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Now THIS is truly offensive!!! Obhrai needs to apologize and retract this male bovine excrement IMMEDIATELY!
Let us first examine the case Obhrai makes for his claim. He stated that he told the Ethics Commissioner that if he were to pursue an investigation because it was a sensitive family matter that could lead to "deadly consequences". First off, this is a stupid argument to make to stop an investigation period. I wonder if the next time anyone has any legal investigation it will be seen as acceptable to request the end of an investigation because it is a sensitive family matter that could lead to deadly consequences, somehow I do not think this will fly with the investigating authorities whomever they may be. So to expect this to stop an investigation is idiotic right on the face of it. To expect it to be sufficient to even prevent the interview of a witness is just as moronic, particularly when that witness appears to be a central figure in the matter under investigation in the first place.
Now, let us examine the next part of this "complaint". This brother in law of Obhrai's is already someone suffering from some sort of mental instability/disorder/issue, what exactly I have yet to see precisely defined. We do know his family considered him unstable. We know that this man was interviewed in August of last year regarding this investigation. We know that on Feb 26 of this year this man killed himself, and did so without leaving any note/explanation as to why. Is this a tragedy? Yes, especially for that family. Is there any basis whatsoever to conclude that the Ethics Commissioner and his investigation had any role in this suicide? Not in the slightest, at least not as made public as of this writing. When Obhrai made this comment " When someone is warning him that there are deadly consequences and you chose to ignore it, and it happens, then what? He doesn't commit suicide just because." it is rather difficult to take this as anything other than Obhrai laying at least partial responsibility for the suicide directly upon Shapiro. Yet there appears to have been a full six months from the interview by Shapiro to the suicide, absolutely no note left to explain why, and yet Obhrai feels he has a basis for laying the responsibility even in part off on the Ethics Commissioner for doing his job?!? Now that is sick.
It is also clearly his using the death of his brother in law for partisan political purposes when he ties something from six months prior to the suicide to that event when there is zero corroborating evidence to do so. I have known several people that have tried to kill themselves and more than a few that succeeded in my lifetime. In almost every case the straw that broke the camel's back was something within the last few days to weeks at most, it was not something that happened much longer than that. There was in one case a much longer problem related to his sexual orientation which built up over time before he killed himself, but even there there was a recent event which finally caused his snapping. The idea that an event six months ago can be stated as having anything to do with this suicide when there is no other evidence provided, when the person in question was known to have mental instability to begin with, when there was no suicide note explaining why this person killed themselves is not one that holds credence. It is interesting though that while the suicide was two weeks ago it wasn't until the flap surrounding Harper and the Ethics Commissioner that this suddenly is made known. I make that comment because if there had been clear evidence that the investigation by the Ethics Commissioner had played a role in this suicide then one would have expected to hear about it immediately after the suicide.
No, this looks far more likely to be an attempt by the CPC to protect Harper from being investigated by furthering the campaign the CPC has waged against Shapiro since he first announced this investigation. At every turn we see the CPC and Harper's office doing their best to attack the credibility and authority of the Office of the Ethics Commissioner rather than comply with an investigation. Now we have an MP linking the suicide of his brother in law to this Office and Officeholder despite there being ZERO evidence provided to the public for this claim yet the CPC wants to claim it is everyone else that is playing partisan politics with this issue but them?!? Got to love the chutzpah involved, but not the lack of accountability, transparency, integrity and honesty. This was an absolutely disgusting allegation to make, and not one that should have been made UNLESS there was something substantial to support it. So far that appears to be missing.
Now we come to this lovely comment by MP Obhrai as a follow-up on his smearing the suicide of his brother in law onto the Ethics Commissioner without any evidence to support it, a comment offensive and hateful to most civilized human beings in this country to be receiving and especially sickening when applied to someone that is Jewish. "An Ethics Commissioner was appointed by us to look at our ethics. We did not appoint a Gestapo chief." I realize that exaggeration is inherent in political rhetoric but this was clearly overstepping the lines for any elected official to be making, let alone making on the clear absence of any evidence supporting Obhrai's contention that the Ethics Commissioner played any role whatsoever in the suicide of his brother in law.
Clearly the only ethical thing for Obhrai to do is apologize for the Gestapo comment and unless he has evidence he has not as yet provided to make this connection appear valid that he also needs to retract and apologize for making any suggestion whatsoever that the Ethics Commissioner played any role whatsoever in the suicide of his brother in law. Given what he has provided to date the only conclusion that I can come to is that MP Obhrai is using the suicide of his brother in law to further attack the Ethics Commissioner in an attempt to prevent any investigation into the Harper/Emerson issue, and that he is doing so by smearing the credibility of the Officeholder with this sordid and contemptible unfounded and unsupported contention of his.
This is a level of attack and smear politics I have not seen in this country until the Harper/CA/CPC started importing these tactics from their American counterparts, movement conservatives. It is this kind of politics that I have been worried about from the CA/CPC and especially Stephen Harper. I find it difficult to believe given the tight media management Harper has been running since he was elected PM that Obhrai made these public statements without either permission beforehand or at a minimum a willingness to allow it to continue once Obhrai made these public comments. At this point it is as much Harper's responsibility to have this MP retract and apologize for these comments UNLESS Obhrai has actual evidence to support this contention he has made. What has been provided to date certainly is insufficient to make this allegation, so either prove you have evidence or retract, no other behaviour is acceptable in this smear job and exploitation of a personal tragedy for partisan political purposes by an MP of the PM's party in the defence of that PM from investigation by the Ethics Commissioner. If there is no evidence provided then not only is retraction required but a full apology by Obhrai for this despicable act of using personal tragedy for partisan political purposes, in this case the prevention of an investigation by an Officer of Parliament with the legal power and responsibility to conduct said investigation.
If it wasn't already clear enough from this post I find this specific act well beyond what is considered acceptable politics, regardless of party or parties involved. This was a nasty smear job without evidence supporting it, and the Gestapo Chief comment on top of it was just insane. Then again, thinking it is a good idea to exploit such a tragedy in such a manner given the dearth of evidence supporting the allegation being made to protect the PM from investigation is also insane. It is certainly not something one would have wanted to see from anyone elected to public office. I also think this MP deserves to lose his position as MacKay's Parliamentary Secretary for this despicable act, but I will be shocked if that actually happens given the absolute lack of personal accountability in the CPC. After all, whenever something goes wrong for them it is always someone else's fault or responsibility, never their own. It is always the work of a partisan media, partisan political opponents, incompetent staff (see Communications firings by Harper as one example), never the CPC leader or his party always someone else is the "real" culprit not the poor victimized and persecuted CPC and Harper. For the sarcastically challenged, the preceding sentence was loaded with sarcasm.
