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Justin Lackey recently recovered more than $130,000.00 for victims of a rear end car accident in Scottsboro. The Lackey clients were injured when an inattentive driver hit the back of the vehicle, causing severe damage and injuries to those in the car. The settlement compensated the Lackey clients for their pain and suffering, in addition to paying their medical costs and lost wages. The settlement included the entire policy limits of the liability coverage, plus additional payments by the underinsured motorist insurance company. If you have been rear-ended anywhere in Alabama and suffered injury, contact Justin Lackey at 256-259-3929 for a free case review. There is no fee unless we recover money for you! Our attorneys have more than 50 years of combined legal knowledge in the personal injury field!
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Eating my way through Korea/
Brian Hanson-Harding, English Teacher at Northern Valley High School in Old Tappan, New Jersey
During my two-week trip with Sejong, I learned a great deal about Korean history, art, literature, religion, and tradition, but nothing taught me more about Koreans than the culture of Korean food. I've been eating Korean food for decades, since my first taste of bulgogi at Woo Lae Oak in midtown Manhattan during the 1980s. But it wasn't until I spent two weeks in the country, eating Korean food three times a day, sharing meals with families, and sitting at low tables, that I fully began to appreciate what food means to Koreans and what it says about them.
First, I learned that, to Koreans, food is key to health and wellbeing. It seemed that at every meal there was a dish or ingredient that had a specific health benefit, or acted as an aid to digestion or good appetite. And Koreans seem very concerned about others' appetites. I learned that a traditional morning greeting was "Have you eaten lice yet?" and a common afternoon greeting is "Have you had lunch yet?" Having endured a long history of suffering and privation, Koreans seem determined that their guests eat enough. Wishing someone to have enough to eat seems to be the Korean way of showing that one cares.
Furthermore, To Koreans, food is fresh and local. While Americans have just recently begun to understand the importance of local food, it seems Koreans have known about it all along. Their cities and towns are full of markets selling fresh food that has never seen the inside of a package. Fish and seafood are sold just meters away from the sea where they were caught. Wherever you look in this crowded, mountainous country, every inch of available space is planted with crops of all sorts. And in every backyard sits a changdok, a collection of (traditionally) ceramic pots containing the kimchi and sauces and pastes that are key to Korean cooking, and all of which were prepared by the family, working together to prepare the essential ingredients of their food for the year.
Above all, to Koreans, food means sharing. When people eat a meal together, they not only sit facing each other, but they share everything: the meat on the grill, the pot of jigae, and the many small dishes of panchan. Whereas Americans are accustomed to choosing dishes for themselves without regard to others, Koreans eat collectively. And they not only share the same food, but they all eat off the same plates with their chopsticks and all dip their long-handled spoons into the same stew pots. To me, this says a lot about the trust and closeness that exists among those sharing a meal. To be invited into a family's house is to be invited to eat out of their soup bowl. And to eat with a family is to share the kimchi and sauces that they prepared together and put into their chang-dok.
The sharing of meals among members of a Korean family seems to me very emblematic of what this culture is about. It reflects the typically Confucian emphasis on the group over the individual, as well as the happy realization that a people who lived through starvation and suffering now live (for the most part) in a land of plenty.


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Acquisition and analysis of snore signals for diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea
Ng, Andrew Keong
Date of Issue2010
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep-related breathing disorder that is common worldwide and potentially life-threatening; however, many affected individuals remain undiagnosed and untreated. This research aims to innovate on a simple, cost-saving, and reliable approach to diagnose OSA via the acquisition and analysis of snore signals, with an intention to mass screen for OSA. This thesis attempts to achieve the research aim through: (1) the implementation of a robust and user-friendly acquisition system for snore signals, along with recommendations for measurement standards; (2) the development of an advanced wavelet-driven preprocessing system that efficiently integrates both snore signal enhancement and snore activity detection; (3) the identification of effective snore-based OSA diagnostic markers, including formant frequencies (82.5–100% sensitivity, 82.0–95.0% specificity), wavelet bicoherence peaks (82.5–100% sensitivity, 83.3–100% specificity), and psychoacoustic metrics (72.0–78.0% sensitivity, 91.2–92.0% specificity), which accurately classify apneic and benign snores in same- and both-gender patient groups (p-value < 0.0001); (4) the formulation of regression models that are indicative of OSA severity; (5) the investigation of physiological-anatomical-acoustical relationships of snores via source-filter modeling; and (6) the successful generation of natural-sounding synthetic snores using a novel snore source flow model.
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Protein balls, bliss balls, energy balls - whatever you choose to name them - are no new creation. They've been a popular snack in the health trend for a good few years now; Deliciously Ella has brought out her own branded recipe to supermarkets and Vlogger, Sarah's Day has done the same for online sale. Although I don't want to put them out of business... they are stupidly easy to make + you will save yourself lots of money making them yourself, rather then buying them for £2.50 a pop.
They take about 10 minutes total to make and will give you a healthy and tasty snack alternative to a sugar filled chocolate bar. Filled with nuts, cacao and superfoods, they are not only filling (high protein content) and satisfy the sweet tooth (natural sweetness of dates), but they are also high in antioxidants, will aid digestion with the fibre content + are high in omegas. In layman's terms - they're great and super simple to make.
You can complicate these - adding more ingredients, different nuts, dried fruit perhaps -but this is my tried + tested recipe that I do over and over again, so go buy the ingredients + try it.
Makes 12- 18 (depending on how large you make them)
200g medjool dates
100g almond flour/ground almonds
1 tbsp cacao
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp shredded coconut (+ 1 tbsp for rolling)
1 tbsp chia seeds
1 tbsp flax seeds
Take the dates, tear them in half and pull out the pits. Place the pits in the bin and sticky dates in the food processor, followed by all other ingredients... and blend for about 30 seconds. I use the back of a spoon to squash the mixture to the side of the food processor - if it stays squashed as you move the spoon, it's perfect consistency. If it is too dry and crumbly, add 1 tsp of coconut oil and blend again.
Make sure your hands are washed and then spoon the mixture out into your palms - roll into balls. I rolled a few in desiccated coconut, which looks pretty but isn't essential at all.
Place them in the fridge for 30 minutes minimum and you're done. You can store them in the fridge for about a week. Easy peasy. Mid morning/mid afternoon snack sorted.


