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If you haven't followed the entirety of how the "Freedom Alliance" was assembled in the very early months shortly after the election of President Donald Trump, it's hard to understand the scope of what is taking place in the middle-east.
The nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), led by Saudi Arabia, are on the cusp of transforming themselves into a modern and engaged era. The goals of the GCC allies, led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) are to remove the influence agents who have supported extremism, the Muslim Brotherhood, and stimulated and/or enabled crisis for personal and ideological gains.
Because of the financial reach within the parties involved, the downstream consequences are being felt within the political bodies of most nations including our own. Specifically within Washington DC's deep-state institutions, career politicians on foreign affairs committees, and within the upper and lower tiers of the aggregate U.S. State Dept. A great realignment is taking place.
Caption: There will come a time when you will need to choose a side. Think wisely…
French President Emmanuel Macron said today he will make an unexpected trip to Saudi Arabia after leaving the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to see Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and discuss crises in Lebanon, Yemen and the wider region. This happens simultaneous to the UAE announcing they too are examining bank accounts for their own officials, officers and leaders within their nation.
DUBAI (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron is making a previously unscheduled trip to Saudi Arabia on Thursday to see Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman amid rising tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, notably over Lebanon and Yemen.
Macron, on a visit to the United Arab Emirates, declined to discuss a wave of high-level arrests for corruption in Saud Arabia, but said it was vital to work with the kingdom for the stability of the region and to fight terrorism.
He told a news conference in Dubai that the decision to go to Riyadh had been made on Thursday morning, and that his talks with the prince would include "regional questions, in particular Yemen and Lebanon". (read more)
Last Saturday Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned as prime minister in a shocking declaration read from inside Saudi Arabia. It is suspected that either: A.) Crown Prince bin Salman confronted PM Hariri with documented evidence of financial relationships between Hariri and Iran, including agreements for terrorist funding therein, and that led to Prime Minister Hariri resigning; or B.) that MbS presented evidence of a possible Iranian assassination plot, and Saad Hairi is now being protected in his former homeland (Saudi Arabia).
This resulted in putting Lebanon into a political crisis and pushed Lebanese political leadership back into the spotlight amid the regional and ideological struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran and Salman's goal to stop extremism.
Regardless of motive, after his resignation, Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri remained in Saudi Arabia prompting officials in Lebanon to claim he is being held against his will. According to regional media reporting Lebanese President Michel Aoun is seeking help from other international diplomats to uncover the mystery surrounding Hariri's resignation.
Hariri reportedly met the French Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Thursday in Riyadh, and has met EU, U.K. and U.S. diplomats in recent days. Hence, French President Emmanuel Macron traveling to Riyadh to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to find out the details behind what's happening.
In the interim, in what appears to be a precautionary move against hostile action from Iranian sympathizers inside Lebanon, both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are telling their citizens in Lebanon it would be advisable if they left. This is happening at the same time the UAE is expanding their own probes into the financial networks of officials.
ABU DHABI/DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia's crackdown on corruption has spread beyond its borders as regulators in the United Arab Emirates ask UAE banks for information about Saudi citizens detained in the investigation, a possible prelude to freezing their accounts.
The UAE central bank has requested commercial banks and finance companies in the UAE to provide details of the accounts of 19 Saudis, commercial bankers told Reuters on Thursday, declining to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Almost all of the 19, including billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and former National Guard chief Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, are known to be among dozens of senior officials and businessmen detained in the corruption inquiry.
Commercial bankers said UAE authorities had not explained why they wanted the information, but believed the authorities were acting at the behest of the Saudi government, which has said it aims to recover billions of dollars of illicit assets identified in its investigation.
Central bank officials in the UAE, a federation of seven emirates, were not available to comment, and Saudi officials in Riyadh, who have frozen over 1,700 domestic bank accounts as part of the crackdown, did not respond to requests for comment.
The UAE, particularly its most commercially prominent emirate Dubai, is one of the main places where wealthy Saudis park their money abroad. In addition to bank accounts, they buy luxury apartments and villas in Dubai and invest in the emirate's volatile stock market. (read more)
It doesn't take a deep geopolitical thinker to see the basic outlines of what's happening. In order to confront the issues in the region, all of them, the most direct approach is to cut off the money. Saudi Arabia and their regional partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council are doing just that.
From President Trump's perspective he says: 'great, go for it – my administration has your back'. After initial diplomatic strategy meetings, to discuss up the basic outlines and the consequences that could/would happen, well, then came the historic summit in Saudi Arabia. Five months later King Salman and the Crown Prince execute the plan.
Now we are seeing it happen. The Big Ugly… Saudi Arabia version.
However, amid the apex team of corrupt financial influencers MbS arrested are a bunch of regional players who bought U.S. politicians in exchange for assistance as they carried out their ideological and indulgent interests.
The corrupt Saudi crew are directly connected to corrupted U.S. politicians who sell foreign policy. Therefore the arrests of the corrupt Saudi players becomes the ripple effect shock-wave within DC.
Is the new era MbS leadership willing to expose the names of the politicians who were purchased? Has MbS told President Trump who was being paid-off within those financial records?
See the alarm bells?
Think – Senator Bob Corker, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Who else was Chairman of that committee…. oh, that would be Senator John Kerry, who later became Secretary of State…. BING-BING-BING!
The biggest names in Washington DC politics including lobbyists, Clintons and the biggest names in congress, are all affiliated with the business model of selling foreign policy influence. Do you really think it's accidental these voices are lashing out against President Donald Trump?
Even the smaller and more meddling critters like Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham are part of the business model. Heck, a review of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is a 'who's who' of NeverTrumpers and Neo-Cons.
How about Evan McMullin and/or Representative Adam Kinzinger. Remember the connections between the Muslim Brotherhood and NeverTrump? All ya' gotta' do is just align the names with their attacks against the Trump administration, and the connections are transparent.
And remember… there are TRILLIONS of dollars at stake.
"[…] I have just returned from a historic trip to Europe and the Middle East, where I worked to strengthen our alliances, forge new friendships, and unite all civilized peoples in the fight against terrorism. No civilized nation can tolerate this violence, or allow this wicked ideology to spread on its shores.
I addressed a summit of more than 50 Arab and Muslim leaders — a unique meeting in the history of nations — where key players in the region agreed to stop supporting terrorism, whether it be financial, military or even moral support.
The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level, and in the wake of that conference, nations came together and spoke to me about confronting Qatar over its behavior. So we had a decision to make: Do we take the easy road, or do we finally take a hard but necessary action? We have to stop the funding of terrorism.
I decided, along with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, our great generals and military people, the time had come to call on Qatar to end its funding — they have to end that funding — and its extremist ideology in terms of funding.
I want to call on all other nations to stop immediately supporting terrorism. Stop teaching people to kill other people. Stop filling their minds with hate and intolerance. I won't name other countries, but we are not done solving the problem, but we will solve that problem. Have no choice.
This is my great priority because it is my first duty as President to keep our people safe. Defeating ISIS and other terror organizations is something I have emphasized all during my campaign and right up until the present. To do that, stop funding, stop teaching hate, and stop the killing.
For Qatar, we want you back among the unity of responsible nations. We ask Qatar, and other nations in the region to do more and do it faster.
I want to thank Saudi Arabia, and my friend, King Salman, and all of the countries who participated in that very historic summit. It was truly historic. There has never been anything like it before and perhaps there never will be again. Hopefully, it will be the beginning of the end of funding terrorism. It will, therefore, be the beginning of the end to terrorism.
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The City is aiming for trigeneration to supply 70% of the City's electricity needs by 2030 and reduce greenhouse emissions by 25 to 30%*
About Sustainable Sydney 2030
The City of Sydney and Cogent Energy, which is wholly owned by Origin, are working together to establish Australia's first local, low carbon energy network using trigeneration technology as part of the Sustainable Sydney 2030 plan.
Sustainable Sydney 2030 is a plan for the sustainable development of the City for the next 20 years, and beyond. The City intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions with a network of green infrastructure to reduce energy and water demands as well as waste collection.
Trigeneration is a significant part of the City program to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by 2030 – one of the most ambitious targets of any Australian government.
Trigeneration uses cleaner natural gas, captures waste heat that would otherwise be lost, recovers and reuses it to heat and cool buildings. Trigeneration doesn't have the transmission losses incurred by centralised power stations because electricity is generated locally. It can be up to twice as energy efficient compared with coal-fired centralised power stations and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 50% compared to coal-fired power*.
City of Sydney Trigeneration Solution
The traditional way electricity is generated in NSW is by burning coal at large centralized power stations. Only 38% of the available energy in the coal gets converted to electricity^. The remainder is expelled into the atmosphere as waste heat, consuming large quantities of water. There are further transmission and distribution losses sending this electricity down the wires from the power stations in the coal fields to the consumer.
With trigeneration, about 40% of the energy gets converted to electricity†, but the main difference is the heat from combustion is not lost; instead it is captured to heat water. This hot water can then be used for heating, or turned into cooling water for air-conditioning via a process called absorption chilling.
The City of Sydney project will generate electricity locally from natural gas. Cogent Energy will build a network of small low-emissions energy centres that will initially be installed to supply council buildings and privately owned buildings in the first low-carbon-zone precincts. This involves building compact gas-driven trigeneration plants which can be constructed in the basements or rooftops of city buildings or purpose built sites. The waste heat from these plants will then be distributed via a closed-loop network of pipes for heating and cooling in commercial, retail and residential buildings.
The plan is to deliver 360 megawatts or more by 2030 across the whole of the local government area with the aim to produce 70%* of the City's energy needs locally from these trigeneration systems.
City of Sydney Benefits:
- Trigeneration is a cost-effective way of achieving large scale carbon emission reduction within the City.
- It will also reduce energy costs. Local trigeneration, if installed within a building, can avoid network charges which currently make up 50% of the average electricity bill#.
- By taking heat from the Thermal Reticulation Network (TRN) and utilizing an absorption chiller, network demand charges may be significantly reduced, compared to using electric chillers. This may reduce electricity bills.
- It mitigates the impact of future cost, as network charges are expected to continue to rise as network companies upgrade the poles, wires and substations of the electricity grid.
- A study by the University of Technology, Sydney estimates this project could save up to $1.5 billion in avoided capital investment in new coalfired power stations and grid upgrades~.
The System
The City of Sydney trigeneration installation will comprise:
- Energy Centre (EC) – compact gas-driven trigeneration plants constructed within city buildings, rooftops and purpose built sites – meeting local noise and emission requirements
- Thermal Reticulation Network (TRN) – an underground closed-loop hot water pipe network will run under the streets and laneways for buildings to receive thermal energy
- The EC and TRN form low carbon energy precincts within the city
- Energy Transfer Stations (ETS) – will be located within each building to transfer heating or cooling from the TRN into the buildings.
For More Information
To find out more about the City of Sydney project and/or the City's green infrastructure plans visit www.greeninfrastructure.net.au
For more information about Cogent Energy contact one of our consultants at (02) 9503 5034.
* Climate Works and Property Council of Australia, Unlocking barriers to cogeneration – Project Outcomes Report (September 2011) (June 2009).
^ International Energy Agency (IEA), 'Power Generation from Coal, Measuring and Reporting Efficiency Performance and CO2 emissions' (2010)
† CO2 savings estimations are calculated based on information from the Australian Government's National Greenhouse Accounts Factors (June 2009).
# NSW Government, Industry and Investment, 'NSW Electricity Network and Prices Inquiry' (December 2010)
~ Dunstan, C. & Langham, E. 2010, Close to Home: Potential Benefits of Decentralised Energy for NSW Electricity Consumers, prepared by the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney for the City of Sydney, November 2010.

