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All aggressive men have to pee in the bushes!
I lift up the pillow and a nest of beetles scurry away from the light.
I do the same with the next pillow, sending more beetles scuttling away in to the darkness.
I quickly brush them away before The Boss spots them and throw my own clean bed sheet over the whole bed, pillows and all.
The pillow is the same shape and consistency as a bag of cement and within 10 minutes I have a throbbing headache.
The bed too short for my height so I am forced to lie at an angle with my feet hanging over the side. The room bathed in a dim glow from the fluorescent yellow street light outside the window as I listen to late night wedding revelers returning noisily to the rooms next door, shouting at each other in Tamil despite their proximity and the late hour. I wouldn't be getting much sleep that night.
Earlier that evening after a fruitless search for some quality accommodation in this small rural town we finally settled for the best of the rest and took a tiny room in a lodge down a noisy side street. It's wedding season and everywhere is booked solid in a town that is not big enough to warrant a hotel of any kind.
The room qualifies as luxury accomodation as it has AC and a TV. One thing it lacks though is hot water. With hand signals and a few words in English and Tamil we explained to the owner that we wanted hot water to bathe in and he explained that he would supply us with an immersion rod, an electric element which you suspend in a bucket to heat the water. It needs to be suspended using a wooden stick so that you don't get an electric shock but it is surprisingly effective.
By 8pm it hadn't arrived so I climbed down the narrow stairway to what functions as the reception. The lodge owner was still there juggling calls on his two cell phones.
"Hot water, hot water" I asked him.
"9 o'clock coming" came the answer. "Fresh piece."
As good as his word, at 9 o'clock there was a loud banging on the door.
The elderly watchman, barefoot and clad in a white vest and dhoti, handed me a plastic bucket, a wooden stick and a brand new immersion rod still in it's box.
Closing the door, I looked at the price stickers still on the bucket and the immersion rod box. The total cost was Rs650.
The rent for the room was only Rs600!
This one was spotted in the Marlborough region of New Zealand.
Sounds very painful. I wonder if they get many customers?
India is a land of stories. Some of them make you angry, frustrated, and cynical. But there are just as many if not more, that inspire you, fill your eyes with tears, and restore your faith in the strength of the human spirit.
This is one of those stories.
Imagine a boy, born to a poor farming family in rural India. A childhood running barefoot through the fields, playing with friends in the shade of a Banyan Tree, swimming in the muddy village pond, an idyllic life for a child but for the parents struggling to make ends meet and to put food on the table, a tough hard life.
As he grew older and finished his education he looked further afield for ways to support himself and to care for his aging parents. He travelled to a big city in another state. The language, the culture different but unperturbed he looked for work, eventually landing a job as a waiter in a restaurant. His hard work paid off, his rudimentary English improved, and over time his income increasing. Still a paltry salary but with careful living and long hours of work, it was enough to send a small amount home to his family each month.
Over the years he became popular with the regulars, his ready smile and helpful attitude endearing him to the customers. In conversation one day he spoke of his dream, to go beyond waiting tables and to train in the kitchen, gain skills as a cook, and maybe, if he was lucky, eventually get work on a cruise ship. He had found a school that would train him but the fees meant it was beyond his reach and his dream would remain unfulfilled. His father was ill and what little savings he had managed to accumulate were spent in hospital bills and replacing his father's lost income.
His story touched a chord and one day some of his regular customers presented him with money to go towards the course fees. With tears in his eyes he reluctantly but gratefully accepted the donation, scraped together the balance needed and shortly thereafter handed in his notice, leaving to join the cooking school.
Six months passed and he appeared back in the city, a changed young man, seemingly more confident, English more polished, his way of dressing more modern, looking more like a young IT professional rather than a waiter from a village.
Proudly displaying his certificates and coursework, he explained that he would return to his village for a while to see his family, to take care of outstanding debts and obligations and would then seek employment with his new-found skills.
A month later, now with tears in their eyes, his benefactors listened as he conveyed in a breathless, excited phone call his great news.
No-one from his village had ever been out of the country. No one from his village had ever flown in an airplane.
The next day after a total of four connecting flights he would arrive in Italy, where he would be joining the kitchens of a P & O Cruise Ship sailing the Mediterranean.
My post "The Toilet Angel" (Part 1 and Part 2)seemed to affect a lot of readers profoundly and prompted a lot of discussion and comment both on the blog and privately. As Carissa at Everydayasia.com commented "puts into perspective her own mild hurdles"
One of my readers sent me the beautiful poem below which I thought I would share with you. I don't know it's origin or who the author is so if you do please let me know.
The World is Mine
I saw a very beautiful woman,
And wished I were as beautiful.
When suddenly she rose to leave,
I saw her hobble down the aisle.
She had one leg and wore a crutch.
But as she passed, she passed a smile.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have two legs; the world is mine.
I stopped to buy some candy,
The lad who sold it had such charm,
I talked with him, he seemed so glad,
If I were late, it'd do no harm.
And as I left, he said to me,
"I thank you, you've been so kind.
It's nice to talk with folks like you.
You see," he said, "I'm blind."
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
I have two eyes; the world is mine.
Later while walking down the street,
I saw a child I knew.
He stood and watched the others play,
but he did not know what to do.
I stopped a moment and then I said,
"Why don't you join them dear?"
He looked ahead without a word,
I forgot, he couldn't hear.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine,
I have two ears; the world is mine.
With feet to take me where I'd go,
With eyes to see the sunset's glow,
With ears to hear what I'd know.
