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Review: Denon DJ MC3000 Controller
Denon DJ's MC3000 feels like a serious contender for all-round digital DJ controller of the year, and it's not even out of the box as I write this intro! How can I say that already? Because just by looking at the spec, seeing the size and feeling the weight of it, I know the controller inside is going to be compact, is going to cover the digital DJing essentials, and is good enough for pro use.
You see, I believe that DJ controllers need to do two "sets" of things: The essential stuff, and the "would be nice" things.
For most DJs, most of the time, the essential stuff is all they'll need. Sure, it's nice to have the rest there, but the trouble is all of those "would be nice" functions take up space and cost money, and if you're not careful, their inclusion begin to compromise one of the central tenets of digital DJing: Portability. Controllers should, in my view, be nice and portable.
The MC3000 (Denon's DJ products are now branded "Denon DJ", and they've dropped the "DN") takes a "please most of the people, most of the time" route, and in making a few compromises, is smaller, leaner and less cramped than its older and bigger stablemate, the DN-MC6000. It's also more logically laid out, to boot. So time to get it out of the box and take a look...
First impressions
The controller is small and heavy. Denon uses smaller jogwheels than most, allowing it to produce more compact units. This is a smart move as jogs don't have to be big to be functional, and these are still high quality jogs, with all the standard jog functionality (ie metal on the top for scratching, plastic sides for nudging). Indeed, all of the controls feel high quality; the knobs are grey and black and rubberised (apart from the central selector knob and the pitch sliders), and the buttons are rubberised and backlit in a mixture of yellow, green and red.
It is similarly styled to its bigger bro, the DN-MC6000, being boxy and all-metal, but missing the silver sides; this is all black. The most obvious other visual differences are that there are now two physical channels not four, and the pitch sliders have sensibly moved to the outer edge of each jogwheel, where they're easier to access without knocking other controls.
A quick perusal of the controls shows us that the effects knobs and buttons now double up to control your software's sample features; that the unit can still handle video mixing (using Virtual DJ); that the single microphone input retains ducking (or "talkover") but loses EQ; and that there are two external inputs, but that they route through a rudimentary two-rotary sub-mixer straight to the master out.
As well as shift buttons, there are modifier buttons to switch between sample and effects usage for the two sections at the top, and similar modifier buttons to switch from cues 1 to 4 and cues 5 to 8. So despite being somewhat shrunken compared to its bigger brother, there's still a lot of Midi functionality here, and apart from the two-line / four-channels compromise, the controller has the ability to nail all the important functions in your DJ software, sample decks and all.
There's nothing on the front apart from a 1/4in headphones jack, and round the back are balanced (1/4in) and unbalanced master outs, the two line-ins (no phono option), a 1/4in TRS microphone input, and the usual USB / outlet power sockets (it needs outlet power to work), plus a beefy on/off button.
The unit comes with Traktor 2 LE in Europe and Asia, and Virtual DJ LE in the Americas; whichever package you get with it, you'll want to upgrade to the Pro version to get full functionality. The LE version for your territory is in the box on CD; however, for testing purposes we are using the Denon-supplied mappings for two decks plus two sample decks in Traktor Pro 2.
In use
Navigating the library is simple using the big central selector, and you can move between folders by pressing the appropriate buttons. It is also possible to navigate within track listings using the jogwheels if you wish.
Big load buttons bring your selected track onto the appropriate deck, as selected with the deck selector buttons. A small button under the selector knob toggles library view.
Transport and jogs
The jogs, as previously mentioned, are nice to use, despite being smaller than those on most controllers. The scratch function can be turned off and on with the vinyl mode button, and the whole jog can also be disabled for DJs who don't use jogs and who don't want to accidentally knock them - a good inclusion. Holding down shift while using a jog lets you navigate your track library.
Denon's legacy pitch bend controls are there if you're that way inclined, as are the ubiquitous sync button and nice, big cue and play/pause buttons. (Holding down "Samp." and pressing play/pause batch-plays the sample slots in that particular sample deck). The pitch controls, while not particularly long throw, are hi-res and so accurate; it's easy enough to move the BPM by 1/100th of a BPM, which is good enough for me.
The mixer has all the expected volume controls (low / mid / high / gain / line volume) per channel, plus a nice loose crossfader and steady, stiffer line faders.
The VUs are switchable from cue to master; I'd have preferred this to be smart switching (ie when you have a deck's Cue button pressed to preview in headphones, the VU switches to that deck to let you set the gain, but when it's unswitched, it returns to master) but it's a small thing - each DJ will have their own preference here. At least you get proper cue and master VUs, which is more than some controllers give you.
The microphone channel only has a volume control, so there's no EQ, but as mentioned earlier, there is ducking; there's a green backlit button to tell you when ducking is switched on.
It's really part of the effects, but as is the currently vogue, it's been stripped out and plonked in the mixer, so we'll cover it here. What are we talking about? Nice big filter controls, right there above the line faders, that's what! Great fun.
Effects, samples and looping
The effects sections at the top of the unit (one for each "side") can control either single FX or group FX mode in Traktor. This is all standard stuff, as is the way you assign effects to the decks, which is done by using the 1/2 and A/C, B/D buttons located near the top of the mixer.
By pressing the "Samp." modifier, the effect knobs instead control either the volume or the cut-off frequency of the sample shot, depending upon whether shift is held too or not.
The buttons in the effects section are used to load, play, turn on/off and record into the sample slots, depending upon which of a number of modifiers they're pressed with. In short, this section can control all functions of Traktor's sample decks, although doing so isn't as intuitive as on the Traktor Kontrol controllers. There's a bit of learning to do.
(By the way, all the loop record function are accessible too, again using modifiers and, this time, the central selector button's push-to-click function).
The provided looping functions are actually quite simple, with manual loop in/out, plus beatmatched auto-looping with half / double controls. Holding shift and pressing the -/+ controls accesses loop shift. The cue buttons can set and control up to eight hot cues per deck using shift for hot cues 5 to 8; if you're using them with decks C and D in sample deck mode, they're used to mute and clear the sample slots, again depending on whether or not you use the shift button too.
External inputs
Let's look at how the Denon handles its external inputs, as we already know it keeps them away from the main mixer entirely. To start with, they are completely analogue; there's no option to route then through software.
Here's how it works: You plug two analogue (line only) sources in the back, and control them using the two Line to Master controls far right on the unit. One of those controls is like a crossfader between the two inputs, but in the form of a knob; the other is an overall volume for the two analogue inputs.
I think this is a good compromise between leaving analogue outputs off entirely (like the Traktor Kontrol S2, which effectively rules that unit out from serious live performance: what are you meant to do when the computer crashes?) and incorporating them into the unit as fully fledged inputs.
Using this set-up, it is easy to have a couple of extra sources ready for emergencies or background music (for instance, a mobile DJ might play pre-prepare sequences in the hour or two before a performance); it is possible to mix between them, and then when you're ready, you can take over and do your thing properly using the software.
Of course, these inputs work with or without a laptop plugged in - would be pretty pointless otherwise!
Virtual DJ mapping
We didn't have time to test the Virtual DJ mapping, but looking at the guide, it's pretty similar to what's described below, except there's video mixing options (you can assign the crossfader to audio, video or both), and the sample deck features are simpler. Furthermore, video effects are available in the effects section by using the shift function to double up the controls.
