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So, I am simply passing this on as a warning to take this with caution. Not the truth part of it which is the nurses relationship with the CDC, rather the follow up paragraphs trying to explain "why" the site was scrubbed of this information that he is now confirming. I also believe there is a fight going on at the top of the pyramid of cabal players, but I do not think this is part of it.
I believe someone got caught trying to hide her relationship with the CDC. but notice, not a word from Mike about the CDC patent on the Ebola virus filed by them in 2009, right at the height of the avian flu/swine flu fiasco. That fact is now common knowledge in the Alternative news circle, but never mentioned by the MSM or their alternet minions they finance. So why?
Read this with an open, but cautious mind and especially the reasons listed for her relationship with the CDC that got scrubbed. Another possible reason he did not mention, was that CDC was the source of the Ebola, but because they did not want to get it within their group, they needed victims to pretend to have it, then allowing Obama to do what he is now doing which is leading us to medical martial law, gun confiscation, for reasons listed, other than the real reason. Just another non proven speculation for you to consider.
Ebola quarantine nurse's ties to CDC scrubbed from web; was it a staged op to invoke opposition to quarantines?
Posted By: Susoni, Rumormill News, October 26, 2014
(NaturalNews) Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was quarantined in New Jersey over her high risk status as a possible Ebola carrier, has ties to the CDC which have been deliberately hidden by the mainstream media.
Right now, a war is waging between states like New Jersey, New York and Illinois -- which have all decided to quarantine travelers at high risk of Ebola infections -- and the federal government which is adamantly opposed to border security, medical quarantines and travel bans.
Kaci Hickox emerged in the center of this debate just yesterday when she complained of being "interrogated" and held in violation of her civil rights. Kaci's LinkedIn.com profile, which described her links to the CDC, was scrubbed from the web earlier today, and even Google cache has strangely been cleared of her profile which previously detailed her ties to the CDC.
The now-famous DallasNews.com article [1] which published Hickox's complaints failed to mention the nurse's ties to the CDC.
It turns out that Kaci Hickox is a registered democrat and Obama supporter who works for the CDC. "The nurse currently quarantined in New Jersey is an employee for the Centers for Disease Control and a registered Democrat with a history of left-wing advocacy," reports GotNews.com [2]
The LinkedIn.com page that has since been scrubbed is:
Was Nurse Hickox's quarantine staged as a P.R. stunt to invoke opposition to state quarantines?The timing of Hickox's quarantine, her ties with the party in power at the White House, the deliberate hiding of her ties to the CDC and the scrubbing of her LinkedIn.com profile all raise legitimate suspicion that her quarantine complaints have all been staged as a P.R. stunt to promote opposition to state-level Ebola quarantine efforts.
President Obama is already pressuring the Governors of NJ, NY and IL to reverse their quarantine protocols. "The Obama administration has expressed deep concerns to the governors of New York and New Jersey and is consulting with them to modify their orders to quarantine medical volunteers returning from West Africa," reports the NY Times. [3]
Placing a very vocal nurse in quarantine and encouraging her to complain about civil rights violations -- all while arranging a mass media carpet bombing of the public with those complaints -- seems far too convenient to be a coincidence.
From the very start, almost every single story the public has been allowed to see on Ebola has been contrived, engineered or distorted for either political or profiteering purposes. It is difficult to believe that this quarantine outrage just happened to coincide with President Obama's attempts to have the quarantines closed down.
For an example of the kind of obfuscation and fact-burying efforts being pursued by some factions of the government, watch this exasperating video where Rep. Massie tries to get a straight answer about Ebola transmission via contaminated surfaces. [5]
Why is the White House trying to dismantle state-level Ebola quarantines?All this brings up the obvious question: Why is President Obama working so hard to dismantle state-level quarantine efforts?
The mandatory quarantines announced by New Jersey and New York are the first sensible thing any government has yet done to prevent the spread of Ebola in America. Pressuring state Governors to reverse these medical isolation protocols seems to be a deliberate effort to encourage the worsening of the pandemic. (The only reason Nigeria escaped the Ebola pandemic is because the country closed its borders and invoked mandatory quarantines.)
Do the White House and the CDC actively want to see Ebola infections spread out of control? While the question may seem outlandish at first, it is increasingly difficult to explain away these bizarre actions being taken by the federal government: allowing infected travelers easy entry into the United States, recommending wholly inadequate medical gear to health care workers, keeping the southern border completely unprotected and now trying to dismantle state-level quarantines that would prevent infected people from spreading Ebola to the population at large. Didn't the example of Dr. Spencer running around New York City while he had Ebola awaken anybody enough at the federal level to call for quarantines and border security?
Mostly what we keep hearing from the federal government is pure fabrication or distortion. For example, check out these ten glaring Ebola contradictions the federal government continues to push, hoping the U.S. public is too uninformed to call their bluff.
Different factions jockeying for profits or powerThe CDC, for the record, is clearly a pro-vaccine institution that has already been caught hyping up swine flu in order to create billions of dollars in vaccine profits for drug companies. Top CDC employees also routinely take jobs with pharmaceutical manufacturers. There is no better way to generate market demand for high-profit Ebola vaccines than to allow a few dozen infections to terrorize the public in selected U.S. cities. Fear has always been used by the vaccine industry to scare the public into buying their faulty products. [4]
But how does all this fit into White House plans? There are plenty of theories being seriously debated right now across the 'net, ranging from Obama's desire to declare medical martial law to global depopulation agendas. Jon Rappoport at NoMoreFakeNews.com is even arguing that the entire Ebola pandemic is a massive global hoax.
I can't say which theory makes the most sense at this point, but my best guess is that we are witnessing all sorts of government and corporate factions fighting with each other over how to exploit this Ebola situation for their maximum gain. Drug companies simply want to see as much fear as possible so they can sell vaccines as soon as they are granted global legal immunity (which is already in the works). Obama wants to keep the southern border open so that more amnesty candidates keep flooding in to vote for socialist candidates. The CDC wants to gain a huge increase in its operating budgets (which also translates into salaries and bonuses) by being tasked with tackling a massive global crisis. One way or another, every sector of government and corporate enterprise is looking for a way to profit from this crisis.
That's why I don't expect a resolution any time soon. There's too much money and power at stake now to stop Ebola. The pandemic is proving to be a very effective way to gain the obedience of the public, and the worse the pandemic gets, the more desperately the American public will be begging for government to save them. To make this happen, Ebola quarantines must be immediately halted for the simple reason that they interfere with the spread of the virus that's necessary to invoke a critical mass of panic across the population.
Think about it: If the White House were really interested in "an abundance of caution" as we're always told, then why wouldn't 21-day quarantines for high-risk travelers make amazing sense? Somehow, when it comes to possibly-infected travelers arriving from West Africa, that "abundance of caution" is thrown out the window.
But don't worry. It's only a level-4 biohazard virus with extremely rapid adaptability, a history of going airborne, and a 70% fatality rate with no known treatment or cure. What could possibly go wrong?
Sources for this article include:
[1] http://www.dallasnews.com/ebola/headlines/20...
[2] http://gotnews.com/ebola-nurse-complaining-q...
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/nyregion/e...
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFQQOv-Oi6U
[5] http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?...
[6] http://www.naturalnews.com/047317_ebola_rest...
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Cogeneration regeneration
A powerful performance in which all concerned put in a concerted effort: inside only 13 months, the combined heat-and-power plant in Würzburg, Germany, was given a new gas and steam turbine system under conditions of ongoing operation. On behalf of Würzburg's municipal services department, the new equipment was supplied by a consortium consisting of Alstom, Siemens, and ThyssenKrupp Xervon Energy. The latter, heading the consortium, also organized many of the trades and services required during the assembly and installation phases.
