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Another incredibly dark and disturbing facet of the Cthulhu Mythos – not one of H P Lovecraft's creations but certainly belongs within the pantheon of Great Old Ones he originally… discovered.
On first glance there appears to be several disparate definitions of the Lloigor. These include August Derleth and Mark Schorer's trans-dimensional, tentacled obscenity (along with twin Zhar); or Colin Wilson's invisible vortices of psychic energy that can manifest in physical forms – such as reptilian beasts – giving rise to legends of Dragons and other monsters; or as the many-angled-ones presented by Grant Morrison as capable of taking possession of body & mind of other powerful beings in other parallel universes.
I feel that this lack of clarity is actually a facet of their non-physical nature, their ability to shift their physical appearance (persona) albeit that they tend to use the same one over millenia.
Common perceptions:
These are threads that I feel work together; I've pulled them into one place and added some of my own interpretations for you to use or ignore, as you see fit:
<> Lloigor are a race as a opposed to a single entity. Highly evolved, intelligent, shockingly cruel and malevolent. They are timeless but currently a number of them exist here on Earth, "caught up" within the space-time continuum. They are in a weakened state, leaching minimal energy from lay-lines and psychic plexus; as such they reside in the nexus of such energy-feeding networks. As such their historical "personas" have become warped and twisted into creatures that are obsessed on acquiring energy. Worship of them is one way they can achieve this – through ceremonial sacrifices; and so, many Lloigor, normally utterly self-focussed and instinctively brutal, have come to investigate and comprehend the "human condition" and so sometimes play on this to ultimately achieve what they want.
<> Those Lloigor currently on Earth came from the Andromeda Galaxy to the continent of Mu (a former landmass in the Atlantic ocean) and used humans as slaves. Humans at this point were the evolutionary descendant of Australopithecus – which had migrated millions of years earlier as a new species from the flesh-rendering pits of the Elder Things in a region that would eventually become Antarctica. Following the destruction of Mu, the Lloigor retreated below ground (due to diminished power following destruction of their power-providing network of temples and such-like) and left their former slaves to their own devices. These early humans migrated from Mu and populated the earth.
<> They are fundamentally energy beings. When they do take physical form, they take the form of other creatures they have encountered – and been impressed by. The decision behind this is complex and discussed in a moment. The statement "they take the form" is actually misleading. They actually teleport "the being" from a point in (local) space & time, posses its mind and body, and so use it within any other point in (local) space & time. This is something they've been doing for a very long time. The creatures so used are effectively ensnared in psychic "aspic" until next brought into play.
<> They have the ability to skim the energy from people sleeping within a few miles of their centre of activity. Such victims wake up feeling lethargic, ill and moody. Depression, suicide and acts of depravity are significantly higher in these locales. Lloigor have learned not to situate themselves near major settlements; despite the appeal of a rich feast of skimmed energy; because they're wary of certain humans, knowledgeable in the ways of the Mythos, of recognising the symptoms and so tracking them down. Therefore the Lloigor prefer more remote areas where a few people turning into degenerates might not be so readily noticed.
<> The focus point or centre of Lloigor activity in any area unfortunate enough to suffer their presence is no random location. The Lloigor can sense energy and feed from the natural currents (however feeble) of ley lines and other natural and preternatural plexus; they occupy the nexus of these places, where there is the highest convergence of disparate energy fields for them to bask within.
<> The Lloigor employ a variety of methods to infiltrate any local human population. Such cults are composed of individuals drawn into committing acts that are vicious, violent and sadistic; anything that causes pain and terror, two states that generate a lot of energy for the Lloigor to feast from. Cultists will often daub "curious and disturbing symbols" on walls of public places, sometimes looking like grim gang graffiti, extending the influence of the Lloigor in that area. More potent acts of worship involve erecting stone obelisks at key locations – sometimes several, forming a pattern – to help channel energy to the Lloigor.
<> Choice of physical manifestation is based on a number of motives. One motive is to have the best possible chance of enforcing their will, through violence and terror, on a subjugated "work force". What better than to employ a Rauisuchidae (dinosaur) or the kind of creature referred to as a dragon? Or one of the more Lovecraftian polyp-like monsters, a mass of pseudopods and ichor-dripping maws; giving rise to August Derleth's Twin Obscenity. Sometimes other motives come into play; Lloiger cast themselves as an almost human character – perhaps one of the Great Magi (Non-human species from Yellow Dawn rulebook). Whatever the choice, it is something that the Lloigor will have encountered in more powerful days (historically long time ago) and been able to 'capture' as a physical host to use again and again through any time in the (local) space-time continuum.
<> The Lloigor can create these physical manifestations / teleportations throughout time – but relocating such entities in space (distance from the nexus, or centre of Lloigor activity) is not possible because of the amount of energy required. Therefore these physical manifestations / teleportations occur in the same area – again and again – over time.
<> As such, in physical form, the Lloigor are unable (or unwilling) to travel far from the centre of their activity – the nexus of their power-gathering plexus.
<> The fact that the Lloigor is using such extreme measures for a physical manifestation means that it is not likely (or unable) to use any other physical form. This leads to a build up of sightings and local legends of the same "thing" in a contained region.
<> Lloiger can travel much further in astral form. However, an unusual aspect to this creates a physical phenomenon, a cold wind that blows across the land as they move. The wind can be as gentle as a chill breeze or a furious bora that can sweep adults off their feet; the reasons of what and when are down to individual GM.
<> Any character entering the Astral Plane to investigate what is there as the wind blows across them will encounter the sanity-crushing presence of the Lloiger in !!dispersed!! form. Like a wind – the Lloigor flow through the Astral Plane. This is effectively like encountering the Lloigor in its native state and is extremely dangerous. Rule data: forces an ANXIETY check or loose 1/1d10 COOL points. Subsequent consequence of insanity, if it occurs, is always desire to commit suicide (through acute depression) or perform deranged acts of depravity.
<> Teleportation is one way in which they drag potential victims to them. They are able to 'lock on' by travelling (astrally) and coalescing a [bubble] around the victim – who then vanishes in the blink of an eye; the victim is taken to the centre of Lloigor activity. Note: the process of coalescing around the victim is not immediate, it takes time and generates noticeable effects such as – static electricity discharging off anybody in the area; an ice-cold tingling across the skin of the victim; a feeling of acute menace and overwhelming depression in the vicinity, experienced by everybody but most noticeable for the victim. Rule data: chance of success is 80% – failure results in no effect but Lloigor loses the MPs; any character going onto the Astral Plane will encounter the Lloigor and can attempt to "fight" it away through POW attacks.
<> Kinetic detonation. One of the Lloigor's most devastating attacks. It is a remote attack with a range of several miles. They can focus on an area and cause a massive explosion (not chemical or fireball, but of raw energy, pushing out a shock wave); the attack is preceded by a buzzing that is more felt than heard; ears tingle and itch. Then boom. Bodies can be ripped apart; structural walls and floors can be blown out; at a further distance the concussion wave can rupture vital organs, cause temporary deafness; and scoop up debris from the surroundings and throw it forward much like a fragmentation grenade. This does require a lot of energy so would only be used against a significant threat to the Lloigor.
<> Spontaneous human combustion. Lloigor can cause a victim's fatty tissue to melt beneath the flesh and vital fluids to boil. They use this to cause agonising pain – to their worshippers, or if prolonged, to melt and char limbs as punishment / coercion; and in extreme circumstances, can result in a runaway effect of total combustion: there are no flames, no smoke, and a victim, if touched, only feels a little warmer than normal – but beneath their skin they're effervescing away until their core body temperature shuts down vital organs, and still they cook away, evaporating down to charred bone and hardened tissue.
