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As I entered the hide my doubts increased further – it was standing room only, and mostly dudes who didn't have a clue what they were looking at (but again, this is more likely just the norm at RSPB reserves rather than an indictment of 21st century twitching). Eventually I managed to work my way to the front of the hide and quickly got onto the pratincole, which was flying around over the meadow at the back of the scrape. And that's where it stayed, never coming anywhere near close enough to get even a record shot. But the scope views were perfectly adequate.
Also on view from the hide were a couple of summer plumaged Curlew Sandpipers and two 1st-summer Little Gulls, and a drake Garganey from the Reedbed hide. John had assured me that I couldn't fail to get good views of the 'quite tame' Corn Buntings here as well, which sounded promising as I haven't seen one for about ten years. However, I only saw two, one in flight and one perched on a bush about half a mile away.
But what a superb reserve Frampton Marsh is. Definitely worth a visit again when there are fewer people around. This panorama shows about a third of the reserve, and was taken from the sea wall behind the East hide (6 shots with the Sigma 150-500 on 150mm, 'photomerged' in Photoshop). The pratincole was somewhere to the left of this view (click for larger image):
I had further, slightly closer scope views of the bird from this bank, before heading back to the car for some lunch, accompanied by a 'grandstand' view of the visitor centre's septic tank being emptied. That bloke's just taking the piss, I thought....


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The U.S. military has withdrawn from Saudi Arabia its personnel who were coordinating with the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, and sharply reduced the number of staff elsewhere who were assisting in that planning, U.S. officials told Reuters. ...
The June staff withdrawal, which U.S. officials say followed a lull in air strikes in Yemen earlier this year, reduces Washington's day-to-day involvement in advising a campaign that has come under increasing scrutiny for causing civilian casualties. ...
U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the reduced staffing was not due to the growing international outcry over civilian casualties in the 16-month civil war that has killed more than 6,500 people in Yemen, about half of them civilians.
But the Pentagon, in some of its strongest language yet, also acknowledged concerns about the conflict, which has brought Yemen close to famine and cost more than $14 billion in damage to infrastructure and economic losses.
I'm not sure why the civilian casualties are a major factor in any decision we make. As I recently wrote, the 6,500 casualties in nearly a year and a half are really a low rate--assuming the casualty count is accurate.
And the article says that civilian casualties are half of the total, making the toll even smaller.
A "arms watchdog" group is calling for a reduction of arms to Saudi Arabia in punishment:
An arms watchdog on Monday urged major weapons exporters, including the United States and France, to cut sales to Saudi Arabia over its actions in Yemen, as a conference on global arms trade opened in Geneva.
As I noted, the death toll isn't that high compared to other wars. Plus, does the watchdog group account for enemies using human shields? Saudi Arabia is not obligated by the rules of war to refrain from striking valid military targets just because civilians are close. In that case, the responsibility for the civilian deaths lies with the side that places civilians close to their military assets for protection.
And the rebels seem to have plenty of weapons, as does Assad where the death toll of Syrian civilians is an order of magnitude greater than civilian deaths in Yemen (and possibly a couple orders of magnitude greater by now).
I don't know, but this whole issue sounds more like caving in to Iranian information operations designed to portray the Saudi-led intervention against Shia forces that Iran backs as bloodthirsty.
Why we'd go along with Iranian efforts to turn America into a responsible (according to Iranian definitions) power in the region is beyond me.
And given that the Obama administration prides itself in "leading from behind," why we'd undermine an ally actually willing to get in front of us is also beyond my powers of analysis.
But I've always been nuance deficient, I admit.


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You are hereThe Necessity of Sustainability
The Necessity of Sustainability
World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 19787)
From the Foreword by Chairperson Brundtland (pages ix – xiii)
"A global agenda for change—this was what the World Commission on Environment and Development was asked to formulate. It was an urgent call by the General Assembly of the United Nations:
To propose long-term environmental strategies for achieving sustainable development by the year 2000 and beyond.
To recommend ways concern for the environment may be translated into greater cooperation developing counting and between countries at different stages of economic and social development and lead to the achievement of common and mutually supportive objectives…
To consider ways and means by which the international community can deal more effectively with environmental concerns; and
To help define shared perceptions of long-term environmental issues and the appropriate efforts needed to deal successfully with the problems of protecting and enhancing the environment, a long term agenda for action."
"The present decade has been marked by a retreat from social concerns. Scientists bring to our attention urgent but complex problems bearing on our very survival: a warming globe, threats to the Earth's ozone layer, deserts consuming agricultural land. We respond by demanding more details, and by assigning the problems to institutions ill equipped to cope with them. Environmental degradation, first seen as mainly a problem of the rich nations and a side effect of industrial wealth, has become a survival issue for developing nations.
From Overview (page 1 & 4)
"In the middle of the 20th century, we saw our planet from space for the first time. Historians may eventually find that this vision had a greater impact on thought than did the Copernican revolution of the 16th century, which upset the human self-image by revealing that the Earth is not the centre of the universe. From space, we see a small and fragile ball dominated not by human activity and edifice but by a pattern of clouds, oceans, greenery, and soils. Humanity's inability to fit its doings into that pattern is changing planetary systems, fundamentally."…
"The planet is passing through a period of dramatic growth and fundamental change. Our human world of 5 (sic) billion must make room in a finite environment for another human world. The population could stabilize at between 8 and 14 billion sometime next century, according to UN projections. More than 90 per cent of the increase will occur in the poorest countries, and 90 per cent o that growth in already bursting cities.
Economic activity has multiplied to create a $13 trillion world economy, and this could grow five- or tenfold in the coming half-century. Industrial production has grown more than fiftyfold over the past century, four-fifths of this growth since 1950. Such figures reflect and presage profound impacts upon the biosphere."
Bill McKibben, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010)
From Chapter One (page 1 – 3)
"Imagine we live on a planet. Not our cozy, taken-for-granted earth, but a planet, a real one, with melting poles and dying forests and a heaving, corrosive sea, raked by winds, strafed by storms, scorched by heat. An inhospitable place.
It's hard. For the ten thousand years that constitute human civilization, we've existed in the sweetest of sweet spots. The temperature has barely budged; globally averaged, its swung in the narrowest of ranges, between fifty-eight and sixty degrees Fahrenheit. That's warm enough that the ice sheets retreated from the centers of our continents so we could grow grain, but cold enough that mountain glaciers provided drinking and irrigation water….
"Earth has changed in profound ways, ways that have already taken us out of the sweet spot where humans so long thrived. We're every day less the oasis and more the desert. The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has—even if we don't quite know it yet….
"By burning fossil fuel, have raised the temperature of the planet nearly a degree Celsius (more than a degree and a half Fahrenheit). A NASA study in December 2008 found that warming on that scale was enough to trigger a 45 percent increase in thunderheads above the ocean…generating "supercells" with torrents of rain and hail."
From Chapter Four (page 183 –185)
"To begin with, by this point it should be pretty clear that fossil fuels define "too big to fail." By burning every gallon of oil and cubic meter of gas and ton of coal we could find, we've managed to end the climatic stability that's marked human civilization. We've also managed to be our entire economy on the belief that these supplies will last forever, a bet we're now in the process of losing….
