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Good Bread: Guyanese Bakeries in Brooklyn
Stories about the loaves we love.
In the Guyanese bakeries of Brooklyn, every bread is linked with a specific food. At Tota's Bakery in Crown Heights, the platt or plait bread is a big, braided white loaf that looks like challah without the eggs. It's meant to be pulled apart and dipped into Guyanese pepperpot, a remarkable stew made from oxtail, cow foot, beef, brown sugar, casareep (a kind of molasses made from cassava juice), cinnamon, cloves, thyme, onions, and hot peppers.
Pepperpot is cooked for hours or even days, and when done, the black and unctuous stew tastes like a spicy, savory version of classic English plum pudding. You dunk the fluffy platt bread into the oily broth and use it to wipe every last morsel from your bowl.
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A bakery like Tota's is a perfect place to explore the polyglot nature of Guyanese cuisine, which mixes African, South Asian, Dutch, English, Native American, American, Chinese, and a bevy of other regional influences. Tota's was founded about 25 years ago by the late Tottarom Jainarine, who learned the trade down in Guyana.
You see his South Asian ancestry in the bakery's rotis and snack foods like poulourie (or phulourie). These are little fried dough balls, reminiscent of hush puppies, made with split peas, flour, and spices. They're best hot from the fryer and doused in "sour," a sauce made from tamarind, vinegar, and tiny, biting, wirri-wirri peppers. Like Indian chaat, they're good as a quick snack or to wash down with cold beer.
I'm guessing there's an English influence in the tennis rolls, which are shaped like puffy tennis balls. Split one open and you'll smell yeast and surprisingly, lemon. They're slightly sweet, and Guyanese like to eat them for breakfast with Guyanese cheese (like a mild cheddar) and a cup of coffee.
Down on Church Avenue in Flatbush, Sybil's is the Brooklyn branch of the Guyanese bakery mini-empire founded back in 1976 by Sybil Bernard. Like Tota's, they serve a wide range of breads, pastries, rotis, and prepared foods.
A good place to start exploring the Sybil's menu is with a "bake." This is a chewy, flying-saucer shaped roll that's actually not baked but fried in hot fat. Then they slice it in half and stuff the inside with a tasty filling like stewed saltfish, whose flavor stands up to the greasy bread. The Guyanese sandwich is more to be admired from afar: they take a flat roll of white "butterflap" bread, slice it in half and stuff with a Jamaican-style patty. Bread stuffed with fried bread with a thin layer of meat in the middle—it does fill the stomach. Maybe fried fish filet would be a better choice with the butterflap.
Beyond the breads, these eateries have a huge range of other baked goods to try, including black cake, coconut sweet bread, pineapple tart, and a little round bun decorated with a red dot. Open one up, and the flaky crust reveals a filling of sweet black bean paste. A Chinese tea pastry in a Guyanese bakery—polyglot indeed.
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Remember Fran Nevrkla, Chairman and CEO of Phonographic Performance Ltd, a UK music industry association, that wanted death penalty for those who download copyright material from the Internet without the authors' consent?It is possible that in Portugal we now have a radical of that kind. Someone saying he is Nuno Pereira from ACAPOR left a comment in the Portuguese newspaper Público (check out the first chronological comment) asking the Government to "eradicate pirate parties, Tugaleaks, Anonymous of every ages, Paula's somethings and filthy Ludwig's, whose minds only serve to destabilize our very fragile society, since they are the mentors for the computer criminality that terrorizes our country". In parts: Nuno Pereira, whom I've criticized before, is ACAPOR's President. ACAPOR, whom I've criticized before, is the Portuguese association of movie rental stores. You might remember them from the news, since they were hacked by Anonymous during Operation Payback. Pirate Parties... Well, you know who they are, even if their target is the Portuguese Pirate Party, who have presented criminal charges against ACAPOR in the past, since ACAPOR has violated privacy laws. Tugaleaks is a Portuguese website inspired on Wikileaks, who's aim is to do the same as Wikileaks but on a local (Portuguese) level. Unsurprisingly, they've also been vocally critical of ACAPOR. Anonymous... well, not only I'm sure you've heard about them, but I also already told you about them hacking ACAPOR (defacing their website and leaking 650Mb of e-mails). This is Anonymous message to ACAPOR. Finally... Ludwig and Paula: they're both Portuguese researchers, and both are bloggers. In their blogs, both Ludwig and Paula wrote more than once criticizing ACAPOR and their attempts to restrict free speech amongst other things. Of course, the name Paula might ring a bell if you're a reader of this blog: after all I'm married with her (and I have no wish to see her eradicated, mind you!). Why them? Well... There was a Portuguese Conference on "Pirate Culture" previously this year, and both the Nuno Pereira, the Portuguese Pirate Party, Ludwig and Paula were there doing presentations and debating. And maybe those "minds only serve to destabilize our very fragile society, since they are the mentors for the computer criminality that terrorizes our country", since if you see the videos from the event (link above) you'll start thinking that Paula, Ludwig and André from the Pirate Party make sense, while ACAPOR's points of view seem more of those of some lunatic. Of course, the "fragile society" in question isn't "our society" but ACAPOR's association. And the "computer criminality that terrorizes our country" that they talk about is the fact that they "use computers to show their points of view in such a well-structured way that ACAPOR doesn't have arguments against them". Free speech, you know? What scares me is that this guy is doing this kind of thing long enough to prove he's serious about it. And it scares me because he was there, face to face with Paula and Ludwig, debating issues on which they have different positions, but an... "wealthy debate", I guess I can say. And then, each of them went home... and one of them is crying out loud asking for the others to be eradicated.


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FFmpeg can take input from "directshow" devices on your windows computer. These are typically video or audio devices that are attached.
c:\> ffmpeg -list_devices true -f dshow -i dummy ffmpeg version N-45279-g6b86dd5... --enable-runtime-cpudetect libavutil 51. 74.100 / 51. 74.100 libavcodec 54. 65.100 / 54. 65.100 libavformat 54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100 libavdevice 54. 3.100 / 54. 3.100 libavfilter 3. 19.102 / 3. 19.102 libswscale 2. 1.101 / 2. 1.101 libswresample 0. 16.100 / 0. 16.100 [dshow @ 03ACF580] DirectShow video devices [dshow @ 03ACF580] "Integrated Camera" [dshow @ 03ACF580] "screen-capture-recorder" [dshow @ 03ACF580] DirectShow audio devices [dshow @ 03ACF580] "Internal Microphone (Conexant 2" [dshow @ 03ACF580] "virtual-audio-capturer" dummy: Immediate exit requested
Then use the listed devices like
c:\> ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="Integrated Camera" out.mp4
You can also pass the device certain parameters that it needs, for instance a webcam might allow you to capture it in "1024x768" at up to max 5 fps, or allow you to capture at "640x480" at 30 fps. You can enumerate the options like this:
c:\> ffmpeg -f dshow -list_options true -i video=<video device> ex:
ffmpeg -f dshow -list_options true -i video="Integrated Camera" ffmpeg version N-45279-g6b86dd5 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers built on Oct 10 2012 17:30:47 with gcc 4.7.1 (GCC) configuration:... libavutil 51. 74.100 / 51. 74.100 libavcodec 54. 65.100 / 54. 65.100 libavformat 54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100 libavdevice 54. 3.100 / 54. 3.100 libavfilter 3. 19.102 / 3. 19.102 libswscale 2. 1.101 / 2. 1.101 libswresample 0. 16.100 / 0. 16.100 [dshow @ 01D4F3E0] DirectShow video device options [dshow @ 01D4F3E0] Pin "Capture" [dshow @ 01D4F3E0] pixel_format=yuyv422 min s=640x480 fps=15 max s=640x480 fps=30 [dshow @ 01D4F3E0] pixel_format=yuyv422 min s=1280x720 fps=7.5 max s=1280x720 fps=7.5 [dshow @ 01D4F3E0] vcodec=mjpeg min s=640x480 fps=15 max s=640x480 fps=30 [dshow @ 01D4F3E0] vcodec=mjpeg min s=1280x720 fps=15 max s=1280x720 fps=30 video=Integrated Camera: Immediate exit requested
You can see in this particular instance that it can either stream it to you in a "raw pixel_format" (yuyv422 in this case), or as an mjpeg stream.