<> The cults of Lloigor can vary across racial and cultural groupings. Worship can be pro-active, by individuals aware of the monster on the fringes of their society; or they can be passive – intrusive – with the Lloigor tampering with the thoughts and dreams of people via the Astral Plane. Also – the Lloigor may not always physically manifest as a monster, which, let's be frank, would cause quite a stir if witnessed by the common public; some Lloigor do take the form of human beings, or other non-human creatures who have taken the human form. The Lloigor are masters of psychological and psychic torture – they revel in causing terror and pain because of the energy that leaks out of these states. Cultists are battered, shocked, deranged and depraved. They participate in abduction, torture, cannibalism, rape and torture. Some have had limbs melted away; either amputated or left twisted and charred as permanent reminders of their failure to satisfy the monstrous pleasures of these invisible masters. Some have had worse things done to them. Others tattoo their flesh with the chilling iconography of the Lloigor language (if you can call it that). Characters should certainly do everything they can to avoid falling into the hands of some heinous groups, where brutal savagery is merely a component of worship.
Scenarios of note:
- Watcher in the Valley. Published by Chaosium within a collection of short scenarios called "Tales of the Miskatonic Valley" and is, I think, one of their classics and should not be missed. Written by Kevin Ross and featuring some stunning interior illustrations by Blair Reynolds.
- The Mystery of Loch Feinn. Another Chaosium product. Written by Glenn Rahman. There's a bunch of nasty thugs living in a remote part of Scotland; there's a series of strange standing stones; a Loch and a monster in it. (0)(-)
- Horror on the Orient Express. An absolutely legendary Chaosium product. However, the chapter containing the Lloiger, written by Russell Waters, although containing brilliant background information about the location, I dislike the concept of the cult introduced here, I think more could have been made of the wickedness of the worshippers.
Relevant Articles:
- Reasons to like Lovecraft: Hastur, as The King in Yellow
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- Reasons to like Lovecraft: Mi-go (Fungi from Yuggoth)
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Naming inanimate objects as if they were people is stupid, silly and sickening. It's the sort of thing that people who stick happy faces on everything would do.
Naming inanimate objects as if they were people is stupid, silly and sickening. It's the sort of thing that people who stick happy faces on everything would do. Calling garden implements Ivan Hoe and Randy Rake, for instance, is enough to turn the stomach of a carnival geek. Nobody I know would do this, except, well, for us: me and Angela.
I don't know how it got started – some kind of weak joke, I guess. By now the joke is long forgotten but the names have hung on like a lingering malaise.
Of course I'm exaggerating, but the truth is you can't exaggerate if you don't have something to exaggerate. I have only to look out the window to know that the pathology of personification is alive and well in the driveway. For there, demanding our attention like spoiled children, are Babette and Bob, two Subaru automobiles of different models and birthdays, Babette, a kind of lady-in-waiting to Angela, and Bob, lean and sturdy, my faithful companion.
Angela doesn't seem to see Bob in the same light. She thinks he's a lightweight, not altogether dependable and something of a phony. I don't know where she gets this. I think Bob is one of the best cars I've ever owned, all things considered. How could you not love Bob? He's good-natured, reliable, always ready to hit the road for any reason, adventurous or quotidian. He loves exploring country roads, trips on the big highways, or just tooling downtown to pick up a potato or two and a few beans.
I respond to Angela's insult by pointing out that Babette is little more than an indolent slut. If Babette were anything other than a car she'd be sitting in front of a TV wearing a dressing gown, polishing her toenails and stuffing chocolates into her pouty face. I will admit that even an overweight Babette may be a tad better looking than Bob: she is colored a light and unusual gray, a distinctive shade that does much to hide her matronly curves. But Babette is all flash. Beneath her elegant coat she's lot like your Aunt Gertrude – big in the hips, sluggish, and grumpy.
Angela says Bob is sexually confused – that it's long past time for him to declare himself one way or the other. She says he alternates between hairy-chested bluster, including absurd beach-boy posturing and muscle-flexing, and be-still-my-heart, limp-wristed mewling. She says he gives her the creeps.
Sometimes I have to remind Angela that our automotive relationships are rich in history and that history would show her how wrong she can be about cars. Before Babette, Angela was the fond owner of a snappy, silver, stick-shift, turbo-charged Subaru Impreza WRX named Baby. Angela was devoted to Baby. At the time, I had the identical car except mine was a flaming red. Owing to his aggressive, daredevil nature, my fiery friend had earned the catchy, if vulgar, moniker Balls.
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Name Ze Ro
- Abilities: Re & Ze's Abilities Together :
Energy Bond : They Are Connected by A energy between them that connects their life force, mind, and allows them to switch places with each other's body in battle allowing the other body to heal.
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Burst : Can absorb multiple forms of energy and even some abilities into his arm and unleash it in multiple ways.
Energy Sense And Control : If there is a form of energy around him, he can control it and sense it, making it easy to dodge blasts and energy based attacks without sight.
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Ghost : He can create ghost clones that can harm people. He makes up to 3.
Ghost Burst : This Ability Takes A While To Charge So He Doesn't Use It Since It Takes too long. He Makes 1 Ghost Gather Up energy While He Gathers Up Energy Then They Fuel It Into his Body.
Ghost Walk : He Can Become Invisible and Intangible Phasing through walls and objects.
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Ze Is A Human. Re is connected to Ze. Possibility If Ze dies so Does Re.
- About/Story: Zentokashi Remno Was 11 when he met a spirit. He had the ability to see every type of energy and absorb it into his body. To help the new spirit he used his ability to absorb it but since he is untraind it failed and he lost the ability to absorb energy into his entire body but now just his arm. But this created a body for the spirit who Zentokashi named Re after the two letters in his last name. Re Becan The Spirit Of Vengeance Who seeks out his murderers. Ze Has Helped him ever since and formed a energy bond between him and Re.
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''Necessary Roughness'' has a number of very good lines scattered throughout the film, so it's often very funny. Unfortunately, the rest of the time it just plows along.
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The continent also produces half of the world's supply and the production of the root, has become important to the Nigerian economy. Therefore, there is a growing interest in the plant due to its multi-purpose nature and it's grown in most of Nigeria's states.
"Nigeria is supposed to be the biggest producer of cassava in the world. Naturally, Nigeria has a comparative advantage in producing. Cassava is also used to produce different products. We eat it in different ways," Ayo Balogun, director of NOVUS AGRO told CNBCafrica.com.
With the objective of promoting the crop as a foreign exchange commodity for Nigeria, the government introduced the Presidential Initiative on Cassava in July 2002.
"Government has seen that cassava can be used to produce different things like flour and sugar. For example, we are bread eaters in [Nigeria] so the government is pushing for cassava bread. Government wants a percentage of cassava flour to be introduced into bread wheat instead of completely introducing it at once."
The root can be made into various products which include flour, chips, ethanol, glucose syrup and bread to name a few. Such products are in high demand within Nigeria and have a potential within the export arena.
"The confectionaries import glucose which you can get from cassava. Other confectionaries can make use of cassava starch to make their products. Even in pharmaceutical it's useful. It can be used to make ethanol. In terms of quantity cassava is the biggest produce in Nigeria."
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(READ MORE: Has oil-focused Nigeria forgone a diversified economy?)
"The government exports cassava chips also, this conversation started in the [Olusegun] Obasanjo time. A significant produce of cassava is consumed in Nigeria. Cassava is perishable, from production you have 48 hours to dry it up completely if not it becomes completely useless and losses its value. From the farmers' perspective, they will rather not harvest if they don't have a buyer," he added.
"This also makes farmers get processors that are closest to them so that the processor can dry the cassava a bit and they can continue with what they want to use it for so they don't lose their produce and at the same time money invested in transporting."
Nigeria wants to focus on making use of cassava also as flour. This process requires availability of good processing plants which is not yet readily available. Steps are being taken to make these plants available for this process.
"To convert cassava to flour, not a lot of processing plants do that in Nigeria so government is trying to encourage people to set up plants to convert them to flour and also to starch. Some years back Nigeria had a few starch processing plants and I think almost all of them folded up for one reason or the other. It was either due to a lack of produce because of the distance the product had to be transported to get there and in the process a lot of produce is destroyed before it gets to them."
