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When Petty requested reinstatement to his job, Metro required Petty to complete a questionnaire about whether he had been charged in any military disciplinary proceeding. Petty admitted charges had been made against him, but he did not disclose the substance of those charges. Believing Petty was concealing information, Metro refused to reinstate him to his former position, but assigned him to work in an office position for the police department with significantly fewer responsibilities than his former position.
Petty sued Metro in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, alleging that Metro unlawfully delayed his re-employment, failed to restore him to his full patrol sergeant's job and discriminated against him based on his military service. The district court dismissed the lawsuit in favor of Metro, and Petty appealed.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit reversed, holding that USERRA prohibits an employer's adoption of a "policy, plan or practice" that creates additional prerequisites to a service member's statutory right to re-employment. Petty's failure to provide the separation papers he had received from the military, which were "statutorily unnecessary," did not prevent Petty from exercising his right to re-employment. Petty v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville & Davidson County, 6th Cir., No. 07-5649 (8/18/08).
Impact: Protections under USERRA extend to employees who have left military service under "honorable conditions," make a timely request for reinstatement and provide the employer with a signed authorization allowing access to the employee's military and medical records.
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How to Make Canned Vegetables Less Salty: Tips & Tricks
Happy Valentines Day! As per tradition, I will be making my wife's favorite dish tonight, chicken marsala. But I don't have any good tips to share related to that, so I thought that I would talk about canned vegetables instead. Traditionally, I'm not a big fan of canned vegetables. But if you shop at discounted food stores, sometimes the price can be hard to resist. At our last trip, we were able to get cans of corn for 50 cents each.
Of course, a deal is no deal if you won't eat it. They could be giving away eggplant and I still wouldn't take it. So what made me change my mind for those slightly dented cans of corn? I realized a way to make them more palatable. My problem with all canned vegetables is their salty taste. Even cans marked "reduced sodium" taste of salt to me.
Rinse Vegetables to Remove Salt
A few weeks ago, I had a thought. If I occasionally rinse my pasta to remove the excess starch, rinse fresh produce to remove dirt, and rinse canned beans to remove their syrupy juice, why not rinse canned vegetables to remove the salty taste?
So I gave it a shot. What would I be out if it didn't work? Half a dollar? I can live with that. So turn, turn, turn went my trusty can opener and dumped the contents of my can into my colander. From there, it went under the faucet where it received the cold running water. For good measure, I gave the colander a couple of flicks of the wrist to shake up the contents and douse as much surface area as possible with the fresh water. After I turned the water off, I gave the colander a couple of shakes to wring out as much excess moisture as I could. I transferred the contents to a bowl with some butter and microwaved it.
The results were acceptable. There are some cases where I will continue to prefer the frozen to canned. Actually, the preparation listed above were one of them. But if instead I am preparring one of my favorite lunch alternatives to a sandwich: BBQ veggies, then canned vegetables work well. Likewise, if I am simply adding a vegetable to a one-pan dish such as my homemade hamburger helper, then rinsing canned vegetables makes the difference between them and frozen undetectable.
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As Thanksgiving 2013 approaches, I decided to take a look at Thanksgiving from an historical point of view since I am an historian.
On Nov. 28, we will be thankful for a lot of people and things near and dear to us. But let's look back in history and give a few words of thanks for things and people that help develop, shape, and make our country. Five quickly come to mind.
First, the pioneer woman. She was the true hero of the Westward Expansion, tending to family, suffering and surviving heartbreak, and working hard to make sure everyone was fed and taken care of.
Second, the slave. Brought here in chains, the slaves helped the economy develop and helped make America a great economic power in the world. Once freed, they contributed to all aspects of American life, from business to the theatre, from the farm to literature.
Third, the American farmer. He or she first fed his or her family, then fed the community, then the country and by the time the 20th century rolled around, the American farmer was feeding the whole world.
Fourth, the horse. Working as hard, or harder as any human, this noble animal pulled wagons and plows and labored as a beast of burden as the country expanded westward, asking for nothing in return except for some hay and a good pair of shoes.
Fifth, the train. The railroad and the people who worked on it often get overlooked in historical studies. Without the railroad expanding the nation, we might all still be stuck on the East Coast.
So when you give thanks on Nov. 28, don't forget five historical people and things who helped make America the greatest nation the world has ever known.
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The 'Serious' Sounds Of Leonard Cohen
With songs like "Suzanne," "Bird on a Wire," "So Long, Marianne" and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen created his own brand of folk-rock art music. Listeners discovered Cohen's songs in the mid-'60s when Judy Collins recorded "Suzanne," and Cohen followed that by recording his own album of his songs. His moody interpretations quickly won him a devoted following.
Cohen isn't a polished singer and doesn't have a remarkable range. But, as one rock critic put it, he has a "miraculously intimate voice, which has become more expressive and confident over the years, without losing its beguiling amateurishness." By the time Cohen started recording, he was already a published poet and novelist, best known for his book Beautiful Losers.
Many of Cohen's fans have lost track of him in the last few years. He's 51 now and lives in Montreal, the city in which he grew up.
While his songs are sometimes described as gloomy or despairing, Cohen says that's not the reaction he gets from most of his fans.
"I don't get a lot of mail," he says. "But most of the mail I get [conveys] the contrary information that's like, 'That song got me through the night,' or 'Your songs got me through the night.'
"I prefer the word 'serious,' " Cohen adds. "I think seriousness is a voluptuous kind of enjoyment that we don't find too often."
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Jean worked in marketing and then as vice president of corporate communications at AOL before she married AOL founder Steve in 1998, in a ceremony officiated by Billy Graham. She is CEO of their charitable foundation and he runs a venture capital firm, Revolution. They have five children from their previous marriages.
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I am desperately trying to deploy an ActiveX for IE developed in C# as a CAB archive. I have read many resources (some of them from StackOverflow) and it appears a lot of people are having the same problems. I have tried 3 solutions: a) creating a CAB VS project, b) manually creating a CAB using
CABARC with a COM registration in INF and c) manually creating a CAB with launching
msiexec. None of them worked. I even tried d) creating a bootstrapper which launches
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I am running Windows Vista but my project fails to run even on IE6 on XP.
When I install ActiveX using MSI, all is fine on ALL Windows. Apparently CAB thing is not working and I could not find a proper way to debug this whole process yet.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - After 17 days of desperation and doubt over the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, the country's officials said an analysis of satellite data points to a "heartbreaking" conclusion: Flight 370 met its end in the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean, and none of those aboard survived.
The somber announcement late Monday by Prime Minister Najib Razak left unresolved many more troubling questions about what went wrong aboard the Boeing 777 to take it so far off-course.
It also unleashed a maelstrom of sorrow and anger among the families of the jet's 239 passengers and crew.
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A relative of one of the passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines jet grieves in Beijing on Monday after being told that the plane had crashed.
A solemn Najib, clad in a black suit, read a brief statement about what he called an unparalleled study of the jet's last-known signals to a satellite. That analysis showed that the missing plane, which took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early on March 8, veered "to a remote location, far from any possible landing sites."
"It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean," he said.
His carefully chosen words did not directly address the fate of those aboard. But in a separate message, sent to some of their relatives just before he spoke, Malaysia Airlines officials said that "we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived."
Officials said they concluded that the flight had been lost in the deep waters west of Perth, Australia, based on more thorough analysis of the brief signals the plane sent every hour to a satellite belonging to Inmarsat, a British company, even after other communication systems on the jetliner shut down.
The pings did not include any location information. But Inmarsat and British aviation officials used "a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort" to zero in on the plane's last position, as it reached the end of its fuel, Najib said.
In a statement, Inmarsat said the company used "detailed analysis and modelling" of transmissions from the Malaysia Airlines jet and other known flights to describe "the likely direction of flight of MH370."
