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Hell Yes or Hell No?
so, tell me...Is there really a "Hell"?
|from "Soul Proof" newsletter Sept. '09
Dr. Mark Pitstick www.soulproof.com
Is There A Hell?
I received a few irate letters after last month's newsletter about "Is There a Hell?" I had assumed that many of my readers had read "Soul Proof" and understood the various facets of this topic. My mistake.
So here's part 2 of what is a very important discussion. Many thinking
people discount any notion of a Supreme Being because
From one perspective, there are clearly temporary, self-induced hells--but
not eternal fiery ones due to Divine judgment or decree. Souls that
inhabited humans like Hitler usually must sleep for eons before they
can face the Light. Their transgressions were too grievous to glimpse
and they indeed suffer hell as their life review trickles out over time.
They face a long rehab and
But eternity is a very long time and even these can enter the Light when they have truly repented, made amends, forgiven themselves, and ask.
Even when there is orthodox religious training to the contrary, those
with near-death experiences, NDErs, do not describe death as an entrance
into either a fiery hell or golden streets. Instead, they commonly describe
dying as a transition, an entry into a
Near-death experiences--NDEs--usually engender more enlightened theological
views. Having glimpsed the Light, these near-death survivors know firsthand
that Creator completely and always forgives and understands. They have
experienced an almost
In "The Light Beyond", Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D., states, "One NDEer I spoke to had been a minister of the fire and brimstone variety. It wasn't infrequent, he said, for him to tell his congregation that if they didn't believe the Bible in a certain way, they would be condemned to burn eternally. When he went through his NDE, he said the being of light told him not to speak to his congregation like this anymore. But it was done in a nondemanding way. The being just implied that what he was doing was making the lives of his congregation miserable. When this preacher returned to the pulpit, he did so with a message of love, not fear."
When I asked him about the concepts that heaven and hell are levels
of consciousness, degrees of closeness to or separation from God and
knowledge of our real selves, Aramaic scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz, Ph.D.,
replied: "This is close to the original
Some people question whether God embraces everyone, especially those committing morally reprehensible acts like rape, murder, and molestation. In "Lessons from the Light", Ken Ring, Ph.D., states that the answer by NDErs is unqualified: everyone gets to enter the Light. This runs counter to some teachings and some understandably question, "Even Hitler?"
Of this, Ring states, "I remember an answer that was given to this query by an NDEr friend of mine who, as a child, had suffered severe sexual and physical abuse from her father. When she found herself in the Light, she asked it telepathically, 'Does everyone come here?' She was told 'Yes.' Then, she herself asked the very question that represents the limit for most people: 'Even Hitler?' 'Yes.' And, then, pushing the Light even further, she found herself asking, 'Even my father?' Again, 'Yes.'"
I hope this information helps you glimpse that Source Energy really
is all loving, all wise, and all present. You are part and parcel
And, no matter what your past transgressions, you're no Adolph Hitler.
So relax, get comfortable in your earth suit, and enjoy this amazing
walk in the woods with Great Spirit that we call life on
This lifetime is just one chapter in a never-ending
book. The book is full of adventure, romance, suspense, challenge, and
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I just turned on my PS3 to install the upgrade and it came back up with this giant BLUE background and a new icon.
The first thing I thought was "Jesus. How drunk was I last weekend?" and tried to triangle it for info. That didn't work so I just said "What the fuck?" out loud a few times, walked around in tiny confused circles holding the controller and logged in here.
It's annoying me already. It's so bloody BLUE. It certainly shouldn't be the default. I don't ever plan on playing the game so it would be much nicer if I could hide it. I'll have stern words about this with Rodger Sony if I ever meet him.
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NFL Referee Lockout: Twitter Celebrates the End of Officials Labor DisputeSeptember 27, 2012
The NFL and the NFL Referees Association have officially come to terms and the lockout that led to the use of replacement officials is now over, according to Albert Breer of NFL.com.
The NFL has taken heavy criticism since a controversial call ended the most recent Monday Night Football matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks.
The replacement officials ruled that Seahawks wide receiver Golden Tate came down with a last-second Hail Mary touchdown, when the overwhelming majority of fans, pundits, players and coaches believe that Packers safety M.D. Jennings intercepted the pass.
This was a blown call that directly affected the outcome of the game, and the subsequent outcry appears to have finally brought the end of the referee lockout.
Just as it did when Tate was gifted the touchdown, Twitter exploded with the news of the real referees' return. Here are some of the highlights.
Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com broke the news on Wednesday:
Deal with refs isn't imminent anymore...It's done! Regular refs are working Browns/Ravens Thurs. Check @cbssports for more— Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) September 27, 2012
Fox Sports analyst Jay Glazer hit us with the details:
Last sticking point was pension and the sides agreed to keep old benefits in place for 5 years then all will move into 401k after that— Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) September 27, 2012
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay wanted to make sure that the fans knew he was listening. Fans have been talking and being ignored for months now, but at least we can take solace in knowing that Irsay will hear us when we scream.
Let's be clear,when our NFL Fans talk,we listen..if you're unhappy,we're unhappy...we're here 2 serve U..everything we do is to please YOU!— Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) September 26, 2012
The Faux John Madden account is always entertaining, and it brought us this piece of fake news that sums up the feelings fans have toward the replacement refs.
BREAKING:Referee lockout to end; Replacement refs to report back to Foot Locker ASAP— Faux John Madden (@FauxJohnMadden) September 26, 2012
USA Today Media Group's James Christensen noted that Ed Hochuli is getting in a few last-minute workouts to ensure that he fills out his referee shirt just as well as he did prior to the lockout.
After news of the end of the referee lockout, Ed Hochuli celebrated by military pressing a small Volvo.— James Christensen (@NEPatriotsDraft) September 26, 2012
SI.com reporer Jimmy Traina took a moment to poke fun at the NFL front office.
I just don't understand why the NFL felt the need to get rid of the replacement refs when league said they got the call right on Monday.— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) September 27, 2012
NFL Network reporter Albert Breer brought us two interesting tweets, starting with this one.
NFL says officially that the Browns-Ravens game will be officiated by real referees.— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) September 27, 2012
Breer followed that with the news everyone wants to hear.
NFL says officially that the Browns-Ravens game will be officiated by real referees.— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) September 27, 2012
Glazer followed up his earlier tweet with some more information regarding the details.
The officials will vote it to make it official on Friday but that's just a formality.— Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) September 27, 2012
In case you were wondering as well, ESPN's Andrew Brandt answers a question.
Guy on street to me: "Does this mean the replacement referees are fired?" That would be a yes.— Andrew Brandt (@adbrandt) September 27, 2012
Let's take a break from the serious stuff. Faux John Madden is entertaining, and Not Bill Walton is never far behind. Check this out.
BREAKING: Foot Locker reports that they no longer are understaffed.— Not Bill Walton (@NotBillWalton) September 27, 2012
Bleacher Report's Ryan Rudnansky got in on it as well, asking an all-important question.
Now the question is, have the real #NFL refs been working on their game in the offseason? Or have they been partying this whole time?— Ryan Rudnansky (@RyanRudnansky) September 27, 2012
NBA.com reporter David Aldridge pondered the image everyone had in their head. Admit it.