The challenge of industrialisation within the cassava industry lies with the reducing costs of production and transformation. This will allow for the supply of cheaper processed products of desired quality and standards to markets.
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"Government is working hard to making breweries and confectionaries to start introducing cassava products into their processes. The government is also working on getting better cassava seedlings. The seedling we have in Nigeria produce about seven to 10 tons per hectare while in some other places they can get about 35 tons per hectare. The government needs to introduce new fertilisers that are actually adapted to cassava to improve production."


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The prospect of building a brand new 400 million dollar jail as the 'welcoming' structure at the gateway to downtown just off the busiest freeway exit into our urban core at the very same time Detroit's center is undergoing an unprecedented positive transformation should outrage every single citizen, business and government official of our great city. At the exact moment we finally have the momentum and scale to overcome decades of decline as well as the increasingly inaccurate image and perception of Detroit being a crime-ridden decaying city, it is unfathomable there is even a thought of continuing on with a project that would put a massive county jail at the foot of the entry to downtown.
This critical land must be developed into uses that are consistent with a city that is on the rise and creating the environment to attract brain-economy companies and the kind of high-wage jobs that these businesses produce as well as residential and commercial projects that accompany this kind of growth.
Detroiters deserve better than local leaders moving forward with a short-sighted reckless plan because it may be viewed as an easier path at this point in time. Let me not mince words: Building this jail at this crucial location would be nothing short of an unmitigated disaster that will echo with negative implications for downtown and the city for decades to come. There are several well-thought out alternatives that are light years better for Detroit and Wayne County that over the long run will also be economically favorable as well. It's a new day in Detroit and it is time we start learning from some of the senseless and illogical bad decisions of the past by not repeating them. It is clear that locating a major brand new jail at the foot of the busiest gateway to downtown Detroit would rank among this region's worst decisions of all-time. All of us: The county, city, state, business community and citizens must come together and do much better than implementing a long-term abhorrent plan for the gateway to downtown Detroit.
Dan Gilbert
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- Comment by Mark Perner — September 12, 2014 @ 1:38 am:
Hi Dan — I have visited downtown Detroit a few times as my son is a Detroit resident. I saw the shell of what is supposed to be the new jail and agree that it would be better built in a more out-of-the-way place. At the same time, weren't you going to buy that property and develop it into something else? Or has the county's plan to go through with the building of the jail put that purchase on hold?
- Comment by James McBroom — September 12, 2014 @ 3:35 am:
What are the alternatives you speak of?
Id like to see them so I can make an informed decision about this.
- Comment by Ali — September 12, 2014 @ 3:41 am:
Hey Dan i am a huge fan of yours and i love what your doing for the City of Detroit! I agree with you about the Jail it shouldn't be built in the heart of Downtown Detroit so my Question to you Mr Gilbert what can we the Citizens of Detroit do about this? I also wanted to ask you about the Pistons moving back Downtown i know the owner of the Pistons Tom Gores has said he would listen but they just installed a huge Jumbotron and if they did move it will be in 2017-2018 thats when the New Red Wings Arena opens up so my guess is they will share the Stadium? I can't afford to drive 45 Minutes there and 45 Minutes back to watch a Mediocre Basketball team after the game there is nothing to do! You were right when you said it was a Open Field out in the middle of nowhere. It looks like 2017 is going to be the year with the New Red Wings Arena and Entertainment Center and the M-1 Rail We still have a lot of work to do like the Blight plan but i feel it and see it this great city is coming back thanks to people like you Penske Magic etc Is there any Training Programs i can take i want to be part of this great city's comeback. Thanks Dan.
- Comment by pamela jones — September 12, 2014 @ 4:36 pm:
Yes there are many training programs contact local 58 and Brenda Jones concerning the Skilled Trades Fair Sept 23, 14.
- Comment by Bart Lower — September 12, 2014 @ 9:15 pm:
Danny Boy's Drive-In is looking for a good location for our second theater!
- Comment by Rob Adams — September 12, 2014 @ 9:34 pm:
I completely agree with this article! The city is trying to take steps forward and this jail undermines that progress. This will prevent many business from coming here. Like a Reagan speech "Mr Duggan , tear down this jail!"
It's such a prime location, let's develop it into something grand, so the gateway into downtown says something about this great city!
- Comment by Max Menius — September 12, 2014 @ 9:54 pm:
In keeping with a big picture view of Detroit's past and its future, a jail is the wrong visual image and icon for what Detroit is to become. Detroit needs a new reputation. It's not a small matter. A ton of good will and investment have been made to create a new vision of the city. Outside investors and companies looking to relocate have other options. If Detroit's portal reminds them of a crime ridden metropolis, people will be left with a certain cringe factor.
- Comment by Eva M — September 12, 2014 @ 10:52 pm:
I couldn't agree any more!!! As part of the future of this state, I may be young but I've learned how to spend my money wisely. Watching Detroit invest in something that is so unnecessary is truly disheartening. Shouldn't these funds be spent elsewhere where necessary? Isn't this going to just keep digging the city into more and more debt?!! Plus talk about an eyesore. It's definitely not the first thing I want to see if I'm going to go enjoy a night or even live in the city of Detroit. I may be 29 & I may be blonde but I'm not an idiot. When are they going to realize they've already made so many critical mistakes that we cannot go back and fix! I hate the way our country looks at us, I hate the way the world looks at us. Why are we asking for them to look down upon us? We shouldn't be the example of what happens when corruption destroys a city and is lost, we should set the example for the world to see. Sometimes I feel like Detroit is a country in its own, I just wish more people would have such faith and be building like you Mr. Gilbert.
- Comment by Denise Froehlich — September 15, 2014 @ 2:23 pm:
I am an ex-Detroit resident..would love to move back!
- Comment by Rashawnda Mathis — October 2, 2014 @ 3:14 pm:
I absolutely agree!! I really hope that you forge ahead with a plan to develop that land.
- Comment by Al Gustafson — October 6, 2014 @ 12:03 am:
As a three year 'vet' in commercial real estate in the Capital of New Zealand, common sense on property matters is better left to those who job aka passion is to watch and plan and act in a timely fashion. Our elected central planners are there on the whole to collect their monthly salary checks (cheques if you're English like me). I have been an observer of Detroit for what seems a long time. I've love to visit Detroit than read about the city in books and on the web.
Wellington, New Zealand, has its own problems with centralized planning whereby the rate payer foots the bill.
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It's a little rare these days for me to be able to post the Weekly News Roundup on Monday so I'm patting myself in the back. Lots of green goodies from last week by the way.
Verdezyne in ethanol deal
Industrial biotech company Verdezyne and Lallemand Ethanol Technology signed a deal to develop and commercialize genetically enhanced high-yield ethanol producing yeast. Verdezyne will use its metabolic engineering tools to rapidly introduce a proprietary pathway into an industrial yeast strain provided by Lallemand.
Purac starts lactide construction
CSM and its subsidiary Purac officially started construction of its new 75,000 tons/year lactide plant in Thailand. The plant will produce monomers for bioplastics such as polylactic acid (PLA). It will start up in the second half of 2011.
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Monday, June 13, 2016
Delilah: Treacherous Beauty (A Dangerous Beauty Novel) by Angela Hunt
This is the story of Samson & Delilah told in Angela Hunt's own unique style. It remains true to the Biblical account, but is fleshed out with additional characters and lots of historical / cultural insight. Delilah is betrayed by a step-brother and begins her own personal journey for justice. Samson is the Judge in Israel that travels around where Delilah is living. The story of how they became involved and how it led to the conclusion that we see in the Bible account is relayed through Angela Hunt's wonderful, imaginative telling of this tale. Delilah doesn't look like quite as much of a villain as she is usually portrayed, and the reader has a little more kind feeling toward her in spite of the conclusion.
