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The E3 Expo was highly anticipated by many Final Fantasy XI fans, all hungry for any news about the fourth expansion, Wings of the Goddess, which was announced at the Square Enix Party in Tokyo, Japan almost two months ago. Allakhazam.com had it's first opportunity to meet with several key members of the Final Fantasy XI Development team including Senior Vice President of Software Development Hiromichi Tanaka and Wings of the Goddess Director Koichi Ogawa and Community Relations leaders Sage Sundi and Yasu Kurosawa with Koji Fox translating for us.
Pikko: The Japanese and English versions of the game have different titles. Is there any significance to this?
Koji Fox: The direct translation of the Japanese title is "The Divine Soldiers of Altana" but the difference is only in the name, the titles mean the same thing. Altana does not actually have wings, she is lifted up by her divine soldiers, this is how she flies. The Japanese prefer a more literal, direct title while Americans would prefer a more figurative title. So the titles mean the same thing but were phrased differently for separate audiences.
Pikko: The community is already speculating about the new jobs and what we are going to see. How much fan influence is there when you are determining which new jobs you are going to implement and what made you decide to introduce new jobs in the first place?
Ogawa-san & Tanaka-san: Lots of fans want lots of different types of jobs and of course we're always listening to that but rather than just putting in a job that maybe the players just want because they want it, we look more at how the new job is going to fit into the game and the battle system and what role that job will play and that's more important, basically to maintain the balance of the game.
Because with the new expansion we will be introducing a new aspect of the world, adding new jobs will enhance that world, it adds that much more playability. Also, by adding the new jobs those jobs can be used as support jobs so not only does it add new jobs it also affects the old jobs as well. It introduces new play styles for all those jobs, new options.
Pikko: People on our forums seem to be asking for a new "tank" job, any chance you can tell us whether their wishes will be fulfilled?
Ogawa-san: Sorry, can't say… but we realize people want a new frontline "tank" job.
Pikko: With the new expansion taking place in the past around the time of the Crystal War, will we see special zones designed for open PvP combat between nations? Will we see any type of open PvP?
Ogawa-san: I can't answer that because I really can't say anything about the new areas yet.
Pikko: Dynamis has been one of the most popular battle systems implemented into the game and although Treasures has been out for over a year now Puppetmaster, Corsair, and Blue Mage still do not have relic gear. Can players expect to see relic armor for these jobs or even upgraded Artifact armor before the expansion is released?
Ogawa-san: As with the original jobs it was a while before those jobs… if you think about from the start when the jobs were first released five years ago, then relics came out, the new jobs still have a little bit of time before their relics will be released.
Pikko: But it is coming eventually?
Koji Fox: (nods) It's coming eventually.
Pikko: The Sanction experience bonus has basically rendered much of the "old" world undesirable to many experience points parties, was this an intentional side effect or did you expect players to diversify themselves between challenge in the old world and xp bonuses?
Ogawa-san: The original reason that we introduced Sanction to the Aht Urhgan areas was because we wanted lots of people to come to the Aht Urhgan areas and so one way to get people to come over from Jeuno and the rest of the areas was to add this bonus and it was a lot more successful than we had intended. As for players now all doing their experience or their leveling in Aht Urhgan, we do want to do some adjustments in the future to maybe alleviate that.
Pikko: Beastmasters have long awaited something new added to their job such as new abilities or jug pets. Can they expect any type of enhancement to their job in the near future?
Ogawa-san: Just changing the beastmaster would probably make a lot of other players upset as well, so what's going to happen is when we add the new jobs we're going to have to adjust a lot of the other jobs to keep things balanced and so probably at the time of the release of the expansion there will be another overhaul of the current jobs.
Pikko: It's been mentioned in the past that the Puppetmaster job was intended to be another "solo" job, yet players are unable to utilize this tactic of fighting in its current state. Are the plans that you spoke of just now going to enhance it to the point where they can do this?
Ogawa-san: Yes, something very soon will happen to puppetmasters. The adjustment will come soon.
Koji Fox: He answered that one quickly, so he knows.
Pikko: Chains of Promathia came out nearly 3 years ago and as of today, no linkshell has beaten Absolute Virtue without the invisible wall or the locking technique, both of which were changed. When you originally created Absolute Virtue, did you intend for him to go undefeated for such a long period of time and is he meant to be defeated at all?
Ogawa-san & Tanaka-san: When we first designed it we didn't design it to never be able to be defeated and we're convinced that it can be defeated. Last year at the Tokyo Game Show hints were given and whether those were taken as hints or not, well… Some players were able to figure out some things from it but there were other hints that not a lot of people have picked up on and so its become sort of this urban myth that Absolute Virtue cannot be defeated, but it can be defeated.
Pikko: We've seen a lot of new concepts and activities added into the game in the past year. Was the community reaction to things such as Chocobo Racing, Salvage, and recently Einherjar what you were expecting? What factors determine what you will add into the game next?
Ogawa-san & Tanaka-san: We got good response. It's not always positive response because they're the hardcore players and they've been playing for a long time and they have their opinions and if they don't like something right away they tell us because they know that we'll work on it. So there has been a lot of [feedback], especially with the new Einherjar "It's way to difficult!" and so we're going back and of course we work on everything. But overall there's been a lot of things maybe people give harsh opinions of them at first, but then they learn to like it and then those [comments] go away.
Pikko: I have a question from one particular linkshell. They said that they have cleared the first wing a total of two times and out of those six bosses they've received one abjuration drop. Other than that they receive body parts from the boss itself like hair, hides, stuff like that. They would like to know why they should keep killing themselves over this just to get nothing. Is that something that's going to be fixed or will it be the battle itself you adjust?
Ogawa-san & Tanaka-san: First of all, about not having the drop rate be as good as people want it to be it's because we want people to go back and play Einherjar many times, so that they get a continuous type of challenge. And if it's too easy the world will be filled with the abjurations and everyone will have that and it won't be something that has that mystic feel to it like, "I have it, look at me." Rather, everyone is wearing it. But we will watch the trend because we do realize that this is supposed to be a replacement place to get it rather than to camp against the real money traders and so we'll watch and if we feel that something needs to be fixed…
Pikko: So if the participation drops then you'll re-evaluate?
Ogawa-san: (jokingly) Then we'll raise it and lots of people will complain and then we'll drop it down again.
But now, it's that people instead of having to fight these campers they can go to places where they don't have to and so it gives them a little better chance and takes away that stress.
Pikko: On that same note, a lot of new gear has been brought in with Assault and Salvage yet people still spend so much of their endgame careers in areas such as Tu'lia and Dragon's Aery. Can we see a good amount of new HNMs and will their drops be as game altering as items such as the Ridill or Byakko's Haidate?
Ogawa-san & Tanaka-san: As for the new HNMs in Wings of the Goddess, as you know we can't say anything specific but there's a pretty good chance that there will be lots of new challenges like that with things that are difficult to get but will have a big impact on the game as drops. As for your comment on how lots of people are still camping in areas like Dragon's Aery and other old HNMs it's that over the years we've added new HNMs and as you do that, you have ones that are popular and then you have new ones and so some people go to those and when some people go to those less people are camping the older ones so more people want to go to those cause they think they have a chance. We feel that with all the new choices such as Assault and Salvage and also the old ones, people can choose which one they want, whether they want to camp or do they want to go into the instanced areas and fight for stuff.Pikko: At the Premier Site Summit in March, it was suggested that the ability to seek a party on multiple jobs be made available. What do you think of that idea and is it something we can possibly look forward to?
Tanaka-san: It's something that's come up many times and that's one of the reasons that we introduced the search comments and so people would be able to look at the comments and even though you can only search for the one job in the comments you can put, "I also have this job, this job…" Right now, the big thing holding up a change here is the actual engine that we use to do searching. To go in and change this would be very difficult. We're definitely going to take it into consideration but again it's a big difficult programming type of change and so it's not something that can be done right away.
We've been working on it. But once it starts with the jobs it's, "Okay, now let's have multiple [linkshells]" then it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and then it becomes hard to maintain all of that so we're still working on it.
Pikko: The Allakhazam community was very happy to hear about an official windower. Are you involved in its development and do you have any word on its progress?
Tanaka-san: Up until now the problem has been that the graphics parts of it have been published in DirectX 8 but now that we've been able to upgrade it to DirectX 9, which is what we are doing right now, this will become available for all of the cards. We hope to have it in by the release of Wings of the Goddess. We think it will be ready.
Pikko: A rumor was posted on our forums by someone who attended the Anime Expo that another Fan Fest will be coming up in November, can you tell us anything about that?
Kurosawa-san: Yes, it was a rumor then, but it's official now. There will be another fan festival this year. Next week there will be a big announcement of when and where.
Pikko: This is more of a personal question. Which expansion have you most enjoyed developing?
Ogawa-san: Aht Urhgan has a lot of new challenges for us to overcome and that's what I choose.
Pikko: The release of the starter pack shows the playerbase that you hope FFXI will live on for quite some time, where do you see the game 5 years from now?
Tanaka-san: As to where it will be in five years, we can't really predict as it's a long time. One of the things is as the game is based on PS2 technology, there are limits and right now we're doing our best to get around those limits and make the best with what we have. On the other hand we also have the new MMO that's being developed at the same time by the same team and how those two will be related will also deal with what the other players want but it all comes down to the user. If the user wants to keep playing Final Fantasy 11 we will keep producing content for it.
It truly was an honor to meet Hiromichi Tanaka and Koichi Ogawa. Allakhazam.com congratulates them on such a fun-filled and successful game. We eagerly wait for the day when we as divine soldiers can lift Altana up into the beautiful star-filled skies of Vana'diel.