"So here's the needle we need to thread: in the space of just a few years we've got to switch away from fossil fuel.
First: if we are serious about returning the atmosphere to 350 parts per million carbon dioxide—which is what we must to do stabilize the planet even at its current state of disruption—we need to cut our fossil fuel use by a factor of twenty over the next few decades….
Second: it would be nice to replace at least some of that fossil fuel with something else, so that we're not returned entirely to a world of manual labor, where muscle power provides almost all the energy. Remember, a barrel of oil equals about eleven years of manual labor, and the average American uses the equivalent of sixty barrels a year.
Third: there is no easy way out. I've already described why we're not going to be able simply to build a lot of nuclear plants—expense mainly—or just convert our whole corn crop into gasoline (we need to eat it). But we're not going to toss up some solar panels and windmills and carry on as before either. We had our magic fuel: coal and gas and oil were amazing stuff, incredibly concentrated….
"Job one, on almost anyone's list, is conservation, because the less power we use, the less sun and wind we'll need to capture. The numbers are huge: the consulting firm McKinsey estimated in 2008 that existing technologies could cut world energy demand by 20 percent by 2020."
Amartya Sen Development is Freedom (New York: Anchor Books, 1999)
From The Preface (page xi – xiii)
"And yet we also live in a world with remarkable deprivation, destitution and oppression. There are many new problems as well as old ones, including persistence of poverty and unfulfilled elementary needs, occurrence of famines and widespread hunger, violation of elementary political freedoms as well as of basic liberties, extensive neglect of the interests and agency of women, and worsening threats to our environment and to the sustainability of our economic and social lives. Many of these deprivations can be observed, in one form or another, in rich countries as well as poor ones.
Overcoming these problems is a central part of the exercise of development. We have to recognize, it is argued here, the role of freedoms of different kinds in countering these afflications. Indeed, individual agency is, ultimately, central to addressing these deprivations. On the other hand, the freedom of agency that we individually have is inescapably qualified and constrained by the social, political and economic opportunities that are available to us….
"Expansion of freedom is viewed, in this approach, both as the primary end and as the principal means of development. Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency….
"This work outlines the need for an integrated analysis of economic, social and political activities, involving a variety of institutions and many interactive agencies. It concentrates particularly on the roles and interconnections between certain crucial instrumental freedoms, including economic opportunities, political freedoms, social facilities, transparency guarantees, and political security. Societal arrangements, involving many institutions the state, the market, the legal system, political parties, the media, public interest groups, and public discussion forums, among others) are investigated in terms of their contribution to enhancing and guaranteeing the substantive freedoms of individuals, seen as active agents of change, rather than as passive recipients of dispensed benefits."
From the Introduction (pages 3 – 4)
"Development can be seen, it is argued here, as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy. Focusing on human freedoms contrasts with narrower views of development, such as identifying development with the growth of gross national product, or with the rise in personal incomes, or with industrialization, or with technological advance, or with social modernization. Growth of GNP or of individual incomes can, of course, be very important as means to expanding the freedoms enjoyed by the members of the society. But freedoms depend also on other determinants, such as social and economic arrangements (for example, facilities for education and health care) as well as political and civil rights (for example, the liberty to participate in public discussion and scrutiny). Similarly, industrialization or technological progress or social modernization can substantially contribute to expanding human freedoms, but freedom depends on other influences as well. If freedom is what development advances, then there is a major argument for concentrating on that overarching objective, rather than on some particular means, or some specially chosen list of instruments. Viewing development in terms of expanding substantive freedoms directs attention to the ends that make development important, rather than merely to some of the means that, inter alia, play a prominent part in the process.
Development requires the removal of major sources of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity or repressive states. Despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers—perhaps even the majority—of people. Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses, or the opportunity to be adequately clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities. In other cases the unfreedom links closely to the lack of public facilities and social care, such as the absence of epidemiological programs, or of organized arrangements for health care or educational facilities, or of effective institutions for the maintenance of local peace and order. In still other cases, the violation of freedom results directly from a denial of political and civil liberties by authoritarian regimes and from imposed restrictions on the freedom to participate in the social, political and economic life of the community."
From Chapter 12 (page 292 – 293)
"I must also briefly discuss another relation which invites a comment, to wit, the relation between the literature on "human capital" and the focus in this work on "human capability" as an expression of freedom. In contemporary economic analysis the emphasis has, to a considerable extent, shifted from seeing capital accumulation in primarily physical terms to viewing it as a process in which the productive quality of human beings is integrally involved. For example, through education, learning, and skill formation, people can become much more productive over time, and this contributes greatly to the process of economic expansion….
"How does this shift relate to the view of development—development as freedom—presented in this book? More particularly, what, we may ask, is the connection between "human capital" orientation and the emphasis on "human capability" with which this study has been much concerned? Both seem to place humanity at the center of attention, but do they have differences as well as some congruence? At the risk of some oversimplification, it can be said that the literature on human capital tends to concentrate on the agency of human beings in augmenting production possibilities. The perspective of human capability focuses, on the other hand, on the ability—the substantive freedom—of people to lead the lives they have reason to value and to enhance the real choices they have. The two perspectives cannot be but related."
Herman E. Daly & John B. Cobb Jr., For the Common Good: Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994)
From the Introduction (pages 3 – 5)
"The wild facts of today and their conflict with standard economic theory both have a well-known history. During the past two centuries, the economy has transformed the character of the planet and especially of human life. It has done so chiefly by industrialization. Industry has vastly increased the productivity of workers, so vastly that in spite of the great population increases in industrialized nations, the good and services available to each have increased still more….
"But the industrial economy has consequences for the greater economy of life. Psychologists have been disturbed by what is happening to individuals. In 1937, Karen Horney cited the pressures on Americans created by their industrial, competitive, materialistic society. She noted that three basic value conflicts had arisen: 'aggressiveness grown so pronounced that it could no longer be reconciled with Christian brotherhood; desire for material goods so vigorously stimulated that it can never be satisfied, and expectations of untrammeled freedom soaring so high that they cannot be squared with the multitudes of restrictions and responsibilities that confine us all' (Hazel Henderson, Creating Alternative Futures, 1978, p. 25). Walter Weisskopf (Alienation and Economics, 1971) more recently has engaged in an extensive study of what the economy has done to human beings morally and existentially. He sees that it has worked against objective judgments of value and encouraged moral relativism. It has also emphasized a few aspects of human existence at the expense of others, and thus caused alienation.
Other critics have pointed out the negative social effects of economic progress. In moving words, Karl Polanyi, a great economic historian, described the social developments associated with the rise of the market as the "Satanic Mill." The opening sentence of his 1944 work states; 'At the heart of the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century there was an almost miraculous improvement in the tools of production, which was accomplished by a catastrophic dislocation of the lives of the common people.' (Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 1957 p.33) Joseph Schumpeter was equally troubled. He sees economic thought as part of the utilitarian philosophy that dominated the nineteenth century. "This system of ideas, developed in the eighteen century, recognizes no other regulatory principle than that of individual egoism….The essential fact is that, whether as cause or consequence, this philosophy expresses only too well the spirit of social irresponsibility which characterized the passion, and the secular, or rather secularized, state in the nineteenth century.' (Schumpeter, History of Political Economy, 7, no.3, 294-298).
