text: Show Hide image World 22 January 2009 A criminal's medal: John Pilger on rewarding Israel As deserving as Blair, Howard and Uribe are of the Bush freedom medal, others cry out for a place in history. Sign-up On 13 January, George W Bush presented presidential "medals of freedom", said to be America's highest recognition of devotion to freedom and peace. Among the recipients were Tony Blair, the epic liar who, with Bush, bears responsibility for the physical, social and cultural destruction of an entire nation; John Howard, the former prime minister of Australia and minor American vassal who led the most openly racist government in his country's modern era; and Alvaro Uribe, the president of Colombia, whose government, according to the latest study of that murderous state, is "responsible for more than 90 per cent of all cases of torture". As satire was made redundant years ago when Henry Kissinger and Rupert Murdoch were honoured for their contributions to the betterment of humanity, Bush's ceremony was, at least, telling of a system of which he and his freshly minted successor are products. Although more spectacular in its choreographed histrionics, Barack Obama's inauguration carried a similar Orwellian message of inverted truth. The continuity between the two administrations has been as seamless as the transfer of the odious Bono's allegiance, symbolised by President Obama's oath-taking on the steps of Congress - where, only days earlier, the House of Representatives, dominated by the new president's party, the Democrats, voted 390-5 to back Israel's massacres in Gaza. The supply of American weapons used in the massacres was authorised previously by such a margin. These included the Hellfire missile, which sucks the air out of lungs, ruptures livers and amputates arms and legs without the necessity of shrapnel: a "major advance", according to the specialist literature. As a senator, the then President-elect Obama raised no objection to these state-of-the-art [sic] weapons being rushed to Israel - worth $22bn in 2008 - in time for the long-planned assault on Gaza's fenced and helpless population. This is understandable; it is how the system works. On no other issue does Congress and the president, Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals, give such absolute support. By comparison, the German Reichstag in the 1930s was a treasure of democratic and principled debate. Listen to newsreaders use pejoratives for Palestinians, calling them militants when they are resisters to invasion This is not to say that presidents and members of Congress fail to recognise the Israel "lobbyists" in their midst as thugs and political blackmailers, though they never say so in public, because they fear them. For their part, the Israelis' current, phoney "unilateral ceasefire" in Gaza is designed not to embarrass, not yet, its new man in the White House. Obama's single acknowledgement of the "suffering" of the Palestinians has been long eclipsed by his loyalty oaths to Tel Aviv (even promising Jerusalem as Israel's capital, which not even Bush did) and his appointment of probably the most pro-Zionist administration for a generation. As deserving as Blair, Howard and Uribe are of the Bush freedom medal, others cry out for a place in their company. With the assault on Gaza a defining moment of truth and lies, principle and cowardice, peace and war, justice and injustice, I have two nominees. My first is the government and society of Israel. (I checked; the freedom medal can be awarded collectively.) "Few of us," wrote Arthur Miller, "can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied." The bleak irony of this should be clear to all in Israel, yet its denial has emboldened a militarist, racist cult that uses every epithet against the Palestinians that was once directed at Jews, with the exception of extermination - and even that is not entirely excluded, as the deputy defence minister, Matan Vilnai, noted last year with his threat of a shoah (holocaust). In 1948, the year Israel's right to exist was granted and Palestine's annulled, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt and other leading Jews in the United States warned the administration not to get involved with "fascists" such as Menachem Begin, who became an Israeli prime minister. This fascism, which was not often flouted openly, was the harbinger of Likud and Kadima. These are today "mainstream" political parties, whose influence, in the treatment of the Palestinians, covers a national "consensus" - that is the source of the present terror in Palestine: the brutal dispossessions and perfidious controls, the humiliation and cruelty by statute. The mirror of this is domestic violence at home. Conscripted soldiers return from their "war" on Palestinian women and children and make war on their own. Young whites drafted into South Africa's apartheid army did the same. Inhumanity on such a scale cannot be buried indefinitely. When Desmond Tutu described his experience ?in Palestine and Israel as "worse than apartheid", he pointed out that not even in white supremacist South Africa were there the equivalent of "Jews only" roads. Uri Avnery, one of Israel's bravest dissidents, says his country's leaders suffer from "moral insanity": a prerequisite, I should add, for the award of a Bush freedom medal. My other nominee for a Bush freedom medal is that amorphous group known as western journalism, which has always made much of its freedom and impartiality. Listen to the way Israeli "spokespersons" and ambassadors are interviewed. How respectfully their official lies are received; how minimally they are challenged. They are one of us, you see: calm and western-sounding, even blonde, female and attractive. The frightened, jabbering voice on the line from Gaza is not one of us. That is the subliminal message. Listen to newsreaders use only the pejoratives for the Palestinians, describing them as "militants" when they are resisters to invasion, even heroes, a word never used. Mark the timeless propaganda that suggests there are two equal powers fighting a "war", not a stricken people, attacked and starved by the world's fourth-largest military power and which ensures they have no places of refuge. And note the omissions - the BBC does not preface its reports with the warning that a foreign power controls its reporters' movements, as it did in Serbia and Argentina, neither does it explain why it shows only glimpses of the remarkable coverage of al-Jazeera from within Gaza. There are, too, the ubiquitous myths: that Israel has suffered terribly from thousands of missiles fired from Gaza. In truth, the first homemade Qassam rocket was fired across the Israeli border in October 2001; the first fatality occurred in June 2004. Some 24 Israelis have been killed in this way, compared with 5,000 Palestinians killed, more than half of them in Gaza, at least a third of them children. Now imagine if the 1.5 million Gazans had been Jewish, or Kosovar refugees. "The only honorable course for Europe and America is to use military force to try to protect the people of Kosovo . . ." declared the Guardian on 23 March 1999. Inexplicably, the Guardian has yet to call for such "an honorable course" to protect the people of Gaza. Such is the rule of acceptable victims and unacceptable victims. When reporters break this rule they are accused of "anti-Israel bias" and worse, and their life is made a misery by a hyperactive cyber-army that drafts complaints, provides generic material and coaches people all over the world on how to smear as "anti-Jewish" work they have not seen. These vociferous campaigns are complemented by anonymous death threats, which I and others have experienced. The latest tactic is malicious hacking into websites. But that is desperate, since the times are changing. Across the world, people once indifferent to the arcane "conflict" in the Middle East now ask the question the BBC and CNN rarely ask: Why does Israel have a right to exist, but Palestine does not? They ask, too, why do the lawless enjoy such special immunity in the pristine world of balance and objectivity? The perfectly spoken Israeli "spokesman" represents the most lawless regime on earth, exotic tyrannies included, according to a tally of United Nations resolutions defied and Geneva Conventions defiled. In France, 80 organisations are working to bring war crimes indictments against Israel's leaders. On 15 January, the fine Israeli reporter, Gideon Levy, wrote in Ha'aretz that Israeli generals "will not be the only ones to hide in El Al planes lest they be arrested [overseas]". One day, other journalists and their editors and producers may be called on to not only explain why they did not tell the truth about these criminals but even to stand in the dock with them. No Bush freedom medal is worth that. John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalism's top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. "John Pilger," wrote Harold Pinter, "unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him." Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 26 January 2009 issue of the New Statesman, Nixon went to China... Will Obama go to Iran? SUBSCRIBE More


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The Innergie PocketCell USB battery-based charger is a relatively small and light charger packing a power capacity of 3000mah. The awesome part is that it is small enough to easily fit in your pocket and simultaneously only weigh 72g. That?s only about half the weight of an iPhone 4S. The Innergie power adapter is one that sets itself apart from the rest of the field primarily because of the innovation that exists within the connector.