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Ep. 10: Gene Watson - In Depth With a Country Music Legend! (Interview)
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By now you may wonder why I'm off on this tangent. Of course you've probably noticed that The Great Depression is now in vogue, and perhaps I'm only being trendy. Nonetheless, my email world includes references to climate change, recession/depression, peak oil and any number of dire and believable probabilities. Panic is easy, but it doesn't seem like an element I want in my life, so the answer seems to lie in practicing bits of life as though we only had a scrap of the giant grid that we use now. Hanging clothes and stringing beans are a lot more fun than political action, though I try to do my bit for that too. And more and more, when I live life in a more down-to-earth way, Grandma becomes a part of it.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Becoming my grandmother
This is not a fair look at Grandma Augerson, because she's just posing next to a towel that happens to be hung up. People didn't take pictures then of people doing ordinary things, like working in the kitchen or digging in the yard. All I have is mental pictures of her and me sending the dripping wash through the wringer and coming out two dimensional on the other side. I suspect that between that and air-drying, more ironing was needed then.
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ST. LOUIS, MO — The Missouri Department of Transportation announced that the two left lanes on the eastbound Jefferson Barracks Bridge are closed for a bridge joint repair. The bridge carries I-255 traffic from Missouri to Illinois. MoDOT says the lanes will be closed through the evening rush hour Tuesday night.
The announcement presents some challenges for commuters who rely on the bridge to get home to Illinois after work. MoDOT images of the emergency repair work already indicate traffic backups stretching into Missouri as far back as Telegraph Road. The traffic jam could worsen as rush hour nears this afternoon.
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Three weeks before the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, sports officials are still deliberating which Russian athletes will receive special clearance to compete, stirring speculation that the International Olympic Committee's ban on Russia for its doping schemes will ultimately prove less severe than it was billed.
A panel appointed by the I.O.C. last month has received applications from hundreds of Russian athletes who hope to compete in Pyeongchang. (Because Russia's Olympic team is technically barred, the athletes would compete under the Olympic flag.) That panel is expected to conclude its review within the next week, ruling on which Russians have effectively demonstrated that they are clean and should be given the chance to circumvent the ban on their nation for systematic cheating at the last Winter Games.
But even once that participant list is established, the 2018 Olympic roster will be far from fixed. Before the end of the month, an international sports court is due to hear the appeals of 39 Russian athletes whom the I.O.C. barred for having doped at the 2014 Games.
Future appeals may take issue with the opaqueness of the process by which the I.O.C. is reviewing Russian athletes' eligibility — something a group of antidoping officials criticized forcefully on Thursday. After a summit in Bonn, Germany, officials from 20 nations urged the Olympic review panel — which is led by France's former sports minister and includes representatives from the I.O.C. and the top regulator of drugs in sports — to publish firm standards to be applied consistently to potential Olympians from Russia.
"Robust and demanding criteria, as well as the names of Russian athletes with their individual testing histories who have met them, need to be published as soon as possible," the antidoping leaders said in a statement.
The Olympic review panel that will issue invitations to Russian athletes is led by Valérie Fourneyron, France's former sports minister and the current chairwoman of a new global drug-testing authority created by the I.O.C. It also includes Günter Younger, the director of intelligence and investigations for the World Anti-Doping Agency who previously worked for Interpol in Germany; Pedro Goncalves, a project manager for the Doping-Free Sport Unit who is overseeing pre-Games testing of all Olympic athletes; and Richard Budgett, the medical and scientific director of the I.O.C.
As Pyeongchang's Feb. 9 opening ceremony approaches, the unsettled roster of Russian athletes — as well as the friction between sports officials and antidoping enforcers — has echoed the disarray of the last Olympics. At the 2016 Rio Games, Russian athletes were presumed tainted by their nation's state-backed doping program unless they proved otherwise. That prompted a flood of legal disputes, with athletes petitioning to compete even after the Games had begun.
The antidoping officials who spoke out Thursday — representing countries that included Australia, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom — urged the I.O.C. not to grant entry to any of the hundreds of Russian athletes who have been implicated by past investigations into Russian doping or by a trove of drug-testing data obtained by global sports regulators from Moscow last fall.
They called for any Russian athletes who are granted competition slots in Pyeongchang to have a minimum of one year of rigorous drug-testing outside of Russia. Russia's antidoping agency has been deemed noncompliant by the global regulator of drugs in sports for more than two years.
Days ago, at a tournament in Siberia, three dozen Russian athletes abruptly withdrew from a regional competition after drug-testing officials had arrived unannounced, according to Russian media. Many said they were ill, and Russia's track and field association said it had launched an investigation into the mass withdrawals.
On Thursday, the I.O.C. announced that more than 14,000 doping tests had been conducted on over 6,000 athletes from 61 countries "to optimize the protection of clean athletes ahead of Pyeongchang."
"With extra scrutiny on Russian athletes, November and December saw testing on double the number of athletes from Russia than any other country," the I.O.C. statement said. The organization touted not just a higher volume of tests across countries but the use of intelligence to focus on possible likely violators.
"This more targeted testing focuses on specific disciplines and nationalities that are at particular risk, as well as individual athletes and groups of athletes selected based on their ranking, and any suspicious change in performance or adverse testing history," the statement said.
Russian athletes implicated in the nation's doping scandal have continued to compete not just nationally but also in global competitions. On Thursday, the antidoping officials urged Olympic executives not to grant entry to any Russian athlete with a pending disciplinary case.
Numerous such Russian Olympians whom the I.O.C. has barred for cheating at the 2014 Games have continued to compete in their sports' major international competitions this season and dominate standings. Some have qualified for the Olympics though they are prohibited to attend them — skewing global rankings and precluding other athletes from qualifying for their countries' Olympic teams. In certain sports with unique qualification rules, barred athletes have earned points for their nation that could enable another Russian athlete to have a place at the Games.
Russian officials, including President Vladimir V. Putin, have decried the Olympic ban while signaling satisfaction that Russian athletes will still be able to compete with a reference to their nationality, each identified as an "Olympic athlete from Russia."
On Wednesday, the Russian equivalent of the F.B.I. pushed back on factual conclusions that had informed the I.O.C. ban, disputing scientific analysis of urine samples and again questioning the credibility of whistle-blower witnesses.
"The I.O.C. claims to have banned the entire Russian Olympic Committee, and they're examining the basis on which they should invite any Russian athletes," said Travis T. Tygart, the chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, who was among the officials who met in Germany this week and spoke out on Thursday.
"If there are 232 Russian athletes in Pyeongchang — the same number that was in Sochi — then the I.O.C. will have pulled off a total scam."