Bethany House provided me with a copy of this book for the purpose of an honest review.
See my review of another book in this series here: Esther: Royal Beauty
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As reported through industry site Gamasutra earlier today, a new developer by the name of Epicenter Studios has announced its first entry into the world of Wii with a system-exclusive firefighting game currently titled Real Heroes: Firefighter. The game is described as a "family-friendly" action puzzler that seeks to host "non-violent, game-integral puzzles that mirror the challenges and on-the-fly choices firefighters actually face," as stated by Epicenter CCO Bryan Jury.
The team, made up of former Call of Duty, Shrek, Spider-Man, and Star Trek producers, commented briefly on a new technology known as "Thinking Fire," which is said to give gamers unique gameplay experiences through "unexpected changes to the environments that will suddenly alter the player's options and strategies."
Information thus far on Real Heroes: Firefighter is scarce, but Epicenter Studios seems optimistic that its Wii-exclusive design is a perfect fit for Nintendo's new system, as it appeals to casual gamers who seek a realistic, yet casual-friendly experience on the system. Jury once again expressed his feelings on the game, stating that "Combining our unique fire tech with the specific strengths of the Wii was a natural choice for us as we designed Real Heroes. The Wii-mote makes spraying down fires with you hose, hacking down doors with your axe, and prying victims loose from wrecked cars with the Jaws of Life in an absolutely visceral game experience."
We'll have more on Real Heroes: Firefighter as information becomes available. Be sure to keep checking back to IGN Wii for further news and media.


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TODD J. ZYWICKI is Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and Senior Fellow of the James Buchanan Center, Program on Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, at George Mason University. Since 2006 he has served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. From 2003-2004, Professor Zywicki served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. He teaches in the area of Bankruptcy, Contracts, Commercial Law, Business Associations, Law & Economics, and Public Choice and the Law. He has also taught at Vanderbilt University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Boston College Law School, and Mississippi College School of Law and is a Fellow of the International Centre for Economic Research in Turin, Italy.
Professor Zywicki clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked as an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia, where he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Professor Zywicki also received an M.A. in Economics from Clemson University and an A.B. cum Laude with high honors in his major from Dartmouth College.
During the Fall 2008 Semester Professor Zywicki was the Searle Fellow of the George Mason University School of Law. Professor Zywicki is a Senior Fellow of the Goldwater Institute and the 2008-09 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Arch W. Shaw National Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has lectured and consulted with government officials around the world, including Iceland, Italy, Japan, and Guatemala. In 2006 Professor Zywicki served as a Member of the United States Department of Justice Study Group on "Identifying Fraud, Abuse and Errors in the United States Bankruptcy System."
Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 60 articles in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals. He is one of the Top 50 Most Downloaded Law Authors at the Social Science Research Network, both All Time and during the Past 12 Months. He served as the Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2001-02. He has testified several times before Congress on issues of consumer bankruptcy law and consumer credit and is a frequent commentator on legal issues in the print and broadcast media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Nightline, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Fox and Friends, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg News, BBC, ABC Radio, The Diane Rehm Show, and The Laura Ingraham Show. He is a contributor to the popular legal weblog The Volokh Conspiracy.
Professor Zywicki is a member of the Governing Board and the Advisory Council for the Financial Services Research Program at George Washington University School of Business, the Executive Committee for the Federalist Society's Financial Institutions and E-Commerce Practice Group, the Advisory Council of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Program Advisory Board of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment. He is currently the Chair of the Academic Advisory Council for the following organizations: The Bill of Rights Institute, the film "We the People in IMAX," and the McCormick-Tribune Foundation "Freedom Museum" in Chicago, Illinois. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Bill of Rights Institute and in 2005 he was elected an Alumni Trustee of the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees.
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I just finished up designing this info-graphic for my Gender Studies class...
(in other words - this is the fruit of my weekend labours):
Our assignment was to intervene somehow in the current public construction of gender - so I opted to focus on how sexual orientation is largely assumed based on aesthetic appearance, otherwise known as 'gender expression'. I was highly inspired by iO Tillett Wright's work and 50 Shades of Gay TEDx Talk, and this "Breaking Through the Binary" chart were very helpful in putting this together.
You can visit it on it's own page here.
Feel free to share it, tweet it, pin it - please help spread the word & break down assumptions!
PS - I try not to use these colors on every free do-what-I-want-project I do, but I just can't.
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Psychologists May Never Participate In Torture
Let's set the record straight: It is a clear violation of professional ethics for a psychologist to have played a role in the torture of CIA detainees, as described in the recently released Bush administration memos. These Justice Department documents, which purport to offer medical and scientific justification for torturing detainees, are chilling in their dispassionate analysis of how far to push a human being for the purpose of eliciting national security-related information.
The central tenet of psychology's code of ethics is, like that of medicine, to do no harm. It is unthinkable that any psychologist could assert that stress positions, forced nudity, sleep deprivation, exploiting phobias, and waterboarding—along with other forms of torture techniques that the American Psychological Association has condemned and prohibited—cause no lasting damage to a human being's psyche. And yet an emerging record strongly suggests that some did.
APA has declared that psychologists have an obligation to intervene to stop torture or abuse, and a further obligation to report any instance of torture or abuse. In fact, the public record includes examples of psychologists behaving precisely how APA would expect. Unfortunately, two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, have been identified in media reports as proponents of using "reverse-engineered" SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) military training techniques for detainee interrogations.
These techniques, when applied in this manner, are tantamount to torture as defined by APA and international law. Mitchell and Jessen are not members of the APA, and therefore the association has no jurisdiction to investigate their activities. The APA Code of Ethics however, should be a guidepost for the behavior of all psychologists regardless of the issue of membership status with APA, and we have a responsibility to voice our dismay at any psychologist's reported role in detainee mistreatment. Furthermore, APA stands ready to adjudicate reports that any APA member has engaged in prohibited techniques.
Over the last 20 years, APA has expanded and further articulated its policy against torture to underscore its absolute prohibition against all forms of torture and abusive treatment. During the Bush administration years, APA's governing Council of Representatives repeated and elaborated on this absolute condemnation by prohibiting the very techniques named in the torture memos. There is one ethical response to an order to torture: Disobey the order.
Invoking language from the U. N. Convention Against Torture, APA rejected the "ticking time bomb" justification for torture and called upon U.S. courts to reject testimony derived from torture. APA's most recent policy statement on interrogation prohibits psychologists from working in detention settings where international law or the U.S. Constitution are violated, unless they are working directly for the people being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights. Psychologists may also provide treatment to military personnel in such a setting.
Ethical interrogations are based on building a relationship and forming rapport with the person being questioned, processes that require great skill and patience. Torturing an individual under the guise of an interrogation is neither ethical nor effective. Indeed, according to media reports, the only useful information that detainee Abu Zubaida provided was offered early in his imprisonment, when FBI officials employed humane interrogation tactics.
We applaud the Obama administration for acting quickly and decisively to prohibit cruel and abusive interrogation techniques that were employed by the Bush administration. It is also my fervent hope that the American people—and the world—will not judge all psychologists by the few who were involved in this sorry chapter in our history, but by the tens of thousands of psychologists who spend their professional lives working for the public good.


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10 man Sunderland battle hard to claim 1-1 draw at home to Stoke
Sunderland 1 – Stoke City 1 (Premier League, May 6, 2013) (All goals) Jon Walters bundled Stoke in front after being given a second attempt. Craig Gardner was sent off after an awful challenge on Charlie Adam. John O'Shea pulled 10 man Sunderland level from a set piece.
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Gary Neville analyses Craig Garner's horrific tackle
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Watching Harry Bullett bound around at the warm-up of a preschool gymnastics class, it's hard to imagine that his parents once feared he'd never be able to walk.
