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August 9, 2007
Whole Wheat Quesadillas
I'm a big fan of Mexican food, but if you eat it out, although it's highly scrumptious, it's also highly calorie and fat laden! It's one of those occasion things you like to splurge on, but there's no reason you can't slim it down at home and eat it more often! The result is yummy and is not so bad for you. Who can argue with that? ;o)
What amuses me about things such is quesadillas is that some people think it's a hard dish to make. When I've served them in the past I've had people comment about how they were amazed I had bothered, because they were so hard to make. That couldn't be farther from the truth! If you're nervous about making them just follow the step by step run down below. You can't go wrong!
What You'll Need Per Person:
2 whole wheat tortillas (Note: I usually use Tamixicos 100% Whole Wheat Tortillas. They have 300 mg calcium, 10 whole grains and 50 mg of Omega-3 fatty acids EPH/DHA. What's not to like?)
1/3 cup of chicken, shredded
1/4-1/3 cup of salsa
2 tablespoons of cheddar, Monterrey jack or Colby Cheese
Salsa and/or sour cream for dipping (Note: If you want to dip it in salsa you can leave it out of the quesadilla itself. I use medium salsa, but it's a matter of choice. Also light or fat free sour cream is what I usually use.)
Place a large skillet or griddle over medium to high heat to heat pan.
Step One:
Lay one of the tortillas on a large cutting board and layer with chicken.
Step Two:
Add the salsa and distribute evenly.
Step Three:
Sprinkle with cheese.
Step Four:
Place the remaining tortilla on top and press down slightly.
Step Five:
Spray your preheated pan with non-stick spray. The pan should be hot! Place the quesadilla in the pan careful not to let any of the filling spill out. Press the top down with a spatula to help things stick. Don't walk away! Stay with the pan and check every 20-30 seconds to see if the bottom has browned. It usually takes no longer than 2 minutes per side. As soon as it has browned remove the quesadilla from the pan and place on a cutting board. (The cutting board makes it easier to flip the quesadilla to cook the other side.)
Step Six:
Use the cutting board and a spatula (or your hand if you're really tough ;o)) to flip the quesadilla over to brown the other side. Press the top again with the spatula and keep checking until browned and remove to cutting board again.
Step Seven:
Cut into wedges. (I've found that a bread knife works really well in cutting them into slices.) Cut the quesadilla in half and then cut each half in three or four individual peices depending on how large you want them.
Step Eight:
Garnish and enjoy!
Notes: You could leave out the chicken and add in cooked mushrooms for a vegetarian option. You could also just go with cheese for a Cheese Quesadilla. You can use a mix or cheese or just one. It's completely up to you! For an appetizer portion this would make two servings. For a main course it would make one serving.
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A New Theory of PTSD and Veterans: Moral Injury
But as clergy and good clinicians have listened to more stories like these, they have heard a new narrative, one that signals changes to the brain along with what in less spiritually challenged times might be called a shadow on the soul. It is the tale of disintegrating vets, but also of seemingly squared-away former soldiers and spit-shined generals shuttling between two worlds: ours, where thou shalt not kill is chiseled into everyday life, and another, where thou better kill, be killed, or suffer the shame of not trying. There is no more hellish commute.[more inside]
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The Giants say wide receiver and punt returner Domenik Hixon will miss the 2010-11 season after tearing the ACL in his right knee during a practice at the New Meadowlands Stadium on Tuesday.
The Giants say Hixon will have surgery in two to three weeks and recovery time for the injury is about one year.
This is a big blow to the wide receiver depth chart, but an even bigger blow to special teams. The Giants will now need to audition punt and kick returners to replace Hixon. Hixon was probably going to be No. 4 on the depth chart this season behind Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks and Mario Manningham, but his loss will be felt more on special teams where he was one of the better punt returners in the NFC.
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America has been conquered by the international bankers and subsequently, America is on life support. At one time, I believed that if enough people, like myself, could wake up enough Americans as to the dangers we face, we had a fighting chance to take our country back from the bankers that have hijacked the government. However, I am not so sure that too much damage has not been done and that we should all be focusing on survival instead of direct confrontation with the globalists.
FEMA Camps, the NDAA, National Health Care and the specter of martial law dominate the headlines in the alternative media. The truth be known, none of these draconian policies developed by the Bush and the Obama administrations may be needed to completely subjugate the American people. The number one enemy facing the American people are not the Chinese, the Iranians, the Bilderbergers or any other liberty-destroying group. The number one enemy facing America is its profound level of stupidity!
The evidence supporting a tsunami of mass retardation sweeping across America is omnipresent. Consider the implications of the answers for the following questions:
What kind of citizenry would tolerate endless wars of occupation which are serving to bankrupt the country?
What kind of citizenry would tolerate its elected leaders to pass and implement a health care system based upon the British NHS which pays bonuses for euthanizing the elderly?
What kind of citizenry would tolerate its elected leaders who profit from insider trading? What kind of citizenry would tolerate its elected leaders who exempt themselves from most of the taxation policies that they impose on their constituents?
What kind of citizenry would tolerate its elected leaders handing over control of the military to the United Nations?
What kind of citizenry would tolerate these violations of the public trust? The answer is simple. Only an incredibly stupid and dumbed down population would tolerate these abuses from their elected leaders.
America was once the intellectual envy of the world. At one time, we produced the best innovators and subsequent inventions on the planet. This is no longer the case. How dire is America's intellectual deficit?
America's intellectual deficit starts right at the top of the intelligence pyramid, namely with its intelligence quotient (IQ). The USA scores the lowest in national average IQ among the developed countries of the world, at a national average score of 98. The data is obtained from IQ and Global Equality by Dr. Richard Lynn (professor of Psychology, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland) and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen (University of Tampere, Finland).
The diminishing intellectual abilities of the country coalesce each day inside of each of our public schools. Teachers frequently complain that, today In America, it has become "cool to be a fool." We now honor stupidity as if it is a virtue as evidenced by the following video clip.
President Bill Clinton's mentor, Carroll Quigley, professor of history at Georgetown University and author of the 1966 book, Tragedy and Hope stated that "The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies." One would have to believe that America, as a whole, would have to be incredibly stupid to fall for a such a simpleton trick, but, that is exactly what has happened. The implication that Americans are too stupid to see through the lies and deception of the globalists, is correct. Consider the following examples of American's abject stupidity.
General Stupidity of Americans
50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married
55% of the U.S. population does not know that the Sun is a star
25% believe we won our independence from a country OTHER than Great Britain.
29% couldn't name the vice president
73% couldn't correctly say why we fought the Cold War
44% were unable to define the Bill of Rights.6% couldn't even circle Independence Day on a calendar
Societal Stupidity
Only in stupid America can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance
Only in stupid America do drug stores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front
Only in stupid America do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight
Only in Stupid America do they have drive-up ATM's with Braille lettering
65% of high school seniors cannot find Britain on a map
12% of high school seniors could not find the USA on a map
Political Stupidity
23% can identify the first President of the United States
10% know how many justices sit on the Supreme Court
14% know who wrote the Declaration of Independence
27% can correctly identify the two houses of the U.S. Congress
22% of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just 1 in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms
And, please explain to me, how in the hell did we elect this moron, TWICE?
Can America be saved despite the widespread ignorance which has spread across the country like an out of control pandemic. How did it get it this bad?
Is this country even worthy of being saved?


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"If you look at the package that we've presented -- and there's some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating. For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your -- if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you're not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge." Might have? Mr. President, it was never in there! You were the only one that was ever saying, "If you like your insurance, you can keep it." Both the House and Senate bills specifically had ways, numerous ways in which people would not be able to avoid losing their existing coverage and plans.
