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I am a photojournalist, seeking a story behind every photo, the person behind the story and hope behind the life. My aim is to try to portray in photographs the human condition in Brazil, Spain, Kenya….
For 80% of humanity, life is a lottery where God seems to have split the tickets between the same winners. Faced with this scenario, my question is quite simple: what would have happened if I (a native of Andalucía) had been born fifteen kilometers below the strait of Gibraltar, in a different culture and religion? How and to what extent does a country and family influence us?
"I build my life with the biography of the others," says well known photographer Richard Avedon. So I seek the humanity in the persons I portray. In the first place people, then ideas.
My job is simple. I try to tell stories with photos just like any photojournalist. Professionally, I work in corporate communications. For example, I transform into images the corporate identity of educational, social or economic entities, whether universities, NGOs, or business schools.
Photography is both memory and identity, and I try to look for these two aspects in documenting people and institutions that wish to improve their public communication. It is not about just taking pictures, but about truly reflecting people and entities according to their specific characteristics: sometimes, the images of people's stories in photojournalism, other times in corporate photographs.
During the past few months, my work has taken me to the Amazon in Brazil and Lake Turkana in Kenya. In both countries I have worked for Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a Vatican foundation that helps financially the initiatives of various institutions of the Catholic Church. Sometimes in a refugee camp, other times in a clinic for AIDS patients. Places where I discover stories that bring me closer to death, but where what I really understand better is life. In the end, I would like the stories below to help you understand something about the meaning of life…and always with hope.
1. Where God weeps
"Abandon all hope, you who enter here" (Dante, The Divine Comedy)
March 2017. In the peripheries surrounding the city of Sao Paulo, men and women easily succumb to temptations. Yet a group of ex-drug addicts is struggling to reach the shore of normality. They live in Fazenda de la Esperanza [Hacienda of Hope], a pioneering center for ex-addicts. There they seek rehabilitation through life in common, work and spiritual counseling. Fazenda de la Esperanza was started in 1983 by Fray Hans Stapel, a German Franciscan priest, in Guaratingueta, Brazil, to rehabilitate addicts. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI visited this center during his apostolic trip to Brazil. Fray Hans founded a total of 112 Fazendas de la Esperanza all over the world (Angola, Russia, Germany, Argentina, South Africa, Mozambique…). This year, 2017, another ten new fazendas will open.
—When a drug addict hits bottom rock and decides to try to climb out, we call it the "cry" of the Gospel: my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It is the cry of despair of the person who is suffering. At that moment, many decide to come to the fazenda freely, says Daniel, a young optimist, who accompanies Rafael, a junkie.
—Look, there is a nuance. You have to understand that drugs are not the origin. The drugs are a consequence of an emotional, family or sexual drama, which arose in the past and needs to be purified…. Daniel is silent and waits for Rafael to speak. An hour later, Rafael recounts his story good-naturedly as darkness falls. Dressed in blue jeans and Nike sneakers, he looks like he has never broken a plate in his life and could pass as the perfect son every mother-in-law wants for her daughter: a quiet and affectionate boy.
These are the appearance, but now his inner life:
"My parents were distant cousins and they got intimate one night in the heat of a campfire in Portoalegre. When my uncle learned that my mother was pregnant, he tried to pierce her belly with a knife.
—This child is mine' she said, a pretty 16 year old girl with green eyes and blond hair.
—But when I was born, my mother never gave me her blessing. I was a living aborted child and she abandoned me with my grandmother. When I was six, that woman, my mother returned…
—Rafael, you are useless. I expect you to clean the bathroom after I use it, do you understand? That's what she told me. Normally, I obeyed to avoid being punished.
The boys in the neighborhood called me "disaster face" and the constant humiliation left me friendless. In school, Paulo made my life miserable. Each day he would shout to me: "Your mother is a bad woman and you will end up like her…."
In 2006, tired of the humiliation, I ran away from home. My mother wasn't interested in finding me and only my grandmother, when she knew where I was, came to bring me home. But I refused. My grandmother, who saw my wounds, understood very well my pain and inner anger.
—I won't live with that woman, I said
So, at the age of 12 I started working on the streets of Portoalegre selling DVD for the mafia. Small drug dealers gave me a place to sleep. Money was easy to make but was also spent quickly on alcohol and other vices. Without hope in my life, I started to take cocaine at age 13. Every day, every morning, I took 10 grams to get high to sell the DVDs. The drugs gave me euphoria and a carefree feeling. At 16, I started using crack, which was cheaper and left me even more dependent.
In the middle of the chaos, one night I met a new friend, Raul. I knew of his fame and didn't need to ask about him. I simply accepted him as you accept the first person who enters your life as a friend. We talked and drank. Two days later, Raul asked me for a favor. I took him on a motor bike. We arrived at the destination in ten minutes with two plastic bags. I watched the street with the engine running while my friend grabbed a backpack. He climbed the stairs of a bar, opened the door and took a 38mm pistol from the plastic bag and shot a drug dealer seated in the gambling den. There were shouts in the street, and suddenly among the people in the crowd I recognized Paulo, my old school bully, who was now a big arms dealer. I ran up to him and shot him in cold blood.
Raul carried out 20 more hits as a hired assassin before being executed by a gang, in our apartment. I barely managed to save my own skin.
In a panic, I decided to abandon everything and leave for another city. Only my grandmother knew my whereabouts. Drugs kept me going until a builder offered me a job as a bricklayer. It was hard to keep a schedule, wake up very early and obey someone, when your life is built without rules. But at least I was busy.
One morning, we were sent to repair the roof of a parish church. I wasn't baptized or a Catholic, but the priest who celebrated Mass was a good man. One day the priest stopped me and said; "If you are a drug addict, I can help you." God was giving me an opportunity and I wasn't going to let it escape.
Then I made the second biggest decision in my life. I decided to go to La Fazenda de la Esperanza to get cured. I called my grandmother.
—I am happy you are going there. When I was about to end the call, I heard the voice of a woman on the other end, my mother.
—Don't cut me off. I need to tell you something that weighs heavily on me. I beg for pardon for all the past years. I love you for what you are going to do now, my son
I hung up. In 22 years, I have never been called a son.
For a year now I have been living at La Fazenda de la Esperanza, gradually escaping from my drug addiction. Healing comes through living alongside others, working and growing in my spiritual life. I have come to understood that my mother has also suffered a lot and I have been able to forgive her. I want to go back to see her because I need a family. I also want to ask my mother to forgive me for what I have done. Then I want to come back to the fazenda to help the others here and also close a cycle in my life. I also have to go and ask for pardon from the parents of the person whose life I ended, even though I know that in Brazil the spirit of vengeance is very strong: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I leave my forgiveness to God. I feel he has forgiven me and I can help others to experience his forgiveness. I have been baptized and confirmed and received Holy Communion, but I know that I need prayers to face this. I need to know that I am not alone.
2. About the living and the dead
"The stories are hard, but there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism" (Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being).
March 2017. In the 1970s, many people went to seek diamonds in the central western state of Mato Grosso, in Brazil. Mato Grosso is a region twice the size of Spain or Kenya (900,000 sq. km)
The diamonds attracted many adventurers to Juina, a small city with 50,000 habitants. As a result of greed, there were many murders and the mortality rate was quite high. A local businessman decided to open a funeral home to make his own fortune. Rich and poor had to pay 3000 reales to this sole undertaker in the city.
There came a time when the not so wealthy couldn't afford the burial fees. The Salesian Bishop of the city, having been informed of the plight of the poor, saw that he needed to care for the indigent people who died, by promoting the work of mercy burying the dead.
Thanks to his initiative and funding provided by Aid to the Church in Need, a second funeral home and mortuary chapel was opened in 2012. Since then, the association under the auspices of the Catholic Church has buried more than 2,500 persons with professionalism, care and respect for the deceased, thanks to many volunteers who take turns in helping the foundation. Those who die in Juina can now be buried for only 500 reales.
Today has been a tough day: documenting the funeral of an old woman and a man murdered by seven stab wounds. The first deceased was a good lady, an evangelical Protestant. The murdered person was a man without faith, who was executed in a quarrel on a farm.
I have seen other morgues around the world and I was impressed by the care with which the volunteers cleaned the man's body, as you can see in the image above. You see Christ's universal, catholic charity being extended to this old woman and the murdered man when it was least expected. Perhaps they only hoped for the justice of a dignified burial; but they received the mercy of love.
3. Death, where is your sting?
"I'm interested in the future because that's where I am going to spend the rest of my life" (Woody Allen)
June 2016. Turkana is an African region in northern Kenya. Lake Turkana is famous for being the largest alkaline lake in the world and an important breeding ground for crocodile. Other deadly species roam the desert, like snakes and spiders, although the most dangerous is the female anopheles mosquito that transmits malaria. The Turkic tribe that surrounds the lake is distinguished by its sinewy tobacco-chewing men and the women who adorn their necks with striking colored collars.
I am dazed as I return from the burial of a year-old child. The dead baby was wrapped in a bag and deposited in the trunk of the car, although I only became aware of this when the priest asked me to take the sack from the back of the vehicle.
"What's inside…?" I ask.
The priest keeps silent and moves forward offering words of consolation to the mother, who comes to receive us. The villagers finish digging a grave next to the family hut. I let down the little sack and walk away. A nun now consoles the mother who has lost her second child in three years. The ceremony begins with everyone around the sack in the pit: "You are dust and unto dust you will return." The elderly women of the village prepare to cover the pit with branches. One of them lifts a palm branch and a scorpion appears and runs away rapidly, reminding us that death is still present with us and not just with the tiny child. The old woman, with her necklaces, shows no fear. With a quick strike of her thong, she kills the scorpion, crushed on the sand.
While thinking about life and death, I return to the house and find Erik there, a cheerful Turkic adolescent, who opens the gate for me as I look for some water to hydrate myself.
—Erik, I need a conceptual photo for a project. I need a scorpion and I don't know where to find one, I tell him
Erik looks at me with quiet disdain and says: "Surely, Musungu' (white man). I will find it. Do you want it dead or alive?"
I look at him in surprise, because what is terrifying to me holds no fear for him.
—But I don't want you to take any chances, I insist.
—Relax, Musungu, no problem for me.
Twenty minutes later, Erik knocks at my door. He has a scorpion in the bottom of an empty plastic water bottle that is displaying its stinger.
—Here you are.
And here again is death, here at the bottom of a bottle is death mirrored in a scorpion, which challenges us with its sting. Why the fear of death? Who is the guardian of my life? We aren't immortals in this life and someone is watching over us. We assume that evil will not prevail.
Erik looks at me. He knows that life and death are daily scenes in Turkana, in Kenya, in Africa. Here, both life and death are cheap. To Africans, it doesn't make sense the way we westerners clutch so tightly to life. Everything is in God's hands and his providence.
For Erik, life means simply living for today, and not worrying about tomorrow. Help those you can today, and leave the future to God and his plans.
4. Take my photo for the Pope
"You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little." And he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven" (Lk 7:46-48)
In the central district of Sao Paulo, Brazil, God is with you 24 hours of the day. Amid the skyscrapers and office buildings stands Our Lady of Good Death, a church where the Blessed Sacrament is exposed 24 hours each day. Here in the neighboring peripheries of the city true hope is being born: drug addicts, people without families and prostitutes come to the church to pray. They come alone or accompanied by missionaries of Schoenstatt, who seek out and assist the poor and rejected in society.
Edilson is one of the poor, who lives in a cardboard house. Bruna is a young blonde girl, a consecrated member of Schoenstatt, who visits him every Friday with a group of young people. Edilson doesn't stop talking.
—I'm going to tell you the truth; she is the only person who visits us without worrying whether we smell good or bad. Many Fridays she comes to accompany us and ask about our lives. She doesn't care about our appearance. She is the only person who remembered my birthday and brought me a cake to celebrate.
—Well, I can be with you for a few hours, but God is with you for 24 hours, says Bruna
—My dream is to meet the Pope and take a picture, interrupts Rafinha, crippled by an accident and the father of seven children. Take a photo of me and bring it to him, he implores.
—I will try…
5. Look people in the eyes
"Giving love is in itself an education" (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"If your photograph isn't good enough, then you're not close enough," says war photographer Robert Capa. Something similar can be said about mercy.
Rome, 1 February 2017. Holy Father, I am Ismael, a Spanish photographer who lives in Kenya. I assist the project Aid to the Church in Need. We have an album of photos to give you, but how do we give hope to these people?
—[pensive] Treat them with affection, with your look, with a gesture of tenderness. Look them personally in the eye and you will bring hope.
—Thank you Holy Father, I will try to do so and pray for your intentions at Mass each day, as I am a member of Opus Dei.
—Oh and in Kenya! Do you live there? In Kenya, you are doing a great job. The Work is doing a great job there. When I was in Kenya last year, I could see all that is being done in many places, with people from all classes. Keep up the good work. Opus Dei is doing a great job in helping Kenyans.
—Thank you Pope Francis. I don't think it's any merit of Opus Dei's. We're just trying to help you and the people there.
Rome, 17 September 2016. This time I don't present Bishop Javier Echevarria with any more stories about Africa in the get-together, but I take out a crocodile tooth from my pocket
—You didn't take it from the crocodile yourself?
—A sage in northern Kenya gave it to me, in the Kakuma refugee camp. I'll put it alongside my passport so you may bless my visa; sometimes when it has expired I've had problems with the African bureaucracy.
—Ismael, my son, I'll bless whatever you want, of course. But be careful with the crocodiles; we need you alive. The most important passport for a Christian is the one that gives entrance to heaven. So take care, you are still very young. And while we are on earth, we are here to give consolation and life to the others. As Saint Josemaria taught, "the time has ended for giving a few spare coins and old clothes. We have to give affection; we have to give our heart!"

