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not planed. TV Show was canceled.
Long before their famous adventures with the Rebel Alliance, R2-D2 and C-3PO were assigned to many different masters by the Intergalactic Droid Agency. In this animated series, the droids encounter many unforgettable people: greedy villains set on conquering planets, terrible space pirates, and brave heroes. Flying to different planets with their new master Jann Tosh and cargo pilot Jessica Meade, R2-D2 and C-3PO become heroes that will do anything to help their friends triumph over villainy.
C-3PO and R2-D2 have been dumped by their smuggler master on the desert planet of Ingo. As luck would have it, they meet the racing team of Thall Joben & Jord Dusat, who are desperate to find an Astomech droid to use as in their 'White Witch' speeder. Unfortunately, the racers get too close to Tig Fromm's secret base and are set upon by the infamous gang leader's son private army of war-droids. Unexpected help comes from the female freedom fighter Kea Moll.
Kea takes Thall, Jord and the droids to her home planet of Annoo. Once there, she reveals both her mother Demma and herself to be members of the Rebel Alliance out to find the location of the Trigon One in order to destroy it. Meanwhile, Sise Fromm himself has vowed to find the meddlers who stumbled upon his son's secret base. Little does he suspect the objects of his search to be stowing away on his ship to return to the base in question.
Thall Joben, Kea Moll and the droids are captured by the Fromm gang on Ingo, but Thall will only tell where he and Artoo have hidden the Trigon One weapon satellite to gang leader Sise Fromm himself. They are taken to the Fromm hideout on Annoo, where Jord Dusat and Demma Moll are already being held captive.
Thall Joben and Jord Dusat have finally arrived at the Boonta Speeder Race, but the disgraced Sise Fromm has followed them and hires Boba Fett to sabotage the meddling racers. The White Witch speeder is in need of some repairs before entering the race, and Threepio meets a droid, BL-17, who offers them the services of his master's garage. Little does the protocol droid suspect that BL-17 is owned by Boba Fett, who plans to enter the Boonta race himself in his Silver Speeder.
Artoo and Threepio lose their new jobs waiting tables at Doodnik's café and end up part of a droid auction. Together with an android that seems to be falling apart they are traded into the hands of Jann Tosh. Back at Jann's Uncle Gundy's Keschell mine, the broken down android turns out to be a an alien in disguise. After he saves Uncle Gundy during a cave in, they Jann decides to call the alien 'Kez-Iban'. But there is a reward out for the mysterious alien, and evil mining boss Kleb Zellock intends to earn it.
Jann Tosh and the droids are accompanying Prince Mon Julpa to his home planet of Tammuz-an, where he is to be crowned king. However, the evil vizier Zatec-Cha is scheming to get rid of Julpa and take the royal scepter for himself. Bounty hunter IG-88 closes in and captures both Julpa, who is thrown into a pit with a vicious Durkii by Zatec-Cha. Can Threepio and Artoo recover the scepter before first sun, at which time the new king must be crowned?
Pirate Kybo Ren-Cha has high-jacked a fuel transporter piloted by Jessica Meade and the droids. The pirates also capture Jann Tosh, who is accompanying her in an RZ-1 A-Wing interceptor and take them to their hidden base on the planet Tarnoonga. While captain Kybo plans to make Jessica his consort, Jann is thrown into the sea to be devoured by the Miridon sea monster.
Mon Julpa is holding peace negotiations with his warrior rival Lord Toda. Pirate Kybo Ren is sprung from his jail cell by his first mate Gyn Obah, and takes Toda's daughter Princess Gerin hostage during his escape. King Julpa surrenders himself to Lord Toda while his advisers Jann and Jess mount a rescue mission to the Bog moon of Bogden.
Jann Tosh and the droids are seeing to it that Prince Coby makes it safely to the Space Academy. While waiting to change ships at Zelakesh, Coby's rare and valuable pet Ingey is stolen by the Starhunters to be part of their Intergalactic Menagerie. An overwrought Coby forces Artoo and Threepio to 'borrow' a brand new Blachawk Destroyer to follow the Starhunters as they make their escape into Hyperspace.
The droids' new master, Mungo Boabab, plans to open up a new trade route to the Roon system and save his father's Merchant Fleet from financial ruin. While trailing the Rainbow comets over the planet Manga, his ship, Caravel, is high jacked by a tractor beam from the new Ambu light-station in the Cloak of Sith. Once aboard the station, Governor Koong mistakes Mungo for an emissary from Imperial Admiral Screed (an old enemy of Baobab). Koong had invited the Admiral to take a look at his illegal ware, including Mupple delicacies, the valuable explosive Nurgon 14, and the illusive Roonstones.
Mungo and the droids are shot down in their stolen Cloudcar over the planet Roon by Koong's drone pilots. The planet offers them many threats such as mud-men and a giant Shamunaar. Young athlete Auren Yomm comes to their rescue and Mungo decides to help her compete at the Roon Games. When Auren's Umbo racing team members Gee Long and Bix are drugged, Mungo and Threepio fill in for them during the Drainsweeper Race.
Mungo is about return to Manda when Auren presents him with a Roonstone. She leads him to Old Ogger, an old hermit living in a crashed freighter. Ogger is none other than Mungo's long lost uncle, who entrusts Mungo with his kit bag filled with six bags of Roonstones and plenty of clues to find their source. Hot on their trail, Governor Koong and Admiral Screed capture Mungo and friends and put them on a ship to Koong Island.
Governor Koong's plan to use germ warfare on the province of Umboo backfires when he becomes infected with Rooze himself. Healer Nilz Yomm is desperate to find a cure for his wife Bola, but he and his daughter Auren are abducted by Gaff to cure the governor. Mungo and the droids travel to Koong's frozen hideout to rescue the Yomms and manage to solve the last clues to find the source of the Roonstones in the process.
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What can I say My goal in last night Riverchasers event was to not bust out early and that is exactly what I did.Like Someone else said Snorting 300mg couldn't have had anything to do with it right????? what an assclown. the max dosage for ritalin is 60mg a day ( I looked it up). so this drug addict was taking 5 times the recomended daily dose and he is going to blame poker for his heart attack??????
Flush chasing Fucktards who call big raises with 97s preflop nice going donkey. and the Call on the flop was better.
Here was an interesting post on Pocket5's
poker can kill: "poker can kill
"After finishing up my usual 30 hour poker binge this morning I suffered a heart attack!
I'm in still in shock that this actually happened to me im thin and only 28. I called the ambulance after experincing sever chest pains, more like a fat dude was sitting on my chest.
I take ritalin after shortly truing adderall and the doctor at the hospital has banned me from taking anymore stimulants. This was probably one of the reaqsons for the heart attack. I was snorting about 300 mg a day when i was poker binging.
just thought id let evryone know that playing marathon sensions may not be too good for your health"
The NFL football draft was last weekend, Lots of stuff going on.
Here are the details of brady's restructuring,
- The raiders did the right thing in taking Jemarcus russell,
- The Miami Dolphins taking Ted Guinn jr instead of Brady Quinn.
- The Patriots taking The Stomper and then trading for Randy Moss
- Brady Restructuring to make room for Moss.
here are the details of quarterback Tom Brady's restructured contract:
The Patriots took Brady's $6 million base salary in 2007 and paid $5.28 million of it to Brady in the form of a signing bonus.
That lowered Brady's base salary in 2007 to $720,000.
By restructuring Brady's contract, the Patriots saved $3.96 million in cap space in 2007.
As for the rest of the deal, Brady's base salary remained the same in 2008, at $5 million.
