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Serbs' Other Political Couple: Vuk and Danica Draskovic
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: August 23, 1999
BELGRADE, Serbia, Aug. 22— Vuk Draskovic, the leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, and his influential wife, Danica, find themselves at a political crossroads, suddenly less radical than many of their supporters, their commitment to the ouster of President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia called into question.
Having built a reputation as fierce and combative leaders of the opposition to Mr. Milosevic and his powerful wife, Mirjana Markovic, the Draskovics now have money, power, position and a lot to lose -- making them much like the tightly knit Milosevics themselves, whom they detest but to whom they are often compared.
The Draskovics control Belgrade, its many business opportunities and its powerful television station, Studio B -- all at the sufferance of Mr. Milosevic's Socialist Party.
And their efforts to find a peaceful way to oust Mr. Milosevic, to negotiate with him for new elections while trying to subvert him, has confused some of their followers and helped keep the opposition divided.
That was glaringly evident at a large anti-Milosevic rally on Thursday in Belgrade, which drew up to 100,000 people. When Mr. Draskovic realized how many had shown up, he felt compelled to crash the rally he had refused to attend.
The bearded Mr. Draskovic is normally a compelling orator, a kind of rock star.
But his speech, calling for early elections and not Mr. Milosevic's immediate removal, was too moderate for the crowd, marking a strange new episode in his career.
The Draskovics' desire for political power and dominance among the varied opposition leaders has led them to make various deals with the authorities while holding to the idea of fundamental democratic change. As they alternate between opposition and cooperation -- what critics call opportunism -- more people ask whether they have any other real aim beyond power. Tonight on Studio B, Mr. Draskovic defended his caution, saying it would be easy to call for civil war. ''I am Milosevic's opponent, but I am also opposed to a single head rolling,'' he said. ''I don't want people to get killed because of Milosevic.''
But many disappointed despisers of Mr. Milosevic say the Draskovics have become afraid of revolutionary disorder, corrupted and coopted, more interested in replacing the leader at the top than in destroying his system of crony capitalism and special favors.
Some suggest that they are so driven by an intense personal hatred for their erstwhile coalition partner of only three years ago, the Democratic Party leader, Zoran Djindjic -- an animosity fully reciprocated -- that the fight for supremacy within the opposition has overshadowed the fight against Mr. Milosevic.
Such charges infuriate Vuk and Danica Draskovic, now 53 and 54 respectively. In a recent, four-hour interview at their comfortable home, Ms. Draskovic said bitterly: ''Who led the demonstrations in 1991? And '93? And '96? Who led the fight in the streets? Who went to jail?''
But each time it has been Ms. Draskovic, a former judge forced to resign in 1973 by the Communists for refusing to jail a jobless man, who has pushed her husband, the orator and mover of crowds, to act boldly.
In late 1996, during enormous street protests that ultimately forced Mr. Milosevic to grant the democratic opposition their victories in local elections, Ms. Draskovic was captured on television urging protesters to take clubs and march on Dedinje, where Mr. Milosevic lives, and to seize power from the thieves who had stolen the elections.
Asked whether it was time now -- after the loss of Kosovo -- to urge people to take clubs to Dedinje again, Ms. Draskovic answered immediately, ''Yes, it's always time.''
Mr. Draskovic said nearly as quickly: ''No. No one wants a civil war.''
It is a tension that has defined their relationship, which is strong and mutually dependent, between the smart, aggressive daughter of a Chetnik -- a monarchist guerrilla during Nazi occupation -- and the son of a proud Partisan, a fighter with the victorious Communist Tito.
They were law students in 1968, the year of student upheavals throughout Europe, when they first met and dated, and took part in protests here against social injustice, inequality and ''the red bourgeoisie,'' the party bureaucracy.
Tito promised reforms, exhilarating Mr. Draskovic and the others, who danced and shouted, ''Tito we love you!''
But Danica Boskovic, Mr. Draskovic remembered in a 1990 interview with On magazine, was utterly contemptuous of the half-Croatian Tito and of their faith in him, and she exploded when Vuk tried to pull her into the celebratory kolo, or dance.
''What kolo?'' she demanded. ''That bandit, that Ustashe'' -- a Croatian fascist. ''He's cheated us and fooled us just to get us to calm down. I thought you were smarter than that.''
Vuk said: ''Don't speak that way about Comrade Tito. Get into the kolo.'' And Danica said: ''Choose: him or me.''
''Of course I chose Tito,'' Vuk said, ''and I seem to remember I pushed her away.''
A week later, Tito reneged and called the students counterrevolutionaries. ''I repented,'' Vuk said, ''and for four years I tried to exchange one word with Danica, in vain. She would not see me for four years.''
