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Amid crisis, Cuba plans revamp of state and legal system
HAVANA — In the midst of a regional crisis over Venezuela and tough economic straits, the Cuban government is about to launch a sweeping makeover of its centrally planned, single-party system with dozens of new laws that could reshape everything from criminal justice to the market economy.
Nearly a year of debate and discussion ended last month with the approval of Cuba's first constitutional reform since 1976. Some observers see the new constitution as a merely cosmetic update aimed at assuring one of the world's last communist systems won't get another revamp until long after the passing of its founding fathers, now in their late 80s and early 90s. Others see the potential for a slow-moving but deep set of changes that will speed the modernization of Cuba's economically stagnant authoritarian bureaucracy.
Cuban legal experts told The Associated Press that they expect the government to send the National Assembly between 60 and 80 new laws over the next two years to replace ones rendered obsolete by the new constitution. The assembly is virtually certain to unanimously approve all government proposals, as it has for decades.
"I expect to see big changes in Cuba with the new constitution," said Julio Antonio Fernandez, a constitutional law professor at the University of Havana. "A new state structure, a transformed political system, led by the Communist Party, of course, but different and confronting big challenges."
One of the first changes will be in Cuba's political system. Within five months, the government is required to pass a new electoral law that splits the roles of head of state and government between the current president and the new post of prime minister. A new set of governors will replace the Communist Party first secretaries as the highest official in Cuba's 15 provinces.
While the Communist Party remains the only permitted political group, the wording of the new constitution could allow voters to choose between various candidates rather than simply voting yes or no for a candidate pre-selected by a government commission, experts said.
A new business law could create a formal role for small- and medium-sized businesses. Until now, all private workers and employers are legally classified as "self-employed," leading to situations in which hundreds of thousands of "self-employed" waiters, cooks, maids, construction workers and janitors go to work each day for the "self-employed" owners of restaurants, bed-and-breakfasts and construction contractors.
Business owners hope legal recognition will bring them privileges like the right to import and export, now held only by state monopolies.
"There's a full-on effort to give life to the new constitution, to accompany it with laws so it doesn't become a dead letter," Homero Acosta, the secretary of the Cuba's Council of State and one of the key figures in the reform, said on state television this month.
A new family code is expected to address the issue of gay marriage, which was struck from the new constitution after popular resistance.
A new criminal code will for the first time create the right of habeas corpus, requiring the state to justify a citizens' detention, and give Cubans the right to know what information the government holds about them.
The revamped criminal law could also, experts said, contain stronger provisions against domestic violence, greater environmental protections and animal rights and create tougher punishments for government mismanagement and corruption.
Cuba's powerful military and intelligence ministries employ tens of thousands of agents and informants, control much of the economy and are often exempted from the rules governing civilian sectors of the government. Whether the Interior Ministry and Revolutionary Armed Forces will be subject to the new limits in the legal reform remains an open question.
Cuba is in its fourth year of expected zero to minimal growth, and the government feels increasingly threatened by the Trump administration's effort to overthrow Venezuela's Cuban-allied government as the first step in an offensive against socialist states throughout Latin America.
Only 78 percent of registered voters, some 6.8 million out of 8.7 million, said "yes" to the new constitution in a Feb. 24 referendum. That's a massive approval rate in any other country but relatively low for Cuba, where voters usually approve government proposals by margins well over 90 percent.
In this case, some 700,000 voted "no," while others abstained or filed marred or blank ballots.
That could put unusual pressure on the government to come up with new laws that win widespread public approval, rather than simply imposing new regulations after closed meetings of Communist Party and government leaders.
"The referendum showed that Cuba is a more politically diverse society than it often seems on the surface," constitutional lawyer Raudiel Pena said. "Now let's hope that lawmakers really take that into consideration."


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Another Reason To Buy A Cross Bike...
Posted by Bianchista on 22 Jul 2010
Labels: awesome, cyclocross, euro, fresh, gear, merchandise, pro, rapha, style
3 comments:
- Alex Murray said...
Where did you spot that? Is it Rapha USA rather than UK?
- 23 July 2010 at 08:36
- Bianchista said...
Hey Alex. yes its a new us cyclocross team.
think its for this season....
more info here > http://www.focus-bikes.com/us/en_us/news/focus-news/single-view/view/focus-and-rapha-join-forces-to-form-professional-cyclo-cross-team.html
- 23 July 2010 at 10:53
I thought this was the Rapha Speedvagen kit?, Focus eh... wonder if wiggle will stock the bike?
- 25 July 2010 at 11:51

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Antti Aarne, Germaine de Staël, Le Roman de Renart, motifs [folkloristics], Nationalism, Reynard, Stith Thompson, the Trickster
You may wish to read Renart's story in this fine article published by The New Yorker. Spelling Renart with a "d" is perfectly acceptable.
- Antti Aarne
- Stith Thompson (AT)
- Hans-Georg Üther (ATU)
Finnish folklorist Antti Aarne (5 December 1867 Pori – 2 February 1925 Helsinki) was the first scholar to classify folktales. In the 19th century, an interest in folklore had developed. The search for folktales was in fact initiated by the Brothers Grimm who travelled throughout German-language states and collected its folklore. Germany had yet to be unified and folktales were seen as an expression of nationality and an element that could lead to nationhood. Nationalism is an ideology that dominated 19th-century Europe and it is associated with the development of folkloristics.
Prussian leader Otto von Bismarck "engineered a series of wars that unified the German states," but he excluded Austria (see Otto von Bismarck, Wikipedia). In the early years of the 19th century, Madame de Staël had written De l'Allemagne, in which she described the people of German-language states. Germaine de Staël's effort and enthusiasm were considerable encouragement to the Brothers Grimm.
In short, as nationalism developed, so did an interest in folklore: folktales in particular, which may explain why Antti Aarne's started to classify folktales. He would be joined by American Stith Thompson (7 March 1885 – 10 January 1976). The Aarne-Thompson catalog was published in 1910 and was named the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature but, as Aarne-Thompson's classification evolved, indexical units larger than motifs were used. Scholar Hans-Georg Üther refined Aarne-Thompson's classification which is now entitled the Aarne-Thompson-Üther Classification Systems or Multilingual Folktale Database. However, motifs exist (see Motif [folkloristics]), as do narremes, the smallest meaningful units in a narrative (see Vladimir Propp, Wikipedia).
Three Motifs in Reynard the Fox
If you have read A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), you may remember that the little bear enters a house through an opening, but cannot get out through the same opening because he has eaten too much honey. We are entering the world of motifs. The Perry Index of Æsopic fables lists The Fox and the Weasle (24), La Fontaine's "La Belette entrée dans un grenier" (The Weasel in a Granary) (III.17). In this fable, the Belette is too fat to leave the granary the way she entered it. As we have seen, Finnish scholar Antti Aarne's first classification of folktales was a motif-index.
The tail fisher or severed tail
Le Roman de Renart/Aventure 9 – Wikisource (Fishing for eels through the ice)
Où l'on verra comment Renart conduisit son compère à la pêche aux anguilles.
Persuading Ysengrimus, the wolf, to fish with his tale hanging down a hole in the ice is one of Reinardus' worse tricks. The ice hardens and Ysengrimus' tale is caught. He loses it when he must escape the villains and dogs who are approaching. In the Ysengrimus, the wolf fishes with his tail, down a hole in the ice. Eventually, his tail gets caught in the ice and he loses it trying to escape from villains and dogs.
Jean de La Fontaine, also told the sorry fate of a tailless fox in a fable entitled "Le Renart ayant la queue coupée," The Fox with his Tail cut off (1.V.5). This tailless fox tries to persuade foxes in council to part with their own tail. He is asked to turn around so they can see what to expect. His mutilated body is repulsive, which could explain why foxes still have a tail. (Tailless Fox Tries in Vain to Get Foxes to Cut off Tails, ATU 64.)
We have also read a Cherokee fable entitled "How the Bear Lost its Tail," a Cherokee Fable (4 August 2015). Recurrence is a precious tool in literary criticism. (How the bear lost his tail, ATU 2.)
When Ysengrin is away being turned into a monk, Renart rapes Hersent, the wolf Isengrin's wife, when she is caught in a hole or aperture. Noble, the king, sends ambassadors to Maupertuis, Renart's domain, but the fox plays tricks. For instance, Renart asks Brun / Bruin the bear to put his nose in a slit in a log claiming that Brun will find honey inside. Renart then removes the wedges holding the slit open. Villagers are converging so, in order to escape, Bruin loses the skin off his nose, which he would rather do than lose his life. He returns to court. Wedges can be called coins. When one is stuck, one is coincé. The English idiom "it's no skin off my nose," might find its source in this episode.
Le Roman de Renart/Aventure 41 – Wikisource (Bruin's nose gets wedged in)
De l'arrivée de damp Brun à Maupertuis, et comment il ne trouva pas doux le miel que Renart lui fit goûter.
However, the main narrative is the rape of Hersent, Isengrin's wife, and the trial that ensues. (Reynard the bear at court, ATU 53)
Reynard's plea: feigned devotion (the faux dévot)
Le Roman de Renart/Aventure 55 – Wikisource (Renart talks himself out of a death sentence)
Comment Renart fut, par jugement des Pairs, condamné à être pendu. Comment il ne le fut pas, et comment il rentra dans Maupertuis.
Reynard the Fox played a role in the development of European jurisprudence. Reynard the Fox is also associated with Machiavelli's Prince. If the end, which may be survival, justifies the means, one lies, rapes and murders. Renart feigns devotion. He is an ancestor to Molière's Tartuffe, the ultimate casuiste, and has also been identified with Molière's Dom Juan. The manner in which he talks himself out of a death sentence is pure hypocrisy, but it is also the plea of a brilliant lawyer. Before, he is hanged, the fox must atone. He resembles the fox in the Sick Lion tale who has also been on a pilgrimage, which explains his tardy arrival at the Lion's court, Noble's court.
- Reynard the Fox, the Trickster (22 October 2011)
- Reynard the fox, the Itinerant (23 October 2011)
- Reynard the Fox, the Judgement (25 October 2011)
- It's no skin off my nose (6 October 2014)
Sources and Resources
- List of Literary Cycles Wikipedia
- Le Roman de Renart is a Wikisource publication FR
- Multilingual Folktale Database (ATU)
- How the bear lost his tail (ATU 2)
- The bear and the honey (ATU 49)
- Reynard the bear at court (ATU 53)
- Tailless Fox Tries in Vain to Get Foxes to Cut off Tails (ATU 64)
- Joan Acocella, "Fox News: What the stories of Reynard tell us about ourselves," The New Yorker (4 May 2015)
This post is the second of two posts on Reynard the Fox. Given its subject matter, motifs, it can be published independently of the first post. Should you need further information, please use Joan Acocella's article on Reynard the Fox. One cannot do better. The link to her article is immediately above this note.
Love to everyone ♥
Micheline Walker
2 April 2017


