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High cheese comes to land of high tea: Yanks vs Red Sox
LONDON (AP) - High cheese comes to the land of high tea on Saturday.
When Boston's Rick Porcello throws the first pitch to the New York Yankees at Olympic Stadium, the national pastime of the onetime colony will try to plant itself in the mother country.
After looking at the cozy distance - 385 feet to center with a 16-foot wall - Yankees and Red Sox batters hope to run up some cricket-like scoring totals, perhaps even shattering the famous triangular light banks.
"Hopefully, we'll poke a couple out," Yankees slugger Aaron Judge said Friday, smiling after batting practice on a sunny afternoon. "It flies pretty well. It got good carry."
The teams arrived Thursday on overnight flights after playing day games. Judge, who is 6-foot-7, ambled around London largely unrecognized.
"I was actually walking near the London Eye yesterday and I ran into a couple people that had the Yankee hat on," Judge said. "They had no idea who I was or anything. I said this is all right. 'I'm Aaron, great to meet you.'"
About 1,500 invited fans attended batting practice, and there were signs baseball had entered soccer country. Some Red Sox supporters improvised on a soccer chant to honor a Boston broadcaster, repeating "One Jerry Remy! There's only one Jerry Remy!" to the tune of "Guantanamera."
Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling was in the clubhouse of the Yankees, who partnered with City's parent company to own the New York City team in Major League Soccer. Players in both locker rooms had souvenir jerseys in the claret and blue of West Ham, the soccer team that calls the stadium home. And infielder Gio Urshela dribbled a soccer ball in left field.
While both teams will wear white home jerseys, they clearly are being treated as visitors being given the royal treatment - Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and sixth in line to the throne, is scheduled to accompany Invictus Games athletes to the mound for the ceremonial first pitch.
Yet, trappings of home abounded.
Clubhouses were built over the Olympic warmup track under the stands to emulate the spacious surroundings major leaguers typically enjoy. Movie director Spike Lee walked around in foul territory and the grounds crew performed to the Village People's "YMCA," as they are wont to do in the Bronx. Delaware North, the stadium food contractor, brought over George Raub, a 39-year-old from Georgia, to teach staff how to hawk food in the stands.
"It's all about showmanship and bringing them outside of their shell," he said. "Joked a little bit: If they've ever wanted to be a West End actor here in London, this is their chance to really showcase their skills."
Players tested the artificial turf - a first for a Yankees-Red Sox game. While the dimensions resemble the cookie-cutter ballparks of the 1960s and '70s, there is a large expanse of foul territory, like the Oakland Coliseum, making backing up bases paramount.
"There's so much more space and so many more places for the ball to go," Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner said.
The triangular light banks leave unusual shadows. The roof, built to protect soccer supporters from rain, overhangs the plate. That necessitated a ground rule that fouls pinging the roof are dead balls. Left to enforce it is the umpiring crew of Ed Hickox (plate Saturday), Carlos Torres (first), Dana DeMuth (second) and Angel Hernandez (third).
Boston arrived after a charter flight on the Crystal Boeing 777-200 , configured to seat 88 people in lie-flat seats and with a dining area resembling a hotel.
"The nicest plane I'll get to fly on," Red Sox pitcher David Price said.
Unfortunately for Boston, the bus ride from Gatwick Airport took two hours in rush hour traffic and delayed arrival at the team hotel until about 10 a.m.
Sightseeing was popular. Boston manager Alex Cora and Yankees counterpart Aaron Boone went to Buckingham Palace for the changing of the guard, and Cora visited Kensington Palace. A gala was scheduled for the Tower of London.
Yankees reliever Chad Green, likely to start Sunday, toured the Churchill War Rooms under the streets of Westminster. Boston outfielder Mookie Betts played golf and ate with his family at Borough Market, while Porcello and Red Sox teammate Brandon Workman went to Camden Market, Shoreditch and Piccadilly Circus.
New York starter Masahiro Tanaka was not interested in any tourist diversions.
"It's strictly a business trip for me," he said through a translator.
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Preview: L.A. Lakers At L.A. Clippers
When: 10:30 PM ET, Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Where: Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
You can purchase Clippers Vs Lakers Tickets for tonights game.
THE STORY: An all-Los Angeles tilt at this time of year usually means a lot more to the Lakers than it does to the Clippers. But with both L.A.-based teams jockeying for playoff positioning, Wednesday's game carries significance for everyone as the Lakers and Clippers do battle at the Staples Center. The Lakers sit third in the Western Conference but are just 1 1/2 games ahead of the streaking Clippers, who have won six in a row. Lakers center Andrew Bynum hopes to return to action after sitting out missing Wednesday's near-collapse against New Jersey with an ankle injury.
TV: 10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN, Fox Sports San Diego
ABOUT THE LAKERS (34-20): It took a late surge from Kobe Bryant for Los Angeles to get past the Nets after squandering all of a 17-point advantage. Head coach Mike Brown noted this wasn't the first time his club was caught napping. "We feel as a group that when we do get a double-digit lead, we tend to relax a little bit," coach Mike Brown said. "The other team, they're going to amp it up, take chances and be more physical. Next thing you know, it's a three-point game."
ABOUT THE CLIPPERS (32-21): Los Angeles is enjoying its longest winning streak in more than 20 years, but a bigger milestone awaits. A win Wednesday would give the Clippers its first season-series win over the Lakers since the 1992-93 campaign – a development that could have a major impact on the team's confidence level moving forward. Los Angeles is coming off an impressive 94-75 win over the defending-champion Mavericks, a game that saw the Clippers hold the Dallas Mavericks to 39 per cent from the field.
1. Bryant, who leads the NBA in scoring, averages 25.5 points on 45.8-percent shooting in 59 career meetings with the Clippers.
2. The Lakers are 8-8 on zero days rest so far this season, while the Clippers boast a 19-9 mark on one day of rest.
3. The over has prevailed in each of the last four meetings between the clubs.
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While the Tiger Woods drama has played out in an extraordinarily public way, the details from before and after the golfer's Thanksgiving night car crash—the trigger for one of the costliest sports-related scandals ever—have remained shrouded in mystery. Two sources who know Tiger's wife, Elin Nordegren, and have discussed various details of the story with her, have corroborated a minute-by-minute account that answers the majority of the questions surrounding what might be the most expensive car crash in history.
Among their revelations:
- Just before Tiger's affair with Rachel Uchitel was reported in the National Enquirer, he put Uchitel on the phone with his wife for a half-hour, so she could convince Elin the relationship was platonic.
- Elin confirmed her lingering suspicions about Tiger's affair with Uchitel by impersonating her husband in text messages with Uchitel, prompting the rage that led to Woods fleeing his house.
- Tiger had taken the sedative Ambien that night, and was in a stupor when Elin woke him following her sting operation on Uchitel.
- After his wife's wakeup, Tiger sent Uchitel a panicky text warning her that Elin had discovered the affair and implying that divorce was imminent. Elin quickly found this text as well, which precipitated her chasing him out of the house with a golf club.
- Tiger did not immediately return home when he was released from the hospital, likely explaining why Elin did not accede to much-publicized requests from visiting police officers to chat with Woods.
Both sources spoke on the condition of anonymity, because Elin Nordegren did not give them permission to discuss her conversations with them.
Shortly after 1 a.m. in Florida, Elin began texting Uchitel, pretending to be Tiger, according to both sources. Elin wrote, "I miss you," and asked, "When are we seeing each other again?"
• Gerald Posner: Rachel Uchitel—Mob Princess? During the run-up to Thanksgiving, these sources say that Tiger gave Elin advance warning that the National Enquirer was about to run a story claiming that he had an affair with Rachel Uchitel, a New York- and Las Vegas-based nightlife entrepreneur, who had just reportedly finished a torrid affair a few months earlier with married actor David Boreanaz. Woods swore to Elin that the Enquirer story was false and that he had only met Uchitel once or twice at social outings.
Elin remained suspicious, according to one of the sources. On November 25, the day before Thanksgiving, as Internet rumors spread of the about-to-be-released Enquirer story, Tiger convinced Uchitel to talk to Elin. The two women spoke by phone for about half an hour, and after the conversation, according to this source, she was satisfied that the relationship was platonic.
The next day, Thanksgiving, Elin learned some of the Enquirer's specifics about the purported affair, including a recent rendezvous in Australia. That evening, the two argued. Tiger decided to end the bickering , both sources confirm, by taking Ambien and going to sleep. (According to what Elin has told one of the sources, Woods regularly had trouble sleeping, and Ambien was his primary sleep aid.)
After Woods fell asleep, Elin looked through his cellphone, both sources confirmed. There she found text messages to Uchitel's number—Uchitel was apparently listed in Tiger's cellphone under her real name—and among them she discovered one that said, "You are the only one I've loved."
Shortly after 1 a.m. in Florida, Elin began texting Uchitel, pretending to be Tiger, according to both sources. Elin wrote, "I miss you," and asked, "When are we seeing each other again?"
Uchitel texted back, seemingly surprised that Woods was awake. Elin specifically felt, one source told me, that this response indicated that the two of them spoke earlier that night, before Tiger took his Ambien. At that point, Elin called Uchitel, who answered thinking it was Tiger calling. Both sources said that Elin said something approximating, "I knew it was you."
Uchitel's surprised reply, according to what Elin told one source: "Oh f--k." She immediately hung up.
Normally quiet and controlled, Elin later told one source she became enraged and woke Tiger by screaming at him. He seemed disoriented, still in a stupor from the Ambien. The fight ratcheted up quickly.
But then chaos ensued when she grabbed his cellphone when he came out after locking himself in the bathroom for several minutes. Both sources confirm that Tiger had apparently, shortly after waking up, sent another short text to Uchitel warning that Elin had uncovered the affair, that he was about to pack, and that a divorce might be imminent.
Elin didn't tell Woods what she'd seen, one source says. She simply exploded, trying to hit him on the chest and arms with her fists, and then finally chasing him from the house while she wielded a golf club. Shoeless, he ran into the car and barreled out of the driveway before careening off a fire hydrant and then smashing into a tree. Neither source said they knew the details of how the rear windows in the Escalade were knocked out, though one source says that the story Tiger told police at the accident scene about Elin smashing them in an attempt to free him from the wreck was a lie designed to protect his wife.
When he was released later from the hospital, Tiger was whisked off to an undisclosed location, Elin too furious to allow him back that afternoon. This likely explains why Elin told police who arrived at their mansion outside Orlando that Woods did not care to speak with them then, once saying he was asleep and couldn't even see them.
Woods' representatives did not reply to multiple requests for comment. Sorrel Trope, the 82-year-old dean of Los Angeles celebrity divorce lawyers, who has been advising Elin, also did not answer a request for comment. Gloria Allred, the attorney for Rachel Uchitel, wrote by email, "We have no comment on this."
According to one friend, Elin remains furious about the events on Thanksgiving, but will wait for the golfer to finish any rehab treatment he's undergoing before making a final decision on whether to pursue a divorce.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's chief investigative reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, on topics ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.


