowards who hide behind pseudonyms to launch personal attacks such as I'm frequently subjected to on Yglesias' site. But, CAP didn't do that: they allow people to login and leave Facebook-based comments using Yahoo, Hotmail, or AOL. That means that they haven't really done anything about such cowards, those cowards just need to get a throwaway Yahoo/Hotmail/AOL account.
There are other issues that I'd move to address if it were my site, but in order to tell CAP what those are they'll need to do me a favor: disclose the identities of some of those who stalk me at their site. That shouldn't be so difficult for them, now should it? I mean, even CAP has to oppose stalking, right?


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I replaced a hard drive for my Archos 504 today. I have several units (hey, I love the interface), and I took out a hard drive from a unit with a bad screen and installed it in a unit that had a bad hard drive. This unit had version 1.5.## firmware; my other units all have 1.6.53 firmware, which was the latest version Archos developed.
When I installed the hard drive and turned the device on, the opening screens displayed just fine, but I was not able to play any music or movies. Also, the USB connection did not work, so I was not able to read or copy any files from my computer to it.
I was stymied, so I did some research on the subject and learned that the 1.5.## firmware does not allow for any changes in the hard drive. The software apparently reads some information off the hard drive during start up, and if this does not match up with the information from the firmware, the device will not read certain information off the hard drive.
Eventually, I was playing around with the buttons and clicked on 'browser'. I noticed that I had a copy of firmware version 1.6.53 on this hard drive. I selected this file and then was prompted to connect the device with the USB cord to a computer, which I did.
I clicked on 'ok' once more and was able to successfully install the new firmware. After that, the device worked perfectly! Apparently, the trick is to put a copy of the 1.6.53 firmware on the hard drive before installing it in a new device.
I don't know if all 2.5" hard drives will work in one of these 504 devices; it may depend on the pin configuration or other reasons. I was fortunate that I had identical hard drives - Hitachis.
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now, no vid, whether its the add i card or the on board it simply stays amber( monitor lites) yes everything else spins and lights up, front panel lights dvd rom ETC:
i have done this http://support.gatew...007050376.shtml
it did not work, the one difference is that the actual power led does not come on anymore ( the one the was inside the actual power button.
i have treied one by one ram tests , nothing, i have tried several monitors , nothing, it is set to pciE to boot first in the bios so i cant change that atm because i have no vid, removing the add in vid card does not seem to make any difference...gateway was no help.
im not puter stupid, i have built machines no problems but this makes little sense to me


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SOCIAL OIL: Oil according to Social Media
TORONTO, CANADA (October 1, 2013)
Today marks the launch of the YouTube video "Social Oil."
This video shows one of the differences between life in Canada and how people are forced to live in OPEC conflict oil countries.
We take for granted our social networks — Facebook, Twitter, even just texting on our smartphones. But like all human interactions, OPEC dictatorships heavily regulate social media in their war against their own people's human rights.Check out the video and share it with your friends and networks. We look forward to your comments.Inquiries about this video may be directed to Amanda at amanda.achtman [at] gmail.com
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Innovation: Does Change Management Play a Role? 4 Tips to Ensure Successful Integration
A successful change is dependent on two key variables: a quality solution and the acceptance of that solution by the people who are impacted.
In most organizations undergoing change of any kind, the change management process is typically started after a quality solution has been generated. But that may be too limited of a view.
A competitive environment and increased customer expectations push organizations to come up with better solutions – to be innovative in their thinking about their business. Change management helps in understanding innovation and how it can be more effective.
Change management typically focuses on employees and others impacted by a decision to change. But consider the organization itself as the target of a change. Like employees, the organization can become comfortable with the "current state" even as leaders and various functions like marketing and R&D emphasize the need to innovate and constantly introduce new products and services. This drive for innovation is in constant tension with the drive to "do what we do best" and not tinker with success.
An organization committed to innovation will have to change itself to become an organization capable of innovation. And that requires effective change management.
Think about a few of these key questions:
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- What would the organization look like if it was innovative? What changes need to be made in its structure, performance measures, processes and culture? Will innovation focus on continuous improvement or on breakthrough, blue sky thinking? Will it be triggered by the pain of competition and customer demands or be designed to anticipate customer delight even when the organization is a clear industry leader? In other words, what would the organization look like if it weren't the way it is today?