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On Saturday the bay was lousy and blown out in howling onshores, breakers stretching out over a mile from the coast, unswimmable even using the alternative option of swimming out through the pier entrance. But as evening drew on the temperature dropped as the weather swung anti-cyclonic. The isobars narrowed and funneled a wind down out of the Arctic circle (though no Polar Vortex), blowing southerly over Ireland, and by Sunday morning the webcam showed the bay was flat under the offshore sweeping out to sea. The residual swell was compressed by it and only escaped the oppressive dominance of the offshore breeze right as it broke onto the beach, like soap escaping from between your hands as you press tighter, enticing bewetsuited surfers into the water.
Though I had been pool swimming, I hadn't swam in the sea in four weeks, and if I didn't get in at the weekend I would go a month without an open water swim for possibly the first time in a decade.
At home, before I left, I coughed a single time. A dry short cough that I recognised immediately. Even when I am not conscious of it, my body spits out this cough if I am exhibiting any physical nervousness. Before exams, job interviews, big swims. It's a mildly annoying but long familiar symptom, and only remarkable in that I hadn't known I was nervous. Afterall, it was just a short Sunday morning swim and I have counted many thousands of open water swims and many hundred of thousands of open water metres.
The immediate physical response to extreme cold is the sub-conscious fight or flight response. We react like we would to a physical threat. Because cold is a physical threat. Heart rate elevates, stress hormones production increases. All the Internet/Social Media posturing about cold water swimming is precisely that. Posturing. People lie about cold. For all the good we derive from it, something in cold water swimming also fosters those who see it as a platform for self-aggrandizement. They do not fear the cold, it does not make them nervous, does not make them cough. Apparently.
Since the last time I'd swam, the temperature would have dropped, but I did not know how much. What would it be? Somewhere between 6 and 9 degrees. All the world's oceans could fill the space between those numbers when you are not cold-conditioned, and I was questioning how much cold-conditioning I'd lost, given I haven't been trying to hold any great tolerance over the last couple of winters, content as I am with half hour swims when the temperate drops to eight degrees.
Habituation, the quickly trainable response of cold water swimmers is simply our reaction to getting into cold water. I am long habituated. I can get into any temperature, precisely because I know from long experience what the beginners do not know. Or more precisely, I know what their bodies do not know. I know it will not kill me. But conversely, I also know how much it can hurt.
Acclimatization, the more slowly trained response to staying in cold water takes longer to develop, but is not lost quickly, with some evidence that cold acclimatization is retained for up to six months without exposure.
That single cough though was my experience acknowledging I'd been out of the water and it would probably hurt. I recall a similar three-week break last spring around the nadir of the year's temperatures, and the first swim back in temperatures around seven degrees had been significantly painful.
We have more regular swimmers now during winter at the Guill. The last year has seen an increase in new faces I do not know, daily-dipping where possible in the winter weather. Those wearing neoprene hoods and gloves are contrasted with those who wear only swimsuits, I occupy some middle ground using silicone cap, goggles (a rarity, showing how many daily dippers are not really swimmers) and silicone earplugs (the only local who wears them and though I do warn people, they all mistakenly consider them unnecessary).
Blue sky and calm water beckoned but the cold breeze caused me to dawdle before finally committing. My feet hurt as I slowly descended the concrete steps covered by the high tide as they were enveloped. A slow immersion to my chest, then the plunge forward.
I've previously described the first three minutes of a cold water swim but not all swims are the same. All the usual sensations of thermal shock response, gasp suppression and breathing control were present, but what was noticeable from my absence was the pain caused by the cold in my legs. Cold water swimmers don't like to use the word pain. I am not (always) in agreement. It hurts, therefore it's pain.
This pain manifests in two ways. First is the over-arching stimulation of the thermo-receptor nerve cells. Those thermo-receptors will transmit the same electrical signals to your brain as if you'd burned yourself. This is short-lived, lasting mere tens of seconds up to a minute or two at most. The other cold pain manifestation usually not described, which lasts longer, is akin to weakness. My legs feel powerless, lacking any muscular or motive strength, f does not appear to equal ma and I do not kick at all for the early part of the swim.
For the first one to two hundred metres, I swam with my eyes mostly closed. I am gone inward, hemmed in by the immediacy of physical sensation. I sometimes think I will make a change next time and start with the method favoured by some, of just floating first and adjusting to the cold before swimming. But each time I revert to the pattern that I have found suits me best; swim away from the discomfort and thermal shock.
I swam toward the Comolee rocks. I had thought before the swim that I might only stay in for 15 minutes. Once I reached three hundred metres, all the discomfort/pain/whatever had passed, my legs were kicking, my control was total. I am thinking about long clean pulling strokes, the water clear under me and I do not even feel cold any longer. So I stay in, swim for almost 30 minutes before emerging from this banal fountain of youth that I'd postulate was the origin of the mythological version. I am both rejuvenated and revivified, once again a newly emerged god of the ocean, so many times now reborn.
I occasionally think about the dichotomies of open and cold water swimming. There is the simple and most common dichotomy amongst cold water swimmers of simultaneously loving and hating cold water (although I am apparently the only cold water swimmer who ever says "hate" also). But there are also for me other dichotomies.
Nothing fixes you in the physical world, in the actual moment, like cold water swimming. My skin is acid, fire and ice. My feet hurt. I clench my eyes shut, my heart hammers, I use experience to control my breathing. Here, now, I am on the edge of life as we normally live it, the edge of the capability to which our human bodies have evolved, the edge to which my experience has led me. I can close my eyes, control my breath, I can swim smoothly or frantically, but there is no diversion, no getting away from now. I cannot pretend or imagine I am elsewhere or elsewhen. This is the worldy world, the water world, the real world. Swimming and cold are my entire universe.
I am cold, and wet, and swimming. If I ever needed or wanted a tattoo, would that not be everything I would never need to say? This is an entirely immanent experience and there is nothing metaphysical in it.
And yet, nothing fuels my imagination like this experience. When I swim in cold it feels like it unlocks something inside me, something I didn't know was even present yet alone locked, a hidden door opens. It is like looking at bare dry sand from which some life suddenly sprouts. I can't say unexpectedly, because not only have I gotten used to this sensation, I have come to trust it entirely and without reservation. It's not revelatory in the sense of an epiphany or prophecy. It comes gradually, and often not while actually swimming. Instead, after I leave the water, my core temperature having dropped, I gradually reclaim body warmth. Indeed it seems like the cold actually drains slowly out of of me, thereby inverting what the second law of thermodynamics absolutely dictates, and into the interstice some greater sense of personal numinosity expands and words and phrases brim and feel like they will overflow.
I trust cold to show me things in myself, or in the world, that I never realised. I do not claim it always happens or that cold confers me any degree of special comprehension, maybe the cold water just pours into a gap that others don't have. But I am content with the promise of occasional revelation, even if I am merely a dumb naked ape, wonderstruck and stupefied. I cannot expect you to understand that this experience is not a death-wish but a joyous life event, and it happens out here on the edge of life and land. Actually that's why I occasionally think of it as a tiny death, and that it is good because there is the possibility of revelation, though I use that word with caution. In this transcendent (another cautionary word) experience, I find no evidence of or requirement for the metaphysical, the divine, the supernatural. All these years, all this time on the edge, has never shaken my profound and lifelong atheism. It is the actual power of the ocean, the deathly thrill of cold, the proficiency of my swimming. I experience wonder and need not ascribe it to anything transcendental. The sacred mundane is there to touch, and I don't need to put a caveat on it like having the eyes to see or the faith to accept, no preconditions of belief or belonging are required, it's a sacrament open to any who wish to try it.
No diversion, no deception are possible for me in the actuality of this swimming. I must accept this experience for what it is. I must accept myself for who I am. There is for me only truth in cold. I am not fast. I am not tough. I am not skilled. Therefore I am even more confused when I compare my experience to those people who do their swimming on the internet. But while I feel I have spent my life confused by people, in this water I have clarity, because I am in this water by myself, with the truth and need no ego out here. Maybe, each time, when I wonder if I didn't swim for long enough, I actually swim for exactly the right length of time, and could and should butter no parsnips. Do I swim for this vision of truth? Not always, not even frequently, I am not sure if I ever actively seek it. Each time, after the swim, a gift. Unexpected, yet not a surprise.
The details of how I feel before a swim are only the preface. But the actual important part is brief. The context requires more words than the truth requires. Truth is usually simple. All the rest of our lives are complex grey shades contrasted to the fiery red of my post-swim skin, the goldgreenblack of the winter ocean.
Only the warm and the dry are deceptive. Water is always truthful. Cold does not lie.
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I think you write brilliant and very interesting articles. However, no offence meant, but I think they are too long and too dense and need more editing. I find it hard to get through your articles to the end. Regards Eugene
Thanks, Donal. I recognise so many of the feelings but would be hard pressed to be so eloquent.
This post is wonderful! You really capture the truth of cold water swimming! Thank you!