While the Innergie PocketCell charger itself looks like it is an Apple charger, it is actually a nearly universal power charger and battery. The reason why we loosely throw around the word universal is primarily because of the fact that the single connector can break into at least three different connectors supporting Apple, microUSB as well as miniUSB which effectively covers all current generation Apple iOS products (until the iPhone 5) and all Android, Windows Phone, and even Blackberry since Blackberries use both micro and mini USB depending on the generation of the device.
The Innergie PocketCell charger/battery is very simple and relatively elegant in design and functionality. The battery part of the device comprises of two USB ports and a button. One port is MicroUSB and the other full-sized USB. The Micro USB side is designed to enable the device itself to be charged through it?s own cable or through any microUSB cable that you may have available to you to deliver power. The other end is a standard USB connector which enables the unique Innergie cable to connect to the battery of the device and charge the smartphone or tablet that you may have. The power/battery section of the device also features a button that you can press for about a second to initiate a charge as well as to see how much power is left in the battery.Doing a long press will show up to four lights indicating full with each subsequent number of lights indicating a lower and lower level of power.
Once you?ve used up all of the power in the PocketCell you can then proceed to recharge the device using either an in-wall plug usb power adapter that you would use for a smartphone or a tablet or any laptop USB charging port. Generally, the latter is more convenient, but having to constantly remember to recharge it can be a little bit frustrating. Because of this fact, we really advocate that Innergie consider having the PocketCell set up in a way that it can serve as a phone charger as well as a battery and once it?s done charging it can simply charge the on-board battery. This is in contrast to some of the other devices out there that we?ve tested in the past that functioned as both chargers and battery backups for smartphones, etc. The battery on that device has actually degraded over the past 2 years, and it has approximately half the capacity, so it?s a bit less useful nowadays.
The Innergie PocketCell comes with a standard 3 year warranty (with registration), which is extremely encouraging because most battery-based products generally only come with a 1 year warranty since most of the device?s cycles have been used up in that period of time. We applaud Innergie for such a long warranty compared to the industry standard and we look forward to more companies doing the same.
Taking a look at the Innergie PocketCell?s price, you can see that it sells on Amazon for $68.00 which is by no measure inexpensive, however, it isn?t necessarily overpriced when you consider the capacity of the device in combination with its overall portability and weight, not to mention the unique universal cable.
Overall, the Innergie PocketCell is the best batter-based phone and tablet charger that we?ve tested to date. When you consider the overall capacity of the battery and the fact that it is able to deliver 3000mAh of power in such a small and light package you really begin to appreciate the device. Most smartphones today, with the exception of the Droid Razr MAXX have batteries with capacities smaller than 3000mAh, meaning that you will get at least a full battery charge out of this device. When it comes to tablets like the Nexus 7 (4300mAh) and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (7000mAh) you may find yourself using this device as more of something to keep it from dying rather than a full battery charge, however it should be pretty substantial in the case of the Nexus 7. As we stated earlier, we would really like to see this device to be able to do a pass-through functionality which would then switch to charging the internal battery. That is likely the next step for this awesome device.
Based on our usage and the product?s specifications and abilities, we?d like to award the Innergie PocketCell our Innovation Award for Mainstream.


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Academics . Printmaking . Faculty . Maggie Denk-Leigh
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Title Associate Professor | Chair of Printmaking
Department Printmaking
Phone 216.421.7480
Courses Image + Form II: Reproducibility | Intro Printmaking: Line + Sequence | Printmaking: Advanced Topics | Propaganda: Media, Dissemination, Technique
Maggie is an Associate Professor and Printmaking Department Chair. She is a founding member and Board President of the Morgan Conservatory, a center for book and paper arts. http://morganconservatory.org
Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the University of Mount Union and inclusion in the 2013 MAPC Juried Members Exhibition at the McDonough Museum.
Degree MFA Clemson University, Printmaking; BA Xavier University, Printmaking, Graphic Design & Business
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In the nautical world of pleasure boating, there is a specific process to follow to ensure a fun day on the water. Skip one of those steps and you risk having a miserable experience. The same holds true when buying a new home. There is a process to follow to ensure everything goes smoothly. Here are the basics.
Find a good REALTOR®. Preferably someone who knows the area.
Determine what you can afford. Get a pre-approved mortgage.
Make a wish list. What kind of home or neighbourhood are you looking for? View the right properties. Pick those that closely match the criteria on your wish list.
Make an offer. Your REALTOR® can help you make an offer that gets you the home you want at the right price.
Get a home inspection. This is a must.
Get the paperwork done. Your REALTOR®, lawyer and lender will typically handle all the transaction paperwork for you.
Prepare for the move. Find a good mover. Don't forget to arrange for telephone, internet, change of address and other details.
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Why should not we use "goto"? I am a programming newb and for the following task I would consider it practical.
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2. If the input is out of a desired range, end the program before doing something else
This example does NOT use goto but splits up these two choices into an if else structure.