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Zimmermann, P. and Brückl, T. and Nocon, A. and Pfister, H. and Lieb, R. and Wittchen, H.-U. and Holsboer, F. and Angst, J.. (2009) Heterogeneity of DSM-IV major depressive disorder as a consequence of subthreshold bipolarity. Archives of general psychiatry, Vol. 66, H. 12. pp. 1341-1352.
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My First Day With the Wacom Intuos 4
Here are some observations and a quick overview of the new features of the Wacom Intuos 4. I really love the new look and the scroll wheel. The new texture takes some getting used to, but it only takes a day. Check out the video to see it in action. If you get one. Get it at Amazon.com will ya?
after some weeks you will notice how the tips gets ripped down really fast, thats a big disappointing for me anyway. Great site btw, love your works!
That's true…it really sucks that the tips get ripped down this fast. I'm working with my Intuos4 for about 2 month now and already using my 3rd tip. Fortunately the Intuos4 comes with 5 standard tips.
Greetings from Germany!
I noticed this when I dropped my pen and the nib went flat. That never happened to my old one. Who needs the nib any way… ah shit its the most important part…
Hey that was a great review of the intuos 4.. and yeah its a really great tablet.. i got the Wacom Bamboo cause its kind of the chaepest and for beginners one, its great to,and im happy with it ;D
Hi Nick, nice review. I've actually got the Intuos4 Medium myself, and I love it. It also has an extra button on both sides, so 8 total, and it's got little LCD displays next to the buttons, which show the programmed functions, like [url=http://blog.creationengine.com/wp-content/uploads/intuos4_expresskeys8.jpg]this[/url].
I also love how you can program it to do a sequence of keystrokes (for example "f f tab" to go to fullscreen in Photoshop).
God, that thing is small. I used a 9X12 at work for 1 year, and couldn't go back to anything smaller. I had to find one of the big ones on ebay. I find they're a lot more precise, and you don't get as much of the pen jitter than you do on some of the smaller models.
The only downside? I had to buy a new desk at home to hold the damn thing 🙂 heh.
Hey nick is their a preference or reason to buy the bigger screen tablets. I noticed your Wacom's are small in size does it effect performance in anyway???
When I got my Intuos4, I went for the M size, roughly 5.5×9. I love it because it offers a larger work area, two extra express keys, and led display for labeling the keys. This also negates the need to have one key taken up simply to show the key settings.
For just general navigation, I actually have a portion of the tablet set up so I move my hand less. It's really easy to then switch between the two.
I just got one of these about a week ago. It's great and I feel like working is generally faster already.
Cinema 4D's default movement settings are too desensitized though. Where are they modified?
Exaggerated movements and using the 'precision mode' just as you mentioned would be sweet. But for the life of me, I can't figure it out. Thanks.
Great insight Nick. If possible, can you do a follow-up video on how you map your keys for C4D using the Wacom? Both Inutous 3 & 4
Nice review! Do you use only your tablet when working in AE, C4D or PS? Or is it more like a combination – tablet, mouse, keyboard?
I've always wondered if it would be better to get a tablet when you work with C4D and AE mainly…
personally, i use my tablet for everything. I rarely use the mouse.
I bought the Bamboo version a few months ago to start with but after 8 months or so it just died on me. For how cheap it was I'm not complaining but now I need to upgrade, and after watching this I think I know what to get. Thanks for the review Nick.
Hey gorilla I was gonna email u on fbook but forgot and this is a perfect time to ask if you have the same problem I do:
In AE CS4, every once in a while I am dragging around a keyframe, when I lift my pen off the tablet (but not out of range), the pen behaves like it is still clicking…this happens with the selection rectangle around layers too…called wacom, and they said it is an AE bug that occured in lightroom too…you experience this at all? Anyone else have this problem?
Yeah it has happend to me too, don't have a solution for it though.
Nice review Nick, I already got one and im happy with it. Could show us how to setup some smart AE shortcuts with it?
Must be nice for right-handed people…
The Intuos 3 Touchstrip! How could you neglect it for zooming/pg up/pg down?
But good to see the 4 in action. Perhaps someday I'll move up from the 3. Maybe when there's a 5, heh.
Where do you find the money to buy all this stuff ? I struggle to buy a good Laptop !
win an emmy for your work…
Tangent: have any of you used the SpaceNavigator with C4D? I've heard the more expensive models with all the buttons are useless because the company that makes them does not upgrade drivers for C4D and other software regularly.
Yeah I have a spacenavigator and it's a waste of time for C4D, it's actually slower and less precise than just using the normal keys on the keyboard. Junk.
nice. i have a intuos 4 medium. i cant remember how life was before i got it. lol
i gotta say, after some time with my Wacom, i still get some cramps in my hand. maybe its cause of that little "step" that is created between the desk and the tablets levetation, or something. my palm rests diagonally on it.
i dunno..maybe its my desk, and not the wacom? :\
On the other hand [no point intended :] i love the gestures i can assign to the pen on Windows 7. a flick right\left, is like forward\back while browsing websites\folders. and i even assigned diagonal gestures for copy,paste,redo and undo. its like 360′ degrees of gestures :]
Hey Nick.
What's your size of the tablet?
Small, Mid or large?
if u dont mind me answering,F3tch :] …I believe its the small size. the medium & large have this cool LCD panel with text+icons displayed there. dunno if it really worth the extra dough.
Ah thanks. Hmm didn't know that. Thought its just the size…
@Nick You really need mail notifications for comments!!!
That's niiice!!!!
It would be nice watching you in action inside cinema 4D …..
i was using a graphire 4×6 for a few months to convince myself that a tablet was going to work. i got my medium intuos4 early last week and have been loving it. my favorite feature of it is the 'display toggle' so i can use 2 screens and have it map to each screen individually and swap with a quick button press. on the graphire i was using mouse mode but i have quickly learned to love pen mode + display toggle.
(by the way nick, it was your last screencast about the wacom that convinced me it was time to use a tablet. thanks!)
Those who have the intuos4, do you guys notice the paper feel wearing off quickly? On my intuos4 one side is already smooth compared to left. My intuos3 never did that before. Also the intuos4 is harder to clean compared to the intuos3 especially if you have sweaty hands. I'm not talking about the glossy part either. Still, workflow is so much better than the intuos3.
I bought the Intous 4 Large a couple of months ago and I noticed that it's friggin huge. My arm goes back and forth like Im painting on a wall. So make sure you get the size that fits your need. Bigger isn't always better… 😉
Didn´t you talk about the sizes in a previous Wacom video, Nick?
Hi Nick ! Thanks for the review !I've been holding off on one of those babies but after seeing your review, I might as well just get one 😉
Hey guys! Great review Nick!
I bought mine 2 weeks ago. I'm working with the medium one. I use to work with a small graphire2 for 6 years then a bamboo fun medium size and I'm drawing A LOT! 🙂
I've always been interested by the dark side… I'm in now and to be honest the bamboo fun was a very good piece of tech.
Ok it wasn't as beautiful, glossy or so, but for those who hesitate it is really solid material. I bought the Intuos because of the tilting function of the pen. That's for me the major point that intuos own compared to bamboo.
I tried Intuos 3 and cintiq once, the new pen seems much lighter now, am I right?
I'm so comfy with my keyboard that I don't feel natural using the buttons. I'll give it a try.
One negative point, in France Intuos are sold without mouse, f**k! I miss my bamboo mouse so much!
Hi Nick, I've got a Intuos a5 wide that I love, I never liked the scrollstrip but for browsing there is this neat addon for firefox called grab and drag. It allows you to just grab a page anywhere and flick your pen up or down to scroll. Doubleclick on text to be able to select it.
Talking about addons, I'm addicted to All-in-one-gestures for Firefox. When your using a tablet it really speeds up your browsing.
What is the reason to use a wacom tablet if you cant draw? (im not a big drawer myself but i do have a tablet but somehow i always end up using the keyboard/mouse)
On the Intuos3 i'm using there are buttons on both sides http://direct.wacom.com/stores/5/wd_images/PTZ630_lg.jpg
But i can see how the scroll-tingy can imporve the workflow 🙂
For the price and size options the 3 is a better choice. I regret getting mine. I don't use all the fancy buttons.
In case you're wondering it's ambidextrous, like am-be-dex-truss. I'm not trying to be one of those people! I'm trying to be helpful since you said you didn't know.
you should get into the advertising business cause you make me want to buy this.
next vid you make, put a frame of the wacom once a few minutes cause if this video hadn't gotten everyone and me to the stores that would.
How does the wacom work with dual screens. And what size would you buy for a dual screen setup?
I hated the Intuos 3. I kept hitting the buttons all the time with my hand. Even turning them off, it was annoying hitting them as it still felt like I was doing something.
I just recently got the Intuos 4. Day and night difference. The scroll wheel is very useful to me in PS and AE. I've never liked using a tablet much until now.
Great review.
I'm left hand, and intus4 is the only thing i have on my desk which is fully supported me!
Thanks to WACOM!
a little out of topic but that camera angle when you showed us how you us your new tablet, I felt like I was falling off the table. not very pleasant..
anyway, been wanting to buy a tablet so now i know which. Thanks for your recommendation. ^_^
How it work's with AE..?
Greetings from Galápagos Islands… ( in the middle of nowhere….!!!!!) Ecuador
So the new intous doesn't have the multi-touch capabilites that the new bamboo line has? How unfortunate… The things I picture myself doing with a pen/touch surface are incredible. Imagine using a mouse and a touchpad with 3D modeling programs… using gestures to spin and move the model and the mouse to modify things. The bamboo pen/touch seems to be the way to go for me.
Hey gorilla.
I went for a wacom after I watched your previous pros & cons review and it's true, it's getting some getting used to, but after a couple of weeks, you don't go back.
But, have you tried the Touch tablets? I got one recently and although it does feel very natural, I wouldn't say the experience is as amazing as I expected. First of all the response to the touch is not as, err, 'rich' as I expected, to me it feels a bit 'rougher' than the trackpad or the iphone for example. What's worse, is the constant accidental clicks and scrolls every time I touch the tablet!
I'd love it if you or anyone had any ideas or tips about this!
If you want a better solution for the scrolling, I use the software Smart Scroll, that gives me the same funcionality of the grab that your intuos have, on any tablet. I just defined one of the pen buttons to the grab, and it's a bit like iPhone scrolling with coasting and everything.
great site 😉
It would be great to see you use the tablet in AE.
Does anyone have a problem with unfolding objects & double clicking in c4d with intuos4? i have to use my mouse, when I click with pen it opens and shuts, what a tease!
It;s a know bug. POst here:
to complain!
Aere people here having the problem of the nib wearing down too quickly? Some of my friends are complaining about it, but they're more into painting and that sort of thing. I'm just wondering if an issue for straight compositing or animation.
I also had the issue with the unfolding & double clicking but apparently Wacom updated the driver to fix this
I've installed it and everything seems to work properly now.
About the nibs wearing down, it is indeed a known problem and lots of people are complaining about it. Before I upgraded I worked on an Intuos2 and never had to change a nib. Now I'm already on my second nib after completing a drawing in photoshop. Wacom customer service isn't helping much tellling the customers to either change their pen sensitivity or (true quote) "cutting a piece of paper and use double-sided tape to stick it to your tablet surface".
Hey Nick,
Did you customize your tablet much for use with C4d. Not sure how to get the camera to move around (truck side to side/up down). Only zoom in and out and pan around. Did you program one of the side buttons to do this for you?
Nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke. Come on nodes ain't so bad.
Great review mr. gorilla, thanks.
First of, I'm sorry my English.
Somebody could say what keys hold to move into a view?
With alt you can rotate.
With cmd you can zooming.
but what key to move in each view?
I've got the Intuos 4 M.
I have a Cintiq and I'm would like to go for an S/M intuos because it mean less stress (I mean 900$, if it die…) for now I'm super stressed because of it and I had an M graphire 3. It will be difficult to rework on a classical tablet. Good test by the way ;p
Bought one last week! Thank you for your friendly intro on the intuos4!! BEST!! I am so psyched to try it out today!!
Hi Nick
just one concern using intuos 5 in Cinema 4D with windows 7 operating system. When I dragging the object it moves fast?. How that happens? I have a updated driver for wacom intuos 5 but I've got this problem. hope you can answer my concern.
I've hunted high and low for an answer for this but have one up empty. I've got the new touch tablet and whilst its great I find that I can't use it for c4d because it does not allow me to type into the settings fields. For example, I select the rotation field to type in a value but the moment I lift the pen away in order to type the old value, which was previously highlighted, is no longer highlighted. It's infuriating. Is there a solution to this problem?
Many thanks
After watching the ToolFarm video tour of Greyscalegorilla HQ during Half Rez 2 event, and seeing Nick's setup with the small Wacom tablet, I thought it would be interesting to hear how Nick has his pen buttons set up. Any chance of sharing?