You can specify the type (mjpeg) and size (1280x720) and frame rate to tell the device to give you (15 fps), like this:
ffmpeg -f dshow -s 1280x720 -r 15 -vcodec mjpeg -i video="Integrated Camera" out.avi
Sometimes it helps to specify "-vcodec copy" to save on cpu to re-encode, if you can receive the data in some type of pre-encoded format, like mjpeg in this instance.
Also this note that "The input string is in the format video=<video device name>:audio=<audio device name>. It is possible to have two separate inputs (like -f dshow -i audio=foo -f dshow -i video=bar) but my limited tests had shown a better synchronism when both were used in the same input."
See here for a list of more dshow options you can specify, for instance you can decrease latency on audio devices, specify a video by "index" if 2 have the same name displayed, etc.
By default FFmpeg captures frames from the input, and then (does whatever you told it to do, for instance, re-encoding them and saving them to an output file). By default if it receives a frame "too early" (while the previous frame isn't finished yet), it will discard that frame, so that it can keep up the the real time input. You can adjust this by setting the "-rtbufsize" parameter, though note that if your encoding process can't keep up, eventually you'll still start losing frames just the same (and using it at all can introduce a bit of latency). It may be helpful to still specify some buffer, however, otherwise frames may be needlessly dropped.
See StreamingGuide for some tips on tweaking encoding (sections latency and cpu usage). For instance, you could save it to a very fast codec, then re-encode it later.
If you have a video capture card (ex: AverMedia, possibly some BlackMagic, though it may be a separate unrelated problem, and also some BlackMagic cards don't have the right inputs set up ask on the forum), it may not work (yet) out of the box with FFmpeg, as it lacks crossbar support presently. The work around currently is to install the AmerecTV software, which presents the capture card as directshow devices, then input the AmerecTV directshow devices into your FFmpeg. See here.
Using DirectShow with libav*
Basically, you can accept input dshow input into you program that uses, see Using libav* to know what libav does. See http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=274&p=902&hilit=dictionary#p902
How to programmatically enumerate devices
FFmpeg doesnt' provide a native way to do this yet, but you can lookup the devices yourself, or just parse ffmepg's standard out:
AviSynth Input
FFmpeg can also take DirectShow input by creating an avisynth file (.avs file) that itself gets input from a graphedit file, which graphedit file exposes a pin of your capture source or any filter really, ex ("yo.avs") with this content:
DirectShowSource("push2.GRF", fps=35, audio=False, framecount=1000000)
Running ffmpeg.exe without opening a console window
If you want to run your ffmpeg "from a gui" without having it popup a console window which spits out all of ffmpeg's input, a few things that may help:
- If you can start your program like rubyw.exe or javaw.exe then all command line output (including child processes') is basically not attached to a console.
- If your program has an option to run a child program "hidden" or the like, that might work. If you redirect stderr and stdout to something you receive, that might work (but might be tricky because you may need to read from both pipes in different threads, etc.)
ffdshow tryouts
ffdshow tryouts is a separate project that basically wraps FFmpeg's core source (libavcodec, etc.) and then presents them as filter wrappers that your normal Windows applications can use for decoding video, etc. It's not related to "ffmpeg.exe" directly, at all.
You can ask questions/comments about DirectShow on the zeranoe forum.


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Photographers Alex Troesch and Aline Paley first saw the long, pointy Mexican boots on a video through Facebook. "It was so funny at first, seeing this group of people dancing in the boots to this crazy music," Troesch says. "But then we realized how great it was to see another side of northern Mexico—people being silly and having fun. It's usually portrayed as so rough, with a lot of violence."
Inspired by the video they saw, the Brooklyn-based duo, who have known each other three years, traveled to Matehuala, Mexico in late January to see the boots with their own eyes. There, they met a young man named Gerardo Gallegos, who showed them around the city and brought them to various clubs, where they witnessed people dancing in the long-toed shoes firsthand. Many of the most fanatic dancers were teenagers, and the two photographers even met several kids who were making these boots by hand in their living rooms.
In northern Mexico, the pointy boots trend is more about flash than fashion. "They're worn by people who want to impress other people," Troesch says. In fact, one boot maker they met had transformed a regular pair of shoes into pointy boots for a client who wanted to impress the jury of a dance contest. That's how the fervor started—but not everyone is a fan. "Sometimes you'd hear people teasing others about wearing the boots," Troesch says. "Still, it was very interesting for us to witness how such a common object—cowboy boots—worn by so many people in northern Mexico could be reinvented and reappropriated by young teenagers whose eyes and ears are so many times directed towards the other side of the border."
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Once upon a time, there was a world where all Pokémon communicated with each other by speaking. Here in this world, we find a Piplup, who was once a boy and a Chimchar who dreams of forming a Pokémon Exploration Team. Which after, meeting, is exactly what they did, calling their Exploration Team the "Poképals". Through dedication and arduous training, the Poképals rose to glory. And now, at last... Their final adventure is upon them.
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GENEVA, N.Y.—At 11 a.m. today, Laurie Fine stood outside of a castle about an hour west of the Syracuse University apartments in which, according to a former ball boy's testimony, she had sex with Syracuse men's basketball players. Here, flanked by the sun, the tweeting birds, and the rippling waters of Lake Seneca, Fine announced that she did no such thing, nor did she see and then keep quiet about her husband Bernie Fine molesting children, nor did she have sex with the ball boy, Bobby Davis, when he was in high school, among other things she did not do.
She really wants everyone to know she did not do these things. That's why she booked the castle by the lake.
Well, actually, she could have picked any venue. But according to her attorney, Lawrence Fisher, Fine chose Belhurst Castle for the sake of symbolism. She wanted to show that she did not feel comfortable in her hometown anymore. And she liked the story of its construction: In 1885 a woman named Carrie Harron came to Geneva and, Fisher said, "built this castle." In that tradition, he continued, "another strong New York woman, Laurie Fine, comes here and begins rebuilding her life." (Legend has it that the castle hosts the ghost of an Italian opera singer who fled from Spain with her lover.)
Fine was here, nominally, to discuss her plan to file a federal libel suit against ESPN, reporter Mark Schwarz, and producer Arthur Berko, as soon as ESPN says it won't settle. If the suit does go to court, witnesses will be subpoenaed to discuss the alleged years-long Syracuse basketball orgy. She spoke briefly about how ESPN "maliciously attacked" her by falsely reporting Bobby Davis's "treacherous lies" to boost ratings and attack Bernie. (For what it's worth, Fisher says Fine has no interest in suing Davis: "We don't wish him any ill will. As always, I think Laurie wishes he would make something out of his life other than this scandal.")
But we were really here, inside this living watercolor painting, to talk about blowjobs, weren't we? WSYR reporter Carrie Lazarus did the best job of it. She asked Fine and her attorney about the phone call with Davis in 2003, the one Davis surreptitiously recorded and gave to the press.
Lazarus: "You talk about in the complaint that the Fines wanted to help Davis and realizing this was futile, that he was not able to be helped. Why, then, would Laurie Fine talk about specific sex acts in a conversation with Bobby Davis? And why should she say, 'I knew what was going on, when he went down to the basement and told me to check on sons,' why did the phone call turn to that, if it was really about trying to help Bobby?"
Fisher: "I don't know that the premise of your question is correct. I don't know that anyone has spoken about specific sex acts whatsoever and in fact I think to the contrary the complaint would refute the premise to your question."
Lazarus: "Are you saying that when Laurie says something about 'grabbing you,' or 'blowing you' that it was not about sex?"
Fisher: "I beg your pardon?"
Lazarus: "There was a quote in the transcript that has Laurie talking about 'grabbing you,' or 'blowing you.' Be honest with me."
Fisher: "You are now engaging in the same out-of-context undertaking as ESPN has, and I would caution you against that."
Fine's quote, the one to which Lazarus referred, is right there in the transcript provided on the Post-Standard's website: "He wants you to grab him? Or blow him?" The conversation then continued with Davis saying, "He tried to make me grab him. But first he'd try to grab me and start touching me. ..." And Laurie Fine replied: "Right. But when he gave you the money, what did he want for that? He wanted you to grab him or he wanted to do you?"
