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I use Windows 7 on a 17″ monitor with a resolution of 1600×900. When I show pictures as extra large icons in Windows Explorer, they are still too small to browse.
I use my PC to show many pictures to clients, so I need to find their pictures quick. Opening them one-by-one is too much time.
How can I make the thumbnails larger than the extra large icon setting? Is there any third party software that can do it?


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By Ian Forbes
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I make it a policy to avoid eye contact with people in costumes posting signs in the neighborhood like this.
Theatrical Release Date: 04/15/2011
Director: James Gunn
Cast: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon, Liv Tyler, Michael Rooker, Andre Royo, Nathan Fillion
Rated: Not Rated by the MPAA
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
This isn't exactly the Hall of Justice.
Although it could be described as a low budget "Kick-Ass", don't let the veneer of "Super" fool you: this film may be in the same genre but it tackles the notion of your less-than-average Joe Schmoe donning tights and fighting crime in a completely different manner.
Our protagonist is Frank D'Arbo. Played by Rainn Wilson, his greatest achievement in life was marrying a waitress (Liv Tyler) at the restaurant where he works. However, his life takes a turn for the decidedly worse when she runs off with Jacques (Kevin Bacon), opting to reject the notion of a suburban lifestyle in favor of being supplied with the drug habit she failed to kick completely.
This flips a switch in Frank's brain and leaves him vulnerable to pursuing perhaps the worst course of action in order to get her back. Thanks to a television program wherein a costumed Holy Avenger (Nathan Fillion) battles a demon (played by writer/director James Gunn himself) trying to tempt otherwise virtuous people, Frank invents the alter-ego of The Crimson Bolt. After getting some tips on how to become a superpower-less crime fighter from the local comic book shop employee, Libby (Ellen Page), he sets out to fight crime and eventually work his way up to "rescuing" his wife.
Frank is basically a cross between Travis Bickle and The Tick. And while I'm not equating his performance or the film on a level anywhere near "Taxi Driver", in using this approach, the tone feels simultaneously natural and surreal. It's clear to the audience that he is experiencing a mental break but obviously, he sees his costumed vigilantism as a means to exact justice and right the wrongs. His nobility of purpose is both honorable and pathetic – which seems about right when you're analyzing what it takes for someone to put on a mask, grab a pipe wrench and fight whatever "crime" is at hand; whether that's dealing drugs or butting in line. (Pro-tip: Don't butt in line.)
Helping him along the way, Libby not only provides some initial inspiration but become his faithful sidekick, Boltie. There are a lot of things going on with her from a psychological point of view and it's one of Page's finest roles, showing the most dynamic range since 2005′s "Hard Candy". Likewise, Kevin Bacon's turn as the slimy, yet charming and polite, villain is an absolute joy to behold. He clearly relished the opportunity to play a character such as this and dominates nearly every scene he's in.
Considering some of the gore and overtly silly elements thrown in here and there, it's quite appropriate that Gunn (whose directorial start came with Troma films like "Tromeo and Juliet") even gave Lloyd Kaufman a cameo, although this makes more sense than the average Troma film. And by silly (albeit delightfully fun), I mean doing things like letting Rob Zombie play the voice of God directing the Holy Avenger in his efforts and adding cartoon "Bamfs" to some of the action, a la 60′s-era Batman episodes.
Simply put, "Super" is a darkly comic, yet at times surprisingly heartfelt look into the twisted headspace of a man who's been pushed too far and it gets a 4 out of 5. There are times when the production tends to lag a bit but if you want to see why ordinary people shouldn't strap on tights and take matters into their own hands, this ought to do it. The characters face far more realistic consequences for their actions than most films would allow and it elevates this from a throw away cinematic ode to geeks into something almost sublimely profound.
If you aren't a fan of the genre or don't think the seemingly scattered nature of the production will gel enough for you, maybe this is something to skip … but don't be so surprised if this becomes somewhat of a cult classic over time – as the niche demographic this appears geared towards converts their friends from skeptics into believers once this hits the home market.

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Nepal's Chief of the Army Staff General Rajendra Chhetri will embark on a six-day visit to India beginning today. Nepal Army said, General Rajendra Chhetri is visiting India on the invitation of his Indian counterpart General Bipin Rawat.
During General Chhetri visit to India, Purna Chandra Thapa will be Nepal's caretaker Army Chief. General Chhetri is scheduled to return to Nepal on June 11. Nepal Army said, General Chhetri's visit will further strengthen the relations between the two Armies.
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Should You Get That Drugstore Shot?
Even beyond flu shots, getting vaccinated at the pharmacy might be smart
Next time you're at the local pharmacy to buy toothpaste, razors and deodorant, you may want to consider getting a flu shot. And while you're there, why not get your kid his measles vaccine?
Most drugstores owned by big chains — including CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens — now offer a wide variety of vaccinations. If you need to get your children vaccinated for school and the doctor can't see them for several weeks, a quick trip to the drugstore may be just what the doctor ordered.
"We have seen a steady increase in the number of consumers going to the pharmacy for immunizations over the last five years," says Jon Roth, CEO of the California Pharmacists Association. "It's so convenient."
It's handy for doctors, too. "A lot of doctors don't want to carry every vaccine in their office," says Heather Free, PharmD, a spokesperson for the American Pharmacists Association and a practicing pharmacist in Washington, DC. "So they like to use the pharmacy, and they send over orders."
Related: Why — and When — You Should Get the Shingles Vaccine
What shots can you get?
At least 45 states allow pharmacies to provide all the vaccines approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That means you can get vaccinated against hepatitis A and B, pneumonia, polio, Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) and varicella (chickenpox), to name a just few. (Check out which states let pharmacies administer which vaccines.)
Getting ready for a trip abroad? You can get vaccinated against many diseases you may encounter on your journey, such as typhoid or meningitis, according to Consumer Reports.
Is it safe to get vaccinated at the drugstore?
You may feel nervous about getting a shot outside of a doctor's office, but there's no cause to worry. Pharmacists are very knowledgeable about vaccinations and are well trained in immunization techniques. States require pharmacists to be certified to administer injections, and some require additional courses in immunology.
Most states allow student interns to give vaccinations as well, but only under the supervision of a pharmacist. The pharmacy interns "are always monitored by the pharmacist and must complete the state's requirements for immunization training," says Free. This often includes being CPR certified and vaccinated against hepatitis B, in addition to completing a certain amount of continuing education, she says.
Related: Measles Vaccination: Who Needs It?
Know before you go
If you're ready to take advantage of this service, here are some tips.
Find out which drugstores offer the vaccines you need. Go to Healthmap.org and type in your zip code and the vaccine you need, and you'll see which pharmacies in your area can immunize you. You can also contact the health department in your state to find out where you can get vaccinated.
Avoid drugstore flu shots if you have an egg allergy. If you are allergic to eggs, bypass the drugstore and get a flu shot only in a doctor's office or a clinic prepared to treat you for an allergic reaction, including anaphylaxis, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. (Another caution: People allergic to eggs should not get a nasal flu vaccine anywhere, according to the CDC.)
Check with your doctor if you're pregnant or nursing before getting any drugstore vaccinations.
Make sure you're eligible. For example, most insurance plans cover the shingles vaccine only for adults over 60.
Ask about kids. About a dozen states do not allow pharmacies to vaccinate people under age 18, according to the American Pharmacists Association.
Figure out whether your insurer covers drugstore vaccinations. "Most commercial health plans will cover immunizations through the pharmacy unless it is a closed health plan like Kaiser," says Roth. To be sure, check with your insurance plan before you visit the store. The Affordable Care Act requires most insurers to cover CDC-recommended immunizations without any co-pay, the CDC notes. If your insurance covers pharmacy vaccines, the pharmacist should be able to file the claim directly with your plan.
Tell the pharmacist about any medical conditions you and your children have. For example, if your child has asthma, he should get a flu shot rather than the nasal spray flu vaccine, according to the CDC.
Related: 6 Ways to Make Your Flu Vaccine More Effective
Shop around for the best price. According to Consumer Reports, prices vary enough to make this worthwhile. Also, some pharmacies give rewards for getting your vaccines there if you sign up for their free loyalty programs. With each vaccine you earn points that may add up to some real discounts on items you buy at the pharmacy.
Keep records of the vaccines you or your children receive. Ask your pharmacist to forward information about your vaccinations to your doctor, but keep a copy to give to your doctor just in case. If your state has a vaccine registry, make sure the pharmacy uses it to record your shots.
"Everybody's reporting system is different," says Free. "But many states require us to log in through a portal to access the patient's medical record and note that they were immunized, and this information goes to the physician."
Make an appointment if you're pressed for time. You don't need an appointment to get vaccinated at a pharmacy, but most chain drugstores offer appointments if you want one. Factor in the time to fill out a basic medical history and consent form, as well as an authorization to release your health care information.