Struck down by meningitis at just three months old, the couple were told to prepare for his death not just once, but twice, and he lost his right leg.
Now, incredibly, Harry likes nothing more than joining in with the actions to Heads, Shoulder, Knees and Toes at Weybourne Gymnastics Club in New Haw, Surrey, where his mum Alison Galbraith, 24, is a coach.
Harry was a delightful low maintenance baby who slept through the night from 10 weeks old. On January 25 last year, Alison gave him a bath and put him to bed at 8pm as usual.
But the next morning she went into his room to discover her son pale and floppy in his cot.
"I shouted for my partner Chris to come," she recalls. Chris Bullett, 24, changed Harry's nappy to try to rouse him, but to no avail.
Realising something was seriously wrong, the couple from Row Town, Surrey, bundled their tiny tot into his car seat and went straight to A&E.
Although just minutes away, it was a terrifying journey.
"I kept my hand on his chest the whole way," Alison says. "He looked half dead. I was petrified he would stop breathing."
At St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, Harry was rushed into resuscitation. His blood pressure was almost nonexistent and he was hooked up to an antibiotic drip.
"We were told he probably had an infection of some sort, but no one knew what," Alison says.
Chris and Alison could only watch as doctors tried to stabilise their baby, now unconscious and on a ventilator.
By 5pm doctors still didn't know what was wrong with Harry, only that he was critically ill. The decision was taken to transfer him to the Evelina Children's Hospital in London for more specialised care and tests.
Yet Harry was so poorly, the trip itself was hazardous.
"We were told there was a risk Harry may die en route," Alison says.
"As we left St Peter's, I recall looking at the faces of the extraordinary caring and dedicated staff who had spent their day treating him, all of whom had tears in their eyes."
Against the odds, Harry made it to the Evelina Children's Hospital, where he was rushed to intensive care.
Doctors and nurses worked on him for hours. But just before midnight Alison and Chris were called into a side room and were told once again that they should prepare for the worst.
"A senior doctor sat us both down and said that we needed to be prepared for Harry to die," says Alison.
"Chris broke down, but I was just numb. Chris then telephoned both of our parents and told them they had to come and say
their goodbyes."
Doctors still didn't know what was wrong with Harry. He wasn't responding to medication and they were running out of things to try.
The next 24 hours were critical, but Harry refused to stop fighting and clung to life while machines beeped and whirred around him.
"He was still unstable," says Alison. "But having survived the first day, I just knew he'd make it."
Then Harry developed a blotchy purple rash. Tests confirmed it was meningitis. He'd contracted meningococcal septicaemia type B – the deadliest strain of the brain bug.
He had so many tubes and wires coming out of his head, neck, groin and arms, that Alison says he was almost "unrecognisable". And his tiny body swelled up to twice its size as it filled with fluid.
At the suggestion of one of the nurses, Alison decided to start a diary for Harry. It gave her something to focus on and was an opportunity for her and Chris to express their emotions.
On January 27, 2013 Alison wrote: "Dear Harry, You have really given Mummy and Daddy a fright. Yesterday you were very poorly but you have started to make small steps to get better. Everyone has been so impressed with how strong you are.
"Mummy and Daddy popped out for dinner but we missed you so much we came back. Thankfully you are improving every minute. Lots of love and kisses, Mummy and Daddy xxx"
On the next page, Harry's dad, Chris, a secondary school teacher, also wrote a heartfelt letter to his son.
"Harry, The last 36 hours have been the hardest of my life. You look so much better now – 10.33pm on Sunday – and I cannot tell you how proud you've made me.
"You're an amazing lad and the love I feel for you now is double what I felt on Friday. Stay strong Harry – you're an inspiration to us all and I'm so, so proud. Keep it up, mate! Dad xx"
Harry continued to fight. But to his parents' horror, his feet, legs and nose turned black and blistered.
A gel mesh was placed on his feet to try to save them, but the necrosis was too severe.
Alison wrote: "Your body was fighting a horrible infection. To protect your tiny heart and brain your body was pumping all your blood to the main parts.
"Hopefully your left foot will be OK, but your right foot may have to be removed. This is OK as we still get our happy little man back!"
Later she wrote: "We were told today that you will have to have your right leg removed just below your knee.
"Although Mummy and Daddy were quite upset, we are so happy that you are still here with us. We will help and support you every step of the way! Mummy xxx"
With the surgery complete, Alison and Chris were able to hold their son for the first time since he'd fallen ill. This was a momentous event for the diary.
"Harry, This feeling is incredible! The cuddle that I have just had is the GREATEST cuddle that I have ever had. You are a lot calmer now and you are finally drifting off to sleep. You are one amazing little boy. Love you for ever and always, Mummy xx"
A week after the amputation, Harry was allowed home.
But although Harry went from strength to strength, Alison struggled to return to normal life.
"If Harry had a pair of trousers on you couldn't tell his leg was missing. It was like nothing had ever happened," she says.
"But I stopped going to baby groups as I didn't want people feeling sorry for me and I didn't want to hear other mums moaning when their baby had a cold or something."
Alison withdrew from her new mummy friends, causing Chris to worry she was becoming a hermit.
"I would tell him I'd been to a playgroup when I hadn't," Alison admits.
But Harry was such a sociable, happy little boy, who charmed everyone at his hospital appointments, that Alison knew she couldn't hide him away.
So last summer, she pulled a pair of shorts on him and took him to the park.
"There was this family pointing and whispering," she says, "but I took no notice of them."
Since then, Alison hasn't looked back. Yet, despite the doctors' assurances, Alison and Chris feared their son would never learn to walk like other children.
But at nine months old he amazed them both by learning to crawl on his stump. Soon afterwards, he began trying to pull himself up.
He wasn't due to get a prosthetic leg until he was older, but it was clear Harry wouldn't wait and the appointment was brought forward.
Then in February, just a year after his illness, Harry was at gym club when he suddenly started walking. Alison was so excited she stopped coaching, took a video on her phone and sent it to Chris at work, where he proudly showed it to all his pupils.
"Seeing him walk made us realise that we really could put everything behind us," says Alison.
"We will always be indebted to the staff at St Peter's, Evelina and Roehampton Prosthetic and Orthotic Clinic for helping him." Now aged 20 months, Harry is on his third leg, having worn out and outgrown the first two.
"He goes through legs like other children go through shoes!" says Alison.
And Harry has formed a firm bond with his leg, which he calls "Click Click" because of the noise it makes when it goes on.
"He likes to cuddle it and suck the toes when we take it off at night," laughs Alison.
"Harry is now affectionately known as Hopalong Harry.
"He has to see we're fine with everything. The other day I was putting sun cream on him when I suddenly realised I was rubbing it into his prosthetic leg!
"Another time I went to cut the nails on his right foot and realised there weren't any!"
It's a sign of how far they've come. 'Click Click' is as much a part of Harry as the rest of him. Harry is just like any other toddler.
He runs, jumps, bounces on the trampoline and has swimming lessons. He also loves going to his mum's gymnastics classes. His parents hope that one day he may even take up sport properly.
"We will support him to try any sport that he wants to take part in. He will always be encouraged to try everything!" says Alison.


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We remodeled our master bath earlier this year and I decided to make the counter tops myself from Bubinga. We had hired a contractor for most of the job and he was a bit concerned about a "homeowner" doing something as important as the counters, but he reluctantly agreed. He told me after the job was done that he's had some other customers on other jobs do part of the work and it didn't turn out too well — which could potentially affect his reputation. He was pretty happy with my work, and I was too. The substrate of the counter is two layers of MDF — one 3/4" and one 1/2" — screwed and glued together. The Bubinga was planed to 1/2" thickness and glued to the MDF. I finished the entire counter with copious amounts of Danish oil (natural, of course) and later applied about 6 coats of wipe-on polyurethane. The photos show the main counter as well as the counter for the vanity. After those were done, my contractor suggested making the shelf in our "potty room" from the same Bubinga — which is exactly what I did.