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Recently, I returned from a few days in Colorado. While there I was able to visit friends, enjoy the art museum, attend a concert, and eat good food. Also, I was able to fondle a mouthwatering Hassy H1 with Phase One P45 back. Aside from the weight of the camera with the 55-110 the H1 was packing, and slow response time of the P45, the camera yielded some of the most beautiful images I've made. I made a mix of fashion portraiture and still life test images. The clarity was remarkable. I'd never had the opportunity to use a Hasselblad before, so call me giddy when I saw the sharpness of good glass. The camera's a little older, but it suited my needs better than almost any camera I've used. I'm slow. I don't mind taking my time. It's one of the reasons I don't relish wedding photography or photojournalism...not to say I don't like some of what I see from these areas, but I'm not suited to it. I like art photography. I think I'm getting better at it and this camera was perfect for it.
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Although in popular culture, the affair of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais often seems to be a model of pure and disinterested love, in reality, their relationship was extremely complicated. But for the general public, the love story of Napoleon and Josephine is full of romance. In the same vein, the developers of the video slot Napoleon & Josephine treat this story.
Napoleon & Josephine is a slot machine from Relax Gaming with five reels and twenty cells for icons on the screen. In the game, standard images, jokers, scatters, and free spins with advanced features are available.
On the screen of the slot machine, you will see the former Emperor of France, his wife, palace, coach, crown, medal, necklace, and four card suits made of precious stones. The same pictures can appear one after the other on the reels.
Napoleon always falls out with long vertical chains. Moreover, he forms combinations from left to right and from right to left.
Among the special symbols are:
Three, four or five scatters start ten, twenty or fifty prize rounds respectively. If there are numbers on one or more Scatters, they increase the total number of prize spins. Then the game is played for the money of the casino. An alternative set of pictures is used, which increases the probability of forming combinations. The round may be extended and it is possible to win as many as 100 free spins.
This new slot machine will interest many gambling fans fond of historical themes and famous personalities. In terms of the gameplay, it attracts players with stacked jokers, special functions of the images of Napoleon, a large number of payments, and free spins with additional features.
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Are you familiar with Lilit Hovhannisyan's song "TE AGHJIK LINEIR", well you might want to refresh your memory, or get introduced to it in the video above. When you finish enjoying the show, we would like you to concentrate on the segment between 2:48 and 3:06.
A video clip, that was recently released in Lebanon, has urged the Minister of Media contact the Minister of Justice for containing unethical substance. But how does this concern us Armenians? Now we would like you to hear the segment between 1:27 and 1:49 in the video below of Miss Klink, and wish Lilit Hovhannisyan a successful copyright lawsuit at SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music).
Myriam Klink is an ex Top model, born to a Lebanese father and a Serbian mother, turned singer and activist who has stirred controversy over her provocative wardrobe and music videos.
According to sources of Lebanese station MTV, Lebanese Media Minister Melhem Riachy contacted the Minister of Justice Salim Jreissati briefing him on a video of a common song performed by Myriam Klink and Jad Khalifa, widely spread across social networking sites. The lyrics of the song "Goal" hint explicit sexual actions, taking advantage of an innocent childish look.
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Leaked documents have shown that the Chinese government is planning on radically reducing the number of foreign television shows permitted to air within the nation, with the explicit motive of promoting more "morality-building" programs in their place. Stations will be limited to just one foreign program each, and are barred from airing foreign shows during prime time.
China has been turning its censorship-engines up to eleven lately, cracking down on everything from Weibo celebrities to Pleasant Goats. This turn against international TV, however, isn't an attempt to silence political dissent or organization; instead, it's part of a new, creepy, "moral" effort by the leading Party.
The "morality-building" mandate requires that at least 30% of station content include "public-interest programming such as documentaries, education and "morality-building" programs," and "restrict the number of new musical talent shows to one every three months," according to Reuters.
China's government has always been censor-happy, but it was (thank god) not religiously/spiritually/morally motivated in its choices (not that censorship is ever Okay, but if the government wants to crackdown on political chatter, you can at least see what they think they're doing).
These new restrictions, and their moralizing, "we know what's good for you and it's not dance shows," mentality is hopefully not the beginning of a new censorship-epoch in which the nation's media consumers are at the mercy of the moral reckonings of various corrupt bureaucrats. I have never felt such an attachment to violent cartoon goats and terrible karaoke shows.
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I am in a ridiculous amount of pain right now. The result of sitting in a bean bag for far too long while humouring my sister & her insane love of the Kardashians. What a ridiculous wedding.
I have noticed that chicks seem to like the Kardashians more than men which I find bizarre.
In any event by the time we got all the girls together in one place to watch the wedding, news had already spread of their divorce after only 72 days…


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Warning on work convention
Section: Special Report-Maritime Law
Release Date: Tuesday August 27 2002
A new convention covering work and rest for seafarers has just come into force which have a "significant impact upon employers" according to Neil Northmore of Bond Pearce.
The Seafarers Hours of Work and the Manning of Ships Convention, came into force on August 8. EU member states must also comply with a separate seafarers' directive which is designed to regulate their work and rest periods.
The convention aims to promote the health and safety of workers, improve maritime safety and protect the environment, Mr Northmore explains. It establishes limits that apply to all seafarers concerning hours of work or rest on board ship and "gives ratifying states a choice of stipulating either daily and weekly limits of work or rest period". It stipulates a maximum of 14 hours work per day and 72 hours per week for seafarers on board ship, or minimum rest periods of 10 hours daily and 77 hours weekly.
Ratifying states will be able to inspect any ship calling at its ports to check compliance with the working time limits and ships that do not comply can be detained.
The Seafarers Directive meanwhile, had a deadline for implementation of June 30, 2002.
The UK has draft legislation in place to incorporate the directive and it is expected this will be enacted next month.
The draft regulations will apply to seafarers employed on board seagoing UK ships. Rights to inspect and detain a ship will be enforceable against a ship from another state.
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Moroccan Dance Workshop w/Soumaya MaRose/
Get ready for high energy hips, hair and feet!
Moroccan dance is coming to Tarrytown, New York! Soumaya will show us how to party like a Moroccan and will discuss the context and cultural aspects of Chaabi (social) dance in Morocco. Prepare to sweat, laugh and have a ton of fun.