Recently it has been ecologists especially and those whom they have aroused who have turned on the economy as the great villain. They see that the growth of the economy has meant the exponential increase of raw material inputs from the environment and waste outputs into the environment, and they see that little attention has been paid by economists either to the exhaustion of resources or to pollution. They complain that economists have not only ignored the source of inputs and the disposition of outputs, but also that they have encouraged he maximization of both, whereas living lightly in the world requires that throughput should be kept to the minimum sufficient to meet human needs."….
"Toward a Paradigm Shift in Economics: When a discipline is both this successful and this severely criticized, one may assume that its assumptions and methods apply well in some spheres and poorly in others. The key assumptions in this case have to do with Homo economicus, that is, the understanding of the nature of the human being. Economic theory builds on the propensity of individuals to act so as to optimize their own interests, a propensity clearly operative in market transactions and in many other areas of life. Economists typically identify intelligent pursuit of private gain with rationality, thus implying that other modes of behavior are not rational. These modes include other-regarding behavior and actions directed to the public good."
(From Page 21) "But a deep level of our being we find it hard to suppress the cry of anguish, the scream of horror—the wild words required to express wild realities. We human beings are being led to a dead end—all too literally. We are living by an ideology of death and accordingly we are destroying our own humanity and killing the planet. Even the one great success of the program that has governed us, the attainment of material affluence, is now giving way to poverty. The United States is just now gaining a foretaste of the suffering that global economics policies, so enthusiastically embraced, have inflicted on hundreds of millions of others. If we continue on our present paths, future generations, if there are to be any, are condemned to misery. The fact that many people of good will do not see this dead end is undeniably true, very regrettable."
David C. Korten The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (Bloomfield CT & San Francisco: Kumarian Press & Berrett-Koehler, 2006)
From pages 10, 11 & 13 "When power is centralized in distant government agencies or corporations, the life is sucked out of the community, and services are organized to serve the needs and convenience of the providers. Those who make the decisions prosper, and the local people bear the consequences….
"The centralization of authority was rarely the consequence of malicious intent. More often people were simply trying to do their jobs, unaware of the consequences of their actions. If things were going badly, the problem was assumed to be local, likely a failure to follow prescribed procedures. Training and tighter controls to assure compliance were the standard solutions—thus affirming the expertise and authority of the central power holders and the incapacity of those at the bottom….
"In its simplest terms, the theory underlying corporate-led economic globalization posits that human progress is best advanced by deregulating markets and eliminating economic borders to let unrestrained market forces determine economic priorities, allocate resources, and drive economic growth. It sounds like decentralization, but the reality is quite different….
"These costs have awakened millions of people to the reality that the health of a community depends in substantial measure on its ability to set its own economic priorities and control its own economic resources. Strong communities and material sufficiency are the true foundation of economic prosperity and security and an essential source of meaning. Street protests are one response to this awakening. Calls for reform of corporate legal structures are another. Less visible, but even more important, is a spreading commitment to rebuild local economies and communities from the bottom up."
From page 75 "As the familiar cultural and institutional guideposts of Empire disintegrate around us, we humans stand on the threshold of a rebirth no less dramatic than that of the monarch caterpillar….
"The conditions of the human rebirth are likely to be traumatic and filled with a sense of loss, particularly for those of us who have enjoyed the indulgences of Empire's excess. Our pain, however, pales by comparison with the needless, unconscionable suffering endured for five millennia by those whose humanity and right to life Empire has cruelly denied. If we the privileged embrace the moment, rather than fight it, we can turn the tragedy into an opportunity to claim our humanity and the true prosperity, security, and meaning of community.
The cultural and spiritual awakening underlying the prospective human metamorphosis is driven by two encounters: one with the cultural diversity of humanity and the other with the limits of the planet's ecosystem."
From page 313 "The work of the Great Turning is not to fix Empire. It is to birth a new era that makes the choice for life, gives expression to the higher potential of our nature, and restores to people, families, and communities the power that Empire has ursurped. The work is not to claim the dominator power of hierarchy for a better cause. It is to distribute power and eliminate the hierarchy….
"Offer a framework to help us all see more clearly how our often seemingly small and fragmented individual efforts can add up to a powerful social force to change the course of history as we break the silence, end our isolation, and change the story. Specifics will vary from country to country, depending on their distinctive histories and circumstances. The examples focus on the United States, where the challenge is particularly daunting. The principles are universal."


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genre: Post-Rock/Piano Rock
country: Italy
Winter Dust is a band from Padova, Italy. This was sent to me ages ago but I just got around to listening to it. It's a lot different from what I normally post but it was so interesting that I decided to post it. It's a mix of post-rock, pop, and ambient rock. There are some screamy parts though! Very piano driven. Fans of Moving Mountains and bands like that would probably love this.


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In Los Angeles, on the corner of Fairfax and Rosewood, dipped in all black, The Hundreds' first flagship shop stands at the center of the streetwear hub. There, Alexander Spit can often be seen working and/or smoking a cigarette in shades, taking in the L.A. breeze and smog. Diverse crowds gather in front of the store, across from Retna covered walls and movie posters in front of an empty lot. That diversity mixed with the young excitement surrounding the area and the multicultural influences that make up the scene must have truly influenced Spit's A Breathtaking Trip to that Otherside.
There's a psychedelic flare to his Otherside. Spit's production is covered with soothing smoothness reminiscent of Portishead, particularly shining on "A Breathtaking Trip" with Bago's piercing vocals backing him. Their chemistry returns later on "Sluts Kiss French," with a slowed down ambiance that allows Spit to flow along with Bago's harmony. That same sound mixes well with a raw and more traditional Hip Hop nod via scratches on the Alchemist assisted "Getaway Car." This changes again with a more Bay-centric "Ride (Chicken Wit The Odds)" and the E-40-fied "BNE Remix" with Mr. MFN Exquire. This mixture of styles works well for Spit as an intriguing sound bed adorns his release. But overall, it's a psychedelic ride, ending appropriately with "Death."
The trip is also one he takes with words. On "Black Magic On Blue Magic," Spit explains, "My spine is my coastline / So we gon' shine." Indeed, his words shine particularly with metaphors like that. He continues later with "Lakes," saying, "She gets stares from the passin' piranhas / But she the only swan left in the pond after tsunamis." While his Trip has much to praise with lines like those mentioned, there are also some bumps in the road. At times, Spit's production can outweigh his rhymes, overshadowing his mic presence, especially when songs have longer intros ("Honeymoon in a Motel Room"). Guests like E-40 and Action Bronson ("Artesia") also find it easy to overshadow the young emcee. But for the most part, Spit manages to craft intriguing cuts with words to match on the album.
In the end, it may not exactly be a Breathtaking Trip, but it does take the listener to a different side. And though it isn't without flaws, the album is intriguing enough to bring more ears to Spit's work. It is a great sign of what's to come from the emcee/producer both on the microphone and behind the boards. Much like that Hundreds store resting on Rosewood Avenue in Los Angeles, A Breathtaking Trip To That Otherside is a mixture of cultures, influences and styles and it's a strong introduction to Alexander Spit.


