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It's Dec. 24, 1994, and, no, I'm not longing to be up North. I'm actually longing for the Christmas Eves of so many years past.
I really can't lay claim to one particular one, but rather the hustle, bustle and excitement of preparing for last-minute trips to the mall, lunching at Pizza Hut with the cousins and seeing family crowd into a house that threatens to bust at the seams.
There was a potential solution to some of the school traffic woes that may have slipped away, which many in the community may not have been aware of.
The S.C. Department of Transportation held a hearing in January 2013 regarding rerouting Harrisburg Road. Harrisburg Road could have been rerouted to line up with the main Lowe's entrance on S.C. 160. This also would have become a lighted intersection.
Recently, there have been some editorials written about the high property tax rates in Lancaster County. As chairman of the county Finance Committee, I would like to address the hype with the facts.
As I discussed in last month's column, property tax revenue is one of the major funding sources for Lancaster County.
The property tax revenue is split mainly between Lancaster County School District and Lancaster County government, with about 70 percent going to the school district and 30 percent to county government.
The welfare state is now omnipresent in every part of the United States. The federal budget is dominated by entitlement spending, with 45 percent of federal spending in 2012 going to Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare (among other health care entitlements).
Simultaneously, states are struggling under the fiscal burdens imposed on them by mandatory entitlement programs: for example, spending by the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services (primarily on Medicaid) has averaged $1.21 billion over the last three budget years.
Recently I had occasion to be in all four parts of South Carolina, talking with a wide variety of business people about innovation, our state and its future. What they said was both extremely encouraging and extremely discouraging.
First the good news. From one end of this state to the other, there are lots of really smart people who fully understand what we have to do to become competitive in the challenging global economy of the 21st Century. They get it.
As South Carolina struggles to recover from the Great Recession, state agencies in recent years have increased spending on travel in and out of the Palmetto State.
A review by The Nerve of annual state travel reports by S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom found that the total amount spent on travel increased from $61.9 million in fiscal 2009 to more than $69.6 million last fiscal year, which ended June 30 – a jump of more than $7.7 million, or 12.5 percent.
Here in South Carolina, where we are relieved to be nearing the end of another quiet hurricane season, we recently witnessed the destructive force of torrential rainfalls.
Almost as devastating as the physical property loss in a flood is the emotional impact of seeing your home damaged or destroyed. We've all seen these tragic stories on TV – home improvement projects ruined and washed away, priceless family photos and heirlooms lost and on and on.
Studying the lives of people in the Bible can bring hope to believers today. The life of John Mark in the New Testament illustrates the truth that failure is not final for believers.
John Mark was the son of Mary, an affluent godly widow in Jerusalem who allowed believers to meet in her home for prayer.
John Mark likely had contact with many wonderful people who took part in that fellowship. At some point the apostle Peter led him to the Lord, because he later called him his spiritual son.
At the beginning of October, Lancaster County homeowners received their tax bills, which are due by Jan. 15, 2014, without penalties.
If you have not received your tax bill, please contact our office to see where your bill went and make sure we have the correct address on file for you. Please do so as soon as possible to make sure your taxes are paid on time so you can avoid late penalties.
If you are paying into an escrow account as part of your mortgage you should have received a bill, so that you would know how much you are paying in taxes.
If you have children in South Carolina public schools, you've probably heard the term "Common Core" several times by now. It's the name for a nationalized set of academic standards to which South Carolina public schools are now required to conform.
Did you vote for Common Core? Did you have any say in it at all? No, you didn't.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Is the War on Terror Creating Terrorism?
Recorded: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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Is it possible that the U.S. governments response to the 9/11 attacks has served al-Qaeda interests? Despite the hype, U.S. law-enforcement officials have found little evidence of serious terrorist activities inside the country, compelling them to escalate their use of prosecution and entrapment to justify their enormous budgets.
Experts: Ivan Eland, Ian S. Lustick, D. Gareth PorterType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, History (International), Terrorism and National Crises
Dominick T. Armentano on Antitrust and Monopoly
Recorded: Wednesday, July 13, 1983
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Dominick T. Armentano speaks with congressman Ron Paul and host Roger Ream in this vintage 1983 video clip about antitrust and monopoly in America.
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There are tons of jobs that you can find yourself in come Halloween. A popular one is a police officer that will give you an arresting look that you shouldn't miss. There are also several nurse costumes that will be the medicine to a horrible Halloween. There's so many different job opportunities that can be found in this amazing set.


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The Power of Independent Thinking
The 2006 Thomas S. Szasz Awards and An Evening With Robert Higgs
Recorded: Wednesday, December 6, 2006
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The reception and presentation of the Thomas S. Szasz Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties to Robert Higgs and Robert Spillane, followed by a special forum featuring Dr. Higgs on Liberty and Leviathan.
Experts: Robert Higgs, Robert Spillane, Thomas S. SzaszType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Government Power, Terrorism and National Crises
Is White Guilt Destroying the Promise of Civil Rights?
Recorded: Tuesday, May 9, 2006
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In the 1960s, civil rights victories dealt a blow to racial discrimination, and yet 40 years later many blacks remain left behind. Has affirmative action sabotaged the gains of the civil rights movement? What is the role of personal accountability in improving the standing of minority groups?
Experts: Shelby SteeleType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Race Issues


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- "It's the Forelli brothers!"
- ―Forelli gang members, after Claude enters in the car.
Dead Skunk in the Trunk is a mission in Grand Theft Auto III given to Claude by Joey Leone from his garage in Trenton, Portland, Liberty City.
Claude drops by Joey's auto shop, as previous instructed by Joey Leone. Joey wants Claude to dispose of a Forelli gang member's corpse, which is a Manana car at Greasy Joe's Café in Callahan Point.
Upon entry into the car, Claude is ambushed by the Forelli Brothers in two Sentinel cars (one in the Cafe's parking lot, and another across the road to the south). With the two cars in pursuit, the player must successful bring the Manana to Harwood and have it crushed, body and evidence, at the crusher in the Harwood Autocrusher and Junkyard.
Alternatively, the player may destroy the Forellis' cars before entering the Manana, provided they have the firepower to do so as they turn hostile the moment they are attacked. Doing so will make the drive to the Harwood crusher far easier.
The corpse-carrying Manana can be taken back to the player's safehouse and blown up in the garage. While this will fail the mission, after the garage closes and re-opens, this unique Manana can be saved and kept.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Go to the cafe and get in the car.
- Lose, avoid or kill the Forelli brothers.
- Take it to the crusher.
- Get out of the vehicle.
The reward for completing the mission is $10,000. A bonus of $10,000 is awarded immediately for each Forelli car destroyed, and it is possible to keep failing and repeating this mission, to go after the Forellis and continually accumulate these bonuses. The mission The Getaway is also unlocked.
Tips and Tricks
- To make the mission easier, you can just destroy the two Sentinels before getting in the Manana. You need a rocket launcher. You can get one by visiting Shoreside Vale, using the Porter Tunnel glitch and then the Subway glitch. You will destroy the first car. The second car must be trapped somewhere. Fire gunshots until it explodes and then you can get in the Manana and drive it to the crusher.
- If the Forellis' can damage the Manana on the way to the crusher and the trunk is torn apart, you can see the body inside. This is the only feature that makes this car unique.
- The Forelli's body has the same character model and dialogues as a Leone in Saint Marks.