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Discussion in 'E90/E92/E93 M3 (2008-2013)' started by baz99, Mar 3, 2009.
Any info on the 2010 M3 motor. Twin turbo, hp, torque?
Same answer you got on m3post. No motor change...won't get a diffferent motor until the body style changes.
It wont be here until 2013 as a 2014 model. Either Twin turbo or single turbo
V6 or inline 6 (stretch possibility of a four cylinder) and it will have major
focus on lightweight.
I did read this from a BMW source.
If I recall it will be a turbocharged V6 and will have less HP than the current V8.
BMW has never done a V6 engine. But, until the 335i, hasn't done a turbo one yet in the US market either...
Only then will the 4-cylinder concept make sense. It's not like BMW to put a 4-cylinder engine in a modern M3. It'd have to be one seriously light snowflake to pull that one off, unless they top Mitsubishi and Subaru and make a million horsepower triple turbocharged 4-pot...
Seeing as modern safety standards are quite different from the last time they used a 4-pot in an M-car, I think this is highly unlikely.
Also, why would BMW change to a V6 all of a sudden? It was my understanding that an I-6 engine has more torque, and is much smoother in operation because of the I-6's design. Did that site have any info on that?
Where'd this info come from? I'd like to read up on it...
I don't know why BMW would go V6, but this is what I read somewhere in a BMW magazine. I'm not thrilled about it either. If they do go V6 I will surely miss the inline 6. The only thing I know for sure why they are going V6 turbo or twin turbo in the M3 is due to fuel economy and world wide emissions. I still have my trust in BMW when it comes to engines so I'm not too worried.
Will remain the superb S65 V8
Maybe a V6 - they have not ruled out an I-6, but V6 a more compact solution. Will probably have more torque than present v8 though.
M3 Engine
V-6: Ganz Verboten! or as the NFL would put it, strictly prohibited.
Is there any word on an attempt to carve out, oh, about 500 Lbs from the E92M3? This car sure has it's work cut out for it against an entry-level Vette and a few others.
Cheers >>>>>
E92 M3 GTS. It's a lighter-weight version, with the same V8 but tuned for more power, and it's completely street legal. Think of it as the CSL version that the E46 had, but with more oomph and a better noise.
Naturally, us Americans won't get it, only the Euros.
They always get the good stuff & we get the crap!
A BMW V6 is as likely as electing me to BMW chairman of the board.
After all that money they've invested in the N5x inline engines, they're certainly not going to throw it all away any time soon.
The inline six has now become something of a signature BMW product. Everybody else has largely given up on inline engines larger than four cylinders. Except for GM, and their inline 5 in the Canyon and Colorado is pretty much a POS, pardon my french.
BMW's inline six has won awards year after year.
And they will continue to do so, because they will continue to make inline-6's. How much do you want to bet that the next M3's engine will be an I-6 AND will win another engine award?
Of course not, otherwise they would have developed a new engine to go in the cars like the 1-series, 5-series, and the Z4. It doesn't seem like BMW will be abandoning I-6's anytime soon, and will probably start turbocharging more of them to boot.
We certainly haven't seen the last of the I-6 from BMW by a long shot
BMW had previously reported they switched to a V8 because they had thought they had developed the S54 engine about as far as they could take it. They may have believed that to be true at the time they were designing the current M3, but they may not feel the same way now.
As a result, BMW may be taking another look at the I-6 or even returning to it in another form.
BMW is largely on a trend towards developing more power from smaller engines. The one exception is probably their V12 in the F01/F02 7-series. The 6.0L V12 hardly fits in very well with this smaller-engine trend, but I believe they kept it onboard both as a technology flagship and a technology showcase. The 760 is, relatively speaking, a low-volume model compared with all the other cars BMW sells. Personally, I'd like to see them return the V12 to its original 5.0L configuration and develop that with turbocharging instead. It would fit in better with their current path of extracting more power from smaller engines. Although an F01 owner who can afford the note on a top tier vehicle like that will hardly complain about fuel costs, I doubt that improving their efficiency without sacrificing power will hurt any 7-series owners' feelings.
BMW previously went with such large displacement engines because it was economically cheaper to do so. Now that BMW can build very small engines with a relatively large power output at a price friendly to their bottomline, that's probably where they are going to go, unless they come up with an even better idea to get more power for lower costs.
Turbos have a long history of being very economical ways of getting big engine power without the big engine cost and weight. Going with a single turbo will certainly simplify the engines mechanically while lowering costs, especially if they can do it without a drop in power.
I've seen some preview videos and another brief review but no data. Does it have dual control-arms and a transaxle like the M3GT2?
Is this ride really going to cost $170,000?
Thanks for the updates!!
I see a couple of problems with selling such an expensive automobile
I suppose they "COULD" but why would they build such an expensive machine?
BMW makes some really great cars, but lets not forget, they are not just in the car-making business, but they also have to be in the MONEY-MAKING business.
BMW already owns Rolls Royce, and that $170K price tag comes really close to cannibalizing sales of some equally expensive cars. The problem with selling purpose built race cars is three fold:
a) if they are bought by racers, they're going to get the snot run out of them. These cars are run hard, driven hard, and usually sold without being reconditioned or repaired. As such, these are going to be very expensive machines to bring back into running order, especially with the exotic hardware you're talking about
b) the ones that don't get snapped up by racers are usually snapped up by wealthy collectors, who immediately put them in a spotless private museum, preventing you and I from ever seeing them except in the pages of magazines.
c) The U.S. economy is recovering, but we're still nowhere near the sort of car buying climate BMW would need to justify selling such an expensive car on our shores. Even so, I don't see BMW risking selling such an expensive car on our shores in this economic climate. They kind of have their hands full already with their existing product line.
I thought the next generation M3 was going to use a turbo V8 (500HP). BMW is starting to put the turbo V8 in lots of models now. The M3 is not so concerned with emissions (at least the current MY!) - so I don't see why they would make the engine smaller.
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Jolene Babyak lived on the Rock in 1954-1955 and also 1962. Her father was acting warden when Warden Blackwell was on vacation, which happened during the most famous escape attempt on Alcatraz. She is a premiere Alcatraz author and historian.
Interviewed by Gennifer Choldenko in Berkeley, California, on July 10, 2013
Jolene Babyak has published numerous books on Alcatraz including: Eyewitness on Alcatraz; Breaking the Rock, the Great Escape from Alcatraz; and Birdman: The Many Faces of Robert Stroud. She has interviewed scores of former residents, prisoners and guards, reviewed hundreds of Alcatraz files, and is currently working on another book about life on Alcatraz.