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The Woman Shaking Up The Diamond Industry
Eira Thomas's company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.
Great new articles, every day.
Eira Thomas's company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.
A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.
In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.
A PR company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.
A legend hangs on.
In 1993 a black teenager in London was randomly stabbed to death by a gang of white youths. Twenty years later, they would be at the center of the trial of the decade.
On Witanhurst, the dilapidated London mansion whose ownership is cloaked in mystery.
A report from the Central African Republic, where "acts of extraordinary cruelty have become commonplace."
On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.
Is being a war correspondent worth the risk?
Published on the eve of Iran's 2009 presidential election and subsequent protests, a look at the booze-fueled, hijab-less underground party scene in the capital.
Inside the conflict that has caused more deaths than any since WWII—with no end in sight.


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No guarantee 49ers will pay Kwon Alexander all that 'guaranteed' money
The 49ers hope they'll pay inside linebacker Kwon Alexander more than $25 million in guarantees over the next two seasons, but here's an important point: There's no guarantee they will.
Details of the inside linebacker's reported four-year, $54 million contract with $27.5 guaranteed emerged Tuesday and it is, in effect, a one-year deal with only $14.53 million fully guaranteed, per spotrac.com.
The 49ers have protected themselves if Alexander, who is recovering from a torn ACL he sustained in October, has a disastrous debut season.
Alexander's hefty base salary ($11.25 million) in 2020 is only guaranteed for injury. That means the 49ers could release him with little financial penalty if they did so before April 1, 2020. In that scenario, the 49ers would incur just $3 million in dead money.
Of course, the 49ers would like Alexander to receive his full two-season payout.
If they cut ties with Alexander after paying him more than $14 million in 2019, Alexander would join Reuben Foster and Malcolm Smith as poor investments the 49ers have made at inside linebacker under the new regime.
Smith, who took a pay cut last week, has played in just 12 of 32 games since signing a five-year deal with $12 million guaranteed in 2017. The 49ers traded a fourth-round pick to move up to select Foster at No. 31 overall two years ago. Foster played in just 16 games before he was released in November a day after his third arrest.
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This definition is widely used in the AI/self-driving cars industry:
"The Level 5 autonomous application should make the decision based on its own intelligence and self-improve from the outcomes of the decisions that it made.
DAO is supposed to be full autonomous, which has Level 5 automation. No human created applications reach the "autonomous" level yet.
DApp does not mention the level of automation. All the examples it gave are the automated software since there is no autonomous software yet. All existing blockchains based DApps including Bitcoin just automate the pre-coded business logic. Vitalik mentioned the DAO as the holy grail since no one yet got there even some may have called themselves TheDAO".
In this sense we either:
Should remove the "autonomous" from the DAO acronym;
Should change the "autonomous" to something different, like "adaptive";
Should treat all "DAO" projects as DOs, but not DAOs (even "TheDAO");
Should use another acronym/term like "AI DAO".
Wiki: "Autonomous organizations are independent or self-governing". In this sense USA is an autonomous organization. This definition is too broad, so we are going to use a stronger definition:
Synthetic definition by Thetta: "A system is Autononomous if it is Automated and Independent"
Synthetic definition by Thetta: "A system is Automated if SOME decisions are made automatically (by code, smart contracts, business logic, etc)"
Synthetic definition by Thetta (weak): "A system is Independent in the particular environment - if it MOSTLY does NOT obey rules of the system located on the same or higher level"
Apple Inc. obeys rules of Legal system. But Legal system does not obey rules of Apple Inc.;
Apple Inc. obeys rules of Legal system and USA and United Nations.
The Mobile dept. obeys rules of Apple Inc. and Legal system and USA and World and United Nations. But Mobile dept. is NOT independent because it obeys rules of the Design dept. (same level) too;
The Design dept. obeys rules of Apple Inc. and Legal system and USA and World and United Nations. But Design dept. is NOT independent because it obeys rules of Tim Cook (higher level) too;
Tim Cook obeys rules of Apple Inc. and Legal system and USA and World and United Nations. But Tim Cook DOES NOT obey rules of a Design dept. and there is no one above him! That's why he is independent.
Still, in reality there is no even a single system that is trully independent (in this sense). Even Tim Cook has some formal/informal input from the same level (CEOs of Samsung, chip manufacturers, etc) and from the level above (Apple investors).
Definition above is "weak" because in order to be "independent" one should not be a 100% independent.
Autonomous to environment?
Apple Inc.
Organization registered in USA
(people, products)
Legal System (should file reports, pay taxes, etc)
ERC20 token contract deployed to the Ethereum mainnet
EVM bytecode deployed to Ethereum mainnet
Ethereum system
(most decisions are made internally)
Seller on the market
Russian Federation
Legal entity
United Nations
North Korea
Legal entity
United Nations
Blockchain system
Autonomous systems often have better decision making: easier, done faster and more verifiable and can better adapt to changes.


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As reported by Deadline, Lifetime has greenlit a TV movie about Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympic champion and convicted murderer who became known as the "Blade Runner" because of his advanced prosthetic legs. In 2014, Pistorius was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day night in 2013, with him explaining that he shot her because he thought she might have been an intruder. (The court eventually ruled that it didn't matter who he thought he was shooting at, he was still shooting at someone.)
The Lifetime movie will focus on Steenkamp, telling the story of her "apparent fairy tale relationship" with the star athlete, the events that lead up to her death, and the courtroom drama that followed. Also, as an interesting indication of just how quickly Lifetime can put these things together, the movie—Oscar Pistorius: Blade Runner Killer—is already set for a November premiere.