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…Predicts further fall in equities
By ODUNEWU SEGUN
WITH the decision of CBN's Monetary Policy Committee to hike Monetary Policy Rate from 11 per cent to 12 per cent barely three months after it reduced it from 13 per cent to 11 per cent, financial experts have argued that the hikewould discouraged more people from investing in the capital market.
While reacting to the decisions, Mallam Garba Kurfi, Managing-Director, APT Securities and Funds Ltd., said that the decision would further compound the challenges being faced by the market ranging from foreign exchange issues and instability in economic policies.
According to him, the more government tried to tighten the economy, the more inflation increased.
The CBN at the MPC meeting of March raised the interest rate to 12 per cent from 11 per cent as a response to the increase in inflation recorded in February. It also increased the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) to 22.5 per cent from 20 per cent in a bid to tighten money supply.
Okechukwu Unegbu, a former President of Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) explained that the hike would lead to further depreciation in the capital market due to lack of liquidity.
According to him, increment in the MPR would depress activities at the nation's bourse, adding that capital market would continue to battle with its current challenge because the hike in interest rate would lead to more movement of fund from the market to the money market.
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Unegbu disclosed that with the decision, there would be no actual investment, and that this would lead to rise in unemployment rate and scarcity of funds to the real sector of the economy. He explained that the manufacturing sector will be worst because more Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) will find it difficult to access funds.
He said that the outcome of the meeting would compel Nigerians to look inwards at ways to salvage their businesses with the current challenges of the economy.
An Abuja based Development Economist; Katch Ononuju with the decision, the CBN has left the main problems of Nigerian economy by trying to deceive members of the public through movement of figures.
"The announcement does not have any positive impact on the economy, let's go more practical, we are an import depended country, our exports has declined significantly, we don't have the incentives that are needed, our people are looking for jobs, the naira is crashing. Look at our Gross Domestic Product, GDP, growth rate we are still struggling between 2-3 percent.
"Am disappointed, the figures they paraded do not have any bearing with the poor, what are we saying? Allow the naira to find its free flow, remove the subsidy, just yesterday the National Assembly approved N150 billion for subsidy payment, yet they said there is no subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, PMS.
"These are the critical things we should be looking at, not moving figures from one base point to another which practical has no effect on the Nigerian economy.