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Monday, December 13, 2010
Attn: L.L. Bean Signature's New Boots
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9 comments:
I'm now happy I've yet to pull the trigger on bean boots. The navy canvas looks like it might be the version for me.ReplyDelete
#1 and #4, please. The crepe-soled ones look like orthopedic boots...ReplyDelete
Epic Fail once again for the tards at L.L. Bean...
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 7:18 PM
I'm sorry, those are just ugly. The soles are hideous and the leather is nasty.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Perfect for that clubfooted drifter look that all the kids are into.ReplyDelete
- Red BrickDecember 13, 2010 at 9:29 PM
The sole on these boots are perfect for walking all over McNairy's face.ReplyDelete
On behalf of the silent majority of readers that genuinely enjoy your posts, keep it up man.
I've got a pair of the original olive hunting boots under the tree for me this year... Can't wait. Wish that Nordic sweater wasn't a cotton blend...
Agree with Nate. These boots are dope and your trolls aren't even creative.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the insight Lawrence.
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2010 at 6:48 PM
The soles on those middle two are hideous.ReplyDelete


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WebFilter (formerly known as
NoShit) extension to Cern's httpd web server which allows
you to filter out annoying parts of web pages that you visit often.
WebFilter does.
Of course, you can filter other things out of the web as well, not
just ads. (Examples include: removing annoying big graphics or indecent
language.) Not only can you remove stuff with
WebFilter, you can
change your perspective of the web in any way you
like. (Examples include: adding annoying big graphics or indecent
It is inevitable that internet usage will soon be billed by the byte; it is equally inevitable that WebFilter will then become the ultimate killer app. Animated gifs also help a lot, of course. :-)
(Back to the Table of Contents)
WebFilter is a patch to Cern's
httpd web server. This server can act as a
proxy, which means that your web browser (e.g. Mosaic, Netscape or
Lynx), when asked to bring up a certain web page, doesn't contact the
remote web server directly, but queries the proxy server (which runs on your
own computer, or nearby) instead; this proxy then turns around, fetches
the page from the remote web server and forwards it back to the
browser. This is commonly used in order to hop over a security firewall or
to implement caching of web pages, but it can be used to
filter the web as well.
WebFilter extension to
httpd allows you to provide the proxy server
with a list of URL templates and corresponding filter
scripts. Whenever the proxy is asked to fetch a web page whose address
matches one or more of the URL templates, it pipes the page through the
corresponding filter scripts and presents the result to the
browser. The advantage of this approach is that it works transparently
with every browser, and that there is extreme flexibility about what
you can do to a page, since the filter script can be any program
whatsoever (for most cases, a sed, awk or perl script will do,
The idea is to run your own personalized
WebFilter proxy
server, tell your browser about it, and off you go. The proxy does the
filtering and the browser doesn't even know about it. That's why this
approach works with every browser.
The disadvantage is that you need to write filter scripts for all your favorite web pages that you want to change. Two reasons why this isn't as bad as it sounds:
WebFilter. Unfortunately, it is outdated now. Any
WebFilter should run on any platform that Cern httpd runs
on, i.e. at least every Unix dialect. If you run something different,
simply upgrade to Linux or FreeBSD. Sad
but true: the web browser does not have to run on Unix, as long as it
has a network connection to a Unix machine running the
proxy. That Unix machine would then have to be specified as proxy host to
the browser. This is explained in detail later.
Because the filter scripts that are applied to a page depend solely on
the URL used to access that page and since
httpd is able to remap
URLs, you can invent your own specialized form of URL notation, for
will be presented without the ads,
will be presented with ads included,
will remove all Netscape extensions from the file, or
presents the page without the images.
These specialized URLs can only be used by people who use your WebFilter proxy, so they aren't suitable for being put on the web, but they are nice to fetch a given page in a certain format; you can also put them into your hotlist.
WebFilter can also act as a regular web server; the
filtering support is then useful to decompress local documents on the
fly or to add a common trailer to all local HTML pages that you serve
to the outside. To make writing the configuration file more flexible
and convenient, Cern's simple URL templates can optionally be replaced
by fully featured extended regular expressions as used by GNU
grep -E.
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WebFilter as a
personal filtering proxy server. I assume you have an account on a
Unix machine from which you usually browse the web and you want to run
the proxy on that same host.
(It is also possible to use
as a site-wide or even network-wide filtering proxy server or as a
server for local documents to the outside world, or all at once;
however, you are on your own there. Start with the httpd
documentation and read the description of the
WebFilter commands below and then use your imagination.)
mkdir /tmp/webfilter; cd /tmp/webfilterand fetch the Cern httpd source from
ftp://ftp.w3.org/pub/httpd/w3c-httpd-3.0A.tar.gz and the WebFilter patches from
httpd archive:
zcat w3c-httpd-3.0A.tar.gz | tar xvf -and apply the
WebFilter patches:
zcat WebFilter_0.5.patch.gz | patch -spYou shouldn't get any error messages here. If you do, you've probably forgotten the "-p" option for patch, or Netscape has already uncompressed the patch, in which case you need to say:
cat WebFilter_0.5.patch | patch -sp
Socks to jump over a
network security
firewall, you'll have to compile
WebFilter with
support, which is explained in
WWW/README-SOCKS. If you
don't know what I'm talking about, relax.
makein order to start the compilation. If you get any errors during compilation, consult the
README file in the
WWW. If you suspect that the errors are due to the
patch, try first building an unpatched
httpd, i.e. try
to compile
httpd without applying the
WebFilter patches.
httpd is
Daemon/MACH/httpd3.0A+WebFilter_0.5 where
MACH is your machine type. I move it to my directory of
executables and call it simply
mv Daemon/linux/httpd3.0A+WebFilter_0.5 ~/bin/webfilter
WebFilter needs a directory where it finds its configuration file
and stores error and log files. I use
mkdir ~/.webfilterFour sample config files are provided in
server-root/config. You want to use
cp server-root/config/webfilter.conf ~/.webfilter/confYou'll probably want to change a couple of things in that file (at the very least the value of the directive ServerRoot, which should be the absolute path of your directory
~/.webfilter; it's not difficult because it comes with
lots of comments.
cp server-root/config/library.txt ~/.webfilterYou can always fetch the latest version of the filterscript library from
WebFilter as root, then it will switch
to user
nobody, so make sure that
can read and write
WebFilter with the line
webfilter -r ~/.webfilter/library.txt -r ~/.webfilter/confTo automatically start up your personal
WebFilter proxy at login time, put
the following into your
~/.login (I'm assuming that you
use a csh-like login shell):
# Kill old webfilter, if any (~/.webfilter/httpd-pid contains the current # server process's id): if ( -r ~/.webfilter/httpd-pid ) then kill -9 `cat ~/.webfilter/httpd-pid` endif # Start new one (the -r option specifies the config files to read in; you # need to give an absolute pathnames here, tilde notation is fine). webfilter -r ~/.webfilter/library.txt -r ~/.webfilter/conf # Tell browsers about it. 7450 is the number specified with the # Port directive in ~/.webfilter/conf. Not all browser use the # value of the variable http_proxy though. We'll have to tell # them separately. setenv http_proxy "http://localhost:7450/"Of course, we want to kill
webfilter when we log out, so the
following goes into
# Kill proxy webfilter process: if ( -r ~/.webfilter/httpd-pid ) then kill -9 `cat ~/.webfilter/httpd-pid` rm -f ~/.webfilter/httpd-pid endifAnother possibility is to start the proxy only when you start your web browser, which can be accomplished with an
alias in your
~/.cshrc file, for example if you use
alias Mosaic '(webfilter -r ~/.webfilter/library.txt -r ~/.webfilter/conf; \ \Mosaic; kill -9 `cat ~/.webfilter/httpd-pid`)'
http_proxy, and we have to tell them separately about
the proxy.
localhost as the http proxy and
7450 as the port.
localhost as the http proxy and
7450 as the port.
localhost:7450 after
http_proxy standard.
WebFilter proxies. If this happens to you, just change the text in
WWW/Daemon/Implementation/Version.make to
VD = 3.0Aand recompile with
WebFilter will then look like an ordinary Cern
httpd proxy to the
outside world.
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WebFilter extensions to Cern's
httpd consist of three new configuration
directives to be used in the configuration file
~/.webfilter/conf. They are explained here. For the other
directives, consult the httpd online
documentation. You need to be familiar with httpd's configuration
before proceeding.
TestingFilters directive takes one argument, "On" or
"Off" (without the quotes). It defaults to "Off". If "On", then
webfilter will reload its configuration file prior to serving
each request and, moreover, won't honor requests of the form
"if-modified-since" but will send all documents unconditionally.
This is useful for interactively changing the configuration file,
Filter directives: You can change something in
the config file or filter scripts, save it and then reload a page from your browser. The
effects will be visible immediately -- no need to send a signal to
the proxy server or to flush the client's cache. If you operate like
that, you shouldn't be too surprised by an occasional proxy crash
though; it happens if you write a new config file to disk while the
server is reading it.
Be aware, however, that if
TestingFilters was "Off" when
the server process was started and you switch it on, the server won't
notice it until you force it to reload the config file with
kill -1 `cat ~/.webfilter/httpd-pid`When writing or changing filter scripts, you will want to check the proxy's error logs in
~/.webfilter for hints in case
something unexpected happens.
In ordinary use, it is imperative to switch off the directive
TestingFilters, because it slows down the proxy's
operation considerably.
WebFilter config file
~/.webfilter/conf that
appear between the lines
RegExp Onand
RegExp Offuse fully featured extended regular expressions as URL templates. For the syntax of extended regular expressions refer to the GNU
grep man
page. Regular
expressions in the
WebFilter config file are implicitly anchored at the start and end of the
string, meaning that you don't have to start them with
or end them with
$. Note that the characters
\|[](){}.?+*^$ have special meanings in extended regular
expressions; if you want to use them literally, escape them with a
preceding backslash.
RegExp is on, then a special notation is used for
replacement patterns (i.e. for the second arguments of
Exec and
Pass): you can refer back to the i-th parenthesized
subexpression of the matching pattern with the notation
\i where i is a digit.
\0 refers to
the full matching string. All non-backslashes and all backslash-escaped
non-digits stand for themselves in a replacement
As an example, the following rule switches the first two path components
of URLs belonging to the host
www.weird.com and then
redirects them to
new.weird.com (assuming that
RegExp has been switched on before):
Redirect http://www\.weird\.com/([^/]*)/([^/]*)(/.*)? http://new.weird.com/\2/\1\3You shouldn't use regular expression matching unless you really need it.
Filter directive specifies which filter scripts to
apply to which URLs. It is the main work horse of WebFilter.
It takes two arguments, a URL template and a
filter script.
The URL template specifies those URLs that should be piped through the
filter script. It can either be an extended regular expression (if
RegExp has been switched on before) or contain one or more '*'-characters, each of