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CURRENT: LA Water Program
July 17, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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The Native Youth Multimedia Workshop has partnered with the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) of Los Angeles CURRENT: LA WATER PROGRAM.
This program teaches youth to write, direct, shoot and edit their own movies that will focus on the LA River environment!
Program Description
The Native Current: Multimedia Workshop is a filmmaking program designed to teach acting, writing, directing, camera operation, and video editing. In the workshop, participants will learn basic technical skills and gain hands-on experience by producing short documentaries, narratives and Public Service Announcements (PSA) about the LA River.
Schedule: The workshop will be held every Sunday starting July 17 – August 14, 2016. We will be meeting for 3 hours each day at the Griffen Park Water Fountain in Los Feliz, CA. Film projects produced in this program will be screened August 14, 2016, 8:30-10pm.
Schedule and time is as follows:
(Week 1) Sunday, July 17, 2016, 12-3pm
(Week 2) Sunday, July 24, 2016, 12-3pm
(Week 3) Sunday, July 31, 2016, 12-3pm
(Week 4) Sunday, August 7, 2016, 12-3pm
(Week 5) Sunday, August 14, 2016, 8:30-10pm (screening)
Workshop Location, Location Directions, and Parking Information:
3306 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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The program is free and open to youth ages 9-17 years old.
Our History:
Every year since 2009, the NATIVE YOUTH MULTI-MEDIA WORKSHOP has travelled to reservations throughout North America and Indigenous communities throughout the world to teach youth multimedia skills. The youth films from our workshops are shown at the LA SKINS FEST –this is a premier film festival for Native Americans in Los Angeles. The youth are invited to the film festival as special guests and are brought on tours of movie studios and television networks.
For information about the multimedia program, please email firstname.lastname@example.com


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I recently made my first fabric purchase in a loooong time, in the hopes that it will jump start progress on sewing some gifts for family and friends. There are two big projects I'm hoping to finish soon (I'll be real–most definitely not by Christmas)–a table runner for our home, with my favorite designer's fabric on one side (Alison Glass) and my husband's favorite designer's fabric on the other side (Libs Elliott). The Alison Glass side of the table runner is about half finished and uses her new Seventy Six and Insignia fabric lines, and I'll share more about that soon.
I ordered quarter yards of much of Libs' True Love fabric line, with half yards of my favorites, since my husband has also requested Libs Elliott pillows. It's honestly pretty fun that my computer programmer husband has a favorite fabric designer, and it seems fitting that Libs is his favorite since Libs' tag line is "Making digital code into physical quilts". Perfect match.
I had my usual helper, who was quite eager to jump on the fabric. That's true love for ya! Such a helper!
I also ordered an ocean gradient of Kona cotton solids by Robert Kaufman Fabrics for a baby quilt I plan to make for my dear friend's new(ish) baby boy (here's the quilt I made for their daughter, years ago). They requested an underwater ocean themed quilt, so the Kona solids will be the perfect base. I ordered these fabrics from Fabric Depot since their extensive stock of Kona colors and ability to order 1/4 yards made it an easy choice. Neither of my local quilt shops stocked what I needed, but of course I checked them first.
I plan to use the Range Quilt by Nicole at Modern Handcraft as the base, and then applique some free-drawn sea creatures on top in bright orange. Nicole includes the specific Kona colors for a number of different color gradient options for Range, which is so super helpful! I used her palette as a base, and switched up a few of the lighter colors to keep the blue throughout, ending up with (from dark to light): Kona Storm, Prussian, Royal, Malibu, Water, Niagara, Bahama Blue, and Baby Blue, with the orange pop of Persimmon. I very well may add a darker orange for more detail once I get to the applique part, but first up is piecing the top!
Here's a peek at my helper, since he's just so adorable. I promise I am going to work on piecing his quilt top soon, too!
I'm linking up with Molli's Sunday Stash (shhh I know it's Monday), and hope to jump on his train a bit more in the coming weeks. I don't have a whole lot of stash additions, but I do have a few fun tools and fabric bits that have been partying in my stash and have yet to be shared here.


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It is easier to understand if you refer to it as the First Covemant and the Second Covenant. The books of the Old Testament were the First Covenant. The Covenant of Moses, Abraham, God, and His people with the promise of the Arc and the guidance of the Ten Commandments.
The Second Covenant was the coming of Christ. The New Testament.
And the Old Testament is not complete. There are still stories and writings buried somewhere in the Earth. It is a Living Bible. As is the New Testament. The New Testament is a simple message. The message of love. At a time when all was Barbarians and Romans killing each other.
So the Second Covenant was a message of love. Whereas the First Covenant (the Ten Commandments) were strict guidelines of behaviour, the Second Covenant was not so much strict guidelines, as it was a much broader guidance to live by.
Reading more of the texts excluded at The Council of Nicaea, we find the true secondary message of the Second Covenant. This was a most recent Epiphany for me (the second major Epiphany in a decade or so). This is also where all three churches have been lying to everyone for thousands of years now. Including Islam, which although a much more recent belief system, is based on both the Old and New Testament.
Women were an essential force in the Ministry of Christ. The Church Council buried this fact in their male dominated Saviour concept. Women were relegated to second string. As they had been in much of Talmudic and Judaic Law. And certainly are in Islamic practice. As well as in Hindi beliefs
The male/female identity of God is accepted in Hindi, but not so much in others. Mary Magdalene was an Apostle of the Teachings of Christ. The Teaching she received from Christ was not shared with the other Apostles. See this allegorically if you must.
After Christ died, her mission was to reveal the Teaching to the Apostles. None of the Apostles believed Christ had revealed a distinct message to her which they themselves did not receive. One of the Apostles spoke up for her and asked the others to hear her out. There is an important Teaching in this also.
The most important Teaching of course was love. But the New Testament (as it is now) and the Church, focus on the redemption of original sin and the miracle of the Resurrection after death. Hence, Christ as the Saviour of our souls and the promise of eternal life.
On these two points they seemed to have confuscated the message. Christ's message of love IS the redemption. Live by the message of love and you have fulfilled the Second Covenant (the New Testament). The Old Testament was still important, but the message of the New Covenant had precedence because it was all the more inclusive.
The Council of Nicaea put a chokehold on Christianity that is still held taut by most Christian sects. Confession, Resurrection after death, eternal life through redemption . . . all are based on Church Doctrine, not so much on the Spiritual Teachings of love.
Redemption and Resurrection are actually Buddhist and Hindi Teachings, as well as present in other ancient belief systems. Reincarnation.
The message Mary Magdalene was given by Christ to share with the apostles after his death was much less complex. In so many ways just as important as the message of love. In fact, they are inexorably entwined.
It had little to do with Confession, redemption or Resurrection. All are submissive Church Doctrines.
Her message was to learn to teach others how to teach enlightenment.