Would not using a goto to "hop" straight to the end more practical? Also what is the most elegant way to exit a program when used on a simply program like this?Code:// #include "stdafx.h" #include <iostream> using namespace std; int money; int main() { cout<<"Enter amount of cents (1-99): "; cin>>money; /* -----Exit Program if money out of range----- */ if (money < 1 || money > 99) { //Print out error and quit program cout<<"<ERROR> Enter a value between 0-99. "<<endl; return 0; } /* -----Else continue----- */ else { //Do something return 0; } }


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Doing barrel rolls is super great and all, but Star Fox 64 3DS didn't really capture my attention until today—when I showed up late to the party knowing about its "Online Stage Guide" features.
I'm not above perusing a FAQ now and then, so a little assistance for the Star Fox 64 noob—it's true, I've only played the original Star Fox for SNES—might come in handy. But it's the concept of in-game access to guides and online hints that may push me into purchasing the already-released Star Fox for 3DS.
I'd much rather see this in, say, Fire Emblem for 3DS and eventually the next Advance Wars, but we'll take this in baby steps.
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IF we spend as much money as possible
THEN the bussiness commits 80% of our spending to install movement sensors for lighting to save electricity
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau
Original Digital Collage using my photos from the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico and a vintage photo from my personal collection. The image was created using the Procreate App on my Ipad with added filters from my Distressed FX App.


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Russell Brand's Guards Accused of Tiger Park Attack
Russell Brand sat and watched as his bodyguards beat the crap out of four news photographers in the middle of a wild tiger sanctuary in India today ... this according to the photogs.
The four photogs -- employed by the AP, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and the Hindustan Times -- claim they were inside a jeep, following the comic through the wild animal park ... when two bodyguards from Brand's group jumped out of their ride, approached the photog's jeep and punched the living daylights out of the driver.
The photogs say they tried to come to the driver's defense ... but the bodyguards began pummeling them too. Eventually, the photogs claim the men stole the keys from their jeep ... leaving the snappers stranded in the middle of the wild animal park.
Brand is set to marry Katy Perry at a resort near the wild animal park in the next few days.
We called Indian police for comment -- but they kept hanging up on us. Calls to Brand's people were not returned.
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Gov. Snyder declares April 14–20 as Michigan State Police History Week
LANSING -- This week the Michigan State Police (MSP) is celebrating its 96th anniversary and to honor this milestone, Gov. Rick Snyder has declared April 14-20 as Michigan State Police History Week.
"What started as a small cavalry of men has evolved into a complex, professional law enforcement agency responsible for not only general police investigative services and traffic patrol, but also forensic science services, statewide criminal justice records management and state homeland security and emergency management," stated Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue, director of the MSP. "This week as we mark our 96th anniversary, it is a time for us to reflect on our rich history and traditions, as well as to recommit to serving the public with excellence, integrity and courtesy – always providing 'service with a purpose'."
The MSP's roots date back to World War I when the department began as a temporary, wartime emergency force for the purpose of domestic security.
On April 19, 1917 Gov. Albert Sleeper created the Michigan State Troops Permanent Force, also known as the Michigan State Constabulary. With Col. Roy C. Vandercook as the first commanding officer, this new force consisted of five troops of mounted, dismounted and motorized units.
On March 26, 1919, Public Act 26 reorganized the Constabulary as the permanent, peace-time Michigan State Police. When Michigan adopted a new constitution in 1963, authorizing up to 20 departments, Public Act 380 of 1965 reorganized the MSP as one of these departments. The director of the MSP holds the rank of colonel and is appointed by the governor.
Today, the MSP is a modern-day, full-service law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction consisting of nearly 2,500 enforcement and civilian members. For more information on the MSP, visit www.michigan.gov/msp.


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SPOILER WARNING: This post will appear following a new episode of Justified. It is intended to be read after seeing the show's latest installment as a source of recap and analysis. As such, all aspects of the series up to and including the episode discussed are fair game.
I praised last week's episode, "Kin," for returning to the formula most often employed when Justified is at its best: Boyd plus Raylan equals some captivating television. And while those two characters are the key ingredients, the same idea applies to the show in general—its greatest moments come from squeezing its wide array of colorful characters together and enjoying the results. All in all, "Kin" was going to be a hard act to follow, but I found this week's offering especially disappointing because it quickly diverted away from that tried and true formula. "Foot Chase" seemed to set everyone off on their own individual adventures (and I do mean everyone). That's not to say it wasn't an exciting hour of television—as I've said repeatedly, if Boyd Crowder's around count me in—but it certainly won't be remembered as one of Justified's best.
With so many characters off doing their own thing, most of the episode's dialogue can be divided into two groups: First, conversations between members of the main cast who we see interacting all the time, and second, between a single regular and various one-off or rarely recurring characters. The one exception to this, and perhaps as a result the episode's strongest plot line, was Raylan and Shelby joining forces in the hunt for Drew Thompson.
Early on, Raylan speaks with some local cops on the scene at Josiah Cairn's house, and he acts like his usual jerk self. When one of them asks if there's any particular reason he's treating them, and I quote, "like a couple of bleached assholes," Raylan considers it for a moment and responds, "not particularly." We discover later that the disdain likely stems from his lack of respect for Sheriff Shelby, although I doubt Raylan is self-aware enough to make that connection himself. When Shelby asks if the reason Raylan doesn't trust him is that he thinks he's in Boyd's pocket, Raylan quips back, "I think Lynyrd Skynrd's overrated; I know you're in Boyd's pocket." Shelby admits that he used Boyd to get elected, but that is allegiance is and always has been to the law. It's interesting reversal of perspective, given that Boyd would say it was in fact he that was using Shelby.
Of course, the audience knows Shelby is done being used, because we know the details of Ellen May's disappearance. But understandably, words aren't enough to change Raylan's mind. So Shelby sets out to prove it to him by putting Boyd in cuffs and bringing him in for questioning. Boyd warns him of the dangers of this decision, saying, "Son, you are turning a corner you can't walk back around." I found two things about that line intriguing: There's what it says about Boyd (and Walton Goggins' performance) that he can call Shelby "son," in spite of their actual ages, and not sound silly. Because that's just the kind of respect Boyd Crowder commands. And there's the fact that Shelby, who reminds us himself that he was a supermarket greeter not too long ago, is tenacious enough to turn that corner so forcefully.