Najib gave no indication of exactly where in the Indian Ocean the plane was last heard from, but searchers have sighted possible debris in an area about 1,200 miles southwest of Perth.
High waves, gale-force winds and low-hanging clouds forced the multinational search to be suspended for 24 hours Tuesday, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the search over the southern Indian Ocean, said in a statement.
The Australian navy supply ship HMAS Success, which had been headed to the location a search plane spotted some floating objects Monday, was unable to find any materials before the search was put on hold.
Search aircraft would remain in Perth Tuesday, AMSA said, and the Success was leaving the search zone until the seas calm down. Weather was forecast to improve Tuesday evening and the search was expected to resume Wednesday, the statement said.
Authorities are racing to find any trace of the plane that could lead them to the location of the black boxes, the common name for the cockpit voice and data recorders, whose battery-powered "pinger" could stop sending signals within two weeks. The batteries typically last a month or perhaps a bit longer. The plane disappeared March 8.
Some of the relatives who gathered to listen to Najib convulsed in grief at the news, with shrieks and uncontrolled sobs. Others collapsed into the arms of loved ones.
"My son! My son!" cried a woman in a group of about 50 gathered at a hotel near Beijing's airport, before falling to her knees. Minutes later, medical teams carried one elderly man out of the conference room on a stretcher, his face covered by a jacket.
In Kuala Lumpur, screams came from inside the Hotel Bangi Putrajaya, where some of the families have been given rooms.
Selamat Omar, father of a 29-year-old aviation engineer aboard the flight, said in a telephone interview that he and other families were waiting for word about whether they would be flown to Australia, closer to where it is believed the plane went down.
"We accept the news of the tragedy. It is fate," Selamat said.
After Najib's announcement, some of the relatives of the 154 Chinese passengers went before cameras to criticize the Malaysian officials who "have concealed, delayed and hid the truth" about what happened.
"If the 154 of our loved ones lose their lives, then Malaysia Airlines, the government of Malaysia and the military are really the executors of our loved ones," said a spokesman for the group who, like many Chinese, would only give his surname, Jiang.


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Meat Baby: A Modern Hansel And Gretel Story
Somebody went and made a baby entirely out of ground beef. Which, funny story: is exactly how God made Adam. Minus the pickle eyes. He used deviled eggs, silly! Can you tell I took a religion class in college? Because I didn't. I did take a philosophy class though -- it was called Morality and Ethics. Yeah, I found out I don't have any (I stole an exam and got expelled).
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It's that time of year again when we become surrounded by hearts and cupid angels. Although Valentine's Day typically is a celebration of romance, I prefer to think of it as an extra special day to celebrate love....
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Mainstream Reports: The U.S. and Israel - Like Muslim Countries - Support Terrorists
Senior U.S. officials say - according to NBC news - that Israel is training and supporting Iranian terrorists:
I noted last month that the U.S. is as well:
The Mujahideen e Khalq (MEK) ... along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organisation.
Interestingly, the Bush Administration – and especially Dick Cheney – helped to fund the MEK (see confirming articles here and here).
And the New York Times, Washington Post and others are reporting that Rudy Giuliani, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former national security adviser Fran Townsend and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey are supporting the MEK as well.
Glenn Greenwald notes:
There are numerous Muslims inside the U.S. who have been prosecuted for providing "material support for Terrorism" for doing far less than these American politicians are publicly doing on behalf of a designated Terrorist group.
Yet here we have numerous American political figures receiving substantial fees from a group which is legally designated under American law as a Terrorist organization. Beyond that, they are meeting with the Terrorist leaders of that group repeatedly .... And, after receiving fees from the Terrorist group and meeting with its Terror leaders, these American political figures are going forth and disseminating pro-MEK messages on its behalf and working to have it removed from the Terrorist list.
What they are providing to MEK is the definitive "material support."
Indeed, as Georgetown Law Professor David Cole noted, these activities on behalf of MEK are clearly prosecutable as "material support for Terrorism" under the standard advocated by the Bush and Obama DOJs and accepted by the Supreme Court in the Holder v. Humanitarian Law case of 2009, which held that even peaceful advocacy on behalf of a Terrorist group can be prosecuted if done in coordination with the group (ironically, many of these paid MEK supporters have long been advocates of broad application of "material support statutes" (when applied to Muslims, that is) and have even praised the Humanitarian Law case). If we had anything even remotely approaching equal application of the law, [U.S. politicians who have aided MEK] would be facing prosecution as Terrorist-helpers.
Then there's long been the baffling question of where MEK was getting all of this money to pay these American officials. Indeed, the pro-MEK campaign has been lavishly funded. As the CSM noted: "Besides the string of well-attended events at prestigious American hotels and locations, and in Paris, Brussels, and Berlin, the campaign has included full-page advertisements in The New York Times and Washington Post — which can cost $175,000 apiece." MEK is basically little more than a nomadic cult: after they sided with Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran, they were widely loathed in Iran and their 3,400 members long lived in camps in Iraq, but the Malaki government no longer wants them there. How has this rag-tag Terrorist cult of Iranian dissidents, who are largely despised in Iran, able to fund such expensive campaigns and to keep U.S. officials on its dole?
All of these mysteries received substantial clarity from an NBC News report by Richard Engel and Robert Windrem yesterday. Citing two anonymous "senior U.S. officials," that report [states that] the Terrorist group "is financed, trained and armed by Israel's secret service." These senior officials also admitted that "the Obama administration is aware of the assassination campaign" but claims it "has no direct involvement." Iran has long insisted the Israel and the U.S. are using MEK to carry out Terrorist attacks on its soil, including the murder of its scientists, and NBC notes that these acknowledgments "confirm charges leveled by Iran's leaders" ....
There are a number of vital questions and conclusions raised by this. First, it would be mean that the assurances by MEK's paid American shills ... that "they are unarmed" are totally false: whoever murdered these scientists is obviously well-armed. Second, this should completely gut the effort to remove MEK from the list of designated Terrorist groups; after all, murdering Iran's scientists through the use of bombs and guns is a defining act of a Terror group, at least as U.S. law attempts to define the term. Third, this should forever resolve the debate in which I was involved last month about whether the attack on these Iranian scientists constitutes Terrorism; as Daniel Larson put it yesterday: "If true, the murders of Iranian nuclear scientists with bombs have been committed by a recognized terrorist group. Can everyone acknowledge at this point that these attacks were acts of terrorism?"
Fourth, and most important: if this report is true, is this not definitive proof that Israel is, by definition, a so-called state sponsor of Terrorism? Leaving everything else aside, if Israel, as NBC reports, has "financed, trained and armed" a group officially designated by the U.S. Government as a Terrorist organization, isn't that the definitive act of how one becomes an official "state sponsor of Terrorism"?
Of course, as I documented in my last book, those who are politically and financially well-connected are free to commit even the most egregious crimes; for that reason, the very idea of prosecuting Giuliani, Rendell, Ridge, Townsend, Dean and friends for their paid labor on behalf of a Terrorist group is unthinkable, a suggestion not fit for decent company .... The term Terrorism is so completely meaningless, manipulated and mischievous: it's just a cynical term designed to delegitimize violence and even political acts undertaken by America's enemies while shielding from criticism the actual Terrorism undertaken by itself and its allies. The spectacle whereby a designated Terrorist group can pay top American politicians to advocate for them even as they engage in violent Terrorist acts, all while being trained, funded and aided by America's top client state, should forever end the controversy over that glaringly obvious proposition.
Indeed, high-level U.S. and Israeli officials have admitted that they carry out terrorism.
For example:
- The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950?s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister
- Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind "evidence" implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this)
And the former director of the National Security Agency said:
By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In '78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.
Note: I am not defending Muslim terrorists or picking on the U.S. and Israel. Many nations - including Muslim countries - have carried out terrorist attacks. I am simply pointing to the hypocrisy, double standards and imperial arrogance of America and Israel.