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Escape to Picton—the most luxurious romantic little spot in Marlborough
There is ranking system for accommodation in New Zealand based on stars. Five stars and above being luxury; four stars and below being cheaper, less in quality. They should scrap this idea and base the system on pillows. The Escape to Picton—tiny hotel in New Zealand would be right at the top as a 13-pillow hotel. That's what I had in my Modern Suite and it was divine. This is one of the sexiest most romantic hideaways in New Zealand and it is brand spanking new. Well, new as in quite recently opened. But Escape to Picton is a boutique hotel, bar and restaurant in a 101 year old building.
It is the brainchild of chef, hotel owner, entrepreneur and ball of dynamite Juliearna Kavanagh. She set up and ran Kavanagh House is the southern part of New Zealand for 15 years. She is a great chef and wonderful personality. Juliearna wandered past the old building on April Fool's Day, 2007 and decided on the spot to buy it. It was run down, unused but she was determined to restore the 1907 old bank, rather than have it flattened for a modern building. With a designer friend Michelle Evans, Juliearna transformed the old bank into the finest luxury lodge in this part of the world. The colours are soothing the fittings stunning and some features outright romantic, such as the sexy stand-alone sway bathe in the middle of the bathroom of the Formal Suite.
Picton is the gateway to Marlborough Sounds, one of the most picturesque relaxing tranquil isolated warm and summery parts of middle New Zealand. Just 15 minutes drive south is the home and heart of New Zealand wine and the famous Marlborough sauvignon Blanc. Picton offers so much to see in the breathless scenery of the Marlborough Sounds: walk or bike the bush tracks of Queen Charlotte Sound; swim with dolphins or diving the Mikhail Lermontov, a giant Russian cruise ship that hit rocks and sunk on February 16 1986 the scenery will leave you breathless. Smell the manuka tree sapwood, hear the bellbirds. Slow down, draw in the beauty. Picton and the Marlborough Sounds are special places, to which you will want to return again and again. So Escape to Picton serves as a luxury oasis in the middle of an upmarket tourist area.
Endless Spy Valley chardonnay, signature seafood chowder, salmon, home-made ice creams, no wonder this is the place for honeymooners, lovers and people wanting a special treat. Plonk Escape to Picton in the middle of Queenstown—the adventure capital of the world 750 km further south—and this would be $1200 a night instead of $495 a night. I am in heaven here sprawled out on my soft sensual bed.
Some guidelines before you book online at Escape to Picton:
Thou shalt not dine alone
EtoP is all about spending time together. Feel free to kiss and caress between courses. Share a cleansing ice cream and you're sure to feel like you're on your first romantic date. The signature seafood chowder ensures that: though shalt indulge.
Thou shalt explore
Get out during the day. Run some walking tracks, go on a harbour cruise with the Cougar Line, and discover the area, head to Blenheim for the wineries.
Thou shalt be lazy
Hang out the `Do Not Disturb' love heart. It's one of those times in life when you can be cathartic and romantic. Do not move from your bed and let time go by; or sprawl out downstairs and chat about life with Juliearna.
Thou shalt enjoy your suite
The blissful bed in the Modern room is to die for: 13 pillows. The mind boggles what to do with them. The spa bath beckons two flat screen TVs—a balcony looking out to the sounds.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's suite
There are just three vast rooms—the Sea Room, the Modern Suite and the Formal suite. All have their luxurious idiosyncrasies and you would love every suite.
There are no other commandments—break a few rules and enjoy the haven of Picton.
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Whether you love vegetables or hate them, there is no doubt that some of the most favourable dishes are vegetarian. Also, who can resist the colours of fresh produce? I admit I cannot. Bags of produce later I find myself with more than I can consume and letting it go to waste is not an option. The plus side is that making a pisto with all these veggies freezes well and has a multitude of uses.
So what is pisto? Pisto is a Spanish dish similar to French ratatouille. There really isn't much of a different and, like ratatouille, the ingredients can vary as well as the quantities of the ingredients. You can't really go wrong. The base of a pisto is tomato, followed by onions, peppers, zucchini and/or eggplant. It take several hours to cook so making a large batch is worth while. The concentration of flavours is incredible.
Pisto is so versatile that you can use it all year long:
*substitute for pizza sauce
*use as a pasta sauce
*serve cold on a crostini
*delicious over a fried egg or a scramble
*a base for tomato rice
*blend and use as a soup base
*a topping for meat
Besides the time, all that is required is a bit of prep work. As I mentioned earlier, the ingredients and quantities can be adapted to suit your taste but here is my recipe that works very well. You will need 8 ripe tomatoes, 4 peppers (I try to get a variety of colours so it looks nicer), 2 medium onions, 1 zucchini (I love yellow zucchini if it is in season), a large bunch of fresh basil, and 6-8 cloves of garlic, minced.
Wash and cut all your vegetables into pieces that you will enjoy eating. I tend to cut them somewhere between diced and large chunks because they shrink down a bit when they are cooked. Once everything is set, it is a matter of having patience and cooking each section down.
In a large pot, add some olive oil and onions. When they start to caramelize, add the tomatoes, some salt, pepper and a Tbsp of paprika. If you like spice, use hot paprika.
Once the tomatoes break down and you notice they sauce is starting to thicken and most of the liquid has evaporated (about 20 minutes simmering and stirring occasionally) you can add the rest of the vegetables (peppers and zucchini).
Allow this to break down the same way as the tomatoes, making sure to give it an additional stir. This process will also take about 20 minutes. You will notice the vegetables are still firm. You can now put a lid on the pot and let it simmer for another 30 minutes. Be sure to give it a stir part way through.
The final step is to add the garlic and fresh basil. I like to add this to the end because I feel like the flavours get lost if the garlic and basil cook too long. Once these final ingredients are added I let the pisto cook for another 20 minutes uncovered. Add any salt to taste if needed.
Once it has cooled down a bit you can fill three 500 mL mason jars and freeze them for later use. Be sure to leave a bit of space in the jar if you are freezing them.
author: Eve@DivineDiuum
8 tomatoes (large dice)
4 bell peppers (large dice)
2 medium onions (large dice)
1 small zucchini (large dice)
1/8 C olive oil
1 Tbsp paprika
salt and pepper
6 large garlic cloves (minced)
1 C fresh basil (coarsely chopped)
1. In a large pot add oil and onions.
2. Cook over medium heat until onions start to brown (approx. 1o minutes).
3. Add paprika, salt and pepper.
4. Stir in tomatoes until they break down a bit (approx. 20 minutes).
5. Add peppers and zucchini.
6. Cook for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
7. Reduce heat to simmer, cover and let cook for 30 minutes.
8. Mix in garlic and basil.
9. Cook uncovered for another 20 minutes stirring occasionally.
10. Consistency should be thick and sauce-like.
11. Season with more salt if needed.
12. This fills 3 small mason jars which you can freeze once it has cooled.
Calories 253 per jar
Protein 5.3 g per jar


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MIT has had to shut down its eyebrow-raising Library Access to Music Project (LAMP). The project has been overzealously heralded by some as a panacea to the problems of P2P on college campuses, as it purported to make thousands of songs freely available on the campus' cable TV network. The service made great use of the so-called "analog hole," ostensibly skirting US Copyright issues by broadcasting below-CD quality analog music to devices that could not easily be used by end users to capture music (e.g., TVs). The service looked completely legal, although cynics were quick to point out that entities such as the RIAA would likely wrangle it to the ground using whatever methods possible.
It turns out that the LAMP's fuel, as it were, was not "properly licensed" in the view of several recording labels. LAMP had purchased $30,000 is music in digital format from Loudeye, a Seattle-based company that specializes in encoding, management, and distribution of digital media. Loudeye was informed in recent days by recording industry representatives that the company does not have the legal right to provide its services to MIT under these circumstances. Apparently the contractual arrangements between Loudeye and the recoding industry were previously not well understood. MIT has stated that Loudeye had assured them multiple times over the past year that the proposed MIT usage of their encoded products would in fact be legal. Given the players in the game, it is likely that Loudeye was under the impression that they were legally capable of providing such services to MIT. That is, until the RIAA and friends had something to say about it. Now, however, Loudeye is saying very little. The LA Times has one executive pointing the finger at MIT:
"We provided content to MIT," Loudeye publicist Stan Raymond said. "We did not provide licenses for them to issue that content."
Originally MIT had planned on working out copyright deals with objecting parties, but it looks as though the avalanche has led them to stop the service entirely, at least for now. As usual, the denizens of the music industry are painting MIT as the villain here.
Kelly Mullens, a spokeswoman for Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group, said, "It is unfortunate that MIT launched a service in an attempt to avoid paying recording artists, union musicians and record labels. Loudeye recognized that they had no right to deliver Universal's music to the MIT service, and MIT acted responsibly by removing the music."
MIT has stated that they remain committed to providing the LAMP legally. What's to stop LAMP and other similar services from going out and buying regular CDs, and encoding them manually? Certainly not common sense, but since when has common sense had anything to do with the music industry?


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Relax in this four-poster bedded room with balcony, which is a delightful warm and welcoming space.
Enjoy this romantic first floor hotel bedroom that faces the front of the building. Double doors open onto a charming Juliet balcony that lets in plenty of New Forest morning sun.
The king-sized pine four-poster bed is hand-carved, making this an ideal room for your romantic getaway. The room also suits families with children aged 6 and up only – the balcony makes it unsuitable for under-6s.
Your room has TV & DVD player (free DVD library in bar), tea & coffee, in-room safe, and hairdryer. Iron and ironing board available. Yummy free cakes, and fresh milk for tea/coffee, are on offer in the Snug Bar.
The fresh en-suite bathroom has a bath with shower over with non-slip mat, toilet and towel rail; plus plenty of bath towels; and Gilchrist & Soames shampoo, conditioner, soap and hand lotion.
Take a short walk through the building and up a flight of stairs to this first floor en suite bedroom with four-poster and small Juliet balcony.
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Stay environmentally-friendly and guilt-free. The eco-chic James Hill bedroom is perfect if you want to reduce your impact on the environment.
The room is constructed from Douglas Fir and the hand-carved four-poster bed is made from sustainable sources in keeping with our eco-friendly philosophy.
Find your first floor romantic room in the newer extension of the cottage up a modern staircase.The room and balcony look over the front of the building.
Discover James Hill, a delightful forest area that you can explore to the north of Brockenhurst. It's a favourite walking spot not far from Lyndhurst, which is a few miles' drive or cycle ride away.
All of Cottage Lodge hotel's 16 bedrooms are named after places in the New Forest, or people associated with the forest or the original building. Each room has a unique design.