With loving family & friends to enjoy life
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine,
I've been blessed indeed, the world is mine.
The next day having reached Pondicherry we were sitting in one of our favorite restaurants waiting to place our order.
We spotted our regular waiter crossing the restaurant on crutches.
"What happened to you?" we asked.
"On the way home from Pondicherry on my motorbike one evening I was hit by a drunk driver.
I spent 2 months in hospital but the doctors couldn't save my foot"
I pull off the highway into a large motorway services complex similar to what you would see alongside motorways in the west and now increasingly common in India.
This one has a large petrol station, coffee shop, a South Indian vegetarian restaurant and quite probably the worst McDonalds in the world.
It's 8 am and we are heading from Bangalore to Pondicherry for a few days break.
The South Indian restaurant serves lovely Masala Dosas for breakfast but one of the main reasons we stop here is because it has possibly the cleanest public toilets in the country, a rarity in a nation where entering a public toilet usually requires the wearing of a hazmat suit and gas mask.
Having broken our journey here many times over the years we have always been impressed at how well the toilets are maintained by a young Tamilian lady. Meticulously scrubbing and mopping both the men's and ladies toilets she ensures that whatever time of day you visit they are always clean and smelling fresh. She lights up our day with a beautiful smile and over time we have become nodding and greeting acquaintances despite not sharing a common language.
It's been 9 months since we last came through this way and we were shocked to see her limping as she worked. A piece of leather encasing the stump where her foot should be.
With hand signals and the few English words that creep into every language she explained that she had been heading home from work one night and while crossing the highway to reach her village was hit by a speeding lorry. Badly injured she spent 2 months in hospital but in the end the doctors were unable to save her foot.
Life in India for the working masses is tough, seldom affording the luxury of a long convalescence.
She is back at work, scrubbing, mopping, ensuring the toilets continue to be spotless.
And despite the missing foot…………….. still smiling like an angel.
A peacock's call shatters the silence of the early morning.
It's 6am and I am standing in that half-light that comes just before the sun raises its head above the horizon.
A river flows gently past to my left and there is a nervous shuffling as 700 people gather for the start of the 8th running of the Kaveri Trail Marathon (KTM).
The race director's last minute announcements are interrupted by a spontaneous singing of "Happy Birthday" somewhere in the crowd prompting a proud mother to climb up onto the podium and grab the microphone. "It's my daughter's birthday today too" she cries out, "please sing for her as well". The crowd breaks out into another "Happy Birthday" for the daughter who hides in the crowd and doesn't raise her hand when the race director asks her to identify herself.
As the large digital clock ticks over to 6.30, we set off up the dirt path, red bibs pinned to the chests of those running the half marathon, blue denoting those running the full. All shapes and sizes are here today, lean fit looking runners accompanied by less athletic looking entrants tackling this distance for the first time.
Many have made the 3-4 hour journey from Bangalore to run a race that has become known for the beauty of the course, following as it does the meandering path of a tributary of the River Kaveri, a major water source for the state of Karnataka.
Starting as we do, near the entrance to the Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary, the route teems with birdlife. To the right of the trail are lush sugar cane fields and even at this early hour, farmers get to work tending their crops before the heat of the day makes the task unbearable.
The field spreads out, stray dogs standing on the edge of the path in bewilderment as scores of runners trudge past. Farmers in their white lungis and vests taking a break from their work to watch and wonder as people from all over India and the occasional westerner, run by.
A sea of green t-shirts surrounds me, emblazoned with the logo of Amazon India, a company which either encourages running amongst their employees, or has thought of a novel way of marketing themselves.
Finding my rhythm, I feel a little smug and self-satisfied, running as I am in minimalist shoes as others tread on in their heavily cushioned "traditional" running shoes. That is, until a young man rapidly passes me, his bare feet padding rhythmically on the sun-baked earth below.
Catching up with him, we chat for a couple of kms about our experiences of transitioning from shod running to barefoot running. I congratulate him on going the whole hog but we eventually part ways when he pauses to remove some large thorns from the sole of his foot.
The sun slowly rises above the horizon bringing with it a heat, the intensity of which increases by the minute despite the still early hour. I sip a few mouthfuls of water at the well-stocked aid stations but ignore the trays of bananas and fruit, knowing that if I stop for too long, the voices in my head telling me to give up might become too powerful.
Bullock carts laden with harvested sugar cane occasionally block the way on their way to the market forcing me to either stop for a moment or detour into the long grass.
Ahead some small village boys, already dusty from playing in the fields, offer runners sweets with outstretched hands, grinning with excitement while the stray dogs, earlier standing sentinel beside the path, have retreated, still puzzled, to the shade of the banyan trees.
The last few kms pass in a blur, the beautiful scenery which had enthralled me on the outward leg, no longer grabbing my attention, as I look only for the next distance marker and the next patch of shade.
2 hours after starting in the cool light of dawn, I cross the now sun-baked finish line, a proud sense of achievement dispelling all feelings of exhaustion.
Someone hangs a finisher's medal around my neck, and I turn to shake the hands of those who finished with me. Spying a "nariyal pani wallah", his bicycle laden with coconuts, I head towards him and down in quick succession the water of two young coconuts, nature's best electrolyte replacement drink.
This was my first ½ marathon in over 20 years and I am happy that I chose the KTM to run this distance again. The running community worldwide is a friendly one but the relatively small number of runners at the KTM lends a camaraderie to the event I haven't felt on larger runs. That coupled with the beauty of the course, the peacocks, the bullock carts, and the locals lining the course make this event unique and I know that this race will always hold a special place in my thoughts. I will be back next year.