which being a place holder for an arbitrary sequence of letters.
If a given URL matches the template of a
directive, and then later is mapped to a different URL using the
Map directive, and matches another
line's template further down, then the document will be piped through
both filter scripts; first through the first, then through the
The second argument to
Filter, the filter script, is a
string that will be passed as argument to
/bin/sh -cThis argument can contain spaces and backslash-escaped newlines; it ends when the first unescaped newline is encountered. Escaped newlines become literal newlines in the string passed to the shell -- be aware that sometimes the shell actually needs an escaped newline itself, which you can get by preceding the newline with two backslashes in the
WebFilter config file. Every backslash that's not followed by a newline is
copied literally to the command string.
Since you can't always be sure what the value of the
environment variable and the current directory was when
webfilter was started, it is best to use absolute pathnames
for all programs (you can't use "~" for you home directory either,
since some brain dead non-GNU shells don't know about it. "$HOME" is
ok, though.)
Because the second argument is processed by
sh -c, it can
contain pipes, command sequences, file redirections and references to
environment variables. If you don't need all this and just want to
start a single program with a couple of arguments, it's best to
precede this program's name with
exec to speed up matters.
There's one problem with filterscripts that need
'-enclosed argument, and this argument itself needs to
contain an
'. This situation appears for example if you
specify a filter script as a perl argument like so
Filter http://some.host.com/* exec perl -e 'several;perl;commands;'since
' is frequently used in perl commands.
As a consequence of the shell's command line parsing, the only way to
specify an
' as part of the perl commands is to write it
In addition to the document's HTML text, your filter script will probably see its MIME header on standard input, because it's part of the http protocol version 1.0 and later (if either your browser or the server does not support HTTP/1.0, which is unlikely, no MIME header is sent). MIME headers typically look like this:
To find out what precisely your script sees on standard input, you can start out with filtering the document through the script
tee outfileand examine
outfile afterwards.
Make sure that your patterns are not too broad: you definitely don't
want to pipe
.gif files through your filter scripts!
If you want to block access to a particular set of URLs altogether,
Fail or
Redirect and not
This is much faster. It is especially suitable for shutting up the
recently established junk companies that place their ad banners on other
people's sites and use cookies to track virtually everybody's
browsing habits. A single
Fail or
Redirect pattern will take care of them.
Experience shows that most ad filtering can already be accomplished
with a couple of good
Redirect commands: for example, redirect all gifs from
Yahoo to a small local gif saying "deleted". Use
only if you have to: it's more flexible, but
much more complicated to use and slower
than the alternatives.
Make sure to read the httpd documentation about the
Pass and
Map and the address
mapping algorithm in general if you want to
understand the following examples.
The first is the good old simple minded fascist approach: censor the shit, no questions asked. Don't let the client see the uncensored version (unless they are very smart, that is).
Filter http://host.with.ads.1/*.html exec ~/.webfilter/script/for/host/1 Filter http://host.with.ads.2/some/dir/*.html exec ~/.webfilter/script/for/host/2 Pass http://*This will let everything go through unfiltered except those specified URLs on
host.with.ads.1 and
they will be filtered through the specified scripts.
Here's a more sophisticated example: we allow clients to see the unfiltered version if they specify the URL in one of the following formats:
http://host.with.ads.1/some/page.html|shit http://host.with.ads.1|shit/some/page.htmlThe first format is good if only that single page should be unfiltered; with the second format, all partial references on
page.html will also appear unfiltered if selected.
RegExp On Pass http://([^/]*)\|shit/(.*) http://\1/\2 Pass http://(.*)\|shit http://\1 RegExp Off Filter http://host.with.ads.1/*.html exec ~/.webfilter/script/for/host/1 Filter http://host.with.ads.2/some/dir/*.html exec ~/.webfilter/script/for/host/2 Pass http://*In the final example, we implement two filtering schemes, which can even be combined: adding
|noshit to an URL will filter
out ads, adding
|nofilth removes indecent language,
|noshit|nofilth does both and
the unaltered URL gives the document unaltered. Again, we allow for
the extension to be added after the hostname or after the document.
# First, move the extensions to the back: RegExp on Map http://([^/]*)\|noshit\|nofilth/(.*) http://\1/\2|noshit|nofilth Map http://([^/]*)\|nofilth/(.*) http://\1/\2|nofilth Map http://([^/]*)\|noshit/(.*) http://\1/\2|noshit RegExp off # Now the nofilth filtering: Filter http://host.number.1/*|nofilth exec ~/.noshit/nofilth/host/1 Filter http://host.number.2/some/dir/*|nofilth exec ~/.noshit/nofilth/host/2 # Remove |nofilth extension: Map *|nofilth * # Now the noshit filtering: Filter http://host.number.1/*|noshit exec ~/.noshit/script/for/host/1 Filter http://host.number.2/some/dir/*|noshit exec ~/.noshit/script/for/host/2 # Remove |noshit extension: Map *|noshit * # Pass everything through: Pass http://*Note that you can use these extended URLs in your hotlist or type them directly into your browser, but you can't put them as links on HTML pages that might be read by browsers not using your proxy.
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WebFilter is released under the GNU
General Public License, our beloved little copyleft
virus that infects everything it touches. Essentially this means that
you can do with the
WebFilter patches whatever you want unless you try to restrict
someone else's right to do whatever they want.
WebFilter includes a slightly modified version of Tom
Lord's regular expression library
rx, which is also
covered by the GPL.
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There was at some point a commercial filtering program around; it was implemented as a netscape plug-in for Windows 95 and Windows NT machines and was called Internet Fast Forward. The company, PrivNet, was bought by PGP.com and apparently Internet Fast Forward died in the process.
Two implementations of the WebFilter idea for Unix systems have been presented at WWW conferences; they both appear to be smaller, cleaner and more powerful than WebFilter. I have not tried them though, and they don't seem to be actively supported anymore. The first is OreO from the OSF and the second is V6 from Inria.
The Internet Junkbuster is a lean and mean proxy that is specifically designed to block advertising banners (specified by URL regular expression matching) and cookies. Less flexible than WebFilter, but much smaller, faster and easier to use. It gets the job done remarkably well. Runs on Unix, Windows NT and Windows 95 and is free, including the source code. I use Junkbuster myself these days. Here's the blockfile I use to get rid of advertising banners.
A similar free Linux and Windows based product is AdBuster.
Adkiller is a similar free product which runs on Macs, Unix and Windows.
WebWasher, written by Siemens, is a high quality ad filtering personal proxy, free for personal use. It removes ad banners based on size, gets rid of pop-up windows and stops animated graphics. It only works on Windows.
Proxomitron is a very flexible Windows based personal proxy which can alter HTML in many ways, for example removing ads, killing pop-up windows, change backgrounds, killing background sounds etc.
Taz is a free patch for the popular squid proxy which offers the same functionality as junkbuster, but is faster. Squid and Taz run on Unix systems, but the proxy can be used from any browser.
Abiprox is a perl based personal filtering proxy; it is extremely powerful and customizable, but not so easy to use. A more mature continuation of that same theme is FilterProxy.
Muffin is a free filtering proxy for the web written in Java; runs on all platforms. Similar to junkbuster, but more flexible, portable and powerful. It supports several "filters", one of which can delete images based on their width/height ratio (banner ads) and another one allows modifying the incoming HTML stream using a simple language, allowing for stripping other ads. Highly recommended.
ByProxy is a more general solution: it can act as a proxy for every IP service (most important are email and WWW) and modifies the in- and outgoing traffic based on completely general plug-ins. It's free, written in Java and should hence be widely portable. There is a plug-in for removing ads from webpages, but I don't know how well it works.
There are also several commercial ad-filtering products around, but don't waste your money. I won't give them any free advertising here :-)
Neither of these solutions can remove the annoying top-level advertising windows coming from various "free-internet" or "money-for-surfing" companies. You can use the wonderful Windows shareware utility NookMe for this purpose.
The WAB project in Z�rich uses a filtering proxy to prepare HTML pages for blind users.
Several video cassette recorders by RCS can skip recorded commercials during play-back. After recording a program, it goes back over the tape and looks for gaps of the proper length between fades-to-black; these are then marked as commercials. During playback, it automatically fast-forwards through these commercials. It's said to be about 90% accurate. Video Magazine reviewed a unit and found it worked well.
TiVo and ReplayTV are two Linux based devices which record TV in real time on a hard drive, allowing for delayed playback, during which the viewer can skip ads using a "skip 30 seconds" or "fast forward" button. They still cannot remove ads automatically, though.
Please check out the excellent collections of junk filtering software links at JunkBusters and by Francis Irving .
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WebFilter are powerless
all of these. I hope the AI people will get their act together in
The only idea I have right now is to promote a little widely recognized No-Ads gif that all ad-free sites could put on their home pages. Maybe you can design one?
I have already received two suggestions for a No-Ads logo to be put on ad-free web sites. Have a look and leave your comments.
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WebFilter or read other people's
remarks and respond to them. Check
it out!
There was an article
about Webfilter (when it was still called
NoShit) on WebWeek and
another one on Suck.
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Let us consider an embedding of smooth manifolds $i: (Y, \partial Y) \rightarrow (X, \partial X)$. It is neat (see Hirsh, "Differential topology") if $i(\partial Y) = i(Y) \cap \partial X$ and, for every $y \in \partial Y$, there exists a boundary chart $(U, \varphi)$ of $X$ in $i(y)$ such that $U \cap i(Y)$ is the counterimage via $\varphi$ of the half-space orthogonal to the boundary. In the paper of Hopkins and Singer "Quadratic functions in geometry, topology and M-theory", appendix C.2, they define a generic map $f: (Y, \partial Y) \rightarrow (X, \partial X)$ to be neat if $f^{-1}(\partial X) = \partial Y$ and, for every $y \in \partial Y$, the map $df_{y}: T_{y}Y/T_{y}\partial Y \rightarrow T_{f(y)}X/T_{f(y)}\partial X$ is an isomorphism. Then they state the following theorem, whose proof I cannot find in the references they give:
Theorem C.17 If $f: Y \rightarrow X$ is a neat map of compact t-manifolds (for me it's enough to consider manifolds with boundary), there exist $N >> 0$ and a factorization $X \hookrightarrow Y \times \mathbb{R}^{N} \rightarrow Y$ of $f$ through a neat embedding $X \hookrightarrow Y \times \mathbb{R}^{n}$.
My questions are:
1) Is it true that the embedding $X \hookrightarrow Y \times \mathbb{R}^{n}$ is stably unique up to isotopy, as it happens for manifolds without boundary, and for embeddings $X \hookrightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n}_{+}$ of manifolds with boundary? Where can I find a proof?
2) Given a generic map $f: (Y, \partial Y) \rightarrow (X, \partial X)$ between compact smooth manifolds, is it always homotopic to a neat map, maybe realtively to $\partial Y$?


