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With the use of his flying door, young inventor Harm struggles to leave behind the sophisticated life he so despises in the megacity of Candice. With the city now seeking to devour him, take control of Harm and his door, overcome adversity and fight to finally break free.
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A common law tort rule, abolished in most jurisdictions. Under contributory negligence, a plaintiff was totally barred from recovery if they were in any way negligent in causing the accident, even if the negligence of the defendant was much more serious.
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In an outpouring of grief the world went into joy and mourning today when the news suddenly broke that Thatcher had finally snuffed it. Nicknamed the 'The Iron Lady' by her political counter parts and 'Coochy Woochy' by ex-US President Ronald Reagan, who both together single handedly brought an end to the Cold War by buying cheap coal from China and shipping it to Germany and the USSR, as they warmed everybody's toes, bringing an end to socialism and communism as we knew it.
Thatcher, the first ever and probably the last, Women Prime Minister, won three terms in office, a feat no man has accomplished yet. During her very, very, very long career as Prime Minister, she single handedly managed to sell off every bit of British manufacturing such as Gas, Electricity, Oil and Steel and shut down the coal mines making millions jobless, instigating the Poll Tax which millions protested and were thrown into prison for standing up to their rights.
All party Politicians, except for Michael Heseltine who lead the coup to oust her from power, lined up today to pay tribute to the 'Iron Lady' and recounted her influence on their lives and political careers. Prime Minister David Cameron was the first to pay tribute by saying that 'she had been one of the greatest influences on my political career and the reason I went into politics. When I was at Eton she came and gave a speech about how we would be the future leaders and that we needed to follow her example, so we formed our band 'The Thatcherites' and we bombed. Still she rubbed me on the head and called me 'an odious little wretch of a boy' and I knew then I was in love. We will be putting forward a planning application with Westminster Council so we can erect a giant statue of her bigger than the Shard.
William Vague was next to pay tribute as he blubbered during his TV interview said: 'she used to rub me on the head and call me a 'tedious little wretch of a boy' and once kicked me in the nuts. I knew then I wanted she had and that was a pair of hairy balls and a mustache. He blubbed on some more when he was asked if North Korea was on the agenda for now as Thatcher's State Funeral was obviously more important on his tasks list, he replied by licking his finger, sticking in the air and said 'Yes'.
Ed Millibandilli, spoke beautifully saying that we will never forget her as she was one of the greatest influences on why he got into politics. Ed and his brother David would play Maggie and Ronnie under the bed covers and they would fight over who would be the Iron Lady and David almost always won as it involved shoving a fist up Ronald's arse.
Tony Blair who was on the run for war crimes said today, ' honest to god, She was a towering inferno of fire and brimstone and honest to god I spoke to her before I gave the order to invade Iraq as I had a similar relationship with a US President also but it wasn't sexual, honest to god'.
The Iron Lady's Funeral will take place at St Paul's Cathedral at Tax Payers' Expense and will include a full military parade, a flyover from the Red Arrows, which are to be renamed the 'The Blue Arrows' for the day and will have a song sung by well known duo Chas and Dave. The song has been penned especially and called 'Knees up Maggie Brown' as The Iron Lady was known to speak and dress like a cockney in private.


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Steve Harvey may have two beautiful homes in Chicago and Atlanta, a hit talk show, multiple best-sellers, and a job as the host of "Family Feud," but he admits that when he was first getting his start in the business in the '80s, he had nothing. Not even a roof over his head.
In an interview with People magazine, Harvey explains that after separating from his first wife, Marcia, he was living on a tight budget and sent any money he made home to his two children. He told the mag, "One or two gigs fell through, and suddenly I was homeless."
The funnyman revealed that he began living out of his 1976 Ford Tempo, using an Igloo cooler as a refrigerator, and he would wash up in gas stations or swimming pool showers. He told People, "It was so disheartening. A week is really the maximum you can do. This was three years! It was rock bottom. But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around."
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Christian Francis Roth's inventive, often witty approach to design is highlighted in this "armor" suit. The horizontal tucks along the bodice and sleeves are punctuated by self-covered buttons, mimicking the steel plates and fastenings of armor. The soft flannel fabric ensures that the suit is comfortable and wearable despite its rigid appearance. Roth's precise construction alludes to the high level of quality in his work, a practice not lost in the whimsy of his creations.
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The forth installment from the highly popular Rhem series of games, Rhem 4 reveals another yet unknown part of the mysterious island of Rhem. The story continues where "Rhem 3: The Secret Library" ended, but the game can also be played independently of the Rhem Trilogy.
At the start of the game you are given the black crystal, which you discovered in "The Secret Library" by Zetais. With this crystal you can unlock the gateway to the unknown part of the island. Once again sense of adventure, logic, attentiveness and the ability to solve problems will help the player to slowly but surely unveil the mystery of this new adventure on this yet unknown part of Rhem. The existence of a secret transport system allows Kales for the first time to search for an exit from Rhem.
You will have to collect several parts of a key to allow you access to that transport system. Once again you are on your own to explore this huge, fantastic world full of strange vehicles and buildings, unknown mechanisms and machines, secret passages and doorways. You will meet new characters, that may help you solve some of the mysteries you will have to face.
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T-Mobile May Pull Off a Painless iPhone Launch
Dec 7, 2012 10:16 AM PT
Buried halfway through a wordy investment statement from Deutsch Telekom: "T-Mobile USA has entered into an agreement with Apple to bring products to market together in 2013."
Those 17 words launched a frenzy of speculation. Was this finally the agreement that T-Mobile had been waiting for? Would it soon provide the iPhone and possibly the iPad to its customers?
T-Mobile CEO John Legere confirmed to investors at a conference in Germany that the company would indeed sell the iPhone in 2013, according to reports, and said that it would be offering it with a dramatically different plan.
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The big question has been answered, but many others remain. Will carrying the iPhone increase customer satisfaction at T-Mobile? Can its network handle the data-hogging devices?
As for customer satisfaction, probably not -- at least, initially -- if the experiences of AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint are any guide.
For all three providers, customer satisfaction declined after the iPhone was introduced, David VanAmburg, director of the American Customer Satisfaction Index, told the E-Commerce Times.
"That was not a black eye to Apple in any way -- its products always do quite well. Rather, it was a matter of bandwidth at the network providers, and the ability of the providers to manage their networks in way that keeps satisfaction at a higher level."
In short, VanAmburg said, there were disgruntled customers at AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, and there will likely be some at T-Mobile as well.
Odd Man Out
Still, the news can't be anything but good for the company, said Lance Strate, professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University.
"With this agreement, T-Mobile ceases to be the odd man out of the big four U.S. wireless service providers," he told the E-Commerce Times.
"T-Mobile has suffered from the absence of the iPhone option, so if nothing else, this will stop the bleeding, so to speak -- stem the loss of customers and allow them to retain their market share rather than fade away into obscurity," Strate explained.
It probably won't add much to the company's customer base, as the once-volatile market has become fairly stable, he continued, "unless they are willing to offer something significantly different from the competition in regard to data plans and pricing -- and I don't think they'll be able to."
Yet that is exactly what T-Mobile's Legere has suggested the company will do.
Instead of offering the usual subsidy with a contract -- a model that can be a huge financial burden to carriers -- T-Mobile will sell the iPhone at full price. However, customers will be able to pay $99 down and $15 to $20 a month for 20 months to ease their out-of-pocket strain, Legere reportedly told investors.
As for T-Mobile's network, it should be able to handle the iPhone, said Strate, mainly because most of the T-Mobile iPhone users will be existing customers who switch over from Android smartphones.
The LTE Issue
T-Mobile will definitely be able to handle the traffic if the iPhone is an LTE-ready one, said Andreas Scherer, managing partner of Salto Partners.
Such a move would fit nicely with the company's overall strategy, he told the E-Commerce Times.