If the case goes to trial, Fisher said they will have an expert testify that ESPN doctored the tape down from 48 minutes. He did not deny that it was Laurie's voice on the tape.
The press conference was over in 20 minutes, and we all cleared out of Belhurst Castle. There's a little more to the Harron story, though, than the version Fisher gave. According to the luxurious resort/winery/spa's website, Harron, a woman of "means," actually hired 50 men to build the castle. She then moved to the place with her manager, Capt. Louis Collins, while her husband stayed in New York City. Shortly after, she divorced her husband and married Capt. Collins. There's your Belhurst: ghosts and old legends and illicit love. Some symbolism.
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EMC is replacing its VMAX ControlCenter management software, likened in the past to "a royal PITA", with ProSphere, positioned as scale-out block storage resource management.
EMC says it doesn't think a single storage resource management product covering all its arrays is a good idea. Chuck Hollis, EMC's VP for technical alliances, says that EMC's plan is to have UniSphere for dual-controller, general purpose arrays such as VNX and CLARiiON; a scale-out NAS resource manager for Isilon; a scale-out cloud one for Atmos; and, now, ProSphere for VMAX.
About ControlCenter, he says: "To be frank, it has had its challenges."
ProSphere end-to-end view
ProSphere has been designed to work with virtualised servers and in a cloud-style way, with storage delivered as a service. It supports federated storage and provides so-called end-to-end views, regardless of asset location, from servers to storage, with drill down.
ProSphere can be used by IT storage specialists to manage Symmetrix, DMX, and VMAX arrays, including the VMAXe, plus VNX and CLARiiON arrays.
It starts from a basis of having no agent, unlike ControlCenter, and is installed as a virtual appliance. When installed, it will discover the host data centre VMAX infrastructure automatically. Generally this takes place in an hour but eight hours or more might be required for larger infrastructures.
Hollis says: "ProSphere gets up and running with an absolute minimum of fuss and resources. A big departure from ControlCenter..."
The product provides near real-time monitoring and analysis capabilities for the storage resources it manages. It supports "up to 1.2 million volumes, 36,000 ports and 18,000 hosts as part of a single logical domain."
Any storage entity managed by ProSphere can be put in a group, a so-called Smart Group, and policies applied to group members. Typically objects sharing characteristics would be placed in Smart Groups.
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Compared to ControlCenter, up to 75 per cent fewer physical servers are needed to run ProSphere. Those freed-up servers can be reallocated to run applications.
Single pane of glass and roadmap
ProSphere has a highly graphic interface, but it is not, yet, a single pane of glass for managing the Symm, DMX, VMAX and VMAXe environments, although it will probably become that.
Hollis implies pretty directly that Symmetrix Performance Analyzer will be integrated into ProSphere in the future as will the Ionix Configuration Advisor.
ProSphere will also get the ability, we understand, to support agents where they are needed for security purposes. Hollis says it will extend support to non-block EMC environments and non-EMC arrays.
Over time, the product will increase its monitoring and alerting functionality and extend its capacity, forecasting, planning and reporting tools for physical capacity and storage performance according to Hollis.
Here's an EMC ProSphere datasheet (pdf) for reference. Hollis' blog provides a great overview of ProSphere.
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Rick was kind enough to coordinate and record the webinar, and you can watch the Effectus Skin demo and Q&A at his site.
Also, for those of you who don't know him already, Rick is one of the best teachers of both WordPress and Thesis, and he has helped hundreds of people learn how to control and run their own sites, without needing to rely so heavily on (expensive) developers and designers.
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So, I have these wonderful friends- Rachel, Don, and their daughter Adeline. I adore these folks and feel lucky to be able to follow along with all of their fun happenings via Don's blog and their Instagram accounts. Isn't the internet awesome? I'm certain that one day when our little families meet we'll be fast real-life friends too. Annnnd, it just so happens that Don is also the talented fellow that did my recent (awesome) blog redesign!
I was nervous to change it up but Don blew me away with his ideas, execution and professionalism. He did exactly what he said he would do, in the timeframe he promised, and went above and beyond to make it perfect. Afterward he even made me a personalized tutorial so I could figure out how to update all of my ads myself due to the fancy columns he set up. I can't say enough great things about not just the design, but the entire experience, and I wholeheartedly recommend Don to all of you for all of you blog design needs.
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Jewish state fires back with missiles targeting Damascus regime
by AARON KLEIN
TEL AVIV – It was the Syrian opposition and not the Syrian government behind the firing Sunday and yesterday at the Israeli border, a top Syrian official claimed to WND.
The Syrian official accused the jihadist opposition of attempting to draw Israel into the conflict to aid the rebels by targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"Why would we fire at Israel?" asked the official, speaking on condition his name be withheld. "We have no interest in getting Israel to attack the Syrian military."
The rebels are backed by the U.S. and international community.
The border incidents began Saturday, when a round of gunfire coming from the Syrian side hit an Israeli Defense Forces jeep on routine patrol in the northern Golan Heights. Another round was fired from Syria targeted the same area in Israel today.
The gunfire came from a region on the Syrian side of the border where rebels have been attempting to seize control of a border town these last few days.
Israel Sunday responded with a missile attack that destroyed a Syrian army machine-gun position despite questions about whether the Syrian army was behind the fire into Israel.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon made clear he views Assad bearing the ultimate responsibility for any attacks from his side of the border.
Ya'alon's office released this statement: "We view the fire from Syria last night and this morning at IDF troops in Israeli territory as severe. The IDF responded in accordance with government policy. Every breach of Israeli sovereignty and each firing from the Syrian side will be met with an immediate response to silence the source of fire as we identify them. We see the Syrian regime as being responsible for every violation of our sovereignty."
Today's round of violence comes as the rebels are reportedly being fingered in last week's alleged chemical attack in the Syrian town of Khan al-Assal, west of Aleppo.
Britain's Telegraph reported Sunday the Syrian military is said to believe that a homemade, locally manufactured rocket was by rebels fired, containing a form of chlorine known as CL17, easily available as a swimming-pool cleaner. Syria claims the warhead contained a quantity of the gas, dissolved in saline solution.
Informed Mideast security officials speaking to WND further blamed the rebels for the chemical attack.
The officials said it appears the rebels are attempting to create a humanitarian crisis to precipitate the deployment of NATO to fight the Assad regime.
Globalist doctrine
Any NATO deployment would likely come under the banner of Responsibility to Protect.
Responsibility to Protect, or Responsibility to Act, as cited by President Obama, is a set of principles, now backed by the United Nations, based on the idea that sovereignty is not a privilege but a responsibility that can be revoked if a country is accused of "war crimes," "genocide," "crimes against humanity" or "ethnic cleansing."
The term "war crimes" has at times been indiscriminately used by various U.N.-backed international bodies, including the International Criminal Court, or ICC, which applied it to Israeli anti-terror operations in the Gaza Strip. There has been fear the ICC could be used to prosecute U.S. troops.
Billionaire activist George Soros' Open Society Institute is also one of only three non-governmental funders of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, the group that devised the doctrine.
Obama's national security adviser, Samantha Power, helped to found Responsibility to Protect, which was also devised by several controversial characters, including Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi, a staunch denier of the Holocaust who long served as the deputy of late Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat.
Power, in April, was named the head of the new White House Atrocities Prevention Board.
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, founded by Power, had a seat on the advisory board of the 2001 commission that original founded Responsibility to Protect.
The commission is called the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. It invented the term "responsibility to protect" while defining its guidelines.
The Carr Center is a research center concerned with human rights located at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Power was Carr's founding executive director and headed the institute at the time it advised in the founding of Responsibility to Protect. With Power's Carr Center on the advisory board, the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty first defined the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
The Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect is the world's leading champion of the military doctrine.
Soros' Open Society Institute is a primary funder and key proponent of the Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect. Several of the doctrine's main founders sit on boards with Soros.
Activists Ramesh Thakur and Gareth Evans, for example, are the original founders. The two sit on multiple boards with Soros.
Board members of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect include former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former Ireland President Mary Robinson and South African activist Desmond Tutu.