If the U.S. and Israel sponsor terrorism, then Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser was correct when he told the Senate in 2007: the war on terror is "a mythical historical narrative".
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The media mogul Rupert Murdoch signaled his support for Rick Santorum on Monday evening,
calling him the "only candidate with genuine big vision" for the United States.
In the past the editorial pages of The New York Post and, more recently, The Wall Street Journal have been perceived to be Mr. Murdoch's platforms for supporting (and sometimes punishing) political candidates. Twitter, of course, gives him a new and much more personal forum to do so.
Mr. Murdoch's arguably most influential media outlet, Fox News, employed Mr. Santorum for years, but suspended him in March when he was considering running for president. The suspension was made permanent in May after Mr. Santorum agreed to attend a Fox-sponsored debate for Republican candidates.
good night and good luck America,
you will need it!
Powerful people in America benefit from the ongoing, perpetual, endless "war on terror."
All of you soldiers who go over to the Middle East to get your brains blown out so that Halliburton or Exxon-Mobil or Goldman Sachs can make more money are disposable pawns.
The vast U.S. military complex has nothing to do with protecting this nation or its borders. If it did, why do we allow so many illegal aliens in?
The U.S. military exists to protect the fiat petrodollar and Israel. That's its main function these days.
Sorry, the truth hurts.
US won't care about Israel once US colonizes Iran. Israel surved her purpose and now must also be desposed. Dumbass zionist Jews about to get backstabbed by bankster American Jews.
US lets illegal aliens in for cheap labor. Also, working on North American Union to compete with EU. Mexican truckers can already enter US. Mexico is US manufacturing base alternative once China engages on war. Canada is US ally against Russia in the northern hemisphere.
Mexicans are already in US. NAU just needs a new Amero and we are done.
US military protects petrodollar. Empires need two things: unversal currency to tax subjects on, military to enfore tax collection.
Wall St. + Military in the hands of the few is what US elites care about and want to control.They don't care about manufacturing, education, equality, peace, religion, all that stuff.
U.S. can't work with this group because "assassination is illegal."
Axis of Evil. Works with terrorists.
US supports corrupt monarchy and dictatorship and calls citizen revolutionaries who want part of the deal terrorists.
it is called maintaining regional balance of power in imperialism 101
Split oil rich middle into:
- Jewish zionazi Israel (keep Islam in check)
- House of Saud (keep OPEC in check and oil supplies coming)
- Iraq (keep Iran in check)
- Iran (last colony in the middle east when Jews and Saudis ask for too much money and support)
It is not just US, but UK, Russia, China all have strategic plans to gain control and influence in the region for oil.
obama got his plans denied when Russia and China said no in UN security resolution.
Iran used to be the center of the world with Persian Empire, but now she will always be some other empire's bitch unless she bows down to one and screw her own people like the Saudis did.
So Israel must be failing miserably?
Since Islam is basically mapping over Hitler's territory of 1940, taking over northern and western Europe and northern africa.
I know this is very, very tough but without the evil zionistas, your oppress the shit of the world arabs would be getting pebble sandwiches for their natural resources. Not the 25times it that they are currently receiving.
and lastly US troops are largely stationed in Arab land for the purposes of protecting shipping routes for their oil.
Try reading your heros at wikileaks massive dump about US troops around the world,
Swallow, swallow, swallow.
I somehow see the story of reptilians under a different light. One has to sport flexible jaws like some snakes to be able to swallow the huge distortions of reality US citizens require to be part of the club.
Islam is mapping over Hilter's territory, including Northen and Western Europe.
Muslims in Europe has zip power. They cant even censor a comics strip.
US citizens are propagandists at heart but now, one has to admit that a new strand is rising, fantaisists.
The powerless is powerful etc...
Maybe necessity.
The mecca of US citizenism, the US of A started his class warfare history surrounded by kingdoms and monarchies.An environment tha&t could easily be sold as hostile.
Now that the US of A is a hegemon as the world has never known, reliance on the likes of SOmalia pirats to give semblance of hostility forces a necessity to use fantasy to fill in.
Amen and ROFLMAO!!! You also need to add in 'suicides' of course. Tell that to the USA's international representative Hillbilly Clinton...
Behold Stupidity on an EPIC scale:
Madonna fans in Israel ask government to delay any war with Iran until after May concert Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/madonna-fans-israel-government-delay-war-iran-concert-article-1.1020447#ixzz1m1cFOjr4
masterminds . . . define:blowback getting high on yer own supply
ubermenschen not to mention most goyim&chosen alike untermenschen in being laid low
and beneathe contempt
let my people gogo
You have to remember that Madonna is the Celebrity Priestess of Kabbalah, and the show was riddled with Kabbalistic, occult symbolism. It was a Kabbalistic sacrament!
Stupidity on an epic scale?
Did I miss it?
Or did you not post that Iran has no interest in even pursuing nuclear weapons again?
Don't leave yourselves helpless and defenseless folks:
Put on your Shield and Armor for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Dear good hearted folks and bad guys too,
We are approaching two very dangerous windows of time in the next few weeks and month ahead. We have seen the push for world war to distract the nation from the financial collapse, and to place it under martial law approaching for many years now. There are two major windows of time to be aware of in our immediate future.
The first one is coming quick. It is between the 20th-23rd of February. The other is between the 20th-23rd of March both during the coming new moon windows. It is the same energy that was building up just before the baseless and unjustified criminal attacks on Iraq. The dominoes are set up to crash and fall and the really sad part of this truth is, no one seems to care. It is 11:45 on the clock and the strike at 12:00 is coming! Pray this is wrong.
You can go around and mention more war to people and they shrug their shoulders like it is no big deal. Many talk about isreal attacking Iran. Many more are talking about a 9/11 Type False Flag Event performed by isreal any day now. Many say, we should attack Iran. None can conceive the ramifications of what this actually means.
You might as well just as easily say, we are going to attack Russia, and China. DOES THAT RESONATE WITH YOU? World war with Russia and China? Is this what the new Nazi (Nationalist-Zionists) Isramerica wants for it's future? IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND FUTURE?
It is not too late to stop this insanity. All you media people that are reading this today better ask yourselves, are you going to support this evil that seeks to kill you and yours off too as you sing their songs and praising propaganda all the way to your last breath? Do you think by dis/mis-informing the world with your slimy false misleading propaganda you will escape the fate they are shaping up for you? Do you think you and your families will escape a chinese surprise attack with race specific bio-weapons, or a neutron bomb attack? Do you think you will be treated specially after say, an EMP attack?
NO! You are being used to spin the lies and dis/mis-information until your last breath. You are useless idiots doing the bankster/WAR PROFITEERS dirty work of being the mouth pieces of the zio-media propaganda that NO ONE believes any more. You are wasting your time and looking more and more STUPID every day as you tell your tales of useless wasted dribble and propagandistic horsewwash.
Now here is the kicker.
You all better turn off the TV right now because it is being used as a psychotronic mind control weapon against you all. Or, why they implemented the new digital TV system. If you do not know about subliminal suggestions and digital TV mind control waves that are pulsed over every carrier wave there is, most especially the new TV system, you better do some homework around this subject.
"Subliminally, a much more powerful technology was at work, however. A sophisticated electronic system designed to 'speak' directly to the mind of the listener; to alter and entrain his brainwaves, to manipulate his brain's electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns and thus artificially implant negative emotional states —- feelings of intense fear, anxiety, despair and hopelessness were created in the Iraqi troops."
"Vote for so and so or you will be harmed and hurt! Be afraid, very afraid if you don't vote for obama/soetoro, sanitarium, ginkrich, or mittney because if you don't, the world will end. DO NOT VOTE FOR RON PAUL…"
This is why we see the winners of the republican caucuses and primaries changing to one candidate, then to the other, then yet to another underdog. Everyone but Ron Paul. This is what we are up against. The beast of the PROPAMEDIA digital TV-mind-control machine. They are using FOX and CNN news to make the people vote for the candidate/flavor of the month to keep the people divided and confused with lies and dis/mis-information so later on down the line they can say, no one can agree on any of these candidates, so then they can bring in their "ringer" inside-job candidate.