Welcome back to...The Guns of Hochuli.— David Aldridge (@daldridgetnt) September 27, 2012
NFL Network reporter Jeff Darlington makes us believe that Ed Hochuli knows exactly what the NFL world is secretly thinking.
I asked Ed Hochuli how many curls he's been doing: "As soon as I heard the rumors today, I got down on the floor and started doing pushups."— Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) September 27, 2012
Awful Announcing, another highly entertaining parody account, asks the question on everyone's mind.
So... now's the part where we all go back to talking about Tebow... right?— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 27, 2012
How about some sympathy for the replacement refs? There isn't much to be found, but Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller threw them some kind words.
Welcome back REFS glad y'all was able to get a deal done but thanks to replacements refs 4 trying their best given da circumstances.#GN— CjSpiller (@CJSPILLER) September 27, 2012
FOX Sports Radio host Peter Burns echoed Spiller's sentiments.
Sadly, there were some replacement refs that did a fine job during the lockout that will not get the credit they deserve— Peter Burns (@PeterBurnsRadio) September 27, 2012
Tulane Law School professor Gabe Feldman speaks to the saddest part of this entire ordeal.
Final terms of new NFL-Ref CBA will leave fans asking a familiar question: Why didn't they reach this deal a month ago?— Gabe Feldman (@SportsLawGuy) September 27, 2012
While getting Hochuli a referee jersey that isn't three sizes too small speak to Irsay's desire to "improve officiating overall," fans will be thrilled to have the real refs back nonetheless.


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Naylor Doubtful
Glenn Hoddle's defensive headaches increased today when he revealed that an injury picked up in the 3-1 loss to The Owls last Saturday.
'Lee Naylor is a doubt for Saturday's game. He picked up a calf injury last weekend and he's missed today's training. I'd rate him as 50/50 at present.' Hoddle told the club's official site.
The Ex England boss is left with a choice between playing Mark Kennedy or youngster Daniel Jones in the left hand berth for a match Wolves cannot afford to lose.
Failure to secure all three points could open up an eight point gap between Wanderers and Preston which with five games to go would surely be unassailable.


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Tipster, Facebook help catch burglary suspect
A caller to Crime Stoppers has helped authorities capture a suspect wanted in connection with a home burglary.
The caller notified Crime Stoppers on Monday after seeing wanted suspect Brandon chin on television.
Chin was wanted in connection with the July 13 burglary of a home in the 6700 block of Rasberry Lane and possibly other burglaries.
The tipster was placed in touch with investigators and told them that shortly after midnight on July 30 there was a posting on Facebook of the suspect and a female, whom the tipster identified as Gabrielle Murray.
Investigators were able to obtain an address for Murray and responded to the 6200 block of Frondosa Drive, where Chin was located and taken into custody.
Chin was booked on a charge of simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling.
He has been connected to at least three other residential burglaries and possibly more.
The caller to Crime Stoppers will receive $400 for information leading to Chin's arrest.


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"In an era of declining population, demand tends be below what is expected and a state of over-supply is less easily corrected. Thus a pessimistic atmosphere may issue; and although at long last pessimism may tend to correct itself through its effect on supply, the first result to prosperity of a change-over from an increasing to a declining population may be very disastrous."
John Maynard Keynes
General Theory - 1937
And now in 2010 we get the following headlines:
I will leave you to conclude whether Keynes's forecast for Japan will
come true. Keynes wrote his thoughts on population in the context of
equity prices. Generally speaking, the Nikkei has been down for the
last twenty years.
There are many components to the make up of population. The death rate
and immigration are factors. But the big one is the fertility rate.
Some fuzzy math: If each female has 2.3 children in her lifetime the
population will be steady. (.3 mortality). If each female has 2.6
children, then the population is growing.
The CIA provides updated information on fertility rates for most
countries. The information is interesting. There may be some clues in
it if you believe Keynes. The link is here. A few highlights:
-The EU has a broad based problem. Germany's fertility rate is 1.41, the UK at 1.66.
-The US is at a ratio of 2.05. Well below the rate for indigenous
population growth. Our numbers look better when the death rate
(declining) and immigration (legal and illegal) are taken into
consideration. It will be interesting to see this year's census data. I
think the illegal population is way down. The US looks good compared to most
other industrial countries.
-Russia is at 1.41. This country does not do well on the longevity
statics either. Good thing they have tons of oil. Hint - buy Resources
not Retailers if you want to invest here.
-Afghanistan and Iraq have fertility rates of 6.5 and 3.9
respectively. They are having lots of babies. Iran on the other hand
had a fertility rate in 2009 of just 1.71. That probably confirms
something we already know about the domestic situation in this country.
If you were calling the shots in Iran and were looking at this number,
you might just conclude that it would be better to make a 'move' sooner
versus later.
-India is a standout. Not only do they have a big population, they
are having babies. The fertility rate is 2.72. The population is
climbing steadily. This will continually boost domestic demand.
-China was the big surprise. The fertility rate is one of the
lowest. It stood at 1.79. The UN has a forecast that it will remain at
1.8 for the next fifteen years. China is trying to create demand
domestically as they have lost a lot of exports. They do that with
deficit spending, but it is not supported long term by the fertility
-Japan is near the bottom of the big countries at 1.35.
-Brazil looks good on this list at 2.4. This country keeps popping up when you think of where money should go.
I'm not sure of the importance of this. It certainly does not mean
anything in a given month or a year. But over the longer-term these are
powerful forces. The fertility rates have come down in almost all
countries on a steady basis for the past 25 years. We are still growing
globally, but at a lot smaller pace. It's hard to assume that
"productivity" is going to make up for these declines. It's easier to
conclude that average global growth in the next twenty years will be
lower then it was in the priort two decades.
Maynard Keynes on Japan – "Very Disastrous"
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AG Eliot Spitzer had enough energy from a night of partying at a baseball stadium to rise early, lace up his running shoes and set a good pace through a warm Buffalo morning mist, raising a healthy sweat and comments from people eating breakfast at 6 a.m.
The Democrat used to being on top of the power pyramid in Albany, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, moved at a different pace. He arrived in the Queen City late Monday after most of the official festivities held by candidates were already well underway or winding down.
Silver and other Assembly aides attended the wedding of the son of Judy Rapfogel, the speaker's chief of staff, and her husband, William, in New York City.
Spitzer's nomination as the Democratic candidate for governor is a few hours away, and many party faithful are watching to see how the relationship of Silver and Spitzer develops as the election nears.Â


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Spring Spots
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nice, the STRFKR debunk that keeps on giving.
nice, the STRFKR debunk that keeps on giving.
Should I even count that Dinosaur Jr. news? I know it comes from the 'Roo boards, but how trustworthy are those guys?
Coachellas attended: 2007-present
I met Of Monsters And Men singer (Nanna) last night and she confirmed they're playing... Last week Jonsi also told me Sigur Rós is really playing... and last november during Iceland Airwaves festival, Haim sisters told me they're "probably" playing.
From Morrissey's official Facebook page:
Smiths reunion confirmed.Morrissey Official
Today is Sunday. Tomorrow, a fun little announcement about the US tour.