His base salary increased to $5 million in 2009. He was previously scheduled to earn $2.3 million in base salary in 2009.
Brady's base salary remained the same in 2010, at $3.5 million.
Brady did not take a pay cut as part of the restructure.
MOSS DEAL: WR Randy Moss's base salary for 2007 is for $2.5 million. He has a $500,000 roster bonus as part of the deal. There are $1.5 million in escalators/incentives in the contract.
Is that not a No Lose situation for the Patriots??
You can listen to Bill Belichick comments about the draft and Moss here.
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Our highschool lasts five years, and involves an exam at the end of the final year, required to gain a diploma have access to further university education. It is classified as a "technical institute", as it offers both a wide theoretical education and a highly qualified technical specialization in one of these specific fields of studies:
IT and telecommunications,
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English is the only foreign language taught at school, but as we have a great number of students coming from all parts of the world, we can surely define our school as international and multi-cultural. ITIS Cardano has been engaged for more than 20 years in a constant pathway not only of acceptance, but above all inclusion of foreign students, providing Italian language courses for foreign students who have just arrived to our counrty.
The application of the CLIL teaching method has certainly
We are highly motivated in being part of your international network of schools. We believe that an exchange of ideas and opinions with teachers from other nations could suggest new ways for us to create a learning environment that is more and more language friendly.
We are strongly involved in:
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- wideningthe teacher's cultural horizons
- acquiring new tools for students to provide an up-to-date education
- changing the teaching model by developing new curricula and innovative teaching methods
A variety of projects realted to languages are constantly being carried out. For example, we prepare our students for the Cambridge Certificates and we host the Cambridge English
We want to develop a project that integrates ICT and modern teaching methods such as flipped classroom, cooperative learning, digital storytelling. Having students coming from all over the world is a richness that we would like to enhance with our project. We intend to promote a better understanding of the culture of the foreign students with the greater goal of embracing diversity and promoting integration. The project consists in the planning and creation of short videos that talk about the fo
There are two teachers that will be actively working on the project, and we would like them both to participate to the meeting in Gratz
Our students are generally well-versed when it comes to technology, nonetheless we would feel more confortable if we knew we could ask other teachers for advice as concerns the technical tools we might need to carry out our project (softwares we might download, items we might need, ...)
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Junior party in Portugal's ruling coalition says it will negotiate to save government
LISBON, Portugal – A spokesman for the junior party in Portugal's coalition government says it will negotiate terms with its senior partner to stay in the administration, saving the government from immediate collapse.
Popular Party official Luis Queiro announced Wednesday that party leader Paulo Portas, who quit as foreign minister in protest against austerity policies, will hold talks as soon as possible with Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
The two remaining Popular Party members of the Cabinet will stay in their jobs, though Queiro warned his party will carefully examine future spending cuts.
The Popular Party's possible departure sent financial markets into a tailspin because without its votes the government couldn't be sure of passing legislation in Parliament.
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Politicians are famous for not answering the question.
A colleague recently told me how in a Q and A session with some university managers it was amazing the ability that they had to not answer the question.
Undergraduate students in the humanities often write essays that don't answer the question being asked.
If at a seminar a nervous young graduate student misunderstands a question and struggles to answer it that is understandable. Similar things sometimes happen in job interviews.
However, this post is about something different, that is not excusable. Unfortunately, I am in the thick of reviewing a bunch of research grant proposals, from a range of fields. Here is my rant.
Previously, I posted about how the question "What are your major contributions to a research field?" gets irrelevant answers involving grants, job offers, journal impact factors, and citations, ....
I have now encountered a few more, paraphrased below.
What scientific hypothesis is this project testing?
That the project will make a significant contribution to the field (seriously!). It will generate new knowledge and insights.
What is the specific role of the investigator Professor Jones in the project?
He has published a lot of highly cited papers.
What is your most significant scientific accomplishment?
This excellent project will generate new insights and test key hypotheses in the field...
I should point out that applicants were not asked these questions, but rather they are writing something under a specific section heading. But, it helpful to think as the section heading as a question.
So when you are asked a question, listen carefully, pause, think, and then answer the question. Don't answer a different question, even if you think what you have to say is important.
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I want to make metallic sounding by summing time-shifted audio, and didn't find any possibility to do this without using external VSTs (which tbh is not good - external VSTs add complexity and dependency).
Comb filters and Delay-2 are pretty close as alternatives,
UPD: Comb filter actually does what I want, I just didn't know :)
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Comb filters work fine for this kind of effect. Also try blur.
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I've been asked to comment on Neale Donald Walsch. Walsch is a New Age guru who appears to have quite a following.
Perhaps the first thing to take note of is his birthdate. He was born in 1943. This means that he lived through the Sixties' counterculture, and it shows.
I myself lived through the Sixties, although I was a precocious observer rather than an active participant. But as I sample his blog, most-all of his stuff is warmed over Summer-of-Luv sentiment and rhetoric.
Indeed, the "New Age" is an allusion to a pop song from the period—"the dawning of the age of Aquarius." The New Age is a euphemism for the occult. This tends to go in cycles. The reason, I suppose, is that what is new to the younger generation is old hat for the older generation.
As I say, one period was the Sixties. The Beatles helped to popularize the occult through their dalliance with Hinduism. Another vehicle was Jonathan Livingstone Seagull—a deceptively innocuous fable that was a Trojan horse for the occult. It had a faddish following at the time. Then you also had astrologically-themed pop songs from the rock musical Hair.
Carlos Castaneda also did a lot to popularize shamanism—which began with Max Weber. While we're at it, we could toss Timothy Leary, Edgar Cayce, Rosemary's Baby, Anton LaVey, Jungian psychology, and Mircea Eliade into this witch's brew (pun intended).
The Sixties was a period rife with utopian, millenarian pretensions. A lot of hippies really thought they were going to usher in the golden age through acid, nudism, and rock music. Strawberry fields forever.
Another, earlier phase was Victorian theosophy, represented by the likes of Alister Crowley, Annie Besant, Mme Blavatsky, Bulwer-Lytton, Alfred Wallace, W. B. Yeats, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and so on and so forth.
This, in turn, was a throwback to "Christian" cabbalism and the revival of interest in the occult during the Renaissance, as exemplified by Pico della Mirandola, Giordano Bruno, et al. And this is all of a piece with the hermetic tradition.
The occult presents itself as a liberation movement, but it's just another form of bondage. If you study the history of these movements, the idealistic sales-pitch has an ugly underbelly. Here's some background literature on the subject:
David Berlinski, The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky: Astrology and the Art of Prediction (Harcout 2003).
Ronald Decker and Michael Dummett, A History of the Occult Tarot: 1870-1970 (Duckworth 2002).
Duane Garrett, Angels and the New Spirituality (B&H 1995).
Peter Jones, Spirit Wars (Winepress Publishing, 1997)
Gary North, Unholy Spirits: Occultism and the New Age Humanism (Institute for Christian Economics, 1988)
Van Akin Burd, Ruskin, Lady Mount-Temple and the Spiritualists (Brentham Press, 1982).
Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (University Of Chicago Press, 1991)
_____, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Routledge, 2001)
_____, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Routledge, 2001)
I'll be quoting and commenting on some excerpts from Walsch's blog:
One revealing admission he makes is the following statement:
"I knew Elizabeth Kübler-Ross well. I worked on her staff in the 1980s."