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I would like to offer the opinion that the deck is stacked against it, despite Intel's hype machine pushing it. For one, the design looks more like the IBM Cell processor or the Sun Niagara (UltraSPARC T2) than a graphics chips. The Cell was proved to be ineffectual as a GPU (which explains why we got the graphics chip in the PS3) and Niagara is focused on Web services (lots of threads to service).
Let me also ask this question: when has Intel EVER produced a high performance graphic chip? (Answer: never)
Oh, and when did we all decide that x86 was the most perfect instruction set for graphics? Hmmmm, it's not. The example where the x86 is the preferred instruction set for either graphics or high performance computing doesn't exist. The x86 instruction is an burden on the chip, not an advantage, for graphics. In fact, graphics instruction sets are hidden by the OpenGL and DirectX API, so the only people who care are the driver programmers and we are free to design whatever instruction set is most efficient for the task, while Intel has handcuffed themselves with a fixed instruction set. Not the smartest move for graphics. Intel's plans may work better for HPC though. Still, there are many alternatives to x86 that are actually better (shocking isn't it)!
Larrabee is based on a simplified x86 core with an extended SSE-like SIMD processing unit. In order to be efficient, the extended-SSE unit needs to be packed efficiently. How is Intel going to do that? The magic is all left to the software compiler, which is going have a tough time finding that much parallelism efficiently.
Larrabee will have impressive theoretical specs that will wow the press, but it's going to be very hard to use the chip up to its potential, which sounds exactly like Cell. And Cell has not lived up to its hype. So my corollary is Larrabee = Cell; Cell not = to hype; Larrabee will not = hype.
Now we wait until sometime in mid-2008 to see some silicon. But you heard it hear first: Larrabee will not reach the potential performance capability (by a long shot) and will not displace NVIDIA as GPU leader.
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I think NVIDIA has more to worry about with Larrabee than you might expect. I think Larrabee is a real threat to NVIDIA for a few reasons.
First, if you step back and bit, Larrabee just doesn't actually look that different than the NVIDIA G80 architecture. For example, the G80 has 8 "threads" that share a common memory that are used in four-cycles warps to give a 32-wide SIMD-like operation. There are then 16 or so of these units on a high-end G80 part. Compare that with Larrabee which has 16-wide (64-byte) vector units per core and then has 32 cores. It really doesn't look that different (except Larrabee's units are fully-pipelined, giving it more overall flops).
Second, Larrabee is globally cache coherent, making it much easier to program from than the G80 or IBM's Cell processor. No DMA in/out of scratchpad memory. Just coherent load/stores.
Third, there is something in your post that is internally inconsistent. You say first that "graphics instruction sets are hidden by the OpenGL and DirectX API" but then you say that with Larrabee
"The magic is all left to the software compiler, which is going have a tough time finding that much parallelism efficiently". Larrabee will also use DirectX and OpenGL, using hand-optimized and tuned software written specifically for Larrabee. How is that any different than the G80? Furthermore, Intel has invented Ct, which will also easy programming for Larrabee.
Finally, you say "The x86 instruction is an burden on the chip, not an advantage". Yea, we all know how well *that* argument worked out for all the RISC chip makers. Best of luck on that one. If Intel has shown anything, it is that the x86 penalty can be overcome with smart engineering (plus a really great fabrication process).
One last parting thought: Larrabee might not hurt NVIDIA that much. After all, it is just another discrete GPU part. The real challenge to NVIDIA will be whatever follows Larrabee. What would a chip with two "Core 2" cores and eight or sixteen Larrabee cores do to NVIDIA's sales? Intel's integrated graphics has already hurt NVIDIA in the low-end PC GPU space, and now Intel is attacking the high-end with Larrabee. But is when Intel attacks the mid-range with an integrated solution, that could really hurt NVIDIA.
Hopefully NVIDIA can use the year or two between now and when Larrabee chips to leapfrog past Larrabee with whatever NVIDIA is planning after the G80.
P.S. if NVIDIA was to, say, purchase Ageia, to counter Intel's purchase of Havok, that might be pretty helpful going forward, too.
- kevin said...
Good comments.
Overall I think our warps have greater flexibility than a very wide SIMD unit. My challenge to Intel is packing the SIMD word (rumored to 16 SP words wide) to make them efficient. NVIDIA has a many years of experience that Intel will have to catch up to. My best indicator right now is that Intel has been unable to get DX10 working on the programmable shaders in the Graphics Media Accelerator 3500 (Intel G35).
The global coherency can be an advantage over time, and most especially in HPC. For graphics, Microsoft doesn't presently support a coherent model for graphics.
The x86 instruction set is irrelevent to graphics because the application program (game) intefaces to graphics though an API. Only the driver needs to know the GPU ISA.
x86 has survived in environments where the broad availability of relevent code made it a common denominator. In graphics, I don't see a need for a common ISA. I also believe that attempt to fit x86 into cell phones will fail except in some high-end smartphone/MID devices.
2009 will be an interesting year.
I don't know that much about the G80 warps and what flexibility they allow or don't allow. However, from that I've heard about Larrabee, the 64-byte (16 SP, as you say) SIMD units are more flexible than typical x86 SSE2. For example, it sounds like it will have an implicit vector mask input, which will make it much more flexible. From what I understand, some of Larrabee's vector operations are specifically tailored to graphics processing. I think the key is that it isn't really 16 parallel pipelines as much as a really wide ALU that can perform a really sophisticated operations that go beyond SIMD-type operations.
Another word about x86. Right now the fastest single-thread processor you can buy is an x86 processor. Intel x86 is the fastest chip for both SPECint and SPECfp. Faster than Itanium; faster than Power. For a long time Intel's x86 cores weren't allowed to have more memory bandwidth (and thus SPECfp numbers) than Itanium. Now that they have lifted that internal restriction, Core 2 really is the performance leader. Look to Nehalem's integrated memory controller to take away AMD's last advantage: memory latency.
If Intel can make x86 the fastest, why not the fastest low-power chip? Recall that Intel did have a line of StrongARM processors that they recently sold off. Once they realized they could make a competitive x86 chip in that space, they widely jettisoned their StrongARM business before it was clear what their plan was. My only caveat on Intel's move toward the embedded space is that it is generally easier for companies to "move upscale" rather than "move downscale". Intel isn't used to selling processors for $5, so that might be a real problem for Intel.
Intel has another key advantage in its fabrication. From everything I've read about Intel's 45nm process, it sounds really impressive. Not only are the the first to 45nm (as they usually are), they really changed the materials use to make the transistors to tackle the leakage problem. As both Silverthorne and Larrabee will likely be on this 45nm process, that is going to be hard for NVIDIA (or anyone else) to keep up with.
I can't say that I'm particularly happy that Intel might really stomp its competitors. Nobody likes to see Goliath win. But, I have to call it like I see it: I think NVIDIA should take Larrabee very, very seriously.
Of course, there is a fair chance that Intel internal politics cripples any Larrabee follow-ons or prevent the direct programming of Larrabee. Larrabee could slip or not have the performance or price/performance they were hoping for. Perhaps console gaming will totally eclipse PC gaming, making the GPU space for PC less relevant. Or NVIDIA's next design could leapfrog ahead of Larrabee, putting Intel off balance.
One thing I agree with you about 100%, 2009 is going to be an interesting year.

