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MetaWatch Strata
This open source smartwatch is rough around the edges, but has huge potential…
Durable construction
Simple setup
Great value for money
Long battery life
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Review Price £83.00
Our Score 8/10
Key Features: Smartphone notifications sent to watch screen; Rugged, water resistant, sports design; Battery life 5-7 days; Open source SDK; iPhone and Android compatible
What is the MetaWatch Strata?
An open source alternative to the much hyped Pebble smartwatch and much rumoured Apple iWatch. It pairs with an iPhone or Android smartphone over Bluetooth to deliver their notifications to your wrist. Like all smartwatches the theory is it will allow you to keep your phone in your pocket more often by giving you the context of received alerts. A particular benefit on the move or when exercising.
MetaWatch Strata – Design
The Strata is the thicker of two models currently offered by MetaWatch and focuses on durability and value. The more expensive 'Frame' is slimmer and targeted towards the fashion segment.
At first glance the Strata appears to have a face only a mother could love. The design hasn't changed since we previewed it in September (link in the tab above this review) and the wide bezel and relatively small 1-inch, 96 x 96 pixel display are a world away from what we expect from our smartphones. But the Strata turns out to look far better on the wrist than off and we regularly received queries and compliments.
Furthermore the Strata's design is carefully considered. The body is double injection moulded polyurethane giving the Strata a 5 ATM rated water resistance (verses the Frame's 3ATM) which is enough to swim in. The downside is this is achieved by omitting a standard microUSB charge port. Instead the Strata has four metal contact points on the rear and a separate microUSB charge clip clamps to them.
On the plus side the Strata is available in multiple colours (black – aka 'Stealth' – is the most attractive for our money) and its construction material makes it extremely durable. The screen itself is "polymer network LCD" and made from mineral hardened, scratch resistant glass lens while a strainless steel top ring also protects the screen from impact. Despite several heart in mouth drops during our time with the Strata it remained unblemished.
As for the display itself it has an anti-glare coating and adapts to light, looking monochrome in normal conditions and becoming silver in direct sunlight. As such we found it readable in even the strongest outdoor sun and should you be in darkness it has a backlight.
Inside the Strata is battery sipping Bluetooth 4.0 and MetaWatch claims it will last up to a week on a single charge. There is also a vibrating motor to give the wearer a gentle buzz when they receive alerts…
MetaWatch Strata – Features
But what are these alerts? Much like the Pebble – which promised the earth but launched with limited service support – the notifications the Strata can deliver are a mixed bag.
The core supported services are accepting/rejecting incoming calls (with caller ID), SMS, emails, and calendar alerts. The handset can also display weather, replicate alarms and show routing information. In addition the Strata can play and pause music playback, which allows it to act like a remote control – useful if your handset is docked, you are swimming (or in the shower) or if your headphones lack dedicated music controls.
The caveats are there is currently no support for social media (though MetaWatch says this is in the pipeline) and to work with routing the apps need to be made compatible. In the case of routing this rules out Apple Maps and Google Maps at present (this should change with the expanded APIs of iOS7), but Telenav's Scout app bales you out for now.
Meanwhile setup couldn't be simpler. Since the Strata is a thin client, all management is done via official apps in the App Store and Google Play (Android version below). Install them, pair the Strata over Bluetooth and you're ready to go. Customisation is easy. The MetaWatch has four homescreens divided into quadrants and each can be selected in the app to be filled by single, double (horizontal or vertical) and full screen widgets such as time, weather, email and so forth.
Interestingly because MetaWatch has open sourced its code there are also third party apps available. We found the most impressive to be 'MetaWatch Manager Community Edition' on Android which actually has more widgets than the official app (including dividing the screen into thirds) and greater customisation options. These include the ability to customise vibration types, download new themes, choose specific calendars and more.
We would like to see the official app offer support for these third party innovations (a kind of app store within the app) over time to tap into what seems to be a thriving developer community.
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Concertgoers taken to area hospitals for overdoses
Dozens of Camp Bisco revelers were transported to area hospitals over the weekend.
At least 50 patients were taken to Ellis Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital in Amsterdam. Of the 28 who ended up at Amsterdam, the vast majority were admitted for drug overdoses, said Patricia Green, director of emergency services. She said one patient ended up on a ventilator but has since recovered and was released. Patients were on heroin, LSD or Ecstasy when they arrived, she said.
