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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Islamic Terrorism Is Over If You Want It
By 2034, the last murder will have taken place and by 2042, a scientific cure will be found for crime. By 2051, even bad thoughts will have been eliminated, and by 2062, work as we know it will be abolished and everyone will mediate all day on the serious questions of life. "Why are we here? What is our purpose in life? How can there be a National Intelligence Council so devoid of intelligence?"
In the real world, by 2030, there will be thousands of emirates, many no more than small terrorist groups, but some of which control sizable territories. Some of these emirates will pledge allegiance to a single Caliphate like ISIS. Others will try to get big enough to turn into their own Caliphate.
There will be a hundred miniature Afghanistans fought by international peacekeeping forces composed of a combination of local forces and NATO troops try to push out the bands of Salafi holy warriors, and their pirate camps, brothels and drug labs. There will be drones over the skies of a hundred deserts fighting Toyota pickup trucks with bands of hooded men firing machine guns. There will be wire transfers from a dozen Islamic finance institutions wending their way from the great oil economies of the Persian Gulf and American soldiers, who have never seen a conventional war fought in their lifetime, heading in on another rescue mission into the territory of a Terror Emirate.
The United States of 2030 will fight some of these emirates, ignore others and try to claim that some of them are moderate. Clinton tried to work with the Taliban. Obama backed the Brotherhood. By 2030, the smart men and women who got us into this will conclude that the best way to fight some of these caliphates and emirates is to pay them protection money to fight the other caliphates and emirates. We're already doing that in Syria. Eventually we'll begin doing it everywhere.
In Benghazi, Hillary Clinton was paying protection money to an Al Qaeda ally for security. Today, Europe decided to pay protection money to the state sponsors of terror in Turkey. By 2030, we'll stop pretending that it's foreign aid and start calling it what it is. Or maybe we'll go on lying to ourselves.
Western countries are already paying their Jizya as foreign aid, trading cash for the promise of stability. The United States and its allies have paid out fortunes to Afghan and Iraqi militias during the past two wars. And that doesn't even begin to take into account the sheer amount of money spent on development in the Muslim world. It is likely that the United States has spent more on Jizya, the traditional protection money payment of the non-Muslim Dhimmi to the Islamic State, than every other nation had throughout all of history. And that's just the down payment on the big bill.
Back when the Marines first saw action against the Barbary pirates, most nations found it easier to pay than fight. Jefferson's "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" set us apart. The Marines came into being because America decided to invest in defense instead of protection money. But defense today is so tangled with tribute that it's hard to tell the two apart.
There are countless such private deals that have been made already and there will be countless more made to allow Western countries, and their companies and NGOs to function in territory controlled by Islamist Emirates. And that territory will include international shipping lanes.
By 2030, most countries will have come to view Islamic terrorism as a strategic asset, the way that Saudi Arabia does. They will recognize that the only way to transform the strategic liability of Muslim terrorism into an asset is by funding it and aiming it at their enemies. Islamist militias, will gain valuable experience, training and weapons by serving as the barbarian armies of a decaying West that they will use to conquer the West, the way that the Goth ancestors of Westerners did.
The America of 2030 will spend nearly as much trying to buy off the Muslim world as it will spend on trying to kill terrorists. We will continue financing the terrorism that we are trying to prevent while appeasing our killers. American soldiers will be stationed around the world in a hundred little undeclared wars, building generators for sullen villages before coming under fire from them.
The war will be endless. Both sides will hate it and will perpetuate it anyway.
Imagine the conflicts of the Cold War if instead of Moscow, there had been a thousand decentralized Communist dictatorships across the world with no central enemy to fight, and if the Viet Cong were coming out of Oakland. Imagine the Drug War if the drug lords were aspiring feudalists fighting for a world government that would turn us into their serfs. Imagine World War II if the Nazis were a religion that anyone could convert to and immediately become a member of the master race with the right to rob, rape and kill anyone from the inferior breeds.
But you don't have to wait for 2030 to see that world. It's already here.
By 2030, Europe will be a police state fighting terrorism by eliminating privacy, deploying soldiers in every city and criminalizing dissent. The EU police state will be able to access the contents of any mobile device at a click. Even speech that is still permitted today will lead to prison sentences at worst or at best, mandatory reeducation at special centers organized to combat extremism.
The bombs will still keep going off, but they will be a nuisance. Europeans will learn to adapt to the occasional suicide bombing the way that Israelis have. A bomb will go off, the survivors will be carted away, the broken glass will be swept up and the television will praise the refusal to give in to extremism and hatred, while prominently featuring the half-hearted condemnation of a local cleric.
The No-Go Zones will grow and slowly turn into emirates. The authorities will make deals with the local gangs, who will act as Islamist militias. There will be lashes and honor killings in the formal setting of Islamic law and no one will pay attention. Urban and suburban enclaves will eventually become indistinguishable from Gaza. By 2030 the first crude homemade rocket, made with plans offered on the internet, may rise into the Parisian sky aimed at the Eiffel Tower.
But there will be immediate half-hearted condemnations.
Like Europe, the United States will operate a paranoid surveillance state that its critics decry, even while both the state and its critics support the migration that makes it mandatory. There will be terrorist attacks, some thwarted, some not, including possibly one big one, when an Islamic terror group finally gets its hands on chemical or nuclear weapons from one of the Islamic states.
The America of 2030 will sink half its intellectual capital into praising Islam while the other half will be spent trying to find more elegant ways to kill Muslim terrorists. Homo Americanus circa 2030 will be a veteran of two dozen wars in the Muslim world and of two thousand television programs, museum exhibits, books, movies and high school classes celebrating Islamic religion and culture.
Western leaders, like their ancient Roman counterparts, have come to admire the virtues of the savage more than the virtues of their own civilization. By 2030 it will be clearer than ever whether the outcome of their bloody halfhearted campaigns to civilize the savages with doses of democracy and civic institutions will have led to civilized savages or the savaging of civilization.
Is this world of 2030 inevitable? No, it's not. We don't have to live this way. We choose to.
In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono put up billboards with the message, "War is Over! If you want it" to protest against the Vietnam War. Will terrorism end by 2030? It will if we want it to.
There are two sure ways to end a war; either by winning it or by losing it. The world's most famous cokehead and mental patient duo meant the latter when they offered their Viet Cong Christmas greeting, but winning wars is still an option. It just isn't the option that we've chosen.
The hearts and minds way of war will take us to the 2030 that I have described. And that 2030 will take us to a 2060 and a 2090 where the war is over because we lost.
If we want our civilization to end there, all we have to do is to keep on doing what we're doing.
We know how to win wars. We don't lack the tools or the skills. We lack the conviction. We aren't trying to win the hearts and minds of the enemy because we know we're right. It's a strategy born of a lack of confidence. We don't believe in ourselves. We need the enemy to affirm our morality.
The United States does not lose wars except when it loses the conviction and unity of its purpose. To win, we have to believe that we have a nation, a culture and a people worth protecting. The enemy believes that. It believes that enough to destroy us. If we believed it, the war would already be over.
Islamic terrorism is over if you want it. We have the power and the skill to end it at any time. What we lack is the faith that we are worth fighting for.
23 comments:
- 95BSharpshooter said...
"What we lack is the faith that we are worth fighting for. "
You need to take that on 'faith"? It can't be reasoned" that what we have is superior?
The Islamics take it on faith that their fatwahs are justified and their way is superior. So did every dictatorship in history.It is the tool of every con artist, every fraud and charlatan.
If it isn't provable through reason, then why bother?
- 22/3/16
- Infidel said...
Interesting. I hadn't thought of that.
There seems to have been only one writer who correctly foresaw the nature of WW1 (I.S.Bloch, a Polish Jew/Banker). His description was eerily accurate, while all the other authorities spouted nonsense. You may have been the first to correctly see the future war (I haven't seen anyone else come up with a similar scenario).
- 22/3/16
- Edward Cline said...