Around one-half of the contract value for the rebuilding of plant was the responsibility of ThyssenKrupp Xervon Energy. This company not only supplied the new waste-heater boiler along with the auxiliary firing system and forced-draft fan but also handled the dismantling of all piece of equipment, the supply and installation of all the waste-gas flues, the smokestacks, pipework, pumps and fittings including their insulation, all of which comprised the specified tasks of this industrial services provider specialized in the power plant sector. Another responsibility was the on-time construction of a new 20 kV/110 kV transformer station.
Siemens AG Power Generation supplied the complete instrumentation and electrical engineering systems for the gas and team turbine plant and the transformer station. Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB (previously, Alstom Power Industrial Turbines) supplied the heart of the new system, an SGT 800 gas turbine with an output of 40 to 50 MW. This is capable of burning natural gas in dry low-emission combustion chambers at a temperature of over 1,200 °C, and with very low CO and NOx emissions. The waste gas developed is then routed to the free power turbine which uses part of the energy for driving the gas turbine generator. The waste gases, still 540 °C hot, are used by the boiler unit for generating steam.
Two boilers, one housing
To maximize the efficiency, Xervon Energy installed a dual-pressure boiler (natural cycle). Its generous water volume enables close adjustment to volatile and rapid load fluctuations. The boiler has a high- and a low-pressure steam system. The maximum steam output in the HP section is 125 t/h at a hot-steam temperature of 515 °C and an exit pressure of 73 bar absolute. This is achieved in waste-heat operating conditions with auxiliary firing as well as in forced-draft operation. In the LP section, dry-saturated steam at 5 bar is produced at around 12 t/h. The special feature of the LP section: if for periods of time LP steam is not needed, the unit can be filled up to 15 bar and reoperated when required.
The boiler structure is mounted to a supporting grid to enable unimpeded expansion in all directions, without the damage potentially caused by any obstructions. Another specialty: all the heating surfaces are vertically positioned, with full water drainage and air venting via the collectors. The surfaces themselves are made up of 28 prefabricated modules.
Made-to-measure insulation
The ThyssenKrupp Xervon Energy specialists fitted the boiler walls and the gas turbine ducting with interior heat insulation. In view of such factors as interior temperature, outside temperature, heat conductivity and insulating thickness, they opted for a multilayer lining. For this purpose, various types of insulating material in pad or mat format are anchored to the sheet metal jacket with the aid of pins made of stainless steel. Whereas such a type of fastening proved impossible due for instance to complex conduit structures, the insulators resorted to a stacking system by which bans of ceramic fiber 610 mm wide, 2.54 mm thick and at a depth equivalent to the total insulating thickness (mostly 250 mm) are bonded to expanded metal.
Firing system for flexibility
With natural gas-fired duct-type burners mounted between the gas turbine and the boiler, the operator has the option of running the system flexibly in a variety of modes. The five duct burners with a total firing capacity of 50 MW are able to raise the temperature of the exhaust gas flow in the upstream turbine to 900 °C which, in turn, allows high-pressure steam generation in the boiler to rise to 125 t/h. Should for some reason or other the gas turbine not be operable, the additional firing system goes into main firing mode. A forced-draft fan (designed for 380,000 Nm³/h) then delivers via a duct system the air necessary for the combustion process.
New smokestack
Also new is the power plant's smokestack engineered and erected by Xervon Energy and designed to replace the previous 104-m tall collector stack. It consists of three individual, two-part, double-walled, freestanding and hence self-supporting steel stacks. For optical reasons, all three have the same support tube diameter of four meters. The diameter and wall thickness of the internal flues, in contrast, vary, depending on their function. The 50-m tall stacks are mounted in clearances of 7.50 meters and a height of around 20 m on the roof of the 43-m long turbine shop whose steel frame construction has been accordingly engineered.
Built in only 13 months
So much as to the engineering specifications of the cogeneration plant which, for well over one year now, has been delivering power and heat to the city of Würzburg, and very efficiently so. For much lower emissions and upgraded efficiency, the plant covers up to two-thirds of the electricity needs and the entire district heating requirements of around 130,000 people living in and around Würzburg.
The project to the value of €55 million, was completed inside only 13 months, which goes to show how perfectly it was planned. Operator, planners, public authorities, the consortium and its subcontractors worked in close unison to fulfill the ambitious schedule. And all this despite obstacles and constraints: a lack of space, ongoing power plant operation, and the critical character of the traffic situation around the construction site (two Main river bridges, the river itself, and the customs authorities as external parameters) called for the ultimate in logistic skills.
The location for the new gas turbine plant and the transformer station was the coal storage site used until then and the meanwhile outdated boiler unit K4 (dating back to 1966). This latter had to be dismantled and the coal regularly delivered by truck so that the existing power plant components could remain operational, without any disruptions, throughout the construction phase. In all, it was only in the closing switchover stage that a total shutdown proved necessary.
Around 30 heavy haulages within tight time windows delivered the plant components to the site where they were unloaded and brought into position by a high-capacity crane. There were virtually no possibilities for any intermediary storage. Throughout the project, the delivery, escape, rescue routes, the site equipment, the material storage areas and the containers accommodating the site workers were repeatedly adapted and readjusted to new conditions.
Exacting, exciting one-off challenges
"Thanks to the skills of the site personnel, there were no hold-ups in the progress of the project and there was no need to compromise in terms of health and safety or the quality of the exacting work," is how Dr. Ing. E. Rejek from the Richter Power Plant Engineering office assesses the project. Praise to be proud of.
ThyssenKrupp Xervon Energy employed on site three highly experienced multi-trade supervisors to oversea and organize the work of up to 120 craftsmen skilled in a wide variety of trades. The jobs included such repeated chores like boiler assembly, pipework construction, insulation, pump and fittings installation — jobs that Xervon Energy as a specialist in power plant construction handles through its own staff.
Other chores included, for example, the disassembly of the boiler and other plant components. The old 104-m collector stack built from reinforced concrete with internal flues also had to be torn down. Because of the lack of space, the latter were sawn and the individual segments (maximum 11 tonnes) carried away by a building crane. For this specific purpose, Xervon Energy commissioned an external specialty firm.
The foundation (21.60 m long, 7.2 m wide, and 1.90 m tall) to which all the new gas turbine modules are anchored, was likewise built under the supervision of Xervon. The same is true of the concrete structure and the electric/plumbing system for the new transformer station (a reinforced concrete building 43 m long, 14 m wide, and 20 m tall). The new building is designed so that the large transformers on the ground floor will still do their job in the event of 300-year record river floods.
Although the services provided in Würzburg was multi-faceted, they were nonetheless all provided from a single-source responsibility. For future such power plant projects it should be even easier to assemble a complete package thanks to the close ties with ThyssenKrupp Xervon and access to the expertise assimilated in this part of the group.
Background info
The Würzburg cogeneration facility:
Since 1954, the Würzburg CCPP cogeneration plant has been providing power and district heating to the town of Würzburg and the surrounding region. The newest €55-million investment in the CCPP is the biggest ever made by Würzburg municipal services, enabling it to step into the 21st century in terms of energy generation. The switchover to natural gas as a prime source of energy means that the plant is using a fossil-type fuel with the lowest emissions. Despite its superior efficiency, the new plant emits annually up to 120,000 t less greenhouse carbon dioxide.