Who is that? The lying shrubs nazi brother, jeb bush. Another globalist nazi stooge. Kissinger was said to have told the chinese jeb the shrubs brother will be the next puppet leader.
IF, that is a big IF we actually make it to the convention without a world war breaking out and the country falling into the fascist/communist state of chaos, hardship, and confusion it is being set up to be, then they will try and hoist yet another bush on the country. This should make every NORMAL unconditioned or controlled American just plain sick to think of this possibility.
Don't believe it, turn off your TV for a week and see if you don't notice a difference. If you want to watch TV, watch movies, or educational type shows and only for a short time. Here is a classic and very rare book that is on the blacklist and tells you all about the history of this evil mind control programming in the United States. Read it from cover to cover PLEASE!!!
What can stop it? Hummmm. Believe it or not?
So back to reality. If you want REAL news, go to these sites for middle of the road news:
Financial news:
Ron Paul News:
Read this and see where you fit in at:
Are you one of the useless idiots?
If you do not realize how you are being used and manipulated by your evil controllers that DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU, and you do not do something to save your country while you can because there might only a few weeks left to do it, you can bet your life that when the chinga hit's the fan, there are many that know you and have you on the list of targets to eliminate first for your treasonous acts against the United States of America.
THE LAME STREAM PROPAMEDIA IS THE MAIN BLAME FOR THE USA's FALL AND COMING DESTRUCTION. THE INSANE STREAM ZIO-MEDIA PROPAGANDA HAS BEEN USED LIKE THE WEAPON IT IS TO CONTROL THE USA FOR DECADES. THIS IS A PLEA FOR YOU ALL TO TURN ON YOUR MASTERS AND SIDE WITH THE PEOPLE. PLEASE STOP LYING AND DIS/MIS-INFORMING THE WORLD WITH YOUR USELESS DRIBBLE AND DISTORTIONS OF THE REAL TRUTHS.
Take a lesson from a true and real reporter here reporting real truth. He got fired for telling his truth about election fraud and population reduction, but will be more famous than ever soon for speaking his truth.:
We are facing the possible ignition of World War Three here any day now. We could wake up and hear that isreal has just pulled off another 9/11 Type False Flag Event, which could be even worse than the 9/11 Event they pulled off to trigger the Iraq/Afghanistan wars they were already in place and prepared for. It is all preplanned by the globalist zionist evil satanic minions of evil and destruction and absolutely abhorrent when one clearly understands the agenda from the top down. KILL THEM ALL OFF!
Please Ron Paul, please make this the biggest issue in your policy statements because if you don't shine the light on this huge clear and present danger to our nation, we may well see these zionist banksters start the world war in which isreal was created to do. Isreal is a MADE UP nation and people that is being USED and played like a three dollar pigbutt-sucker to start the "final solution" war for the globalist profiteers and evil british banksters that seek to use this last war as the population reduction tool it is to rid the planet of 9/10th's of humanity, or more.
Listen to the evil british agent squid-thing kissenger speak to world war:
We are all being killed off from so many directions.
The evil in control is in Britain. We have chemtrails, GMO foods, tainted water systems, dis/mis-information, tainted soils, govt corruption and crime, tainted media, poisoned air, chemicals in everything, pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines, radiation everywhere, non-lethal weapons, and psychotronic electromagnetic energies all aiding in the mass killing of us all. The latest worst of all is the horrendous catastrophic fukushima disaster that no one is talking about, or cares enough to track properly. It is slowly killing every biological life form on the planet. Even now it approaches the west coast and the fish in the Pacific are already contaminated with high amounts of radiation. The days of fresh uncontaminated sea food are over and do you think any one cares, or understands the significance of taking out the oceans as our basic life building block?
Not! Too mind controlled to acknowledge the problem by the propamedia psychotronic warfare that is being waged against the American people. Now, they are mostly all too dumb to realize they are being controlled and killed off slowly. Try to imagine what will happen after an EMP takes place and ALL THE NUKLEAR PLANTS run wild and meltdown because there is no energy to keep them cool. LET THAT SINK IN FOR A MINUTE. IT IS COMING!!! Between the Sun and the Chinese or Russians, there is a high probability of an EMP taking place any time now, OR IN THE NOT TO DISTANT FUTURE. How many people in your neighborhood have died recently from radiation poisoning related causes and electromagnetic attacks? Take a look at your local Obituaries and see.
If you are smart enough to read this, you better stay off the evil addicting drug TV! It is killing you, but do you care America? Please share this with others to wake them up. DO ALL YOU CAN TO GET THEM OFF THE FOX/CNN TV MIND CONTROL DRUG NOW!
Stupid is as stupid does, and ignorance of God's truth will kill you.
We are coming to the days of no more fooling around, and there will be no time for name calling or ignorance. Everything will be a REAL and a COLD harsh reality of death's stench. It will fill the land of a stupid people that do not clearly understand what it is going to be like to have war in their own backyards as the evil killers swoop into your towns and cities. Do something now to stop it all, or plan on perishing with the masses as they are led off the cliff.
Follow your Heart!
It better not be the February dates, because that would interfere with watching the Daytona 500 on Feb. 26.
What terrorist country has actively overthrown soviereign country leaders for many decades and continues to do so?
What terrorist country has bombed over 50 countries since WWII?
What country actively used/uses chemical/biological warfare against their own troops?
This list could go on and on of course.
The answer: The terrorist country of United States of America.
The USA military pawns (soldiers) doing the bidding of America's political members (and ensuring the perto-dollar link) must WAKE UP and stop aiding in these illegal activities immediately. If you are a member of the USA military, it is time to walk away.
foreign policy 101:
divide up support to split the political power in strategic locations.
- Support Iran when Iraq is too powerful
- Support Iraq when Iran is too powerful
- When they are weakend fighting each other, invade them both
- Upon any efforts to unionize, take the weak one out
The term "terrorist" has become popularized by those who want to confuse the masses into believing that killing human beings is perfectly acceptable and should be applauded as long as those human beings are called terrorists and that pre-emptive bombing of a country and removal of their leader is justified if that country has been designated one that sponsors terrorism. The term has now been broadened to include anyone who disagrees or protests against the policies of a designated (by the elites) "non terrorist country": aren't word games fun?!
terrorists = patriotic nationalists who want to protect their country from foreign invasion and influence because their country sits on large deposits of natural resources
all elites are pretty much all terrorists.
Excellent point, for instance the US is currently in Afghanistan for it's rich supply of sand and pebbles.
yeah....sand and pebbles worth $1Trillion
besides, Afghanistan is a strategic base sitting right inbetween China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan and India.
one way to control China is to control oil supplies which fuels china's manufacturing. Afghanistan cuts off any pipelines from Iran into China.
Even back in 1878, UK and Russia were trying to colonize Afghanistan
The only people detained for suspected roles associated with the 911 terrorist attacks were israelies.....about 60 of them.
5 of them admitted on public TV that they were sent to NY to "document the event".
How clear can it get?
In times like these we must ask ourselves, what would Ike do?
Plan a Crusade in Europe?
Or are we talking South Park here?
Well , if the FBI has deemed those that disagree with the government as terrorists where is OUR support ?
Seems to me terrorism was used on this continent since white men arrived, and likely before that. Or maybe I'm confusing terrorism with guerrilla warfare?
and what the fuck do you think happened before white people arrived hmmmm? Indians at war with each other engaging in terrorist acts like the apaches and their scalping. or did they learn that from the white man. what about the aztecs or the miyans or the ottoman empire or the persian empire or the dynasty's of the chinese who were so peace loving. even better go ask the mexicans about spanin and the conquistadores. yeah it was all us white people who are responsilbe for all of the war before we ever even ruled. btw the man who kicked the indians off their land to the trail of tears was andrew jackson, A DEMOCRAT. who were the confederates in the civil war? democrats. how did the kkk come to existence? former confederate soldiers who killed blacks and republicans because repuclicans were teaching blacks to read and write and to vote. spare me your typical liberal ignorance
Indians at war with each other engaging in terrorist acts like the apaches and their scalping. or did they learn that from the white man.