Kübler-Ross was a Swedish psychiatrist who made a big splash in the late Sixties (and beyond) with her pioneering work on NDEs. This, of itself, is a legitimate field of study. NDEs are a fairly modern phenomenon because it's only advances in medical science that make it possible to resuscitate a certain percentage of clinically dead patients. Before then, there wasn't much occasion to even deal with the issue of NDEs.
Unfortunately, she crossed over into necromancy and trafficking with "spirit-guides." Here she spells out her position in an interview:
KÜBLER-ROSS: The third reason why you cannot die alone is that you have a guardian angel. This spiritual guide-who's assigned to you and to you alone-helps you during your life, trying every means he or she can to keep you on course, so that you will do what you've committed yourself to do in this lifetime. When you die, you'll meet this guardian angel and experience instant recognition along with the greatest love you've ever felt.
Reincarnation was taught in Christianity for hundreds of years. The teaching of it was eventually forbidden by the First Ecumenical Council, for purely political reasons. And the Bible is full of references to guardian angels!
PLOWBOY: But most orthodox Christians also have a vision of damnation in their picture of the universe. In fact, Jesus himself referred to the fires of hell.
KÜBLER-ROSS: I believe that was symbolic language! It was meant to describe the fact that you will be so sorry when you review your life and see how many times you were given chances to live, to give to share ... but looked away. It's my contention that God is all love: made up of so much love you cannot even conceive of it.
Yet many so-called Christians judge other people. And many churches use fear and guilt to fill their pews. Why? Christianity teaches us to love our neighbors as ourselves. It does not discriminate or condemn. Christ, by his example, was the best teacher of unconditional love imaginable. He accepted and loved and healed and worked ... everywhere he went. He didn't ask people whether they attended such and such a church before helping them!
Regarding reincarnation, I assume that Kübler-Ross is alluding to the Gnostic apocrypha. Her theological revisionism was probably facilitated by the liberal Lutheranism of her native land. Some of this also dovetails with Swedenborg. As for guardian angels, read Garrett (see above).
If you compare her statements with Walsch's blog, you'll see how much they have in common. So what are we to make of Walsch? It could be that he's just a greedy flimflam man. Or it could be that he really is in contact with the dark side.
I'd add that these are not mutually exclusive interpretations. It's possible to be both a medium and a charlatan. The dark side can feed a medium just enough tantalizing "insights" to get him hooked. Then he has to pad out the rest.
Regarding his putative source of information, he makes the following claim:
"'Channeling', as I understand it, is the process by which a disembodied entity or spirit is 'brought through' a physical being. This would not be a description of what is occurring with me when I am having my conversations with God. I have called my experience 'inspired writing.' I think this is a much more accurate description of exactly what is occurring."
Unfortunately, this isn't a terribly clear explanation. "Inspired writing," in this setting, could be synonymous with "automatic writing"—which was standard practice in Victorian theosophy. Automatic writing is a form of channeling.
So how should we interpret his claim? On the one hand, it's quite possible that he really is in contact with the dark side. On the other hand, if he's truly "inspired," even in the diabolical sense of the term, then it's a little odd that the dark side is leaking information which bears an uncanny resemblance to the hackneyed themes of the Psychedelic Sixties, viz. peacenik oratory, the Sexual Revolution, &c. Old Horney needs to hire a new batch of screenwriters.
Why does "inspiration" sound so much like a tribal love-rock musical or coca-cola commercial? I've heard this sort of thing before, way back when I was a kid.
When the moon is in the Seventh House
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
The age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius! Aquarius!
When the moon is in the Seventh House
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
The age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!
As our hearts go beating through the night
We dance unto the dawn of day
To be the bearers of the water
Our light will lead the way
We are the spirit of the age of Aquarius
The age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
Angelic illumination
Rising fiery constellation
Traveling our starry courses
Guided by the cosmic forces
Oh, care for us; Aquarius
I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow-white turtle doves
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
(That's the song I hear)
I'd like to see the world for once
(Let the world sing today)
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace throughout the land
That's the song I hear
(That's the song I hear)
Let the world sing today
(Let the whole wide world keep singing)
A song of peace that echoes on
And never goes away
(Repeat 1st stanza and Chorus)
Put your hand in my hand
Let's begin today
Put your hand in my hand
Help me find a way
Moving along, one of the messages that "God" gave him is moral nihilism. Here are some samples:
The New Spirituality says that there is no such thing as right and wrong. There is only what works and what does not work in any moment, circumstance, or situation, and given what it is that you are trying to do.
There is nothing that is permanent. There is nothing that stays. Everything goes…There are no restrictions anymore. You can do anything you wish, say anything you wish, think anything you wish, because you're not trying to hold onto anything anymore. What's the point? You can't hold onto it anyway. It's all going to go away. In the end, if not before.
The Holy Experience is knowing this. Each moment becomes truly holy, because each moment ends. It cannot be held onto forever. Not a single moment can. Therefore, every single moment is sacred.
Because God is totally loving, God is totally accepting - for pure love is the rejection of nothing. Pure love is unconditional. In fact, all love in unconditional. Anything less than that is not love, but some counterfeit version of that.
Because love is unconditional, it accept everything. It does this by making no value judgments whatsoever. It does not call one thing good and another thing bad. A thing simply is. This is what CwG calls the Isness, and Isness has no goodness or badness to it.
Where we get into trouble in our lives is by attaching goodness or badness to a thing. We make value judgments, and those judgments create enormous difficulty for many reasons - not the least of which is that we keep changing them. One day we call a thing good and the next day we call the very same thing bad, depending on whether the thing we are judging serves our purposes or not.
Killing is another example. We think we have an absolute Right and an absolute Wrong around this, but the truth is, we can't make up our mind until we know and understand what the killing is for. Killing in self-defense, as an example, may not be called good, but most people and societies agree that it is not bad. So we find a third word. It may be, we say, necessary.
That means it is required in order for us to do what it is we want to do.
It is because of this reasoning that we call all attack a defense. In this way, we can morally justify it. Yet what if nothing in the world had to be morally justified?
The serial rapist and murder would appreciate Walsch's pragmatism. He gets orgasmic pleasure out of torturing a coed to death. That "works" for him.
Of course, there are some internal tensions in this message. For if nothing is good or evil, then there's no obligation to be loving or accepting, even as he defines love or acceptance.
And this tension comes out into the open as we read some of his other statements:
Do we really want to set up what amounts to the Morals Police? Do we really want to have our "undercover officers" sitting in stalls of men's rooms across America and "acting as if" they were ready and willing to engage in a sexual experience -- just to see who we can trap into responding to such a blatant invitation? Is this the proper role of the guardians of society? Is this the proper function of government?
Yet if government is not the proper vehicle through which societies ills are cleaned up, what is? Might it be a new cultural story altogether? A story that tells us that our sexuality need not be shameful -- even our sexual attraction to people of the same gender -- and therefore need not be hidden in dark places and sought out in furtive exchanges in our public restrooms?
And, of course. this is the same kind of thinking that allows terrorists and governments which act like terrorists to strike out at people all over the world -- innocent people, people with no ax to grind, people creating no trouble whatsoever, people wishing only for a joyous, creative, fulfilling, and peaceful existence -- killing them ruthlessly, with an utter disrespect for life.
Is this all part of the human condition? Is there nothing that can be done to turn the tide of such primitive behaviors? What kinds of beliefs could possibly form the basis of a value system that would not only allow, but actually recommend, violence as a course of action in the face of differing points of view -- and even in the face of what people on one side or the other of a disagreement would call "oppression"? Is there simply no way to heal this aspect of humanity's collective experience?