(Just to defend ourselves here, we did extensively test the Virtual DJ mapping for the DN-MC6000, to which this is closely related, and apart from a weird glitch in the way four decks were dealt with, we found it to be fine.)
It's good to see a manufacturer taking Virtual DJ's often-underrated video DJing seriously here, and many mobile DJs will welcome this.
Sound quality
It sounded great. The headphones were loud, and I'd say the quality overall is exactly the same as the acclaimed DN-MC6000's sound. Digital DJ Tips absolutely does not get into kHz and bits and all that stuff, because it would be wrong for us to pretend we can hear the difference between most modern sound cards: we can't. We can tell duff when we hear it though, and this ain't duff.
All the dry numbers are available on Denon's website for the audiophiles and perfectionists out there, but for the working DJ, take our word for it: there's nothing to worry about here.
This is a well-rounded controller, meant for use in public as much as the bedroom. I can see it appealing especially to the party DJ, to mobile DJs, and the bar/lounge DJ; the kind of people who know how to mix and enjoy club-style DJing, but also need to use their microphone every now and then, definitely need to incorporate the odd external source or two (even if just for an emergency backup).
Some bells and whistles - and I'm thinking particularly about sample decks and four deck mixing - are there if you want to dabble, but they're not the main focus of the unit (having said that, while the DN-MC6000 does hybrid / four-deck mixing better than this unit, this unit is actually better for sample decks, due to being released after Traktor Pro 2).
The MC3000 is inevitably going to be compared to its older brother, the DN-MC6000. That unit has true standalone mixing, can handle record decks, has two microphone channels with EQs, and has booth as well as master outputs. For that, you pay maybe a third more than you do for this, and it's bigger and heavier - although to be fair, not by much.
If you don't particularly want those features, then the MC3000 will likely appeal to you more. It has the same pro build quality and nearly as much flexibility, but by dropping some of the expense of multiple ins and outs and of course by dropping two channels, it comes in smaller, lighter and cheaper (it's still pretty heavy though! That's all-steel construction for you).
So while both units are clearly suitable for working DJs (there's an optional 19in mount kit to fit it into a hard case if you need to), this is aimed more at the 100% digital DJ as opposed to the type of working jock who needs more flexibility, for whom the DN-MC6000 would be a better buy.
If I had the choice of one or the other, I'd actually go for this: It's smaller, cheaper and has more than everything I ever use in a DJ controller. Plus, it feels like it's built to last forever. It's a winner.
Product Summary
Review Summary:
This is a well-rounded controller, meant for use in public as much as the bedroom. I can see it appealing especially to the party DJ, to mobile DJs, and the bar/lounge DJ; the kind of people who know how to mix and enjoy club-style DJing, but also need to use their microphone every now and then, definitely need to incorporate the odd external source or two (even if just for an emergency backup).
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I too am starting to distrust Federal myself. There is this thread here: Federal Champion 9mm, the same as Remington UMC? - Beretta Forum
And, I recently has two issues in 2 days with my carry Beretta. It's either the Federal ammo or 1 particular magazine (a 17 round factory magazine). I sent the mag back to Beretta for replacement. But, I haven't had a problem since - I also stopped using the Federal.
I actually prefer CCi Blazer. I just stopped using itf or a while because my local source stopped carrying it. They do sell it again now. It's $2 more per box, buT I pay it over the Wal-Mart Federal.
Apparently, according to that thread I just gave ya the link for, they make it ONLY for wal-mart...Someone asked the company directly.
In 9mm (I can't say anything about the other calibers), it is the cleanest 9mm target round I have seen.
I have disassembled slides at the 1k mark, and the 3k mark - with ONLY CCI Blazer aluminum being fired (besides a handful of JHP to make sure it worked in the gun). Both times, I wasted my time. The extractor and striker channel was amazingly clean.
I also notice that you have this same post on multiple forums. I think across the board, you are receiving the answers you are looking for.

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So what did you do over the summer?" is always a favorite topic when school, no matter what level, resumes in August.
At the University of Utah, it will be hard for anyone to top former gymnast Annabeth Eberle's story.
Eberle is spending her summer in Los Angeles filming a Disney-produced movie called "Stick It." Starring Jeff Bridges, the movie is about a talented gymnast who revolts against the strict regimens that surround the sport. Set to be released in the spring, the movie also stars Missy Peregrym of "Life as We Know It" and Vanessa Lengies of "American Dreams."
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Study of AP23573 in Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Hematologic Malignancies (8669-024)(COMPLETED)
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|Hematologic Malignancies Leukemia Myelodysplastic Syndromes Myeloid Metaplasia Lymphoma
|Drug: ridaforolimus
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study of AP23573, an mTOR Inhibitor, in Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Hematologic Malignancies
- To assess efficacy of AP23573 in patients with relapsed or refractory hematologic malignancies. [ Time Frame: Duration of study ]
- Evaluating time to progression, progression-free survival, duration of response and safety [ Time Frame: Duration of study ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2006
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2006 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
AP23573 12.5 mg IV as monotherapy once daily for 5 days, every 2 weeks
Drug: ridaforolimus
AP23573 12.5 mg IV as monotherapy once daily for 5 days, every 2 weeks
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The primary objective of the trial is to assess the efficacy of AP23573 in patients with specified relapsed or refractory hematological malignancies by evaluating the response rates as defined for the individual malignancy categories. Secondary objectives include evaluating time to disease progression, progression-free survival and duration of response; evaluating the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics of AP23573; describing health-related quality of life measurements; and exploring the safety and tolerability of AP23573 at the specified dose level.
Protocol Outline: Open label, non-randomized parallel cohorts of five disease-specific cohorts with a minimum of 21 patients per cohort. Each patient receives a fixed dose of AP23573 administered intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes daily for five days (QDx5) to be repeated every 2 weeks.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria (Patients must meet each of the following criteria to be eligible for participation in the trial):
- Male or female patients ≥ 18 years of age
- Patients must have histologically-confirmed diagnoses of relapsed or refractory hematologic malignancy as specified in the protocol
- Patients must have an ECOG performance status of 0 to 2
- Patients must have adequate renal and liver function as demonstrated by laboratory values performed within 5 days, inclusive, prior to administration of the first dose of AP23573
- Patients must be able to understand and give written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria (Patients meeting any of the following criteria are ineligible for participation in the study):
- Women who are pregnant or lactating
- Patients may not have had cytotoxic chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 14 days prior to study entry
- Patients may not receive any investigational anti-cancer agent while on this study or within 14 days prior to the first dose of AP23573
- Patients with known or suspected hypersensitivity to drugs formulated with polysorbate 80 (Tween) or any other excipient contained in the study drug formulation
- Patients with known Grade 3 or 4 hypersensitivity to macrolide antibiotics (e.g., clarithromycin, erythromycin, azithromycin)
- Patients with significant uncontrolled cardiovascular disease
- Patients with known HIV infection
- Patients with any uncontrolled infection
- Patients receiving immunosuppressive agents other than prescribed corticosteroids
- Patients who have had prior therapy with rapamycin, any rapamycin analog or tacrolimus
- Patients with inadequate recovery from any prior surgical procedure or patients having undergone any major surgical procedure within 14 days prior to the first dose of AP23573
- Patients with any other life-threatening illness or organ system dysfunction which, in the opinion of the Investigator, would either compromise the patient's safety or interfere with evaluation of the safety of the study drug
- Patients with a psychiatric disorder or altered mental status that would preclude understanding of the informed consent process and/or completion of the necessary studies
- Patients with another primary malignancy within the past three years (except for non-melanoma skin cancer and cervical carcinomas in situ)
- Patients with the inability, in the opinion of the Investigator, to comply with the protocol requirements
Drugs and Other Treatments to be Excluded (The following drugs and other treatments are not permitted for patients enrolling in the study, either during or within two weeks prior to the first dose of AP23573, unless otherwise specified):
- Chemotherapeutic agents with the following exception that therapy with nitrosoureas (including generics) cannot be given within six weeks prior to the first dose of AP23573
- Other antineoplastic agents
- Immunotherapy (including vaccines) or biological response modifier therapy
- Systemic hormonal therapy with exceptions as specified in the protocol
- Herbal preparations or related OTC preparations containing herbal ingredients (e.g., St John's Wort)
- Radiotherapy for the primary malignancy
- Any other investigational agent during the course of the trial should be discussed with the Sponsor prior to use
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00086125
|United States, Illinois
|University of Chicago Hospitals, Section of Hematology/Oncology
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
|United States, Missouri
|Washington University School of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Center, 4921 Parkview Place
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|United States, New Jersey
|The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
|New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 08903
|United States, New York
|New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill College of Cornell University
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|United States, North Carolina
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|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705
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|Canton, Ohio, United States, 44718
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Jeane's Hospital of TUHS
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19111
|United States, Texas
|MD Anderson Cancer Center
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Study Director:
|Frank Haluska, M.D., Ph.D.