About Soumaya MaRose: Soumaya was born and raised as a Moroccan woman in Belgium after her parents came to Europe from Tangier in the 1970's. Her experience with Moroccan music and Raks Sharqi started very young, when she begged her mother to take her to Moroccan weddings. From the beginning, her community said, "dik Soumaya, ouhda shataha," meaning "This Soumaya is a dancer!" When she was 13, Soumaya performed at shows, weddings and events, and learned to play table and drums. She became a member of "El Housna," a Moroccan girl band, and for 15 years played with the band at Arabic events in Belgium, France, Germany and The Netherlands. At 26, she began to study belly dance with Serkan Tutar (international Turkish male belly dancer) and many other international teachers as Khaled Mahmoud, Ahmed Refaat, Tito, Mohamed Kazafy, Orit Maftsir, Asena, Serap Su, Maria Aya, Tommy King, Farah Bakkali and many other teachers. Last June 2015 she won second place in the folk dance competition at Rakass Istanbul International Festival. Since arriving in Boston in January 2014, she has dedicated her life to dance. She currently performs and plays music with Atlas Soul (North African music), Club Mediteranee (Arabic and Balkan music) and gives solo Raqs Sharki performances and Moroccan folkloric dance at weddings and events around New England. She says "For me, dancing means language. It is my way to share my culture and keep the Arabic woman in me alive."


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OUR FULL REVIEW OF BENQ'S GS1 IS BELOW, BUT IF YOU'D PREFER TO READ THE ORIGINAL MAGAZINE PAGES, CLICK THE IMAGE RIGHT TO VIEW THE PAGES AS A PDF. (Note: we have updated information since the print edition regarding the streaming services available in BenQ's app interface; see below for the latest information.) >>>
Well, that's quite the change. The last two BenQ projectors we've reviewed have been massive Ultra HD home cinema designs. The BenQ GS1? It's barely larger than my hand, and so portable it even has its own rechargeable battery. Outdoor fun as the summer approaches? Let's do it.
First, this is a 720p projector — its resolution is 1280 by 720 pixels. It uses an Osram Q8 LED as the light source, and DLP technology to generate the picture. And it has a fixed focal length, with no zoom, and a maximum brightness of 300 ANSI lumens. I include that last spec because it has an impact on picture size. BenQ talks about a 60-inch picture size from a range of one metre, which is probably about right, although you can stretch it a little more if you like, especially if power is plugged in. But really, any projector can project to pretty much any picture size it can keep focused. What limits things is how bright you need it.
BenQ also specifies a contrast ratio of 100,000:1. There's no lens shift or zoom or anything like that, just the focus control. Which makes sense. You're never going to install this projector somewhere, so to make the picture bigger, just pull the projector further away from the screen. There is keystone correction in case some angle is unavoidable, but I'd strongly recommend that you find a way to get the projector in the right position instead. Keystone adjustments waste pixels, and with 720p you don't have too many to waste.
The lamp, being LED, has a long life. It's rated at 20,000 hours running at maximum power, and longer in Eco mode.
There is one HDMI input. This supports MHL, which makes sense in view of the portable nature, so you can plug the rare MHL-supporting phone into it for playback. There are also two USB sockets (one of them USB 3.0) and one microSD card slot.
There are two more elements of connectivity: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The latter is for connecting an external speaker, or there's a 3.5mm socket for audio out. There are two small speakers built in, each with 2W of power available, so an external speaker is a better way to go.
You don't need to use the battery pack. but if you do, it just clips in place and is charged via the projector. This also has a USB socket which can charge other devices, like the phone that's playing. The lithium-ion polymer battery has a capacity of 16000mAh, around five times that of a typical Android phone. BenQ says that the pack is good for 300 charge cycles, taking around 3.5 hours to fully charge from empty, and will run the projector for three hours at 150 ANSI lumens.
There's a bright orange rubber bumper that wraps around the whole thing to give it some protection. BenQ envisages it being used outdoors, on holidays and such. The whole thing is mildly splash-proof — 'IPX1 drip proof' says BenQ, so don't leave it out in the rain. It comes with a neat carry case, with room for all the bits, and with a slim BenQ style remote control with the usual keys, plus volume and a surprising 'Home'.
The first surprise here was that the the set-up menu was clear and easily viewable even though I had my room lights on. I'd kind of expected that the picture might be very dim.
Second, the guided five-step set-up included connecting to my Wi-Fi network. Why? Because this is a projector attached to an Android device — a skinned one to hide some elements of Android, but nonetheless Android (version 4.4). The Wi-Fi is single 2.4GHz band 802.11b/g/n compatible. The Android side of things is powered by a four-core CPU. There's 8GB of storage, of which a bit over 4GB is available to use for apps and content.
And sure enough, once I'd finished the set-up, the projector displayed a home screen based on Android. Which explains the Home key on the remote. It has been customised and cut down — no access to the Google Play store, instead you can get more streaming apps and games and productivity tools from the BenQ App Market. There was a range of unusual things, but many of the most useful are in a different 'app' - Aptoide TV. Here you can access Netlflix, Stan, Foxtel Play and even Amazon Prime, along with all the local catch-up services except SBS on Demand.
There is YouTube (implemented via the web browser). The front page has something called 'BenQ Smart', which displayed a QR code to send my phone to the Play store for the BenQ Smart Controller app (Android only). This was a quite competent network-based remote controller with both normal arrow and number buttons and a touch-pad for moving an on-screen cursor.
The projector's own remote was a little trickier, requiring the angle to be just so. In the end, I plugged the dongle from a USB keyboard and mouse into the projector, and used them to control it. They worked very nicely. The browser worked very well; web pages snapped up quickly.
Finally, and the best part of this projector's smarts: it runs an app called AirPin(PRO). This allows the projector to be a device which you can cast stuff to. It worked with DLNA — receiving video and photos from my server using an app. I could cast the screen of an Oppo A77 smartphone to it, but not my Samsung Galaxy S7. My Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 would display its content to the projector, but not mirror its screen.
And equally usefully it worked perfectly accepting the mirrored screen of an iPad
mini 4, sent via AirPlay.
As a projector it made a colourful and usably bright picture up to at least 70 inches when viewed in a dark room. There was a very slight bow in the picture, with the middle being a touch higher than the edges, but not so much as to be distracting.
The black levels were naturally very good, in part because the picture is less bright than usual. Reds were a touch stronger than natural but could be tamed via the controls. There are several picture modes, including one for use under star light, and one for use when there's a camp fire!