How scalping is terrorism? The quest for symetry strikes back, once again with US citizens.
Eating the heart of your enemy is not terrorism either.
Sporting a mask with ugly features is not terrorism.
But you know, US citizenism conveys the belief that what US citizen do, they do because of human nature. Hence every human society has to do what US citizen does.
Anecdota: what did some Indians learn from US citizens?
Division of scalps. Scalps were demanded as a justification of a killing, and rewarded. Hence the growth of a liminar custom into a trade (monetization of conflict as it is in US citizenism)
The fun point: some Indians worked at making two scalps out of one, doubling the reward.
Does this ring a bell? Scalps were turned into money back then. And pufff, innovation, two scalps out of one.
So,apparently, being into contact with a certain kind of people really helps a certain kind of innovation to flourish.
US citizen fun fact of the day.
Hey Esculent, I always forget:
Was it the miyans who were from spanin, or was that the repuclicans?
I thought I implied that by saying probably before white men arrived. That's how 'war' works. I've been called a lot of things in my life......but liberal is a new one to me. First time for everything I guess.
My point is how is 'terrorist' being defined and by whom and in what context.
then why did you specifically bring up white men on this continent rather than all of man kind throughout history. getting just a little tired of people blaming white people for the worlds woes. It's liberal democrat propaganda claptrap that does nothing but divide us, and no one does it better than obama, just wondering.
I can't argue about liberal claptrap being divisve - no question about that. And it is done on purpose also I'm sure. I guess I'm just trying to point out, and not doing a very good job of it apparently, that all groups/colors/tribes can be guilty of being 'terrorists' depending on who is doing the defining, not just muslims or asians or whoever. I mean look at all the gobbldegook going on now where 'terrorist' is being defined by our own government as anyone that disagrees with their policies, regardless of color/race/creed. Terrorism is defined as a matter of convenience to the party doing the defining I guess I'm saying.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Did Rahm Emanuel call his father "Daddy" or "Mr. Terrorist"?
What we need here is a working definition of 'terrorist', not points of view based on preferences. Unless we define the word by identifying the methodology employed by terrorists then discussion is futile. Using a broad definition, I think that the government's labeling people who support the gold standard as terrorists is, in itself, a terrorizing statement.
Or is terrorism like pornography: "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it"?
King George and British red coats used to call American Independence fighters and founding fathers "terrorists".
and....terrorists have won.
terrorists are usually fighting for independence...usually from tyrants.
kind of like how Columbus discovered America while natives thought europeans were invading?
History is written by winners. That doesn't mean it is all 100% truth.
One last thing. How do you deal with people whose religion is about war. There is no tolerance in islam. it is constantly at war with those that are not muslim. so you can try to understand why the enemy doesn't like and it's our fault for them attacking us so we should be openminded <sarc>, or you can open eyes and see a rabid dog for the rabid dog that it is. Just like all socialist/communist language is the opposite of what it says, remember, islam is the religion of peace.
Muslims seem to have this in common with US citizens, a constant state of war.
This might explain with they can that easily switch to US citizenism.
s Esculent 69 - " ... o you can try to understand why the enemy doesn't like and it's our fault for them attacking us so we should be openminded <sarc>, or you can open eyes and see a rabid dog for the rabid dog that it is. ..."
You mean like this?
MP3 audio book of The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today - by Elizabeth Dilling
PDF book:
You seem incapable of separating the actions of a country's leaders from the everyday lives and habits of its people. There are zealots in EVERY religion....that fact is represented throughout history. What is going on here is a complicated, nuanced, obscured narrative that is not, underneath the surface of media construct, what it appears to be.
If you would go and read George Washington's Farewell Address, you would find that he, and the other founders, had a very non-interventionist approach both militarily and diplomatically. Furthermore, General Smedley Butler would say that the ONLY job of the military is to defend America's home soil. Given the swiss cheese character of our borders, do you think our leaders have done a marvelous job in this most fundamental of duties? Why are we "over there" when we are not even protecting "over here"?
The answer to that is that ALL IS NOT AS IT SEEMS....and you must dig deeper past the sound bytes and memes to construct a working definition of the true conflicts and agendas that dominate the world in which we live today.
Excellent point!
Stifling freedom of expression, executing gays and treating women as sub human is not a reflection of the society it is a reflection of only the religious zealots.
The radical islamic muzzie is the most misinterpreted, misunderstood creature ever created just ask one.
Blah, blah, blah, evil zionista this, evil zionista that,
Iran has been waging a low level war via proxy against the USA for decades.
Aslam Alekem.
The people pushing for war against Iran are the same neoconservatives who pushed for war against Iraq. See this and this. (They planned both wars at least 20 years ago.)
Neocons are mainly atheists, who use religion as a smokescreen. Specifically, neocons use religion to manipulate people, even though they themselves are usually not religious.
Bill O'Reilly Is Right: It's Unfair To Call the Norwegian Mass Murderer a Christian … And It's Also Unfair to Call Arab Terrorists Muslims
The 9/11 hijackers used cocaine and drank alcohol, slept with prostitutes and attended strip clubs … but they did not worship at any mosque. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this.
These are hardly the acts of devout Muslims.
George: I like many of your articles, but please add "neoliberals" to your list of warmongers! Warmongering is no respector of political parties. FDR allowed Pearl Harbor in order to enter WWII. He was certainly NO conservative! Why don't we instead use the term "globalist warmongers" so that we don't exclude any of the contributing parties.
Yes, of course. I apologize for my shorthand. II'm too busy now (at work) to spell things out, so please don't think I'm being partisan!
I've written many articles showing Neolibs and Neocons are the same thing ... For example:
Neocons and Neoliberals: Two Masks, One Face
So PLEASE read "Neocons and Neolibs" whenever I write Neocons.
"Neomobs", maybe? : )
hijackers knew they were going to die, so they put partied it all on the credit card.
most of them were Saudis....you know the country where George Bush bows down to the King of Saud?
saudis hate their kingdom who sold them out to the west for material gains instead of societal improvement. Imagine what all the oil wealth could have achieved instead of buying 767s to fly rich prince and their prostitutes around.
I'm probably naive, but it seems to me anyone that is truly religious and practicing their religion as the Bible, Koran, etc. teaches is unlikely to be a very violent person. What is it the Bible for example says - 'true religion' is caring for orphans and widows?
But, humans beings being what they are, will take allegorical parts literally, and literal part allegorically, and the next thing we're killing each other in the name of God/Allah/Buddha. Usually it's used as a cover for some form of greed, revenge, grasp for power. We rarely hear the concept of a 'just war' anymore in this country. What was the last 'just war' we were involved in? WWII?
True religion is about the best way for humans to live in balance in their own lives so when we engage with others we can appreciate their love of life in a open centered compassionate mind so we can all live together under our own vision of God and why we are here.
You are correct. Please practice what you preach, and stop demonizing people you know nothing about.
Poll: Christians Are Much More Likely to Condone Violence Than Muslims or Atheists
Bill O'Reilly Is Right: It's Unfair To Call the Norwegian Mass Murderer a Christian … And It's Also Unfair to Call Arab Terrorists Muslims


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Friday, October 8, 2010
"Are you a boy or a girl?"
That is the provocative question asked by a little girl sitting at a restaurant dining table in the documentary "The Codes of Gender: Identity and Performance in Pop Culture."
The film looks at male and female images in the media and how those images – male images evoke strength, female submissiveness – reinforce our notions of what is a man and what is a woman.
