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- The most important lesson is to always build the guitar to match the hardware. Building off of a plan, including placement of the bridge caused a few difficulties that I was able to mostly overcome. The one remaining issue is that the high "E" string is just a tad too close to the edge of the fingerboard. It plays just fine, but it feels a bit odd at first.
- I won't do a spray finish again unless I have the right space. I used rattle-can Seafoam Green from Guitar Reranch, and rattle-can Behlen stringed instrument lacquer for the clearcoats. This actually went pretty well, but having to watch the weather like a hawk to spot the warm, dry days for spraying was a pain inna butt, and despite my best efforts, I got some small pieces of dirt in the finish (my wife is a gardener, and we have the filthiest garage on the block - maybe in the whole city! ). I can live with it, but I'm going to immediately switch to methods that don't require a spray booth to get a good finish. Unfortunately I had my heart set on a seafoam green Tele, so I kept bulling ahead...
It plays really, really nice. The only issue is that there is a bit of a buzz if I really dig in with the pick. Not noticeable when amplified, and never occurs if played soft or moderately. I'm going to put it back on the bench and go over everything after the holiday. I suspect that I might have slotted the nut a bit too low, but I should be able to correct that. I have a half-dozen nut blanks handy.
Again, many thanks to all who contribute here, as I've learned so much from you all.
Special shout-out to Barry Daniels and Alan Carruth who both made some really good suggestions on some finishing problems I had - thanks guys!! And yes, Barry, that Griot polisher worked like a champ!
Apologies in advance for the pics. I had a helluva time getting the pics to come out even CLOSE to the actual color, despite farting around with the color balance. If you've ever seen seafoam green up-close and personal, it'll knock your eyes out!! These pics make it look pastel, which is the last word I'd use to describe seafoam green. Tried to bump the saturation, but then the maple and rosewood started looking weird, so I left it alone. These were the best of the bunch.


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(lä´´fēĕt', lăf´´ēĕt'). 1 City (1990 pop. 23,501), Contra Costa co., NW Calif., a residential suburb in the San Francisco–Oakland area; settled 1848, inc. 1968. The city is a horse raising and agricultural trading center, especially for walnuts; there is also light manufacturing.
City (1990 pop. 43,764), seat of Tippecanoe co., W central Ind., on the Wabash River; inc. 1853. A manufacturing city in a grain, livestock, and dairy area, it has food processing and automobile assembly plants. Other products include building materials; electrical, transportation, and heating equipment; metal, paper, and rubber products; wire; chemicals; animal feeds; and pharmaceuticals. The nearby site of the battle of Tippecanoe (Nov., 1811) is a state memorial. Of interest is the rebuilt blockhouse of Fort Ouiatenon (1717).
City (1990 pop. 94,440), seat of Lafayette parish, S central La., on the Vermilion River (which is linked to the Intracoastal Waterway); settled 1770s by exiled Acadians, inc. 1836. Known as the hub of Cajun Country (see Acadia), it is a commercial, shipping, and medical center for an area producing sugarcane, rice, cotton, dairy cattle, livestock, and petroleum. Manufactures include apparel, jewelry, and building materials. The area's oil and natural gas boom contributed to a large population increase and an influx of new businesses to the city in the 1980s and 90s. The Heymann Oil Center is headquarters for several oil companies. Of interest are St. John's Cathedral (1916), a Carmelite monastery, a planetarium, natural history and children's museums, and the Cajun Dome stadium. The Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette is there, and the city is the scene of an annual Mardi Gras and the Festival Acadiens. Evangeline Downs racetrack and casino and the Cypress Island Preserve are nearby.

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Here's an event I encountered, but it is not word for word.
[villager name] found a heathen mask on the ground. What should she do?
{Put it on}
{Bury it}
I chose to bury it
{villagername} decided not to wear the mask. It was a dangerous game and she made the right decision. From her choice she gained faith and you gained energy +faith +35 energy
I just progressed dramatically in my game.
The trick of 'locking' orange heathens using children/nursing mothers is simple and effective, this is how you do it:(Its not much of a spoiler but it may ruin some people's un-interfered game experience)
-1: Choose a child or nursing mother that is young/early in pregnancy and pick them up
-2: Drag them over to the orange heathen(s) you wish to lock
-3: Drop the person and quickly pick them up. This SHOULD capture the attention of the heathen(s), but if not, repeat.
-4: Slowly drag the person over to a place out of traffic, making sure not to lose the attention of the orange heathen(s)
-5: Hold the person EXTREMELY still over the heathen(until the heathen(s) stop moving) and press 'M', which should bring you to the map.
-6: The heathen(s) should be trapped in motion, and as long as no natural occurrences interfere or you don't pick up or drop anyone there, they should stay there.
-Do not get impatient dragging the person, if you move too quickly, the heathens will lose attention and stop following
-Multiple heathens can be frozen this way, as long as you have all locked in place when you press 'M', they will ALL be frozen
For those who are troubled with the totems:
The Hungry Totem
-First you want to gather all of your builders in the fenced area
-Second, ensure you have enough energy to create bees and butterflies to distract the guards.
-Third, click on the bee button then click ON the totem
-Fourth, (optionally, use the butterflies as well) Wait for the guards to flee before you quickly drag EVERY adult you have onto the totem.
-Note: if the totem didn't demolish completely before the effects wore off, try again
The Knowing Totem
This totem was fairly hard for me, but was the climax of my progression.
-First, try the locking trick on the orange guards in the lab and guarding the totem and keep them FAR away from the totem.
-Second, Move all of your adults into the fenced area
-Third, strike the totem with lightning(and optionally bees), ensuring all of the guards flee.
-Fourth, wait till the totem stops sparking before quickly dragging ALL of your adults onto the totem. This may not destroy it the first time but repeat as needed
How do you Get the people in the Red and Yellow masks to listen if you run away from the red ones and the yellow ones chase you? Also How do you stop the Heathen Master Farmer from "Weeping"? OH so many questions.. Wich would I proboly want to upgrade first? Would I want to upgrade the science, Food, Or Construction thing first? Send? and Last? (Out of all of them) Sry IM taking up all this space I just really wasnt to beat this game... SO ADDICTING! Just one more and I think Ill be done asking... What is Puzzle Number 15 and how do you beat it? Oh and how do you beat puzzle 9 and 13???? Okay Im done please send me messages! THANKS!
here's how to research medicine without tearing down the totem:
1:make sure there are no yellow masks. 2: explain the truth to everyone at the hospital. 3: if they have a light, drop a villager on them and they will run away. 4: do step 3 to everyone. 5: research medicine. 6: make sure nobody gets in the hospital again.
Puzzle 5 DOES NOT require a Master Builder. All that is required is a Master Scientist. I completed it with a Master Scientist and 2 Adept Builders. Also, if your Master Scientist happens to be a nursing mother, she will still write the proof on the back wall to convert the Heathen Master Scientist.
Just a strategy tip (for those with level three construction)... if you're playing in fast mode, feeling like it's taking forever for something to build, use a certain godly power that helped you build faster than someone else earlier. I have people polishing so I can keep getting this power.
I hope this is vague enough not to be spoiler, but clear enough to help others...
I have 2 (no choice) events.
#1 The Pesky Critter
An adorable but noisy lemur has taken an interest in the lab recently. The little animal loves attention & keeps chattering and squeaking @ the researchers until they play with him. He's so cute no one wants to chase him off, even tho he's keeping them from working. They resign themselves to just accomadating until he gets bored & moves on. Your villagers lose some tech points.