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Nice! The color really works well.
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Very elegant.
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24 May, 2016
FX News Today
RBA Governor Stevens: Very committed to inflation-targeting monetary policy, inflation very low and below the RBA's target, inflation target is not rigid and the inflation target does not demand kneejerk responses. Inflation targeting will work well into the future and finally there is quite some years of fiscal repair work for the government in the period ahead. More Dovish tones from Governor Stevens, AUDUSD down from overnight highs of 0.7256 to 0.7222 following his comments.
IMF "unconditional" debt relief for Greece: The conclusion of its debt sustainability analysis (it's first one of Greece since mid last year). The 10-year Greek yield was down by 28 bp, putting yields at the lowest since last November, after the Greek parliament today passed the latest EUR 5.4 bln austerity-measures package, which will qualify it for a EUR 11 bln injection of bailout cash. This should make it a formality for Eurozone officials to sign-off on at today's Eurogroup meeting. The IMF warns that Greek debt, which currently stands at 180% of GDP, would shoot to 300% of GDP without debt restructuring.
More Mixed US data : US Markit manufacturing PMI dipped to 50.5 in flash print for May, the lowest since September 2009. The index fell to 50.8 in April from 51.5 in March. It was 54.0 a year ago. The index hit a high of 57.9 in August 2014 and has generally been on a downward trajectory ever since. New orders declined versus April and are expanding at the slowest rate since December 2015, in large part thanks to weakness from foreign demand. But, input prices rose for a second straight month, though inflation remained moderate overall and was running at a slower overall pace than the series average. The recovery in producer sentiment from winter lows is proving more anemic than hoped, though sentiment has still increased on net since February despite May setbacks for the Empire State and Philly Fed headlines. The ISM-adjusted average of the major measures is poised to sustain the 51 April figure, following a 53 eight-month high in March, but much lower 49 averages in January and February. The employment components for both Empire State and Philly Fed increased, and we saw further gains in the Philly Fed price component as oil prices rebounded.
Fedspeak: Fed's Williams repeated 2 to 3 rate hikes seem about right for 2016, with 3 or 4 in 2017. The timing will depend on economic data, he cautioned, adding the Fed will move slowly on removing accommodation he added. The FOMC will leave the balance sheet as it is for now. He forecasts about 2% growth for this year, though there are some headwinds from abroad, but it's important that the Fed doesn't overreact to financial market turmoil. He remains concerned about low inflation expectations, however. He sees encouraging signs that wages are picking up, though low wages remain a puzzle. There's nothing new in these remarks from Williams, who is not a voter this year. Earlier, Bullard, a voter, speaking from Beijing, noted some data are supporting the FOMC's views for rate hikes, while other reports are supporting the lesser views of the markets. There are some signs that U.S. growth is below trend, though the labor market's performance has been very good.
Main Macro Events Today
German Final Q1 GDP: German Q1 GDP, which is likely to confirm overall growth at 0.7% q/q. The quarterly growth rate is much stronger than initially expected, and the breakdown, which will be released for the first time, likely to confirm that overall expansion was boosted by strong consumption and domestic demand. Survey data already points to a slowdown in growth dynamics in the second quarter and the different timing of Easter this year may distort comparisons, so that the first half of the year may have to be seen as a whole.
German May ZEW: German ZEW Economic Sentiment is seen improving to 11.4 from 11.2. Markets are starting to digest raised bets of a June Fed hike and with oil prices moving higher investor confidence seems to remain underpinned. Reduced Brexit bets may also help, but much will depend on when responses came in and there still is some risk of a negative surprise amid uncertainty as the period of ever easier monetary policies across the world is slowly coming to an end.
European Commission President Juncker and US President Trump agreed to suspend new tariffs during the negotiations which aim to lower barriers to transatlantic...
Nikkei gained 1.09% after a strong close on Wall Street and with the earnings season starting to overshadow lingering trade jitters at least for now. A weaker...
U.S. trade tariffs tightened market conditions. Coeure said that "while the effects of any tariffs on output and inflation may take time to materialise, falls...
China and Hong Kong alongside other markets were closed for Lunar New Year holidays, which muted trading, but the Nikkei gained 1.19%...
The U.S. currency has been correlating inversely with global stock market direction of late on the causation that risk-on phases have seen investors...
U.S. personal income rose 0.3% in November with spending up 0.6%. The 0.4% increase in October income was not revised. The 0.3% spending increase..
The FOMC meeting is front and center this week following the solid November jobs report on Friday, which provided the final bit of cover for...
Asian stock markets headed south again, as declines and energy and mining stocks led shares lower amid a further drop in metal prices. Concern China's regulators may limit the flow...
The rout on Chinese bond and stock markets that dominated Thursday's session faded and the Nikkei managed a 0.12% gain as the yen...
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These sequences were all photographed in Sussex and show a vixen out hunting among a large number of rabbits. She stalked them, but did not attempt to catch any; a more successful vixen bringing her catch back to her cubs; and a male (dog) fox catching a rabbit in long undergrowth.
Scientific name: Vulpes vulpes
Location: Sussex


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Even having been warned before hand that the sculptures on display were going to be much much smaller than the scale free poster suggested, it was still a shock on entering the exhibition to see the floor dotted with such tiny standing figures. Each one untitled, unelevated, seemingly unsupported (but actually held in place underneath by "gallery wax"*) and most surprisingly unfenced. The diminutive characters mill casually amongst the gallery attendees, presented equally as people in themselves rather than separated off as "the artwork".
One of the effects of this less than usual display method is it forces the viewer to crouch in order to properly see each piece, creating a greater level of engagement than simply gazing at something which had been bought up to your eye level - again something which adds to characterisation of the figures, making them appear as more than just inanimate representations.
The craftsmanship of the sculptures is amazing, single blocks of lime wood carved into flowing hair, limply dangling cigarettes and open bags filled with page-marked books. I would disagree with Towner themselves as to it being this element alone which creates the lifelike feeling of the work, and argue rather that this exhibition is very much the sum of all its parts; the pieces and display working in perfect tandem with each other to create a single effect.
If there is any problem with Suzuki's work however, it is the rather limiting nature of his choice of theme. Taking his characters from the "fashion and youth culture" of the area around his Hackney studio, does give you the feeling whilst wondering amongst the works, that you are crashing the worlds tiniest hipster party.
Your humble writer, in conversation with a work by Tomoaki Suzuki.
All in all though the exhibition is a triumph of both artistry and curation, I just hope that Suzuki eventually casts his keen eye over the far less fashionable masses which make up the rest of the world.
Come back soon for the thrilling second half; a general review of The Towner Gallery. In the mean time, I am off on holiday, toodleoo everyone!


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I learned a few interesting things, such as:
- "Green Feed is formulated based on a horse in a light exercise or maintenance situation."
- "The use of grain products in Green Feed is kept to a minimum to avoid competing with ingredients used in the human food chain."
- " The bag is made of recyclable and biodegradable materials."
- "This feed contains added levels of copper."
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text: JDSU announced today that it has licensed patent rights for fundamental picosecond laser technology to Hamamatsu Corp. for the development of microelectronic products. Hamamatsu, the Bridgewater, N.J.-based subsidiary of Hamamatsu Photonics KK of Japan, makes devices for the generation and measurement of infrared, visible and ultraviolet light, including photodiodes, photomultiplier tubes, infrared detectors and image sensors. JDSU has its headquarters in Milpitas and manufactures optical products and test-and-measurement solutions for the communications industry."Hamamatsu is excited to leverage key intellectual property from JDSU's extensive patent portfolio in order to provide compelling technology solutions to our customers," said Ken Kaufmann, vice president of marketing at Hamamatsu.Picosecond lasers have become one of the most effective solutions for micromachining because of their accuracy at sending quick and powerful pulses of laser light to an exact point on materials during the creation of very small products. The high precision of the lasers also minimizes heat damage to surrounding areas during the manufacturing process. Picosecond lasers are used for applications related to microsurgery, robotics, biological warfare detection and high-precision optical radar. "As a technology leader, JDSU continues to grow its intellectual property portfolio with new and compelling solutions. We are pleased to license technology to industry leaders like Hamamatsu," said Chris Castle, product line manager for the CCOP (Communication and Commercial Optical Products) business unit at JDSU. For more information, visit: www.jdsu.com


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Robert Charles Project, Inc.