Well that is all I have to say on this for now, I sincerely hope this insanity is retracted and apologies extended, because unless some real evidence to support this outrageous allegation is provided then such is the only responsible, ethical and moral choice open. Which seeing as the CPC has ranted for years about the need for such ethical and moral leadership leaves them looking yet again like hypocrites that have a double standard, one for them and another for everyone else. It seems the CPC borrowed another GOP tactic along with the smear and destroy approach, IOKIYAR, also known as It's OK If You Are Republican, or for Harper it is IOKIFAC where all are the same except the "C" is for Conservative. Just what Canada didn't need.


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*If you were directed here when you research for Stockholm Hostel, I would highly recommend this hostel, you won't regret your decision. Its everything you would want for a night during your stay, even though I was woke up by the fire alarm yesterday, I still think this is a great place. You might want to consider staying here if you are visiting Stockholm. Ok, I hope I give them credit enough.*
Oh, did I mention that Swedish guys look like they just got out of the Abercrombie & Fitch advertisement, plus the clothes and minus the spray tan. Ok, minus the muscles too. Guys here are generally taller and to the slim side. And almost 90% of the people here have blue eyes and light hair. Oh, how I envy.
Almost all the attractions I've been to are manned by very cute Swedish guys with blue eyes. So, now I changed my mind, I prefer Swedish guy better. Hahaha, perhaps if I go to Spain next, I will change my mind again. But for now, Swedish guys.
Also I find the Swedes are quite friendly. Its easy to start up a conversation with them. I went to a candy shop and the sales assistant are so fascinated by me i think not me in particular but the situation I am in, you know coming from Malaysia but speak "perfect" English, she thought I am American - darn you, American tv series. She was surprised that to get into Sweden, I don't need Schengen Visa that was needed by quite a number of nations and started asking me where I've been to.
Then there was this cute receptionist, just by asking him where I could print my boarding pass, we managed to start up a conversation which always lead to me asking whether he had been to Malaysia. The answer is almost always "No, but I've been to Thailand". =.= We need to have cheap beers and you know, if not all Europeans just go to Thailand. He told me he been to Singapore (due to me bringing up the neighbour country "feud" e.g. Danish - Swedish (He agrees that Swedish are more friendly than Danish when I told him so), British - French (don't quote me on this, but this is what I observed) and of course, Malaysia - Singapore) and Bali. He told me that he would like to go back to that part of the world again, I asked about Thailand especially Bangkok because I knew almost 99% young Europeans, especially guys, they like to go to Thailand. He replied "of course, I've been there 4 times" with a smile. (The smile, Oh my god!! Sorry B, he has the smile where when he smile, there are excess skin at the side of the mouth, just like the former boyfriend). Here's an example of what I meant, in case you thought its bulldog like excess skin.
Something like this but slightly "more skin". Just pretend you get what I meant even though you didn't, I can't possibly and I don't want to post a picture of the former boyfriend to just prove a point. Point being the cute receptionist, despite his glass and shaved head, he managed to look good. You know, some people just won the genetic lottery.
Ok, all these are to prove how easy it is to strike up a conversation with them. Swedes are really friendly people and I think if I am Thai, I would fascinate them even more. Haha.
Then I shamelessly promote Penang to him when he asked where he should go if he happen to visit Malaysia. Haha. Don't say I don't love home. I am actually proud of Penang because of our English past. Hahaha. Ok, its because of our English past, so I don't really love home THAT much. But I still did promote. I am proud that Penang used to be one of the port that European companies stopped by, like Carlsberg for instance, during the 1800s. Of course, Bangkok too. =p
I went to Drottningholm Palace today. IT WAS PERFECT. period. Here's a little sneak peak before I had the time to write up a proper post. Breathtaking isn't it? I am really lucky that today is so sunny with clear blue sky, it makes it even more picturesque.
There's a dark shadow at the upper right corner which bugs me a lot, its because of the phone cover. =.=. I need to learn photoshop to get rid of it.
Ok, to sum up, my thoughts on Sweden - models, male models everywhere. Apart from the cold weather, its so cold that the sales assistant from the candy shop actually envy our weather and told me that since its so cold out, people doesn't want to stay out, if only she knows that we avoided outdoor like a plague too, I only complain about ONE thing, its slightly more unsafe than Copenhagen, but to be name as the Capital of Scandinavia, it has to have a mixture of different races and people from different parts of the world, that can't be help. So, thats about it, apart from that, I really enjoyed this place, this trip, albeit alone and panicking sometimes, I learnt a lot. Everyone should do that if they had to chance to. Things that you learnt and the feeling, I would do this again in a heartbeat. So, right now, I am planning perhaps Norway and Germany? Finland maybe?
Any suggestion for another adventure? For a girl like me?

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My cow adventures are finally (and sadly) coming to a close... Enjoy, my friends.
Day 13 (Saturday)
After the morning milking and getting the cows out to feed on fresh grass and hay, all the other animals were ready gnaw on something too. If I walk anywhere near the hen house, I've got 3 dozen chickens following me in a matter of seconds. Either they are on a feeding schedule, and thus follow around anyone that nears them every morning around , or they've imprinted on me already. After I feed these cackling chooks, Stu picks me up on the tractor to spread hay. Peter (milking hand) had to take off early after milking, so it is just me on the trailor balancing between 6 bales of hay stacked higher than I am tall. How am I going to cut the cord on these things without throwing myself off the tractor while trying to balance as we hit all the potholes and have cows mooing after me with hunger?
After a ton of farm chores compressed into 5 hours, at we take off and drive south to Paringa for a Hereford & Angus bull auction. I've been thinking about this bull auction for the past week, hoping we'd go, having no idea what to expect. The event was even more than I imagined! I watched HUGE
and Angus bulls get auctioned off for $3,000 - $6,500 dollars each, which is apparently lower than last year's take. The grandstands were filled with out 200 farmers, half of them in overalls and gumboots (muckboots), and the other half in jeans and boots. I took oodles of pictures of all 36 different bulls, and eavesdropped on everyone's conversations. Apparently good traits for Hereford 's are panda eyes, clarity, white shoulders and throat, body length, good feet… Hereford
Learning about the merits of each bull is a science unto itself, and this beginner's eavesdropping course I just took was decent. These bulls were truly incredible beasts, almost like teenage boys, full of energy, budding strength, and constantly butting heads. I got in the pens with them… when in the safe company of those more experienced than I. The bulls are fearless, feared, and utterly fearful.