Twenty-two patients were transported to the emergency room at Ellis Hospital, spokesman Matthew Van Pelt said. Half were for drug- and alcohol-related reasons, including one person who was still in the intensive care unit on Monday, he said. One patient was placed on a ventilator. Some patients were transported to the hospital for sprains and cuts.
The festival, which is hosted by the Philadelphia-based Disco Biscuits band, is one of the world's most popular electronic music gatherings. Authorities are kept out of a 200-acre sprawling property that is patrolled by a security force of bikers associated with the Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville.
A Bisco spokesman declined comment on the number of people sent to area hospitals.
Organizers claimed the festival was safer than last year, when a similar number of people were admitted to area hospitals, including at least five of whom ended up on ventilators at Ellis. It's hard to pin down exactly how many people attend because organizers do not release official attendance counts, but promoters have previously claimed that it's about 20,000.
The 2013 medical facilities and staff were upgraded to include paramedics, a physician and EMTs on site, as well as five satellite medical tents scattered throughout the grounds and two main emergency health care facilities. Much of that response is what is required to obtain a state mass gathering permit for a crowd larger than 15,000.
Still, the increased medical response did little to lower the overall number of people sent to area hospitals. A similar number of people were transported to area hospitals during the 2012 festival, including a Schenectady woman who is paralyzed and unable to communicate after she consumed alcohol and Ecstasy. Her family is suing the festival organizers and Schenectady County, claiming she did not receive adequate medical attention.
State Police made at least 10 drug-related arrests of Camp Bisco concertgoers from Wednesday through the weekend, including one man who allegedly left his two young sons alone in a Schenectady hotel with pot and hashish while he went to sell more drugs at the concert.
Two concertgoers were arrested on drug possession charges Sunday on their way back from the music festival. One of them allegedly acted strangely when police approached, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said. Christopher Broems, 23, was acting "strange and confused" when he was pulled over Sunday morning on Route 30, the sheriff's office said. Broems then started to throw things around inside his car, the sheriff's office said.
Deputies said they could see drugs inside the car. When they searched the vehicle, deputies said, they found large quantities of MDMA, psychedelic mushrooms, pot, empty capsules and tools used to fill the capsules, the sheriff's office said. Broems and his passenger, Brittany Mahler, 22, both of Merrick, were each charged with felony criminal possession of a controlled substance and marijuana. Both were arraigned in Florida Town Court and sent to Montgomery County jail after failing to post bail.
Montgomery County Undersheriff Jeffrey Smith said his department made a handful of minor arrests related to the festival.
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text: Lane's End nominations total 112 Sunday, February 22, 2009 12:00 AM Spiral Stakes FLORENCE, KY . . . February 22, 2009 . . . The 38th renewal of the Grade II Lane's End Stakes at Turfway Park has drawn 112 nominations, announced Racing Secretary Richard S. Leigh. For three-year-olds going 1 1/8 miles, the Lane's End Stakes is scheduled for Saturday, March 21. The race traditionally is run six weeks before the first Saturday in May as a prep for the Kentucky Derby (G1), and its $500,000 purse virtually guarantees the winner a spot in the Derby field should more than 20 seek to enter.The winners of both local preps run to date are nominated to the Lane's End. Loch Dubh, trained by Jeff Talley for Texas Toyco, won the Turfway Prevue sprint in January, and Parade Clown, trained by Katherine Ball for Donamire Farm, was nominated on the strength of his win in the WEBN Stakes. (The third local prep, the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes, will run February 28.)Also nominated to the Lane's End is West Side Bernie, who won the 2008 Kentucky Cup Juvenile (G3) at Turfway for trainer Kelly Breen and owners Lori and George Hall before finishing sixth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1). Three nominated horses have connections to Lane's End, the Versailles, Ky., farm that has sponsored the race since 2002. Coffee Bar is owned by Will Farish, who founded Lane's End, and Active Duty and Shafted are owned by Woodford Racing, the nom de course of Farish's son, Bill. All three are trained by Mark