He was the only one saying it. Now, Mr. Bevan says, "If we take this statement at face value, President Obama is admitting the the [sic] health care bills passed by either the House or Senate (or both) contained provisions which were 'snuck in' -- presumably by Democratic members and perhaps on behalf of certain lobbyists -- that would have in fact prevented people from keeping their current insurance and/or choosing the doctor they want. This was one of the core debates on health care throughout last year: Would President Obama and the Democrats' legislation allow government to come between citizens and their choice of doctors and insurers? Obama promised it wouldn't. Republicans said it would, and this was one of the aspects of the legislation that led them to characterize it as a government takeover of health care -- the same characterization that Obama chastised the GOP for today.
"So it's a bit of shock to find out now -- from the President himself, no less - that one or both of the bills that passed Congress late last year (the House passed its version in late November, the Senate on Christmas Eve Day) contained language that would have violated this pledge." So he knew the pledge was violated. There was no effort to take it out. There was no effort to take out. He says, "We were in the process of eliminating it." Well, no way. I mean, the House and Senate bills both contained it. You remember, folks. If any aspect of your current health care plan changed -- including if your premium went up or if the deductible changed or if you changed provider -- that was it. You were through, and you were going to have to go to the government option. And, by the way, the government option is as much alive today as it ever was in these backroom, strategic negotiations. And of course the states are working on this. We had that story. "States Seeking to Ban Mandatory Health Insurance." You can go to jail for it under the bill if you don't have insurance. You can get fined or perhaps even go to jail. Right now, "Lawmakers in 34 states now have filed or proposed amendments to their state constitutions or statutes rejecting health insurance mandates, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council..." They don't want any part of this.


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LiLo as Liz: A collection of photos.
Unless you've been stuck living in some kind of pop culturally oblivious corner of the world, you're aware that Lindsay Lohan is going to make her big acting comeback later this year with the Elizabeth Taylor Lifetime biopic.
As of yesterday, photos of LiLo in costume have been popping up all over the place. The photo above is the first official photo of Lindsay and Grant Bowler (who's playing Richard Burton, obviously) to be released, but there are also a bunch of photos of her on the set that I'll post below.
What do you think? Does she look the part? How are we feeling about this project, is it going to be a success or are people just going to tune in because they want to see how much of a trainwreck it is? Do you think think this will earn Lindsay credibility? Has anyone ever gained credibility from doing Lifetime films? Shannen Doherty's career says 'not really,' but I love Shannen, and I'd like to see Lindsay be successful and get her shit together, so I'm hoping for the best.
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The Mayor works full-time, managing the day-to-day operations of the City and providing leadership and policy direction to the City Council. The Mayor chairs all meetings of the City Council, voting only in the case of a tie. The six members of the City Council work part-time, holding budget and policy-setting authority for the city. The Mayor and City Council members are elected at large by popular vote. City Council members are elected to a specific Council seat, but the seats are not determined geographically. City elections are held in odd number years (e.g. 2007, 2009, 2011).
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Boise April 15th, 2009 - Burglary charges top the overnight arrests in Boise
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Charges: Burglary (F)
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Boise Police responded to a shoplifting report at a retail store on the 430 block of North Milwaukee yesterday at approximately 8:18 p.m. Employees at the store tell police they witnessed two suspects who appeared to be working together conceal several clothing items in a bag. Witnesses say the pair then left the store without paying for the items. Loss prevention employees detained the man and woman, later identified as Tina Fletcher and Anthony Twohy, and contacted police. Boise Police believe the suspects entered the store with the intent to steal, resulting in the felony burglary charges.
The Boise Police Organized Retail Crime Unit has developed a positive, productive working relationship with loss prevention agents from many local retail stores, large and small, local and national chains. The goal of the BPD Organized Retail Crime Unit is to work with retailers to reduce theft and fraud, crimes that can impact consumer prices.
Arrested: Matthew R. Snelson, 24, Boise
Boise Police responded to a shoplifting report at a retail store on the 110 block of East Myrtle Avenue at approximately 8:08 p.m. yesterday. Witnesses at the store tell police they observed the suspect, later identified as Matthew Snelson, conceal several items in a backpack. Witnesses say the man then left the store without paying for the items. Boise Police believe the suspect entered the store with the intent to steal, resulting in the felony burglary charge.
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Last week, we looked at the running back position for the St. Louis Rams, but this week's position breakdown will cover the wide receivers.
Wide receiver is one of the more intriguing positions for the Rams in the upcoming season. Though an underwhelming group a year ago, the unit possesses the potential to make big strides in 2014.
The Rams have a top-notch defense and a solid running game to carry the team, but there's a great deal of uncertainty surrounding their aerial attack. The team's passing offense maximizing its potential could be just the boost the Rams need to finally make the playoffs. But if the group stumbles, it could drag the whole team down.
Without a doubt, all eyes of the St. Louis fanbase will be on the Rams receivers.
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Well, it's been three days since the election and President Obama won. Some Republicans are doing some soul-searching. Others are saying the political equivalent of "The dog ate my homework." But the election was too close for either side to be smug.
By the time Alaska's votes are counted in the presidential elections, it's been called. We aren't a swing state; with our population we aren't even a state people think about. In 2008, I was watching polls in the Mendenhall Valley to be sure they stayed open late enough, that people weren't turned away — the televisions were already announcing Barrack Obama the winner.
It's easy to feel like our voices don't count in a race like that, but yesterday's election was only about our voices. So why did only 25-26 percent of people actually vote?
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 '''Deborah Gardner''' was a Peace Corps volunteer who was murdered by another volunteer on the South Pacific island of Tonga in 1976.

 Gardner was a recent graduate of Washington State University when she joined the Peace Corps. She was stationed on the island of Tonga where she met Dennis Priven, a volunteer who had come to Tonga a year earlier. Priven was instantly infatuated with Gardner but Gardner did not share his feelings. The disparity in their feelings became abundantly clear when Gardner accepted a dinner invitation from Priven: he envisioned a romantic dinner, but after he attempted to give Gardner an expensive gift, she left, feeling uncomfortable. Despite this, Priven continued to pursue her and she continued to try to evade him, going so far as to request a transfer to another island.

 A few months before the end of Priven's Peace Corps stint, a party was held for all the volunteers on Tonga, attended by both Priven and Gardner. Gardner left the party, intoxicated, with another member of the Corps who escorted her to her hut, witnessed by Priven and others. Less than a week after the party, Priven killed Gardner.

 A local villager heard screams coming from Gardner's hut and rushed to the scene. He reported seeing Priven attempting to drag Gardner out of the hut. As soon as Priven noticed the villager, he dropped her body and fled the scene on bicycle. She later died from 22 stab wounds, but not before she was able to say who attacked her.

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Guest blogger Bryan Samuels is the Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families at ACF.
The transition from being dependent on parents and family for most of our resources and support, to being independent and embracing the autonomy of adulthood is a challenging journey that everyone must face eventually.
For some teenagers and young adults, that transition is even more difficult because home is an unsafe place.
Sometimes it's unsafe because of physical violence and threats, sometimes it's because of parents' or caretakers' neglect, and sometimes it's sexual abuse. In those cases, leaving home could seem like the best decision from a set of undesirable options. And sometimes young people leave home and must face the transition to adulthood much earlier than their peers, whether or not they are ready.
For lesbian gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth who have left home—heap on top of those struggles the complication of searching for your identity— when the home you left, the school you attend, and the social messaging all around you rejects you for who you are.
Yet through all of these hardships, there are LGBT young people who are able to heal and recover and become healthy and happy adults. They are able to form and sustain lasting relationships, find and keep stable housing, and connect with a job and career that they find fulfilling.
On March 9, I participated in the White House's Regional Conference on LGBT Housing and Homelessness in Detroit, where we discussed the social and emotional challenges that homeless LGBT young people face. We also brainstormed ways that the federal government, state, and local organizations can move toward facilitating healing and recovery for many more homeless LGBT young people.