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Broadcast - it seems to have an unstoppable desire to play to the lowest common denominator - even when it poses as worthy and relatively high-brow.
Tonight on BBC 1 you'll find flagship news-documentary programme Paranoia, sorry Panorama going for that traditional lowest common denominator; fear. Paedophiles, the internet, social networks, teenagers - connect the dots and guess where they go with this.
It's the same old paranoid nonsense about the web being trotted out again. The web closes the space between individuals to zero which means, when viewed from a dark disconnected world, it closes the gap between a paedo and your daughter to zero. So be afraid and unplug!
I see the world from the connected side - and it looks a lot lighter over here.
So I believe our savvy constantly connected kids are better equipped to rumble the fake voice and id of a paedo than any generation before them.
One click from danger they may be, but they are also 'one-click' (or one sms) from instantly available help, advice, someone to check with, someone to come to their rescue - all their friends. There is more good than evil - everyone who connects seems to work this out for themselves.
Connections make us wiser - ergo the web makes our kids wiser. Unplug them at your peril.
... and hark at me getting all stroppy before I've even seen the programme. And sadly I won't be watching - got humans to connect with instead tonight!
My question to the BBC - are the people behind this programme connected? Or are they whistling in the dark?
More? Dark Side of Social Media.


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"Regrets, I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention."
By Priti Dadlani
We're lucky if that refrain from Frank Sinatra's signature hit song holds true as we review our careers.
Research suggests we feel the most regret about missed opportunities. In other words, we regret the things we didn't do rather than the ones we did do. The split is about 75/25.
That's certainly true in my case.


text: As the sun sets on this 4th of July weekend I had wonder about the radical changes sweeping our country. Lots of mixed emotions in this land. I cannot believe how much we've changed as a people in the last 25 years. I still need to sort it all out in my head. Until then, I will snap up a few more pictures evoking the memories of the land I swore with my life to protect 26 years ago….before it disappears forever.


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A large soft drink bottling plant in the Midwestern U.S. was presented with corporate sustainability initiatives for their 300,000 square foot manufacturing facility, which prompted them to evaluate a range of measures to reduce their facility's environmental impact. The refrigeration and boiler systems were targeted since they are major consumers of energy and water.
The plant's 1,600 ton ammonia refrigeration system consists of three evaporative condensers and eight compressors. A 550-HP boiler system provides 85 psi process steam. Reliable and efficient operation of these systems is required for plant production.
Our national partner's liquid water treatment program was providing good results, but chemical storage, handling, and disposal presented sustainability concerns. APTech's Solid Water Treatment System was introduced to address this.
With the APTech Solid System, chemicals are provided as solid concentrates rather than liquid in drums. APTech Solid Concentrates are dissolved as needed into a small plastic reservoir using the APTech dissolving board. The feed solution is then pumped into the system being treated.
The APTech Solid System was installed and provided the proven results of the previous high-performance liquid program. Furthermore, the APTech System enabled the facility to meet its corporate sustainability initiatives by
- Reducing splash and spill concerns
- Reducing fuel and greenhouse gas emissions associated with product delivery
- Eliminating drum handling, storage, and disposal
- Reducing packaging requirements and landfill waste
The APTech Solid Water Treatment System proved to be an innovative technology that provided environmentally responsible water treatment and helped achieve corporate sustainability initiatives.


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In Early December 2012, we were delighted to host part of the Australian 2013 Season of MasterChef – The Professionals.
We know how much everyone loved seeing the MasterChef screening on the 17th of February. it was filmed on the 8th of December when Stockyard Creek was looking green and lush. An experience to be remembered! I agreed that the RED team was the winner. They had the best crumble too – even Graeme said that!
For more information about Stockyard Creek see our website


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Well, I'm going to give this blog another crack!
At Trinity South Coast, we spent most of last term reading through the magnificent letter of Paul to a small, unimpressive group of Jesus' people in Colossae. I've posted before on this little gem, but thought I'd gather some more thoughts together flowing out of this latest journey through it.
These verses are the heart-beat of everything Paul wants to say; and they're incredibly liberating and important words for those small, unimpressive groups of Jesus' people 2000 years after they were written:
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
-Colossians 2:6-7
I find what Paul is saying here staggering, and I need to constantly come back to it. He wants his readers to know how to go on in the Christian life, how to progress and grow; but there's a particular dynamic to this progress and growth that's unique to the Christian gospel.
The Colossians had received something wonderful. They'd been taken from darkness to light, from being God's enemies to full members of his family, a chosen people, holy and dearly loved. Their membership in this family wasn't performance-based, it wasn't driven by anxiety or fear. Being born again into God's family, becoming a citizen of Jesus' kingdom, beginning in the Christian life is simply to humbly hold out our hands in faith to receive God's amazing free gift of this new identity; to receive Christ Jesus as Lord.
And for Paul, as far as our life in Jesus is concerned, Christians never move from being receivers to being contributors. We don't get to a point at which we can take things on our own from here, thanks very much Lord. We are always and only ever unworthy, deeply loved receivers.
What struck me looking at this again was how deeply offensive this is; but at the same time how beautiful and liberating. It's offensive to my pride and self-sufficiency, to my Babel-ish desire to make a name for myself. But it's wonderful. It means that, at last, here is a life that is not about performing.
It's a constant temptation to base who we are on what we do. It's so ingrained in us, and comes from something very dark within us. At heart our rebellion against God is a rebellion against humble dependence upon him; so we base who we are on what we do, to sink our roots in ourselves, to build ourselves up, to be strengthened in our own works.
But Jesus reorders our hearts so that being a dependent receiver is not something to rail against but something to rejoice in. That I find so freeing. The gospel flips it all around – it doesn't let go of what we do. It's important how we live and Paul's got a lot to say about it as we read on. But in Christ, what he has done, not we do, is the defining core of our life.
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Innisfree My Real Squeeze Mask Cucumber Review:
Innisfree My Real Squeeze Mask is the newly upgraded version of It's Real Squeeze Mask. As a new product, it should provide better qualities than its older sister. Innisfree teased me with some interesting promises from this mask. My Real Squeeze Mask brings new design with an advanced sheet that is super thin yet easy to peel off. It also has 3 types solutions which are Fresh Water Type, Moist Essence Type and Rich Cream Type. Each type consists of 6 different variants, so there are 18 natural ingredients we can choose. Great options to fit any skin conditions.
For my first trial, I picked Cucumber which is a part of the Moist Essence Type. As we know, cucumber is our skin's best friend as the benefits to reduce irritated and inflamed skin, also hydrate skin with its high water content. Cucumber is also an excellent source of vitamin C and caffeic acid. So, I was very excited to try out this new mask!
♥ Naturally-derived thin yet strong 100% cellulose sheet with easy peel design
♥ Fully enriched with ingredients! Even the freshness of ingredients are extracted with the cold brew squeeze method
♥ Customized solution for a smart choice depending on skin condition
– Purifying and vitalizing cucumber, rich in moisture, effectively takes care of skin, replenishes moisture on dry skin
Water, Glycerin, Dipropylene Glycol, Alcohol, Betaine, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Juice, Dimethicone, Butylene Glycol, Paeonia Suffruticosa Root Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract, 1,2-Hexanediol, PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Glyceryl Caprylate, Xanthan Gum, Carbomer, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Ethylhexylglycerin, Potassium Hydroxide, Disodium EDTA, Sodium Palmitoyl Sarcosinate, Fragrance, Sodium Hyaluronate, Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract, Orchid Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Camellia Japonica Leaf Extract, Opuntia Coccinellifera Fruit Extract
Volume: 20 ml
How to use:
1. After cleansing, use toner to refine skin texture.
2. Place the mask on the entire face, avoiding eye and lip areas.
3. Leave on for 10 to 20 minutes.
4. Peel off the sheet and gently pat for further absorption to keep the skin moist all day long.
My Skin Type: Oily-Combination, dehydrated and have some dry patches on cheeks, acne prone and sensitive.
Innisfree My Real Squeeze Mask Cucumber Review:
If I should mention the first thing I noticed about the difference between My Real Squeeze Mask and the old It's Real Squeeze Mask, the packaging automatically came first. I am absolutely falling in love with the new My Real Squeeze Mask's packaging.
Okay, literally the concept of the package is same with the old one, and it is also like most of sheet mask should be. But the clear yet simple design brings a super fresh vibe, in my opinion. They print some hashtags too, so cute (the last Korean hashtag shows us the mask's type, but I have no idea with the others, LOL).
We could easily check the type of the mask by looking at the simple drawing on the bottom-right side. For this Cucumber mask which is in the Moist Essence type, it comes with a pump-bottle doodle (like the packaging of essence or serum products, right?). For your information, each type has different image. I think it's very informative.
Once opened, I sniff a soft-fresh scent. It smells like fresh cucumber with a slight of floral scents. When placed on my face, the scent helps me to feel more relax. No need to worry for sensitive nose too, the scents is truly fresh and light.
For My Real Squeeze Mask, Innisfree improved it with 100% cellulose sheet that is strong and tear-free. I proved that the sheet is actually very strong and can't be easily ripped, well except you take your scissors to cut it off, LOL. The sheet is transparent, has super soft texture (which is very suitable for sensitive skin), and is super thin!
I am not a picky person for sheet masks, as far as the mask doesn't cause breakout for my sensitive skin, but this super thin sheet mask totally amazed me. The It's Real Squeeze Mask version has a thin sheet too, but in my opinion My Real Squeeze Mask's sheet adhered more perfectly and tightly on my face.
The sheet felt very light and comfortable on my face, just like my second skin. You could see on the pictures how super thin and soft the sheet is. Even my redness and blemishes are still noticeable beneath the sheet.
One more thing about the amazing sheet of Innisfree My Real Squeeze Mask is about its easy peel design. There are two handles attached on the top of the sheet, thus we can easily apply and peel off the sheet (well, even without it I could easily peel off the sheet, though). But, is there any other sheet mask with this same cute design? Great job for Innisfree!
I was a little bit surprised when peeped inward the pack because the essence was excessive (it's so different with It's Real Squeeze Mask). It's more than enough for my face and neck. I applied the remain essence inside the pack for my hands too.
However, though it was generous, the sheet simply contained an adequate amount of essence, thus when put on face, I had no dripping off essence. I like it because it's not messy. Nevertheless, the great sheet's adherence delivered essence into the skin effectively. There's no essence wasted.
The essence itself has gel-like texture but very runny. It's transparent and has medium thickness. After removing the mask (I left it on for 25 minutes), I felt a little bit stickiness especially on my T-zone. The essence needed about 10 minutes to absorb completely. After that it became alright.
Innisfree My Real Squeeze Mask Cucumber has good moisturizing and hydrating effects, but it may be too moist for oily skin. I felt that on my T-zone which became too oily after hours, but the effect was great on my dry patches.
It also had a slight of brightening effect but did nothing to my redness. This mask gave a smooth-skin result instantly and lasted for a day. Beyond expectations, this mask pulled out a lot of whiteheads too so I could easily rid them by rubbing gently.
Overall, I am satisfied enough with the results of this mask to my skin. But the most I love is the quality of the sheet and the abundant essence.
If you are a sheet-mask lover, you need to give it a try. I suggest Innisfree My Real Squeeze Mask Cucumber for dry to normal skin. For oily skin, I think you should try the other variants (I guess the Fresh Water type is more suitable for oily skin). I will definitely buy this mask again and again. I want to try all of the 18 lines so I can find which is the best for my skin.
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When you turn a dress into a top, and it matches your lipstick AND your earrings (perfectly, I might add), you may do a little happy dance. I know I did when I threw this outfit together. Nothing like a bold + bright look to put a little confidence in your step.
dress // whowhatwear
shorts // zara
shoes // target
sunnies // h&m
earrings // aldo
lipstick // NYX Fiery