Casse.Graham Motion, who won last year's Lane's End Stakes with Adriano, has nominated Smart Bid for Augustin Stable. Last year's winning owner, Courtlandt Farms, is represented by Gresham and Stratos, both trained by James Baker. Trainer Todd Pletcher's national stable leads the nominations with 13. Pletcher has won the race twice, in 2005 with Flower Alley and in 2001 with Balto Star. The equally deep and wide stable of Steve Asmussen is represented by 12 nominees. The Lane's End Stakes undercard features the Grade III Bourbonette Oaks, a one-mile race for three-year-old fillies leading to the Kentucky Oaks (G1); the 1 1/16-mile Rushaway Stakes (listed) for three-year-olds, also a prep for the Derby; the six-furlong Queen Stakes for older fillies and mares; and the six-furlong Hansel Stakes for three-year-olds. All horses nominated to the Lane's End Stakes are also automatically nominated to the John Battaglia Memorial, the Rushaway, and the Hansel.Both the Rushaway and the Lane's End will be televised by ESPN2 and broadcast by Horse Racing Radio Network. Gates open at 10am ET on March 21. The first of the day's 12 races goes off at 1:10pm.One of the world's leading Thoroughbred operations, Lane's End encompasses about 3,000 acres in the heart of Central Kentucky. The operation also includes a second breeding farm in Texas. Lane's End currently stands 20 stallions in Kentucky, including Curlin, Smart Strike, and A. P. Indy, and five in Texas.


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Sensory Overload at EuroBlech 2008
You sure couldn't gauge the state of the global economy by the buzz generated last October at EuroBlech 2008, for this was another record-breaking show, marking the 20th edition of the International Sheet Metal Working Technology Exhibition. Held October 21-25 in Hanover, Germany, EuroBlech2008 registered an increase of 8 percent for exhibitors and attendees over the 2006 edition. The show's machine displays consumed an exhibition area of 87,700 sq. m, up 15 percent from the 2006 show, and nearly 70,000 visitors explored the booths of 1520 exhibitors representing 38 countries; 35 percent of those visitors came from outside Germany. Show organizer Mack Brooks Exhibitions also noted an above-average increase in the number of attendees from the United States.
What follows are just a handful of the new-technology highlights gathered from walking the floor of the numerous exhibit halls of the city within a city that is EuroBlech. We'll have more in coming issues of MetalForming. And, plan now to attend the next edition of EuroBlech, October 26-30, 2010.
Amada Introduces High-Speed Laser System and New Laser-PunchCombo
The enormous Amada booth featured several new machines, including the LC-F1NT series of high-speed laser-cutting machines boasting linear drives in the x, y and z axes. With power options to 6 kW, the machine salso feature water-assisted cutting and twin-adaptive lens technology to eliminate the need to change lenses based on material thickness. I viewed a demonstration at the booth, cutting 0.8-mm aluminum and 6-mm steel with the same lens.
Also introduced at the show was Amada's new entry into the laser-punch combination machine market, the LC2012 C1 NT (pictured), which we're told will be introduced to the U.S. market later this year. Touted as the firm's first small-format hybrid machine—the laser moves in one axis while the sheetmetal workpiece moves in the other axis—it features a 45-station turret and offers a 12-mm form height. Compared to previous machines, we're also told that the LC2012 C1NT offers improved accuracy—±0.07 mm vs. 0.1 mm.
Tooling for Extreme Punching Work
Dura Punch tooling—punches and retainers in a variety of shapesand in inch and metric sizes—highlighted the stand of Moeller Manufacturing Co.Designed for heavy-duty work, the punches boast a thicker head, a radiused transition and a chamfer on the head to better distribute forces and minimize the likelihood of breaking. Models include solid or ejector with standard point or reduced shank, and retainers for round or shaped punches. Also available: shoulder and reduced-shank punch blanks.
Linear-Robot System Optimizes Press-to-Press Motion
Ideal to automate new press lines or to retrofit and upgrade existing lines, the FeederPlus linear robot combines the benefits of linear and articulated robots by carrying out linear moves yet offering rotational axes to orient parts during transfer between presses. Speed maxes out at 12 largeparts/min. Two models are available—an 80-kg-payload model with minimum gap between presses of 5500 mm; and a 120-kg model with minimum gap of 6500 mm. Max gap between presses or both models is 11,000 mm. Position repeatability is ±1mm. Tooling connection is either crossbar with saddle or adapter for robotic tooling.