(I lost approx. 900)
#2 The Vision
Sitting alone one afternoon, (villager) sees someone standing alone @ the edge of the forest. Approaching this stranger, he/she is filled with warmth and euphoria. Upon reaching the edge of the forest, it turns out that the stranger was just a trick of the light but (villager) is sure that it meant more than this. (villager) gains faith.
Aloso Jamie is right that puzzle 5 doesn't need a master builder. I used 3 adepts.
JIGuest drag a Master Scientist to the, i think it's animal skin, board in the back of the science center. It will say attempting the proof. The Heathen Master Scientist will come over to "Observe the Proof" and when your scientist is done the heathen with examine the proof and then, if it's right, he will celebrate the proof. you have to do this many times to get his faith up. When the yellow orb is above his head you cannot attempt the proof. It will take a couple of hours for it to go away.
I accidentally managed to get my Purple Heathen(the master builder) pregnant and now she's walking around with a baby. I was moving one of my builders out of the way while trying to get the blocking totem down and dropped him on her. Now she's walking around with a baby. Has this happened to anyone else? Will she ever stop nursing so I can challenge her? She is the only purple heathen I have left.
Two questions:
1 - How do I get my villagers to honor the hand? They used to do it sometimes when I dropped them on it, but now every time I drop them on it, they polish the statue instead of honoring it. Makes it pretty difficult to get masters of all skills when you have converted all the heathens.
2- All my buildings/projects are built. Is there any way to get the Jenga trophy now or did I blow it? It just took so long to get my max energy high enough for an earthquake.
To help converting the rascal
Click on a villager and drop him near rascal, then pick the villager up again and get the rascal to follow him to the dirty camp, press m to get the map and this will hold him there. Then use the earthquake on the camp this will give all the heathens a light above thier heads including rascal. You have to do this about 3 times for them to convert.
She's been carrying the baby for over 24 hours real time now. But, I can still challenge her, I tried last night, so I'm curious to see what happens when I convert her. I'm just waiting to get enough energy to get the time warp godly power so I can win the challenge and see what happens to her and the baby.
Well, my game has been pretty much ruined.
I made it, say, two-thirds of the way through it, but now I have an orange-masked kiddie (with the appropriately named skill of "Rascal" disrupting everything I try to do.
He never leaves the area just below the statue, no matter how many of my population I remove from the are.
If I try to finish the statue to its highest level, he disrupts the builders.
If I try to get more food from the farm or berry bush, he makes the farmer drop their food.
If I get the children to get more relics, he intercepts them and makes them drop them.
If I get the children to get more science items, he interceptsmore than half of them and makes them drop them.
So that's pretty much the end of the game for me. I've finished most of the puzzles, but I can't (1) finish the statue, (2) increase my energy, (3) feed my population, and I can (4) barely increase my tech points.
Great game.
All of my builders have at least some building skill. All but 2 are Adept or Master. They can initially touch it after the lightning strike. I can see most carrying wood for a few seconds, so they are at least starting to dismantle it. They never have enough time to get anywhere before the Pain Totem is up and zapping again.
your game is not over. Distract rascal by putting butterflies up in a corner where your people are not working. He loves to play with them and it keeps him occupied. Great way to gather all the little kids too if you need the group to break the totem next to the pond.
Everyone was talking about how they were changing the water different colors, how do you do that?
How do you get fish in your pond?
Hi guys, I have an idea about the Jenga trophy!!!
When you have the clothing hut and click on it, it says completion 100% right? it never says it finishes no matter what, so I think Last Day of Work thought about people taking a while to get the earthquake power. If you use earthquake on the clothing hut, I think it will reset the progress... Tell me if this works because I don't have the earthquake yet.
I got a problem with the puzzle 13. I had a master scientist drawing on the blackboard several times and the heaten converted also (happend all when I was not actually playing) but I can't find the necklace piece anywhere and can't get the puzzle solved because of that. What can I do? I don't have any purple masked scientist anymore.
Help me!! I cannot get any of my builders to master! I have one, but he is getting old and I am really afraid that he is going to die before I can get the second one and tear down the blocking totem! I have built 2 cabins, the love shack and the clothing shack, and upgraded the hand. I don't have enough tech points to get third degree building power so I can upgrade again. I am fixing the shacks over and over and over and he keeps improving and going up levels but not to master! It's driving me crazy! Is there anything else I can do?
I am SOOO bored!!!! I am stuck where I need 2 master builders to do the stupid blocking totem, but everything is built. I have had one guy fixing the huts over and over for hours of real time, and he keeps improving and going up levels, but I CANNOT get him to Master. My other master is going to die before he becomes a master. Also I have already improved the hand (he did it entirely by himself, and only went up like a cm on the scale!) and I don't have enough tech points to get level 3 construction so he can polish the hand. I am going to quit if something doesn't happen soon!
I can't seem to get any master builders. I have a couple of villagers that have been building everything since day one and not one of them is a master builder. I have master farmers and master scientists, but even my constant construction crew are not master builders. I have two small huts and the clothing hut. I'm not going to be able to bring down the blocking totem. Any advice?
from K8 Nipper:
Here's an event I encountered, but it is not word for word.
[villager name] found a heathen mask on the ground. What should she do?
{Put it on}
{Bury it}
I chose to bury it
{villagername} decided not to wear the mask. It was a dangerous game and she made the right decision. From her choice she gained faith and you gained energy +faith +35 energy
-- I chose to wear it and my villager became a heathen, then no-one believed in me and I lost the game!
Have a few more events:
#1 The Mysterious Footprints
One morning the villagers notice that strange footprints have appeared on the ground overnight. They later discover a number of very useful scientific instruments that seem to come out of nowhere, as though they simply fell from the sky. Your village has gained 2000 tech points.
#2 The Mysterious Footprints
Same first sentence. They later discover that someone or something has stolen some important research tools. Your village has lost 2000 tech points.
#3 The Clumsy Heathen
One of the heathens brings a vial to show his tribesmen by the noni bush. He trips and spills the substance on the ground. A few days later, the noni bush seems to have produced a lot more fruit!
#4 Barrel O'Babies
A large barrel full of giggling infants comes bobbing down the stream. For some reason, these babies prefer the heathens and are adopted by them.
(choice events)
#1 The Missing Kids
One of the villagers notices that little (kid) is missing and thinks a heathen must be responsible. One of the adults confronts the heathen regarding little (kid). The heathen seems very upset and scary.
Yell for help
Try to help the heathen (I chose)
The believer and the heathen realize that their children may have gone off somewhere together. They share information about the children's favorite spots and quickly find them.
#2 Trick or Trade
(villager) has discovered that the heathens have some important scrolls in their dirty hovels. They don't seem to realize what they have, but (villager) knows that these scrolls could be very helpful to their own research. (villager) believes that he/she could either try to negotiate a trade or perhaps he/ she could steal them, with the proper distraction.
Employ a clever ruse
Trade some food for the scrolls (my choice)
(villager) arranges a barter session with an envoy from the heathen camp. Finally, they agree to trade the scrolls for 100 food. The trade goes smoothly, and (villager) gains some respect from the heathens for his/her honest business practices. Also, one of the heathens produces a piece that was missing from the scrolls that was apparently stuck to his foot! Good thing they mentioned it! Your tribe gains 3000 tech points. (you also lost 100 food)
Have finished game and have all stars (trophies) except million tech and million food and 50 island events. I noticed that puzzle 17 is called heathen parent (not mommy)
but did ya notice after a male "mommy" is converted and you check their child's details that he (mommy) isn't shown as a male parent but as a female with the same name and other parent is unknown. Very weird!!