Learning about the merits of each bull is a science unto itself, and this beginner's eavesdropping course I just took was decent. These bulls were truly incredible beasts, almost like teenage boys, full of energy, budding strength, and constantly butting heads. I got in the pens with them… when in the safe company of those more experienced than I. The bulls are fearless, feared, and utterly fearful.
After the auction there was a great barbecue and party of sandwiches, whitebait patties, juicy tender steaks, cakes, and beer, how awesome! There were a few remarks questioning whether the steaks were of
or Angus breed, but noone there could tell a lick of difference. There wasn't a soul that remotely considered leaving after their big purchase, as this annual event always goes late into the night with partying after the business is completed! After raising a raucous for 5 hours or so, we decided to drive south 1 hour to stay the night with Stu's friends, John and his daughter Katherine, who bought a new Angus bull at the sale. I drive, as Stu had been throwing back the rum for a few hours. After driving for 45 minutes, we finally passed our first car. A total of two cars and two brushtail opossums were passed while en route (NZ spells it 'possom', btw). Unfortunately I hit the first possum, but the other was safe from my driving. I tried to hold back the tears, but that was utterly pointless. Hereford
Day 14 (Sunday)
The entire house slept in this morning, the first time in 2 weeks waking up after – it was simply marvelous. Got a 3 hour tour of 5,000 acres of John & Katherine's developed and undeveloped farmland, where they are running beef cattle. Ate spectacular blue cod (only found in NZ, visit NZ!) for lunch, drove 3 hours back to the Waitaha Valley, including passing through the glaciers at sunset. Stu & I tried to capture the sunset over Franz Josef Glacier by running around dodging cars on a 1-lane bridge, but alas the photo did no justice to the beauty (click here for a better one!).
, yellows, pinks, and blues reflecting off of 10 kilometers of ice truly is spectacular. Oranges
|Angus bulls
|Stared down by Hereford bulls
Once we got back to the farm, we spread 3 bales of hay in the dark. Imagine Stu driving a big tractor (who am I kidding, a HUGE tractor!) with a 5 foot high trailer attached. As Stu drives, seemingly hitting every hole in the cobbled path, I brace myself between hay bales in an attempt to not get thrown off, while also trying to avoid sitting on the hay so it doesn't go through my overalls and poke me in the rear. While bouncing to and fro in the night, my attention inevitably gets distracted by the starry night. Can I see the entire Milky Way? Wow.
The cows are getting less and less grass each day this week, supplemented by hay, which is only filling but not nutritionally dense. It is essential to cut back their grass quotidian to reduce milk production during the non-milking winter season. With less energy received and their teats not stimulated, their milk production will taper off and their calories will be used for their own growth and development – and used for the growing calf within their uterus. Same concept for humans. The cows will not be milked again until August/September after they have all given birth.
On a side note… any beef purchased in a
grocery store is 100% grain-fed (i.e. nearly all corn). Ruminants (cows, deer, goats, sheep…) have evolved to consume grass, not corn, and corn consumption wreaks havoc on their digestive system, nearly always requiring antibiotic treatment. Unhealthy for you, and for the animal. Do yourself a favor and buy grass-fed beef and other pastured meat from your local farmer's market, read about it (author Michael Pollan's, The Omnivore's Dilemma, is great), find a farmer, be a healthy world citizen. Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now; I could go for hours on this topic. US
Day 15 (Monday)
Today has been an emotionally sick day. I haven't stopped crying. My eyes burn. My nose hurts. We've lost three cows from waking until sunset. One last night was discovered in the paddock while spreading hay. A calf was also found aborted this afternoon near a tree. There are three dead cows and seven additional sick cows that are segregated from the herd, and I know there are others out there that are sick too, but the symptoms are not yet pronounced. It feels like the apocalypse.
When we got in last night, it was too dark to notice that 5 cows had been brought into a small grassy area between the house and the milking shed by Peter, the milking helper. No note, no messages. All five were lying down (1 dead already), none looking well. For Stu & I, it all started this morning. We awoke to move the cows onto a grassier paddock and another dead cow was discovered, which brought the count to two after last night's discovery. Stu & I were asleep while she fought in agonizing pain, crawling her painful body through the grass. We separated an additional 8 cows from the herd and brought them nearer the house.
MoonMist would be the next cow whose soul would part. She never stood up the entire morning or afternoon, and her starting point in the day of semi-alert eyes and head held high diminished with the sun. By her chin was nearly touching the ground, and without getting close to her, I knew she would not make it. Actually, I thought she had already passed. The other dead cow was only 25 feet away from her, her body heavy and teats bloated. MoonMist, surely, was dead as well. I approached her, and noticed her ear flick. She was still alive! Just barely. As I got closer all I could hear was this poor beautiful beast moaning in horrible pain. The audibility of her anguish made your chin tremble. I rubbed her neck and talked to her. There were many sick cows to tend to, including finding others in the herd that were losing their health. Before I knew it, I was back at her side, sitting down next to her, scratching under her jaw, behind her ears, and on her forehead.
A large herd is not as conducive to intimate personal contact, whereas smaller herds get lots of human attention and become more like pets. Stu's herd definitely qualifies as large, and many of his cows are moderately apprehensive of humans; one can rarely get within 6-10 feet before movement begins. There are others that sniff you out, and use you as a scratching post within minutes though (some of my favorite girls). MoonMist, however, moaned so heavily and loudly, that I ignored this often unsettling big-herd cow mentality, and assumed her the latter rub-against-you type. Sitting down next to her, I held her massive head, talked and cried with her. To me, my scratching alleviated her moaning a minute amount. Not much, but enough to make a difference, and that's all that mattered. MoonMist passed away during the afternoon while I was inside making lunch. I covered her eyes with grass leaves, and wept terribly by her side.
To cap the night off, Stu & I plucked four freshly-axed chickens tonight! This was a definite first! (Not so bad though, not like the deer…) I learned firsthand about the expression, "running around like a chicken with its head cut off." Indeed that line is not a compliment to a sane person! Plucking a chicken was not the worst thing I've ever done, and I'd be willing to do it again.