The Responsible Sexuality Committee is hosting a viewing and panel discussion of the documentary on Oct. 20 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in TLC 1305.
Prof. Gary Schmidt, from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, will be on the panel. Also on the panel, from the Department of Sociology and Criminology, are Assistant Prof. Carolyn Sawtell, with three of her graduate students, and sociology instructor Tiffany Parsons.
Psychology Prof. Neill Korobov will moderate the panel.
We aren't born knowing what is male and what is female. We inherit those ideas from the media and our peers reinforce the notions of what is male and female, Korobov said.
"It's so pervasive it feels natural," Korobov said.
He hopes the film and discussion teach students how to be "critical consumers of the media, rather than passive."
The Responsible Sexuality Committee works with Health Services to promote not just safe sex and disease prevention, but also "smart sex decisions," Korobov said.
The panelists will answer questions the attendees submit in writing on note cards. Everyone is welcome.
There is no charge for admission.
Faculty are encouraged to give extra credit to students who attend this event.


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Put 2 and 2 together!
The goal of these connect games is to create as many connections as possible. Mahjong variations, connect the dots, chain reactions and other puzzles in whcich connections need to be made. See how many games we've been able to connect under this tag!
These are our recommendations: Chain Reaction, Mahjong Connect, Mahjong Connect 2
Mahjong Connect is a great mahjong game. Select similar tiles to remove them from play.
Mahjong Connect 2 is an excellent mahjongg game with additional features: get hints and rearrange the tiles.
Can you connect all the identical tiles with fruit on them? Try to clear away all of the tiles.
A combination between a connect game and Mahjong. Play away all the tiles in the field.
The online version of Dots and Boxes. Connect the lines to make as many boxes as possible before the PC does.
Try to find two identical icons to connect. Make sure the connecting line makes no more than two bends.
Try to make as many pairs disappear in this connect game. Try to clear them all before you run out of time!
Can you play away all of the tiles by finding the matching pairs that you can connect with the current.
Play a great game of Mahjong with a 3D Mah Jongg layout. Can you clear away all the tiles in pairs?
Play a fun game of connect with butterflies. Click on the matching pairs and they will fly away!
Help the mouse connect the cookies to make combinations of three or more cookies. Fill the meter!
Connect two similar pictures and play on until you've emptied the field in Connect 2.
Clear away all the blocks or voxels and complete the assignments for an awesome highscore! Good luck!
Connect all the identical tiles to play them away in this mahjong connect game set in de forest.
Can you connect all the little creatures in this game? Match up the right colours in Chuzzle.
Connect pictures of different pets and empty the field like you would connect mahjong tiles.
Can you connect all the Mahjong tiles? The line may only make two turns at most, so find the right pairs!
Try to connect all of the chain links of the same colour and make a really long combination.
Connect the tiles with a line that game make no more than two turns. The timer is running!
Connect the contents of a beauty case in this connect game. Find the tiles you can match up.
Can you play away all of the identical tiles by selecting the ones lying at the sides of the playing field?
Can you play away all the blocks before the time is up? This game works just like 3D Mahjong Connect!
Play a fun game of connect with fruit and vegetables. Can you play away the tiles by matching the pictures?
Try to connect all the identical shapes with a line. Get as many points as you can with big combinations!
Create great match3 combinations with the coloured cats and complete each level objective.
Try to connect all of the bubbles in the field. Match them by colour in pairs that you can connect.
Try to play away all the coloured blocks as quick as you can in this great 3D Mahjong Connect game!
Put all the pipes in the right place to get the fresh water to the dogs and give them something to drink.
Match the candy in combinations of three or more to help your hero defeat all the monsters on the road.
Connect the tiles and play them all away. You can play a pair of tiles when there's a clear path between them.
Make sure the ray passes through all the orbs and then returns to the right point too. Think carefully!
Can you lead the electric current from the power source to the electronic unit? Create a path.
Activate as many molecules as possible to create the longest chain reaction.
Move the dots around so that none of the lines cross one another. A fun maths puzzle.
Click at the frogs and grab the dragonflies. The more frogs you use the more points you earn!
Lead the cow to the prize by using the right puzzle icons to create a path.
Can you complete each circuit and turn on all the lamps? Look carefully to figure out each pattern.
Can you think up and create the nicest shapes? Connect the dots and see what the result is?
Make sure to hit every node with the lazer in Nodes.
Use the cannons to launch the ball at the next cannon until you reach the red cannon.
Sling from one place to the next as the elastic protagonist of Sling Fire.
Try to hit all the fire flies in FireFlies, the fire fly shooter chain reaction game.
Connect all the white blocks with the lasers. You have to arrange your lasers so that they all change colour.
Make as many connections as you can by clicking on the mobile phones.
Rotate the laser orbs. Make sure the beam hits the right target. connect all the orbs with the beam.
Push the ball along with the help of your telescopes. Can you get the ball in the hole? Try it now!
Connect the blocks in this Comboling game. The higher the level the more blocks!
Make sure to hit all the nodes with you lasers in Nodes 2, the sequel to Nodes.
Steer towards the red unit with the arrows....
Again manoeuvre toward the red exit unit in part B of Orbox.
Shoot the ball between the two other spheres in Grid. A simple concept, but very fun and addicting.
In the game Team Ball the objective is to work as a team to win.


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lol Is your real name Roxy? I was hoping it to be Rynesha..
Now you are just being silly Kelsh. :P
:P Ya, your right.
Don't get mad Ripdo :(
Is Roxy Ripdo...? Or am I an idiot...
Ripdo, great job. -_-
the irony of it all
You did not play by the rules god. Because you only use it on me. So don't even post that crap.
What did she do wrong? o.O
None of anybody's business to know.
Not like its been said before. :/
Ripdo, Ripdo, Ripdo...
No matter how you say the name, its still Ripdo.
note to Dogar: I demand a ripdo shirt
I demand one too
Hey we could have like 2 t-shirts available and dogar could order them when we are certain which one
one could be ripdo one could be normal?
Have to pay a hefty price for one of those.
That's another $799.99 investment. I'm not gonna put myself out there for that. Let's just start with the PD banner shirt first.
Then I'll make my own. It's cheaper for everyone that way.
No, that's gay.
YOU'RE gay >:(
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Monday, 5 November 2012
dailynews ONLINE
The first round of Ranaviru Real Star Mission 3 began on Rupavahini
on Saturday, November 03, at 9.00 pm and the final is expected to be
held in June, next year.
Ranaviru Real Star Mission 3 would feature four mega public musical
shows of which the curtain raiser was on November 3 at Vavuniya. The
second show would be on November 10 at Kurunegala and the third will be
on November 17 at Ambilipitiya.
The final show will be on November 24 at Katunayaka. All four mega
musical shows will be aired live on Sri Lanka Rupavahini, Media Centre
for National Security (MCNS) Director General Lakshman Hulugalle said at
a news briefing held at the Centre.
Ranaviru Real Star reality show has opened the stage to expose and
bring to light the latent aesthetic talents of our war heroes and let
them be reborn as glittering starts.
He told the media that Ranaviru Real Star Mission 1 was developed and
organized by the Ministry of Defense and Urban Development on a concept
of Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa with the support of Dialog
Axiata PLC.
He said that the Ranaviru Real Star, one of the most watched reality
shows in the country highlighting the hidden talents of Sri Lankan armed
forces personnel would once more commence operations with Mission 3.
He added that Mission 1 was a record-breaker and the Mission 2 had
raised the bar even further by providing opportunities for them to
perform at international events and said that the Mission 3 promises
even more.
He disclosed to the media the fact that the highly successful
Ranaviru Real Star Mission 2 had received well over four million SMS's
at the grand-finale, being the highest number ever for any reality show
This time too the preliminary rounds would be recorded live and
telecast on Sri Lanka Rupavahini with the backdrop for the episodes
being locations with a military association, while the grand finale
would be aired live on the same channel, he said.