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I know that [some] will urge the west to ignore this Islamic goon, but Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the 'secular' president of Iran, has told a crowd of "theological students" in Iran that Islam must prepare to rule the world. Ahmandinejad said "We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It's a universal ideology that leads the world to justice,"
Some other of his pronouncements: The Holocaust is a myth, Israel must be wiped off the face of the Earth, and Iran is going to become a nuclear power no matter what the Western world thinks about it.
Let's not take effendi Ahmadinejad seriously. While we're at it, let's make sure we never identify the religion of Islam as the violent entity that it most assuredly is. Wouldn't want to offend someone, would we?
hat tip Neal Boortz
"Once you realize your government's sole purpose is to reserve murder of you and your family as its sacred task depending on your lack of fealty and obedience, everything sort of falls into place on why governments throughout the ages have been so murderous at home and abroad". William Buppert
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Famous last words: "He's Bluffing!"
In 1923 an inmate of Spandau prison completed a work of non fiction laying out his plans for a new order. In Mein Kampf, Herr Hitler clearly indicates his program for a "Greater German Reich" but was dismissed by those who stood to lose the most under such a regime as "unserious". DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THIS DANGEROUS MAN ..... HE'S BLUFFING.
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How to master the art of testing & measuring
One thing that is critical to success is learning the art of testing and measuring.
Testing and ensuring gives you much more clarity on the likely success of implementing improvements and changes within your business. There are any number of different scenarios of how companies react when they are considering something new… some go all guns blazing, pile loads of money and resources without really understanding what the outcome might be. Whereas at the other end of the scale, others are far too cautious about the unknown, aren't brave enough to take the next step and so miss the opportunity to grow.
There should be a level of compromise and this is where testing & measuring becomes essential so here are a few of our top tips:
Start small and on a low budget
Depending on what your company does this could be trying out a few new products with a limited range and stock levels to start with, or if expanding a service based offering consider just opening up a new region.
Ask for support from suppliers
If you are thinking of trying out a service eg. advertising on a new website. Then have a conversation with the supplier, tell them it's a trial and that it needs to be successful for you to continue to invest… it's in their interests too if they want to keep you as a customer.
Measure fact & truth
It sounds obvious, as I guess it is but you'd be surprised how many people aren't always honest when they are analysing whether something worked or not as they either have a preconceived option, or are so desperate for a particular outcome that they only listen out for the anecdotal evidence that supports the decision.
Set budget & expectations
You need to know right from the outset how much this is going to cost you and what you want success to look like at the end. Don't be tempted to get carried away and blow the budget… make sure it at least gets close to your expectations before throwing more money at it.
Implement properly
Do your research and give your new project the time and attention that it deserves, don't expect it to be successful if you haven't set it up properly from the outset. Make sure you do enough to get a realistic sample of results.
Go and break stuff
Not everything you try will work, so don't be scared of failure. You might learn that although your initial plan didn't quite work out that in the process you learnt what might work instead. Or you might just realise it was something that you won't bother doing again (I've done this recently and for me personally I've realised attending big national exhibitions aren't a good investment for YRH).
Make sure the process works before rolling out further
Use the pilot launch to perfect and define the process, learn from any mistakes you made initially and reuse and improve on the things that went well.
Use information to make better decisions
Trying out something new is always going to be a learning experience, and with every success or failure that you encounter you gain more knowledge… make sure you use this information wisely to make more informed decisions on future investments.
Take advice from and use the right people
Don't try to do it all on your own, especially if its brand new. There are experts in pretty much all fields out there so talk to them, ask questions and if needs be use their services to help ensure that you give your investment the best possible chance of success.
Ask someone to with the right skills to do your measuring for you
In order to measure outcome you often have to capture data properly much further up the pipeline! And if you aren't an excel guru then give the job of collecting and collating the results to someone else who is.
Benchmark your results
Ask other people what results they're getting from similar activities and how they're doing it and what results they're getting. But watch out for unqualified opinions that aren't based on measuring the facts – otherwise you may find yourself taking action that hurts your own results!
Do it!
Finally, sometimes you just have to just get on and do something to get a different result – don't stop doing it, just make sure someone is measuring the results for you and you're looking at them.
For help in testing & measuring your business please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 01252 820002 and speak to Jennifer Raines, Tim Johnson or Trudy Murphy. We're always happy to help and offer a free two-hour initial review to help you understand how to make valuable changes to support your business.