It's a true story, Danica said, laughing. Why did she relent? ''Vuk changed,'' she said. ''He left the party.''


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Board members of this organization Matt Russell and Gregg Taylor are the founder and current preacher, respectively, of this Mercy Street Drug Church.
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James Smith Scam | Complaints REVIEW: James Smith customers can feel safe confident & secure when doing business with James Smith Real-estate, James Smith Coaching Company and JamesSmithSeries.com. James Smith reinforces commitment to 100% customer satisfaction. James Smith stopped doing business with of 3rd party investor education companies, he had no ownership of or direct control over any customer service issues - That has all changed now. Read how James took the situation into his own hands. Draper Utah
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SPECIAL UPDATE: January 21 2012: James Smith Real Estate remains committed to increased customer satisfaction and has improved their business practices over the years to better serve their customers. James Smith Real Estate is truly dedicated to making sure their customers are satisfied and that any complaints which do arise are addressed promptly and fairly.
To date, James Smith Real Estate has made good faith efforts to resolve all complaints reported on Rip-off Report. Based on our experience, the member business has proven to be among the top members of the Rip-off Report Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation and Customer Satisfaction Program as a Verified Safe Business.
Over time and since becoming a member, James Smith Real Estate has remained actively engaged and improving the way they address customer service complaints. As an active and current member of the Rip-off Report Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation and Customer Satisfaction Program we are happy to report that now more than ever James Smith Real Estate remains committed to improving customer satisfaction.
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EDitor's Comment: Rip-off Report REVIEW: James Smith and his new James Smith Real-estate coaching company get a POSITIVE RATING in customer support from Rip-off Report and we can report that the company is actively fulfilling their commitment to provide excellent customer service to buyers of their real estate training. James Smith also pledges to resolve past complaints and address previous customer service issues. For the past several years James Smith has been an independent speaker teaching real estate investing strategies on behalf of 3rd party investor education companies such as National Real Estate Institute (NRI), National Real Estate Academy (NREA), Millionaires in Training (MIT), Net Marketing Alliance, and other similar companies. James Smith realizes now that this was a big mistake, for himself and more importantly many of their students/customers.
For years students have bought into James Smith's irreverent but engaging presentation style and were attracted to his genuine caring for each student and his unique philosophy of giving back to others through success in real estate. Unfortunately, the companies he spoke for didn't share his commitment to the student nor to customer service and it started to show. Rip-off Report received complaints from students over the last 3 years. Rip-off Report has investigated each of these reports and found that the majority of these complaints were related to customer service issues which James did not directly control. In fact, Rip-Off Report discovered that James Smith had no ownership in any of these companies. Although James spoke for these companies as a contractor, he did not control staffing decisions, product quality, customer service policies, refund policies, nor any other control mechanism to ensure customer service for his students. It was a very frustrating situation for him.
In March of 2008, James took the situation into his own hands. He formed a new company under his ownership and hired CEO (Aaron Osmond) from the Technology Training industry with over 10 years of proven experience in improving customer service at WordPerfect, Novell, and Microsoft's training businesses. In addition, James hired COO (Kim Ferguson) with over 20 years of experience in seminar and event operations to ensure that highest possible quality training experience for his students. James now has direct control of all company staffing, customer service, sales policies, and procedures. In addition, James has formed a new volunteer Customer Advisory Council to represent his students and hold the company accountable for issues and concerns. The Council meets monthly to address customer service issues, needed service improvements, and to discuss ways to grow the company from a student perspective. See www.JamesSmithSeries.com for more information. See www.JamesSmithSeries.com for more information.
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===================== James Smith - National Real Estate Investors a scam, a Rip-Off Their aim is to sale you and hook you into their pyramid sale scam Draper Utah
I will be begin by sharing the same feelings that others have reported about this company.
The first Real Estate Training the one advertised for 3 days for $6,000. is the first hook, it is very basic and the information can be obtain from a book or at any Real Estate class at a community college. During this 3 day training their aim is to sale you the next step-up training of 5 days for $22,000. where one is going to learn how to make millions in real estate, but while at this 5 day training again their aim to sale you more training and investments opportunities that end up not materializing into anything.
We attended our first training at the end of 2005 then follow with the next training of 5 days in 2006. Then we received a phone call from one of their telemarketing sales people promising us full return if not satisfied I am ashame to report how much we have been taken by this company but it is in the thousands. During the trainings,some of the presenters report how they are involved in charitable organizations donating thousands of dollars the name of God is even mention during the presentations so the feeling is that this people are nice and caring and they have your best interest at hart "Don't be a fool" Their only interest is to get as much of your money as they can.