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Here's a page of doodles I did a little while ago. Splashed some tones on there this morning and figured I'd post it. Usually if I have a hard time getting down to work, I'd start sketching mindlessly just to get the juices flowing. Sometimes these doodles go a little overboard and I spend more time then I should on them but hey as long as I had fun right?
And here's some links!
Nate Wragg
Uwe Heidschoetter
Spline Doctors
Ashley Wood
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities are looking into whether a man who they say wore a Ku Klux Klan hood while grocery shopping in a San Diego suburb over the weekend could face criminal charges, the sheriff's department said Monday.
The unidentified man was photographed with the white hood while pushing a grocery cart at the store in the town of Santee on Saturday, a day after the county required people to wear masks outside to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
Store clerks asked him to take off the hood or leave the store, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. He removed the tall, pointed hood that had two small eye holes cut into it, paid for his groceries and left.
Deputies were not called to the scene but are investigating to see if he could be charged with a possible hate crime, the department said.
"The Sheriff's Department does not condone hate or any acts of intolerance in our communities," the department said in a news release.
Santee Mayor John Minto issued a statement thanking "all who stepped forward to curtail this sad reminder of intolerance. Santee, its leaders, and I will not tolerate such behavior."


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Last year's free preview of Windows 7 will start nagging users to pay for the operating system in two weeks, and begin automatically shutting down PCs in one month, Microsoft reminded customers today.
Microsoft unveiled the schedule for Windows 7 Release Candidate's retirement in May 2009, when it issued the early look to the public.
At the time, it said Windows 7 RC would expire June 1, 2010. Before that date, however, users are to receive warnings of the impending end. Starting on Feb. 15, Windows 7 RC will display notices every few hours that the machine will periodically shut down beginning on March 1.
As of March 1, PCs running Windows 7 RC will automatically shut down every two hours. Those shutdowns will come without warning.
"To avoid any data loss, I suggest making plans to move to a released version of Windows 7 before the automatic shutdowns start [on March 1]," said Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc in an entry on the Windows 7 blog today. "During these shutdowns, your work will not be saved."
From March 1 to June 1, the automatic shutdowns will continue. On June 1, Windows 7 RC is tagged as "not genuine" -- Microsoft's term for counterfeit -- and boots to a solid black screen that shows a Windows Activation screen.
To make matters tougher for users still running the free version, Microsoft does not allow in-place upgrades from the RC to a paid copy. Instead, users must back up their data, do a clean install -- Microsoft calls it a "custom install" -- that erases the contents of the hard drive before it installs the operating system, then restore the backed-up data and reinstall all applications.
Microsoft has previously confirmed that customers can use the less-expensive upgrade editions of Windows 7 to migrate from the RC to a paying copy. Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade , for example, lists for $110.99 on Amazon.com, a $69 savings over the $179.99 for Windows 7 Home Premium.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld . Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer , send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed .
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DARPA Wants a REAL War Sim – BAE to Oblige
BAE Systems has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase 1 of the Integrated Battle Command (IBC) Program. The IBC Program will provide military commanders a comprehensive suite of software tools that are intended to help commanders and their staff understand the political, military, economic, social, information and infrastructure (PMESII) effects of various potential courses of action. BAE will work with DARPA, the Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM) and U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM). "The program will provide new tools to aid commanders in planning strategic effects-based campaigns," said Dr. Nils R. Sandell, Jr., BAE Systems vice president and general manager for Advanced Information Technologies (AIT). See corproate release.
We hate to burst their bubble, but the idea isn't new. A truly hilarious set of specifications can be found in "I Want A Real War Sim." It includes numerous screen shots, and features Sean Penn, orphanages, CIA field agents, Starcraft monsters, ass-covering doublespeak – et bien sur, France – as it builds inexorably toward the Nicholsonesque rant at the end. Warning: Do not drink liquids in front of your computer monitor while reading this one.


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By Judy Reed
Clara Gust, 90, will long be remembered by the residents of Cedar Springs and all the people who use the White Pine Trail staging area at W. Maple and Second Streets. The city dedicated a pavilion there in her honor Monday.
Clara's son, Gary Gust, told the Post in a previous interview that when he heard that the city of Cedar Springs wanted his property at the end of Maple and Second Street for a staging area, he knew what he wanted to do with it. He and his wife, Lolly, and his sister, Joanne, decided to donate the property, with one stipulation. "I wanted them to build some sort of structure, such as a gazebo, and put a plaque on the building dedicating it to our mother," explained Gary.
The city agreed, and the gazebo was built last fall by Charlie Nelson, 16, and other volunteers for an Eagle Scout project. A plaque in Clara's honor was placed on a rock that was donated by the Dean Wall family.
Clara moved here in the 1930s with her parents, George and Nellie Ruth (Lockwood) Sillaway, from Ada. Her father was the last station agent here for the Grand Trunk Railroad, and retired after 47 years of service.
Clara graduated from Cedar Springs High School as salutatorian of her class, and worked in several local businesses. She married Roger Gust and they had three children—Gary, Joanne, and Beverly.
Several members of the family were present for the dedication, including Gary, his wife Lolly, son Jeff Gust, daughter Michelle Tackmann, and her daughter Izzy Tackmann. Clara was unable to attend due to her health.
Mayor Charlie Watson said the location of the pavilion would be a hub for the future of Cedar Springs. "The Clara Gust Gazebo will be a pleasant rest stop for travelers on the White Pine Trail. They will be able to picnic and relax here, children will be able to play here and visit one of the city's original flowing wells, fish in Cedar Creek, and one day visit the new Cedar Springs Public Library or skateboard at the skate park or listen to concerts at the amphitheater that the city hopes to one day add to this part of town," he said.
The White Pine Trail staging area has been made possible by a matching grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Trust Fund. Besides the gazebo, new picnic tables, benches and a bike rack have been installed, and bathrooms will be installed later this year.