Long-Bed High-Speed Press
A 60-ton 50-in.-bed Model BSTA 510-125 high-speed press starred in the Bruderer stand. Compared to the previous model, the BSTA 500-110, the new press offers an extra 7 in. of bed length. This allows for higher bending moments and more room for die stations. Bruderer designed the press to allow for minimized bending strain and to increase the ram's resistance to tilt. Maximum press speed: 1050 strokes/min.
Robots Make a Big Splash for Automating Brakes and Presses
LVD made a huge splash at EuroBlech with its largest stand ever, showcasing new concepts in press-brake, laser and punch-press automation and, for bending particularly thick and hard materials, its new Easy-Form 200 adaptive forming system for plate as thick as 30 mm.
LVD has focused on mid-level automation, company representatives say, where there is an optimum trade-off between automation and cost. It also has begun to integrate more and more standard robots into its fabricating machines.
A good example of this philosophy, on display at the exhibition, is the Robocell (pictured), a compact automated bending cell for small and medium-sized components that combines an LVD PPEB press brake with a Kuka handling robot. The press brake is mounted at a normal operating height and the robot is placed 2 m from the bend line to allow unhindered access should a fabricator wish to operate the press brake manually. The cell would typically include two input stations, a centering table, a regripping station and two output stations.
LVD also offers robots to automate loading and unloading of punch presses. At EuroBlech it displayed its Pick-Sort system that uses a Kuka robot to turn a Strippit V-series machine into an automated punching system. In contrast to other pick-and-place automation systems, the pick-Sort carefully places parts onto a stack rather than dropping them.
Also new for EuroBlech: the Strippit LP-1225 laser-punch combination machine; and LVD's latest addition to its Axel series laser cutting machines, the Axel 4020.
Schuler Surveys Customers Before Introducing New Coil Feeder
Modularity and global sourcing of components—that's what customers asked for when Schuler surveyed them when developing its new Power Feed coil-feeding system. Among key features are the use of servo direct drives and low-clearance maintenance-free planetary gears. Customers can select among three models based on coil weight capacity, and can then, based on changing needs in the pressroom, retrofit to upgrade capacity. Due to the modular design of the feeder, even maximum coil width can be adapted to suit customer needs.
Mechanized Plasma-Arc Cutting Setup Showcased
Amongst the bevy of booths showcasing cutting and welding equipment was that of Thermadyne, which introduced its Ultra-Cut 300 family of cutting systems under the Thermal Dynamics brand. Ultra-Cut setups combine an inverter power supply, a new gas-flow management system and the XT-300 torch.Visitors to the stand witnessed the new XT-300 robotic-cutting torch. Auto-Cutsystems are available with 100-, 200- and 300-A capacity.
Thermadyne also introduced its Cutmaster A-series compressed-air plasma-cutting machines for mechanized cutting; and Cutmaster True series of six manual air-plasma cutting machines with the ATC (AdvancedTorch Connector) quick-connect system.
New, Energy-Efficient Punch-Shear Combo
Salvagnini America introduced a new generation of its S4 punch-shear combination machine—the Salvagnini S4X, promising enhanced flexibility, accuracy, energy conservation and productivity. The X-seriesmachine features a completely redesigned manipulator powered by two pairs of rotary electric motors. The first pair employs rack-and-pinion kinematics while the second pair uses two ball-bearing screws to position the sheet.
The new manipulator enables the S4X to offer increased processing speed, reduced cycle times, and increased productivity and accuracy. All of the S4X's 96 punching-tool stations are live and ready to simultaneously punch, countersink and emboss parts. And the built-in shear makes cuts of any length.
Other major upgrades in the X-series machine include a new hydraulic power pack that reduces power consumption by 30 percent, an optional Cartesian stacker, and the expanded ability to incorporate all types of feeding connections.
Salvagnini debuted the S4X along with its P4X panel bender at EuroBlech. We were told that compared to previous models, the new machine soffer as much as a 20 percent increase in speed and cycle time. Following the show, the S4X on display was shipped to Danish manufacturer Expedit; the P4Xwas delivered to the German company Klingenburg, a manufacturer of ventilation systems.
