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Some one posted this on their FB a few moments ago with the caption:"AMAZING RACE ASIA 2010" (i was there) @ Lignon Hill, Bogtong, Legaspi City, Albay PHILIPPINES
we handled tara racers yesterday... for our second flight of the day i got all their names even the crew! lol!
we handled tara racers yesterday... for our second flight of the dayi got all their names even the crew! lol!
Wow! Filipino pitstop greeter here in RFF!?
The Amazing Race stopped by the deep south over the weekend with competitors and camera crews seen filming in Invercargill.Teams of two were spotted running through the airport after disembarking flights from Christchurch at 3.30pm and 4.20pm yesterday.At least four Maui campervans were seen in the parking lot of Invercargills airport as well with the yellow and black striped Amazing Race envelopes in their windscreens.Details are scarce but all people are saying they saw teams of two being filmed as they ran out of the airport and into the campervans before taking off up State Highway 6.Hosted by kiwi Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race has stopped by New Zealand several times in the past with the last being an Auckland-based stopover. Source: Stuff.co.nz
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Lacrosse legend Gary Gait calls on his vast experience to provide you expert coaching instruction for Boys U11 lacrosse. Coach Gait is a big believer in line drills because players are on the move while executing these drills. He teaches his players to to keep the stick up and provide a target while catching on the run. Another basic skill is ground balls. A low, athletic stance is needed while players scoop up the ball on the run. Dodging is a skill taught by Gait, and is executed as a fake defense after passing. Other offensive concepts presented are popping the receiving, give and go and setting a pick. Competitive drills include ground ball drills, ground ball passes, dodging with defenders and live one-on-one. On the defensive side, Gait covers the proper stance, changing direction with use of a drop step and narrowing the channel, which is a defensive tactic to shrink the offensive player's channel to the net. This is a complete set of teaching points and drills for coaching lacrosse with boys under 11!
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Susan Namowicz filed Tuesday to run as a New Bern Board of Alderman candidate for Ward 3.
Susan Namowicz filed Tuesday to run as a New Bern Board of Alderman candidate for Ward 3.
Namowicz, a newcomer to public office, is running for Alderman Denny Bucher�s seat. Bucher is running for mayor. Filings closed at noon Friday.
Namowicz said she has the leadership and business skills needed to continue to move New Bern forward.
�I�ve been very active lately following the New Bern community and I see areas I can help with my business and skills background,� Namowicz said. �I would like to see the city move forward, especially small business and helping them grow. I�m excited to be part of the New Bern community and want to assist in any way I can.�
Namowicz and her husband Stanley moved to New Bern three years ago from Pennsylvania. Her parents retired to New Bern 24 years ago.
�I have fond memories of trips to New Bern and always enjoyed the hospitality of the people and the hometown feeling that reminded me of my roots in rural Pennsylvania,� Namowicz said in a statement.
Born in Allentown, Pa., Namowicz was active in church activities and scouting. She volunteered with the local YMCA and eventually became the senior program director in Quakertown, Pa., overseeing the budget of six directors and 30 employees, she said.
Namowicz owned and operated the family business, S & S Hobbies, for more than eight years. When the business closed, she returned to college and received her Bachelor of Science in Business and Marketing, with Distinction, from Penn State University campus in Berks County, she said.
Upon graduating, Namowicz was offered a position with the Vanguard Group, the mutual fund company, at their headquarters in Malvern, Pa. She quickly advanced to a role in business development, she said.
Namowicz spent an internship in the International Business Development department before applying for a role as a loaned executive for United Way, offered through Vanguard, she said.
While still at Vanguard, Namowicz took advantage of their tuition reimbursement program and returned to college and completed her MBA at Penn State University Graduate Studies in Malvern, Pa.
Namowicz is now the business manager for Bettis Law Firm in New Bern. Previously she was employed at BB&T as a Relationship Banker at the New Bern Main office. She has worked in the financial services field for more than 10 years.
She has sat on numerous boards, including the National Hobby Stores Association, YWCA of Tri-County Area's Advancement Committee, Finance Committee and Fund-raising Committee. She currently serves on New Bern Chamber of Commerce's Minority Business Council's board, is a member of New Bern's Toastmasters and member of St. Paul's Music Ensemble.
Namowicz and her husband have two adult married children, one residing in New Bern and one in Boyertown, Pa.
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By James Jordan and James R. Powell
Sunday, June 6, 2004; Page B07
If you're wondering about the direction of gasoline prices over the long term, forget for a moment about OPEC quotas and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and consider instead the matter of Hubbert's Peak. That's not a place, it's a concept developed a half-century ago by a geologist named M. King Hubbert, and it explains a lot about what's going on today at the gas pump. Hubbert argued that at a certain point oil production peaks, and thereafter it steadily declines regardless of demand. In 1956 he predicted that U.S. oil production would peak about 1970 and decline thereafter. Skeptics scoffed, but he was right.
It now appears that world oil production, about 80 million barrels a day, will soon peak. In fact, conventional oil production has already peaked and is declining. For every 10 barrels of conventional oil consumed, only four new barrels are discovered. Without the unconventional oil from tar sands, liquefied natural gas and other deposits, world production would have peaked several years ago.
Oil experts agree that hitting Hubbert's Peak is inevitable. The oil laid down by nature is finite, and almost half of it has already been extracted. The only uncertainty is when we hit the peak. Pessimists predict by 2010. Optimists say not for 30 to 40 years. Most experts expect it in 10 to 20 years. Lost in the debate are three much bigger issues: the impact of declining oil production on society, the ways to minimize its effects and when we should act. Unfortunately, politicians and policymakers have ignored Hubbert's Peak and have no plans to deal with it: If it's beyond the next election, forget it.
To appreciate how vital oil is, imagine it suddenly vanished. Virtually all transport -- autos, trucks, airplanes, ships and trains -- would stop. Without the fertilizers and insecticide made from oil, food output would plunge. Manufacturing output would also drop. Millions in colder regions would freeze.
