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As expected, Pantech has finally decided to treat our Korean phone envy with five new models that will appear at CTIA 2007. All of them are nice-o but with their usual lame names: the C3b, C510, C600, C170 and the C150 pictured here, a nice candybar that comes with MP3 downloading, VGA camera, and Bluetooth stereo headphone support, which I have decided to rename the Pantswinger.
They will also show some of their latest releases just to keep us drooling, but until Jason gets them in his pants when he arrives in Orlando, we only have a few pix of these C-models and a few other naughty bits. They're right after the jump.
The Pantech C510 (from now on, the Greenrrrzr), approved last month by the FCC, has a 1.3 megapixel camera, external music player controls, slot for memory cards, Bluetooth support for stereo headphones and, ignoring Kermit's advice, a green brushed metal case.
The C600 (the Smlehphone) is a 850/1900 UMTS, quad-band GSM/EDGE phone, which comes with Bluetooth stereo headphones support and a Flash-based user interface. Apparently, it also comes with a time machine that the designers traveled in to steal a design from 1996.
The Pantech C710 (the Soundawhoompa) will also have the same features: 3G, a Flash UI, and a 1.3 megapixel camera, adding two «deluxe» speakers (which will either come with bacon and cheese or sound better than the normal speakers), a video sharing client and push-to-talk abilities, so you can pretend you are a secret agent using walkie-talkies. Hopefully, it will look better than this C600.
The Pantech C3b (the Tinynippleclamper), which they say is the smallest camera flip phone in the world, will be just like the current C3 but with added Bluetooth.
Pantech showcases five new ha [ZDNet Korea]


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Peter Fraser believes Fernando Torres' fall from grace can be attributed to a knee operation the Chelsea striker underwent in 2010.
It is one of the greatest mysteries of football – whatever happened to Fernando Torres?
The Spaniard, a combination of pace and power, was one of the most feared strikers in the world during his pomp with Liverpool between 2007 and 2010 – custom made for the Premier League.
But now, at Chelsea, he is being deemed as simply "not good enough".
Those were the words of Sky Sports' Gary Neville, directed at all of Chelsea's strikers after last Monday's forgettable 0-0 draw at Arsenal ensured none of them have scored an away goal in the Premier League in 2013.
It is a remarkable statistic but one which epitomises Torres' loss of form over the past three-to-four years. It is a fall from grace which, ahead of Sunday's latest reunion with Liverpool, means he has yet to score against his former club in six previous attempts having not been involved in the 2012 FA Cup final.
Torres took the Premier League by storm when arriving at Liverpool from Atletico Madrid in the summer of 2007 in a £26.5million deal as a 24-year-old. He went on to score 24 goals from 33 top-flight appearances in a spectacular debut 2007-08 campaign.
He had also become the first Liverpool player to score more than 20 league goals in a season since Robbie Fowler in 1995-96, and the season ended with him scoring the winner for Spain in the final of Euro 2008.
He hit 33 goals in all club competitions for the Reds to surpass the record set by Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy and become the most prolific foreign debutant in English football.
It was form which led Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard to say in the December of 2007: "Fernando is getting a lot of praise at the moment and rightly so, because the way he has settled into English football has been amazing and the way he has played is frightening. It can be difficult for players from abroad to settle into English football but, at the moment, Fernando looks like he has been playing here for years."
Tellingly, though, that number of 33 appearances would be the highest total Torres would play in a single Premier League season for Liverpool. He had suffered from a groin problem in the October of 2007-08 and then a hamstring injury in the February but that was just a sign of things to come.
Hamstring injuries plagued Torres in the 2008-09 campaign. He experienced one in each month of August, October and November.
Torres said of those injuries in his 2009 book, 'El Nino, My Story': "It was a real hammer blow. The first time it happens you think it is normal and you keep going. The second time, you stop, you take more care and you start to ask yourself why it happened. The third time, you stop properly, you start to investigate the underlying causes and work as hard as you can to make sure it never happens again.
"That was even more important in my case, because it was my hamstring that was causing me problems – the muscle I live by, the one that gives you acceleration and speed."
Torres has always relied upon his ability to turn on the afterburners – knocking the ball past a defender followed by a burst of speed – above the accuracy of his shooting in order to create his goalscoring opportunities.
This is emphasised by his shooting statistics. The best of his first four seasons in England came in 2009-10 when he got 50.79 per cent of all his efforts on target. but that is still poor in comparison with the current likes of Romelu Lukaku, Sergio Aguero and the new darling of The Kop, Luis Suarez, who all boast shooting accuracy levels of more than 60%.
Torres' developing hamstring injuries were something of a surprise given he had suffered just one muscle injury in his previous six years at Atletico.
It created an argument that perhaps the changes in Torres' physique – the slight shifts in the ever-so-finely balanced physiology and metabolism of professional sportsmen combined with playing in the increased physical nature of the Premier League – meant his body was creaking as he grew into his mid-20s because of the very attributes which made him such a dangerous player. It was an eerily familiar story to former Liverpool striker Michael Owen.
Despite Torres' injury problems, Liverpool still enjoyed their best campaign in Premier League history in 2008-09, finishing second and just four points behind champions Manchester United.
But conflicting with many people's memories of that campaign, which included the Gerrard-Torres attacking partnership, this was achieved with their star striker experiencing his worst campaign of the three full seasons he spent at Anfield.
Torres scored a very respectable 14 Premier League goals from 24 appearances but his shooting accuracy was down at 43.06% and his shots-to-goals conversion rate (excluding blocked shots) was less than 20%.