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I just finished my first install of Pluto hybrid. The install appeared to go ok. I can access the web admin but I am unable to connect to the Samba shares. I can see Pluto in Network Neighborhood and I have tried manually mapping but no luck. The connection just times out. I have tried connecting from XP, Win2K and Win2k3. Any ideas what I need to do?


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There is no literary connection between the torah reading of Pinchas and the designated haftarah- the connection is instead calendrical as this week we begin the cycle of haftarot that will take us to Tisha b'Av, the blackest day of our calendar – and from there to Rosh Hashanah, the day of our judgment and the new year.
The three shabbatot before Tisha b'Av each have a traditional special haftarah reading that deals with the punishment that will befall the people who forget the God of the covenant. They are known as t'lat d'fur'anuta' the "three of affliction" or of rebuke. As we enter the first of the three, which signal not only the coming remembrance of the cataclysm that was Tisha b'Av, but also that we are on the run up now to Rosh Hashanah, we are provided with a good deal of food for thought as we must begin to measure ourselves and our lives, to try to comprehend the circumstances and environment in which we are living.
The prophet Jeremiah lived at the end of the 7th century BCE. The Northern Kingdom had been destroyed and its inhabitants dispersed and lost. Judah, the Southern Kingdom, was in danger of the same fate. Jeremiah recognised this, and he offered both despair and hope in his prophecy. The religious and social conditions of the time were not good – idolatry was rife, and Josiah's reforms were partial and weak, and did not survive long after Josiah's death. People were disconnected from the source of their religious traditions to the point where they even felt that the misfortunes of their country could have been caused by their not offering incense to other gods during the time of Josiah's reforms. It is likely that there were even human sacrifices being offered at this time, justified as being a return to the true religion, a perversion of Judaism that appalled Jeremiah.
People were being stigmatized as being treacherous; they could not trust one another or build up strong relationships. Social injustice existed on all levels of society, and was barely even noted, so ordinary had it become to mistreat the poor in society. The world of Jeremiah is one we might recognise today, society breaking down, all kinds of fantasies floated as if they might be genuine, fake news and loss of trust in the leadership.
And what does Jeremiah talk about? He talks about contract, about the covenant that the Jews have with God, about how there is a special obligation of loyalty upon Israel, and that even if Israel does not offer this loyalty, even if destruction follows, the curious truth is that the special relationship between God and the Jews, implied by the covenant, will not be broken. In all of the despair he shines an odd ray of hope.
It is a strange conception that we have an unbreakable contract of obligation to God. It is almost impossible for us to imagine an agreement which, even if broken on both sides, remains binding. And yet it is at the heart of our history, it is our raison d'être and our aspiration. A Jew cannot repudiate the covenant for all time, even if we appear to despise it or ignore it. The obligation and the special relationship remain in place. I am reminded of the perennial Jewish complaint to God- "We realise that we are the chosen people, but can't you just go and choose someone else for a change". The answer, of course, is "even if I do, it doesn't preclude Me from continuing to choose you!"
Reading Jeremiah is to know that we have an inescapable destiny. The folkloric Yiddish form – that something is bashert, that something is meant to happen in the grand scheme of things – has probably helped the Jewish people to get through all manner of crises. Yet Jeremiah, for all his despair at what is going on around him, is paradoxically aware both of a kind of predestination and of the critical importance that free will will have in any outcome – he is prophesying about the impact of the individual's choices. He begins his prophecy in a way that shows he believed he had been called with by God: "before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations"
Jeremiah develops the twin concepts of predestination and free will. He rails at the people precisely because he knows that their chosen behaviour is dangerous and wrong, but that they can choose to behave a different way and different outcomes will occur. Predestination is not the same as determinism. As Mishnah Pirkei Avot comments: All may be foreseen, but freedom of choice is given" or as Mishnah Berachot frames it "everything is in the hands of heaven except the fear of heaven": That is, whatever God may or may not perceive, it doesn't have to mean that it will necessarily happen. Unlike the covenant which binds us eternally however many times we may break it, we do have the power to escape what may seem to be our destiny – even a small change in behaviour can lead to a massive change in outcome. It is in our hands to shape our lives.
Medieval philosophers understood this well. Maimonides comments that we enter the world with a variety of propensities and possibilities, but what use is made of them is our own doing. Modern science has come to the same conclusion – we may be able to map out a whole variety of genes, but we still can't guarantee our predictions about the bearers of those genes – even genetically identical twins can live completely different lives.
We read the 3 haftarot of rebuke and affliction every year in the 3 weeks before we commemorate the anniversary of the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples. We can't undo the history, but we can listen to the message – we know what is required of us, we know the likely outcome of our ignoring what God requires of us, we can change the future.
After Tisha b'Av our liturgical tradition decrees that there come 7 haftarot of consolation – more than double the words of warning and pain – a perfect number of weeks of grieving and moving on. From this Shabbat until Rosh Hashanah there are ten weeks of preparation, mirroring the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when the work we do from this period will intensify in urgency and feeling. The liturgical calendar is being carefully patterned and manipulated to encourage us on a religious journey towards new beginnings. The message is being hammered home – the covenant may be ignored or unfulfilled but it has not broken, we remain obliged to our relationship with God. Our future is foreseen in all its possibilities but we remain in charge of what will actually be – we have the choice to behave well, and if we choose not to do so we are well aware of the consequences. But even the consequences, dire as they may be, never rule out the possibility of change, of, to use a very old fashioned word – redemption. From the reading of the first haftarah of affliction until Rosh Hashanah we have ten weeks – the clock is ticking and, as we read in Pirkei Avot, "the work is great and the Master of the House is waiting."


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When going vegan, or trying to eat more plant-based it seems daunting to give up cheese… it's so creamy, rich, and delicious. But dairy is filled with saturated fat, cholesterol, milk proteins (which have been shown to be linked to all different types of cancers), and can cause inflammation all throughout the body. I came up with the perfect recipe to replace all your dairy-filled cheesey cream sauces. This cashew cream sauce is not only an amazing alternative to dairy cheese sauces, but it's also packed with nutrients that are good for you!
Soaking the cashews helps to soften them and break them down so they can be digested better as well as blend more easily. I used raw cashews, but you can use roasted if that is the only option available to you. Cashews can be found in most bulk sections of the grocery store, as well as packaged with the nuts and seeds. They contain healthy fats that are unsaturated, and are also packed with selenium, vitamin K, magnesium, and iron.
Cashews are neutral in flavor which makes this sauce the perfect base for lots of recipes!


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Just thought I'd drop a quick "blog turd" to get another hit from Google.
Long story short(ish): had a victim of some type of Russian malware, likely a password stealing bank Trojan. The anti-virus was clueless. Found one suspect DLL, deleted it, and another (the title of this post) appeared to take its place. When I went to Google the name of this DLL, Google had nothing. So I thought I'd take advantage of that as long as they came up with blanks.
This was a few days ago. The situation hasn't changed.
There was some silly ASCII stuff inside the DLL, very similar to stuff I found in the first DLL. I will share it with you here...
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So there you have it. Not sure what the point is, but the "pencil egg" theme, "thing lips", and "Andy" were in the first DLL as well. Before you go and make a firewall rule with this data, be advised I don't know if this is the malware itself or part of the payload. I don't have a full forensic environment (I work for Cheap Bastards), so studying it in depth was out of the question. I opted to "nuke and forget", but I did keep both DLLs, just to see how long it will take for the AV companies to catch up.
"Flasad" could be construed to be a corruption of "Flash Ad". Something had to download it to replace the original one that got deleted, so it's not 100% of the infection. But I did find the text amusing, so there you have it.
Let me know if you got infected by this bug. Drop a note and we'll compare results.
This bugger was finally detected today as "Generic PWS.y!1e3" by an AV vendor who will remain nameless.
So I was right. It was a password Trojan.
I'm never wrong. And when I am I delete that post anyway so there's no proof.