- The Manana will always default to being grey.
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Dr. Hijjawi was raised in Chicago and graduated from the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He immediately entered the Integrated Plastic Surgery Program at Northwestern University of Chicago where he trained for seven years under the guidance of Dr. Thomas Mustoe.
As an Integrated Plastic Surgery Resident, Dr. Hijjawi gained significant experience with breast reconstruction, facial plastic surgery, rhinoplasty and reconstructive microsurgery. At Northwestern, Dr. Hijjawi was responsible for an independent Chief Resident Cosmetic Surgery Clinic and served as Chief Resident at the Shriner's Hospital for Children focusing on facial reconstruction.
In 2004 Dr. Hijjawi was honored with both the Chicago Society for Plastic Surgery First Place Award for Outstanding Plastic Surgery Research and the Northwestern University Department of Surgery Edelstone-Bendix First Place Award for research. Both awards recognized work done under Dr. Thomas Mustoe.
Dr. Hijjawi's eighth year of training was as a Fellow in Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery at the Mayo Clinic, after which he joined the Faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In 2006, Dr. Hijjawi was honored with the Kroll Fellowship, allowing him to study DIEP Flap breast reconstruction in Belgium with one of the technique's originators, Dr. Phillip Blondeel. Dr. Hijjawi is one of fewer than five American surgeons honored with the Kroll Fellowship.
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May 6, 2016
Gov. Pat McCrory has signed an executive order declaring a state of disaster for the town of Kitty Hawk for damage it suffered when Hurricane Sandy skirted the North Carolina coast last fall.
The declaration allows communities impacted by the storm to see state funds to recover money spent to respond to the storm or begin recovery efforts.
A statement from the governor's office said Kitty Hawk would get financial assistance from the state to reimburse state officials for emergency operations and debris removal.
State funds will cover 75 percent of costs, while local funds will handle the balance.
The Category 1 hurricane brought light rain, winds and flooding to the North Carolina coast in late October.
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GNU SIP Witch Introduced
SIP Witch is an official package of the GNU Project as of August 10th 2007. GNU SIP Witch is also part of GNU Telephony & the GNU Telecom subsystem.
GNU SIP Witch is a call and registration server for the SIP protocol. As a call server it services call registration for SIP devices and destination routing through SIP gateways. GNU SIP Witch does not perform codec operations or media proxying and thereby enables SIP endpoints to directly peer negotiate call setting and process peer to peer media streaming even when when multiple SIP Witch call nodes at multiple locations are involved. This means GNU SIP Witch operates without introducing additional media latency or offering a central point for media capture.
GNU SIP Witch is designed to support network scaling of telephony services, rather than the heavily compute-bound solutions we find in use today. This means a call node has a local authentication/registration database, and this will be mirrored, so that any active call node in a cluster will be able to accept and service a call. This allows for the possibility of live failover support in the future as well.
GNU SIP Witch is not a SIP "router", and does not try to address the same things as a project like iptel "Ser". GNU SIP Witch is being designed to create on-premise SIP telephone systems, telecenter servers, and Internet hosted SIP telephone systems. One important feature will include use of URI routing to support direct peer to peer calls between service domains over the public internet without needing mediation of an intermediary "service provider" so that people can publish and call sip: uri's unconstrained. GNU SIP Witch is about freedom to communicate and the removal of artifical barriers and constraints whether imposed by monopoly service providers or by governments.
GNU SIP Witch depends on the UCommon library, which may merge with and become GNU Common C++ 2.0 later this year or early next year. CVS for and new distributions of UCommon will be found in the GNU Telecom project on an interim basis until then. GNU SIP Witch also uses libeXosip2 and GNU oSIP, and these may be found at their respective sites. GNU SIP Witch is licensed under the GNU General Public License V3 or later.
What is GNUCOMM?
GNUCOMM is the Telecom subsystem of the GNU Project. The goal of GNUCOMM is to deliver scalable telephony services for current and next generation telephone networks using entirely free software on the GNU system.
What is GNU Bayonne?
GNU Bayonne is the telephone server of the GNU Project. It offers scalable media and scripted voice application services for SIP and H.323 networks as well as for traditional PSTN and ISDN services. GNU Bayonne may be used stand-alone to deliver carrier hosted or premise application services behind existing switching equipment and standard compliant VOIP platforms, or together with GNU SIP Witch and perhaps Troll to offer complete VOIP phone systems.
What is GNU SIP Witch?
GNU SIP Witch is the VOIP call, provisioning, and feature server of the GNU Project. It offers network scalable services through SIP. GNU SIP Witch only offers registration services and only performs destination selection and routing. GNU SIP Witch uses SIP to resolve media streaming by endpoints. This means GNU SIP Witch is neither inhibited by restrictive codec patents nor imposes additional media latency in VOIP networks.
GNUComm System Design Overview
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GNU Bayonne and all related packages may be found at ftp.gnu.org. GNU SIPWitch is available only from project cvs at the moment, but we expect an initial distribution sometime before the end of the year. All GNUCOMM & GNU Telephony software will be offered licensed under the GNU General Public License V3 or later.
Mailing Lists and Other Resources
The canonical set of GNU mailing lists have been set up for GNUCOMM:
We also maintain a GNU Telephony wiki.
CVS Access
These instructions are available for anonymous cvs access.
Contact information
The current coordinators for the project are <richbodo at gmail dot com> and <dyfet at gnu dot org>
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Robert Higgs: Warfare, Welfare, and the State
Recorded: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
This presentation by Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs was presented on July 24, 2012, at Mises University, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Corporate Welfare, Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power, History (U.S), Political Ideology and Philosophy
Let Market Forces Cure Healthcare, Not Obama
Recorded: Monday, June 11, 2012
Research Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless, interviewed on The Street says market forces, not government intervention, are the key to curing the healthcare crisis.
Experts: John C. GoodmanType: TelevisionIssues: Culture/ Society, Government Power, Health Care, Public Health/ Consumer Protection
Can Healthcare Be Fixed? John C. Goodman on the Wall Street Journals Opinion Journal
Recorded: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Research Fellow Dr. John C. Goodman is interviewed by Mary Kissel of the Wall Street Journal: Opinion Journal on his new book Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis.
Ivan Eland on RTs CrossTalk Discusses U.S. Soft Power
Recorded: Monday, June 4, 2012
Ivan Eland, Independent Institute Senior Fellow,
discusses America's waning as a soft power with Peter Lavelle on RT's CrossTalk.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Government Power, Politics
Eland on US Military Base Expansion to Australia
Recorded: Friday, March 30, 2012
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute discusses the US Military base expansion to Australia on RT.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power, Terrorism and National Crises


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May 5, 2016
Northside-Jacksonville senior point guard Jamal Parker is our newest WITN Pepsi Player Of The Week.
Parker is averaging more than 20 points a game for the Monarchs who are a number 1 seed in the 2-A boys state playoffs.
Northside head coach Tony Marshburn says Parker is more of a quiet leader who lets his play do the talking. That play has been speaking loud enough as the Monarchs have won eight in a row. Their last loss was to Croatan who they'll play on Wednesday in the next round of the playoffs.
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From PostgreSQL wiki
Information about Kevin Grittner and his activities.
I've been making my living working with computers since 1972. In 1980 I founded a consulting company I ran until 2005; during that time I worked with a wide variety of applications, organizations, and technical environments. I'm now with EnterpriseDB as a database architect. I'm a committer for the free, open source version of PostgreSQL, and an active member of the community.