The Mausoleum that you have to unbury is where the dead villagers go.
Someone asked a while ago what makes the villagers drop the babies once they get stuck in the neverending nursing cycle. Here's some insight. It has to do with how many villagers you have. You would think that as long as the you had less than the max of 90 that they would start dropping them, but it wasn't until I got to under 80 villagers that they started dropping them (I maxed out at 101 once I converted all the heathens). So, if you want them to drop the babies, start letting your villagers die without reviving them and don't impregnate anyone new. I am at 75 villagers now and have eight nursing mothers. When I went from 76 to 75, one of them started counting down.
Ok guys, there have been 2 women I granted youth to. They were esteemed elders and it was easier to make them young and have them teach in the nursery then to try and keep up with making new elders after all the puzzles were solved. Problem...They both have been impregnated and have stayed that way. They both have been nursing these babies for 20 game years. Does anyone know how to fix this bug? LOL
How do you make a spoiler with a posting?
[There's a link to an example of how to add spoiler tags above the comment box where you leave a message. Use the comment preview to test your spoilers first before posting. It'll help. :) -Jay]
Just to let those who don't know that when you drop your Master Scientist onto the "broken aqueduct" it should be on the broken pieces of wood to the left of the platform the crying purple heathen is sitting on and you only need the Master Scientist not the Master Builder too. The aqueduct goes up very, very fast. Thank God for the "Hand of Bloom."


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The life-size Barbie-mobile features white custom leather interior, hand-stitched floor mats and a motorized vanity in the truck, as well as plenty of mirrors, rhinestone accents and of course, pink everywhere.
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On the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of Israel's independence, Palestinian Media Watch has prepared a comprehensive report describing how the establishment of the state is depicted in the Palestinian Authority's educational system and official media, both of which operate under the supervision of PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The report documents how the establishment of Israel and its continued existence are demonized by spokesmen and representatives of the PA in the official controlled media.
The report does not include quotes from the media controlled by Hamas, since the Hamas position concerning Israel's existence is well-known and its charter calls for the destruction of Israel. The aim of the report is to document the PA positions expressed in internal Palestinian discourse in Arabic that are not expressed to the outside world. The report focuses on statements by senior PA officials, columnists in the official PA press, and program hosts and reporters on PA TV, from 2010-2011.
"The Zionist gangs stole Palestine ... and established the state of Israel"
- this quote, from an official PA 12th Grade schoolbook, is an accurate depiction of how the PA educates its population to view the establishment of the State of Israel.
Presenting the creation of the state as an act of theft and its continued existence as a historical injustice serves as the basis for the PA's non-recognition of Israel's right to exist. In order to create an ideological basis for this, the PA denies there was an ancient Jewish history in the Land of Israel and also distorts modern history, presenting Zionism as a demonic Nazi-like phenomenon.
In order to explain what made Jews come to Israel, since they claim there was no historical connection to draw them, Zionism is presented as a colonialist movement created by the West to further its interests. First, the countries of Europe wanted to rid themselves of the Jews and needed a place for them. They also wanted a foreign body in the heart of the Arab world to serve Europe's colonialist aims. For these reasons, they sent the Jews to "steal Palestine."
Israel is further demonized through images and descriptions, such as "the foster child of the Nazis," "an organized terror state," "the cruelest enemy," etc. Accordingly, the idea of the State of Israel ceasing to exist is presented as the achievement of justice.
Today, following the establishment of a Fatah and Hamas unity government, many countries are demanding that Hamas recognize Israel's right to exist as a condition for the world's recognition of their new government. Ironically, this very condition is violated daily by the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas.
The report:
1. "The Zionist gangs stole Palestine"
2. Not recognizing Israel's right to exist
3. Establishment of the State of Israel presented as "colonialist" plan
4. Demonic images and descriptions of the State of Israel
5. Justice will be achieved when Israel ceases to exist
1. "The Zionist gangs stole Palestine"
"The Zionist gangs stole Palestine" is a quote from a Palestinian Authority official 12th-Grade schoolbook. It encapsulates how the PA views - and educates its population to view - the establishment of the State of Israel. The position that the establishment of the state was an act of theft and a fundamental historical injustice is the basis for the PA's non-recognition of Israel's right to exist. The establishment of the state is presented as the result of crime, robbery and theft by foreigners with neither the right nor any historical connection to the place, with the deliberate aim of harming the Arab inhabitants of the land. The term "Zionist gangs" is prevalent in Palestinian discourse and refers to the generation that founded the state. The word "theft" refers to the acts of developing the land and establishing the state.
The following are some examples:
In a 12th-Grade schoolbook:
"Palestine's war ended with a catastrophe that is unprecedented in history, when the Zionist gangs stole Palestine and expelled its people from their cities, their villages, their lands and their houses, and established the State of Israel."
[Arabic Language, Analysis, Literature and Criticism, Grade 12, p. 104.
The book is in current use.]
Special Ramadan supplement to the official PA daily features a daily competition with prizes. The text of the Balfour Declaration is shown, followed by the question:
"The cursed James Arthur Balfour Declaration led to the theft of the homeland and the expulsion of an entire people, in a campaign of ethnic cleansing unparalleled in modern history. On what date and what month in 1917 was this declaration issued?"
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 7, 2010]
PA TV item on the UN vote on the Partition Plan of 1948:
"The Zionist leadership, in its declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, refrained from defining its borders - with the goal of justifying the plan for settlement and theft of Palestinian and Arab lands."
[PA TV (Fatah) Nov. 29, 2010]
PA TV item on UN Resolution 194, broadcast on International Refugee Day:
"The Resolution, which stipulated return and restitution for the Palestinian refugees who had been expelled by force from their homes and from their land by the Zionist gangs in 1948 in the greatest operation of ethnic cleansing, continues to be a black chapter in human history."
[PA TV (Fatah), June 20, 2010]
Columnist in the PA daily under the headline, "Zionism reproduces the Holocaust":
"They plundered the Palestinian land and national interests, and established their state upon the ruins of the Palestinian Arab people, under the faded and false slogan, 'A nationless land for a landless nation."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 19, 2011]
PA TV news item about disagreements among Israeli ethnic groups:
"This [internal Israeli conflict] is not the first time, nor will it be the last, in the history of the conflicts between the [different Israeli] ethnic populations of the world among those who stole Palestine in search of an alleged homeland that would take them in."
[PA TV (Fatah), June 17, 2010]
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 23, 2010]
2. Not recognizing Israel's right to exist
In order to substantiate the claim that the establishment of the State of Israel was an act of theft, the PA engages in historical revision. The ancient Jewish history in the Land of Israel is erased, while modern Jewish history is distorted in order to present Zionism as a demonic phenomenon. Thus,, the PA leadership creates the ideological basis for negating Israel's right to exist. PA spokesmen have claimed that the Jewish nation is an "invented nation," intended to justify Zionism; this ignores the reality of Zionism as the expression of the aspirations of the Jewish people returning to its homeland. This historical revision and erasure of the connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel results in the verdict that the State of Israel has no right to exist.
The following are some examples:
PA Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash:
"History proves the Arab, Islamic and Palestinian right to this land and disproves all the Israeli claims that they have religious and historical rights in this land."
[PA TV interview (Fatah), March 2, 2010]
"The political science department at Bir Zeit University held... a political symposium with the participation of scholar Antoine Shalhat, who spoke about static and changing elements of Zionist ideology...