Fortunately, oil production does not suddenly stop at Hubbert's Peak; rather, it declines steadily over time. But because production cannot meet demand, the price of oil will rapidly and continuously escalate, degrading economies and living standards. People complain now about gasoline at $3 per gallon. After Hubbert's Peak, $7 per gallon will seem cheap. Spending $150 to fill up the SUV? Ouch!
How to minimize the impact of declining oil production? Conservation and new finds can help. Higher mileage standards for autos and trucks could cut U.S. oil use by 20 percent or more. New oil fields continue to be discovered, but they are small. No giant Saudi Arabia-type fields have been found in 30 years. The small fields contribute ever diminishing amounts of oil. But while conservation and new oil can delay Hubbert's Peak and ease its impact, they cannot prevent it. Moreover, even if the United States conserves oil, other countries might not. A practical long-term, non-oil solution to the problem of Hubbert's Peak is needed.
We need new technologies, especially for transportation, which accounts for two-thirds of U.S. oil consumption. Possible options are synthetic fuels from coal, hydrogen fuel from nuclear and renewable power sources, and electrified transport: light rail, rail and maglev. Processes for synthetic gasoline, diesel and jet fuel are well developed but expensive. The environmental problems from coal -- mining, carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants -- are serious and require more attention. Hydrogen fuel produced by electrolysis from renewable power sources is environmentally clean, but it has serious technical problems. Producing the hydrogen equivalent in energy to the oil now used in U.S. transport would require 10 trillion kilowatt hours of electric energy; we would have to triple our electric generation capacity.
A more practical approach would be the electrification of transport. Switching half the truck and personal auto miles to electrified transport would require an increase in electric generation capacity of only 10 percent. Electrified transport is clean, non-polluting and energy-efficient. Light rail and rail systems are already in wide use. First- generation maglev systems are operating, and lower-cost second-generation systems are being developed.
As oil production declines, the combination of electrified transport and synthetic fuels from coal can meet the challenge. Hydrogen fuel is probably not practical, but research and development on it should continue in the hope of a breakthrough.
Whatever non-oil transport technologies prove best, making the transition from our present systems will take many years. It took decades for the first automobiles and airplanes to evolve into effective systems, and decades to build the interstate highway network. We can't afford to wait until Hubbert's Peak occurs. We should begin now to plan and implement the new, non-oil technologies. If we don't, our economy and living standard will be in serious trouble.
James C. Jordan is an energy and environment policy consultant and a former energy program director for the Navy. James R. Powell, a former senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, was a co-recipient, with Gordon Danby, of the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering, for their invention of superconducting maglev technology. He is a director of Maglev 2000 of Florida Corp.


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Talita and Lima labor into second round knock-out phase at FIVB Beach Volleyball Fuzhou Open
Fuzhou, China, April 25, 2014 - Brazil's second seeds Talita Da Rocha Antunes and Taiana Lima overcame Rimke Braakman and Jantine van der Vlist of the Netherlands 2-1 (21-15, 21-23, 15-11) in their first round knock-out phase match at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Fuzhou Open in China on Friday.
Despite beating Kazakhstan's Tatyana Mashkova and Irina Tsimbalova 2-1 (19-21, 21-10, 15-12) in their final pool match in the morning, Talita and Lima had to settle for second spot in Pool B and set up a clash with Braakman and van der Vlist.
Talita and Lima won the first set comfortably, 21-15. But the second set was a see-saw battle as the teams played point by point before the Dutch pair took it on their second set point with an ace serve by Braakman. In the deciding third set, the Brazilians enlisted a little help from their experience to take the upper hand and triumphed.
"It was a difficult match. They served good. But it's important that we won," said Lima.
Awaiting Talita and Lima in the last of 16 round match are another Dutch team - Madelein Meppelink and Marleen Van Iersel, who advanced after finishing atop Pool G.
Except Talita and Lima, the other top five seeded Main Draw teams - Xue Chen and Xia Xinyi from China, German pair Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst, Brazil's Maria Clara Salgado Rufino and Carolina Solberg Salgado and USA's Kerri Walsh and April Ross - topped their respective pools to directly enter the second round of the knock-out phase on Saturday.
Also on Friday, Varapatsorn Radarong and Tanarattha Udomchavee from Thailand, who are ranked 24th at the tournament, produced an upset when they defeated 13th seeded Americans Brittany Hochevar and Lane Carico 2-1 (20-22, 21-19, 15-9) to progress to the second round of the single elimination phase.
"We trained very hard back home, so I feel very happy about the victory," Radarong said after the match.
Radarong and Udomchavee next face defending champion Xue Chen and Xia Xiyi, whom they narrowly lost to last year at the Asian beach volleyball championship.
"Tomorrow we will just focus on our own game, and it doesn't matter if we win or lose," said Radarong.
The women's tournament continues on Saturday with the second and third single elimination rounds.
Fuzhou, capital of the Fujian province, lies on the southeast coast of the Chinese mainland and hosts the Open event for the second straight year.
In addition to the Fuzhou Open, two other stops are scheduled in China in 2014 on the FIVB international calendar: the FIVB Shanghai Grand Slam (April 29 to May 4) and the FIVB Xiamen Open (October 7 to 12). All three are double-gender events.
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Canucks end Blues' seven-game winning streakby Kevin Woodley
VANCOUVER - Zac Dalpe was so surprised to hear John Tortorella call his name for a shift with Daniel and Henrik Sedin that he did a double take because he didn't think his coach was serious.
Mike Santorelli wasn't at all surprised when he was dropped from that top line all the way down to Dalpe's spot on the fourth unit.
Both made the most of their new places in the lineup Friday night.
After swapping spots, Dalpe opened the scoring and Santorelli added the go-ahead goal 5:56 into the third period to help the Canucks end a five-game losing streak by beating the St. Louis Blues 2-1.