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Never was a movie more aptly named. Creep, released in 2014 by Blumhouse Productions, sinks its teeth into you before you realize it even has teeth and then, even after it's over, doesn't quite let you go. A beautiful blend of the macabre, the real, and the hilarious, Creep is an unnerving masterpiece of horror that fully earns its 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Hate horror, but love comedy? Love horror, but hate comedy? This bizarre clash of genres is a delightfully grotesque smash-up of the two. It'll make you feel as uncomfortable as often as you are amused, and as amused as often as you are terrified. And not in a campy way, thank the heavens.
The Plot
The plot is masterfully simple and, at times, unendurably close to home. Creep follows the story of Aaron, a young man low on cash who answers a Craigslist ad looking for a filming service. Aaron travels to a house set in the woods of a mountain town and encounters Josef, a terminally ill cancer patient who asks him to film him throughout the day to leave a record behind for his unborn son. A heartwarming story, to be sure, and Aaron readily agrees- but as time ticks on, Josef develops into a character full of uncomfortable quirks that eventually feel not just humorous but potentially unsafe.
The Style
Found-footage films always have the potential to offer a greater scare due to their documentary realism and their believable jerks and twitches. However, found-footage horror movies don't always deliver, and sometimes even stumble over their overly simplistic style. Creep never stumbles. Creep makes you stumble. You watch Creep through the eyes of Aaron, a relatable character whose shoes most of us could fit comfortably. Because Aaron is filming for most of the movie, his cringes become your cringes, and his discomfort becomes your discomfort. You may laugh at Aaron and his interactions with Josef at times, but for the most part… you become Aaron. And that, more than anything perhaps, is what lingers with you most.
The Humor
No, but really. It's hysterical. You'll laugh more than you ever expected to laugh while watching Creep, and it'll be none of that campy horror movie humor that we've come to expect from modern media. Oh, no. Creep relies on its ability to convey realistically uncomfortable situations and plants you firmly into them, both to your bemusement and, sometimes, to your terror. Be warned, however. The same humor that makes Creep into a relatable and potentially heartwarming story also makes Creep the ultimate horror movie. You won't forget when you laughed. And you won't forget when that laughter turned into open-mouthed, appalling disbelief.
Watch It
Our recommendation? Give it a go. If you're not a horror movie fan, this is the perfect movie to at least dip your toes into the genre. And, regardless of genre, it's a genuinely well-crafted piece. Nothing feels out of place in Creep because everything feels out of place, and it takes a truly exceptional director to make a movie like that happen, especially with the limited resources that found-footage offers. It's all about atmosphere, and in Creep, that atmosphere is masterfully executed. No pun intended.


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This error showed up on the forums, so I want to post about it here to explain what happened to cause this bug and explain the symptoms (you're left with a partially-created project).
During project creation (when you click Finish on the Project Creation Wizard aka PCW), the parts of the particular process methodology template (see the ProcessTemplate.xml file in the methodology template) will be run based on the order in the dependency information (no, I haven't tried to hose it up by making a dependency loop, but it sounds like fun :). The "Groups and Permissions" task is actually what creates the team project's application groups (see in the log entries like 'Creating application group for "Readers" URI' by the GSSStructureUploader module). As part of that module's work, it implicitly creates the built-in "Project Administrators" group (this creation isn't currently written in the log file, I've filed a bug to see if this is a change we can make for V1, but as long as GSS didn't fail, the Project Administrators group was indeed created). It was created before the other groups ("Readers", "Contributors", "Build Services", etc.), since it's part of the actual GSS creation/registration of the project. A couple of the useful things to note about the Project Administrators group is that it has all permission on the project (including DELETE, the permission to delete the project), and the user that's creating the project is automatically added to the Project Administrators group for the project (and because of this, can delete the project they just created).
Later on in the process, the Version Control task runs, creating a new folder and attempted to assign permissions to it (check out Version Control\VersionControl.xml in the process methodology template to see what is created, or to change it as desired). Specifically, it's going to attempt to assign all permissions on this new folder to the Project Administrators group.
Problem 1
Now, for performance reasons (obviously), we cache our permissions/group information, and with Beta3 there's a bug where that cache wasn't getting updated during the PCW run that created the new project groups. That means when the Version Control task ran, and it asked the server to assign permissions on that newly created folder, the server turns around and attempts to look up the groups. Unfortunately, because our cache is stale, we get an error that the group doesn't actually exist (even though it really does back in the database). The server throws an exception back to the client (the Version Control task), which throws an exception itself, and the PCW sees that things have gone all pear-shaped.
Problem 2
The PCW sees the exception and does what it can. It knows it couldn't get the project fully created (into the WellFormed state if you checked out my last post to list the team projects on the server), so it's going to attempt to clean up this partially-created project that's sitting on the server. The first thing the project-deleter code does is go ahead and check to see if the user has permission to delete the project. There are 2 ways a user can have that permission: 1) be in the Team Foundation Administrators group and 2) be in a group that has the DELETE permission on the project (typically, the Project Administrators group). Unfortunately, as stated above our groups and permissions cache is still stale, so even though this user should have passed the permissions check for DELETE on the project, our permissions cache is out of date, so that check fails. Because of this, our attempt to clean up our partially-created project fails.
The good news is that you can still delete this partial project even with the stale cache - a member of Team Foundation Administrators can run TfsDeleteProject /force and get it cleaned up. The /force option is necessary when you're expecting parts of the delete to fail (since parts of the creation didn't happen, or succeed) and want it to attempt to delete all the parts, and not just stop when it hits the first problem.
For beta3, for the user that's going to be creating projects, go ahead and add them to the "Team Foundation Administrators" group. This can be accomplished by using a member of the Service Accounts or other member of the Team Foundation Administrators group and adding the account as a member of that group. For instance, if your server name was Test01 and the account that's trying to run the Project Creation Wizard is called TfsSetup, you would run:
TFSSecurity.exe /server:Test01 /g+ "Team Foundation Administrators" TfsSetUp
This issue should only affect users that aren't members of the Team Foundation Administrators group (for instance, a user given CREATE_PROJECTS permission specifically), and has already been fixed in our current bits. Both of the 2 problems above have the same cause, and it's unfortunate that we didn't catch this in time for Beta3, but we've got it taken care of for our RTM bits. Hopefully you won't see this problem in your own usage of Beta3 of Team Foundation, but if you do, hopefully you'll find this explanatory post via some search engine 🙂
If you think this may have happened on your Team Foundation server but you're not sure, you can use the ListTeamProjects utility to see which team projects you have on your server and what state they're in. Any project in the [New] state is a candidate for being caused by this bug (partially created so it didn't make it to WellFormed, and could not be deleted).


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Cities of Mars "Celestial Mistress" EP
October 27, 2016
Cities of Mars
Interplanetary doom metal
In 1971, the Soviet Union landed a secret agent on Mars.
After her initial reports she vanished without a trace.The mission files and communications reports disappeared and all knowledge of the mission was buried.