Shalhat said that the idea of Zionism is the establishment of a national home for Jews in Palestine and the invention of a new nationality, known as the Jewish nation, and that the first to propose this was the Jewish Theodore Herzl, who spoke in his book Altneuland about his ideas of establishing a Jewish state."
Shalhat said that the idea of Zionism is the establishment of a national home for Jews in Palestine and the invention of a new nationality, known as the Jewish nation, and that the first to propose this was the Jewish Theodore Herzl, who spoke in his book Altneuland about his ideas of establishing a Jewish state."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 27, 2010]
Adli Sadeq, columnist for the official PA daily:
"The very least [we can do] is to declare explicitly that recognition of Israel's right to be a state in this region represents an environmental and security hazard; it creates the basis for acute internal and regional tensions, and distorts history, just as it poisons the future."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 18, 2010]
Jordanian academic Muhammad Dohal, interviewed on PA TV documentary program about the UN Partition Plan:
"The Jews are hated in every society in which they have lived, because of their behavior relating to their great love of money. ... This was the source of their harm to the societies around them, including Palestinian society, Arab-Palestinian society. We all know that the Jews lived in Palestine and the Palestinian people adopted them, so to say, and they lived in dignity. But they contrived schemes by means of their secret organizations, which gave rise to the idea of the need to purchase tracts of land and to seize control of them, and then to claim that they were the owners of a great area of the land, and that they were the original inhabitants of this land, and that the people which had adopted them was simply accidental in this land... Their behavior led to [Shakespeare's] famous story, the story of Shylock about money lending, which clings to the Jews. This is how they harmed the societies that embraced them."
[PA TV (Fatah), Oct. 10 and 17, 2010]
On the same program, Jordanian scholar Daoud Al-Burin spoke about the alternatives that were raised for the Jewish State. He concluded:
"After that they chose Palestine because of a supposed historical connection to Palestine."
[PA TV (Fatah), Oct. 10 and 17, 2010]
In a ceremony broadcast on PA TV marking Land Day:
"The forces of evil conspired against them [the Palestinians] and in 1917 the cursed Balfour Declaration [was issued], establishing the right of the Jews on the land of Palestine."
[PA TV (Fatah), March 30, 2011]
Adel Abd Al-Rahman, columnist in the official PA daily:
"The false story of the Zionists, according to which Palestine is 'the promised land,' is simply a lie without any basis. No person of the Jewish faith who was born in any country of the world has the right to return to Palestine, other than Jews who were born in Palestine."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 16, 2010]
Adel Abd Al-Rahman, columnist in the official PA daily:
"The history and heritage of Jericho confirm the Arab-Palestinian-Canaanite narrative concerning the entire Palestinian land, from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river, negating anything else, especially the false Zionist narrative."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 21, 2010]
Abd Al-Rahman, columnist for the official PA daily, on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration:
"Today is a painful anniversary for the Palestinian people, the 93rd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, in which those who had no ownership of the Palestinian soil and homeland - the British colonialists - gave to those who had no connection to the land, neither near nor distant - the Zionists, in order to realize a colonialist aim, in the service of the objectives of the colonialist West in the Arab region."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 2, 2010]
3. Establishment of the State of Israel presented as "colonialist" plan
In order to explain Israel's existence as a country of immigrants who have no connection with the land, the claim is made - in President Mahmoud Abbas's name - that "the Zionist movement is not Jewish, nor did it flow from the desire of the Jews themselves; rather, it was an imperialist colonialist movement which sought to use the Jews and to enlist them for the benefit of the west's colonialist plans." (See source below.) In other words, the State of Israel is the result of an international imperialist plot. The PA argues that the countries of Europe (led by Britain) tried to rid themselves of the Jews, who were a burden to them. They wanted a foreign body in the heart of the Arab world and establishing a state for the Jews there served this colonialist purpose.
The following are some examples:
PA President Mahmoud Abbas raised this claim in his research, as testified by a professor of political science at Bir Zeit University, Dr. Samih Hamouda:
"The department of political science at Bir Zeit University, in cooperation with Madar [The Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies], held a political symposium yesterday... Professor Samih Hamouda, from the department of political science at Bir Zeit University, presented an analysis of the research studies of President Mahmoud Abbas, on the subject of Zionist ideology. Prof. Hamouda said that in his writings and research, the President linked Zionism with imperialism, by examining the reasons for the growth of Zionism, through scientific analysis of European society and the problem of Jews in Europe, and linked this with western aspirations in the Arab East. He added, 'In the President [Abbas's] studies, the Zionist movement is not Jewish, nor did it flow from the desire of the Jews themselves; rather, it was an imperialist colonialist movement which sought to use the Jews and to enlist them for the benefit of the western colonialist plans.'"
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 27, 2010]
PA TV program reviewing the 20th history of the region, as reflected in the paintings of Palestinian artist Ismail Shammout:
"At the beginning of the 20th century, the European colonialists - especially Britain - found that their interests fit the aspirations of the developing World Zionist Movement, and they began to offer their patronage and support, not only with promises, but with all means that would allow this racist movement [Zionism] to realize its primary goal: the establishment of a Jewish entity upon the land of Palestine, at the expense of the authentic Palestinian Arab nation..."
[PA TV (Fatah), July 28, 2010]
Ahmad Hanoun, senior member of the PLO department for refugee affairs:
"Most of the world participated, clearly and directly, in the plot against the Palestinian people. Meaning, they are partners in [creating] the tragedy that befell the Palestinian people. Nowhere [else] in history did the UN partition a land, giving it and allowing a part [of the population] that was not authentic to establish a state in that land, while not allowing the other nation to establish its state."
[PA TV (Fatah), Nov. 1, 2010]
Adel Abd Al-Rahman, columnist for the official PA daily:
"The evil European and American forces enabled [the Jews] to achieve the idea of a 'national home,' in order to be rid of them and to remove from European society the results and ramifications of the Holocaust which they had carried out against the Jews of Europe in Nazi Germany. This was [done] with the aim of tearing apart the Arab land, by planting them as an imperialist colonialist enterprise in Arab Palestine. Instead of opposing the West's colonialist plans and ideas, the Zionist Jews were glad to be the pawns of and fuel for the colonialist enterprise."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 19, 2011]
PA TV report on the anniversary of the Al-Karameh battle of 1968:
"The Al-Karameh [battle] was the turning point in restoring [Arab] honor following the defeats of the Arab armies against Israel, which had been established by an international conspiracy upon the ruins of a people which remains alive."
[PA TV (Fatah), March 21, 2011]
4. Demonic images and descriptions of the State of Israel
The Palestinian Authority demonizes Israel through horrific visual images and descriptions, and uses terminology that presents Israel as "the foster child of Nazism," "the organized terror state," "the cruelest enemy," etc...
The following are some examples:
Coordinator of the Prisoners' Committee of the National and Islamic Parties, Yasser Mazhar, on behalf of the Committee:
"Israel is the foster child of Nazism, and a strategic ally of racism, which has disappeared from the world - except for there."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 27, 2010]
Jamal Tamimi, a lecturer in communications at Al-Quds University, responding to the question, Where is Israel is headed?
"To what is beyond Hitlerism, what is beyond fascism, what is beyond Nazism."