Once again, religious intolerance rears its ugly, ugly head. Once again, humanity has reminded itself just how far it has come (not very far), and just how far it has to go in the evolution of its species. Only a few days ago Pope Benedict XVI declared to all the world that the Most Holy Roman Catholic Church is the only one true Church in all the world, that all other churches are invalid, and that even other Christian denominations are "faulty." The Pope said that no other church offered a pathway to salvation. This is as much as saying that all people on the planet except Roman Catholics are going to hell.
This kind of behavior -- the "proclamation" of the Pope, the righteousness of those demonstrators in the Senate chamber -- is the shame of many Christians. I am aware (at least, I hope I am right about this) that the vast majority of Christians do not embrace or endorse such thoughts and feelings and beliefs.
But if there is no right or wrong, then why does he disapprove of the "Morals Police"? If there is no right and wrong, why does he disapprove of wanton violence? If there is no right and wrong, why does he disapprove of religious intolerance?
Besides, not all violence is wanton violence. What about cases in which violence is expedient? I see something I want, so I mug the victim. Murder him to eliminate the witness to the crime. That works in my situation—given what it is that I'm trying to do. What could be more practical?
Walsch is just another amoral moralist. A one-sided moral relativist. You and I are not allowed to be judgmental, but he is free to be judgmental.
"Dawkins has created quite a stir with his book, which he has titled The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin), and it is easy to understand why. He offers in his text virtually irrefutable arguments and clear-cut scientific evidence that the ancient God of organized religions simply does not exist."
Irrefutable? Seems to me that Dawkins' "irrefutable arguments" have been refuted many times over. For starters, check out the following material:
"I agree with Richard Dawkins that God is not a SuperBeing in the Sky, angry, vindictive, and violent except with those He loves because they love Him – in the way He wants and needs them to love Him. Richard has pulled all the stops to debunk that particular notion, to which I say bravo."
Of course, this is a caricature of Biblical theism, but even if it were accurate, why is Walsch rendering a value-judgment on the morality of Biblical theism? A moral nihilist is in no position to moralize about Biblical theism.
Moreover, he told us that pragmatism is his yardstick. Well, Christianity "works" for hundreds of millions of Christians.
"I also agree with the wonderful professor that God is not some sort of Top-Down-Power Over-Highest Life From who spends his days and nights witnessing and judging our every thought, word, and deed, granting or failing to grant our requests (based on some wholly unknown criteria), and punishing or rewarding us at the end of our lives (based on equally incomprehensible measures)."
What he is caricaturing in the notion of divine justice. That God rights the scales of justice. Evildoers who escape retribution in this life get their comeuppance in the afterlife—while the righteous, who suffer in justice in this life, are rewarded in the afterlife.
It's only a pampered liberal like Walsch, who's led a charmed existence in a country with a tradition of Christian ethics, who has the luxury of scoffing at justice—having suffered no grave injustice himself. Finally:
I believe in God because I have had a conversation with God. That is, I have had an inner dialogue with an essence and a source that has brought forth information I would never, could never, have dreamt of on my own. That conversation has made it clear to me that God is a process – the process of Life Itself—and that, therefore, the words God and Life are interchangeable.
Yet I am also saying that God can be used to produce those results intentionally. God is therefore not only a Process, but a Mechanism. A Device with which to produce (or make manifest) physical realities and physical outcomes. A Tool with which to seemingly create out of thin air.
You are the expression of life itself. So is everything around you. Even so-called inanimate objects are found, when examined under a microscope, to consist of particles constantly in motion. These particles and their movements are all part of life. Indeed, everything in the observable universe is life, in some form.
You are the expression of God itself. So is everything around you. Even so-called inanimate objects are found, when examined under a microscope, to consist of particles constantly in motion. These particles and their movements are all part of God. Indeed, everything in the observable universe is God, in some form.
The problem with all this is that it isn't possible to have a conversation with a process or mechanism or inanimate object. You can talk to plants and swear at malfunctioning appliances, but they don't talk back—unless you count prerecorded sound bites.
The only difference between Walsch and the longhaired hippies of the Aquarian age is that Walsch is a white-haired hippy. It didn't usher in the golden age 40-years ago. Why would it work today?
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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Just a correction: Kubler-Ross was Swiss born, not Swedish, and therefore probably not Lutheran, liberal or otherwise. Probably Reformed actually, although doubtless only nominal.ReplyDelete
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Call To Attraction is an exciting pop rock back out of Pittsburgh, PA. With a strong backing of catchy songs this band is primed to take over the scene. The band is made up of lead vocalist and guitarist Ryan Wood, lead guitarist and vocalist Josh Perrone, bassist Joe Mahoney, and drummer Dylan Wood. Take a look below at what they guys had to say when they talked with BareBones Ent.
BS: Call to Attraction is a pop rock band, what made you want to make that type of music?
C2A: I've always loved pop/rock music. It's just what I grew up listening too. Pop/Rock also has many of my favorite types of choruses. It really gets me into the song more.
BS: What is your favorite part about making music?
C2A: Listening to what I have created from my head and seeing our fans fall in love with the music.
BS: The band has been through some line-up changes through the years, what makes the current line-up special? Or brings something to Call to Attraction you haven't had before?
C2A: Our line-up changes happened for many reasons. Either school came into play, or some people just weren't free enough to take on C2A as a career. Being in a band is a full commitment. It's like getting married to 3 other dudes.
BS: Can you walk us through how a typical Call to Attraction song is written?
C2A: I write my songs in many unique ways. I first think of a catchy chorus melody and put words to it. I then picture myself in the crowd listening to this chorus and then I write what I would want the song to do next by what I felt in my imagination. It's really hard to explain honestly. Sometimes you can be sitting at work and whole song can pop into your head. It's almost like someone is telling me.
BS: Do you have a favorite song to play, and why?
C2A: Caught Me Dreaming is still my favorite song to play. All of our fans know the words to the song and that is just the greatest feeling ever to be on stage and see your fans singing the words to a song that you wrote.
BS: Your songs seem fun, what could someone who has never seen you play live expect from one of your shows?
C2A: A TON of energy. We have a very exciting stage presence. We like to keep the crowd involved throughout the whole set.
BS: You have an EP, What Comes Next, that came out in 2012, what has the response been like for it?
C2A: The response has been great! We sold many CD's at our shows throughout the year. Working with Kenneth and Zack was one of the best decisions for this band.
BS: You have a song on the EP called "Good Day", which is a good high-energy song. Can you share what the story behind the song is?
C2A: The song is aimed towards having a…good day haha. This one in particular is one of the songs I like to ask fans, well what does it mean to you? I have people come up to me all the time and they talk about what our songs have done for them. Not all the stories they give me are what I wrote about, but hey, if it works for them, I did my job:) I wrote it as me having a great time without a certain someone. But at the same time, I miss her not being there.
BS: Can fans expect new music from you in 2013?
C2A: Of course!!! We have so many demos waiting to be sent off to our producers. We are just waiting for the right time to jump in the studio when our budget allows.
BS: What are your goals for this year?
C2A: We are trying EXTREMELY hard to get signed to a record label. Also we are seeking a booking agent really bad. We are ready to tour our lives away. Just waiting for the opportunity.
BS: Is there anything else you would like to tell your fans?
C2A: Always! We want to thank everybody who has supported us over the years. Without you, we would not be able to keep doing what we do. Support local music and have a blast at our show or any other show. You guys make the music industry work.
Here's a bonus..it's too good of a song not to include
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When filmmakers want to terrify you in "traditional" ways, they add a score that signals dread. If you a hear a shrieking violin or a Gothic choir or a devil baby's lullaby then brace yourself for a good old-fashioned nightmare.