It isn't a matter of "faith." It's a matter of confidence in the life-affirming value of what we fight for. These things are firmly grounded in reason, in rationality. If people are made to doubt the value of what they fight for, of the things that make their lives happy, then they won't fight much for it. If they're told that reason or rationality is wrong, that it's racism, or "white privilege," or class oppression, or some other anti-mind folderol that today's intellectual harpies spew in colleges and government and even in business, if they're told to doubt the evidence of their senses because everything is "relative," they won't fight for anything and instead submit to the man-haters, the Islamists, to the Clintons. There isn't a single presidential candidate now running I would trust to fight terrorism as it should be fought, and that includes Trump, Cruz, Rubio, whomever. Not a one of them has come out and said, "Islam is evil, and this is all we can expect of it. Death and destruction and slavery in the name of a 'merciful' Allah. It's time to take off the multiculturalist gloves and extinguish this evil." It's not a very encouraging sign for the future of this country, when neither a sitting president nor aspirers to the office have the spine to even name the enemy.
- 22/3/16
- stacey said...
I came across this recently. Daniel, you have said much the same, though I find the military perspective interesting. I've been saying similar for a long time: https://medium.com/@dantriplett/islamic-jihad-is-total-war-for-all-marbles-6c858098b76e#.lbwmufpvm
Hope it is ok to post link.
- 22/3/16
- Charlotte said...
Great post. Made me think of Sherman and his quote ...
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. William Tecumseh Sherman
- 22/3/16
- Anonymous said...
Shamefully submitting to the extortion of Islamic Thuggery
is a confirmation of suicidal self hatred.
The American civilization, based on the positive sum game,
is the wellspring of individual creativity;
it towers over the primitive hate and fear of Islam.
We do no favor to those so infected by pretending
moral equivalence. They are better served by learning
the proof of the toxic nature of the Islam Meme.
History teaches that their proof requires that many
of them die. Men, women, children; their rules.
Our noblest act will be to unconditionally defeat
the malevolent mental affliction of Islam,
and free its human hosts to a serene and fulfilled life.
- 22/3/16
- Anonymous said...
The National Intelligence Council has predicted that Islamic Terrorism will end by 2030. -
It does sound nonsense. However, we don't know if the world will continue to be patient with Muslims and Islam. If Muslims use a nuke on America or another 9/11, and America has a president that decides to wage a proper war, accepting nothing but unconditional surrender, then the future will be quite different.
If the US accepts nothing but unconditional surrender i.e., the defeated have to abandon their motivating ideology, as one of the terms of surrender, then I see the death of Islam.
Now it is a given that Islam is like Christianity or Judaism. In these two faiths, Jews and Christians do not abandon their faith, even when persecuted and mass murdered. Quite the reverse, the faith becomes stronger.
Islam is different. It is a religion of the stronger horse, as binLaden put it, or the stronger god (allahu ackbar). When confronted by the undeniable fact that the forces of the Christian God were defeating the forces of allah, then Muslims will convert. This will specially be so, as the terms of surrender would be that they have to abandon Islam. Given that, or destruction, Muslims will abandon Islam for the stronger horse.
Positions of power in the military and government will then be bestowed by the conquerors on suitable candidates. Those who not convert, and this will be a minority, will be pursued by ex-Muslims now Christians, in a vigorous manner, as diehard Muslims pose a threat to the new found power.
My proposition is that we mistake Islam with Judaism and Christianity, as we have subliminally accepted the concept of Abrahamical religions. Before Islam manifested itself in the West, there was no widespread usage of such a dichotomy. Islam successfully insinuated itself in the West using an Abrahamical concept, a bogus concept.
No Islam, no Islamic terrorism.
- 23/3/16
- Anonymous said...
DP111 writes..
I read your link after I had put up a comment. The link is thinking along a similar lines. However, I believe Muslims will covert faster then you can baptise them in the churches.
- 23/3/16
- Anonymous said...
'Danke, Frau Merkel'- moslem lifes matter. lol
- 23/3/16
- Anonymous said...
is that the "fat lady" I hear singing ??
- 23/3/16
- Ken Abbott said...
Disappointing to find in these comments the specious opposition of faith and reason.
"Reason assesses, faith trusts. No conflict. The opposite of faith is not reason; the opposite of faith is unbelief, or lack of trust. The opposite of reason is not faith; the opposite of reason is irrationality. So it certainly is possible to have reasonable faith, and it is also possible to have unreasonable unbelief."
An expansion on this can be found at www.str.org/blog/are-faith-and-reason-compatible#.VvKpw0uprwl
- 23/3/16
- Empress Trudy said...
This is the same argument I had with people after Israel fled Gaza. I suggested that all that would happen is we'll reset the water level of acceptable atrocities and nothing material would change. All we ever do is accommodate in our own minds, the people killing us. And eventually we normalize it as we claim it went away.
- 23/3/16
- Daniel Greenfield said...
And we're told to feel proud for normalizing it.
- 23/3/16
- Anonymous said...
Explode, excuse, extort - Their EX3 doctrine of global jihad against every civilian population on earth. Only ordinary people are their targets, "nobodies" lacking the power either shoot back or hand over the jizya in a single direct deposit.
Just hold infidels hostage in their own lands and coordinate raids from terrortories they hold. Much like the war on drugs the organizations of political means are enriched and empowered and for the most part immune, why on earth would they want to stop it?
While the average person often fails to intellectually distinguish society and the state, no one with power in the state fails to do so.
- 23/3/16
- AesopFan said...
"The war will be endless. Both sides will hate it and will perpetuate it anyway."
If you have any other LDS readers, they will recognize this instantly as the burden of most of the Book of Mormon: perpetual war through generations between despots and defenders (also sometimes despots), disputing the right to rule over an increasingly brutalized and reduced population.
In all of the various instances described therein, none of them ended well.
- 23/3/16
- Anonymous said...
If an organized group, no matter its size can disrupt public order to the point of economic and movement paralysis then we have a very big problem on our hands. From what I glean every day in the Jerusalem Post there's an daily ongoing street fight with guns and knives for control of the public space.
It appears that fight will soon intensify in the streets of the West. Kitchen knives and cleaners, rather than nuclear weapons might do more harm to our order by disrupting normal activities due to the threats posed.
- 23/3/16
- Anonymous said...
Daniel is perfectly right, as usual.
We are losing the war against terrorism (if we haven't already lost it) bacause there is nothing anybody in the Western world is willing to do to defeat the enemy. Heck, our Caliph-in-Chief (one Barak Hussein Obama) won't even call the terrorists by their proper name.
And so, as Daniel said, these attacks are going to become the rule, not the exception. The new normal. It won't be long before we become totally desensitized to them. Terrorist attacks will be regarded on the same level as traffic accidents. Tragic, and all that, but you-know-what will happen.
People will continue to light little candles in the street and wave signs that say everybody is united against hatred. Nice gestures, but about as effective as closing the barn doors after the horses have escaped, or putting a band aid on a festering wound, and designed strictly to make people feel good about doing nothing at all to eradicate the problem. That would be racist, you see.
Personally, I would much rather NOT have a reason to light candles in the street, but I'm funny that way.
I've said this once, I will continue to say it as long as I live: a) political correctness wil get us - IS getting us - all killed; b) I thank God I am not young anymore, and I hope I wiĺ not reach 80, if the only thing I have to look forward to is the dismal panorama described by David.
- 23/3/16
- Anonymous said...
Suicide seems dominate these days. I see it at many levels: self-incriminating FB posts; theft schemes that will obviously be detected; meth; thugs w/ guns, captured & released by judges; states buying into o-care exchanges [which will transition to state funded]; teachers having sex w/ students and having photo evidence on their phones; beastly obesity; and the stuff DG speaks of.
Something in the water. djr
- 23/3/16
- Anonymous said...
The muslims and Muslim world don't accept killing innocent people, and they have been fighting ISIS. ISIS will never represent muslims of the world. It is a terrorist group and the whole world has to fight it to succeed. By targeting the faith of Islam we will only send more confused people to join ISIS. But by working with Muslims we will eliminate ISIS quickly
- 23/3/16
- Daniel Greenfield said...
Muslims have been killing innocent people since the days of Mohammed. ISIS is not doing anything that Muslims have not done before, especially to non-Muslims.
There are plenty of Islamic terrorist groups that kill innocent people and aren't ISIS.
- 23/3/16
- Anonymous said...
I'm young, and unfortunately I live in an area where there various freedoms of 'diversity' - increasingly amounts of hijab clad ladies employed at the food court or departure stores.
There are signs a couple cities over where Muslim groups have prayed Saturday morning at a post secondary school ground.
Might have two- three women with only their eyes showing and one or two baby strollers, the man walking far ahead.
People say all the violence in Europe and the middle east will end when we run out of oil.
- 26/3/16
- Anonymous said...
Can I dream a little bit?
By 2030 homosexuality will be considered a crime, gay prides outlawed together with the silly bathroom rules for transgenders and the LGTB will go back where they belong, in a very closed closet together with their anti christian paranoia. On the other hand, Russia, China and Satellites countries (eastern europe and east asia) will have learnt the lesson and outlaw islam (like Myanmar is cleverly doing) and continue civilization as we know it.
- 30/3/16
- Anonymous said...
An ugly look at the future. Thanks Mr. Greenfield. Considering the "free world" is increasingly enforcing islamic blasphemy and heresy laws (regardless of whatever convenient euphemism they employ to enforce them) is the "free world" really free anymore?
- 31/3/16