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A camera phone that can overlay imaginary 3D dragons or spaceships over a view of your office or house. Mobile blogs for schoolchildren. A skin galvanometer that charts your stress levels as you move about your town or city. Science fiction? No, just a few of the futuristic mobile applications being created and tested by a group of young researchers at the U.K.'s Lancaster University. These researchers -- doctoral and master's candidates at the university's InfoLab21 research center -- are led by Paul Coulton, a senior lecturer in the department of communications systems. Coulton's dozen or so graduate students collectively call themselves the Mobile Radicals.
Although many university and industry researchers are developing and testing mobile applications, what distinguishes the Mobile Radicals is their use of real-world test subjects. Coulton often begins a research project by simply announcing it on his Forum Nokia blog. "I like to test things 'in the wild' rather than in the enclosed world of a normal research lab," Coulton says. "So I invite the community to try things for themselves."
One hot area of research for the Mobile Radicals is location-based services (LBS). One LBS application created by the group is called GeoBlog, which involves giving a group of some 30 local schoolchildren a camera phone and global positioning system (GPS) unit. The children used the mobile devices to create messages and photos, and the Mobile Radicals team incorporated maps with the children's content. "We essentially captured a GPS trail of their journeys," Coulton says. A related service, LocoBlog, consists of a Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) client application that first links the phone via Bluetooth to a GPS unit, and then lets the user create blogs of text and pictures that are tagged with positional data. The blog is then sent via general packet radio service (GPRS) to the LocoBlog site, where it can be viewed on Google Maps.
LocoMash, another mobile application created and tested by Coulton and company, is described as a mobile mass-observation system. It lets groups of individuals equipped with mobile camera phones and GPS create real-time spatial and temporal photographic mashups around a particular event or place, such as the 2007 Roskilde Festival in Denmark. "People like maps as a way of visualizing information and actually seeing how you've taken pictures on a journey," Coulton says. "Rather than just a set of linear images, which is what you often get, here you get an impression of how far people have traveled and what the environment is really like. With the map, you get a more interesting view of the journey."
Many of the Mobile Radicals' applications take advantage of cutting-edge technology, such as the Nokia N95 multimedia computer's built-in assisted global positioning system (A-GPS) chip and the Nokia 6210 Navigator's built-in compass, which measures changes in direction and orientation. "When technology like GPS, accelerometers and compasses become standard features in more phones, it's going to appeal to the masses," Coulton says. "For example, there's been huge excitement about the accelerometer games, and for the future, there's a lot of potential there."
Coulton and his colleagues are active posters to a number of online communities. For one, Coulton writes a blog. His recent postings have included such topics as heart-controlled mobile interaction, WidSets, and Near Field Communication (NFC) games. The researchers have also published numerous papers. The Mobile Radicals publication page currently lists more than 120 articles, covering such topics as "3-D Space-Time Visualization of Player Behavior in Pervasive Location-Based Games" and "Providing Location-Based Information/Advertising for Existing Mobile Phone Users." They are also frequent speakers at industry conferences, and frequent winners of industry awards.
Coulton and colleagues are currently looking into three areas for future development and research. One involves using heart-rate monitors and other biological sensors to capture physiological feedback from users, then linking that data with GPS information, to understand various health issues. A related project will use a skin galvanometer, which measures or detects a small electrical current, as people move through a city. "We hope to see whatever it is they find stressful, or how their perception changes through a physical reaction," Coulton explains. A second area will combine context-awareness with all forms of messaging. For example, not only could consumers use their mobile device to check their list of contacts, they could also spot the location of their friends, what they're doing, even what kind of mood they're in. "You would see a little avatar for each person on your contact list, a picture with little icons around them," Coulton explains.
Third on the future list is what Coulton and his colleagues call "mobile augmented reality." Here, a 3D image is superimposed in the lens of a camera phone, and GPS and compass data is used to determine which images should be shown when. "You look through the camera's lens and, based on the GPS position and orientation of the camera, the application overlays 3D images into the real world," Coulton says. "So I could put dragons over buildings. Or show you what people looked like 100 years ago." Possible applications include tour guides, a program that locates WLAN hot spots, visualizes pollution levels in your vicinity. "It's an interesting way of seeing the world," Coulton adds, "because you can carry it around in your pocket."


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By Andrew Bansal
Chicago-based extreme metal act Nachtmystium have added yet another piece to their diverse catalog. Their 2-part "Black Meddle" concept album has been followed by the recent release of their sixth studio album "Silencing Machine", on Century Media Records. This one carries an almost completely different vibe as compared to the Black Meddle series, and even though the music on here would please the black metal fans more than anything else. I recently caught up with frontman Blake Judd to talk about the album. Read the conversation below, check out the song "I Wait In Hell" off of the album, using the YouTube player embedded near the bottom of this page, and visit the Nachtmystium facebook page for more info.
Before "Silencing Machine", you did the Black Meddle series. How does it feel to be done with that chapter and start a new one with this album?
It feels good, man. It's a nice change to kind of get back to what we do. I'm really, really satisfied with the direction we've chosen to go into with this new record. It was really fun to make and we're just happy to be doing something a little different now.
This is pretty much a fresh start for you. Do you think that led to a more organic sound on this album?
Yeah, absolutely. We've had the same lineup that we recorded with for about three years, pretty much since we finished the recording for "Addicts". It's pretty easy to write with these guys. So, 'organic' would be a good word to describe this album because it came naturally and it's what we do best. It was just a fun and really easy record to put together with these guys.
You've said that this album is not a return to your roots, because you never left the roots. Why do you think people say you drifted away?
I just think it's a moronic opinion of some narrow-minded person who obviously can't hear that we clearly stayed true to our sound, to a degree, at the core of the songs on the other albums. I think what made them really different was the stuff we did to these songs after their foundations were recorded. So you know, if you strip all the synthesizers, lead guitars, special effects and things like that off the last couple of records, at their foundation they are still very much black metal albums, you know. So, I don't spend time thinking about what somebody on the internet or whatever thinks about what we're doing, if it's good or bad. It's not really for them to decide, and if I was worried about making music for other people, this band wouldn't sound like how it does.
Production-wise, have you done anything differently on this album to fit with the more harsh black metal sound?
Not intentionally. We just tried to correct the mistakes we'd made previously in the last two records that I don't like, involving the production, particularly the drum sound. I was never really happy with the drums on Assassins, or Addicts for that matter. Not the performance, but the way they sounded in the mix and so forth. There's just a way to do it that I think is better for what we do. So I worked very closely with Sanford Parker, our engineer, to make sure that we get the right kind of drum sound that we wanted. It's still a very slick, clean recording but it has a little bit of that dirtiness to it.