By far the largest patch I've worked on for PostgreSQL has been the Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI) implementation which went into PostgreSQL version 9.1. This was a joint project with Dan R.K. Ports of MIT, with helpful input and support from many in the PostgreSQL community. Our paper on that effort can be found here:
For the PostgreSQL docs on the feature, see:
For a number of examples see:
Current Work In Process
Declarative materialized views
For the 9.3 release.
Possible Future Work
Rewrite tsearch parser to use regular expressions
In reviewing a patch to fix some performance problems in the current parser, I became interested in the possibility of rewriting the current state machine implementation with a regular expression implementation.
Re: tsearch parser inefficiency if text includes urls or emails - new version
Deleted WAL files held open by backends in Linux
I wasted some time tracking down an oddity which is more of an annoyance in system administration than a real problem, but might look at cleaning it up to save others the bother of investigating the issue.
Deleted WAL files held open by backends in Linux
Temporal data improvements
Temporal data handling is weak in SQL in general, and the PostgreSQL implementation seems skewed toward scientific or engineering applications, leaving it weaker than some databases on business applications. (One example would be clean handling of monthy payment schedules.) Enhancements to this area might be interesting.
Proposal - temporal contrib module
LSB script compliance
I came up with a pretty LSB compliant script for Linux; however, the community feels that most of the logic handled in the shell in this script should be moved into pg_ctl. There's a pretty long and winding thread on the topic. The last version of the script might be useful to identify what issues need to be covered in the current pg_ctl code.
We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts
TOAST improvements
There have been a few posts to the lists about specific use cases where TOAST defaults are far from optimal. Allowing some tuning here might be helpful.
Literal and NULL handling anomalies
There are a few corner cases where differences between standard and PostgreSQL behaviors with string literals or NULLs astonish those new to PostgreSQL. These aren't easily solved, but might be worth the effort.
README files
Language is not always as readable as it could be, and some files still largely read like proposals for features which are now implemented.


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The Power of Independent Thinking
Art Carden Talks about Regulation of Sugar
Recorded: Thursday, March 1, 2012
Research Fellow Art Carden talks about the regulation of sugar and corn syrup subsidies with Tom Ashbrook on WBUR Boston.
Experts: Art CardenType: RadioIssues: Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation
The 2006 Thomas S. Szasz Awards and An Evening With Robert Higgs
Recorded: Wednesday, December 6, 2006
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The reception and presentation of the Thomas S. Szasz Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties to Robert Higgs and Robert Spillane, followed by a special forum featuring Dr. Higgs on Liberty and Leviathan.
Experts: Robert Higgs, Robert Spillane, Thomas S. SzaszType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Government Power, Terrorism and National Crises


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With the 107th Map of the Week we look at the secret encampment of the deep devil Guragh in the ruins of the old Æsir settlement known as Forest Watch. All that survives of the Æsir military settlement is the keep, where Guragh dwells.
Guragh is a servant of the devil Gadreel in Slovanian Newhouse. Its mission is to realize Gadreel's plan to spark a civil war in the southern kingdom of Windland through targeted arson. The devil's agents will learn how to set fires that can lead to an entire town burning. They then plan to set such fires in Windland in such a manner that it appears they were the doing of agents of rival nobles.
The deep devil Guragh trains the agents in the ruins of Forest Watch. As part of their training, they set fire to buildings that Guragh has had constructed in the ruins. This training base has no conflicts with the law in the Royal County because Guragh has bribed the corrupt Count Prokop to ignore its activities.
Key to the map of the Forest Watch Ruin:
1. Storage Shed. For supplies and equipment.
2. The Keep. All of the inhabitants of the ruin live in the keep.
3. The Forest Trail to the Ruin.
4. Burnt Ruins. The remnants of buildings that were used in arson exercises.
You can get the map in two versions:
1. The Fractal Mapper (TM) 8 version in FMP format, fully editable (16 MB), from the Jörðgarð website:
2. A JPG flat map of 3000 Pixels x 2250 Pixels (3 MB), available above.
Both versions are released for personal and commercial use under the Open Game License Version 1.0a, which you can read on the Jörðgarð website at:
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text: From disc to dancefloor: Making electronic music work live Culture 25 August 11 by Dave Fawbert Flickr.com / Mananetwork The performance of electronic music in a live environment has been a thorny issue ever since synthesisers and sequencers gained a foothold in the 1970s, and widespread popularity in the 1980s. Critics' complaints that the music wasn't truly "live" and thus less authentic only gained momentum in the late 80s and early 90s as house and techno, much of it instrumental, exploded and live acts were accused of simply pressing play and standing back. Or waving their maracas around madly.Indeed, some cited Top of the Pops' decline through the 90s as being a result of too many faceless and uninteresting dance acts being featured, a theory given some credibility by the legendary "performance" of The Orb simply playing chess during their appearance in 1992.However, in more recent years, as it became clear than electronic music was here to stay, and with the demand for people to hear their favourite electronic songs within the communal atmosphere of a live setting, electronic acts have developed several strategies to elevate their performance into something rivaling, and sometimes eclipsing, that of any traditional band. DJ sets have become all-encompassing multimedia experiences, dance acts now regularly headline festivals, and more bands than ever are co-opting the sonic possibilities of electronics into their music.Wired.co.uk spoke to three top exponents of their art, Paul Hartnoll of Orbital, trance pioneer Paul van Dyk and Bruce Carter from The Whip to find out how they make it work.It is fair to say that Orbital almost single-handedly put to bed the accusation that electronic gigs were unmusical and predictable, bringing the crucial element of live improvisation of structure and sound to dance music, and with it, huge success. Their performance at Glastonbury in 2004 was picked by Q Magazine as one of the top 50 gigs of all time.So how did they do it? Well, in their early days, Orbital simply packed up their studio and went on the road with the whole lot; a few keyboards and synths, a 4 track to use as a mixer and 6 trusty Alesis MMT8 sequencers. Hartnoll told Wired.co.uk: "The memory was so crap we'd use 3 at a time and then literally swap them over when we needed the other sounds!".Nowadays, the brothers use Macbook Pros and Ableton. "I've been waiting for technology to catch up", explains Hartnoll, "Ableton is the first bit of software that means it when it says Live". In addition they use 2 Lemur Touch Pads to manipulate sounds, but the keyboards are analogue rather than software synths.Their improvisation is based firstly around structure, using Ableton, and also around sounds via the synths, underpinned by samples. Crucially, it's based both on both their own perceptions, and also on audience reaction. Hartnoll states: "our analogue synths don't have memories deliberately... it's a wildcard. Every night is different; often you can't quite get the right sound so you'll play with something else, which inspires you to go off on a tangent. Sometimes you just get on a roll with a track and it'll last 10 minutes, the next night it'll be 3 becaue it just doesn't work out. It's also down to the audience reaction... they'll love different songs, it's often down to the local and current tastes".The use of samples mean that even amongst the improvisation, the audience can hold on to their knowledge of the original tracks: "Samples are the recognisable, main part of the track... they are identical to the record as it was recorded 20 years ago. It gives that kind of recognition that people love, but your drum sounds and analog synths are changed around". Of course, Orbital are famed also for their trademark headtorches (originally worn simply to see their equipment) and also for their visuals, a crucial aspect of live electronic music. It's a fact that physically, two men near some equipment do not match the presence of a live band, but this is compensated by inventive visuals, Hartnoll stating: "'The visuals are kind of our lead singer. They're the lead singer jumping around and pulling faces". Read page 2 12 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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The Tanzania Investment Centre is officially recognised as the primary government agency responsible for coordinating, encouraging, promoting and facilitating investment in the country as well as generally advising the government on matters relating to investment.