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The largest, oldest children's film festival in the country is coming to Dallas' Angelika Theatre January 21 – 22. The 28th Annual KidFilm Festival features entertaining, educational, and diverse lineup of both classic and new films for kids and adults.
KidFilm Festival attendees can expect Free books by award-winning author Peter Brown (who will be on location), creator of books like "Chowder", "The Curious Garden" and "Children Make Terrible Pets". At this year's KidFilm Festival movie-lovers will also get a sneak peak of Dr. Seuss' The Lorax. In fact the Lorax character will be making a guest appearance and kids can have their picture taken with Lorax. A special preview of the brand new film The Secret World of Arrietty and the 80's classic Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind are just two of the 11 titles featured in a retrospective tribute to Studio Ghibili all presented in new 35mm prints.
Tickets for the 2012 KidFilm Festival are $5 ($4 for USA Film Festival members). Admission to the "Books Come to Life on the Big Screen" program featuring author Peter Brown and the Lorax is free , but it's on a first-come, first-serve basis on the day of the show so get there early! Tickets to the Pete Brown program cannot be purchased in advance. However, advance tickets are available for the Studio Ghibili films by e-mailing email@example.com or calling 214-821-6300. Tickets can be bought at Angelika Film Center on the days of (Sat & Sun) starting at 11:30am.
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Reader Dave hit up the old inbox this morning and passed along a few pictures of currently suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton tickling the ivories at the House of Blues in New Orleans last night. Per Dave:
Was at a Grace Potter and the Nocturnals concert last night at New Orleans House of Blues after a day at Jazzfest. Place was rocking for two straight hours. For their last song, they brought out Warren Haynes from The Allman Brothers to play guitar on an Allman Bros song. Was pretty cool.
Then, right after the song started, some guy walks on to stage unannounced and sits down at the keyboard. Sean Payton. Attached are a few photos of him at the keys and one fo Grace Potter at the same keys.
Sounds pretty cool. Unfortunately Dave did not send any audio of the songs. If anyone does have audio, let us know. We'd have no problem paying a little extra for some illegally recorded hits.
Update: Here's video of the performance courtesy of Hidden Track.


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This story is in my new book ROLLING THUNDER THE ART OF DAVE DORMAN, but I wanted to share this art with you in honor of October, my birthday month and everyone's favorite month for horror.
A few years back, my business partner Stephen D. Smith, formerly the Editor-in-Chief of the well respected MonsterScene magazine and an authority on haunted and theme park attractions, was asked to come up with a cool haunt idea for Florida's Busch Gardens. We talked it over and knowing they had an asylum aspect to their haunt, we came up with this really fun character named DEMENTIA. Unfortunately Busch Gardens' focus groups deemed our character– and her back story of being physically and emotionally destroyed by an uprising in the asylum– way too scary. So without further adieu, I introduce you to our beloved DEMENTIA. If there are any producers out there reading this, we have a wonderful story and we would love to see this in film one day from someone like Ghost House Pictures, whom we know does horror right.
And here she is below, fully rendered. I was so passionate about this piece, I completed it in just 24 hours. There's nothing I love doing more than creature, character and costume design. The backwards 13 in her forehead is the result of DEMENTIA getting her head smashed into the door of inmate room #13.
In other pop culture news, I picked up American Vampire yesterday at the comic book store in Schaumburg, IL. Denise and I are fighting over who reads it first. Only one of the two stories is actually Stephen King writing, which I think is confusing to many who think they are buying a solely Stephen King graphic novel. Still, it looks to be a lot of fun. Speaking of fun, I saw Resident Evil Afterlife in 3D the other day – have you all seen it? If so, share with me here what you thought of it.
If you get a chance, please check out my passion project, Project 52 – http://www.indiegogo.com/Project-52. I'm working towards my goal of $52,000 to make this happen for USACares.org. If you can give even $5, that guarantees you or the person you designate is mentioned in my new book. I would love to see you in there. My thanks to all who have already generous contributed and gotten us to the $2710 mark in just a few days!
Thanks for reading,


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An Autocratic Approach to Music Copyright?:A Frank Zappa case study
I have been aware for a number of years that there has been a legal battle between Gail Zappa, head of the 'Zappa Family Trust', and the so called 'tribute' bands that are determined to continue performing his music live. … Continue reading
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When it was time for Tin Man to celebrate his 60th Birthday there was no hesitation as to where the event would take place……..The Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Colombia. After a brief stay in Seattle, it was time to take the ferry over to Victoria Island….
………and then after a peaceful voyage, we arrived and our beautiful Empress Hotel…..the Edwardian, château-style hotel was designed by Francis Rattenbury for Canadian Pacific Hotels as a terminus hotel for Canadian Pacific's steamship line, whose main terminal was just a block away. The hotel was to serve businesspeople and visitors to Victoria, but later as Canadian Pacific ceased its passenger services to the city, the hotel was successfully remarketed as a resort to tourists. Victoria emerged as a tourist destination beginning in the mid-to-late 1920s.
The hotel was built between 1904 and 1908, opening for service in that year. Additional wings were added between 1909 and 1914, and in 1928.
During this time, The Empress (as it was known then) played hostess to kings, queens, movie stars and many famous people.
In 1919, Edward, Prince of Wales waltzed into the dawn in its Crystal Ballroom – an event considered by Victorians to be of such importance that almost 50 years later, the obituaries of elderly ladies would appear under headlines such as, 'Mrs. Thornley-Hall Dies. Prince of Wales Singled Her Out.'
In the 1930s, Shirley Temple arrived accompanied by her parents amid rumors that she had fled from California because of kidnapping threats, a story borne from the presence of two huge bodyguards who took the room opposite hers and always left their door open.
On May 30, 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth attended a luncheon at the Empress, as guests of the Provincial Government.
For many years the hotel did not have a sign above the front entrance. The strong emotions the hotel evoked in Victorians and its guests and protectors is exemplified in the statement made by an irate gentleman, as workers raised the sign above the front entrance:
'Anyone who doesn't know this is The Empress shouldn't be staying here.'
The hotel has received several accolades including Travel + Leisure Best Hotels of the World and recognized on Conde Nast Gold List. The hotel became Victoria's first Five Green Key hotel as acknowledged by the Hotel Association of Canada for sustainability practices.
The Tin Man booked a Fairmont Gold Two Bedroom – Two Bath Suite at The Empress, as it was to be a grand celebration….
The Suite faced the harbor and as it went around the corner also faced the Government Buildings…..Marvelous views….The Tin Man could often been seen at the window waving to tourists below as if he were English Royalty…
The Gold Level Suite provided a lovely lounge in which Tin Man relaxed everyday and had a delightful breakfast…..
With Beautiful Views of the Harbor…and occasionally a visitor……..
In the Afternoon, Tin Man enjoyed Tea in the Lounge……never leaving the Gold Floor to explore for the first several days……
The Morning of his 60th Birthday, Tin Man was awakened by the doorbell and a bellman delivered a most beautiful gift, a Fairmont Robe, monogrammed in gold with Tin Man's initials………….
The Tin Man scampered down the hall to enjoy breakfast in the lounge
…..upon return ……look at the most delightful gift left in his suite….
The Afternoon of his Birthday, Tin Man decided it was time to leave the floor and explore the hotel…….but first….
Yes, that is correct, time for the Formal Afternoon Tea, served in the Tea Room of the Hotel….
A time honoured tradition for over a century, the world renowned tea lobby of Fairmont Empress has served England's most beloved ritual and Victoria's grandest tradition of Afternoon Tea to famed royalty, celebrities and dignitaries alike.
Surrounded by rich chintz fabrics, antiqued tapestries and rugs, elegant wing back chairs, vintage furnishings and hand-carved tables, the picturesque backdrop of the Inner Harbour provides the quintessential Victoria experience to all who grace Afternoon Tea.
Chef and Team prepare house-made signature Empress scones, delectable pastries and tea sweets daily, reflecting locally sourced ingredients to ensure an authentically memorable experience.
From the original blend of The Empress Tea created specifically for Fairmont Empress, served in dainty William Edwards china and sterling silver service to the enchanting ambiance of the live piano
After Tea, a walk about the Hotel and Grounds….
Oh …….the most beautiful Flowers…..
Attached to The Empress is the Victoria Conference Center….oh beautiful architecture….
The Empress holds many charms to behold….
Pure Magical Delight…..a most marvelous adventure.
The Staff of The Empress was over-the-top attentive and worked to ensure that everything was perfect.
Duane LaChance, the Concierge Gold Manager, was absolutely incredible and made this a most memorable stay.
So, it was time to enjoy the last beautiful sunset from our suite and continue our adventure…..