[PA TV (Fatah), Oct. 12, 2010]
Senior Fatah member, Marwan Barghouti, serving 5 life sentences in Israel for his involvement in terror activities, in an interview from prison:
"The great Palestinian people - generators of the longest armed revolution in modern history, and proprietors of the two mightiest and greatest Intifadas in the region, facing the cruelest enemy and Zionist settlement colonialism that is unparalleled in the modern history of colonialism..."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 28, 2010]
Adel Abed Al-Rahman, columnist in the official PA daily:
"The Israeli apartheid state, possessing no cultural heritage or any collective symbol for a society born from the womb of the Zionist and Western imperialist attack, aspires and exerts efforts to appropriate and take over symbols and elements of the Palestinian national identity. Even when it comes to agricultural produce, such as oranges and other fruits. All this is in order to strengthen its false claims and its fallacious stories to the world and its cultural and scientific institutions... The Israel organized terror state acts vigorously, and on more than one level, to eliminate the Palestinian issue... [Some] pretend not to know that all areas of life are [battle]fields for the conflict with the Zionist movement and with its racist and fascist state."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 19, 2010]
In an announcement published by the PLO Executive Council on the 22nd anniversary of the Palestinian declaration of independence (1988):
"Owing to its policy that is hostile to peace and stability, Israel has become a growing political and moral burden on all of humanity."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 15, 2010]
In an article on the subject of the huge fire in the Carmel Forest last December:
"Israel - whose preparations for destruction and war we hear about daily - is now unable to protect nature, which belongs to [all] mankind. This is a natural outcome for a country whose aim is destruction and ruin of humanity."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 8, 2010]
5. Justice will be achieved when Israel ceases to exist
The Palestinian Authority policy is to present the conflict with Israel as a struggle between Palestinians who are said to be innocent, with justice on their side, and Israel, which is said to be oppressive and cruel, void of legitimate rights. For this reason, the PA objective - having a world without the State of Israel - is not perceived as negative or unjust towards the citizens of Israel. Rather, it is presented as the attainment of historical justice.
A Fatah member of the Palestinian Parliament, Najat Abu-Bakr, stated this explicitly:
"I am certain that the State of Israel - this entity which the world implanted in our body, in our bones and in our history - this is the beginning of the end of this oppressive entity."
[PA TV (Fatah), June 1, 2010]
The same message was conveyed by the narrator on a PA TV program about refugee camps. The narrator addresses the Jews of Israel, asking them to leave - in the name of justice:
"Where are you [Israelis] from? Where are you from? Where are you from? Of course, you're from Ukraine; of course, you're from Germany, from Poland, from Russia, from Ethiopia, the Falasha (pejorative for Ethiopian Jews). Why have you stolen my homeland and taken my place? Please, I ask of you, return to your original homeland, so that I can return to my original homeland. This is my homeland; go back to your homeland!"
[PA TV (Fatah), May 4 and 7, 2010]
The call for Jews to leave Israel that was expressed on official PA TV - "Return to your original homeland, so that I can return to my original homeland" - exemplifies the basis of the Palestinian Authority ideology, as documented in this report. The PA's logic is:
Since "the Zionist gangs stole Palestine," justice will be attained only when that which was stolen is returned.
Since "recognition of Israel's right to be a state in this region represents an environmental and security hazard," then for the sake of peace, justice demands that the danger be neutralized.
Since "the European and American forces of evil facilitated for them [the Jews] the idea of a 'national home'... with the aim of tearing apart the Arab land, by planting them as an imperialist colonialist enterprise in Arab Palestine," then justice will be achieved only when this "colonialist enterprise" ceases to exist.
Since "Israel is the foster child of Nazism, and a strategic ally of racism, which has disappeared from the world - except for there," then justice demands the removal of the last remnant of Nazism in the world.
This position--that the State of Israel has no right to exist and therefore justice will be attained only with its termination--is a primary component of Palestinian Authority ideology. Today, following the establishment of a Fatah and Hamas unity government, many countries are demanding that Hamas recognize Israel's right to exist as a condition for the world's recognition of their new government. Ironically, it is this very condition that the Palestinian Authority itself under Mahmoud Abbas violates daily.


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Garry's Mod is powerful, but not this powerful. That's where "Photoshop" comes in. But this brilliant Minecraft/Half-Life 2 mashup uses both to tell a charming story.
Before you go asking OMG, where's the texture pack, here's the scoop. Artist Robbaz recorded the opening in Minecraft, went through the portal, then spliced in a recording made in a Half-Life 2 map made to look like Minecraft.
Still, it's nice to see the Creepers get the business end of an M-60.
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Super uncomfortable...can't walk for too long with those shoes with out feeling stones in it, look pretty but only for a picture not to wear.
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I would throw crazy money for the old throw backs of Ronnie Creager originals. Wish they can make them again like the schemes.
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I tried really hard to set aside my bias against this band and go for some journalistic integrity for this review. But, after about 13 seconds into track 1, sorry, I couldn't.
This band has changed a lot since they started out, going from weird christian metal-vocaled stuff with keyboards to the second comming of Taking Back Sunday. Either way, it was always awful and made me go sleepy. This deal is nothing new. I guess its a bit "harder" than the last one, but still not inventive or original like their fan base tries to pass them off as. The psuedo-breakdowns are even more boring than the played out ones we hear in a lot of metalcore, and the fact that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM has a bed of that noise chord shit going on underneath it makes the whole album fucking unlistenable.
These chicks need to stop listening to Every Time I Die. Putting twang in your vocals is only cool if you're last name is Willams and your first name is Henry. Oh, and trying to sound all avant-garde only works if you have a little talent. The sung vocals are off-key (and don't tell me on purpose, anyone who sounds like shit on purpose deserves a slug between the eyes) and the screams sound exactly like all the other faggoty emo-core-bi-curious bags of shit currently flooding underground music.
And then theres the lyrics. Holy christ, the lyrics -
"They're watching, They're watching
I am being watched
This is overwhelming
Fucking brilliantly put, wow, I've never heard anything so poignant and piercing into my soul. Suck a cock.
I also tried really hard to find something about this I could pick out and not hate with every cell of my being, but alas, this turd's as corny as it comes. Fuck this band, this style, and anyone who likes it.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Both the UMBC men's and women's school records in the 1,000m run fell, courtesy of senior Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley) and junior Sarah Daly (Lake Orion, Mich./Lake Orion), as the UMBC track and field team opened competition against a national field at the 2014 Armory Collegiate Invitational. The meet is the USTFCCCA Division I National Meet of the Week.
After setting a personal-best in the event nearly three weeks ago at the Navy Invitational to jump to third in the UMBC record book, Albino placed his name on top on Friday in New York. The veteran placed sixth in the race, crossing the line with a new school-best time of 2:25.48 to pass Izudin Mehmedovic's previous record from 2007.
In the women's race, Daly inched past senior Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) as both set personal-bests to claim the top two spots in the record book and qualify for the ECAC Championships. Daly, who placed 14th, takes the top spot with a time of 2:53.04 with Mezebish just back at 2:53.23. Sophomore Angelina Oputa (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton) also set a new best by clocking in at 2:58.06 to claim the third-best time in school history.
Freshman Erick Soetje (Clarksburg, Md.) placed himself in the UMBC top-ten for the 400m run on Friday evening. Soetje finished 26th overall in the college event, crossing the line with a time of 49.54 to jump up to fourth in the record book. In the women's race, junior Kalane' Abbey (Laurel, Md./Laurel) set a season-best of 56.92.
In the sprints, junior Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) set a season-best of 7.41 twice, advancing to the finals where she placed fourth overall. After running 7.51 in the prelims, Jackson clocked in at 7.41 in both the semifinals and finals.