I have file a report with several state and federal agencies, for those living in California it might do us well to file with the State attorney general I notice that the majority of people reporting on this company are from California so lets get together and join forces
Sylvia Roseville, California
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Update #1: Best Buy offered me a $20 Gift Card as compensation. Twenty. Dollars.
For whatever reason, I assumed the Wii-U wouldn't sell as well as the Wii. I remember the madness surrounding the Wii launch and how impossible it was to find one in a store for about two years after the release day. I pre-ordered that thing at my local Gamestop the day they were taking pre-orders, and didn't have a problem picking one up on launch day (buying an extra Nunchuck and Wii-mote, however, was a problem for at least the next month or so).
So when Wii-U pre-orders started, I waited a day before putting mine down. I'm a self-professed Nintendo fanboy so you'd think I'd have lined up for days for that shit, but I didn't. Anyway, I went to Gamestop and, as you probably already know, Wii-U Deluxe models are sold out. All they had were Basic models.
Ain't that some shit.
So I said, "Fine, put me down for one of them." But I wasn't content with this lower-tier model. I wanted the Deluxe. As luck would have it, Best Buy's website was still taking pre-orders for the Deluxe, so I placed an order there, fully paid, and arranged to have it picked up at a Best Buy brick-and-mortar near me. So now I had a pre-order for the Deluxe, again fully paid, and for the Basic. Wasn't sure what I was going to do with the Basic model, but I decided to play it safe and hold on to it. All seemed fine and dandy for about a month.
Then I get this email from Best Buy telling me that there's an issue with the payment for my pre-order. I call them up, as the email requested I do, and spoke to a rep who told me that for whatever reason, payment didn't go through, but now everything's fine. The item is now paid for, and my pre-order is still in place. Awesome.
Then another week later, I get another email telling me that the order was canceled. CANCELED.
What the flying fuck?!
Right now it's about 4:30 or so in the morning (I woke up early for some reason that day), and I immediately jump up, call Best Buy, and ask them what the crap was going on.
Apparently, the payment didn't go through and my pre-order was canceled. I ask them why and the rep tells me it's because of insufficient funds. I tell them that I had a similar problem about a week ago, and the rep at that time told me that everything was now fine. Eventually, I got on the phone w/a rep from my credit card company, who tells me that Best Buy had charged me twice for the item.
At this point, I have a rep from Best Buy and a rep from my credit card in a three-way conference call with myself, trying to figure out what the fuck just happened. After some time, they realize that the error was with Best Buy because they basically charged twice for the item. My credit card company thought it was fraud and withheld payment. Since Best Buy couldn't get their money, they straight up canceled that shit without notice (unlike the previous week when they emailed me about a potential problem before taking any action).
So then the two reps had worked everything out and the funds would now be available for the item. Again. Only here's where the real problem came up: the order was already canceled and because Best Buy's system is still listing the Wii-U as being 'sold out' they couldn't re-instate the order.
So now I'm on the phone with Best Buy or at least another hour for so trying to figure shit out. They can't get the order back in, the Best Buy stores can't do shit because their system isn't even seeing the Wii-U in there yet (at least until release day, they said. All their pre-orders for that item go through BestBuy.com), and that I'm basically shit out of luck.
The bright side: I still have that Basic-ass model pre-order at Gamestop. Another sucky thing about this is that I finally figured out what I was going to do with that version of the console: do some kind of charity thing with it. Sell that bitch on eBay, and some of the money goes to a charity of mine and/or the buyer's choice. Which I still might do.
Let's see how hard it is to buy a Wii-U Deluxe after launch day.


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CEE's Eric Adams wins the Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry
October 21, 2010
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Eric Adams, lecturer and senior research engineer in CEE, was awarded the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry for disproving the adage that oil and water don't mix. Adams and his co-investigators Scott Socolofsky S.M. '97, Ph.D. '01 and Stephen Masutani shared the prize with British Petroleum, one of the funders of a research project completed in 2000 that demonstrated that most oil from a spill in the deep ocean would in fact mix with water, rather than rise directly to the surface.
The Ig Nobels are awarded each year by Improbable Research, a local organization that inspires an appreciation for science and scientists by poking fun at research that, on the surface, appears frivolous or just plain funny. But this year, the selections for chemistry and economics displayed a deeper irony. Improbable Research ostensibly rewarded BP — whose Deepwater Horizon rig earlier this year spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly three months, greatly harming plant and wildlife and the region's economy — for proving beyond a doubt what had already been demonstrated, and the heads of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar — whose companies played a role in the recent economic meltdown — for innovative investment strategies.