"As T-Mobile prepares for its merger with MetroPCS, the company is upgrading its LTE infrastructure heavily. The idea is that both companies will upgrade their existing client bases aggressively to the new network. The iPhone 5 fits perfectly in this picture," Scherer explained.
T-Mobile positioned its MetroPCS acquisition as allowing it to become a "bigger, better, bolder" provider when it was announced in October. That meant being able to provide 4G services and deeper LTE coverage in several metro areas as well as a greater choice of products -- including, we now know, the iPhone.


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Pilgrim to Rome and Jerusalem. Hermit at Ayrshire, Scotland where several wells are named for him, and churches dedicated to him including one, now dedicated to Mary, which is thought to have been built on the site of his cell.
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The Miller brothers now are set to return at UFC 124 in Montreal.
Younger brother Jim Miller (18-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) meets fellow lightweight Charles Oliveira (14-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC), and older brother Dan Miller (12-4 MMA, 4-3 UFC) takes on fellow middleweight Joe Doerksen (46-13 MMA, 2-6 UFC) at the Dec. 11 event.
MMAjunkie.com previously reported the two tentative bouts, which were officially announced on today's new "UFC Ultimate Insider" episode.
UFC 124 takes place at the Bell Centre in Montreal and features a welterweight title fight between current champion Georges St-Pierre and top contender Josh Koscheck.
The night's main card airs on pay-per-view, but due to a scheduling conflict, a "UFC Prelims" special will not air on Spike TV in conjunction with the show.
Jim Miller scored his fifth consecutive octagon victory by shutting down Gleison Tibau at UFC Fight Night 22 this past month. Prior to the win, he defeated Mac Danzig, Steve Lopez, Duane Ludwig and Mark Bocek. Miller's sole career setbacks came against Frankie Edgar (at a 2006 Reality Fighting show), who now holds the UFC lightweight belt, and Gray Maynard, who is set to vie for that title in January at UFC 125.
His undefeated opponent, Oliveira, wowed audiences during a submission victory over "The Ultimate Fighter 8" winner Efrain Escudero at UFC Fight Night 22. Although it was the first time the Brazilian fighter took so long to defeat an opponent – eight of the Brazilian's 14 career wins were earned in the first round, including a submission victory over Darren Elkins during his octagon debut at UFC on Versus 1 – it was nonetheless a great showing against a seasoned veteran.
Dan Miller, a former IFL champion, recently rebounded from a three-fight losing skid with a submission victory over John Salter at UFC 118 in August. Prior to the triumph, the streaky Miller lost unanimous decisions to Demian Maia, Chael Sonnen and Michael Bisping, which followed a three-fight win streak over the likes of Rob Kimmons, Matt Horwich and Jake Rosholt to open his UFC career.
Doerksen, an 11-year pro, is fighting for his future after an octagon resurgence proved short lived. The Canadian replaced injured Tim Credeur and met Tom Lawlor at UFC 113 and pulled off a coup with a second-round submission victory. It was the grizzled veteran's second UFC win (but first since 2005) after two unsuccessful stints in the industry-leading promotion. But at UFC 119, Doerksen fell victim to C.B. Dollaway's quick guillotine choke and now likely needs a win to remain employed.
For more on UFC 124, including the latest rumored fight card, check out the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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In a new direction for the multi-million selling series, Commandos Strike Force takes you right into the heart of the action from a first person perspective. Take control of the three members of the 'Strike Force' unit, each with their own play style. Switch between the Green Beret, always at the heart of the action with his expertise in combat and the use of heavy weaponry, the Sniper with his nerves of steel and expert marksmanship, and the Spy, stealthily striking at the heart of the enemy. However, it is up to you how you execute plans of attack by combining the Commandos' unique skills.
The latest entry in the Commandos franchise attempts earn a Purple Heart but ends up a casualty of war instead. Read More »
Pyro Studios abandons the RTS approach and is making a Commandos FPS. Read More »
Release Region: United States
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Also available on: PC, PlayStation 2
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Bogomils, adherents of Bogomilism, were followers of an Orthodox Cleric, likely a priest, from Bulgaria by the name of Bogomil (Gr. Theophylus) active around 950 A.D. Their doctrine most resembles Armenian Paulicianism and earlier Gnostic sects in its insistence upon Dualism. In its Christian form Gnosticism tended to insist upon an "appearance" of flesh for Christ since "true flesh" would be a hindrance to his work of Salvation rather than an aid. The earliest record of Bogomilian theology comes from a work entitled, Against the Newly-Appeared Heresy of the Bogomils written in Staro-Slav by St. Kozma in the 10th century. A 12th century work by the author Euthymius Zigabenus claimed that the Bogomils believed man's soul to have been created by God, but that all matter was invented by Satan, the elder son of God. As a consequence of their belief that the grace of God could not adhere to flesh / matter the Bogomils believed that Christ had only the appearance of a human body. They also reject the Eucharist and other sacraments, as well as relics... on the basis of their ties to physical nature. They also practiced a very austere asceticism, vegetarianism and celibacy like the Cathari and Albigensians due to their hatred of their own fleshly bodies.
This article by: Sub-deacon Michael Merren of the ROCOR
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Hon. Mike Rann, Former President of South Australia and CNP Fellow for Democracy and Development blogs about what the world's states can do to drive a Clean Revolution, as part of his series of posts for CNP.
In my first blog in this series, I wrote about how South Australia, a dry state with no hydropower, had embraced renewable energy moving in less than ten years from no wind power to having 26% (compared to 3% nationally) of its electricity derived from wind, now exceeding coal generation for the first time. I also mentioned how we followed California and Washington in changing our emission intensity standards to effectively preclude the building of future coal fired power stations.
Later this week I will be travelling to Rio de Janeiro to attend The Climate Group's Clean Revolution Leadership Summit. The Clean Revolution, launched by Tony Blair and Mark Kenber in New York last September, is promoting a swift and massive scaling-up of clean technologies and infrastructure as well as changes in design and behaviour, to boost energy efficiency and achieve the most sustainable use of our natural resources. While the plan aims to secure steep reductions in CO² emissions, the Clean Revolution would simultaneously create jobs and boost the green economy. The Climate Group is acting as a bridge between governments and industry worldwide in embracing a lower carbon economy, by encouraging policy changes and new profitable business models for the future.
In Rio, I will also be chairing a session of The Climate Group's summit of leaders from States and Regions around the world. For some years these regular meetings have shared best practice policies to enable jurisdictions to adapt 'ideas that work' to their own circumstances. While media attention often focuses on the climate policies and international negotiations of nations, or more locally the greening of cities, the role of state, regional and provincial governments is critical to progress. A number of studies have shown that the majority of decisions affecting the environment are made at the regional level. Increasingly state governments are also working closely with cities to help them reduce their carbon footprints.
In Rio, I expect sub national governments to again set the agenda for nations in not only planning but implementing innovative ways of tackling climate change, just as we did in Copenhagen in 2009 with our '1 billion trees' initiative.
There are already some outstanding examples.
Last October, the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, was awarded The Climate Group's international leadership award. It was well deserved.Scotland has committed to reduce its emissions 42% on 1990 levels by 2020. Scotland has a big commitment to onshore and offshore wind, wave and tidal power, as well as carbon capture and storage. Right now, Scotland is producing 35% of its electricity from renewables. It is aiming for 100% by 2020. With the potential to massively exceed its own domestic needs, Scotland is now planning to become a huge exporter of renewable energy with enormous dividends for its economy.
At The Climate Group's meeting in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2010 sub-national governments honored Quebec Premier Jean Charest for his extraordinary leadership in tackling climate change. At that meeting Quebec, like Scotland, committed to plant an extra 100 million trees. Quebec is now delivering a range of innovative policies to reduce its emissions by 20% by 2020 from 1990 levels. This would be a first in North America and is similar to the EU target. Given 97% of Quebec's electricity comes from hydro, most of its emissions need to be cut in the transport, housing and industry sectors. The province is now implementing a world leading Electric Vehicle Action Plan with the vision of achieving full 'sustainable mobility'. Quebec aims for plug-in hybrids or all-electric vehicles to comprise 25% of new light passenger vehicle sales by 2020.