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I'm incredibly excited to be debuting my first SPONSORED ink review! The ink for this review was graciously provided by JetPens.com. This particular ink is a very bright, happy light(ish) green with good shading and consistent performance. You can find it for sale on JetPens.com, right here.
Here are some comparisons with other green inks:
And some not so green (disregard the typo about blue ink):
And on some common papers:
And lastly, the torture tests. Though it fought admirably against acetone and alcohol, it didn't fair well at all against water and ammonia (and, of course, bleach obliterated it, but that's hardly uncommon for most inks). The faint writing on the bottom of the page reads "Ten Minute Soak". Obviously this ink wasn't meant for Seattle.
So, if I had to nitpick, what would I change about it?
Well, I'm a big sheen fan, so obviously I'd love it to have more of that, but the fact that it doesn't isn't a negative in and of itself. I have found that, with the exception of their iron gall inks, Rohrer & Klingner inks seem to be more prone to feathering than most other "up market" inks, even on Rhodia. Feathering is one thing, but bleedout just annoys the heck out of me (see the "Brause" sample). Again, this seems pretty common with R&K inks.
I like to again thank JetPens for making this review possible! I've been a loyal customer of theirs for years, and in fact my very first bottle of fountain ink was purchased from them—J. Herbin Vert Réséda (along with several Brause nibs that thoroughly annoyed me until I figured out how to play them like Charlie Daniels plays his fiddle). I don't take recommending online shops lightly, and there are few that I will do business with on a regular basis, and JetPens has been one of those, years before I was contacted about a sponsored review. 🙂


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Iran said on Monday that the attack on its Oil Ministry was carried out by U.S. hackers, citing the results of internal investigations.
The new information comes to light after a New York Times report, excerpting a book written by one of their reporters, said that the Obama administration was behind the Stuxnet attack that crippled an Iranian nuclear power plant.
Last month, senior officials within Iran's Oil Ministry said that they had determined the attacker's agenda after the cyberattack in April. At the time, they would not disclose any information citing ongoing investigations. However, all of that seems to have changed now that the cat is out of the bag on Stuxnet.
Seyed Kamal Hadianfar, who is the head of Information Production and Exchange Department of the Law Enforcement Police General, told state media (FARS) over the weekend that "2 American IPs were identified in the attack against the oil ministry."
Hadianfar said that the U.S. should disclose the assignment records for the addresses, so that his country can identify them and file a lawsuit.
According to reports, the alleged U.S.-based attackers failed to penetrate the oil ministry's network with a virus during the April attack, which was initiated in order to steal or destroy critical information.
Deputy Oil Minister Hamdollah Mohammadnejad told FARS "those who design and develop such viruses are pursuing specific goals."
Monday's report made no mention of Stuxnet directly, though earlier reports from the AFP compared to two attacks on equal footing.
Earlier in March, Iran announced plans to strengthen its cyber security measures with the establishment of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace. The council, state media reported, would "establish the National Center for Cyberspace that will allow gaining complete knowledge about the activities in cyberspace on domestic and international scales…"
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Nokia's latest advanced feature phone, the Asha 210, comes with a physical key to access WhatsApp messaging, as well as software clients for Twitter and Facebook.
The launch of the new member of the Asha family follows Nokia's announcement last week that sales of its mobile phones in the first quarter had dropped by 21 percent year on year, to 55.8 million units. As smartphone sales slowed, sales of more basic mobile phones had helped keep Nokia afloat.
To turn around its fortunes the company is working on upgrading its line-up, and the Asha 210 is latest phone to arrive. It has a 2.4-inch screen, a 2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and a QWERTY keyboard. There are physical keys for both the camera and the Wi-Fi connection.
But it is the integration with social networks that Nokia hopes will help set the phone apart in a segment of the market that is getting increasingly competitive. Just below the Asha 210's screen is a dedicated WhatsApp button that users can click on to start chatting with other users of the cross-platform mobile messaging app. WhatsApp is also integrated with the phonebook.
This isn't the first time Nokia has added a physical button to provide better integration with a social network. At the end of last year Nokia launched the Asha 205, which has a dedicated Facebook button.
In addition to WhatsApp, the Asha 210 also has support for Facebook, Twitter and email services such as Gmail.
The Nokia Asha 210 is available in yellow, cyan, black, magenta, and white. The estimated retail price for the Asha 210 will be $72 and the phone is expected to start shipping before the end of this quarter.
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10 new years resolutions to make you a better multimedia journalist
What will 2010 bring?
It's sure to be an eventful year in journalism and multimedia and I've already spelled out a few of my predictions for the year. But how can you prepare yourself for all the twists and turns? If you've already given up smoking, joined the gym and don't need to loose any weight, here are 10 resolutions to make you a better multimedia journalist in 2010.
01. Learn a new web skill
You can't live in fear of code, CMS, templates 'and all that geeky stuff' any longer: if you don't know a bit of HTML the other 50 people going for your dream job will. Or maybe only one of them will, it doesn't matter, they'll still probably get the job.
There are two myths about learning web languages: 01. it's really difficult; 02. it costs money. They're both false.
Learning any of the basic web languages is both relatively easy and free. You can fork out £40/$60 on "HTML for Dummies" if you want but it's not necessary. I've just spent a few hours over Christmas lounging on the sofa teaching myself Javascript on my laptop.
If you're still not convinced, think about this: society is moving increasingly online and news definitely is. How much of a handicap is it to be unable to speak the language of the web? It's like moving to France without knowing a jot of French. And then trying to get a job on Le Monde.
Four things you can learn:
- Javascript
- J-Query
02. Read up on business
I've said several times in recent articles and videos, as have many others, there is potential for journalists to employ business skills to create small, nimble journalistic ventures which return a profit. Even if most balk at that idea, multimedia journalists – especially freelancers – should tool up on business skills to maximise their profits.
Again, don't be scared off by the unfamiliarity of the subject. Use the New Year to grasp the nettle and dive straight in. I've been reading lots of business books over the last three months, investigating how journalists can employ business knowledge in a news environment. The results will appear in a new e-book here in the spring.
In the meantime, study successful business people and find out how they made it work. And remember this, the most successful businesspeople often come from non-business backgrounds:
- Richard Branson (him off Virgin) left school with few qualifications. Despite being dyslexic, he set up his own magazine.
- Duncan Bannatyne (off that there Dragons Den) was a beach bum until he turned 30, when he started selling ice-cream, now he's worth more than £100m.
03. Make audio slideshows
If you haven't made any audio slideshows yet, pledge to make at least one in 2010. They're great because they're relatively quick and cheap to make (a second-hand SLR and audio recorder could set you back perhaps £300; Soundslide software is just £50) and the results can be stunning.
They're also removed of the production distractions of shooting videos, so you can focus on telling a great story.
The weekend audio slideshow challenge:
- Got a free weekend on the horizon? Start thinking of story ideas near you. All you need is one or more people to interview, and a setting with the opportunity for great photographs and great sounds. Set it up. On Saturday morning go and record the story and take lots of pics.
- On Sunday morning go through your material and craft it into a story on paper. Then edit the audio together using Audacity (free software) and create a slideshow in Soundslide.
- Sleep on the results, and after making changes, upload the final piece on Monday morning. Use social networks like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to share it. And you could even try to pitch it to a paper.
- Repeat as many weekends as possible.
04. Learn a new design skill
I think New Years Resolutions should be about learning new things, not prohibiting things (can you tell?). Here's another.
A journalist with a great visual eye makes for a good multimedia storyteller. Composition, colour are really important, especially if you're working in video or photography. But there will be more calls for interactive designers in the future. People who can create stunning data visualisations using Java and design software.
If none of the resolutions appeal to you so far, think about learning how to use Photoshop (or even cheaper, its open source equivalent GIMP); of how about Illustrator or DreamWeaver? And start bringing in some design blogs into your blog reader. I gave some suggestions in my best of the blogs post.
Join a network like Deviant Art or Behance to show off your work.
05. Pick up a microphone
This is an appeal to make 2010 the year you take audio seriously. If you're shooting video or audio slideshows, audio is half of the magic, and coming back with poor sound quality shouldn't be acceptable.
Spend some money on a decent microphone and spend some time learning how to use it properly.
6×6: audio
In my e-book "6×6 skills for multimedia journalists" I devote a chapter to getting good audio. Click here to download it.
06. Have personal projects
Life shouldn't be all work, work, work – even if we are lucky enough to call journalism our job. Devote time to personal creative projects. They're a fantastic way to keep your creativity vitalised.
Make it the part of journalism you love the most – writing maybe, or shooting video, or designing graphics…and give yourself a project just for the hell of it. It'll keep you in a happy place I promise.
Ideas for personal projects
- Create a tumblr account and use it to post your own creative bits and pieces
- Start writing that novel or screenplay. Go on, just write the thing!
- Design a new range of awesome posters
- Create an audio portrait of an interesting area or neighbourhood over the space of 6 months
- Start creating blogazines instead of boring old blog posts
07. Aim to double your blog readership or website hit rate
Challenge yourself to create a website that really sells you and gives value to readers. The key, as all the blogging mavens tell you, is creating great content. Make 2010 the year you stop posting funny videos or rants about something you read in the paper, and focus your content.
What value can you share with other people? What do you know about that other people will want to know about it? If you're a journalist, there's a good chance there's something you can share.
This very post is a good example. I was close to writing a "my goals for 2010" post, and bore you all with my plans for next year. Then I thought I could add much more value to your day by coming up with this list.
08. Devote time to storytelling
One of the things I learned in 2009 was about the importance of storytelling, how most storytelling nowadays is crap, how many of us think it's something we're born with or that it's easy.
Storytelling is in fact a craft in itself: choosing the characters, developing a narrative, conflict and climax. Take time in 2010 to learn more about this mysterious and under-appreciated art. A good place to start would be to get hold of a copy of Robert McKee's excellent book Story. He's been quoted all over this blog in 2009.
09. Collaborate and hookup
One of my aims for 2010 is to collaborate more. Teaming up with other people, especially those who have strengths where you have weaknesses is really fulfilling. Collaborating also gives projects a better chance of getting funding and of getting finished. So don't go it alone in 2010.
At the same time, talk to more journalists, and collaborate on ideas for the future of news. More than 150 people have joined the Future of News Meetup Group I created in 2009, and in 2010 we'll be meeting every month to thrash out new, positive, tangible ideas on what the news landscape will look like.
If you're in London, make sure you sign up and get involved. If you're not in London, then create your own for your area!
10. Be audacious
2009 was a rough year. And the signs are 2010 won't be any easier, especially if you're a journalist. But make a decision now not to get battered around by the waves of the economic storm. Your future doesn't have to be shaped by events around you, just you, your ideas, and whether you're prepared to turn them into reality.
"If you don't find what you're looking for, be it, create it."
S. Dawns
Whatever your resolutions and goals are for next year, make them audacious. Make them big and make them exciting. If they don't excite you or scare you a little bit, what hope do you have of making them happen?
And a final resolution for you….keep reading this blog! It's been great to have all your comments and feedback in 2009; there will be lots more practical advice about multimedia journalism in 2010, including two ebooks before February. To make sure you don't miss out, use the form to the right to subscribe to future posts.
Whatever you have planned for 2010, I hope it's awesome. Happy New Year!