Helping youth build a set of key characteristics, like self-esteem, self-efficacy and personal strength, is a big piece of this puzzle. There are community level factors that benefit LGBT young people as well:
• Having a web of supportive friends, teachers and adults
• Feeling connected
• Being part of a group that has worth
• A safe space to "come out" and "be out" among friends and family
Efforts to build these characteristics and community level factors will only lead to strong, resilient adults when we address the whole person. This means understanding that many of the issues LGBT youth face are similar to their non-LGBT peers, and that personal and social rejection adds a distinction to the work that ought not be ignored.
We are committed to keeping this work at the front of our agenda at the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, both for the Runaway and Homeless Youth programs and for youth in foster care. Look for us to continue to search for ways to improve our programs' ability to meet the needs of LGBT youth.
The White House will sponsor another discussion important to LGBT Youth. The White House LGBT Conference on Safe Schools & Communities will take place Tuesday, March 20, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the University of Texas at Arlington. Keynote speakers include Eric H. Holder, Jr., attorney general of the United States and Valerie B. Jarrett, senior advisor to the President. For more information about the event, click on this link.


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|Avoiding Bad Encounters with Black Bears
A River Runner's Strategy for
Avoiding Bad Encounters with Black Bears
American black bears are seldom seen yet
Upon arriving at a campsite, do a quick sweep of the beach and the trails leading into the campsite. Look for recent bear tracks and other signs of bear activity. If you find recent bear sign, either move to a different site or ratchet up your bear awareness and avoidance.
Food Preparation, Storage and Dealing with Waste
1. Plan on leaving coolers and dry boxes on the boats. Bring to the kitchen only the food you are going to prepare and consume immediately. All coolers and boxes should be latched and strapped down.
2. Return all food and garbage to the boats and secure after meals. Rinse cans and bottles with river water to reduce odors.
3. Set up a dishwashing station as close to the river as possible. Wash dishes after every meal. Strain the dishwater, put food debris in your trash, then disperse dishwater into the river.
4. Wipe down tables and stoves with a bleach solution after every meal.
Sleeping Area
1. Select an open site - like the beach. DO NOT CAMP ON A TRAIL!
2. Sleep in a tent. Keep the tent and sleeping gear free of food items and food odors. Avoid using scented lotions, perfumes or any other odorous substances.
3. Sleep in clothes different from the ones you wore while eating or preparing meals.
4. Locate sleeping areas away from the kitchen by 100 yards, if possible.
5. Keep tents in close proximity. A large number of snoring people are less likely to be attacked. If an attack happens, a group will be more successful in driving off the bear and rendering aid to the victim.
1. Hike in groups. A person hiking alone is most at risk from a bear attack on the trail.
Make noise, talk loudly, clap hands, especially in dense brush or hiking into the wind.
Do not whistle, it makes you sound like that tasty bear snack, the marmot.
4. Avoid natural bear food sources – carcasses of large animals, berry patches, etc.
If you encounter a bear…..
On the River
Quietly observe from your boat. Maintain a safe distance of at least 50 yards. If you are going to close that distance, make noise and let the bear know of your presence.
On the Trail
1. Stay calm. If the bear is unaware of your presence, quietly leave the area.
2. Mutual respect and retreat is a good strategy for you and the bear. If the bear sees you, let the bear know you are human, talk normally and leave the area. Stand your ground if the bear charges or follows.
3. Never corner a bear or obstruct its escape route.
4. If you see a cub, mama is somewhere close--Retreat.
In Your Camp
1. Allow the bear to move off.
2. If the bear does not move off: Stand your ground, defend your territory, protect your food! It's time for "tough love." A fed bear is a dead bear.
3. Get your group together. Attempt to drive the bear from camp by making lots of noise. Bang pots, blast an air horn, yell, throw rocks and generally make the bear feel unwelcome.
4. Check to make sure you have done a good job of securing food, garbage and minimizing food odors.
Keep wild bears wild. Report all bear encounters to the agency administering the river segment.


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I feel kind of odd, writing a comment to someone who won't be able to read it, but I feel like I should. I don't know what to say, except that I miss you, Antares. I know you can't come back, but I wish you would.
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I just got back from a wonderful trip to Disney World and am up to my Mickey Mouse ears in unpacking, however something came across my desk that I wanted to share. Parents, here is a wonderful and FREE opportunity to learn how you can better connect with your kids.
The Happiness Formula for Parents audio summit will be held August 15-24. You will get advice from 22 leading experts on:
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Olive Oil Fraud?I understand that a New York magazine recently reported that a lot of the olive oil from Italy is adulterated with lesser oils and described ongoing fraud in the olive oil business. Do you have any information about this?
Answer (Published 11/29/2007)
I have read the article you mention, which was published in the August 13, 2007 issue of The New Yorker. Entitled "Slippery Business," it was written by correspondent Tom Mueller and reports that fraud remains a major problem in the international olive oil business and that adulteration with inferior oils (hazelnut and seed oils) is especially common in Italy, the world's leading importer, consumer, and exporter of olive oil. The article notes that for the past 10 years Spain has actually produced more olive oil than Italy, but much of the Spanish oil is shipped to Italy and then bottled and sold, legally, as Italian olive oil.
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While chemical tests can identify some adulterated oils, they can't detect the most sophisticated scams, The New Yorker reports. Even the stringent taste tests established by the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC) to determine which oils qualify as "extra virgin" have their limitations – in Italy producers often successfully appeal a negative verdict by arguing that samples were incorrectly collected or stored or by resubmitting their samples to a friendlier panel.
Mueller does detail some of the cases of olive oil fraud investigated in Italy over the years – including one involving products adulterated with seed and hazelnut oil that was sold to some of the largest Italian producers who then re-sold it to consumers worldwide as pure olive oil. In 1997 and 1998, olive oil was considered the most adulterated agricultural product in the European Union, so much so that the EU's anti-fraud office established an olive oil task force. One investigator told Mueller that profits from this criminal enterprise were "comparable to cocaine trafficking with none of the risks."
Cracking down on this problem is far from easy. Mueller reports that in Italy, officials who are responsible for detecting adulterated oil can, in theory, be held personally liable for their actions – thus, if a big sale of oil was blocked and charges of adulteration prove wrong, the officials who investigated could have to pay out of their own pockets for the olive oil company's losses! And, not surprisingly, many big producers have a great deal of political influence and are essentially immune to investigation, the article says.
This is an eye-opening and discouraging report on the business of olive oil. While it is clear that efforts are being made to solve the problems of the past, it is not at all clear that these efforts have a chance of succeeding in the present. I suggest that you buy small bottles from a reputable company or source. Look for the yellow-green color and deep olive flavor that indicates high quality products. Certification as organic can also be a sign of quality. If you can find imported oils with IOOC certification on the label, go for them. (The California Olive Olive Oil Council [COOC] certifies purity of oil produced in California.)
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Tommy Lee is best known for being the drummer of Motley Crue (or maybe for that sex tape with Pamela Anderson), but these days he's got a new gig - DJing. Yes, the bad-boy rocker has gone electronic, dishing out big beats with his partner, DJ Aero. Check him out at the Beatport Beach party at the Gansevoort, at Nikki Beach on Thursday, and three different gigs on Saturday. Plus, he's hosting the Beatport Music Awards Sunday night. He talked to Miami.com about his transformation.
Are you excited to come down to Miami?
Oh my God, dude - I'm looking so forward to that.
You're hosting the Beatport Music Awards show. What can we expect from that?
You know, I've never been to one. I've been to their beach party that they throw, which we're also DJing at, but I've never been to their awards. I know it will be fun - I know and like all the guys over at Beatport.
What else do you have going on that week?
I think we get there on the 23rd, and there's Juicy Beach with Robbie Rivera on the 24th, and then we're bouncing out of there for a minute for this gig in Fort Lauderdale. Then on Saturday, we're doing the Mou5trap party with Deadmau5, and I'm playing drums at Ultra with Deadmau5. And also a gig at Mynt, so Saturday is a crazy day - three gigs in one day.