Would you say that it's more of a band effort in terms of songwriting, or is it just your own vision?
Oh, it's totally a group effort this time. We worked really hard for many months, trying to prepare for this thing. Primarily the two guitarists Drew and myself, and our drummer Charlie, the three of us worked very, very closely together for a month or two, leading up to the recording. So the three of us basically wrote the bulk of the record. Sanford also contributed to one or two songs that wound up on there as well, that we worked out in the studio, but the majority was the three of us writing in the rehearsal room. So it was definitely a group effort this time, whereas in the past, most of the records were primarily written by me. But it's been more and more of a group effort of every record for the last few years.
After the Black Meddle series was done and once you were finished touring for that album cycle, did you completely take time off to write this album, or was it also written while you were on tour?
I never really get a chance to write on tour. I can work on lyrics and things like that sometimes, but I don't find myself with a lot of time to be playing my guitar. And honestly, when you have free time on tour, the last thing you'd want to be doing is play your instrument since you're doing that every night (laughs). So the writing happens at home primarily. 2011 saw us take more time off during the year than we have in many, many years. We only did one tour last year, and that was with Cradle Of Filth in the United States. We did seven weeks, which is a long tour. We certainly went to every city at least once. Then we did some festivals, we did Party San Open Air in Germany, and we played a show in Chicago with Danzig Legacy which was really neat. So we managed to keep somewhat busy but the focus of the year was to write the record which is why we wanted out of major tours for the second half of last year.
Right, and I also think that because you didn't tour much last year, people would now be looking forward to seeing you live. Do you think that also helps, the fact that you didn't get caught up in continuous touring like so many other bands do?
Oh totally, man. I'm very strategic with how we tour, with whom we tour and when we tour. We try to plan it out to make sense, either shortly after we have a new record out. If a record hasn't come out, it doesn't make sense time-wise. If you see us out on tour not immediately supporting a new record, then you'll have to take a look at the lineup because that means we're out touring with bands we feel we should be on the road with. For example, if Voivod asked us to go out again and if it's not during a tour cycle, we would take the tour, just because it's an opportunity to play to fans of a bigger band that we feel is similar to us in certain ways. So, we're just really careful about touring and everything we do is kind of strategically planned to have certain results. So far I think we've done a pretty good job of getting ourselves out there and making ourselves seen and known.
But in general, the amount of touring is a lot these days, because there are almost no album sales, so you have to keep touring to present your music to people. So do you think playing the same music every night actually motivates you to write new material on a more regular basis?
No, I wouldn't say touring does that for me. I get motivated to write when I get motivated to write. It's not forced, and I don't have a schedule. It just kind of happens. The schedule that I'm on is not really a schedule, it's more a kind of cycle that occurs. It tends to work out by itself and I'm ready and hungry to start writing a new record about every two years. So that's the schedule that we've been on since about 2004, and I assume that will stay working like that. I don't like to force things, you know. If there was a 5-year window where I just never felt inspired to write a record, whether the label wants it or not, I'm not going to turn in a piece of garbage. I have to stand behind anything that we do that has the band's logo put on it.
Finally, what plans do you have for the rest of the year?
As of right now, there are no solid tour plans but there will definitely be a US and Canadian tour before the end of the year. We're just waiting for the right offer and the right group of bands to come together for it to work.


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Rep. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.), an ex-Gabrielle Giffords staffer who was shot in the same attack that wounded the former lawmaker, said Wednesday that she would personally be lobbying House members on gun control issues.
"She and Commander [Mark Kelly, her husband,] will be making visits to members of the Congress, and will be trying to — in a one-on-one relationship and meeting — lay out their case," Barber said on ABC News and Yahoo!'s "Topline."
"I think the most important thing, quite frankly, that their initiative is going to do is keep this issue alive," he added. "Because we know, with 24/7 news, everything breaks, and what we had yesterday is gone. And Sandy Hook will be forgotten in no time. Their effort, I think, to keep this issue alive in the public arena is very important, and I know that is a large part of what they want to do."
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Barber was Giffords' district director, and was elected to replace her in a special election before winning a full term in November.
Last week, Giffords and Kelly launched a super PAC, Americans for Responsible Solutions, designed to counter the NRA in the gun debate. The PAC hopes to raise $20 million by 2014.


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Things change. A lot. Especially my view about how I should be living my life. So, America, I'm sorry, but it's time to take a break. I'm heading back to New York State - another new town, but secure, stable, and certainly not stressful. I've decided that I need to refocus, recenter, and release. And although, I have opportunities to go elsewhere, like Hawaii, I think the best place for me is my mother's house.
I can't wait to show her how I've changed since I first left my home two years ago. I've gained a lot of experience interacting with people of all kinds from different parts of America, and what I've realized is that ultimately, everywhere I go, I love, I lose, and I leave. Now, I want to start thinking about staying in a place for longer than a quarter of a year at a time.
Living under Loreon's roof taught me many things, like how to keep my integrity even if others' fails. I almost slipped up, however. I had wanted a break (a well-deserved one), since I knew I was always pursuing Loreon's passions, instead of creating my own. I stopped counting my hours, hid in my room for a while, and then realized that it was time to go. I don't want to go back to work. I want to gain new skills and become more creative.
Instead of running out unnoticed, I left on a positive note. Last night, I celebrated with the Isis Oasis crew, thanking everyone for all the blessings I've received. I created a new family here, but now it's time to create better relations with the family I came from.
When I go back, I have many things to take with me, like new knowledge about physical and mental health that I've been able to put into practice so that I can continue such a lifestyle. I've learned how to be more careful when dealing with other people and their feelings. I've also learned that I am capable of giving my time to others, but I still need to balance it with time for myself.
I even received my first pair of wings, so no matter where I am, I don't have to feel restricted. I can take flight through dance. Regardless of how old I become, the child inside will always be able to come out and play!
I even received my first pair of wings, so no matter where I am, I don't have to feel restricted. I can take flight through dance. Regardless of how old I become, the child inside will always be able to come out and play!