In Manitoba hydroelectricity currently provides 97.4% of the province's energy needs. Its Premier, Greg Selinger wants to go further by making local power plants more efficient. Manitoba Hydro's energy conservation programs have already saved over 500 megawatt hours of electricity with big savings in emissions.
In California, where 40% of the state's emissions come from transport, its Advanced Clean Cars program is also spurring dramatic improvements in battery, fuel cell and related technologies. New rules require that one out of seven new vehicle sales in California be zero-emission by 2025. On the east coast not only has New York collaborated with neighbouring states in the development and implementation of the United States' first cap and trade emissions scheme, but has now helped launch the Northeast Electric Vehicle Network to promote clean vehicles and fuels, and electric vehicle charging stations.
La Reunion, the French island region off the coast of Africa, is investing in experimental marine thermal pilot projects and providing €3,000 energy cheques to households for the installation of photovoltaic panels with smart storage batteries. In Brittany, the Regional Council has committed to cut growth in energy consumption by a third with a big investment in renewable energy, including solar, marine, wind and biomass.
Upper Austria has a strong network of 160 companies, employing 7,200 people, actively involved in the business of renewable energy and energy efficiency. In a big boost to Upper Austria's economy this innovative cluster is now exporting to more than 60 countries. In neighbouring Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia is a leader in energy research, with around 400 medium sized companies and research institutes working on fuel cell technologies and hydrogen fuels. It is also a leader in energy efficient construction and wind energy. Its geothermal sector has generated nearly 5,000 jobs.
Jämtland, a province in central Sweden, aims to be fossil fuel free by 2030. Already less than 8% of its carbon footprint comes from energy, and none from coal, oil or gas. It is a big exporter of excess renewable energy to other parts of Sweden and Europe.
In Wales, innovative policies are improving the energy performance of homes, particularly in disadvantaged areas, and in doing so boosting jobs, skills and economic regeneration. In partnership with energy companies and social housing providers, Carwyn Jones' government is working to improve home insulation as well as promoting the installation of solar panels and solar hot water systems. Last year, around 25,000 Welsh homes were improved and made cheaper to heat through upgrades to boilers and windows as well as other energy saving initiatives.
In Spain, the Basque Country's Appliance Replacement Scheme has seen, since 2008, around 30,000 old appliances replaced with much more energy efficient alternatives. This is saving households in their energy costs as well as reducing thousands of tonnes of CO² emissions each year. Catalonia, like South Australia, has embraced voluntary agreements with companies, local government and other institutions as a key mitigation tool in public climate policy.
In 2009, São Paulo in Brazil became the first state from an emerging economy to enact climate legislation introducing an absolute emission reduction target of 20% by 2020 and is a leader in aligning its climate change policies with all government practices. It is setting mandatory CO² reduction targets and its comprehensive Transportation Plan looks to improve the energy efficiency of vehicles and fuels including bioethanol and biodiesel.
Guandong province is a clear leader in China in pursuing a low carbon future. Earlier this year, its strategic plan for emerging industries was approved by the Chinese Government and is likely to become an exemplar for other regions in reducing its carbon intensity.
In South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal is developing a wide ranging Green Economy Strategy that includes a procurement policy that favours purchasing from 'green companies' as well as increasing the supply of renewable energy.
In Rio, members of The Climate Group's States and Regions Alliancewill continue their important role of sharing ideas and acting as 'laboratories' for a lower carbon future. I am hopeful that in Rio sub national governments will jointly commit to an action plan for the future that will inspire the leaders of nations around the world to make a big step forward in the Clean Revolution.
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Petrus Romanus Arrives on 3/13/2013 at 20:13 Hours!
By Cris Putnam
3/13/2013 at 20:13 hrs
According to the prophecy of St. Malachy, Petrus Romanus has arrived. Pope Francis I, formerly known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was the son of an Italian railroad worker from Turin, Italy. While those of shallow vision will be quick to point out "his name is not Peter," prophecy is often fulfilled enigmatically in a manner not entirely clear until it is resolved. For example, who could have known that "labor of the sun" John Paul II would be buried during eclipse until his papacy had ended? We have stated from the beginning that the title "Peter the Roman" was likely symbolic. All popes claim apostolic succession from Peter and for this reason it is called the Petrine office. For instance, Tom Horn stated in a recent interview for World Net Daily:
Regardless, Horn said he's always maintained that it doesn't take someone whose Christian name is Peter to fulfill the prophecy. "In fact, if any Italian is elected, that would be a fairly transparent fulfillment," he said. Moreover, he argued, "in a very general sense, every pope could be regarded as 'Peter the Roman,' and in that sense, this could be the last one."[1]
Rome was an empire and a city so his Italian ancestry arguably meets the Roman aspect albeit in an oblique way. Interestingly, Rene Thibaut, the Jesuit who wrote in 1950 that the papacy would be abdicated in 2012, rejected the possibility of a pope named Peter and wrote that the name symbolized the totality of the papacy:
There is only one Peter, the first of the Roman pontiffs, and he was seen in his many successors. He still to serve in the final as in the first persecution. We believe Petrus Romanus represents all the Roman Pontiffs from St. Peter to the recipient Gloria Olivae.[2]
In Thibaut's reckoning all the ambitions and pretensions of the papal dynasty are now encompassed in one man. Paramount is the fact that he is the first ever Jesuit pope. This has great prophetic significance as the Jesuit order was formed to specifically to combat the protestant reformation and assert papal supremacy over the entire world. According to a historian, "The Jesuits were the soldiers of the pope: they knew no law but the will of their general, no mode of worship but the pope's dictate no church but themselves." [3] Because of this, the Jesuit order was suppressed and disbanded for its pernicious skullduggery by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 and by the mid-eighteenth century, the Jesuits had earned a bad reputation in Europe for political maneuvering and economic exploitation bar none. Interestingly, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the Jesuit order in 2008 encouraging them reinvigorate the fourth vow. He said,
For this very reason I have invited you and also invite you today to reflect in order to rediscover the fullest meaning of your characteristic "fourth vow" of obedience to the Successor of Peter, …[4]
The fourth vow of obedience to the pope is one of "absolute subservience to the pope; to do whatever he enjoined, and go on any service he wished, and into any quarter of the globe."[5] A few ex-Jesuits have called this a blood oath involving pagan rites which were laid bare in the suppressed document "Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction" which was recorded in records of the U.S. Congress. According to this document, they are indoctrinated into the principle of IUSTUM, NECAR, REGES, IMPIOUS:
When a Jesuit of the minor rank is to be elevated to command, he is conducted into the Chapel of the Convent of the Order, where there are only three others present, the principal or Superior standing in front of the altar. On either side stands a monk, one of whom holds a banner of yellow and white, which are the Papal colours, and the other a black banner with a dagger and red cross above a skull and crossbones, with the word INRI, and below them the words IUSTUM NECAR REGES IMPIUS. The meaning of which is: It is just to exterminate or annihilate impious or heretical Kings, Governments, or Rulers.[6]
While modernists surely prefer more subtle methods, we address the Jesuit's who make up the Vatican Observatory Research Group in some detail in our new book Exo-Vaticana and offer some surprising revelations as to what might entice the entire world to unite under the new pontiff. Even so, other researchers document an ongoing militaristic campaign:
Today the Jesuit Order has about 19.000 members. Of the about 13.500 priest members, some have taken the 4th vow secret oath in which killing a 'heretic' is not considered a crime. The ranks of Jesuits are thinning; From 36,000 members at the order's zenith in the mid-1960?s, to 26,000 in 1983, to 23,000 in 1995 [10]. The Jesuits are geographically organized by 91 provinces (61?), which each belong to one of 10 assistancies around the world.
The Military Order of Malta has about 12.500 members (excluding volunteers), and Opus Dei has about 26,000 celibate members (excluding volunteers).