In a ceremony held Sept. 30 at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre, Adams, Socolofsky and Masutani good-naturedly accepted their award. "It's too bad BP couldn't be with us. But in their stead and with no disrespect to either party, we bring you Steve," Adams said, referring to Masutani, a professor at the University of Hawaii who was dressed as the "Star Wars" tyrannical ruler Emperor Palpatine, carrying a sign that said "Big Oil."
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Health Ruling Vindicates Verrilli After Arguments Mocked
For U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Obama administration's health-care overhaul meant vindication.
During oral arguments in March, Verrilli faced questions from four of the court's Republican appointees, and afterward was mocked in campaign ads and by television talk-show hosts, raising expectations that President Barack Obama's signature domestic-policy achievement would be thrown out.
Yesterday, after the court issued its 5-4 ruling affirming the core of the 2010 law, Verrilli was the first person Obama called. The health-care decision came three days after the high court largely sided with Verrilli and the administration by scaling back an Arizona law targeting illegal immigrants.
"Don is one of the great Supreme Court and appellate advocates of our generation and he knew that," said David Ogden, a former deputy attorney general who is now a partner at WilmerHale in Washington. "He knew he did a job that was good enough to win the case."
Verrilli, 55, endured some suspenseful moments in the courtroom yesterday. While the decision was distributed outside to media and other watchers, people inside -- including Verrilli -- listened as Chief Justice John Roberts announced the ruling. With Verrilli sitting several feet away, Roberts started by saying the requirement at the core of the law -- that individuals get insurance or pay a penalty -- couldn't be upheld under Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce.
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For about ten minutes, the measure's future looked in doubt. Then, Roberts switched gears, saying that the majority had concluded Congress had the authority to impose the insurance requirement -- under its power to levy taxes, salvaging the health-care overhaul's constitutionality.
Verrilli and his colleagues celebrated afterward with champagne back at his office. The moment was a far cry from late March when commentators highlighted the harsh questioning he endured from the justices, including Roberts, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, as signs the law would be struck down.
Following the argument, Verrilli was mocked and criticized by people ranging from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart to CNN legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin. The Republican Party followed with an Internet advertisement that altered Verrilli's presentation to show him struggling for words and twice stopping to drink water.
"It was sufficiently sustained and nasty that it would affect anybody," said Paul Smith, Verrilli's former partner at Jenner & Block. "But Don is a grown-up and knows what a tough town it can be."
'Break Badly'
Verrilli, a Columbia Law School graduate and former law clerk to Justice William Brennan, returned to work after the health-care arguments and focused on the immigration case which was still pending. Privately, he made light of the criticism, and he hinted at it publicly during a speech to Columbia law graduates last month.
"There will be times when things break badly for you," he told them. "You don't live up to the expectations you have for yourself and others have for you. It happens to all of us. And when it happens it can be tough, believe me."
The oral arguments represented only a portion of what the court considered in reviewing the Obama health-care law, with the administration's case also made through court filings.
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Verrilli was well prepared and should not be criticized for presentation, according to Jack Balkin, a law professor at Yale University. "People tend to approach these arguments like it is Dancing with the Stars," he said. "They are not looking at the substance and strategy."
In a late filing to the court, Justice Department lawyers included more discussion of the U.S.'s tax power, while Verrilli also tailored parts of his argument toward Roberts and Kennedy in an effort to have one of them join the four more left-leaning justices to form a majority, Balkin said.
Nominated in January 2011 to replace Elena Kagan as Solicitor General, Verrilli had worked at Jenner & Block in Washington representing the music and movie industries, winning a 2005 Supreme Court ruling that lets them press copyright suits against Internet file-sharing networks.
Verrilli also argued for limits on the death penalty, as in 1998 when he unsuccessfully urged the Supreme Court to bar the three-drug method of lethal injection used across the country.
The decision on tax power surprised Paul Clement, the former solicitor general who represented 26 states challenging Obama's health care law. Arguments before the court focused more on the Commerce Clause, with taxing "not the focus," he said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.
"There's satisfaction in winning a big case, but more gratifying when people don't expect you to win," said Kannon Shanmugam, an attorney with Williams & Connolly in Washington who has argued 11 cases before the Supreme Court.


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IOCTL_EHSTOR_DRIVER_PERFORM_AUTHZ is sent by the Enhanced Storage Class Driver (EHSTOR) to the silo driver to initiate on-demand authentication or deauthentication.
Input Parameters
The input buffer at Irp->AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer must contain an AUTHZ_STATE structure that indicates the type of authentication operation to perform. AUTHZ_STATE is declared in ehstorioctl.h as the following.
typedef struct _AUTHZ_STATE { ULONG AuthzState; } AUTHZ_STATE;
The value of AuthzState specifies the authentication operation. This is one of the following.
|Perform on-demand deauthentication.
|Perform on-demand authentication.
|Perform on-demand deauthentication and clear cached authentication keys.