And now I continue on my journey with my backpack, but with a new perspective. I will be looking for a place to settle, a place that suits me during all seasons, a place where I can form relationships that last. It seems I've been called to Israel, since that is where my roots are, so in January of 2012, I should be in the Middle East. I will see what that land has to offer me, and perhaps I will create a home. While at my mom's, I'll become certified to teach English as a foreign language, so I can pursue a cultural exchange with others from around the world to ultimately bring peace through understanding.Incidentally, this upcoming year will also be that of the Mayan calendar's end of time prophecy. What this means, I do not know. All I know is that I am now ending one cycle in my life to begin another, and it's all very exciting! This also means that I will be discontinuing my writing in this blog. But you can surely count on me ever-evolving and enjoying the life that I am leading so that I can inspire others to do the same. I've learned, most of all, that this is a beautiful world regardless of what the system is like. It's not about the system; it's about the people therein. Much love to all.


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EDITORIAL: Overcoming ogling
As the Crimson Tide were doing a tsunami number on the Fighting Irish in the national championship college football game, ESPN cast about for something to add a note of excitement to the broadcast.
The camera panned around and found it in the stands. There sat Tide quaterback A.J. McCarron's lady friend, Katherine Webb, Miss Alabama.
"Wow!" exclaimed broadcaster Brent Musburger. "Whoa!" No doubt millions of American males coast to coast echoed the sentiments, their eyes popping out as if on springs, like those cartoon characters do. Musburger went on to observe that quarterbacks seem to get all of the beautiful ladies. Seems true enough, judging by all evidence, ranging from today's Tom Brady to yesterday's Joe Namath.
But ESPN alertly anticipated trouble. In these days of ultra-sensitive PC, you can't be too careful. So ESPN issued a sort of pre-emptive apology in Musburger's behalf. Not sufficient. There was trouble anyway. Militant feminist websites and blogs took umbrage, as they're inclined to do. They went into their erupting-volcano mode. Miss Alabama herself seemed puzzled by the controversy. "For a woman to be called beautiful, I don't see how that's an issue," said she.
Maybe they don't offer courses in "women's studies" at Auburn, where she received her degree in business. The issue is "lookism," we're informed. Or "body fascism." That is, encouraging lascivious males (perhaps that's a redundancy) to indulge their superficial attitudes by regarding women's physical attributes as paramount. The feminist blogs tell us this is a persisting problem in our unrectified culture, a lingering vestige of the cave-man era.
Short of putting the Miss Alabamas in head-to-toe burqas Taliban-style, however, there seems to be about as much chance of reversing this nature-driven phenomenon as the Fighting Irish had of prevailing over the Tide.
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(Pocket-lint) - Before you get your hands on the Samsung Series 9 you know it's going to be thin and light, but it's only when you lift it out of the box you realise just how thin and how light it really is and how sleek it feels.
The first time you see it, you're also amazed by how Samsung has been able to fit in a surprising number of ports and connectors. The company has also managed to install a real processor to make a laptop that gives Apple, and every other PC maker, a run for their money.
The Series 9's brushed black metal case is so thin that it keeps surprising you every time you pick it up. The combination of sweeping curves on the chassis, rounded corners and thin projecting edges are breathtaking and impressive. Although it's less than 17mm thick, the Series 9 is very well built, there's no flex at all in the keyboard and you have to twist the screen with some determination to get it to flex. There's also thin rubber edging which protects the screen when closed from the ravages of dust and keys. The feather-weight 1.31kg - a hair lighter than the MacBook Air - and strength are down to the duralumin aluminium alloy once used to make the frame of airships and still common in aircraft.
The 13.3-inch 1366 x 768 resolution screen is thankfully matte, as is the generous palm rest; but the shiny screen and keyboard surround and wide curved hinge, which runs almost the full width of the screen, introduce distracting reflections in bright light. The design is clean and understated with indicator lights for Caps Lock and Wi-Fi embedded in their respective toggle buttons. All the other lights are gathered at the top right of the screen where you can see them.
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Even the power button is unusually sleek with the familiar power icon embossed onto the case itself. You might not use it much though, because a thoughtful design touch turns on the Series 9 automatically when you open the lid - a feature we've only seen on Sony laptops previously.
The isolated island-style keys have rounded corners and enough space between them for fast typing, and a comfortable, positive action. The spacebar and the bottom row of secondary keys are a little taller than the other keys and the Enter key is double height, but the inverted-T of arrow keys are really too small for comfort and we miss dedicated secondary navigation keys like Home and End. Leaving less annoying glossy space around the keyboard would have made room for them without cramping the main keys and it does feel a little like functionality has been sacrificed to design here.
The Series 9 has no media control keys at all, not even on the function key strip, which does have a more useful selection of secondary functions than many notebooks, from launching the handy utility control centre to turning off the touch pad and switching between Samsung's own power management modes and turning the subtle keyboard backlighting up and down.
The extra-large trackpad has no visible buttons at all, although the whole lower third is clickable. The touch surface is so responsive that it feels smoother than it actually is and the default settings are far too responsive, making the cursor fly around and randomly select objects in passing. Crank the sensitivity down a notch and you get an superb trackpad that's crammed with so many features it's quite confusing. Handy though, is the ability to pick and choose the features you want, from assigning a different command, to tapping in each of the four corners, to blocking clicks in certain areas of the trackpad.
Multitouch gestures include not just the usual two-finger scroll (excellent), pinch-zoom (delightfully responsive) and rotate (responsive if not necessarily that useful) plus a second "chiral" rotate gesture and the three finger press to launch an application (which works - not true on all touch pads). There's also a flick to scroll through photos. Swipe down and it minimises all your open windows, swipe up and it opens the 3D Aero task switcher so you can swipe a finger across the touch pad to choose the window you want. Even with this large a touch pad, getting four fingers in place can be a bit of a squeeze but the task switching gestures are great time savers; much faster than mousing down to the taskbar when you have a lot of apps open.
If you find the invisible buttons a problem for clicking accurately and you can't learn to tap the touch pad instead, you can use a two-finger press and hold gesture that's familiar from touch screens for right-click. You can also use a three-finger press to get the middle mouse button actions or customise it to something you find more useful, like, say, search.
With the dropped screen hinge and the knife-thin front edge, there doesn't seem to be room for any ports and the only ones visible are the security lock and the extra-small power jack. To go along with the tiny laptop, the usually chunky power brick is transformed into a much sleeker single-piece adapter.
Everything else is concealed in a snap-down, tilt-out flap at either side. These fit sleekly without any protrusions, but open easily when you hook your thumbnail in the gap. They seem exceptionally sturdy and are made of the same aluminium alloy as the rest of the latop. Even so it's a minimal and downsized selection of ports. There's just one USB port on each side, one of which is just USB 2.0 while the other is a USB 3.0 port, capable of charging devices even if the Series 9 is off.