Until now.
Celestial Mistress EP coming on an amazing 12" gatefold vinyl record via Suicide Records.
Cities of Mars is a heavy psychedelic/fuzz/doom trio hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden
and was formed in 2014. Songwriter, bassist and lyricist Danne Palm (ex-Marulk & Monolord) received word through the spacetime about a band that would not only feature crushing riffs and visceral, multi-layered vocals but also tell a tale about an ancient civilization on Mars,
brought back to life by a clandestine Soviet space program in the 1970's.
With inspiration from bands like Mastodon, The Sword and the Obsessed, a first batch of songs were created and a guitar player was found in Christoffer Norén (ex-Benevolent) and eventually
drummer/vocalist Johan Küchler joined and completed the trio.
In early summer of 2015, the band joined forces with producer Esben Willems (also drumming in Monolord) to record two tracks that began the saga of the cosmonaut Nadia – released as the Cyclopean Ritual/The Third Eye EP in August 2015.
After bringing their spacetime transmission to stages across the country in 2015/16 the story continued on the EP Celestial Mistress, released via Suicide Records in 2016.
The saga is now unfolding.
Release info:
Title: Celestial Mistress EP
Artist: Cities of Mars
Label: Suicide Records
Format: 12" gatefold vinyl LP
Catalog nr: SR027
Release Date: November 4th 2016
Tel: 0046739824245


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Under this head we shall deal with a number of files which were postponed for a discussion with the Chief Minister and in respect of which a decision was ultimately taken on the 24th December.
Rawalpindi speeches: 15-11-52.(A) Convention at Rawalpindi on 15th and 16th November 1952—The following extracts from speeches deserves notice :—
(1) Master Taj-ud-Din : Zafrullah will have to face a trial after his removal for anti-State and anti-Islam activities.
(2) Qazi Ehsan Ahmad : The struggle is between ghaddar and wafadar or between Violence is lawful. truth and falsehood. * * * In these days the terms interest and profit, bribe and fee, spy and prophet are synonymous. Violence is permissible for the protection of Islam, though not for its propagation. The Mirzais want to rejoin India.
Muhammad Miskin : Don't let Mirzais be buried in your graveyards.
Abdullah Shah : Mirzais were caught smuggling arms. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a Dajjal, a false nabi.
Master Taj-ud-Din (second day) 'Cease fire' had been manoeuvred by Mirzais. Not even during British regime was section 144 applied to mosques. If Government feel reluctant to declare the Ahmadis a minority, boycott them socially and economically. Ammunition weighing one maund, ten seers and four chataks had been imported into Rabwah. (How precise is the information !)
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed : In Gujranwala, shops were keeping separate utensils for Mirzais. (Which means, you also should do the same thing.)
Maulvi Muhammad All Jullundri : Mirzais were zindeeq and punishable with death. Every Muslim should add the word kazzab (liar) to the name of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Whoever kills a pretender gets the reward of a hundred martyrs.
Hakim Fazal Karim : Mirza was not a sharif insan (a gentleman).
Sayyad Ataullah Shah Bukhari : Mirza Sahib said he was impregnated by God. His God was guilty of an offence under section 376 P.P.C.
On 21st November, S. P. (B), reported that it was time Maulvi Muhammad Ali Action against Jullundri recommended. Jullundri was prosecuted or detained. This was an honour for Jullundri, because the speeches were unexceptionally good and it was difficult to make a choice. But the choice apparently was on the "order" side, and the "law" side was ignored. However, the D. I. G. wrote on the 25th November 1952 that the Chief Minister had directed that on return from Karachi he would hold a discussion and decide how to deal with militant and sectarian speeches.
(B) The Lyallpur Convention 26th and 27th September. Samundri, 28th September Lyallpur speeches : 26-9-52. — Sahibzada Faiz-ul-Hasan : Mirza Sahib was a man of low morals and worthy of prosecution under the Goondas Act as he had outraged the modesty of the Prophet's daughter, He and Zafrullah were goondas.
Sheikh Husam-ud-Din : Zafrullah is khabees, (This word means foul, abominable, wicked, filthy or impure.). He should be prosecuted.
Sayyad Ataullah Shah Bukhari related his favourite story about Queen Victoria. He added that Mirzais were responsible for the air crashes of Jangshahi and Kahuta.
On these speeches the D.I.G. suggested on 28th October 1952, that some kind of ban on Sayyed Ataullah Shah Ban on Ataullah Shah Bukhari recommended. Bukhari was necessary. He might be restricted to one district. The speeches were corrupting the nation. The Home Secretary said the time had come when Government should review the whole position. The tone and tenor of the speeches was highly mischievous. A meeting was suggested for discussion.
(C) Speeches made at Gullu shah fair (Sialkot) on 3rd October 1952 — Maulvi Bashir Ahmad and Qazi Manzur Ahmad said Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a liar and Dajjal and urged the boycott of Ahmadis. The latter added that if Mr. Daultana came to Mirza Sahib's help, he would be confronted with shoes. "If Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had said that he had placed his head on the knee of Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din's daughter, you would see what happens." (The reference is to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's vision that he had seen his head in the lap of the Prophet's daughter, but it was implied that he spoke as one speaks of his mother.)
Speeches on the 7th October : Maulvi Bashir Ahmad related a story of 1936 when one Dr. Ehsan Ali had raped a sister-in-law of Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, who had him punished with ten shoe-strokes given by herself. The shoe-strokes of the beloved fall gently like flowers. Islam prescribes stoning to death for adultery. If rape is committed with a woman of ——— 's family * * *."
Maulvi Karamat Ali thus spoke : "Mirza Ghulam Ahmad says : 'Arise, ye swine, and recite your prayers'. These are his manners. If Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din is a Sunni, then he also is the progeny of prostitutes and his womenfolk are bitches, says Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ."
One of the resolutions passed at this meeting was to the following effect : Renegades are put to death. This meeting demands of Government the declaration of Ahmadis as a minority community because they are renegades, and a renegade according to Islam is punishable with death. To put them to death is no offence in Islam and it is not the duty of Muslims to protect their lives and property. A renegade's life has no value, but this is so when there is an Islamic State.
On the 18th November 1952, the District Magistrate of Sialkot, at the instance of the Superintendent of District Magistrate recommends prosecution. Police, asked Government, in obedience to the policy letter of 5th July 1952, for permission to prosecute the aforesaid three speakers. S. P. (B) (Mr. Nazir Ahmad) noted that Manzur Ahmad was a staunch worker against Ahmadis while Bashir Ahmad was a bigoted Ahrari, Khateeb of Jamia Mosque at Pasrur and President of the local Majlis-i-Ahrar. Three days later, on 21-11-52, Mr. Nazir Ahmad noted that the prosecution of these persons will create a "fuss" in Sialkot, but Mr. Anwar Ali said: "We should lose no opportunity of prosecuting disruptionists who try to undermine the stability of the State at this juncture".