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Chicken Salad: Proper Healthy Lunch
Chicken Salad is a quick and easy to make healthy food. This can be prepared by vegetables and chicken which provide required dietary fiber and contribute a healthy mix of vitamins and minerals, including all types of vitamin. It helps you to lower the cholesterol levels and constipation. I am going to share a recipe to make our simple salad to more delicious salad.
Required Ingredients:
- 8 to 10 pieces boneless chicken breast
- 2 tsp chopped onion
- 2 tsp chopped parsley
- 1 tsp cilantro
- 1tsp black pepper
- 2 fresh and green lemons
- 3 pieces bay leaves
- 3 Garlic cloves
- 3 tsp mayonnaise
- 1 tsp olive oil
- Salt as per requirement
Method to Cook:
Take a clean bowl and add chicken breast with bay leaves, chopped onion and garlic cloves. Mix salt as per requirement and enough water for boiling.
Place this mixture in cooker or depth pan over medium heat and cover it with lid. Leave it for 20 to 25 minute or until it boil properly.
Remove chicken in a bowl and keep it for cool down. After that add other herbs like cilantro and chopped parsley, in chicken. Sprinkle olive oil and black pepper on chicken. At the end squeeze couple of fresh lemons and mayonnaise into the bowl and stir well until the mayo's spread evenly.
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More disturbingly bad pop psychology misdiagnosis of the "social media" problem ...
> "The mainstream social internet is so big; everyone is connected to everyone, over a billion on Facebook alone. The consequences of connection — fake news, radicalization, massive targeted harassment campaigns, algorithmically-generated psychological torment, inane bullshit — were not part of what we were sold."
I agree all these things are bad, but they're not new, and they're definitely not "consequences of connection", but the consequences of corporate-owned media, ad-based revenue model, and political bitterness caused by rising inequality. We migrated to the net in the 90s because the same perfect storm had hopelessly warped TV, and we naively thought the net might be different.
All the pearl-clutching and hand-wringing over weird YT kids videos makes we wonder if any of these people ever saw kids TV? I well remember the terrifyingly weird psy-op tactics advertisers used to prime kids to use "pester power", both in the "programs" themselves (remember Transformers and Masters of the Universe toys and their "TV shows") as well as in the ad breaks between them.
The good news is, it's still much cheaper and easier to set up a webserver or any other kind of internet server for ourselves, individually or as a community, than it has ever been to set up a micro-radio ("pirate radio") or micro-TV ("pirate TV") broadcast. I helped set up some micro-radio stations in early 2000s, so I'm speaking from experience here. Plus, servers can do a much greater range of things, and any webserver has much greater potential reach than local radio or TV (cool as they are)
Imagine a federated platform like #PeerTube that replace #iTunes for distributing podcasts. It would have all the benefits of pirate radio (or #HackerPublicRadio); diverse voices, a plurality of sources, decentralized production and consumption, plus all the benefits of iTunes; any podcaster can potentially heard by anyone in a global audience, and without the downsides of a platform controlled by a single gatekeeper like Apple corporation.
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Walt Disney's Story of Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet by Disneyland Records
- Artist: Disneyland Records
- Title: Walt Disney's Story of Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet
- Album: 354
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- Comment: Read-Along Series
- Copyright: Walt Disney Productions
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- Year: 1970
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A brief presentation of Fluxface in Space took place on Sept. 13, 2010 at the Kennedy Space Center - Merritt Island, FL (USA). Participating artist, Ginny Lloyd made the arrangements.
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A new shared electric scooter service has arrived in Christchurch. This is a guide on how to use them and how to stay safe.
Three e-scooter share providers are operating in Christchurch, with 1600 scooters available for public use.
Lime Technology has a fleet of 1000 in operation. Singapore-based company Beam has a 300-strong fleet, and a third provider, Wellington-firm Flamingo, has come on board with 300 scooters.
The number of scooters permitted in the city has currently been capped at 1600. The permits for all three e-scooter providers run until the end of February 2020.
Using e-scooters
E-scooters can be ridden on the footpath, shared paths and roadways.
On the footpath users must:
On the road e-scooters must be operated as near as practicable to the edge of the roadway.
Parking e-scooters
E-scooters should be parked upright and close to the kerb edge where lampposts, signs and rubbish bins are usually placed. This means they won't block the path of people using footpaths.
Don't park e-scooters on narrow footpaths or in busy areas where there isn't enough room for people to pass and don't park them up against fences, buildings or entranceways.
There are existing rules about the use of e-scooters(external link) which require users to operate them with care and consideration.
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CHANCELLOR ROGERS: Gibbons shows little understanding of his ideology's devastating impact
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How many slogans can greed hide behind? How many disguises can greed use to cover its motives and actions?
I grew up with grandparents and parents whose core values all related to helping other people. My relatives never tried to get an advantage. They never overcharged so that the other guy got shorted.
They were astute business people who were successful because they were talented in producing goods that benefitted everyone, rather than being people who became successful by taking unfair advantage of those with whom they dealt.
For 40 years, I was a registered Republican. Which party was my party really was of little importance because I viewed my country, then my state, then my local governments as the institutions of importance. The party was simply an organized mechanism for supporting government.
I also never thought of my own success being more important than the success of various governments I supported. Was I naïve, really ignorant or was it that I had no real understanding of how society functioned? Was the "help thy neighbor" concept merely camouflage for life's real purpose " cheat, lie and steal all you can for he who dies with the most money wins life's race?
I am constantly confused by Jim Gibbons having become the governor of Nevada. What strange set of facts could possibly have come together to elect this man whose every characteristic supports one cause " Jim Gibbons. The man has absolutely no regard for the welfare of any other human being.
Rather than a governor, Nevadans elected an executioner. Did he snooker us all? Was he able to camouflage himself to such an extent and hide behind so many empty slogans that a majority of Nevada would vote for this man in the empty suit, for an ideology that has three simple words, "no new taxes"?
These words from Gibbons' mouth represent a total lack of understanding of the purpose of government. His words also evidence no understanding of the devastation these three little words can cause.
If implemented, the political and economic policy of this man in the empty suit will shut down Nevada's programs to provide health care for children and care for the elderly who have no way to care for themselves.
His policies will permanently injure students who hope to grab a part of what used to be the American dream " to get a college education. Without support from the state, that dream will be denied.
Gibbons calls himself a conservative Republican. I am told his political and economic policies may be more closely aligned to the Libertarians. My own feeling is that Gibbons is neither a conservative Republican nor a Libertarian. He is simply a greedy, uninterested, unengaged human being whose only, and I mean only, goal is to see what Gibbons can do for himself and his greedy friends.
Fortunately for all Nevadans, he has revealed himself to be what he is, and the public, sometimes a little slow to catch on, has caught on. Several people have suggested a recall of Gibbons is in order. I disagree. It is not worth the time, effort and money because Gibbons has already held his own recall. The public is done with Gibbons. He is no longer a governor " even a former governor.
Fortunately Nevada has a legislature that has the power, the ability and the apparent willingness to prevent Gibbons' bent for destruction. I have faith that Bill Raggio, Warren Hardy, Steve Horsford and Barbara Buckley, along with the other 59 legislators, will put Nevada back on the right track.
– Jim Rogers is chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education.