Trumpf Debuts New Machines to Cut, Punch and Bend
Laser-punch combos seemed to be the star attractions at the booths of fabricating-equipment leaders at EuroBlech, including Trumpf, which introduced to the European marketplace the TruMatic 7000 (pictured). Themachine comes in two sizes—2540 by 1280 mm and 2540 by 1570 mm—with as many as 22 tool stations in the linear magazine, and a 4000-W laser. Due to a newly designed beam-guidance system, the TruMatic 7000 can process sheetmetal in arange of thicknesses using one cutting head. And, an automatic nozzle changer takes care of nozzle exchanges. Maximum sheet thickness: 8-mm mild and stainless steel, 4-mm aluminum.
Also anchoring the Trumpf booth was the TruLaser 3030 New,which also features automatic nozzle changing to minimize downtime. Fabricators can install a pallet changer perpendicular to the machine to minimize the overall footprint. And its 5-kW laser resonator has a standby mode that reduces power consumption to just 15 percent of the rated value.
Editor's Note
Four full days walking the massive EuroBlech show yielded too many technology highlights than can be described here. So, keep a look out for future issues of MetalForming, in which we'll present many more EuroBlech product introductions. In fact, turn topage 12 in this issue for some fastening- and assembly-related technology introductions we spied in Hanover last October. MF
See also: Amada North America, Inc, Bruderer Machinery, Inc., Moeller Precision Tool, Salvagnini America, Inc., Schuler Incorporated, , Victor Technologies Group, Inc., TRUMPF Inc., LVD-Strippit, Inc.
Related Enterprise Zones: Automation, Coil Handling, Fabrication, Presses, Tool & Die


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Just as the weather turns cooler here in Colorado, my friend in northern California finds herself with too many lemons from her backyard trees. So a box arrives. Right around the same time, the new Edgeware Better Zester appears on my desk at work.
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Monday, Gizmodo published an article about the curation practices behind Facebook's Trending module, and to what extent a curator's personal biases affect what's shown to Facebook's billion-plus active users. (As you can imagine, this has caused some controversy.) Although Gizmodo focused on the role of human curators, those of us who work with algorithms and machine learning have had to confront the fact that biases can end up deeply encoded into supposedly objective systems, including Klout's own topic classifier -- the system that identifies your Expert topics, as well as the relevant articles for the Explore tab. Here's a quick roundup of how we in Klout's Data Science team think about keeping the topic system as unbiased as possible.
Klout's topic classifier in 30 seconds or less
The major inputs to our topic system are:
Even without getting into the weeds of the pipeline that brings those two types of input together -- more on that below -- critical readers will already be able to spot a few areas where we're vulnerable to bias. Let's walk through them.
Any classification system contains value choices
Should "Autism" be placed under "Diseases" or "Neurology"? Is "the Tea Party movement" distinct from "conservative politics"? Is "Wizard Rock" really a thing? How we answer these questions shapes the experience of our users, and inevitably gives our ontology a point of view.
Longtime users may remember the early days of Klout, when topics were a, shall we say, messy combination of user-submitted tags and data-mined concepts. As the Data Science team worked on regularizing and improving the ontology, we've relied on the following principles:
Even so, any time your application or audience changes, it's important to reassess your classification scheme. One major flaw in Klout's topic ontology is that it was developed for a U.S. audience, and still needs significant work for other countries and languages.
Staying alert for sins of omission
In addition to the human-curated topics in the ontology, we also use a dictionary of concepts and entities derived from Freebase. Freebase is a widely-used resource in the data science world, but "widely-used" is not the same thing as "perfect", by any means. The biggest issue with Freebase is what it leaves out; like Wikipedia, it was collectively sourced, and like Wikipedia, it's biased toward the interests of its editors, and sparse in some areas like cosmetic products and fashion terms, requiring us to develop ways to supplement the dictionary. The moral of the story: it pays to look critically at any pre-packaged data set you plan to use.
Boosting inclusivity
Next, let's consider the URLs we collect for the Explore tab. The majority are URLs that have been shared on social media, which means they are dominated by the topics most discussed on social media: politics, celebrity news, music, etc. What we sometimes call "niche topics", like molecular biology, or Wicca, or wheelchairs, naturally are present in fewer URLs. Does that count as a bias? It's unclear, but it's not a good end-user experience and risks making some users feel marginalized. As a result, we've had to develop backup strategies to increase coverage for less common topics.