|Ariad Pharmaceuticals
|Responsible Party:
|Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00086125 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 24, 2004
|Last Updated:
|August 18, 2015
Keywords provided by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.:
Relapsed or refractory hematologic malignancies
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Primary Myelofibrosis
Bone Marrow Diseases
Hematologic Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
Pathologic Processes
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Antifungal Agents
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Iowa, Corn, and the 2012 Election
For almost two decades, Iowa has produced more corn than any other state in the country. But this year a severe drought has hit the state hard, and that's having an impact on everything from animal feed to ethanol production. Radio Iowa's O. Kay Henderson talks about how the corn crop could affect how the swing state votes next month. We'll also look at the candidates' recent trips to the state, where early voting is already under way.


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Another Central New Yorker Becomes an America's Got Talent Hopeful [VIDEO]
Robert Channing grew up in Newport, New York and now resides in the Utica suburb of New Hartford. This Central New York based entertainer creates extreme action art and is a mentalist who auditioned for America's Got Talent recently. He stopped by the TSM studios and confirmed that he will be featured in a special all-new 'America's Got Talent' episode called "Show Stopping Sunday,' June 22nd, between 9 and 11 on NBC.


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BOSTON -- David Ortiz's fans cheered him and his teammates hugged him. Even the ace pitcher who gave up the slugger's record-breaking homer was happy for him.
Boston's designated hitter homered against Johan Santana in the first inning to pass Jimmie Foxx's team record of 50 set in 1938 and added his 52nd drive in the seventh to help the Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 6-0 Thursday night.
Santana picked up his first loss since the All-Star break and the Twins stayed a half-game behind AL Central-leading Detroit, which lost to Baltimore 4-3 earlier Thursday.
Ortiz's first-inning homer far over the Red Sox bullpen in right-center field provided a memorable moment in a forgettable season. Boston is 8½ games back of the Twins for the wild card. The lefty slugger added an even longer shot into the center-field bleachers in the seventh.
"Great feeling, especially doing it here at home in front of my fans," Ortiz said.
The loss ended the Twins' three-hour stay in first place in the division and Santana's unbeaten record since the break.
"I'm very proud of all he's accomplished in his career. It's unbelievable," said Santana (18-6), who came up in the Twins' system with Ortiz. "The only way I wasn't going to give up a home run to him was not to throw the ball."
On a rare off night, Santana was outpitched by Josh Beckett (16-10), who allowed six hits, struck out five in eight innings and passed the career high in wins he set last year. He walked none and allowed just one runner past second base but was overshadowed by Ortiz.
"It gave me chills after he hit 51 and then 52," Beckett said. "You really want to win a game, especially when somebody accomplishes such a feat."
Minnesota entered the game with a .001 lead in the division over the Tigers. It was the first time the Twins had led the division this season after the Tigers were alone in the top spot since May 20. The Twins still lead the wild-card race by 5½ games over the White Sox, who lost to Seattle 9-0.
"We're concerned now about winning games and not about first place," Justin Morneau said. "If we continue to win, we'll get into the playoffs and that's what we're after."
With Santana pitching, Minnesota had an excellent chance to boost its brief division lead. He was 9-0 since the All-Star break this season and had a 31-2 record after the break over the last three seasons. But he threw 100 pitches in five innings, matching his shortest stint of the year, and the Twins lost for just the third time in 13 games.
"Johan had a hard time locating his pitches," catcher Joe Mauer said.
The Red Sox avoided elimination from the wild-card race. They were eliminated from the AL East race Wednesday when their 8-2 loss to the Twins clinched the division for the New York Yankees.
The record-breaking homer came on the first pitch Ortiz saw from Santana, who tried to leave it outside but it tailed back in.
"Johan has the best stuff in the league," Ortiz said. "You might get one pitch to hit and then everything you see afterwards is nasty. So I was very prepared walking from the on-deck to the plate and that was the pitch I was going to see and I tried not to miss it."
His next homer came off Matt Guerrier. He broke his own record of homers by a DH of 43 set last year and now has 45. His 52 homers moved him into a tie for 12th in AL history.
With nine games left, he has an outside shot at Roger Maris' AL record of 61, a mark that might have been easier to reach had he not missed eight games recently with heart palpitations.
"There's a lot of possibilities," Ortiz said. "When that happened to me I was swinging the bat pretty good."
When he returned to the dugout after giving Boston a 1-0 lead, he was hugged by teammates who swarmed around him. But when returned there after his second homer, they gave him the silent treatment for a few seconds, then smiled and laughed as they surrounded him. After both homers, he left the dugout to salute the applauding fans.
Ortiz hit his 50th homer Wednesday night, a solo shot off Boof Bonser.
The Red Sox went ahead 4-0 in the second with a big boost from Santana's pitching and fielding.
Singles by Carlos Pena and Gabe Kapler put runners at first and second. Alex Gonzalez then attempted a sacrifice bunt. Santana fielded it, dropped it, then threw wildly past first base. Pena and Kapler scored and Gonzalez reached third. Mark Loretta's sacrifice fly scored Gonzalez.
Guerrier replaced Santana and retired the first four batters he faced. But with one out in the seventh, Ortiz hit the ball over the center-field wall on a full count. Mike Lowell then hit the next pitch over the left-field fence for his 18th homer and a 6-0 lead.
- Beckett recorded 11 consecutive outs starting with a double-play grounder by Mauer with runners at first and second in the third. He struck out the side in the sixth.
- Jason Bartlett was the only Twin with more than one hit. He had two singles, one that didn't leave the infield.
- Ortiz increased his AL-leading totals to 52 homers and 132 RBI.
- Beckett threw 103 pitches, 69 for strikes.


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I just downloaded and started playing both, so I am not too far in either but I am having a hard time deciding between the two. Fiesta is kind of cool but it just feels so much like every other mmorpg (so does solstice I guess but there is something there that draws me in a little more). I like the graphics in solstice because in a weird way they kind of remind me of Ragnarok.