A while later as I limp through the hotel lobby, my race bib still pinned to my chest, my medal in my hand, the hotel manager greets me and asks "for what purpose is everyone running?"
I grin but can't think of a suitable answer.
Only another runner would understand.


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FRED HOLLERBACH, LiebestraumPosted: October 15, 2014 Filed under: 60s, Flexible Records, Germany, Jazz Records Leave a comment
Around 1960, the Hallo label out of Rastatt/ Baden-Württemberg, released around four dozen flexi discs, often containing original tunes, to go with their Hallo magazine, a rock´n´roll knock-off of Bravo. I haven´t posted any Hallo flexis, because a book about Hallo and a CD, was soon to be released. That was years ago, but so far, no book. If the book and the CD finally come out, I´ll be happy to buy a copy. Meanwhile, this Hallo flexi is fine blog material: 50 plus years old, defunct label, unknown artists, not available in digital format elsewhere.
Franz von Suppé´s Liebestraum was turned into a Twist hit in 1961 by Charly Cotton and his Twistmakers, a band led by prolific songwriter Christian Bruhn. I´ve posted a bunch of versions of Der Liebestraum als Twist over the years, by Jimmy Brown (Tempo), Bert Landers (Tip) and Bob Gerry (Baccarola and the Gary Edwards Combo (Oriole). This Accordeon-Jazz-version, typical of the 1950s trend of Jazz-takes on Classical music, predates Charly Cotton´s.
The condition of this flexible record seems to be the result of a familiar scene. Flexis were cheap products for teenagers, teenagers that lived in the same rooms with their little brothers and sisters. Like I did with my little brother until I was 13 years old. Frequently we would get in fights. I´m sorry to admit it, but my brother always lost.
In revenge, he would take his crayons and draw all over my stuff…
Angel of Love was first recorded by Charlie Gracie for Coral in 1959. Teddy Palmer, recorded a German version for Electrola the same year, in the rrrrrock´n´rrrrrollin´Peter-Kraus-style.
FRED HOLLERBACH STUDIO-COMBO, Angel of Love
DER OVERBACHER JUGENDCHOR, Shalom, 1973Posted: October 5, 2014 Filed under: 70´s, Germany, Jazz Records, Private Pressings, Religious Records 3 Comments
This is an EP that I found last week in the 50 cents bins of a local second hand record store. Didn´t even listen to it in the store, but was expecting some boring Christian music from the subtitle "Worte Jesu im Chanson". What a surprise, when I put the needle on the record! Of course, if I had read the liner notes more carefully, the name Peter Herbolzheimer would have rang a bell. No idea why such a highly acclaimed jazz musician contributed to a record that was meant to help "The advancement of the clerical professions". In 1972, Herbolzheimer, together with Jerry van Rooyen and Dieter Reith, won the highest German medal of honour, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, for the opening score of the Olympic Games in Munich. Incidentally the three of them teamed up again for this record. Herbolzheimer died aged 74 in his hometown of Cologne on 27 March 2010
Despite the big names, these songs have never been re-released, obviously because they´re suffering from a severe case of Flandersitis.
But listen to the funk!
DER OVERBACHER JUGENDCHOR, Shalom, 1973
DER OVERBACHER JUGENDCHOR, Talitha kumi, 1973
DER OVERBACHER JUGENDCHOR, Maranatha, 1973
DER OVERBACHER JUGENDCHOR, Effatha, 1973
DIE RAGTIME SPECHT GROOVE, Gisa, 1973Posted: October 3, 2014 Filed under: 70´s, Advertisement Records, Germany, Jazz Records, Private Pressings 2 Comments
This 45 is fitting easily into the concept of this blog. It´s a privately pressed EP, that has never been reissued in 40 years, of four jazz tunes, recorded live at a furniture store in 1973, on the occasion of a design-exhibition.
The fact that this 45 is a promotional item makes it seem musically inferior to a proper jazz release, but it´s far from that. Band leader and pianist Hans-Jürgen "Specht" Bock (1939-2006), bassist Klaus Schulze and drummer Slick Salzer were already seasoned jazzmen when they recorded these songs. Everything is excellent here, even down to the graphics, credited on the front to a certain hace. I especially dig the label design that doesn´t imply "furniture store".
The Ragtime Specht Groove recorded five albums. For this EP they cover Jelly Roll Morton´s "Grandpa Spells", Tom Delaney´s "Absent Minded Blues", first recorded by the Dutch Swing College Band, and "Numbers Boogie" recorded by Sugar Chile Robinson. My favorite of this batch is Ragtime Specht Groove´s own original tune "Gisa". I especially love the part when they go to a minor scale in the middle of the song and the bassist changes from playing with the fingers to a bow, Jimmy Blanton-style. And then suddenly they pick up the tempo again!
These Stuttgart cats sure were groovin´…
DIE RAGTIME SPECHT GROOVE, Gisa, 1973
DIE RAGTIME SPECHT GROOVE, Grandpa Spells, 1973
DIE RAGTIME SPECHT GROOVE, Absent Minded Blues, 1973
DIE RAGTIME SPECHT GROOVE, Numbers Boogie, 1973
DIE ROCKETS, Schlafe mein PrinzchenPosted: September 26, 2014 Filed under: 60s, Germany, Jazz Records Leave a comment
Here´s another one of those underrated German cheapo Dixieland tunes that I love so much. The flip is a schmaltzy Bob Gerry Schlager that I just didn´t care enough for, to record. Otherwise all the usual blog requirements: defunct budget label, anonymous band, 50 plus years old songs, never been reissued.