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Pain Management
Don't Let Pain Control Your Life.
Pain has many causes, and that can make treatment difficult. Diagnosing the source of your pain is key to prescribing proper pain relief.
Appointments by Referral
A physician must refer you to us before acceptance into the pain management program. If you have been referred and have not been treated by us before, call our receptionist to schedule your appointment and discuss treatment at (719) 530-2000.
The HRRMC Pain Management Clinic is directed by interventional pain specialist James Leek, M.D. For more than 20 years, Dr. Leek has specialized in treating pain. Before joining HRRMC's medical staff, he worked at the Advanced Pain Management Clinic in Greenfield, Wisconsin, one of the largest pain management groups in the U.S.
Dr. Leek creates a treatment plan tailored to the needs of each individual. This may include the use of interventional therapy, physical therapy, exercise, massage, relaxation techniques, and medication that addresses all possible factors contributing to a patient's pain.
Talking About Your Pain
Our staff work as a team with our patients when creating treatment plans. No one knows the extent of your pain better than you, and we encourage open communication so that patients have a chance to give us the full picture of their pain issues.
The following issues may benefit from pain management:
- Chronic and acute pain
- Headaches and migraines
- Fibromyalgia
- Back and neck pain
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Joint pain
- Arthritis
Treatments include:
- Epidural and joint injections
- Nerve blocks
- Botox
- Radio frequency ablation
- Nerve stimulation
- Physical therapy
- Medication
Treatment for these, and other issues may involve medication, nerve stimulation, exercise, and relaxation techniques. A patient's mental condition may be worsening their symptoms, so we may provide stress management counseling/techniques when providing treatment.
Our Clinic
Dr. Leek and Dr. Wolkowitz see patients at the HRRMC Outpatient Pavilion in Salida, and Dr. Leek also providers services at the HRRMC Buena Vista Health Center in Buena Vista.


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PUTNEY—Landmark College, in partnership with the HollyRod Foundation, will offer a new, full-tuition scholarship for a student diagnosed with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder beginning in the fall 2018 semester.
The Landmark College-HollyRod Foundation Scholarship will be available to a first-year or transfer student with ASD who has been accepted to Landmark College; who has demonstrated financial need; and who will be pursuing a bachelor's or associate degree at Landmark College beginning in fall 2018.
The award, which will cover tuition through graduation at the College, has an annual value of $54,600. This is the first partnership between the College and the HollyRod Foundation.
Landmark College, one of only two institutions of higher education in the country dedicated to teaching students who learn differently, offers a unique educational model and program engineered exclusively for neurodiverse college students, including college-ready students with ASD. It has been providing students with the skills and strategies they need to achieve their goals since its founding in 1985.
The HollyRod Foundation was founded by actor and activist Holly Robinson Peete and her husband, former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, to support families affected by ASD or Parkinson's disease.
In addition to public-awareness campaigns and philanthropic efforts, the foundation has established RJ's Place, which provides educational and other resources for children diagnosed with ASD and their families. Landmark College honored Robinson Peete with the College's LD Luminary Award in April 2016, recognizing her efforts to raise awareness of ASD.
Qualified applicants are invited to apply for the Landmark College-HollyRod Foundation Scholarship by March 15, 2018. In order to be eligible, the student must meet the following criteria:
• Accepted and admitted as a full-time student to Landmark College before March 15, 2018.
• Possess demonstrated need as determined by the Free Application to Federal Student Aid.
• Have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder as determined by a qualified physician or psychologist.


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A close up tour of large-scale wind energy
There can be few technologies that elicit a more divisive reaction than wind turbines. For me, every time I see them, they raise a smile. For others, they're just bird mangling tools of the globalist alarmist conspiracists.
I guess we're all entitled to our own opinions.
What's exciting, however, is that wind turbines are getting cheaper, larger, taller and more efficient. Which should mean that we can generate more energy from fewer turbines. Robert Llewellyn took his latest episode of Fully Charged to a 14.4 MW wind farm in rural Northamptonshire. These turbines have a whopping 100 meter diameter and stand over 100 meters tall.But what's more impressive—as Charles Haworth, Operations Leader for Onshore Wind for General Electric explains—is the fact these turbines are actually babies compared to some of the technology that's being deployed elsewhere in the world, where height restrictions are less stringent. In other parts of the world, turbines are going up that are over meters tall, meaning steadier wind speeds and more energy generated.
In my backyard of North Carolina, many credit larger turbines as the reason why the state's first wind farms finally under development.
Anyhow, that's enough hot air from me. Check out this fascinating interview on the current state of wind energy. It's very encouraging. And if you're enjoying the episodes of Fully Charged that we post here—please consider supporting Robert Llewellyn's adventures through Patreon.