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"Happy Birthday, Danny" Part 1 of 1 In the wake of THE SEVEN CAPITAL CITIES OF HEAVEN, Danny Rand has been busy reinventing and rebuilding his life. Who is he, as a man? As a hero? What does the Iron Fist legacy really mean in this day and age? Where does Danny Rand go next? And just what exactly is up with him and Misty? Are they, like, a thing, or, or what? And why might the 33 candles on Danny's cake mean the end for the Immortal Iron Fist?
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As the inspection and judging continues for the 24 Hours of LeMons South, there's been plenty of unique modifications showing up. One of our favorites so far has been this
custom-fabricated paddle-shifter gearbox badminton paddle taped to the column shift handle on the entry from Team Punisher.
As any cop car should, the team also has the Chevy Caprice 9C1 rigged up with a big ol' flashing light. Although this is certainly not standard-issue, and looks more like it's off the top of a cellphone tower, or maybe a small coastal lighthouse. But that's to be expected when your mission statement, "to enslave and torture," follows Barricade's "to punish and enslave."


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On a couple of different occasions, I have used this space to call for an end to the economic, moral, and cultural disaster that is the drug war (1, 2, 3). American governments at all levels have been fighting the war on drugs for over four decades now, and it's overwhelmingly clear that it's time to cut our losses, admit that the whole thing was a mistake, and work toward restoring the lives that have been destroyed by the drug war.
I'm surprised--and saddened--that this isn't more of an issue in the Presidential race. Both major party candidates are bona fide drug warriors. Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson have called for an end to the drug war, but unfortunately, candidates from outside the major parties have a difficult time getting noticed by major media outlets. I hope that changes, but in my experience news outlets tend to pretend that there are literally only two people on the ballot.
Most major media outlets also tend to treat legalization as if it is a crazy idea that is absolutely outside of serious discussion. The people behind Seattle Hempfest, meanwhile, have been working to change that. For just over two decades, volunteers have been holding "the world's largest cannabis law reform event." I'm not a cannabis user myself, but I am a concerned citizen who is distressed about the erosion of basic liberties, the crime, and the mass incarceration that the drug war has brought us.
As I've mentioned before, prohibition is a textbook example of a policy with severe unintended consequences. The prohibition of marijuana and other drugs has produced unintended consequences not at all unlike those that resulted from the prohibition of alcohol in the twentieth century.
As events like Hempfest demonstrate, prohibition has done very little to stop people from getting drugs of all kinds, and it has also done little to prevent the emergence of a thriving community of marijuana enthusiasts. Some people know a lot about classic cars. Others know a lot about fine wine. Still others might be really into crazy straw design or connoisseurs of still pictures of Joe Biden eating a sandwich.
In the same way, there are a lot of people out there who know a lot about pot. How much? A picture is worth a thousand words. Once again, Brian Wallace from Nowsourcing, Inc. has been kind enough to share this handy infographic. If nothing else, this suggests that while pot prohibition has led to a the incarceration of a lot of people, it hasn't exactly kept the drug out of the hands of enthusiastic users. Marijuana prohibition has been a terrible mistake that has ruined far too many lives. It's high time we own up to it.
Edited 8/17/2012, 11:15 PM: The infographic was replaced because there was a typo in the original version.
I'm a Professor of Economics at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, a Senior Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research, a Research Fellow with the…
I'm a Professor of Economics at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, a Senior Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research, a Research Fellow with the Oakland, California-based Independent Institute, a Senior Fellow with the Beacon Center of Tennessee, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics. I'm also a member of the Board of Policy Advisors for the Heartland Institute and a member of the Board of Scholars for the Foundation for Economic Education. I'm on Twitter: @artcarden.