According to its own website, it is meant to serve as the focal point for people and institutions investing or intending to invest in Tanzania. Put a bit differently, it is the first point of call for potential investors and a one-stop facilitative centre for all investors.
A close look at the centre's operations over the years shows that, despite the various odds it has had to contend with, it has made laudable progress towards realising its vision of growing into a world-class investment promotion agency portraying Tanzania as Africa's premier investment destination.
But there also have been understandable reservations over TIC's ability to or seriousness about its own self-proclaimed mission of promoting and facilitating investment for national economic development by improving conditions for the growth of business and entrepreneurship.
Fortunately, the centre was from its formative years modest enough to hint in its core values that it was only "through a positive corporate culture underpinned by team spirit, professionalism, integrity, creativity, customer care and dedication to excellence" that it hoped to translate its vision into concrete action supporting the national development agenda.
Most of those critics who may have initially dismissed the centre as too elitist and foreign-oriented for the comfort of Tanzanians must be disillusioned, given the extent to which it has gone in making our country more friendly to foreign and local investors but also in fighting to ensure that more and more of our people become investors to be reckoned with.
This is part of what we clearly see in TIC's recently launched drive under which it has already conducted training seminars for local government officials, starting with ward councillors from Kinondoni Municipal in Dar es Salaam.
The centre is convinced that ripe is ripe for the officials to be introduced to the bolts and nuts of investment as a way of helping them to play a more meaningful role in mobilising members in their respective wards towards more gainful participation in entrepreneurship.
Although one would wish that the initiative first covered and benefited evidently more economically disadvantaged household, villagers, wards, districts and regions instead of Dar es Salaam, the effort is all the same praiseworthy.
This is essentially because many residents of the city and its environs badly need the kind of training and skills the TIC initiative is designed to offer. And there is a consolation in the assurance by the centre that every ward in Tanzania will be reached – that, resources allowing, it's just a matter of time.
It is noteworthy that the training offered encourages the participation of the councillors themselves by way of coming up with investment ideas or proposals for possible implementation in collaboration with well established local and foreign investors.
Many of Tanzania's numerous tourist attractions and much of its investment potential remain sleeping economic giants chiefly owing to lack of the relevant know-how, a hurdle the TIC seminars are out to clear. What a golden opportunity!


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Filip Korč
Nussallee 15
53115 Bonn
At the Institute:
from 2006 to 2010
Statistics and optimization based approaches to computer vision and machine learning. Tractable parameter learning in probabilistic graphical models for context sensitive image interpretation.
- eTRIMS - eTraining for Interpreting Images of Man-Made Scenes. EU 6th Framework Project. 2006-2009
Filip Korč, "Tractable Learning for a Class of Global Discriminative Models for Context Sensitive Image Interpretation". Thesis at: Department of Photogrammetry, University of Bonn. 2012.
@phdthesis{Korvc2012Tractable, author = {Kor{\vc}, Filip}, title = {Tractable Learning for a Class of Global Discriminative Models for Context Sensitive Image Interpretation}, school = {Department of Photogrammetry, University of Bonn}, year = {2012}, url = {http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2012/3010/3010.htm} }
Sabine Daniela Bauer and Filip Korč and Wolfgang Förstner, "The potential of automatic methods of classification to identify leaf diseases from multispectral images", Precision Agriculture. Vol. 12(3), pp. 361-377. 2011.
Three methods of automatic classification of leaf diseases are described based on high-resolution multispectral stereo images. Leaf diseases are economically important as they can cause a loss of yield. Early and reliable detection of leaf diseases has important practical relevance, especially in the context of precision agriculture for localized treatment with fungicides. We took stereo images of single sugar beet leaves with two cameras (RGB and multispectral) in a laboratory under well controlled illumination conditions. The leaves were either healthy or infected with the leaf spot pathogen Cercospora beticola or the rust fungus Uromyces betae. To fuse information from the two sensors, we generated 3-D models of the leaves. We discuss the potential of two pixelwise methods of classification: k-nearest neighbour and an adaptive Bayes classification with minimum risk assuming a Gaussian mixture model. The medians of pixelwise classification rates achieved in our experiments are 91% for Cercospora beticola and 86% for Uromyces betae. In addition, we investigated the potential of contextual classification with the so called conditional random field method, which seemed to eliminate the typical errors of pixelwise classification.
@article{Bauer2011potential, author = {Bauer, Sabine Daniela and Kor{\vc}, Filip and F\"orstner, Wolfgang}, title = {The potential of automatic methods of classification to identify leaf diseases from multispectral images}, journal = {Precision Agriculture}, year = {2011}, volume = {12}, number = {3}, pages = {361--377}, doi = {10.1007/s11119-011-9217-6} }
Filip Korč and David Schneider and Wolfgang Förstner, "On Nonparametric Markov Random Field Estimation for Fast Automatic Segmentation of MRI Knee Data", In Proceedings of the 4th Medical Image Analysis for the Clinic - A Grand Challenge workshop, MICCAI., pp. 261-270. 2010.
We present a fast automatic reproducible method for 3d semantic segmentation of magnetic resonance images of the knee. We formulate a single global model that allows to jointly segment all classes. The model estimation was performed automatically without manual interaction and parameter tuning. The segmentation of a magnetic resonance image with 11 Mio voxels took approximately one minute. Our labeling results by far do not reach the performance of complex state of the art approaches designed to produce clinically relevant results. Our results could potentially be useful for rough visualization or initialization of computationally demanding methods. Our main contribution is to provide insights in possible strategies when employing global statistical models
@inproceedings{Korvc2010Nonparametric, author = {Kor{\vc}, Filip and Schneider, David and F\"orstner, Wolfgang}, title = {On Nonparametric Markov Random Field Estimation for Fast Automatic Segmentation of MRI Knee Data}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Medical Image Analysis for the Clinic - A Grand Challenge workshop, MICCAI}, year = {2010}, pages = {261--270}, note = {Beijing} }
Sabine Daniela Bauer and Filip Korč and Wolfgang Förstner, "Investigation into the classification of diseases of sugar beet leaves using multispectral images", In Precision Agriculture 2009. Wageningen, pp. 229-238. 2009.
This paper reports on methods for the automatic detection and classification of leaf diseases based on high resolution multispectral images. Leaf diseases are economically important as they could cause a yield loss. Early and reliable detection of leaf diseases therefore is of utmost practical relevance - especially in the context of precision agriculture for localized treatment with fungicides. Our interest is the analysis of sugar beet due to their economical impact. Leaves of sugar beet may be infected by several diseases, such as rust (Uromyces betae), powdery mildew (Erysiphe betae) and other leaf spot diseases (Cercospora beticola and Ramularia beticola). In order to obtain best classification results we apply conditional random fields. In contrast to pixel based classifiers we are able to model the local context and contrary to object centred classifiers we simultaneously segment and classify the image. In a first investigation we analyse multispectral images of single leaves taken in a lab under well controlled illumination conditions. The photographed sugar beet leaves are healthy or either infected with the leaf spot pathogen Cercospora beticola or with the rust fungus Uromyces betae. We compare the classification methods pixelwise maximum posterior classification (MAP), objectwise MAP as soon as global MAP and global maximum posterior marginal classification using the spatial context within a conditional random field model.