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Do You Understand What PLR Is?
You may have seen the term PLR, but either have no idea what it is or are unsure of what you can do with it. There are many different PLR licenses and terms of use too, such as Master Resale Rights, but we offer a 'Private Label Rights' license for our content, so let's discuss what PLR is.
To make things a little easier, we have all used generic brand goods. For example, we can buy generic products in our supermarket, where a company has purchased a product from another company and rebadged it as their own. I am sure you can think of hundreds of products!
Edit and Brand PLR Content as Your Own
This is what PLR is! You can purchase PLR content and rebadge it as your own. You can put your label on it, change the 'ingredients' (or words in our PLR articles) and sell the product as though you are the author.
- PLR from our store allows you to use and redo the product any way your heart desires! You can add your own name, edit it and sell ebooks or reports for any price you wish. It's as if you're the original author without all the work of writing the content.
- Note: The only thing you can't do is set up your own PLR store (like ours) and sell our PLR in your own store. (This comes under another license "PLR Master Resale Rights" and we do not offer that!) Anyone caught doing that…well just don't do it please.
PLR products come in all sorts of packages. You can buy PLR packs of articles, PLR ebooks or reports, or PLR infographics, videos, slideshows etc. Have you seen our mega PLR packs? You can use our content (as your own) and even sell one of the ready-made ebooks or reports. You can also setup your sales funnel with one of the reports as a free offer! There are many uses for PLR.
Why Would You Use PLR?
The reason is simple. The work has been done for you already, saving you time and money. Work out how much it would have cost you if you had the content outsourced…or work out how much time it would have taken you if you had done it yourself. If you had someone else write and design all the content for you, it would cost a lot more! The time and money saved is worth the few dollars buying PLR don't you agree?
Another reason is your website may need updating with more content, but you may have run out of ideas. If you purchase quality PLR you will be provided with new ideas and interesting content for your readers.
Your website is your business and it pays to use quality. There is certainly poor quality PLR being sold and yes, it will hurt your reputation if you use it. That is why you will hear some people say PLR is useless. There was a time when people only needed content to rank their sites in the search engines, so they would buy rubbish and not be concerned about quality. Things have changed and quality is everything if you want to be an expert in your niche.
- We provide quality PLR so your reputation will not be jeopardized!
'…But PLR Content Is Not Unique To Me?'
PLR providers hear this all the time. "Unique content" what does it really mean in the eyes of Google? Do you know that Google looks at a 'whole web page' not just the article on the 'webpage'?
What About Duplicate Content?
On your webpage you have sidebars, comments, menus, footers, you have a myriad of 'content' on your page. Is your web page the same as someone elses? No. If you posted the same article on your website would it be 'duplicate content'? Yes it would…but it is not necessarily 'duplicate content' on someone else's website.
Let me explain further. A disaster occurred and a newspaper published an article about it on their website A, then website B covered the story and website C, D and E did too, because it was important news! Is that a duplication? No. If someone buys our PLR packs and uses it on their website or in their autoresponder or gives their members a free report…is that the same as what the owner of website A, B or C does? No.
You can change the title, add your own voice…make it yours…even say, you read a great article and wanted to share it on your website…get the idea?
- PLR can be used for just about anything…"You are only limited by your imagination!"
- Did you know you can even buy PLR supplements (actual physical generic products) if you have a health blog? Now I am getting excited and beginning to digress…but you hopefully are getting the idea and power behind the uses of what PLR is and can do for you! 🙂
I like to suggest, to those who are concerned, to modify their PLR to suit them. Make it yours and feel good about what you are sharing! You may have your own flair that your readers are used to…perhaps you add a touch of humor or sarcasm into your writing…add these personal touches and they are made unique to you.
In conclusion, our PLR content is limited to a certain number of buyers. It will not be sold hundreds of times over…and just for your information, many people who purchase PLR leave it on their hard-drive…so not all buyers even use it…sad but true. However, if you use it that is to your advantage!
Hopefully I have explained 'what PLR is' good enough for you to see how valuable it can be to you. If you do have any questions, please ask me in the comments below! I would love to help you understand what PLR is.


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Ad Astra Neil Armstrong! Your memory lives on forever!
Neil Armstrong, a hero of the 20th century, a living legend, the first man to walk on the moon has passed on.
And it is rare a quote from the Hávamál is as fitting as it is here:
Cattle die, kinsmen die
you yourself die;
I know one thing which never dies:
the fate of the honored dead.
Mr Armstrong, your life and your deeds will be remembered for a very long time to come, as long as your memory lives, you live on, too. Your star has not yet burned out, you are still an inspiration!
Neil Alden Armstrong: 5. August 1930 – † 25. August 2012


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Anyway to start the thread off, here's the information on all Mega Man GN's known so far.
Mega Man-Let the Games Begin. Cover:MM Issue 1, Issues Included:MM Issues 1-4. Stories Included:Let the Games Begin (Full Arc)
Mega Man-Time Keeps Slipping. Cover: MM Issue 5, Issues included:MM Issues 5-8. Stories Included:Time Keeps Slipping (Full Arc)
Mega Man-The Return of Dr.Wily. Cover:MM Issue 9. Issues Included:MM Issues 9-12. Stories Included:Return of Dr.Wily (Full Arc)
Mega Man-Spiritus Ex Machina. Cover:MM Issue 14. Issues Included:MM Issues 13-16. Stories Included:Spiritus Ex Machina (Full Arc)
Mega Man-Rock of Ages. Cover:MM Issue 20. Issues included:MM Issues 17-20. Stories Included: Proto-Type Parts 1 & 2, Roll with It, Rock of Ages
Mega Man-Breaking Point. Cover:MM Issue 22, Issues included:MM Issues 21-23, and 28. Stories included:Countdown, Cold Crush, For the Bot who has everything, Blackout Prologue
Mega Man-The Curse of Ra Moon. Cover:MM Issue 29. Issues included:Issues 29-32. Stories Included:The Curse of Ra Moon (Full Arc)
Mega Man-Redemption. Cover:MM Issue 34. Issues included:MM 33-36. Stories included:Unplugged, Shadow of the Moon Parts 1 & 2, A chance at Redemption and The X Factor Parts 1 & 2.
Mega Man-Dawn of X. Cover:Issue 37. Issues Included:MM 37-40. Stories Included:Dawn of X (Full Arc)
Mega Man-Legends of the Blue Bomber. Cover: #42, Issues Included:MM 41-44. Stories Included: Legends of the Blue Bomber (Full Arc)
Worlds Collide:
Worlds Collide Volume 1-Kindred Spirits. Cover:Uses both a mix of Mega Man #24 and Sonic Universe #51. Issues Included:MM #24, SU #51, StH #248, MM #25. Stories Included:Worlds Collide Parts 1-4 (Story Arc-Kindred Spirits)
Worlds Collide Volume 2-Into the Warzone. Cover:StH #249 (Worlds Collide Part 6) Issues Included: SU #52, StH #249, MM #26, SU #53. Stories Included:Worlds Collide Parts 5-8. (Story Arc:Intro the Warzone)
Worlds Collide Volume 3-Chaos Clash. Cover:StH #251 (Worlds Collide Part 12) Issues Included: StH #250, MM #27, SU #54, StH #251. Stories Included:Worlds Collide Parts 9-12 (Story Arc:Chaos Clash)
Worlds Collide: The Complete Saga. Cover: Original, Issues Included: MM #23, StH #247, MM 24, SU #51, StH #248, MM #25, SU #52, StH #249, MM #26, SU #53, StH #250, MM #27, SU #54, StH #251 and Selections from MM #28 and StH #252.
Stories Included: MM: For the Bot Who Has Everything, Worlds Collide, Selections from The Return: Prelude to The Curse of Ra Moon. StH: At All Costs Part 1, Worlds Collide, Selections from At All Costs Part 2. SU: Worlds Collide
Covers in Spoiler tag. (Thanks goes to TheFatPanda for links to the cover images)
Time Keeps Slipping:
The Return of Dr.Wily:
Spiritus Ex Machina:
Rock of Ages:
Breaking Point:
Blackout-The Curse of Ra-Moon:
Dawn of X:
Legends of the Blue Bomber
Worlds Collide Volume 1-Kindred Spirits:
Worlds Collide Volume 2-Into the Warzone
Worlds Collide Volume 3-Chaos Clash
Worlds Collide The Complete Epic
Worlds Collide The Complete Epic Variant Cover