To create a just and equitable society where the laws of the land work for ALL citizens equally.
Watching the Criminal Justice System...
with a Thousand Eyes!
Vision Statement
Mission Statement
The goal of RCP is to research, educate, advocate and when necessary, agitate for comprehensive, fair and equitable treatment in our nation's criminal justice industrial complex that heretofore has failed miserably in its' efforts to effect, enforce and enact laws in a system of justice that allegedly works for ALL the people of this great nation.
Drawing of Robert Charles in the
New Orleans Daily Picayune, July 27, 1900
Image Ownership: Public Domain


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Another new face here, so hello to everyone! After poking around for a fee days reading a number of the different tales and SCPs, I decided I'd like to try my hand at actually being a part of the process, so here is hoping I can manage to come up wit a few fun and interesting things to contribute!
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text: Has anyone ever checked the distance of availability of the wireless tether or the speed of it? I am kind of curious of how far the wireless tether reaches. I know the speed will vary due to network variances (cell tower closeness/users ) I overheard someone in a resturant say "i didn't know they had a wireless connection here?" Then i heard them say it the word "android". They were about 50 feet away so i couldn't really hear exactly what they were saying. All i know is they were surfing on a netbook and suddenly they weren't (my tether was on for my wife to have access on her ipod)


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Howard is a native New Yorker. He has been serving in ministry since 1984 when he accepted a position as campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Prior to joining InterVarsity, Howard worked in the business world for thirteen years. He found the transition to InterVarsity challenging as his new position did not only mean he would have to take a significant cut in salary, but he would also need to fund-raise his salary and ministry expenses; a totally new and foreign experience. Howard had no idea if his fund-raising efforts would succeed or flop. What he did know was that if God had, In fact, called him to serve InterVarsity, he would provide. God never fails. In each of the years Howard served InterVarsity, God richly blessed him with more than he needed for that year.
In 1988, Howard left InterVarsity and entered seminary where he graduated with a Master of Divinity in June of 1991. Upon graduation, he accepted a position as English Ministry (EM) Pastor at Queens Herald Church (QHC). Howard faithfully served QHC until Dec, 2000. In Jan, 2001 Howard agreed to serve as the full-time Executive Director of PaLM.
Upon taking on the role of Executive Director of PaLM, Howard broadened PaLM's mission to include and incorporate Korean EM pastors and their congregations since many of their problems and issues were similar to the EM issues of the Chinese church.
Howard is married to Fay. They have three lovely daughters named Samantha, Pamela and Tamaria.
Robert works for a consulting firm that does acoustical engineering and audio/video systems design. He attends the Chinese Evangelical Church in Chinatown and the Chinese Evangel Mission Church in Bayside where his son is a member. Bob is a veteran of several Asian American parachurch ministries including Chinatown Outreach for Christ (COC) and the Eastern Chinese Bible Conference (ECBC). Bob is a graduate of MIT. He and his wife Joyce are blessed with two children - Cheryl and Daniel.
Arnold is a native New Yorker. He formerly attended Grace Faith Church (GFC) and came to know the Lord as a teen through the ministry of the Eastern Chinese Bible Conference (E.C.B.C.). While attending GFC from 1964 through 1992, he served in various lay leadership positions and was the Treasurer on the Board of Deacons for many years. In the past, he has also worked on various E.C.B.C. and Family E.C.B.C. Committees. He is currently attending Gateway Cathedral and serves in the Ushering Ministry, is the Treasurer on the Board of Trustees, and member of the Gateway Academy Board. Gateway Cathedral is an evangelical interdenominational English-speaking church on Staten Island with approximately 1,500 congregants. For twenty-one years, Arnold worked at the First Chinese Presbyterian Community Affairs Home Attendant Program providing home care to 1,000 indigent elderly and disabled individuals in Manhattan with a focus on serving the Chinese speaking community. In addition to serving at his local church, he has served on various community and association boards such as the Advisory Committee for the Henry St. Settlement, Vladeck Cares Program (NORC Program), the NY County Task Force on Elder Abuse, the Home Care Council of New York City and the 1199 SEIU Home Care Pension Board. For the past eight years, Arnold has been employed by the NYC HRA as the Contracts Director of the Home Care Services Program that provides home care services to approximately 50,000 patients through contracts with 60 vendors. He is married and has three grown children.
Pastor Donald W. Yee is a 3rd generation ABC (Australian Born Chinese, that is!). In 2004 he immigrated to the U.S. from Sydney, Australia to serve at Boon Church of OCM in Flushing. There, he remained as the English Pastor until 2010, when God placed a burden on his heart to church plant. In 2011 the Alliance denomination and Redeemer City to City started training and preparing Donald to plant a church in NYC. In June 2012 Connection Alliance Church was officially launched in Flushing. Donald graduated from the Sydney Missionary Bible College and prior to that, served two years as a pastoral trainee under the Ministry Apprenticeship Program ( M.A.P.). Donald has a strong passion for the lost and the raising up of the next generation of ABC Christian leaders. He is married to the love of his life, Vivian, an American, and together they care for their children, Courtney and Ethan.


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A girl's name of English and Irish origin that is relatively unfamiliar today. Erlinda was most popular in 1949 and is currently not among the top 1000 U.S. girls' names. Meaning: Irish: pledge. English: noblewoman.
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Tonnage Tax Regulations 2000: Regulation 7
Plant and machinery used for the purposes of the company's offshore activities – writing-down basis
SI00/2303/REG7(1) This regulation applies to any asset mentioned in paragraph 110(2)(a) of Schedule 22, where –
(a) the provisions of Part II of the 1990 Act apply to the asset by virtue of paragraph 110(2) of Schedule 22, and
(b) the paragraph 112(2) amount or the paragraph 113(2) amount for the asset, as the case may be ("the relevant amount"), falls to be written down under paragraph 112(6) or 113(3) of Schedule 22.
(2) The written down value of the relevant amount shall be determined by applying regulation 4, 5 or 6, as the case may be, as if –
(a) the tax condition were omitted,
(b) for references to the paragraph 85(2)(a) amount there were substituted references to the relevant amount, and
(c) for regulation 4(4)(a) and (b) there were substituted a reference to the period mentioned in paragraph 112(6) or 113(3) of Schedule 22, as the case may be.
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The first set of Power Mac G5 benchmarks compiled by end users has been posted to the Internet. Chaosmint.com has posted a set of benchmarks for the entry-level 1.6 GHz Power Mac G5. The benchmarks were compiled by end users David Marcus and James F. Haw, and use two applications, Cinebench 2003 and XBench, to get the information. As Chaosmint.com points out, neither application is optimized for the G5. As such, they may well be irrelevant in the long run, but the results are the first such results published from a source not affiliated with Apple. From Chaosmint.com:
Some early benchmark numbers provided by David Marcus and James F. Haw (Thanks!).
These are benchmarks of Cinebench 2003 and XBench on a Single Processor 1.6GHz PowerMac G5.
Usual benchmark caveats apply -- including some extra ones.
- Benchmarks donit necessarily reflect real life performance
- These benchmark applications are not G5 aware. So, they may incur a performance hit if they use some outdated commands. ( see PowerPC G5 Performance Primer )
- Real-world applications with G5 optimizations are probably a better benchmark... but we donit have those yet
You can see the results themselves at Chaosmint.comis Web site. The results were published as raw numbers, without any kind of background information and contextual relevances. Anyone familiar with these apps is encouraged to offer their thoughts on the results in the comments below.