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Portrait of Tyler
Here is the finished portrait commission of Tyler, a handsome young man with a happy smile and a slightly quizzical look.
I used Judith Carducci's "under painting" with a pastel wash technique in the first stage of the portrait. (See postings from April 11 and 19 that describe Judith's work). This added a brightness to the color intensity of the finished painting.
Although I wasn't sure how the flag background would work when it was requested, I now think it adds color and interest to the final portrait.
I'm glad I was able to finish the painting in time for it to be a special Mothers Day gift.
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Muaythai promotion Thai Fight makes debut in Italy on May 27
The Kings of Muaythai out of Thailand jet to Italy to face off European competitors end of this month. The famed muaythai promotion "Thai Fight" is held on May 27 at the PalaRuffini sports arena in Turin. The promoter of the event is Carlo Barbuto who presents the show in terms of "Thai Boxe Mania".
To date the organization has announced the five-fight program with a new match added to the card on Monday. A prominent representative of the Art of Eight Limbs, PTT Petchrungruang is fighting Christian Zahe of Italy. The latter is a well-know character in European muaythai circuits, who went up against such competitors as Jimmy Vienot of France and Daniel Zahra of Malta, just to name a couple. In 2015 Zahe has also succeed to collect the WKN World super lightweight title in K-1.
The main event of Thai Fight Turin will see one of the most famous muaythai fighters, Saenchai PKSaenchaimuaythaigym of Thailand up against Shan Cangelosi of Italy. In the co-main event Sudsakorn Sor Klinmee of Thailand faces off Martin Meoni of Italy.
Also on the card Saiyok Pumpanmuang of Thailand battles out against "The Iceberg" Julian Imeri of Italy. As well, Anouar Khamlali takes on Youssef Boughanem of Belgium.
With the addition, to date the Thai Fight Turin program looks as the following:
Saenchai PKSaenchaimuaythaigym (Thailand) vs. Shan Cangelosi (Italy)
Sudsakorn Sor Klinmee (Thailand) vs. Martin Meoni (Italy)
Saiyok Pumpanmuang (Thailand) vs. Julian Imeri (Italy)
Youssef Boughanem (Belgium) vs. Anouar Khamlali (Italy)
PTT Petchrungruang (Thailand) vs. Christian Zahe (Italy)


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Based on a recipe I found on the net but with some changes.
This is my CHORIZO, POTATO, AND EGG STACK.
Heat a good tablespoon of oil in a heavy based frypan over medium heat, grate a medium sized potato into the pan, add 1/4 finely chopped onion. Fry until potato is cooked through and quite crispy. The potato will stick, just keep scraping it up and turning it over.
Slice 1 small chorizo sausage into rings, add to pan to crisp.
Scoot potato, onion and sausage to one side of pan, add two eggs and fry.
Toast two slices of good bread, top with mashed avocado if you like it, top with grated sharp cheese, place under a grill to melt.
Dollop a teaspoon of Greek Yoghurt and a teaspoon of mild chilli sauce onto the melted cheese
Layer the crispy potato and onions then the chorizo sausage, top with the fried egg and serve.
Big Thumbs Up from the Darling but not something that should be on a diet site...ooops!.
As you can guess, not a pretty dish, and anyway I forgot to take a pic but did better for Lunch.
CRAB AND AVOCADO SALAD with JAPANESE DRESSING
based on
a Nigella Lawson recipe from her T.V. Show ' Express'
Ingredients I used:
1 tablespoon mirin
1.4 teaspoon wasabi paste
1/2 tablespoon rice vinegar
2 drops sesame oil
good pinch Maldon sea salt
Place all these in a screw top jar and shake well.
Divide dressing between two mixing bowls
To Bowl 1 add:
splash of lime juice
scant 2 cups finely sliced Chinese Cabbage, toss together and plate on serving plates.
To Bowl 2 add
1/2 de-seeded long red chilli, sliced thinly
1/2 cup fresh shredded crab meat
toss well and press crab into a mould, I used a 1/4 cup measure.
Turn out onto shredded cabbage
Garnish with:
1/2 ripe avocado balled using a melon baller around the crab and
a smattering of green onion slices on top of crab.


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Buy More Stuff, Black Friday 2009
Buy More Stuff, Black Friday 2009
The Buy More Stuff people are at it again! These shots were taken at Westlake Park in Seattle on Black Friday, Nov 27th 2009. This was the best Buy More Stuff day ever! You can learn more about the Buy More Stuff project at BuyMoreStuff.Org
You can read more about Buy More Stuff at
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Country: Tanzania
Name of Project: Resilient Natural Resource Management for Tourism and Growth Project. (REGROW)
Loan No.IDA 61430
Assignment Title: Provision of consultancy services for Detailed Engineering Design and Preparation of Tender Documents for Construction of Building infrastructures for Staff and Tourist amenities for Ruaha, Mikumi and Udzungwa National Parks
Reference No.TZ-TANAPA-59929-CS-QCBS
The Government of United Republic of Tanzania has received financing from the World Bank towards the cost of the Resilient Natural Resources Management for Tourism and Growth Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.
The consulting services ("the services") are expected to cover Detailed Engineering Design and Preparation of Tender Documents for construction of building infrastructure consisting of staff and tourist amenities including Ranger post, Visitors Information Centre, Ecological Monitoring station, Campsite, Picnic site, Entry and exit gates, Rest house, Student hostel, Health Centre, Workshop, Cottage, Bandas, Drivers and tour guides accommodation, Canopy walkway and Board walkway for Ruaha, Mikumi and Udzungwa National Parks. The duration of the assignment is expected to be Six Months.
The Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) now invites eligible consulting firms ("Consultants") to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The shortlisting criteria are: (i) Experience in Similar Assignments; (ii) Experience in Similar Conditions;and (iii) Availability of Appropriate Skills (Technical and Managerial) among permanent staff of the firm.
The attention of interested consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9of the World Bank's Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants under IBRD Loans and IDACredits & Grants by World Bank Borrowers, dated January 2011, revised July 2014. ("Consultants Guidelines"), setting forth the World Bank's policy on conflicts of interest.
Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a sub-consultancy to enhance their qualifications.
A Consultant will be selected in accordance with Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS) method set out in the Consultant Guidelines.
Further information can be obtained at the following contacts; Tel: + 255 (0) 272 970 404, 272 970 406, 272 970 405, 272 970 407. Fax: +255 (0) 272 970 408. E-mail: email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com, during office Hours i.e. 08.00 to 16.00 hours Monday to Friday inclusive except in public holidays.
Expression of interest must be delivered in a written form to the Tanzania National Parks, Head office by 28th December 2018. The envelop shall be clearly marked "Expression of Interest for Provision of consultancy services for Detailed Engineering Design and Preparation of Tender Documents for Construction of Building infrastructures for Staff and Tourist amenities for Ruaha, Mikumi and Udzungwa National Parks and addressed to;
Secretary of the Tender Board,
Tanzania National Parks,
Mwalimu Nyerere Conservation Centre,
P.O.Box 3134
Ground Floor / office No. 4


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Kek, the God of Darkness & Chaos
|As old as Duat, Born with Isis's creation of Duat.
|6' (Six feet)
|God in Duat, God of Darkness & Chaos.
Isis's scream jostled the heavens as she tore away from her previous home. Searing across the night sky, summoned away from the chaos she had left, she headed for her new destination, her rightful place – Duat. It is on this rampant journey that her skirt caught upon a star in the night sky. In her fury she tore at the heavens and continued on.
She fell into place, taking her throne to oversee Duat and its melting pot of people. Only then was she aware of the inky smudge on her hem – a piece of the night sky. The little slice of darkness fell to the floor before her feet and began to expand. Thus was born Kek, bred from the darkness of night and Isis's own chaotic fury.
Here he serves beside the Goddess Queen, aiding in the molding creation of Duat and its occupants.
Chat with him and find out. Here to serve all.