Sometimes, though, the terror needs to spring from an unexpected place, and that's when it's time for an ironic soundtrack. Nothing reminds us that evil lurks in every corner like watching a murder set to "Both Sides Now."
Here are some tunes that underscore (ha!) why ironic terror is such a popular trope, as well as one hit that's just waiting to get splattered with blood.
The Veteran: "Singin' in the Rain"
I'm sure there are movies that used subversively horrifying soundtracks before Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, but this is the standard bearer. "Singin' in the Rain" is a great song, full of wistful romance and memories of Gene Kelly on a lamppost, but in Kubrick's film, it's the anthem of a horrifying rape. The jolly tune makes the attack even more gut-wrenching, because it reminds us that for the attackers, the rape is just a lark.
(Warning: This scene is really disturbing, Don't watch with the kids around.)
The "bloody deeds and cheery tunes" approach has been carried on by recent flicks like American Psycho and David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and because those movies choose easy listening hits by Huey Lewis and Enya, they add extra commentary about the soullessness of the corporate music machine. Apparently, if you like "Orinoco Flow," then you're a sociopath. (But I'll support "Hip to Be Square" until I'm deep in the ground!)
The Incumbent -- "Row Row Row Your Boat"
It's a little cheap, if you ask me, but another good way to freak people out is to pair a scary moment with a children's song. Nothing creates dread like perverting the innocence of childhood, amirite? And if there's a ghost toddler floating around while a Jack-in-the-Box plays "Pop Goes the Weasel," then audiences will flip.
Tons of movies use this trick, including this fall's Insidious 2, which got some decent milage from "Row Row Row Your Boat:"
The Future Star -- "Marry You" by Bruno Mars
Don't you think it's time for Hollywood to gorify the wedding/engagement flash mob? We've been inundated with viral videos of bridesmaids doing choreography to Chris Brown's "Forever" and guys proposing while twenty friends dance to Christina Perri. Those things are almost always beautiful, which is why they're ripe for a horror makeover.
Obviously, the scene should be built around Bruno Mars' "Marry You," which inspired the best engagement flash mob I've ever seen. Seriously, this makes me cry EVERY TIME:
Now picture one of those street dancers getting devoured by an alien dog! We'd be storming into the theatre to see that movie, because it would rattle us to our viral core!


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As you know, Diwali is the most important festival in India. All indians especially Hindus celebrate the Diwali Every Year.
2018 Diwali Date
The Date of Diwali in 2018 is 7 November. Same date will be in India and all over the world. The Diwali Date is as per the planetory positions and so is not same for every year.
Day on 2018 Diwali
In 2018, Diwali will be on Wednesday.
How Diwali will be celebrated in 2018
- For Diwali celebrations Traditional earthen lamps will be there in 2018.
- Firecrackers are ban in Delhi NCR. Hopefully, in year 2018, crackers will be ban in All Over india.
- Everybody will dress in New clothes and will buy new stuff for them.
- People will worship God and Goddesses, particularly Laxmi – Ganesh. They are the givers of Wealth and prosperity.
Diwali celebrations are rocking. Not only in India, Indians residing all over world will celebrate diwali with Pomp and show.
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The History of Diwali involves Lord Rama. The festival is a resemblance of victory of Truth over Lie. Indian history has a very rich and powerful impressive background. If the people in Modern Era can apply the logics and rules of Ancient history, then surely they can make their life happy and peaceful. I am sure, with Diwali celebrations in 2018, you people will be able to get the lessons from the history and will realise that why the Culture is important. So, prepare for the festival i have given you the 2018 Diwali date.


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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Rick Sutcliffe was an ace and former Cy Young winner with many hobbies and occupations. But that didn't stop him from becoming a crime-fighting vigilante with psychic powers. Sutcliffe moonlighted as "The Shadow," a hero who influenced the minds of evildoers by making them see a few feet to the right or left of where he stood. When an opponent would fire a bullet or swing for the fences, The Shadow would let out his trademark laugh as the guns and bats fell silent. From where did these powers emerge? Was Sutcliffe born with this gift of mind control? Did he learn it from a sorcerer, warlock or hand-puppet master? The answer to all these questions, The Shadow knows, is no. The Shadow's powers came from the perfect fusion of two omnipotent sources: the feathered mullet and scraggly beard.


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The hordes who have been hanging on every word of my jihad on behalf of open access scientific publishing will probably consider it good news that this week's NEJM is, in an unprecedented move, largely open access. Yup, you can read two "perspectives" pieces, three research reports, two meta-analyses, and an editorial, all on the subject of the relative long-term safety and efficacy of drug eluting vs. bare metal stents.
The bad news is, it's highly unlikely that you care enough about this subject to take advantage of this exciting, one-time offer. If you do care enough -- perhaps because you or a loved one are considering or have recently undergone a stenting procedure -- what you really need to know probably boils down to less than this avalanche of information. So I find this decision by the NEJM editors rather odd. Usually their weekly open-access piece is an analysis of a policy or ethical issue that does have much broader public interest, and is more accessible to a broad readership.
Anyway, since they obviously think this is a matter of urgent public importance, let me give you my take on it. Stents, for those of you who don't know, are metal devices in the form of what might be called cylindrical baskets - sort of like those novelty "Chinese" handcuffs made of reed - that are inserted into blocked coronary arteries and then expanded to let the blood flow freely. The Prince of Insufficient Light, "Crashcart" Dick Cheney, is the proud owner of two or three of them.
They work fine, but in the end, the plaque often regrows over the stents and the arteries close up again. So, some companies started manufacturing stents with coatings that release compounds which inhibit regrowth of the plaque. In clinical trials, they worked well, albeit only with 9 months of follow-up, so the FDA approved two such devices in 2003 and 2004, with the proviso that the companies follow patients for 5 years to make sure no problems cropped up.
Alas, a conference presentation in 2006 found that after 7-18 months, people with drug eluting stents had worse outcomes than people with plain metal stents -- higher rates of heart attacks and cardiac death. It seems the problem was that blood clots (as opposed to atherosclerotic plaque) were forming at a higher rate on the drug eluting stents. Other studies tended to confirm or contradict this finding.
After wading through all the conflicting and uncertain data, William Maisel in one of those free perspective articles basically concludes that the drug eluting stents are superior for the situations in which they were first tested -- people with "discrete, previously untreated lesions in native coronary vessels." The problem seems to be that doctors have been using them "off label," in situations such as people who have had heart attacks (I'm being sloppy with the vernacular, we're really talking about a specific kind of heart attack called an Acute Myocardial Infarction, but you don't care), in coronary artery bypass grafts, and in more complicated or serious kinds of blockages. It turns out that 60% of use has been off-label. In these situations, it appears, the drug-eluting stents are riskier.
So all you really needed was Dr. Maisel's article. This turns out to be a very clear example of a pervasive problem in medicine today. Drugs and devices are approved for specific uses in specific populations, based on trials that are limited to those circumstances. Then the manufacturers start selling them for all sorts of other purposes. Surprise, surprise! Bad things happen.
The law says that once a device or a drug is approved, doctors can use it off-label. The manufacturers aren't supposed to market it for off-label uses, but wink wink -- detailers can do so very easily, and subtly, and not get caught. Also, there's nothing illegal about manufacturers doing small, underpowered, short-term trials that appear to support off label use and then publicizing them -- even though they don't provide good enough evidence to get the products approved for those uses. And the manufacturers certainly don't discourage off-label use. There have been a couple of cases of manufacturers getting into trouble for off-label marketing, but they are rare. Another recent example of off-label prescribing which has gotten a lot of attention is giving powerful psych meds to children. That one happens to really outrage me, and I hope to write about it soon.