Output Parameters
I/O Status Block
STATUS_SUCCESS is returned in the Status field by the silo driver if the authentication state is changed. Otherwise, STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL is returned.
This IOCTL is sent by EHSTOR to a silo driver that supports on-demand authentication. The silo driver notifies EHSTOR of this capability in a prior IOCTL_EHSTOR_DRIVER_REPORT_CAPABILITIES request with the CAP_ON_DEMAND_AUTHENTICATION flag set in the Capabilities member of SILO_DRIVER_CAPABILITES.
In response to this IOCTL, the silo driver performs authentication or deauthentication for the device. For banded devices, the silo driver will, depending on the specified operation in the system buffer, unlock or lock as many bands as possible for reads and writes.
If the silo driver fails to perform the requested operation, it will not change the authentication state of a device.
If the AuthzState member of AUTHZ_STATE is set to AUTHZSTATE_CLEAR_AUTHKEY_CACHE, then the silo driver clears its authentication key cache in addition to deauthenticating. AUTHZSTATE_CLEAR_AUTHKEY_CACHE is set when the system is shutting down or hibernating. This prevents the presence of the key cache in the hibernation file.
If a device supports multiple silos, authentication by each silo is exclusive. An authentication operation by one silo driver does not affect the authentication state set by another silo driver.
Available starting with Windows 8
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"Mr. Huppenthal asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, so then I said, 'An electrician.'"
Little did Martinez know that Huppenthal had worked in the electrical field for over 30 years with Salt River Project.
"He went up to the stage and started talking, then he announced my name and I stood up," Martinez said. "I felt a little shy."
After the groundbreaking ceremony, Huppenthal reached out to Martinez and told him he would help him achieve his dream. The two had their first learning session on Wednesday at the Arizona Science Center.
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At only 10-years-old, Martinez has an edge over his young competition. Not only does he earn As and Bs in all of his classes, but Arizona Public Service also gave him an engineering starter kit and he'll be able to tour the SRP plants.
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Adobe After Effects ships with hundreds of animation presets, many of which take a range of the hundreds of effects that After Effects shapes with. Let's explore some of those presets. First off, make sure you can view them in the Effects and Presets panel by clicking the Option menu and making sure that Show Animation Presets is indeed enabled. Its folder will sort to the top of this list. You can just start twirling this open and look through the names of presets to see what they might be. For example, Image - Creative. Say that I want treat this selected piece of footage.
I'll twirl this open and look at all these different presets I've got here. Now some of these names may make enough sense that you can just apply them directly, just like you can drag an affect directly on to any piece of footage or double-click it to apply it. Same with Presets. Just drag your preset under piece of footage and bang, it's automatically applied. In this case, blue wash did indeed give more of a blue tint to this footage. To remove a preset, just press Command+Z or Ctrl+Z to go back to where you were.
Double-click gold dip. That's a far different look, very intense. Undo. Colorize-sepia, that what I expect it to. Now quite often with these presets I can just go ahead and double-click a name and get what I expect. Grayscales, different grayscale variations, different intensities there in the sky. Inset Video. That's kind of nice little instant picture in picture effect. Notice by the way than an animation preset can apply more than one effect. It's not just a single effect and a single set of parameters. I'll undo that.
However, some of these names may not be immediately obvious, like what is a scoop mask, what is a Bloom- crystallize? Mood Lighting-digital, what the heck does that mean? Well, you don't need to just play guesswork to see what these things look like. You can also browse these animation presets visually. To do that, you click on the Option menu again and choose Browse Presets. Doing so will open Adobe Bridge which ships with After Effects.
The first time you do it it'll take a few seconds to launch. As you can see here we've got a little bit of delay. But now I'm inside Bridge and it takes me right to the folder inside the After Effects application folder that has my animation presets. I click on the Folders tab here in Bridge and I see that inside Applications > After Effects CS5 > Presets is exactly where I am right now. The animation presets have been broken down into numerous folders. If I want to see what they look like, I double-click a folder to open it. Here is Image - Creative where I was before.
Now I get an actual visual preview of what these different effects look like. I start to see what these Bloom effects look like when I soften the images. Go down here to picture and picture displays. Here what the scoop masks looks like. Animation presets can include mask shapes by the way. And look down the list. Here is Mood Lighting streaks. I see that actually animates now over the image. Mood Lighting - amorphous. It's kind of nice. Animation presets can include animation, either automatic animation caused by effects or expressions or keyframed animations.
So animation presets are actually really, really flexible. Let's go up a level to Presets and start looking some of these other effects. Image - Utilities creates different things like flipping and flopping, different automatic levels. I will go back up a level. There is Transitions such as Dissolves and again clicking on one of these gives me a little animated preview of how this transition might look. Some different effects to look at here. Again, these can contain animation for me.