When did you start getting into electronic music?
I've always been into electronic music. Even though my background's in the rock world, I started using the computer in about '83 - I had like a Mac 2CI, and I started programming and writing electronic stuff with Motley, sequencing guitars and drumbeats and s--- like that. I was attracted to the sounds of electronic drums - you can make them sound as crazy as you want. Then around 2000 I did this solo project - I'd had enough of Motley, and it was time for me to take a break from that and do something. Creatively, I was dying, so I needed to get in the studio and make some crazy new s----. So I made this Methods of Mayhem project, and that's when I just started to flip out on anything electronic. For me, it was like a full 360 from what I'd been doing for so many years. And I started hanging around a bunch of DJs with Mixmaster Mike, and I met DJ Aero, who's my partner now. We started d---ing around doing these little gigs, and I was playing drums alongside him spinning, and we got an offer to play at Ultra in 2004. So there I was, spinning alongside Aero and jumping on the drums here and there during the set, diving out in the crowd and playing drums with them. There were 38 or 40,000 people there, and I was like, "OK, that's it - I'm sold!" That was all it took. This is unbelievable, this kind of music that makes me crazy. The girls and the guys dance to it, and people don't criticize it so much - they're just there to enjoy themselves and have fun. It's a different animal from rock 'n' roll completely. And love this. I f---ing live for this.
Did you experience any skepticism at first from your fans?
In the beginning stages, it was a lot of Motley Crue fans coming to see what the f--- I was up to, like, "What's he doing now? We know the dude's a little crazy, but - what?" And they would come check it out and they were like, "It's cool - you can raise ripping drums to electronic music." And then I think the people really got a sense that I was really taking this seriously, not just a "Yeah, let's go f--- around on the weekend" thing.
How would you describe your sound?
We make some pretty f---ing bad-ass dirty electro, and I'm really excited for people to get their paws on some of our stuff. We've been playing out live a couple of our tracks, and the response is insane when we drop 'em - we're like, "Whoa, f---!" That's a good feeling.
Motley Crue's not dead, right?
No, not at all. We still tour once a year or every other year. In the summer we have a thing we do called Cruefest - and we're actually getting ready to go out this summer on just a normal tour that starts in June.
You're an L.A. guy. What do you think of Miami?
It reminds me a lot of L.A. - they seem like brother and sister. The climate is super-similar, I guess, other than the humidity. The lifestyle and the people are alike. I would say that Miami's definitely got some better clubs than Los Angeles. But L.A. seems like it's coming up - there are some clubs here that are starting to be really, really popular. But I really do love 'em both. If I didn't live in L.A., I'd probably live in Florida somewhere - it's really beautiful.


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We are the championsSun Jan 11, 2009 22:54 (UTC -5)
Ah. Victory is so sweet. Even if it is vicarious.
So my university's football team went to the national championship game on Thursday night and won their third national championship. It was a nail-biter but a good one in the end. The last national championship was only two years ago, and the first was ten years before that. Not bad, I say. Yeah, I do like football, and whenever I feel like I picked this school because of its superior sports programs, I remember that even after I had been accepted, I wanted nothing to do with college sports. Remember? This is me not wanting to watch the basketball championship!
I still don't care about basketball, but times have changed, so I was glued to the football game Thursday night. I could have watched on semi-big screens with thousands of other fans in the basketball… arena?… but I stayed at the dorm and watched it with this one guy Jon and some other people who weren't paying attention. We ordered a pizza during the game, and when we went outside to get it, the streets were basically empty. Sure, it was a college campus at night, but it was still kind of eerie. It was strange to know that almost everyone was inside watching the game on TV.
"But Jordon," you ask, "how do you know that so many people were inside watching the game on TV?" Oh, easy. When we won, they all went outside. I had heard that after recent football and basketball championships in the past, students would storm University Avenue, one of the main roads through town, and engage in general merrymaking get crunk. After the game, Jon and I set out. It was kind of cold, but people were pouring out of the streets and onto the avenue, which I think had already been blocked off.
I don't think I've ever been in such a crowded crowd of people in my life. People were singing fight songs, chanting cheers, climbing poles, blaring horns, waving signs, getting amorous, throwing toilet paper, taking pictures, shooting off fireworks, and who knows what else. I'm misrepresenting the crowd, though. A lot of people were just mulling around, including me when I wasn't shouting "It's great to be a Florida Gator!" I stayed till about 1:30 in the morning and was hanging around with some other acquaintances after that.
Oh yeah, there are classes going on too. That brings me to an unfortunate development. As you may know, I've been getting by using Linux exclusively for almost two years. This semester, it ends. At least, I think so. For my digital logic class I have to use a program called Quartus from a company called Altera. I've done a little bit of searching and it seems that running it under Wine won't work for what I need to do (programming logic things). I think I could accept having to virtualize, especially if I'm going to need Windows again later, which is likely. I really, really, really, really, really, really, really don't want to dual-boot. Really.
Oh. Man. I think I have just found what I am looking for. Turns out there's actually documentation about running Quartus in Windows in VirtualBox in Ubuntu. And I think my school has a deal with Microsoft so I can get Windows for free or a low, low price. I guess that's what I'll have to do.
Windows sucks.
Pretty cool from the BBC: Ancient Supernova Mystery Solved. Apparently it's possible to learn about a past supernova by detecting the faint echoes of light it leaves behind.
Here's evolution at work. This guy named Roger Alsing created a program that would start with some random polygons and, over many generations, approximate a predefined image, discarding the results of mutations that looked less like the image and keeping those that looked more like it. After about 900,000 generations, the program came up with a good re-creation of the Mona Lisa. He then released source code and binaries and posted some other results people sent in.
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Book profits in Maruti Suzuki, fundamentals not supportive: Angel Broking
"The rally that we saw in Maruti Suzuki from the levels of Rs 1300 to Rs 600 today was more to do with the depreciation in the yen as well as anticipation of softening in the interest rates cycle by the Reserve Bank of India," he added.
The Reserve Bank of India is expected to reward the government next week for its efforts to reform the economy by announcing its first cut in interest rates in nine months.
According to a Reuters poll, most economists expect the RBI to cut its policy repo rate by 25 basis points on Tuesday to 7.75 per cent and follow it up with a cumulative 75 bps of cuts by the end of September.
"A cut of 75 to 100 bps in interest rate will be advantageous to Maruti Suzuki," Sekhar added.
However, with all the positives Sekhar is of the view that the upside may be capped as fundamentals have to still catch up with valuations. The investors are better-off booking profits in Maruti at this point and re-enter again at lower levels, he added.
"The rally in Maruti Suzuki was supported by the yen depreciation while fundamentals haven't moved much. At Rs 1600, Maruti in the best case scenario makes Rs 100 EPS for FY14, trading which is already at 16 times now," said Sekhar.
"I would advise investors to book their profits in Maruti and look at re-entering it around Rs 1300-1350 levels, which I am sure they will find over the next quarter or so," added Sekhar.


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New 'Street Fighter IV' Trailer Features Classic Matchups!
The new trailer for Capcom's eagerly awaited fighting game, Street Fighter IV, features fan favorites Ken and Ryu and some super sweet gameplay. The game is coming out in arcades and for the Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 this winter. Watch Larger Version | Watch HD Version
Capcom Contest for E3
On Thursday, July 17th, from 12pm - 1:30pm, Capcom is letting a select few into their booth at E3. Follow the link below to get to an email address where you can plead your case. There doesn't seem to be any requirements or conditions. Just send an email and if they get back to you, you're in. At the booth will be all of their new games and...