So here's just one more example of the pervasive corruption in the medical industry. The news you can use here is that if you have coronary artery disease and you are considering stenting, make damn sure your doctor is familiar with these studies and discusses them with you in light of your particular circumstances. Believe me, the FDA is not going to protect you.
Friday, March 09, 2007
More than you wanted to know about drug eluting stents
The hordes who have been hanging on every word of my jihad on behalf of open access scientific publishing will probably consider it good news that this week's NEJM is, in an unprecedented move, largely open access. Yup, you can read two "perspectives" pieces, three research reports, two meta-analyses, and an editorial, all on the subject of the relative long-term safety and efficacy of drug eluting vs. bare metal stents.


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It was a day when Parliament was entirely given over to condolence motions to victims of the recent natural disasters, and celebrating the life of Corporal Richard Atkinson, killed in action in Afghanistan earlier this month. It was a day when Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Nationals Leader Warren Truss, among others, almost broke down during their speeches.
And it was a day when the Coalition finally released their proposed budget cuts to pay for flood relief.
All in all, a pretty full news cycle in terms of Australian politics. There was so much to choose from – bipartisanship, stories about those who died in the floods, pulling apart the budget cuts to see if they stacked up. It was a veritable smorgasbord.
So what became the focus of media attention?
A Prime Minister's tears, two words and seventy seconds of silence.
Julia Gillard's speech of condolence started fairly conventionally, setting the scene with formal words. Then, a few moments later, there was this:
'Here today, it's with very great sorrow that I offer words of condolence to Australians who are now facing this hard journey and to assure them they won't travel that hard journey alone – we won't let go Mr Speaker, we won't let go.'
As she said those words, Gillard's throat seemed to close over and her voice started to thicken and shake. As she continued, it was clear she was fighting back tears – a fight she lost. It wasn't until her closing remarks that she was able to compose herself. Even then, as she sat down, she looked shattered, surreptitiously wiping tears away while she listened to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's speech.
Those watching and commenting via the internet were stunned. There was clear empathy for Gillard, which was summed up by a tweet from @AshGebranious – 'Behold Australia. The real Julia'.
But then came the unbelievable accusations that Gillard was 'faking it'. Internet commentary was vicious – the mainstream media was more circumspect, but still …
Andrew Bolt danced around the issue – paraphrased, his blog (published within minutes of the speech's conclusion) boiled down to, 'I won't say she faked it, but it's awfully interesting that she should cry just when everyone's talking about how wooden she is'. He developed his theme later in The Daily Telegraph: it was 'too perfect, and timed too well'. Everyone would always wonder if those tears were real, he opined – not that he thought that, of course. Dennis Shanahan was a little more clever, confining himself to remarks that crying wouldn't save Gillard in the eyes of Australia. The 3AW blog commented cynically that it was 'better late than never'.
See what they did there?
It's not that they disbelieve her. It's just that she was so 'wooden' and 'robotic' that, well, it's difficult to credit. People could be forgiven for distrusting it. Why, only on Monday night people were talking about it on QandA.
Never mind that Warren Truss, hardly renowned for displaying emotional vulnerability, struggled to control his voice during his own speech. There was not even a hint that Truss might be faking it.
Never mind that Gillard – a notoriously private person who struggles to keep her personal life away from her political one – had tears in her eyes during the Apology to the Stolen Generations. That's long forgotten.
The emotion that Gillard displayed yesterday was very, very real. To believe she was faking, you'd have to credit her with a talent for acting worthy of Oscar nomination. To believe she was faking, you'd have to accept that she is so completely without any moral sense that she would deliberately work herself into a state where she nearly broke down several times just to get a bump in her approval rating.
Watch this video – it's a small snippet of the whole thing. There's nothing fake going on.
Then there was the sh*tstorm in a teacup that boiled over on Tony Abbott last night, courtesy of Channel 7.
Over three months ago Abbott, visiting troops in Afghanistan, engaged a group of soldiers in conversation about. The topic was the recent death of Lance-Corporal Jared McKinney. Ostensibly off-camera, the mic was nonetheless live and it was possible to make out what was being said. On being told, '"Was everything done perfectly? Absolutely not. Was it tragic? Absolutely,' Abbott nodded thoughtfully. He replied, 'It's pretty obvious that, uh, well, that sometimes shit happens'. At the time, the soldiers appeared to agree, and certainly no one visible in the footage seemed to take offence. Something must have pinged on Liberal strategists' radars, though, because for the Opposition engaged Channel 7 in an FOI fight to prevent the incident being aired.
Finally confronted with it by reporter Mark Riley, laptop in hand, Abbott replied, 'Look, you've taken this out of context. You weren't there. I would never seek to make light of the death of an Australian soldier.' Riley challenged him to supply the context. Abbott's reaction was extraordinary.
He stood staring at Riley for a full 70 seconds (although only 24 seconds was aired due to time constraints, according to Channel 7's Jodie Speers), jerking his head rapidly up and down and shaking slightly. Finally he said only, 'I've given you the response you deserve', and left.
Media and commentwitters alike leaped to their keyboards to get their reactions out. Shock was quickly followed by condemnation, but it wasn't long before it settled down into a prevailing opinion that there was nothing wrong with what Abbott said, but rather his reaction to being shown the footage – and that the real villain of the piece was Mark Riley.
Laurie Oakes said Abbott was 'stupid', while Hugh Riminton described it as an 'ugly' day for the Opposition Leader. There was wide support on the internet for the notion that Abbott should simply have punched Riley in the nose for pulling a stunt like that.
Then came the analysis, and the speculation. Abbott was clearly restraining his fury during that long silence. Why didn't he just deliver the smackdown to Riley? Was he lost for words? Can he just not handle an off-the-cuff situation? Was this the beginning of the end? Would it trigger a leadership spill?
It didn't stop there. Over twelve hours later, it's still the lead story. Members of the Australian Defence Force were invited to comment, as were Lance-Corporal McKinney's family. Anthony Albanese took the opportunity to sink the boot in, trying to create the impression that Abbott was completely insensitive.
And the man himself? Well, he was out on radio early this morning explaining himself with ever-more frayed patience.
All this over two words and seventy seconds of silence.
'Shit happens'. It's one of those all-purpose phrases that can mean everything from callous dismissal of another's trouble to a philosophical observation that sometimes all the preparation in the world can't prevent things going wrong. In Abbott's case, it was fairly obvious that he meant the latter. There was nothing insensitive about it. At worst, it was a clumsy attempt at camaraderie – Abbott trying to show rough sympathy to those who were all too familiar with the feeling of being powerless, who know that you simply can't anticipate every possibility. That sometimes, shit just happens.
The death of a soldier is something that strikes people deeply. Usually it's someone who is young, perhaps with a young family, who's put themselves in harm's way because we have asked them to do so. We hold it almost sacred – you don't politicise, you don't criticise, and you certainly don't exploit it for a sound bite.
Think of the anger and disgust that surges whenever someone comes out on Anzac Day to protest against war. Even people who might ordinarily feel that war is a terrible evil will condemn someone who decides to profane that day.