The Vatican-Jesuit-Masonic crusades, up to our present time, show their criminal "full-spectrum dominance" doctrine is effectuated all over the world by:
War, genocide and depopulation (recent examples: Canadian natives genocide between 1880-1984, the "Vatican managed Serbian genocide during WWII" with an ongoing US court case, and the ongoing Shia Muslim genocide in Iraq with over 1.217.892 deaths)
Political subversions
Economic slavery
Poor quality nutrition, healthcare and housing
Government propaganda (via education, media, science, and religion)
Suppression of sovereignty, consciousness and spirituality. [7]
In Petrus Romanus we stated our belief that the name "Peter the Roman" implies this pope "will reaffirm the authority of the Roman Pontiff over the Church" and "will emphasize the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Faith and the Roman Catholic Church above all other religions and denominations, and its authority over all Christians and all peoples of the world."[8] This seems in line with the Jesuit agenda. Still more, Catholic mystic Ronald L. Conte Jr., who predicted in 2002 that the successor to John Paul II would choose the name Benedict XVI, commented on 3-13-13:
I never expected Peter the Roman to be Italian or Roman or to have the first name Peter, or to take the papal name "Peter". So these points do not imply that Pope Francis is not Peter the Roman. The prophetic phrases of St. Malachy describe the Pontificate of each Pope, not his name.[9]
According to Conte, "During the reign of Pope Peter the Roman, the great apostasy begins" and this pope will mark "the first part of the tribulation, during our generation."[10]
The media and Catholic faithful have been celebrating his choice of the papal name Francis, which is a first, and most folks assume it is inspired by St. Francis of Assisi. Interestingly, in Petrus Romanus we wrote of an apocalyptic prophecy given by the alleged namesake:
Even Saint Francis of Assisi—one of the most venerated religious figures in history—gathered his devotees shortly before his death and prophesied that: "At the time of this tribulation a man, not canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning, will endeavor to draw many into error and death… Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it under foot and deny it…for in those days Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor, but a destroyer."[11]
Was there something uncannonical about the election of Pope Francis I? It seems arguable. For starters, Pope Benedict XVI simply retiring makes for an unprecedented situation. Next, the fifteen day rule between the vacancy of the office and the start of the conclave was circumvented in order to speed up the process. The two living popes situation alone supports a charge of one "not canonically elected" but more mysteriously, there seems to be something fishy going on with his heraldry. According to one expert, "As can be seen on the coat of arms, he was not a bishop, despite being cardinal."[12] This was Cardinal Bergoglio's coat of arms as of 2010:
See: http://heraldicaargentina.blogspot.com/2010/06/heraldica-eclesiastica-en-la-argentina.html
It uses the Jesuit Solar deity symbol, The Jesuits maintian that IHS stands for first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus, iota-eta-sigma but if so the name is ?????? so why not use the Greek letters ? ? ? ? Alternately, while it seems fanciful, some occult researchers claim it really means: Isis, Horace, Set:
Jesuit sun symbol
Yet by Roman Catholic heraldic standards all bishops are required to include the archiepiscopal cross as well.
archiepiscopal cross
However, even though his coat of arms (dated 2001) lacked the required cross, we know that he was in fact a bishop prior to 2001. Bergoglio was named Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires in 1992 and was ordained on 27 June 1992 as Titular Bishop of Auca.[13] This is extremely odd and has prompted heraldic specialists to assert ineptitude on the part of its designer.[14] It suggests something is amiss. Could the strange rule bending circumstances surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's retirement suggest he is the uncannonical pope that St. Francis prophesied? (it looks the this malformed coat of arms has been quickly revised, so copy those images for safekeeping).
Wikipedia now has a corrected version:
Corrected Coat of Arms 2013
Apocalyptic Franciscan prophecies and heraldic guffaws aside, many have overlooked another Catholic Saint he could have drawn the papal name from: St. Francis Xavier, a fellow Jesuit infamous for inspiring the Goa inquisition. This extended the European inquisition to the Indian state of Goa and the Portuguese empire in Asia, a repugnant affair in which some 16,202 persons were brought to trial resulting in untold numbers of executions by burning at the stake amongst lesser tortures.[15]
While we don't normally put a lot of stock in numerology, the great biblical scholar and Anglican theologian E.W. Bullinger wrote an exhaustive treatise in the 19th century which has yielded some interesting connections to the new Pontiff. The numbers surrounding Pope Francis' election keep coming up thirteen. White smoke at 7:06 PM which in numerology 7 + 6 = 13 and he is 76 years old 7 + 6 = 13 and then he was elected on the calendar date 3/13/13 which sports two 13s of its own but in numerology 3/13/2013 also yields 3+1+3+2+0+1+3=13 and he was announced at precisely 8:13 PM Vatican time or in military and European time 20:13 making for 3/13/2013 at 20:13. According to Bullinger:
As to the significance of thirteen, all are aware that it has come down to us as a number of ill-omen. Many superstitions cluster around it, and various explanations are current concerning them.
Unfortunately, those who go backwards to find a reason seldom go back far enough. The popular explanations do not, so far as we are aware, go further back than the Apostles. But we must go back to the first occurrence of the number thirteen in order to discover the key to its significance. It occurs first in Genesis 14:4, where we read "Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they REBELLED."
Hence every occurrence of the number thirteen, and likewise of every multiple of it, stamps that with which it stands in connection with rebellion, apostasy, defection, corruption, disintegration, revolution, or some kindred idea.[16]
This ill omen suggests the "many tribulations" of the Malachy prophecy could coincide with the apostasy of 2 Thes. 2:3 but Bullinger goes on to cite an exhaustive list of thirteens and factors of thirteen including examples like:
Satan, in Hebrew = 364 (13 x 28) ??????
Satan, in Greek = 2197 (133) "That old serpent, even Satan" (? ???? ? ???????… ??? ? ???????) 2756 (13 x 212)
"According to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air" = 9178181 (13 x 706)
"The power of the air" = 2600 (13 x 200) [17]
While we could go on and on (Bullinger does) with a long list of similar demonic thirteens, one verse in particular is pertinent:
Revelation 13:11, The whole verse = 6318 (13×486)
?????? (theerion), beast = 247 (13×19)
???? ?????? (hallo theerion), another beast = 378 (9×42)
"He had two horns" = 1521 (132×9)
"And he had two horns like a lamb" = 2704 (132×16) [18]
"And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." (Revelation 13:11, AV)
Do all of these thirteens add up to a coincidence? That's up to you decide. But the biblical prophecy alone points toward the papacy. Indeed this second beast is predicted to be viewed "like a lamb" and the accolades expressed on 3/13/2013 at 20:13 support that perception. This probably seems mean spirited to some but as protestants we feel well within our rights to assert that all claimants to Vicar "instead "of Christ as false prophets.[19] However, if the predictions of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Malachy are truly at their culmination, then the second beast, the one from the earth, who is called the "false prophet" (Rev. 16:13; 19:20; 20:10) or Petrus Romanus who will lead the world to worship the dragon, has arrived in Pope Francis but I am not a prophet… only time will tell.
[1] http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/holy-smoke-is-this-final-pope-before-jesus/#oImqawiZUvBPwORI.99
[2] [2] René Thibaut, La Mystérieuse Prophétie des Papes (Paris: J. Vrin, 1951),25.
[3] W.C. Brownlee, Secret instructions of the Jesuits (1857) 7. http://archive.org/stream/instructiosecret00browrich#page/7/
[4] http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/papal-address-to-members-of-jesuit-general-congregation
[5]W.C. Brownlee, Secret instructions of the Jesuits (1857), 6 http://archive.org/stream/instructiosecret00browrich#page/6/
[6] Journals of the 62nd Congress, 3rd Session, of the United States Congressional Record (House Calendar No. 397, Report No. 1523, 15 February, 1913, pp. 3215-3216) text available http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=jesuit
[7] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/esp_vatican37.htm
[8] Petrus Romanus, 437-438.