The micro HDMI connector is one of the smallest we've seen and there's a microSD slot instead of a full size memory card (great for phones, annoying for cameras) and a single combined headphone and microphone jack.
Unlike the MacBook Air, the Series 9 has an Ethernet port; the case is physically too small for a standard port so it's a custom connector with an adapter - which is still better than the Air's USB to Ethernet converter because it doesn't take up a USB port or cost an extra £25. It should beat the Air for speed as well, as it's a gigabyte Ethernet connection rather than just 100Mb. Our only concern is that it appears to be routed through the USB bus as it doesn't seem to deliver full gigabyte speed in action. The Wi-Fi doesn't run power-hungry 5GHz connections, just the more common 2.4GHz 802.11n, but you do get Bluetooth 3.
Happily, this isn't a gussied up netbook in a fancy case hobbled by an Atom. The 1.4GHz Intel Core i5-2537M isn't the full speed Sandy Bridge that's in the Toshiba Portege either, but as the first Sandy Bridge ULV processor it combines good performance with decent battery life.
The integrated graphics isn't the most powerful system we've seen, especially when you're running in power-saving modes, but it does speed up GPU-accelerated software like recent browsers and copes beautifully with video.
With Wi-Fi on and streaming video or music continuously and background web browsing, you'll see a full 3 and a half hours of battery life; turn on battery saving options and Wi-Fi off and you'll see 5 hours or more.
The startup and shutdown speed is delightfully fast too, even with Norton poised to nag you once Windows is running. Shutting down takes somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds; it's so quick and uneventful that it feels like it just stops immediately. Cold boot is an impressive 15 seconds to the login screen and fast start on by default, which means that you open the lid from sleep and start working a few seconds later. A lot of that is down to the 128GB SSD, but having the system well configured to start with is also a huge win - you shouldn't have to tinker to get Windows 7 to deliver and here you don't.
Bundled software is almost uniformly useful: Office Start, Windows Live Essentials, Skype, CyberLink YouCam, even Samsung's AnyWeb print utility (for saving paper when you print from webpages and an unusually helpful utility control panel. Only Norton Internet Security and Online Backup will infuriate you with popups; you can ignore (or remove) the low-quality WildTangent games.
Sound and video
The screen is excellent; vivid and colourful without being over saturated. Contrast is excellent too, even in dark areas of images and you get both good viewing angles and stunning brightness. Streaming 1080p video online is crisp and shows outstanding detail,with fast-moving action sequences playing smoothly and fluidly. The detail on our referencee 720p test clip, streamed over Wi-Fi, was also excellent, and we liked the effect of the "movie colour" enhancement that kicks in automatically.
The sound is far better than you'd expect from an ultra-thin system like this. The speakers are tiny but they're on the sides of the case at the end of the palm rest, which gives good stereo separation, as well as putting them closer to your ears than many designs. This helps to give plenty of volume as well as avoiding the sound being muffled when the Series 9 is on your lap. Music is clear and full of detail with excellent, if slightly thin, treble and midrange; what you don't get is much bass (hardly surprising as there's no space in the case for resonance - plug in a pair of headphones and as well as avoiding being antisocial, you can enjoy bass so rich you ought to be able to feel it in your chest). The webcam is also unusually good; HD resolution with excellent, crisp detail and accurate colours, even in dark rooms.
The stunning design of the Series 9 is sleek, slim and sturdy all at the same time. It's amazing that Samsung can pack performance, battery power and the ports you actually need in, along with a great keyboard and screen, plus surprisingly good sound. The 3-year warranty makes this a PC that's good enough for business users (although beware, as not all of the first models released have a TPM chip).
So what's not to like? If you're a perfectionist, the keyboard could be better. The touch pad irritated us far too often and the price is undeniably high (though less than the chunkier ThinkPad X1). A system this thin makes compromises but we think Samsung has made all the right ones. If you fancy an Air but don't want OS X, the Series 9 is almost perfect.
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Andre Balog, who taught kosher cooking in New York City, adds a mixture of fresh green herbs this traditional French recipe. He considers this a symbolic Passover dish, since the Jews wandered for forty years in the desert before reaching the Promised Land. The garlic flavor is mild because the cloves are cooked whole. Be careful not to slice or otherwise damage the cloves; that releases an enzyme that produces the intense garlic flavor.
Jewish Hostess note: adding garlic to your Jewish holiday recipes also adds huge health benefits for all of your family members and guests.
- Garlic has been proven to reduce blood pressure,
- It's antibacterial effects can ward off a number of bacteria such as Listeria, Salmonella, E. coli, Cryptococcal meningitis, Candida albican and Staphylococcus. The problem with most antibiotics is that bacteria develops resistance to them, however this is not the case with garlic.
- Garlic naturally increases antioxidant enzymes in your blood and can help against the damaging effects of nicotine and slows the aging process of your liver .
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PALO ALTO, California and NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Inscopix, Inc. ("Inscopix") will announce the launch of nVista™ HD, an end-to-end solution for in vivo brain imaging in freely behaving mice, this weekend at Neuroscience 2012 (SfN). Based on a revolutionary miniature, integrated fluorescence microscope technology developed by Inscopix's founding team at Stanford University, nVista HD allows neuroscientists to stream live, high-definition videos of large-scale neural activity in awake, naturally behaving mice.
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"The nVista HD imaging platform for the first time provides neuroscientists with the ability to visualize and study the neural mechanisms that underlie behavior, and how those mechanisms go awry leading to behavioral deficits," said Inscopix CEO Dr. Kunal Ghosh. With nVista HD researchers can leverage standard rodent behavioral assays and concurrently image activity in hundreds of individual, genetically identified neurons. The platform offers neuroscientists unparalleled experimental flexibility and enables the pursuit of entirely new scientific paradigms. nVista HD is USB-compatible and designed to be plug-and-play – no large desktop system is needed and all the necessary hardware and software are included in one compact package.
Through Inscopix's Neuroscience Early Access Program (NEAP), a select number of neuroscientists will receive advance access to the first generation of nVista HD systems. One such early adopter is the Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) at Johns Hopkins University. "LIBD is excited to be among the first recipients of nVista HD. Our investigators are specifically interested in using the systems to study neural circuit mechanisms related to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia in mouse models of the disease," remarked Daniel Weinberger, M.D., Director and CEO of LIBD and a pioneer in the development of novel approaches for the study of brain diseases such as schizophrenia.