Day 16 (Tuesday)
Originally I had planned on leaving this morning to head to Nelson, but my head and my heart wouldn't let me depart. There are no other wwoofers here currently, and I feel like these animals need me for the extra day I have available. We awoke to another dead cow, bringing the count to 4, and one very, very sick girl ("Little Gray"). Little Gray held out through the afternoon, but her moaning by late morning gave away her fate. Of the original 5 sick cows that were first brought in, three had passed by this morning, Little Gray made 4, and only one remained, Harriet.
|RIP beloved Harriet
Harriet is known as the Queen of the Herd: very clever, aggressive eater (gets the seconds of the molasses at the end before coming in to be milked for her first helping), beautiful, won best 3 year old cow at the show this year, and overall a wonderful temperament. If Stu had a pet cow, Harriet would be her. Anyone that knows Stu's herd, knows Harriet.
By mid-morning we had Harriet and the other four "less sick" cows in the milking shed to evacuate their sick udders of mastitis. As you hand-milk their sick teats, you shake your head in sorrow. These poor girls's suffering is so hard to take. Upon the vet's recommendation: Remove all the curdled, milky, opaque and bloody fluids from the sick teats, inject with penicillin in teat, inject more in hip. Jessie & Stu's additional recommendations: Treat with love, patience and hope. Get tissues to blow nose. Little Gray was too weak to stand or walk to the milking shed, so I hand-milked her teats as she laid on the ground, then injected her there. Get more tissues to blow nose.
By the afternoon, I needed some life in me. I headed out to the 43 curious calves. Played with those wonderfully inquisitive young girls for an hour or so, and went back to the house for afternoon lunch. I could spend hours upon hours with their sweet, curious noses.
|Laying down in the paddock amongst the calves
with my knees up, getting nuzzled!
After lunch I grabbed my camera and headed back to calves (predictably!). I promptly laid down in the grass, and braced myself for swarming. Within minutes I had my same flock of lovey girls hovering over me breathing hot grassy breath and prying their big eyes to my face! Every time I spend time with the calves (10 months old), I feel invigorated and full of happiness and life. They have this unabashed curiosity, which in some is diminished by shyness that often wears away after an hour or so. Some of the girls are so outgoing, but unaware of their strength: Their attempts to rub against you can result in getting knocked off balance! Every stumble—100% worth it!
After a few hours I wandered over to the big cow herd too; these cows range in age from 2 – 13 years. From the less shy cows, I was promptly used as a scratching post for their nose, ears, forehead, crown, jaw… The older girls are a little more knowledgeable of their size and strength, and they don't push as much. Kind of like dogs, though, they nudge your hand to encourage scratching! One of the caramel-colored cows, "BM Regan," took a liking to me and started boxing out all of the other cows from my vicinity. She wanted me all to herself, followed me everywhere I walked, and just wanted me to touch and scratch her neck as much as possible. I have never seen a cow hit heads with so many other cows in order to keep me to herself! It feels good to be so wanted!
Day 17 (Wed, June 2)
The day of reckoning has come. I have to leave; I cannot stay longer. I've been dreading this day. It's been 2.5 weeks now on the farm that have been so amazingly memorable and rewarding that it is hard to summarize it all.
Before departure… After two fried farm eggs on toast, Stu & I it were off to get in some morning farm jobs: climb up on the tractor to spread two bales of hay for the big girls, call in the sick girls, assess, and treat. Spreading hay in the same paddock that the cows are still in is always fun --- as you come in the gate (Stu driving, I'm on the trailor, standard), the tractor and trailor get swarmed. Everyone wants what you have: Food! While cutting the hay ties, the noses are up, mouths open to pull hay out of the tight bundles well before I've thrown down any slabs. They follow you even after you've dropped several slabs of hay behind them, I guess thinking there might be ooey gooey molasses in the next slab? It is hilarious and always pure entertainment.
We brought in the sick girls for additional hand-milking of their sick udders, assessment of who might live, or at least who might live through the day, and what more, if anything, could be done.
Naturally Stu & I spent a much longer amount of time with the sick girls than planned, . There was a lot of rushing and running around to get me off the farm and to the bus stop, which of course was 45 minutes behind schedule. Stu waved as the bus drove off, and my eyes overflowed with salty tears. This farm in the
of the Waitaha Valley Southern Alps had truly become my home for almost 3 weeks. I felt at home there, and it was everywhere that I wanted to be. I'll never be able to forget this experience.
When a traveller returneth home let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.
--Francis Bacon, essays, 1597-1625
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Collection: Kermit Culture: Perspectives on Jim Henson's Muppets
I received the following from a friend on 21st June - unfortunately a week or so after the deadline.
The things I could say!
I've emailed them anyway and asked if it's too late to send through a proposal ... I'll keep you posted.
Collection: Kermit Culture: Perspectives on Jim Henson's Muppets
{NAME WITHHELD} and {ANOTHER NAME WITHHELD} seek contributors for a collection of essays considering Jim Henson's Muppets.
All aspects of The Muppet Show and other productions or performances featuring the Muppets may be considered, although the editors particularly seek proposals for articles focusing on the original Muppet Show cast of characters. Papers may consider the various films featuring the Muppets, episodes of the original show, Muppets Tonight, appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, particular characters from these programs, their significance as cultural icons, etc. This collection of essays will attempt to demonstrate the importance of The Muppets' influence and appeal, as well as their importance to popular culture studies as a whole.
Some potential subjects of interest include: consumption as recurring motif on The Muppet Show; commentary on stagecraft; the significance of the British-only sketches excluded from American broadcasts of The Muppet Show; representations of science; gender issues, voyeurism, nationhood and the representation of nationalism; literary adaptation in Muppet films; parody; images of the monstrous and deformity.
Proposals should be 150-200 words in length. Please include contact information with the proposal, including academic affiliation, if any. Please title the subject line of the proposal "Kermit Culture" to ensure speedy response, and include the proposal as the text of the email message as well as in attachment form.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: June 15, 2007
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Prospective contributors may send proposals or complete articles to:
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{ANOTHER NAME WITHHELD}, University of {ANOTHER UNIVERSITY NAME WITHHELD}, {ANOTHER EMAIL ADDRESS WITHHELD}
(Please cc proposals to both editors!)
I really hope I can be a published author ... ESPECIALLY on this topic!
But then my dilemma will be: Do I tell you people that I succeeded in getting published (thereby unwillingly divulging my real name)? Or do I pretend they knocked me back (to maintain my anonymity)?
(What Would Kermit Do?)