Now put yourself in Tony Abbott's shoes. An opportunistic reporter fronts up to needle him about what must have been a very difficult conversation – and chooses to do it on a day when emotions are already raw. The sense of mourning in the Parliament yesterday was very real, and it's fair to say that few in the chamber were unaffected. Add to that the fact that part of those speeches dealt with the death of another soldier serving in Afghanistan.
Suddenly 70 seconds of silence starts to look pretty understandable, doesn't it?
Watch the video. The interview starts about 1:30 minutes in, but it's clear from the surrounding context that the aim was always to exploit Lance-Corporal McKinney's death.
Sure, as a politician Abbott probably should have had an answer ready to clarify his remarks and rebuke Riley. Maybe he did have one. He knew he was going to be interviewed about his trip to Afghanistan, although perhaps not the specific questions. But when the moment came, Abbott didn't react as a politician. He was a man furious with someone who exploited a soldier's death.
What's remarkable is that Abbott didn't verbally flay Riley. He held it in and got himself under control enough to shut down the interview. I'm not sure many of us could have had that kind of restraint under the same circumstances.
So in the end, what we saw yesterday were two political leaders who, for a few moments, weren't politicians. They were vulnerable human beings showing us sorrow and outrage.
In our political milieu, the most frequent criticism of our elected representatives is that they are not 'genuine' – that all we get are scripted remarks designed to deflect scrutiny and convey exactly no information, and confected emotion carefully calculated for maximum appropriateness. It's extraordinary, then, that on a day when we saw politicians revealed as people, they received such vicious criticism. Gillard and Abbott were pilloried for doing exactly what we said we wanted them to do – step out from behind the political masks and show us the 'real' people underneath.
It's a truism that we get the government we deserve. If yesterday is anything to go by, if our leaders retreat to the safety of scripts and media advisors, we have no one to blame but ourselves.


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Yet, the printing machine industry is not consigned to obsolescence. Interest is emerging in new areas such as 3D printing and scanning and companies, seeking cost savings, are looking for new business models to meet their printing needs. New technologies, such as Internet of Things, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, are also enabling services and opportunities.
To develop standards for copying machines, printers and scanners, the ISO and IEC joint technical committee on information technology established its subcommittee on office equipment, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 28. At the recent JTC 1 Plenary in New Delhi, e-tech spoke with the Chair of SC 28, Takashi Ito who provided an update on the work of the subcommittee as well as its plans for the future.
Explaining the scope
SC 28 is one of the few JTC 1 subcommittees that produces standards for products and hardware. Standards focus on product specification descriptors, methods for measuring the productivity of the devices, the quality of the output and the yield of the consumables such as ink and toner cartridges.
According to Ito, "SC 28 has created a lot of standards for office equipment such as copying machines and printers. These standards address specifications for office equipment, the colour of the printing, measurement methods for printed image quality and toner ink cartridge".
Increasingly, data collected by printers and scanners can be useful for manufacturers to better understand the needs of their customers. Ito notes, "the data also helps us to improve our machines".
Since its establishment in 1989, SC 28 has published 33 standards for office equipment. As Ito explains, "at this point, we want to undertake a thorough review of our standards. This means that we will get rid of obsolete standards and revise other standards as needed. We are undertaking a lot of maintenance work".
Making printers and copiers easily accessible to the disabled is one area where standards are in the process of being updated. Features such as simplified displays to help those with weak eyesight, reduced height of multifunctional printers and easy sliding trays are a few examples. "ISO/IEC 10779 accessibility guidelines from 2008 have been updated and a new version will be published in early 2020", Ito remarks.
Overcoming challenges
One of the biggest challenges facing SC 28 remains: the office equipment industry is quite small. Only 32 members participate in the work of SC 28 given that few countries have office equipment industries.
Ito admits, "we are worried about the number of participants and the number of national bodies. Printers are primarily made in Japan and the United States so it is a very small group. But we continue to reach out to potential members and are always happy to welcome new members".
Looking to the future
New technologies are enabling new opportunities for the printing machine industry.
According to Statista, global spending on 3D printers is projected to reach USD 7,8 billion by 2022. Interest in these applications has surged in recent years as affordable desktop 3D devices are increasingly found in office environments where they are particularly relevant for architectural, industrial and art design firms.
In 2015, SC 28 expanded its scope to include 3D printing and scanning. Ito notes that "SC 28 is looking at productivity in 3D printing. For example, with conventional printers, we provide measurements of how many copies are produced per minute. For 3D printing and scanning, we will look at how many hours are needed for production". SC 28 has also established liaisons with the JTC 1 working group on 3D printing, ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 12.
Other technologies such as IoT and cloud computing are providing opportunities to offer new print services. For example, companies may outsource their printing needs or use networks to centralize their printing needs. Data collected from the printing network can be used to identify underperforming machines or automate the delivery of printing supplies. And remote printing from off-site locations and from any devices is possible. To leverage some of these new opportunities, SC 28 has set up a liaison with the JTC 1 subcommittee on the Internet of Things, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41.
The introduction of networked services can bring security risks. "As you know, SC 27 handles security", remarks Ito. "They developed general concepts and principles for IT products with their standard ISO/IEC 15408 which describes how to evaluate security".
"However, the criteria in ISO/IEC 15408 have an associated cost and time burden for certification which means that it is only practical for higher class machines. But we want to keep the smaller machines, such as support machines, secure so we want to develop such security standards for them", explains Ito. Based upon the results of its study group to assess new opportunities for office equipment, SC 28 will address security for mid- to low-end office equipment in a new preliminary work item.
Another area of interest includes environmentally friendly machines. According to Ito, "the environment is becoming a big market. We need to support this market by offering standards or guidelines to minimize energy and paper consumption. Another issue is refurbishment and maintaining the quality of products when using used parts".


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Personal time or relax time is often why people want to learn how they can squeeze an hour or so out of their busy day. Often though, personal time becomes television time. You may think that if you only have an hour left before going to bed, there's not enough time to start something so you might as well just watch T.V.
That's where you're wrong. You plan your day (even if you don't know it) by working from 9:00 to 5:00, commuting from 8:00 to 9:00 and 5:00 to 6:00. Having lunch from 12:00 to 1:00 and preparing and eating dinner from 6:00 to 7:00. Why can't you plan what you're going to do with the hour that's left just for you before going to bed?
If you chose to eliminate television from your evenings, you could reclaim at least an hour to develop yourself personally. You could learn new skills that you've been putting off like a new language, painting, starting your own company. You could invest your time on reading books that will enable you to start a new hobby or plan the trip of a lifetime. By reading and learning for only one hour a day about things that interest you, you would spend 365 hours per year on becoming a specialist at what you truly love. Who needs to go to night classes with that?! By spending only one hour a day on yourself, you will open up endless possibilities, become a new and improved person who has a life outside of work and therefore does not depend on work to have a life.
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In the same manner that the Israelites had their traditions to remember their heritage and what God had done for them, many families have holiday traditions. These practices help create family memories and solidify bonds.
Because of our family constitution (step-children and "other" parents), we have been creative in establishing traditions. We recognize the importance traditions hold, so we continue to instill them into our lives but follow them loosely. By that I mean that we aren't bound by them or bothered if we have to change a few things around to fit our schedule. For example, a few years ago when Christmas fell on a Sunday we followed our "Christmas morning ritual" on Christmas Eve morning.
Our traditions include:
1 – Christmas Tree – We have our pattern. Don and the children build the tree (we go artificial here), and I put on the lights. Some church ladies taught me how to weave the lights in and out of the branches which makes for a more illuminated and prettier tree. The children then decorate with our unsophisticated store bought and homemade ornaments. A few peculiar ones remind us of stories and cause us to laugh. And we each have our "special" ornaments.