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The Zimbabwe story: from merely tragic tale to sinister agenda
Posted by CM on September 24, 2007
A recent UK visitor to Zimbabwe, writing in the September 24 edition of The Herald (Scotland) had the kind of contemplative, contextual report about the situation there I am crusading to argue has become all too rare in coverage of Zimbabwe, especially in the UK media. British media reports are suffused with an anti-Mugabe emotionalism whose causes are not hard to understand, given the present state of Zimbabwe, and Mugabe's raw, bitter denunciations of Britain. But understandable as they may be, they distort the sad but complex reality of the implosion taking place in Zimbabwe.
As understandable as the antipathy to Mugabe is, particularly in Britain , we are now often served propaganda as much as we are served news by large parts of the UK media. Things are quite bad enough in Zimbabwe, without needing to embellish and spin them to distort that reality into making it seem even worse, as a lot of the international media frenziedly does.
Ian Whyte's letter addresses the issue of sanctions, and whether it is correct for new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to have taken the approach of wanting no dealings with Mugabe. But the parts of it that relate to the often feverish, cleverly dishonest coverage of Zimbabwe are these:
The picture painted of Zimbabwe is of a country that has already collapsed. To go around Harare as I did is to find a city that, incredibly, is still functioning. Yes, the economy is dependent on a black market that changes daily and there are shortages (but not emptiness) in the shops. But plenty of cars move around, people go about their business and a white visitor is greeted with warmth and courtesy in a way no different from before.
I do not doubt the violent suppression of dissent, but I saw no evidence of the police and army presence on the streets that I have seen in other countries where civic society has all but broken down. I found considerable anger from my Zimbabwean friends (every one of whom strongly opposes the present regime) over press reports that imply that nothing is functioning or happening, and over some scenes shot by the media which they identify as doctored from outside.
This does a disservice to the amazing resilience that is such a characteristic in Africa, where 90% of the population struggle for food and necessities, and the allocation of farms to select "comrades" has run down agriculture. But when I visited Ghana in 1982 amid an economic crisis, worse shortages and more catastrophic breakdowns had not broken the spirit, nor paralysed activity. So it is in Zimbabwe.
This is what those of us in Zimbabwe, or outside but with umbilically close ties to it, know: there is great hardship, but not the picture of 'collapse' that is daily depicted. And the feeling of being picked on by certain media in some particularly ugly ways is one I hear more frequently from Zimbabweans at home and abroad.
The widely, strongly held feelings against the Mugabe regime in many quarters should not make the trash we so regularly read about even non-political issues acceptable. Just one example is the recent story that people were now resorting to eating dogs because more conventional kinds of meat are unavailable, or are too expensive. This was absurd from many angles, the strong cultural taboos against this just being one of them. But for a correspondent determined to submit his or her daily anti-Mugabe dig, these sorts of nuances are irrelevant. And yet it is quite easy to file daily anti-Mugabe stories just on the strictly factual basis of his many failures, without needing to scrape the bottom of the barrel in the manner so beloved of some correspondents.
The Zimbabwean media, which it would have been hoped would counter some of the worst excesses, is vastly out-gunned. Besides,we have become so focused on issues of politics, to almost the total exclusion of anything else, that we don't pay much attention to how we are allowing who we really are to be caricatured in often crude terms that border on being racist.
In giving accounts of ways in which Zimbabweans are battling to cope with economic hardship and political repression, the most calamitous interpretations are used. A report about how economic hardship has resulted in the abandonment of many pets, a sad enough development, suddenly results in the crafty insinuation, "everybody in Zimbabwe is now eating their cats and dogs because they can't find or afford beef and chicken!"
The correspondents concerned get away with this trash partly because they are mainly writing for a Western audience that does not know enough about Zimbabwe to be able to easily distinguish straight reportage from the shrill spin I complain about. Sometimes the reports merely entrench racial stereotypes that are already strongly held. The opportunity to use those reports to say " ah, you see how tough times are forcing the natives to revert to their savage roots?" apparently often proves irresistible!
We often do not seem to notice that those reports are sometimes not just to illustrate how difficult life under Mugabe is, but to go beyond that to make broader, more sinister points about us as a people.
Zimbabweans, on the other hand, obviously do have the ability to know when what they are going through is being stretched, by either hyper-ideological or merely mercenary correspondents. Too often, the writing is not so much to inform, as it is to score points against the hated Mugabe, even if it means painting the rest of us with crude stereotypes.
It is interesting how the many Zimbabwean websites deal with some of the most crude distortions. Why does the Zimbabwean media not more robustly protest and counter the worst distortions? Apart from being out-gunned and pre-occupied with political intrigue, there is widespread fear of being accused of being a Mugabe supporter, one of the worst insults one can hurl against a Zimbabwean in the current climate. Then there is the naive, misplaced feeling that even the distorting, racist sections of the media pouring out reports of complete Zimbabwean dysfunction under Mugabe's tutelage are somehow "on our side." Those of our news outlets dependent on donors are also not going to be inclined to go into territory that may make their benefactors doubt the anti-Mugabe credentials that they may have peddled to get their funding in the first place.
So many find it safer to not express the widely felt Zimbabwean outrage at some of the racist takes on events that we increasingly see peddled under the guise of news. The Zimbabwean websites will, therefore, generally simply ignore the more lurid interpretations of events offered by some of the more shrilly ideological correspondents for international media. Those reports are enthusiastically featured as welcome "neutral" signs of not just Mugabe's incompetence and repression; but also with a cleverly, thinly veiled subtext of general African "savagery."
It is not enough for us to just ignore these frequent and damaging distortions. We must counter them every chance we get. It is in our interest to make it clear to the world that we may be politically oppressed and reduced in economic status by the mis-rule of our country, but we remain a proud, dignified people despite the many deprivations we endure. The essential fact of the firmly intact Zimbabwean humanity is being sacrificed in the shrill propaganda war, in which we are considered collateral damage.
Ian Whyte very ably captured the holistic view of Zimbabweans' unhappiness with affairs in their country, coupled with resentment at some of the deliberately distorted depictions that have other agendas than concern for a bruised, oppressed people. Many of the correspondents for foreign media very carefully pick the many indices of hardship to write another story beneath the main story. They could easily feature the more nuanced reality that Whyte does, but that is hardly likely to impress their publications, who already have a standard "Zimbabwe story" position into which all submissions must fit if they are to be published.
More of us Zimbabweans should be seeking to use every forum available to us to tell our own tale as a people, both the joys and the sorrows. We are far too dependent on our collective experience being related by others, whether they are benign, neutral or hostile to us.
Let us relate, explain and interpret Zimbabwe's sad reality under its present rulership without fear, favour or equivocation. But let us not be afraid to protest when that reality is twisted to make sinister distortions about our basic humanity.
Chido Makunike


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Shares of BorgWarner (NYSE:BWA) gained 17.8% in value last month, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The stock price stumbled toward the end of 2018 along with the broader market, but found its footing as most stocks began to rebound at the start of 2019.
Additionally, BorgWarner made a few announcements in January, including the sale of its thermostat business to privately held U.K. company Arlington Industries Group, and the introduction of its integrated electric drive module (iDM) product family of propulsion solutions for hybrid and electric vehicles.
So What
As a growing share of consumer demand shifts from cars powered by combustion engines to ones with hybrid and all-electric motors, BorgWarner is shifting its capital allocation accordingly. Management forecasts the addressable market for combustion engines will stall over the next five years, while demand for hybrid and electric vehicles will explode.
The sale of the thermostat business is consistent with Borg's strategy to shed non-core assets so it can focus more on the growth opportunity in propulsion technologies.
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The iDM combines state-of-the-art transmission technology, an electric drive motor, and the power electronics into one unit. "Our comprehensive portfolio makes us a product leader in clean technology solutions and a strong partner for automakers worldwide as they move toward a cleaner and more environmentally friendly future," said Stefan Demmerle, president and general manager of BorgWarner's PowerDrive Systems.
The growing adoption of cleaner transportation solutions has been fueling BorgWarner's growth for many years, and that should continue. Management expects revenue wll grow at a compound annual rate of about 6% between now and 2023, when it should hit $14 billion, and they expect free cash flow to nearly double to $1 billion by that year. The stock currently trades at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 9.


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The Blair Witch Project used the dawning of the internet age to create a firestorm of hype, planting some incredibly creepy urban legends and documentaries that had many of us believing that the Blair Witch myth was real.
The Upper Footage (UPPER) is the first found footage film since to create as effective an online campaign, to the point that if you google it, you will find clips from Entertainment Tonight talking about the story and implementing Hollywood names like Chelsea Kane, Miley Cyrus, and Demi Lovato, as well as a story of Quentin Tarantino buying the footage of the awful thing that happened one night in the apartment of a New York City socialite named Blake Pennington….
That tragic night is what we see unfolding in The Upper Footage (UPPER). Don't go into this expecting a horror movie. It's more like a found footage version of movies like Stag, in which a group of partying people take things too far and one of them ends up dead. In this case, a small group of friends spends the first half of the movie getting wasted in a limo—and spouting a whole lot of heavily anti-gay stuff. Eventually, they pick up a pretty girl named Jackie and we're informed that Jackie's face has been blurred throughout the footage to respect the wishes of her family.
Halfway through the movie, Jackie dies of an overdose. This begins long stretches of still footage locked on particular objects: Jackie's hair, a room, a wall, the backseat of a car. We basically hear the remainder of the movie instead of actually seeing anything as the friends rant, scream, and fight over how to handle the situation, including coming up with some seriously fucked up solutions to covering it up.
The person manning the camera rarely mans it. He simply puts it down so we see none of the action. It's more like found sound than found footage. But I must admit, the actors successfully get across the level of paranoia and hysteria they experience as they realize their perfect lives could completely unravel if they don't get rid of Jackie's body and pretend this never happened. The level of screaming and fighting is so realistic that it's actually grating to listen to, quite disturbing, and very convincing.
Of course, this also leads to the film suffering from the same problem as all found footage films; why the hell is someone recording all this? Especially in this situation in which the footage can only be incriminating! It's not like they're filming paranormal activity. The answer is that the dude with the camera wanted to do the right thing and report what happened, so his plan is to get the footage of the privileged dicks plotting to cover it up to prove that he was against it the whole time.
The Upper Footage (Upper) will definitely test your tolerance for the found footage genre of you aren't a big fan, but it is a very unique plotline rather than your usual ghosts or monsters. That's why the footage (backed by the convincing pre-hype viral campaign) comes across as much more genuine than in some of the more fantastical films of the genre. And considering the predicament these characters are in, there's no doubt that something really extreme is going to have to happen in the final moments of the footage….


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Health System Information Systems has upgraded signal strength.
New cell phone antennas from the following providers have been installed in all the medical campus buildings: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. Since many house officers use their personal devices for work-related activities, please let the HOA know if you are experiencing difficulty with voice or data service, particularly in the HOA Lounge in University Hospital.
Remember, you can switch your settings to "voice over WI-FI" which may alleviate voice issue. Some AT&T users have reported issues in UH when prior to installing the AT&T antenna, the frequency worked well.