Really what I usually look for in an MMORPG is a wide range of class customization or just a lot of classes in general.
Pretty balanced classes.
PvP isn't that big in importance, but good late game PvP would be pretty nice.
Decent armor and weapon customization (not as in making weapons necessarily but a lot of different looking weapons and armor to change one's character's appearance.
A variety of quests, so I don't want nothing but collection quests (probably not gonna happen between these two games but just thought I would mention it in case anyone has any suggestions for any other MMORPGs that fit my tastes).
Pretty bug free, Solstice has quite a few that I noticed within just 20 minutes of playing but it's new I guess.


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Saturday, January 26, 2013
City Councilman Walks Out On Council Meeting Because of Citizen With Concealed Carry Weapon
This is how Constitutionally-protected Rights work in America. Pay special attention to the words of the City Attorney:
From the Daily Mail in the UK (hat tip to Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning):
Muslim abuser who 'didn't know' that sex with a girl of 13 was illegal is spared jailRead the rest HERE.
A muslim who raped a 13-year-old girl he groomed on Facebook has been spared a prison sentence after a judge heard he went to an Islamic faith school where he was taught that women are worthless.
Adil Rashid, 18, claimed he was not aware that it was illegal for him to have sex with the girl because his education left him ignorant of British law.
Yesterday [January 24, 2013] Judge Michael Stokes handed Rashid a suspended sentence, saying: 'Although chronologically 18, it is quite clear from the reports that you are very naive and immature when it comes to sexual matters.'
Earlier Nottingham Crown Court heard that such crimes usually result in a four to seven-year prison sentence.
But the judge said that because Rashid was 'passive' and 'lacking assertiveness', sending him to jail might cause him 'more damage than good'....
'It is not too far to say that he may not have known that having sex with a 13-year-old girl was illegal.' Judge Stokes sentenced Rashid to nine months youth custody, suspended for two years, along with a two-year probation supervision order.
Describing Rashid, the judge said: 'He's had an unusual education, certainly in terms of the sexual education provided. Comparing women to lollipops is a very curious way of teaching young men about sex'....
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Has the world forgotten?
Has the world become inured?
[hat tip to Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning for the above video]
Has the world become inured?
[hat tip to Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning for the above video]
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Freedom Protesters Gather in Tahrir Square – Lash Out at Jerk & Idiot Barack Obama
Courts have ruled more than once that the police have no obligation to protect the individual. Their job is to investigate the crime afterwards.
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Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so. By David Mamet.
Karl Marx summed up Communism as "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." This is a good, pithy saying, which, in practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery, poverty, rape, torture, slavery, and death.
The Daily Beast:
Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so. By David Mamet.
Karl Marx summed up Communism as "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." This is a good, pithy saying, which, in practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery, poverty, rape, torture, slavery, and death.
For the saying implies but does not name the effective agency of its supposed utopia. The agency is called "The State," and the motto, fleshed out, for the benefit of the easily confused must read "The State will take from each according to his ability: the State will give to each according to his needs." "Needs and abilities" are, of course, subjective. So the operative statement may be reduced to "the State shall take, the State shall give."
All of us have had dealings with the State, and have found, to our chagrin, or, indeed, terror, that we were not dealing with well-meaning public servants or even with ideologues but with overworked, harried bureaucrats. These, as all bureaucrats, obtain and hold their jobs by complying with directions and suppressing the desire to employ initiative, compassion, or indeed, common sense. They are paid to follow orders.
Rule by bureaucrats and functionaries is an example of the first part of the Marxist equation: that the Government shall determine the individual's abilities.
As rules by the Government are one-size-fits-all, any governmental determination of an individual's abilities must be based on a bureaucratic assessment of the lowest possible denominator. The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
President Obama, in his reelection campaign, referred frequently to the "needs" of himself and his opponent, alleging that each has more money than he "needs."
But where in the Constitution is it written that the Government is in charge of determining "needs"? And note that the president did not say "I have more money than I need," but "You and I have more than we need." Who elected him to speak for another citizen?
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. "One-size-fits-all," and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is "slavery."
The Founding Fathers, far from being ideologues, were not even politicians. They were an assortment of businessmen, writers, teachers, planters; men, in short, who knew something of the world, which is to say, of Human Nature. Their struggle to draft a set of rules acceptable to each other was based on the assumption that we human beings, in the mass, are no damned good—that we are biddable, easily confused, and that we may easily be motivated by a Politician, which is to say, a huckster, mounting a soapbox and inflaming our passions.
The Constitution's drafters did not require a wag to teach them that power corrupts: they had experienced it in the person of King George. The American secession was announced by reference to his abuses of power: "He has obstructed the administration of Justice … he has made Judges dependant on his will alone … He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws … He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass out people and to eat out their substance … imposed taxes upon us without our consent… [He has] fundamentally altered the forms of our government."
This is a chillingly familiar set of grievances; and its recrudescence was foreseen by the Founders. They realized that King George was not an individual case, but the inevitable outcome of unfettered power; that any person or group with the power to tax, to form laws, and to enforce them by arms will default to dictatorship, absent the constant unflagging scrutiny of the governed, and their severe untempered insistence upon compliance with law.
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
Healthy government, as that based upon our Constitution, is strife. It awakens anxiety, passion, fervor, and, indeed, hatred and chicanery, both in pursuit of private gain and of public good. Those who promise to relieve us of the burden through their personal or ideological excellence, those who claim to hold the Magic Beans, are simply confidence men. Their emergence is inevitable, and our individual opposition to and rejection of them, as they emerge, must be blunt and sure; if they are arrogant, willful, duplicitous, or simply wrong, they must be replaced, else they will consolidate power, and use the treasury to buy votes, and deprive us of our liberties. It was to guard us against this inevitable decay of government that the Constitution was written. Its purpose was and is not to enthrone a Government superior to an imperfect and confused electorate, but to protect us from such a government.
Many are opposed to private ownership of firearms, and their opposition comes under several heads. Their specific objections are answerable retail, but a wholesale response is that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. On a lower level of abstraction, there are more than 2 million instances a year of the armed citizen deterring or stopping armed criminals; a number four times that of all crimes involving firearms.
The Left loves a phantom statistic that a firearm in the hands of a citizen is X times more likely to cause accidental damage than to be used in the prevention of crime, but what is there about criminals that ensures that their gun use is accident-free? If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
Violence by firearms is most prevalent in big cities with the strictest gun laws. In Chicago and Washington, D.C., for example, it is only the criminals who have guns, the law-abiding populace having been disarmed, and so crime runs riot.
Cities of similar size in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and elsewhere, which leave the citizen the right to keep and bear arms, guaranteed in the Constitution, typically are much safer. More legal guns equal less crime. What criminal would be foolish enough to rob a gun store? But the government alleges that the citizen does not need this or that gun, number of guns, or amount of ammunition.Why do I specify concealed carry? As if the weapons are concealed, any potential malefactor must assume that anyone on the premises he means to disrupt may be armed—a deterrent of even attempted violence.
But President Obama, it seems, does.
He has just passed a bill that extends to him and his family protection, around the clock and for life, by the Secret Service. He, evidently, feels that he is best qualified to determine his needs, and, of course, he is. As I am best qualified to determine mine.