The Defense Secretary had expressed his gratitude to the gesture of
Dialog Axiata in sponsoring this event and for the national television
channel Rupavahini for stepping in as the official media partner, he
Over the past two years Ranaviru Real Star has established itself as
one of the most popular reality shows in Sri Lanka according to
television ratings carried out by LMRB.
"Partnering with Ranaviru Real Star for the third year is an honour
and privilege for Dialog," Group Chief Marketing Officer at Dialog
Axiata Amali Nanayakkara said.
"The realization of hidden talents of our heroes from the forces is a
worthy cause and partnering with this event has been very satisfying for
us as a top Sri Lankan corporate entity".
Mission 3 has shortlisted 7,500 applications for round 1. By the end
of the fourth round the number of participants would be around 750, and
that number would further be reduced to 36 on the fifth round, just
ahead of the commencement of the knockout stage.
The panel of judges would be comprised of eminent personalities
involved in the music industry in Sri Lanka, will have a direct say in
60 percent of the outcome, the rest of the outcome will be decided by
the public via SMS.
Previous winners of Ranaviru Real Star have been given the
opportunity to perform their previously unknown aesthetic talents on the
international stage.
The winner of Ranaviru Real Star: Mission 3 would be the proud
recipient of a house worth Rs. 17 million, while the runner up would
receive a car and cash award of Rs. 1 million. The third place winner
would receive a cash price of Rs. one million, with fourth and fifth
placements walking away with Rs. 500,000 each.
Only servicemen and servicewomen who have completed three years of
active service in the tri-armed forces are eligible to enter the Mission
The winner of Ranaviru Real Star: Mission 2, Ayomi Perera of the Sri
Lanka Army was the recipient of a house worth Rs. 17 million, while the
runner-up received a brand new car and a cash prize of Rs. 1Million. The
third place winner received a cash price of Rs 2 million, with fourth
and fifth placements walking away with Rs. 500,000 each.
In addition sixth to 10th places received a cash prize of Rs. 250,000
each along with an LED TV and a DTV (Dialog Television) connection.
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The Guardian's arts critics and sports writers swapped roles. Yesterday the critics got a taste of the sporting life, while today the sports team is set loose on the contemporary arts world. (Via Art News Blog)
Jonathan Jones, visual art critic, on football
Hull City v Bristol City at Wembley, May 24
"Watching football is, in theory, a bit like looking at art. The view from my seat (which has its own little TV monitor) might be compared to looking down on a vast green abstract canvas laid flat, with dots oscillating about like some 1960s piece of kinetic art. But while I can find deep meaning in, say, an abstract by Jackson Pollock, the game of football has always been as indecipherable to me as some people profess to find modern art. I am a football philistine." Read more.
Steve Bierley, tennis correspondent, on visual art Louise Bourgeois at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, May 31
"From the top of the Pompidou Centre, Roland Garros - the home of the French Open tennis championship, and my home for a fortnight every spring - was lost in the morning mist. Sport is essentially about youth, and about absolutes. Sport makes you feel elated or depressed. The works of Louise Bourgeois, 97 years old this December, make you feel unsettled, repelled. Roland Garros seemed a million miles away. Faced with a new sport, which is unusual these days, my first instinct is to ignore the detail. Observe and record; don't get bogged down in too many facts or statistics. So I came to Bourgeois with no prior knowledge of her work, no inkling of the deeply disturbing web she was about to wind around me. Her huge spider, installed on the ground floor, should have been a hint." Read more.
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Sports writers on art, art critics on sport
The Guardian's arts critics and sports writers swapped roles. Yesterday the critics got a taste of the sporting life, while today the sports team is set loose on the contemporary arts world. (Via Art News Blog)
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Thanks for this post. I never would have found these on my own. I'm still trying to catch up with the Sunday Times (from a week ago). Two Coats of Paint has become required reading for me--one of a few windows to the art world that I depend on. You rule!
I had to burst out laughing! Thanks, Sharon, and full agreement with Joanne's comment above.


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New SkySafari version and 2012 DA14
Posted 12 February 2013 - 01:10 PM
About 2 weeks ago, we started to get these questions about 2012 DA14, and why our apps fail to predict its position accurately. The problem was that SkySafari - like basically all other mobile and desktop planetarium apps - models the motion of comets and asteroids as having a simple Keplerian, elliptical orbit around the Sun. We did not take pertubrations by Earth's gravity into account. So any orbit that describes the asteroid's motion before the flyby will completely fail to predict its position afterwards, and vide-versa. After answering this question the 327th time, I finally decided to do something better.
The solution was to build an "orbit integrator" into SkySafari. Instead of modelling the trajectory of the asteroid as a simple Keplerian ellipse, we now model it using true N-body newtonian physics, taking the gravitational perturbations of Earth (and the Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) into account, along with a decent numerical method (4th order Runge-Kutta). It took a few tries to get this right. After reaching out to some professionals in the field of solar system dynamics, we got some assistance JPL as well. JPL has made clear that they cannot officially endorse any commercial product, but I can confidently say they were impressed that we got this working on a smartphone at all.
We did take some shortcuts. Our model does not take relativity into account, nor the oblateness of the Earth. We also don't include Mercury, Uranus, or Neptune in the set of asteroid-perturbing masses. (Smartphones, whiie very capable, are still not supercomputers. The code still has to run fast enough to be useable.) Nevertheless, even with these shortcuts, our model predicts the position of 2012 DA14 to within arcseconds of JPL's positions on the day of the flyby and for many days before and after. We've even run our integrator out 9 years into the past or future, for a selection of different asteroids and comets, and in nearly all cases it does much better than a simple Keplerian orbit. So we're very confident that we're doing the math right.
Anyhow, that's the theory. In practice, here's what you need to know.
1) Plus and Pro only. The integrator is not in the Basic version.
2) You still need to update your minor body orbit data, just like you did before. The orbit integrator is useless if it doesn't have a decent orbit to start from.
3) The integrator only gets "turned on" when you select a particular comet or asteroid, and it's only used for the asteroid/comet you selected.
4) We run the integrator for one year in the past and future from the date of the orbital elements, using a 1-hour timestep. All that math takes about 1.5 seconds on my iPhone 4, which is the slowest device I own. (You'll feel a brief pause when first selecting a new asteroid or comet).
5) Since we only run the integrator one year from the date of issue of the orbital elements, don't try to use it to find out if asteroid Apophis will hit Earth in 2036. It won't work. At least not in this release. Yet.
So that's it for now. Have fun with it, and let us know how it works for you.
-Tim & Bill
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I love my SkySafari Pro!
Controlling my CGEM-DX with my phone amazes me every time.
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(Madams, too)
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Android user here. I'm in version 1.7.4 of Plus and have updated my minor body data, and still don't see DA14 in the list of asteroids. Am I missing something trivial?
Maybe it's my bad eyesight, but I have not been able to find it either on my newly purchased Plus version. Went through the entire asteroids list three times!
Edit: mine is the iOS Plus version though.
Posted 15 February 2013 - 01:00 PM
I'm happily tracking it now.
Posted 15 February 2013 - 03:08 PM
Yes, you find it by searching for "2012 DA14"
Posted 15 February 2013 - 04:18 PM
Too bad it's clouded out here, as usual!
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Posted 16 February 2013 - 12:36 AM
Awesome sight, very dim but you could see it moving across the field of view. Sky Safari Pro put me right on it and I was able to follow it for quite a while. If went to look at something else and wanted to come back, all I had to do was look it up, center it and hit Go To and there it was.
You guys ROCK!