The case was kept pending until the meeting of the 24th December 1952, between the Chief Minister and his officers, when it was decided that "where a speech offends against ordinary law, legal action should be taken". But recommendation is not accepted because they are "petty people". On 3rd January 1953. Mr. Nazir Ahmad, while communicating this decision to the Superintendent of Police at Sialkot, added, entirely on his own responsibility, that he understood the three Maulvis in question to be "petty people", and that it would not serve any useful purpose if they were prosecuted. We think this conduct is unprecedented and very objectionable. Possibly the C.I.D. officer also felt that where his Government had extended divine tolerance to so many other offenders against law, he would not be far wrong in extending it to another few.
(D) The Sialkot Convention on 9th and 10th November 1952—Maulana Abul Hasanat Sayyad Muhammad Ahmad Qadri : Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din was "Allah Lok"—eating was a different matter. Some pahlwans were intended merely for eating. It made no difference whether he consumed one, two or twenty chickens.
Sahibzada Faiz-ul-Hasan : I would call Mirza Sahib a Dajjal and Kazzab. He had called those persons a breed of swine who did not believe in him. Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din and Mr. Daultana fall in that category.
Maulana Daud Ghaznavi: Qadian and Nankana were about to be declared open cities; the one delivered to Ahmadis, the other to Sikhs, through Chaudhri Muhammad Zafrullah Khan's effort, and it only remained for our foolish ministers to sign.
Master Taj-ud-Din : This 6 ft. 2 inches of a renegade, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan. Mandal and Zafrullah were both non-Muslims. Both were selected by the Qaid-i-Azam. Mandal had run away and it is not known when Zafrullah will do so. Zafrullah had himself declared that if he resigned, he would leave Pakistan. He should not be allowed to leave, but prosecuted.
Sheikh Husam-ud-Din : The British got the Mirzais established in order to ban Jihad. They were spies of the British. Two Ahmadi officers, a Major and a Lt. Colonel, were caught smuggling arms near Attock. And yet Gurmani and Daultana did not believe Maulana Abul Hasanat Sayyed Muhammad Ahmad when he told them that Mirzais were carrying arms to Rabwah.
(E) Conference at Shujabad on 19th and 20th November 1952 — Maulvi Ghulam Ghaus of Hazara : Mirza Ghulam Ahmad got his legs and thighs kneaded by women and Bhano was one of them. He used to see naked women and his son admitted that lie used liquor. (Why does he worry particularly about Bhano?)
Maulvi Muhammad Ali Jullundri : Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was his mother's darling but an owl's progeny nevertheless. The country was unfortunate in having Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din as Prime Minister, but his mother was fortunate to have a son who became Prime Minister.
Sayyad Ataullah Shah Bukhari : Mirza Mahmud Ahmad's father died in a latrine and mine in his house. When he died in the latrine, he vomited from the other side. Queen Victoria * * (the same old story). Mirza Sahib said he was made to feel like a female and Allah had intercourse with him. He remained pregnant for ten months, then there was pain. He caught hold of a tree and he was born. * * He urinated frequently during the day.
The D. I. G. said on the 8th of December 1952, on a report about these speeches, that the proper D. I. G. advises against unilateral action in law and order sphere. course would be to prosecute both these bodies (the Ahmadis also ?) but as the Central Government declines to define its attitude towards the Ahrar and Punjab Government cannot act unilaterally, he suggested merely a warning.
Really we were surprised. How can there be bilateral action in the matter of law and order?
In addition to the cases mentioned in (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E), the following files also were put up in the meeting of 24th December.
1. File relating to the speech of Maulvi Abdul Khanan of Campbellpur, Ahmadis fit to be murdered. that Mirzais were fit to be murdered and Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din was a Kafir, a murtadd, a fool and an ignorant person.
2. File relating to a poster "ذرا سوچيں تو ختم نبوت کا منکر کون ھے" issued by the Ahmadis early in October 1952. In effect, it said: "How can you believe in Khatm-i-Nubuwwat if you believe that Jesus is to appear one day?" The District Magistrate of Montgomery recommended prosecution but S. P. (B.) and D. I. G. did not agree. The Inspector-General, taking the same view added that the Ahmadis should be told for their own sake not to controversy.
We do not know how these cases were approached. We have no doubt that in a conference presided over Decision of 24th December 1952 : by the Minister in charge of law and order and including the most responsible officers of Government the question that the Ahrar had not honoured their "assurance" must have been the very first matter for discussion. We have no doubt that they were all convinced, as we are, that each of the speeches we have quoted offends the ordinary law, in which we include also section 23 of the Public Safety Act because it involves a trial according to ordinary procedure. What was it then that required particular discussion if the decision was to be only this, that where a speech offended against the There need have been no decision about ordinary law. ordinary law, the speaker should be prosecuted, but that no further action was necessary? Does it not mean that even the ordinary law was not functioning until the 24th December 1952? It means either this or it means that, in actual fact, no decision was taken.
But even after this date the ordinary law remained suspended. We have seen how Mr. Nazir Ahmad, Ordinary law remained suspended even afterwards. S. P. (B) suspended it on his own motion in the Gullu Shah case. He started with the plea that prosecution will lead to unnecessary fuss. He ended with saying that the speakers were too "petty" for prosecution. In all cases, one of these two positions must arise. The offender will be either an important person whose prosecution might rouse further agitation, or a petty person who is beneath contempt, and Mr. Nazir Ahmad covered both cases. He had noticed that the Gujranwala prosecutions had been withdrawn in July because people had become agitated; but that the Ragra of Bhera's "Mast Qalandar"—"an abusive and insulting criticism of the founder of the Ahmadism"—was ignored because the writer might gain notoriety if prosecuted.
The Government obtained an assurance from the Ahrar to safeguard the life, property and honour of No regard for religious and personal honour the Ahmadis. The Government themselves paid no regard to the religious honour of the Ahmadis as a body and to the personal honour of some important members of their community. They paid no regard even to the official dignity of the Prime Minister.
We said that even after the 24th December 1952, the ordinary law The "Azad", 12-11-52. remained suspended. Take, for instance, the "Azad" of 12th November 1952 (a daily organ of the Ahrar, edited by Master Taj-ud-Din), which made the following contribution to decency in its "editorial" :
On a resolution of protest by the Ahmadis of Montgomery, the Government Protest by Ahmadis to Central Government of Pakistan made a reference to the Punjab Government on 21st November 1952. The passage in question was examined by the Prosecuting Inspector, who reported that it was actionable under sections 153-A and 295-A of the Penal Code and section 21 of the Public Safety Act. S. P. (B) reported on 22nd December that it was the daily routine of the editor of the "Azad" to write defamatory articles against the Ahmadis. On the 26th December, two days after the decision of 24th December, the D. I. G. made a note that the article was clearly punishable under section 153-A and section 21 but that "the Central Government have given no guidance and this is exactly what we have been deploring so far", and that in view of the Centre's "apathy", the Provincial Government D.I.G. recommends no action because of Centre's "apathy" should not initiate any proceeding. Having recommended no action, he expressed disgust over the vehement abuse and insult so repeatedly piled on the founder and members of the Ahmadiyya community. "The article is of a piece with what is being done daily by Ahrar leaders and mullas. I will talk to Master Tajud Din".
Home Secretary and Chief Minister do not disagree.The Home Secretary agreed on the 29th December and the Chief Minister initialled the note on the 5th January 1953.