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On February 1st, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 on DVD and Blu-ray!
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
From the creators of Beverly Hills Chihuahua, everybody's favorite talking Chihuahuas are back in a comedy that's a pack of outrageous fun for the whole family. Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents, Papi and Chloe, upside down when their playful puppies present onechallenge after another. But, when their human owners find themselves in trouble, the tiny pups will stop at nothing to save them—because in good times and hard times, the family always sticks together. Papi, Chloe and the puppies embark on a heroic adventure, proving once again that big heroes come in small packages. Featuring an all-star cast, including George Lopez (voice of Papi), and complete with a litter of bonus features, this heartwarming tale of the meaning of family, friendship and loyalty is a special breed of fun—times five.
The first movie was adorable and I find my girls laughing out loud while watching it. This new adventure continues the saga and those little puppies are just about the cutest things I've ever seen. With the voice and comedy stylings of Mr. George Lopez himself, it's hard not to get caught up in the movie when my girls are watching it…. I think dad even enjoyed it!
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 will be available on DVD, Blu-ray and Disney Combo Packs. Disney Combo Packs include both a DVD copy of the movie and a Blu-ray disc. Oh and it doesn't stop there! The new movie is loaded with bonus features including:
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– Blu-ray bonus features include all of the features included on the DVD, as well as a Beverly Hills Chihuahua Challenge – interactive game show led by Papi!
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About Rudolf Steiner
Born in 1861 in what is now Croatia, Steiner studied science and philosophy in Vienna and soon became a respected thinker, publishing his philosophical treatise The Philosophy of Freedom in 1894.
Later he began to speak about his spiritual experiences and described how he was able to make use of his scientific training in such a way that his spiritual investigations could become a science in their own right.
From 1907 onwards he became involved with a variety of artistic endeavours, writing plays, designing buildings and devising a completely new art of movement called Eurythmy.
He called the results of this spiritual science Anthroposophy and an Anthroposophical Society was founded at the Goetheanum in Switzerland in 1913. From this time until his death in 1925, Steiner was fully engaged in establishing an abundance of cultural innovations, details of which can be found elsewhere on this site.
Later, at Christmas 1923, the society was refounded and called the General Anthroposophical Society, when Steiner became its President. At this event, Steiner provided a special meditation as a foundation stone and established the School of Spiritual Science.
Anthroposophy is a modern spiritual path that cherishes and respects the freedom of each individual. It recognises however, that real freedom is actually an inner capacity that can only be obtained by degrees according to the spiritual development of the individual. The striving for this capacity, and the corresponding spiritual development, can be greatly assisted through a scientific study of the spiritual nature of humanity and the universe. Such a study is available in the writings and lectures of Rudolf Steiner - an initiate of the twentieth century. Steiner called his study - spiritual research or Anthroposophy.
Anthroposophy is thus not only the spiritual path to freedom, it is also a scientific study of the spiritual knowledge gained on this path. For Steiner, Anthroposophy was the path that could 'lead the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe'. And he showed that it is a path that is capable of inspiring many cultural innovations - in education, agriculture, medicine, architecture, science and the arts - and much else.
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They are laterally compressed fishes similar in appearance to rays, with a large circular, triangular, or box-shaped head and a small tail. The largest members of the family are about 50 centimeters (20 in) in length.
They are bottom-dwelling fishes, mostly found on the continental slope at depths between 200 meters(660 ft) and 1,000 meters (3,300 ft).
This fish typically lives in water depths, where a person like you and I, would never see them. SO TO FIND THIS FISH OFF THE DOCK WHERE I LIVE, IS A RARE FIND INDEED!
When I am not with my tutor, homeschooling, you will find me in and around the dock looking for interesting stuff. What I really like about Belize, is that all the animals here, are truly unique and different. I love seeing them, and reading about them.
Below are some pictures of bat fishes, for you to enjoy You can see Scuba diving with them, which is rare.


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www.for-ua.com 5 June 2013
Total strength of Ukrainian army will be reduced from 184 thousand to 122 thousand soldiers, press office of the Defense Ministry reports. Last week the Cabinet approved the army reform state program for 2013-2017, which provides for the optimization of the army to ensure its combat capability, which will be achieved primarily by reducing the number of personnel, without affecting the fighting capacity.
Moreover, the program also foresees improvement of social protection for militaries and their families, as well upgrading of equipment and armament. The press office also reminds that the last conscription will held this autumn, and the last conscript will leave the service in 2014.
As ForUm wrote in the article "Volunteer army: inevitable or incredible?", the authorities have been talking about contract-based army for a long time. Despite permanent lack of finances, the Armed Forces already have an experience of forming divisions and corps by this principle. Thus, in 2000 the Armed Forces numbered 28.8 thousand contract militaries, and in 2004 - 40.7 thousand soldiers. As of February 1, 2013 the Armed Forces of Ukraine consist of 33% of conscripts and 54% of contract militaries.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Contract army: is it possible to cancel compulsory military service by 2014?
www.for-ua.com 5 June 2013
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What are amplifiers and their uses?
Amplifiers are devices that are used to increase the power of an input signal, they're commonly found in audio equipment. An amplifier works by drawing power from a power supply and then creating a separate larger signal that is high in amplitude but stays in line with the original audio signal characteristics.
Amplifiers are extremely common electrical components that can be found in many consumer devices such as microphones, electric guitars and other musical instruments. They're also found in industrial applications, for example, RF amplifiers are used in RF control devices in process control systems.
What are comparators and their uses?
A comparator is an electronic instrument that works in a similar way to an amplifier but how it differs is that instead of amplifying a signal, it is able to take two inputs and match the output to the highest input level.
Theyre often used to convert analogue to digital signals, converting music records to a digital version for example. In industrial applications, they can be found in null detectors, lever shifters and zero crossing detectors.
What types of amplifiers and comparators exist?
There are many different types of amplifiers and comparators that are available to suit a specific desired function. Some popular types are outlined below:
- Operational amplifiers - also known as op-amps, are a high gain amplifier that usually has a single output.
- Instrumentation amplifiers - include buffer amplifiers and typically feature 3 op-amps in their design. They're used in various types of testing equipment.
- Isolation amplifiers - are used as safety devices, as they protect against varying voltages that could damage the circuit components.
- Comparators - common devices that are used to compare the input power of the signals that they're receiving and output a signal based on the one with the highest power.
- Audio amplifier ICs - integrated circuits that contain a complete amplifier set up, achieving complex amplification in small devices.