"Don't screw up, rise to the occasion a little bit and see where it takes you," Dalpe said of his mindset after being moved up to play with the Sedin twins. "Those guys make you comfortable real quick."
Santorelli, who didn't have a point in five games, was on the wrong end of the line juggling, moving from the top line to the bottom. But he scored got the game-winner by going to the net and redirecting Jason Garrison's quick shot from the top of the faceoff circles past goalie Brian Elliott on the blocker side.
"I wasn't good enough early on," Santorelli said. "Too many turnovers, so it was deserving. It doesn't matter who scores. It was good to get the two points and hopefully get things on the right track here."
Eddie Lack made 30 saves to help the Canucks (24-13-9) snap a 0-2-3 skid by beating the hottest team in the NHL. The Blues (31-8-5) had won seven in a row since a 4-3 shootout loss to the Calgary Flames on Dec. 23.
"It stops the bleeding for a day or two," Tortorella said. "I thought after a really tentative first period we started playing better. You can see we're fighting some confidence. Hopefully this will help us."
Alex Pietrangelo scored the only goal for the Central Division-leading Blues, who lost in regulation for the first time in 11 games (9-1-1). Elliott made 20 saves but lost for the first time in his past eight starts.
"We've been scoring some goals and getting a lot of wins lately so you expect to win every night so it's tough when you don't," said Elliott, who was back in goal after Jaroslav Halak shut out the Calgary Flames 5-0 on Thursday. "We have a homestand coming to make it up."
St. Louis came to Rogers Arena having won its last four games by a combined score of 21-4. Vancouver hadn't won in 2014, going 0-2-3 in its last five games and blowing a two-goal lead in the final 1:11 of a 5-4 shootout loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday.
They looked like two teams headed in opposite directions during the early going.
"We had all our chances in the first period, when it looked like they still had the debris left over from the previous game and if we would have taken advantage of that it would have been a different game," St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock said. "On the road you have to put teams away and we left the game out there."
After seeing his club get outshot 8-1 the first 10 minutes, Tortorella shook up all four of his lines. It didn't help in the first period, when was Lack forced to make a handful of tough stops while Elliott was rarely tested, but it paid dividends 1:31 into the second when Dalpe opened the scoring with his second goal of the season.
Playing in Santorelli's spot with Daniel and Henrik Sedin on the No. 1 line, Dalpe fought off a check from Jay Bouwmeester in the right circle and tipped Daniel's shot between Elliott's legs.
"It was greasy but they all count," Dalpe said.
Elliott wasn't happy with it.
"I didn't see him take the shot, there was a couple bodies in front, but that one shouldn't go in," Elliott said.
Vancouver's new top trio was caught out and pinned in its own end after an icing when the Blues tied it six minutes later. Pietrangelo made them pay after just holding Bouwmeester's cross-ice pass onside, beating a screened Lack high on the blocker side.
But the Blues couldn't sustain any momentum.
"They're a good team, we knew they were kind of struggling," Bouwmeester said. "I don't really care how things have been going for them, but you know coming in here they are a good team. We just didn't create enough, didn't score enough goals."
Lack played a role in that.
Starting for the eighth time in nine games because of injuries to No.1 Roberto Luongo, the rookie goalie was Vancouver's best player early. The rookie turned aside Chris Stewart on a partial break three minutes in and stopped Ryan Reaves' one-timer a couple of minutes later, but his best two stops of the opening period came off Jaden Schwartz, including a glove stop on a wide-open look in the slot.
"A lot of good chances we had their goalie made saves and we don't bury them and you have to tip your hat to things like that at times," said captain David Backes, who was denied by Lack on a backdoor one-timer midway through the third period. "We created a couple 3-on-1s, backdoor plays, shots, tips, rebounds and it seemed like even when he wasn't seeing them he was finding ways to get pieces."
Lack also got a blocker on a Pietrangelo's high shot two minutes after stuffing Backes, and Vancouver, which has given up six goals with the opposing goalie pulled and seen opponents tie the score five times with sixth-attacker goals, endured a couple close calls in the final minute with Elliott on the bench. But Garrison jumped over Lack to knock away a high rebound in the dying seconds, and the Canucks hung on for the win.
"I think my heart was pounding a little bit and it feels like we've been talking about this 6-on-5 for a while now," Lack said. "I think everyone focused a little bit extra and it felt good closing it out."
Even if it wasn't always pretty.
"I'm not picking it apart," Tortorella said. "It's a big win for us."


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What is Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma is one of several diseases that are collectively known as plasma cell dyscrasias. In general, the term myeloma refers to cancer of special types of white blood cells called plasma cells. Plasma cells are important components of the immune system that help the body fight infections caused by microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Plasma cells are found primarily in the bone marrow and develop from white blood cells called B-lymphocytes. When microorganisms invade the body, B-lymphocytes respond by transforming into plasma cells which, in turn, produce proteins called antibodies that help to destroy the invading microorganisms and, thereby, eradicate the infection. There are five types (classes) of antibodies (immunoglobulins) produced by plasma cells: IgG, IgM, IgA, IgD, and IgE. Each plasma cell produces a specific class of antibodies.
Under normal conditions, the body only produces plasma cells when they are needed to help fight off infections. Once the infection has been eliminated from the body, the old plasma cells die off. Certain genetic mutations can cause plasma cells to become abnormal and continue to divide over and over again and, eventually, form a tumor. These abnormal plasma cells, called myeloma cells are cancer cells that produce a specific type of antibody (monoclonal antibody) called M proteins. The monoclonal antibody that is typically overproduced by the myeloma cells is usually of the IgG or IgA variety. Most commonly, a whole monoclonal antibody is produced, however, in about 20% of cases, only a partial antibody called a light chain is produced by the myeloma cells. Light chains do not remain in the circulation and are found mainly in the urine. The M proteins in patients with multiple myeloma can be detected in the blood and/or urine by specialized techniques known as protein electrophoresis and immunofixation.