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You descend the mall-bound escalator like a lord whisked into the lap of your manor – credit immaculate, wallet stuffed to bursting, desire for goods and services insatiable! Off you march down the gleaming corridor, faux-marble flooring buffed to perfection, the glass storefronts stretching out before you, pristine and rousing. There, stepping for the first time into a state-of-the-art bazaar, poised to buy, you are the modern shopper at your most galvanized, at your most invigorated!
But as you peer into the first crystalline boutique, you find that it's – empty! An untenanted void! Well, this is a new complex, after all, and one can hardly expect management to have leased every one of the building's nearly 200 units so quickly. No matter.
Undiscouraged, chin up, you march gamely onward, en route to the glory of the second store. You step before the glass, survey the interior, and see… more nothing. Store number two stands empty – once occupied but hurriedly abandoned, it seems.
Now just what's going on here? You step ahead to shops three and four. They're empty too — as are shops five, six and seven. Down the glittering expanse of the ultra-modern mall hallway, as far as the eye can see, there is nothing. Total vacancy. No havens of luxury goods, no brand-name sanctums, no meccas for the cash-rich bon vivant.
Then another revelation: the storefronts are empty – and you're the only person here.
The Shops at Aura sits like an unwelcome growth beneath the 79-storey Aura condo tower on Yonge Street in Toronto. Aura was designed in the inescapable "sculpted glass and stone" fashion by the architecture firm Graziani + Corazza and erected by Canderel Residential just south of College Street in 2012. It is, as Canderel trumpets on the condo's splash page, the tallest residential building in the country, and at nearly 900 feet it's Toronto's fourth-tallest building, just a hair behind the Scotia Plaza and the Trump International Hotel.
In a city already teeming with high-rises, a conurbation practically inundated with the ostentatious, the Aura is at pains to be a Ballardian citadel of grotesque proportions. "Graceful and commanding," Canderel's marketing copy breathlessly intones, "Aura embodies the true essence of luxury and sophistication… Aura is a world-class address."
Indeed. And The Shops at Aura, that palatial underground shopping retreat, was envisioned as nothing less than world-class too. Here is how Canderel continues, years after opening its doors, to describe what BlogTO has since deemed "Toronto's worst mall": "Welcome to The Shops at Aura: A one-of-a-kind shopping centre in the heart of downtown Toronto. The Shops at Aura boasts a wide collection of shops and services to cater to design, fashion, beauty, computer/tech, professional services, and much more, along with a food court with a unique offering of delicious food and drink options. Stroll through The Shops at Aura to uncover surprising finds from independent business owners, many of whom provide distinct custom services and products found nowhere else in Toronto."
Certainly it's true that this is a one-of-a-kind shopping centre. And yes, there is much that may be found nowhere else in Toronto. For instance, nowhere else will you find such desolation, such hopelessness, such gloom. At no other mall in the city, perhaps at no other mall in the world, will you find such an absence of people or places to shop.
To stroll through the Shops at Aura today is to enter a world of solitude and isolation. There is no bustle, no commotion or whirl; there's no sense of life or activity at all, save the dreary peregrinations of the custodial staff, doubtless the only people on site who can be sure of a regular paycheque. Corridors go untravelled for hours at a time.
What businesses remain – what business cling to life in desperation, unremittingly drawing on reserves of life savings and rainy-day funds – go without customers, any customers at all, for days. This is Yonge Street – thriving main artery of the city! The daily route of thousands with disposable cash! But inside the mall: no one. It's like one of those old Twilight Zone episodes in which everyone else has suddenly vanished from the face of the earth.
The complex was built to house 122 standalone retail units, most about 250 square feet, in simple glass and drywall. Of these units the Aura's online floor plan lists just over 50 as presently occupied – but many of those, it becomes clear should one actually descend upon the Shops in person, have since been ditched or hurriedly fled. Some bear signs declaring overnight foreclosure: "rent owed," "lease terminated," things like that. Others that seem to be in business – hand-written sale signs in the window, reams of merchandise still on display – are revealed on closer inspection to be locked and deserted, a "for lease" notice posted to the door. The fortunate announce that they've moved to a new location. The less so have given up hope and just want out: "2 years free rent!!!" is a poster you'll see in many windows.
Still there are holdouts: a tenacious barber shop, a dry-cleaner that must get some work from upstairs. And yet even the apparently indefatigable show the hallmarks of defeat. "Back in five minutes" signs abound. There are so many of them, on so many different storefronts, and for such endless lengths of time, that any prospective shopper who wanders in would think they'd arrived during a kind of mall-wide siesta.
Some store-owners appear to be on semi-permanent holiday: "On an errand," reads a notice posted to the door of a custom t-shirt shop, "please call my cell and I'll be with you as soon as I can." A photo studio is closed Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, but can be visited between 12:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. the "rest" of the week. Both a pet accessories store and a low-rent clothing boutique are open by appointment only – though what volume of clientele these business book per week is anyone's guess.
Anyone who's worked in retail can tell you how unbearable the boredom of a slow day can be. On this scale, at this magnitude, I don't think a reasonable mind could endure it: the "errand" these shopkeepers must be on is the retrieval of their sanity. But they have not taken their despair lightly.
Earlier this year the mall's tenants filed a lawsuit against Canderel Residential for $31.6 million dollars. The business owners claim, essentially, that they were deliberately misled: the Shops at Aura was promised to be a world-class shopping destination, a riot of cosmopolitan commerce, drawing residents of the condo above and their neighbours along Yonge by the thousands every day.
Perhaps Canderel has no control over the clientele of its own mall, and in any case, it would be no less in the developer's interest for the operation to be successful than the individual business owners themselves. But Canderel further promised the proprietors that the Shops at Aura would soon enough connect to the city's PATH network – a promise, however alluring, that it has so far been unable to keep. Diabolical? Probably not. The usual collision of hubris and incompetence seems more likely.
The Shops at Aura is not an isolated tragedy of doomed commercial enterprise. It's a microcosm of a trend accelerating across the country: the condo boom, noxious and unrelenting, and forever destined to disappoint.
Across Toronto and Vancouver deluxe high-rises loom imposingly, half-empty and ready to rent; their balconies tumble to the ground, their power fails en masse, their waterlines burst and their appliances sputter. The Aura condo itself, that paragon of "luxury and sophistication," has been plagued by misfortune: its nine elevators have broken down so frequently and for such lengths that the residents took to the local media to express their indignation: "It's a little outrageous," a tenant told the Toronto Star in August, after a rash of technical problems paralyzed the elevator banks. "It's just too big a building. They haven't accommodated."
Ah, well, that's typical: promise people glamour, erect a monument to your opulent vision, and then count the money when the complaints begin to roll in. Who needs excellence when the condo tower is a world-class address? Who needs shops and customers when the mall is a dream?
Weary, overwhelmed, saddened, you emerge from the purgatorial Aura and debouch to Yonge Street, glad to be returned once again to a crowd – to life, to the city. You take a look at the block around you. There's the Big Slice pizzeria, with its block letters and peppermint swirl on a red sign; the hand-written pick-up specials taped to the inside of the window, the concrete doorstep in sullen disrepair. To its right are the Doner Kebab House and the VIP Billiard Club, and something called Nouri Extension – "We Do Cellphone Repair", a paper sign taped to its window advertises – where a wrestling-themed beach towel, faded from months in the sun, hangs above the door bearing a price tag in felt tip (just $4.99). There's the Cash Money and the nail salon, the waffle house and the Evergreen mission.
Yonge Street! As it's meant to be.
But then you see it once again, the delusional positivity: the jet-black Starbucks and the glittering fitness centre shooting up through the cracks of the street like resplendent weeds. You blink and look again at Yonge Street of yore: the Big Slice, the Doner Kebab House, the VIP Billiard Club – all closed, shuttered, brown paper plastered across the windows and doors.
Just what's going on here? The block is set to be demolished. The businesses have been forced to clear out. On that very corner, right across from the Aura, a new condo is planned.
On a billboard advertising its future, an airbrushed vision of the perfect condo soon to come, you spot a shopper just like you – credit immaculate, wallet stuffed to bursting, desire for goods and services insatiable.


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Australia Launches the All New Discovery
I absolutely love working with the very people that are reinventing themselves for a world Beyond Tomorrow. Jaguar Landrover are an iconic brand that have been with us for decades, and a business that I have a very long term personal connection to.
The next 12 months or so are going to see a number of massive leaps forwards as Jaguar Land Rover release some exciting new products on our roads around the world. This marks the start of a new journey for the business as they put a new focus on the fusion of technology, experience and a new breed of consumer.
I was the opening keynote for the launch event in Uluru, and took my crew and one of the All New Discovery's on a drive through the incredible outback of Australia.