In 2009-10, Torres suffered an abdominal strain which saw him miss more than a month between the November and December but, positively, he had seemingly overcome his hamstring problems.
This, though, seemed to be at a cost. He was to endure a recurring cartilage problem in his right knee which required two operations – firstly in the January and then again in the April.
Did the knee injury come as a result of trying to protect his hamstrings? The April operation ended Torres' season.
However, Torres was statistically still at his most lethal in front of goal for Liverpool in 2009-10. In just 22 Premier League appearances, he scored 18 goals.
He averaged a goal every 95.28 minutes, had a shooting accuracy of more than 50% and recorded his best shots-to-goals conversion rate of 28.57%.
But, and it is a big but, that excellent form came almost completely before the first knee operation in the January. After returning from that surgery, he scored just six Premier League goals in the remainder of 2009-10.
Torres also struggled after the second knee operation in the April. He recovered in time to go to the World Cup that summer but, surrounded by rumours of concern he had rushed back in order to be a part of Spain's squad for a World Cup in which they were strong favourites to win, he failed to score in seven appearances at the tournament.
To make matters worse, he suffered another groin injury in the final victory over Holland which required three weeks of rehabilitation.
Amid Torres' knee operations, Liverpool had also been having a bad time. They finished seventh in the league and made an early exit from the Champions League, resulting in the departure of manager Rafa Benitez at the end of the campaign.
This was all engulfed by the off-field ill-feeling from fans towards the club's American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, and a status in multi-million pounds' worth of debt. It led to snowballing speculation of Torres' discontent.
Having recovered from his World Cup final injury, Torres was fit for the start of the 2010-11 Premier League season, coming on as a 74th-minute substitute in the opener against Arsenal. He would go on to make 23 league appearances for Liverpool, of which 22 were starts.
However, he scored only nine times and looked a different player to before his knee injuries while also appearing too frustrated by Liverpool's on and off-field struggles.
It would prove to be his final campaign at Anfield. Fenway Sports Group completed their takeover of Liverpool in the October of 2010 and, although doomed Roy Hodgson would be replaced by Kenny Dalglish in the January of 2011,Torres still ultimately requested a transfer and made his record-breaking £50million move to Chelsea that same January.
Torres' forcing of the transfer caused outrage among millions of Liverpool fans who were appalled by a player who had always spoken of his commitment to the club and appreciation of their values.
With all that in mind, many of the Reds faithful felt betrayed when Torres left and directed the sort of fury in his direction which would damage the self-belief of any hardened soul, let alone one who was widely assumed to not have the greatest self-confidence.
Could this have also affected his form? Torres was, and is, a player who needs to be at peak mental fitness to be at his best. It is considered he needs to be loved.
Aged 27 when he joined Chelsea, Torres has infamously continued to struggle. He scored just once – against West Ham United in April – in the second half of that 2010-11 season.
Perhaps that level of scrutiny he found himself under as the Premier League's most expensive transfer combined with the fury from Liverpool fans had led to the yips?
Torres ended 2010-11 with his overall statistics, including both his time at Liverpool and Chelsea, at their lowest since he arrived in England. He made more Premier League appearances (37) than in any of the previous three seasons but he scored just 10 times, averaged a goal only every 265.8 minutes and his shots-to-goal conversion rate was at just 13.33%.
That dip in form has, of course, proven to be far from a blip, as a player who will turn 30 years old at the end of January 2014 has scored just 17 goals in 64 Premier League appearances for Chelsea. Last season, he scored 23 goals for Chelsea, but only eight of those came in the Premier League.
Interestingly, Torres' muscular injuries, although not completely a thing of the past, have become less frequent at Chelsea.
This could be due to a training programme which, to the eye at least, appears to have increased his muscle bulk. But this could also be due to him intentionally becoming less dynamic in his style of play, adopting a more static approach, in order to protect his muscles.
It could also be argued he has simply become less mobile since those knee operations in 2010, which in turn has led to the decrease in his goalscoring threat.
Torres has had his moments at Chelsea. In fact, that is somewhat of an understatement considering he has been a part of squads who have won the Champions League, FA Cup and Europa League.
At the same time, he and his team-mates have also had the challenge of having to adapt to the changing tactics of five different managers, including interim boss Benitez.
In the current season, there have been flashes of Jose Mourinho rediscovering the player of old, against Schalke in the Champions League and Manchester City in the Premier League in October.
And Torres did finish with the Golden Boot as top scorer at Euro 2012, again netting in the final as Spain defended their continental title with a 4-0 hammering of Italy.
But they have been anomalies and he is unquestionably not the same threat as the player who arrived in England in 2007.
All of Torres' injuries, particularly those in his hamstrings, have taken their toll, ebbing away at his natural attributes and self-confidence. But the manner in which he enjoyed his best season, statistically, in 2009-10 having overcome his hamstring-plagued 2008-09 suggests his muscular injuries have not been the main root of his downfall.
The argument that his loss of confidence after leaving Liverpool also has merit but his collapse in the first half of the 2010-11 season, before he left Anfield, would also suggest that is only a minor variable.
The true point at which Torres' goalscoring brilliance was shattered appears to clearly trace back to the double knee operation of 2010.
Knees are the second heart of any footballer – once they are gone, it is the beginning of the end. Torres had scored a phenomenal 50 Premier League goals in 72 games up to the first knee operation in January 2010 but since then, he has scored a pitiful 32 Premier League goals in 125 appearances.