For it is, again, only the Marxists who assert that the government, which is to say the busy, corrupted, and hypocritical fools most elected officials are (have you ever had lunch with one?) should regulate gun ownership based on its assessment of needs.
Q. Who "needs" an assault rifle?
A. No one outside the military and the police. I concur.
An assault weapon is that which used to be called a "submachine gun." That is, a handheld long gun that will fire continuously as long as the trigger is held down.
These have been illegal in private hands (barring those collectors who have passed the stringent scrutiny of the Federal Government) since 1934. Outside these few legal possessors, there are none in private hands. They may be found in the hands of criminals. But criminals, let us reflect, by definition, are those who will not abide by the laws. What purpose will passing more laws serve?
My grandmother came from Russian Poland, near the Polish city of Chelm. Chelm was celebrated, by the Ashkenazi Jews, as the place where the fools dwelt. And my grandmother loved to tell the traditional stories of Chelm.
Its residents, for example, once decided that there was no point in having the sun shine during the day, when it was light out—it would be better should it shine at night, when it was dark. Similarly, we modern Solons delight in passing gun laws that, in their entirety, amount to "making crime illegal."
What possible purpose in declaring schools "gun-free zones"? Who bringing a gun, with evil intent, into a school would be deterred by the sign?
Ah, but perhaps one, legally carrying a gun, might bring it into the school.
We need more armed citizens in the schools.
Walk down Madison Avenue in New York. Many posh stores have, on view, or behind a two-way mirror, an armed guard. Walk into most any pawnshop, jewelry story, currency exchange, gold store in the country, and there will be an armed guard nearby. Why? As currency, jewelry, gold are precious. Who complains about the presence of these armed guards? And is this wealth more precious than our children?
Apparently it is: for the Left adduces arguments against armed presence in the school but not in the wristwatch stores. Q. How many accidental shootings occurred last year in jewelry stores, or on any premises with armed security guards?
Why not then, for the love of God, have an armed presence in the schools? It could be done at the cost of a pistol (several hundred dollars), and a few hours of training (that's all the security guards get). Why not offer teachers, administrators, custodians, a small extra stipend for completing a firearms-safety course and carrying a concealed weapon to school? The arguments to the contrary escape me.
Yes, but we should check all applicants for firearms for a criminal record?
Anyone applying to purchase a handgun has, since 1968, filled out a form certifying he is not a fugitive from justice, a convicted criminal, or mentally deficient. These forms, tens and tens of millions of them, rest, conceivably, somewhere in the vast repository. How are they checked? Are they checked? By what agency, with what monies? The country is broke. Do we actually want another agency staffed by bureaucrats for whom there is no funding?
The police do not exist to protect the individual. They exist to cordon off the crime scene and attempt to apprehend the criminal. We individuals are guaranteed by the Constitution the right to self-defense. This right is not the Government's to "award" us. They have never been granted it.
The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal (as above) for 78 years. Did the ban make them "more" illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
Will increased cosmetic measures make anyone safer? They, like all efforts at disarmament, will put the citizenry more at risk. Disarmament rests on the assumption that all people are good, and, basically, want the same things.
But if all people were basically good, why would we, increasingly, pass more and more elaborate laws?
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a "set of suggestions." I cannot endorse his performance in office, but he wins my respect for taking those steps he deems necessary to ensure the safety of his family. Why would he want to prohibit me from doing the same?
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Friday, January 25, 2013
How Many Times, And In How Many Ways, Can I Say, "FUCK OBAMA!!!"10:49:00 pm permanent link# 2 Comments
Iranian authorities ordered Isfahan's 1.5 million residents to leave the city because pollution in the area "has reached emergency levels."
How's that nuclear facility coming, Mahmoud?
How's that nuclear facility coming, Mahmoud?
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, BUT THE ZIONISTS DID ITIran denies evacuating 1.5 million near nuke site due to 'emergency'NICOSIA — The Iranian government has dismissed reports that authorities ordered the evacuation of 1.5 million people in Isfahan earlier this month.
The statement sought to quell fears of a leak at the uranium conversion facility in the northwestern city."The rumors about leaking and contamination at Isfahan are not true at all," the statement said.
Iran's uranium conversion facility just outside the city of Isfahan. AP
On Jan. 2, Iranian authorities ordered an evacuation around the nuclear facility in Isfahan. An alert by Iran's civil defense agency warned that "pollution has now reached emergency levels" in the city.
The alert was published by Iran's state-controlled media but later removed from websites.
The civil defense alert came in wake of reports in November 2012 of a leak at Isfahan, assigned to convert uranium into a substance meant for enrichment by gas centrifuges. Several workers at Isfahan were said to have been contaminated and required hospitalization.
Isfahan, located on an active fault line, was believed to have been a target of opposition and foreign sponsors. In 2011, the uranium conversion plant was rocked by an explosion and damage was reported.
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IRAN - Explosion destroys much of underground Fordow installation
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS:
Explosion destroys much of underground fordow installation.HT: IsraelMatzav.(WND).A major explosion has hit Iran's underground Fordow nuclear facility, where it was enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. The explosion has trapped some 240 Iranian nuclear personnel underground. The source for the report is Reza Khalili, a former intelligence officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, who acted as a spy for, and eventually defected to, the United States.
An explosion deep within Iran's Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer of the Islamic regime.
The explosion occurred Monday, the day before Israeli elections weakened Netanyahu's political control.
According to a source in the security forces protecting Fordow, an explosion on Monday at 11:30 a.m. Tehran time rocked the site, which is buried deep under a mountain and immune not only to airstrikes but to most bunker-buster bombs. The report of the blast came via Hamidreza Zakeri, formerly with the Islamic regime's Ministry of Intelligence and National Security,
The blast shook facilities within a radius of three miles. Security forces have enforced a no-traffic radius of 15 miles, and the Tehran-Qom highway was shut down for several hours after the blast, the source said. As of Wednesday afternoon, rescue workers had failed to reach the trapped personnel. The site, about 300 feet under a mountain, had two elevators which now are out of commission. One elevator descended about 240 feet and was used to reach centrifuge chambers. The other went to the bottom to carry heavy equipment and transfer uranium hexafluoride. One emergency staircase reaches the bottom of the site and another one was not complete. The source said the emergency exit southwest of the site is unreachable.
The regime believes the blast was sabotage and the explosives could have reached the area disguised as equipment or in the uranium hexafluoride stock transferred to the site, the source said. The explosion occurred at the third centrifuge chambers, with the high-grade enriched uranium reserves below them. The information was passed on to U.S. officials but has not been verified or denied by the regime or other sources within the regime.
Though the news of the explosion has not been independently verified, other sources previously have provided WND with information on plans for covert operations against Iran's nuclear facilities as an option before going to war. The hope is to avoid a larger-scale conflict. Israel, the U.S. and other allies already have concluded the Islamic regime has crossed its red line in its quest for nuclear weapons, other sources have said.
However, this information was not revealed for security reasons until several days ago when sources said the regime's intelligence agency, through an alleged spy in the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, had learned of the decision to conduct sabotage on Iran's nuclear sites on a much larger scale than before.
As reported, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called an urgent meeting Tuesday with the intelligence minister, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and other officials to discuss the threat, and now it's clear the meeting included the sabotage at Fordow.
Sources in the Islamic regime previously have revealed exclusively to WND the existence of:
•A secret nuclear site in Najaf Abad.
•A list of Iranian scientists working on a nuclear bomb.