@inproceedings{Bauer2009Investigation, author = {Bauer, Sabine Daniela and Kor{\vc}, Filip and F\"orstner, Wolfgang}, title = {Investigation into the classification of diseases of sugar beet leaves using multispectral images}, booktitle = {Precision Agriculture 2009}, year = {2009}, pages = {229--238} }
Filip Korč and Wolfgang Förstner, "eTRIMS Image Database for Interpreting Images of Man-Made Scenes", April, 2009.(TR-IGG-P-2009-01) 2009.
We describe ground truth data that we provide to serve as a basis for evaluation and comparison of supervised learning approaches to image interpretation. The provided ground truth, the eTRIMS Image Database, is a collection of annotated images of real world street scenes. Typical objects in these images are variable in shape and appearance, in the number of its parts and appear in a variety of congurations. The domain of man-made scenes is thus well suited for evaluation and comparison of a variety of interpretation approaches, including those that employ structure models. The provided pixelwise ground truth assigns each image pixel both with a class label and an object label and o ffers thus ground truth annotation both on the level of pixels and regions. While we believe that such ground truth is of general interest in supervised learning, such data may be of further relevance in emerging real world applications involving automation of man-made scene interpretation.
@techreport{Korvc2009eTRIMS, author = {Kor{\vc}, Filip and F\"orstner, Wolfgang}, title = {{eTRIMS} Image Database for Interpreting Images of Man-Made Scenes}, year = {2009}, number = {TR-IGG-P-2009-01}, url = {http://www.ipb.uni-bonn.de/projects/etrims_db/} }
Filip Korč and Wolfgang Förstner, "Approximate Parameter Learning in Conditional Random Fields: An Empirical Investigation", In 30th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM). G. Rigoll (Eds.) Munich, Germany(5096), pp. 11-20. Springer. 2008.
We investigate maximum likelihood parameter learning in Conditional Random Fields (CRF) and present an empirical study of pseudo-likelihood (PL) based approximations of the parameter likelihood gradient. We show that these parameter learning methods can be improved and evaluate the resulting performance employing different inference techniques. We show that the approximation based on penalized pseudo-likelihood (PPL) in combination with the Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) inference yields results comparable to other state of the art approaches, while providing low complexity and advantages to formulating parameter learning as a convex optimization problem. Eventually, we demonstrate applicability on the task of detecting man-made structures in natural images.
@inproceedings{Korvc2008Approximate, author = {Kor{\vc}, Filip and F\"orstner, Wolfgang}, editor = {G. Rigoll}, title = {Approximate Parameter Learning in Conditional Random Fields: An Empirical Investigation}, booktitle = {30th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM)}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2008}, number = {5096}, pages = {11--20}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-69321-5_2} }
Filip Korč and Wolfgang Förstner, "Finding Optimal Non-Overlapping Subset of Extracted Image Objects", In Proc. of the 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA). Buffalo, USA 2008.
We present a solution to the following discrete optimization problem. Given a set of independent, possibly overlapping image regions and a non-negative likeliness of the individual regions, we select a non-overlapping subset that is optimal with respect to the following requirements: First, every region is either part of the solution or has an overlap with it. Second, the degree of overlap of the solution with the rest of the regions is maximized together with the likeliness of the solution. Third, the likeliness of the individual regions influences the overall solution proportionally to the degree of overlap with neighboring regions. We represent the problem as a graph and solve the task by reduction to a constrained binary integer programming problem. The problem involves minimizing a linear objective function subject to linear inequality constraints. Both the objective function and the constraints exploit the structure of the graph. We illustrate the validity and the relevance of the proposed formulation by applying the method to the problem of facade window extraction. We generalize our formulation to the case where a set of hypotheses is given together with a binary similarity relation and similarity measure. Our formulation then exploits combination of degree and structure of hypothesis similarity and likeliness of individual hypotheses. In this case, we present a solution with non-similar hypotheses which can be viewed as a non-redundant representation.
@inproceedings{Korvc2008Finding, author = {Kor{\vc}, Filip and F\"orstner, Wolfgang}, title = {Finding Optimal Non-Overlapping Subset of Extracted Image Objects}, booktitle = {Proc. of the 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA)}, year = {2008} }
Filip Korč and Wolfgang Förstner, "Interpreting Terrestrial Images of Urban Scenes Using Discriminative Random Fields", In Proc. of the 21st Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). Beijing, China, pp. 291-296 Part B3a. 2008.
We investigate Discriminative Random Fields (DRF) which provide a principled approach for combining local discriminative classifiers that allow the use of arbitrary overlapping features, with adaptive data-dependent smoothing over the label field. We discuss the differences between a traditional Markov Random Field (MRF) formulation and the DRF model, and compare the performance of the two models and an independent sitewise classifier. Further, we present results suggesting the potential for performance enhancement by improving state of the art parameter learning methods. Eventually, we demonstrate the application feasibility on both synthetic and natural images.
@inproceedings{Korvc2008Interpreting, author = {Kor{\vc}, Filip and F\"orstner, Wolfgang}, title = {Interpreting Terrestrial Images of Urban Scenes Using Discriminative Random Fields}, booktitle = {Proc. of the 21st Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)}, year = {2008}, pages = {291--296 Part B3a} }
Filip Korč and Václav Hlaváč, "Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation" Rosenhahn, Bodo and Klette, Reinhard and Metaxas, Dimitris (Eds.) Vol. 36, pp. 105-130. Springer. 2007.
This work contributes to detection and tracking of walking or running humans in surveillance video sequences. We propose a 2D model-based approach to the whole body tracking in a video sequence captured from a single camera view. An extended six-link biped human model is employed. We assume that a static camera observes the scene horizontally or obliquely. Persons can be seen from a continuum of views ranging from a lateral to a frontal one. We do not expect humans to be the only moving objects in the scene and to appear at the same scale at different image locations.
@inbook{Korvc2007Human, author = {Kor{\vc}, Filip and Hlav{\'a}{\vc}, V{\'a}clav}, editor = {Rosenhahn, Bodo and Klette, Reinhard and Metaxas, Dimitris}, title = {Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2007}, volume = {36}, pages = {105--130}, edition = {1}, url = {http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/demos/Tracking/TrackHumansKorc/} }
- Image Interpretation - Practical Course, Teaching Assistant, SS 2008
- Image Interpretation, Teaching Assistant, WS 2007 - 2008
- Intro. to Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Remote Sensing, Teaching Assistant, SS 2007
- Image Analysis, Teaching Assistant, WS 2006 - 2007
- Finished: Ribana Roscher (MSc)
- Vienna, IST Austria, Feb 8, 2011
- Jülich, Research Center Jülich, Jan 17, 2011
- Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Oct 27, 2010
- Prague, Czech Technical University in Prague, Apr 30, 2009
- London, Pixsta, Feb 18, 2009
- Guildford, University of Surrey, Feb 13, 2009
- Stuttgart, Daimler Group Research, Sep 25, 2008
- New York, Google Research, Apr 4, 2008
- Bonn, IGG PhD Seminar, Feb 13, 2008
- Venice, 4th euCognition Meeting, Jan 10, 2008
- Telč, 11th CVWW, Feb 8, 2006
- 2003 - 2006 Graduated with Honors, Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
Master's Thesis, with Prof. Václav Hlaváč, Awarded the Prize of the Dean
- 2004 - 2005 Study Abroad, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- 1999 - 2003 Undergraduate Studies, Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
- 2001 - 2002 Study Abroad, Union College, USA
- 2006-2010 Research Assistant, Dept. of Photogrammetry, University of Bonn, Germany
- 2005 Two-months company internship, Advanced Computer Vision GmbH, Austria
- 2004 Two-months academic project, Center for Machine Perception, Czech Republic
- 2003 Three-months company internship, ZPA CZ, Czech Republic
- 2002 Two-months Summer Research Fellowship, Union College, USA


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A great value compact TV with a built-in DVD player
You really don't have to look far to find the appeal of Sanyo's CE47FD51B. A whopping 47in of Full HD LCD pictures for just £1,200 delivers a pounds per inch ratio that's bound to get the mass market chomping at the bit. The important question is whether its quality matches its quantity.