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Did the Holy Grail know Kiritsugu would reject it? Who can say? But even if it initially chose him to be its bearer, his order to Saber to destroy it flipped the script. It also flipped the cup, as the Grail's destruction means the black ooze it contained falls upon Fuyuki, destroying everything in sight, to Kiritsugu's great despair. Even trying to do the right thing at the right time would seem to have backfired on this exceedingly unlucky and tortured soul.
Speaking of tortured souls, Kariya is still barely alive when he returns to the Matou basement, but while his senses tell him he is reuniting Sakura with Rin and Aoi, in reality Sakura is abandoning him to the Crest Worms and accepting the fate he tried in vain to keep her from.
Perhaps it was the contents of the Grail, not the Grail itself, that mattered most, as those contents fell on Archer, but rather than destroy him along with everything else, it gave him physical form (though not clothes). And because Gilgamesh still had a pact with Kirei, it resurrected him, albeit with no heartbeat.
That literal lack of a beating heart is indicative of his departure from humanity, as is his apparently Grail-fulfilled wish for death and destruction around him, and a hunger to "learn more" and explore the depths of his inhumanity. But as I said, the Grail will never fully satiate; at best it can only lock people—Servants and Masters alike—in a perpetual state of searching.
As for Kiritsugu, he's done searching. Indeed, he seems to be just about done with everything, owing to the curse bestowed on him by a scorned Grail and his entire life's work burning before him. The last thing he searches for—a single survivor among the scorched rubble—is something he ironically finds immediately.
By saving that single life—a young Shirou—Kiritsugu himself is saved. It's a concept a sneering Kirei can't possibly comprehend enough even to envy.
With that, the clock on the Fourth Holy Grail War reaches…Zero and comes to an end, with the official winner in doubt, though more-or-less claimed by Kirei, since the Grail seemingly brought him back.
Back at his "grandparents", Waver announces he's going to set aside his magical studies for a bit, get a part-time job, live with them, and save up enough to travel the world his king once conquered a good chunk of.
Kirei has upheld his promise to his master to look after Rin after he's gone, likely so that he can observe and absorb all of the grief, pain and suffering Rin is likely to experience on the long, hard road all heads of great families must walk.
Rin maintains a stoicsm beyond her years at her father's futural, even as she wheels her brain-damaged, delusional mom around. What gets her to crack and shed tears is the Azoth dagger; Kiritsugu twisting the blade like the piece of work he is.
And Saber, poor Saber, is back in Britain, on a battlefield strewn with corpses, having led everyone nowhere but to their own deaths. She remembers Lancelot's last words to her, about how he only ever sought her righteous judgment for betraying her and falling in love win Guinevere.
Arturia considers herself a failed king who never understood anyone, and considering her surroundings it's hard to argue with that assessment.
As for Saber's former Master, he is banned from Einzbern Castle forever, having failed to secure the Grail for them, and never sees his daughter Ilya again. So he adopts Shirou, fixes up the old safe house, and spends the next five years raising his adoptive son and living a quiet but happy life.
One night he tells Shirou how he once wanted and tried to be a hero, but ultimately failed. Shirou confidently promises his dad he'll become a hero in his place. A heavenly light suddenly shines above Saber; a ray of hope.
Clearly contented by his son's words, Kiritsugu starts to peacefully pass away, with an answer for his friend Shirley's question about what he wanted to be when he grew up: he wanted, and still wants, to be a hero.
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And that's it for Fate/Zero! Boy, what a ride it's been these past five weeks. That was a far better show than I could have imagined…which is why it took so long after UBW to watch it. Burned by previous prequels to beloved works, I was worried knowing pretty much how everything would end would make it difficult for the stakes to matter.
Yeah…I was dead wrong about that. Not only was I far more emotionally invested in Zero, it was a lot more approachable, had a lot more heart, and took a lot more risks than the smoother, shinier UBW. It's not that UBW is bad, it's simply a matter of Zero kicking ass in virtually every aspect of the game. It wasn't just a great anime, it was great television; great storytelling, full stop. So thanks to everyone out there who recommended it to me. It was well worth a look back.


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Navalny vs Akunin
Today's nationalist march in Moscow was accompanied by an interesting exchange between Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and writer Boris Akunin – the most prominent cultural figure to lead opposition demos in 2011-12.
In his initial post, Navalny once again endorsed the Russian march, but added that he would not attend it this year, citing tactical reasons. Akunin responded by saying that Navalny's lingering nationalism is a sign of incompetence and that Navalny is not ready to assume the role of a national leader. This caused an uproar in .ru sector with many opposition activists condemning Akunin in most unflattering terms.
Navalny's perspective
Navalny says he wants to reach out to nationalists, de-radicalize them and transform them into a respectable conservative movement. In his initial post, he described as his personal failure the fact that this goal had not been achieved.
Nationalism is a powerful political motivator. It was the main driving force behind anti-Communist revolutions in Eastern Europe. Western governments and media were encouraging anti-Soviet nationalism prior to the collapse of the USSR and continued to encourage anti-Russian nationalism in the last 20 years.
However, Russian nationalism was traditionally regarded with deep suspicion, although it is hardly worse than Ukrainian or Hungarian. Navalny is trying to create a European-styled nationalist movement, like Fidesz in Hungary. He also imports anti-immigrant rhetorics from the European Far Right, like Geert Wilders, and the US Tea Party.
Said that, the very fact that he is not attending the Russian march shows that his broad pro-democracy agenda overrides his nationalist leanings.
Akunin's perspective
For Akunin, Navalny is a source of both hope and dissapointment. He wants Navalny to be a strong leader and believes that Navalny's nationalism is what makes Navalny weak. Denying nationalism is a matter of principle for Akunin, who is not a politician.
Navalny believes that broad population is inherently nationalist, hence one needs to offer a strong nationalist agenda to win over it. But he might be taking random irresponsible rant for serious political convictions. Nationalists consistently fail to rally more than a few thousand people in Moscow. Their columns at opposition rallies were hilariously small even compared to those of radical left-wingers. They rallied over 10,000 today (Nov 4), in the aftermath of Biryulyovo events, but they have probably reached their ceiling.
Conversely, the participation of cultural leaders, such as Akunin, consistently ensured the highest attendance – up to 100,000 during Bolotnaya and Prospect Sakharova marches. The so-called 'civic column' led by them traditionally comprised the bulk of opposition marches. Numbers dwindled once people like Akunin distanced themselves from the movement.
Activists' perspective
Rank-and-file activists of all political convictions took the brunt of the crackdown which began after Putin's inauguration in 2012. Some of them have been in prison for almost 18 months. They get little attention from the media, compared with Pussy Riot or Greenpeace prisoners. Navalny himself has nearly landed in jail for five years and there is another criminal case waiting for him.
That makes activists feel bitter towards those who they see as bystanders unwilling to take part in serious action. One of May 6 suspects, Maria Baronova, pointed out on Twitter that Akunin had never attended Bolotnaya case trial, even though the hearings had been going on for several months. The fact that the person who once inspired them spends most of his time in his French home, while they are suffering, makes activists feel betrayed and abandoned.