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I had a great time working on cards yesterday...have to get a little housework in today. :o( Then back to fun! Right after the pool man fixes my swamp, I mean pool! Even though it's still raining cats and dogs now, we could have spring/summer conditions in a couple of weeks.
Obsessed with Scrapbooking is having a give away...check out their site if you haven't already.
Oh my...I almost forgot, my 3 new carts were delivered yesterday! And I have 2 more that will be here next week. I wasn't planning on the extra set, but a friend needed 2 (not wanted but NEEDED), so I went in on her order so we would have free shipping (thanks to Custom Crop for the sale and no shipping!). Can you believe the things we do for friends! :o)
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WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 25, 1862.
Major-General HEINTZELMAN,
Alexandria, Va.:
Send forward all artillery, cavalry, and wagons by land as soon as they have the means to make the march.
FALMOUTH, VA., August 25, 1862-12.20 a.m.(Received 12.25 a.m.)
Major General H. W. HALLECK:
I will push Porter up the Rappahannock in the morning as far as he can guard the fords until relieved by Sumner. Is this right?
GEO. B. McCLELLAN,
FALMOUTH, VA., August 25, 1862-12.45 a.m.
Major General H. W. HALLECK:
The only additional information I hear from Pope is from a multitude of his stragglers, who say that he abandoned Rappahannock Station and retreated toward Warrenton Station, carrying off the artillery from the lower fords to some unknown point. You have no doubt taken all possible means to ascertain the exact position of Pope, and I hope you will soon be able to give me definite information. All the means possible to gain it on this line have been used. In the main time you may be sure of my hearty co-operation.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., August 25, 1862-10.50 a.m.
Major-General McCLELLAN,
As far as can now be ascertained McDowell's corps is near Sulphur Springs, Sigel's near Fayetteville, Banks' near Bealeton and Rappahannock Station, and Reno's at Kelly's Ford. I hear nothing of Porter's corps. The enemy fell back behind the Rappahannock Crossing, near Waterloo Bridge. Our object now is to hold all the fords of that river until your army can get into position. It is possible that Franklin's corps will be obliged to march out.
AQUIA, VA., August 25, 1862. (Received 12 m.)
Major General H. W. HALLECK,
I expect Sumner's corps here to-day; will telegraph you the moment it arrives, so that if circumstances make it necessary for you to leave it at Alexandria it may go there.
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Heraclea Lyncestis
Heraclea is mentioned by most of the ancient writers: Polybius, Strabo, Caesar and others., in all itinerariums (Itinerarium Antonini and others.) in Tabula Peutingeriana as a station on the road Heraclea – Stobi.
- Open hours: Every day 08.00 – 16.00
- On Monday there are no guided tours
Heraclea is mentioned in historical sources as a city that was established by Philip II of Macedon, around the middle of the IV century BC. In its intention to extend the Macedonian state, Philip II in the border areas erected fortified cities, which served as the cornerstone of war and cultural expansion.
Two centuries later, exactly in year 168 BC, Heraclea falls under the authority of the Roman Empire.
Heraclea during Roman rule has developed as the center of the fertile province and place of junction of Via Egnatia with the road that led from north – Stobi, across Stibera.
A significant economic boom, Heraclea experienced especially in the beginning of the second century to the middle of the III century AD, during the joint rule of Septimie Sever and Caracalla, when it bears the name Heraclea Septimia Aurelio.
According to an honorary inscription, found in the ancient settlement, Heraclea was governed on Greek-Macedonian way.
In the early Byzantine time Heraclea became the seat of a bishopric, and center place of the new Christian faith.
Heraclea is mentioned in the fifth century in connection with the invasion of eastern Goths in lllyric. In year 479, Theodoric with his Goths comes in lllyric, destroys Stobi and again is in Heraclea. According to the statements, Theodoric left the town alone because the bishop from Heraclea has sent him gifts. Later he still robbed and burned the town, and went through the road Via Egnatia to ancient Lychnidos (present Ohrid).
Finally, according to a record from, the acts of the Council of Constantinople in 553, for the first time is mentioned Heraclea, with the epithet Pelagoniae. Among the participants of the council mentioned is Bishop of Heraclea Benigus. Name Pelagoniae only was used as evidence that in Heraclea is built residential area on the southern outskirts of Bitola today.
During its thousand years of existence and unfettered development, Heraclea passed, Macedonian, Roman and Byzantine era of the ancient civilization.
The City of Heraclea, like any ancient city, was protected with city walls and towers from various barbaric attacks.


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Yesterday I cleaned my house (the front rooms, anyway) until it was sparkly. Then I hosted the homeowner's association, of which I am the secretary and thus took all the notes.
I also made cookies and brownies.
I kept the children from bothering my husband, who was working at home all day in the study (writing.)
I paid a bunch of bills.
I spent a lot of time with the little ones, supervising their play outside, reading books, playing legos.
I fulfilled my duties at an online forum for which I am a moderator.
I walked and fed the dog, helped my husband edit his writing, made sure my daughter made it to the school dance, fixed a lovely lunch, and planted the fig tree my husband bought from the nursery.
Yesterday evening, my husband, who never makes a peep when the house is a complete wreck, which is most of the time, thoughtfully said, "The house looks amazing. It feels really comfortable."
To which I responded, "Today was the first day all year that I didn't write a blog post. When the house is clean, I'm not writing."
And here I am today, before anyone wakes up, hoping I can get this last sentence in before the insanity starts.