Since plasma cells originate from the bone marrow, when plasma cells grow out of control, become abnormal myeloma cells, and produce tumors, the tumors usually develop in the bone marrow. If only a single tumor is present, it is called a solitary plasmacytoma. Typically, however, several tumors can be found throughout the bone marrow and, in these cases, the condition is called multiple myeloma.
In patients with multiple myeloma, the number of myeloma cells in the bone marrow increases signficantly and usually accounts for more than 20% of the total population of cells found in the bone marrow. The abundance of cancerous plasma cells in the bone marrow can lead to complications including:
Knowledge is Critical when Dealing with a Life-Altering Condition such as Multiple Myeloma
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The Medifocus Guidebook on Multiple Myeloma starts out with a detailed overview of the condition and quickly imparts fundamentally important information about multiple myeloma, including:
A detailed overview of the two major classification systems that are used by doctors for **staging patients with multiple myeloma into specific categories based on the extent of the disease. These 2 classification systems, which play a key role in both planning treatment and predicting the outcome (prognosis) are known as the:
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Because currently there is no known cure for multiple myeloma, understanding the standard treatments - and the treatment options - is critical in attempting to prolong survival and maintain the patient's overall functional ability and quality of life. As you read through the section of the Guidebook that focuses on the treatments for multiple myeloma, you will specifically learn about:
The various phases in the treatment of multiple myeloma for patients whose disease has progressed to the point where treatment becomes necessary. These treatment phases are grouped into the following categories:
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Since much more than a year now I'm working on the graphics for this awesome videogame. Still in development but you can download the demo or buy it at www.factorio.com
Still a lot of work to do
Preview of the second level of the game superBUX, entitled the Bosc.
The music is composed by glaznost
attention to the eternal loop at the end,
.. super bug XD it will be fixed in the downloadable version.
Very limited edition. Silkscreen on cotton. Size 40 x 60 cm.
The aesthetics is based in the screen2 graphics mode from the 8bit MSX computers system.
Printed at the Tascansaia atelier in Barcelona.
This video is part of the gLanzoL project , a modification of Counter Strike for audiovisual sessions in real-time by glaznost.
The music composition titled 'City' was created by Elisaveta Fedorova and presented in december 2011 to the ArtFlakes at the Banff Centre in Canada.
Silkscreen printing for the exhibition 'The Future Starts Now' curated and produced by the Supalife Kiosk. 100 unique prints in 3 colors (CMY) 50 x 70 cm. signed and numbered by the author. With artwork by: Albert Bertolín // Danny Gretscher // Poste Aérienne // Golden Cosmos // Julia Guther // Juju // Klub7 // Attila Szamosi Peachbeach // Various & Gould // You can buy it at the Supalife online shop
Tshirt collection for the cult website Orgasmatrix. Trying to concentrate all the vice perversion and dirtiness in 2 non too explicit drawings. ..hard job.
You can buy it here.
This book is a selection of stickers made by designers and illustrators.
Afortunately i was selected in the collection.
Edited by Index Book.
Another sample of the gLanzoL project, a Counter Strike modification by glaznost.
That map was build for the experimental short film Hit Bit by glaznost, actually is part of the nofun's visual set for VJ'ing.
The music is a track called Congo Bunix composed by glaznost aswell.
Set of graphics for video live performances.
Part of the gLanzoL project, a modification of counter strike by glaznost.
The music is a glaznost's remix of the track enraona't by suzzz.
Print for the Supalife Kiosk in Berlin. Silkscreen on hight quality paper with 3 colors (CMY) 50×70 cm.Limited serie of 100 signed and numbered. You can buy it at the supalife online shop or just going directly to the gallery.
Cuts from the gLanzoL project, a modification of counter strike by glaznost.
The music is composed by glaznost aswell.
gLanzoL is designed for live real-time audio/video performances.
Paste'up illustration with original drawings on 05 billboards through the streets of Tarragona. Curated by Display. nov-dec 2010.
Also edition of a printed catalogue showing the work of the Display artists during the year.
Tales-book, made in autumn, illustrated without text and with sense.
Diferent histories, all of them acid and subversives, are crossing with each other in order to create a unique tale.
Part of the collection of the authors books by Rojo.
ISBN: 8461113942. size: 147×112 mm.
BoingBoing referece!
you can buy it here or
This games is the second part of La venganza de Samuel. Both released by glaznost. Programming by suzzz. Special mention at the Playstation/Art-Futura prices by its aesthetics.
A map from the gLanzoL project, a patch for Counter Strike by glaznost.
the music is composed by glaznost aswell.
gLanzoL is designed for live real-time audio/video performances.
Map from the gLanzoL project, a patch for Counter Strike by glaznost.
the music is taken from the track RGB from the album 'no funciona' by glaznost aswell.
gLanzoL is designed for live real-time audio/video performances.
To celebrate Resident Advisor's 10th anniversary, they've cooked up something rather epic: a series of ten parties in ten cities around the world, each with a secret headliner.
One of the designers behind the strange and wonderful Circus Company aesthetic is on poster duties this time around. Albert Bertolín has crafted a striking limited edition screen print of green creatures. There will be only 75 copies of the poster, and it will only be sold on RA.
First level gameplay of superBUX. Modification of Supertux v.0.1.3, an opensource 2D sidescrolling. 8bit music by glaznost. A game about deconstruction. Work in progress…
Cover art for the album 'I was on my way to hell' by Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts.
Edited by Circus Company label.
This illustration is the Trip, get +info.
Second serie of illustrations for the web portal with adult content ( XXX ) Orgasmatrix.
If you'd like to see the first serie → click.
12 -08-10
Solo exhibition at the gallery cmtv – Barcelona.
Presenting new original artwork and 1st public testing of the game superBUX.
Nano-short-film. An instant classic.