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It is hardly surprising that "Live Progression" from Montreal technical death metal masters NEURAXIS is an easy one to recommend for fans of the band and DM mongers in general. "Trilateral Progression" knocked more than a few dicks in the dirt and this performance recorded in Quebec City during the tour for that album does exactly the same thing. Tight, monstrously heavy, and given a crisp mix by Jean-Francois Dagenais, "Live Progression" brutalizes nicely and sounds fantastic.Vocalist Alexandre Leblanc (POINT BLANK RAGE, ATHERETIC) replaces Ian Campbell and the band doesn't miss a beat. But then, that should come as no surprise either, considering that NEURAXIS defines what it means to fire on all cylinders at all times. Of the disc's 11 tracks, "Thought Adjuster", "The Apex", "Monitoring the Mind", "Clarity", and "Shatter the Wisdom" are taken from "Trilateral Progression", which suits me just fine, as I'm rather fond of the last studio release on Willowtip. Those unfamiliar with NEURAXIS' work should know that the style played is technically accomplished, yet somehow more accessible than most tech-death bands. Snippets of melody do find their way into the compositions, thanks in large part to some tuneful leads. Melodic death metal this is not though. Personally, I love the guitar work of Rob Milley and William Seghers (ex-QUO VADIS); it is so precise, yet still full of feeling, and the riffs are crunchy as hell! "Live Progression" demonstrates further that NEURAXIS are among the elite of the tech-death genre. As for the merits of the album itself, it's simple; if you liked their previous output and are OK with live albums, there is nothing to dislike here. Like most live discs, it offers the newbies a nice introduction to the band's work. That's about the size of it.
"Live Progression"
01. The Apex
02. Fractionized
03. A Curative Struggle
04. The Art of Sadness
05. Thought Adjuster
06. Monitoring the Mind
07. Neurasthenic
08. Reasons of Being
09. Clarity
10. Shatter the Wisdom
11. Of Divinity
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If you use a VI to control a RT target via Web browser then only polling is possible to register user actions. Since: "RT targets support the Event Structure only with dynamic events." (LabVIEW Help 2010) You can program such graphic object events but they doesn't work.
The support of graphical object events would improve the capabilities for applications with cRIO and sbRIO without a LabVIEW-Host.
The Distributed System Manager does not allow one to see the values for a cluster in a deployed process. It would be nice to view and edit values in the cluster.
In the Distributed System Manager add the capability to export Historical Data.
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text: So, New Years Day I did a time trial. 3 mi 10:39. Last Friday I took the day off from work to TT again. But life the weather was not as kind there were +/- 20 mph winds. I decided I would do one going into the wind. Then one with the tailwind. Then take the two times, add them, then divide by two. Giving me a new time of 10.31. And I was wondering I can count this.


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Video report entitled Feelings and Emotions, showing the 60th anniversary of Battistella S.p.a. Group, celebrated at i Saloni 2013 in Milan. The video report and the video installation integrated in the architectural set was designed and produced at Cibo Creative Lab.
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text: Photo Gallery Pictures: 6 Lost Olympic Sports—Tug-of-War to Pigeon Shooting Tug-of-war, pigeon shooting, and ballooning are among the odd, elitist, and even bloody Olympic games you won't be seeing at London 2012. PUBLISHED Fri Jul 27 07:06:00 EDT 2012 0 1 / 7 Solo Synchronized Swimming The seemingly oxymoronic sport of solo synchronized swimming is just one of a gaggle of lost, generally unlamented activities you won't see at the 2012 Olympics in London.Practiced above by U.S. Olympian Kristen Babb Sprague in Barcelona in 1992—solo synchronized swimming's third and last Olympic year—the discipline isn't as odd as it sounds. Technically speaking, it's the music, not other athletes, that the swimmers are supposed to be in sync with.While the sport—still practiced competitively in other venues—does require tremendous flexibility and stamina, many viewed it as something of a joke. "It's just sort of making pretty figures in the water," said Bill Mallon, a past president of the International Society of Olympic Historians. "Like floor exercises while you're floating—jumping, toes pointed, spins, smiling, waving your arms."(Pictures: London Leaps Hurdles in Green Olympic Games Bid.)—Kastalia Medrano Photograph by Richard Mackson, Sports Illustrated/Getty Images Tug-of-War Unlike many discontinued Olympic events, tug-of-war was a crowd favorite. "It's actually a great sport to watch," said Mallon, the historian. A staple of the Summer Olympics from 1900 to 1920, the sport was forced into retirement when the International Olympic Committee decreed that each Olympic sport needed to have a global governing body, which tug-of-war lacked.Despite the sport's current connotations of school yards and playgrounds, turn-of-the-century tug-of-war could be surprisingly high-stakes.At the 1908 Olympic Games in London, for example, the U.S. team protested an upset by the home team, crying foul over the Brits' heavy, spiked, and apparently illegal boots. The U.K. team (pictured against Ireland), though—most of them police officers—explained that they simply hadn't changed out of their work boots.(Pictures: See Olympic winners captured at the moment of victory.) Photograph from Topical Press Agency/Getty Images Jeu de Paume Jeu de paume (pictured in an undated illustration) ricocheted into the 1908 London Olympics and hasn't bounced back since, perhaps for lack of audience. "It's a very elitist sport," Mallon said. "There are only about 20 courts left in the world right now," most of them in France.Dating back to the Middle Ages, the "palm game" is the original form of tennis, though it more closely resembles racquetball, in that walls are very much in play.Jeu de paume parts ways with modern tennis too in its emphasis on finesse over force. "The game is not so much [about] power as it is about placement and spins," Mallon said. (Related: See pictures of the 2008 Olympic opening ceremonies in Beijing.) Photograph from Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis Rope Climbing Rope climbing hung on as part of the Summer Olympics' gymnastics program from 1896 and 1932, with Greece's Georgios Aliprantis (pictured) taking the gold in 1906 in Athens. In that time, though, the sport made only four Olympic appearances, mainly because it was popular only in the U.S. Perhaps not surprisingly, rope climbing was more likely to make the cut when the games were held in the states. "It's important that the sports included be popular around the world, but when [the Olympics] are in America ... well, Americans have a little more say," Mallon said. At its introduction at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, rope climbers were judged on form, speed, and—in cases where competitors failed to reach the top of the 42-foot (13-mater) rope—height. In 1904 and 1932, medals were awarded based solely on speed. Judges in 1924 again factored in style, which backfired slightly when 22 competitors achieved perfect scores. (Also see "Greek 'Computer' Tracked Ancient Olympics, Other Games.") Images from Popperfoto/Getty Images Hot-Air Ballooning The 1900 Paris games were folded into a massive world's fair, resulting in a flood of demonstration sports that wouldn't have been included otherwise (and never would be again). Case in point: hot-air ballooning (pictured). In fact, there were so many activities, Mallon said, that it was difficult to tell which sports were Olympic. Balloon pilots at the Paris Olympics were judged on distance traveled, time in the air, and ability to land at predetermined coordinates. France swept the event.The sport was removed from the Olympic roster, not due to ridiculousness but because of a ban on motorized sports. And though the ban's recently been removed from the Olympic Charter, Mallon said he doesn't expect that ballooning will make a comeback.(Related: "How 'Gene Doping' Could Create Advanced Olympians.") Image from Popperfoto/Getty Images Live Pigeon Shooting The inclusion of live pigeon shooting in the 1900 Paris games—like ballooning, a world's-fair one-off—marks the only time in the Olympic history that animals have been killed on purpose. The rules of the game were straightforward: Shoot down as many birds as possible in the allotted time, with two misses resulting in elimination. The event—in which Australia's Donald MacIntosh (pictured) took the bronze—was predictably messy, which may have contributed to pigeon shooting's brief Olympic life span. (Pictures: Evolution of the Olympic Torch.) Photograph from Popperfoto/Getty Images More Pictures: Inside the "Other London" Photograph by Alex Webb, National Geographic Related Stories 9 Pictures of Baseball Around the World 12 Photos Show a Side of North Korea You Haven't Seen Ten Pictures of Superb Owls for the Super Bowl