Senior Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K. Magnet), who met the ECAC standard last week at Penn State, set a season-best in the 400m run with a time of 56.14.
Meanwhile, in the 500m run, senior Deborah Adelola (Lanham, Md./Bladensburg) placed sixth overall (1:15.10), while sophomore Marie Yuille (Boiwe, Md.) set a personal-best of 1:16.82 to grab the tenth-best time in school history.
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2014 Mazda 3 Revealed
All-new hatchback is infused with Kodo design.
Mazda has released photos and information of its new 2014 Mazda 3 compact hatchback. This marks an important debut for Mazda, as the 3 is the company's best-selling model in the U.S.
The hatchback model in these photos showcases the company's Kodo design language and closely follows the lines of the midsize Mazda 6 sedan. Inside, the car is also similar to the larger 6 in its design, and apparently the material quality has been upgraded across the board. There is a new infotainment system with a larger display as well. We will see the sedan model in two weeks when we get our first stint behind the wheel of the new 3.
Globally, the Mazda 3 will offer numerous Skyactiv powertrain options ranging from 1.5- to 2.5-liter gasoline engines, with a 2.2-liter Skyactiv diesel available in Europe. Expect the U.S. Mazda 3 to receive the carryover Skyactiv 2.0-liter four-cylinder that produces 155 hp, as well as the larger, 184-hp 2.5-liter Skyactiv four-cylinder currently found in the Mazda 6, both available with six-speed manual and automatic transmissions. The 2014 Mazda 3 will also feature Mazda's i-ELOOP brake regeneration system which stores electricity to power electrical components, reducing drag on the alternator to maximize fuel efficiency. Although Mazda has confirmed that the 6 diesel will be coming to the U.S., it is unclear whether a diesel engine could find its way into a U.S.-bound 3 as well.
Check back later today for our full first look on the 2014 Mazda 3. In the meantime, check out the gallery below for photos of the new 3.
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IYA2009 Update
13 February 2009
Dear Friends,
Some short updates from the past week:
100 Hours of Astronomy:
- Press Release: 100 Hours of Astronomy project kicks off! IYA2009) is about to reach new heights as the Global Cornerstone Project, 100 Hours of Astronomy, scheduled to take place from 2-5 April 2009, ramps up. The project invites amateur astronomers, educators, professional astronomers, planetaria, science centres and more to arrange events around the world during this 4-day period and to publicise them now on the project website. For those wishing to visit the frontiers of astronomy from their home, a 24-hour webcast from the largest telescopes on the planet will take a unique look behind the scenes at state of the art research facilities. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iya0904/
- 100 Hours of Astronomy Cornerstone Project UPDATE!: The excitement is building for the 100 Hours of Astronomy project, an unprecedented outreach event taking place around the world 2 - 5 April. The 100 Hours of Astronomy Task Group has many resources and programs available on the official web site at http://www.100hoursofastronomy.org. We hope you'll visit to see what's available and spread the word to people in your country or organization: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/150/
- 100 Hours of Astronomy Poster: IYA2009 is about to reach new heights as the Global Cornerstone Project, 100 Hours of Astronomy, scheduled to take place from 2-5 April 2009, ramps up. And now thanks James White, 100HA has a new amazing poster: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/149/
JENAM2009 Symposium: IYA2009 in Europe, JENA2009, 20 - 23 April 2009, Uni. Hertfordshire, UK The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is a fantastic opportunity for astronomers around the world, and in particular, in Europe to showcase the excitement and challenges of astronomy today. This symposium focuses on two key aspects of IYA2009: outreach in terms of communicating astronomy with the public; the educational value of astronomy in attracting young people into science and technology studies at school and beyond. The latter is deliberately meant to be wide-ranging, from the very young, covered by UNAWE, through secondary schooling and career choice beyond. A huge number of events are planned across Europe, so contributors are invited to share these exciting ideas and because much of the year will remain after the meeting, this is an excellent opportunity to learn from each other and gather new ideas for events in the latter part of the year. More information: http://www.jenam2009.eu
NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy 2009: in conjunction with Galileo's birthday on Feb. 15, NASA is releasing images from its Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory -- to more than 100 planetariums, museums, nature centers, and schools across the country.: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/146/
President of the Polish Republic, Lech Kaczynski, presides over the Polish IYA2009 Honour Committee. More info: http://www.astronomia2009.pl/2/index.php?id=3
Report on StarPeace event between India and Pakistan: On February 9, during a penumbral lunar eclipse, StarPeace connected two countries, Pakistan and India, together. Society of the Sun in Pakistan and Kutch Amateur Astronomy Club in India organized this event successfully in SOS villages of both countries: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/148/
British 1894 Astronomer Royal becomes new Cosmic Diary blogger: The Cosmic Diary, has a new participant: Great Britain's Astronomer Royal from the year 1894, William Henry Mahony Christie. He will be joined by his two assistants, Herbert Hall Turner and Frank Watson Dyson, as they each blog in text and images about their lives and work at the Greenwich Observatory via the official website: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/151/
IYA2009 News Round-up: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/152/
Valcato Hosting: To celebrate IYA2009, Valcato Hosting is offering one year of free web hosting for any and all astronomy websites!: http://www.valcatohosting.com/
StarLight: A Common Heritage: Declaration in Defence of the Night Sky and the Right to Starlight and Starlight, A Common Heritage Book are available in PDF: http://www.starlight2007.net/
If you need any assistance, remember that the Secretariat is always available for you.
Kind regards,
Pedro and Mariana
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My website, Over50andOverseas, is primarily a resource for international volunteer opportunities for persons over 50 years of age. Recently, have noticed many visitors to the site have an interest in obtaining information about international employment. I understand the interest. I have been both an international volunteer and an employee of international non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations.
For me, it all began with international volunteering. Over 50 at the time, I served in the Peace Corps in the early 90s in Guatemala. My Peace Corps service led to service as a United Nations Volunteer (UNV) in Bosnia in 1996. The Bosnia experience led to employment with an intergovernmental organization. And so began a delightful journey.
Volunteering can become an important portal to international work. To an employer seeking to fill a position in international development or relief work, a person with a successful international volunteer background has proven much-needed abilities. The former volunteer has lived in a culture different than one's own. She/he may have lived in a difficult situation where conveniences considered a given in many societies, such as electricity and running water, were not readily available. Employers have found that many people are attracted to the "romantic" aspects of foreign development work but have a difficult time adjusting to the on-the-ground realities. A former volunteer knows what to expect.
My experience has shown me is that the networking one can do while volunteering internationally can lead to future employment. I mentioned earlier that my Bosnia volunteer experience led to very satisfying work in many parts of the world. Another example. An Italian colleague in Afghanistan read about the dire conditions of the animals in the Kabul Zoo due to the recurring hostilities. She traveled to Kabul to volunteer to help. While volunteering at the zoo she met internationals who were working for development organizations and was offered, and accepted, a very interesting employment opportunity with an intergovernmental organization. I have met many other individuals whose international employment was facilitated by volunteering and networking.
It is important to note that employers are also looking for skills and experience that fit job openings. International volunteering is not the only factor that will secure employment. But, combined with the right background, it can be a deciding factor.
I am including below links to organizations that advertise development and relief work vacancies. You might find something that is of interest to you.
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This call sheet popped in our inbox from a reader vacationing in Hawaii, who found it on the floor of Nobu restaurant last night. Nobody at Deadspin watches the show. So we summoned Gawker's Lost expert to explain. Go crazy, internet.