The CCPP process:
Burning coal, fuel oil or natural gas in a boiler produces steam which is routed at high pressure (72 bar) and temperature (515 °C) to a steam turbine. Here, the steam decompresses and drives the turbine. A generator connected to the turbine generates electricity. The almost completely decompressed steam exits the turbine and is sent at 3 bar and 180 °C into the district heating network which routes the steam to the consumer. In the process, the remaining energy is extracted from the steam for the purpose of producing hot water. This production of thermal energy, district-heating steam and electricity in a single process is termed power-heat cogeneration. The efficiency of the process can be much improved by combining steam and gas turbines. In this process, natural gas is burnt in a gas turbine. The resultant hot gases drive a turbine which, in turn, drives a generator for outputting electricity. And now comes the critical step: the hot waste gases from the gas turbine are not emitted into the atmosphere but routed to a boiler that produces steam without burning any additional fuel. The downstream steam turbine process remains unchanged and continues to generate electricity while disconnected from the district-heating function. This combination of gas turbine and steam turbine is termed a Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP).
Source: Heizkraftwerk Würzburg GmbH

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Professor Shlomo Ben Chaim and Dr Amir Arev of the Volcani Institute filed patents for freezing cells, tissues and limbs through a company Core Dynamics IMT that is by the researchers. However, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, the technology was developed during work at the State owned Volcani Research Institute, and so the State considers that the inventions are service inventions that are owned by the State.
Adv. Dikla Shalev Amsalem of the State Attorney Office together with a litigator in a private Law firm sued the researchers for 40,000,000 Shekels.
Unlike the universities which have a mechanism in place to ensure that patent applications are filed and that inventors are compensated with 40% – 50% of the royalties, the govt. research institutes and hospitals have only recently began to look into developing tech transfer offices and to compensate inventors. Presumably if the development initiative is commercially successful, the inventors and their firm are paying taxes and providing employment in Israel, so the country is getting some not insignificant compensation from the commercialization without having taken the risk of investment therein.
There hasn't been a serious ruling by the Israel Courts on rights by the State to inventions by civil servants, and how the Patent Law is or isn't modified by the basic laws of property. Maybe this case will result in such a ruling.
This is the second time that the State has sued entrepreneurs and private companies alleging that the patents for the underlying inventions were developed by government employees and claiming them to be service inventions of the State. The other case, State of Israel vs. Omrix, concerned an adhesive that includes a blood clotting factor. For further details, see here.
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This is a meat-rich, sweet-on-red-meat recipe that is a great way to shake up your normal dinner or food prep. It goes perfectly with my Balsamic Blackberry Sauce on top, too!
Venison Thigh & Caramelized Veggies
Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 15 minutes Total time: 20 minutes
Yield: 2-3 servings
1. Melt butter on a pan over medium heat. Sauté onions until translucent, about 2 minutes.
2. Add cubed venison to the onions and cook until brown.
3. Pour honey over the meat and onions. This will make the onions "caramelize," rendering that sweet and tangy flavor.
4. Incorporate mushrooms and barbecue sauce after honey is well-combined. Mix thoroughly and allow to cook until mushrooms are as soft as you want them. This will not take very long.
5. Add any desired black pepper to taste and serve. This is great over a bed of greens, like some fresh organic spinach!
1 lb venison thigh, cubed
1/2 sweet onion, sliced
1 cup sliced baby bella mushrooms
2 Tbsp clarified butter
3 Tbsp local honey
1/4 cup barbecue sauce of choice
1 yield Balsamic Blackberry Sauce
Black pepper, to taste


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This is mainly a landing page that I use to get useful information when I go flying. Since I do most all my flying in Sweden, most the links are to resources which are Swedish relevant, and only a few Minnesota relevant. I stopped maintaining the experimental engines list as it was consuming too much time to keep up to date. The old page can still be found on the archive.org wayback machine if you want to see it, still.
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Today is a super special Five for Friday! I am linking up with Doodlebugs Teaching to show you 5 areas in my classroom!
I am really loving my new calendar area and math focus wall. It is helping my firsties to practice a lot of tricky common core concepts every morning, and they are loving all of the activities! I keep everything on magnets so I can move it for math lessons or interventions. Almost every piece of this wall is available in my store:
common core calendar companion kit
mathematical practices signs
number cards
calendar signs
weather sign and pictograph
addition to 10 chant
We have several areas for reading and writing. We have a writing area that also serves as an area for small group intervention. I made the giant pencil for the writing board from the roll that came inside my classroom carpet. I will display writing samples on this bulletin board throughout the year.
We use this area for our library center. My IKEA chair is perfect for reading books to the class, and two kids can fit together on it pretty comfortably for partner reading. I painted the giant books that hang from the ceiling before my first year teaching. They are getting a little worn, but I just can't retire them yet.
We use the "book store" for shopping for our leveled books. It's easy to move around the room and super easy to maintain. Click here if you want to learn more about the system.
We have a school wide positive behavior program, which is amazing! Our kids love it! I use a magnetic behavior chart on my filing cabinet. Each child has a magnet with his/her number and it moves up or down throughout the day to reflect his/her behavior. At the end of the day, they accumulate "rocket fuel," which is similar to tickets. We store them in a pocket chart, and then the kids can buy rewards from our prize catalogs, or they can buy tickets to reward events!
I adore the windows in my classroom this year! I hung some frames on the windows behind my desk and filled them with pictures of teachers who have inspired me or notes from some super sweet kids. I plan on changing what hangs in the frames throughout the year!
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""The recipe for this blend is believed to have originated from thieves during the 15th century. According to popular theory, the concoction was created by a group of four thieves® and grave robbers to protect themselves from contracting the plague while robbing the bodies of the gravely ill and deceased. When apprehended, the thieves admitted to using the formula and disclosed the recipe in order to receive a less severe punishment for their crimes.
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40 drops organic Clove Bud essential oil
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20 drops organic Cinnamon Bark essential oil
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Month: February 2016
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It absurd! I feel I will never get the respect I deserve. I heard the things that were said and the actions that occurred. I felt the pain of every single word. But I'll still hold my head up high until I leave this Earth….. For sure!!!
EMPATHY By Adam Rideaux
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Broken men are a strange, complicated breed. They will go through the motions of wanting to be in a relationship, but without any zest or enthusiasm.-Lauren Skirvin
Admiralty Law Explainded By Jordan Maxwell
In this video Jordan Maxwell explains how the citizens of the United States operate under Admiralty Law and not the Constitution. He describes how words are used to control us and encourages us all to do research on the meanings and the origins of these words. Please watch this video and WAKE UP! Open you mind so you eyes can see!!!
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The very concept of placing a monetary value on education is repugnant. In order for a society and a species as a whole to grow, education is needed. So why make it difficult for people to receive higher levels of education?….. Unless you wanted to manipulate different subgroups of a society and reduced their intelligence level? Education is a tradition passed on from our elders. When we learn something new we teach it to the young or to the ones who do not know. We do this so the next generation will be smarter and learn from the previous generations' mistakes. Education is a right that you earn when you are born. Not a privilege for those who have items of perceived value.


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Following up on my previous blog, here's more on the difference between writing novels and screenplays.
Some years after my first novel Dry Hustle was published in 1977, I decided to master the film script form so that I could make a decent living. It was time to settle down to one thing; my twenties were all about trying on as many hats as possible: documentary filmmaker, recording artist, novelist (I even squeezed in a musical). I sold a screenplay pitch to MGM, and off I went. That was 30 years ago, and I'm still working. But in contrast to film people who say, "What I really want to do is direct," I was often heard to say, "What I really want to do is write – books."