2 – Christmas Music – On this point I am a stickler: Christmas music may not be played until after Thanksgiving. After that I listen to it as often as possible, and we always play it while assembling the tree. We have our favorite CDs – the ones that generate a, "Remember this . . ." comment or story – and usually add to the collection each year.
3 – Advent Story – While we maintain a flexible schedule, we read part of an advent story and light advent candles each day during advent. When our older boys were in Kindergarten I stumbled on a story entitled Jotham's Journey. The next two years I purchased the other two books in the series. Since that time, we have rotated through them, reading one each year. The stories aid us in focusing on the purpose of our celebration, Christ and His birth. They also remind us how to live and assist us in looking forward to His second coming.
4 – Anonymous Gift – Each year our family gives an anonymous monetary gift to a family or person in need. This tradition reflects what Christ has done for us and teaches our children the gift of giving.
5 – Foods & Crafts – Some foods smell like Christmas! During this season I bake more, and the children spend more time making crafts (remember those homemade ornaments mentioned in #1?).
6 – Christmas Eve Service – We have attended services at several different churches and enjoy the awe and wonder inspired by candlelight, quiet hymns, the reading of the Christmas story, worshiping with God's people, and other blessings a Christmas Eve service includes.
7 – Christmas Breakfast – Don is a great cook and enjoys serving a big breakfast as part of our celebration. But I must admit we don't always have this breakfast on Christmas morning. If we are traveling (which has been the case for the past few years), we adapt by having this meal on a different day.
8 – Quiet Exchange – Don and I prefer to exchange gifts without the children around, so we usually break ours out after the kids go to bed Christmas Eve.
9 – Exchange Gifts & Stockings – We do not purchase elaborate or expensive gifts, but we do participate in the giving of gifts and stocking stuffers. I think it's fun and the kids enjoy selecting presents to fit each family member's personality. More recently we have established a routine as to when and how we open gifts, but in the past we have been flexible on our plans as usually there was one or two family members missing on Christmas morning. Periodically we allow the children to open a gift or two Christmas Eve but usually open on Christmas morning (unless we are traveling).
10 – Extended Family – This is the time of year my heart aches for those I grew up with. Both Don's family and mine are spread far and wide throughout the United States. Unfortunately we are unable to visit with most of them but, when possible, we drive to my mom's.
I pray these traditions help my children connect Christmas with family and Christ's birth.


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The Complete Guide to Making Mead (Paperback)
The Ingredients, Equipment, Processes, and Recipes for Crafting Honey Wine
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Publication Date: July 30, 2014
Some stories suggest that mead was originally discovered when one of our not-yet-upright forebears stuck their hand in a fermenting bee hive and came away with a honeycomb containing a little more than they bargained for. Whatever the truth, brewers have brought this beverage into the twenty-first century, and you can rest assured that The Complete Guide to Making Mead is a thoroughly up-to-date, modern, and authoritative guide to homemade mead. Best of all, it has something for everyone, from the stone-cold beginner to the seasoned veteran. Award-winning mead-maker Steve Piatz begins with a brief history of the fermented beverage; a rundown of the various types of mead; and a discussion of the many types of honey that are available, their characteristics, and where to source them. Readers will be treated to discussions of yeast and special ingredients, as well as what equipment is necessary and reccomended and an illustrated and detailed look at the basic process. Readers will also discover advanced techniques, such as oaking, clarifying, aging, spicing, and blending. There are even sections on developing recipes and troubleshooting problems with the brewing process.With more than 100 color photos, The Complete Guide to Making Mead includes dozens of recipes for basic meads (honey only), melomels (honey and fruit), metheglins (honey and spices), and braggots (honey and malt).
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — Vermont's clothing-optional capital is stripping off its temporary ban on public nudity.
C'mon — what's not to like?
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- C'mon — what's not to like?
A month after passing the temporary ban, the Brattleboro Selectboard voted 3-2 on Tuesday to reject a proposed ordinance that would have made it permanent. When the emergency temporary ordinance expires next month, public nudity will be legal.
It's all about tolerance, one board member said.
"We in this country are going down a slippery slope these days," said Dora Bouboulis, noting a national newspaper recently published an article about the emergency ordinance under the headline "Tolerant town gets intolerant."
She said it wasn't up to the town to restrict anyone's right to dress or undress.
Before the vote, residents weighed in on both sides of the debate.
Michael Gauthier gave the Selectboard a petition with signatures of 967 people who support a nudity ban.
"What is the point, other than shock and awe, that the nudists are trying to make?" he asked.
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Day: October 16, 2018
Day 1
So, I went along and rejoined Slimming World last night, and what a difference from last Monday it was! Rachel's enthusiasm and positivity is so infectious, and I am totally determined that this is it – I can do this! I came away from group with a smile on my face and a spring in my step, and I'm already looking forward to next week! My starting weight is 16 stone 8.5lb – not as bad as I'd feared, but there's a long road ahead.
Yesterday's food was lovely as well. I had a couple of boiled eggs for breakfast, some pasta mixed with cooked chicken, mushrooms, red onions, cherry tomatoes and some fat free fromage frais for lunch, and then dinner was an old Weight Watchers meal called Eastern Salmon, which is a salmon fillet in a honey, soy sauce and Chinese five spice marinade. We had it served with sautéed new potatoes and a mixture of veg, and it was awesome. I finished the day on just 0.5 Syns, simply because I was full after dinner and was also tired and wanted an early night, so I just didn't need to use any more than that. And the things I'm most proud of – no alcohol at all, and no Clover with my new potatoes!
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During CTM, MONOM – Berlin's Center for Spatial Sound – which is home to the 4DSOUND system will become a place to switch off unwanted disturbances and immerse oneself in vivid sonic worlds.
Sound is a medium that we experience with our entire body. Similarly, the 4DSOUND system is a habitable instrument that merges with and decentralizes the performance space, allowing for sound to come from all around us and move through us. Experiencing sound in this way opens us up to emotional and physical responses inscribed in our ancient and recent memories, providing an opportunity to experience our senses as a gateway to more meaningful connections between inner and outer space and to transcend the turmoil.
For this evening, MONOM have commissioned FIS and Pan Daijing to use their spatial 4DSOUND system to build intensely visceral experiences that will range from calming to thought-provoking and radical. Artist and researcher IOANN will present "Imagining the Hyperspace", a work he developed during a residency at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest. The work seeks to reveal the multidimensional nature of listening by exploring complex 4-dimensional geometrical shapes in sound. Listeners will in turn become aware that the construct of space we perceive is an attribute of our consciousness, and that this perception can be altered.
Transcend the Turmoil is a collaboration between MONOM, Spatial Sound Institute and CTM Festival.
Pan Daijing makes music, art, and tells stories. Born and raised in Guiyang, Southwest China, she has been based in Berlin since 2016. Rooted in noise music, her raw approach as a composer and performer takes many forms; primarily performance art, sound, dance and installation, hinging heavily on improvisation and acts of storytelling.
New Zealand-born Berlin resident Olly Peryman or FIS constructs visceral, detail-oriented glacial sound masses and has reflected thoughtfully on music-making as a practice. He has released on the likes of Tri Angle, Loopy, Samurai Music, and Subtext.
IOANN is the artist-moniker of Ivan Sapozhkov, haiing from Western-Siberia, Russia. Sapozhkov began to experiment with electronics and virtual instruments across the media of film, theatre, and avant-garde music before establishing the experimental studio and label Negativespace in 2014.


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