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by David Wells, from fox13now.com/
FARMINGTON, Utah – He won't be kneeling before Zod, but he will have to stand before a judge.
Officers from the Davis County Sheriff's Office arrested a man named Christopher Reeves Tuesday morning. Reeves is seen wearing a Superman T-shirt in his Davis County Jail booking photo.
Reeves, 33, faces several charges, including driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, possession of spice, possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia, unsafe lane travel and speeding.
According to a probable cause statement, Reeves was in possession of approximately 52 grams of meth, a baggie of spice, a metal pipe and a meth pipe.
Reeves also admitted to ingesting two Lortab pills about two hours before he was stopped, police said.
Actor Christopher Reeve, who died in 2004 at age 52, portrayed comic book hero Superman in four Hollywood films.


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Dockless bikeahare started in DC today. Saw a Mobike in the wild at World Bank today.
Dockless bikeahare started in DC today. Saw a Mobike in the wild at World Bank today.
I have thoughts...not coherent thoughts, but sort of vague outlines of thoughts about this, and they are mostly dark and negative.
I remain hopeful if skeptical. There really isn't much public space in the city that's not already allocated to cars, and there's a lot of competition for it.
If DC does decide to allow dockless bikeshare operators in the city, I hope that the franchise fee to do so is adequate to cover the externalities.
On the one hand - new technology! Choice! Convenience! A bypass around NIMBYs!
On the other hand - Fixed costs. Natural public utility. Undermining the possibly more desirable high fixed cost network by skimming the cream - see past arguments about jitneys vs fixed schedule buses, private shuttle buses vs public buses, and more recently, Uber/Lyft vs public transit.
#TwoHandedEconomist #NotALudditeBut #EveryoneShouldTakeMicroEcon #CanIGetCaBiInMyNeighborhoodFirst


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LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 will give gamers the chance to experience the magic and adventure of Harry Potter in a uniquely LEGO way. Playing as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, as well as more than 100 other favorite characters, gamers will have the opportunity to attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks and complete tasks to earn rewards. Throughout the game, players will also have the freedom to explore iconic settings from the wizarding world including Hogwarts™ castle, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest and the village of Hogsmeade.
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XIM is a virtual X-ray observatory of numerical simulations of galaxy clusters and other sources of diffuse thermal emission. It can be used to generate data cubes for Chandra and can be customized for other telescopes as well. For example, it can be used to evaluate the capabilities of future missions, like Athena and Astro-H.
XIM is a set of IDL tools designed to turn standard gridded output from a hydrodynamical simulation into a virtual X-ray observation. The output from XIM is a spectral data cube.
This package contains the modules necessary to perform X-ray spectral simulations:
- Athena, IXO and Chandra on-axis response matrices
- an interface to the APEC/APED thermal emission code
- an interface to MARX for sophisticated Chandra ray tracing simulations
- an interface for spectral models other than thermal
- output as IDL data files and fits events files
XIM—a Virtual X-ray Observatory: Investigating the X-ray Appearance and Line Profile Function of Vortex Rings in Galaxy Clusters
Heinz, S., Brüggen, M., Friedman, S., 2011
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 194, Pages 21
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Prospects of High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy for Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback in Galaxy Clusters
Heinz, S., Brüggen, M., Morsony, B., 2010
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 708, Pages 462-468
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City Harvest, Singapore Megachurches Using Pop Culture, Mass Consumption Model for Growth
The rise of megachurches in Singapore has been documented in a new report that reveals how they are modeling the pop culture and mass consumption structure of society to achieve financial success.
"Mega churches have been able to articulate Christianity in a very contemporary manner," said Terence Chong, a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in the report by Bloomberg News. "Being able to adopt the language of pop culture, mass consumption -- we think this appeals to the new middle class, people who are aspiring middle class."
Among several growing churches in Singapore, the report also highlights the rise of City Harvest Church, the non-denominational church founded by senior pastor Kong Hee, who is currently facing allegations of using donation money to further his wife's music career and for other personal purposes. Hee has denied the charges, however, and City Harvest is said to be standing by him as he awaits trial.
Since 2010, City Harvest has amassed more than 20,000 members, and like a number of other megachurches, is reportedly investing big in Singapore malls and other businesses. Its plans in 2010 included spending $248 million to invest in the Suntec International Convention & Exhibition Center, a major multi-use development center, as well as paying for rent and renovation costs.
City Harvest Church Executive Pastor Aries Zulkarnain apparently even "used PowerPoint slides to instruct churchgoers how to give offerings via cash, check and credit card, and highlighted the online donation system," according to Bloomberg. Zulkarnain reportedly shared in the presentation how the congregation had raised close to $18 million for the center since last year.
"The message here is: The more you give, the more you get back from God. It's like an investment," explained Gerard Ee, former President of the National Council of Social Service.
As for the spiritual connection, the Bloomberg report notes that megachurches are linking precisely the economic aspect of church building to people coming closer to God by showing their commitment to their church through their financial contributions.
"As they come forth Lord to sow, release upon them Father the power to get, to create, to receive wealth in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ," prayed Senior Pastor Joseph Prince of rising megachurch New Creation Church during one service. "Prosperity is right. Amen. We prosper to prosper others. We prosper to prosper God's kingdom, so come believing."
Prince's ministry is a prime example of a megachurch using all available forms of technology and social media to spread its message, and raise donations around the world, according to Bloomberg. The pastor speaks at no less than four sessions a day, and his iTunes podcast is set to reach millions of people across North America, Europe, Africa, Australia, Israel, and Singapore.
"Market-friendly ideologies associated with individualism and self-empowerment are often blended with selective Christian theologies to emphasize positive living and blessings, while deflecting overtly negative Christian doctrines such as suffering, judgment, sacrifice, hell or death from sin," commented Jeaney Yip, a lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School, whose studies focused on marketing practices of megachurches. "Their church services are scripted and 'produced' with deliberate use of contemporary music, sound and lighting."


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JONKOPING, Sweden — Resembling the helmet of a Star Wars stormtrooper, a driverless electric truck began daily freight deliveries on a public road in Sweden on Wednesday, in what developer Einride and logistics customer DB Schenker described as a world first.
Robert Falck, the CEO of Swedish start-up Einride, said the company was in partnership talks with major suppliers to help scale production and deliver orders, and the firm did not rule out future tie-ups with large truckmakers.
"This public road permit is a major milestone ... and it is a step to commercializing autonomous technology on roads," the former Volvo executive told Reuters.
"Since we're a software and operational first company, a partnership with a manufacturing company is something that we see as a core moving forward," he said, adding he hoped to seal a deal by next year.
Falck said Einride, whose investors include ex-Daimler Asia trucks head Marc Llistosella, is also courting investors for an ongoing Series A fundraising, often a company's first sizable one. It previously raised $10 million.
Auto alliances are on the rise to share the cost of electric and autonomous technology. Ford has vowed to invest $500 million in U.S. electric utility truck startup Rivian.
Einride's T-Pod is 26 tons when full and does not have a driver cabin, which it estimates reduces road freight operating costs by around 60 percent versus a diesel truck with a driver.
Besides Schenker, Einride has orders from German grocer Lidl, Swedish delivery company Svenska Retursystem and five Fortune 500 retail companies, underpinning its ambition to have 200 vehicles in operation by the end of 2020.
Freight operators are under pressure to reduce delivery times, cut emissions and face a growing shortage of drivers.
Schenker picked Einride over established truckmakers as the T-Pod straddles the two biggest sector transformations: digitization and electrification, CEO Jochen Thewes said.
"We believe that Einride is the best concept out there for now," he said.
The T-Pod is level 4 autonomous, the second highest category, and uses a Nvidia Drive platform to process visual data in real time. An operator, sitting miles away, can supervise and control up to 10 vehicles at once.
Thewes said the rollout of 5G technology, vital for electrification, was lagging. For Schenker's pilot with Einride, Ericsson and Telia had to construct two new towers.
The T-Pod has permission to make short trips - between a warehouse and a terminal - on a public road in an industrial area in Jonkoping, central Sweden, at up to 5 km/hr, documents from the transport authority show.
Falck said Einride would apply next year for more public route permits and was planning to expand in the United States.
"Ground zero for autonomous vehicles is the United States. I think it will be the first market to scale when it comes to autonomous vehicles," he said.