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A Mass Effect 3 PSA: Multiplayer Can Affect The Ending
A lot of the Mass Effect 3 reviews are focusing on the bleakness of Bioware's story, and quite a few are shocked at the game's darkness in regard to the choices they made. Some guy called Tom Francis over at whatever the heck PC Gamer is, has figured out exactly why it's even darker than expected, and it's a bit of a dodgy trick that BioWare have pulled if true. No, it's not new-news as such, but it is worth reiterating strongly now the game's out in some territories. I'll go into details after the jump, as I'm aware some people view even the words Mass Effect 3 as some sort of spoiler. As long as no-one spoils the ending of Se7en in the comments: I've had it on pause for on my VHS for about 16 years. I keep intending to return, but it's just so tense!
Right, I'll assume you're here because you're cool with me talking about the mechanics of this. I'm the best person to talk about it as I don't know anything about the story, so there's nothing about it in here. Really, I can only name Shepard and that's it. I don't even know if that's the correct spelling of her name, frankly.
It turns out it's all about playing multiplayer and gaining War Assets. As you play the single-player, when you help people you accrue war assets. Despite completing all the quests he could find, PCG's man still suffered an overwhelmingly bleak, dark finish to his game. Why?
That's because I'd never played the multiplayer. It's a co-op mode where you and up to three other players have to survive waves of AI enemies and complete objectives. If you succeed, you get an increase to your Readiness rating – a percentage by which your single player War Assets are multiplied by. These are specific to each sector of the galaxy, so if you have a lot of War Assets in the Terminus Systems, you'll gain more by playing on a multiplayer map set in the Terminus Systems.
Please, read the rest of Tom's post before you comment here – obviously we don't want to nick all his comments, but he has much more to say on how he played and why he was surprised by the outcome. This being Mass Effect, a certain bleakness is inevitable regardless, but apparently there's bleak and there's bleak. Now it's a particularly cruel trick because it allegedly ignores your choices to some degree: you either need to be a crazy completionist in single-player, which entails completing all the grindy scanning minigames, which are apparently as dull as this photo of a rock, or jump extensively into the multiplayer, a part of the game that traditionally people would play after completing the main. Why do this? Why make people play the game in such a way? Can you guess what part of Mass Effect is apparently suffused with helpful microtransactions that you can opt for instead of gradually unlocking everything?
Another option still is to buy $7 iPhone game Mass Effect: Infiltrator, which offers an additional way of increasing war readiness in the main game.
Admittedly, this does mean there are multiple ways to achieve maximum war readiness, which may appeal to some – but it's a long way distant from the old ways of doing your best to do the right thing throughout the quests (or the worst thing, if that's your style).


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O'Malley announces Maryland-Israel partnership
Governor wraps up trips to Israel, Jordan
Gov. Martin O'Malley's office is announcing a new Maryland/Israel Development Partnership.
The governor announced the partnership on Sunday as the governor wrapped up an eight-day trade mission to Israel and Jordan.
The governor's office said the partnership will fund joint development efforts by Maryland and Israeli companies in the cybersecurity and life sciences sectors.
O'Malley's office said the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development and Israel's Ministry of Industry will decide which research to fund. Maryland will fund up to half of the research costs of Maryland companies, with a $400,000 cap per project. Maryland companies could also qualify for tax credits.
This was O'Malley's third visit to Israel and his first to Jordan.


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Wood thrilled to share All-Star experience with pal Lee
Cubs' hurler and Phils left-hander hunt and train in Arkansas during offseason
NEW YORK -- This is the first All-Star Game for left-hander Travis Wood, who couldn't wait to get to New York, be a part of the National League team and enjoy all the festivities.
After starting in a 10-6 loss to the Cardinals on Sunday night at Wrigley Field, he hopped a plane early on Monday morning with his wife, 2 1/2-year-old son, parents and some friends in tow so he wouldn't miss the media events and workout day at Citi Field.
He arrived at 12:30 p.m. ET and scooted quickly from the hotel to the ballpark.
"I'm excited, for sure, for sure. It's going to be an outstanding experience," Wood said during Monday's media session. "I'm the Cubs' representative here, and hopefully, I can just do them some justice. Show them the quality of the Cubs, the type of team and players we have over there."
Because of recent rule, since Wood started on Sunday, he has to have chosen to make himself available to pitch on Tuesday to remain on the active All-Star roster. Tuesday is his day to throw on the side, so he will be able to pitch, but for not much more than a few batters.
In addition, the managers have been instructed to hold back at least one pitcher in the event of an extra-inning game.
Wood could be that guy, but he isn't aware of any limit on the amount of pitches he can throw.
"I really don't know," he said. "I haven't talked to them about it. I just know that I'm available."
No matter when he pitches and for how long, the Midsummer Classic will be special for Wood because he's teammates with his childhood buddy Cliff Lee, the hard-throwing Phillies left-hander who is an All-Star for the fourth time. The two live about five minutes apart near Little Rock, Ark., and they train and hunt together in the offseason.
"Earlier in my career, when I first started working out with him, he helped me along and gave me some pointers on how to go about some things," Wood recently said about Lee. "Other than that, we've talked baseball and don't really try to get into anything mental or mechanical or anything like that. [In the offseason] it was pushing each other, working out and getting ready for the season.
"He's an outstanding pitcher, and for me to be able to learn from him is outstanding."
Like Lee, Wood has had an outstanding first half. Pitching for a Chicago team that is 42-51 and 15 games behind the first-place Cardinals in the NL Central, Wood is 6-6 with a 2.79 ERA in 19 starts.
But way beyond those numbers, he is only the fourth Cubs pitcher -- and the first since Greg Maddux in 1988 -- to record 17 quality starts prior to the All-Star break, although he didn't make it through the sixth inning on Sunday. Those 17 quality starts are the most in the Majors at the break.
"To have basically every start a quality start but [two], he's definitely our MVP," manager Dale Sveum said of Wood, who was obtained from the Reds, along with a pair of Minor Leaguers, for left-handed reliever Sean Marshall on Dec. 23, 2011.
Wood posted his 17th quality start in a 7-2 Interleague win over the Angels on Tuesday.
"[Wood] can't pitch any better baseball," Sveum said. "Besides throwing shutouts, you can't really pitch any better."
Sveum calls Wood a "baseball rat," and he does so with admiration. Wood works hard and plays hard, at times sprinting hard trying to beat a throw from an infielder on a routine grounder. He gets thrown out anyway, which means he didn't need to sprint.
"His mentality just doesn't allow him to trot to first base," Sveum said.
Said Wood: "I can't help it. I don't have it in me -- you hit it, you run hard."
Now he's where he wants to be -- in Queens and, at 26, an All-Star in only his fourth big league season.
"It's been so far, so good," he said. "I've been fortunate enough to have some good games and figure some things out -- my command on some of my pitches. Strike one. This week I just want to take it all in and have the experience. You always think about doing something like this. You always want to be an All-Star and play in the game. I'm just happy that the hard work has paid off."
The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday. Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM also will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.


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Padres generate late surge, can't complete comeback
Six runs in the final three innings not enough to make up for early hole
ST. LOUIS -- The Padres rallied for four runs in their final two frames, but it was too little, too late as the Cardinals' nine runs proved too steep a deficit.
The San Diego offense sputtered for much of the Padres' 9-6 loss to the Cardinals in the second half opener, which was played in front of 43,929 at Busch Stadium.
The game appeared to be headed toward a blowout but the Padres rallied for six runs in the final three frames, forcing the Cardinals' All-Star closer Edward Mujica into the game. Mujica retired Jedd Gyorko and struck out Will Venable, extinguishing any comeback hopes.
"Guys just didn't quit," Chase Headley said. "If we're down, we're going to keep playing until there's 27 outs against us. No surprise there."
Jason Marquis stalled the National League's top team for two scoreless innings, but he gave up six runs on eight hits over his last 3 1/3 frames in his ninth career start against his former team.
Marquis, who was unavailable postgame while getting worked on in the training room, extended his Major League-high walk total to 68 and didn't strike out any St. Louis batters.
"Jason battled," manager Bud Black said. "He was in a little duel with [Cardinals starter Jake] Westbrook through the first five innings. … We didn't get him any run support early."
The Padres managed eight hits against Westbrook, but they only came away with two runs to show for it. All-Star shortstop Everth Cabrera recorded his sixth multi-RBI game of the year, as he drove home the Padres first runs with a bases-loaded two-run single in the seventh on Westbrook's last pitch of the night. But St. Louis reliever Seth Maness induced a double play to prevent the rally.
"I thought early on we had some decent swings, just we hit the ball to some guys," Headley said. "[Westbrook] just did what he usually does -- throws that sinker, relies on it. That's a really good pitch for him."
Westbrook limited the Padres for 6 1/3 innings, and the right-hander's contributions weren't just from the mound. He also went 3-for-3 with a double and two singles against Marquis, with two runs and an RBI.
"It was the first time I had run the bases that much since high school," Westbrook said. "It was a good win for us. I surprised myself a little bit with how well I did at the plate. The biggest thing was we won the game, and it was a fun game to be a part of."
The Cardinals struck first, taking a 1-0 lead in the third. They didn't stop there, pushing eight more runs across, including a pair of three-run innings in the sixth and seventh.
The Padres squandered an early opportunity to at least tie the game, if not take the lead, in the fourth, when Nick Hundley grounded into a double play, stranding two San Diego runners when the Cardinals had just a 1-0 lead. Gyorko and Venable had reached on back-to-back singles, and Westbrook walked Alexi Amarista on the next at-bat, loading the bases for Hundley before Westbrook forced the double play.
"Any double play is hard to swallow," Black said. "That's not what we're looking for."
The opportunities were there for San Diego, which nearly matched the Cardinals in hits, with 13 to St. Louis' 14, but the runs just didn't follow until late.
"It was just one of those nights where he made good pitches to get us to hit it at guys and get some big outs," Venable said about Westbrook.
Black turned to Sean O'Sullivan in the seventh, as the right-hander made his first relief appearance since April 6, 2011 with the White Sox.
"He had six days off; he was fresh, ready to go," Black said. "We needed two innings. He's a guy that can give us length. That's part of his game."
O'Sullivan made his first start of the season last Friday, surrendering two earned runs on six hits and three walks. Black said O'Sullivan will remain in the bullpen in the immediate future, while his replacement in the rotation Tuesday is still unannounced. With the loss, San Diego has now dropped 19 of its last 23 games. The Padres have lost 10 straight on the road, and Friday's loss was the beginning of a 10-day, 10-game stretch away from Petco Park.