The thing to remember about animation presets by the way is they're just like pasting keyframes. The first keyframe of the present will start at the Current Time Indicator and there's also other categories like creating synthetic backgrounds for me automatically, etcetera. Let's go back to Image - Creative and say I want to apply one of these to my footage. Let's say that I like this Colorize - sunset gradient preset. I want to see how that looks on my sky. If it's going to add some morphs to my sky. All I need to do is double-click it here on Bridge and I'll be switched back to After Effects and the presets will be applied to the layer that was selected when I first choose Browse Presets.
So that's an important tip to remember. Select your footage then go browse the presets. You can edit these presets just like you edit any effect that you apply to footage and if you don't like a preset just Command+Z and Ctrl+Z to undo its application. You can also stack presets on top of each other. If I go back Image - Creative and say I want to first convert this to a grayscale and then I want to add the sunset gradient on top, it'll just stack all those effects and those presets on top of each other.
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Hello, I would like to be able to display at the top of a sidebar (in a text widget) a simple, single line that shows the live date and time.
Wed 01-27 | 10:13 am
I found some code, and managed to alter it and place it into my theme's functions.php file without causing the theme to crash, I think. (Atahualpa theme)
I don't know whether the function should respond with "echo" or "return"
--- begin code snippet -----
function tim_time {
$tt = date('D m-d | h:i a');
echo $tt
function tim_time {
$tt = date('D m-d | h:i a');
return $tt
--- end code snippet -----
But I have not figured out what syntax to put into the text widget to call this function.
Also, I have no idea if it would show a live, running time-- or just a 'snapshot' of whatever time it was when the function was "first" run.
Can any kind soul take mercy on me and point me down the right path??


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Skip to comments.Whats The Worst Case Scenario For Obamacare?
Posted on 10/16/2013 1:16:16 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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"Make no mistake, the congressional fix will be single payer.
This was all planned".
Yup! Here are some excerpts from the blueprint they are working from:
"In the USSR a developed socialist society has been built. At this stage, when socialism is developing on its own foundations, the creative forces of the new system and the advantages of the socialist way of life are becoming increasingly evident, and the working people are more and more widely enjoying the fruits of their great revolutionary gains".
"Developed socialist society is a natural, logical stage on the road to communism". -1977 Soviet Constitution
That train has left the station. No one is gonna want the Gov't to run healthcare again ...
You mean the fathers will be soaked because they have to provide the medical for the youngsters. Mama can get by with an individual policy.
Let's not forget about this:
FRANKS: Repealing Obamacare by defending the Constitution
Obamacares Unconstitutional Origins - A. McCarthy
Obamacare Catch 22?
Look like the Dutch system. Four players that cornered around 80% of the market. Stifled competition and prices are around the same regardless of the company.
You forgot the most loyal democrats - inner city blacks who can barely read - they'll blame whites in general and President Bush in particular... and the MSM will quote them ... endlessly.
The boys at the New York Times would believe sh*t was lumps of gold if it fell from the mouth of an elite democrat. Obama's incompetents are in luck - they don't have to work too hard to find excuses. Even now average dems are blaming President Bush for ObamaCare's problems..
The last paragraph is exactly what they wanted. Single payer is coming.
And one more thing. Failure of obamacare will not hurt the democrat party. Their voters are in the bag. They'll never vote for anyone else no matter what happens. Because whatever happens in never the democrats' fault. I've seen liberal voters make excuses for obama and the democrats when you show them a fact. Of course, these same people claim to be moderate. In fact, they think obama is a moderate. They told me so.
Obamacare is a profit machine for the insurance companies. They'll be collecting government force premiums but not have to pay out anything because of the high deductibles.
Horsecrap. It could fail 50 times over, in ways we can't even articulate at this moment, it could never provide a lick of medical care, it could be shown to be a complete ripoff and never cause anyone in the entire country to get a freaking band aid for their kidney dialysis treatment and it would be lauded by the administration and the media and 51.3% of the population. And the next thing will be that the admin insists that we have to import 50 million (more) illegals to make the system work, raise taxes, increase deductibles, and only offer medical care on Tuesdays and Thursdays and STILL the FSA will insist it is their birthright, it is perfection except that it only requires a bit more time to perfect, and it will be applauded by everyone as the greatest humanitarian thing the United States has ever done, notwithstanding the defeat of Naziism and liberation of Europe, and the defeat of The USSR.
It's over.
Not a snowball's chance in hell. Possibly in the private sector, but government??? No way.