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MIR – Repeater
More shape manipulation using Trapcode MIR, this time I used the repeater feature in MIR in order to duplication the original shape.
MIR – Spiral
Wanted to go for a controlled form of rhythm in this clip of a spiral, using Trapcode MIR and giving it 'fractal noise layer effect' to adjust the low poly faces & change the shape from a complex shape to a more simplistic one.
MIR – Evolution
First time actually giving my low poly look more realism by adding shadow, colour correction, shine & lighting whilst still adjusting the evolution to make it animate.
MIR – Mountain Finish
Messed with the texture options in this low poly animation to give it that mountain feel, using after effects I grabbed a skin texture from 'Fractal Noise' layer effects to give it more of a mountain look.
MIR – Wireframe
It's always interesting to see 3D shapes in wireframe form, so designing this short animation of shape manipulation and movement in a wireframe surface was just another surreal style in itself that gave the animation so much more perspective.


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I would write code to harvest these, but it is impossible to test in a reasonable time frame, so I never will.
Posts made by shedletsky
RE: NPC resource trains
RE: PTR Changelog 2018-08-28
Having a 70% return for energy and 100% return for boosts seems really inelegant to me and is another weird edge case/bit of artifice I need to internalize into my code. Yuck.
Issacar's critique is on the money. You are patching the problem in the wrong place. The real problem is that CARRY is so inefficient.
It would be better to just remove recycling entirely than to introduce magic thresholds for when certain things happen, which is a design crutch. Recycling is already an edge case strategy that, if you are not transporting energy via HEAL parts, really has no use and is it even worth the CPU it costs to invoke.
Capping per part is an even grosser solution. What problem are you even trying to solve? This is only a problem because of the other design kludge introduced when you made RCL 8 rooms cap out on GCL production so the game now has this weird mechanic of temple rooms.
I think we should leave this alone and focus on shipping power creeps instead.
If it really needs to be addressed, the stupid answer is to make HEAL parts cheaper so that CARRY parts are better for transporting energy. The cost of HEAL has no impact on the game at all and could literally be anything.
My 2c
Did development on this game stop?
Haven't seen any updates in 3 months.
RE: Nukes + Safemode + Attack controller
All the special rules around when Safemode can and can't be used should really be looked at.
It's too complicated and probably not the most elegant possible solution.
Getting 30 second room loads on shard0
What is it doing?
I love screeps, but this is really painful.
RE: Draft: Power Creeps API
@artch Yes, I didn't know about the room event log when I posted. I think adding the owner/creator as a property on each effect in the log would be helpful, otherwise figuring out when I'm being messed with could be challenging.
RE: Draft: Power Creeps API
If power creeps work in rooms without controllers, please consider adding a isPowerEnabled property on the room instead of on the controller.
Also please consider making a better way for me to tell if one of my rooms is being attacked with a power apart from periodically cycling through every single roomObject in every single room I own to check if there is an entry in .effects that I don't expect to be there. For hostile effects, it would be amazing if you told me which player owns the effect.
For instance, maybe there could be a Room.activeEffects property that is an array of all the effects active in a room. Even better would be if it were a hashmap to a list of effects indexed by owner. So Room.activeEffects['shedletsky'] will give me an array of all my active effects.
Waiting for Data Too Many Tabs Open
With only one tab open.
I'm using screepspl.us for grafana, but I don't think that is very chatty.
RE: Power Creeps update
I think the optimal case is that I have a pair of rooms with at least 3 sources total that are adjacent with every source within 100 ticks walking distance to each other (so a level 5 EXTEND_SOURCE PC can make a loop around boosting the sources every 100 ticks when EXTEND_SOURCE is on cooldown)
Instead of mining 1500 * 3 (4500) energy every 300 ticks, I now get 6500 * 3 (19500) energy every 300 ticks from these mines. Let's assume miners/carriers/links/whatever are free and this is pure profit.
That does sound pretty good. This power seems to be worth 50 energy/tick, or (at current rates), .45 credits/tick. If you are displacing remote miners for the same energy, it's definitely more CPU efficient since there is less hauling.
Basically I'm getting ~5 rooms of energy for free.
Now that I have thought some more about it, that seems pretty good. I suspect that most of the other powers do not rise to the .45 credits/tick value threshold.
RE: Power Creeps update
@artch Hmm. What are the benefits of focusing on power level instead of GCL?
GCL has a lot of passive benefits:
- I control more rooms so I get more resources
- I am bigger and harder to wipe out
- I have a lot of control over my spawn density (I can go build closely together in contested areas and spread out more in uncontested areas)
Since a Power-focused empire is harder to manage (since it relies on actively using powers instead of just being large), it seems to me that there should be some kind of payoff if you actually manage to make it work. Also, some of the powers need to help you secure/farm/process power banks, possibly fighting with larger neighbors. It seems like the obvious missing power in this design is OPERATE_POWERSPAWN that makes processing power not require a huge amount of energy that you need high GCL to collect.
It's possible power empires will make more sense once the commander/executor comes out (the one that makes raiding profitable? I forget which it is).


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General Psychology Track
The Department of Psychological Science offers the Master of Arts in Psychology with a specialization in General Psychology. The graduate program can be designed to prepare students for a career in the field of human services or may be used as preparation for further graduate study. The program is available for both part-time and full- time students. Most courses are offered in the evening.
Why General Psychology?
In a word, flexibility. Our General Psychology program is designed to afford students the opportunity to follow their interests. Our core courses provide you with solid preparation in research methodology, developmental, clinical, and community psychology. Our faculty have diverse research and applied interests, so in developing the planned program of study students may work with one or more professors to map out course selections. For example, recent students have focused their programs and conducted research in cross-cultural studies, diversity issues, racial identity, problem gambling, sexual assault and witness credibility, neuropsychological functioning, seasonal affective disorder, trauma, psychological adjustment, developmental issues, and the impact of electronic media on our lives.
Work Settings of General Psychology
General Psychology MA graduates may go on to doctoral programs, but many also work in a wide variety of research and human service settings.


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Venus Williams Discusses The Chronicles of Narnia
Clip: Season 1 | 47s
Venus Williams shares why The Chronicles of Narnia is one of her favorite novels.
Aired: 05/22/18
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Facial reconstruction made of Bronze Age woman 'Ava'
A facial reconstruction has been made of a young woman who died more than 3,700 years ago.
The woman's bones, including a skull and teeth, were discovered at Achavanich in Caithness in 1987.
Known as "Ava", an abbreviation of Achavanich, she is the subject of a long-term research project managed by archaeologist Maya Hoole.
Forensic artist Hew Morrison, a graduate of the University of Dundee, created the reconstruction.
Ava's remains, along with other artefacts found with her, are held in the care of Caithness Horizons museum in Thurso.
Unusually, the Bronze Age woman was buried in a pit dug into solid rock and her skull is an abnormal shape which some suggest was the result of deliberate binding.
It is believed Ava was part of a much wider European group known as the Beaker people.
Short and round skull shapes were common amongst this group, but Ms Hoole said the Achavanich specimen is exaggerated and of an abnormal, uneven shape.
Mr Morrison, a graduate of Dundee's Forensic Art MSc programme, specialises in creating facial reconstructions.
He used an anthropological formula to calculate the shape of Ava's missing lower jaw, and also the depth of her skin.
Mr Morrison also used a chart of modern average tissue depths for reference.
A specialist examination at the time of the discovery in the 1980s suggested that the skeletal remains were that of a young Caucasian woman aged 18-22.
He said: "The size of the lips can be determined by measuring the enamel of the teeth and the width of the mouth from the position of the teeth."
Mr Morrison created the reconstruction by rebuilding the layers of muscle and tissue over the face.
He drew on a large database of high resolution images of faces to recreate the facial features.
The individual features were then adjusted to fit with the anatomy of the skull based on the underlying facial muscles. The features were then "morphed together", using computer software to create the reconstructed face.
Mr Morrison said: "Normally, when working on a live, unidentified person's case not so much detail would be given to skin tone, eye or hair colour and hair style as none of these elements can be determined from the anatomy of the skull.
"So, creating a facial reconstruction based on archaeological remains is somewhat different in that a greater amount of artistic licence can be allowed."
He added: "I have really appreciated the chance to recreate the face of someone from ancient Britain.
"Being able to look at the faces of individuals from the past can give us a great opportunity to identify with our own ancient ancestors."
Ms Hoole said: "When I started this project I had no idea what path it would take, but I have been approached by so many enthusiastic and talented individuals – like Hew – who are making the research a reality.
"I'm very grateful to everyone who has invested in the project and I hope we can continue to reveal more about her life."