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Pinnacle@Duxton prices unlikely to climb much higher
The Pinnacle@Duxton in Tanjong Pagar has recorded three transactions of above $1 million so far this year for its 5-room flats, similar to the four deals seen in the first three months of 2015.
The development has regularly made headlines in recent months. For example, a unit was sold for $1.08 million ($945 psf) in November 2015, the most expensive sale ever for a 5-room flat in Singapore. In January this year, a unit changed hands for approximately $1.07 million.
According to Eugene Lim, Key Executive Officer of ERA Realty, which helped to broker both deals, these flats commanded sky-high prices due to their unblocked, panoramic views of the city, and the Pinnacle's status as a landmark project.
Aside from its proximity to MRT stations, another key selling point is the scarcity of such units. "Not everyone at the Pinnacle wants to sell. Those who have decided to sell are leveraging to get the maximum premium for their units," Lim said.
Based on statistics from ERA, the two said transactions were three percent higher than the average transacted price of $977,846 for a 5-room flat at the project. But compared to older flats in the area, such as those at Smith Street and Tanjong Pagar Plaza, this translates to a premium of 25 percent to 46 percent.
The current resale prices are also a far cry from the original selling price range of between $345,100 and $439,000 for the 5-roomers during the project's launch in 2004.
Nevertheless, Lim noted that these record flat prices are unique to the Pinnacle. "They do not represent the majority of resale HDB transactions, which are trading at around valuation in the current market environment."
It's also unlikely that prices of 5-room flats there will rise significantly higher or reach the $2 million mark, as home buyers could easily purchase a private apartment within the area for the same price, he said.
Looking ahead, prices of HDB resale flats are expected to remain stable, while transaction volume is expected to pick up as the reduced focus on cash-over-valuation (COV) premiums would attract buyers in immediate need of housing, or those who do not qualify for Build-To-Order (BTO) flats, added Lim.
Picture Source: Three flats at the landmark project have been sold for over $1 million in 2016.
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'My dad owns your a**' Teacher suspended over shock rant at bouncers
A PRIMARY school has been criticised after a teacher was filmed screaming at a bouncer saying "my dad owns your a**".
Emily Higgins, a year two teacher, was caught on film back in August ranting at door staff in Birmingham and trying to barge past bouncers.
The video came to light on social media after reformed football hooligan Barrington Patterson known as 'One-eyed Baz' posted the clip on his Facebook page, which has around 16,000 followers.
She was caught screaming at a bouncer and calling them "t***s" after being refused entry to a Geisha cocktail bar called The Cube, and an investigation was launched.
The primary school teacher is no longer in charge of her class after the video was brought to the attention of St Gregory's Catholic Primary School in Smethwick.
However, parents have claimed the incident has been brushed under the carpet by the school.
The teacher tried to sneak past the bouncer and was then filmed screaming at him
One parent told the Birmingham Mail: "It's been handled appallingly. We haven't been told anything.
"We got a letter on September 1 but haven't been told anything since.
"All the parents received a text message that day telling them to check online, where there was a letter from the headteacher."
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We tried to raise the issue at a recent parents evening, but it was kind of swept under the carpet
In the letter the headteacher, Mrs Krystyna Bickley, said: "As a school community with a strong Catholic faith, our ethos and code of conduct defines us.
"With this is mind you may be aware that a member of staff has been the focus of both social media and media attention over the last few weeks.
"The school's name and reputation has been compromised and this is something myself and the Academy Committee take very seriously.
"Please be assured that a full investigation is taking place into this matter."
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Mrs Bickley added: "Please be assured the school prides itself in providing an excellent quality of provision consequently ensuring high standards."
However parents have said there has been no update on the incident.
One parent said: "We tried to raise the issue at a recent parents evening, but it was kind of swept under the carpet.
"Mrs Bickley seems to think if she doesn't talk about it then we will forget about it.
"It been embarrassing, and also the hush-hush nature of it has made it worse."
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Pacsafe Venturesafe EXP45
The new Pacsafe Venturesafe EXP45 is a comfortable, anti-theft 45 liter carry on travel pack. You can carry it like a briefcase, or wear it like a backpack. In black, it makes a nice business-leisure hybrid that could function for your business turned pleasure travel.
The Pacsafe Venturesafe EXP45 has an eXomesh Slashguard built into the pack to prevent someone from slashing through your pack to get to the contents. Straps are also extra tough and comfortable.