•A secret uranium enrichment site in Khondab, where the Russians and North Korean scientists are helping with Iran's nuclear bomb program.
•The secret bio-weapons site in Marzanabad, where, with the help of Russia, Iran has mastered production of eight microbial agents, arming its missiles with biological warheads.
•Another nuclear site at Bonab, where, with the help of Russians, uranium enrichment is taking place using laser technology.
While this is obviously great news assuming that it's true, there is still a long list of other facilities that could potentially endanger countries within bombing range of Iran that need to be destroyed. But getting rid of this facility is definitely great news, because the others apparently can be bombed from the air. I wonder who did this.... Heh. Read the full story here.
"A few concerns remain"
Eileen Norcross in US News and World Reports, on placement of a govt GPS black box IN YOUR CAR so that gas tax can be eliminated and you can be charged directly for your mileage.
She mentions this might be a cause for concern since the govt could 'potentially' track your movements.
NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Who would worry about that?
Of course there are potential money saving health benefits.
I mean if WE find out you are going to the drive thru window too often we could tax you for increases in health costs for the rest of us. This would also encourage you to 'conform' to a healthier lifestyle. Perhaps such trips should be published as a public service, you know, like the locations and names of gun owners.
Or if you are going out for odds and ends too often, perhaps your mileage charge should be hit with a surtax because your are not using our 'fossil fuel shared heritage' wisely, and you should be more efficient in your trips to town.
Oh yes, a few concerns remain.
BTW, why did you go to the liquor store 5 times last month?
And that motel?
Broken families cause the state much higher costs, you know.
Infidel Babe Of The Week
Courtney Hope
Yeah, until this evening I never heard of her either. At least I don't think so.
But then I don't watch much TeeVee.
And, if you really need another reason, unveiled at the Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade (S.H.O.T.) Show last week in Vegas, amidst all the anti-gun brouhaha, she is the new Glock Girl.
Now c'mon. You don't get much more Infidel than that.
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Yeah, until this evening I never heard of her either. At least I don't think so.
But then I don't watch much TeeVee.
And, if you really need another reason, unveiled at the Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade (S.H.O.T.) Show last week in Vegas, amidst all the anti-gun brouhaha, she is the new Glock Girl.
Now c'mon. You don't get much more Infidel than that.
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Obama Successfully Kills Off Another 3,900 Jobs at Texas Power Plant
In January 2008 Barack Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle:
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that cost onto consumers."
He promised that his plan would cause electricity rates to skyrocket.
He wasn't kidding.
Barack Obama's EPA just killed off another 3,900 energy jobs in Texas.
The Examiner reported, via FOX Nation:
The Examiner reported, via FOX Nation:
CLICK ON THE TITLE TO READ THE WHOLE STORY.Chase Power, the parent company behind the $3 billion Las Brisas coal power plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, announced yesterday that it was cancelling the project.
A Culturist Perspective on Obama's Inaugural Speech
Perspective from an American Culturist
In his second inauguration speech, America's newly re-elected President Obama, in the third sentence of his first paragraph, declared these United States a multicultural nation. In the defining sentence he declared at all inaugurations, "we recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origin of our names." Rather, Obama presented commitment to government programs as the source of our common identity.
Well bravo on the race statement. But, in order to avoid the apparently somewhere, sometimes assumed belief that the color of our skin binds us, Obama, as all multiculturalists, dedicates himself to ignoring the importance of culture, as neither religion (the tenets of our faith reference) nor national origin (names reference) matter in his depiction of our national identity.
So, in other words, America is just as much an Islamic nation as it is an offshoot of Christian / Secular Europe. This ignoring of history and geo-political realities and cultural affiliations limits our ability to understand ourselves as a western nation. And, if we paid attention to culture, as culturists do, we clearly see Obama's multicultural fealty to cultural blindness causing dangerous mistakes in many of the programs his speech insisted upon.
In framing our national narrative, President Obama told our people, "Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country." Thus he beautifully encapsulated the ironic multicultural idea that when we increase the entry of foreign cultures to America it solidifies our American identity.
It gets worse. Not all peoples come equally as strivers. Mexican culture has a high teenage pregnancy rate and lower educational attainment than Korean immigrants. That is not a racist statement, it is a culturally –based truth. And, some cultures have historical conflict with us, Mexico does with the US as Islam has with the rest of the West. As is our culturist tradition, our immigration laws should again reflect cultural statistics and values affinities. Otherwise economic problems and terror will result.
Our multicultural President opined, "We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else because she is an American." Unfortunately, this will never be true and government cannot do anything about it.
Some youths will get born into cultures where good grades evoke recrimination for "acting white." Other children enter cultures wherein being a nerd is cool. If multiculturalists see inequality, they rightfully discount race as a cause. But, multiculturalists say all cultures are equal and equally wonderful and none are bad. Thus, they never consider the factor of culture in terms of outcome. And so, having discounted race and culture, the multiculturalists blame inequality on "institutional racism." But culture explains homework completion rates much better.
Obama announced that, "Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm." What he means is that he aims to take guns away from law-abiding people. But guns don't kill people, cultures do.
In Chicago, the city in which Obama lived his pre-Presidential political life, 506 homicides took place in 2012. Criminals will always get guns. And these happened in particular neighborhoods in Chicago; this is not because guns can only be obtained there. When trying to make such neighborhoods safer, multiculturalists denounce all culturist profiling in law enforcement as racist. Again, ignorance of culture leads to distorted policies.
Ultimately, President Obama declared our identity formed from using government to create equality. But, our identity needs anchoring in western history. A multicultural government that sees racism as the root of all inequality and government money as the road to equal cultural outcomes is a formula for bankruptcy. If we add, as Obama did, a touch of class resentment between unequal parties, and ascribe the differences to racism and injustice, we have the makings of a social explosion.
To get our Western nations back, we must challenge the ruling multicultural assumptions of all political parties. To do so we must spread the buzzwords 'culturism' and 'culturist' in order to signify that a viable alternative exists and requires consideration. So go forth and discuss your culturist observations on the American President Obama's inaugural speech and those you hear your politicians make.
Jack Publius
An American Culturist
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Attention Must Be Paid
On January 11, 1944, Major James Howard, alone, flew his P-51 Mustang into thirty six German fighters that were attacking a formation of American B-17 bombers. For more than a hour, Howard defended the heavy bombers against the swarm of fighters, repeatedly attacking the enemy airplanes and shooting down as many as six. The leader of the bombers reported that, "For sheer determination and guts, it was the greatest exhibition I've ever seen." Howard received the Medal of Honor for his action that day.
"Where do we get such men?" R. Adm. George Tarrant, The Bridges of Toko Ri
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Obama and The Chinese Infiltration
From Erik Rush:
Americans have lived in relative safety and comfort for a very long time. It has been nearly 70 years since the nation operated in a modality that was geared toward its very survival, such as in the two World Wars. None of the military escapades in which we've since engaged possessed the gravity of those, and economically we have not suffered a calamity since the Great Depression matching that period.
Other nations cannot say the same. There are developed nations on the globe that can account for 100 million people having been murdered by their governments or in civil wars within the same 70 years. In undeveloped nations, the history is even bloodier and more bizarre, particularly if you include starvation deaths.