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Healthy Minds Matter in Mercer County
59 Paul Robeson Pl
Princeton, NJ 08540
With a generous grant from the United Way of Greater Mercer County, the Urban Mental Health Alliance (UMHA) is pleased to collaborate with UIH Family Partners (UIH) to launch a county wide mental health initiative entitled, Healthy Minds Matter in Mercer County. The program is a 6-part workshop series open to the general public and geared towards urban communities and communities of color. The series includes UMHA's signature workshop, Healthy Minds in Our Communities along with five other workshops that focus on stress management, addiction and recovery, self-advocacy, depression and trauma response training.
April 6, 2019 Healthy Minds in Our Communities
April 13, 2019 Real Stress, Real Stress Management
April 27, 2019 Being a Healthy Mind Gatekeeper
October 5, 2019 What is Addiction?
October 12, 2019 Why Am I Depressed
October 19, 2019 Trauma Response and Self-Care


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During that time, heavy commercial vehicle traffic increased more than 45.5 per cent. Heavy vehicle crashes increased by over 12 per cent. Weigh scales are being shut down and operating hours severely scaled back due to a lack of staff.
B.C. now has the second highest percentage of commercial vehicles taken out-of-service for safety violations in Canada. Only slightly more than 29 per cent of inspected vehicles pass a safety test.
You can help keep B.C. roads safe. Review the information on our campaign page, then click the link below to send an online e-mail to B.C.'s Transportation Minister and Opposition Critic, telling the government to hire more safety inspectors. And tell your friends and family.
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Guest Contributor: Karin Fajardo, co-author of Conectados.
When should beginning language learners use authentic materials? In my opinion, the answer is from day one. I know some may disagree, equating that practice with diving into water without knowing how to swim. However, one must approach the use of authentic materials with the same care as one who is entering the water for the first time. If provided with the proper tools and support, beginning language learners will not only be able to wade in the context of the authentic material but will soon want to dive deeper.
When creating the Introductory Spanish program Conectados, my co-author Patti Marinelli and I knew right away that we wanted to include authentic materials—that is, materials created by and for native speakers for real-life, non-pedagogical purposes. As explained below, working with authentic materials has important benefits, even for students who are learning the bare basics of the language.
Why Use Authentic Materials?
Motivation. Most people want to learn languages to communicate about subjects that they find interesting. The sooner that they have the opportunity to work with real language, the more inspired they'll be to continue studying, even if they only partially understand what they're reading or hearing.
Meaningfulness. Words, expressions, and grammatical features are easier to grasp and remember if learners discover them in a meaningful context. Language used in live conversations or unmodified printed material carries an intrinsic story and purpose, and its content usually appeals more powerfully to the learner's imagination.
Cultural Competence. Advertisements, news clips, paintings, interviews, songs, street signs, train schedules, and even photographs contain a wealth of cultural information. Authentic materials not only place language in context, they also connect learners to aspects of the target culture: humor, current events, norms, or mores. In addition, they provide opportunities to expand beyond the artifact at hand in conversation, integrating the 5Cs (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, Communities).
Self-Confidence. Perhaps more than anything else, self-confidence is the ingredient that allows learners to acquire a language and use it in meaningful and fulfilling ways. Beginning learners need plenty of opportunities to puzzle over unfamiliar aspects of language. When they succeed in figuring something out on their own, they are emboldened to undertake even more challenging materials. Working with raw, real-world specimens of the language is a natural way to build language "muscle."
How to Use Authentic Materials
The how is equally as important as the why in the case of elementary language learners. To ensure successfully interaction with authentic materials, the following criteria should be met.
A Safe Environment. The learner should feel free to explore, work with the language, and even make a few mistakes along the way. The online environment is the best setting to accomplish all that; hence, the authentic readings in Conectados live online. Online, learners have control over when and how they will interact with the authentic materials. They may read at their own pace and access glosses with the hover of the cursor; with videos, they may pause and replay as many times as they wish and turn on subtitles.
Well-Curated Materials. Authentic materials should be carefully chosen, especially in beginning courses. When we looked for authentic texts for Conectados, we asked three questions: Is it relevant? Is it up-to-date? Is it accessible? The last criterion, finding texts with simple linguistic structures that matched the level of the students, was a time-consuming process. At the end, we selected infographics for the early chapters. The attractive-looking layout immediately grabs learners' attention and its visual graphics enhance comprehension of the content.
In early chapters, low text/high infographics build confidence and interest (while developing 21st Century Skill: Information Literacy). Later in the program, longer texts are presented as students develop effective L2 reading strategies.
Pedagogical Support. Language learners, especially beginners, need plenty of support to help make sense of unsimplified Spanish. We recognize that reading in L2 is not the same as reading in L1, so in Conectados, before students are exposed to authentic text and video, they are guided through two preparatory activities: Estrategia and Palabras. Estrategia provides strategies to help learners understand what they read and hear. In Palabras, learners preview important words that appear in the text or narration and obtain some contextual knowledge. As N.J. Anderson argued in Exploring second language reading: Issues and strategies (1999), L2 readers need to be able to recognize words so that they can adequately comprehend text.
After the preparatory work, learners are then presented with the authentic text or video. In this step they still need guidance so Comprensión questions help them focus on the main idea and the most important details. After completing Comprensión, students feel satisfaction that they understood the key points without having to understand every single word; in other words, they learn an important lesson of real-life language: to tolerate vagueness and incompleteness of understanding.
The final activity, Comparaciones y conexiones, ensures deeper learning by enabling students to conduct further research, construct new knowledge, and share that knowledge with the instructor and the rest of the class. (Once again, incorporating ACTFL 21st Century Skills.)
If learners have well-designed supporting materials, then working with authentic language is an excellent way of motivating them, increasing their knowledge of the target culture, and building their self-confidence with the language.
Do you use authentic materials in your beginning language courses? What do you think are the major advantages? Drawbacks? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.


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I have, admittedly, had trouble baking bread. After a couple of missed attempts, I now tend towards simple recipes that are somewhat fail proof.
I am grateful to Dave, my new friend who is quite the talented baker (and thinker, improver and eater) for offering me a lesson. So this past Saturday morning, he opened his kitchen (and his home, quite frankly, because Cherub tagged along and she explores just about everywhere) and gave me a course in bread baking 101 (he also fed me and Cherub lunch, natch, lucky us!).
I choose to tackle brioche. Because I mean, come on. Butter, eggs. In bread? It's heaven. It makes the most fabulous toast. Not to mention French toast.


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He is an experienced and fully qualified teacher of Mathematics, working in a state secondary school. He has post graduate qualifications in Teaching advanced Mathematics in addition to PGCE with QTS. (Qualified Teacher Status)
Teaching Experience: With over 10 years of teaching and tutoring experience, he enjoys helping students succeed by offering expert maths tuition to children from Primary to GCSE & A Level maths. He is fully trained and a qualified Secondary Mathematics teacher with enhanced CRB checks, ensuring that his lessons are relevant and fun.
He expects hard work and dedication but also understands the emotional needs and requirements of pupils. Sometimes all a pupil needs is encouragement and confidence. Performing well in mathematics is sometimes all about sound concepts and confidence. As a teacher, it is his duty to build up a pupil's self-esteem and direct them to an improved perception of themselves as a learner.
As he is currently working as a mathematics teacher in a high school in Hounslow, he is well aware of all the exam boards and the recent changes made to the GCSE and A Level courses.
Tutoring Approach:
His exceptional approach gives the student a strong foundation for academic success by being committed to improve results. This can be achieved by explaining the key concepts, working through problems together and setting plenty of practice papers as homework. Regular reports are provided on progress and the on those areas where further development is required.


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Susan Klopfer - Author and Speaker
Susan Klopfer is a former acquisition and development editor for Prentice Hall, as well as an award-winning Missouri and Texas journalist. Her books Who Killed Emmett Till and Cash In On Diversity were nominated for Global eBook Awards by Dan Poynter Publications. She is also author of The Emmett Till Book and Where Rebels Roost; Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited.
Susan's new book, The Plan, focuses on two murdered black lawyers and a dead white detective who all knew too much about the assassinations of JFK and MLK, and life in the Mississippi Delta--"with a quick side trip to Ecuador!"
Susan and her husband lived in the Mississippi Delta for two years on the grounds of Parchman Penitentiary where Fred was the state's chief corrections psychologist. Knowing little of Mississippi's civil rights history, Susan quickly took the opportunity of living in the Mississippi Delta to visit its small Delta towns, meeting people and learning their civil rights stories.
She found men and women in the tiny cotton hamlet of Drew, Mississippi who remembered, as school children, when young Emmett Till of Chicago was murdered in 1955. She read old newspapers, visited historical sites and learned a great deal about the Delta's secrets, including the lynching of Till.
"I got hooked, and started writing about Mississippi civil rights history. But some stories need to be told in a fiction framework, and that's what I've done in The Plan. I really hope that readers enjoy this new book."
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Writing books presents me with an opportunity to give my point of view to a large audience about subjects I care about deeply. My ninth book is my first fiction novel and it dares to challenge the way we have looked at conspiracies in the United States.
I have always had an interest in the murder of President Kennedy. He was murdered when i was a sophomore in high school; I remember some of my classmates cheering! After years of reading anything I could find on the topic, and learning about the murders of two black, gay Deep South lawyers who were working on cold cases, I decided that I was ready to share what I think about the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and the resultig cover up.
I also believe these two lawyers were killed because they knew too much. Both had been collecting information on cold cases. Thus begins the start of The Plan:
"My name is Clinton Moore. I am a lawyer born and raised in the Mississippi Delta. I almost made it to my seventy-second birthday—invited over a hundred guests to my party—but a client, and then a stranger, wrecked my plans the day before my cake was to go into the oven."
Years after the assassination of President Kennedy took place, I knew, like so many others, the American new media had not given us the full story of what really happened on that November day. Because so many conspiracy theorists have been made fun of by the traditional media, I took it upon myself to learn facts about it. My focus became those who allegedly gathered secret information, and were murdered because of it, as well as people who were murdered during the modern civil rights movement.
My first books relating to these themes are nonfiction works set in the Mississippi Delta: Where Rebels Roost, Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited; The Emmett Till Book; and Who Killed Emmett Till?
I have now written eight books and have two degrees, in communication and business management. I've moved to Cuenca, Ecuador where my husband and I have retired. But I still can't figure out how to stop my dog from chasing my cat! And I will keep writing until the end.