A roomy main compartment opens like a suitcase and offers a compressible side perfect for pants, shirts and dresses, and a zipped organizational pocket ideal for undergarments. The smaller compartment will hold your laptop, tablet, and smaller items. Two zip pockets and two pockets offer streamlined organization.
My favorite thing about the smaller compartment is the stainless steel cable that comes in its own zip pouch. When you're on a train and want to take a nap, or if your hotel room is dodgy, you just take out the cable and link it around a pole or stationary object and voila! Just like that, you've made it much more difficult for someone to make off with your pack.
The locks on this pack are beefy. There's a heavy duty lockable Roobar clasp that keeps the zipper pulls on lockdown, and beyond that, the zipper pulls themselves interlock together and you have to pull them apart. No one is getting past this closure while you're wearing it, that's for sure. As soon as a pick pocket sees this, they will likely move on to an easier target. The zippers themselves are puncture resistant, making it hard for someone to pry into your bag through the zipper.
This is a great carryon security pack for weekend getaways and business trips that allow for a couple of days of vacation. Find the Pacsafe Venturesafe EXP45 HERE.


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I am trying to get some sounds to sound proper in Stereo Mode.
They were mono sounds which I thought might've been a problem, so I reworked into Stereo sounds, for testing. No difference.
The sounds are playing fine, but there seems to be way too much separation from left to right, so when my listener object is looking at the sound directly, the sound is very very faint, but when i turn in either direction it comes in alot clearer.
How do I go about changing the separation or I guess it could be a falloff issue maybe
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By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter
BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – At least 232 people have died in a nightclub fire in central Rio Grande do Sul, police have said. A band's pyrotechnics reportedly started the blaze at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria at 2:30 AM Saturday night.
Police finished removing bodies from the scene late Sunday morning, Folha de São Paulo reported. In addition to the 232 confirmed dead by military police, 48 people are injured and receiving treatment.
Many people died after inhaling toxic fumes; and scores of people suffocated or were trampled as they fled the scene. Local media have reported that the club had only a single exit and panic spread as people tried to get out.
Firefighters had to cut a hole in the wall of the nightclub to access victims and extinguish the fire. Footage on Globo TV showed people crying outside, while firefighters knocked down walls to gain access using sledgehammers.
"It was really fast. There was a lot of smoke, really dark smoke," survivor Aline Santos Silva, 29, told Globo TV. "We were only able to get out quickly because we were in a VIP area close to the door."
This is the second biggest fire Brazil has seen. In 1961, 503 people died in a fire at the Brazilian Grand Circus, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state.
President Dilma Rousseff, who was attending the summit of Latin American countries and the European Union in Santiago, Chile, has cancelled her schedule to return to Brazil because of the blaze.
"I would like to say to the population of our country and of Santa Maria (RS) that we are all together right now," she said, tearfully, in an interview outside her hotel in Santiago.
Rousseff said that ministers are mobilized to provide assistance to the victims and families involved in the tragedy.
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Take our lips, O Lord, and speak through them, take our minds and think through them, take our hearts and set them on fire for you. Amen.
My mother always had a tune under her breath. She was constantly humming and occasionally breaking out in song. As a music major, she studied all the major composers and practiced diligently on the piano, modeling for us how to be disciplined and faithful towards a passion.
My mother always had a tune under her breath – maybe to change the subject away from a difficult situation, or maybe to lighten up the mood when things were tense, or maybe just to express her joy. I thought about her singing habit all week as I would occasionally sing out, "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord…" Which is, of course …the first line of The Song of Mary, one song in a series of songs offered in the Gospel of Luke.
Mary sings when Elizabeth greets her, Zechariah sings when his son John is born, the angels sing with the multitude of the heavenly host when they bring good news of great joy, and Simeon sings his song of release once he realizes that God has kept God's promises in Jesus, the Christ child. Jesus might have even sung his first sermon as he read from Isaiah, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor."
It seems that many people have a tune under their breath, but why?
Pastor David Lose[1] suggests that it is because singing is an act of resistance. Singing is an act of resistance. While singing is an act of joy and a way to share companionship, it can be, and is often, an act of resistance.
Scientifically speaking, Psychology Professor John Lennon suggests that singing is an inborn response that fulfills a need to communicate with the larger Self.[2] (with a capital "S") Singing is a way to push against, or to resist the world as we see it from our small self and to bring to bear the More, what is beyond us, the community's whole Self.