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What should I do Hex 188.8.131.52 or Hex 18.104.22.168 (32 bit)
Last week I just got a new computer (Intel core i7,32 GB of Ram, 64-bit Windows 7 Professional) I'm going to install Hexagon 2 on into my new computer.
I would like some insight on how stable Hex 184.108.40.206 is before I install it.
Most of my super important Hexagon files are in 22.214.171.124 format.
Try to get a hold on 2.1 if you can.
2.1? what do you mean?
Version 2.1 of Hexagon. Less bugs in it.
Ascania Posts: 1,825
2.1 was a crashy buggy disaster barely more stable than 2.0
As I recall correctly you can't go backwards from Hex 2.5 to Hex 2.1 or to an earlier version.
sircamillo Posts: 13
I use 126.96.36.199
It has it's bugs. but over the years i've learned to work around them. I've had Zbrush now for a year but I still return to Hex for many items.
I still like Hex.
emfederin_9bc0c524c8 Posts: 0sircamillo said:I use 18.104.22.168
We've all long suspected that daz gave up on version 3, but they gave up on 4, too?? :lol:
RedSquare Posts: 0
I agree, I've reverted back to the patched 2.1 myself.
Sal UK Posts: 432
Yes I think daz should issue S/N for 2.1 ever since I bought 2.5 I crash a lot and now since the update I cant follow Tez's modelling the human head as hex just crashes too much it gets frustrating. atleast it would allow you to find a version that works a little better. though I guess 2.1 is probably not available on the store anymore.
ds-mail_2e0cb9c256 Posts: 70
I use 188.8.131.52 (latest official production release) for long time now on both XP and win7 and almost never crash or find a bug....but do lose stuff from user error or going to fast for Hex to keep up.....so don't work faster than Hex can process; especially true for large files.
.hxn files seem to work in all versions, but I must admit I don't remember using a newer version created file in an old version of Hex.
Roygee Posts: 2,247
I use Hex 188.8.131.52 on daily basis, for hours at a time on some pretty complex jobs with no more problem than any other 3d app. It is a must if you want to use the Studio bridge.


text: I have been looking for a way to run Windows 2003 Enterprise Server along with its valuable SharePoint on a linux platform. I researched QEMU and they have not reached that goal yet. I noticed that VMWare might be overkill especially for only a single domain controller. So now I came across the Xen 3.0. Can it support Ubuntu 5.10 or does it have to be Debian Sarge like the tutorial? Can Ubuntu host Windows 2k3 Enterprise with Xen 3.0? I have read in this forum that Ubuntu is very similar to Debian so maybe it is possible. Once our main software is available to run on Linux there may not be a need to use Windows anymore, but for now this software is the main bloodline of our business. So as a quick fix we would like to run, Linux servers and Windows Desktops. I know about the Samba tutorial, but since we are also using Sharepoint along with Outlook 2003 we need a Windows 2k3 virtual server. Should I keep dreaming about this or just stick to the basic Windows server install straight to the NTFS hard drive?


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»The Berliner Philharmoniker are an orchestra marked by unconditional creative will, determination and commitment and by the great activity on the part of each individual. Regardless of how long a musician has been at it – he or she gives 100% in every single concert. That's really an extraordinary experience.«
Walter Küssner would really rather have learned the cello, but his brother already played it. Besides that, he had the opportunity of borrowing a viola from his school, and so he decided for the deeper instrument. He received his professional musical training from Jürgen Kussmaul in Düsseldorf, Kim Kashkashian in New York and Michael Tree in St. Louis. In 1987 he became a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich. Two years later he moved to the Berliner Philharmoniker, with whom he also takes part in numerous chamber-music formations, for example the Philharmonic String Octet and the Athenaeum Quartet. As visiting professor of viola, Walter Küssner, an enthusiastic chess and skat player, teaches at Berlin's Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik. He is also the orchestra's historical archivist.


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The relationship between spy photographer and prototype engineer is something akin to hunter and prey. Engineers often do their best to evade the prying lens by fleeing but will, on occasion, try to attack the photographer.
In this instance we see an angry Swedish Volvo engineer trying to protect the XC40 concept from KGP photographer and Jalopnik contributor Brian Williams, up to the point of attempting to break his equipment.
Here's how it all went down.
Talk to any spy photographer and they'll tell stories of engineers slamming hoods on their cameras, charging at them with cars, and otherwise trying to make their lives hell (returning the favor, I suppose). Yet, as long as the photographers are in a public area what they're doing is neither illegal nor unconscionable.
The unwritten line appears to be at harming/touching. A spy photographer won't touch or hop into a car (so far as we've heard) and an engineer won't physically assault someone with a camera.
No one told the Swedish Volvo guy, who grabs Williams' camcorder in an attempt to get him to stop filming. Why would he go to such lengths to protect something as boring as an XC40? Williams gives a little insight.
I was filming the Volvo XC40 testing in the Rockies when the engineer lost it. He decided that I had filmed enough and wanted to break my camcorder. My wife was in the car so it made things a little interesting. After the video ends he approached my wife at which point I said "If you go near her I'll knock you out" and at that point he came to his senses.
I told him that you can't just attack people for videoing in public and told him that I knew he was here on a visa. He started apologizing and explained that he gets chewed out every time the car gets video'd/photographed, but his bosses don't understand that you can't hide a car that looks like a zebra.
I told him I wouldn't show the video to local police, and I never saw him again. I ended up having a bruise on my arm for about two weeks.
Happy ending, however, in that the zoom started working again. Just to think, car companies are now giving out "spy" photos of their cars for people like us to publish.


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Major League Soccer set a record for the fifth consecutive year for the racial diversity of its players, according to a study released Thursday by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.
MLS earned a combined grade of a B-plus in racial and gender hiring practices with 84.55 points, up from a B with 83 points in 2011. Its grade for gender hiring practices rose from a C-plus to a B, scoring 80.5 points. It scored a B-plus/A-minus for racial hiring, dropping from 90 points to 88.6 this year.
Fifty-one percent of MLS's players are minorities, the first time the minority percentage is greater than that of white players. MLS also had the largest percentage of international player in league history at 48 percent.
Primary study author Richard Lapchick called the scores encouraging, but said the challenge — as for all professional leagues — is attracting diverse voices at the executive level.
"I think that is something the league office has to continue to do, which they have been doing and continue to emphasis," Lapchick said. "They said a long time ago that they wanted this sport to look like America. To achieve that they need that leadership at the top to let (the teams) know it's a priority in the league. And let them know they're doing well, but can continue to do better."
To that end, the MLS league office remained the standard bearer for the entire league with minorities holding 40 percent of all professional positions, and women 42 percent. The latter is the highest percentage for women as professionals since the 2008 season.
Team vice presidents experienced the greatest growth of all positions in both racial and gender hiring practices. Minorities now represent 14 percent of all team vice presidents, up from 9 percent in 2011. During the 2012 season women held 13 percent of all vice president positions, an increase from 6 percent in 2011.
Lapchick said the increase of minority players is another big step as MLS tries to keep pace with its larger professional peers.
"Both the NFL and NBA has more players of color as well," he said. "I think for MLS it's partially in reaction to the slow spread of soccer. ... I think in the last 10 years its popularity, especially in urban areas, has grown. It's also grown with more popularity among African-Americans and Latinos and that has helped change those numbers. I think that will probably increase in the future."
Lapchick said that confidence comes from the league's diversity initiatives, which also received an A-plus in the report.
Along with significant racial and gender minority presence in its internship program, MLS is also on pace to set an attendance record in 2012 during its 10th anniversary year for MLS ¡Futbolito! The program is the largest touring Hispanic grassroots initiative of its kind hosted by a professional sports league, with more than 90 percent of its participants of Hispanic descent.


text: BIO with AWARDS and EXHIBITS Seth Rubin is an independent photographer based in Washington, DC. Adept at photographing people across the globe, Rubin quickly connects with his subjects to effectually tell their story. Seth is an experienced international traveler having explored nearly forty countries on six of the seven continents. He revels in the opportunity to immerse himself in a new place, becoming a temporary local to gain a deeper understanding of different cultures. He is also committed to working with international aid organizations documenting critical humanitarian issues. To complement his travel and editorial work, Rubin documents a select number of weddings each year. Past weddings have led him from five-star Manhattan hotels to the beaches of the Florida Keys and the rolling hills of Tuscany. Rubin has studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the International Center of Photography in NYC. He has a degree in mathematics and computer science from Lehigh University. His days are inspired by soulful music, from Marley to Metallica and he enjoys fueling up with a strong espresso and kicking back with a smooth scotch. ~ Select client list: National Geographic (Traveler, Channel), RCN Cable, Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW), Columbus Travel Group, Sharp Entertainment, White Canvas Group / Grid Me Now, Artists Circle Fine Art, Asia Outdoors, TET Lifestyle Collection, Alchemi Design & Publications, Bus2Alps - a European travel company. Work has appeared in: National Geographic Traveler, Marie Claire, The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster books, The Four Seasons Magazine, Modern Luxury Brides, Action Asia, East and West Traveller, China Outdoor. Rubin's photographs are included in private and corporate collections and he is an enthusiastic speaker at educational institutions. To license images, purchase fine art prints, or collaborate on your next project, please contact Seth at firstname.lastname@example.com or 401-864-0369. ~ Awards and exhibits include: 2015 - Photo District News (PDN): TASTE food photography award 2014 - FotoDC: 1st place, Spirit of Funk contest and 2nd place, Spirit of DC contest - Exposed DC group exhibition, Washington, DC 2013 - The Washington Post: Travel Photo Contest 2013 - Photoville "The Fence" group screening, Brooklyn, NY - Serbin Communications: Best of Photography Annual 2012 - FotoWeekDC: Grand prize, Instagram "Shoot the Festival" competition - FotoWeekDC: 3rd place, International Photography Awards, Travel category - Photo District News (PDN): 1st place, World in Focus, Outdoor Scenes category - Photo District News (PDN): The Shot sports contest - Slideluck Potshow, Washington, DC (southeast Asia slideshow) 2011 - "Life.Color.Kenya" solo benefit / exhibition, Washington, DC - DCist group exhibition, Washington, DC 2010 - National Geographic Traveler / Photo District News (PDN): 1st place, Outdoor Sports category - Slideluck Potshow DC, Washington, DC (Kenya aid work slideshow) 2009 - Newseum Fotobama group exhibition, Washington, DC - FotoWeekDC: Fotobama Inauguration Competition - Serbin Communications: Best of Photography Annual 2008 - National Photo Awards: 1st place, Portrait and Landscape categories 2007 - National Geographic: International Photography Contest