I don't remember him being rumored and he has a show at Staples Center in March.
He talks about Modest Mouse as well...Though the details are still being sorted out, Big Boi says a massive tour is likely, with festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza a possibility along the way.
The bookings have been coming in for a minute now, he says. Im going to probably do a House of Blues run first, then come back and do theaters. And then Ill probably do festivals for the rest of the year. I toured 18 months off my last record. Im just really having fun, man. Touring is really one of the best parts of making music, because you get to see the fans reaction to the songs that you created and youve just been wondering the whole time how theyre going to receive it.
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature...ld-domination/To that end, Big Boi began work with indie rockers Modest Mouse on new material over a year ago. The sessions have yet to pick up again, though Big Boi says hes ready to roll.
Im waiting on Isaac [Brock, Modest Mouses primary instigator], Big Boi says. Theyve still got to get some stuff together internally. We did like three songs with them, and I cant wait for them to come out. Theyre jamming like a motherfucker, too. I think the people are really going to love it. So, you know, as soon as they handle whatever theyre handling internally, Im sure the people will get it. But the stuff sounds incredible.
Big Boi is a blast live
Really hope that he ends up on the poster
"fun little announcement" means a Smith reunion without Morrissey.
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
- Kurt Vonnegut
There is no official morrissey facebook page, twitter or any social media except true-to-you.net
Moz is on Letterman Tuesday.
Hot Chip just confirmed over on Inforoo, they are getting more confirms than we are...
lol i still remember when morrisey was like "i hope that's human flesh i smell on the grill", and i was high as shit and said to myself "i hope you know what an insufferable cunt you are morrisey"
My girlfriend looks a little bit like Charlize Theron... and a lot like Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Well here, we just take confirmations from roommates of secretaries....we don't bother actually emailing and asking the bands themselves.
For what it's worth - that "email" could be to and from anyone. How the fuck is that a confirmation.
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Ex-ICAP Brokers Charged Libor Probe as Total Hits 14Suzi Ring and Ben Moshinsky
Three former ICAP Plc brokers will be charged by U.K. prosecutors for helping manipulate benchmark rates, seven months after they were charged in the U.S. for similar offenses.
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office notified Daniel Wilkinson, Colin Goodman and Darrell Read yesterday that they will be charged, the agency said in a statement. That brings the number of people accused in parallel U.S. and U.K. criminal investigations into manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, to 14. Serra Balls, a spokeswoman for ICAP, declined to comment.
Regulators and prosecutors around the world are probing how derivatives traders and bankers who submitted interest-rate data colluded to ensure benchmarks benefited their own trades, potentially affecting more than $300 trillion of loans, financial products and contracts tied to the rate, issuing around $6 billion in fines against financial institutions.
"Goodman strongly asserts his innocence of the charges laid against him by the Serious Fraud Office," his lawyer, David Janes, said in an e-mail. The English court system is the "correct and appropriate jurisdiction and forum for the allegations against him to be tried and tested."
The three men were interviewed by the SFO late last year, two people with knowledge of the probe said at the time. Wilkinson and Read were derivatives brokers and Goodman was a cash broker, the U.S. Justice Department said when the trio were charged in September. The SFO alleges the men "conspired to defraud" in connection with Libor manipulation between August 2006 and September 2010. They are scheduled to appear at a London criminal court on April 15, the SFO said.
Read's lawyer, Eve Giles, and Wilkinson's lawyer, Matthew Frankland, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
ICAP Fines
ICAP became the first interdealer broker fined in the probe in September with an $88 million penalty by U.S. and U.K. authorities for rigging Libor tied to the Japanese yen. Barclays Plc, UBS AG, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Rabobank Groep have also been fined for rigging the benchmark.
Tom Hayes, a former UBS AG and Citigroup Inc. banker, is scheduled in January to be the first person to stand trial for Libor manipulation in the U.K. Former RP Martin Holdings Ltd. brokers, Terry Farr and James Gilmour, are set to follow with a trial date in September 2015.
The U.S. has charged eight people, including Hayes and the trio from ICAP. Former Rabobank traders Paul Robson, Paul Thompson and Tetsuya Motomura, and former UBS trader Roger Darin have also been accused by the Justice Department. None are in U.S. custody.
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Yeah. Did 117 problems at Chess Tactics Server without any error today. Of course I became super careful as longer as the winning streak lasted. So my rating dropped to 1406. It's enough for today, I'll continue the series tomorrow.
For a Senior Patzer, Chess Improvement is a Life-Long Task. A Quest Beyond the Circles of De La Maza.
Yeah. Did 117 problems at Chess Tactics Server without any error today. Of course I became super careful as longer as the winning streak lasted. So my rating dropped to 1406. It's enough for today, I'll continue the series tomorrow.
Well it was more or less forced, this return of Slowmouse at Chess Tactics Server. I have been doing some 4000 CTS problems as Mousetrapper, but with the percentage focus of old Slowmouse, lifting my overall success rate from 78% to 82%. this brought me up from success rank 470 to about 270.
My position regarding the issue of unconscious vs conscious decisions in chess, raised by Temposchlucker. (Tempo, feel free to continue this discussion in your blog.)
Three weeks ago I used to play a level of about 1460-1470 at Chess Tactics Server. I was quite happy with a 90% accuracy then, compared to my former 80%.
Yesterday I had my best CTS session so far: 94% @ 1442, 199 tries, 57 correct in a row.
I have the impression that some of us bloggers, me included, are in danger to get lost in theories, discussions and statistics about details of unknown importance, to say it politely. We, and me, are in danger of missing the real thing.
After my farewell to never-ending lists I have been thinking a lot about how to find a new way to deal with the tens of thousands of pattern variations that are presented on the board. Storing them all in the memory cannot be the way. But what else?
When I read all these recents posts of mine and of other Knights, I must say, o God, o God, are we all crazy? I read such things as a systematic of a thousand pin patterns. I see lists of basic checkmates that go into dozens, and to these all traps must be added, queentraps, rooktraps, bishoptraps, knighttraps, oh, oh.
Let's take the example of a hawk going after birdies. His first step is to spot them. Okay, he has spotted a pigeon far away and a sparrow much closer. As a second step he must sort these targets by size and by distance. Then he must focus on the prey he has ranked top, and then decide to go or not to go after this or after that or after another prey yet to be spotted (because the sparrow is too alert and about to escape, and the pigeon is too far away).
When, as a boy, I learnt to plane a piece of wood, I learnt that there is a limited set of conditions that make a good plane stroke. First the blade must grip the wood, but not too much. Then the stroke must go in the right direction, taking into account the direction of the wood fibers. Then the stroke must make sure that the shaving does not block the plane. All this must be controlled by subtle variations of speed and pressure, it is very complicated in the beginning but very simple after you have learnt it.
After more than twenty-five thousand problems done at Chess Tactics Server I am asking myself all the time what is the most important experience, and how might I take profit from it.
A move that provokes a bad move of the opponent. And what is an excellent move? A move that forces a bad move of the opponent.
Yesterday I had my first test (2h/40, 1h rest) after an intensive phase of working on my thought process and training at Chess Tactics Server. Winning a miniature against a 100+ opponent is not bad so far, but I must admit that my thought process was far from being perfect. I need to work more on it.