Content up to 1080p was accepted, and down to 480i/60 and 576i/50 was accepted. The scaling from 1080p/24 down to 720p was quite smooth; indeed, the whole picture was smooth, with very little screen-door effect.
Deinterlacing of 576i/50 was pretty mediocre. It had bit of an attempt at detecting film versus video-sourced, but plumped heavily for the latter though occasionally it got confused and actually created brief flashes of combing on film-sourced content. Performance was about the same with 1080i/50, but without combing. Ideally use a source good for high-quality progressive-scan conversion. But it was clear that the projector was displaying at 60 frames per second and not 50, as evidenced by judder.
I ran it on battery to see how it would hold out. Rather well, though it drops the output to perhaps half brightness (although the subjective reduction is not as great) when switching over. At that level I got a good three-and-a-half hours before the projector gave up and switched itself off.
One final note. This is an Android device. For normal use turn the volume control down to zero, or go into the settings and switch off sounds for notifications. There were a couple of occasions when I jumped as the projector decided to alert me to something!
If you want a projector for real home cinema, this is not it. But if you want to get a picture the size of a large TV in a small portable package — and yes, for holidays and camp fires! — the total weight here, including battery, is under a kilogram. Surely you need look no further.
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Other: 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x microSD
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- Cristiano Ronaldo Jr attempted his father famous overhead kick
- He produced a stunning overhead kick of his own to match Ronaldo's spectacular strike past Juventus keeper Gianluigi Buffon last week
- He also emulates his fathers' method of taking freekicks
Cristiano Ronaldo Jr has brought alive the popular saying 'like father like son' alive when he successfully attempted the overhead kick just like his dad.
He produced a stunning overhead kick of his own to match Ronaldo's spectacular strike past Juventus keeper Gianluigi Buffon last week.
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Cristiano Jr is pretty mean at taking free kicks, too, he has also adopt his dad stance of taking spot kicks.
The seven-year-old produced his 'worldy' overhead kick at the end of the La Liga derby showdown between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid on Sunday April 8.
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Cristiano Jr took to the field and gave a terrific demonstration of his burgeoning soccer skills.
Fans quickly compared his flying overhead effort with the one produced just days before by dad, which was ranked as of the greatest ever Champions League goals.
TUKO.co.ke previously reported that Real Madrid played out a 1 - 1 draw with Atletico Madrid in their La Liga matchday 31 clash at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.
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'Final Fantasy' March Madness: Round 1-4
64 party members compete for imaginary glory.
We've reached the last group in our first round of Final Fantasy March Madness, the ultimate contest of Nomura-doodled champions to determine which party member would fight his or her way to the top of this legendary franchise. Let's lay out the recaps and today's matchups:
Round 1-4
1. Cloud Strife ('VII') vs. 16. Selphie Tilmitt ('VIII')
Matchups like this are why we have our rules that stress lore abilities over gameplay exploits. So no, Selphie faithful, she may not The End everyone to oblivion and win this tournament with enough time to catch the NCAA games. She's instead a cute pair of gardening tools up against a half alien, half super-soldier batch of hyped-up DNA that swings an oversized meat cleaver around as if he were the one twirling nunchaku. Cloud is a freak. There's no simpler way to put it. And it'll take all kinds of abilities to so much as slow him down, even without some of his Advent Children improvements. Cloud wins and cues the series' catchiest victory fanfare.
8. Rydia of Mist ('IV') vs. 9. Ignis Scientia ('XV')
Last time, we mentioned XV's aversion to outright magic and how that limits their supporting characters. Rydia is most certainly someone who can exploit that weakness. Ignis' cleverness in battle can't be understated, and I imagine he'd have just the solution to outmaneuver the mage in this duel. The scrappy tactician would likely push the summoner to her breaking point. But we've seen the damage Leviathan can do to the XV universe. Even Noctis had to learn some new tricks to take on the beast, while Ignis zipped by in a boat struggling to fend off an imperial mech. Once Rydia's powerful magic buys her enough time and space to properly summon, Ignis is out of his league. Tonight's menu loses, but Rydia wins.
5. Kain Highwind ('IV') vs. 12. Snow Villiers ('XIII')
This is a surprisingly heavy hitting 5-12 matchup. XIII characters have the ever-present threat of a babysitting Eidolon to deal with. Between this and Kain's magical disadvantage, Snow has every chance to overwhelm the opponent. The only thing leveling the playing field is combat expertise. Despite his position of importance, Snow's helplessly overeager approach is beyond punishable against one of Final Fantasy's premier generals. Kain's composure is as advanced as his combat, allowing the series' quintessential dragoon to dismantle foes that may wield a greater firepower. He has a surprising task on his hands here, but outmaneuvers the glacial brute with blinding agility. Kain wins in underdog fashion despite being favored here.
4. Vaan ('XII') vs. 13. Aerith Gainsborough ('VII')
Jobs meet materia, but everyone's a peasant in this charming matchup. I imagine Vaan and Aerith can swap some slummy tales of hunger and corruption. Gameplay versatility, as it so often does, creates an even enough matchup to judge these combatants by plot roles. Vaan, despite the franchise's clear attempts, has a minimal impact on XII's actual narrative. He's more of a player-insert that almost suggests writers were afraid to let more mature leads like Ashe or Basch run the show. So we get an Aladdin stand-in that leaves the story with surprisingly little to show for it. Nothing suggests Vaan packs all that much of a punch on his own. Aerith, despite her lesser screen time, is an immensely significant party member that wields a hidden power. The character herself doesn't explore all that much of it, which of course limits her tournament ceiling, but the ancient Cetra wield a superhuman energy. By VII's own lore, one or two tweaks to the character could've more closely resembled Sephiroth himself. Let's be glad she's so nice. That potential, as well as her top-tier white magic to top off materia's basic offerings, is enough to force our first protagonist defeat. Aerith wins and, in this story at least, survives our first disc.
6. Oerba yun Fang ('XIII') vs. 11. Lulu ('X')
I'd opt not to mess with either of these ladies. Even pregnant Lulu intimidates me. In fact, pregnant Lulu doubly intimidates me. But in the grand scheme of black mages, Lulu isn't exactly the deadliest. X's black magic isn't the best source of efficient attack power, and most Lulu fans have their hearts broken after the early stages of the game when you realize Spira doesn't seem to care all that much about the class as a whole. Fang, on the other hand, is a beast. Her strength is second to none in XIII's party, and her Eidolon is casually Bahamut. The skilled dragoon simply outmuscles the competition, and Fang beats Lulu with ease.