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Möller B, Glaß M, Misiak D, Posch S. MiToBo - A Toolbox for Image Processing and Analysis. Journal of Open Research Software. 2016;4(1):e17. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/jors.103
The Microscope Image Analysis Toolbox MiToBo is an extension for the widely used image processing application ImageJ and its new release ImageJ 2.0.
MiToBo ships with a set of operators ready to be used as plugins in ImageJ. They focus on the analysis of biomedical images acquired by various types of microscopes.
Some of MiToBo's operators are for example these ones:
Furthermore, MiToBo offers a user- and programmer friendly framework for developing algorithms that have properties not available in ImageJ, however, still provides full compatibility to all ImageJ features.
MiToBo completely separates the implementation of image processing algorithms from potential user interfaces.
Moreover, MiToBo builds on top of Alida which is a library for easing the development of data analysis algorithms and tools.
The main concept of Alida are operators as the core units for implementing data analysis algorithms.
Alida defines unified interfaces and execution procedures for operators which yield the fundament for its nice features like
MiToBo takes full advantage of Alida's features, hence, provides a framework for implementing image analysis algorithms allowing for automatic documentation and automatic user interface generation, and includes the graphical programming editor Grappa for user-friendly design of more complex processing pipelines.
Current release: You can download the latest version of MiToBo.


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Sgt. Frog - Season 3 Part 2 (DVD)
Title: Sgt. Frog - Season 3 Part 2
Volume: DVD
Running time: 325
Distributor: FUNimation Entertainment
Release date: 2011-08-23
Suggested retail price: $39.98
Age rating: 13+
Keroro is Sergeant Frog, the leader of a platoon of warriors sent to conquer planet Earth. But when the amphibious invaders discovered how much humans enjoy dissecting their comrades, the troops were scattered, the mission was aborted, and Keroro was abandoned. Now, this once proud soldier spends more time wielding a vacuum than he does the weapons of war.
It's a far cry from the glory of battle, but hey, at least he's got his own room. And though the invasion may have slowed to a hop, Sergeant Frog still occasionally yearns to overcome his karaoke addiction and reassemble his troops. Watch out world, the frogs are taking over!
Contains episodes 66-78.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.
(added on 2011-08-19, modified on 2011-08-19)
- Reviewed in Shelf Life (October 10, 2011)
- Encyclopedia information about Sgt. Frog (TV)


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Starting right now you can pick up Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, Revenge of the Titans for the Mac, Windows or Linux for exactly whatever the hell you want to pay, and it's for a good cause.
That's right, Wolfire's pay-what-you-want, donate-to-charity indie gaming bundle returns today with the Humble Indie Bundle 2.
This year the core games in the bundle are Braid, Machinarium, Osmos, Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play are again the charities Braid and Cortex Command are making their Linux debuts and Revenge of the Titans is officially launching inside the bundle.
Head on over to HumbleBundle.com, name your price, decide how to split up the proceeds. Wolffire's last HumbleBundle offered Aquaria, Penumbra: Overture, Lugaru, Gish and World of Goo at a pay-what-you-want rate. The bundle raised more than $330,000 for Child's Play and Electronic Frontier Foundation. It also, sadly, proved that some assclowns will pirate anything, even a five-game pack that could be picked up for as little as a $1.
Another interesting side note, the provides real-time stats, discovering last year that Linux users are about twice as generous as Windows users. Come on Windows, don't let me down this year.
Alright now sing along with me:
It's real nice when you name your price for games that are DRM free,
Cross-platform compatible and you're helping charity!
Go, buy, give!


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Bad news, Olympic watchers: Russian sex bomb figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, that jumping, flexing totem to modern masculinity, suddenly dropped out of competition just minutes before taking the ice in Sochi today due to injury. Which means that, for him, these Olympic games are over.
To commemorate this tragic turn of events, the lovely Isha Aran recut his famous (and previously reappropriated) Sex Bomb routine with Sarah McLachlan's "I Will Remember You."
Goodnight, Sweet Prince.