Once a big player on the UK TV market, Sanyo's influence has rather waned in the face of constant price pressure and huge ranges from so many larger rivals.
It's hard to know where you stand with Sanyo. Just when you think you've got the company pegged as the last word in cheap and cheerful kit, it surprises you with something spectacularly ambitious – like the aggressively priced, full HD CE47FD51.
Thirty-seven inches of LCD gives you a set pitched somewhere between a standard living room goggle-box and the kind of giganto-screen favoured by hardcore movie freaks and professional footballers.
With so many great looking, feature-packed LCD TVs out there, it takes something out of the ordinary to surprise us. Enter the Sanyo CE-32LDY1, stage left. For starters, it looks sumptuous, with its burnished Aluminium screen frame ...
If you want Freeview hard disk drive recording but don't have the space for another box in your AV setup then Sanyo thinks it has the answer. This HD-ready 32-inch LCD set comes with a built-in 160GB hard disk drive (HDD) ...
This is one of Sanyo's 'designer' LCD TVs and is made in the UK. Its attractive, minimalist frame comes in blue, black, white or red. The screen can detach from its stand and be wall-mounted, but it's stocky for an LCD due to the extra interior hardware
The Sanyo comes in at roughly twice the price of budget offerings from the likes of Evesham, but still just falls within the 'affordable' category. The spec is roughly equivalent, but you get a digital tuner on top of the HD readiness


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The Free Cities are nine powerful, independent city-states located across the Narrow Sea to the east of Westeros. They are located on the western coast of the massive eastern continent of Essos. They trade with the Seven Kingdoms, and each one is a distinct and individual culture by itself.
The overall area of the Free Cities and their respective territories are roughly equal in size to Westeros south of the Neck.
Pentos is the only Free City to have appeared directly thus far, but most of the others have been mentioned in dialogue.
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, there are nine Free Cities: Braavos, Pentos, Norvos, Qohor, Lorath, Tyrosh, Lys, Myr and Volantis. Tyrosh, Lorath and Lys are located on islands off the coast, whilst Norvos and Qohor are inland, roughly east of Pentos. The rest are major seaports.
Aside from Braavos, the Free Cities were colonies of the mighty empire of Valyria and gained their independence after the Doom. As Martin has stated that the Valyrian Empire is essentially his fantasy world's equivalent of the Roman Empire, the Free Cities are essentially his equivalent of the medieval Italian city-states (the coastal ones that have a mediterranean climate; Norvos and Qohor might be more like other romance regions in medieval France/Germany, etc.)
Braavos in the far north was founded by refugees fleeing Valyrian tyranny. In terms of size, Volantis appears to be physically the largest city and the most populous, but Braavos is the richest and most powerful in military terms, as well as considered as being almost impregnable due to its position on a hundred islands in the middle of a vast lagoon, unassailable by land. Lys and Myr are perpetual rivals, frequently warring over the Disputed Lands to the west of the River Rhoyne, as well as the Stepstones. Volantis and Tyrosh are sometimes reluctantly pulled into these wars. Volantis, at the mouth of the Rhoyne, is a major slave-trading center and a major stop for travelers heading from Westeros and the Free Cities to distant Slaver's Bay. The Rhoyne and its numerous tributaries form a substantial trade and transport link through the interior of the landmass.
- Braavos: the most powerful and northerly of the Free Cities, located on islands in a lagoon, led by the Sealord. The city is home to the influential Iron Bank of Braavos and the secretive assassins' guild known as the Faceless Men. The city is noted for its religious tolerance and hatred of slavery.
- Lorath: arguably the least-known and possibly the least-powerful Free City, located on an island south-east of Braavos, in the Shivering Sea.
- Lys: an island city in the Summer Sea, located close to the Stepstones and protected by a formidable navy and informal Lyseni "freesails", who often rent their services to the highest bidder. Lys is noted for its pleasure houses. Its people are fair skinned, blonde haired and blue eyed.
- Myr: a seaport located close to the Disputed Lands and on an arm of the Narrow Sea known as the Sea of Myrth. Noted for its skilled craftsmen and their products, particularly optical lenses and fine lace. Lys and Myr have been bitter rivals for centuries. Its people are dusky and considered exotic by Westerosi.
- Norvos: a major inland city, located on the River Noyne northeast of Pentos. Norvos is renowned for its axes. It is situated in the hill country in the north of Essos, known as the Hills of Norvos.
- Pentos: a major seaport, land-based and vulnerable to Dothraki incursions from the continental interior. Among other items, it is frequently noted for its trade in cheeses. Ruled by the Prince of Pentos, supported by a council of merchant Magisters. Allied to Braavos.
- Qohor: a major inland city, located in the immense Forest of Qohor near the edge of the Dothraki sea, east of Norvos on the River Qhoyne. Noted for its immensely skilled blacksmiths. Qohor maintains a garrison of Unsullied warrior-eunuchs which it buys from Slaver's Bay to defend itself against the Dothraki.
- Tyrosh: a major seaport and mercantile city, ruled by the Archon. Tyroshi are known for extravagant clothes, flashy armor and rich tastes. Tyrosh is located on an island close to the Stepstones, and is thus the Free City closest to Westeros. Due to its location between the Stepstones, Disputed Lands, and Westeros, it is often seen as a major hub for hiring the services of various professional mercenary companies, to serve in the various conflicts of these different regions.
- Volantis: the southeastern-most of the Free Cities and the largest, most populous and most corrupt, ruled by the Triarchs of Volantis. Noted for its immense slave markets and Valyrian traditions. Volantis was originally the most powerful of the Free Cities but its strength was sapped in the Bleeding Years, leading to it being narrowly edged out by Braavos. Volantis is built on the main mouth of the immense River Rhoyne, with numerous tributaries of the Rhoyne forming a defensive barrier to the east that protects the city from the Dothraki. The major trade routes from Westeros to distant Slaver's Bay and points beyond, such as Slaver's Bay, the Jade Sea, Qarth and Asshai, pass through Volantis.


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Police say Carolina Cyber Center #3 on Old Tar Road was held up around 1:15 a.m. this morning.
Two men came into the business, and police say one of them forced an employee to the rear of the business at gun point to open the cash register. The second man acted as a lookout at the front door.