There are those in America who believe that the United States is long overdue for such upheaval, even deserving of same. In the 1960s and 1970s, radicals like President Obama's mentor Bill Ayers and his Weather Underground comrades plotted America's downfall, toying with estimations of how many millions of Americans they would have to kill to adequately pacify those remaining. This is not hearsay; it is a matter of public record. This methodology is boilerplate Marxism, in which Obama and key members of his Cabinet are well-versed, despite the benevolent representation of them maintained by the press.
I doubt it will escape the reader's notice that even if there were some manner of twisted justice in America "having its day," it is the elitism and avarice of her political leaders that would merit such punishment, not that of her citizens.
Since the publication of "Obama: Selling out America – literally" and Jerome Corsi's story, "China poised to play debt card – for U.S. land" in WND, people have become curious (as well as fearful) regarding Obama's dealings with China.
While the press ignore the relevant charges and left-wing publications ridicule them, some people have discovered through due diligence that there is ample evidence to corroborate what I, Dr. Corsi, and a few other commentators have asserted over the last year or so. We are accused of having no proof or corroboration, yet outside sources (like the Idaho Statesman and even Fox News, for example) have published news articles verifying at least elements of what we've claimed.
One must also bear in mind that Chinese corporations are essentially owned outright by China's communist government. When you grant such an organization permission to build a billion-dollar facility on tens of thousands of acres and consisting of thousands of people in the U.S., what you get is a Chinese military installation residing on our soil, whether it outwardly resembles one or not.
The questions remain: How, then, is America's karmic comeuppance to come about, and by what manner do Marxist operatives in our government intend to pacify those patriots who won't bow to communist overlords?
As indicated, China will have a role to play, under the pretext of trade and debt satisfaction. Disarming the populace is also an integral part of the plan, which is why efforts to neutralize the Second Amendment are in play. Naturally, it will be far easier for a well-armed contingent of trained Chinese military scattered about the country to suppress an unarmed citizenry. China definitely has the personnel to spare, and some of the aforementioned Chinese companies reportedly have airfields on their campuses. I kid you not.
But infiltrators from Communist China certainly won't be the only problem. As one may have noticed, Obama has also taken great pains to cull certain high-ranking American military leaders. While this may appear to be business as usual, I have good reason to believe that some have been released due to their disagreement with the administration over new policies of domestic engagement.
A number of orchestrated catastrophic catalysts intended to move the program into its next and most accursed phase remain on the table. Any of these would ignite full-blown domestic unrest.


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thanks man
i been writing for almost a year
but been takin it serious for only a couple months
yours looks pretty good too . how long u been writing?
-The joyous taco jumps-
about a year too but latly more serious , where u from ? im from canada BC kelowna. we have some dope writers here, OMit ,Skies, ANSR,Ases and shit , dope writers but ya im still working it out, u have MSN ?
some other shii
hey...who's the faggot on u'r sig? daniel something?Originally posted by gilt@Nov 24 2004, 10:55 PM
to me its blury and cant really say anything about it because of the blur
did i miss something? :huh:
and ok stuff everyone
chillen...crazy bombs. nice style...
so nice.....Originally posted by dob_one@Nov 24 2004, 11:36 PM
were did you get those reign? it was evak wasnt it! why didnt i get any!
ya it was evak, gave me a rather large stack...
ah fuck i just shit my pants
well car2n, i have actually painted i dont give a fuck about putting them up here, i have done only a few peices, or burners, like one bomb, and a lot of tags, plus stickers up the ying yang.........friends from a local crew (ADD-RIP) no longer in service.......... and so on..... they can all vouge, SL!P on these forums can also vouge for me, and chillen knows that i have gone tagging, i dont know if i sent him the flick...............but all my pictures are on a friends computer, and i dont need to prove anything to you car2n.......i will battle you if you want..... and that battle we were supossed to have, you dropped out before i posted mine, and so did everyone else, so i didnt even bother......... but lets battle if you want.....i will take you.....im sure people can vouge for that too!
and ±SC±·°¯¨ΔΚΓǾΠΣ¨¯°·±MFC± not bad........likin the char. and some of your stuff.........
chillen props........love it cant wait for your stuff to come man....
where is kosmo!!!!???????? when are you comin down or if you are, so we can paint, i have some legal spots, and some good ones that havnt been hit yet......
and rane, i have seen those somewhere else..........12oz maybe??....pg??......
but they are dope, post more...
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Im looking forward to CHILLEN's next instalment..........were getting great new talent or here as of lately.

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and we shall have an emo holocauhst [sic], headed by adolf meekus. only hes got two balls and wont shoot himself

I love those stickers :wub:
nyways im out for school
acteh
hundredproof is the only other place ive posted themOriginally posted by DA'SeLMeR''@Nov 25 2004, 03:03 AM
and rane, i have seen those somewhere else..........12oz maybe??....pg??......
but they are dope, post more...
sorry for double post**
chillen, you should start doing more canvas then just slippin it all in your book.. it'd be pretty tight.Originally posted by CHILLEN905@Nov 24 2004, 07:57 PM
some old sketches and some new ones over a long time...
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2009 Rank: #359 / 804
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So, here we have a record from a group that's recently relocated to Brooklyn and uses pre-release interviews as a way to send mash notes to the likes of Dirty Projectors and Yeasayer, bands they bear no sonic similarity to at all. Yeah, big deal-- we could be talking about any number of new jacks with a competen
t PR team. But this is ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead-- fiercely Austinite and not the kind of people you'd call "joiners." If you're checking in for the first time since 2002, Trail of Dead followed up the monumental Source Tags & Codes with a spending spree of goodwill, beefing with label execs, hectoring reviewers, and having their live shows punctuated with intraband violence. And yes, they made albums, too. While I won't tell how high the perversely enjoyable, self-immolating clusterfuck of Worlds Apart ranked on my 2005 year-end list, I can assure you my enthusiasm for it placed me in the minority. On its follow-up, So Divided, Trail of Dead didn't even bother trying to be provocative. It would've been the sound of a band bottoming out if they hadn't gone on to open for Dethklok in one of the most emasculating turnarounds in rock history.


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5 Recommendations
JustEliana's recommendation
Um I'm probably more excited for this movie than I was for Batman....
My Collections:
Anything Seth Rogan touches nowadays is like gold...gold I want to see.
- hapa_lee
zoewscott's recommendation
See this movie ASAP. Seriously, it's LOLZ from beginning to end. It's a total stoner comedy- nothing worthy of an Oscar, but Pineapple Express is the kind of hilarious movie that comes along only once in a while.
chad's recommendation
It's nothing more than the latest bromance from the guys that have brought us, almost every over-the-top comedy in recenter years -- at least every one we saw. If you like Seth Rogan humor, you'll love this one.
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JustEliana's recommendation
I haven't seen the movie YET but don't worry I will VERY VERY SOON. And anything with James Franco has to be good.
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Disillusioning's recommendation
Hilareous! I've been quoting lines from it for months.


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Humanistic Elective in Activism,
Reflective Transformation, and Integrative Medicine (HEART-IM)
March 26 – April 21, 2017
Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, CA
It is only with the heart that one can see clearly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes….
All slots are currently filled.
Please contact the HEART-IM Student Leadership Team with any questions.
The Humanistic Elective in Activism, Reflective Transformation, and Integrative Medicine (HEART-IM), will provide twenty-five (25) fourth-year medical students with a unique and rewarding way to conclude their medical school careers and prepare for their future work as healer-physicians. Applicants should have a strong interest in exploring the path of healing within the modern world and medical system. The month-long elective will be structured as a group exploration of what it means to be a healer and how we can each work to embody it as we progress in our careers.