Sadly for Torres, and for all those who watched in wonder at his once world class goalscoring vitality, force of nature and brilliance, the overall statistics tell the entire story.
As he approaches the wrong side of 30, there will be no way back to the golden days of his former self.
Source: Teamtalk Blog

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05/18/2012 by Gary Katzer
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Over the past few years, Tamiya has reached out to collectors who may have missed their opportunity to own some of the kits of years gone by through strategically planned re-released kits. We've spent some time with a few of the recent re-releases, including the Frog and the Avante. One of the recent re-releases is one of my personal favorites from Tamiya—the Stadium Blitzer. There are a lot of reasons why I have always liked the Stadium Blitzer. First, it was originally released the same year I got into the hobby in 1992. Second is that, stylistically, this is a great looking truck from top to bottom that has been faithfully recreated in this re-release. Tamiya has kept everything as authentic to the original as possible, making only minor changes along the way. I've always loved building Tamiya kits, and this kit provided the perfect opportunity to share the experience with a newcomer to the hobby. It's time to roll up our sleeves and get to building.Speed SpecsCharger: Stadium Blitzer Re-ReleaseManufacturer: TamiyaPart Number(s): TAM58482Vehicle Class/Type: 1/10-scale Stadium TruckTarget Audience: Tamiya Collectors and first-time kit buildersCompletion Level: Kit
Bench Notes:I've built a number of Tamiya kits in my day, and, while I know I would have loved to build the Stadium Blitzer, I decided to do something a little different with it. I had one of our newer folks here at HorizonHobby.com give building a kit a shot. Jason has had an interest in full-scale racing for a long time and, since joining our ranks, has developed an interest in RC. He owns a few different RTRs and RTFs, but he had never built a kit before. I thought this would be the perfect chance for him to get a new appreciation of the hobby and knew that he should have a successful experience with the Stadium Blitzer.Since the Stadium Blitzer is a kit, we needed to pick a number of different items to fully complete it. The Spektrum™ DX3C was the natural choice for this truck with its vast array of features and ease-of-use. The steering duties on the Stadium Blitzer presented a unique challenge due to the direct steering setup on this truck, but the Spektrum 6010 servo fit the bill perfectly. Much like other recent kits from Tamiya, the re-release of the Stadium Blitzer includes a Tamiya 104BK ESC; a nice addition to the kit. For power, Tamiya turned to the old-faithful silver can-sealed end bell motor that Tamiya has used for years. Finally, I needed to add a battery into the mix and the Dynamite® Speedpack™ 3300mAh battery was the perfect pack for this application. It comes with the correct connector pre-wired and should perform really well.While I let Jason build the kit, I painted and detailed the body and, I have to say, the Stadium Blitzer's body is part of why I love this truck. It's classic late 80s/early 90s styling and has a ton of great looking decals to finish things up. Painting was relatively easy thanks to the excellent Tamiya paints that I used for this body. From start-to-finish, I put almost 4-hours into masking, painting, trimming and detailing the body. It wasn't that the body was difficult to detail; however, there are just so many decals to work with that it was very time consuming. In the end, I think the finished product looks awesome—a truly faithful recreation of the original.For our tests, I knew that taking Jason to a racetrack would be a mistake. He's a beginner and being on-track with other drivers would make him quite nervous. Taking him to a baseball field or open lot would also be a mistake, as it wouldn't truly test the Stadium Blitzer well and, honestly, jumping stuff is a lot more fun than just running around on flat ground. With this in-mind, we headed out to the perfect combination of each—the track at Eli Field. I knew we'd be the only ones on-track, so he wouldn't have to worry about other drivers, plus there are enough jumps and elevation changes to be challenging but fun. Track NotesI got to Eli Field before Jason did, so I decided to turn a few laps first. You need to make sure the steering is trimmed out and the truck goes straight, right? From the first squeeze of the trigger, the Stadium Blitzer scooted around the Eli Field track. It wasn't ballisticly fast, but it was respectable for a sealed end bell motor. While not the king in the horsepower department, it is rather efficient and provides really good run times. I was impressed at how well a truck that was designed the same year I got into the hobby actually drove. Sure, it didn't have race-oriented features like a ball diff or exotic chassis materials, but it didn't need those things for me to be able to have fun.Eventually, Jason arrived at Eli Field and I handed the transmitter over. One of the first things that became apparent was that there was a difference in the driving skills of Jason versus myself. It's something that I guess I took for granted—I mean, if I can do it how hard can it be, right? Jason was much more of a lock-to-lock driver in terms of how much steering throw he used on the transmitter and, because of this, he found himself in the pipes regularly. I managed to help him out a bit, first by pointing out what he was doing, but secondly by turning down the steering throw via the DX3C transmitter. When I reduced the overall steering throw, it made the Stadium Blitzer more fun and enjoyable for Jason and he was able to get around the track easier and more consistently.After running several batteries through the Stadium Blitzer, Jason and I both had a great time. Jason was pleased that the truck he put together actually ran; something he was extremely nervous about. Not only did the truck actually run, but it ran well. It's not going to go out and win the nationals tomorrow, but that's not the intent. It was the perfect truck for Jason to cut his building teeth on, it's easy to drive and it survived his newbie driving skills relatively unscathed. In the end, it was a successful first build for Jason, a trip down memory lane for me and an overall fun time. Charge End VoltageOne of the most interesting features of the Advantage Touch is the ability to manually set the end charge voltage per-cell of your battery pack. Adjusting this voltage up or down adjusts the voltage that your Li-Po battery will come to a full charge. A higher voltage will obviously yield more power; however, this also can shorten the cycle life of your battery pack and risk a fire if you set this too high. Generally speaking, using an end voltage between 4.20–4.22v will be safe and deliver good overall results. Top-Speed/AccelerationThe kit sealed