Leaving important things in bars/restaurants: it's a hot new trend! We called the number listed on the sheet and spoke to a woman named Kelly who wouldn't verify if the call sheet was real. She said that they do produce fake call sheets to confuse people, because "We're smart like that." So it could be fake. But if it's not, what does it tell us??
Well, it mentions skeleton props. Which, to us, means the Adam & Eve skeletons from wayyy back in season one. Show captains Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse promised that they would answer that mystery for us, so perhaps we get it in the finale.
There is also a lot of language about people being lowered on ropes into waterfalls or something. The boys (there are no girl characters listed on the sheet) are off on some sort of rope-climbing adventure involving water and light. Water and light that Jack is "consumed" by. So make of that what you will.
Jack gets a nosebleed. Like a time sickness nosebleed? MYSTERY.
Most importantly, what does it mean when it says "Jack in Hell"?? That's capital-H Hell. That's real Hell. Are we going to Hell on Lost? We just might be.
One thing we do learn conclusively from this possibly fake artifact is that if you're not on the call sheet, you really need to RSVP to the wrap party by midnight tonight. Get on that guys and have fun. While you're doing that, we'll be here, tearing our hair out over this magical mystery document.
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- Made all the darkest scenes more bright.
- Bigger hitdetection on the Hint button to make it easier to tap. You can now tap on the hint-meter itself as well.
- If zoomed, and you tap the Hint button, it will now unzoom so you easier see the hint.
- On all place-object scenes, moved the objects that are on the bottom up to make them easier to place on.
- Removed the smallest objects on the compare-mask scene.
- Removed a couple of the hardest to find objects on the 2nd scene.
App Description
- Featured by Apple in "New and Noteworthy" in Games, Adventure & Puzzle!
Pirate Mysteries: a tale of Monkeys, Masks and Hidden Objects!
Explore exotic lands while trying to save your demon possessed father in this fun and humorous hidden object game! Meet unique characters, solve ancient riddles and journey through an adventure that stretches from the shores of the Atlantic to the darkest corners in the Land of the Dead!
- Embark on a grand hidden object quest!
- Fun and comedic story line!
- Meet strange and quirky characters along the way!
- 30 unique and exciting locations!
- 10 minigames that needs solving!
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App Changes
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GeForce 306.02 Beta Drivers Add Ambient Occlusion Support
The new NVIDIA GeForce 306.02 beta drivers are now available to download. Recommended for players of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Darksiders 2, Guild Wars 2, and MechWarrior Online, the GeForce 306.02 beta drivers add realistic ambient occlusion shadowing to each of the listed games, in addition to adding NVIDIA Control Panel MSAA and CSAA anti-aliasing support to Darksiders 2.
SLI users will find a range of performance enhancing profiles for titles such as Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Darksiders 2, Orcs Must Die! 2, Planetside 2, Shogun 2: Total War, Sleeping Dogs, and The Secret World. SLI users will also be interested to know that profiles for Borderlands 2 and F1 2012 have been implemented ahead of their respective release dates. On the 3D Vision front we have new and updated profiles for A New Dawn, the yet-to-be-released, highly-anticipated Dishonored, End of Nations, The Secret World, and many more.
August 28th Update: We can confirm that the GeForce 306.02 beta drivers feature a Guild Wars 2 SLI profile that was undocumented in our release notes. As you may be aware, Guild Wars 2 is heavily CPU-bound, and on Kepler GPUs this may result in negative SLI scaling (a lower frame rate when playing with SLI enabled).
At this time we can also confirm that the Ambient Occlusion profile added to the game yesterday can result in certain pieces of terrain becoming transparent. If you experience this issue, simply turn off Ambient Occlusion in the Guild Wars 2 NVIDIA Control Panel profile.
For the complete release notes, scroll down.
NVIDIA Control Panel Game Enhancements
- Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
- Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support and Multisample Anti-Aliasing support to Darksiders 2.
- Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support to Guild Wars 2.
- Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support to MechWarrior Online.
With the range of new settings available in the NVIDIA Control Panel, Darksiders 2 now looks significantly nicer (further down the profile 'NVIDIA Recommended (SLI)' is selected, as is 'High Quality' in the 'Texture filtering - Quality' dropdown). Apply the same Ambient Occlusion settings in the same manner for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Guild Wars 2, and MechWarrior Online.
We recommend enabling 2x MSAA Anti-Aliasing, at minimum, then applying 16x High Quality Texture Filtering, before finally trying Ambient Occlusion, which may prove too demanding for your system.
New & Updated SLI Profiles
- Alan Wake's American Nightmare
- Borderlands 2
- Darksiders 2
- Orcs Must Die! 2
- PlanetSide 2 (Updated)
- Shogun 2: Total War (Updated)
- Sleeping Dogs (Please note that we are currently evaluating SLI bit 0x0C4010F5, which may result in higher performance for users)
- The Secret World (Updated)
New & Updated 3D Vision Profiles
- A New Dawn – Rated Fair
- Alan Wake's American Nightmare – Rated Not Recommended
- All Zombies Must Die! Scorepocalypse – Rated Good
- ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead – Rated Fair
- Bang Bang Racing – Rated Excellent
- Brave – Rated 3D Vision Ready
- Devil May Cry 4 - Rated Fair
- Dishonored – Rated Good
- End of Nations – Rated Good
- London 2012 The Official Video Game – Rated Fair
- Mad Doc Jr.'s Doom Rails – Rated Excellent
- Raiderz – Rated Fair
- Roller Coaster Rampage – Rated 3D Vision Ready
- SCANIA Truck Driving Simulator – Rated Fair
- Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends – Rated Good
- The Secret World – Rated Good
NVIDIA Surround
- Surround settings now persist after new driver install.
Fixed Single-GPU Issues
Windows Vista & Windows 7
- 3D Surround, 4-way SLI: The NVIDIA Control Panel -> Configure Displays for Surround user-assistance screen does not show the correct GPUs to connect the displays on a 4-way SLI system.
- GeForce 400 series: After installing the VGA driver and then choosing the 'restart later' option, the display goes blank when subsequently installing the NVIDIA driver.
- GeForce GT 650M: "No compatible hardware found" error occurs when installing the driver.
- GeForce GTS 400 series: Rendering is not visible with some DirectX 9 applications when Shader model 3.0 is used.
- GeForce GTX 200 series: Mount & Blade Warband - Stuttering occurs during game-play.
- GeForce GTX 500 series, 3D Vision: Crysis 2 & DiRT Showdown - Residual images appear throughout the game if 3D Vision is enabled.
- GeForce GTX 600 series: Titan Quest - Gameplay is jerky and stutters with V-Sync enabled.
Windows 8
- GeForce GTX 500 series, 3D Vision: Crysis 2 & Dirt Showdown - Residual images appear throughout the game if 3D Vision is enabled.
- Optimus Notebook: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to dxgkrnl.sys when attempting to uninstall the driver using the Windows Device manager.
- SLI, Surround: Intel x59 or x79 - With Surround enabled, a blue-screen crash (0xA: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL) may occur when enabling or disabling SLI or Surround modes. When re-installing the NVIDIA driver after uninstalling it, the driver may fail to install.
You can download the GeForce 306.02 beta drivers with one click from the GeForce.co.uk homepage. If you have any feedback or comments, please drop us a note below or use the NVIDIA Display Driver Feedback Form.