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145 Drivers Way
Directions Hardeeville, SC 29927
The Peacock story starts out on dusty rural Florida roads. That's where six-year-old Warner Peacock took daily trips with his Grandpa nicknamed "Peanut", who, as a For Salesman, drove the latest trade-ins out to show rural neighbors.
Bouncing down bumpy driveways on big bench seats (in the days before seatbelts), Warner great to love being greeted with excitement: sometimes by flocks of chickens and other farm animals, and almost always by sociable families who didn't get many guests-or chances to drive nice, newer cars.
That's what Warner remembers best-how happy people were to see his affable Grandpa drive up, and how earnest Grandpa was about wanting to make them happy.
It's a lesson he still lives by


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This is one of those recipes you can whip up on a work night, or serve to company. Salmon is special. It takes well to baking, grilling, smoking, roasting. If you're like me, you try to squeeze it into your diet when you can because of its rich, delectable flavor and because it's incredibly good for you, packed with omega-3s and healthy fats.
And dukkah. This Egyptian spice-nut-herb mixture is a revelation. It's salty and crunchy and savory and perfect for for livening up so many foods. I think it's a great complement for slow-roasted salmon, its toasty-nutty-cuminyness adding complex flavors and texture.
I have never fancied myself a great meat or fish cook, so when I come across a method that delivers excellent results every time, and enhances the qualities of what I'm cooking, I'm all over it.
Slow-roasted salmon is one of those methods.
Both the oven temp (a low of 250F) and roasting time (an unfathomable 20-25 minutes) initially seem like typos, but carry on as directed and you'll to end up with something a quite different from your regular baked fish–something succulent and tender and utterly satisfying. Sprinkle some dukkah on that and you're set.
Slow-Roasted Dukkah Salmon
4 salmon fillets, skin on; about 1# total
1/4 cup good quality mayonnaise, or less
4T dukkah, homemade or purchased
Rinse and pat dry fillets and set on a baking pan, skin down, with about an inch between each fillet.
Spread about 2T of mayonnaise on each fillet. Use less mayo depending on size of fillet and your preference.
Sprinkle generously with dukkah.
Place salmon on center rack of preheated 250F oven. Fillets usually need 20-25 minutes.
How will you know when they're done? The fully cooked fillet may still look quite fresh, but some of the salmon's juices will have set white along the grainlines of the flesh. Press your finger gently on the flesh and it will flake tenderly along the grainlines.
Remove and enjoy immediately.
I enjoy Slow-Roasted Dukkah Salmon with a good salad and roasted sweet potatoes.
About Dukkah
You can purchase dukkah from a number of specialty spice purveyors, or you can make your own, which I do. I use David Lebovitz's dukkah recipe, which makes a lot, but, not a problem! It's a great gift , plus, I guarantee you'll find so many uses for it. Here are a few ideas:
Sprinkle on roasted or braised vegetables
Sprinkle on your morning yogurt for a change of pace
Add to your salad for some spice and crunch
Check out the davidlebovitz.com link above for more ideas.


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12 Dogs Who Are Ready for the Super Bowl
One of the best parts about the Super Bowl is that everyone becomes football fans when it rolls around. It doesn't matter where you're from, whether or not you know what's going on or if you're just watching the game for the commercials (guilty)-- it's just a fun ol' time!
Want to know who else likes to take part in such baller activities? Dogs. Contrary to popular believe, canines are pretty hardcore when it come to the world of football. They sport jerseys, wear those helmet things and avidly follow team statistics. Since that's the case, it's no wonder puppies are already prepping for Sunday's big game. Check out some Super Dogs below.


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I would like to put out this appeal for Mr. Michael Hayes. I know Michael and can vouch for him. He is studying for the Catholic priesthood for the Ukrainian Rite of the Catholic Church in Canada.
Michael writes below his appeal.
Can Vox readers put him over the top?
God bless you.


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1935 Dodge Pickup Truck Kc Vintage Mopar 34 36 patina,rat rod ,barn find
- Condition: Used
- Make: Dodge
- Model: Other Pickups
- Type: truck
- Trim: 2 door truck
- Year: 1935
- Mileage: 0
- Engine size: 218
- Number of cylinders: 6
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Manual
- Drive type: rear
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
1935 Dodge Other Pickups
Up for grabs today is a sweet 1935 Dodge 1st series model KC pickup truck. all original, barn find
This is a great Project truck with an all steel bod, ,,,, theres only one small dent on the bottom of the grill, all the glass is there, both doors roll up and down with ease. The front windshield opens up and is functional. Perfect Original headlights with original glass lenses, and correct Dodge headlight stands. Original dash with the three separate gauges the make it a 1935 1st series. Original seat springs and lower seat support..Reasonablystraight body for it's age, no rust is all solid. Original matching numbers T12 code Flathead 6 218 cubic inch engine with 3 spd. transmission. The engine is all compleate got the truck running, but the points wen bad is been seating at my house for two years,Very rare to find a 35 first serie, I just don't have the time to complete this project so it has to move on.
The Truck has a clean title but all the original tags/serial number plates are there and present.
Please ask any and all Questions BEFORE bidding.I will answer them as soon as humanly possible. The truck will Be sold AS-IS so please askyour wife first. . Thanks and Good Luck! for any questions please call me at 775 404 2173 thanks