No Ken Or Ryu In 'Street Fighter' Film
According to producer Patrick Aiello, the Street Fighter film will not contain Ken or Ryu, simply because there are too many characters to cram into one film. While he says that they will definitely not be making an appearance this time out, he does allow for the idea that they might show up some time in the future, if there are sequels. He...
More 'Street Fighter IV' Details Revealed
Some more info dropped on the home version of Capcom's next-gen fighting game Street Fighter IV. The return of bonus levels! The home version of the game will feature all the can-smashing and barrel killing you remember from Street Fighter II. The arcade version will not. Fully-animated ending for each character. The ending were...
'SF IV:' Multiplayer, New Characters Confirmed
The following news is less like a surprise and more like relief: Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono confirmed to Famitsu magazine that Street Fighter IV will in fact have online multiplayer. The home version of the fighting game will feature characters not available in the arcade version, including Rufus, an enemy of Ken, and Seth, CEO of Shadoloo's...
'Streetfighter IV' On Xbox 360, PS3 and PC
If you were hoping to kick some ass on your Wii with Streetfighter IV, you're out of luck. According to Capcom, the title will be available on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Yes, PC. The 2-D Fighting game with 3D elements will supposedly come out before 2008 ends and features old faves like Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, and Guile and new fighters like Crimson...
Rumor: Capcom Not Devs on 'Street Fighter IV'
There are rumors on the internets that Capcom isn't internally developing Street Fighter IV. According to these rumors, SF IV is actually being developed by DIMPS. DIMPS is best known for their churned-out Dragonball Z games. Capcom USA, however, has maintained that SF IV is being developed first-hand by Capcom. As long as SF IV is awesome, we...
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Our gallery of Street Fighter 4 images, like our ego, keeps getting bigger. Today's addition: Ten screenshots of new character ten El Fuerte screenshots!
'Street Fighter' Cast Confirmed
You knew that Street Fighter was getting a movie makeover, but you didn't know what the cast was...until now. In a press release today, Capcom has announced a 'star-studded' cast for the new Street Fighter film, including Chris Klein (American Pie, Rollerball) and Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile, Talladega Nights), as well as Taboo from...
New 'Street Fighter 4' Images
We've got tons (okay 71) of new Street Fighter 4 images for you to drool over. Pictures of old faves like Ryu, pictures of of new characters like Crimson Viper and Abel, pictures of dudes kicking each other... just lookit!
New 'Mortal Kombat' Happening This Year
It's Official. Sort of. We'll be getting a next-gen Mortal Kombat later in the year according to what Midway CEO told to investors in a conference call earlier this week. It will be the first MK game for the so-called next-gen systems and it can be said that a certain amount of work needs to be done to win back fans of the first couple Mortal...
'Street Fighter IV' on Game Boy?
Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono dropped this quote in an interview: "Street Fighter IV, as it stands now, would be well-suited for the higher-level platforms. But the game doesn't have to have these visuals in order to be fun. We could go, potentially, to the Wii. We could make it on Game Boy, for all we know right now. As long as...
New 'Street Figther IV' Character
Capcom has revealed another new character for the upcoming Street Fighter IV and his name is Abel, "a man without a past." He looks like a boxing type character or maybe a soccer hooligan. Expect more info from GDC. IGN has a few more screenshots to check out. IGN: New Character Announced For Street Fighter IV
New Batch Of 'Street Fighter IV' Character Screens
What game series combines sweaty, hairy-chested Russian bear wrestlers and Japanese martial artists? Street Fighter, of course. Capcom has released a huge new batch of images from the game that show off more of the returning fighter roster, including Dhalsim, E. Honda, and Blanka. Still no release date or platform officially announced for the...
'Street Fighter 4' Cause Internet Fight
Internet fights are a dime-a-dozen, and almost always, unless there is a youtube video, we're not interested. But this internet fight is the exception, because it concerns two pretty big players in the videogame "journalism" field and Street Fighter 4. Here's the story: 1up, the website for Electronic Games Monthly, showed off a...
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I bought at six of this beer in Hannaford's grocery store in Watertown, New York for $7.99. Customsman let it go. Declared but he no cared.
It would be sweeter for that bonus but could it be? I really like this brew. Medium body. Lots of green hops almost to the point there is a green pea, mint and orange peel thing happening. Under that some crystal malt sweet and nice grainy pale malt. Some pear juice among the grain in the finish. Quality from the north country and just over the border
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The next day: Lake Placid Craft Bewing is not in Lake Placid though it used to be. The brewery explains:
Founded in 1996, The Lake Placid Pub & Brewery began as a small brewpub, brewing less than 400 barrels each year for sale on site. Our great-tasting, fresh beer quickly grew in popularity and requests for our products poured in from area restaurant and bar owners. Production increased exponentially to keep up with demand, and we sold every last drop of beer we produced. In November 2001, the LPP&B expanded to a second brewing facility in Plattsburgh, New York, known as The Lake Placid Craft Brewing Company, quadrupling our brewing capacity and adding bottles to our product lineup.That is a success of scale and smart growth - and when it is on the Hannaford's in Watertown shelf 200 miles west as well as on tap at the Blue Tusk (look far right) 350 miles south west, Lake Placid is making a mark for itself. They are smart, too, in keeping it to two bottlings this pale ale and the heavier, maltier Ubu ale which I brought back way back last spring. Just so you know, the pale ale comes in at 6% with the Ubu at 7%. My man Lew Bryson tells me they have a milk stout on tap at the brew pub as well as an even hoppier Frostbite Pale Ale. He also says:
A "46'er" is someone who's climbed all forty-six "high peaks" of the AdirondacksI really do not understand the experience of the lower end of the beer advocate scale. Maybe they all had shelf stung bottles. Mine are definately fresh and displaying nothing other than loveliness. I would like to do a side by side with some Southern Tier IPA, maybe a Ithaca Flower Power and even a Syracuse Pale Ale to get some sense of the Lake Erie, Finger Lakes to Lake Champlain brewing arcing axis and what it all means.


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Vol. 9, No.2, October 2005
He is the One: The Matrix Trilogy's Postmodern Movie Messiah
By Mark D. Stucky
[1] The Matrix1 was a firepower-fueled film that spin-kicked filmmaking and popular culture. Its impact came from such components as its striking visual style (from black leather to "bullet time") as well as its many syncretistic visual and textual references to various religions ( Buddhism2 to Gnosticism3), science fiction literature and action films, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Platonic to postmodern philosophies,4and the mythic hero's journey as described by Joseph Campbell.5
[2] Although various other allusions exist, a major mythological motif in the film and its two sequels consists of blatant and vital references to Christ. How the Christ figure is portrayed in the trilogy and some of the implications will be examined here.6 To truly be considered a Christ figure in a film, the character's resemblance to Jesus, as Peter Malone suggests, "needs to be significant and substantial, otherwise it is trivial."7 Also, the symbolism "needs to be understood from the text and texture of the work of art, be it classical or popular, and not read into the text with Christian presuppositions."8
[3] Many films have used Christ figures to enrich their stories through references in actions, dialogue, or visual symbols. Although the messianic metaphors add meaning to the story, they are not usually an essential part of the plot. In most cases, the metaphors theoretically could be stripped out of the film, and the plot, although diminished, would still function on some level.
[4] In The Matrix trilogy, however, the Christ figure motif goes beyond superficial plot enhancements. It forms the fundamental core of the story.9 Neo's messianic growth (in self-awareness and power) and his eventual bringing of peace and salvation to humanity form the essential plot of the trilogy. The three acts of the trilogy even roughly parallel the New Testament collection:
[5] Without the messianic imagery, there could still be a story about the human struggle in the Matrix, of course, but it would be a radically different story than that presented on the screen.13
The Gospel of Neo
[6] In The Matrix, time is illusionary and relative. Although humans think it is 1999, it is actually two centuries later, and everyone is unknowingly dreaming inside virtual reality (the Matrix). The Platonic shadows on the cave wall are projected by machines.