Mozart´s famous lullaby put through the Dixieland meat grinder….
DIE ROCKETS, Schlafe mein Prinzchen
DIE DIXIELAND WILD CATS, Wild Cat Blues, 1960Posted: July 1, 2014 Filed under: 60s, Germany, Instrumental Records, Jazz Records Leave a comment
This cash-in version of Chris Barber´s 1959 hit coupling of Petite Fleur/ Wild Cat Blues, recorded by The Dixieland Wild Cats, an anonymous group, was both published by the budget label Baccarola and the Bertelsmann record club. I already posted another version by Kid Orbis on the Delta super-budget flexi-label in 2012.
Petite Fleur was an international hit in 1959 and spearheaded the popularity of the Trad-Jazz movement in Europe. Sidney Bechet, who wrote and first recorded Petite Fleur in 1952, wasn´t able to share the late success of his song. He died in Paris on May 14, 1959.
I really do like these budget versions, especially the rhythm section on Wild Cat Blues. The vibraphone, the bass and the guitar, add a dynamic, slightly more modern touch to the standard early 1920s chug-chug-chug rhythm of the original. I also dig the novelty ending:
DIE DIXIELAND WILD CATS, Wild Cat Blues, 1960
DIE DIXIELAND WILD CATS, Petite Fleur, 1960
THE BERTLANDERS-STARBAND, Yah-dah!, 1958Posted: June 12, 2014 Filed under: 60s, Berlin Records, Germany, Jazz Records 2 Comments
Found this in the 50 cent bin of a local thrift store recently. Sleeveless, but still in okay condition. Here´s all the information that I could find about this mysterious, completely forgotten group.
- Bert Landers was a Berlin band leader who recorded a great number of records for various German labels, but mainly for the budget Tip. He also recorded under the name of Berth von Landers und sein High Society Orchester. I assume that The Bertlanders-Starband is actually the studio orchestra of Bert Landers in one of its earliest formations.
- The Bertlanders-Starband are: Heinz Wulfestieg – trumpet; Karl Wolfgang Wiesenthal – trumpet; Bert Button – trombone; Dieter Siebert – alto-sax; Volkmar Schmidt – tenor-sax, Detlev Clausen – piano; Joachim Gilow – bass; Kurt Giese – drums
- Trumpeter Heinz Wulfestieg (1936–1977) was a half-brother of actress Hildegard Knef.
- Alto-Saxophonist Dieter Siebert might be identical with 20th-century classical music composer Wilhelm Dieter Siebert (1931-2011). His Wiki-resume mentions that he played Jazz in the late 50s.
- I further assume that Volkmar Schmidt is saxophonist, clarinetist and orchestra leader of East-German groups Gruppe Schmidt, Schulz & Co., Orchester Volkmar Schmidt and Volkmar Schmidt Combo.
- Drummer Kurt Giese later became a producer for North German radio (NDR) and arranged Chet Baker´s "Last Great Concert" in 1988 in Hannover, two weeks before Baker´s death.
- Trumpet solo on Franz Grothe´s Mitternachts-Blues by Karl Wolfgang "Charley" Wiesenthal.
These four tracks, exclusively recorded by Opera – Europäischer Phonoclub, have not been reissued in 50 years.
Yah-dah! is a nicely up-dated version of one of the earliest Jazz recordings,Yah-de-dah, first recorded in 1917 by the Frisco Jass Band.
THE BERTLANDERS-STARBAND, Yah-dah!, 1958
THE BERTLANDERS-STARBAND, Who´s sorry now, 1958
THE BERTLANDERS-STARBAND, Tequila, 1958
THE BERTLANDERS-STARBAND, Mitternachts-Blues, 1958
THE DING DOO DATTLERS, Modern Shave CharlestonPosted: May 28, 2014 Filed under: 60s, Advertisement Records, Jazz Records, Switzerland 1 Comment
A while back, Dropbox temporarily blocked my files because of too much traffic, but now everything is working again. So here´s a new post….
Hazy Osterwald, the undisputed King of Swiss pop and jazz music, died in 2012 at the age of 90. Without ever trying very hard, even I have collected a bunch of his records. This promotional record, made for a brand of men's safety razors, has never been reissued.
For obvious reasons….
THE DING DOO DATTLERS, Modern Shave Charleston
THE DING DOO ]DATTLERS, Chicochino Cha-Cha-Cha
STUDIENPLATTE JAZZ, Blues und Improvisation, 1961Posted: May 15, 2014 Filed under: 60s, Germany, Jazz Records Leave a comment
This record was meant for private education at home and was part of a 12-piece box set that was issued by Opera-Europäischer Phonoclub record club in the early 1960s. The majority of the set is about classical music, but there´s one 45 about early electronic music, one about gospel and only this one about jazz.
This is an early German example of academic re-evaluation of what was formerly considered low, vulgar, popular culture. I think, as comprehensible and well meaning it might have been to turn pop culture it into an academic discipline, it has always led to lessen its impact.