end bell motor is designed to be durable and efficient at the expense of top speed. I'm not saying that the Stadium Blitzer is a slug; however it's not a top fuel dragster either. I'd estimate that the top speed was right around 20MPH. The motor never became hot when using the stock gearing, so I feel comfortable saying that you could add a few teeth to the pinion to increase the top speed without hurting the motor.HandlingLet's be honest, this is a 20-year old truck with hard tires; it's not going to drive like a modern stadium truck. I will say that the Stadium Blitzer actually drove a lot better than I anticipated though. The surface at Eli Field was bone dry and dusty due to the fact that the track hasn't been really used since last fall. After several runs and developing a slight groove in the track, the Stadium Blitzer started to really get comfortable for me to drive. It was a lot of fun counter-steering around corners, kicking the rear end sideways and going for style over speed. Suspension-wise, the truck felt a little under-dampened and bouncy, but going to 35–40wt oil in the shocks to thicken things up a bit would definitely help smooth out the ride.When it came time to the tight-and-twisty sections, the Stadium Blitzer power slides around corners with the best of them. The kit tires are molded out of a harder rubber compound, just like the originals from the 90s. I didn't know what to expect out of the rib/pin front and pin/x-pattern rear tires, but they actually did a decent job of providing grip both under acceleration and cornering. While the Stadium Blitzer will never carve through the corners, it's a fun and enjoyable truck to get out there and throw around some dirt with. JumpingThe Stadium Blitzer was designed when off road was in a very different era. The tracks featured much looser dirt, smaller jumps, and were generally more scale than today's generation of big-air and blue groove style tracks. That being said, the layout and jumps at Eli Field are actually more representative of old-school tracks than the current ones and are a perfect test bed for the Stadium Blitzer. The jumps on the track provided little challenge, as the Stadium Blitzer took to the air well each time. Landings could get a little interesting; however, as there tended to be a bit of rebound upon landing, which could get the truck a little loose. Switching out to slightly thicker shock oil could help smooth out landings just a bit. Off-PowerThe sealed end bell motor that the Stadium Blitzer includes doesn't provide a ton of resistance, meaning the drag brake-effect was minimized. If you let off the gas, the truck tended to keep rolling along for a good bit instead of coming to a stop. With that said, the truck didn't transfer a ton of weight to the nose, which helped to keep the rear end planted off-power. That was definitely a good thing with the loose conditions we were dealing with on-track at Eli Field. On-PowerOne of the good things about the stock motor is that you can lay on the throttle pretty hard and it's not going to bite you when coming out of a corner. The acceleration was decent for a silver can motor, but not mind blowing. The rear tires felt like they hooked up relatively well and helped get me around the track quickly and easily. While not a race bred vehicle by any stretch, I was able to hustle the truck around the track well. ConclusionI've always loved Tamiya vehicles and I probably always will. There's just something different and special about Tamiya kits, and the Stadium Blitzer is no different. This is another example of how Tamiya has listened to their fans, by re-releasing a classic kit but making it different enough to not adversely affect the collector market. Plus, for those who may have old kits sitting in pieces due to missing or broken parts, this gives them the chance to complete and repair their original vehicles and restore them to running condition.In the end, there were so many positives that came out of this review. I got to drive one of my favorite Tamiya trucks of all time. Jason got to build his first kit and have a positive experience. And I got to share my love for the hobby with someone else. That, perhaps, is the best thing to come out of this review—that there is nothing to be afraid of when it comes to building and maintaining RC cars and trucks. In fact, you may find a totally new appreciation for the hobby and find that building is just another facet that makes this hobby so much fun.


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The results of the presidential election here in the U.S. created an energetic backlash and left many in a state of bewilderment and devastation. Feelings of shock, betrayal and confusion reverberated throughout. I felt much confusion as well, not because of election results, but because the plan literally changed at nearly the last minute. This all has to do with the creation of changes at the physical level.
October brought in much energy of change and things were moving ahead energetically very quickly. At the physical level, this usually manifests as a very busy schedule, feeling as though you can never catch up with all there is to do, and just too may things to tend to, coming in wave after wave after wave with seemingly no end.
At the higher levels things were moving rapidly as well, with much movement and placement and many openings to the higher realms as well as many openings and supported opportunities for change in the lower realms. We were most assuredly being pushed forward into the best niches for each of us, and at a rapid rate indeed. There was much energy of "alignment" and ownership of our beautiful planet by the light. All was finally being felt, the time was here and we were in it.
A few days before the election, our souls had a "meeting" and came up with a revised plan. We all agreed that we could hold on awhile longer as there needed to be an awakening of more people. Accomplishing a shift in the physical is a vital stage as it affects many who may not be "conscious" as we wonderful and most advanced lightworkers are :-) . A shift in the physical is quite an ordeal and a monumentous accomplishment.
We felt that keeping George Bush in the White House a bit longer would accomplish several things. As the being George Bush had agreed to embody much of the energy that was being removed and leaving our planet for evermore after eons of time, he agreed to play his role in the illusion a little longer as there needed to be even more energy present to create this phenomenal shift forward.
What in the world am I talking about, you may wonder? In order for change to manifest in form (in the physical), there needs to be a summoning. As all creation occurs from a summoning here and a response from source (in addition to source creating a summoning as well, as it comes from both ends and then culminates in creation), and in order to create in the physical for all of the majority, all of the majority needs to be ready and open to receive a change.