About Inscopix, Inc.
Inscopix is a pioneering provider of in vivo cellular imaging solutions. Inscopix's mission is to introduce a new dimension in neuroscience research to enable better clinical outcomes. With the nVista HD system, neuroscientists can now stream live, high definition videos of large-scale neural activity from the brain of an awake naturally behaving mouse. Data sets generated by nVista HD are unprecedented in scale and scope, and cannot be gathered by state-of-the-art imaging or electrophysiology recording techniques.
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TORONTO - Winnipeg general manager Joe Mack won't have to worry about the Blue Bombers opening the 2013 CFL season as road warriors.
Winnipeg kicks off the campaign hosting the Montreal Alouettes on June 27 at brand new Investors Group Field. Last year, Winnipeg had to play its first four games on the road while the stadium was being completed.
However, construction and weather delayed the opening until this year. That meant Winnipeg had to play its 2012 home games at Canad Inns Stadium.
The Bombers began last season 0-4 and never recovered, finishing last in the East Division with a league-worst 6-12 record. That came after Winnipeg finished atop the conference in 2011 and reached the Grey Cup game.
This year, Winnipeg will play three of its first five regular-season games at home.
"It's good to start at home," Mack said Tuesday. "That (opening 2012 on road) was really tough on our team and coaches and in that light I think it's going to be a much better situation for us.
"Bless the old lady's heart but Canad Inns had definitely seen better days. It's good for the players and coaches to have the extra room, an outstanding locker-room and bigger and better meeting rooms, all of which are big positives. While that doesn't equate into wins it certainly does help the overall atmosphere so I think that's a big plus."
The season opener will also be memorable for Montreal's Dan Hawkins, who'll make his head-coaching debut. Hawkins replaces Marc Trestman, who led the Alouettes to two Grey Cup titles over five seasons before becoming the head coach of the NFL's Chicago Bears.
Winnipeg actually makes its Investors Group Field debut June 12 with an exhibition game versus the Toronto Argonauts. Excessive crowd noise made it tough on opponents at Canad Inns and Mack hopes the Bombers' faithful gives his team a decided advantage at its new facility.
"The sightlines are outstanding and it's kind of like in a bowl so I think that's going to contain (crowd noise) along with the canopy," he said. "There's actually no dividing wall between the stands, field and concessions so people will still be able to watch while they're at the concessions which I think is a big plus.
"I'm going to suggest it's going to be as good a football stadium as there is in Canada. I think our fans will relate to that and we have to emphasize that but I think our fans will go bonkers over it.''
Defending Grey Cup-champion Toronto begins its title defence at Rogers Centre on June 28 against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The Ticats will have to endure watching their arch rivals receive their championship rings and raise their championship banner before the game.
The contest will mark the CFL return of Hamilton head coach/GM Kent Austin.
Austin led the Saskatchewan Roughriders to the '07 Grey Cup as their head coach. He left afterwards to become the offensive co-ordinator at Mississippi (his alma mater) then served as Cornell's head coach before joining the Ticats this off-season.
The B.C. Lions also visit the Calgary Stampeders on June 28 in a rematch of last year's West Division final. Saskatchewan is in Edmonton to face the Eskimos on June 29.
Hamilton plays its first regular-season home game at the University of Guelph on July 7 against Edmonton. The Ticats will call Alumni Stadium home while a new facility is being built to replace Ivor Wynne Stadium, which was demolished in December.
The Ticats will move into the new stadium for the 2014 season. Hamilton faces Winnipeg in an exhibition game at Guelph on June 20.
Other schedule highlights include:
— TSN will broadcast all CFL regular-season and playoff games, including the 101st Grey Cup in Regina on Nov. 24. RDS will carry all 18 of Montreal's regular-season contests and additional games on RDS2. Six of the eight exhibition contests will also be televised.
— Toronto will play an exhibition game at Varsity Stadium on June 20 against Montreal, the first CFL contest there in 55 years. Varsity Stadium hosted 30 Grey Cup games, including nine won by the Argos.
— B.C. will open its home schedule hosting Toronto on July 4 in what will be its 1,000th regular-season contest and 500th home game.
— Hamilton plays Montreal on Sept. 21 in Moncton, the third time in four years a CFL game will be played there.
— Edmonton hosts Montreal in the Hall of Fame game Oct. 5.
— The final four weeks of the regular season will feature divisional matchups only to enhance playoff runs.
— The league will again raise awareness for women's cancers with its CFL Pink initiative Oct. 18-20 and Oct. 24-26.
— Former B.C. slotback Geroy Simon, dealt Jan. 24 to Saskatchewan, returns to B.C. Place on Oct. 4. Simon, the CFL's career receiving yards leader, needs just 29 catches to break Ben Cahoon's all-time mark (1,017).
Toronto and Hamilton won't meet in their annual Labour Day showdown for the second time in three seasons.
Guelph hosts Windsor at Alumni Stadium on Monday Sept. 2. The Toronto Blue Jays conclude a series against Kansas City at Rogers Centre on Sept. 1 but the field can't be reconfigured to football in time.
B.C. will host Hamilton on Aug. 30 with the two teams meeting at Guelph on Sept. 7 while Toronto plays Montreal on Sept. 3 at Rogers Centre, then travels to Molson Stadium on Sept. 8.
But Hamilton will host Toronto in a Thanksgiving Day showdown Oct. 14.
The other two traditional Labour Day contests will be played as Saskatchewan hosts Winnipeg on Sept. 1 and Edmonton visits Calgary on Sept. 2. The Stampeders host the Eskimos on Sept. 6 with Riders playing the Bombers at Mosaic Stadium two days later.


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SAMMY HAGAR, MATT SORUM To Join Little Kids Rock's 10th-Anniversary Celebration At Facebook HQ
On Saturday, September 29, Sammy Hagar (CHICKENFOOT, VAN HALEN, MONTROSE) and Matt Sorum (VELVET REVOLVER, GUNS N' ROSES, THE CULT) will be at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California to support music education at the inaugural "Rock Their World Celebration", a fundraiser and celebration of national nonprofit Little Kids Rock's decade of service, restoring and revitalizing music education for disadvantaged public schools nationwide. More information on this event is available here.
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