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Act and Rule Utilitarianism Moral Decisions Essay (AS)
January 2011 Question A (30 Marks)
The crucial difference between Jeremy Bentham's Act and John Stuart Mill's Rule Utilitarianism is their usage of the hedonic calculus. Bentham's Act Utilitarianism requires the use of the calculus in every single situation whilst Mill abandons it altogether. For example, a true Act Utilitarian would use the hedonic calculus to decide whether he should eat scrambled eggs, waffles or both for breakfast. He would need to input figures for each of the 7 criteria (duration, intensity, certainty, extent, fecundity, purity and propinquity) for each of the three options and then choose the one that has the highest total value of arbitrary calculus points. This means that Act Utilitarianism takes a lot longer and requires more energy on the part of the ethicist to do what's right. The silver lining to this negative point however is that the decision is more likely to be the right one than Rule Utilitarianism, and since even something as mundane as breakfast could lead to an important consequence, the added effort might be worth it (waffles might provide the extra energy that day for an important life changing decision).
Rule Utilitarianism as stated does not use the hedonic calculus but instead focusses around rules that generally lead to the greatest good. Part of Mill's changes to Bentham's work however include the addition of quality to pleasure, as Mill famously put it: "it is better to be an unsatisfied socrates than a satisfied pig'. In the case of the breakfast dilemma, a Rule Utilitarian may decide that although he likes the taste of waffles more, the added culinary satisfaction of making scrambled eggs (a higher pleasure due to the intellectual requirement) overrules the primitive pleasure of taste. Rule Utilitarianism therefore saves a lot of time for the decision maker since he only needs to remember general rules for different situations. A criticism of this is however that the general rules may not facilitate the best answer because the specifics of situations are not taken into account e.g. if a person is allergic to scrambled eggs he would still be obligated to eating them because of the culinary higher pleasure - the displeasure of an allergic reaction is primitive and so would also be overruled like the pleasure from waffles.
Another difference between the two types of Utilitarianism is that Mill said "children and savages" should not be considered when making moral decisions with Rule Utilitarianism. This is because both children and 'savages' cannot make informed and educated decisions and so do not really know what they want. Act Utilitarianism on the other hand does not take into account people's abilities to decide (unless it will affect purity) and treats all people as equals - each person's happiness is as valuable as any other's. This can be seen as a strong point to Act Utilitarianism but at the same time a weak point, because it ignores the fact that some members in society truly do not know what they want and will regret their desires later in life. For example, a severely drunk person may want to burgle a local store so much so that it will bring him more pleasure than the shop owner's displeasure, at least initially. Afterwards however, the now sober burglar could be very ashamed of what he did and the prison sentence he would face would bring him and his family sorrow. Rule Utilitarianism would not have allowed for this because a) a drunk person cannot make an informed decision and b) not committing theft is a general rule. Act Utilitarians could justify it on the grounds of it bringing the most pleasure. The last statement can be criticised however, because a good Utilitarian would have considered the after effects of the robbery in the 'purity' section of the hedonic calculus - although even then the 'purity' might not overrule the high 'intensity' number chosen and the theft would have happened anyway. This highlights the subjectivity of Act Utilitarianism as well as the need for omniscience to use it effectively. Rule Utilitarianism at least does not require so much thought on how a situation will turn out, speculating on something that can never be known for certain.
The two forms of Utilitarianism do both share some of the same criticisms. For example, both are subjective by nature - Act is so because it requires us to put numbers to things that cannot be measured i.e. intensity, fecundity (there is no scale of measurement for happiness) whilst Rule Utilitarianism attempts to apply 'quality' to pleasure (which is impossible to do objectively).
To conclude, Act Utilitarianism uses the hedonic calculus and its criteria to make moral decisions whilst Rule Utilitarianism uses general rules formed over time through an overall accepted view of the 'best' decision in that general case. Both types have different criticisms as well as sharing some with each other: Act Utilitarianism is more accurate but less practical whilst Rule Utilitarianism is the opposite.
(B) 'Utilitarianism is only concerned with the happiness of the community, not the happiness of the individual.' How far do you agree? (15 marks)
If the term 'Utilitarianism' is restricted to just Jeremy Bentham and Mill's forms of Utilitarianism then I would have agreed outright with the statement in question. As the deep subject of philosophy progresses however, so does the definitions of its important terms - one such term is Utilitarianism.
Bentham's Act and Mill's Rule Utilitarianism both work off the principle that the greatest amount of happiness must be maximised from a decision (Rule Utilitarianism makes rules that strive for this), and, although it is hypothetically possible for an individual's intense pleasure to outweigh a community of people who gain minor pleasure from a decision, it is realistically very unlikely. This is due to the nature of the human being, who can only be so happy or sad at any one time, consequently limiting the amount of value given to an individual. Compare this to the unlimited happiness potential of a community (since there is no limit to how many people are considered in a calculation) and it's clear that both forms favour the community over individuals in their decision making process. This is met with much criticism, since it means a small minority can be tyrannised by a majority and allow atrocious acts to be justified (gang rape, gang murder etc. can be justified under Act Utilitarianism but not Rule Utilitarianism which prioritises 'higher' pleasures and would not allow sadistic pleasure to overrule terror).
When you consider Preference Utilitarianism however, you can see that the minority is given as much value as the majority - since if the anyone affected in a decision is against that decision then it is considered moral not to do it. This prevents any tyranny of the individual but puts the community at a big disadvantage (not getting what would benefit them most). This type of Utilitarianism comes under great criticism for not being at all practical - since in most real life decisions there is always at least one person who is against the motion (otherwise it was not really a problem in the first place).
Motive Utilitarianism, which although still consequential requires us to judge the motive of a person when he makes a decision, could also be said to favour the individual as much as the community. This is because it can be considered that if a decision is made with the motive of harming an individual in order to please the community, it is an immoral decision. Equally however, you could argue that because the motive is an overall positive one (since a community is more valuable than an individual) it is actually a sound and moral decision. This highlights the problem of subjectivity in Motive Utilitarianism, which does not strongly outline exactly what is a moral motive or not.
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Madam Speaker, the member for Flamborough—Glanbrook talks a lot about the negative aspects in the bill as he sees it. I see this is as a very positive investment in the future. Minister LaMarsh actually funded for the future, and we have to do the same thing again. We have done a lot of things for seniors in the last year with the reduction of the retirement age back to 65 and the increase in the GIS. However, if the member does not want to improve the CPP for the future, would he rather get rid of the CPP altogether? Which is it? Do you think it is sustainable, or do we improve it for the future? Why does he want to keep it at all?
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John Fleming Is An Idiot
Like I said in a comment here, I have no idea how an M.D. could possibly say something this jaw droppingly stupid:
"We have two competing world views here and there is no way that we can reach across the aisle — one is going to have to win," Fleming said. "We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties and that we remain a Christian nation. So we're going to have to win that battle, we're going to have to solve that argument before we can once again reach across and work together on things."