So I embarked on my new novel Jane Was Here with trepidation. I worried that the terse, mechanical style of scripts had rotted away my ability to flow with the narrative form. And in 'the business,' a screenwriter has three months to write a 110-pages first draft, so you don't spend much time weeding and polishing action prose. But in a novel, you can't write, "GUNSHOT O.S…PAN TO WOMAN (MARY, 30's) sticking a pistol in purse. She's beautiful, sexy: think Natalie Portman." Instead you have to describe the action in beguiling, original prose, free of the cliches you always dispensed freely because film people are comfortable, even reassured by them. You have to slow down and make use of descriptive language, and suddenly there's a bewildering array of words to choose from, countless ways to move characters around instead of "She exits."
Vocabulary: I once used the word "obdurate" in a script. Before submitting it, my manager called me to say I couldn't use it, no one would know what it means. I felt really sad. I had to consign so many words to this inner oubliette (definitely a taboo word) where they would never see the light of day. Imagine the freedom I felt when writing Jane Was Here: I could release them all from this dungeon. I could now use "adipose," "nacreous," "caesura," "arrant," and – oh frabjous day! – "obdurate."
There's little difference between film scripts and novels in terms of dialogue, although the screenwriter will probably be more efficient. In scripts you have to refine dialogue so that a scene doesn't go longer than 5 pages at the most. Playwrights and novelists' characters can yammer on endlessly.
Writing screenplays taught me how to plot. In any writing course I ever took in college, we were never taught how to manipulate the long-form story. I studied with the great Grace Paley, who only wrote short stories. "Life is too short, and Art is too long," she said. I got the feeling that plot wasn't necessary and even a bit meretricious (do not ever use that word in a script).
My first novel had a great premise but the plot was mostly episodic, with no real rise and fall to the story. When I turned to writing scripts, it didn't take long to discover I was woefully deficient in this area. I had to teach myself how to deliver an adventure, with twists, turns, curveballs, "misdirects," and a satisfying of an ending. It served me very well when it came time to design the mystery-paranormal-suspense-thriller that is Jane Was Here.
And then there's the length. You're limited in pages to the screen-time of a feature (100 minutes and up). It's very manageable. A novel, on the other hand, is harder. It accrues to 200 pages and counting. After 200 you can't even remember what you wrote before – there's a point where you feel lost at sea.
But that's the story of, that's the glory of, books.
Next blog: Screenplays Vs. Novels - Part Trois.
- Sarah
- I am a restless writer of fiction, film, and music. I scripted such films as 9 and ½ Weeks, Sommersby, Impromptu (personal favorite), What Lies Beneath, and All I Wanna Do which I also directed. Both my documentaries, Marjoe and Thoth, won Academy Awards. Formerly a recording artist, I continue to write music, posting songs on my website. I live in New York with my husband James Lapine. My second novel, the paranormal thriller Jane Was Here, was published in 2011. My latest film, Learning to Drive, starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley, came out in August 2015, now available on VOD, DVD, and streaming media. This blog is a paranormal memoir-in-progress, whenever I have spare time. It's a chronicle of my encounters with ghosts, family phantoms, and other forms of spirit.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
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2010 Renault Logan Expression 1.6 8 valve from Egypt
Some original spare parts could be expensive.
General Comments:
I bought my Logan in 2010 and the car's mileage has exceeded 94000 KM. Based on my experience, I will discuss some issues in more detail:
1. Reliability:
Logan is a great car in terms of reliability. The only spare parts I have changed were the front shock absorbers. However, it should be noted that Egyptian roads are of inferior quality.
I have changed the brake pads at 85000 KM, which is a great record.
At 90000 KM, I noticed that I need to change one console lamp. The one which lights the A/C button. Besides, the driver's door joint needs to be lubricated to avoid noises when opening/closing a door.
I don't think these are major faults at this mileage level.
I advise drivers to continuously visit dealer service units to replace parts at the due time.
2. Performance:
My Logan's engine is 1.6 petrol 8 valve 90 HP. Well, the car runs smoothly. However, if you compare it to other 1.6 engine cars, the Logan would be placed in an average rank. Some economical 1.6 cars could be faster such as the Hyundai Verna 1.6. However, the Logan could be faster than a Chevrolet Lanos and Aveo.
The car is stable when driving at high speeds, whether on straight roads or curvy roads.
3. Running costs:
If you buy original spare parts from Renault official dealers, they could be moderately expensive in comparison to Chinese or some Korean cars. However, non-official dealers in Egypt provide good alternatives with reasonably good prices.
The best fuel consumption I've ever recorded was 320KM per gallon of petrol.
4. The options:
The Logan Expression provides better options than many other competitors at this level, such as the Chevrolet Lanos, Hyundai Verna and others.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 21st May, 2013
29th May 2014, 06:54
Your fuel consumption record seems suspicious to me. A gallon is 3.7 liters, you are talking about 320Km/3,7 liter? That makes it almost 1.5 l/100km, which is not realistic.
I think you mean /20 liters, right?
3rd Jul 2014, 12:17
I think yes we in Egypt use the word safeeha in Arabic as gallon, which is 20 liters :)
20th Nov 2014, 04:40
After more than 140000 KM on silly Egyptian roads, I can firmly say that the Logan 2010 is a legend!
The car still runs smoothly and I still achieve the 16 KM per litre of oil till now.
However, the key to continuation is quality maintenance. My advice is to follow maintenance instructions regardless of costs!
28th Apr 2015, 03:09
My 2009 model Renault Logan has 240 000 km on the clock. It is a very good car. Unfortunately I can't say the same about the Renault dealerships here in South Africa.
27th Feb 2016, 18:09
By now I've passed 181000 KM with my Logan 2010. The car is OK, but I've changed one shock absorber and the front brake disks.
A fellow driver told me at this mileage it is fine to have such changes. To be honest, I find it difficult to get a brand new car of equal qualifications!


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2000 SAAB 9-3 from North America
Just know that you need to drop the pan and clean the trap out
I changed the oil every 3 to 5,000 miles, and the engine seized up. Thanks for letting us know the the pan needed to be dropped. SAAB need to own up to their faulty design. I now have to put a new engine in this piece of...! Add my name to a class action law suit.
General Comments:
If you own a SAAB, know now... that every 50 - 60K miles you need to drop the pan and clean EVERYTHING out.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? No
Review Date: 26th November, 2010


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New Doctor Who starts tonight. YaY!
Definition, Normcore: "finding liberation in being nothing special."
so, I'm watching OU football, but flipping over occasionally to review last season's Dr. Who so I'll be ready for tonight's episode. WooHoo!
and just read this great Tor Article to get even more in the mood.
"There's a million answers to the question of why we still love the Doctor, but I believe there's one basic reason for Who's continued success that trumps all others.
Doctor Who has figured out how to stay relevant by continuing to define and redefine its own definition of "cool," and by occasionally being very intentionally "uncool."
click the link below to read the rest.
anyone else going to be watching?


text: Google's US shop front is looking a little bare right now, with the tech giant removing three Google Play Edition stock Android devices -- the Xperia Z Ultra, LG G Pad 8.3 and HTC One M7 -- from direct sale. The idea is that, perhaps, this means the rumoured Android Silver network-backed scheme might be near. Or maybe Google wants the US hardware shop to look as crappy as the UK one? [Android Police]


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I want to complement our barbell supplier Again Faster for all the great custmer service they provided in supplying Crossfit Central with Barbells.
In todays industry it is sometimes challenging getting orders in and gettting shipping in a timly manner. Again Faster was all over it!
Again Faster also has killer articles check them out!


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Mark Russinovich recently posted The Case of the Malicious Autostart to his blog. I have to say, I think we are all very fortunate that Mark decided to post this; besides providing a very good demonstration of the use of the tools that Mark has written and made available, but it also demonstrates what others within the community are seeing. Chris Pogue recently did something similar with his Webcheck.dll post to the Spiderlabs Anterior blog, and it's good to see these kinds of things posted publicly.