The important things do not happen on the chessboard. They happen in the brain. Nobody can look into the brain. Therefore I have to use everyday pictures to describe what happens there over and over again. Or what I think that happens.


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Men's Lacrosse: Irish struggle in scrimmage win
Mike Monaco | Monday, February 4, 2013
They were national semifinalists last season. They are the No. 3 team in the nation. They beat Detroit 16-8 on Saturday at the Loftus Sports Center in the final scrimmage before the start of the regular season.
But Irish coach Kevin Corrigan said Notre Dame is not a good team.
"We're just not very good," Corrigan said bluntly after the scrimmage.
Corrigan said he saw problems with Notre Dame's performance every place he looked.
"I can't think of one single area that I feel like we played at the level that I think we should be playing," Corrigan said. "I couldn't be less satisfied with the quality of our performance."
A week after traveling to Orlando, Fla., for a pair of scrimmages to kick off the spring semester, the Irish scrimmaged for 75 minutes against the Titans.
Notre Dame broke out to a 6-3 lead by halftime and extended its advantage to 10-5 after four quarters of play. The teams took the field for an extra fifth quarter of action and the Irish exploded for six goals before Detroit scored a trio of goals to conclude the action at 16-8.
Detroit struck first when sophomore attack/midfielder Brandon Beauregard found the back of the net just 32 seconds into the game. The teams alternated goals, and Irish senior midfielder Ryan Foley scored with 1:57 left in the first quarter to tie the game at 2-2.
Notre Dame opened the second frame with three straight goals, capped off with a score from junior attack Ryan Mix on a feed from Foley.
Irish junior midfielder Jim Marlatt began the second half with a goal to make it 7-3 just 59 seconds into the third quarter. Roughly nine minutes later, Marlatt drove to his right, jumped and fired for his second goal of the quarter to extend the Notre Dame lead to 10-5.
Irish sophomore attack Kyle Runyon spearheaded the Notre Dame offensive effort in the final 15 minutes as the Irish built a 16-5 lead. Detroit then responded with three goals, two of which were scored by freshman midfielder Dylan Swanson.
Despite the prolific offensive onslaught, Corrigan said the Irish played poorly in every facet of the game.
"I couldn't even begin to list it," Corrigan said when asked what was the worst part of his team's performance. "It's a race for No. 1 when it comes to that. But more than anything else we didn't handle the ball well. We're fundamentally unsound. We don't communicate well. We don't work hard enough. We're not physical enough. I don't know, the list could go on."
With two weeks to prepare for the season opener against Duke on Feb. 16, Corrigan said he needs to be a better coach, and he needs every member of his squad to step up.
"I look for all 46 guys," Corrigan said. "We just have to pick it up. I have to do a better job first and foremost. If we're this bad, then I'm not doing a good job so it starts with me."
Corrigan said the scrimmage's main objective was to prepare the team for Duke. Though he wasn't pleased with Notre Dame's performance, Corrigan said the win over Detroit was another step toward being ready for the Blue Devils.
"It's another day of work, but it's another day where we found out that we've got a lot of work to do," Corrigan said.
Notre Dame will be back in action Feb. 16 to take on Duke in Durham, N.C., in its season opener.
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SHEEPSTOWN, New Zealand -- Local legend Shrek has died after sixteen years of slowly choking on its own wool. The livestock equivalent of Robin Williams, Shrek grew wildly popular to Kiwi townsfolk for its wildly overgrown coat. At its most voluminous, it weighed over 20 kilograms.
Regrettably, Shrek's claim to fame would also be its downfall. As the sheep grew old and frail, the weight of its fleece became unsupportable. Stubborn to the very end about its prized possession, it refused to have its coat shorn when given the option, preferring to live life as an immobile husk of a sheep. In 2010, the coat became more than cumbersome, it became deadly. The wool was so thick around its face that Shrek could no longer graze without help from a feeding tube.
Rodney, the farmer in possession of Shrek, grieved at Shrek's situation but refused to shear its heavenly coat, as per the sheep's own wishes. "I know it puts the little lad in danger it does," he said, "but we still making a profit from the tourists, even with all the hospital equipment we rent. Other sheep come 'round from all over to see 'im." Unfortunately, this venture ran dry when Shrek was discovered dead last evening, having choked on a clump of his own wool.
Prior to his paralysis and ensuing death, Shrek was New Zealand's most celebrated prize fighter, competing as a heavyweight in sheepfighting tournaments both local and global. His thick coat made him impervious to the shoves and nudges of other sheep, but his wily technique was equally unrivaled. He held the title of Heavyweight Champion of the World for six straight years, avoiding all possible contenders by hiding in caves when they came a-knockin'.
Shrek's oldest friend Donkey, one of Rodney's donkeys, was not available to comment.
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BASF Obtains $3.83 Billion Revolving Line of CreditStephen Morris
BASF SE, the world's biggest chemicals maker, raised a 3 billion-euro ($3.83 billion) revolving credit facility to replace a credit line maturing next year.
The five-year transaction, which can be extended by as much as two years, refinances a $2.25 billion facility, said Jennifer Moore-Braun, a spokeswoman for Ludwigshafen, Germany-based BASF, in an e-mail. Under a revolver, money repaid can be borrowed again.
Lenders offered the company more than double the amount sought and commitments to the deal were scaled back, according to two people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be identified because the terms are private. Citigroup Inc., ING Groep NV, LBBW and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. arranged the transaction, they said.
The loan pays an initial interest rate of 25 basis points more than benchmark lending rates, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.
BASF is rated A1 by Moody's Investors Service and A+ by Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings, the fifth-highest investment grade level.
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Late to the party: Assassin's Creed 2
I'd never touched upon the Assassin's Creed series, but luckily for me Steam came to the rescue with some stupidly cheap prices during an offer week, so I managed to pick up the first two games nice and cheap. I've already played through the original and posted my take on that a few weeks ago, and if you don't want to read all of that review, here was my final thought:
The environments and animations are top notch; the gameplay is essentially fun, but progression gets a little repetitive by the end; and the narrative would be much more interesting if the delivery wasn't so disjoint from the gameplay. But overall, Assassin's Creed is a good enough game, and one that I've enjoyed playing through – but it's a good job it ended when it did; if it was much longer I suspect I'd have got bored before reaching the end.
Lets see what the second game of the series has to offer.
Splinter Cell conviction – review
I'm not a Splinter-Cell fanatic who played all the prequels, but I loved playing Double agent with friends, mostly multi-player mode. By the way, recent games of Ubisoft had been quite interesting: Assassin's Creed I & II for example. My friends dragged me into this new version of Splinter Cell last two weeks. Well then: I think it's time to review it. more »
Late to the party: Assassin's Creed
I've never touched upon the Assassin's Creed series, in fact I know little about it other than a few friends have told me it's "good", although I'm not sure if they mean the series as a whole, or a single game, or what. To be honest, I'm not really sure why this one slipped entirely under my radar.