Even though not intended, at least in this case we were left with a pretty funny record:
Analyse: Prof. Paul Douliez, Dr. Karl Richter
Sprecher: Wolfgang Wendt
Tontechnik: Kurt Rapp
"Ist der Jazz Massenhysterie? Suggestion? Oder Entfesselung der unterdrückten Individualität? Musik der Freiheit oder der Disziplin? Gehört er zur Etikette der Snobs, oder bedeutet er harmloses Verspieltsein der Fans? In jedem Fall, was der Jazz zu geben vermag, geschieht spontan aus einer magischen Verbindung der Instrumente, ihrer Spieler und Hörer. Ob Ekstatik… oder intellektuelle Abstraktion,… diese Musik ist ein Kennzeichen unserer Zeit."
STUDIENPLATTE JAZZ, Blues und Improvisation, Seite 1
STUDIENPLATTE JAZZ, Blues und Improvisation, Seite2
I also found another version Opera issued with grey labels:


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I saw a beautiful dress in the store, that I really loved. So i went designing my own dress, changed a litle bit.
I took my measures, then i went searching for my fabric, i found it in the Netherlands ;), It's made by black thick Knit, and the red is cotton. I loved the red fabric so much ;)
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Aug 20, 2013, 12.40 PMby dayocouture
Looks really good on you and the colour contrast is awesome
Aug 21, 2013, 07.08 PMby carolientje
thank you xx
Aug 19, 2013, 09.51 AMby Mary Athey
gorgeous dress and its lovely on you. i love your fabric choice x
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thanks mary, yes lovely fabric :))
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One of the holiest of holy days for the left.
One of the holiest of holy days for the left.
Via The Hill:
The White House on Friday chided Republicans for warning that President Obama's action on immigration could disrupt work on other issues, with a top aide likening the threats to the "third-grade equivalent of taking your ball and going home."
"There's no reason you should not be doing those things you think are in the best interest of the country where there's bipartisan agreement because you disagree with this," senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.
"The equivalent would be if the president said, 'If you pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act that will poison the well and I refuse to work with you on anything else.' That's an illogical approach."
Then again, TIME is a lib rag so I wouldn't put it past them.
More like a shakedown.
Will air this weekend on cable news channels.
One of the most frightening aspects of the Islamic State is that they are building an actual state.
IRBIL, IRAQ — The Islamic State is accumulating gold, silver and copper in markets throughout northern and western Iraq, dealers report, in an apparent effort to stockpile enough precious metal to follow through on a pledge to mint its own currency.
On Nov. 11, the Islamic State's Beit al Mal, an ancient Islamic term akin to "Department of Treasury," announced that the group would reintroduce the dinar currency of the Umayyad Caliphate, which ruled an empire that stretched from modern Iran to Spain for much of the seventh and eighth centuries. The announcement – which included images of three types of coins in gold, copper and silver – drew skepticism from experts, who doubted that the Islamic State could arrange a system to mint and issue a modern currency.
But interviews with dealers in precious metals indicate that the Islamic State has begun the complex process of issuing the currency, a reminder that as the best-financed non-state actor in history – with a revenue stream from oil sales and aggressive taxation – it's been able to install bureaucratic controls over the large swath of territory it's claimed in Iraq and Syria.
Hajj Samir, a gold trader in the city of Fallujah who asked that his full name not be used for security reasons, said that since the announcement, foreign jihadists had been buying all of the gold and silver in the city's markets.
He said he alone had sold more than 15 pounds of gold to foreigners who were members of the Islamic State. "They said it was for gifts for their wives, but now I know why, and all the traders say the same thing," he said. "We've been making trips to Baghdad to get more, and they buy all of it.
It's almost like they are racist, which is impossible because only white people can be racist.
Death threats, how progressive.
Via NRO:
Protesters in Ferguson, Mo., have taken to the streets and chosen not to wait for a grand jury's decision before clashing with police once again. A grand jury is expected to decide whether to indict police officer Darren Wilson, who is accused of shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown, in the coming days. But protesters made their voices heard outside the Ferguson Police Department on Thursday night shouting, "What do we want? Darren Wilson! How do we want him? Dead!"
Protesters gathered on South Florissant Road outside the police department and halted traffic. Police responded by coming out of the station and forming a line behind the barricade protecting the department.
Bush Derangement Syndrome still alive and kicking.
Via Campus Reform:
A political science professor dressed up as former-Vice President Dick Cheney (R) and pretended to shoot around the classroom.
In a video and photos obtained by Campus Reform, John Gruhl, a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) donned an orange vest and Cheney mask and then pretended to shoot around his classroom.
Some students in the classroom can be heard laughing at Gruhl's antics.
"When Professor Gruhl walked in to the class on Halloween dressed as Dick Cheney, I felt as though he had overstepped his boundaries as an educator," Matt Server, a freshman political science major told Campus Reform. "By dressing up, and in my eyes, mocking the former vice president, I felt that Professor Gruhl had gone to another level in his attacks on Vice President Cheney. His costume, and subsequent remarks, were inappropriate for an institute of higher education."
If this were a Republican president the left would be screaming "religious fanatic!"
Via CNS News:
President Barack Obama said in a primetime address to the nation last night that he will travel to Las Vegas today and meet with an illegal alien whom he intends, unilaterally, to allow to stay in the United States in violation of the nation's immigration laws.
In explaining why he thinks this is the right thing to do, Obama cited an unspecified passage of "Scripture."
"Tomorrow, I'll travel to Las Vegas and meet with some of these students, including a young woman named Astrid Silva," said Obama." [...]
"Are we a nation that kicks out a striving, hopeful immigrant like Astrid, or are we a nation that finds a way to welcome her in?" said Obama. "Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger–we were strangers once, too."
Class acts.
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Libs and ISIS have something in common, they both love taxes.