In other words, singing is a body-mind-soul response to re-member our little selves with a larger community – and all of creation. This act of resistance, of pushing against our reality, serves to remind us who we are and whose we are.
American slaves knew this. The spirituals they sang praised God and gave voice to their protest. They sang a protest against their masters who kept them from worshiping, but could not keep them from deliverance as promised in the Bible.
Civil rights leaders knew this too – singing "We Shall Overcome," when many people did not allow a movement of justice or a triumph of equal rights.
Protesters in Leipzig, Germany (1989) knew this as well, "…for several months preceding the fall of the Berlin wall, citizens gathered by candlelight …to sing.
Over two months their numbers grew from a little more than a thousand people to more than three hundred thousand (over half the citizens of the city), singing songs of hope and protest and justice, until their song shook the powers of their nation and changed the world. (Later, when someone asked one of the East German secret police why they did not crush this protest like they had so many others, the officer replied, "We had no contingency plan for song."!)"
And Mary and Elizabeth knew this. They must have known how absurd their situation was: Elizabeth, too old to bear a child and Mary too young and not yet married. Yet, (in the hill country of Judea, a long way from any place of power and influence) they were both called to bring God's promises through their little selves to their larger community, the people of Israel – and all of creation.
When they looked at the situation squarely in the face, they did not retreat. They did not apologize. They did not despair. They believed that nothing would be impossible with God. And what did they do? They sang.
And the Magnificat – Canticle 15 – (which we say every day at Evening Prayer, here in the chapel, 5pm [won't you join us?]) The Magnificat is Mary's answer to the blessing she received from Elizabeth.
When Mary sang, she did not do so under her breath. She sang out, affirming God's greatness. She sang out, proclaiming good news for the poor. She sang out, declaring freedom from systemic injustice. She sang out, announcing the end of oppression by political rulers. She sang out, beholding God's redemption of her and her child.
She sang of God's redeeming work not as future, but in a voice of prophets, that God's work was already fulfilled. Such is the confidence of faith in the face of darkness. Such is her prophetic word of liberation, with authority, from her soul. That is how she responded to her lived darkness, of fear, humiliation, oppression.
That is how we can respond to our lived darkness, the darkness that we have faced in recent weeks – the threats of terrorism, the violence to innocent people, the unkind words expressed by politicians, the unexpected death of loved ones – given this darkness that we have faced in recent weeks, what do we do?
We sing. We sing songs of hope that resist current darkness. Sing songs of hope that require us to look beyond ourselves for rescue and relief. Songs of hope that give us clear voice and fresh ears for God's promises God's promises made to Abraham and all God's people that God will come among us and be with us, forever.
When the world seems dark, we sing. When God seems distant, we sing. When it seems the powers & principalities are winning, we sing. Why do we sing?
Because through God's goodness we resist our small selves in favor of the Self who is More, the Self who is Love, The Self who connects us to each other, to all of creation, in community.
We sing because we believe in God's ultimate scandal – that God would enter human life with all it's depravity, violence and corruption. We sing because it is our song.
And in our song, we breathe together. For God's breath fills our hungry hearts with good things, God's breath lifts up our vocal cords, God's breath strengthens our whole being. God's breath arises from our soul to proclaim the greatness of the Lord. God's breath fills us with light and love to resist the present darkness. That is why we sing. That is why Mary sang.
My sisters and brothers, this week you might find yourself humming a tune under your breath. Share that tune with your friends and family. Breathe together in joy and love and resistance. And when you do, you will be proclaiming the greatness of the Lord in your life.
Keep this song under your breath, and resist the darkness of our lives.
God has – and will – do great things for us, and Holy is God's name.
[1] Inspired by http://bit.ly/1QI0cQJ cited on December 19, 2015
[2] Reported at http://bit.ly/1m63hO4 cited on December 19, 2015


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Sony Announces Digital Music Player
I need to see if my brother-in-law can hook me up with one of these.
LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. said on Thursday it is launching a Walkman digital music player capable of storing far more songs than Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iPod, while also undercutting iPod's price. \ \ The Japanese consumer electronics maker said the 20-gigabyte device, which is its second hard-disk drive gadget aimed at unseating Apple and can store 13,000 songs, will be launched on July 10 in Japan, by mid-August in the United States and in September in Europe. \ \ Dubbed the Network Walkman NW-HD1, it marks a major upgrade to the legendary Walkman brand and the announcement comes on the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Sony's groundbreaking portable music player – July 1, 1979.
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