Robinson and Tutu have made solidarity visits to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip as members of a group called The Elders, which includes former President Jimmy Carter.
Annan once famously stated: "State sovereignty, in its most basic sense, is being redefined – not least by the forces of globalization and international cooperation. States are … instruments at the service of their peoples and not vice versa."
Right to 'penetrate nation-states' borders'
Soros himself outlined the fundamentals of Responsibility to Protect in a 2004 Foreign Policy magazine article titled "The People's Sovereignty: How a New Twist on an Old Idea Can Protect the World's Most Vulnerable Populations."
In the article, Soros asserted, "True sovereignty belongs to the people, who in turn delegate it to their governments."
"If governments abuse the authority entrusted to them and citizens have no opportunity to correct such abuses, outside interference is justified," Soros wrote. "By specifying that sovereignty is based on the people, the international community can penetrate nation-states' borders to protect the rights of citizens.
"In particular, the principle of the people's sovereignty can help solve two modern challenges: the obstacles to delivering aid effectively to sovereign states, and the obstacles to global collective action dealing with states experiencing internal conflict."
More Soros ties
"Responsibility" founders Evans and Thakur served as co-chairmen on the advisory board of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, which invented the term "responsibility to protect."
In his capacity as co-chairman, Evans also played a pivotal role in initiating the fundamental shift from sovereignty as a right to "sovereignty as responsibility."
Evans presented Responsibility to Protect at the July 23, 2009, United Nations General Assembly, which was convened to consider the principle.
Thakur is a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, which is in partnership with an economic institute founded by Soros.
Soros is on the executive board of the International Crisis Group, a "crisis management organization" for which Evans serves as president-emeritus.
New world order
Doctrine founder Thakur has advocated a "global rebalancing" and "international redistribution" to create a "New World Order."
In a piece in March 2011 in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, "Toward a New World Order," Thakur wrote, "Westerners must change lifestyles and support international redistribution."
He was referring to a U.N.-brokered international climate treaty in which it was argued, "Developing countries must reorient growth in cleaner and greener directions."
In the opinion piece, Thakur then discussed recent military engagements and how the financial crisis has impacted the U.S.
"The West's bullying approach to developing nations won't work anymore – global power is shifting to Asia," he wrote. "A much-needed global moral rebalancing is in train."
Thakur continued: "Westerners have lost their previous capacity to set standards and rules of behavior for the world. Unless they recognize this reality, there is little prospect of making significant progress in deadlocked international negotiations."
Thakur contended "the demonstration of the limits to U.S. and NATO power in Iraq and Afghanistan has left many less fearful of 'superior' Western power."
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2013/03/syria-u-s-backed-rebels-behind-attacks-on-israel/#GxPpVyBt5usO8VfU.99


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Out of a dozen or so scifi movies coming out this summer, only four of them are absolutely bulletproof, according to you, our readers. Ten of this summer's science fiction films are in danger of falling into obscure-cult-classic territory — or worse. But there's also an excellent chance that at least one underdog will become a smash hit that nobody could have predicted. Which movie do you think will be the most surprising hit of the summer?
Note: You're really kind of voting for two things here. Which of these movies will be the biggest hit, and the most surprising hit? I wouldn't personally be that surprised if Incredible Hulk does well, but I'm including it because many commenters yesterday saw it as having weak buzz. Meanwhile, I would be stunned if Babylon A.D. played to more than a handful of confused Babylon 5 fans, despite the awesome presence of Vin Diesel and Michelle Yeoh.
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Refresh yourself with spoilers! A script review of Nolan's Inception is shocking and possibly accurate. There's thrilling Surrogates footage, and a revealing FlashForward clip. Smallville gets zanier. Plus: Batman 3, Jennifer's Body, Supernatural, Fringe, Warehouse and Heroes spoilers.
Someone who claims to have read the whole screenplay for Christopher Nolan's "architecture of the mind" thriller posted a review online — and several salt mines worth of grains of salt are probably indicated. The synopsis is vastly different from the other dribs and drabs we've learned so far, and sounds a bit outlandish to boot. At the same time, you just never know — and I remember dismissing a spot-on accurate summary of The Dark Knight as a fake months before the movie came out.
In any case, the lucky (or lying) reviewer says that far from being about stepping into people's dreams for espionage purposes, as we've reported previously, Inception is actually about using the mind to travel to any point in space. A man named Jacob Hastley has recently become paraplegic, and he considers killing himself — but instead he discovers a connection between the human mind and space. Since both space and the mind's capacity are infinite (they are?), you can create a doorway from your mind into any point in space.
So Jacob discovers a "thought algorithm" that lets him travel to any point in the universe, without actually traveling. He visits other solar systems, and even other galaxies, and it's groovy. Then he discovers that other people already know how to do this mind-traveling thing, and they're 150 percent smarter than average humans because they use more of their brain capacity. These other travelers are aware of Jacob's travels, and Jacob has to find the truth behind the origins of the universe (hence "Inception") before the other travelers catch up to him.
The supporting cast includes Lisa, a genius and Jacob's ex-wife who dumped him after he was injured, but who shows up again right after his first trip. Plus Kansas, a dog whisperer who connects in an unearthly way with her animals, Tark, a 37-year-old man who seems to have a wisdom beyond his years, and Isabell, a blind woman who will stop at nothing to see again. So... what do you think? Do we call in TrekMovie's Senator Vreenak?
Update: Apparently it was an April Fool's prank. Oh well. [Script Shadow, thanks Ryan!]
Batman 3:
Have we already mentioned a dozen times before that Aaron Eckhart says Harvey Dent died at the end of The Dark Knight? Here's one more for luck. [MTV]
Just how badly do you want to see some kick-ass robot-fighting new footage from Surrogates? Badly enough to sit through a music video by the band Breaking Benjamin? If so, then here ya go. The song is pretty dreadful, but the scenes from the movie make it look pretty darn amazing. [Thanks Mike!]
Jennifer's Body:
Director Karen Kusama explains what appealed to her about this movie's script:
I really, really loved the fact that it had this subverted fairytale kind of structure where in the end it's Needy who has to save Chip, save herself and deal with Jennifer. That she really has to become an adult over the course of the movie and that was powerful to me. I know the movie plays like a crazy, fun genre film, but I hope that there's something a little bit emotionally richer.
A tragedy befalls the town, and the townsfolk find a song to unify them in their grief. And there's a great moment where we see Jennifer cupping blood out of a torn-open torso. [ShockTillYouDrop]
Tired of Sam and Dean ripping each other to pieces? Then there's good news. Eric Kripke says season five is about "building Sam and Dean back up in a way that makes them older, sadder, wiser, and, ultimately, stronger. It's funny, we've been feeling in many ways that this is the most optimistic season of Supernatural we've ever done. Because even though the exterior circumstances are a massive cluster f–k, internally, the boys aren't tearing each other apart every episode. It's more like, 'Hey, maybe we'll lose, but, dammit, let's go down swinging.'" [EW]
The question with Charlie isn't so much whether he's going, but when. (And I think this means in which episode he'll leave, and it's not some kind of hint that Charlie will be time-traveling.) [EW]
Another combined Bones/Fringe promo:
A new clip from the pilot, in which people start to realize those blackouts weren't just blackouts. Plus a few promos I don't think we've shown you before.
House has "steamy goings-on" with she-who-shall-not-be-named in the season premiere, but Huddy is far from over — House and Cuddy have an intense attraction, but it's as much intellectual and spiritual as sexual. Also, when House, Wilson and Cuddy go on a business trip in episode seven, Lucas tags along. [EW]
Warehouse 13:
A sneak peek from next Tuesday's episode, where Myka has to save her dad (Michael Hogan!) from a sinister artifact.