Hmmm, o.k. Where to start?
To make it easy, let's grant the mindlessly simplistic assertion that all of western Europe and all of Fleming's political opponents are godless atheists. Probably some are, probably some aren't, but it doesn't matter.
Let's also grant the patently absurd assumption that it would be some kind of problem if we had a secular society. I have no reason to think atheists as a group are any better or worse people than Christians as a group. Are there jerks in both camps? Sure. Are there great people in both? Sure. Are the percentages the same? My experience tells me yes. Again, though, let's assume all atheists drown baby ducks for fun. Again, it doesn't matter.
Why does it not matter if our country is about to be overrun by baby-eating atheists? Because, as John Fleming – who in the same paragraph professes to love individual liberties – ought to know, our government is a secular government. Read the Constitution some time; you'll find nothing Christian or even religious in it, other than prohibitions on entanglements between church and state. Yes, no doubt most people in this country are at least nominal Christians, but the government is absolutely prohibited from doing anything at all to encourage or discourage that fact. Whether most people in this country are Christians, Muslims, Jews or atheists is simply not the business of the federal (or any state) government. Period.
Again, a guy who says he wants to champion individual liberty ought to know that. If Dr. Fleming wants to make sure this is a Christian Nation, he can go to seminary and get a job as a preacher. If he really thinks the problems in this country are caused by people who do things other than go to church on Sunday, he can donate his own time and his own money to evangelism. What he can't do, what the Constitution he supposedly honors prohibits him from doing, is use any power of the state to bring people to Christianity.
That's a simple distinction. That it eludes the average mush minded person who would vote for Fleming is unsurprising. That he encourages that kind of ignorance is shameful.
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August 27, 2010 at 4:52 am
Your comment reminds of statistic I heard one time–50% of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their classes. I have had my share of health problems as I continue to get old, and I have been to plenty of physicians with a lack of intelligence, as well as incompetents, mentally ill, and dishonest con-artists.
August 27, 2010 at 3:43 pm
ha! you could you say the same about lawyers. when studying for the bar, i quieted my anxieties by reminding myself of all the people out there who had already passed.


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In President Trump's absence, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who spins the president's lies and misbehavior to the media, took punishing comedic ridicule Saturday night.
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Comedian Michelle Wolf delivered a brutal roasting of the president, his administration, and particularly Sanders at the 2018 White House Correspondents' Association dinner, as the press secretary sat awkwardly near the podium.
For the second consecutive year, Trump, who's at war with the media (except conservative Fox News), did not attend the prestigious annual dinner for White House correspondents. Previous presidents regularly attended the event, where a comedian traditionally throws sharp jabs at the commander-in-chief.
Wolf began her set up by saying she really likes Huckabee, even though she lies to reporters on the president's behalf. Things got more uncomfortable after that.
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It's strange to hear a White person call another White person an Uncle Tom. The term comes from a fictional slave in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. Over the years, the character became synonymous with subservient African Americans who sells out their people to curry favor with Whites.
U.S Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been given that title by lots of Black folks, including Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. Critics point to a list of offenses, such as Thomas' steadfast opposition to affirmative action while on the bench and his failure to aggressively enforce anti-discrimination laws when he was chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Wolf's appropriation of a Black cultural term to attack Sanders appears accurate. The press secretary has not only defended but also doubled down on her defense of Trump against numerous allegation from women that he groped them, as other powerful men tumble in the MeToo Movement.
As Sanders took the punishment, her absentee boss was at a political rally in Michigan, in front of adoring supporters.
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Countdown to Doomsday!
Credits: Dan Jurgens (story and art), Brett Breeding (finishes), John Costanza (letterer), Glenn Whitmore (colorist)
Summary: Ice convinces Maxima to take Blue Beetle to the hospital instead of chasing after Doomsday. Superman and Booster Gold confront Doomsday shortly after he enters the home of a single mother and her two children. The rest of the Justice League arrives to fight, but eventually only Superman remains standing. He flies after the fleeing Doomsday, as the family's home erupts in fire. He hears the oldest child Mitch's cry for help, but continues in his pursuit of Doomsday.
Irrelevant Continuity: Superman quotes Booster Gold and refers to Doomsday by name for the first time this issue. This is also the first time the readers are given a glimpse of Doomsday's face, as his jumpsuit begins to tear away.
I Love the '90s: Mitch sarcastically tells his mother it's "Axl and the band" when she asks who's at the door when he returns home from school. Booster Gold also comments that without his suit's power-supply, "I'm about as powerful as Pee Wee Herman!"
Total N00B: Maxima, a femme warrior that seems exaggerated even by Chris Claremont standards, is apparently from the planet (or dimension?) Almerac.
Review: The true star of this issue is Mitch, the longhaired teenage brat who's introduced to the reader through a series of thought balloons detailing how much he hates his mother, whose greatest sins appear to be asking Mitch how his day was and not making it to the store because she was taking care of his sickly infant sister. Do not stand in the way of Mitch and his Crystal Pepsi. Kid gets mad. After making his timid mother cry, when he reminds her that the divorce was her fault, Mitch is off to Aaron's house, where they're probably going to get high and watch Aaron's VHS copy of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Mitch's great plans are interrupted when Doomsday crashes into his front yard, and even when Superman soon shows up to fight the horrid beast, Mitch can't muster up too much enthusiasm. He remains a sarcastic jerk throughout the issue, until the final few pages when he realizes that his mother and sister are trapped inside a house fire and he can't do anything to help. Oh, now Mitch has feelings.
The cliffhanger ending, which has Superman reluctantly chasing after Doomsday instead of saving an innocent family, is one of the moments of this storyline that stuck with me as a kid. The angst isn't really developed until the next chapter, but this remains a strong way to close out the issue and create some drama for the next installment. The rest of the issue, aside from introducing us to the majesty of Mitch, is more of the predictably one-sided JLA vs. Doomsday fight. The great plot advancement this issue is that the JLA's attack has only served to free Doomsday's right arm from its manacles. Nice going, guys. I suppose the joke that Doomsday's doing all of this "with one arm behind his back" has run its course by now, anyway. I wouldn't say the excessive fight scenes have gotten tedious at this point, but the pattern this storyline is going to follow is already pretty obvious.


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Cancer researcher Chris McCabe has just completed his most novel experiment to date. Or more precisely, he has just completed his most experimental novel to date.