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A metal artist and good friend of mine – Esther (廖幸玲), who lives here in Taichung – has signed up for a competition created by a big Taiwanese book publisher. The company has asked people to submit an innovative idea which will inspire people to start reading very old Chinese classics. My friend has an amazing idea and has been accepted into the voting stage. So now she needs your vote to win!
Actually, the idea reminded me a bit of Singaporean artist Michael Lee's book sculptures.
Here's a bit about her proposal from the artist herself:
In my proposal, I wrote out an idea related to a book called "Dream of the Red Chamber" (紅樓夢) which is one of the top five Chinese literature classics. It's about the ups and downs of a super big family and is set around 300 years ago. Over 300 figures appear in the book and there are lots and lots of superb and beautiful words and poems as well as an amazing descrition of how people lived at that time. It also presents a comparison between the poor and the rich, the higher, lower and lowest classes, love and hate, dream and realities, the powerful and the weak…
However, such a book has been dying in the readers' market as the language is too hard for most people to read and understand. So I want to try my best to tell the story in a way people would understand – using modern language, metal work and other media. I would like to create a pop-out story book to give back to the world the beauty of this old classic and hopefully evoke some further discussion and sharing of it and interest in it.
At the moment I am at the second reviewing stage, trying to get into the final ten. To give me a better chance at getting there I need lots and lots (and lots!) of votes from Internet supporters. It would be highly appreciated if you could give me a vote by clicking on the link below. You can even vote more than once by voting from different computers because the voting system works by recording your IP address. It would be 3009% appreciated if you could spread the news to other people for me as well.
Go on… vote!
Click here to vote and show your support for Esther, reading and art. The page is in Chinese, so once you click through, you will see Esther's name, (廖幸玲), and a number which shows the number of votes she has already. Just above the number you will see a little blue rectangle with the words "投他一票". Simply click on the blue rectangle to show your support and record your vote.
As Ether herself says, "Thank you soooooooooooooooo much for your kind patience of reading this mail. And I would like to thank you for all the effort and care you have given me on this matter."
Esther currently trains with and works part-time for Taichung-based metalwork studio Zamama. I wrote about them in them and the other inhabitants of Stock 20 in the winter issues of GuanXi.
Important update! Voting ends this Friday, 15 January, 2010.
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CALGARY — Canadian media personality George Stroumboulopoulos will interview mega star Oprah Winfrey one-on-one during each of the shows on her Canadian tour in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver, the Herald has learned.
Also, today about 200 extra tickets will be available for sale through Ticketmaster for the sold out show at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary on Tuesday night.
"It's going to be fun man. I'm looking forward to it," said Stroumboulopoulos.
"Historically, interviewing an interviewer is the most fun. Personally and professionally. Because you're talking to somebody who really understands what giving means. You want in an interview setting what your hoping to be is a generous interviewer with a generous subject. So it's where you can turn (it) into a conversation as opposed to an interview and Oprah's built for that, man."
Winfrey is in Edmonton tonight and in Vancouver on Thursday.
Christian Darbyshire, who with partner Andy McCreath of Calgary-based tinePublic Inc., are the producers of the Oprah tour, said the entrepreneurs think that Stroumboulopoulos is one of the best interviewers in Canada, if not the best.
"We thought that bringing in George would kind of give it a bit of a more hip, younger feel and we just love the way he does his interview style," said Darbyshire.
Stroumboulopoulos said what Winfrey has been able to do in the field of broadcasting during her career is so impressive and everyone in the business admires that.
"And you know what else? She does it on a human level," he said. "If it was just about her own personal gain it would be one thing. There's lots of broadcasters who are famous for that. But so much of what Oprah has done with her empire is to empower people and I've been in this business long enough to know when you make it about other people it's a way better world."
Stroumboulopoulos is catching Winfrey at an opportune time — right after her exclusive interview with cycling legend Lance Armstrong and his confession of using performance-enhancing drugs.
As for what he's going to talk to Winfrey about in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver, Stroumboulopoulos said he's prepared for any conversation.
"I do like the idea of empowerment. I do like the idea of exploring her relationship with empathy building and the sort of life she's led. She's earned this, man," he said. "She may have been born to do this, but she wasn't born into this. To me a conversation with Oprah has got to be satisfying to the audience in the room in that they've also got to learn stuff about their own lives to relate and connect. Otherwise, it's just going to be two people talking.
"If there's value in this, it will be that other people can continue to be inspired by her and continue to be curious about her ... I don't script out an interview. I never do. Because I want it to be the conversation that exists as opposed to the conversation that I want. I have a few questions that I want to ask. Obviously a lot of themes I want to hit on. But how we get there and the structure of that, I'm going to let that just kind of rip."
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to Minecraft. The wiki and its 3,224 articles and 9,715 files are managed and maintained by 476active contributors from the Minecraft community, along with the wiki's administration team. Anyone can contribute. About Minecraft is a sandbox construction game created by Mojang AB founder Markus Persson, and inspired by theInfiniminer, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper games. Gameplay involves players interacting with the game world by placing and breaking various types of blocks in a three-dimensional environment. In this environment, players can build creative structures, creations, and artwork on multiplayer servers and singleplayer worlds across multiple game modes. Minecraft is available to all players for 19.95 (US$26.95, 17.95). When purchased, singleplayer and multiplayer game modes can be played using the downloadable stand-alone launcher. Minecraft Classic is available to play for free. Minecraftdevelopment started around May 10, 2009, and pre-orders for the full game started being accepted on June 13, 2009.Minecraft's official release date was November 18, 2011. On July 8, 2014, Minecraft for the computer reached 16 million sales and become the best-selling PC game of all time. On August 16, 2011, Minecraft: Pocket Edition was released for the Sony Xperia Play gaming smartphone. After its exclusivity with Sony expired, it was released for Android devices on October 7, 2011, and iOS devices on November 17, 2011 for US$6.99. On April 2, 2014, Minecraft was released for the Amazon Fire TV. It contains all the same features as the Pocket Edition as well as support for the Fire TV's controller. On May 9, 2012, Minecraft was released for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Arcade for US$20, where it subsequently broke every previous sales record. On February 11, 2013, Minecraft: Pi Edition was released for the Raspberry Pi. It is based on the Pocket Edition and is available for free at Mojang's dedicated blog. The Pi Edition is intended as an educational tool for novice programmers and users are encouraged to open and change the game's code using its API. On December 17, 2013, Minecraft was released for the PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Store for US$19.99. The release was almost identical to the Xbox 360 Edition and was developed in tandem with the Xbox 360 Edition from then on. On June 26, 2014, the Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 editions' sales passed the number of sales for the PC edition of Minecraft, leaving the Minecraft series having sold more than 54 million copies world-wide and become third best-selling video game of all time.


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1962 International Harvester Scout 80 - Unbound
This One's For Mike
International Harvester has been out of the light-duty truck market for almost thirty years, but their products live on through a community of hard-core fans. You can count Chris and Carolina Adams in that number, as their '62 Scout 80 is clearly the work of devoted fans. True, the purist might cringe at anything short of an original restoration of what many consider to be the original SUV, but we're sure that this Scout doesn't mind that it has been completely transformed into a sporty runabout. As Chris explained, International Harvester was known for its tractors and farm implements, including the obvious harvesters and balers that would fasten hay into tight bales. That's how IH garnered the nickname "binder", which explains why the Adams' Scout, which is so far from the norm, was nicknamed, "Unbound".
The Adams' Scout started as a four-cylinder 2WD model with a bench seat and leaf springs at every corner, so they had a long way to go to get to what you see on these pages today. The foundation of the build is an Art Morrison chassis custom made from 2x4-inch rectangular tubing. The rear suspension is a five-link, while the front is Morrison IFS, and the whole truck rests on adjustable coilovers that nestles the truck over the perennial-favorite 20x10-inch American Racing Torq Thrust wheels. Just like the wheels are modern versions of a classic, so are the tires, as the Adams' chose 265/35ZR20 BFGoodrich T/A KDW rubber for the front and 294/45ZR20 tires for the rear. Marty Schreiber at N2 Hot Rods in Arizona, was responsible for the build, while Chris lent his eye to the design and aesthetic choices.
Chris knew that there had to be something about the body of his Scout to set it apart from the rest. There isn't much adornment on the factory body, so the focus went to the top, which was chopped four inches with the windshield laid back to match. The other major modification was done to the tailgate, where the hinges were removed and the gate was solidly welded to the body. The exhaust system also makes its appearance in the rear, as the exhaust exits via round tips frenched into the rear panel of the Scout on either side of the roll pan. N2 did the bodywork, with Tim Chesher handling the final sanding that left the 4th Dimension Cortez Silver metallic and Nocturne Blue metallic paint looking fantastic.
Inside, the Spartan interior seems to hold true to its roots, but there's more to be found with a careful investigation. What appears to be a factory dash in its normal location is actually filled with Auto Meter gauges and is mounted an inch closer to the passengers to make room for an air conditioning unit, as A/C wasn't even available in Scout 80s. The audio duties are handled by a Pioneer head unit and two 10-inch shallow-mount Pioneer subs mounted in compartments that were designed for the original fuel tank and utility box. The long-gone factory bench seat was replaced with power leather Infiniti G35 buckets. Also taking the comfort up a notch is Porsche carpeting laid over a foundation of Dynamat.
Even with all of the upgrades, both dramatic and subtle, the one that truly grabbed our attention was underhood. International was renown for its heavy-duty engines that lasted forever, but they weren't known for power. The Adams' Scout came equipped with a 152ci four-cylinder, which was essentially the driver side bank of International's 304ci V-8. The engine moved the compact Scout around, but with only 83 hp, and remember that was the old gross-hp rating, that engine just wouldn't do. Instead, Turnkey Engine Supply was sourced for an LS6. The 5.7L engine breathes through an Airaid intake and out through Doug Thorley headers. With five times the horsepower and a paddle-shifted 4L60E, the powerplant was just the thing to bring the Scout into the 21st century. Power is routed into a Strange Engineering Ford 9-inch housing filled with 3.50 gears and a limited slip.
The Adams' Scout is the kind of unique, sporty ride we love to see. It's not every day that you see a Scout, and we've never seen one quite like this. Our hats are off to Scott for designing, and Marty and his crew for building, such a complete hot rod.