Created by: Glaznost & John Schehr und Gemüse; Starring: Fran Blanes; Soundtrack:
glaznost ; Filmed in Pneumovision; A MuereMatando Production.
Live gLanzoL session at Centre d'art Santa Mònica – Barcelona.
gLanzoL is a modification of the video-game counter strike, developed by glaznost.
The live music is by glaznost aswell.
gLanzoL is designed for live real-time audio/video performances.
Illustration of the poem 'Compañero enemigo' by J.A.Bermúdez. in the book 'El arbol talado que retoña' edited by editorial el Parámo.
3D flat pixelate zombies dancing fast glitchy
glaznost's rave music.
part of the nofun VJ reel. The video is using the half life engine.
Symbiosis is a Dr.Case's project based in digital modified urban artists's photographic portraits, integrating the artists with their characters and creations. The result is an imaginary being, a fantastic creature that conbines the creator and his alter ego.
The collection will be presented the next March 28th at Miscelanea Barcelona.
Silkscreen printing of a screenshot of the game superBUX
A very special and extraordinary limited edition. Printed on cotton. size 40 x 60cm.
This print was made in the Tascansaia atelier in Barcelona.
Guide throught the Spanish contemporary art and design scene
by Hye Young Yu, Edited by A G Books (South Korea).
Gratifying appearance in some of the pages.
XD thanks Hye!.
The artist and curator Hye Young Yu in cooperation with the KDF – Korea Design Fundation and the Spanish embassy in Seoul, organized an illustration exhibition in the Ssamzie-gil gallery in Seoul.
With the illustrators:
Arnal Ballester, Sergio Mora, Albert Bertolín (spain) and Seong Tae-jin, Charles Jang and Hong Ju-hee (Korea).
glad to be there ^^ !
Illustrations for the short tale 'Juicio íntimo' by Joan Ripollés Iranzo. Published in the magazine Caldo de Cultivo 'Near Future- Distopías'
Caracter + background design, and animation, of this scene from the film Distancia Beisbol Tres. An experimental live cinema project curated by Rojo. Performed in mecal -Barcelona, la Casa Encendida– Madrid. Festival internacional de cortos de Cabra – Jerez.
credits (this scene)
music = Wevie Stonder.
Video edition= aBe
human actress = Mireia Beryl Segalés.
graphics= A.Bertolín/glaznost
Presentation of the book Kultur Toilette and exhibition of some originals and more.
At the Supalife Kiosk. Berlin.
Illustration for a page in the book 6 A.M edited by Garabattage. With text by Enriqueta Llorca.
In fact this time is the writer who illustrates the illustrations.
Flash interactive designed for VJ'ing sessions. Like a puppet theatre move your musicians to playback the DJ/Band music.
Machinima experimental short film realized by Glaznost. Using the 3D engine of Counter Strike. The plot is about art thieves from a circus.
This project was presented in the live cinema sesions at
La Casa Encendida in Madrid.
Exhibition at the Pictoplasma – Character walk. Panatom gallery Berlin. Sharing space with gangpol&mit.
Poster design for the Floating world animation festival'09 in Portland.
Taken from the clip zombie rave.
The video was also selected for the festival.
The music composed by glaznost was used for the festival's teaser.
Cover for the album no funciona by glaznost edited by Ruga.
The graphics are taken from the project gLanzoL.
Coolab exhibition with Sakristan.
Each canvas = 2 brains, 4 hands, 2 hearts and much more.. experiment about the end of the world.. a new religion is coming.
At Miscelänea. Barcelona.
gracias R por las fotos! ;)
Illustration for the article A Taste of Rome by Alvaro Colomer in the Ling magazine – Art.
This is a short sample of the visuals played at the Maria am Ostbahnhof in Berlin. In the Magnum38's 'Old Europe strikes back' album release by Shitkatapult. These graphics were made specially for Magnum38 with a short piece of his album's intro.
Vj session at Maria am Ostbahnhof in the ClubTransMediale Nofun gfx and MFO performing visuals with live music by:
dj André Herzig, Yuksek, Fuckpony, Nôze, Para One, Feadz, and dj Kazey.
Vj session at Zentrale Randlage. With live music by: Kelvin Zero, Olyvetty, Sonic Kitchen, Tupolew and Peter + Malte.
Illustration for orgasmatrix website's header.
edit: After some time there was an Orgasmatrix web re-design and new illustrations, click to see it.
Vj session at Zentrale Randlage. Berlin.
music by : toyz'R'me /Rolax
Zark Behida, Ruairi Lazers, Scant Intone /Panospria.
International Outdoor Urban Art Exhibition, features 15 selected artists, asked to create specific artworks to be exposed in 43 giant billboards across streets of Barcelona's metropolitan area.
artwork by: Chet Purtilar, Sosaku Miyazaki, MWM, Sakristan, Meomi, Albert Bertolín, Diva, Jon Burgerman, 310k, Evgeny Kiselev, Tofer, Cristiano Trindade, Jinyoung Shin, Sergei Sviatchenko, Zosen.
Exhibition of originals. Together with the artists Lolo, Boris Hoppek, and
Neasden Control Centre. At the the Lazy Dog. Paris.
Illustration for the 10 anniversary's book of the Loring art Barcelona bookshop.
Character design, animation and background design of this project by fundació sa Nostra. A didactic movie for school kids about art market. 30 min lenght animation, 1 hour total duration. Cooperating with John Scheer und Gemüse and music composition by J.H. André.
Here just a sample.
Group exhibition about music. An audio-visual exchange of USA and Germany. I've been choosen the Trip by Kim Fowley.
With Jim Avingnon, Melinda Beck, Erika Borboa, Irene Cho, Juju's delivery, Rinzen and more other artists.. at the Neurotitan gallery. Berlin.
The image was also released in the magazine Rojo®seis. And actually is the cover of the album I was on my way to hell by Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts. more album's info here.