All sense of decency revolts at this decision. We had read this passage in Bad taste in the mouth. the 'Azad' earlier, but the D. I. G.'s note was read out to us while Mr. Daultana was being examined as a witness. When we read this note, we had a feeling which had better be left unexpressed. We could not believe our eyes and ears. What happened in the space of two days to alter the decision that at least ordinary legal remedies should be applied to these nasty situations? Had the Central Government become apathetic between the 24th and the 26th of December? If Master Taj-ud-Din was a particularly decent fellow, and some reason had to be found for condoning his fault, it was unbecoming to look for that reason in the apathy of the Centre. The irony of the situation lies in the fact that it was the Centre itself which brought this articles to the notice of the province.
Mr. Daultana says in court: "The Home Secretary agreed and so did I. Had any further action been Mr. Daultana's explanation. considered advisable by the officers, I would undoubtedly have agreed to it. The notes were based on the Pakistan Government letter which referred to the article in question for disposal. I have no recollection of having read the article or the note. My attention was directed to the fact that the D. I. G. wanted to take some action after meeting Master Taj-ud-Din and I was not required to give any particular decision. The question of Policy was quite clear, and officers could have acted. taking action against objectionable writings and speeches had been previously decided upon and the policy was quite clear. No reference was made to me to clarify any ambiguity in the order or to take specific instructions about a particular case".
But he added on a question by us that "if a glaring case of inaction by the D. I. G. or the But if it is a glaring case of inaction— Home Secretary came to me in the form of a note which was merely for information, it would be right for me to take action." Not only right, it should be his duty to act. For in such a case, the policy laid down by him will not have been pursued. The policy was to take action under ordinary law, and the D. I. G. refuses to take action, merely to spite the Central Government.
Further, we do not think the position which Mr. Daultana takes is correct as Mr. Daultana's stand is not correct. regards the files which were put up to him for information. They were not put up to him out of respect for being the Minister in charge. They were put up that he might be kept abreast of the situation and of the action which was being taken so that if he regards the action to be inadequate or excessive, he might amend or cancel it.
Similar inaction is noticeable in respect of speeches made on the 26th December 1952 Other cases of inaction. and the two following days at a Khatm-i-Nubuwwat Conference at Chiniot. The following extracts may be profitably reproduced:—
Master Taj-ud-Din—Zafrullah was not loyal to Pakistan but to his Khalifa. Watch his activities and sack him. Because the Ulama had demanded release of Ahrar leaders, religious discussion had been banned in Government offices.
M. Muhammad Ali Jullundri — An Ahmadi officer had sent a truck load of ammunition from the Ordnance Factory at Attock to Rabwah. Zafrullah had agreed to the retention of Indian officers in Kashmir. He was a traitor. He got Gurdaspur annexed to India. Both the Mirzais and Ahrar were opposed to the creation of Pakistan, but for different reasons—the former for political reasons, the letter on the basis of Mirza Ghulam, Ahmad's ilhams.
S. Muzaffar Ali Shamsi—Mirza, Ghulam Ahmad was a fasiq and fajir. Ghaffar Khan has been imprisoned because he is a traitor to Pakistan, but Zafrullah who is a traitor to the Prophet is Foreign Minister.
S. Ata Ullah Bukhari—The Muslims can unseat the Central Government as they did the Khizr Ministry, if they do not remove Zafrullah Khan. If people and the Government did not take effective steps, the British will set up a Mirzai Government at Rabwah.
The speeches were reported to the Chief Minister, who saw the report on 7th January in the new year. But no remarks were made and no action was suggested.


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The UConn football team had the week off after beating Syracuse in the first annual Pasqualoni Bowl earlier this month. They'll face Louisville Saturday in another Big East matchup but for now we're going to look way ahead to the NFL Draft.
The NFL held a lot of promise for a handful of 2010 Huskies players, but in the 10 weeks since the season began, only Cardinals fullback Anthony Sherman has been a steady contributor.
The 2010 Big East Offensive Player of the Year Jordan Todman was cut by the Chargers a few weeks ago, and Lawrence Wilson suffered the same fate in Carolina after he was arrested for speeding and possessing marijuana.
This year's team doesn't have the playmakers as last year's squad, but defensive tackle Kendall Reyes stands out as a legit NFL prospect. He's the anchor to UConn's defense -- literally and figuratively -- wreaking havoc in the backfield routinely blowing up running and passing plays.
So what are his chances of playing on Sundays next year? Pretty good, it turns out. ESPN.com's Mel Kiper has Reyes 25th on his list of top college prospects. And ESPN's NFL Draft Blog highlights Reyes as one of a handful of players capable of making the move from 4-3 defensive tackle to 3-4 defensive end.
More NFL teams are moving away from the more traditional 4-3 looks in favor of 3-4 fronts. Reyes, it turns out, is a perfect candidate, at least according to the experts.
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Reyes might end up fitting best on the inside in a four-man front, where he has the quick feet and hands to develop into an effective 3-technique (4-3 defensive tackle). He doesn't have prototypical height for a 5-technique candidate (4-3 defensive end), which raises concerns about his ability to locate the ball when locked up with NFL tackles.
However, his height shouldn't be a deal-breaker for 3-4 defenses. For starters, his upper-body strength and arm length both appear above-average. Secondly, he has lined up on the edge for the Huskies and even rushed the passer from a two-point stance. Finally, consider that Pittsburgh Steelers DE Ziggy Hood is an inch shorter than Reyes. Hood doesn't put up big numbers, but his contributions to one of the best defenses in the league validate taking him late in the first round of the 2009 draft.
Unlike, say, quarterback or wide receiver, it's not obvious if a defensive lineman fits the system. It requires much more attention to detail, which is why scouting is so important.
A lot can change between now and April, when the NFL Draft is held, but from the vantage point of November, Reyes sure seems like a top-round prospect. Of course, we thought Todman would be off the board by the third round and he lasted until the sixth. The lesson: the draft is more art than science.


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By Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) - 03/18/13 10:41 PM EDT
Two things surprised me when I met with President Obama last week.
First, I was surprised by how sincere the president sounded when he addressed our group. Whether that sincerity was real or not time will tell, but his superb oratory abilities had a way of convincing you that it was. Much like former President Clinton, this president doesn't "perform at" his audience, but makes you feel as though he is having a "conversation with" the audience. He spoke to emotions, laying out the problems our communities face with infrastructure and education and making his case that the only way to rectify such problems is by immediately increasing spending. While I agree there are improvements that can be made in those respective areas, I would draw a different conclusion as to the ways to fix those problems. But that's the heart of the argument we're about to have.
The second thing I was surprised by was how opposite our worldviews really are. To the president and his counterparts in the Senate, it's all about higher taxes to fund higher spending and increase regulation; in other words, a bigger and more intrusive government. That, they surmise, will lead us to a period of higher growth and economic prosperity. I do believe the president when he says he wants to get Americans back to work and reinvigorate our economy, but as Ronald Reagan famously said, "Government is not the answer to the problem. Government is the problem."