Ready to pick at that scab again? Here are a bevy of photos from the two-part season premiere, "Orientation" and "Jump, Push, Fall." (I guess "orientation" refers to Claire going to college as well as, possibly, her much-discussed lesbian-until-graduation-ness. Must resist the temptation to make a joke about matriculation.) [Herosite]
Tom Welling explains that going into season nine, Clark has lost faith in his old view of the human race:
Well, in the past Clark has always been the reluctant hero. Everyone is telling him what he has to do and he doesn't want to do it. With the events of Jimmy's death [in May's season finale], along with the eight seasons building up, he realizes that his view on humanity has been wrong. And he goes to Jor-El and says, 'I messed up, what do I do now?' Jor-El takes him in, and Clark starts his training. His training ultimately is what will prepare him to be who we all know he's going to be in the future. So it's him spending time at the Fortress of Solitude downloading all this information. At the same time, information is given to him that the fate of the world depends on Lois Lane's survival. So Clark has to struggle between his destiny and his humanity. Especially in the first few episodes it gets in the way of the training, because he just can't help but deal with humans and help people, when all Jor-El wants him to do is shut everyone off, forget about them, rise above them and be the hero he needs to be.
And Clark wears the "S" symbol on his chest, the sign of the House of El, as a means of establishing a "call sign" for himself. He's no longer the red-blue blur, just the Blur. In episode two, through a
contrivedcomplicated set of circumstances caused by "interesting lighting", Lois gets a good look at the symbol on Clark's chest, but doesn't see his face. Clark has an opportunity to step forward and show her his face, but chooses not to. And here's a new pic. [TV Guide Magazine via OSCK]
Angie Harmon wants Captain Awesome dead because he's a superspy now. Or something. [EW]
I don't think we've featured this sneak peek and promo from the "Desperate Housewitches" show:
And it's not much of a spoiler to say this show is "cheesy and dull" according to E! Online. The devil is a douche instead of debonair. Sara Rue is wasted in the background, at least in the pilot. [E! Online]
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Sometimes it's funny how things happen. Some of the best finds in life are often in the most unlikely places. Take for instance George Ramirez, the owner of this fine convertible. You probably haven't seen many of these since they didn't make very many of them. We've been fortunate enough to have a few of them in between the pages of LRM. This one was a lucky find for George. "I was rollin' with a member of Stylistics on a trip out of state and I told him that I just saw a Caddy convertible in someone's backyard half covered," George says. The rarity of these cars had his compadre doubting what he'd seen. "He didn't believe me and it took me about 10 miles before I finally convinced him to go back. When we got there I was glad I was right, but even more so that it was an OG convertible," he says. After some Donald Trump-like negotiations, George procured the convertible and towed it to its new home in North Long Beach, California. George had wanted one of these Caddies for quite awhile after seeing another convertible named "Bow Down."
When he was growing up in Lynwood, California, he would see Stylistics' cars cruising everywhere, bumpers laying, chrome shining, and hear the boom of subwoofers piercing the night air. George's desire to be a part of something that was inspiring and larger in life than himself continued to grow. Fourteen years ago George joined their ranks. Four years after joining, George became the president; and now that he's a member, George is living his childhood dream every day. During his 14 years in the club, George has owned and built many lowriders, including our '04 feature car "Big G," an '83 Brougham. See a trend here?
Keeping in mind that the car was built for making a big scene at the car show circuits, this custom build had to became a family affair. The Ramirez family played a role of execution in the final product, in more ways than one. The name for GM Customs comes from the first letters of both of their names: George and Maria, and if you read through the tech sheet, you'll see that George did almost all of the work, but his wife conceived the name of the car. They decided to use the same font as the infamous 1980 movie poster.
The build on this car started in April 2007, and was finished in time for the Super Show in October of that same year. The car was outside and featured a single basecoat. The show was good for George, but the drive back, not so much. As luck would have it, the car fell off the transporter and the front end was damaged. But George didn't let that stop him. It would only take him to the next level.
Sometimes tragedies become blessings in disguise. They can be stepping stones for bigger and better things to come at another time or place. The Stylistics Car Club is a band of brothers just like George who believe (as stated in part of their club mantra): "It's our goal to ensure that lowriding stays in a positive light, and that we keep the highest standards while participating in our sport and craft. Helping others obtain this goal is paramount, and the creed upon which our organization is based. All who share these ideas and desires are welcomed to join our crusade."
So when you see George and his family cruising down the streets in this purpled-out convertible Cadillac, recognize that it took a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to build and then rebuild. The word fame is a condition of being known or talked about by many people on the account of notable achievements. A well-suited name for the Ramirez family's ride.
FameOwner: The Ramirez FamilyVehicle: '80 Cadillac "Le Cab" ConvertibleCity/State: North Long Beach, CaliforniaClub: Stylistics Car Club
Engine/Drivetrain: An '85 Chevy small-block, featuring an Edelbrock carburetor and intake, along with aluminum valve covers, brackets, and a pulley system take "Fame" where it wants to go. An all-chrome exhaust expels the gases. George and Big Sergio at GM Customs, in North Long Beach, California, performed the work.
Body/Paint: A '90s front end and side moldings where swapped out for the original units, updating the car. A lavender basecoat was put into play and then a pattern of purple and silver was used around the entire car. Wiro, of Long Beach, sprayed a series of Aztec-based images into the pattern, and Curly of Curly's Striping, in Long Beach, did the pinstriping. GM Customs, in Long Beach, did the body and paintwork.
Interior: The custom interior was stitched in custom lavender-colored leather. The late model dash and door panels received a similar treatment. Unfortunately Sergio, of Sergio's Upholstery, who performed the stitchwork, passed away shortly after the '07 Super Show.
Sound System: An Alpine flip-out head unit sent the ones and zeros to an Alpine crossover to shape the sound for a pair of Alpine amps. A Nesa DVD video player resides under the dash, providing the visual stimuli. The Alpine amps juice up a set of Pioneer mids and highs, and on the bass end two Rockford Fosgate subs make things rattle. The sound system, along with much of the rest of the car, was installed by George at GM Customs in North Long Beach.
Setup: The frame, along with the upper and lower A-arms, received the full wrap-and-mold treatment. Eight-inch cylinders in the front and rear and 3 -ton springs front and rear make up the suspension. Four mini pumps, four Adel dumps, eight solenoids, and two switches control the fluid flow, and four batteries provide the power. GM Customs and Lowlife Hydraulics put it all together.
Tires: Sportways Supreme 5.20s
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America's favorite fictional anchorman just got his own Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor and let's just say it's kind of a big deal.
"Scotchy Scotch Scotch" pays tribute to Ron Burgundy, from the comedy hit "Anchorman," and his favorite beverage.
The sweet treat features a decadent butterscotch ice cream flavor with a ribbon of gooey butterscotch, and a name that hails from a famous scene in the movie where Ron Burgundy downs a glass of scotch right before he goes on air.
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"I love scotch. Scotchy scotch scotch. Here it goes down. Down into my belly," Burgundy said in the scene.
An "Anchorman" sequel is due out on Dec. 20, but fans do not have to wait that long to scoop up the limited edition flavor. "Scotchy Scotch Scotch" will hit shelves in the next few weeks.


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The strategy game Evony, infamous for its salacious, cleavage-filled ads, has helped do some good. The Facebook version of the game is now credited with helping to save the life of a disabled man.
51-year-old gamer Robert Chambers, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, was at home when a fire, started by his toaster, began to fill his house with smoke, reports the Spokesman-Review. Chambers' limited mobility prevented him from calling for help, so he turned to a chatroom in Evony. Fellow players in other states called the fire department and, ten minutes later, Chambers was safely escorted from the house.
It was not a spectacular blaze, fortunately. Authorities say the fire was contained to the toaster.
Chambers wife, who says she "hated this game"—lady, everyone hates those damn ads—has come around to Evony, saying "Now I've got to bite my tongue because it saved his life quite possibly."
Disabled man uses Facebook to summon help during fire [Spokesman-Review - thanks masterdingo!]


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Hi, just found this website today and thoroughly enjoyed reading some of the forum threads, but I was a little disappointed to find next to nothing about Welbeck, as it was when I grew up there, or Meden Vale as it is now.
One thing I remember which was destined to have a big effect on my life was going to the Methodist Sunday School in the village. We used to sing to the accompaniment of a wheezy old harmonium (one of those old organs which you pumped with your feet on two pedals). One week the organist was away and someone remembered that I used to have piano lessons so I ended up playing the thing. To cut a long story short it led to a love of the organ and I graduated onto a proper pipe organ at my wife-to-be's chapel in Huthwaite. I'm now organist at Blidworth and Rainworth churches.