True Type Pixel Font made with the FontStruct net app. Free to download and use, under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike licence.
Coolab exhibition with Patrick Farzar. And Kultur Toilette book's presentation. at the Helium Cowboy gallery in Hamburg.
Short comic about what does it happen to the lost children. Published in the Vice magazine, comics issue.
27-04-09 L'escola Massana curates an exhibition about the first 10 years of illustration in the school. I presented the book Kultur toilette and some originals.
Vectorial illustration and animation for the interactive barry tattoo, produced for the Zikatriz tattoo studio website, programming suz. A Glaznost's classic.
Game about the misunderstood friendship between a kid and a giant octopus. One of the first experiments in interactivity with glaznost. suz = programming, me = graphics + animation. There's a retro-lovely second part here by glaznost aswell. actually 2012, Miguelito is 11 years old !! ☆ Happy birthday Miguelito!! ☆
Project for Smart. Curated by Rojo.
Exhibition in Barcelona at the KBB and Breat&Butter. In Berlin at the gallery invaliden1.
Binari kids.
One fakes the other.
Used as a signal of a fabulous place.
Reedited as a sticker here.
Experimental audio and motion interactive.
Control the audio and the movement of Chester by moving the mouse.
|Unfortunately somebody took the book off, and left the exhibition without my work.
← Here's a translation of the message that the curators left instead of the book:
"To the thief of the book "Kultur toilette" by Albert Bertolín:
…and nobody did ever ask for the book.


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"Aspie" is the too cute name that sufferers of Asperger's Syndrome have given themselves - we're Aspies! There's spittle on my screen now from the raspberry I just blew ... I hate cute! - well, puppies and kittens can be cute - but not overweight, balding, middle aged men who chain smoke and drink coffee all day - and night ... I don't know how to make friends. I've never learned; I can't learn - I can't read body language, despite the best efforts of my various keepers ... I'm always shocked to find that people do like me - why they do, I don't know. I don't much like myself ... My sister says that people like me because I'm non-judgmental - well, what else can a chronically mentally ill, queer heretic be but nonjudgmental? It's not like I've got room to talk! That and whatever one tells me never, ever goes further (unless I am asked to pass the word on) ... And I don't envy anyone anything. Why? Long ago, I realized that everyone - no matter who - is living in his/her own private hell that's far worse looking on the inside than on the outside. The Greeks were right: if we were given the chance to trade our problems for somebody else's, we'd all keep our own! It may be a bed of nails, but it's my bed of nails - my bed of nails in my very own dungeon that I don't have to share w/anyone ... I'm a pessimist, a cynic, and a skeptic - devout! And for those very reasons you'll get a much better deal from me than from Pangloss
And there - that's how somebody w/Asperger's Syndrome says hello ... "Hello!"
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Thank you for the welcome.
I think that I mentioned somewhere that I'm also dyslexic ... I avoid writing by hand. Oh, I can read my own handwriting, but no one else can read it. Being left-handed is no help!
Yes, they're thinking of taking Asperger's out of the DSM - at least that's what one of my counselors has said. The feeling is that "high-functioning autism" covers Asperger's Syndrome and that there is no need for a separate category. Other people, my counselor included, want Asperger's to head a new category - differently-abled, as opposed to disabled. What a load that is! You live w/this shit and see if you feel differently-abled! The counselor's name is Christina, and she is even more liberal than I am (which isn't easy) - which means that she believes in a world that does not exist, a world where the tyranny of norms can be ignored - that being able to fit in is not so essential to success. Well, for one who fits in nicely, it's a nice enough "theory"! ... People make noise about how oddballs often find fame and fortune - but it's only the oddballs who have a brand of oddity that people are willing to buy who find fame and fortune! The rest of us count ourselves lucky to qualify for SSI ... I can't interest myself in anything to which I cannot apply Set Theory - a job has to have features that can be defined in terms of sets and classes and, then, I have to be able to devise functions that can be applied to the sets and classes ... Let's not get going w/that just yet! Point is, I find it almost impossible to do anything w/o making a vast deal out of it, submitting the whole to my contorted thinking process, grinding it down to the finest dust - and then I'm bored w/it, and it becomes torture ... To give me a deadline is - a waste of your time! And I can't show deference. I treat everyone the same. And I don't pay attention to the news - or what's going on around me - In short, I'm unemployable! And I can't control any of that - I'm just beginning to be able to cut myself off. I'd go on for days otherwise. So, I'll shut up - except to say, thank you for the welcome ... I have a cousin who's autistic, much worse than me, the sort who sits in corners, oblivious.


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The Houma Police Department is facing its fourth harassment lawsuit in the past two months.
The Houma Police Department is facing its fourth harassment lawsuit in the past two months.
Former Houma Police officer Thomas Rhodes has accused the department and Terrebonne Parish government of harassing him while he was being investigated for misconduct during his sick leave last summer. He resigned as a result, according to the lawsuit.
Rhodes injured his knee while on duty in May 2011, and a doctor operated on it a month later, court documents say. After his operation, he took sick leave.
Rhodes was investigated for misconduct during that leave, for reasons that both Rhodes' attorney, Michael Zerlin, and Police Chief Todd Duplantis declined to explain. The suit, filed Aug. 17, does not detail what kind of misconduct the department and government accused him of.
The suit does not detail the harassment, either, besides mentioning that Rhodes' supervisor told him not to leave his home while he was on sick leave without Duplantis' permission.
Rhodes was also harassed about his injury, the suit says. He resigned Aug. 19, 2011, after going on sick leave May 21, 2011.
The suit argues such treatment violated state law that prohibits employment discrimination against disabled people. It requests an unspecified amount of money in damages because of "loss of earnings capacity," "pain and suffering," attorney fees and other reasons.
Duplantis declined to discuss the suit, besides saying that "all the lawsuits filed against the police department under my administration since 2008 are from disgruntled employees not following the vision of the department or adhering to departmental policies."