Given that voters are "fire fighters" and not "fire preventers," we need Obamacare to kick in for the following reason. Voters evidently need to get "kicked in the teeth" by constitutionally indefensible federal Obamacare to motivate them to get off of their couches and use their voting muscle to repeal Obamacare.
Voters, including former Obama supporters, can do so by trying to elect 2/3 conservative majority control of both Houses of Congress in 2014 elections. If voters succeed in doing so, then Congress will have the power, under the Constitution's Clause 2 of Section 7 of Article I, to override presidential vetoes. In other words, Congress will be able to repeal Obamacare without Obama's signature.
It is not an insurance program. Insurance is a group of people who voluntarily agree to share risk. It must follow some basic actuarial principles or it will not work. The first principle that there is no free lunch. Obamacare will never work.
Ratings for Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, and SportsCenter will go up?
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mario is boring if its just going in paintings or other stuff. except this is fun nothing like it.
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1 does strip the flesh increase the damage of tediore reloads?2 what was the problem with buzz axe rampage and melee attachment and roid damage. 3.if i use say the fotfh shield and weapons with melee attachments the damage would be calculated how it should? since its not a roid shield? or was that problem patched?
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What is Burning Bush?Burning bush is a plant. People use the leaves and roots to make medicine.
Burning bush is used for digestive tract disorders including cramps, stomach problems, and worms in the intestines. It is also used for urinary tract and genital tract disorders.
Women take burning bush to start menstruation, as birth control, and to help force out the placenta after childbirth.
Other uses include treating epilepsy, spasms, fluid retention, and baldness; liver disease (hepatitis); and use as a stimulant or tonic.
Some people apply burning bush directly to the affected area (topically) for treating skin disorders such as wounds, eczema, bacterial infection (impetigo), swelling (inflammation), and an infection (scabies) caused by tiny lice-like insects; as well as for painful conditions such as joint pain caused by arthritis or rheumatism. Other topical uses include treatment of fever; excessive uterine bleeding; use as a sedative for adults and children; and use as a tonic.
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Staff profile - Benjamin Isakhan
AsPr Benjamin Isakhan
|Associate Professor of Politics and Policy
role description
|Faculty or Division:
|Faculty of Arts and Education
|SHSS Arts & Ed
|Melbourne Burwood Campus
|+61 3 924 43934 +61 3 924 43934
Benjamin Isakhan is Associate Professor of Politics and Policy Studies and Member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University, Australia.
Ben is also Adjunct Senior Research Associate, Department of Politics at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and an Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Ben is the author of Democracy in Iraq: History, Politics, Discourse (Routledge, 2012 HB, 2016 PB) and the editor of 6 books including, most recently, The Legacy of Iraq: From the 2003 War to the 'Islamic State' (Edinburgh University Press & Oxford University Press, 2015 HB, 2016 PB).
Ben has also published many articles in esteemed international journals and given keynote lectures and refereed conference papers across Iraq, Lebanon, the UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Jordan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and Australia.
Ben has also won various awards and national competitive grants, including an Australian Research Council (DECRA) grant for the project 'Measuring the Destruction of Heritage and Spikes of Violence in Iraq' (AUD$399,639; 2012-15) and a grant from the Australian Department of Defence for the project 'Measuring Cultural Property Destruction in Iraq and Syria' (AUD$637,656; 2015-2017). Ben is currently Chief Investigator on the project 'Heritage Destruction in Iraq and Syria'.
In 2012 Ben was awarded the 'Vice Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research: Early Career Researcher' and in 2009 Ben won the La Trobe University 'Postdoctoral Research Proposal Award'.
Ben has taught underdratuate and post-graduate courses on the International Relations, History and Politics of the Middle East, Islamic Studies and Political Science. He supervises several PhD students, is a member of various professional and academic associations and is regulalrly interviewed for radio, print and television.
Career highlights
Adjunct and Visiting Research Fellowships:
2016: Visiting Research Scholar, Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project, Universitu of Oxford (UK).
2015 - : Associate, Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney, Australia.
2014 - 2017: Adjunct Senior Research Associate, Department of Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
2014 - 2015: Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK).
2013: Visiting Research Fellow, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University (UK).
2012: Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies and the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (US).
Middle East Studies Association (US)
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (US and Iraq)
The International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (UK)
The Middle East Institute (US)
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (UK)
Australasian Political Science Association (APSA)
Professional activities
Editorial Committee
Journal of Democratic Theory (international peer-reviewed journal)
Related Links
Middle East Studies Forum at: MESF
Dowload Publications at: Academia
Research Profile at: Deakin Research
Citation Data at: Google Scholar
News Feed at: Twitter
Awards and prizes
Isakhan, B. (2012). Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research: Early Career Researcher. University wide award competition for best ECR contribution to research. Chief Investigator: Deakin University. AUD$5000.