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"Be the change you wish to see in the world"-Eleanor Roosevelt
There are life events that change us forever.
Using all of her inner resources, Margie Bijou was able to transform heart wrenching grief into a positive energy that has added to the joy and glamour of hundreds of weddings and Bar-Mitzvahs.
In her own words, this is Margie's story:
Chapter One: Ezra Abraham:
"My Mom called me one day and told me that my 16 year old cousin Eddie was going in for a biopsy of a cyst on his knee. It wasn't a big deal but she was just wanted to make me aware. (Ironically on ER that week, there was a girl who was a soccer star who came into the ER with a sprained knee and walked out with an amputation due to a tumor in her lower leg.) So I told my mom that she shouldn't ever assume anything.I repeated the epsiode details and she shouted some line in arabic which meant "HOW DARE YOU EVEN BREATHE such negativity!!!!!!!
I still remember the email my dad had printed for us that told us Eddie had at the most 3 months to live. He was 16.
We weren't the closest of cousins. My uncle had moved his family to New Jersey and as hard as it is to be close with my family that lives a block away, its is 4 billion times harder when they live in another state.
I only got to know Eddie because of his illness..
Chapter Two: Sherri
My cousin was having a Bar Mitzvah for her son and needed a hat to complete her outfit. Of course, none were to be found across the entire tri-state area, so I decided to search the net. I got hooked on Ebay and started buying every vintage hat that I could find. Federal Express showed up at my door every day for 2 months and the hat boxes started to stack up underneath the baby grand piano…..About 200 hats later I finally found something in the same vicinity of the green we needed. A veil arrived. I sewed it and made it to fit…..Ah finally the outfit was complete.
A week later I received a frantic phonecall from Sherri whose son's bar-mitzvah was in three days. "Margie- my dog Othello jumped onto the dining room table and chewed my hat up into a thousand little pieces!!"
Two minutes later, Sherri showed up at my door with the chewed up remains of two months of searching hours online and a over a thousand dollars in useless old hats.
It was a catastrophe!!
The next day an idea popped into my head. I ran out and bought a green kippah and sewed it back together.I still remember sitting at the dining room table pushing the needle throught the suede and into my fingers…
After 4 hrs I had reconstructed it to what it looked like before (except for a few teeth marks).
Othello was sent to live with a very nice family in the country and Sherri looked like a supermodel!
About a year later I moved into a new house and the hats were packed into bins and stuffed into a closet way up on the 3rd floor.
Chapter Three: Fate
One week after mothers day in 2005 , my mothers only sister, my aunt Merle died of melanoma on her lung. She had been only just diagnosed 6 months before. That same October of that year, 2 days before Yom Kippur, my fathers mother, grandma Margie died.
Two days after that,my cousin Eddie succumbed to a 7 year battle with rhabdomyocarcessarcoma.
Not something you see every day. My uncle Irwin sat shiva for his mother and son in the same week.
What a crazy year.
These tragedies inspired me to want to make every day of my life meaningful and not to waste one moment of the precious time that we have.
When Eddie passed away, my Aunt Susan gave me his hats that he wore during his illness to add my collection. It was then that the idea to lend out the hats to raise money for his foundation came to me. He motivated me to want to give back to others."
Chapter Four: Hats Off To Life
A room in my home has been converted into a "Hat Room" where many Jewish women of all ages try on gorgeous hats and have a great time till they find just the right one!
The majority of the women that come in, are ones I have never even met or seen before, yet we bond as we try on dozens of hats…of course they bring over their possible choices of outfits, shoes, and accessories, and together we assemble their beautiful look for their momentous day.
Through out the last few years I have accumulated many many stories some funny, some sad…and some just out of control! Some days I seriously feel like a bartender and and not only do I decorate ladie's heads ,but I also listen to what's in their hearts as well…
Our hats are part of a private collection that consists of mostly vintage dress hats.Many of the hats have also been donated by people that don't have a need for them anymore.
People are sharing! Women are calling other women to borrow hats. Designers are calling me to donate their hats.
People are giving more than just money, they are giving of themselves.


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We're counting down the days to our first annual Winter Fireside Party this Saturday, January 25th at the Vera Project. We'll have a limited number of tickets available at the door so if you haven't purchased your tickets yet, order your tickets now:
Still planning your day? Click here to view the schedule for the day!
You can also purchase tickets for the Northwest Fiddle Tour! Start off the day at the Vera Project and then head up to the Phinney Neighborhood Center to experience a whole day of fiddlers. Between the two events, you will have the chance to hear a wide array of many of the best players of all different styles and backgrounds in the Northwest! Save money and get a discounted combined ticket to both events.
Northwest Fiddle Showcase
Winter Fireside Party, Vera Project – Seattle Center Grounds, 4pm
One of the highlights of Northwest Folklife's Winter Fireside Party will be a Northwest Fiddle Showcase, an excited and fast-paced show of both up-and-coming new fiddlers and some pillars of Northwest Fiddle traditions. The show will feature fiddlers of various different styles including Bluegrass, Mexican music of the Tierra Caliente, Cajun twin fiddling and more. We'll be featuring some of the hottest young fiddlers in the Seattle scene such as The Onlies, a band of teenage traditional music superstars, as well as some of the most celebrated and experienced tradition bearers, such as Vivian and Phil Williams, who have been documenting and performing Northwest fiddle music since the 1950s. Paul Anastasio, Karen England and Jim Newberry, and Ben Hunter (of Renegade Stringband) will also perform to create this cross-generational fiddle extravaganza. Please join us on January 25, 2014 at the Vera Project on the Seattle Center grounds for the Winter Fireside Party starting at 2pm with the Fiddle Showcase at 4pm.
Seattle Folklore Society's Fiddler's Showcase Concert
Seattle Folklore Society, Phinney Neighborhood Center – 6532 Phinney Ave N, 7:30 pm
The Seattle Folklore Society presents an evening with some of the finest traditional fiddlers in the Pacific Northwest on January 25th at 7:30 at the Phinney Neighborhood Center. Featured Fiddlers are: Jeff Anderson – Norwegian American; Paul Anastasio – Tierra Caliente and Western Swing; Gary Lee Moore – Oklahoma/Texas; Jamie Fox – Metis/Northern Plains; Ramon Selby – Old Time Northwestern/Western Swing; Hank Bradley – Southern string band. Hosted by Stuart Williams.
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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake announced today that 16 players from the Real Salt Lake-Arizona Academy committed on Wednesday to play soccer at 15 different colleges and universities starting in the fall. Fifteen of the players committed to Division I schools, with three players signing Letters of Intent with schools that finished the 2012 season ranked in the top 25.
Four of the players who committed on Wednesday – Andrew Brody, Ive Burnett, Jose Navarro and Jon Zabasajja – spent at least a portion of Real Salt Lake's Casa Grande, Ariz. preseason camp training with the first team. A fifth player, U-18 FW Benji Lopez, did not sign a Letter of Intent on Wednesday and is currently training with the Claret-and-Cobalt first team at its camp in Irvine, Calif.
The 16 Real Salt Lake-Arizona Academy players who signed Letters of Intent on Wednesday are:
Andrew Brody, University of Louisville
Hometown: Orlando, FL
Position: Midfielder
Ive Burnett, University of South Carolina
Hometown: Brandon, MS
Position: Defender
AJ Esparza, United States Air Force Academy
Hometown: Gilbert, AZ
Position: Defender
Danny Gavin, University of Washington
Hometown: Chandler, AZ
Position: Forward
Trevor Hyman, Stanford University
Hometown: Irvine, CA
Position: Midfielder
Brandon Johnston, Gardner Webb University
Hometown: Raleigh, NC
Position: Midfielder
Isaias "Junior" Juarez, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Hometown: Las Cruces, NM
Position: Defender
Kostas Kotselas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Position: Forward
Riggs Lennon, University of Virginia
Hometown: Paradise Valley, AZ
Position: Midfielder
Brandon Marquez, Seattle University
Hometown: Las Cruces, NM
Position: Defender
Tony Murillo, High Point University
Hometown: Las Vegas, NV
Position: Midfielder
Jose "Coco" Navarro, Marquette University
Hometown: Surprise, AZ
Position: Midfielder
Amer Sasivarevic, Grand Canyon University
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT
Position: Midfielder
Jon Stadler, Oregon State University
Hometown: Portland, OR
Position: Defender
Rodrigo Uriarte, Boston University
Hometown: Phoenix, AZ
Position: Defender
Jon Zabassajja, Southern Methodist University
Hometown: Phoenix, AZ
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Note: A shorter version of this review previously appeared in the Illinois Entertainer. The June issue of the Illinois Entertainer has my review of The Webstirs' impressive new CD Now You've Really Done It.
Singer-guitarist and long-time rockabilly aficionado Ken Mottet reached all the way back to the 1950s for inspiration while writing and recording the original tunes on his very fun EP Showmen's Rest. Mottet delivers cornball but period-perfect sentiments via rich, deep vocals, and he's ably backed by guitarist Scott Ligon, bassist Casey McDonough, drummer Alex Hall, and pedal steel guitarist Pat Keiner. "Whatever It Takes," featuring The Giardinaires on backup vocals, is catchy and romantic, while Mottet opts for a more raucous sound on his tale of unrequited love "Without You." Mottet channels Johnny Cash on the unabashedly sentimental "Last October," a tribute to an aging father who probably won't make it through another year.


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SAC Capital Advisors LP said that securities regulators have warned the hedge-fund firm it may face civil charges over the alleged insider-trading scheme that led to last week's arrest of a former portfolio manager.
Tom Conheeney, president of SAC, told investors during a Wednesday conference call that the Securities and Exchange Commission sent the firm a so-called Wells notice last week, according to people who listened or were briefed on the call. A person familiar with the investigation...
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