Luckily for me, Steam came to the rescue again with stupidly cheap prices during an offer week, so I managed to pick up the first two games nice and cheap. Let's see what they're like…


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Electronic Arts Posts Second-Quarter Results That Beat Analsyst Estimates
Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS), the second- largest U.S. video-game publisher, reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit, and forecast results this quarter that exceed analysts' estimates.
Sales in the current third quarter will be $1.55 billion to $1.65 billion, Electronic Arts said today in a statement. Analysts project $1.55 billion, the average of 18 estimates.
Investors are monitoring how "Battlefield 3," released on Oct. 25, fares in a matchup against No. 1 game maker Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI)'s "Call of Duty" franchise during the holiday period. 'Battlefield' received strong reviews and sold nearly 3 million copies in its first two days, Chief Financial Officer Eric Brown said.
"We're off to a great start" to the quarter, Brown said in an interview. On Dec. 20, Electronic Arts plans to release "Star Wars: The Old Republic," a multiplayer online game that competes with Blizzard's "World of Warcraft."
Sports titles likely drove more than 60 percent of Electronic Arts' sales in the second quarter, estimated Justin Post, an analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in a research note yesterday. Revenue in the current quarter will reflect the contributions of "Battlefield 3," a first-person shooter game, and "The Sims Social" on Facebook, he wrote.
In the second quarter ended Sept. 30, Electronic Arts posted earnings that exceeded analysts' expectations. Excluding some items, profit was $17 million, or 5 cents a share, versus the estimated loss of 5 cents projected by analysts. Sales, excluding changes in deferred revenue, rose 17 percent to $1.03 billion, exceeding of the average estimate of $941.95 million.
Electronic Arts, based in Redwood City, California, focuses on adjusted revenue and earnings because a large portion of sales each quarter are deferred. The second-quarter loss widened to $340 million, or $1.03 a share, from a loss of $201 million, or 61 cents a share, a year earlier, because some sports titles were released late in period, Brown said.
Electronic Arts benefited from sports titles including "FIFA 12" soccer and "Madden NFL 12" football, Chief Executive Officer John Riccitiello said in a statement. Digital revenue, including sales from the "Sims" game, rose 30 percent, Brown said, and is exceeding overall industry growth.
Marketing costs increased 28 percent to $222 million in the second quarter, Electronic Arts said. Spending on game development jumped 15 percent to $318 million.
Electronic Arts slipped 4.3 percent in extended trading to $23.50. The shares rose 11 cents to $24.50 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading before the results, and have gained 50 percent this year.
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A question of scale
The scale of the task ILM's animation team faced on Revenge of the Fallen becomes even more apparent when you consider the movie's showpiece scenes: the transformations of the robots from one form to another.
The biggest transformation is unlike any seen in the previous film, and it's for the biggest Decepticon ever. Standing 100 feet tall, the Devastator has 13 million polygons and 52,632 parts. Moreover, he's formed out of six separate robots.
"The idea we came up with was that the Devastator forms in a violent fashion," Benza says. "We rooted his transformation in the biggest Constructicon." The 'Constructicon' in question, Scavenger – a big red mining excavator – transforms first, then smashes itself into one construction vehicle after another, each transforming and connecting to the previous bots to form the giant monster. His head is all mouth: a cement mixer. It's a tremendously dramatic scene, and the effects are awe-inspiring.
Smoking machines
To make matters more complex, Devastator is so big and has so many parts that the animation crew couldn't treat him as a single asset. "When we tried to load the entire model in high res, it would grind the machines to a halt," Benza says. "We had two machines fail trying to work with him. One literally smoked. We don't know for sure if it was a direct result of working with this character, but it certainly did get overloaded – and fried."
The scene of Devastator forming was completed in 4K resolution for IMAX screens. The scale of the work forced the crew to develop a set of tools that enabled the animators to work in layers of complexity. "We had seven choices for resolution," says digital production supervisor Jason Smith.
Options for the level of detail at which each part of the model was displayed ranged from proxy geometry and 25K resolution at the low end to 1,300K resolution at the high end. "To control the system, animators had what we called 'Mr Potatohead buttons'," says Smith. "They could select any part. For example, they could set Devastator's arm at 25K resolution, and his head at 31K."
Powering up
While the level of detail system speeded up the animation work, when it came to final output, truly massive rendering power was still required. In one of the film's biggest scenes, Devastator climbs a pyramid in Egypt and once at the top, begins ripping the massive structure apart. For this shot, which was also at 4K resolution, ILM used a fluid simulation to move the sand and a rigid body simulation to break the pyramid into millions of blocks.
"Some frames would have taken 72 hours to run on a single processor," Smith says. "We used multiprocessors – 26 processors – to chew through the work faster." But for all of the new technology ILM developed for Revenge of the Fallen, not to mention the complexities of wrestling with IMAX resolution for several shots, the studio describes the key innovations of the movie as creative, not technical.
First, the VFX supervisor and animation director shot plates on location and provided guides for the film's editors. For a three-minute fight scene set in a forest between Optimus Prime and several Decepticons, Farrar and Benza ended up supervising the plate photography, and took first cut at editing the footage. "We don't typically get involved with editorial decisions," Benza says. "But because we shot the material and knew what the plates were intended for, we took a first pass at putting the forest back together as a template for the editors."
Second, the animators contributed dialogue and choreographed two key fight scenes in the movie: both the forest battle and a sequence in which Bumblebee literally tears Rampage apart, giving a little satisfied nod of the head after he has decapitated the Decepticon.
"We designed the first version of the fight not knowing how it would be used in the movie, with Bumblebee and the cop car robot from the first movie, Barricade," says Benza. "Michael Bay liked how tight the edit was and the brutality when Bumblebee tears the limbs off, so he found a place for the fight in the movie and substituted a different robot."
And finally, the director 'shot' scenes directly on ILM's motion-capture stage, working in collaboration with the animators. "We blocked out the scenes, loaded them up on our stage, and put a virtual camera into Michael's hands," Benza says. "On the set, you often see Michael behind the camera, so we wanted to give him a hands-on experience for the digital scenes."
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The resulting movie is an enormous human achievement, not only considering the vast scale of the work undertaken, but also for the way in which ILM's staff became involved in tasks traditionally thought to lie outside the control of visual effects artists.
The crew considers Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as one of the most collaborative films they have worked on. As visual effects steadily become a part of the production as well as the post-production process, it only remains to be seen where Industrial Light & Magic's increasing level of creative control will take the studio – and the movies it works on – next.
This is an extract of a longer article which appears in 3D World in issue 119 of 3D World, out now. Buy a subscription.
Industrial Light & Magic received an Oscar nomination for creating the 14 mechanical stars of the first Transformers movie. For the sequel, 3D World magazine discovered how the studio built, rigged and animated not 14 robots, but 45.
But ILM doesn't just build Transformers. Its innovations have transformed the entire 3D industry, so 3D World took the time to talk to key studio staff about how the studio have continued to stay on top after 34 years of technical breakthroughs.
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- Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Feeney thoroughly eviscerates the MFA Boston's latest cotton-candy show, an exhibition of celebrity, glossy-mag photographer Mario Testino. In recent years the MFA Boston has devoted shows to Dale Chihuly and to the art collection of a bank.