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The first time that I had a long-term relationship with a counselor (how can I write that so it doesn't sound romantic?), at one of our first meetings, he asked me to buy and read the book "The Dance of Intimacy" by Harriet Lerner, PhD. I asked why I had to pay for counseling AND a book. Couldn't he provide the book for free, or lend it, or tell me what's in it, if it was so important? He said that I didn't have to buy the book, but it would save time, and give us some common vocabulary as we discussed issues.
I bought the book, read it, and the following week, I reported that I did so, and asked "What's next?" He looked stunned, and asked if I had any questions about the material covered. I said, no, I'm a good reader, and that it was all familiar concepts. I was eager to move on with this counseling process. He asked me to buy another book: "The Dance of Anger" by the same author. I rolled my eyes, bought it, sat down to read it cover to cover, and went "WHOA!!!!!" after just the first few pages. This book was completely over my head. I spent years reading and rereading sentence fragments, trying to make sense of the material. I never realized how angry I was, and how poorly I handled my anger.
The core lesson that I learned from the book is that anger indicates that I'm not saying how I feel or what I want. I remember that lesson often now.
Twenty years later, I am participating in an Anger Management course. I am continuing to learn how to recognize my anger, and to plan strategies for dealing with it in constructive ways. Here are some highlights so far:
Feeling angry can distract me from what I want
Anger can make me blame others instead of taking responsibility for what I want
Recognizing that I'm feeling angry can bring an important issue to my attention
Feeling angry can move me to do something constructive
How do YOU turn anger into your friend?
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Red Hulk by Marcel Trindade, used under Creative Commons License by-2.0.


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New Belgium Announces Brewing Equipment Partners for Asheville Location
Ft. Collins, Colo., March 28, 2013 – New Belgium Brewing announced today the list of vendors scheduled to supply brewing process and packaging equipment for its Asheville facility slated to come online in 2015. Brewhouse, cold block, filtration and finishing systems will come from GEA Brewing Systems GmbH. All fermentation and storage vessels will come from Ziemann International GmbH. Kuenzel Maschinenbau GmbH will supply the malt storage and handling systems. Albert Handtmann Armaturenfabrik & Co GmbH will supply the process equipment for fermentation and yeast cellars. The bottle line will be supplied by KHS-USA.
"It was a difficult decision with so many qualified suppliers so we went with those who could best fulfill our needs, and we couldn't be more excited about where we've landed," said New Belgium Technical Director, Jim Spencer. "Every one of these contractors has years of experience designing world-class brewing systems and we are fortunate to be able to tap into their deep reserves of talent and knowledge."
New Belgium is currently working to rehabilitate the brownfield site where it will locate its second brewing facility in Asheville, North Carolina. All projections show the brewery coming online in early 2015.
New Belgium Brewing, makers of Fat Tire Amber Ale and a host of Belgian-inspired beers, is recognized as one of Outside Magazine's Best Places to Work and one of the Wall Street Journal's Best Small Businesses. The 100% employee owned brewery is a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Business as designated by the League of American Bicyclists, and one of World Blu's most democratic U.S. businesses. In addition to Fat Tire, New Belgium brews eight year round beers: Ranger IPA, Shift Pale Lager, Rampant Imperial IPA, Sunshine Wheat, 1554 Black Ale, Blue Paddle Pilsener, Abbey Belgian Ale and Trippel. Learn more at www.newbelgium.com.