3. Tidus ('X') vs. 14. Krile Mayer Baldesion ('V')
Tidus, that's tide-us in case there's any confusion (there's a tutorial on how to lose half of your readers), speeds into the fray. I'm sorry. Final Fantasy often names protagonists after elements. The kid literally washes in with the tide on several occasions. The whole world is water-based. And then Dissidia went and said some nonsense to ruin my entire perspective. You can almost see how Square reluctantly stands by the decision, as if they've never canonically fixed a typo in Sector 7. A fight for another day, I suppose. Krile fittingly inherits Galuf's place in this tournament, but inherits a similar result as well. She's a quick mage, but Tidus is a significantly faster physical attacker. There's not much time or room to cast anything decent with this slashing blitzballer in your face. He's a support character at heart, which we've said limits contestants in this format. But for now, the Abes star's athleticism is enough to compensate. Tidus darts around and laughs his way to victory, complete with goofy narration about his story.
7. Celes Chere ('VI') vs. 10. Oerba Dia Vanille
Two hardened backstories clash in a magically supercharged encounter. Vanille, much like her teammate Hope, suffers from being a team player in an individual's tournament. She packs a greater punch than her XIII co-star, but is still best utilized alongside some allies. Split hairs aside, the analysis here can stop relatively early. Celes is a powerful mage herself, but she also absorbs the would-be magic of opposing mages. So this is a matchup made in hell for the girl from Oerba. Celes is a Magitek super soldier, genetically enhanced to rival the power of VI's espers. She was created to seek and destroy, is mentally shattered, and then pieces herself together to become stronger than ever. That's a resolve matched by few in this entire field. Deadly with both swords and spells, Celes wins this one decisively.
2. Warrior of Light ('I') vs. 15. Penelo ('XII')
The modern Warrior of Light contains elements from multiple roles found in this legendary franchise's debut. He still clearly leans in the fighter's more physical direction, one capable of sturdy defense as well. But he's among the tournament's more well-rounded threats. Much of my criticisms that applied to XII's Vaan earlier are of course applicable to Penelo here as well. There isn't much suggesting she factored into the team's journey, and she certainly didn't lead the charge against Garland and Chaos itself. That Chaos is a heck of a line item on your relevant experience. And dispelling said Chaos is what this tournament calls a marketable skill. Most Final Fantasy entries make their toughest bosses optional, therefore not necessarily making them canon. We can't say for sure that Cloud punted ancient weapons around on his way to Sephiroth. I like to think he did. Regardless, the Warrior of Light has the skills and rightful claim to this victory, becoming our final contestant to reach the second round.
And with that, half of the Final Fantasy March Madness field has been slaughtered. Some came down to nitpicking and extensive speculation; others were obvious so I used the space to write some jokes. As we roll on, the research shall cause greater headaches and the results greater debates. I apologize in advance, and we'll see what goes down in the second round of Final Fantasy March Madness.


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Just a quick post to share with you the super simple card I made my parents for their anniversary. I snagged this little Lili of the Valley stamp when they were having a sale, but this was my first time to ink it up. It turned out lovely and my parents (especially my mom) loved it!
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Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Medium: Copics
Paper: Rose Red (Stampin Up), White (Papertrey Ink)
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Are You A Woman Of Wonder?
We have three boys who all went through the superhero stage. My oldest dressed as Spider-Man everywhere we went. He was constantly shooting imaginary webs at villains (fellow grocery shoppers). Every time he saw a brick wall, he attached himself to it and climbed all the way to the top with his sticky palms. At least, he thought he did. I just let him pretend, because of YOLO.
My middle son often sported a red cape with a yellow lightening bolt. He wanted to be Flash so bad, which was sort of a bummer because his asthma prevented him from running at super-speed like his hero. That's just real life. Boo.
Then my youngest was born. He was Batman. I didn't say he dressed up like Batman. He was Batman.
(Read in a deep, slow, raspy draw.) He even has the Bruce Wayne charm, wit, and conceitedness. Can a 5 year old be conceited? Yes. Yes, he can.
I encourage super-hero play; Probably because I myself always kinda felt like I was born for Wonder. I remember swinging on a swing in the back yard as a young girl and singing at the top of my lungs. At some point the swing morphed into a magic carpet and I was soaring through the air with my Arabian prince.
My husband and I walked out of the theater hand in hand. Wonder Woman was fantastic. I love getting swept up in a good, make-believe story.
But that's all it is. Fantasy. Fiction. No mortal woman has moves like that. My boys could not really scale walls, run in a blur of lightening speed, or have a genius intellect that creates access to a world of vast wealth and technology.
Real life pales in comparison to these adventures, right?
Wait! That was a trick question! See, we get so wrapped up in fiction that we forget who we are and what in the world we are doing here.
We aren't just plopped on this planet here by chance and without purpose. In his book Epic, John Eldredge writes,
"It's true of every fairy tale, every myth, every Western, every epic…..All of these stories borrow from the Story. From Reality….There is a Story written on the human heart.
Something hidden in the ancient past. Something dangerous now unfolding. Something waiting in the future for us to discover. Some crucial role for us to play.
For when you were born, you were born into an Epic that has already been under way for quite some time. It is a Story of beauty and intimacy and adventure, a Story of danger and loss and heroism and betrayal."
This is the story all Christ followers say we believe in. The cause of Christ, the story of redemption. See, I believe we were all created for Wonder. We long for story because we were created for, and born into a story. We look to a hero, and the cross is the crucial plot twist.
So I don't have a truth- serum- laced, glowy-whip thing like Wonder Woman. What I have is a real, heart-pounding role to play in the epic of all time. I think there are two types of Christians. Those who embrace laying down their life for Christ, and bored ones.
See, I used to be the latter. I watched Netflix way too much. I found real life disenchanting and I was longing for more. I wanted to be whisked away like when I was a child and I just wanted to live in my imagination. I needed story. I craved adventure. I longed for romance. I yearned for a purpose. But I lacked an adventure to go on. So I settled for Netflix.
And then my life fell apart. Boredom had struck my husband too, and he had an affair. My little family was threatened to be broken to pieces. In desperation I cried to God to fix it. And to my delight and surprise, guess what I found? He answered me. All of the stuff I read about in the Bible, that I had grown up hearing as a child, became real. I found it all held up when the facades of my life I thought had been so sturdy, collapsed around me.