Via NBC News:
ISIS has announced monthly taxes on students attending schools and colleges in Iraq's second-largest city, parents and a security official said Wednesday. Iraqi government schools have been state-funded since 1974. But parents in Mosul — which ISIS militants now control — have been told they must pay 25,000 Iraqi dinars (about $21) for every child attending kindergarten, 50,000 dinars ($42) for high-school students and 75,000 dinars ($62.50) for college undergraduates, a mother of three and another father-of-three told NBC News. A senior Iraqi security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, also confirmed the taxes had been introduced. "ISIS elements are trying to get funds from different sources in order to run the territories they took over," the official said.
"This is too much for me," the mother of three told NBC News by phone. "We are living under very bad financial conditions here in Mosul." The woman, whose name has been withheld for her own safety, added: "ISIS elements are using different kinds of pressure against us…My husband will have to work more hours to earn this money."
Have at it.
THIS JUST IN: Secret Service agents have arrested a 23-year-old Michigan woman carrying 9MM handgun in holster near White House.
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) November 21, 2014
Via KABC:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KABC) — A 23-year-old Michigan woman who was carrying a 9MM handgun in a holster was arrested by Secret Service agents outside the White House Thursday. The female suspect was identified as April Lenhart.
She was spotted along the north fence on Pennsylvania Avenue, and taken into custody. She is reportedly not cooperating with authorities.
And yet Obama fully supports the PA over our longtime ally, Israel.
Via PMW:
A week before the brutal murders of four rabbis during prayer and a policeman in a Jerusalem synagogue, the official Palestinian Authority daily published an op-ed that demonized Israel and Jews. It specifically singled out "the rabbis of the secret societies" as the ones giving the instructions to Israel to "set the foundations for an eternal hegemony":
"The danger posed by Israel remains the greatest and most significant of all, and the first [threat] we must come out against. For the Zionist settler ideology does not seek temporary influence or gains, and does not strive to exploit and exhaust resources, but rather sets the foundations for an eternal hegemony based on the instructions of the 'rabbis' of the secret societies. And all this is in order to take revenge on history and their minority and false persecution complex." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 12, 2014]
Adios, Mary.
Via Rasmussen:
Rasmussen Reports' first survey of the Louisiana Senate runoff shows Republican challenger Bill Cassidy comfortably on his way to joining the new GOP Senate majority.
Cassidy posts a 15-point lead – 56% to 41%- over incumbent Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu among Likely Louisiana Voters in our latest statewide telephone survey. Just three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Landrieu edged Cassidy, a U.S. congressman, 42% to 41% on Election Day earlier this month, with eight candidates officially in the race. But under Louisiana's so-called "jungle primary" rules, the contest will now be decided by a December 6 runoff because no candidate cleared the 50% mark.
Alternate headline: Obama coronates himself Emperor of The United States.
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More good news.
(CNN) — The black flag of ISIS flies over government buildings. Police cars carry the group's insignia. The local football stadium is used for public executions. A town in Syria or Iraq? No. A city on the coast of the Mediterranean, in Libya.
Fighters loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are now in complete control of the city of Derna, population of about 100,000, not far from the Egyptian border and just about 200 miles from the southern shores of the European Union.
The fighters are taking advantage of political chaos to rapidly expand their presence westwards along the coast, Libyan sources tell CNN.
The sources say the Derna branch of ISIS counts 800 fighters and operates half a dozen camps on the outskirts of the town, as well as larger facilities in the nearby Green Mountains, where fighters from across North Africa are being trained.
It has been bolstered by the return to Libya from Syria and Iraq of up to 300 Libyan jihadists who were part of ISIS' al Battar Brigade — deployed at first in Deir Ezzor in Syria and then Mosul in Iraq. These fighters supported the Shura Council for the Youth of Islam in Derna, a pro-ISIS faction.
The council had been competing for superiority with another militant group, the Abu Salem Brigade, some of whose fighters' loyalties lay with al Qaeda, according to Noman Benotman, a former Libyan jihadist now involved in counter-terrorism for the Quilliam Foundation.
Al Qaeda's top envoy in Libya, Abdulbasit Azuz, left Derna after U.S. Special Forces captured Ahmed Abu Khatallah, an alleged ringleader of the Benghazi attacks in June. Azuz is now believed to be in Syria, Benotman told CNN.
Via Daily Caller:
Who didn't see this one coming? MSNBC's "The Cycle" brought in
scientistmechanical engineer Bill Nye to explain why the blizzard hitting the city of Buffalo was caused by global warming.
"Buffalo sees about 8 feet of snow a year, but they've already seen most of that and winter has not officially started yet," said host Touré Neblett, "What's the science behind all this?"
Nye was remarkably honest in initially admitting, "Well, you can't tie, especially cold weather events are difficult to tie to climate change."
…Before he tied it to climate change anyways. "But it's very reasonable that it's climate change. Everybody, when Lake Erie's warmer, more water evaporates into the air and it snows more. I don't make the rules, people."


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West Coast rapper Game has come forward to offer his take on Miami Heat's LeBron James raising eyebrows this week with the release of an unexpected freestyle.
While he could not fully co-sign Bron Bron's bars, Game did give him a nod in comparison to actual hip-hop artists.