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State Records Committee Appeal 97-03
Joseph W. O'Keefe, Jr., Petitioner vs.
Utah State Retirement Systems, Respondent
Case No. 97-03
Petitioner, Joseph W. O'Keefe, Jr., seeks an order requiring Respondent to supply certain information that he considers "records" related to the base number of work hours per week for firefighters for purposes of the State Retirement System and related to lobbying on behalf on the Retirement Systems.
Petitioner presented written argument and documentation and appeared personally, presenting testimony and argument, at the hearing held July 15, 1997.
Respondent submitted letters to the committee through its counsel Kevin A. Howard, Esq. (June 4, 1997) and Gregory D. Phillips, Esq. of the law offices of Johnson & Hatch (July 7, 1997 and July 9, 1997). All three of these letters in behalf of Respondent asserted, on various grounds, that the State Records Committee did not have jurisdiction to hear Mr. O'Keefe's appeal against the Retirement Systems. A hearing was set for June 24, 1997 at which Mr. O'Keefe appeared. Upon the request of Respondent, the hearing was continued to July 15, 1997. Respondent, however, did not appear at the July 15, 1997, hearing, having informed the Committee by letter of July 7, 1997, that it would not do so "because such participation might be interpreted as consent to, or waiver of its argument of lack of, jurisdiction by the State Records Committee."
Not only did the Respondent's continuance inconvenience Petitioner, requiring two appearances instead of one, but Petitioner's argument in support of its refusal to appear at the time to which it had requested the matter be continued, based on waiver concerns, is misconceived inasmuch as a party can appear specially to contest jurisdiction without submitting itself to the jurisdiction of an adjudicative body. Further, if that were not true, Respondent's several written submissions could themselves be taken as consent to jurisdiction.
Respondent's absence rendered the hearing particularly difficult for the Committee, inasmuch as no one was present to respond to the Committee's questions regarding such matters as the relationship between the "board" and the "office," raised by the inconsistent use of those terms in Utah Code Ann. 49-1-201 (Supp. 1996), and whether the Retirement Board had adopted rules it is required to adopt under that same section.
Despite these concerns regarding the difficult position in which Respondent had placed Petitioner and the Committee, the Committee issues the following decision and order.
The appeal is denied. It appears to the Committee that Utah Code Ann. 49-1-201 (4) exempts the Retirement Office and Board from GRAMA on the basis of that subsection's exemption of the Board "from those acts which are applicable to state and other governmental entities under this code." This determination is not free from doubt, inasmuch as there is some question whether the "office" is exempted by the statute's exemption of the "board," and it is difficult to comprehend that the legislature intended to exempt the office and the board from all acts applicable to other governmental entities, and therefore difficult to know whether GRAMA, not specifically named as an act from which the Board was exempted, was included in the exemption. With some caution, we conclude that the context of 49-1-201, in view of that section's language as it stood prior to its amendment in 1996, requires inclusion of "office" within the term "board" as used in 49-1-201 (4), on the assumption that the "office" is governed by the "board," and conclude that GRAMA is within the broad language of the section's exemption.
The Committee laments the vastness of the exemption of 49-1-201 (4) that insulates the Retirement Board and Office from all "acts which are applicable to state and other governmental entities," and unanimously declares its support for the proposition that, as "a political subdivision of the state" (Utah State Retirement Office v. Salt Lake County, 780 P.2d 813, 815 (Utah 1989)) charged with carrying out the legal obligations of the state, ("[T]he Fund is a public entity closely related to the Retirement Office. The Fund was created to carry out the legal obligations of the state and its political subdivisions to retired public employees.") the Retirement Systems should be accountable to the people. We nevertheless follow the law as we understand it.
WHEREFORE, it is ordered that Petitioner's request for access to the requested information or records is denied.
Either party may appeal this Decision and Order to district court. The petition for review must be filed no later than 30 days after the date of this order. The petition for judicial review must be a complaint. The complaint and the appeals process are governed by the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure and by Utah Code Ann. 63-2- 404 (Supp. 1996) and 63-2-502 (7) (Supp. 1996). The Court is required to make its decision de novo. In order to protect its rights of appeal, a party may wish to seek advise from an attorney.
Entered this 18th day of July, 1997.
Acting Chair, State Records Committee
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It's known that the use of artificial lawns or grass can significantly reduce both residential and community water usage rates, especially in those areas where water in at scarcity. The natural grass lawns need a lot of water to keep it green and beautiful. The artificial turf is also credited with being better than natural grass because it stands up to heavy use in sports or for playgrounds. Also, grounds crew members say they like it because there's no lawn mowing, trimming or irrigation required for synthetic grass lawns.
AladdinGrass is China's leading artificial grass and artificial turf manufacturer and offers a huge range of Artificial Grass products such as artificial turf, artificial lawn, artificial plants, artificial foliages, synthetic grass, synthetic turf, home garden and amusement park for domestic, commercial as well as sporting facilities. These high-grade landscaping grasses are created by AladdinGrass on the basis of the nature look & feel principle. Most of our landscaping grass is non-infill products manufactured of polyethylene, polypropylene and polyamide yarns. The creative, safe and comfortable grass in our landscape & lawns range comes with a 6-8 year warranty even under extreme weather conditions. Factors that drive you to choose AladdinGrass for landscapes/lawns solutions:
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I've been working on generating qPCR standards in plasmid form. I have used the pCR4.1 Topo-TA system and verified a few clones using PCR for the presence of my insert (the two fragments I've cloned are 200 bp and 110 bp), the bands are nice and bright and correctly sized.
When I do a test qPCR run using SYBR green, I have no amplification. A positive control set of standards which used another template was successfully amplified. I also tried cleaning up the plasmids using precipitation to no avail. I have attached the conventional PCR, there are four clones for each insert and two negative controls.
Any idea what I have overlooked? Thanks to anyone who can help!
2X SYBR green
10 umoles each primer
in 20 ul reaction
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Anthony Weiner is headed toward another epic flameout from politics.
With just six weeks to go before the Democratic primary in the New York City mayor's race, Weiner has fallen all the way to fourth place, according to a Quinnipiac poll released Monday. What's more, a majority of Democratic primary voters now say he should abandon the race altogether.
Weiner's free fall in the polls is no surprise, coming a week after he admitted to sexting three more women even after his misadventures in online dating forced him to resign from Congress in 2011.
"It looks like former Congressman Anthony Weiner may have sexted himself right out of the race for New York City mayor," Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a release announcing the findings.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn now leads the field with 27 percent, followed by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio (21 percent), former Comptroller Bill Thompson (20 percent), and then Weiner (16 percent.) That's a net 15-point swing against Weiner in just one week. In Quinnipiac's previous survey — taken immediately before news of Weiner's latest extramarital shenanigans broke — the former congressman led the field with 26 percent, followed by Quinn at 22 percent.
The latest finding is in line with a Marist poll released last week that showed Weiner's support eroding to 16 percent. However, that poll, taken only a day after Weiner's lewd chats came to light, still put him in second place, because it did not show his erstwhile backers drifting to the other candidates just yet.
Quinnipiac's latest offering also shows that a majority of primary voters want Weiner to give up before voting even begins. Fifty-three percent of likely Democratic primary voters say Weiner should abandon his campaign, versus 40 percent who say he should stick it out. Meanwhile, just 14 percent say the phrase "has a strong personal moral character" adequately describes the candidate.
If Weiner somehow manages to rebuild his crumbling candidacy — his campaign chief quit over the weekend — and hang on for a second place finish, he would still likely get creamed in a runoff. If no candidate cracks 40 percent, there is an automatic runoff between the top two finishers. In the event of a runoff, the poll shows Weiner getting blown out by both Quinn (60-33) and Thompson (66-28) in head-to-head contests.