There needed to be more of an impact for MORE individuals to see what was really going on behind the scenes. We wanted more people to have an opportunity to use their energy and desire, and therefore really assist in a great push over the top into another dimension in form.
In addition, there simply were not enough individuals ready to embrace a big change within our governmental structure. If the current regime were to be "ousted" right now, many would not be open to a totally New and different reality in our governmental, societal and spiritual structures. Kerry would have continued on with the same structure and Old World regime. President Bush will make the ways of the darker/denser energies so VERY EVIDENT that everyone will eventually notice. He will be like a dog with a bone, or at any rate, his extreme ways will create much attention. He is fulfilling his purpose well.
The changes coming are going to be very BIG. People will need to WANT them in order to embrace them and summon and desire something VERY NEW in order for them to finally occur and for the transition to occur in the most welcoming and gentle way. Sometimes we have to become very miserable and totally lose something in order to be motivated to make a change.
Lightworkers have known about this change for eons but for the average person, this is totally New. We have been more than ready, but we need others to be more than ready. A big, sudden and dramatic change right now would frighten many people and they would try and cling onto the Old comfortable structure and ways.
So then, it now feels as though the energy has just "stopped". We may feel shocked, as it was so abrupt. It went from great light and alignment to what feels like NO light. We may not know where we now belong, where we are going, or may feel just plain scrambled and homeless. But I can assure you that all is in order and this feeling of the darkness predominating is just a temporary illusion.
We are holding down the light energy and openings so that the darkness can really build, and then boom! The darkness has to have the opportunity to totally reveal itself. With the New build-up of more awakened beings embodying even more light and more summoning of a New way, it will create a great momentum to burst forward in all ways when the time is right. Creating in the physical needs much momentum in the physical.
Please remember that what you see around you and in the media is only meant to awaken even more of us. What is going on behind the scenes is a totally different story. This "build-up" of darkness is manifesting in interesting ways as well. It is an opportunity to purge even more of this energy, and this is OK. It activates the darkness within us and it can show itself. I have never before received so may angry and attacking e-mails, and this is OK too as there needed to be a release. When the energy wanes like this (but this time it actually feels totally absent!), manifesting really slows. Finances don't flow, and it can feel as though NOTHING is flowing. (I am still in a hotel in Flagstaff and wondering if I will EVER get housing!).
When all is finally revealed, it will then be BELIEVED by many and create the support and acceptance needed to forge ahead with the New. The best thing to do? I felt the darkness very strongly myself. When this happens I find it best to ignore it, go do something fun, distract myself, laugh as much as possible, and certainly TRUST that the light knows what it is doing. The more attention is given to it, the more it becomes real. This is a time when I discontinue watching and reading much of the media. As I have been going about my day, it is easy to see that people are happy everywhere. The sun knows it is very vibrant and alive and it still shines, the flowers still bloom, and my cat still purrs.
This absence of light we are feeling is TEMPORARY. It cannot come in as strongly as before and then never return. We are in a higher frequency and cannot go backwards. As a matter of fact, I awoke this morning feeling incredible waves of peace and love and they are continuing very strongly as I post this message. And this is what is REALLY going on!
In addition, this current energy status will evolve lightworkers to an even higher status. We need to be at a frequency where we are BEING light, and not just talking it or wanting it. If all the higher ways of light came in totally right now, many would just jump on the bandwagon without having embodied it themselves. This current situation then, will tweak us up even higher. We agreed to lovingly stay back with all of humanity and wait until all was ready.
So go walk your dog, play cards, walk in nature, take in a movie, hug someone, decorate your home, paint a picture, play with the children, indulge in your hobby and bide your time while we are "on hold" waiting for the darkness to build. Tune it out, follow your passion and just be you. And have fun! Lightworkers can be so very serious! This is also a great time to really find out and know who you are. When we know who we are, nothing can sway us and we are always connected to source. Just do and be what makes you feel GOOD.
If you are feeling burned out and ready to retire as a lightworker (I have felt this way many times myself), now is even a better time to go have fun! For me, I have to make a conscious effort as it is not always easy during these times. This is some of the darkest energy I have ever felt, but we need most EVERYONE to feel it in order to summon a change!
In the higher realms, things look much different than they are appearing, as is always the case. At soul levels, everything is always in order and energy always flows in the same direction, with a very high vibration connected to source, and with agreement by all.
In the higher realms, we have agreements with each other to assist in whatever way possible to enhance the expansion of each and every being. This is why all is always in divine right order. And Source energy is always craving expansion.
In the highest realms that I am personally able to travel in and access, we are extensions of the spark of life, of the spark of Source. We became bored, needed something to do, and decided to create. We created worlds and experiences just to have something to do with Source energy and to have fun.
The Shift of the Ages was just something we decided to do to have fun. We are playing a game, putting ourselves in it and goofing around with creative outcomes. There are certainly many more dimensional levels higher than our beautiful beings of light and certainly higher than our galactic friends. We just infuse our energy into a creative vehicle and go from there. And many can infuse their energies into one physical being at the same time as well.
Therefore, it has been evident to me that George Bush agreed at a higher level to play his role to assist in awakening the masses by exhibiting extreme behavior. We all already knew this, but others certainly were not ready to see it. He has also agreed to embody as much of the darker/denser energies as well, and we are in it with him, as much as we embody these energies ourselves.