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I have fallen in love with angel cards I can see why people purchase so many different versions. I have also began to incorporate 2 mini readings on my etsy shop.
The First one Being the "Three Month Ahead Spread" to see what energies are at play in your life over the coming months
And the "Path to Love Spread" where I take a look at what someone needs to incorporate into their lives to find love
You can visit my Etsy Shop these and/or one of my Astrology readings


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Hey there, welcome to my blog! This blog is by nature a teaching site where I would post articles and research that come from my personal study and preparation. Many of these articles are notes from sermons I preach. I pray this blog will bless you and that the Word of Grace would build you up and confirm your spiritual inheritance in Christ - Acts 20.32
More about: Christian was led to Christ in 1975 by a group of university students in Medway, Massachusetts. In 1984 he went to the SSB where he continued graduating with a Bachelor's in Missions in 1988. Immediately he joined a pioneer church planting team in Poland during the final years of communism; taking missions trips into the Soviet Union. God led him to move to Ukraine leading a team of Americans and Poles after it declared independence from Russia in 1991. In June 1993 he received full ordination as a pastor the same week that God had given him his precious wife Gosia to marry from Krakow, Poland. For the 5 years they lived and labored together in Ukraine there was a move of God resulting in five churches planted there. Moving back to Baltimore in 1997 he taught at MBC&S, beginning an outreach to Philadelphia, as well as working in the GG Missions Department. He also enjoyed the privilege to preach often in Poland, Ukraine, Central Asia and Russia. Presently he and his wife Gosia live in the Houston area ministering there leading a church planting team in the greater Houston area. www.GraceTransforms.us
The Drawing into Prayer is a 30 day prayer guide that will inspire us, and lead us down the knee-trodden path of the Christian life into the Presence of God. My prayer is that the Spirit of Intercession and Pleading would breathe on this little book and draw you into God's Presence so that you can enjoy deeper communion with Him and gain clarity in the direction of your prayer life.


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Petrobras sold a 67.2 percent stake in Petrobras Argentina (PESA) to Argentina's Pampa Energia SA for $892 million, and all of Petrobras Chile Distribution Ltda to private equity firm Southern Cross Group for $490 million.
The sale, which still requires final approval from executives and the board of directors, comes as the group reels from Brazil's biggest corruption scandal and $100.4 billion in debt.
In March, Petrobras announced it had posted record losses of $9.6 billion last year, up from $7.2 billion in 2014.
Petrobras estimated last year that it lost about $2 billion were lost to bribery over a decade.
Executives from Brazil's state-owned oil company allegedly conspired with construction groups to siphon off billions in dollars through inflated contracts.
The scandal has severely tainted President Dilma Rousseff's Workers.


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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Check me out on Etsy
Finally! I have created an account to start selling all my handmade items on etsy! Coming soon! For now you can visit my online shop fullbloomcottage.com
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Let's face it: soccer isn't really our sport. The U.S. National Men's Soccer Team has always had trouble competing at the world level, and its shaky performance in September's FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying rounds for a slot at Rio de Janeiro has been no different.
It makes sense that in our NFL and MLB centric nation, professional soccer has taken a long, long time to develop—especially when we're pitted against some European, African and South American countries where soccer's all what the locals live for.
But we're getting there.
In a 1-0 win against Jamaica on September 11th, the U.S. National Team looked considerably sharper than it has in the past. Though it had trouble finishing goals (what else is new?), Team USA stuck it out and now, it's just two victories away from advancing to the next stage of World Cup qualifiers. Because we're still technically subpar, the team has only one real weapon that could see it go all the way. Fitness.
There's no faking it. These guys are insane athletes with hardly an ounce of body fat. According to U.S. Men's National Team Fitness Coach Masa Sakihana, players run for more than seven miles per game, burn more than 5,000 calories, and train for 90-120 minutes on the field in just under a dozen sessions per week. Coaches design lifting programs that focus on core strength, stability, flexibility and mobility. So when players look gassed in the last 15 minutes of a game, even the fan in the last row notices.
Here are America's 10 fittest soccer players. If these guys stay fit, who knows what we could bring to the table in 2014?Back to top


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Woohun Lee
MoleBot is a mole robot built under a transformable game-board inspired table that allows people to enjoy playful interactions with everyday objects and props, and experience what it feels like to have a mole live under your table. It was exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2011 Emerging Technologies from August 7 to 11 in Vancouver, Canada. The MoleBot project was invited at Laval Virtual 2012 and won the Laval Virtual Awards grand prix on March 29, 2012.


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Asymmetric encryption in IoT, with Jorge Rivera.
October 27, 2016 . In this webcast led by Jorge Rivera, our Chief Security Ambassador (CSA) in Spain, you will discover new aspects of encryption in the world of IoT and be able to clarify any queries you have related to this subject. Will you join us?
#11Paths Talks: Asymmetric encryption in IoT
In our blog on cryptographic security in IoT we suggested that while devices and platforms for these types of services are proliferating at great speed, the adoption of security measures appears to be lagging behind. In this chapter we want to address this issue head on, but above all we want to toss in a few extra things for consideration, such as whether it is possible to use ECC certificates and autoenrollment protocols with these technologies.
You may be interested in the following article on this subject:
» Securing the IoT, a world where objects and people are securely connected to the network.


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Three-component digital-based seismic landstreamer: Methodologies for infrastructure planning applications
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- Plats: Hambergsalen, Geocentrum, Villavagen 16, Uppsala
- Doktorand: Brodic, Bojan
- Om avhandlingen
- Arrangör: Geofysik
- Kontaktperson: Brodic, Bojan
- Disputation
Studies conducted in this thesis demonstrate the landstreamer's potential for various near-surface applications and show the benefits and need for 3C seismic data recording.
To support urban infrastructure planning projects, along with various other near-surface applications, a multicomponent landstreamer was developed. The landstreamer was built with broadband (0-800 Hz), three-component (3C) micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) sensors. The digital nature of the MEMS sensors makes the developed landstreamer insensitive to electric/electromagnetic noise.
The landstreamer's design and its seismic imaging capabilities, along with the MEMS technical specifications, were evaluated in several studies. When comparing signals recorded with the streamer with planted MEMS sensors, no negative effects of the design were noted. Compared to different geophones tested, the streamer produced higher quality and broader signal bandwidth data. Additionally, a seismic study conducted in a tunnel demonstrated its electric/electromagnetic noise insensitivity. The streamer combined with wireless seismic recorders was used to survey logistically challenging areas for improved imaging and characterizations and avoid interference with traffic.
For example, at the Stockholm Bypass site, the landstreamer recorded data were used for traveltime tomography with results showing a well delineated bedrock level and potential low-velocity zones matching with inferred poor-quality-class rocks. The seismic response of fractures and their extent between a tunnel and the surface was studied at the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory site. The velocity model obtained using the traveltime tomography approach showed known well-characterized fracture systems and potential additional formerly unknown ones. Additionally, compressional- and shear-wave velocities, seismic quality factors, Vp/Vs and dynamic Poisson's ratios of the known fracture zones were obtained. Fractures and/or weakness zones in the bedrock were imaged using refraction and reflection imaging methods at a site contaminated with a cancerogenic pollutant in southwest Sweden, illustrating the potential of the streamer for environmental-related applications. In southern Finland, the landstreamer was used for SH-wave reflection seismic imaging from a vertically oriented impact source with the results showing a well-delineated bedrock level and weak reflections correlating well with geology. At the same site, its potential for multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) was demonstrated. The surface-wave obtained shear-wave velocities match well with the borehole based stratigraphy of the site and are complementary to the SH-wave reflectivity and previous investigations at the site.