[9] http://ronconte.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/is-pope-francis-i-the-pope-called-peter-the-roman/
[10] Ibid.
[11] Petrus Romanus, 389. Also see http://www.realclearreligion.com/index_files/ac206ecae86856da08a615cb61987e74-643.php
[12] http://blogdeheraldica.blogspot.com/2007/10/solo-la-cruz.html
[13] See: http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0229.htm
[14] http://heraldicaargentina.blogspot.com/2010/06/heraldica-eclesiastica-en-la-argentina.html
[15] Salomon, H. P. and Sassoon, I. S. D., in Saraiva, Antonio Jose. The Marrano Factory. The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians, 1536–1765 (Brill, 2001), pp. 345–7. Also see: http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/sep/14inter1.htm
[16]Ethelbert W. Bullinger, Number in Scripture (Pleasant Places Press, 2004; 2004), 208.
[17] Bullinger, Number in Scripture, 219.
[18] Bullinger, Number in Scripture, 225.
[19] This authoritatively explains why all Popes are false prophets: John MacArthur, "The Pope and the Papacy," http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/90-291/the-pope-and-the-papacySOURCE


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The Alcovy boys varsity basketball team dropped its sixth game of the season Saturday on the road, falling 82-42 to Westlake in non-region play.
The Lions outscored the Tigers 43-19 in the second half, limiting Alcovy to nine points in the third quarter.
Greg Perry led the Tigers with 14 points, but Perry's effort wasn't enough to hand the Lions their first loss of the season.
With the loss, the Tigers dropped to 1-6 overall, while Westlake improved to 6-0, including a 4-0 mark at home.
"It was definitely a tough game for our guys," Alcovy coach Jabari Levi said. "They were very athletic. Being new to the area, I wasn't aware of their tradition, but when we came in and saw the banners, we realized the tradition we were facing. They were nothing but class."
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The Lions turned up the defensive pressure in the third quarter, outscoring Alcovy 19-9 before finishing the contest with 24 points in the fourth quarter for the 40-point win.
"We couldn't match their level of athleticism," Levi said. "They had guys jumping out of the gym. They were a very tough team, but our guys went out there and played hard and competed."
Levi said the match up wasn't a good one for the Tigers, who struggled against the Lions' height.
They were just bigger," he said. "It's not a good match up when your entire team is playing undersized. We have a lot of young guys earning playing time and they are learning by their mistakes. At this level, sometimes you have to go through that before you can understand it. There are definitely going to be growing pains, but the future is bright and I'm excited to be helping the guys reach their goals."
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News today that the economy is doing well proves that Obama intentionally misled the American public about the doomsday picture he painted about sequestration. All the doom and gloom Obama forecast about sequestration has proven FALSE as more people are hired and housing and the economy is picking up as the US Treasury buys BILLIONS of dollars in US debt and the US Mint prints money at a record pace.
Have You Noticed? Stock Market Boom! Look how well the market is doing, Breaking All-time records! Look at how Conservatives attack Poor people- medicaid, Medicare and social security. Does anyone remember that it was these same megolithic corporations-Banks, Real Estate, Financial corps who CAUSED this 6 year recession? NOT POOR and working class people! Look who Conservatives want to pay the bill... the lower 50% income people NOT the upper 50% people or even the top 10%! Have You noticed how Pensions are terrible and Businesses have shredded their health care plans for singles and family medical coverage??? and how business charge individuals more for less coverage? where is their profit going? . Have You noticed? All the while their corporate stock grows and grows and Conservatives blame the poor and working class people, for this recession.
In the past few days there have been two letters to the Mayor in the Letters to the Editor column. One, from a music teacher took the Mayor to task for ignoring his four emails (I believe teachers have a chain of command as businesses do). The teacher made a self serving, in my opinion, plea for the music program, tooting the successes of the program over the years. All well and good. However, the teacher did not offer to take a pay cut or suggest that teachers could take a pay cut "for the children". The teacher felt that the taxpayers were capable of a substantial tax increase to keep all programs intact (and still give teachers their raises and benefits). He even went so far in the opinion section under his article to tell one writer that if they couldn't afford an increase to move out of town. He himself does not live in Torrington and is merely an employee with a vested interest in keeping status quo.
The second letter today was well written by a high school student who made a plea for keeping programs intact. She had no idea how the programs would be funded and did not care as long as they are kept.
Taxpayers need a break from the school system and its yearly demands for more money. The city side of the budget year after year holds the line. Why doesn't the school do so? Because they paint the worst scenario, the children will suffer. Perhaps it is time that the children are given less. Let parents go out and sign up with a music school, rent the instrument and make time for the child to practice. Any prodigy will soon be recognized and the parents can ask the music school what to do next for enrichment.
Or, perhaps the music teacher will decide to open a music school and teach (at far less than when employed by the district) the children they are so worried about.
In the name of the children has worn its welcome thin. People can no longer sustain large tax increases. Surely dedicated teachers and administrators would have no problem foregoing a raise this year and possibly next year as many of their neighbors are doing?
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A cursory look at the very public clash between the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, and the Koch brothers, infamous oil billionaires and funders of right wing causes - leaves many people confused. The Cato Institute, originally called the Charles G Koch Institute when it was founded by Charles G Koch in the 70s – is in danger of a hostile takeover…by Charles G Koch? Why would Charles Koch try to take over his own think tank?
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In the mid-70s, Bill Putnam Sr. of Universal Audio caught wind of "this kid" who had finagled his way into buying up some surplus gear from his UREI factory at fire sale prices. The story was that he had been selling some of it off at a handsome profit, and using the rest to help build a remarkable home studio right off the beach in nearby Santa Monica, CA.
After a brief meeting in his office, Bill Sr. decided to pay a visit, and took his son along for the ride. Bill Jr., just twelve years old at the time, remembers that day vividly, "We drove out in my dad's Lincoln Continental, walked around the back of the house and into the garage, and there was this huge speaker system right in front of us. It seemed like it was ten feet tall. And when he played us a bunch of stuff that he had recorded, my dad's jaw just dropped."
That young studio owner, barely out of high school himself, had started to build a reputation by recording bands straight to two-track and installing hi-fi systems in the homes of musicians and label execs around town. He'd even once landed a summer job as a runner at Putnam's Western Recorders, but their paths hadn't crossed much. He was sharp and outgoing, with a great ear, a shrewd business sense, and deep understanding of sound and audio gear. His name was Allen Sides.
By all accounts, Bill Sr. was "stunned" by what Allen had already achieved. It wasn't just the home and studio speaker systems that Allen had been putting together – which were practically unprecedented at the time – but the sounds that he was able to capture and make those speakers reproduce. A few of the recordings they heard that first day in the studio together were ones that Allen had made as a teenager, but they put the work of some long-time pros to shame.
The two hit it off immediately. Sides and Putnam shared a die-hard work ethic, an entrepreneurial streak, and a tinkerer's passion for circuits and for sound. It was a relationship that would endure throughout their careers, and helped preserve the continuity of a pair of legendary recording spaces that have been longtime favorites of Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, The Beach Boys, Frank Zappa, Beck, Whitney Houston, Green Day, Sheryl Crow, Kanye West and Radiohead.
Putnam had originally named this studio "United Recording" when he first opened it in 1957. When Allen took over operation in the 1980s, he renamed the complex after that first home studio of his, down by the beach in Santa Monica, calling it "Ocean Way." But aside from the name change, Sides took pains to preserve the sound of these iconic spaces as they were from the beginning. And they sound just as good as when Putnam left them 30-some years ago.
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Bill Putnam Sr. was something of a pioneer when it came to room ambience, both real and simulated. He's often credited with the first commercial use of an artificial reverb in the US, when he created a makeshift echo chamber using a speaker, a microphone and a tile bathroom to add a huge, ever-shifting ambience to the Harmonicats #1 single "Peg Of My Heart" in 1947. On that recording, the listener's perspective morphs constantly as the reverb signal is blended in and out of the track in a way that still sounds unexpectedly novel today.