Back to those early days, there was also an Anglican church in Welbeck, St Hilda's, which was a chapel-of-ease to Warsop Parish Church. St Hilda's has long since disappeared, but I remember every Ascension Day we would march two by two from school up there for the service, and one of our teachers, Mrs Trinder, would play the organ for us.
Does anyone have any memories of St Hilda's?
Incidentally my piano teacher was Mrs Morgan who moved from Welbeck with her husband and daughter Gwynneth to live on Burns Lane, but I wouldn't practise so never made much progress, until I was bitten by the organ bug and taught myself.
As a lad I was also a member of the 2nd Warsop Cubs at the chapel on Clumber Street although I never made it up to the Scouts, but Skip Meredith (already mentioned earlier in this thread) and Mr Lightfoot ran the Cub pack. Mr Lightfoot was a teacher at Warsop Secondary School but I never went there because I passed my 11-plus (or Scholarship as we used to call it) and went to Queen Elizabeth's. That, incidentally, was where I became friends with Johnny Habgood who was the son of the then Rector of Warsop, and although Methodist I was a regular visitor to the old and subsequently demolished rectory on that former dangerous corner at the foot of Cuckney Hill. Tragically Johnny was killed in a helicopter crash having joined the Fleet Air Arm.
Just a few memories to be going on with but I will be interested to see whether they spark any reaction from anyone.


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- feeno said...
Have you been to a Mall lately? If I walked into one of our local malls and the first 3 people to pass me was an old lady in a magnet hat, a guy in a trench coat with weights on his rubber boots and some freak with snails on his face, I'd be thinking what a slow day it is and how do I find that Auntie Anne pretzel place.
I can't believe how gullible we are to make those 2 dofusses (do-fuss-is) rich and famous. So we can blame Christians and Atheist for that.
I gotta go, I just got a message on my computer that I just $1,000,000.00. woohoo.
Peace Out, feeno
- March 23, 2009 at 9:36 AM
- Gandolf said...
Hi Feeno hows it going :) i agree people are often gullible
What it you went into a mall and spied a man in a white trench coat holding a bible with a funny hat on his head handing out water crackers telling you eating these wee biscuit's would save ya and that money put in his pocket would put right all the things you had done wrong ?
Kinda a bit of a do-fuss-is too! isnt it ?
- March 24, 2009 at 9:03 AM
- feeno said...
W'dup big G
Nice to hear from you again, was the Pope at the mall somewhere?
I know there was a message behind your question, but me taking communion and tithing has nothing to do with my sins being forgiven.
The oil that anoints, isn't what heals us, it is the Faith in what the oil represents.
To enjoy a relationship with God we need to overlook the acts of men. We haven't been perfected yet.
Thanks for the response, until you commented, I felt like the (do-fuss)
Shalomie Homie, feeno
- March 24, 2009 at 10:47 AM
- Gandolf said...
Same feeno, always nice hearing from you too! :).
Maybe people have faith in magnets too though,but its maybe not the magnets that make them better is it?.
Some people who believe in yoga feel better too,but its the types of meditation thats actually whats helping and/but they actually acknowledge it.
Seems kinda strange you know feeno there are so many gods thought of on this earth,and those that follow them all believe belief in their god helps.Some folks have a number of gods and these gods all help for some strange reason too.
However one thing i notice all these people have in (common) is they are all using a type of positive thinking,and even a blue sky can change the way people feel.
You and i might have very different beliefs feeno,but i can tell you are a good guy and your heart is in the right place :)
All the best wishes friend !
- March 24, 2009 at 11:18 AM
- feeno said...
My bro. in law once read a book on far eastern religions, and he told me the same thing about the power in positive thinking/meditation and thought control over physical problems.(and even over poisons.) So you point is well taken. But I was just using that as an analogy of "the eating of the cracker", can some how help me.(?)
But even saying that there is probably so much we don't understand of the human Psyche, who really knows.
thanks for the props, I feel the same way. Peace, feeno
- March 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
Ironically, I think the Placebo Effect applies to a naturalistic account of morality.
If moral values and duties are nothing more than herd instinct, societal convention, or local mores, then it leaves the question as to why one ought to adhere to them.
If morals and duties are products of evolutionary survival instincts, then indeed they are placebos placating human behavior to ensure survival (what L.D. Rue called "The Noble Lie").
Problem is, the more one knows something is a placebo, the less effective it is.
- March 24, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- Philip R Kreyche said...
"If moral values and duties are nothing more than herd instinct, societal convention, or local mores, then it leaves the question as to why one ought to adhere to them."
Because it benefits each individual to act in a way that is harmonious with the surrounding society.
Is this not enough?
- March 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- Anonymous said...
Kevin, I believe morality is a social construct and yet I'm a good person. In fact, most everyone who accepts this about morality are still good people. You'd have to make an argument that knowing this about morality undercuts the effectiveness of the moral codes we've established. After all, "we" established them because they produce a society where we can live in peace with each other.
As an aside....
I am almost damned tired of having to argue this thing over and over and over. I will try to come up with some kind of knock down argument to link to from now on. So far this is the best yet. Scroll down on our FAQ sheet to Atheism, Christianity and Morality, and take special note of this link.
For people who have not read them and want to truly understand what an atheist thinks about morality please read these posts before commenting on morality any more...please.
- March 24, 2009 at 2:42 PM
- Gandolf said...
feeno said... "G
My bro. in law once read a book on far eastern religions, and he told me the same thing about the power in positive thinking/meditation and thought control over physical problems.(and even over poisons.) So you point is well taken. But I was just using that as an analogy of "the eating of the cracker", can some how help me.(?)"
Hi feeno .I was born into a christian cult faith belief where i was brought up with many people who mostly all believed it was a connection with their personal god when they broke bread on sunday that gave them this feeling you describe regarding how eating the water cracker or breaking the bread "can some how help me".
Being born into faith and being once amongst these people i too admit there were times when i felt kinda high and elated etc also.And my gaining this warm fuzzy feeling of well being and happiness shared amongst a group of people all on the same high and with the feelings of goodwill flowing towards others there,allowed me to feel like this god "can somehow help me".
And i still personally have nothing against this elated (good feeling) that puts people on a high and makes them feel so happy they might want to be kinder to other people etc.
In this part of the chosen meditation i see things i still like and still believe there were in fact many benefits.
But the extremely bad part that i finally had my eyes opened to was the overruling belief structure of (a) God which lacking any good factual evidence was (always) based more on many of mans unproved assumptions.Which is why so many different gods still exist in this world and non have yet been proved to be the actual factual one and only god,or even if maybe there is many gods.A one and only god cannot ever be proved by man if no real evidence ever exists for it,the same goes for the human assumption of many gods as well.
In time i soon realized the meditation part that brought the elated feelings and good thoughts was only related to the (group feeling) of togetherness etc.Matched into this belief system as with many other different belief systems as well was universal learned logical knowledge that had evolved over time through trial and error of humans,such as for instance "treat others as you wish to be treated yourself"or "let he who is perfect throw the first stone"etc.
I soon saw that it was the unfactual belief of the humans (chosen god) that always actually brought about the division and nastiness etc.Without factual evidence it was belief of these assumptions that i suggest in the year 2009 now verge closely through ignorance and stubborn attitudes on being mere lies and propaganda kept going by people who somehow have become blind to the sad outcome it has on humanity.
Because i suggest the fact remains its only the meditation part of the (togetherness of a group) which actually supplies the warm fuzzy feeling,hence any belief system including even a non religious belief system such as yoga can still experience the same benefits.
And its the blind belief of all the (many chosen gods)of humanity that always continually does the damage, as ego and ignorance etc takes over causing bigotry etc.
Which is why im against belief in the many gods etc that lack in any real evidence and proof.
feeno my friend how would we ever expect this meditated group good feeling to work for humanity as a group (as a whole!)bringing the world more together,if separately their is still so many divisions of people blindly each believing that what lacks good evidence and without it in all (honesty)must sooner or later be seen as little more than following a lie.
feeno my friend it would be foolish to discard all written within these faith books as much that is written within surely is from mans past wisdom learned.I suggest one such written wisdom learned is that lies and deceit not often really accounts actually for much good in the end.