Mark's post provides some really good information about what was found during a support call, and the tools and techniques used to find it, as well as to dig deeper. One thing that's interesting to point out is that the infection of the system may have included subversion of Windows File Protection (not that that's not trivial...), as it's mentioned that the user32.dll files in the system32 and dllcache directories were modified.
Posts like this give the rest of us an opportunity to see what others are facing and how they're addressing those challenges. Being the tech support in my household, I'm somewhat familiar with these tools and their use, but I can't say that I've seen something like this. What I like to do is see how this methodology fits into my own processes.
In the comments to the post, a user ("Mihailik") asks about determining the infection vector, to which Mark responds:
Unfortunately, that's a question just about anyone fighting a new malware infection will have a near impossible time of determining. Unless you actually see the infection as it takes place, you can't know - it could have been someone executing a malicious email attachment, opening an infected document, or via a network-spreading worm.
I would suggest that by using timeline analysis, many of us have been able to determine infection vectors. I know that folks using timelines have nailed down the original infection vector in some cases to phishing emails, attachments, browser drive-bys, etc. The timeline may give an indication of where you should look, and examination of the actual files (PDF or Word document, Java .jar file, etc.) will illuminate the issue further. Determining the infection vector may not have been something that could be easily done on this system, during this support engagement, but for more IR-specific engagements, this is often a question that analysts are asked to address.


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Target Report: Cameron Meredith quickly becoming a key part of Bears' future
Reality in the NFL is fluid, and that's why weekly results can be so volatile. One week, the Steelers have the best offense in the league, the next, they're looking at starting Landry Jones or Zach Mettenberger for an indeterminate number of games. One week, there's a ray of hope for Arian Foster, and the next, Jay Ajayi grabs a stranglehold of the Miami backfield. What was true last week may be false this week, and this week's reality could take a sharp turn a week or two from now. The best fantasy owners know how to exploit that.
Take, for instance, the case of Bears wide receiver Cameron Meredith. Two weeks ago, he was barely on the radar in even the deepest of fantasy leagues. He was a healthy scratch for Chicago's first two games, making his season debut against the Cowboys in Week 3. He had eight targets across his first two games of the season, catching six of them for 52 yards. In his rookie year of 2015, he had 11 receptions, 16 targets and 120 yards. With Alshon Jeffery, Kevin White and Eddie Royal ensconced in the Bears offense, there was little reason to believe Meredith would break through at any point this season.
The door cracked open at the end of Chicago's Week 4 win over Detroit. White suffered what turned out to be a fractured fibula, giving his fellow second-year player a chance to show the Bears what he could do with a real role. The local product, who went to high school about 17 miles west of Soldier Field and played his college ball at Illinois State, is capitalizing on that opportunity. Over the last two weeks, Meredith leads the NFL with 27 targets. He has caught 20 of those passes for 243 yards and a touchdown, surpassing the 100-yard mark in both games while averaging 15.15 fantasy points in standard-scoring leagues.
It's not as though he's living purely on volume, however. Meredith has made big plays in both games he has started, and is quickly making himself a key part of the Bears' future. We saw this play last week, but it's worth watching again. Look how he absolutely burns Patrick Robinson with a double move, setting up an easy touchdown throw for Brian Hoyer.
Last week against the Jaguars, Meredith was the Bears' only consistent weapon from start to finish. Here he is taking a screen at the line of scrimmage, following his blocks and breaking a tackle for a huge play in the second half.
Targets are the lifeblood for any receiver, but they have to do enough with them to continue receiving fresh infusions, and Meredith has been. After his performance over the last two weeks, there's no reason to expect Meredith's role in the Chicago offense to diminish.
And now onto the rest of the Week 6 Target and Snap Report.
Mike Evans is hooked up to an IV of targets
Let's stay on this idea of targets being receivers' lifeblood for one more topic. Receivers can only catch the passes that are thrown to them, save for the occasional oddity. Fantasy owners want their quarterbacks to be efficient, but they want their receivers to be overwhelmed with volume. Through six weeks, Evans is the clear volume champion at the position.
Evans has 60 targets on the season, tied for fifth most with Amari Cooper, Brandon Marshall and Greg Olsen. The only players with more are Antonio Brown (64), T.Y. Hilton (64), A.J. Green (62) and Odell Beckham Jr. (61). But keep in mind, Evans has already had his bye, while the others haven't. If you want to find another player on the target leaderboard whose team has taken a rest this season, you need to go all the way down to 20th place, where you'll find Jordy Nelson sitting on 47 targets.
Evans leads all players with 12 targets per game and a target per snap rate of 18.3%. Among players with at least 30 targets, he's tied for fourth in both fantasy points per snap and points per opportunity (targets plus carries). In short, Evans is this year's DeAndre Hopkins. For fantasy purposes, he has the ideal mix of talent and target volume. He may not come up shy of double-digit targets in any game this season and he has an average depth of target of 17.4 yards, according to Pro Football Focus. Evans racks up opportunities, and makes plays both deep down the field and in the red zone. He's a top-five fantasy receiver.
Making sense of the Chiefs backfield
Jamaal Charles made his true return to action last week, running for 33 yards and a touchdown on nine carries and catching two balls for 14 yards. All things considered, it was an encouraging performance for a guy playing his first game since suffering a torn ACL—the second of his career—almost a year to the day prior.
While Charles played well, taking a step in the right direction, Spencer Ware dominated the Raiders, totaling 131 yards and a score on 24 carries, while hauling in two passes for 32 yards in the Chiefs' 26–10 win. Ware played 40 snaps, while Charles played just 15. Taken by itself, however, the box score distorts reality, so let's dig into the play-by-play data of the game to get a better feel for the Chiefs backfield.
After allowing the Raiders to score a touchdown on their first possession, the Chiefs completely took over this key game between AFC West foes. They quickly tied the game and took a 13–10 lead into halftime. By the end of the third quarter, the Chiefs were up by 13 and the Raiders had scored all of three points since their first drive of the game. The contest was effectively over.
The Chiefs took over possession with a few seconds remaining in the third quarter. At that point, Charles already had the nine carries, 33 yards and touchdown that would represent his final stat line. He didn't see the field in the fourth quarter, which isn't a huge surprise considering how careful the Chiefs have been with him. Ware, meanwhile, had 10 carries for 71 yards and his touchdown. He ran the ball 14 times for 60 yards after the Chiefs had packed Charles in for the day, making the disparity between the two to seem much greater than it actually was. When the game was still in doubt, Ware had just one more carry than Charles. That might be a better reflection of the Chiefs' backfield realities.
It stands to reason that the Chiefs will treat Ware and Charles the same way in games they have in hand, at least in the short term. Ware may also remain the starter, getting the carries when the Chiefs first have possession. This is, however, more of a 50/50 split than the box score suggests. Ware and Charles essentially traded possessions for the first three quarters of the game, and while Ware was more effective during that time, Charles did his fair share of damage as well. Both players have RB2 value, but Charles will likely only become more involved as the season progresses.
Marcus Mariota's running: Two-week fluke or a new normal?
I highlighted Mariota's rushing numbers over the last two weeks in my Week 6 fantasy takeaways. Mariota has 124 yards on the ground in Tennessee's last two games, hitting the 60-yard mark both weeks. Those games marked just the second and third times in his career that he ran for at least 60 yards in a game, a lack of rushing production that would have shocked the 2014 football world that watched him run all over the country while winning the Heisman in his final year at Oregon. Mariota had seven carries in both of those games, which, again, were just the second and third times in his career he ran the ball that frequently.