Of course, Putnam's experiments didn't end there. He essentially invented – and perfected – the auxiliary sends we take for granted whenever we call up effects. He was also instrumental in the invention of the Cooper Time Cube — one of the first-ever practical delays that didn't rely on magnetic tape — and he worked hard to try and perfect the early oil-can delays and reverbs of the 60s.
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Bill Putnam Jr. says that whether you're after something realistic or extreme, one of the main goals in designing any reverb is to have it build up a very dense set of uncorrelated reflections as quickly and as evenly as possible: "That speaks to things like lush tails and warm open sounds, and the avoidance of slaps, combs and flutters. These rooms do that."
Bill Jr. says that his father managed to do it all "by ear and with much less sophisticated measurement equipment than I have access to now. I think he just had a gift in dialing these rooms in."
"From a musician's perspective, Studio B at Ocean Way is like a small concert hall," says Allen Sides. "The reflections are crisp and even, and they're smooth right down to the bottom."
"There's enough low frequency absorption in there that you can bring in a whole symphony orchestra and still have control. It's a very musical room, and I don't think there's a single parallel wall in the entire space. I've worked in a lot of studios over the years and when it comes to sound, to architecture – I just don't think I've heard or seen anything else like it."
These characteristics have made Ocean Way's Studio B into one of the most legendary recording rooms in the world. But its success is far more than historic, and it remains a favorite of busy producers like Nigel Godrich and Jon Brion to this day. In fact, modern masterpieces like Beck's Sea Change and Radiohead's Hail To The Thief owe a portion of their unique character to the space, and artists as varied as Green Day, Eric Clapton, BB King, Avril Lavigne and Kanye West have all recorded there in recent years.
Ocean Way's Studio A has fans all its own, and it's been responsible for some truly enormous-sounding recordings from pop legends like Frank Sinatra, Lionel Ritchie, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and Sheryl Crow. In contrast to Studio B's exceptionally clear and open reflections, Ocean Way's A room is just a bit darker and warmer, while still remaining exceptionally smooth. It has a slightly longer decay time than B, with a little more weight and roundness from 400Hz on down.
From United Recording to Ocean Way Studios
Like so many of his clients, Allen Sides fell in love with the sound of Studios A and B at United Recording. When a prior lease was finally set to expire for Studio B, Sides approached his friend about taking it over for himself, and Bill Sr. offered him a "sweetheart deal" on the space.
Allen quickly rebuilt the Studio B control room and moved all his equipment in, but left the astounding acoustic space of the live room alone. Out of all the rooms that he had designed and built, Bill Sr. considered this his favorite, and was thrilled to have his protégé carry on the tradition. Sides' early sessions in Studio B ranged from Frank Zappa and Chick Corea to Neil Diamond and Bette Midler.
In 1982, Bill Sr. decided to lease Studio A to Allen as well. Once again, Sides made a few changes to the control room, but left the main acoustics of the room more or less untouched. One of the first projects to come through its doors was Lionel Ritchie's Can't Slow Down, which would go on to sell 25 million copies. A couple of years later, Bill Sr. sold the entirety of the United Western Recorders complex to Allen, at which time Bill Putnam's United Recording became known as Allen Sides' Ocean Way Studios.
It was also during this time Sides began buying almost a thousand rare tube microphones from overseas. European studio owners and broadcasters had begun dumping loads of "antiquated" tube microphones for brand-new phantom-powered transistor mics. A master of salvaging audio gems, Sides carefully went through every microphone, adding the best of the best to his own collection and selling off the rest. Before long, Ocean Way had amassed one of the largest collections of tube microphones in the world.
The Sides Sound
"I think the word that sticks in my mind when I think of Allen's work is 'impressive'," says Bill Putnam Jr. "His stuff is big and wide, but so crisp. He gets a really great fundamental mix – his rhythm sections are just so tight – and then he gets a lot of stereo spread. He puts you in an amazing soundfield, but nothing is mushy."
Although his sound may be no accident, to hear Allen Sides tell it, he got into audio engineering through something of a sideways path.
"I was a speaker designer at first," he says. "That was my main thing. I came into recording — to a certain degree — because I was looking for impressive-sounding material to play on my speakers. When I built my first studio it was hard to find a lot of stuff that would make you go 'Wow'! There was just a very finite amount of material where the sound could really shock you."
One of the few producers at the time who made those kind of recordings was Phil Ramone, who he considers "a mentor from a sonic standpoint."
"He was one of those guys who set a new standard for what things could sound like. Some of his straight to two-track audiophile stuff was just ridiculous. That's what I always wanted to hear. When the artist comes in, I want them to be speechless."
In pursuit of that goal, there's no part of the chain that's outside his purview. Bill Jr. describes Allen as being "incredibly obsessed" with everything — from tracking down high-performance transducers and building great-sounding consoles, to getting the room and speakers tuned just right. For him, so much of the battle is won before a single mic even goes up on the stand.
When he does get to recording, Allen generally prefers to work quickly, relying on decades of experience placing great mics in the rooms he knows so well. Rather than fiddle around too much, his primary goal is to make sure he can get a great sound without ever wasting a musician's time. Also paramount is ensuring that the rough mixes the band hears always sound like a finished record, every step of the way – even when they're just listening through headphones on the cutting room floor.
Aside from that, it can be hard to pin down Allen's technical approach much further. "Ultimately," he says, "all that matters is the end result. That comes from listening and from taste. How you get there is irrelevant."
In recording, just as in music, it's less about knowing any one trick and more about knowing your instrument and what it's capable doing. In Allen's case, that "instrument" includes the microphone, the signal path, and the room itself. According to Sides, in order to make a great recording, you have to understand how the room reacts to the instrument, and how the mic reacts to the sound within the room.
Recreating Ocean Way Studios for the UAD Platform
Over the years, the relationship between Allen and the Putnam family has remained close, and that's perhaps no better exemplified than with the development of the Ocean Way Studios Plug-In for the UAD Powered Plug-Ins Platform.
After Universal Audio was re-founded in 1998, they sought to bring their critically-acclaimed digital emulation expertise to the realm of room modeling, and starting with the iconic rooms their father himself designed seemed an obvious choice.
Sides likens to working in an ongoing collaboration with two generations of Putnams. Bill Sr. designed the space, Allen learned how to make it sing, and Bill Jr. figured out how to make its legendary sound accessible to producers and engineers who might never be able to set a foot inside a studio so well-designed.
When recreating these rooms for the Ocean Way Studios plug-in, Bill Jr. was reminded of just how far ahead of its time his father's work was:
"We can test and measure these things much more accurately now," he says, "and when I shared our room analysis with some researchers, they were amazed at how quickly the reverb tails fall off into those kind of random, almost noise-like reflections, which is the ideal. So in the process we rediscovered that even from a mathematical standpoint these rooms are pretty spectacular."
But the goal of the project was not to take a clinical measurement of the room and make it available to other engineers. Instead, Allen and Bill Jr. joined forces to capture these rooms as they sound in a recording.
Rather than put up a couple of sterile measurement mics and call it a day, they instead broke out some of the best pairs from Allen Sides' personal vintage microphone collection — mics like the Neumann U47, U67, and M50, the AKG C12, the RCA 44, and even the incredibly rare RCA 10001 — a microphone best known in the film-scoring world as one of the best ribbons ever made.
From there, each of these hand-selected mic pairs was placed in a variety of positions based on Allen's decades of experience placing these very mics in these very rooms. As Sides puts it, they "not just modeled the room, but the experience," right down to the mics used and the engineer's informed aesthetic choices.
The behavior of specific instruments within the space were also recreated for the Ocean Way Studios plug-in, as different sources often sound their best in different parts of a room. On top of this, each class of instrument has its own unique dispersion pattern and excites specific frequency ranges that aren't typically accounted for in a conventional impulse-response reverb.