In addition, there is really no suffering as we know it. At the higher levels, each being is in total agreement as to the experience they wish to encounter. Like energy always attracts like energy and thus creates an experience for itself. No one leaves the physical body by accident and this is also why there are no such things as victims. Individuals involved in the war are not, then, having an "accidental" experience of pain and suffering.
I remember once being in a higher realm and viewing my experience in this current particular body. Although at that time I felt I had experienced suffering, it was very clear that I had enjoyed every moment of it at a higher level. In the human body we get to feel emotions, whether they be wonderful or devastating ones. Even though we may say that we will never go through this experience again, as it was NO FUN (I have said this many times myself), when we leave our bodies we do not feel this way and are always eager to come back again. We are much tougher than we think and would not be experiencing these things if we could not handle them.
There is, therefore, no dark or light, good or bad. Everything is just energy that we choose to put meaning on. (Remember the story of a headache being a wonderful thing to an aspirin salesman?) And some energies vibrate higher than others and embody more light as well and therefore just feel better to be in and around.
I would imagine that these things most of you are already aware of, but I choose this time to highlight a few as some were confused about how George Bush could possibly be a being of light. And I must also say, that although I am very aware of how things "operate" as per my own experiences and travels, many times I am also ready to throw in the towel, as I am still in a human body and things can FEEL quite different at times. And also know that your own experience is very much your own, and the absolute right and correct one for you as well. Much love to all.....
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Last year my niece was hospitalized for having constant migraines. While she was there, she met a little girl who was recovering from an injury. My niece noticed that, for the few days they were both there, the little girl never had any visitors. My niece decided to make her a card and give her all of the balloons and get well gifts she had received during her stay. She asked the nurses to give them to the girl after she left and wasn't at all concerned with taking any credit for her gifts. This seems to be a small gesture of kindness, but it made me so proud to be her aunt.
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The NY Times Sunday Business section Jun 29th had an interesting article by Randall Stross that posed the question should Microsoft rewrite Windows completely for its future. He contrasts Microsoft against Apple and what they did with OS-X and also talks about an OS project at Microsoft called Singularity. Articles and blogs on what Microsoft should do for the Future are many but this is the first I had seen where there was discussion of new efforts within Microsoft itself.
I am a user of operating systems not an expert in them, but like most users over the years, I am grown too familiar with the issues around Windows and how those issues impact my work and my customers.
Vista is not an option for me. I worry that Windows 7 will be more of the same, bigger, slower, and more incompatible. Windows XP gets my work done, but it is also clear where XP is going and XP also has its own set of issues.
Stross's article talks about Singularity being conducted by the research arm and not the Windows group so is safely bottled up. I can't say if Singularity is the answer, but I know the issues with Windows all too well to see the value in developing a new OS from scratch. Stross argues that this could be Microsoft's future, and I can't disagree.
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NOAA's National Weather Service kicked off this year's National Lightning Safety week with the release of a new study on lighting deaths in the U.S. From 2006 through 2012, 238 people were struck and killed by lightning, with two thirds of the fatalities occurring during leisure activities. Fishing tops the list of activities, accounting for 26 deaths -- more than three times as many as golfing.
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Quote:Re the history issue. You may care to take the approach that karate started day one 1477 and was defined thus as materially different from Chuan Fa (kung fu). That could be seen as the absolutist opinion (hint not likely to be popular with genuine historians). Or, the alternative view which I buy into which says that although karate can to an extent be traced back, it was likely a gradual process building up as basically a spreading of Chuan Fa which over time became distinct from mainland (Chinese) practices. This date of the watershed is open to debate but saying its 1800s is not historically ignorant. I suggest we put this issue aside as it will defocus the tread. However, I will reiterate my point for clarity: What I was getting at is that kata as we think of them is not that old and that the kata themselves are substantially different from what would have been practiced when Chinese masters were still the primary source of reference for Okinawan MAists. This undermines the Ancient justifications so often argued in katas favor. Quote: I think one would have to have many years doing kata and learning bunkai to be an authority on them. Can we assume that you are an authority and that everyone elses opinion is less valid? Please lets not fall into this trap, remember that a fair smattering of katas keenest supporters are comparatively inexperienced it works both ways. Quote:Who's to be the decider of if any style evolves or not.Who says karate does not evolve with kata?Well I suppose musical kata is an evolution. Lol. No, but the natural extension of kata has evolved argument directly counteracts your previous kata is ancient argument. Its beginning to sound like youre inclined to rattle of a mixed list of logics supporting kata without a unified construction. Quote:It is my experience that the best practitioners of martial arts are those who study and practice kata the most diligently. Well we should be glad youre sharing such a vast experience. A pity of course that you arent sufficiently experienced of the likes of Helio Gracie, Kano (see note 1 below) and Muhammad Ali, then perhaps youd see the ridiculousness of such an argument. Interesting comparison can be made between the evolution of Jiujitsu kata and karate kata. In jiujitsu the kata developed as a safe way of practicing LEATHAL moves mainly because weaponry, particularly swords, was the focus. When unarmed SD became the focus this tradition of kata carried forwards even though the moves were NOT LEATHAL in the same manner. Kanos genius was that he identified this inconsistency. A similar pattern can be applied to Karate. Arguably the evolution of American Kickboxing from karate demonstrates a similar Darwinian logic. However, in mainstream karate people still insist on performing kata even though the moves that materially make up karate are NOT LEATHAL in the training context. I realize that this fact may be have a knee jerk unpopularity with some, but lets keep things in perspective whens the last time someone died sparring reverse punch? Note 1. Just to preemptively extinguish any misguided debate on whether Kano was a diligent katiast. He wasnt, he openly disregarded the jiujitsu kata emphasis and carried over only an extremely limited (and sidelined) notion of kata to Judo which at any rate is fundamentally different from kata in karate.