As you look around today at divisions and even wars so often carrying undertones of differences of belief and in some cases even maybe suggested divine prophecies against certain particular nations etc.
If without good evidence these God/s really be only made of deceit and lies and assumptions of man,can you really say that the deceit of it all really actually has accounted for much good in the end worldwide?.
I personally no longer can,and whats more the bad that it has caused to me has become more and more plain easy to see everyday.
People do not need god/s to become together in groups to meditate on matters and do good,which is why groups of people maybe might think its right to care about such things as global warming etc.
And many situations where humanity as a group is really needed for resolved of problems we all face,divisions happen and to often the underlying currents that divide them are different belief of faith.
See feeno you might be sitting their saying my personal faith belief hurts no one,my personal group holds many wonderful gatherings where food and the pretzels are free flowing :).And maybe thats all good for those there i admit.
But the group i was personally born into and in many other situations people become converted into was a divisive religious cult that caused all manner of nastiness`es to many many many peoples lives.
Now people step in here and say oh no! but my faith and belief in the bible is the right one etc, you cant connect our personal lovely faith belief to that etc.
But i ask why can i not make some connection here when its still evolved out of reading the same book, and in some cases some cults might even have evolved in the past out divisions from the very same line of christian church group you now follow.
I suggest people of faith to often overlook these things in not wanting to see that just maybe their beliefs could actually be damaging.
Faith beliefs are structured to supposedly have divine knowledge and so supposedly contain (the) truth.Each believing their god is in fact (the one).
By the very nature of that way of thinking i suggest they are naturally sooner or later one way or another divisive in nature.
Every person of faith today in this world i suggest helps to keep faith believers in cults believing in faith as well.
Which is fine if faith is based on good evidence, but i suggest it sucks and stinks to high heaven if its actually not.
Because the group meditation good fuzzy feeling that "can some how help" us ,naturally becomes divided.
- March 25, 2009 at 11:54 PM
- feeno said...
Big G, W'dup
Not to sound condescending, this is a sincere question, but do you feel all Christian religions are "cults".
The fact we can't prove that there is a God is about the same as saying we can't prove there isn't a God.
Religion and even or especially the Christian religion does in fact cause problems, wars, hatred, bigotry etc.. But Christ knew he would create division amongst people, even families. Because he is making us make a choice, either to accept or reject him.
However that doesn't mean then, that it's o.k. to create problems, start wars, have any type of hate in our hearts or be bigoted toward anyone who thinks different then we do.
I know my faith automatically makes me divisive. But that divisiveness doesn't have to create all those atrocities.
As far as any "good" evidence is concerned for God, that is a real mystery to me. I wonder how I can look at a beautiful sunset and automatically think what a great God I have, and yet you and some of my other friends just think how cool nature is?
I'm not saying I won't have a bunch of questions for God when I get to heaven, but I also think that there is plenty of evidence to support Him, if we want to believe?
Holla back, peace. feeno
- March 26, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- Gandolf said...
Hi feeno my friend ! you said" Big G, W'dup
Not to sound condescending, this is a sincere question, but do you feel all Christian religions are "cults". "
Maybe not, however i personly feel a very fine line divides the two and its from over this line that many cults evolve.Smoking doesnt always cause cancer either,but does that mean that smoking in some cases might be a very good idea ?.
"The fact we can't prove that there is a God is about the same as saying we can't prove there isn't a God."
Do you really think so?,i would think it would be a much more honest position to take to say what we cannot yet prove we should not just believe in only out of faith.Specially with such important things such as faith in religious beliefs,because these faith beliefs have really shown how dangerous they can be and how they really influence peoples lives.There is many new ideas being thought of for medical practices too,should we just try them out on humans without good evidence that they actually work?.Only relying on peoples faith in them?.We dont do this very often,because we know it can be very dangerous to use things without good evidence and proof that its true and good.
"But Christ knew he would create division amongst people, even families. Because he is making us make a choice, either to accept or reject him."
No feeno i suggest only the book you read (says this) .And this book was written by men,and we know from experience that men are not completely dumb and many know exactly what to say and and do to control matters the way they wish too for the benefits they might foresee.And we also know by experience men can often be wrong about benefits they think they see and often their own interests can overrule the honesty of many matters.
By use of what type of judgement do you suggest "But Christ knew he would create division amongst people, even families"? ,is it only by use of whats been written by men or what other folk tell you?.
These men who wrote these books were religious men,how much faith do you put in (religious men?),when even to this very day many religious men are quite often very deceitful .Some today still reap benefits of money for shonky faith healings etc they dont mind bending facts to allow them to reap what they wish for,those who wrote these books reaped fame and the trappings that come with it! that i think you can be quite sure of.As its still happening today.Yet even though this is there for us plain to see and many situations come up so often to remind us it happens, you and many others somehow manage to put great faith in religious men of old and their writings?
In what does you faith lay feeno,in that what has been proved with good evidence and facts, or that what has been written and told by men?.
See feeno im no extra smart cookie by any means.But if i was amongst those who wrote a first edition the first testament of the bible,and saw the trouble it caused and the splits and divides etc.Do you think it would really be that impossible that i could think enough to write in the next edition "Matthew 10:34 - "I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword",with mans problem solving type of mind! thinking write this and people will soon believe the division they see was expected.So the people i want to except my written beliefs,by reading this will be tricked into continuing to do so thinking all that is happening is supposed to be.
Really ? this type of deceitful plan would really be just to hard for the mind of man back then to ever come up with ?? .Feeno my friend then why do i see this deceitful planning type of mind of man being used so often in this world still even today?.We must have learned it somewhere.
"As far as any "good" evidence is concerned for God, that is a real mystery to me. I wonder how I can look at a beautiful sunset and automatically think what a great God I have, and yet you and some of my other friends just think how cool nature is?"
Well i once used to think the same way,one day i realized it was only because of what i had been taught by people of faith.I realized though i knew not yet quite why or how a beautiful sunset came to exist,still neither was there any good evidence available that i should honestly believe it was by work of any god/s.What is more honest that i admit i dont yet know,or that i just believe in God/s because of men who have suggested them?.
Feeno we saw our friend in the funny hat with magnets who believed these magnets made him feel better,if you look at a sunset believing it to be work of god how much more fact and evidence do you use?.Is it a book written long ago by men,would this man believing in a hat with magnets seem any more better if he read a old book written long ago by men who suggested magnets were the answer?.
"I'm not saying I won't have a bunch of questions for God when I get to heaven, but I also think that there is plenty of evidence to support Him, if we want to believe?"
Well feeno your questions will only be any good if in fact there is a god and a heaven.Meanwhile as you have already admitted "I know my faith automatically makes me divisive. But that divisiveness doesn't have to create all those atrocities."
That it doesnt have to is really very debatable isnt it ?,because very much evidence suggests that in fact it does.Or would you suggest that these divisions and nasty aspects only exist because of specially nasty divisive men?.
Feeno my friend though i havent seen many of my cult family for a very long time,but i still know them very well.And my family is by no means naturally specially nasty or divisive,they have become this way through what they have read and believed.And to say yes but some people dont translate this book this way,is like saying some people dont die from smoking cigerettes .But yet maybe cigs dont even ruin complete lives, quite as much as religious cults do.
feeno all i can say is i hope you actually do get to this heaven and meet this god,because if you dont and its in fact all bullshit!its then a fact that your and many other people faith beliefs on this earth in many cases has continued to help ruin the one and only life people have on this earth.By the continued belief and use of a book written by men so long ago.
Im not talking about personally being involved in ruining some peoples lives here either,but all those who continue to help further these beliefs and keep them going sooner or later have to take some responsibility for cult religious offshoots that happen.
Even those who all died in the likes of the Jonestown massacre.
- March 27, 2009 at 2:48 AM
- feeno said...
Gandy man
I'm not trying to dodge your tough questions, but it's been a long day, and I need to hit the hay. Just wanted to say good night and hopefully get back to you soon.
Later Homie, feeno
- March 27, 2009 at 11:26 PM
- Perezoso said...
The Placebo's a classic of P & T. cyber-cynical-chaos.
A great deal of quack medicine and miracle cures come from the religious, or pseudo-religious. Like "chiropractors": started by some religious crank in late 19th century. Chiropractors initially claimed spine problems were like a spiritual disturbance or something.