Dr McCabe is a lecturer in Birmingham University's medical sciences department. He specialises in pituitary and thyroid cancers and manages a laboratory of about eight people. He also supervises several PhD students.
Combining this role with being a hands-on father to two young boys would make for a busy life by most people's standards. But in the past seven years, Dr McCabe has also published five novels. He has just finished writing his sixth -and admitted that he was itching to get stuck into his seventh, even before he finished editing its predecessor. The first five were fast-paced comedy thrillers, based around male thirtysomething characters with girlfriend problems. They are usually described as "lad lit" or "dick lit".
Dr McCabe would spend his days writing scientific papers and research grants then, in the evening, he would settle down for a couple of hours of novel writing.
But for his sixth book, Dr McCabe wanted to try something different. His aim was to see if he could apply the principles of his day job - writing up scientific papers and applying for research grants - to the process of writing a novel. "There were a lot of lessons I thought I could take from writing science and apply to writing a novel," he explained. "The mechanics of writing scientifically could lend a lot to literature. It's a very taut, precise, structured, chronological and sparse kind of prose."
Dr McCabe applied for a grant from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts under its Dream Time programme. He was awarded Pounds ,000 - enough to enable him to take a year out from his job at Birmingham to concentrate on his writing experiment.
True to form, he completed the book within the deadline. It is a thriller based around a team of forensic scientists who are murdered one by one. Dr McCabe is pleased with the result and reckons it is very different from his previous work.
"My other books are light comedy thrillers. Often, I'd write two pages just to get what I thought was a decent joke in," he said.
"This year has been a crazy, mad-scientist experiment."
As the experiment progressed, Dr McCabe realised that there were some parts of novel writing that needed to remain sacred. He found that there was no point sacrificing thrills for theory.
"It wasn't going to be a turgid, awful book that reads like a scientific paper," he said. "You can't emulate the lack of character you have in scientific writing. A book is all about character development and human interest."
What he could take from science is precise prose and a chronologically ordered structure. In his new book, there are no flowery sentences, it doesn't go off on tangents and no words are wasted. Working in this way led him to understand the different roles that truth plays in the separate arts of novel writing and scientific writing.
He explained: "When you write a novel you spend most of your time lying to the reader because you're trying to lead them in a direction that isn't the truth -to think character A is the killer rather than character B."
While a scientific paper also tells a story, it gives a factual and chronological description of what happened. Dr McCabe realised that in literature this approach would be suicidal. "You always have to be lying to give yourself that latitude to pull out surprises," he said. "But if, in a scientific paper, you said, 'Actually, it was gene Z all the time!' it wouldn't really work."
His research team is supportive of his outside interests. In particular, his boss was flexible about him rushing off at short notice to attend publicity events. But Dr McCabe cringes when he recalls the reaction of colleagues after he incorporated his experience of working in a research laboratory into his novel writing.
"My second book, Paper, did draw on some of the personalities of people I work with," he said.
"I tried to disguise them a bit, but maybe not enough. I got into a bit of trouble about that at work."
Dr McCabe said that when he returns to work in April, he is unlikely to be able to sustain the same prolific level of literary creativity. With increasing demands on his time coming from his family, as well as increasing pressure in the laboratory to apply for grants and perform well in the research assessment exercise, he does not expect to keep up the novel-a-year output.
And although he has enjoyed his year as a novelist - and yes, he does hang out at the Groucho Club with the London literati - he has no intention of giving up the day job. His previous novels have consistently sold between 20,000 and 30,000 copies each, bringing him a modest income, although not quite enough to bring up a family.
"Having two careers is great," he said. "I like writing and I'm not fed up of it yet. But I wouldn't want to drop my science - I've put too much in and it's a lot of endeavour to walk away from."
But as anyone who has tried to juggle two careers may recognise, Dr McCabe has a nagging worry that just won't go away.
"You're always thinking, could I have been a better scientist if I didn't write, could I have been a better writer if I wasn't doing science?"
Chris McCabe's first five novels were published under the name of John McCabe.
I GRADUATED FROM Sheffield University.
MY FIRST JOB WAS as a post-doctoral research fellow at Birmingham University, aside from numerous factory jobs as a student.
MY MAIN CHALLENGE IS developing my two careers independently.
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my users have been storing messages in files (.msg files) to keep important mails together with other legal stuff. These can no longer be opened.
Many users do a lot of sorting and storing attachments from incoming mails to a fileserver. The attachments can't be dragged and dropped from the mails to an explorer window like they have been doing for the last decades. Save as, and pointing to the desired locations for each file is very time consuming and extremely counter productive.
Saving 10 attachments in 1 mail has to done separately for each attachment? We could live with that if drag and drop would work from webapp to server.
Attachments for known applications like docx and xslx open a 'save as' prompt in stead of opening the program directly. In explorer these programs load with double click. Does kopano webapp have a separate preferred program list?
Replying a mail wil draw blue lines next to the old mail below the reply. My users dont like that, they often have to comment within loads of legal statements, withing the previous mail, and when this mail is going back and forth 5 times those blue lines become very annoying and 'ugly'. Obviously this only occurs using html mail content, perhaps there is some CSS file where this can be changed?
Kopano DeskApp, each time they log in, the activate 'use this profile as default' but each time they are being asked again with the option to activate 'use this profile as default' with no effect
Our marketing and commercial guys stay on outlook because of outlook specific plugins for markteering platforms, were very suprised that adress lists in public folders can no longer be used as contacts. It took me a while to educate them about correct use of public folders with shared contact lists etc and store data in a manner that every team member can access each project's related data. Given the nature of their job, they are extremely unhappy by the lack of this feature.
Im sure theres more issues but these are the most urgent ones. Any comment of help is very much appreciated.
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Battle Of The Pass Of Crieff
The name, Battle of the Pass of Crieff, seems to overstate what may have been a relatively minor local skirmish
Other than the vigorous jostling of cattle drovers fighting for the best grazing ground, there is no known link between this piobaireachd and a battle at the pass of Crieff. However, one can speculate that the inspiration for this fine piobaireachd was a skirmish, circa 1730, between excisemen and a gang of freebooters but there is no hard evidence to support that view.
Just as there was no battle of armies, there also is no pass at Crieff except for passing across an imaginary line from the Highlands into the land of the southerner, or sassenach as a Gael would have it.