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Another Iconoclastic Translation
Although David Myatt's translation of the gospel of John from the Christian New Testament is a work-in-progress, sufficient has been released for a preliminary review. Thus far he has published the completed translation of the whole of chapters 1,2 and 3, which partial and regularly updated translation is available, as a pdf file, from The Gospel According To John.
To describe the translation as iconoclastic is something of an understatement. Perhaps more aptly it is heretical in the sense that Wycliffe's 14th century and Luther's 16th century translations were at the time considered by some to be heretical. To understand why it might be considered heretical, by mainstream Christians at least, we need to examine Myatt's methodology.
Myatt's methodology is the same as that used in his translations of chapters from the Corpus Hermeticum which was written in the same Hellenistic Greek as the New Testament. His methodology is to use some transliterations – theos instead of god/God; phaos instead of light; and so on – and to find unusual English words for Greek terms which he considers are important to preserve the meaning current at the time the writings were composed. His reasoning is that particular English words – and angel, Word, spirit, prison, heaven, hour, and Jews, come to mind vis-a-vis the gospels – have acquired or now convey meanings which are not appropriate to the time of the gospels and which thus distort the text.
One very striking example is his translation of verse 24 of chapter 3. The King James Bible has "For John was not yet cast into prison." All other English translations are similar. Myatt, however, has "And John had yet to be hurled into a guarded cage."
In his commentary on this verse he writes,
βεβλημένος εἰς τὴν φυλακὴν. A phrase deserving some consideration, for φυλακή is not 'prison' as prisons are understood today and in the past few centuries but rather 'a guarded cage', with βεβλημένος εἰς implying a forceful 'throwing' or a hurling into such a cage.
A quick check of a dictionary of ancient Greek reveals that φυλάσσω – the origin of the term φυλακή – does mean "to keep guard" and figuratively, in the likes of Herodotus, implies a 'cage'.
But possibly most controversial of all is his rejection of English terms such as Jews, angel and heaven. In place of Jews he has Judaeans, writing in a comment on chapter 1 verse 19,
After much consideration I have translated ἰουδαία not by the conventional term 'Jews' but rather by Judaeans, given (i) that the English terms Jews and Jewish (deriving from the 13th/14th century words gyv/gyw and Iewe) have acquired connotations (modern and medieval) which are not relevant to the period under consideration; and (ii) that the Greek term derives from a place name, Judaea (as does the Latin iudaeus); and (iii) that the Anglo-Saxon version (ASV) retains the sense of the Greek: here (iudeas) as elsewhere, as for example at 2.6, æfter iudea geclensunge, "according to Judaean cleansing."
In a long and bound to be controversial comment on the term 'heaven' he writes,
Conventionally, οὐρανός here is always translated as 'heaven' although the term 'heaven' – used in the context of the Gospels – now has rather different connotations than the Greek οὐρανός, with the word 'heaven' now often implying something explained by almost two thousand years of exegesis and as depicted, for example, in medieval and Renaissance Christian art. However, those hearing or reading this particular Greek gospel for the first time in the formative years of Christianity would most probably have assumed the usual Greek usage of "the heavens" in the sense of the "the star-filled firmament above" or in the sense of "the sky" or as the abode of theos and/or of the gods (ἐν οὐρανῷ θεοί), an assumption consistent with the fact that the Evangelist explains and interprets certain non-Greek words (qv. the comment on 1.42) and considering also his use of a colloquial Greek expression (qv. the comment on 1.51).
It therefore seems apposite to suggest a more neutral word than 'heaven' as a translation of οὐρανός and one which might not only be understood in various 'classical' ways by an audience of Greek speakers (such as the ways described above) but also be open to a new, and Christian, interpretation consistent with the milieu that existed when the Gospel of John was written and first heard. That is, before the exegesis of later centuries and long before post-Roman Christian iconography. Hence my suggestion of the post-classical Latin term Empyrean, which can bear the interpretation of the abode of theos and/or of the gods, of "the sky", of the "the star-filled firmament above; and a Christian one suggested by Genesis 2.8 – παράδεισον ἐν Εδεμ (the Paradise of Eden) – and also by shamayim, שָׁמַיִם
Which is why the standard translation of a verse such as chapter 1,19 – "And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you?" – is interpreted by Myatt as
For such was the evidence John gave when the Judaeans dispatched priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him: "Who are you?"
His heretical interpretation is evident in so many passages it is difficult to pick out just one or two. But the following is a typical example, from chapter 3, verses 19-21, with Myatt pointing out in his commentary that in the gospel of John the phaos is identified as Jesus himself and thus is in the gospel of John a synonym for Jesus.
And this is the condemnation: That the Phaos arrived in the world but mortals loved the darkness more than the Phaos, for their deeds were harmful. For anyone who does what is mean dislikes the Phaos and does not come near the Phaos lest their deeds be exposed. But whomsoever practices disclosure goes to the Phaos so that their deeds might be manifest as having been done through Theos.
This is conventionally translated as "And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God."
The effect of Myatt's interpretation of the gospel is that it not only humanizes Jesus but also Christianity so that the message we apparently get is not of "fire and brimstone" – not of evil verses good, not of sin and the need to believe – but of what the likes of Julian of Norwich, George Fox and William Penn wrote and spoke of, and it is perhaps no coincidence that Myatt mentions those persons in the Preface to his translation.
As to whether Myatt's translation, when completed, will find a niche is an interesting question given not just his iconoclastic methodology but also the esteem in which the gospels are held by Christians the vast majority of whom, were they to read his translation, would probably be offended by his interpretation.
As to when the translation will be completed, if the rate of updates is any guide it will be in about a year from now.
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Redvelations With Sera Beak
Join "redvolutionary" and modern day mystic Sera Beak as she shares her entrancing journey of remembering and reclaiming Sarah, the lost daughter of Jesus and Mary Madelene as the lost part of her own soul.
Sera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative world religions she spent years traveling the world studying spirituality with Sufi dervishes, Tibetan monks, Croatian mystics, and shamans. Sera is the author of "The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark" and "Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story" as well as "Redvelations: A Soul's Journey to Becoming Human" She has appeared in The New York Times, People and Publisher's Weekly and on NPR, The Dr. Oz Show and Oprah and was even on Friends. She lives in San Francisco, CA
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Lisa Campion is a psychic and energy healer with 30 years experience. Lisa incorporates body centered counseling into her psychic readings and is also adept in many kinds of healing techniques, including Reiki and Full Spectrum Healing. Lisa's specialty is working with emerging psychic, empaths and healers so that they can fully step into their life's purpose since she passionately believes that the world needs all the healers that it can get.
Lisa has been teaching Reiki for 18 years and has trained hundreds of Reiki students. She also teaches psychic development classes of all levels. Lisa is the Dean of Students and a lead teacher at the Rhys Thomas Institute, which is a world famous energy medicine school and a powerful personal transformation program.
Lisa enjoys writing her own blog, in which she frequently cracks herself up and delights in sharing that with others. She is also the author of the upcoming book, "Reiki For Psychics and Empaths."


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Our History
Photo Gallery
Your Stratford
About Us
300th Anniversary Celebration
Except where otherwise noted, all photos below courtesy of the Stratford Historical Society
Stratford Marching Band and Town Council being led by drum major June Erle Holcomb
United Spanish War Veterans 1898
Housatonic Grange
Tercentenary Committee
Seated left to right: far left Molly Clinton, Walter E. Goddard (Treasurer), Charles "Shang" Wheeler (Chairman), Elliott W. Peck, Ruby Wilcoxson
Standing left to right: J. Harry Van Yorx, Clark P. Lane, John Birge, Frederick E. Phelan (Secretary), Harold W. French, Robert H. Bahr, George W. Carey
Tercentenary Stamp reprinted from the March 9, 1939 Bridgeport Post with permission Hearst Media Services
New York Company to produce the 300th Anniversary Pageant (reprinted from the March 16, 1939 Bridgeport Post with permission Hearst Media Services).
Tercentenary Pageant Planned for Stratford High's 1939 Graduation Program
From left to right first row: Rita T. Ryan, Evelyn Brown and Jeanne McGuire; second row: Audrey Wolfe, Jean Hamilton, Ruth Johnson and Ruth Wells; and, back row: Betty Fellows, Tom Butler, Josephine Wyatt, and Fred Garry.
(Photo reprinted from the March 12, 1939 Bridgeport Post with permission Hearst Media Services).
Stratford Town Council 1939
Vernon Morehouse (Council Chairman) seated 1st row center,
William Howard Wilcoxson to his left
Reprinted from the Bridgeport Post with permission Hearst Media Services
Governor Baldwin addresses the attendees at the 300th Anniversary parade.
Left to right
: Col. Rex B. DeLacour (Grand Marshal of the Tercentenary Parade), Frederick Phelan, State Senator Charles "Shang" Wheeler, Vernon Morehouse (Town Council Chairman), Governor Baldwin, William H. Shea (Town Manager), Reverend Judson, William Bristol, and George Morehouse.
Governor Baldwin speaking at Academy Hill October 7, 1939
Seated left to right
: Rev. Melville Bulmer, Council Chair Vernon Morehouse, Spanish War Vet Reinhold Persson, (Unknown), Truman Parsons
Tercentenary coin photo submitted by Lois Honrath Kollar Erdos
Official Tercentary Program
Listed here the reader will find the complete program of events sponsored by the Stratford Tercentenary commission during 1939.
January 28th
G.A.R. tableaux, M. E. Hall
March 16th
Women's Service League party
April 28th
Sixth District G.O.P. Tercentenary party
April - October
Historical Exhibits at Stratford Historical Society
May 5th
State Red Men's convention
May 13th
State C.A.R. Convention - Christ Church
May 21st
Historical Sunday, First Congregational Church
May 25th -
June 14th
School pageants, daily
June 25th
Legion Drum Corps competition
June 30th -
July 1st
Beardsley Family Reunion
July 2nd
150th Anniversary Methodism in Stratford at M.E. Church
August 12th
Junior American Legion baseball championship
August 19th - 20th
State Softball championships, Longbrook Park
August 21st
Stratford-Milford, inter-town softball Tercentenary match
August 22nd
Tercentenary Day at playgrounds
August 26th
Stiles Family Reunion
August 26th - 27th
State softball finals, Longbrook Park
September 2nd - 4th
Tercentenary golf match, Mill River Club


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Omari is Chief Product Engineer at Yoti.
A hacker at heart, Omari has been tinkering with computers and code since he was thirteen. He started his career as a web developer but as the years went on his passion migrated towards product engineering and strategy. Working on solutions that provide new ways for people to interact with the digital world is what makes Omari tick.
Omari has worked across the entire business spectrum; from technical product development to database management. He has a broad set of technical skills and the entrepreneurial acumen to apply them in a way that's in line with a company's wider business goals. He uses those skills in today's podcast to discuss building software teams and how computer games and DJing kept him focused on his career.
Show Notes:
0.29 Professional career breaks.
4.29 Taking a disciplined approach to business.
5.54 Developing good habits for business when growing up.
7.41 Remaining focused throughout your career.
9.52 Traits of great software engineers.
11.18 Omari's approach to team building.
13.41 The best team building environments.
15.38 Embracing and celebrating failure.
17.31 Are technical teams under more pressure now?
19.30 Becoming more commercially aware as a technical person.
21.45 Moving into management.
24.44 Staying hands-on in a management position.
26.12 Keeping up with evolving tech.
29.32 Detecting false opinions online.