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The Message widget is a variant of the Label, designed to display multiline messages. The message widget can wrap text, and adjust its width to maintain a given aspect ratio.
When to use the Message Widget
The widget can be used to display short text messages, using a single font. You can often use a plain Label instead. If you need to display text in multiple fonts, use a Text widget.
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To create a message, all you have to do is to pass in a text string. The widget will automatically break the lines, if necessary.
from Tkinter import * master = Tk() w = Message(master, text="this is a message") w.pack() mainloop()
If you don't specify anything else, the widget attepts to format the text to keep a given aspect ratio. If you don't want that behaviour, you can specify a width:
w = Message(master, text="this is a relatively long message", width=50)
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- Message(master=None, **options) (class) [#]
A multi-line text message.
- master
- Parent widget.
- **options
- Widget options. See the description of the config method for a list of available options.
- config(**options) [#]
Modifies one or more widget options. If no options are given, the method returns a dictionary containing all current option values.
- **options
- Widget options.
- anchor=
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Artist: Karen Bystedt
In 1982, Karen Bystedt, then a tenacious young film student, cold-called Andy Warhol at Interview Magazine and asked he pose for her book-in-progress featuring the era's top male models. She had come across an image of the legendary artist modeling for Barney's and hoped to capture the icon in this unique context, positioned amongst faces renowned for their aesthetic ideal; she endeavored to preserve an image of the man made infamous for making models as a model himself. Warhol asked Bystedt whom else she intended to include in this book, upon hearing her answers, he swiftly agreed to join the fold. The resulting images materialize a rare and remarkable sense of vulnerability; in this portrait session, Bystedt captures a soft and submissive Warhol, a man who spoke much of beauty, and its essential mystery, and as is suggested in his rigid pose, his bewildering gaze, and simply, his participation in her project, seemingly so wanted to be seen as beautiful himself.
Bystedt included two of the thirty-six photos shot that afternoon in her book Not Just Another Pretty Face published by Nal, and placed the negatives in storage, where they lived untouched for twenty-five years. The movements of an artist are so often mysterious to the artist themselves, as if a mystical wind directed the creative spirit, engulfing cerebral elements and ineffable impulses in its power. In 2011, Bystedt felt firmly compelled to revisit her representations of Andy and unearth the images captured that afternoon. She was able to locate ten of her original negatives, yet time and its offspring, reality, had taken its toll on her spellbinding photographs. She dedicated the preceding four months to restoring her Andy, pixel-by-pixel, infusing new life, breath by breath, into her images.
Having turned from photographer to visionary pioneer in the mixed media form, Bystedt conceptualized a new future for her Warhol portraits, one that echoed her subject's inventive spirit, and mirrored his approach to both inspiration and practical creation. Giving form to a modern, immaterial Factory of her own, Bystedt invited contemporary street and fine artists to interpret her images in their own artistic language, co-creating mixed media artwork, thus conceptualizing a series of collaborations that would represent community and pay homage to the mixed media form so inextricably associated with the legacy of Warhol. Over the last five years, this canon has developed and expanded; the work is definitively diverse, representing an eclectic array of artistic identities, thus promoting inclusion whilst positioning fine art in the realm of the accessible with which Warhol himself toyed.
The Lost Warhols live as a testament to intrinsic value of eclecticism in visual perspective, honoring individuality in interpretation, allowing the self to shine in position as part of a greater whole, as Warhol once did, and forever will, in Bystedt's book. Bystedt has created a series that follows in Warhol's footsteps, playing with popular culture; the collection champions the unique signatures of her collaborators and encourages its audience to consider their own understanding of its central subject – a man captured by a woman; two unique artists, both fascinated by beauty, and determined to stir an evaluation of its ever-changing parameters and visual associations. The work thereby provides the world with a new lens with which to examine the legacy of Andy Warhol and re-evaluate the aesthetic ideal, thus challenging the modes in which it may be measured and questioning its intrinsic value itself.
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The Ideal Strategy for How To Buy Stocks
Shares can be purchased on the stock exchange with the support of a broker, or they might be bought straight from the corporation. These stocks are having positive result available on the market at this time and would be a great investment for virtually any stock traders that are looking for a fantastic investment. They are a little bigger, and therefore a little safer, but they still have the ability to continue delivering spectacular gains. Furthermore, you can observe how stocks which were rated as Strong Sells drastically underperform the broad industry. On the opposite hand, if you get stocks having a small market capitalization at attractive prices, you can think about buying them for long-term returns. Micro-cap stocks, since they are usually smaller, are inclined to have light volume and large price spreads. Micro-cap stocks that don't have strong fundamentals, on the opposite hand, will discover that it's extremely hard to attract investor attention and recover.
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If your business is on this list and needs to be removed, please get in touch with us. Ideally, you need to go for companies that have been in the company for many years and have a great reputation on the market. You can choose a particular industry, such as the oil industry should you be trying to find a gas penny stock, or you could decide on All Industries for a whole list. Another sector to think about is defense stocks.
You don't need to be worried about constantly hoping to win against the current market," explained Robert. On occasion, the sector just doesn't make sense. The stock exchange is at record highs. Over the years, it has proven to be the best investment class overall.
Fading the sector is the procedure of taking a position which goes counter to the main trend of the industry. No more blind purchase and hold headaches, or you don't have to look out for the news to work out why a sector is trending and there you don't have to understand electricity to utilize it. The stock exchange is among the best regions to spend your money for the long-term. If you remember, the stock exchange was in full chaos at the moment; point.
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If you are not a buyer of the index itself, it isn't related to the work of finding great stocks today. Selecting the appropriate broker isn't always a very simple decision. To get penny stocks, you will initially require a stock broker. You tell the broker you would like X quantity of shares of the business, and it's the broker's job to satisfy the purchase.
After you have decided the quantity of money that you're eager to invest, now is the time to generate a comparative analysis of some popular stock alternatives. In regards to investing money in the stock exchange, you own a decision. A fast and efficient direction of making money is via investment in stocks, as long as you understand the company. On the opposite hand, more cash in a stock means you have more cash in danger. Mutual funds enable investors to cherry-pick the international economy's sweetest offerings. In other words, it would be challenging to replace this organization's assets. The business's liquidity is in good shape.
What the provider lacks in prime line development, it makes up for in operational improvements. It can be impractical to expect the business sustain its twice-more-than-average revenue for the next ten years, but what's practical is it may still be above average. If you discover an outstanding company selling for a good selling price, get it.
The business operates 16 mines throughout the world, and the majority of them are predicted to be quite productive for at least 15 years to come. It provides consulting, information technology, and business process outsourcing services. The organization also create special kind of chemical and latex solutions. If you opt to put money into individual companies, remember to invest in a wide selection of industries for a diversified portfolio. Even though the enterprise was established in 1966, investors couldn't get a stake until a couple of years ago. Additionally, it is crucial to locate companies which offer products and services which consumers cannot live without.


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Following 2014's event, and having reviewed foot flow and service performance, the Hilton have decided to reallocate space to the convention for 2015. For this years event, ConFuzzled will no longer have use of the Millers Bar. However, there will now be an overflow lounge situated in the Library. This function space is located immediately off of the main Lobby. This makes it a far more convenient location for our attendee's, and helps facilitate the lobby being the heart of the convention.
The room will comprise of additional comfort and table seating, as well as bar and food service points.
There will once again be a cash catering menu available, offering snacks, lunch, and dinner time service windows. In addition, the Lounge will once again be hosting a pizza promotion. All Hilton main menus remain in full effect. To review the cash catering menu, please download the following.
ConFuzzled 2015 Menu
Open 24 hours a day, the lounge is a sociable bar centrally located in the hotel, with an open plan design complete with cosy chairs and sofa's. Large plasma screens keep you up to date with the latest news and sports. You can re-energise with a club sandwich, or embark on a mouth watering Grilled Sirloin Steak, with a host of vegetarian options also available. Alcohol is served to residents 24 hours and non residents everyday between 11am and 2am.
Attendees are entitled to 20% discount on bar and food prices in the Lounge, excluding convention preferential tariff rates. You must display a valid 2015 ConFuzzled Lanyard.
After 2am, items may only be charged against residential rooms. Cash and card payments will not be accepted after this time.
PLEASE NOTE:Table waitered service is subject to a 10% gratuity fee.
Available in the main reception area, Costa Coffee is open 24 hours a day, every day, and offers a range of your favourite caffeinated drinks, to small snacks and biscuits. Start your day with a frothy cappuccino, or perhaps send yourself off to sleep with a Hot Chocolate topped with Marshmallows and a Flake! (No discounts available, as priced)
Breakfast is served daily in the Westminster Suite and is inclusive to attendees that are resident at the Hilton Metropole. On offer is a range of options from cereals, fresh fruits, and yoghurts, to the all time favourite English breakfast (Bacon, Sausage, Egg, Fried Bread). With a host of drink selections from tea, coffee, and juices, there is no doubt that you will start the day with a hearty breakfast.
Mon – Fri: 06.30am – 10.30am
Sat- Sun: 07.00am – 11.00am
(Incl Bank Holidays)
If you are non resident in the hotel, and attending only, you can purchase a breakfast on the day.
Breakfast: £14.95
Continental Breakfast: £10
(no discounts available, as priced)
Attendees who have executive upgrade package can choose to have a continental style breakfast in the executive lounge. Please see details further below.
Executive Lounge
The executive lounge is an exclusive members' only space open to guests whom have opted for a room upgrade to one of the executive or suite packages, and other Hilton executive and HHonors guests.
Served daily, this option is available to those attendee's who have paid for an executive upgrade package. The offering consists of a fresh and more continental breakfast, inclusive in your stay.
Mon – Fri: 07.00am – 10.00am
Sat – Sun: 07.30am – 10.30am
(incl Bank Holidays)
Afternoon Tea
A selection of fresh sandwiches and cakes or sweet snacks, afternoon tea is served daily and is available to attendees whom have opted for an executive package upgrade, inclusive in your stay.
Daily: 15.00pm – 17.00pm
Evening Service
During evening service, a selection of alcoholic beverages are available free of charge to attendees whom have opted for an executive package upgrade. The convention advise people to drink responsibly, and remind attendees that the hotel retain the right to refuse service to anyone seen to be exploiting the service, or those considered to be too intoxicated.
Mon – Fri: 18.00pm – 20.30pm
Sat – Sun: 18.00pm – 20.00pm
(incl Bank Holidays)
Room Service
For those of you wishing to kick back and relax in your room instead of venturing downstairs, room service is available, delivered to your door, 24 hours a day. (no discount available, as priced)
The Hilton Presents: The Mad Hatters Tea Party
For 2015, the Hilton are pleased to announce that they would like to host an audience with you and friends at their Mad Hatters Tea Party! With an option of 3x set menus to choose from and tickets available for advance sale, the tea party will be hosted in the very elegant Arden Suite from 6pm onwards on Friday 22nd May.
With a delicious selection of picnic classics from bagels and sandwiches, to hotpots and the all important Victoria sponge cake, the tea party will be a delightful way to start your convention. Each menu option comes with your choice of drink from lager and ale, a soft drink, or tea and coffee.