There was once a battle at or near Crieff, but well back in time &ndash circa 962 A.D. Who fought who is unknown but they could have been rival Thanes struggling for power. At that early age, the Great Gaelic Pipe would not have been dreamed of and ceol mor not even a gleam on the horizon of time. So, it would seem that this very fine piobaireachd arose from a much later local incident, the connection to which has since faded from the collective memory.
Another version about the origin of the tune has it that it was composed by a Rankin as a Ioram, or rowing tune. The Rankins were hereditary pipers to MacLean of Coll, an island off the west coast of Mull. It was and is not unheard of for a composer to re-dress an older tune in new colours and give it a distinctive name. But, if that applies to this tune, the question arises as to which came first – Rankin's Ioram? or this fine piobaireachd by an unknown composer?
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Biological Invasions 15 (7), 1417-1429
Abstract: Habitat suitability models developed for non-native, invasive species often implicitly assume that projected invasion risk equates to risk of impact. I aim to test to what extent this assumption is true by comparing commonly-used invasive plant distribution datasets to abundance records. I compared herbarium occurrence records (downloaded from an online database) and regional occurrence records (compiled from individual states) to abundance estimates collected from over 300 invasive plant experts for 9 invasive species in the western U.S. I also created habitat suitability models (HSMs) using these datasets and compared the areas of predicted suitability. Sixty percent of the time, herbarium occurrences were located in regions where the species was rare enough to be undetected by experts, while only 26 % coincided with locations identified as having high abundance. Regional occurrences were located in areas where the species was not detected 32 % of the time, and on high abundance 42 % of the time. HSMs based on herbarium records encompassed 89 % of land area at risk of abundance, but overestimated the area of estimated risk (27-46 % false positive rate). HSMs based on regional occurrences had a smaller false positive rate (22-31 %), but encompassed only 67-68 % of area suitable for abundance. Herbarium records are strongly skewed towards locations with low invasive plant abundance, leading to invasion risk models that vastly overestimate abundance risk. Models based on occurrence points should be interpreted as risk of establishment only, not risk of abundance or impact. If HSMs aim to be more management relevant, invasion risk models should include abundance as well as occurrence.
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Remember when Wiley took to Twitter to announce the drop of Godfather 2? Well, as the grime don is no stranger to announcing things on social media, this time he's taken to Instagram and teased fans a little more about the upcoming project. Sharing a picture of what seems to be the tracklisting for the album, Wiley left his 172k followers to decide if that's what it was, with no accompanying caption and his cursor hovering over a track called 'illegal activity'. For long time Wiley fans, the hint of a track called 'Off The Radar Pt.2' is an exciting prospect of the new project as 'Pt.1' was a freestyle from 2009, almost a decade on and the Godfather of grime is promising bars just as cold. Wiley's album Godfather 2 is set for release on February 23rd 2018.
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Today i weren't in the mood to work on Tamers Network Reborn,so i tried to fix the collision issues with Eiderals.And did it.
Eiderals is a project i started have some time,but did slow progress since then,it's a continuation version of a project i did have some time ago(maybe 3 or 5 years).
The game will be a platformer dungeon cleaning game,with tons of stages,full of enemies,and every stage at it's end,probably will have a boss.
The ancient version of the project required you to use the weapon you mostly preffer,because of the build,but this shall end now.
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For years visitors to Fantasy of Flight, Kermit Weeks' aircraft collection in Polk City, Florida, believed that the only specters of the past they'd encounter would be the collection of 40 fully restored vintage aircraft. But as stories of unexplained occurrences such as unidentifiable noises, temperature changes and the detection of mists and shadows drifted into the paranormal community, Florida's Apollo Paranormal Investigations (API), a non-profit investigative team out of Apollo, Fla., took notice.
API's team of paranormal investigators (or "ghost hunters") conducted a series of scientific explorations through Fantasy of Flight and, on a paranormal-activity scale between 1 and 10, assigned the vintage aircraft collection an 11. Based on their conclusions, Fantasy of Flight is premiering nightFlight, an after-hours program that offers visitors four hours to explore the facility in search of the unexplained.
Talk of energies that linger in and around the restored aircraft doesn't surprise Weeks.
"We've had a number of very interesting paranormal occurrences at Fantasy of Flight since we opened in 1995," he said. "It never occurred to us to explore them until we were approached from two completely different and independent paranormal groups wanting to investigate our facilities. I personally believe the apparitions and energies that have been experienced are not only connected to specific airplanes, but the environment they are housed in as well. There have been movements of objects, voices heard, apparitions showing up in photos and actual sightings."
With the nightFlight tour, a limited number of guests will join API's paranormal exploration guides for a four-hour after-dark experience. Guests will be trained in the operation of tools and devices these professionals use to determine the difference between coincidences and inexplicable phenomenon.
According to Kim Long, General Manager, Fantasy of Flight, the entire experience is designed to satisfy skeptics and believers alike.
"Whether you're inclined to believe in the spirit world or scoff at it, our goal is to first share with everyone what some feel is the haunted history of the Fantasy of Flight collection. It is designed as a hands-on adventure as participants become familiar with the tools and techniques professionals use to conduct paranormal investigations. They become part of a team that actually searches for evidence of supernatural activity — and will have a unique experience to talk about for many years to come!"
During an orientation session, guests will be given refreshments and an opportunity to share with others their own encounters with the paranormal. Next, all explorers enter a torch-lit labyrinth before arriving at the Fantasy of Flight hangar. Here, the API paranormal investigators share evidence of apparitions and mysterious sightings captured on audio, video, and film. Next, accompanied by no more than 10 participants each, the guides will instruct their teams in the use of equipment and investigative methods of capturing data before setting off on their exploration.
After midnight, the groups will reconnect for a debriefing and to share with others the results of their investigations from personal encounters to questionable sensations to concrete audio or visual evidence.
"By 1:30 a.m., we hope that our curious explorers will have experienced what so many of our employees, guests and paranormal researchers have witnessed in the past," says Long. "They'll have learned about the history of our vintage planes, they'll know what it's like to be part of a paranormal investigation and perhaps they'll have made contact with these unexplained energies who – like all of our visitors — have an affinity for vintage aircraft."
Priced at $75 plus tax per person, three nightFlight experiences have been scheduled for Jan. 30 and Feb. 27, as well as a special Feb. 13 Valentine's Day event. Participants are encouraged to bring a camera, voice recorder, video recorder and extra batteries. Recommended attire includes secure, flat-soled shoes, a watch and "quiet" clothing that doesn't have strings or glows in the dark. Participants must be at least 16 years old and accompanied by an adult if under 21 years old.
For more information: 863-984-3500 or FantasyOfFlight.com.


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