- The Washington Post's Philip Kennicott on how a new show at the Walters Art Museum reveals the African presence in Renaissance Europe. [Image: Pontormo, Portrait of Maria Salviati de' Medici with Giulia de' Medici, ca. 1537. Collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.]
- The NYT did a really nice web feature on the technical analysis of a Guggenheim Picasso.
- For whatever reason, there's a Richard Artschwager retrospective at the Whitney. Holland Cotter suggests a reason: Gagosianism.
- The Dallas Museum of Art discovers an early George Inness painting, reports Michael Granberry in the Dallas Morning News.
- Ken Johnson offers an explanation for why the "high-end art world" — which, presumably, means the New York art market? — has not embraced the artists in "Now Dig This!" the Hammer museum show that's just arrived at MoMA's PS1 outpost in Queens. I'm not sure what else "high-end art world" means, unless he has found a new way of asking why New York has long substantially ignored these mostly LA-based artists. Which seems fairly obvious: They were LA-based artists at a time when NYC was spectacularly other-resistant. (And maybe still is, notes William Poundstone.)
- The Guardian's Jonathan Jones thinks the Seattle Art Museum's single-gender experiment is a silly stunt.
- On this week's Modern Art Notes Podcast: Two top art historians detail their most recent projects. First, Clyfford Still Museum adjunct curator and ace abstract expressionism scholar David Anfam discusses the CSM's recent installations and recent research published in "Clyfford Still: The Artist's Museum." Then Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Mia Fineman tells great stories and details key insights from her new show "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop." Download the show, subscribe on iTunes, RSS. See images discussed on this week's program.
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| Oceanstuck chapter 1 . 2/2/2013
I'm tempted to ask you to make a series on Hitomi's feelings over the course of the anime out of this but I really shouldn't. Really good writing, though, it makes me feel for her Q_Q
| ColdGoldLazarus chapter 1 . 1/31/2013
This gave me feels.
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Multi-award-winning jazz trumpet player Brownman Ali, best known for his creatively bombastic & energized playing style, strips down to a bare bones configuration in this new Musideum "1" series. Sunday's intimate duet show will feature Juno-nominated multi-instrumentalist DYLAN BELL. Brown has had a long friendship and musical association with Bell, but rarely appear together given both of their frenetic touring schedules. This unique pairing will feature the versatile Bell best known for his work with the Nylons and Autorickshaw on an assortment of instruments including bass, piano and voice!
The BROWNMAN1 series continues throughout the year at Musideum, each month Brown appearing with 1 other mystery musician -- could be piano, could be bass, could even turntables - who knows! Each duet showcasing Brownman's lesser known introspective & self-reflective playing approach accompanied by a mystery 1 each month.
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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to encourage everyone to come check out this amazing pairing of trumpet & piano talents at the Musideum this Sunday. Acclaimed jazz trumpet player Brownman Ali and I have become good friends, enjoying shared music, movies and meals together. Though we have both been aware of each other's musical work for years, we officially met at a Musideum event 3 years ago and started socializing. He LOVED the Musideum, but felt his assortment of bands he leads 7 of his own! would be too much for the space. So I suggested perhaps he could use Musideum to feature lesser known aspects of his playing. He's well known for his virtuosic and energized playing style, but rarely is he showcased for the warmness of his tone & the subtleties and nuances he's capable of. He was delighted by the idea, and suggested only doing duets. We dubbed the series BROWNMAN1, and since then once a month this National Jazz Award winner has appeared at Musideum accompanied by a mystery musician. It could be a piano player. It could be a bass player. It might even be a turntablist! But what the BROWNMAN1 series offers each month, is a unique look at this artist in unique couplings.


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After destroying the last remnants of the Persian army at Gaugamela, Alexander spent the next two years occupying the heartlands of central Asia. Continuing eastward Alexander's army eventually leftPersia behind and crossed into India.
Unlike Persia, the advance through India was extremely rough going, all along Alexander's line of march the inhabitants of every city and town violently resisted his troops. So much so that when a city was finally captured Alexander felt he had no choice but to set an example by having entire populace including the woman and children put to the sword.
As Alexander's army continued onward, the monsoon season suddenly broke upon them. Alexander's men now found themselves subjected to torrential rain storms that would last not days but continue for weeks on end and rivers that overran their banks turning the ground into open lakes.
Advancing through continuous rains, swarms of insects and extreme heat, the harsh conditions soon began to take their toll on Alexander's men, even to the point were he now began to openly hear their complaints. Alexander knew he desperately needed a major victory to restore his army's low morale.
It was at the river Hydaspes that Alexander would come across the first serious opposition to his invasion. Awaiting the Macedonian's on the opposite bank of the river stood a large Indian army more than twice their size commanded by King Porus, the most powerful man in all India.
Due to the heavy rainfall the Hydaspes had overrun its banks and could not be forded in that area. In an attempt to make Porus believe that a major attack was forth coming, Alexander ordered his troops activities to continue as if they were preparing to attack across the river.
While this deception continued Alexander's cavalry was scouting the river for a suitable crossing point. Near the town of Jalapur they found the river fordable for both infantry and cavalry, the town also possessed a small foot bridge large enough to support the supply train.
Upon receiving this information Alexander decided to cross the Hydaspes that night. While the main army marched toward Jalapur, Alexander ordered his rear guard to light fires and make the camp still appear to be occupied. Alexander also had an officer wear his kings cloak to give the impression that he was also present.
Across the river these enemy movements persuaded Porus to believe the Macedonians to still be encamped. In reality Alexander was already across the Hydaspes and advancing on his position. In an attempt to confuse Porus even further Alexander ordered a detachment of cavalry to charge ahead and pillage all the towns in the vicinity.
Fleeing villagers soon began to inform Porus that these were but small Macedonian units operating against his right flank. Armed with this information Porus ordered his son Raja to take command of a force consisting of 3,000 cavalry and 100 chariots to march out and investigate.
While advancing along the Hydaspes, Raja began to witness enemy troops appearing in the distance. Observing only small units before him, Raja believed these to be the Macedonian raiders operating against their flank, he thus ordered his entire force to prepare for an assault.
Placing his chariots to the front with himself and the cavalry to the rear, Raja gave the order to attack. Raja's force slammed hard into the Macedonians and easily penetrated their lines. As the Indian troops pushed deeper into the enemy formation their progress began to slow and then was completely halted. The Indian's soon found themselves almost completely surrounded and being attacked from all sides.
Raja now realized he had charged directly into the heart of Alexander's entire army and ordered an immediate breakout attempt. In the heavy fighting that ensued Raja lost his life along with almost his entire command. Only 200 cavalry broke out to safety eventually making it back to Porus to inform him of the defeat.
Upon hearing of Raja's death Porus pulled his army back from the Hydaspes a further ten miles to a level plain where his war elephants and cavalry would have more room to maneuver. Alexander now arrived were Porus once stood, he then ordered his rear guard on the other bank to ford the river and rejoin the main army. With his entire force now across the Hydaspes, Alexander marched inland to face Porus.
When Alexander arrived at the battle field, Porus's army was already formed up and in battle formation. Porus had drawn up his infantry on a wide front with both wings supported by chariots and cavalry. Porus then took up his position to the front of the main infantry line just left of center with the war elephants on his right.