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problem of the poverty and social and educational nature there are football and
baseball stadiums that need replacing after only a few decades. For example the baseball field where the
Braves play. Atlanta, Georgia
|Gosh, what an ugly, outdated, terrible facility in which to play major league baseball.
Turner Field, named for Ted Turner, the Braves' former owner, was an outgrowth of the 1996 Summer Olympics in
After the Games, the 85,000-seat Centennial Olympic Stadium was converted for
baseball and its capacity reduced by more than 30,000. Atlanta
The new ballpark calls for just over 41,000 seats, which would make it like many others built for baseball since the 1990s.
The impetus for the Braves moving is the expiration of their lease at Turner Field after the 2016 season and upgrades that would cost "hundreds of millions of dollars," John Schuerholz, the team's president, said in a video statement issued Monday.
For example, the football stadium where the Falcons play.
As the Braves leave downtown, the
Falcons have plans to stay. The N.F.L. team has announced plans for a $1.2
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For example, some decrepit neighborhoods where many inner city children play.
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John Schnatter, founder of world-famous pizza franchise, Papa John's: "The whole premise, the whole genesis by which I founded Papa John's was quality. We believed from the get-go that if we took care of our people and we put our best foot forward with the quality of our products that we'd be successful."
Over the years, Papa John's has become famous for its: 'BETTER INGREDIENTS. BETTER PIZZA' concept. However, our 'better' doesn't stop there. We aim to have a superior franchise business opportunity, service, marketing, training and even franchisee recruitment process so we attract the best people around to deliver our top-quality product and service day-in, day-out to our growing customer base.
In this way, Papa John's is about far more than pizza: it's about people. The talent is our team and franchise network. Our franchisees purchase a slice of a much bigger, better business and in return, we invest in our people, just as they have invested in us. We provide world-class training and all the assistance and support needed to set up, including help with location selection and full turn-key opening of the store.
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OLEG WOOLF (translated by Boris Dralyuk)
Phoneme Media
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Rating: 4.5* of five
The Publisher Says: Reminiscent of Bruno Schulz's Street of Crocodiles, Oleg Woolf's Bessarabian Stamps — a cycle of 16 stories set mostly in the village of Sanduleni — is a vivid, surreal evocation of a liminal world. Sanduleni's denizens are in permanent flux, forever shifting languages, cultures, and states (in every sense of the word). Woolf has relocated magical realism to Moldova. With the turmoil in current Russia and the post-Soviet world, Bessarabian Stamps emphasizes the absurdity of the mundane.
My Review: I am not entirely sure that I even knew there was a place called "Moldova." It's on my literary radar now. My review of The Good Life Elsewhere was suffused with my sense of the proceedings as almost cartoonish in their surreal yet inevitable zaniness. This collection of tiny tales does nothing to alter that basic impression. But Woolf's microstories add a layer of sophistication to my gloss on his state (in the several senses of the word that pervade the book):
It was raining the kind of rain that exhortations can't help, and try as one might, one won't manage a thing against the water.This is on the very first page of Oleg Woolf's very first story, "Aurica and Van Gogh." Now's probably a good time to mention that I can't use my normal story-by-story review technique because the stories themselves are shorter than any analysis that would prove useful to the reader. So instead, the gestalt of the collection is what I'll talk about.
I've already published a public appreciation of Phoneme Media and its more-necessary-than-ever mission to bring American audiences the best work of people from other cultures. It is an urgent and necessary corrective lens to the myopic, nativist recrudescence we're seeing already...and have been able to see, had we the eyes to do so, since the time of de Tocqueville. Literature and film in translation in the US amounts, at the optimistic best-case scenario end of the statistics, to three percent of the total market output. And that data is probably the optimists' bible, since the University of Rochester, who collects the data, is reliant on voluntary reporting and has no power of compulsion to back it up.
It's a damned shame, too. The pleasures of reading Oleg Woolf's Bessarabian Stamps are many. The description of a village elder as "...well over a hundred, and remained a person of such openness, kindness, and strength that she was impossible to bear," for example, is pitch-perfect, precise, and funny as hell. We've all thought that someone was too good to be true, like Mother Teresa that old ambulatory accusation of avarice. Woolf makes many such arc-lights to illuminate his characters' essential reality. His is a gift of economy of praise and an abundance of clarity.
One thing that Woolf makes sure we know about Moldova is it's rain-forest-level wet all the time, and populated primarily by the oldsters who have been left behind by history:
Brăndulescu just watched and listened in silence to the rain, and it seemed that this rain would slowly transform into the murmur of some bygone voices, expired and empty. And suddenly he felt not so much sad, as somehow for nothing. He peered into the torrents of rain seriously and attentively—as if leaning over them—while they, in the usual manner of old men, forgetfully withdrew into themselves.Americans are entering this population crash, well underway in Europe for a generation. Young people all over the world have migrated to cities since World War II, rural depopulation is exacerbated by the mechanization of farming, the collapse of the value of such labor as farming still requires, and the consequent rise in economic migration from Third World countries changes the sociopolitical landscape forever. Look at the Mexican migrant workers doing American farming scut-work in slave-labor conditions...almost sixty years after Harvest of Shame was broadcast. Unprovably, it's been asserted that this horrible exposé fueled the rise of what became Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. If nothing else, the attention of the culture was focused by that one show.
It takes many books to equal one television show. Just ask Sănduleni's poet Ivan Markov:
The day was full of the kind of clouds one rarely sees in Moscow—sour cream-like, made of human souls. Shaggy Markov walked across the Bolshoy Kammeny Bridge, and each of the piers was more governmental than three railroad stations. Many of those he passed on the bridge may have read his books, but without love, grief, pleasure, separation, or regret, as one reads before bed: so as to fall asleep. So as to, just think, nine hundred pages—your eyes fall on any of them and the author says: you just read my thoughts. And me, what are his thoughts to me—they've just put me aside for a rainy day.It is ever thus with poets and writers. It is ever thus with publishers and translators. Shunted aside, left for a rainy day.
It's raining as hard as we're ever likely to see it rain, ladies and gentlemen, in a time when a man who openly and publicly said he grabbed women by their private parts had his statement brought to light and still won the presidency of the United States of America. We are all in need of reinforcement, of feeling understood and supported by every means at our disposal. We are in urgent need of the fellow feeling that reading translated works brings us. We need to support the work of companies like Phoneme Media, so that they can afford to bring us comfort and understanding from the places in the world we simply don't know anything about.
Bessarabian Stamps is an excellent book. It is a great place to bolster your inner resistance to philistinism and enforced ignorance.


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The City Beyond: A News-Gazette and Virginia Theater Film
In the summer of 1923 the Twin-Cities were buzzing with movie fever, as the News-Gazette and the Virginia Theater were producing a film to showcase Champaign and Urbana. While the film was to be used as publicity and promotion, the News-Gazette declared that the film was more than just an advertisement-it was to be "a real picture of heart interest, produced by local stars and with local settings." ("Will Star In Local Photoplay," 1923)
The stars of the show would be Miss Ruth Honn of 815 West University Avenue, Mrs. Elizabeth Boggs Bartling of Chicago, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. F.S. Boggs of Urbana, and Frank "Roby" Robeson Jr. of Robeson's Department Store on Church Street, Champaign. The film was directed by J. Law Siple of Siple Studios Inc. in Chicago and the cameramen were from the News-Gazette.
The only known description of the film is described in a News-Gazette article dated June 21, 1923:
"The story that is to be woven in to the picture is one of stirring heart-interest. The scenes will include the thrill of an aerial pageant with a plane wreck, including the rescue from the wreckage of the star; parks and public and private buildings; incidents and parades of graduation day; clubs in session and agencies of Mercy busy at their work of making life more attractive and beautiful." ("Co-Star in Local Photoplay; Picture made Thursday")
Filming occurred at the Chanute Air Base in Rantoul and around both cities. The first News-Gazette article that mentions the film is in early June of 1923, and the film premiered July 23rd, 1923 at the Virginia Theater and ran for only three days. The film was then "turned over to The News-Gazette and will be kept in its possession." ("'The City Beyond' Will Close Run Wednesday Night, 1923)
The running time and exact locations of the shots in the film are unknown. It is also unknown if any copies of the movie survive. Local film groups have searched for the film but have come up empty handed.
J. Law Siple also directed a film for Decatur titled "The City Beyond" just one month after the Champaign-Urbana film was completed. It also shot scenes at Chanute Air Base, but it is unknown if the films have similar plots.


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Do you feel tired?
Do you feel it may be due to lack of sleep or bad eating habits?
Perhaps that is true.
Let us talk about the elephant in the room.
Maybe the elephant in the room causing you lack of sleep, pains or bad eating habits.
Let us talk about all the energy we spend to keep up an image behind a mask. That is very tiring to do every day. Do you agree?
Take several slow deep breaths and listen carefully to what your body is telling you.
What emotions come up?
Are you surprised what shows up? Can you name them?
How much energy do you spend to put a lid on your anger?
How much energy do you spend to put a lid on your disappointments?
How much energy do you spend to deny the reality?
How much energy do you spend to put a lid on your hurts?
There are many reasons why we do not express what we feel and avoid acknowledging them.
The first step for us is to become aware of what we are doing before we try to understand why we do it.
Next time you feel tired, take several deep breaths. Observe the emotions that is held within your body. Listen to their messages. Acknowledge the pink elephant in the room.
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