What does this big government problem look like? It's $16.5 trillion of debt, up 60 percent in four years; $3.70 per gallon of gas, up almost $2 per gallon in four years; a median home value of $178,900, a loss of nearly $20,000 in four years; and an average unemployment rate of 8.9 percent over the last four years. Although contradictory to its name, big government is anti-growth.
A true step toward economic growth would be what we have seen House Republicans propose — a budget that balances in 10 years and a plan to empower unemployed workers. The Ryan budget introduced last week reduces deficits by $4.6 trillion over the next decade without raising taxes. Smaller deficits will keep interest rates low, which will enable small businesses to expand and hire. My state of North Carolina is home to more than 800,000 small businesses. We understand the importance of creating an environment where small business thrives. Our local economy depends on it.
In addition to spending reductions, burdensome tax barriers should be removed. Americans currently spend 6 billion hours and $160 billion each year simply trying to solve our puzzling tax code. The Ryan budget improves this convoluted system by closing loopholes and consolidating tax rates down to two brackets: 10 percent and 25 percent. Americans can then plan accordingly for years to come.
There are other parts of the House Republicans' budget that Washington should embrace. It approves the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which will create 20,000 direct jobs and 118,000 indirect jobs; it gives states flexibility so they can tailor programs like Medicaid and food stamps to fit people's needs; and it repeals the president's healthcare takeover, replacing it with patient-centered reforms. That will lead to a very different future than the Senate Democrats' budget, which includes $1.5 trillion in increased tax revenue and opposes any spending cuts, except for the $240 billion to the Department of Defense.
In addition to proposing a comprehensive budget plan, House Republicans are advancing initiatives that empower the American worker. During a time of high unemployment, many people are forced to rely on the social safety net. While the safety net is important to have in place, the danger is that it can lull people into a life of dependency. We need to turn the hammock into a trampoline, propelling our citizens to greater heights.
Last week, the House introduced a bill to preserve work requirements for welfare programs, overriding the administration's decision to waive such requirements for participants. According to the Congressional Budget Office, waiving welfare work requirements increases welfare spending by $61 million. Policies like this do not offer hope to American families who are struggling to make ends meet. A permanent social welfare state robs a generation of the dignity of living off what they produce. We need to give people the tools they need to lift themselves out of hardship. Every American deserves a shot at the American dream.
House Republicans have a plan to change the course America is on, a pathway to fiscal sustainability that is only achieved through a vision of citizen empowerment and individual choice. The vision of the president and his Democratic counterparts outsources that same citizen empowerment to government. Remind me again, how's that been working out for everyone so far?
Hudson represents North Carolina's 8th congressional district.


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This is all a part of the Modi government's vision to create integrated oil and gas companies, and as announced by the Finance Minister in his 2017 Budget speech.
Sources told ET Now that the modalities of the IOC-Oil India merger are still to be finalised, and no call has been taken whether this should be an all cash deal or an all stock deal or a mix of cash and stock.
The timing of the IOC-Oil India also has to be determined. Sources said that while one view is to conclude the merger quickly and within this fiscal, there is another view to execute the merger once the ONGC-HPCL merger is closed. The rationale for the latter is there should be enough time for the government to conclude a 3% stake sale in IOC for which the Cabinet has already given the green signal, and also for ONGC to pare down its 14% odd stake in IOC to fund the 51% buyout of HPCL.
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I went on Facebook Live this past week sharing about being overwhelmed and how I try to manage it - I HATE that feeling - I get so many things running through my head, I feel like my head is spinning and then I just find myself with little ping-pong balls in my head and I FREEZE. "What do I do?" "Where do I start?" So I don't start anything. I don't do anything. I just sit there. And do nothing. How effective is that? Well...it's NOT!
My three tips to overcoming the overwhelm...
1. Clean up your space. Clutter makes my overwhelm worse! So I go to town ... Put things back in their spots, wipe down your kitchen cupboards, throw out old foods from the fridge, wipe down the table, wipe down your work space - ETC! Just clear it out and it'll help clear your mind too. (It works for me anyway!)
2. Take a half hour to do something that brings you joy. Don't have a half hour? Ok. Take 15 minutes. Pour yourself a glass of wine, take a bath, read a devotional, go for a walk - whatever! Just do it. You are worth that time and it is well spent when it helps clear your head!
3. Do a Brain Dump! I grab my planner and just start writing. Grab a notebook or whatever you prefer! I fill in my schedule with work shifts, events and upcoming "must-dos" and then I grab some post its and jot down my lists - "around the house" "for the lake" "for work" - feel free to label them according to your own needs!
At least those are things that help me! What do you do to overcome overwhelm? Or maybe you NEVER get overwhelmed...if that is the case will you teach me THAT?
Been suffering from some crazy writer's block lately and trying to find my rhythm. I have so many things I want to say to you guys some days, but having issues organizing it in my brain and spitting it out. Does that even make any sense? I guess it's probably my perfectionist tendencies coming out - I should JUST START typing and just do it already right? You ever have these issues?
Listening to our National Team Call for coaches this week was awesome. One of the guest speakers was a fellow coach who used to be an Anesthesiologist. In case you DON'T know what that means - they are the doctors that see all the patient's undergoing surgeries and other procedures that need the sleepy medicine. They are in charge of keeping you sleeping and comfortable during surgery! (so in a nutshell you better be nice to them. haha!)
She had always been into helping others not only through her Anesthesia occupation, but she also is really into fitness and taught classes and would educate others (even unknowingly) about nutrition. Every day she said she treated COUNTLESS patients that were very overweight and had other health issues stemming from poor nutrition and lack of activity. "If only I could have gotten to them years ago..." was a frequent thought in her mind. She started coaching because she loved passing along her love of health and since she had been using Beachbody programs and products for years it was a no-brainer to get the discount too! Her passion has grown for it SO MUCH that she is now doing it full time.
Can you IMAGINE what she has faced? What others have said to her? "You mean you AREN'T being a doctor any more? You are doing that silly coaching thing?" "You are turning away a six figure income you have worked so hard to get to build a business on your own?"
But when you feel called to do something you have to do it. She stated, "You wouldn't just walk by someone that was on fire would you? - You would help them." and that is EXACTLY how she feels about the health crisis in the United States with over 2/3 of Americans being obese! Talk about a woman on a mission.
So why do we look down on people like this? NO ONE should feel ashamed about pursuing their passion. It is scary to pursue something that you love when you feel like others are going to shame you for "wasting a degree."
Can I be transparent for a minute? I think about this a lot. I love being creative. I love creating. I love reading blogs, writing on my blog, creating posts, editing pictures. Coaching has been my side hustle for nearly three years now. Would I work this full time and completely give up nursing? No. So what is my goal? What is my purpose? After all, doesn't your purpose and destination have to be PERFECTLY CRYSTAL CLEAR?
My purpose and goals continue to evolve. And I'm ok with it. But one thing has remained the same. I continue to work on ME - mindset, body and soul. That search of balance in an unbalanced world - determined to quit caring about perfect. Continuing to serve others in their health goals. Working on building a life where I design my day. Dropping down to a .5 in nursing and working more on creating.
Are you actually working in the field that you went to school for? Would you ever dare to do something new? Or would you fear others' wrath of "wasting talent" or feeling shamed?
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