LeBron James is "better than 88% of rappers rapping right now" … so says The Game who tells TMZ Sports the NBA star's first real rap verse wasn't bad for a beginner. "First time I heard the song — I thought the first guy [Sian Cotton] was fly. He was snapping a little bit and then LeBron came on and I was like, 'Umm s*** … aight.'" "The thing is … he ain't as polished as expected — but no one is like the God MC on their first rap. I've heard a lot worse from CDs and on iTunes and s*** from real artists." We asked Game if he had any advice for 'Bron, to which he replied — "Here, tell him this for me … tell him to work on staying on pocket a little more." (TMZ)
The NBA superstar's new freestyle bubbled across the Internet yesterday (April 1).
We've seen and heard LeBron James dabble in rap before, but this is the first time he's put down a whole verse on a song for public consumption. LBJ and a buddy from Ohio got in the recording studio last summer to freestyle over a Jay Z hit. (SLAM Online)
A couple years ago, Atlanta rapper Ca$h Out reacted to James rapping to his "Cashin' Out" anthem following an NBA Finals championship victory.
"He knew the words, man!" a geeked Cash Out told XXLMag.com. "It's a blessing for people to recite the words to your song. He was celebrating and rapping at the same time. It's a blessing…for him to acknowledge my song. I'm definitely a fan of the Heat." And how does Ca$h Out rate James' performance of his smash single? "From one to 10, I give him a 10, man," the rapper added about the NBA superstar, who also rapped along to 2 Chainz' "Riot" earlier that night as well. "I give King James an 'A' just because he won the championship. He was feeling good…probably one of the best feelings in his life. He's a champ. I won some money on the Heat." (XXL Mag)
Miami rapper Ace Hood previously talked to SOHH about Bron's fellow Heat teammate Dwyane Wade rapping on stage days before NBA All-Star Weekend 2012.
"Yeah, yeah, we turned up, man," Hood laughingly told SOHH recalling the D-Wade set. "My homie D-Wade is doing his thing, man. Shout-out to the homie. They're balling out. LeBron James, [Udonis] Haslem, all of them. But yeah, we were in the club turned up, balling hard and doing some things for the ladies. We were super turned up. He wanted that Miami-Broward County feel down there in Orlando. … [Playoffs run?] Of course. They're playing outstanding basketball. This year is starvation in D-Wade. They want it bad. It goes back to [my upcoming mixtape], Starvation, they want it bad. We want a ring. They want to be at the top, I want to be at the top. We want it bad, you feel me?" (SOHH)
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In recent years, Saudi Arabia has become increasingly estranged from the US, the world power that has held its protective hand over the kingdom for many years. The royal family has now changed the course of its foreign policy and sees Pakistan as a suitable strategic partner and a counterbalance to the influence of Turkey and Iran in the region. By Mai YamaniMore
The political changes wrought by the Arab Spring in the region, the prospect of increased oil supplies from deposits outside Saudi Arabia and the possibility of an historical rapprochement between the Saudis' long-term ally (US) and their arch enemy (Iran) have been a game-changer for Saudi Arabia in recent years. Mai Yamani takes a closer look at how the kingdom is reacting to these developmentsMore
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has named Naif bin Abdelaziz, 77, as crown prince and deputy prime minister, a choice that raises concerns about the direction in which the conservative prince will take the kingdom. By Mai YamaniMore
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Nowhere in the world are women's lives more regulated than they are in Saudi Arabia. But, writes Mai Yamani, Saudi women activists are beginning to eloquently demand the removal of restrictions and an end to women's dependencyMore
Every year, groups of Shia men parade through the centre of Nabatiyeh, where Lebanon's major Ashura rituals take place. These rituals include the controversial bloodletting rite known as "tatbir". Although frowned upon by religious and political authorities, Shia communities still practice tatbir as a vital part of their communal act of mourning Imam Hussein, who was martyred at the pivotal Battle of Karbala in 680 AD. Text and photos by Maya Hautefeuille


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on Jul 25, 2007 at 10:08 am
Roz you are a brillant lady who lights up my own consciousness about the state of the oceans... it has been a delight to have you zipping up and down my driveway at all times of the day as you train and prepare for your voyage. So glad we are friends...you go girl.
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TBH, if something breaks on the ALAN tests, you have to hard reboot the machine, so that it starts again form the point it went wrong.
Personally, I would not say you need a presence in the room, but what you could do is use school radios (if you have them) on their own channel and make it that if anything goes drastically wrong, you drop it and go straight to the tests.
Also, we have the server side installed on a workstation with the test share being on a server share and it works fine with 45 clients running at any time. (haven't had to run anymore at once due to space restrictions)
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Teacher tells pupils santa does not exist - then apologises.
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How can any one spoil this for children - especially from one in the teaching profession?
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I thougt that Jews, Christians and Muslims believe in the same God but fight each other and within their groupings over details of various prophets etc. If He exists, I wonder what He (or She) makes of it all.
In Holland they have Sinta Claus, who comes eariler (5th Dec) with his Moorish (maybe Muslim?) helper - Zwart Piet (rather non PC Black Peter! So even in the Father Christmas world there is rivalry. I believe that the date of Christmas was chosen to coincide with the old Pagan Yueltide so things are alittle confused all round.
See Zwart">http://">Zwart Piet
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Zwart piet (try link again)
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In Germany The Weihnachtsman doesn't come to naughty children I believe. Their celebration days are different too. All the presents are opened the night before Christmas. That probably is a wise move too.
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"All the presents are opened the night before Christmas"
Well that's it then, no more surprises of an orange and/or apple on Christmas day, and for the very few lucky ones, possibly a cowboy outfit or Dinky toy :O(
(The above is meant for the older forum users, who may have remembered it well?)