Isakhan, B. (2009). La Trobe University Postdoctoral Research Proposal Award. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (for Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship submission). Chief Investigator: La Trobe University. AUD$6000.
Research projects
Heritage Destruction in Iraq and Syria
Associate Professor Isakhan is the Chief Investigator on a major project documenting Heritage Destruction in Iraq and Syria. This two part project sets out to measure and interpret the heritage destruction which has occurred in Iraq and Syria, following the Iraq War of 2003 and particualrly since the rise of the 'Isalmic State' from 2014.
Research interests
- Middle East Politics and History
- Heritage Destruction across the Middle East
- The History of Democracy
- Iraqi Politics and History
- Political Science
- Heritage Studies
Research grants
Isakhan, B. (2015-17). Measuring Cultural Property Destruction in Iraq and Syria. The Australian Department of Defence, Australian Government. Chief Investigator: Deakin University. AUD$637,656
Isakhan, B. (2012-2015). Measuring the Destruction of Heritage and Spikes of Violence in Iraq. Australian Research Council. Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Chief Investigator: Deakin University. AUD$399,639.
Isakhan, B. (2013). Iraq 10 Years On: Intervention, Occupation, Withdrawal and Beyond. Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. Funding to Co-host conference in Melbourne, Australia on ten year anniversary of Iraq war. Chief Investigator: Deakin University. AUD$12,000.
Isakhan, B. (2011). Measuring Heritage Destruction and Spikes of Violence in Iraq. Deakin University Central Research Grant Scheme. Chief Investigator: Deakin University. AUD$22,000.
A full list of publications is available for download at: Academia
Recent Books
- Isakhan, B. (2012). Democracy in Iraq: History, Politics, Discourse. London: Ashgate.
Recent Edited Books
- Isakhan, B. (Ed.). (2015). The Legacy of Iraq: From the 2003 War to the 'Islamic State'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New York: Oxford University Press.
- Isakhan, B., & Slaughter, S. (Eds.). (2014). Democracy and Crisis: Democratising Governance in the Twenty-First Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Isakhan, B., Mansouri, F. & Akbarzadeh, S. (Eds.). The Arab Revolutions in Context: Civil Society and Democracy in a Changing Middle East. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
- Isakhan, B., & Stockwell, S. (2015 [2012]). The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New York: Oxford University Press.
- Isakhan, B., & Stockwell, S. (2012 [2011]). The Secret History of Democracy. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Translated into Arabic and Japanese)
Recent Journal Articles
- Isakhan, B. (2015). Creating the Iraqi Cultural Property Destruction Database: Calculating a Heritage Destruction Index. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 21(1), 1-21.
- Isakhan, B. (2014). The Politics of Australia's Withdrawal from Iraq. Australian Journal of Political Science, 29(4), 647-661.
- Isakhan, B. (2011). Targeting the Symbolic Dimesnion of Baathist Iraq: Cultural Destruction, Historical Memory and National Identity. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 4(3), 255-279.
- Rane, H., Nathie, M., Isakhan, B., & Abdalla, M. (2011) Towards Understanding What Australia's Muslims Really Think. Journal of Sociology, 47(2), 123-143.
Recent Book Chapters
- Isakhan, B. (2015). Heritage Under Fire: Lessons from Iraq for Cultural Property Protection. In Logan, W., Craith, M. N. & Kockel, U. (Eds.) A Companion to Heritage Studies. London: Blackwell.
- Isakhan, B. (2015). Succeeding and Seceding in Iraq: The Case for a Shiite State. In Kingsbury, D., & Laoutides, C. (Eds.) Territorial Separatism in Global Politics: Causes, Outcomes and Resolution. London: Routledge.
- IIIIIIIIIIsakhan, B. (2014). Protests and Public Power in Post-Saddam Iraq: The Case of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions. In Anceschi, L., Gervasio, G. & Teti, A. (Eds.) Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies (p. 117-128). London: Routledge.
- Isakhan, B. (2014). Democratising Governnce after the Arab Revolutions: The People, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Governance Networks of Egypt. In Isakhan, B., & Slaughter, S. (Eds.) Democracy and Crisis: Democratising Governance in the Twenty-First Century (p. 149-165). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Isakhan, B. (2014). Heritage Destruction and Spikes in Violence: The Case of Iraq. In Ziedler, J. A. & Kila, J. D. (Eds.) Cultural Heritage in the Crosshairs: Protecting Cultural Property During Conflict (p. 221-249). Leiden: Brill.


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Four years of NCAA probation ended Wednesday for the Bulldogs after the NCAA found assistant coaches under Jackie Sherill provided improper benefits to recruits.
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