[7] People are raised in pods where the machines use them as batteries (bioelectricity) while they live in life-long dreamland. Some, however, have woken up to the real world. They can fight the machines in the real world as well as re-enter the artificial reality of the Matrix.
[8] Inside the Matrix, we meet computer programmer Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), who goes by the hacker name "Neo." A group of people comes to his door, and when Neo gives them a disk with the illegal software they want, the leader says (foreshadowing what is to come), "Hallelujah. You're my savior, man. My own personal Jesus Christ." Within moments of appearing on screen, Neo is presented as a cyberpunk Christ dispensing software as sacrament. His role, however, is destined to become much greater.
[9] Later Neo meets Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) who plays John the Baptist as a Zen master. (Later we see his parallels with God the Father as well as Lazarus.) Neo says, "It's an honor to meet you." But Morpheus responds, "No, the honor is mine." Fishburne commented on this bit of dialogue: "I liken it to John the Baptist. 'No, I would rather be baptized by you.'"14
[10] As John describes Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world,15 Morpheus tells Neo that he is "the One." John baptizes Jesus with water and the heavens open up, revealing that Jesus is the Son of God.16 Morpheus offers Neo the chance to "wake up" from the illusions of the Matrix to encounter the real world, and Neo wakes up in a watery rebirth into the real world.
[11] Under Morpheus's guidance, Neo gradually transforms from mild-mannered software programmer and hacker into a messianic figure who discovers the power within himself to defeat the machine enemy. Morpheus and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), members of the human resistance movement (the "Zionists"), repeatedly profess to Neo that he is "the One" proclaimed by the Oracle to save humanity from the tyranny of the machines.
[12] Zion is a city "near the earth's core" where people awakened from the Matrix live. ( Zion was another name for Jerusalem in the Bible.) The city is deep underground to obtain heat (absent on the planet's scorched surface) and to hide from the machines.
[13] After realizing the truth that "reality" inside the Matrix is artificial, Neo is set free to bend the "rules," defying the constraints of gravity and normal time. He learns to run along walls and dodge bullets in mid-flight.
[14] Evil is represented on the machine level by the "agent" programs. They dress like sinister government agents, but they can also "posses" anyone they choose, taking over another's body in their pursuit of Neo.
[15] Evil is also represented on Morpheus's crew by "Cypher," who wears a snakeskin jacket (alluding to the serpent/Satan identification) inside the Matrix and is tired of the real world. He wants to go blissfully back into the Matrix and enjoy artificial steak again. In binary computer code, a cypher or 0 is the opposite of 1. Neo is the One; Cypher is the anti-One.
[16] After sharing a cup of liquor with Neo (as Judas shared a cup with Jesus at the Last Supper), Cypher betrays the crew to the machines. Just before he sets the betrayal in motion, he and Neo get out of a car. They stand close to each other for a few seconds, and Cypher flashes a nervous smile before Neo walks on. The camera lingers on Cypher's smile, and in the context, the scene symbolically is as close as possible for a present-day heterosexual macho male to betray another with a kiss.17
[17] Cypher starts systematically killing the crew as their inert bodies are connected to the Matrix. When he is ready to pull the plug on Neo, Cypher tells Trinity over the phone that only a miracle could keep that from happening. Trinity maintains her faith in Neo as the One, and the "miracle" then occurs as a wounded crew member rises and kills Cypher just before he can kill Neo.
[18] Morpheus later risks his life to save Neo from the agents and is captured. Neo then goes on what seems like a suicidal rescue mission. As Neo and Trinity hover in a helicopter outside the window where Morpheus has been bound and drugged, Neo says, "Morpheus, get up. Get up." (This parallels Jesus saying "Lazarus, come out."18) At Neo's words, Morpheus rouses himself, breaks his shackles, and leaps toward the helicopter.
[19] After Neo symbolically raises Morpheus from the tomb, he is separated from Morpheus and Trinity while they make their escape, and he gives up his life for Morpheus. Neo sheds his blood from bullets in his chest as he is killed by the lead agent Smith (Hugo Weaving). All now seems lost.
[20] In a Pietà-like moment, Trinity (whose name alludes to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) cradles Neo's dead body. Chris Seay and Greg Garrett note:
[21] Then, during his final (in the first movie) confrontation with the demonic "agents," Neo defeats Smith (for now),20 Neo glows (similar to many artistic representations of the glorified, risen Christ) in the dark hallway (reminiscent somewhat of a tomb), and the other agents run in fear.
[22] After this resurrection, Neo exhibits startling new powers, such as visibly bending reality, stopping bullets in flight, visually seeing the computer code of the Matrix, jumping inside an agent (Smith) and exploding him from the inside, and ascending into the sky at will. All doubts within Neo and among the crew that he is the One are now gone. (Indeed, his powers in the latter parts of the films often seem more "supernatural" than those portrayed in most of the Jesus films of the last half century.)
[23] In the conclusion of the first film, Neo gives a benedictory narration from a phone booth (but to the Matrix foe instead of the faithful) and flies into the sky in a blatant "ascent into heaven."
[24] An intellectual action film, The Matrix drips with philosophical and religious references. Morpheus (a reference to the Greek god of dreams, who here tells Neo that he has been living in a dream world) is the captain of a hovercraft named Nebuchadnezzar, and Nebuchadnezzar was the Babylonian king who could not remember his dreams until they were interpreted by Daniel.21 Nebuchadnezzar also conquered Jerusalem ( Zion) in the Old Testament, sending its people into exile. In The Matrix, the people of the subterranean Zion are free from the machines, yet live in exile from the earth's surface.
[25] Briefly glimpsed at the core of the Nebuchadnezzar is a plaque with the words "MARK III No. 11." With the Wachowski brothers' incessant attention to details, including names,22 it should not be passed off as coincidence that, in the Bible, Mark 3:11 describes how people possessed by evil spirits fall down before Jesus and say, "You are the Son of God." Indirectly even the ship declares that Neo is the One.
[26] Neo's given name, Thomas A. Anderson, is also subtly revealing. Thomas was famous as the doubting disciple who would not believe in the resurrected Jesus until he felt the nail wounds himself. Thomas Anderson starts out as a very reluctant member of Morpheus's crew, and his doubts about his alleged identity as the One continue until nearly the end of the movie. " Anderson" translated from its Greek roots means "son of man," the term favored by Jesus to describe himself. But Thomas Anderson takes on the name "Neo," which is an anagram of "One." When Thomas Anderson claims the name Neo, he becomes a "new man."
Acts and Apocalypse
[27] In the first sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, Neo's powers have grown. He fights off dozens of duplicate Agent Smiths with superhuman speed and agility. He flies at supersonic speeds to the rescue.23 He heals Trinity's fatal bullet wound with a touch (by reaching inside her, pulling out the bullet, and restarting her heart).
[28] His long black leather coat seems to be a cross between a priest's robes and Superman's cape. His messianic mystique has grown among the rest of the "awakened" humans. The children and common folk of Zion worship him, bringing food offerings, and requesting that he watch over loved ones.
[29] But his destiny becomes more convoluted and sinister. He is unsure of what he is supposed to do, and his doubts reemerge. He discovers the prophecy about him may have been a lie. In attempting to save Trinity and the rest of humanity, he may be bringing the end to all human life on the planet.
[30] As Neo has grown in power, we discover that Agent Smith, who had been destroyed at the end of the first film, has resurrected24 somehow independent of the Matrix and with new powers of his own. He is Antichrist to Neo's Christ,25 and he is determined to destroy all humans as well as the Matrix.
[31] As Smith takes over Banes's body, Banes cries out, "Oh, God." Smith replies, "'Smith' will suffice." The Smith-possessed Banes becomes the new Judas figure who betrays Neo and the human race.