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Pigtronix Aria
THE ARIA ($189 RETAIL/$149 STREET) is a hand-painted distortion pedal that, like all Pigtronix products, takes a somewhat different tack. For starters, it boasts an active 3-band EQ that lets you cut frequencies as well as boost them (+/-12dB), resulting in considerably more tone-crafting power than you get with the typical "Tone" control, or even multiple passive tone controls. When boosted, Low packs a tight, punchy buzz with a hint of synth-like edginess; Mid emphasizes the lower end of the toothiness range, adding a little cocked-wah articulation;and High ladles on sizzle and a touch of rasp, but without harshness.
Next, the Aria's diode-clipping circuitry has a somewhat different character than that of many distortion boxes—on some settings reminiscent of the inter-modulation distortion generated by the Crowther Audio Prunes & Custard (one of my favorite pedals). That said, the Aria easily nails fat classic rock and blues tones, including a great tubeamp-like crunch on lower gain settings, convincing early Sabbath metal sounds, and womanly Claptones using a neck humbucker with the guitar's tone control rolled back. This little piggy is also very responsive to playing dynamics, frighteningly quiet even when cranked, and fitted with true-bypass switching. Sooey!
KUDOS Produces classic and modern sounds. Active tone controls. Quiet operation.
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Drawing Profile
OverviewThe Profile tool can display the cross-section of pixel intensity values (the "Profile") along any line (baseline) across an image. When the profile dialog box is open, POW is in the "profile" mode. In this mode, the user can create, move, rotate, and stretch the baseline with the mouse, and the corresponding "Profile" plot is displayed in the separate panel. The coordinates of the starting and stopping points of the profile are also displayed in the dialog box.
Creating profileThe Baseline can be drawn on the image by placing the mouse at the desired starting location and click-and-drag with the right mouse button held down to the end location. When the mouse button is released, a "profile" plot will appear in the separate panel.
Manipulating profileThe position of the current profile can be manipulated using the mouse by grabbing and moving either of the end point handles, or the baseline itself.
To rotate and stretch the baseline, position the mouse over the endpoint you want to move. Press either mouse button, drag it to the desired new position, and release it. The profile plot will be updated.
To move the whole baseline, position the mouse over any part of the baseline except two ends. Press the left mouse button, drag it to the new position, and release it. The profile plot will be updated.
Saving profileBy clicking the "Record" button on the dialog box, one can save the coordinates of the profile plot to an ASCII text file. The data in the saved file contains 4 elements per line: the X and Y graph coordinates of each point, the Pixel Index number (starting with 1), and the intensity value of the image at that position.
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Our finances were crippled, our mental health shattered
As I wrote in my Sunday Herald Sun piece on the weekend, we rarely hear from those who don't end up with a baby at the end of the line. We mostly hear the success stories. So I thought it important to give this letter some prominence here. Nick Parissis wrote to me about the experience of himself and his wife Joann.
Dear Melinda
My name is Nick and my wife's name is Joanna. I read your article today in The Sunday Herald Sun in relation to IVF and wanted to thank you for enlightening the wider community about the truths associated with IVF and adoption in Australia.
My wife and I are both in our early 40's and have been married for 6 years. In 2008 our only child Connor was conceived through normal pregnancy however was born premature at 24 weeks for no explainable reason. Despite the amazing work undertaken by the staff at the Mercy hospital, Connor passed away after 15 days. Again doctors could not give us any explanation as to why Connor passed away. We were informed after his passing that when premature babies such as Connor get to the stage he was at, ie breathing predominantly on their own and requiring lower doses of medication approximately, only 1 in 500 don't survive. Unfortunately for Connor and us, he was the 1.
Due to the emergency classical caesarean which my wife went through to deliver Connor, we had to wait approximately 1 year before we could try for another child. This time was used for grieving Connor. Jo managed to fall pregnant once again naturally about a year after we lost Connor however that pregnancy did not progress past the 10th or so week. We tried for about another year or so naturally but were unable to conceive.
We had all sorts of tests done and were given no definitive reason as to why Jo was not falling pregnant. So about 14 months after the miscarriage we decided to go down the IVF path. We did all the pre IVF screening and found it unfair and unnecessary that we even had to do criminal background checks despite both of us being serving members of Victoria Police. Through our employment we have both witnessed many people becoming new parents who we know are not in a position to adequately care for and raise a child in a suitable manner. We also met with IVF counsellors and went through all the information and began treatment.
We lost count of the amount of IVF cycles we went through over a period of approximately 18 months, and also the amount of times people would tell us that "this time it will happen, have faith etc". Financially it almost crippled us (some $35000) was spent. If we had a baby to care for as a result every last dime would have been well spent. Every time we would go in for an egg transfer the doctor would tell us that the particular embryo looked good and that he was positive about that particular procedure. However all his positive spin resulted in nothing at the end of the day.
After approximately 18 months we gave up IVF due to monetary constraints but also due to the mental health of us both. In your article you mention about the women's experiences in regards to their health. Jo went through all of what you mention, but I also went through similar feelings and have battled depression for the past year. My doctor and psychologist have put the depression down to a combination of Connor's death, as well as the IVF. I can't describe how hard it is to be on tender hooks after each embryo transfer wondering if it will work, and getting towards the date of the blood test to see if your wife is pregnant and being told it hasn't worked. Several times Jo would get her period early on and we knew pretty early it hadn't worked however there were times she made it to the day of the test and I would think it must have worked this time only to be shattered with the bad news. No matter how tough or resilient a man thinks he is, and being a police officer many people assume we can take anything, there is only so much negative news and disappointment a man can take. People often forget about the mental anguish men go through during IVF.
People have a misconceived idea that IVF is a lot more successful than what it actually is. Since giving up on IVF, well-meaning friends continually bring up the subject of adoption, however as you mentioned in your article, adoption in Australia is neither easy or as accessible as the majority of the population think it is. After spending some $35000 is very difficult to find another $50000 to facilitate an adoption. And despite all the positive spin and information IVF medical practitioners provide, it is important people know that IVF is no guarantee to a successful pregnancy. Whilst going through IVF you tell yourself not to get your hopes up but it is impossible not to. People must balance this hope with realistic expectations and friends of people going through IVF also need to reel in their expectations.
Thanks again for the insightful article and for your time.
Nick and Joanna Parissis


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Miami rapper Trick Daddy was arrested in Miramar after deputies found cocaine and a handgun in his home Thursday night, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.
Trick Daddy, whose real name is Maurice Young, was arrested just after 10 p.m. at his home on Southwest 19th Street, according to an arrest affidavit. He was booked into jail and later bonded out.
It was not immediately clear if he has a lawyer. A phone call to Slip-N-Slide Records in Miami Beach went unanswered Friday.
According to the affidavit, the Broward County Drug Task Force had a "sniff warrant" to search the home and stopped Young as he was leaving in his car.
Young admitted he had powder cocaine in the home and maybe marijuana roaches but no grow house, the affidavit said.
When deputies searched the home, they found 1g of powder that field tested positive for cocaine, the affidavit said. A 9mm Sig Sauer and a box of ammunition were also found in the home, the affidavit said.
Young admitted to deputies that he is a convicted felon, with arrests for trafficking narcotics, possession of ammunition by a convicted felon and possession of cocaine, the affidavit said.
Young was charged with possession of cocaine, possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, and driving with a suspended license.
The 40-year-old rapper is best known for his 2001 hit "I'm a Thug." He's released eight records, including his 1997 debut, Based on a True Story, and has collaborated with several artists including Pitbull, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Cee Lo Green and Ludacris.