At the time he was appointed, "the department was failing to perform a focused community policing mission and lacked effective operational goals and strategies or crime analysis," Duplantis said. "The agency's structure at the time was struggling. There was no common philosophy of policing within the agency. This caused the agency-wide morale issues between the various divisions. The department had poor organizational structure, flawed disciplinary procedures, which prompted high turnover among officers and caused cliques and bitter conflict within the department. The agency's organizational structure was set for failure. ... The department had little supervision over its off-duty detail program, as it was out of control. The Houma Police had a lack of direction at all leader levels because of poor direction, goals and planning.
"It's not business as usual at the police department. Employees, to include supervisors, are now being held accountable as the department is accountable to the people it serves."
Zerlin said he does not discuss ongoing litigation.
Three other officers or former officers filed suit in June and July against Houma Police, alleging harassment.
Capt. Milton Wolfe Jr. and Sgt. Kyle Faulk are both alleging mistreatment after disagreeing with legislation that continued to keep the police chief position out of civil service protection.
Former Officer Kristina Payne is attempting to get her job back after she was terminated in June, alleging in a suit that she was fired after accusing specific officers and the department as a whole of being racist. Payne is black.
Houma attorney Jerri Smitko is representing those three. The series of lawsuits raises red flags about the Houma Police Department, she said.
"I think it's a pattern in practice," Smitko said. "Certain officers are singled out because of their beliefs and/or affiliations. ... The department suffers from a lack of equitable leadership, political in-fighting and, as a result, no morale."
Staff Writer Katie Urbaszewski can be reached at 448-7617 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Muhammad said that the Jews had been rejected by Allah and cursed. And Muhammad said the duty of the Muslims is to subjugate everybody to Allah, including the Jewish infidels if needed by holy war. Obviously through the years and centuries it's not all people who believe Islam are vicious and killers, not all of them, by far. But Muhammad was a very evil person and a very aggressive, in fact a deadly person. And so there is plenty of warrant in the system for those people who want to conduct themselves in that fashion. One of the Islamic leaders of our nation said the other day on television, "These radicals have literally hijacked the entire religion for their own ends." But they can find in it a justification for what they do because it is inherent in Islam that they must make people convert by whatever means. The truth of the matter is that as we live today Islam is currently the most powerful system on earth for the destruction of biblical truth and Christianity and is the main persecutor of Christians all over the world...in the Middle East and in Africa. Thousands of Christians are dying under this persecution.
You see, for Islam the world is divided into two parts...Dar el Salaam, house of peace, where Allah rules. And Dar el Harb, house of war where infidels live. It's either peace, you succumb to Allah, or it's war.
In 1948 Israel, that infidel people, invaded the house of peace and turned it into a house of war. That's why Arafat, the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization said, quote: "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel." That is the only condition of peace in the thinking of these extreme Islamic leaders. In fact, I just went back into some of the history, when Israel won its first battle with the Muslim/Arabs, they started to take back the land, it was a defeat for Allah. And Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian Ayatollah, said that Israel's presence in the Arab land, Israel's presence...and this is really pretty amazing...is due to the backslidden condition of Muslims and Allah is greatly displeased. The defeat of Israel, therefore, said the Ayatollah, will become the sign of Allah's pleasure with Muslims. So if you want Allah's pleasure, you have to defeat Israel. That turns everything into a holy war, a jihad.
One Egyptian Islamic fundamentalist said, and I quote, "Islam grows on the back of the severed limbs and blood of martyrs." They don't mind spilling their blood to accomplish their ends. War is a language they understand and every war is a holy one. The Koran even teaches that Abraham was not a Jew, he was a Muslim and the Koran teaches, listen to this, the disciples of Christ were Muslims because Jesus was a prophet of Allah. In Algeria in the past two years somewhere between three and six thousand people have been killed in trying to turn Algeria into an Islamic state. Twenty-nine women have been killed for being unveiled, they vow to kill more. Throughout the history of the hand of these people has been against the Christians. From 1894 to 1918 Muslims in Turkey persecuted Armenians in what remains history's greatest atrocity against Christians. The Muslim's savagery surpassed even the Roman Empire's brutality in the first three centuries of Christianity. The Muslim Turks almost succeeded in exterminating the Armenian race. Through the process of starvation, deportation, disease, beatings and murders a million Armenians were killed and 1.5 million fled the country. One author wrote, quote: "In less than a year the Armenians of Turkey to the number of about a million old and young, rich and poor, of both sexes had been collectively drowned, burned, bayonetted, starved or otherwise tortured to death or else deported on foot, penniless and without food through the burning Arabian deserts," end quote.
This is just to indicate that this is not new. Now for 800 years the Muslims had great power in the Middle East. From the time of Muhammad on. And then came the Roman Catholic Church and then came the Crusades. You remember when the Roman Catholic crusaders took back the land of Israel in the great Crusades? And, of course, there was later on a defeat and Islamic countries rose to power in the Middle East until 1948 when Israel re-established itself. The Arab world right now is back, it's back and it has a great agenda, and that is to conquer for Islam, to conquer for Allah and to rid the land of all infidels. The modern rise...the modern rise of their power began on May 26, 1908 because drillers struck oil at Mosjed-e Soleyman in Iran. Took them until 1970 to get the power from the oil, and now they have it. I mean, it's a pretty simple principal. The energy consumers are at the mercy of the energy producers. Money has literally flooded into the Middle East, massive wealth to finance whatever wars and terrorism they want. In fact, it came into the Middle East so fast that in one article in the London Economist they wrote that they could buy the Bank of America in six days, the IBM Corporation in 43 days and all the major companies on the world's stock market in 15 years. Massive wealth, more than half the world's oil resources, close to the surface, easy to drill, close to the sea for piping and shipping, excellent quality, low in sulphur. One well brings 80,000 barrels a day. The wealth of the world is there and the world is energy dependent. And so they now have the money to fund the jihad and this is the religious reason behind all of this.