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Quote:Who's to be the decider of if any style evolves or not.Who says karate does not evolve with kata?
Quote:It is my experience that the best practitioners of martial arts are those who study and practice kata the most diligently.
Quote:Um.. youve obviously not spent anytime at all with traditional Karate kata to think that they dont contain Lethal techniques. Kata is designed to adapt to any situation. It can teach you ways of dealing with a situation where lethal force is being used or where only a simple controlling lock is needed.
Quote:You can take a single or series of techniques from kata and use them in a very controlling manner i.e and arm lock or controlling wrist lock or pin. Or you can take those same moves and escalate them in to something a little more lethal, i.e, nerve strikes, neck breaks, and strikes for rupturing organs.
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Quote:Kickcatcher may i ask how long you have studied karate?
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As an employer trustee of the California Construction Industry Labor Management Trust, I want to set the record straight as to the recent Proposition A battle in San Diego. This is not a "union slush fund" run by union bosses in Sacramento.
I have been an employer representative for the last 27 years in California. I represent the employer. The contractors I work for chose to be union contractors. This choice is based upon a vastly superior work force available through jointly administered apprenticeship programs that labor and management have invested millions of dollars in contributions.
The recent effort to defeat Prop. A in San Diego was a joint effort of labor-management to support a proven business plan called project labor agreements.
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PLAs make good business sense on certain types of projects, usually large projects. Most construction projects do not need a PLA, but some do.
Prop. A put the citizens of San Diego in an extremely difficult position in the middle of a philosophical fight between several labor-management groups and the Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC.)
It would be easy to take the "low road" and point out that the ABC has an extremely small contractor base in California, often falsely promoting a "fair and open" bidding process. The point here, however, is nothing in a PLA precludes any contractor, either union or nonunion, from bidding on a PLA. It is the choice of the contractor.
PLAs are not uncommon in California and have been upheld in state and federal court.
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I am extremely disappointed by the ABC and certain elements in San Diego resorting to name-calling and "union bashing" upon their victory. Passion for your position is appropriate but can go too far. It's OK to disagree, but this goes beyond disagreement.
The California Legislature has passed legislation regarding PLAs that will negatively impact future public construction projects in San Diego as a result of Prop. A passing.
The ABC and others convinced the voters that this new legislation is unconstitutional. Because of this action, San Diego will now be mired in legal action trying to defend this position. I cannot believe the San Diego voters want their tax dollars spent defending this position. The city of San Diego has never chosen to use a PLA on its projects. Now tax dollars will be spent defending a ban on PLAs that have never been used.
When public projects are delayed and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on this theory, just remember that the ABC and other entities put you in this position.
As an employer representative and treasurer of the California Industry Labor Management Trust Fund, I look forward to a positive step forward for San Diego in dealing with the unfortunate situation that they were put in.
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|FS up to 3 digits / Q up to 6 digits
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Castell Locks K-FSB-12.7-1 ( KFSB1271 ) is a Castell Trapped Key Interlocks. K-FSB-12.7-1 Castell Locks are used as a part of a safety system to allow safe control of valves or disconnect switches.
While power supply to the system is switched on, the access doors to the hazardous area are locked closed.
Key A is trapped in the disconnector K bolt interlock (1) while the process is on.
To enter the hazardous area, the disconnector is turned to the off position and key A is released, locking the disconnector in the disengaged position.
Key A is then taken to the grounding switch. Key A enters the second K lock (2) which retracts the bolt enabling the cammed switch lever to be rotated to engage the ground. Once rotated, the recess in the cam aligns with the next K lock (3) with key B trapped in its lock. Key B can now be removed from K lock (3), which now locks the lever in place ensuring that the ground connection cannot be broken.
The system is now disconnected and grounded, key B can be taken to operate the access interlock on the door of the hazardous area to gain access into it.
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Founded on April 1st, 1985, University Games have designed and manufactured over 200 different games in the past 30 years. University Games was established by business partners Bob Moog and Cris Lehman. Bob and Cris always loved playing games and spending time with their families. This quality is what pushed them to found University Games.
The company's motive has always been to create games that encourage social interaction and imagination through fun, with learning hidden throughout to season the experience. Come the end of the 1990s, University Games had successfully grown into markets outside the United States. Now in more than 28 countries, the company has become a major factor in the international game industry through increased distribution, better marketing, experienced staff and superb quality products
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The decade since the First IPCC Assessment Report (IPCC, 1990) has seen progressive evolution in sophistication of thinking about water vapour feedback. Concern about the role of upper-tropospheric humidity has stimulated much theoretical, model diagnostic and observational study. The period since the SAR has seen continued improvement in the analysis of observations of water vapour from sondes and satellite instrumentation. Theoretical understanding of the atmospheric hydrological cycle has also increased. As a result, observational tests of how well models represent the processes governing water vapour content have become more sophisticated and more meaningful. Since the SAR, appraisal of the confidence in simulated water vapour feedback has shifted from a diffuse concern about upper-tropospheric humidity to a more focused concern about the role of microphysical processes in the convection parametrizations, and particularly those affecting tropical deep convection. Further progress will almost certainly require abandoning the artificial diagnostic separation between water vapour and cloud feedbacks.