[32] The third part of the trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions, released just six months later, continues where Reloaded's cliffhanger ending stopped. The stakes of the story rise to an apocalyptic level. The destruction of both the Matrix and the real world of Zion is at hand. The Oracle tells Neo:
[33] Just before the machines are about to finish off the awakened remnants of humanity in Zion, Neo and Trinity journey to Machine City. On the perilous flight (in the real world, not the Matrix) Neo is blinded by Banes ("possessed" by Smith) with an electrical cable. Smith/Banes taunts him, "Blind messiah." Although physically blinded, Neo learns to "see" machine energy with an inner vision, and he defeats Banes.
[34] Neo and Trinity continue in spite of a firestorm of explosions and attacks by demon-like machines. They fly up above the never-ending storm clouds, and Trinity sees the real sun - perhaps the first human to do so for a hundred years. After this glimpse of "heaven," they descend back down into the dark machine hell below them. Trinity dies in the crash landing of their ship, and Neo journeys on alone where no human has gone and survived.
[35] Arriving at his goal in Machine City, a god-like face composed of hundreds of individual machines talks to Neo. Neo and the machines agree to collaborate in order to destroy Smith before Smith destroys everything.
[36] On a Machine City cross consisting of electrical cables, Neo jacks back into the Matrix, and he fights an apocalyptic battle with Smith in the rain-soaked crumbling streets. After Neo appears to be defeated (as Jesus appeared defeated on the cross) and possessed by Smith, cross-shaped light erupts from Neo's chest, and Neo finally wins the definitive victory over the Antichrist figure of Smith.
[37] The Matrix is "healed" from the destruction caused by Smith, and Zion is saved. Neo makes peace between humanity and the machines, ending a hundred years of war. (The human and machine reconciliation harkens to a messianic age of lion-and-lamb peace.)26
[38] Neo is last seen in a crucifix position, "crowned" with a circular bandage around his wounded eyes, and surrounded by light. Inside the Matrix, the Oracle and a girl watch a sunrise from a city park. The girl asks the Oracle if they will see Neo again someday, and (in a promise of a Second Coming) the Oracle responds, "I suspect so. Someday." As a symbol of blessing and hope, the movie closes on the sunrise over the city.
The Matrix Mythology's Meaning
[39] Media and cultural critic Read Mercer Schuchardt writes:
[40] Schuchardt speculates that the film's directors asked themselves how to speak seriously to a culture reduced to comic books and video games and their answer was:
[41] The films raise many questions about our society, showing us one nightmarish possible future. "The Matrix is doing something absolutely unique in the history of cinema. It is preaching a sermon to you from the only pulpit left. It is calling you to action, to change, to reform and modify your ways."29
[42] The film's cult following can be explained with many reasons, but the followers also included a surprisingly large number of devout Christians. A reviewer for Christianity Today calls The Matrix one of the best movies of 1999.30 The Christian following especially may find that this "film is surprisingly true to Biblical theology - despite its unorthodox appearance."31 To the diverse audience of the films, a generation that would never sit through turgid traditional Bible epics, Christian theology becomes more accessible and attractive because of Neo's presentation as a postmodern messiah.
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Share Registry Editor Favorite Keys Across Computers
If you spend a lot of time inside your registry editor, you might already know that you can use the Favorites feature to add in a bookmark to a specific key in the registry, saving you immense amounts of time when you need to check a bunch of different keys.
But did you think about exporting that list so you can use it on any computer?
Here's the menu I'm talking about:
For instance, here I'm adding in a favorite for the local machine's Run key, used to launch applications across all users.
Now when I use the menu item, it will navigate me instantly to that key in the registry, no matter where I currently am.
As I added a few favorites, it occurred to me that I should figure out where those menu items are being stored…
Now browse down to this registry key to find the favorites list:
And there's the favorite we just saved… so how does this help you?
If you export this registry key onto your flash drive, you can use it to restore your favorites onto any computer that you need to work on… then you can navigate to useful keys really quickly.
Once you save out the file, just import it into the registry on any other computer and you should have the same favorites list.
This could become an essential part of any IT toolkit.
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Geek, you have a great site with a lot of good info but this one is just awesome. Dont know how many years I have been hacking registry and never, I mean NEVER saw the damn favorites. I have just been exporting successful hacks and naming them very plainly.
Thanks for the stuff that just works
Nice post :) Helps me alot
Timely information. I go try this method as i have presently a problem with my registry, i could not open my computer, seems the windows vista operating system crashed/ corrupted, i'm tired of searching vista installation disk. Thanks for the information.


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New species of frog found in Karnataka
Posted by Miqe on November 7, 2008
Kozhikode (PTI): A new species of wrinkled frog found active during night has been recently traced in the hilly ranges of Chikmagalur in Western Ghats, Zoological Survey of India sources here said.
'Nyctibatrachus dattatreyaensis' is a 40-mm-sized frog which differs from the other species in having high degree of small corrugations on the body with prominent discontinuous lateral folds, the sources said.
The new found species have golden yellow eyes with black rhomboidal pupil and the upper surface of its body is reddish black to stone black with two yellow lateral bands, they said.
"The dorsal colour of the species camouflages with the ferruginous substratum of its habitat which is essential for its survival from predators," the sources added.
The finding has been published in the October edition of 'Zootaxa' journal of New Zealand.
The discovery assumes significance as it has come in the 'Year of the Frog' as declared by the Amphibian Ark – a joint effort of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA).
As per the current studies, the species is limited to the hilly ranges surrounding the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary in India and is not found anywhere else in the world.
The genus 'Nyctibatrachus' is endemic to Western Ghats and the species, named after Lord Dattatreya worshipped in Chikmagalur, is one among the 16 nominal species known in the world.