This isn't a question of whether or not Mariota can run—the question is whether or not he will continue to run, or if circumstances the last two weeks have dictated the change. Let's look at the Titans' first play from scrimmage in last week's win over the Browns.
DeMarco Murray's presence completely freezes the middle of Cleveland's defense, and Mariota makes the right decision by keeping it himself. Last year, the Titans simply didn't have the talent at running back to deploy the read-option with much effectiveness. Thanks to Murray, they do this season, and that's going to benefit both the quarterback and running back.
Mariota had two more designed runs which covered 14 yards, the second of which nearly got him into the end zone on the ground in consecutive weeks. His performance on the ground the last two weeks is most certainly a trend, and significantly raises his fantasy floor.
A red-zone threat emerges in New Orleans
Michael Thomas is making good in his rookie season. The Ohio State product has had at least 50 yards or a touchdown in all five of the Saints' games this season. He's sitting on 26 catches for 307 yards and three scores, good for 9.74 points per game in standard-scoring leagues. That has him ranked 20th among receivers who have played at least four games, and over the last three years, would have been good for 19th among receivers who played at least 12 games, on average.
In other words, Thomas is on pace for a low-end WR2 year. Drew Brees is typically able to produce two top-25 pass catchers, and that's likely to happen again this season with Brandin Cooks inside the top 15 at the position thus far, despite his frustrating boom-or-bust nature. Thomas doesn't have nearly Cooks's ceiling, but he might be a bit more consistent thanks to his development into Brees's favorite target in the red zone.
Thomas has scored one touchdown in all of the Saints' last three games. None has been longer than nine yards, and two have come from inside the five-yard line. At 6' 3" and 212 pounds, Thomas is much bigger and more physical than Cooks and Willie Snead. Unlike Coby Fleener, who is just as big but lines up inside, Thomas is outside the numbers, which gives him a major size advantage over the defensive backs assigned to guard him. We've seen Brees make great use of Marques Colston and Jimmy Graham in identical situations in the past. Thomas looks like his next great red-zone weapon.
The personality of the Saints' offense prevents any one receiver from becoming a target hog. Thomas has 36 targets this season, and has had more than six targets in just two games, one of which was when Willie Snead was out with an injury. Still, the Saints throw as frequently as any team inside the red zone, and Thomas has become the team's best receiver in the money area in short order. That's going to keep him in the good graces of his fantasy owners all season.
Rob Gronkowski and a mixed bag
No, that's not the name of some new reality show. It is the reality, however, of the Patriots' offense, specifically with respect to the passing game.
Tom Brady has been excellent in his two games this season. He has completed 76% of his passes for 782 yards, 10.43 yards per attempt, six touchdowns and zero interceptions. He has dismantled one bad defense (Cleveland) and one good one (Cincinnati) throwing for at least 376 yards and 10.15 YPA in both of his games. Brady always gets his. That's just a fact.
Turn the spotlight on his pass-catchers, however, and the certainty of production evaporates for everyone not named Gronkowski. The big tight end has topped 100 yards in both games with Brady at the helm, totaling 12 catches for 271 yards and a touchdown. The next most reliable pass catcher has been James White, who caught four passes for 63 yards in Brady's return, and eight four 47 yards and two scores last week. Beyond those two, nothing is guaranteed.
Martellus Bennett had six catches on eight targets for 67 yards and three touchdowns two weeks ago. Last week, he caught five balls for 48 yards. Julian Edelman has nine catches for 65 yards in Brady's two games this season. Chris Hogan zoomed past the 100-yard mark in Brady's first game under center, and then caught all of one pass for 39 yards last week. Danny Amendola and Malcolm Mitchell have made token appearances, both nothing that has placed them on the fantasy radar.
Brady and Gronkowski are as reliable as they come. White is an easy starter in full PPR leagues and should be in the typical flex discussion in standard leagues. After that, little is guaranteed. We know better days are ahead for Edelman, but his production will ebb and flow. Bennett is a desirable tight end because of the shallowness of the position and the New England's potency, but you'll have to take the bad with the good. Such is life in the mixed bag that is the Patriots offense.
Checking in on some backfield timeshares
Chicago: After dominating the carries for two weeks, Jordan Howard gave up nine totes to Ka'Deem Carey last week. That isn't likely to be standard operating procedure for the Bears, but it is worth monitoring. Note, too, that they will be without left guard Josh Sitton when the play the Packers on Thursday.
Cincinnati: Giovani Bernard has played 59% of Cincinnati's snaps this season. He was on the field for 71% of their plays the last two weeks, and two-thirds of them last week. In every time interval, he has outsnapped Jeremy Hill. Neither back has been all that productive this season, however, and it's hard to endorse either as more than a low-end RB2 or flex play, depending on the matchup.
Denver: C.J. Anderson remains in command of the backfield, playing 78% of the snaps and getting 10 carries and five targets last week, but Devontae Booker remains a thorn in his side. Booker had five carries for 46 yards, picking up more yards than Anderson on half the carries.
Detroit: With Theo Riddick and Dwayne Washington out, Zach Zenner led the Lions on the ground. He had 58 yards on 14 carries, and should remain in front of Justin Forsett on the depth chart. Still, it's hard to get excited about any back in this offense, outside of Riddick in full PPR formats.
Jacksonville: T.J. Yeldon played 13 more snaps than Chris Ivory last week, but the latter got more carries by a total of 11 to 6. It doesn't much matter, though, with both backs running for fewer than 35 yards. Jacksonville's run blocking has been a mess this season, and the timeshare only complicates the situation. Ivory is the better play by virtue of being the goal-line back.
Miami: Well hello, Jay Ajayi. We discussed this at length in the Week 6 fantasy takeaways. Ajayi ran all over the Steelers last week, notching 204 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 25 carries. Arian Foster, meanwhile, had three carries and two targets while playing just 11 snaps. This should be Ajayi's backfield for the foreseeable future.
New York Giants: Nine carries for Rashad Jennings, six carries for Bobby Rainey, two carries for Paul Perkins, and 38 total yards on the ground. This team cannot run the ball, and none of its backs are that great of a threat through the air. Until we see some sort of progress as a unit, or until one back takes over the lion's share of the work, none can be trusted in any fantasy format.
New York Jets: Matt Forte's downward spiral continued on Monday night, when he ran for 19 yards on nine carries and caught one pass for three yards. Bilal Powell played 18 more snaps than him, but totaled just 22 yards from scrimmage. This is another situation that fantasy owners will want to avoid unless they have no other options.
Philadelphia: Ryan Mathews ran well against Washington last week, picking up 60 yards on nine carries. So long as the work is spread thin, though, it won't much matter how well he runs the ball. He didn't have a target in the game, and managed only a plurality of the team's carries. Mathews still projects as a low-end RB2, while Darren Sproles and Wendell Smallwood are nowhere near startable in most formats.
Oakland: Latavius Murray should return soon from a toe injury, and the tea leaves suggest that Jalen Richard will be the odd man out. Despite being more productive than DeAndre Washington two weeks ago, he ran second for the Raiders last week. Washington, who has been ahead of Richard on the depth chart all year, ran for 49 yards on 10 carries. Richard had just four carries, picking up eight yards. Murray will take over the backfield when he returns, with Washington as his primary backup.