Students will spend the month in a cooperative living and learning environment. We will create a community focused around the exploration of the healing path. We will cook and clean together, teach and learn from each other. At the same time, we will be expanding our knowledge on a number of important topics not typically emphasized in medical school curricula. Ample time will be available for reflection and self-care.
Didactic and experiential sessions will be facilitated by inspiring physician mentors and other experts. Specific sessions will be focused on intentional community building, complementary and alternative/holistic and integrative medicine, social justice and activism, reflective transformation including meditative practices, and personal growth skills such as communication and intention. Any clinical site visits will demonstrate ways to incorporate social justice and patient advocacy into clinical care.
Formal and informal dialogue throughout the month may include the following topics: physician social responsibility and activism, racism, humanism, gender in medicine, health policy, mentoring, the practice of CAM, medical history, death and dying, suffering and compassion, healing through the creative arts, sexuality, body image, violence, substance abuse, childbirth, religion, self-care, and more.
We hope the experience will cultivate each participant's vision of what it means to be a healer, as well as the motivation to strive for it. The planning team for HEART is currently working on fundraising and logistical planning for this unique experience. We welcome your support and suggestions. To contribute to this effort, please contact the HEART-IM Student Leadership Team at email@example.com.
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Registration to attend is $1000. This covers all major expenses for the month, including housing, meals, snacks, lectures, evening on-site activities, and local transportation for official activities. Students pay their own way to the designated airport, and transportation is provided from there. Some weekends will be free, with optional scheduled activities each weekend. Additional tuition fees will apply and will be paid directly to the University of Wisconsin.
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Muhammad Ali, 'the greatest', remembered as boxer who transcended sports
By Ricardo Arduengo
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Reuters) - The death of Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight champion known as much for his political activism as his boxing brilliance, triggered a worldwide outpouring of affection and admiration for one of the best-known figures of the 20th century.
Ali, who had long suffered from Parkinson's syndrome which impaired his speech and made the once-graceful athlete almost a prisoner in his own body, died on Friday at age 74.
The cause of death was septic shock due to unspecified natural causes, a family spokesman said on Saturday. Ali was admitted to a Phoenix-area hospital, HonorHealth, with a respiratory ailment on Monday.
"He'll be remembered as a man of the world who spoke his mind and wasn't afraid to take a chance and went out of his way to be a kind, benevolent individual that really changed the world," the family spokesman, Bob Gunnell, said at a news conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Despite Ali's failing health, his youthful proclamation that he was "the greatest" rang true until the end for millions of people around the world who respected him for his courage both inside and outside the ring.
Along with a fearsome reputation as a fighter, Ali spoke out against racism, war and religious intolerance, while projecting an unshakeable confidence that became a model for African-Americans at the height of the civil rights era and beyond.
Stripped of his world boxing crown for refusing to join the U.S. Army and fight in Vietnam, Ali returned in triumph by recapturing the title and starring in some of the sport's most unforgettable bouts.
"I think when you talk about Muhammad Ali, as great an athlete, as great a boxer as he was, he was the greatest boxer of all time, he means so much more to the United States and the world," said Ali's long-time friend, boxing promoter Bob Arum. Continued...


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Best Of :: Shopping & Services
Just when you thought nobody had a couple of million bucks to risk on your hot new techno-idea, here comes Mobius Venture Capital Hotbank, just a microchip's throw from Boulder. Formerly Soft Bank Venture Capital, this fund's Web site claims $2.5 billion under management, with hundreds of the leading technology companies in its portfolio. The Hotbank incubator has been nurturing infant companies with facilities and advice from experienced entrepreneurs and other business experts since November 2000, for a fraction of the cost of now-defunct for-profit operations. If you want to pitch for funding, don't spend a dime on printing your business plan: Mobius accepts applications online only.
Denver's jailhouse certainly doesn't rock, but those bright-orange jumpsuits sure are purty. If committing a crime, getting arrested and doing time in the pokey isn't worth it for you, though, why not just pretend? Where the Buffalo Roam, a novelty shop on the 16th Street Mall, sells orange jumpsuits, T-shirts, button-up shirts and a variety of hats with the words "Property of Denver County Jail" stenciled across them. While the city's corrections director, Fred Oliva, didn't have much of a sense of humor about the grim garments, that hasn't stopped people from snatching them up (after paying, of course), says a store employee. And why not? After all, the clothes look criminally cool.
Since it opened in February, Art-N-Soul has become like a Star Wars' Mos Eisley Spaceport for Denver-area graffiti artists who appreciate the difference between a fully conceptualized work of street art and a hastily thrown-up "tag" that's all autograph and no picture. Open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day except Mondays, Art-N-Soul is where you will find local graffiti writers showing off their sketch books and talking craft while local hip-hop maven Fly Jedi mixes beats and rings up sales behind the counter. Dominated by eye-popping wall murals by Denver writers Chase and Jehr, the shop carries a full line of graffiti-culture accoutrements. These include canvases and black books (both priced at just 50 percent over wholesale), T-shirts, underground hip-hop CDs, graffiti magazines While You Were Sleeping and Scribble, and custom-designed spray-paint caps used to adjust the width and rate of paint flow. Art-N-Soul is also one of the few retail outlets in the country to carry Belton Molotow Premium spray paint, the celebrated but hard-to-come-by German line designed by and for graffiti artists. "That's the butter stuff, right there," says Jehr. And the motto on the cans says it all: "Use for art, not vandalism."
Got gas? It's not just for dental patients anymore. Quasi-legal and relatively harmless, recreational doses of nitrous oxide are widely available hereabouts in the form of "whippits." Small aluminum cylinders of pressurized gas, whippits are sold in head shops and adult bookstores under the guise of chargers for homemade whipped-cream makers. But the price of nitrous in Denver is no laughing matter. Capitalizing on the underground nature of the product, most outlets charge an outrageous $28 to $35 for a case of 24. There are exceptions: Thankfully, the Joker has the best deal in town, at $15.99. At those prices, just say N20.
You can get reasonably priced cases of whippits (around $20) and sensibly priced whips ($30, more or less) at the Crypt. There's a bigger selection of novelties next door, but the pickin's are pretty good here, too. The rest, as they say, is up to you. Just whippit good.
Now you can wear your heart on your sleeve and your flag on your biceps -- and have something more than a permanent blemish to show for it. Last October, in the wake of September 11, the epidermis etchers at Dark Millennia Studios instigated this offer, though word from the Millennial staff is that there wasn't much of a response. The offer still stands, just like the good old American spirit: Declare your love for your nation in permanent ink, and 10 percent of the fee will go to the Red Cross or United Way in your name.


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I Sing the Body Electric (thing)
See all of I Sing the Body Electric, there is 1 more in this node.
|I sing the node electric
|Walt Whitman
|fractal design of the dramatic human body
|My body is still trying to explain it to my brain
|Official Everything2 Poem
|Body Electric
|Why I don't like my fellow Asian youth
|Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
|Tripping the light fantastic
|When I asked Anna to marry me
|The Sisters of Mercy
|Theos apo mechanis
|My Way
|so utterly of the coming world
|your privilege encloses the rest
|Du brauchst mich doch auch nicht mehr als ich dich.
|Voltage follower
|North American Poetry
|The best thing since sliced bread
|unfinished stories : mourn the body electric