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Cornwall-based chef Nathan Outlaw has been awarded a second Michelin star to add to his collection, making his eponymous named restaurant the first in Cornwall to receive the accolade.
Located at the St Enodoc Hotel in Rock, you'll be pleased to hear that Restaurant Nathan Outlaw is just a hop, skip and a jump from nearby Port Isaac. You'll find a selection of scrumptious seafood on the tasting menu, all sustainably caught off the Cornish coast by day boats.
In fact, the food is a smorgasbord of local and seasonal produce, and it is this to which Nathan attributes his success. This second Michelin star is, he says, "testament to the quality of Cornish fish and shellfish and to the incredible local ingredients available to me. If I didn't have such fantastic suppliers I wouldn't be in this fantastic position."
Originally established in Fowey, Nathan opened the small and intimate venue in Rock in February 2010. Since then it has gone from strength to strength, with the Good Food Guide naming it Best Seafood Restaurant in the UK and fifth Best Restaurant overall. Aged just 33, it's fair to say that Nathan has come a long way from the boy turning toast on the breakfast shift at his father's restaurant!☎ Contact Colin for details


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Monsoon yet to bring benefits for Noyyal and areas in plains
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The South West monsoon that began in the second week of June is yet to bring results for areas in the plains in Coimbatore district and under the Noyyal irrigation system.
Because of the inadequate rainfall of 422.105 mm during 2012, groundwater level went down beyond 600 ft in many of the areas in and around Coimbatore city.
Noyyal river that begins as Kanchi Maanadhi near Thondamuthur runs through Coimbatore district for 65 km and it was designed then in such a way that it benefited as many as 36 tanks, helping in recharging groundwater aquifer and in irrigation of over 13,500 acres.
As far as Coimbatore District was concerned, the average rainfall expected during the South West monsoon was 167 mm during the period June to September.
If the rainfall was more than 2.5 mm across the district, then it is treated as 'rain day' and during June there had been only six 'rain days' in the district.
Expectation is for an average of 60 mm rain during July. Total rainfall during the year 2013 was 77.58 during the winter months of January and February.
Summer showers during March, April and May brought in 83.65 mm while the first month of South West Monsoon has brought in 42.76 mm.
However, the rainfall was more in hill areas benefiting the catchments of various reservoirs and poor rainfall in the plains resulted in Noyyal system not reaping the desired benefits.
Of the 36 tanks in the 65 km journey of Noyyal, the benefits had reached only up to 19 km i.e., filling up only five major the tanks till the Chithiraichavadi check-dam.
Ukkulam has 90 per cent storage now, Pudukulam and Kolrampathy have 60 per cent, Narasampathy 35 per cent and Krishnampathy has 25 per cent storage.
The remaining tanks in the region are waiting for further rain to improve the storage levels.
While therewas heavy rainfall and appreciable improvement in some of the reservoirs under the Parambikulam — Aliyar Project (PAP) in Pollachi region, Pilloor also surplussed but Siruvani storage has reached only 871 ft (dead storage level is 863 ft and full reservoir level of 878.5 ft (at mean sea level).
As far as Coimbatore district was concerned, the highest of 941 mm rainfall was in 2005, followed by 905 mm in 2011, 730 mm in 2010 and 705 mm in 2007 and 703 mm in 2006.
Sources in the Water Resource Organisation (WRO) of PWD said that only in the event of heavy downpour or more than moderate showers during July, August and September, there could be some benefit for the remaining 31 tanks.
Rainfall continued in the Nilgiris and in the last 24 hours that ended at 8.30 a.m. on Thursday, the district recorded a total rainfall of 348.00 mm and average rainfall of 20.47 mm.
The highest amount of 69 mm was reported from Avalanche and the lowest of one mm was reported from Kinnakorai and Kotagiri.
Rainfall in mm in other places are: Coonoor 1.20, G. Bazar 38.20, K Bridge 8.60, Ketti 9, Naduvattam 50, Udhagamandalam 6, Kallatty 3, Glenmorgan 25, Upper Bhavani 50, Emerald 20, Geddai 4 and Devala 62.
In Coimbatore district
Rainfall continued to improve storage in the reservoirs in the district on Wednesday as well and in the last 24 hours that ended at 8.30 a.m. on Thursday, district recorded a total rainfall of 203.20 mm and average rainfall stood at 16.93.
Rainfall in mm in other places:
Pollachi 10, TNAU 0.20, Cincona 65, Chinnakallar 28, Valparai PAP 46, Valparai taluk office 52, Coimbatore South 2, Sholayar 94, Parambikulam 87, Thoonakadavu 18, Peruvaripallam 21, Aliyar dam 10.6, Thirumurthi dam 4, Amaravathi dam 3, Upper Nirar 28, Lower Nirar 29, Upper Aliyar 3, VLP camp 46, Makkinampatti 6.6, Manakadavu 27.8.
Storage in reservoirs in ft and full reservoir level in brackets:
Sholayar 162.80 (160), Parambikulam 22.85 (72), Aliyar dam 75.30 (120), Thirumurthi dam 3.84 (60) and Amaravathi dam 40.84 (90). Water that surpluses from Sholayar and the continuing rainfall is expected to further improve the storage.