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As born and brought up Hindu in India, it's impossible to escape fundamental principles of religion and life even without touching religious scriptures. They are so ingrained in our culture, our rituals, our manners, our thinking and our outlook to life — notwithstanding numerous exposures to Gita Saar — that at first glance what I read in Gita sounded too familiar. There was a feeling at back of my mind that I already knew what was being told since I've
I dabbled with Koran and Bible too, purely from objective angle. While first chapter of Bible was interesting with Genesis (sense or no sense, it's a good story), narration quickly thrust upon me so many characters that I lost count and couldn't just remember anything. There are like so many generations of people with their sons and daughters and names and places that just went beyond my head. I wanted to move ahead with story, at which point I gave up. I expected Koran to be more interesting because of all those rules (good or bad) about living Islamic life and family and infidels. And it was to an extent, but only problem is that half the content in Koran is 'God, most gracious, most merciful' which doesn't help in moving story forward and can get on nerves because of self serving tone. Yet, at some point of time, I think it will be worthwhile to try to finish these books, as man no less than Mahatma Gandhi found many useful things in both.
What can I say now? It seems like all scriptures are designed to be boring and uninteresting. May be Lords wanted only those seriously interested to be able to understand His message, or may be he is not simply good author.


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The Other
Gone by Dawn
Gone by Dawn
The Cat Daddys
Seven Medium
Pop Poppins
Ugly Mustard
The Reverend Horton Heat
Last Beat Records
Evil Twin
Destination Venus
Liquid Fuzz
Hypocrisy Hat
Old 97's
Brave Combo
I, the Jury
Course of Empire
Tripping Daisy
Tripping Daisy
Tripping Daisy's "Pink Jelly"
(Tripping) Daisy News
Lure Tour
The (Tripping) Daisy World
Tripping Daisy
Matt's Tripping Daisy page
The Unofficial Nixons Page
The Nixons
The Toadies
The Toadies
Fatboy Slim
Funki Porcini
DJ Shadow
Foo Fighters
Chemical Bros.
Massive Attack
the Prodigy
Atari Teenage Riot
Roni Size
Lords of Acid
DJ Dara
P.J. Harvey
Future Sound of London
Crystal Method
Depeche Mode
DJ Dara
Meat Beat Manifesto
DJ Krush
Wagon Christ
DJ Cam
Bush Online
Bush Net
Joe's Aerosmith Tribute Homepage
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Nirvana Web Archive
The Soundgarden Page
Lotech's Soundgarden Stuff
Stone Temple Pilots
Frank Black
Faith No More
Soul Coughing
The Rollins Band
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Rollins Band
Rage Against the Machine
Chris's Fugazi Page
Type O Negative
The Pantera Page
Garzik's Pantera WWW Page
Guns'n'Roses Home Page
The Guns'n'Roses FAQ
[08-13-00 - This content is way out of date. I prefer harder stuff like drum'n'bass right now. ]
I love music. Whether it's alternative rock to heavy metal to blues to classic rock to even classical, I love music. In the car, in my room, or just about anywhere I end up at, I'm listening to music.
When I was younger, I used to listen more to rock and similar genres. Die-hard fan. I don't enjoy it as much as I used to, partially because I'm just burned out on it. I still listen to the heavy stuff, and heaviness certainly plays a key element to whether I like a song or not. Getting the chance to listen to more European music while in Sweden and England (my girlfriend living in Sweden), plus plenty of CDs to listen to from my bro, and finally my own changing tastes, have made me appreciate electronic music more. Yes, yes, the Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers certainly helped open everything up for me. But after seeing some of London's jungle DJs here in Austin, plus trying a lot of different techno artists, I'm stoked. Techno and all its offspring were the catalysts I needed to find a new enthusiasm towards music.
It is a sad thing that the music industry has become so commercialized that "mainstream" bands, even if they are good, are looked down upon by the cliques who attempt to be different than anyone else. Success is shunned and insecure fans violently struggle to keep their own secret bands to themselves. I'll have none of that. I listen to what I like, which is the first rule of being an individual. Be yourself and remember, your tastes in music are merely your tastes. You're no definitive authority on music, so don't thrust your opinions on others.
"Burst" by Anthrax
I maintain one of the more thorough lists of Dallas band webpages available. Now these sites move a lot and bands break up, so please notify me if the links change. Why do I have Dallas band links here? Well, Dallas is a great place to live if you're into the sorts of music played at Trees or more generally, Deep Ellum. Often local bands like Tripping Daisy, Spot, Tablet, and even not-so-local bands like Porno for Pyros and Everclear stop by Deep Ellum to give concerts. I don't go to concerts myself -- fighting for space to see or even hear the band isn't exactly my thing. If I could buy the live music on compact disc, I probably would, though (even though some bands sound horrible if their music isn't electronically edited). But anyway, support our local bands! Tripping Daisy, the Toadies, and Deep Blue Something have made it, but the smaller bands need your help. I guarantee you Dallas music is refreshing and much better than the schtuff you hear on the radio or MTV.
If you're a Dallas band, or ANY small band trying to get noticed, put up a web site! No, it's not going to make you a success, but I think it really adds a lot for fans if they're able to have a more direct connection with their favorite bands. If you have RealAudio and MP3 samples of some of your songs, that's cool too. Embrace the medium.
To get a taste of Dallas music, listen to KEGL 97.1 at 9-10 PM on Sundays for the Local Show. This show is a copy of Q102's (102.1) Texas Tapes, which is now no more since Q102 dissolved into just another top 40 station or some shit like that. Even the Edge (94.5) has a local show (I believe it's called 'The Adventure Club' and is on on Sunday nights). Just like the Edge to be the third to come up with an idea. ;) Look at Radio Free Dallas for some more local band goodies.
The secret to success these days? MTV. That's right. MTV's buzz clips have been known to save bands from collapse and the buzz clips are often quite good. They're a break from 24 hour stretches of non-music programming and Boyz 2 Men videos. The other way is for a band to get one hit song on the radio. If it doesn't become famous nationwide, at least local fans will buy up the albums.
Of course, my personal suggestion for bands is to distribute their music via the MP3 file format, a format capable of compressing tracks very well while losing no audible sound quality. Bands that distribute this way require no middle men -- just put the files on one's site and then people can come download it. No record companies restricting you from distributing your OWN music.
The Internet has proven to be an invaluable medium for music. The Lyrics archive has lyrics for a large number of songs, making it quite invaluable in digging up your fave band's mumbly verses. The Ultimate Band List is the most thorough music site out there, allowing you to browse a list of bands alphabetically, find the exact info you want, and suggest any sites not listed. Another rather large site is Rocktropolis. It houses some of the bigger pages for some bands. HyperReal is a good techno 90's sort of site. Interested in buying music online? Go to Music Boulevard or CD Now! Amazon tends to sell CDs at cheaper prices, though. Listening to the music clips of CDs you might buy online is very cool. Cover art and track listings, too, in case you don't know the names of albums.


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Fiction: Chick Lit; Fiction: Mainstream
The Wednesday Sisters is the compelling story of friendship between five women who first meet in a 1960s Palo Alto park as their children play. Clayton has developed strong characters in Kath the spoiled doctor's wife, Linda the athlete, Frankie from Chicago, scientist Brett, and secretive Ally. Four are college graduates; one is not. A fierce, enduring bond develops between these five very different women as they discover mutual loves—great literature, expressing themselves in writing, and the Miss America Pageant. Every Wednesday, they bring paper and pen to the picnic table in the park. They discuss their latest reads and then write and share their poems and stories, at first timidly, and then more boldly as their talent, confidence, and level of trust develop. When they begin to type their stories and articles, they make four carbons, so each member can read and critique before the next week's discussion.
As the years pass, the women become more proficient writers and venture into the daunting world of submitting their work for publication. They share leads and keep a joint file of possible agents. They share successes and disappointments. One becomes an editor. One succeeds beyond anyone's dream, landing herself a spot on Johnny Carson's late night show.