The fuzzy line between human bias and business logic
One of the more ironic tidbits in Gizmodo's article was that Facebook's curators were told to suppress news about Facebook -- that is, to interfere with the Trending algorithm to avoid the appearance that Facebook was interfering with the Trending algorithm. But that kind of decision is probably familiar to the product managers in the audience, whose goal it is to preserve the user experience. Similarly, a discovery feed like our Explore tab might recommend porn, or spam, or hate speech, and need to be tuned or overridden. To make it even more complicated, the definition of porn, or spam, or hate speech may change from region to region. Keeping those decisions from being made inconsistently or thoughtlessly is really difficult, but our approach has been to define a single owner who both documents the rules and is accessible to discuss individual cases. As others have pointed out, Facebook's mistake may not have been having curatorial tools, but isolating the employees using them.
Fine, but what about the actual topic algorithm?
Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that we haven't touched on the nuts and bolts of how Klout's topic system actually assigns topics. The challenges of data modeling and debugging machine learning algorithms are pretty well surveyed elsewhere, and how we handle those challenges at Klout would require a dedicated blog post. However, there's less discussion of how to handle human biases when collecting training or validation data -- how people's points of view get encoded into the data a given algorithm is trying to approximate. The two approaches often recommended could be described as micromanaging versus crowdsourcing; either a) have an in-house process that includes well-defined guidelines, trained judges, and a reconciliation process for disagreements, or b) have lightweight guidelines but a large number of judges, in the hopes that individual biases will be muted. There are tradeoffs to either approach; our team has recently been relying mostly on in-house validation data, mostly because it's friendly to our development schedule. But what's more important, in our experience, is that the potential weaknesses of the training/validation data are known and discussed and documented ahead of time, so that they can be distinguished from problems with the model itself.
No system is perfect, and keeping out bias takes continual work. Although a focus on documentation, consistency, and validation will take you a long way, the very best defense against unintentional bias is a diverse team, who can bring multiple points of view. Want to come work with us?
Sarah Ellinger is the Lead Data Analyst for Klout/Lithium's Data Science team. She is responsible for overseeing the content of the topic ontology, as well as monitoring the performance of the topic classification system. Sarah attended U.C. Berkeley's School of Information and has over a decade of experience in taxonomy and web content classification at tech companies large and small. She can be found on Twitter discussing information science and Game of Thrones spoilers @sarahellinger.
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The point that we as Facebook users ever desired neutrality speaks to a belief in digital democracy. That is the difference that Facebook have themselves fixed up. Paper Help Service - Ordercollegepapers.Com They intentionally positioned themselves as a distribution system, which is explicitly not an editorial object.
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"Quentin and friends prepare to face The Beast again. Julia conspires with The Beast and their new ally to lure and trap Reynard."
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Season 3 - The Magicians
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"Eliot embarks on a quest. Alice runs from a monster. Quentin, Kady, and Josh continue their search for magic."
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"Julia helps Alice navigate a personal crisis; Quentin and Eliot go on an adventure."
"Quentin faces his most formidable foe yet; Julia helps Alice with a dangerous endeavor."
"Margo makes a bold stand against the Fairy Queen. Quentin and Penny try to retrieve a lost item."
"Julia and Fen investigate a dangerous group of Magicians as Eliot and Margo\u2019s reign is challenged."
"Quentin, Kady and Alice try to convince an old friend to return home."
"Quentin and Alice search the castle for an important object while Julia and Fen work with an enemy."
"The group strategizes as Josh and Julia travel to a familiar place and are given a chance to help."
"The political situation in Fillory comes to a head. Julia makes amends and Alice makes a confession."
"The group finds what they\u2019re looking for and attempt once and for all to get magic back."
Season 4 - The Magicians
"Brian takes a friend out for ice cream; Sam is one week away from retirement."
"Dean Fogg gets a new suit."
"Kady gets a puppy; Quentin meets a snake."
"Josh gives Margo a muffin; Julia drinks Schnapps."
"There are some flashbacks while Alice and Quentin confront a dog."
"Quentin and Julia play Pictionary while Margo drinks some weird milk."
"Kady goes to the flea market. What's Zelda been up to? This one's about Fen, you guys."