Alexander placed his cavalry on his right wing and drew up his infantry phalanxes to the left of the cavalry. Alexander did not match the broad front offered by Porus, instead choosing to concentrate his army in a more densely packed formation directly across from Porus himself.
Unknown to the Indian King, just out of view of the battlefield Alexander had concealed 1,000 cavalry against his right flank. Their orders were to attack only when the Indian right wing had totally committed itself against Alexander's exposed left flank.
With both armies fully deployed the two commanders now sized up one another. Alexander's army numbering 16,000 men (13,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry) would face an Indian army of 35,000 men (31,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry) in addition Porus could also call upon 200 chariots and an equal number of war elephants.
Alexander opened the battle by ordering his mounted archers forward towards the Indian left flank, Porus responded by launching his left wing chariots supported by the cavalry. The chariots were no match for the Macedonian horsemen and were quickly swept aside. The Indian cavalry in support collided with the Macedonian charge and a ferocious battle ensued between the two forces.
Porus then ordered his war elephants to advance upon Alexander's extreme left flank. The elephant charge easily smashed through the Macedonian infantry driving deep into their lines. Alexander's troops had never dealt with elephants on this great a scale and they struggled to bring down the twenty ton behemoths before the great beast's could trample them down.
The Macedonians continued fighting the elephants out of sheer terror, each man knew if he turned and ran, he would simply be crushed under foot or impaled on the animal's twelve foot tusk's.
After a desperate struggle between man and beast the Macedonian weaponry began to take its toll on the elephant's. The surviving animals had suffered deep multiple wounds and began refusing their drivers orders to advance choosing instead to slowly back away from the fighting.
Although the Macedonian left wing had bent back upon itself it still had not broken. Porus's elephant charge had severely mauled Alexander's infantry formation's leaving his left flank in complete disarray.
Porus now saw an opportunity to roll up Alexander's entire army, he quickly ordered his right wing chariots and cavalry to attack what remained of the Greek left flank as they were attempting to reorganize. As the Indian charge went forward it was now Alexander who saw the chance he had been waiting for and immediately gave the signal for his hidden cavalry beyond the hills to attack.
The Macedonian chargers burst out onto the open plain directly behind the advancing Indian forces and caught up with them halfway into their charge. Attacking their foe in the rear they mercilessly cut the Indian cavalry down from their mounts.
Alexander now lead out his elite companion cavalry to assist his right wing mounted archers still locked in a stalemate against the Indian left wing cavalry. Alexander's appearance with fresh units began to turn the tide and push the Indian's back.
Without the aid of the left flank which was still to shaken and disorganized, Parmenio ordered what was left of the Macedonian infantry phalanxes forward in a general advance. Porus's situation was now critical, not only was he facing a major attack to his front, his left wing was also falling back while on the right his forces were being cut to pieces.
With the battle seemingly going against him, Porus could have easily ordered a general withdrawal saving his army to fight another day. Instead Porus chose to play his last card by personally leading out the last of his infantry formations in one final attempt at victory.
As the two forces collided in the center of the battle field, the Macedonian phalanxes easily ran down the Indian foot soldiers before them, impaling hundreds of the enemy on their sixteen foot pikes with each advancing step. It was in this carnage that Porus would himself fall wounded.
Despite horrific losses the Indian's continued to fight on in an heroic effort to protect their fallen king. But the sheer bravery of each individual soldier could not halt the Macedonian's from advancing on all fronts.
In the center the already hard pressed Indian forces soon found themselves the only troops left on the battlefield as their left wing began to crumble and melt away at about the same time their countrymen on the right flank were swept aside and utterly destroyed as a fighting force.
Severely weak from loss of blood Porus now chose to fight alongside his troops to the bitter end, but his officers knew that any further resistance would be futile and forcibly abducted the king and rode from the battlefield.
Alexander was astounded with the events unfolding before him, unlike his battles against the Persian's where as Darius fled the battlefield his army completely disintegrated, in Porus's escape his remaining troops fought even harder and with more determination to make good their kings escape.
Because of their stubborn refusal to surrender nor retreat and the fanatical devotion to King and country in which they bravely displayed, the Indian army at Hydaspes suffered immensely with some 20,000 dead and 5,000 taken prisoner in comparison to Macedonian losses of 3,000 men.
After the battle Alexander sent word to Porus that he wished a meeting between the two leaders to end hostilities. When Pours arrived at Alexander's camp he was extremely surprised in that he was treated not as a defeated enemy, but with the respect and honor given to royalty.
Alexander set about forming a solid alliance with the man whom he respected as a great king and general. Alexander's terms were thus very generous to the defeated monarch. In the treaty Porus lost no wealth, rank, or any part of his kingdom and was allowed to keep a standing army to defend himself against his enemies. In return each man would come to the aid of the other if the situation warranted.
After Hydaspes, Alexander's men began to grow weary of the continuous battles. Survivors of the Greek - Macedonian army which had crossed the Hellspont seven years earlier 40,000 strong, had now dwindled to a mere 13,000 men.
The continuous monsoons and fanatical resistance put up by the Indian populace throughout the country had shaken the nerves of Alexander's army to its very core. Nothing Alexander could say or do would spur his men to continue onward, the army was close to mutiny and the men demanded to return home.
Without the support of his men Alexander was forced to concede the issue. During the long and arduous march back towards Greece the army stopped at the city of Babylon for rest and refitting, where soon after Alexander contracted a mysterious illness and died shortly after. Alexander's vast empire did not survive his death as civil war between his generals quickly tore it apart.
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Roache tribute to 'beautiful' Anne
Coronation Street veteran William Roache has paid tribute to his "beautiful" on-screen wife Anne Kirkbride ahead of her memorial service tomorrow.
The actor, who has played Ken Barlow in the soap since it began, will be among the cast and crew remembering the actress who portrayed his wife Deirdre at a ceremony at Manchester Cathedral.
He told ITV's Good Morning Britain: " It's very, very strange because we're actually filming the funeral of Deirdre and I had a scene as Ken where I'm given Deirdre's glasses, but of course Annie wore them for 30 years so you certainly don't need any motivation for the acting. We're always on the verge (of tears)."
Roache, who said he felt his co-star's "presence" on the soap set after she died, will give a reading at the service.
He said: " I'm just reading a poem. There's plenty of people who are talking about her, I'm just reading a little poem at the beginning which I think is appropriate to her and I hope she'll like it. I think she will."
Kirkbride, who played the part of Deirdre Barlow for more than 40 years, died in January. She had been away from the soap since September after taking a break from Weatherfield following her diagnosis with cancer.
Roache added: "I saw her the day she died. She died in the evening on the Monday and I went that afternoon and I was warned she'd lost a lot of weight... When I saw her, she'd lost some weight but it had all gone back on to her beautiful bone structure and she looked beautiful, really beautiful and she was a very, very beautiful woman but she had no vanity.
"She wanted to be robust, crude, rude, whatever you wanted, there were no laws or limitations for Annie. She lived life to the full but she was an extraordinary beautiful person inside and out."