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Price paid: $ 600
Purchased from: Store in Argentina
Features: It's a Schecter Revenger-FR, made in indonesia, 24 Jumbo Frets, basswood body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, the paint is a satin black very cool, it's a Floyd Rose Licenced Bridge, Duncan Designed Active pickups, it has a volume, a tone and a 3-way switch, and it has Schecter Tuners which I found them quite good. // 9
Sound: It's a guitar made for metal, but it's also capable of blues and classic rock, I'm using Guitar Rig 4, I used some effects, but it doesn't sound as good as an Amplifier (I tested it on the Fender Frontman 212r), and it was awesome, it's capable of doing harmonics pretty good, and the tone is very good, I think with a 81/85 of EMG it will blow your mind. // 9
Action, Fit & Finish: The guitar was very well set-up at the factory, it's set-up at USA I think, The guitar itself because it was already the way I liked it, the fretboard was very fast, compared to the Fender stratocaster, the neck felt good, and the body shape and paint it's incredible. // 10
Reliability & Durability: I think it could last a live gig, the strap buttons I switched them because I have a DiMarzio Cliplock strap, but the screws on it were fine, I think you could gig without a backup, the guitar is very solid, it stays in tune great, and the paint job was awesome! // 10
Overall Impression: I play Dream Theater, Metallica, AC/DC, System of a Down, some Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, I've been playing for almost 2 years, I upgraded from a Very cheap Strat copy, and I'm planning to buy a Fender Frontman 65r or Peavey Envoy 110, the guitar was better than I hoped, if it were lost, I would buy the same one or better, I love the body shape and my favorite feature is the Floyd Rose, I also played the Fender Highway 1, Epiphone Les Paul and the Ibanez RG350, but the Revenger was the best in terms of comfort. I wish it would have a pair of 81/85 EMG's. // 9
Features: To start, let's start with the bridge. The Bridge is a Floyd Rose; it has absolutely perfect spring tension making it firm enough that you don't over-stretch the strings, but it's not hard to move. It has a good feel to it to use for things such as dive-bombs, or anything else a Floyd Rose would be used for. The only problem I found when I began playing this guitar was getting used to tuning; I would tune it up, but the locks on, but then the string tension would sometimes mess the tuning up while trying to bring it to e-standard, and sometimes knock the fine tuners off. The body is Basswood, the neck maple and the fretboard rosewood decorated with pearl inlays. The neck is also a bolt on. All of this makes it a very heavy guitar, and while getting used to standing can give cramp in the shoulder. The finish in my opinion is gorgeous. It is a satin black matte finish which works perfectly well with the Avenger body shape giving it a very "cool" appearance. My version has active pickups which is very good (which will be explained in the next section) but to some people when the battery has worn down it may annoy them. They are Duncan Designed. I have heard that the tuners are Grovers, but on mine they say Schecter, they come with locking devices so the Floyd Rose does not put them out of tune, but without using the Floyd Rose with the locks off the tuners stay in tune exceptionally well. There are no extra accessories which come with it apart from a cable of rather good quality, mine got used a lot but lasted for the best part of a year, with rough usage. Ordinary bags don't fit it; I had to purchase a bass guitar bag to fit it in. It has 1 tone, 1 volume and 1 3-way switch. While trying to be completely unbiased, while I have pointed out problems they're extremely minor which is why I still give it such a high rating. // 9
Sound: The active pickups are built more for distortion which is obvious, because on a clean setting, sometimes if you strum the strings hard it sounds like there is a little bit of gain/drive on. When the setting is on distortion though the sound is imperceptibly good; it is extremely sharp, thick and you can hold any note and it lasts for ages. I use a Line 6 Spider IV amp and a Line 6 FBV Shortboard MKII pedal; though the pedal does not alter the sound, just if you have a Spider IV I highly recommend that footpedal. On every setting, especially metal and insane distortion, the sound is exceptional. It is very obvious to me when the Switch is switched from any of the sounds to another. Also the pickups are fantastic for pinch harmonics which are used a lot in metal, which is what I use this guitar for. // 10
Action, Fit & Finish: Everything when I got it was perfect and has remained perfect for the 15 months I have had it, with no flaws or problems at all. The pickups were adjusted perfectly and there were absolutely no problems with anything. Just make sure you don't leave the jack in when you're not playing as it drains the battery powering the active pickups. // 10
Reliability & Durability: I have had this guitar for about 15 months, and I play for about 5 hours a day, this means the finish where it sits on my leg has worn away to reveal the wood beneath but everywhere else, while it has scratches, it has to be scrutinized very closely to be noticed. This is a very solid and reliable guitar, no problems have ever occurred so there wont be need for a backup guitar at a gig. // 9
Overall Impression: I play metal, and have played for 2 and a half years, I got this guitar after the first year and for the time I could play some intermediate stuff, but no advanced, so it didn't stand out loads when I started playing it. But that was also because of the amp i had at the time, which was a fender, probably worth about 30. Now though, since I have my Line 6 everything about it is fantastic. When I was trying different guitars to get, I tried about five different BCriches, three Fenders and one Ibanez, this guitar stood out above all of them by miles, even though they were all in the same price range. If I lost it or it got stolen I wouldn't hesitate in buying a new one.
I love everything about this guitar, the shape and finish is gorgeous, and the Floyd Rose is fantastic to play with, the pickups exceptional and the action also very good, though not the best I have felt. I now have a Dean Vendetta Resurrection which has the best action I have ever felt, but i bought that for 500 so it was 131 more, which i think is fair enough, while the sound is probably better in some ways the Dean came with problems, and a strap peg broke, which makes the Schecter more reliable than a 500 guitar. This guitar is fantastic value for money. I sincerely recommend it. // 10
Price paid: $ 592
Purchased from: Local instrument shop
Features: The guitar was made maybe in 2008 I think in Indonesia. The neck scale is about 25.5" which is a little too thick. Rosewood fretboard with 24 frets and has cool gothic cross inlats. It got black satin finish, and does only look like an B.C. Rich Mockingbird if you turn it around otherwise it's the same body as Synyster Gate's signature guitars. This monster is mounted with two Duncan Designed Active HB-105. It's written "Schecter" on the tuners, which is very good!
The Licenced Floyd Rose kicks f--king tons of ass! It never falls out of tune, it's way easier to pull down or up than the floyds on Jacksons, B.C. Riches etc. I can rape the hell out of the f--king thing and it's still in tune! I couldn't ask for a better tremolo system. It's a great thing if you want to use alot of divebombs, squeals etc. // 7
Sound: I play everything from rock n' roll to thrash metal which includes glam etc. This thing executes the heavier genres best, because of the rich fat sound it produces but I can play everything else I want on it. I have tried it with some Marshalls, Peavey's and Line 6 (unfortunately), and it sounds bada-s! I have Marshall mini stack Dave Mustain signature, and it gets a decent sound, but it's waaaay better on a biga-s Marshall stack!
I never actually uses effects except for when I'm playing on the clean channel. On the clean channel, I use just a little chorus to get the clean parts as good sounding and beautiful as possible, the sound is great! Doesn't produce tiny bits of distortion when I play rough, when playing clean. The guitar is a good alround guitar, it's best suited for heavy metal and harder stuff, but it sounds good when playing rock n' roll as well. // 6
Action, Fit & Finish: When I first bought it, it has been in the shop for 3 months I think and there has been a lot of people who had tried it in that amount of time but I'm happy that no one have scratched the hell out of it or bumped it into something. It was in a perfect state when I got a hold of it, the pickup was adjusted just as I like it, the space between the strings and the fretboard was great. I love low action.
Everything has been intact since I've bought it and I have owned it for about 3 years now and there has been absolutely nothing wrong with it. Everything has been perfect on this guitar except for the fat neck, but that doesn't make the guitar bad in any way at all. // 6
Reliability & Durability: This motherf--ker will withstand alot of live playing. I have gigged with it a few times and it has never made any trouble for me. The hardware is of good quality and will last for many years to come. The strap buttons are very solid since they are big and I'm using a very thich leather strap which I couldn't almost get on the buttons when I first got it. I have used this without a backup and it went smoothly, but you'll NEVER know what may happen so I will have a backup everytime I gig.
The finish will wear and that is something you have to accept, somewhere on the body, the finish are very thin so if you bump into something the tree will show. I don't care so much about that since I have used a knife and scratched every side of the body, looks bada-s but I don't recommend it to someone who wants the finish to last. // 7
Overall Impression: I play everything from rock n' roll to thrash metal, and the guitar can go through all those genres but I personally thinks that it sounds better when playing thrash metal. Fits Megadeth, Sodom, Judas Priest best.
I have been playing for 4 years now and I could have been better since I'm a lazy motherf--ker. I have my Schecter of course, a BaCH Explorer, two fake china guitars (I knew it from before I buyed them, just wanted to see how they were), a Tokai mat (most advanced Technology) and my personal favorite, my Peavey Vandenberg 1st edition.
What I personally love about this thing is the Floyd Rose, it kicks so much a-s and it never gets out of tune. Not really, I learned what I needed to know along the way. If this thing was stolen, I would seek out that bitch and f--king throw him (possibly a him) into the kitchen and make me a f--king sammich! // 6
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Leading Video Game Developer Considers Windows 8 "A Catastrophe".
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Nvidia: We Are Fully Committed to Support Linux.
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Nvidia Denies Low Attention to Linux Drivers
Monday, June 18, 2012
Inventor of Linux Calls Nvidia Worst Company Ever.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Hewlett Packard Sees Microsoft Windows and Linux as Viable Solutions for Mission-Critical Systems.
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
AMD Sees Software Market Stabilized: Only Windows, Android and Linux Make Sense.
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AMD Considers Operating Systems Market Formed
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Intel: Unification of HP's Unix and x86 Server Architectures Will Not Harm Itanium.
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Mission-Critical Elements of Integrity, HP-UX on Linux/Windows Machines Will Not Kill Itanium
HP's Project Odyssey to Wed Itanium with Xeon Processors.
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HP to Unify Itanium/Unix and x86/Windows/Linux Architectures