Employees tell WITN that more than $2,300 was taken.
Three weeks ago another Internet cafe was robbed around 1:00 a.m. at the intersection of Stantonsburg Road and Arlington Boulevard.
No one was injured in either robbery.
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The editors of American School Board Journal (ASBJ) have compiled their annual list of the top 10 notable books in topics related to K-12 education from the last year in the magazine's January 2012 issue.
"Our 2011 list reflects books on education that have a major impact on public opinion and are important to school leaders," said Kathleen Vail, ASBJ's Managing Editor.
Topping the list is Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools, one of most talked-about education books of the year, which portrays unions as the primary obstacle to school reform.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland on COP21 Security
Recorded: Saturday, November 28, 2015
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland is interviewed on CCTV America about security measures taken by the French Government during the COP21 Climate Change Summit in Paris. After terrorist attacks, France has reinforced borders, mobilized 120,000 police officers, and banned large marches that had been planned to coincide with the climate summit.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Terrorism and National Crises
Ivan Eland Interviewed on US Governors Call To Deny Asylum to Syrian Refugees
Recorded: Monday, November 16, 2015
In this interview aired by WHDT World News, Ivan Eland calls by Republican governors against accepting Syrian refugees into the United States. Eland calls this nonsense, and he stresses the importance of ending American intervention in Muslim countries, while focusing on security at home.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Immigration, Terrorism and National Crises
Senior Research Fellow Ivan Eland on the Syrian Situation
Recorded: Wednesday, November 4, 2015
CCTV Americas Mike Walter spoke with Ivan Eland, senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute, about American and Russian roles in the Syrian Crisis and about what can be done to resolve the situation.
Nov. 4, 2015
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy
Freedom Act, Patriot Act or Status Quo Act
Recorded: Monday, June 8, 2015
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland appears on RTs CrossTalk program to discuss topics surrounding the US Patriot Act and whether or not Edward Snowden was a hero or a traitor. On a panel with other defense analysts, the US war against terror is debated. The panel discusses whether or not the US government is violating the constitutional rights by collecting metadata of phone calls and emails of US citizens.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Privacy
Partitioning Iraq for Peace
Recorded: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland, author of Partitioning for Peace, appeared on "Doug Stephan's Good Day" radio program. Eland talks about the state of terrorism in the Iraq and whether the US creates more of a problem with its intervention. He also discusses the question of how ISIS is different than other terror groups.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: RadioIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Freedom, History (International), Nationalism, Politics, Race Issues, Religion, Terrorism and National Crises
Ivan Eland: DEA's New Database
Recorded: Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on Doug Stephan's Good Day radio show to talk about the DEA and their tactics of accessing data from civilians' phone calls. According to Eland, this is an example of one agency borrowing tactics from another in violation of the Constitution.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: RadioIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Culture/ Society, Democracy, Law Enforcement, Terrorism and National Crises
Ivan Eland on Ranking US Presidents
Recorded: Sunday, October 26, 2014
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, appears on Fox & Friends to discuss his updated version of "Recarving Rushmore."
To order copies of "Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty," click here.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Freedom, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Government Waste/Pork, History (U.S), Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Regulation and Deregulation, Terrorism and National Crises, Trade
Ivan Eland: Ukrainian Economy Nears Collapse
Recorded: Monday, September 22, 2014
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland is interviewed on Arise TV about the continuing crisis in Ukraine, where the economy is collapsing as the country deals with threats from Russia.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Economic History and Development (International), Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), Political Ideology and Philosophy


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RSC- Movie Night in Bush: Grown Ups 2
1hr 41min - Rated PG-13 - Comedy Director: Dennis Dugan - Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.
Date: Saturday, October 19th, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Duration: 3 hours
Location: Bush Memorial
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First of all, a bit of background information. I was born in The Netherlands and i am now 22 years old, 6" 1 and 220 lbs. I have had this weight for a long period of time (since i was 15, give or take). When i was 17 i decided i was done being that heavy and i dropped 55 lbs. It all slowly came back on when i went to university. I have never done any real weightlifting or sports, except for the occassional game of squash.
In January of this year i moved to Australia to attend university there and i decided it was time for me to change. I started working out, without any knowledge thinking i would be big within a week. How wrong i was.
I am now four weeks into Starting Strength after being directed to that program by Nockits. It has become pretty clear that i am incredibly weak for my weight. I see guys half my weight lift double the amount of weights i am. It is pretty frustrating sometimes, but i keep trying. Maybe i am just being a little bitch, so i really need to get a grip.
I decided to start a journal so i can keep an eye on my progress and to maybe get some help from you guys who have already helped me so much. So, here it goes.
Today was workout B of the program so i started with
3x5x55kg <-- i was really tired after doing these
3x5x25kg <-- failed on the first set after 3 reps, second set after 2, third after 1. Third time i am doing this weight and it just does not seem to get stronger.
I have been doing the row instead of the power clean because i read that without a coach it would be really difficult to get proper form down. However, with trying to be less of a little bitch i tried to do the power clean today. Not sure what the reps were at first (trying to nail the form) but i am sure i did the following:
Was not able to do my chins because 4 people were hogging the assisted machine and i cant do them by BW alone. First week of doing dips and chins btw.
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Explosive tags are scraps of paper inscribed with a special writing, centring around the kanji for "explode" (爆, baku). Infused with chakra, they will explode after a set amount of time, remotely, or after being ignited by flame. The tags can be attached to a surface or wrapped around a weapon to be thrown at an enemy. They are very versatile and one of the basic ninja tools. Ninja can confuse their enemies by obtaining fake explosive tags. They work even under heavy rain.[1]
When an explosive tag is detonated remotely, ninja tend to use the "Snake" hand seal. Similarly, when used remotely, explosive tags can be detonated in sequence, allowing them to be used to trap opponents.[2]
Utilised Techniques
- Barrier Method Formation
- Blastsword Technique: Blasting Bridle Repeating Death
- Explosive Tag Technique
- Mutually Multiplicating Explosive Tags
- Paper Ocean Technique
- Sealed Bomb Square Release


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This upgrade from the MC-91 controller that comes with Rinnai tankless water heaters has extra features such as a clock, intercom, bath fill mode, and volume control. From basic temperature control to system troubleshooting to an automatic bath-fill function, Rinnai's remote controllers will give you maximum performance and enjoyment from your tankless water heater system.
The bath fill function allows a preset amount of water at a selected temperature to be run into the bathtub automatically. No special valve or accessory is needed to use this function aside from the BC-100V-1 controller. A few seconds after bath fill is selected a voice prompt will say "The hot water system is ready. Open the hot water tap." Once the preset amount of water has been reached the water heater will automatically shut off the flow of water until the bath fill mode button has been pressed again to turn it off.
- Moisture resistant plastic case
- Use up to 4 touch pads with each Rinnai unit
- 98° to 140°F temperature range
- In use indicator
- Water smart bath fill function
- On board diagnostics and safety monitoring
- 12 Hour AM/PM clock (when paired with MC-100 controller)
- Call button allows users to contact another controller
- Priority and on/off switches
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Glorious Glass by Josiah McElheny
Posted by Cynthia | Filed under Musings
I was taken by the imagery in the New York Times, of Brooklyn glass artist Josiah McElheny. Finding inspiration in Cosmology, and the infinite, Mr. McElheny's beautiful "Island Universe" is part of a new exhibition of his work at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston. The installation is an expansive sculpture with protruding glass and chrome arms that is meant to illustrate the dynamism of the Big Bang theory. Highly reflective surfaces, courageous scale and sculptural form, create a dynamic and powerful display, somehow defying the fragility of the medium.