In the SAR, a crude distinction was made between the effect of "upper-tropospheric" and "lower-tropospheric" water vapour, and it was implied that lower-tropospheric water vapour feedback was a straightforward consequence of the Clausius-Clapeyron relation. It is now appreciated that it is only in the boundary layer that the control of water vapour by Clausius-Clapeyron can be regarded as straightforward, so that "lower-tropospheric" feedback is no less subtle than "upper-tropospheric". It is more meaningful to separate the problem instead into "boundary layer" and "free tropospheric" water vapour, with the former contributing little to the feedback.
The successes of the current models lend some confidence to their results. For a challenge to the current view of water vapour feedback to succeed, relevant processes would have to be incorporated into a GCM, and it would have to be shown that the resulting GCM accounted for observations at least as well as the current generation. A challenge that meets this test has not yet emerged. Therefore, the balance of evidence favours a positive clear-sky water vapour feedback of magnitude comparable to that found in simulations.
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From the series: Reading Excel Data into MATLAB with a GUI
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Last month we covered a lot of ground in making a GUI that would read and display Excel data. Since those videos were originally posted, I have gotten quite a few requests to expand the GUI to do some analysis. This video shows how I was able to add analysis capabilities to the GUI. We do a simple normalization of the data, but you could expand this to do more exotic calculations. For a more extensive GUI, I would add the ability to choose from many different types of calculations and to do custom analysis.
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There are still people in the northern part of Japan who will not let a drop of Suntory cross their lips. In fact, there is at least one baseball stadium in the North where no Suntory products are sold at all. Why? The biggest gaffe in the history of Japanese distilling, made by our friend Keizo Saji, the legendary head of Suntory.
In the late 1980s, there was a lot of debate in Japan about moving the capital from Tokyo. Tokyo was crowded, labyrinthine, and Narita airport was a nightmare to get to, people said. There were various ideas for alternative locations but the two main groups of campaigners came from the Kansai (Osaka/Kyoto) area, site of the old capital and a huge conurbation itself, and from Tohoku, the Northern part of the main island.
The Kansai campaign was nothing new. Kansai people have never quite got over the loss of capital status to the upstart Tokyo. When the Emperor left at the start of the Meiji era, he kind of sidled out without really admitting he was going and they have been trying to get him back ever since. In 1923, immediately after a catastrophic earthquake wiped out Tokyo and Yokohama, Kansai people showed indecent haste in suggesting days after the disaster that it might be best if the capital came back to them. Only an Imperial edict shut them up.
The Tohoku campaign, however, was a bit of a novelty, like Cornwall suggesting it might be a good site for a relocated capital of the United Kingdom. The proponents were deadly serious and they could claim good communications and the possibility of a completely fresh start, unlike the Kansai brigade. Anyway, when Saji, a native of Kansai at the head of one of Kansai's greatest companies, was asked on television what he thought of the Tohoku idea, he responded: "Tohoku! That's where the Kumaso come from! They have a low level of culture." The Kumaso were a hairy indigenous tribe who held out against the Japanese crown in the 8th century. It didn't help the reception of Saji's comments that he had got his facts wrong. The Kumaso were from the southern island of Kyushu. There had been a similarly hairy tribe of Emishi who valiantly resisted in Tohoku. It was a bit like someone objecting to the idea of the Cornish capital on the basis that there had been an awful lot of smelly Picts there.
To cut a long story short, Tohoku went completely bonkers. Suntory adverts were banned from the local television stations and replaced with public service announcements. The entire drinking district of Sendai city completely emptied itself of Suntory products. The vice president of Suntory had to do a tour of the North, visiting governors to solicit their forgiveness. Many of them blanked him. Eventually, Saji himself had to go to each governor for a series of teary apologies. Despite all this abasement, some Tohoku people have never forgiven the arrogant Kansai Sassenachs. They prefer Nikka, Suntory's main rival, with its distilleries in the big Tohoku city of Sendai and on the northern island at Yoichi. This is particularly unfortunate for Suntory because northerners consume far more whisky per head than anywhere else in the country.


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Guitar Studio for BlackBerry
LCA Mobile has announced the release of Guitar Studio for BlackBerry mobile devices. The application allows Guitar enthusiasts to look up guitar chords, access their play-along music collections and compose songs while on the go.
Guitar Studio is easy to use and has powerful features that both beginners and professional musicians will love. The application supports the display of both Chordpro and Tab music files and has an automatic scroll feature that automatically advances the music so you can play along hands free and focus on having fun! If you are learning to play and need to look up a chord, simply high highlight the chord on the screen and then click one button to see lots of ways to play it in the 30,000+ chord library.
The application also has the ability to display Tab Music files as a single seamless line and automatically scroll it across the screen at a speed that matches your playing skill. If you need to practice one part of a song over and over, simply mark a start and end point and you can automatically loop the music so you can practice it over and over again hands free.
A tone based Guitar Tuner and MP3 Player is also built in so you can play your favourite MP3 along with the Tab or Chordpro music. You can also loop the MP3 at any point you choose. Want to "lay it down?" Simply hit the record button and record yourself playing and singing, right to your BlackBerry!
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Guitar Studio is available for download through BlackBerry App World. Screen shots, tutorials and additional information are available at www.LCAMobile.com.
List of Guitar Studio Application Features:
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Marius Z., the author of the Heaven-Bound Pilgrim is writing about travel to holy places in Israel, Italy, Poland, France, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal and other countries. He writes about how to make pilgrimages inexpensive or even free while using credit card rewards points, frequent flyer miles, and hotel rewards points. History and spiritual message of each holy place is presented along with the information on where to eat, shop and stay while on pilgrimage.