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My long-delayed career as a NASA astronomer began yesterday.
It came quite out of the blue. Like the spiritual awakenings of 7-11 clerks from Bakersfield named Dylan, whose life calling was forever stuck in traffic by the need to restock aisle five and serve an endless soda-stream of distressed Abercrombie cut-offs. They really need their Arizona Ice Tea. Life is hard because they couldn't get gas and their Victoria's Secret loyalty card just got declined. Twice.
Dylan isn't pretentious enough to phantom up parallel universes. Or anything for that matter. He cleans out the filters for the Big Gulp, cashes the register, and enters compartmental shutdown.
Compartmental shutdown is a mechanical process. The systematic shut-down, if you will, of everything currently processed by the brain as [RFA]. Really Fucking Awful. N.B. not to be confused with, although not entirely removed from [RNA]– in that both can border on the acidic and, if pushed, enter realms of the nucleic.
The textbook will around this point direct you to fig.1; human of indiscriminate gender or race displaying anger on a par with wanting to detonate a nuclear bomb.
Humanity has, as it does most things, exploited this concept. Mostly in the kinds of scum who employ the title of "mindfulness practitioner" or "life coach". They remain equally mindful in charging people a small fortune for the privilege of being guided through a concept that most six-week-old babies manage– with astounding competence, right on their own. Lying on the floor and staring into space. "Take this moment" appears to rank highly. As does "appreciate the space". Possible components of the two-day course that constitutes the life coach diploma.
Have you ever noticed how the people claiming to lead the richest lives are always the most emotionally impoverished? There must be a certain buoyancy to being as equally aerated as you are full of shit.
They have to say something as you lie there. I mean, you can't just lie there. God, no. For fuck's sake, you're paying them. For shits and giggles: what if they actually just let you lie in total silence for five minutes; actually "take this moment", actually "appreciate the space"? Will you think you're being ripped off? Are you? Of course you are! You're an absolute joke for lying there in the first place! Those things people use as receptacles for steaming hot beverages? THEY NAMED THEM AFTER YOU.
I hit compartmental shutdown on these fuckers years ago. They don't even register on my radar. Which clears my diary. For all the other shit I have to shut down. That's the problem with compartmental shutdown.
Unlike conventional operating systems, which shut down a finite number of files, caches… remnants of whatever genie dust makes the little Apple glow, the parameters of compartmental shutdown are limitless.
For all the shit you successfully eliminate in a day, fresh crap will have replaced it by the time the sun rises.
I think that's why we eat.
Dylan's shutdown used to begin at Abercrombie in general. Fuck that. You wanna do this properly? You get efficient. Start at the feet and work your way up. If you're manning the 7/11 in Bakersfield, that's a lot of feet. Being female in the US and not having painted toenails, for the record, doesn't make you some kind of freak– you're flat-out not human. Then come the legs. The tanned legs.
Nothing wrong with them per se, just the way they're tanned. A tan, in theory, displays some form of character. Depth. Either you've been on vacation. Hopefully, somewhere less generic than the Intercontinental- and no, it doesn't matter which one. Have you ever been anywhere less "Continental"? Well, perhaps Bakersfield. Or you're Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. You chain-smoke. Not out of any abject loneliness or compartmental destitution. But because the cigarette is an extension of your hand. If you're escaping anything, it's the exhausting stream of men falling in and out of your bed. Life is really complicated because the sheets are never changed and you always smell of sex.
The distressed cut-offs have a tan BECAUSE they lack character. They lack everything. Even proper shoes. They wear flip flops. Pay seventy dollars for denim that's already ripped and don't question it. Need ice tea for the heat, but can only advertise their attendance at Arizona State University with a hoodie. They wear bug-eyed shades. Facetime. Have names like Ashlee. Chew gum.
I've somewhat grown to admire the ease and dexterity with which Dylan can systematically shut them down. Head to toe, or vice versa. Just like that. He'd probably come up with far simpler and more systematic solutions for how long that just fucking took me to type out.
I discovered compartmental shutdown by accident. Maybe one day, a small plaque will honour me for it: Ok, it wasn't quite penicillin, but it's fairly useful so here, have a mention and Rest In Piece(s)- Compartment by Compartment.
I've never been to Bakersfield. I romanticise it as the least possibly cultured dead zone of California that still falls within the realms of civilisation. The kind of vapid grid splatter that really pushes real estate when it comes to plugging the place as "unique".
I wasn't there, but I might as well have been. Dylan on a bad day.
Enrico was supposed to clock on at nine but it turns out he never made bail, so it's Dylan; Fort Solo. Except today, the filters in the Big Gulp are jammed, so it's diluted syrup. With fizz. The cut-offs are not going to be happy. Someone in a scooter knocked over most of the contents of aisle five. The fourth and final college rejection letter awaits at home. Nicely accompanied by some jackass delivery van blocking the drive, a fog light that never switches off, an online girl who never logs on, and to top it off, he's had roaming switched on. All month.
My entire day had been one jammed Big Gulp. That was before it became a pretty accurate metaphor for my life. I wasn't wearing cut-offs but I felt ripped off. Entire aisles of my nervous system had been knocked over and no-one knew how to restack them. The Delivery Van Of Life was parked outside with the hazard lights off. Its contents unknown, unmarked, mislabelled and whoever was supposed to man the tracking device had decided to go jump off a cliff or something.
It's only once you've got the major setbacks in life well and truly established, that the really stupid minor ones start to surface. Oh, hi. Yeah. We're here for the late shift? I believe you ordered:
- a phone charger whose fibres only loosen during international travel
- intermittent Wi-Fi
- shutters that bang in the wind (but only at night)
- a fridge door that closes (only sometimes)
We regret we were unable to deliver a fully faulty one. We understand the mental warranty of that might have furnished you with the comfort of fuck it mode. Regretfully, it is equally our understanding that to deliver the best possible service, all products must comply with The Uncertainty Act, 1999, sub-clause 3.
As such, our only available model is the Disappointment XL4. It really is a gem. Please, see for yourself. The manual outlines it clearly. Could I….? Here. Open. Close. Open. Close. Now open it. See? Doesn't close! Isn't it just great? Also, don't worry, we've got everything covered our end. We've ensured occurrence is maintained at totally random and for your ease of use, don't trouble yourself conjuring up any logical reasons for its ineptitude. The contents of the door can be of negative mass– we still guarantee occasional prolapse.
Feel free to browse the returns policy online, although please enable your cookies. Since your milk may spoil, we recommend doing so now. Have a great day!
Then my phone imploded.
Then I imploded.
It was sometime later that evening, giving the fuck up and lying on a deckchair gazing at the stars, that I began compartmental shutdown.
© Rebecca Cukier, 2016


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Book and Author Details:
Haunted Asylums on Facebook
Haunted Asylums on Good Reads
Haunted Asylums on Publisher Llewllyn's Website
Haunted Asylums on Amazon
Jamie Davis' Blog/Website
My Review:
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I WANNA INVESTIGATE AGAIN!!! WAaaH!
One of the best, creepiest compilations of haunted locations. This book features both known and unknown haunted locations around the nation. I have read an extensive amount of these anthologies written by independent authors. Most of the times they're well thought out and well put together, but the grammar and writing are lacking. Not with this book. Author, Jamie Davis does a fantastic job proving her writing skills and abilities. I found myself researching some of the locations mentioned in the book. As a paranormal investigator, avid reader, wannabe writer… I loved this book!!
If I ever win the lotto and decide to take a couple years off of work, this book, Kala Ambrose's and Jefferson Davis' books will be my holy grail, road mappin' investigation itinerary books.
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The Shadow Man haunts penitentiary cell blocks.
A chilling wind runs through the Death Tunnel.
The Red Eyes Apparition lurks in abandoned hallways.
Explore frightening ghost stories and true paranormal encounters at ten well-known, haunted institutions across the United States. This unique collection of investigations is filled with terrifying photos, spooky highlights from on-site tours, and historical information about each location.
Haunted Asylums, Prisons, and Sanatoriums explores the country's scariest institutions, including the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, West Virginia Penitentiary, and St. Albans Sanatorium. Discover creepy conversations between the authors and restless spirits, interviews with facility staff and knowledgeable ghost hunters, and helpful tips gathered from each investigation. You'll also enjoy an introduction to basic ghost hunting equipment and detailed information about organizing your own visits to these haunted establishments.


text: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:13:29 -0800 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: >> The centosplus kernel are supposed to have all modules that are >> included in the standard kernel. Could you please file a report at >> http://bugs.centos.org ? > > Done. Thanks. Responded. This should be resolved in the next kernel update. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4011 Akemi


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I challenged myself to use as many border maker cartridges as I could on this page. I managed three. I used the banner, scallop and twinkle. I used the old Creative Memories Princess Kit. I don't have a girl of my own, so I don't often get a use for princesses. Her birthday was Cinderella so I finally have a chance to use the Princess pack. The papers I used for the scallop and twinkle borders have magic wands and twinkles on them but are very subtle. I made the banner out of white cardstock and cut them into pieces and chalked the edges with lavendar.
I used the "punchies" adhered with CM precision point adhesive.
The twinkle border was very princess.