"Trained at both the Rhode Island School of Design and the glass foundries of Europe, McElheny's highly conceptual projects are realized through exquisitely wrought execution. His work recalls the turn-of-the-century designs of Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956), whose Vienna Secession light fixtures ground functionality in lushly modernist forms. Hoffmann's desire to hybridize art, industry, and the artisanal appealed to McElheny, whose sculptures stage that perpetual tension between aesthetic innovation and good design that has beset the avant-garde."
McElheny's work will be on display at the ICA starting June 22nd until October 14th.
Image sourced at NY Times. Excerpts sourced at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston.
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UnBooks:Official Informational Guide to the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games
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Welcoming to the Official Guide to the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games (known in the Canada as Olympische Informatie van Peking 2008), I will be of providing information pertaining to upcoming Olympic in understandable languages, for your understandability, taking place soon!
We are of much honored that you have made choice to buy this definitive guide to 2008 Beijing Olympic, thank you. You will not be disappointing!
- 1. Times, Events and Location
- 2. Things to be doing
- 4. Local Customs and legal
- 3. Maps, glossy picture
- 8. Different language
- 8a. Enjoyment
Important! Things to be knowing before use of booklet:
- Do not be exposing booklet to naked or otherwise indecent flame.
- Only be reading in safely lit area, or cause eye destruction.
- Be of the stationary position when operating booklet.
As you are already knowing, there is great Olympics occurring in pleasant city of Beijing. Glorious nation of China is very much honored to be hosting such lovely event and will be enjoying your visitation. There will be much great events happening; from ancestor culture display to spontaneous military parade. You will be forced to having much fun!
Please to be remember that the Party prefers to keep enjoyment responsible and indecent free (no sex situation), according to local custom, please. Keep happiness and other emotions in designated areas, please.
Designated enjoyment locations:
- Park directly opposing stadium location
- Lo-Ping's Karaoke Bar
Peoples' PlazaClosed to public
- Vietnam
Olympics Games!
The Olympics event will start operation with ceremony of opening on 8th of August, 8th -there will be much partying and amusing during this time. Olympic stadium is of great wonder of intelligent designing – it is building of many amazement, appearing like delicious nest of cave swallow! Constructed of Chinese ingenuity, manpower and lead paint, it makes astounding location to be starting Olympic-like events!
The opening ceremony will put expression of utter awe on your face; a homage to China's long and ponderous past and bright blossoming future, it will feature traditional dancing, amazing special effects, inspiring music and glorious cross promotion.
Following will be 16 days of amazing sporting competition, showcasing the best of human strength, human agility and human growth hormone!
The Beijing Olympics Games will see gracious competition taking place in several differing disciplines, over 16 separate days, at many beautiful location. World record will fall like cherry blossom in spring!
All the traditional Olympics event will be occurring; Running, Gymnastic, Swim, Boating, Team-Games, Stick Jumping, Doping and Tight Pant Wearing. Beside these glorious events will be several pleasant new ones debuting at the Beijing Olympic.
- BMX Cycle- Nothing is more greater entertainment than watching man ride tiny bike. Up and down, flips, make bike fly like golden eagle in chase; to perfect BMX cycle takes the patience of a ox, the deft hand of the virgin weaver and the matted hair of the stoner. Glorious Stadium of the BMX has been equipped with all modern spectator needs; mosh pit, cycle pit, edibles pit and excrement pit. May the "sick shit" be commencing!
- Water-boarding- We are proud to be announcing first Olympic competition in ancient Chinese aquatic sport of waterboarding. Waterboarding currently has many million supporter within People's Republic of China and a very vigorous local scene, meaning competitor selection will be very of the difficult and will likely come down to karaoke contest. The American team is suspected to be big challenge, thanks to much experience and extensive training camp in Cuba. For your comfort we have built state of the artistic stadium, seating over 30,000 spectator or 20 CIA agent. With 20 giant screen and counterfeit iPod compatible seat, you will not be missing none of the enjoyment!
Many past and current Olympics champions are expected to return for Olympic competition and buffet discount coupon, out to defend their titles and receive more glorious endorsement dollars!
Spectator will see patriotic battle for right to wear Gold medal and endorse glorious vitamin pills - May you also be seeing many great victories by new and elderly champions alike!
For Your Enjoyability!
We are all skittish as the aging husband of a teenage bride, awaiting your visitation. We have made city pleasant, all for your maximum happiness, even the children like people are working to make your pleasant stay completely memorable!
- Children can be deposited at various sites around the city for period of Olympics. They will be occupying with pleasant activities such as handcraft, television watching and sock manufacture.
- Each visitor will be provided with 2 exquisite Chinese maids for the duration of Olympics. If maid is gossipy or otherwise defective, please take her to nearest distributer and exchange for newer model or store credit.
- The party has removed all undesirables from the vicinity of the Olympic site; you will not be troubled by the poor, retardeds, the undead, people who speak to loudly on their mobile phones or wearers of an hair piece.
- To prevent the invasion of smog during the Olympic times, the party is using the most state of the art technologies available at present time, now. These include; cloud seeding, wind creation, pumping all smog to Taiwan and erecting strongly worded signs - Please do not be entering this area, you will be irritate competitor's lungs and companies share price, thank you.
- Beijing Olympics will be the first truly "green" Olympics, even water is glow green! We have taken message of energy conservation to heart, all light bulbs and other illumination devices will be reclaimed and released into specially created reserves around the Olympic site. Visitors will be able to marvel at the spectacular 60 Watt Light Globe in its natural environment and know that future generations will be able to do so in the future!
For helping unliterate tourist, we have made a range of symbols identifying the location of different sporting and toiletry events, in simple and discrete manner;
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Furnished in a fresh Mediterranean style, with carved beech furniture and terracotta panels decorated by the famous Ischian artist Enrico delle Donne; equipped with: bath or shower/wc and hairdryer, telephone, satellite tv, minibar , air condition, safe and Wi-Fi internet connection (included in the rate). Standard rooms enjoy garden view or patio view. Some of them are with balcony or terrace. Is possible also to book two connecting rooms.
Sea view rooms
The sea view rooms, unlike the standard rooms have a view on the Maronti Beach or on San'Angelo. Most of them have balcony or terrace and the option of adding a third bed. Wi-Fi internet connection is free of charge.
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Are Beachfront rooms and are located on the first and second floor. All have balconies overlooking the Maronti beach and also enjoy the view on private beach and the outdoor thermalpool.
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- For the island see Dragonstone (castle)
Dragonstone is a volcanic island in the Narrow Sea that guards the entrance to Blackwater Bay and the sea approaches to King's Landing, off the east coast of Westeros. It is the location of the eponymous castle of Dragonstone, the ancestral seat of House Targaryen and now seat of King Stannis Baratheon, one of the claimants to the Iron Throne.
Large amounts of dragonglass can be found on Dragonstone, but it isn't a precious or even particularly useful material, being too brittle to make weapons and too sharp to use in building. Otherwise, the only significant advantage of holding Dragonstone island is its strategic position, guarding the entrance to Blackwater Bay and King's Landing.
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