In my desperation, I was prepared to give God everything. I thought I would lose my life like it says in Matthew 10:39. But then, in the losing, guess what else I found? I gained it.
I found myself plopped into a wild adventure that, unlike my stories I used to escape from reality, this is reality. If we truly have a Father who created the heavens, the galaxies, the earth, raging waters, smoldering heat and blistering cold, then we certainly have the kind of access that makes Bruce Wayne Enterprises look humble.
Today I watch my kids play super heroes and I play too. But we are playing. Our real life is more of an adventure than the fantasy I so fantastically watched in front of me in surround sound.
If you follow Christ, you joined a living saga and joined the ranks of saints before us. Surely those who come after us are gravely counting on us to play our roles well. Bored Christians make no thunder. They take no ground. They make little noise.
When Paul said, "I fought the good fight", I think about his life. He traveled the world, was shipwrecked, thrown in prison, evaded death in a myriad of heart-pounding last minute escapes, wrote books, had a great platform and addressed political leaders, and founded churches. He was an adventurer. Now that you mention it, most of the personalities from the Bible lived the most exhilarating stories I've ever read.
That's because our faith is amazing. Real faith is anything but boring and if we are living a Christian life short of giving up everything and following after Christ on a holy, wild adventure, I dare say it's user-error.
If you are not fighting and left breathless from wonder, at least from time to time, may I humbly suggest, you've yet to join the story and discover your purpose in the great tale. My book, A Fierce Love begins when my marriage fell apart, and I talk about how fierce life became after surrounding wholly to Jesus. I don't serve a bored God. I serve a fierce one, and I look to him with expectation, full of wonder.


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I was walking back from the seaside, noticing how light and relaxed my body felt when suddenly this line came to my head: 'I walk in beauty'. It made so much sense and that sentence fitted perfectly with how I felt in that moment.
I felt beautiful because I could sense my body walking following its natural relaxed movement, I felt super soft inside, my legs had a relaxed certainty about them, my arms were dangling in what felt like the perfect movement, I was standing tall without any conscious effort, I had a smile on my face and I felt beautiful.Read More


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2016 Nobel Peace Prize? Why not giving it to bicycles?<\/strong><\/a> This is the objective of the Bike the Nobel campaign of the radio programme Caterpillar<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0which peaked on 16 January with Paola Gianotti\u2019s travel from Milan to Oslo, Norway, to present the collection of signatures to nominate bicycles for the Nobel Peace Prize. Paola Gianotti will travel by bike to Norway for 2,000 kilometres and for the first stretch of the journey she will be accompanied by the president of the Italian non-profit association of cyclists FIAB<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
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It's easy to appreciate Jesus' teachings. But then the Bible writers tell us that he rose from the dead. And a man rising from the dead is harder to believe; for some, it's so hard to believe that they cherry-pick the teachings and refute the resurrection. In this message, we will explore the truth about Jesus' life and death that Paul says is "of first importance."
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Hello Peter, Have you heard any Israeli metal or anything about the metal scene here?
Actually no. I'm almost ashamed that I'm so ignorant when it comes to bands. I've checked out Orphaned Land a couple of times at festivals we've played cause
they're a really good live band. But except from them I'm completely uninformed.
I wish I had more time, but being a dad when I'm not on tour takes most of my time.
Are you aware that you have a strong fan base here?
I wasn't aware, and I'm very flattered. We'll stay three days when we get to Israel at the end of this summer and I'm looking forward to meeting people, talking and listening.
You have some pretty strong opinions regarding a lot of issues. You're anti-war, anti-fascist, anti-religion, etc. What are your thoughts about coming to Israel,
a country always at war in some form or another, the cradle of world religion, and who many leftist people (would you call yourself leftist?) deem fascist?
Well to be honest, I feel priviliged to be given the opportunity to come to Israel. It's a country that has been with me in legend and news reports since childhood
and I used to completely idolize Golda Meir and David Ben-Gurion as a young man. I think mostly this was identification; Growing up in different families that weren't
my own filled me with a deep hunger for justice and identity. I knew my real family(as in mom and dad...)was out there, but out of reach for me somehow.
As far as what some people say or don't say about Israel, I think it extremly important to separate state policy and the actual individuals of any country.
So yes; I am really looking forward to coming to Israel.
You mention in your May 8 blog about sex in the Bible that you find "...there's not a whole lot of references to sex at all..." in the Bible. I quote your blog where you say "Obviously. I can understand how lifting the ideal of procreation is important to a group of people who at the time where so persecuted as the bible-writers of the old testament must have percieved themselves." I find that humorous considering it's a straight commandment written in the text, not to mention the fact that they talk about sex all the time in the Bible (but they don't translate it into your Christian version) but you wouldn't know that.
My Jiddish is painfully lacking, so far I don't know or speak any except from words I pick up in Woody Allen films. Learning my own language, english, german and
spanish has been what I've managed so far. But I am a curious person, and I welcome all the help I can get. As far my general view of Bible and sexuality, I still
stand by it. Considering how focussed it is on war, conquering and the fierce might and vengefulness with which it portraits the deity that some call god I find
what I read rather appalling. Personally I believe no so-called holy texts hold much good for anyone, but for the authorities who claim it is the law of a
righteous path; Clergymen, Mullahs or Rabbis. To me they are controllers, authoritarians. I do not find it productive to any society.
Why are you trying to read and understand the Bible when you have such an antipathy towards it and those who actually sit and learn it? I quote again.
"Apparently bible thumpers dig death and killing, not fucking, hmm, what does that tell us?" And you even admit you don't know if you're right, but you still make
such a statement. That's hate. Why?
Hate? I can't agree with your statement. To me hate is a deep conviction of personal righteousness aimed at a chosen defined target, mostly created from a
retaliatory need for redemption and confirmation of belief. I don't hate. I spent way too much of my youth hating, and it did nothing but harm. I do however,
doubt the rightfulness of religion itself. I percieve it as bigotted and superstitious. This is my point of view, I do not hate. This is also the reason I choose to devote some of my time towards further deeper understanding.
You seem to have a really ambivalent thing about religion - on one hand you disparage it any chance you get but on the other, you seem to be obsessed with it.
Why is that?
Religion seems to me, being part motivation, part tool for different levels of power in global and local society. The amount of damage religion itself is accountable
for is so immense and inescapable looking back at the last 5000 years. I find it sad and disturbing that so many of us, feverishly defend the right to act with
religion as ulterior or prime motivation on a planet where we've learnt how to splice the atom and travel at the speed of sound. We have the choice to evolve
and lay god behind us - since the purpose of religion is no longer one that benefits the good of our planet.