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Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015, Valiant is one of the most successful comic book publishing companies in the history of the medium with more than 81 million comics sold and a library of more than 2,000 distinct characters, including X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Harbinger, Shadowman, Archer & Armstrong, and many more. Established by a brain trust of legendary comics creators – including former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter; seminal Iron Man writer and artist, Bob Layton; and the visionary writer and illustrator of Wolverine: Weapon X, Barry Windsor-Smith – Valiant's heroes and villains inhabit the largest independently owned superhero universe anywhere in comics.
In recent years the company has returned to great commercial and critical success, winning a Diamond Gem Award for Publisher of the Year and numerous industry awards and accolades. Valiant's titles consistently rate among the best reviewed in comics.
"Libraries are critical centers for community, youth and the arts. At Valiant, we're highly committed to working with libraries and librarians to reach the next great generation of fans and readers," said Valiant Chief Operating Officer & CFO Gavin Cuneo. "Libraries are rapidly expanding in the digital space and BiblioBoard is uniquely positioned to help us achieve our mission."
BiblioBoard's Comics and Graphic Novels catalog now contains over 3,500 titles with nearly one thousand titles from Valiant. Valiant Entertainment's content is being sold as a ReadersFirst, subscription-pricing model with pricing tiered per library size, putting the collection within the budget of any library.
"From strong female roles to intriguing character backstories, the Valiant Universe of characters are relatable to library patrons. The comic book space is changing and Valiant is committed to providing libraries content in a sustainable manner to expose their characters to new fans," says Jonah Canter, Director of Publisher Relations The new content is available in BiblioBoard's Comics and Graphic Novels catalog accessible on both the web and through award-winning native apps on Apple and Android tablet devices.


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Sedimentary Roche of lake or marine origin, the red jasper is broadly spread in the earth's crust. Dioxide of silicon.Zonings and stains of colours are frequent; they are owed to fine inclusions of iron oxide limonite and hématite.Origin: Origin: Germany, Brazil, France, India, Madagascar, Russia.
That it brings us:
Put under the pillow help to remember its dreams. Recharge the body in energy. Favour aplomb and comfort in difficult situations. It is a stone of friendliness that provokes admiration
Legends and superstitions:
First step of celestial Jerusalem, the red jasper represents liver.
The red jasper is the stone of bedding on which built itself the christian Church, because it attaches Pierre to the apostle. That's how it becomes the foundation and the departure of solid very undertaking. It was also linked to Benjamin, one of twelve sons of Israel.
In South America, certain beliefs maintain that a natural thread in material of red colour, carried in the left wrist, preserves the person of the poor eye.
In lamaïste Tibetan education, the neophyte also carries a red thread in the wrist, probably to protect it from harmful psychical energies. It is what makes the red jasper. It favours the illegal securement of advantageous energies and pushes back the others.
They also allocated him the faculty to make easier deliveries.
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A Book That Changed My Perspective
This is one of the best books out there on this subject. If you have struggled with the call on your life, this WILL bless you tremendously.
Don't beat yourself up for even one more day, for what you may have seen as failures in your life, and ministry.
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Understanding Prophetic People


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As you go through the ups and downs of everyday life, do you ever find yourself paralyzed in your own head, dwelling and over-analyzing every single thing? You jump from one thought to the next and in a matter of milliseconds have played out at least a dozen different scenarios of how a certain life event might pan out?
Welcome to the club.
My entire life I have struggled with overthinking everything – sometimes it is so bad that my head actually feels like it will just burst.
It can be about anything really: for example: I might take an extra 10 – 15 minutes to leave in the morning just to make double and triple sure that I haven't left any appliances on. Now you might equate that to OCD but it's really just me thinking way more than is needed.
Overthinking is a bigger problem when you are facing a hurdle: It's natural to dwell and allow your mind to take over a difficult event in your life. It becomes your main focus all the time and ultimately affects your overall happiness and sense of peace. It's completely okay and natural for something to always be on your mind – especially if it's something that will affect your overall well-being, but it's detrimental when you let that thing become central to your entire life.
One example is job loss. Let's face it – in this day and age, it is impossible to live on an unstable income. If you or a loved one's employment situation has become unstable, that can absolutely have a tremendous toll on your physical and emotional well-being. You might find yourself losing sleep at night staying up into the wee hours wondering:
What's going to happen if things don't normalize soon?
How are we going to get by?
Of course, it's natural to be concerned about your short-term future but it's when you allow your situation to consume you, is when it can become troublesome.
So if you find yourself having a hard time sometimes regaining control of your mind back, just remember a few things:
Amnesia, Anyone?
Dwelling and over-thinking affects your short-term memory in a big way. Because you're only focusing on one thing at any given time, you end up completely forgetting about other important things as well – and that will end up causing you even more stress. A great recent real-life example of this was from just a couple of days ago when my preoccupation with other thoughts led to a potential kitchen disaster. You can read about that here.
Plus, as hard as the burden of your situation might be, you've still got other responsibilities to tend to and it will become very hard to do so if you allow yourself to be consumed by one potential drawback. You need to find a way to manage your concern in a responsible way so that you can get through your daily activities.
The Power of Positive Thinking
I stand by this: if you choose not to dwell on all the negatives, you open up an opportunity to see the positives of your situation. Think and act optimistically (even when things look bleak) and the outcome is most likely to be in your favour.
Talk to the Right People
You'll stop dwelling and ultimately swelling your head with your own thoughts, once you've unleashed some verbal diarrhea on those close to you. I say the 'right' people because you wouldn't want to broadcast a personal challenge to just anyone, of course, but you absolutely should confide in a close, trusted confidant – someone who will not only mean well for you, but also send you the positive vibes that you need.
I've always found it hard to open up about things myself but have gotten better at it over the years. It really does help alleviate a lot of the stress that you end up carrying upon yourself when you keep everything bottled up inside.
Stay Active
This has become a staple throughout many of my blog posts and I stand by it. No matter how rough the going might get, I alway make sure I stay on top of the gym. It's my one place to completely disconnect and immerse myself in the endorphin-fueled high that I can't get enough of. So when you're mind is getting the best of you, go for a jog, get your body moving somehow. Even better, grab a few friends and feed off of each other's positive energy. You can never go wrong.
So when life throws you a curveball, try to steer clear of the mind trap of dwelling. Instead, accept the situation, adapt to it, be optimistic and focused, and the next turn will surely be a brighter one.
Are you an over thinker? How do you deal with an overactive imagination? Please share your thoughts!


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IPAC Services partners with SAIT and the University of Calgary to complete a working PCB Soil Remediation System! Working with a professor at the University of Calgary and a Project Lead from SAIT Environmental Technologies Research/Applied Research & Innovation Services, IPAC succeeds in bringing about the fruition of a "conceptual design" to a fully functional, self-contained field unit. Using their proprietary process, IPAC assisted in the design and construction of the unit.
The attached picture shows IPAC's logo on the trailer, along with other prestigious stakeholder logos. IPAC was proud to play a major role in this project and contribute to environmental sustainability.
In a thank you email to IPAC Services, Project Lead and Advisor from SAIT, Vita Martez, gives this commendation:
"RE: PCB Soil remediation System CONGRATULATIONS
As a follow up to the move of the trailer from your premises and the ensuing final meeting of appreciation with most of you, it is a pleasure to inform you that the decal installation has been completed.
Please see the attachment in this email. As promised, the IPAC logo has been included among other prestigious stakeholder logos. This exposure of IPAC services is meant to provide free advertizing/marketing to your company.
Additionally it is our hope that it will open up potential business opportunities for IPAC in the existing and in new and upcoming areas of providing contractual services to steward environmental sustainability.
To this end, and on behalf of our stakeholders and ourselves, we wish each of you and your company continued success and profitability in your business endeavors. Thank you."


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