Chiro-quacks have recently tried to show some connection to modern medicine, but little or no evidence supports the "sublaxion" BS. The supposed therapeutic value of pro-chiro's can also be done by ordinary doctors or nurses.
- March 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM


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BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. businessman held captive by about 100 workers in a Beijing factory said on Wednesday he was hopeful of a resolution to a row about pay in the next day or two.
Chip Starnes, president of the Florida-based Specialty Medical Supplies, said from behind his barred office window that the workers were demanding severance packages identical to those offered to 30 recently laid off employees - even though there weren't going to be any more layoffs.
The six-day-old stand-off in the suburb of Huairou, not far from sections of the Great Wall, has highlighted one of the lesser known risks of doing business in China, where the level of trust between workers and managers is low and faith in the legal system is weak.
"I'm hoping we can come to some sort of agreement here today or tomorrow, or something like that," Starnes told Reuters by telephone from inside the plant, which produces alcohol pads and plastic blood lancets for diabetics.
Talks between Starnes's lawyers and the workers were under way, though Chu Lixiang, head of the Huairou labor union's rights and interests department, told reporters at the factory it would take time to reach a deal.
"As of now, we are still in the process of solving this. There is no new news nor any result that has come about yet," Chu said.
Angry employees holding employers captive is not uncommon in China, according to consultants and lawyers. Detailed figures are difficult to obtain, but the cases often arise out of a mix of mistrust, mismanagement and desperation.
The U.S. State Department's consular information sheet on China notes cases of civil business disputes in which U.S. citizens have been prevented from leaving the country for months or years, been harassed or intimidated by "debt collectors" or physically detained as leverage.
Charles Scholz, managing director of Big Bear Safety & Security Management, said illegal detentions typically happened in the construction and manufacturing sectors.
He described a case in which a manufacturer in Suzhou, near Shanghai, had completed 80 percent of the work contracted to it, but the foreign partner cancelled the contract after a quality dispute and told the contractor to leave the site. The Chinese partner claimed it was still owed 20 million yuan ($3.25 million) and refused.
"They locked in the foreign general manager and three of his clients as well as 60 of the staff, blockaded them into a factory for three days... they wouldn't let them leave," said Scholz.
Starnes flew to China last Tuesday and his detention by the workers started on Friday. Asked if he had any inkling that something like this might happen while moving part of his China operation to India, Starnes replied: "No. Zero."
Kevin Jones, a Shanghai-based partner at the U.S. law firm Faegre Baker Daniels, said companies laying off staff in China should consider simple steps to mitigate risk, like making the announcement on neutral ground, and splitting up employees.
"Any time you have a reduction in the force you have the potential that it could end up like this," he said.
Police are loath to wade into business disputes and tend to keep their distance as long as things remain peaceful.
The workers' demands in Huairou followed rumors that the entire plant was being closed after the company's plastic injection molding division began a move to India to lower production costs. Starnes has said no more layoffs were planned.
U.S. officials in Beijing met Starnes on Monday and confirmed that he had not been physically harmed, U.S. embassy spokesman Nolan Barkhouse said.
"The embassy and the U.S. government have maintained regular contact with Mr. Starnes and we are aware that he remains safe and that he has had personal contact with his attorneys," Barkhouse said.
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What's the best CLI DVD ripper IYO?
There are quite a few options as far as ripping a DVD from the commandline goes; there's burn, the python script, or dvd-backup, another decent command line utility, or the script on the wiki for use with mplayer's mencoder.
I'm looking for opinions as to which is the best, or alternatively, why you like the one you've got. Being a CLI-fanatic, I want the best ripper I can run in a terminal, with the lowest number of dependencies possible, and preferably no gui at all (i.e. not mencoder, which requires you to have mplayer installed) :cry:
Your thoughts?
.oO Komodo Dave Oo.
Well, you can always recompile mplayer without gui enabled, if you really want to use something mencoder-based (I actually find mencoder to be a very decent soft) ;-)
Just a digression, actually I have no experiences with dvd ripping, thus can't recommend you any soft ;-)
I too love mplayer and mencoder. Both are feature-rich, and support nearly every format.
lucke is right in that you can compile mplayer without a gui. ABS makes that quite easy. you can even compile just mencoder i believe.
the thing with mencoder is that it takes some patience to learn what commands you want to use. the man page is humongous.
by the way, mencoder doesn't exactly "rip" dvds, it transcodes them. for example, you can encode a dvd as an mpeg4 small enough to fit a CD. mplayer however should be able to dump the mpeg2 dvd content directly to the hard drive.
There is small program called lxdvdrip. Very good properties to set. Have a look at:
Cheers for all that info guys; ise, I'll check that one out now.
Any other suggestions or thoughts?
.oO Komodo Dave Oo.
I agree with ise. I use lxdvdrip exclusively, and have for a while.
Well, I checked it out, but it was a bit simplistic for my liking... there wasn't really the depth of control I'm looking for... I appreciate the suggestion though, it does look very good, it's just not for me, that's all.
I'm working through the parameters for Transcode slowly but surely, finding out exactly what all the techno-babble means through our mutual friend google, and making a well-commented script just containing the parameters I want... it won't be complete for a while, but I'll wiki it when it's done.
Cheers for the info guys
.oO Komodo Dave Oo.
I use dd. That more like dumping than ripping, but it sure works great.
hmm... I'll look into that one, cheers LB06
.oO Komodo Dave Oo.
hmm... I'll look into that one, cheers LB06
dd will make a 1:1 copy, so you'd better have enough free space. Let's say it's 8GB per DVD on average.
The advantage is you can point your favorite movie player to the image as if it were a real dvd. So the menu, all subs, dubs and angles will be available right away, without having to follow complicated authoring and encoding guides. And btw, it's really fast (relatively speaking), since encoding is no longer needed.
Two questions about dumping DVDs: Can you loopmount the dump? And if so, can you rip the loopmount? :shock:
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Two questions about dumping DVDs: Can you loopmount the dump? And if so, can you rip the loopmount? :shock:
You can loopmount it with mount -o loop movie.img. But why would you want to? You can play them with mplayer -dvd-device movie.img dvd:// or set the dvd device node of your favorite multimedia player to movie.img.
As for the second question: I'm not entirely sure. There'll probably some dvd rippers that can rip from an image. I also know that FreeBSD has a program (vndconfig?) that can create a device node that points at the image. I'm not sure Linux can do something like that. But again: why would you want to?
why would you want to?
cos it saves a hell of a lot of space, man!
.oO Komodo Dave Oo.
LB06 wrote:
why would you want to?
cos it saves a hell of a lot of space, man!
Yes but then you do not want a 1:1 dump. You could just as well rip it from the DVD on the fly. Why make a dump to your HD first, to rip that dump later? That would require 16GB of free space for one dump.
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Larry is the project manager and working with procurement department of his organization to do procurement for his project. Procurement department said these are usual commodities and same has been procured many time. Also as this has been procured multiple times, generally they receive response from 4-5 vendors for this procurement. To everyone's surprise, almost 10-15 vendors responded and two of the bids are evidently lesser than independent estimate Larry has created. What can be the best explanation for lower bid in this scenario?
1.Price for the commodity in current market changed due to change in demand/supply for it
2.Procurement SOW created by buyer was not clear enough for seller to make out the requirement
3.Procurement SOW created by buyer was clear but seller understood it incorrectly resulting lower bids
4.Bid document supplied by seller is having formula mistake resulting in lower bid
Correct Answer Option 1.
I think option 2.May be bidder misunderstood the requirement.
Can Manish explain please!
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- nazrulq
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Re: Conduct Procurement
I would like to give my opinion here. Option 2 can't be correct since procurement SOQ which was created by Buyer was same and was sent to all other suppliers/contractors as well. Since out of 15 only 2 contractors bid low, this can't be the reason.
I would go for Option 1. That seems most appropriate to me.
I would go for Option 1. That seems most appropriate to me.
- nazrulq
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Re: Conduct Procurement
More bidder this time usually 4 to 5 . That is could be the reason and two bidder have quoted very lesser price!
Can Manish explain please!
Can Manish explain please!
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