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P-Gmas (Guimarães) Museu de Alberto Sampaio LC 10
Shelf-mark:LC 010
Siglum:P-Gmas LC 010
Subcategory of book:Temporal Antiphoner and Hymnary
Completeness:complete or nearly complete
Document type:manuscript
Main place of use:Mosteiro de Santa Marinha da Costa
Provenance:Mosteiro de Santa Marinha da Costa
Contents:From the Octave of the Epiphany to the weeks after Pentecost. The hymnary starts (acephalous) on fol. 196r.
Condition of document:Bad. The upper edges are damaged, affecting the reading of the final folios. Some folios suffered text corrections, namely in the hymns (adapted to 17th-century liturgical reforms), e.g. fols. 197r, 198v, 200v: stripes of paper with new text were pasted over the original.
Bindings:Leather over boards
Foliation/Pagination:Roman numbering starting on folio 113 (continuation of codex LC 9 in the same Museum). After folio 143 the foliation, in Arabic numbers, was added later. Some folios are missing: 126r-133v, 142, and between 195v and 196..
Page layout:560 x 415 x 65 mm; 540 x 390 mm; one column 420 x 290 mm. Fifteen lines of text or five underlaid staves per folio. Folio 213 with 7 staves.
Type of script:Late Gothic
Type of notation:Square
Type of notation:Mensural (black)
Decoration:Red, blue and black capital letters with black or red filigree ornamentation. Plain red capital letters in the final part of the manuscript.
Remarks:This was once part of a larger codex, later divided into LC 9 (Advent to Epiphany) and LC 10 (continuation).
MAGALHÃES, Eduardo, "Os livros de Cantochão dos séculos XVI e XVII do Museu Alberto Sampaio" (dissertação de Mestrado, Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras, 2001), pp. 89-94
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The title Image and Motion, which only came to me late in the composing process, is both a succinct summation of the work as well as a description of the work's genesis. The initial impulse came in a rather roundabout way: when a friend showed me two of Bravig Imbs' poems (All Was in Flight and Sleep) with the comment "These seem like you", the images in both poems drew me in immediately. It wasn't clear when I started (1997) that so much of the piece would be about the images. I only knew that Imbs' haunting and sometime too-precious language was appealing and inspiring. The title for the piece only occurred as I was working on the last movement (in 2001).
A work that is symphonic in scope allows for the exploration of large-scale contrasts. To me, the texts all suggested motion rather than stasis, and I have used different kinds of motion in the different movements. Both Scherzos have a kind of headlong, breathless rushing. Fantasy is more languorous; the slow turning of a large kaleidoscope. Finale is an elegant, measured journey toward the final bars in the piece.
Tagging the work as A Choral Symphony refers to my use of the formal aspects of that tradition: the piece has four movements, includes a scherzo, a kind of sonata-form movement and variations on a ground. However these elements are juxtaposed, altered and deconstructed: there are two scherzos, and one of them is in the "wrong" place (the first movement); Fantasy explores curious side streets and alleys more often than it adheres to the expected sonata plan; the variations of the Finale are sometimes interrupted or elided, resulting in a more seamless whole than what one usually expects in the variation form.
One other aspect of the piece deserves mention: the integration of the voices with the instruments. While there are passages where I clearly present the text, there are other times where the chorus is treated as another instrumental resource, using spoken as well as sung sounds. Intensifying this use of the chorus as pure sound; there are also some passages where the "text" is simple phonemes.


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[...] Our representatives in Congress have just passed legislation that:
Establishes a new judicial system to try a wide variety of people in military commissions that lack the minimal safeguards regarding coerced evidence may deny the right of the accused to examine evidence against them. A person could be sentenced to death under this flawed system.
Strips prisoners in Guantanamo – and other alleged "enemy combatants" in U.S. custody -- of the ability to file a writ of habeas corpus and challenge their detention. Many of these prisoners have been held for almost five years without charges or meaningful judicial review
Expands the definition of "unlawful enemy combatant" to allow the U.S. government to detain people – on or off the battlefield – indefinitely without charge or access to judicial review for an act as minor as writing a check. [...]
Photo: Jamie Rose for The New York Times. Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, with other Congressional leaders, signing the detainee treatment bill Friday.
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Detainee Bill Shifts Power to President
By SCOTT SHANE and ADAM LIPTAK
Published: September 30, 2006
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 — With the final passage through Congress of the detainee treatment bill, President Bush on Friday achieved a signal victory, shoring up with legislation his determined conduct of the campaign against terrorism in the face of challenges from critics and the courts.
Rather than reining in the formidable presidential powers Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have asserted since Sept. 11, 2001, the law gives some of those powers a solid statutory foundation. In effect it allows the president to identify enemies, imprison them indefinitely and interrogate them — albeit with a ban on the harshest treatment — beyond the reach of the full court reviews traditionally afforded criminal defendants and ordinary prisoners.
Taken as a whole, the law will give the president more power over terrorism suspects than he had before the Supreme Court decision this summer in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that undercut more than four years of White House policy. It does, however, grant detainees brought before military commissions limited protections initially opposed by the White House. The bill, which cleared a final procedural hurdle in the House on Friday and is likely to be signed into law next week by Mr. Bush, does not just allow the president to determine the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions; it also strips the courts of jurisdiction to hear challenges to his interpretation.
And it broadens the definition of "unlawful enemy combatant" to include not only those who fight the United States but also those who have "purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States." The latter group could include those accused of providing financial or other indirect support to terrorists, human rights groups say. The designation can be made by any "competent tribunal" created by the president or secretary of defense.
In very specific ways, the bill is a rejoinder to the Hamdan ruling, in which several justices said the absence of Congressional authorization was a central flaw in the administration's approach. The new bill solves that problem, legal experts said. [read on...]
via political nonsense, Oct 5, 2006:
First legal challenge to new detainee law filed
The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed the first legal challenge to the new Military Commissions Act passed by Congress last week [...]
The legal group has filed a habeas corpus petition on behalf of 25 detainees held at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan. [download petition - PDF via newsgrist/CCR]The petition demands that the men be released or be charged with a crime. Some of the detainees have been held for years without ever receiving a hearing. Under the new bill – prisoners have no right to challenge their detention. On Monday, Bill Goodman, the legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, warned about the dangers of the new law.
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"No one can be held indefinitely, and if they are, they have a right to go in front of a magistrate or a judge and demand that the judge make a determination as to whether they're charged with a crime and whether there's any real evidence to hold them. And if there is not, the magistrate, the judge, can order the king, the police, the FBI, or anyone, or George W. Bush, the President of the United States, to let him go. That's what habeas corpus is. Without it, we are virtually slaves to a police state."
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A strong final 50-metres saw Liam Henry take the 31st FLOW 800m Sea Swim Saturday (12 May) at Governor's Beach. Henry, 17, crossed the finish line in just 11:08 seconds.
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Fellow Stingray Swim Club member Jake Bailey was right behind him to finish second with a time of 11:12 seconds.
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Camana Bay Aquatic Club's Avery Lambert rounded out the top three with a time of 11:19 seconds.
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Quinoa has been a vital food source in South America for centuries, and still has many uses in modern cooking. Considered a grain, quinoa seeds are eaten either alone or as an addition to soups, baked goods and salads. Recipes might call for either precooked or dry -- raw -- quinoa, so understanding how cooking affects volume will enable you to determine the correct amount no matter what point you're starting from.
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Friday, July 8, 2011
partyin', partyin'
blouse: karen walker (dress version here)
shorts: urban outfitters
shoes: vintage ferragamos
socks: we love colors
thanks so much to you all for your sweet words about the shimmer video - to me watching it is like listening to myself laugh repeatedly on an answering machine. AWKWARD. so it means a lot that you have such nice things to say about it. and there are two more coming, so i'm especially glad you find them tolerable!
what are your plans for the weekend? tonight we're going to a birthday party in brooklyn, then tomorrow sam and i are heading up to connecticut for a wedding - waking up early to thrift all the way there, then out on sunday to thrift all the way home. yee-haw.
have a great one!
xo audrey
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What a cute outfit!The top is lovely!ReplyDelete
I haven't seen Midnight in Paris yet but I want to watch it SO badly!
- AnonymousJuly 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM
What a cute outfit! You are such a beautiful gal!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for your sweet comment on my silly poem :) I hope you have a great time this weekend with your Brooklyn and Connecticut adventures!
that blouse! the end.ReplyDelete
I think I've commented on them at least three times, but I LOVE those shoes. They are THE perfect Ferragamos. Your blouse here is also very cool...I really like the large polka dots and pretty collar. Oh, and that bow pin that you chose for the Tiffany campaign you mentioned in your last post is adorable! My husband and I are going to a beach bonfire tonight and otherwise enjoying a lazy weekend. Have fun on your thrifting - I mean, wedding - trip!ReplyDelete
I've been eyeing these shorts in black for the longest..love them! Your hair is awesome and that dainty collar is so pretty. We spent all day thrifting, I can't get enough!ReplyDelete
You're so adorable! I love your shorts. And the middle top photo makes me smile.ReplyDelete