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6 Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
2 Then the Lord said to Joshua, 'See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3 March round the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. 4 Make seven priests carry trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march round the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. 5 When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, make the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.'
6 So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, 'Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and make seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.' 7 And he ordered the army, 'Advance! March round the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.'
8 When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forwards, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord's covenant followed them. 9 The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding. 10 But Joshua had commanded the army, 'Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!' 11 So he had the ark of the Lord carried round the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there.
12 Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13 The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forwards, marching before the ark of the Lord and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets kept sounding. 14 So on the second day they marched round the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
15 On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched round the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. 16 The seventh time round, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, 'Shout! For the Lord has given you the city! 17 The city and all that is in it are to be devoted[a] to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. 18 But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. 19 All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.'
20 When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. 21 They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, 'Go into the prostitute's house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.' 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.
24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord's house. 25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho – and she lives among the Israelites to this day.
26 At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: 'Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho:
'At the cost of his firstborn son
he will lay its foundations;
at the cost of his youngest
he will set up its gates.'
27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.
- Joshua 6:17 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 18 and 21.


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Tyro vindicating the Innocence of Herod's two Sons, Alexander & Aristobulus, whom the Tyrant afterwards put to Death, on a false Accusation.
Bentley-Blake Collection
Tookey, James, engraver
1 leaf : illustration ; 39 x 23 cm
Rare Books
Plate opposite page 264: Josephus, Flavius. The whole genuine and complete works of Flavius Josephus. London : Printed for C. Cooke ..., [1792-1793].
The plates are engraved by Grignion (17), Tookey (6), Heath (4), Blake (3), Jas. Neagle (3), Scot (2), Collier (2), Noble (2), Sharp (2), Morris, Smith, Warren, Sparrow, Parker, Warner, Page and Grainger. Illustrators for the plates include C.M. Metz (19), T. West (10), Stothard (5), Luykin (3), Ramberg (3), C. Cooke (2), Corbould, Salvator Rosa, Trepisian, Weston, C. Graves, and Moreau. The remaining ten plates were unsigned.
Includes 3 engravings by William Blake: "The parting of Lot and Abraham, after seperating their flocks, &c." (Metz delin.) (opposite page 13); "The Battle of Ain, & the destruction of the city, by the army of Joshua" (Stothard delin.) (opposite page 64); "The fugitive Shechemites burnt and suffocated in the holds of their retreat by order of King Abimelech" (Metz delin.) (opposite page 76).
Imprint date from Bentley.
See Catalogue Link below for full Victoria University Library catalogue record.
Blake no.744
Public Domain
Jews -- Antiquities
Jews -- History
West, T., illustrator
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Is it possible to hold all the grief in the world and not get crushed by it?
I ask this question because our failure to deal with the collective and individual pain generated as a result of our destructive economic system is blocking us from reaching out for the solutions that can help us to find another direction.
Our decision to value above all else comfort, convenience and a superficial view of happiness, has led to feelings of disassociation and numbness and as a result we bury our grief deep within our subconscious.
The consequence is not only a compulsion to consume even more in an attempt to hide our guilt but also a projection of our hidden pain onto the world around us and at the deepest level, the Earth itself.
Just take the recent news from WWF and the Zoological Society of London that we have decimated half of all creatures across land, rivers and the seas over the past 40 years.
We read this and perhaps shake our heads in dismay, and then consume the next news story. The question we should all be asking is why aren't we on the floor doubled up in pain at our capacity for industrial scale genocide of the world's species.
The same is true of the human blood and tears that have flowed in continents such as Africa over hundreds of years as a result of our system of economic and cultural exploitation.
It's time to stop searching for reasons why we are failing to act over the imminent dangers of climate change and other sustainability challenges.
The answer is obvious. We don't need more scientific data or superficial behaviour change initiatives but to engage individuals at a deep emotional, psychological and spiritual level.
As the mythologist Joseph Campbell pointed out: "It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal – carries the cross of the redeemer – not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair." In particular we need to grieve for the destruction we have wrought so that we have a chance to heal ourselves.
I have just experienced this by taking part in a moving grief ceremony conducted by indigenous people from Africa, North America, Latin America and Australia as part of a conference at Findhorn in Scotland, aimed at creating a narrative of how to transition to a new economy based on social and ecological justice.
The point of recalling the rape, pillage and desecration of communities as well as the destruction of ecosystems and biodiversity is not to get stuck in anger and hopelessness, but to transcend them through the power of compassion and forgiveness.
Patricia McCabe from the Dineh Nation of New Mexico and Arizona, who helped lead the ceremony, says the truth and reconciliation commission in South Africa set up in the wake of apartheid, and the justice and reconciliation process in Rwanda after the genocide, serve as proof that expressing grief can lead to a new beginning.
She says: "Humanity has developed a very deep ability to push devastating information about the impacts of our actions into our subconscious and this is a danger. We are numbing ourselves to this life going out.
"Expressing grief has always been a cathartic experience and a rebalancing mechanism, and I believe it is a part of building the foundation for any new story we might want to tell."
McCabe believes the techniques used for helping people recover from shocks should be used more widely within communities. While indigenous peoples still suffer terribly from the impacts of past exploitation, McCabe says they can help the world because they still hold a deep and close connection to the land and because they understand the power of ceremony to create transformation.
"Many indigenous peoples have a pact with mother Earth that said we would hold on to the principles of thriving life, and that one day the world would turn back and come to us again," she says. "To be ready for that, we must also go through our grief in order to truly be able to come back into alignment of our mind, body and spirit."
To learn more about grief counseling and grief weekend workshops, contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com


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We talked superheroes with the all-new "real American heroes," Marlon Wayans and Channing Tatum, and found out the real reason Marlon wasn't cast as Joel Schumacher's Robin — and why he couldn't pull off the "motorcycle in the rain" scene.
You guys had great chemistry in the film. Were there any funny moments we didn't get to see of you two, goofing off as a couple of Joes?
Marlon Wayans: There's some stuff, but we pretty much stuck to the script.
So you guys are toys now...
Wayans: I'm about to go raid Hasbro. I saw this one doll that had the accelerator suit. It's like RoboCop. It was running. I was like, "I need this for my son."
Speaking of RoboCop and science fiction, you guys are really growing in this genre. Were there any superheroes that you two were rumored for, that didn't end up being true?
Wayans: I was actually supposed to play Robin, in Batman Returns, about 15 years ago. But there was too many characters. I was cast, I was paid and everything. I still get residual checks. Tim Burton didn't wind up doing three, Joel Schumacher did it and he had a different vision for who Robin was. So he hired Chris O' Donnell.
Are you happy that you didn't wind up being Robin in that movie?
Wayans: No, look — I get why they picked Chris O' Donnell, because it would be messed up to have Batman and you've got Robin, and his bulge is somewhat bigger than Batman's. Batman would have a serious problem with that.
Channing Tatum: [Laughs] I was rumored to play Captain America. Actually, I would love to play him, but I've read Will Smith is going to do it.
Are there and superheroes you would like to play in the future, since you didn't get to play Robin and you don't think you're up for Captain America?
Tatum: I want to get recast as Snake Eyes.
Wayans: I would like to do the Mask. Jim Carrey did one, Jamie Kennedy did two. I would like to do three.
Tatum: There's a darker superhero called Plucker. I want to do that, badly. I'm trying to set it up now. [Channing is linked to this project as the producer].
Wayans: I want to play Plastic Man — that would be fun too....
In the movie...
Wayans: I want to play the Brown Hornet, from Fat Albert. I want to play the Brown Hornet and be buff on top, and just have really skinny legs. I could get Tracy Morgan to play Stinger.
You guys do a lot of ridiculous stuff in G.I. Joe, what was your favorite moment?
Wayans: Right here [points to Tatum]. We had a great time filming together. On set, off set....
Really? That was more fun that driving a motorcycle through the rain, with sunglasses on?
Tatum: My Top Gun moment? [Laughs].
Wayans: That was so ultimate sexy. I was so like, "oh I wish that was me!" But see here's the difference. White guys in the rain look cool, if I was in the rain my afro would all small, skin would be all dry, it would not be a good sight.


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Sea Weed Farm
Lonely Sailor
Glowing Orange
that moment you look up and all of a sudden everything including yourself is glowing!
The World's First Sunrise
After a year of traveling in New Zealand my sister and her partner came to visit us. We were lucky enough to witness the sky catch fire as we experienced the First sunrise in the world. There was something extra special about this sunrise knowing it was the First in the entire world. This fantasy was real and will be forever captured in my favorite memory bank : )


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