In this way, to hear the sound of the Ocean Way Studios Plug-In is not only to hear a taste of Studios A and B, but also to hear many variations of these two great rooms. And with the ability to move three simultaneous mic pairs dynamically, it's also possible to conjure up sounds never before imagined.
When all was said and done, the final results of the plug-in surprised even Sides himself, who is by no means the target customer for an emulation of a studio that he already owns. "This is something I would use," he says. "To put up all these microphones and begin to re-mic a signal would take maybe six hours. But to have it right there at your fingertips during the mix? That's just incredible."
It seems that even after spending countless hours putting together an authoritative model of his favorite rooms, Sides has still managed to win yet another battle in his endless quest to get a great sound without wasting too much session time.
The Next Evolution of Ocean Way
Now, after nearly 30 years under Allen Sides, these legendary studios have changed hands once again. The nearby Sunset Gower Soundstage acquired the rooms and all their equipment, forming a strategic alliance between the recording space and their 100-year-old film and TV studios.
The original recording spaces have stayed true to Putnam's designs since the beginning, and fortunately, they are set to remain that way for the forseeable future. Under the new owners, everything that is truly important about these historic studios will be left untouched — from top staff and key equipment, right on down to the name (which they've licensed to use). As Allen Sides moves on, the indelible legacy that he and Bill Putnam Sr. built will no doubt carry on into the 21st century, with a new generation of hit-makers coming to work within the storied halls of Ocean Way.
— Justin Colletti
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Speaking to DCist, John Hodgman explains that he felt embarrassed to be reading George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire at first, but then he got over it. For good reasons:
I read the Lord of the Rings and stuff, but I really only turned to the George R.R. Martin serial because I knew there was a TV show coming out and I felt like I should know what all the hubbub was about. I was initially very embarrassed to be reading it because it wasn't a metaphor or an allegory of any kind. You know, like, there's no question that the Lord of the Rings was about war, the mechanization of England, the industrialization of England, that it was about all these other things. You could get lost in the fact that Tolkien made up all these wackadoo elvish languages. But with George R.R. Martin this is a guy that just loves fantasy and science fiction and was just writing in the form and at first I found this to be a little unseemly.
Of course he's such an amazing storyteller that I got right into it, and then it basically controlled my life. And I ended up realizing what I don't think he totally gets credit for, aside from his amazing skills as what they say in the fantasy writing game as a "world builder," as a guy who creates incredibly thoughtful, living, breathing set of cultures in an invented world, just line by line he's one of the finest writers that I've read. And particularly his sense of how to pace out a scene and surprise you with where the scene goes and what happens in it. Particularly big scenes like a wedding or a feast of some kind. And for a book that's as much about war as it is, he writes a lot in the salon and in the bedroom. And I think he's the only person I know who actually writes culinary suspense stories.
There's so much food writing in those books, which I can only presume is based on at least some research of the weird lampreys and duck thighs that people ate around the time of the War of the Roses, but it brings such life to those books and then the things that happen over meals are sometimes the most important. Huge feastings that are incredibly skillfully paced out in a way that from a writerly point of view I found absolutely astonishing.
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Chehalis-Western Trail
The historic Chehalis Western Railroad, which operated from 1926 through the mid-1980's, has now become the Chehalis Western Trail. The trail runs north-south through the heart of Thurston County and links up with the County-owned 14.5-mile Yelm-Tenino Trail. It passes through a variety of ecosystems and environments in both the urban and rural areas of the County. It provides access to over 170-acres of park land including nearly two (2) miles of frontage along the Deschutes River, and features access to the Puget Sound, Chambers Lake, wetlands, forests, farmland, creeks, prairies, and other habitats.
Thurston County-owns and operates 22 miles of Chehalis Western Trail
in public ownership. The trail is an integral and significant linkage in
the planned 48-mile county-managed trail system. It features four
trailhead facilities with parking, restrooms, and picnic facilities at
the Chambers Lake Boat Launch, Scenic Overlook at Chambers Lake, the
Yelm Highway Pedestrian Overpass, a trailhead at 67th Avenue with
parking and trail information, and a parking area at Fir Tree Road. The
northern section has a trailhead at Woodard Bay with parking and
restrooms. With spectacular views the trail system provides excellent
opportunities for users to enjoy a tranquil and refreshing outdoor
recreation experience any time of the year.
Chehalis Western Trailhead
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Chehalis Western Trail
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Chehalis Western Trail
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Chehalis Western Trail near Western Junction in Winter
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Estimated mileage - 49 miles.
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|Chambers Lake Trailhead to junction with Yelm-Tenino Trail
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Fast forward many years to the magical year of 2000, the year Microsoft introduced C#. With C# there was no more Printer.Print solutions for printing your documents. Since C# is an Object Orientated language you are now able to control the entire process of printing, from the font, to the font size, to the orientation of the page (Landscape, Portrait), to the size of the print area (the page size), which of course requires some work on the programmers part. That is the purpose of this tutorial, that and the fact that Im asked at least once a day how to accomplish this task.
Since I offered a solution for the VB.Net programmers out there, I figured I'd take the time to convert that code to C# and write a tutorial for C# programmers. Since C# is more strict than VB.Net there are some changes between this class and it's VB.Net counterpart.
In this tutorial we will create our own printing class, and unlike many of the samples provided by Microsoft themselves, this one actually works right. Our class will inherit from the PrintDocument Class, located in the System.Drawing.Printing Namespace. Doing it this way will give us all the functionality of the PrintDocument, while allowing us, the developers, to determine items and override the default methods it contains. So now lets jump into some code (I know thats what you're waiting for).
Creating Our Class
As with any class, before we can use any of the Classes, Events and Objects available to us in the .Net Framework we need to import the Namespaces we need. For this we need but 3, the VB.Net counterpart only required 2 because VB.Net assumes the System Namespace, whereas C# isn't so kind:
using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Drawing.Printing;
Now for the inheriting of the PrintDocument Class. To inherit from a class you need to tell your class you're inheriting from something, in our case it is the PrintDocument Class, to do this, make the following change to the declaration of your class:
public class PCPrint : System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument { }
So now we have a shell to work with that inherits from the PrintDocument Class, so lets add some functionality and other code to our class. In our class we will have 2 properties, one to hold the text that we are printing, and one to hold the Font we will be using when printing our document.
Adding the Font property allows us to override the default font. As with all properties, we need private modifiers for them, these are just private variables that will represent the values of our Properties. We make them private because we don't want their values to be changed directly. These will then be used for setting the value of our properties. First the variables:
#region Property Variables /// <summary> /// Property variable for the Font the user wishes to use /// </summary> /// <remarks></remarks> private Font _font; /// <summary> /// Property variable for the text to be printed /// </summary> /// <remarks></remarks> private string _text; #endregion
NOTE: You will notice all the code I offer in this tutorial is separated into sections using the #region blocks. This makes for faster finding of code, especially if you have a large code file.
Now for the properties, our properties are Read/Write properties so they have both a get and set modifier. get allows us to retrieve the value of our property, while set allows us to set the property's value:
#region Class Properties /// <summary> /// Property to hold the text that is to be printed /// </summary> /// <value></value> /// <returns>A string</returns> /// <remarks></remarks> public string TextToPrint { get { return _text; } set { _text = value; } } /// <summary> /// Property to hold the font the users wishes to use /// </summary> /// <value></value> /// <returns></returns> /// <remarks></remarks> public Font PrinterFont { // Allows the user to override the default font get { return _font; } set { _font = value; } } #endregion
One main difference between this class and it's VB.Net counterpart is in VB.Net you can declare a static variable inside a method, C# will scream and kick if you try this, so we must declare our variable outside any method:
#region Static Local Variables /// <summary> /// Static variable to hold the current character /// we're currently dealing with. /// </summary> static int curChar; #endregion
Next we will incorporate some Constructors for our class. If you dont add Constructors, the CLR assumes an empty Constructor, this allows you to instantiate your class so you can use it. We will add both an empty Constructor, and one that accepts a parameter, the parameter will be the text we want to print.