Kirkbride was one of the soap's best-known performers and was loved by millions for her portrayal of husky-voiced Deirdre, famed for many years for her oversized spectacles.
She appeared in many colourful storylines over the years, including one of her most memorable soap moments when Deirdre was jailed after being duped into a mortgage fraud by fiance Jon Lindsay.
The storyline even led then-prime minister Tony Blair to give his support to the Free The Weatherfield One movement to get her released.
The actress previously took a break from the soap after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1993.
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A literary carol concert has raised £1500 for Braemar's St Margaret's Arts Project.
Around 200 people crowded into Crathie Church to enjoy the event organised by Yeadon's Bookshop in Banchory.
Manager Vicky Dawson said: "The idea was inspired by Kate Adie when she did a book signing here and we decided to have a local version of these London events."
Well known North-east journalists Jack Webster and Norman Harper were joined by local celebrities Buff Hardie, Robbie Shepherd and Robert Lovie telling stories of Christmas selected or written by themselves.
Yeadon's poet in residence, Liverpool born Eddie Gibbons, had the audience laughing as he recited some of his own poems including The Christmas Shopping Forecast.
Ellie Maclaren from Braemar and the Aboyne Academy Choir provided the music and Captain Tim Towler of the Black Watch concluded the programme with an army prayer. The audience also learned about the history of St Margaret's Church, its architect Sir John Ninian Comper and the plans that the project team in Braemar have for the development of the building and its transformation into a hub for arts and culture related activities in upper Deeside. After the concert mulled wine and mincemeat pies were provided and there was a book signing at Balmoral Castle.


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Nearly a year ago I got a Fujifilm Instax Mini 7s (background: I love cameras). I found it fairly difficult to find a review or any advice on these cameras so I thought I would do my own.
The Fujifilm Instax cameras are fairly inexpensive ranging from £60 to £100 depending on the type you want. They are available at a multitude of places now a days and the prices don't vary too much.
They are beautiful to look at and come in a variety of colours, pre-warning though the white (although beautiful) like other pale colours can get dirty fast and its not the easiest material to clean…. you've been warned!
The film like all instant cameras is the expensive part, especially if you are click happy, however I have get mine off amazon. There is always a wide variety to choose from and always deals to look out for.
Batteries: You need 4 AA batteries. There is plastic tabs that will help you get them out once they are in.
I have had my camera since May 2016 and have yet to change the batteries. Whoop!
Loading the film: This is fairly simple just load by matching the the yellow part of the film to the yellow part inside the back of the camera. You will need to take a dummy photo, this opens your film and the plastic insert comes out the top where your photos will.
Turn on: pull the camera lens, wait for the dial at the top to light up green, this means you are ready to start taking photos.
Flash: This camera flashes on all the modes, there is no way of turning this off. That said the flash will adjust depending on what mode you are in.
Modes: There are 4 modes to this camera; Indoor or Dark, Cloudy or Shady, Fine and Clear. Fine and Clear is something that confused me at first but the 'Fine' mode is when its moderately sunny with a bit of cloud and 'Clear' is when the sun is beaming (not a cloud in the sky sort of day).
You will waste film getting used to these settings so I suggest getting a spare set of film just to have a play with.
You've taken a photo: Once you have taken your photo do not shake it like they do in the movies, remove it from direct sunlight, keep away from extreme temperatures (if it's hot put it in your bag or in a shaded area and if it's cold put it in your pocket) and finally the most exciting part… wait, it may take 5 minutes or so to fully develop.
What to do with it: You've used your film and you have just loaded the new pack but you have 10 pictures loose in a bag or pocket. Do not throw away the empty pack you can re-use this (I am big on recycling).
At the top of the old pack there is a thin plastic coating, you remove it. Once you have removed it you can reinsert your pictures in the way they came out.
I would not suggest putting more than 10 in as this is all it holds in the first place.
Accessories: Get a cover! I am a very clumsy person! Amazon offers a variety of beautiful Instax camera cases all at a reasonable price.
I got this case because I liked that you can clip off the front of the case which means you can take photos whilst the camera is still in its case.
Accessories: I got these fun colour lenses from amazon, they clip on the front of your camera and turn your photos that colour. They are a lot of fun to play with. I love the orange lens cover, it gave the photos a vintage sort of look and feel.
I have been asked on multiple occasions, 'it's a very nice camera. but what are you going to do with your photos?'
My answer, whatever I want to!
Here's some ideas though if you are stuck; Frame them, hang them, scrapbook, put them in a photo album, gift them etc. Have a look on my pinterest board for more 'instax' inspiration.
My advice from personal experience with the Instax 7s is just have fun with the camera and create amazing memories along the way. I know I am!
My Pros:
– Price
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– Accessories available
– Battery Life
My Cons:
– The white is easily dirtied
– Not easy to clean
– The terms Fine and Clear
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Taylor Wimpey today claimed that it was luring housebuyers back into the market by slashing prices and offering a range of incentives including carpets, subsidised fees and help with deposits.
But the housebuilder, which has endured a troubled year since the merger of Taylor Woodrow and George Wimpey, hit its shareholders with a massive £1.5bn loss and scrapped its interim dividend this morning.
Almost half of the loss was due to the company sharply cutting the value of its land assets in the UK, US and Spain. On an underlying basis, profits for the first half of 2008 were almost wiped out – down from £119.8m to just £4.3m.
With a crucial deal with its bankers still not agreed, the company's shares tumbled by 14% today, wiping out yesterday's gains.
However, chief executive Pete Redfern attempted to strike an upbeat tone, saying the company was now selling 200 homes a week – much more than in the dark days of April, May and June – after taking a more realistic approach to pricing in order to shift stock.
"We're offering carpets, and helping with legal fees and stamp duty. We're also using shared equity schemes, although not in a massive way, and helping first time buyers by matching their deposits," said Redfern.
He admitted that the strategy, which also includes "extensive" use of the government's first time buyer scheme and a two-year rental guarantee scheme for buy-to-let landlords, would damage Taylor Wimpey's profit margins. The have already tumbled from 14% to 5.5% in the first half of this year.
Redfern also dampened any hopes that the wider housing market might be recovering, and added his voice to calls for the government to make a decision quickly on whether it will suspend stamp duty, as has been hinted.
"If you announce something and then let it drift for several weeks, you can actually create a gap in the market. We are looking for some progress on this," he said.
Shares in the company were down by 7.5p at 44.5p in morning trading, as the markets reacted to the huge loss, the lack of a dividend, and the fact that Taylor Wimpey is still negotiating with its banks to loosen its covenants, which it expects to breach soon.
But Redfern denied that the protracted negotiations had hit problems.
Taylor Wimpey was formed last year in the £5bn merger of Taylor Woodrow and George Wimpey. It is now worth just £470m, and has been forced to cut 900 jobs as it tries to cope with the sharp decline in the housing market this year.
On top of the land bank writedowns, the company also completely wrote off the value of its intangible assets – items on the balance sheet that do not physically exist - including its George Wimpey brand and goodwill. These were previously said to be worth £816m.
The company said it was still expected to generate cost savings of £70m a year from the merger, but also warned that it may have to cut the value of its land assets again if the housing market continues to deteriorate.