Their friendship matures along with their talent. Secrets are revealed and honored. They stand with one another through triumphs and tragedies—births, broken marriages, life-changing illness. Every year, the women gather to watch the Miss America Pageant. It becomes a metaphor of their own development, from youthful dreams and ambitions to a more informed, moderate feminism. They are witnesses to a changing world—the Vietnam conflict, man walking on the moon, and the women's movement. The author is faithful to the details of the changing decades of the 60s and 70s. The women transition from one stage of life to another, from one decade to another, sometimes grudgingly (as they switch from typewriters to computers, for instance) and sometimes with ease. The same determination that keeps them writing sustains them all, no matter what life brings. This is no fairy tale in which life is perfect and everyone is instantly successful.
Clayton develops strong individual characters and tells a powerful story that celebrates friendship, trust, and life. She shows the healing power of telling one's story and the importance of having a group of trusted sisters with whom to share those stories.
Meg Waite Clayton is a graduate of the University Law School. She was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Convention. An acccomplished author, she didn't write seriously until age thirty-two. She notes, "Although my fiction is not closely autobiographical, I do draw heavily from my own emotions and experiences as I write." Clayton lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband and their two sons. For more information about the author, and to read her writing tips, visit her website.
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1948 National 1155 in excellent condition. These guitars were a collaboration between National-Valco and Gibson. The bodies were made by Gibson and identical to the J-45 of the era and the rest was done by National. The neck is similar in profile to an early 1960s Gibson. It is thin for the era with almost no taper but has a 1 3/4" nut width and 2 1/4" string spacing. The body is solid mahogany with a one piece back, Adirondack spruce top, scalloped bracing, finished in a dark brown sunburst a bit different from a J-45. The playability is excellent thanks to a neck reset and although there is no adjustable truss rod the neck is dead straight. All original except for new saddle and bridge pins. The sound is big and boomy and certainly has the jumbo Gibson thing, but a bit different too. Hard to describe but very appealing and not like any other guitar. It reminds us of some of the Harmony 1260s that we have converted to X bracing. There is one repaired top crack and one repaired back crack that runs the length of the guitar, both done with hide glue. Comes with hard case.
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EURUSD forming a bearish bat formation, look for the reversal!
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EURUSD has started to form a really strong reversal signal at 1.2058 ( Fibonacci retracement , bearish bat harmonic formation , swing high resistance, bearish divergence, bearish price action) and all these point towards a potential drop towards 1.2011 intermediate support (38.2% Fibonacci retracement , horizontal pullback support) before 1.1972 major support (61.8% Fibonacci retracement , horizontal pullback support).
Stochastic (34,5,3) is seeing major resistance below 97% and a potential corresponding reaction could occur at this level.
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Really stupid
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what a stupid idea
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paulDtrader PalmyFOREX
@PalmyFOREX, Actually a very good idea. Market disagreed is all
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Coyote Ragtime Show
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Action, Androids, Gunfights, Mecha, SciFi, Shounen, Underworld
Mister is a 'coyote' or space faring outlaw who has been sitting in prison for a year for a traffic offence. Ten days from release, he breaks out with the help of his old partners Bishop and Katana. He then seeks out Franka who has been left in his care by her dead father and takes her on a journey to find her father's treasure. On their heels are the federal investigators Angelica and Chelsea as well as the android assassins of the Criminal Guild, Madame Marciano's Twelve Sisters.


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Outside of the circus of Antelope Canyon there are secret slot canyons that only the a few now about. These secret canyons lie on private property at the end of long unmaintained roads and down treacherous game trails. A perfect backyard adventure. Off the beaten path.
We met our guide. We were asked to place tied bandana's over our eyes so that we couldn't see how they arrived at the secret location...just kidding. We did however venture out onto a maze of dirt roads leading to different vague locations. We arrived at a gate and parked the vehicle. from there we hiked down a dirt road as the sun was continuing upward and the desert was heating up. From our vantage we couldn't see anything that remotely looked like a slot canyon but we did see signs of life...and death.
Skull bleached by the desert sun and sand.
A wild horse? We were not sure. It was very healthy and beautiful standing there looking at us.
Contrast a wild desert horse with the power station towers in the background. So many things have happened on these reservations that have exploited the people and poisoned the landscape.
Learn about: Uranium Mining and the Navajo People
My Shadow.
Is it a slot canyon?
Our guide
A surf down sand leads us down into the canyon.
Entering the canyon. Our friend Jennifer Clasgens walking through sand on the canyon floor.
Narrowing slot canyons
Light in play on the canyon walls.
Our guide leading the way deeper into the canyon.
We did a bit of climbing and scrambling in the canyons.
Waves of stone.
Climbing up.
A cathedral of orange sandstone. Jen and Ian.
The sky.
David and I.
Scrambling down and deeper into the canyon.
A pathway of sand along the canyon bottom.
Light at the end. This was a beautiful and adventurous journey. It was hot with lots of hiking through sand washes at the end. It was definitley worth it for the solitide, the beautiful slots canyons, and the chance to get off the beaten path.


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At the election we get a vote on what electoral system we want. We will be asked two questions: 1) Do we want to keep MMP or not? 2) If not, which system: MMP, FPP, PV, STV, SM.
We all know what MMP is: 120 MPs, 70 electoral MPs we vote in with one vote—the most votes wins; 50 who get in on the list depending on proportion of the vote. This yields coalition government, compromise, moderate consultative governments. It gives room for more voices. It forces NZ politics always to the middle. It has been around now for about twenty years and while we have had some fun and games forming governments, it has yielded stable government and NZ. Its weakness is that the minor parties can wield disproportionate power.
First Past the Post (FPP) is well known to older kiwis, one vote per person, 120 electoral MPs, winner takes all. This tends to polarize politics like the US Republican—Democratic system. The voices at the margins tend to get consumed in the huge party machines. It can get a government elected with less votes than the opposition. It is simple but does not require the same level of consultation and compromise.
Preferential Voting (PV) and Single Transferable Vote (STV) are systems whereby, when we go into vote, we get one vote and it is not picking a candidate, we rank the candidates by preference, 1, 2, 3, etc. We use this in local body elections for some positions in Auckland. It means you need to know all the candidates really well, something I found hard when I voted in Auckland recently. The differences between PV and STV come down to how the votes are processed.
In PV if a candidate has over 50% of the 1's, they are in. If not, the person with the least 1's is removed, and the 2's come into play added to their 1's. This goes on until someone cracks 50%, and they take the seat.
In STV, people are ranked as with PV. However there are less electorates (24–30) and multiple MPs from each electorate (3–7). A quota is worked out which a person must cross to get voted. Then the same system in PV is used to work out who cracks the quota. It seems rather complicated to me.
SM is similar to MMP except there are way fewer list MPs (30) and they are worked out differently. There are 90 electorates, and we get to vote for a local MP. The other 30 MPs are from lists decided by the percentage of the party vote. So 10% of the vote will not yield 12 MPs overall as in MMP's but 3 MP's. This means we get a bit of a MMP and coalition feel, but the minor parties has less of a say in the system. It kind of brings together FPP and MMP.
Which is more 'Christian?' Well, that is hard to say, and perhaps impossible. One could argue systems that force consultation reflect the Christian ideal of working together in partnership, but they also lead to compromise. So, I suggest you pray, think and vote—when the dust has settled, get on working for restoration within whatever system NZ decides.
In yesterday's Sunday Herald 30/10/2011 a poll made it look like MMP is here to stay: 57.2% said yes to MMP. Only 27.6% said no to MMP. While 26.9% said not sure/do not know. For me, I think I will go either MMP or SM. What about you?