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Technology is ruining my life.
I have not been reading nearly as much as I used to. This is a disturbing trend…and it's related to a third party that has entered our bed. No, not a person (dirty mind!), but a PC. Horrible. I sit here and type away IN BED. This is when I used to read books, before bed. Now I type or check other news feeds. Pathetic.
I must put an end to this now. Has the computer taken over your life in bed? Do you read less? Do you have a blackberry within reach of your pillow? Do you check it first thing in the morning?
I CONFESS. Guilty of all of the above, and it's making me a poorly read, overwired neurotic who jumps at the sign of a red beeping light on a blackberry.
I think I may have even developed a technology twitch. Enough. I am shutting down. Think about it – have you incorporated technology into every aspect of your life…to your detriment?
New Commandment: Thou shalt not bring any technological device such as a blackberry, cell phone or computer into bed. For any reason.


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Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica – all winners on the road last week – aim to keep up the form this Tuesday as the action heats up in CONCACAF once again. There were fireworks all over the region on the first matchday of the final Hexagonal round of qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™. USA lost a home qualifier for the first time since 1972. Costa Rica silenced the thumping drums at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad, and Panama sent a message in San Pedro Sula with a win over Honduras.
FIFA.com looks ahead to Tuesday night's three thrilling contests.
The big game
Costa Rica-USA
*USA began their second *Hex running with a loss, this time at home in Ohio against arch-rivals Mexico. Outplayed in the first half, the Americans rebounded with a much better second, but they were on the back foot throughout the contest. Matters will be compounded by the fact that USA have never won a qualifier on the road in Costa Rica, with the confident Ticos beginning their campaign with a simple win in Trinidad and Tobago. The Americans will also have to play without inspirational leader Tim Howard, who suffered a groin injury in the Mexico game and Brad Guzan, his able deputy, is bound to have a busy night with the likes of Joel Campbell, Bryan Ruiz and Celso Borges trying to make it six points from two games.
Panama open their home account by hosting high-flying Mexico, a squad brimming with European-based players and goal-threats aplenty. If Juan Carlos Osorio uses the same starting line-up he did against USA on Friday, Panama's burly defenders will have their hands full. Giovani dos Santos, Javier Chicharito Hernandez, Carlos Vela and Jesus Tecatito Corona make for a ferocious quartet in Mexico's attack. The Canaleros, for their part, will be bolstered by Mexico's loss of injured midfield stalwart Andres Guardado. "If we win all of our home matches, we're through to the World Cup," said Panama defender Roman Torrres. One of the biggest challenges they'll have at their Estadio Rommel Fernandez comes on Tuesday.
Honduras are in the doldrums after losing at home in San Pedro Sula to Panama. Their impatient fans will be hoping for better in another home contest when Trinidad and Tobago come to town. They lacked ideas on Friday and are still without coach Jorge Luis Pinto, serving the last of his four-match ban this week. Neither of the sides in action at the Olimpico have scored yet and will be desperate to get some goals in the net and some points on the board.
Player the Watch**
Jesus Corona (MEX)
*A winger of uncommon talent, Porto-based Corona gave the US defence fits last week with his rampaging runs up the left side. He had Eintracht Frankfurt back Timmy Chandler spinning in circles and his crosses into the box led to opportunity after opportunity for the Mexicans, who have still yet to lose over the course of Russia 2018 qualifying. The 23-year-old from Sonora is blossoming into one of CONCACAF's true gems and a player to rely on for *El Tri.
*Did you know?
*For the first time in history, Mexico have 13 players in the squad based in Europe. Back-to-front, from Portugal-based Miguel Layun at the back up to Bayer Leverkusen's Chicharito in attack, the side is brimming with talent forged in the fires of Europe's top competitions. So impressed with the side is captain Rafa Marquez, a former Barcelona star now back in his native Mexico, that he's called it: "The best Mexico team I've ever been a part of."
What they said
*"We have to go down there [Costa Rica] and get a result, which we will do. We lost a big one and it's got us angry. We feel the urgency because you don't want to be behind. But it's only the first of ten qualifying games. This is all part of the process. It's a long road." *USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann wants to put the hurt of losing to Mexico in the background and bring the anger down to Costa Rica.
Fixtures (Round Five, Matchday 2)
15 November
Costa Rica-USA
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KFC have plans to move into Altrincham Retail Park once Pizza Hut has said closed, we are not sure at this time when this will be, we expect within the next couple of months after planning has been approved.
With the new KFC will come a drive thru with many KFC neon signs all around the establishment.
The building was once home of Burger King, however the power of McDonald's only yards away was hitting the burger chain's profits and sadly had to shut.
It is hopeful that once KFC has got itself ready to run the operation at the retail park that staff from the out going Pizza Hut will be offered a job if they wanted to work with them.
Plans for the signage and the installation of a drive thru will go to Trafford planners later and it expected to be passed with conditions.
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A 22-year-old man says he's lucky to be alive. Now he's speaking about the moments when a piece of metal flew through his car's windshield.
Holden Amory hopes someone might know where the debris came from.
The West Palm Beach resident dropped out of college to pursue his dreams of becoming a musician. Those dreams nearly came to crashing halt April 29.
He was driving down I-95 when a 30-pound piece of metal broke through his car's windshield, hitting him square in the face.
"I remember waking up in the hospital to my dad walking into the room," Amory explained Monday. He is out of the hospital for now, but doesn't remember much about the crash.
One person remembers the details.
"Blood was everywhere. You could see the inside on the right side, it was crazy," explained Tarsheka Barton.
She stopped to help Amory on the side of the highway. She said he was conscious and even walked from his car to the ambulance.
"He didn't say one word through the entire thing, he just stayed calm," she remembered. "It's amazing, truly amazing."
For the first time, Amory got an up close look at the piece of metal which hit him. His lawyers think it came from a brake drum on a tractor trailer, but they want to find out exactly where it came from.
Armory's family is pleading for anyone to come forward who might have information about where the debris originated. They presume the tractor trailer would have had brake problems on or around April 29. The crash happened in the southbound lanes of I-95, just south of Palmetto Park Road.
If you have information, call Jack Scarola at 561-686-6300
The injuries won't keep the guitar out of Amory's hands long. His new songs will have a message from what he's learned.
"Hold your loved ones close because you never know when you might be spending your last moments with them," he said.
Amory has a 10-hour reconstructive surgery Tuesday. Doctors tell him he probably won't have a single scar when they're done.


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Crozet, Virginia: SmarTech Analysis has just published the fifth edition of its Additive Manufacturing in Dentistry report. In the report the firm projects that the total market for additive manufacturing in dentistry will surpass $2.7 billion (USD) in 2019 (hardware, services, materials and software). The report also says that by 2022 500 million dental devices and restorations will be produced annually via additive manufacturing.
The report notes that an emerging dental industry transformation is taking place from converging forces –with 3D printing technology at the center of the change. The flexible, digital print processes now being rapidly adopted will help catalyze other ongoing trends in dentistry, including higher levels of chairside and in-office dental device production, laboratory business model evolution, and a focus on corporate dentistry.
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· The level of industry activity and collaboration in the dental printing space in the last year has not slowed. The most strategically significant technical evolutions in printer hardware are the development of automated systems and the development of higher printing speed systems, both of which stand to significantly improve productivity and potential for use in-office, as well as further adoption in areas of dentistry such as clear aligners and denture production
· The future of material jetting technology for dentistry will be driven by its ability to address unmet needs in dental 3D printing; printing of highly functional restorations using dental composites that can be produced and shaded in a single system for the creation of temporary crowns and bridges, dentures, and ultimately permanent restorations. These developments will position material jetting technology even further into competition with vat photopolymerization technologies of today, further threatening those in the incumbent vat photopolymerization segment who are not providing significant increases in automation, speed, and other value-added features.
Source: SmarTech Analysis