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George Pataki's Times Square bomb plot nonsense
I have grown weary of folks trying to claw political advantage out of (near) tragedy. Of course, I'm talking about the Times Square scare and the jockeying by Democrats and Republicans. We had House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) inappropriately crowing that Democrats were "more successful" than Republicans in fighting terror. And the Republicans have made a sport out of trying to show that President Obama and his administration are willingly sacrificing the U.S. of A. Case in point: former New York Gov. George Pataki (R).
There he was seated across from me on "Morning Joe" yesterday when he rightly praised the good work of the NYPD and other law enforcement agencies, but then he blamed the Obama administration's policies for pretty much everything, from Faisal Shahzad's parking illegally on 45th Street to his booking an escape flight to Pakistan.
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"We should never have gotten to this point," Pataki said. "Now, I understand you can't stop everything in its tracks, but we have to do far better. And I think a number of the policies of this administration just weaken our efforts to protect ourselves from terror." When host Joe Scarborough push backed saying, "We live in an open and free society. I don't understand what you're saying," I said, "Yeah." So, the man who was presiding over the Empire State on 9/11 set out to explain.
"Well, let me tell you one thing," Pataki began,
we were lucky in Times Square. We were lucky with the Christmas Day bomber on the airplane. We were very unlucky with the Fort Hood shooter. The guy on the Christmas Day plane should never have been given Miranda warnings. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad shouldn't be tried in a civilian court. They should not have ended the policy of the prior administration that allowed monitoring of overseas phone calls when one of the individuals is suspected of terrorism. These are all policies that didn't hurt us as a free society but that made us safer than the policies the Obama administration has in place today.
You couldn't see it on television, but my eyes were rolling faster than a hot dog cart down Broadway. Pataki threw in everything but the kitchen sink. And none of it fit together.
Anyway, we're always lucky when a plot is discovered or foiled. And Pataki's broadside ignores all the plots and conspiracies that are monitored and thwarted out of public view on (perhaps) a daily basis. Those phone calls that Pataki thinks would have cracked the conspiracy before it got off the ground would have required Shahzad to already have been deemed a suspected terrorist. No one knew who this cat was until his myriad Inspector Clousseau-like mistakes allowed authorities to snatch him a mere 53 hours after he left his Nissan Pathfinder smoldering on 45th Street. I suppose Pataki would like an all-seeing government where "criminals are caught before the crimes they commit" as depicted in Tom Cruise's 2002 movie "Minority Report." This is where GOP lectures about reducing the size of government and its intrusion in our lives hit a wall.
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There are no grown-ups left in the Republican party.
Posted by: tplocki | May 6, 2010 10:17 AM | Report abuse
What. You expect moral consistency? Intellectual coherence? From Republicans? Those were the days, weren't they?
Posted by: jp1954 | May 6, 2010 11:25 AM | Report abuse
Gail Collins has a great column in the NYT about Republican Senators defending the Times Square bomber's right to buy a gun, which he had in the car he drove to the airport.
Posted by: newsraptor | May 6, 2010 12:05 PM | Report abuse
Look to priorities. People like Pataki feel like they have so much to offer, but to apply their wonderfully wise leadership, they have to get the into position to apply it. So they fight like junkyard dogs to get into power, which in their narrow self-involved minds means that they have the right to rip into opposing parties whether it's good for society or not. Get the job - keep the job, then... Hmmm, wasn't there something I was supposed to DO in the job?
Posted by: Rozinante2 | May 6, 2010 12:47 PM | Report abuse
Capehart is playing the role of critic. Never let it be said that there is no freedom of the press. Still, he could go a little further and admit that this is the latest Zionist false flag terrorism charade and part of the lead up to a war with Pakistan. Where such a war would lead, I shudder to think. Forget 9/11, Pearl Harbor, The Maine, the Alamo, and remember Archduke Ferdinand. And download:
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Posted by: markoller | May 6, 2010 2:50 PM | Report abuse
How much credibility does he have? In 2004 at the Republican National Convention just blocks from Times Square Pataki linked Iraq and 9/11.
I guess he's mad that Rudy has the noun, verb 9/11 space all for him self.
Posted by: MerrillFrank | May 6, 2010 3:45 PM | Report abuse
Surprise, Capehart doesn't like any criticism of Obama. But how can we trust his ability to hear and understand the spoken word? On yesterday's Morning Joe he claimed Michael Brown said that the administration sabotaged the oil rig in the Gulf. Had he listened he'd have heard the opposite.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014
Never Run With Scissors
11 comments:
- Brian Miller said...
smiles...it can get pretty brutal out...yesterday was a nice respite...mile enough not to need a coat, even with all the snow on the ground...
- February 15, 2014 at 5:02 AM
- DJan said...
Every time I run for any distance at all, my left knee complains for days. So, it's walking for me. And I am also beginning to understand why older people like to stay indoors when it's really cold outside. :-)
- February 15, 2014 at 5:24 AM
- Stickup Artist said...
No doubt, most people wouldn't go out but do so because they have to. We are thinking about the rest of the country and their harsh conditions. Yesterday, it was in the mid-eighties here. Sounds nice, but I went to Trader Joe's a few days ago to get a bag of frozen peas and they were out. Said they wouldn't be in till Friday and it would be a month till the organic peas came in. They sighted our drought as the cause of the shortage. We are also starting to see food prices rising. One wonders what is to come...
- February 15, 2014 at 7:12 AM
- Adam said...
I never jog/run anymore, I'd rather ride my bike
- February 15, 2014 at 3:04 PM
- Pauline said...
I think it would something as drastic as the event you describe to get me running, too. But I do love to walk, walked for miles in Brasil. Between the heat and the hills, lost 8 kg and feel so much better for it. I have no concept of the sort of cold you experience and am happy to stay that way!
- February 15, 2014 at 3:21 PM
- Joanna Jenkins said...
This has been a brutal winter for so much of the country all I can do is shout "enough already!" every time I hear the weather on the news! Really. It's just too much.
I got a pedometer wrist thing for Christmas that tracks my steps. I had no idea how little I walked in a typical day-- and I thought I was pretty active. Now I'm moving much more and find myself taking the stairs whenever I can.
I caught up on your posts and was thrilled to hear you had such a great time in Hawaii with your son and daughter-in-law. 17 days is a nice long trip with plenty of time to adjust to the time change and see all the sights. I'm glad you were able to make so many memories.
xoxo jj
- February 15, 2014 at 6:01 PM
- Abby said...
I've noticed that everthing is more physically difficult when it's cold. It really takes a toll on the elderly!
Love the saying, but I'm glad you broke your "abstinence" for your friend having the stroke!
- February 15, 2014 at 6:14 PM
- R. J. said...
This too shall pass. I'm hoping for an early spring in a few weeks. Your area must be snowed in this time of the year. Our kids like veggie gardening and love the cold weather which kills all the pests that attack the veggies--briefly anyway.
- February 16, 2014 at 5:02 AM
- terri said...
I keep thinking I should go do some kind of exercise outside. And then I look out the window and think, "Nope." No way I could run in all this snow and cold anyway.
- February 16, 2014 at 4:05 PM
- Rock Chef said...
I guess that a plus to having to wear lots of layers is that if you DO slip over it hurts less when you land!
- February 17, 2014 at 5:30 AM
That is a terrific sign. I think I will steal it. Of course, everyone who knows me, knows I don't run, either.
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