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john bunyan, i thought the minstrels were banned.? Also depicting a person as "Black Peter" is racist,so the pc crowd would say.
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"Spuds"- an orange and/or apple on Christmas day.
You were posh - I did believe but it did no good!
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I will have to have a word with my dentist - he's still dishing out those miniature envelopes for the Tooth Fairy.
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Next week is light on new releases, but we'll still see the launches of Guacamelee for PS3 and Vita, Microsoft's new Motocross Madness on XBLA, ShootMania Storm, the revamped Age of Empires II HD on PC, and a PS2 Classics re-release of survival horror Fatal Frame. Read more
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The strategy RPG hybrid Project X Zone is coming on June 25, Namco Bandai has announced. It features characters from several Capcom, Sega, and Namco Bandai franchises. Read more
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Capcom today announced a new initiative to capture a younger audience, starting this winter with the release of Gaist Crusher in Japan. The game will have several cross-media tie-ins with manga, anima, and toys. Read more
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While Atlus has released heaps of games with Shin Megami Tensei branding, from Persona to Devil Summoner, there are only four games in the core SMT series. The fourth, snappily titled Shin Megami Tensei IV, will arrive in North America on Nintendo 3DS this summer with a samurai tale, Atlus announced today. Read more
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Following the success of Casual Mode in Fire Emblem: Awakening, key members of the development team say they play the game on Casual and are likely to include it in future games. Read more
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After all the fun of GDC, next week is a bit light on new releases. We'll see the launch of jumping hit 'em up BattleBlock Theater, build 'em up Cities in Motion 2, TV show 'em up Defiance, and video game history 'em up Evoland. What fascinates me most, however, is Lords of Football, which appears to be a remarkable combination of Football Manager and The Sims. Read more
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Nintendo rolled out a new 3DS system update today, adding one feature that'll be hugely appreciated by the few who need it, and one tweak that's just kind of useful for everyone. One's downloading from the eShop with your 3DS in sleep mode and the other's transferring saves from physical games to digital editions of them, but which is which! Read more
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At its PAX East Panel today, Capcom announced that a new Mega Man game is in the works. It also gave dates for the 3DS eShop releases of Mega Man 4 and Mega Man 5. Read more
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It's a small thing but is there a way to (/ plan to) turn off the player's hat? I don't like the red band around it as it stops the player being purely a silhouette which I think would work better for immersion.
Also the HUD messages are tiny on 1920x1080 - please scale the text proportionately to the height of the screen vs some reference height (if that's makes sense :-) ).
Keep up the good work, there's something really compelling about this game. Even though it's kinda rough (the enemies really need work on animation and sound effects) I find I can look past it. Oh and I like the controls as they are in 0.1.16 btw :-)
Hello! The red band is just a test. I don't know if it will be in final build, still waiting for new feedback. Could be deleted. ;)
Yeah, i'm also working on it (and font). Thank you for the feedback!
Yep. Anyway, currently enemies have better animations than v0.1.16, but there could be improvements in future. About sound effect: You don't like anything about that? You don't like the sound while they're dying or... what?
Thanks! I'm happy that you like the new controls.
> About sound effect: You don't like anything about that? You don't like the sound while they're dying or... what?
Sorry, I mean I feel the sound effects could be more immersive, perhaps creepy voices that you hear before you even see a monster. I don't feel too strongly about the sound in particular, it's definitely the animation and overall look of the first monster you see that could be scarier.
Don't want to be anything other than objective when I say this, in my opinion - they could be more grotesquely proportioned and more detailed (more roughness in the normal map perhaps, more gore), they don't move very convincingly either and so don't read well as a plausible threat (take a look at the early monsters in Deadly Premonition, which IIRC are bent backwards in similar way) they should should shamble more rather than slide towards the player.
Also the first one you see could possibly do with a kind of "big reveal" like you'd get in a Resident Evil game - just something like focus the camera on it appearing from the gloom to get the player creeped out and ready for action. At the moment it's not very dramatic.
Anyway, hope this is useful. I do hope you find success with this and I hope my critique will help improve on what is already a good foundation.
Yep. Your critique is good. I agree about a sound that announce the monster before appear. Basically, this happened in other levels, with the sound of step that the player listen before see the monster. Anyway, i'll could add some sfx to improve the "event".
Yeah man, you got the point. I'm trying to make it better and more intuitive, but it's not easy.
I'll do my best! :)
Thank you.
1) Yeah. I'm trying to make a better control than typical "tank control". It's not easy because i'll need to work with multiple cameras. Anyway, i will try to get a better experience.
2) Nope, this is not the final. I'm still working on it. ;)
3) Yep, it's still a working progress monster. But... you love or hate it?
4) I put a limit for reload the gun (you need have less than 6 bullets). Maybe i could change about it, but i don't like that gamers goes around the world with 100-200 bullets.
I will work on it.
5) Yeah. In the current alpha build, you're playing about the 25% of the game. During the full build, you'll find more infos and you understand that there's a story and it's a really "strange story". :)
Thank you for your feedback and interest.
For point 4) why not have it so the ammo crates drop fewer bullets based on how many you already have, i.e. the game is influencing the player's ammo level ?
Well, currently i would like keep a limit in ammo crates and gun. Maybe could change in future, but i like that limit. If you've 6 bullets, and you want a full ammo, you must to shoot one time and so, reload the gun. It's a sort of limit for the player. You can choice if find a new enemy and try to kill him with one bullet (using in a good way that bullet), or shoot that bullet in the weapon and get the full ammo.
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