Why do you lump Judaism in with Christianity? It's a completely different religion.
It is still a religion, no?
I quote your April 10th, 2007 blog regarding your opinion about the Holocaust -"People in Germany man. The whole thing with what happened back in the days
of Hitler and all his crazy-ass macho control freak buddies. Sometimes when I talk to people in Germany it's as if they think I'm about to blame them for what
happened back then. Who cares anymore, unless you're a total nutter. Yes, it was horrendous, but think about it - back in those days people believed the size
of your head determined your basic characteristics, intelligence and personality... Hello? It's that whole guilt trip thing." We in Israel have an entire day (day by us, starts at nightfall, so by you, you'd call it a night and a day) in honor of remembering the Holocaust. Do you think we're all total nutters, as you so quaintly put it?
Personally I refer to myself as an anarchist, not leftist nor rightwing; AN-archist. I believe that humans are as a whole; Intelligent and creative creatures,
and that we have great capacities to change, to interact and to adapt. I believe it is part of our genetic base construction. In-group fighting, xenophobia
and war, which is mostly the result of ie. religion or socially/financially related construction and has previously served the species(Homo Sapien Sapien)
well in making us the dominating species. It has passed its time, and is no longer something that will serve us. I believe it is time we accept that we are
one species, sharing DNA. Religion, and holding on to past wrongful doings are obstacles in the way acceptance. What was, is not. Supporting myself on
generally accepted theories of psychology and psychiatry; For anyone who has been traumatized, remaining in the emotion of helpless rage does very little
but deepen the effects of the trauma. Of course we are all taught different levels of shame and guilt in the process of becoming adults, however sometimes
it backfires. In order to remove the sense of helplessness/confusion/rage that comes about in being the child or grandchild of a traumatized person or family
we uplift the trauma and turn it into a kind of symbol or celebration that separates rather than heals us. Nutters? No, not more any other nation, but I fail
to see the general progressive tendency in holding onto the past, and keeping at emotional bay - as opposed to accepting it for what it was and moving
on with the knowledge as further aid to evolve.
You've also said in the past that the Nazis were victims too. Would you like to clarify that?
Indeed, I do believe anyone foolish/uneducated enough to accept such an undefined and inconsequent ideology as nationalsocialism is a victim.
In the case of the soldiers and capos of the horrendous crimes of WWII, they were most certainly victims as much as the millions of people who were murdered in the camps. Imagine the emotional damage done to any person who believes there is no other way than participating in the slaughter of children and women. Imagine yourself killing another human being with no other real argument than that you have been told that it is the right thing to do. Imagine the amount of damage you will do to yourself in shutting off all emotion of remorse, care, empathy and trust. Yes, I believe they where victims, cruel victims indeed, but still victims. Victims of the times, victims of faith, and of a general view of human value that seems beyond
understanding to most. However it not much different than a young soldier beating a suspect next to a roadside in Gaza, or a police officer in Compton or Philadelphia shooting a potential perpetrator. We are all capable of cruelty, it is(or seems to be) part of genetic coding to survive.
In cases of fear, perceived threat and lacking knowledge we are all capable of immense cruelty. Separation of emotion is a human gift/curse.
What is your opinion about free choice? Do you think it exists?
I believe it exists only in correlation to the amount of general knowledge of the individual. Possession, will and access. The less knowledge, the less free choice. It seems to me that depency grows from lack of autonomy, and lacking knowledge leads to a dependency of information.
Nothing revolutionary in this really, though I concur with many of the writers who speak of the power of media and propaganda as a means to controlling society. Aiming political executive actions to structure ie. school systems to match a certain religion or political agenda is as I see it, morally abhorrent.
And that was that for now / Peter
3 kommentarer:
- Anonym30 juni 2010 00:47
I'm surprised. I have that this interview was horrendous. The interviewer is clearly out to bite Mr Dolving, but I've read worse. I think the interview is more interesting than horrendous. It's an interesting example, a clash between two worlds. The interviewer, wrapped up in belief/dogms, doesn't seem to realise the obvious (or maybe she does while ignoring it eager not to spil the conflict/interview)... she is talking to an anarchist-self-made-western-modern-day-agitator-spoken-world-entertainer... from his angle, lumping together two religions is as easy as lumping together two pieces of clay... but most important (and bold at that) is the fact that Dolving adresses a key problem: letting go. This crusial for both Israel and its neighbour countries. It's not blasphemy. Let go. Now. Yes, it (the holocast) was an iconic/historical crime. But right now, millions and millions and squillions of people starve to deth every year because the global economy demands it. We're killing the planet. We are one second from a nuclear-disaster (say hello to the next genearation of terrorists). It does not matter how moraly right one is. Every person must burry the past to evolve, that is: live.SvaraRadera
Thanx again for an interesting piece, Dolving! I can't wait for your book.
Peace & love/Kim
- Anonym30 juni 2010 01:22
I'm sorry about several spelling mistakes in my reply. At the risk of being indulgant, I now post a better version. Please delete the first ugly one. Here goes...SvaraRadera
I'm surprised. I've heard that this interview was horrendous. The interviewer is clearly out to bite Mr Dolving, but I've read worse. I think the interview is more interesting than horrendous. It's an interesting example, a clash between two different worlds. The interviewer, wrapped up in belief/dogms, doesn't seem to realise the obvious (or maybe she does while ignoring it eager not to spoil the conflict/interview)... she is talking to an anarchist-self-made-western-modern-day-agitator-spoken-world-entertainer... from his angle, lumping together two religions is as easy as lumping together two pieces of clay... but most important (and bold at that) is the fact that Dolving adresses a key issue: letting go. This is crusial for both Israel and its neighbour countries. It's not blasphemic to point this out. Let go. Now. Yes, it (the holocast) was an iconic/historical crime. But right now, millions and millions and squillions of people starve to death every year because the global economy demands it. We're killing the planet. We are one second from a nuclear-disaster (say hello to the next genearation of terrorists). It does not matter how moraly right one is. Every person must burry the past to evolve, that is: survive. Live.
Thanx again for an interesting read. Can't wait for your book...
Israel. Att hata deras politik är inte samma sak som att hata invånarna i landet. Man behöver inte säga nåt mer. För ingen frisk människa hatar Israeler bara för att de är Israeler, det räcker att fördömma deras vansinniga politik.SvaraRadera