Since we are inheriting from a separate class, we need to call the Constructor of the base class. This is done by using base(), this will call the Constructor of our base class, the PrintDocument Class:
#region Class Constructors /// <summary> /// Empty constructor /// </summary> /// <remarks></remarks> public PCPrint() : base() { //Set the file stream //Instantiate out Text property to an empty string _text = string.Empty; } /// <summary> /// Constructor to initialize our printing object /// and the text it's supposed to be printing /// </summary> /// <param name=str>Text that will be printed</param> /// <remarks></remarks> public PCPrint(string str) : base() { //Set the file stream //Set our Text property value _text = str; } #endregion
Now we have our Properties and our Constructors, next we will add a couple methods to our class. In our printing class we will be overriding 2 of the PrintDocument Methods, those will be the onbeginPrint Method and the onbeginPring Method. In the onbeginPrint Method we will override the default font with the font we specify, and in the OnPrintPage we will be setting up the specifics of our page. We will be setting the following properties:
- Page Size
- Page Orientation (Landscape, Portrait)
- Top Margin
- Left Margin
#region onbeginPrint /// <summary> /// Override the default onbeginPrint method of the PrintDocument Object /// </summary> /// <param name=e></param> /// <remarks></remarks> protected override void onbeginPrint(System.Drawing.Printing.PrintEventArgs e) { // Run base code base.onbeginPrint(e); //Check to see if the user provided a font //if they didn't then we default to Times New Roman if (_font == null) { //Create the font we need _font = new Font("Times New Roman", 10); } } #endregion
As you can see, here we call the base classes onbeginPrint Method, then we check to see if a font was provided, if one wasnt we default to Times New Roman. The OnPrintPage Method is quite a bit larger and complex, this is where we will be doing the bulk of our work.
In this method we will be setting the size of the print area (the page size), we will determine if the user selected Landscape or Portrait as the print style, we will determine how many lines we are printing and how many lines will fit in our page size, and finally we will tell the printer whether we have more pages to print. As with our onbeginPrint Method, we will need to call our base class's OnPrintPage Method before doing our customizing of the method. Lets take a look at our overridden OnPrintPage Method:
#region OnPrintPage /// <summary> /// Override the default OnPrintPage method of the PrintDocument /// </summary> /// <param name=e></param> /// <remarks>This provides the print logic for our document</remarks> protected override void OnPrintPage(System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e) { // Run base code base.OnPrintPage(e); //Declare local variables needed int printHeight; int printWidth; int leftMargin; int rightMargin; Int32 lines; Int32 chars; //Set print area size and margins { printHeight = base.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize.Height - base.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Top - base.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Bottom; printWidth = base.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize.Width - base.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Left - base.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Right; leftMargin = base.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Left; //X rightMargin = base.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Top; //Y } //Check if the user selected to print in Landscape mode //if they did then we need to swap height/width parameters if (base.DefaultPageSettings.Landscape) { int tmp; tmp = printHeight; printHeight = printWidth; printWidth = tmp; } //Now we need to determine the total number of lines //we're going to be printing Int32 numLines = (int)printHeight / PrinterFont.Height; //Create a rectangle printing are for our document RectangleF printArea = new RectangleF(leftMargin, rightMargin, printWidth, printHeight); //Use the StringFormat class for the text layout of our document StringFormat format = new StringFormat(StringFormatFlags.LineLimit); //Fit as many characters as we can into the print area e.Graphics.MeasureString(_text.Substring(RemoveZeros(curChar)), PrinterFont, new SizeF(printWidth, printHeight), format, out chars, out lines); //Print the page e.Graphics.DrawString(_text.Substring(RemoveZeros(curChar)), PrinterFont, Brushes.Black, printArea, format); //Increase current char count curChar += chars; //Detemine if there is more text to print, if //there is the tell the printer there is more coming if (curChar < _text.Length) { e.HasMorePages = true; } else { e.HasMorePages = false; curChar = 0; } } #endregion
You will notice that in this method we reference a function called RemoveZeros. This is the last function in our class, and it has an important role. Instead of using ugly nested if..else statements, we will create a function that will check our value, and if it's a 0 (zero) we will replace it with a 1 (one). Zero's can cause bad things to happen when it comes to printing and determining page size and margins, so to alleviate that we use our RemoveZeros Function:
#region RemoveZeros /// <summary> /// Function to replace any zeros in the size to a 1 /// Zero's will mess up the printing area /// </summary> /// <param name=value>Value to check</param> /// <returns></returns> /// <remarks></remarks> public int RemoveZeros(int value) { //Check the value passed into the function, //if the value is a 0 (zero) then return a 1, //otherwise return the value passed in switch (value) { case 0: return 1; default: return value; } } #endregion
And there you have it, our completed printing class. Now I know some are asking "I see this class, but how do I use it?". Well I'm glad you asked, this class is much easier to use than one would imagine. In your Form's code I would create a procedure, lets name it printDocument, then inside that procedure we would create an instance of our printer class, set its properties (PrinterFont, TextToPrint), then issue a print command, like this:
#region PrintDocument public void PrintDocument() { //Create an instance of our printer class PCPrint printer = new PCPrint(); //Set the font we want to use printer.PrinterFont = new Font("Verdana", 10); //Set the TextToPrint property printer.TextToPrint = Textbox1.Text; //Issue print command printer.Print(); } #endregion
Then in the click event of your print button call PrintDocument, and your document will print. Thats it, thats how easy it is to use your new printer class. This class is reusable, you can incorporate it anywhere you have documents that need to be printed. If you wanted to print graphics some functionality would need to be added, those changes will be in a completely separate tutorial.
I hope you found this tutorial on Printing in C# to be useful and informative, and I thank you for reading. I will be including the class used in this tutorial, but remember it is under the GPL - General Public License. With this license you can modify this code to suite your needs, but the license header must remain in tact.
Happy Coding!
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Vedic Astrology
Vedic Astrology is one of the oldest forms of astrology, practiced in a continuous tradition for thousands of years. It was originally an oral teaching, a limb or vedanga of a larger body of teachings forming the Vedas, or scriptures of ancient India.
In India it is called Jyotish, meaning "science of light". On a mundane level, this refers to the light of the visible planets as seen in the night sky. Spiritually, it implies astrology's capacity to illuminate what lies within us – our karma for this lifetime.
This is not sun sign astrology, which should be treated as entertainment and little more. Vedic astrology is unique and extremely specific. Although Vedic astrology has been practiced for millennia in India and other parts of the East, Jyotish now enjoys growing popularity in the West, thanks to its ability to address every aspect of the human experience, in a manner both insightful and predictive.
Like western astrology, Jyotish uses a birth chart to map the planets' positions at your time of birth. Unlike western astrology, Jyotish also uses many "harmonic" charts, sub-divisions of the main chart to reveal details about relationships, studies, career, wealth, family, health, spirituality, etc.
Navamsa means "9th division" and refers to a harmonic chart so important that no Vedic astrologer would provide a consultation without referring to it. Some say the navamsa represents the fruit of one's karma in this lifetime, reflecting both one's love relationships and spiritual path.
Karma and the Role of the Astrologer
Astrology and palmistry reflect the karma we're inclined to experience in this life. Vedic astrology has an undeserved reputation as being deterministic, as if there was only one possible future, and all actions lead inevitably to it. But in fact, there are many crossroads in a full life, and we make choices that affect our futures.
Vedic astrology acknowledges karma may be fixed or loose, that we have more or less free will in some areas of life than in others. My role is to help people understand their strengths and weaknesses, where they'll experience success or frustration, and to forecast those periods when life will be pleasurable, painful or just plain normal.
I try to help people understand themselves, and be aware of all the positive possibilities their life has to offer. I won't discuss death, or frighten anyone with information about things they haven't specifically asked to be discussed.
I believe astrology is a map of where your soul needs to go in this life – with your baggage, your itinerary, your experiences en route, and your ultimate destination.