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Obama Wants To Spy On Internet Users
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One Mainframe To Rule Them All
Google-Earth To Track People In Real-Time
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Editor's Note: This could be the start of the New World Order MATRIX, where every 'thing' in the world can be located and tracked on the internet
Augmented Google-Earth Tracks Real-Time People, Cars, Weather
September 30, 2009
The surveillance side of this is the chickenfeed. There's something far more sinister than the simple surveillance… an angle we haven't heard about yet.
Tice never did tell his story to Congress about this different aspect of the program.
Well, my guess is that it has something to do with providing surveillance data for this SEAS World Sim thing, and that individual Americans are being watched and potentially targeted with it. Tice's background seems to involve a lot of traditional electronic warfare, radar and ELINT stuff. Maybe Tice's deal involved the collection of the mobile phone GPS and/or triangulation data which would provide realtime spacial/geographic data to the SEAS system. In other words, SEAS sees you. They could bring up a map of a city and plot your path based on the information that your phone is exchanging with the mobile network.
—Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation
Via: Popular Science:
Researchers from Georgia Tech have devised methods to take real-time, real-world information and layer it onto Google Earth, adding dynamic information to the previously sterile Googlescape.
They use live video feeds (sometimes from many angles) to find the position and motion of various objects, which they then combine with behavioral simulations to produce real-time animations for Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth.
They use motion capture data to help their animated humans move realistically, and were able to extrapolate cars' motion throughout an entire stretch of road from just a few spotty camera angles.
From their video of an augmented virtual Earth, you can see if the pickup soccer game in the park is short a player, how traffic is on the highway, and how fast the wind is blowing the clouds across the sky.
Up next, they say they want to add weather, birds, and motion in rivers.
Ubiquitous Computing: Big Brother's All-Seeing Eye
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Australia To Enforce Mandatory Chinese-Style Internet Censorship
Government to block "controversial" websites with universal national filter
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
October 29, 2008
The Australian government is set to impose Chinese-style Internet censorship by enforcing a universal national filter that will block websites deemed "controversial," as part of a wider agenda to regulate the Internet according to free speech advocates.
A provision whereby Internet users could opt out of the filter by contacting their ISP has been stripped from the legislation, meaning the filter will be universal and mandatory.
The System Administrators Guild of Australia and Electronic Frontiers Australia have attacked the proposal, saying it will restrict web access, raise prices and slow internet traffic speeds.
The plan was first created as a way to combat child pornography and adult content, but could be extended to include controversial websites on euthanasia or anorexia," reports the Australian Herald Sun.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy revealed the mandatory censorship to the Senate estimates committee as the Global Network Initiative, bringing together leading companies, human rights organisations, academics and investors, committed the technology firms to "protect the freedom of expression and privacy rights of their users". (Complete black is white, up is down, double talk).
Human Rights Watch has condemned internet censorship, and argued to the US Senate "there is a real danger of a Virtual Curtain dividing the internet, much as the Iron Curtain did during the Cold War, because some governments fear the potential of the internet, (and) want to control it."
Speaking from personal experience, not only are "controversial" websites blocked in China, meaning any website that is critical of the state, but every website the user attempts to visit first has to pass through the "great firewall," causing the browser to hang and delay while it is checked against a government blacklist.
This causes excruciating delays, and the user experience is akin to being on a bad dial-up connection in the mid 1990's. Even in the center of Shanghai with a fixed ethernet connection, the user experience is barely tolerable.
Not only are websites in China blocked, but e mails too are scanned for "controversial" words and blocked from being sent if they contain phrases related to politics or obscenities.
Googling for information on certain topics is also heavily restricted. While in China I tried to google "Bush Taiwan," which resulted in Google.com ceasing to be accessible and my Internet connection was immediately terminated thereafter.
The Australian government will no doubt insist that their filter is in our best interests and is only designed to block child pornography, snuff films and other horrors, yet the system is completely pointless because it will not affect file sharing networks, which is the medium through which the vast majority of such material is distributed.
If we allow Australia to become the first "free" nation to impose Internet censorship, the snowball effect will only accelerate – the U.S. and the UK are next.
Indeed, Prime Minister Tony Blair called for Internet censorship last year.
In April 2007, Time magazine reported that researchers funded by the federal government want to shut down the internet and start over, citing the fact that at the moment there are loopholes in the system whereby users cannot be tracked and traced all the time. The projects echo moves we have previously reported on to clamp down on internet neutrality and even to designate a new form of the internet known as Internet 2.
Moves to regulate the web have increased over the last two years.
– In a display of bi-partisanship, there have been calls for all out mandatory ISP snooping on all US citizens by both Democrats and Republicans alike.
– In December 2006, Republican Senator John McCain tabled a proposal to introduce legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards. It is well known that McCain has a distaste for his blogosphere critics, causing a definite conflict of interest where any proposal to restrict blogs on his part is concerned.
– During an appearance with his wife Barbara on Fox News in November 2006, George Bush senior slammed Internet bloggers for creating an "adversarial and ugly climate."
– The White House's own de-classified strategy for "winning the war on terror" targets Internet conspiracy theories as a recruiting ground for terrorists and threatens to "diminish" their influence.
– The Pentagon has also announced its effort to infiltrate the Internet and propagandize for the war on terror.
– In an October 2006 speech, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff identified the web as a "terror training camp," through which "disaffected people living in the United States" are developing "radical ideologies and potentially violent skills." His solution is "intelligence fusion centers," staffed by Homeland Security personnel which will are already in operation.
– The U.S. Government wants to force bloggers and online grassroots activists to register and regularly report their activities to Congress. Criminal charges including a possible jail term of up to one year could be the punishment for non-compliance.
– A landmark November 2006 legal case on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America and other global trade organizations sought to criminalize all Internet file sharing of any kind as copyright infringement, effectively shutting down the world wide web – and their argument was supported by the U.S. government.
– A landmark legal ruling in Sydney goes further than ever before in setting the trap door for the destruction of the Internet as we know it and the end of alternative news websites and blogs by creating the precedent that simply linking to other websites is breach of copyright and piracy.
– The European Union, led by former Stalinist John Reid, has also vowed to shut down "terrorists" who use the Internet to spread propaganda.
– The EU data retention bill, passed after much controversy and implemented in 2007, obliges telephone operators and internet service providers to store information on who called who and who emailed who for at least six months. Under this law, investigators in any EU country, and most bizarrely even in the US, can access EU citizens' data on phone calls, sms', emails and instant messaging services.
– The EU also proposed legislation that would prevent users from uploading any form of video without a license.
– The US government is also funding research into social networking sites and how to gather and store personal data published on them, according to the New Scientist magazine. "At the same time, US lawmakers are attempting to force the social networking sites themselves to control the amount and kind of information that people, particularly children, can put on the sites."
Governments are furious that their ceaseless lies are being exposed in real time on the World Wide Web and have resolved to stifle, regulate and control what truly is the last outpost of real free speech in the world. Internet censorship is perhaps the most pertinent issue that freedom advocates should rally to combat over the course of the next few years, lest we allow a cyber-gag to be placed over our mouths and say goodbye to our last medium of free and open communication.
DARPA building search engine for video surveillance footage
Ars Technica
October 21, 2008
The government agency that birthed the Internet is developing a sophisticated search engine for video, and when complete will allow intelligence analysts to sift through live footage from spy drones, as well as thousands of hours worth of archived recordings, in order to spot a variety of selected events or behaviors. In the past month, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced nearly $20 million in total contracts for private firms to begin developing the system, which is slated to take until at least 2011 to complete.
According to a prospectus written in March but released only this month, the Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) will enable intel analysts to "rapidly find video content of interest from archives and provide alerts to the analyst of events of interest during live operations," taking both conventional video and footage from infrared scanners as input. The VIRAT project is an effort to cope with a growing data glut that has taxed intelligence resources because of the need to have trained human personnel perform time- and labor-intensive review of recorded video.
The DARPA overview emphasizes that VIRAT will not be designed with "face recognition, gait recognition, human identification, or any form of biometrics" in mind. Rather, the system will search for classes of activities or events. A suggested partial list in the prospectus includes digging, loitering, exploding, shooting, smoking, following, shaking hand, exchanging objects, crawling under a car, breaking a window, and evading a checkpoint. As new sample clips are fed into the system, it will need to recognize the signature features of new classes of search terms.
EU Set to Move 'Internet of Things' Closer to Reality
Daniel Taylor
Old-Thinker News
November 2, 2008
If the world-wide trend continues, 'Web 3.0′ will be tightly monitored, and will become an unprecedented tool for surveillance. The "Internet of Things", a digital representation of real world objects and people tagged with RFID chips, and increased censorship are two main themes for the future of the web.
The future of the internet, according to author and "web critic" Andrew Keen, will be monitored by "gatekeepers" to verify the accuracy of information posted on the web. The "Outlook 2009″ report from the November-December issue of The Futurist reports that,
"Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen believes that the anonymity of today's internet 2.0 will give way to a more open internet 3.0 in which third party gatekeepers monitor the information posted on Web sites to verify its accuracy."
Keen stated during his early 2008 interview withThe Futurist that the internet, in its current form, has undermined mainline media and empowered untrustworthy "amateurs", two trends that he wants reversed. "Rather than the empowerment of the amateur, Web 3.0 will show the resurgence of the professional," states Keen.
Australia has now joined China in implementing mandatory internet censorship, furthering the trend towards a locked down and monitored web.
The Internet of Things
Now, the European Union has announced that it will pursue the main component of Web 3.0, the Internet of Things (IoT).
According to Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media for the EU, "The Internet of the future will radically change our society." Ultimately, the EU is aiming to "lead the way" in the transformation to Web 3.0.
Reporting on the European Union's pursuit of the IoT, iBLS reports,
"New technology applications will need ubiquitous Internet coverage. The Internet of Things means that wireless interaction between machines, vehicles, appliances, sensors and many other devices will take place using the Internet. It already makes electronic travel cards possible, and will allow mobile devices to exchange information to pay for things or get information from billboards (or streetlights)."
The Internet of Things consists of objects that are 'tagged' with Radio Frequency Identification Chips (RFID) that communicate their position, history, and other information to an RFID reader or wireless network. Most, if not all major computer companies and technology developers (HP, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, etc.) are putting large amounts of time and money into the Internet of Things.
Cisco and Sun Microsystems have founded an alliance to promote the Internet of Things and further its implementation.
South Korea is at the forefront in implementing ubiquitous technology and the Internet of Things. An entire city, New Songdo, is being built in South Korea that fully utilizes the technology. Ubiquitous computing proponents in the United States admit that while a large portion of the technology is being developed in the U.S., it is being tested in South Korea where there are less traditional, ethical and social blockades to prevent its acceptance and use. As the New York Times reports
"Much of this technology was developed in U.S. research labs, but there are fewer social and regulatory obstacles to implementing them in Korea," said Mr. Townsend [a research director at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California], who consulted on Seoul's own U-city plan, known as Digital Media City. 'There is an historical expectation of less privacy. Korea is willing to put off the hard questions to take the early lead and set standards.'"
An April 2008 report from the National Intelligence Council discussed the Internet of Things and its possible implications.
A timeline shown in the April 2008 NIC report
The report outlines uses for the technology:
"Sensor networks need not be connected to the Internet and indeed often reside in remote sites, vehicles, and buildings having no Internet connection. Smart dust is a term that some have used to express a vision of tiny, wireless-connected sensors; more recently, others use the term to describe any of several technologies that range from the size of a pack of gum to a pack of cigarettes, and that are widely available to system developers.
Ubiquitous positioning describes technologies for locating objects that may reside anywhere, including indoors and underground locations where satellite signals may be unavailable or otherwise inadequate.
Biometrics enables technology to recognize people and other living things, rather than inanimate objects. Connected everyday objects could recognize authorized users by means of fingerprint, voiceprint, iris scan, or other biometric technology."
These trends towards internet censorship and the internet of things are undoubtedly going to continue, but restricting your free speech and violating your privacy will be harder with your outspoken resistance.
DARPA spies on analyst brains; hopes to offload image analysis to computers
Security services want personal data from sites like Facebook
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Speaking – Simon Atkinson from IPSOS
Groundhog Day? Haven't we been talking about this forever? Certainly feels like it sometimes.
Historically elections are cut and dried: We can expect Continuity or 'throw the bums out'. However recently, we've faced several disruptive elections and referendums and faced many many challenges to our methods, results, reporting. Some of these we have stood up and faced and others we need to work on.
A key message for me was the challenge of weighing data or leaving it well alone. In some cases, had we left the data alone and not weighed for voter turnout we would have been closer to the real results.
One issue is the young people voting for the first time; for whom we often have no prior behaviour on which to predict future action. I'm not sure there's an answer for this yet…
Cracking questions from the audience before we wrap up for drinks. I think we could probably talk about this all night! The story isn't over by a long shot; roll on 2022?