"Penny licks an egg. Alice is jealous of a flower."
"Quentin eats a quesadilla. Kady and Zelda share a smoke."
"Margo hits her step count."
"The gang talks to a book. Tick threatens to drink some water."
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Who Killed Benazir Bhutto?
A revised 'strategy of tension' in Pakistan
With deepest condolences to the grieving nation
(and a renewed wakeup call before they come to 'save' Pakistan)
Zahir Ebrahim
December 28, 2007.
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I woke up on Friday morning to the shock and horror that the rest of Pakistan was already experiencing for the past several hours. With tears in my eyes and a sinking heart, I fired off this condolence message to Ms. Fatima Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto's estranged niece:
"I am just shocked beyond belief with tears streaming down my face as I compose this condolence letter to you and your family.
I never really liked Ms. Benazir Bhutto-Zardari as a politician - she remained a political enigma to me as the personally-trained-by-her-father distinguished daughter of a genuinely patriotic and assassinated former Prime Minister. I could never fathom her purported graft of the nation, nor her unsupport of her assassinated brother - your late father. But she did not deserve this fate (and neither did your father and grandfather).
I am very sorry and please accept my genuine condolences.
I fear that the country has been set-up as per the plan that I preemptively outlined in Wakeup to the grotesque reality of the 'Grand Chessboard' [1] to send in the 'storm troopers' to 'save' us. I am also grieving for what is to befall Pakistan - and cannot easily distinguish one tear from another."
That extemporaneous outpouring of grief is now supplanted by a more rational deconstruction of the 'grotesque reality' that is implementing a revised 'strategy of tension' in Pakistan for a particular domestic as well as global overarching agenda in the New World Order. This deconstruction and dismantling of 'Alice in Wonderland' is in following parts with detailed footnotes for self-study. Some may find some of this material so bewildering that much effort has been put into carefully constructing the footnotes so that one may reach one's own informed conclusions. Your mileage may wary, obviously depending on the 'car' you possess.
Who killed Benazir Bhutto: This preamble of condolences
A Strategy of Tension in Pakistan Part1: The Assassins
A Strategy of Tension in Pakistan Part2: The forces that drive them
A Strategy of Tension in Pakistan Part3: Footnotes
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
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There are three words that help you to learn morse code:
To help you get the practise, here is Gary Bold's free teaching software for learning morse for PC only, Windows 95/98 and above systems at 549 kB in size.
Morse Teaching Software Filename:
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Last update 04-February-2008
Its just like learning to ride a bicycle. It's far better to learn the Morse symbols by sound, and not sight! It is not a good idea to memorise a written table. Get an experienced Morse operator to send characters to you with an audio oscillator, saying each symbol after it's sent. You want to recognise the symbols by their sound. Tapes are available which will teach you to recognise the symbols by their sound.
The ideal method to learn Morse is by use of a computer. Morse code training programmes are available –– see below for one of them.
Learn them at the same time–if learned later, they take a long while to become as familiar as the symbols. Learn each symbol at a speed of about 12 – 14 WPM, with long gaps between symbols. The gaps will close as you advance. When you have learned the symbols you can practice from a tape at varying speeds or at dub Morse classes.
Copying random, 5 character groups is good for reinforcing the characters in your mind and finding those that trip you up, but don't practice only with these. Move on to plain language once you have attained reasonable proficiency.
The Morse test is a plain language one, and copying plain language is very different from copying random groups.
(NOTE: the Morse test is no longer an exam requirement. You can still sit the test if you wish.)
Make Morse a part of your daily life. When you walk down the street translate signs into morse, and sound them under your breath. At home, translate newspaper text into morse the same way.
Always keep yourself stretched out in your receiving practice. When you get to about 90 percent accuracy at one speed move up a little faster until you can manage accurately at about 6 or 7 words per minute (WPM) for the 5 WPM test or 15 words per minute for the 12 WPM International Requirements. You now have good buffer for the test.
Most people find it easier to print rather than write at first. Avoid anticipating what is coming next. Many mistakes are made during the test by those who wrongly anticipate the following character or word.
Finally, remember that Morse operators have their own international CW abbreviations which allow you to communicate easily with those in foreign countries. All CW hams know the basic English words for a good contact and you won't have accent problems with Morse.
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