Just to let you know how serious they are, in a CNN interview with Osama bin Laden, he said this, "We declare jihad against the United States government because the US government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal whether directly or through the support of the Israeli occupation. For this and other acts of aggression and injustice we have declared jihad against the United States because in our religion it is our duty to make jihad so that God's word is the one exalted to the heights and so that we drive the infidels out." Straightforward, that's Front Line on PBS, Public Broadcasting System, September 11.
On February 22, 1998 bin Laden issued an edit calling for a tax on all Americans, including civilians, announced the creation of the International Islamic Front for jihad against the Jews and crusaders in association with extremist groups from Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The following quotations are taken from that edit. Quote, "For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors and turning its bases in the peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. Despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusaders Zionist alliance and despite the huge number of those killed which has exceeded one million, in spite all this the Americans are once again trying to repeat the horrific massacres as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed against the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation. We with God's help call on every Muslim who believes in god and wishes to be rewarded to comply with god's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim leaders, youths and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's US troops and the devil's supporters aligned with them and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson. The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies, civilians and military is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it in order to liberate the Al-Aqsa mosque...that's in the middle of Jerusalem...and the holy mosque in Mecca from their grip and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim," end quote. I mean, that's about as clear as it can be.
CNN reported that he said, "Thousands of millions of Muslims are angry. Hostility toward America is a religious duty and we have to be rewarded for it by Allah. We are confident that the Muslim nation would rid Islamic countries of the American and the Jew."
This is the religious reason why it happens. You free up evil people to do evil, they'll do it. And then you tell them by doing this evil they're serving God, and you have given them the greatest justification possible.
Now let's go back to theology for a minute. There's one way a Muslim can be sure of heaven. And I've read through a lot of their literature this last week. There's one way a Muslim can be sure of heaven, die in a jihad. Here's what it says in the Koran. "If you are slain or die in god's way, it is unto god you shall be taken. As for those who are slain in the cause of Allah, he will admit them to the paradise he has made known to them." The only way that I can find in their literature that a Muslim can know he's going to heaven for sure is to die in a holy war. It further says, "The unbelievers are your enemies...and I'm quoting...seek out your enemies relentlessly, you shall not plead for traitors, Allah does not love the treacherous or the sinful. O believers, when you encounter the unbelievers marching to battle, turn not your backs to them. Who turns his back that day to them, he is laden with the burden of god's anger and his refuge is Gehenna, or hell." You fight, you go to heaven. You run, you go to hell. That's the only way you can know. You get in a holy war, you give up your life and you can be sure of heaven.
This is the religious fight. There's even something beyond that, I'll call it the sensual reason. This is so bizarre...the sensual reason. How do you take...the literature I read says essentially 64 percent between 18 and 23 and all them under 30, they're young single men, they may in their clandestine operations when they come into the United States appear to have families, but there is evidence surfacing that that is only an appearance. It may be true that some of them do but it seems to be part of their cover. Single men. How do you possible motivate a young person? Suicide bombers are recruited as young as 13. How do you recruit people? How do you get a single person to blow himself up? How do you get a single person to fly an airplane into a building? What is the motivation?
Well first of all, if he's genuinely Islamic he wants to know he's going to heaven. There's a terrifying reality in Islam about hell, they have a real hell. But there's something even beyond this that's real bizarre. Wouldn't it be easier to just go to battle and kill an infidel and then you know you would go to heaven? What are you going to do this for? Why do you have to kill yourself?
There's a lot behind it. Palestinian suicide bombers were first carrying out their actions against Israel in 1994. In the past 11 months 15 suicide bombers occurred in Israel. And some Muslims say that such suicide bombings are forbidden. It is a debate going on among Islamic leaders. And the reason they say it's forbidden, it's not forbidden to die in a holy war, it's not forbidden to die as a martyr, it's the noblest thing you could do and it's a guarantee to heaven, but there are some Islamic leaders who think that self-killing, suicide is forbidden. However, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egypt's most highly respected Muslim cleric said, "The rulings against suicide bombers were made by people alien to Islamic law and religion." And Jerusalem's top Muslim agreed that suicide in a holy war is a noble act. Homas and Islamic jihad, two radical Islamic groups, have carried out multiple suicide bombings and they say they have absolutely no shortage of volunteers. These are young men, they can be started at the age of five in the training process. They are virtually unemployable because they have basically been programmed and brainwashed for one thing, single men with a bleak future looking for heroic death and entrance into eternal paradise. Support in the Islamic world for suicide bombers has increased in one year, the last year from 25 percent of the population to 70.
So it's become the dominant popular view that it's okay to do this. It promises heroism. It promises heaven. In fact, one Palestinian psychologist said, "It's no wonder that some people are doing it. We should wonder why everybody isn't doing it." It's a way to heaven. There are plenty in line. Abu Shanab hit the issue, one of their spokesman, he said, quote: "There's not a single person in Israel whom we don't view as a usurper of our land." That just keeps being the issue, and as we support Israel we become the big Satan.
Now the training for this begins early. Mohammed al-Durra was killed in terrorist action in Israel. I read the article about it. His mother said, quote: "I am happy he has been martyred." She gave him a snack before he went to the shoot out. In sending your children at the age of 13 or any age into some kind of battle overrides natural parental instincts.
Vamik Volkan, Turkish-Cypriot psychoanalyst and psychologist had some interesting things to say about this in a book he wrote called Bloodline which studies the history of these bombers. Typical recruits are 17 to 23, isolated boys locked into adolescent struggles. The boys are divided into small secretive groups where they collectively read Koranic verses such as...Think not of those who are slain in god's way as dead, they live finding their sustenance in the presence of their lord," there's the promise of heaven. He goes on, "An almost mystical sense of togetherness is created which undoes the adolescent isolation these boys feel. The same mechanisms that pull together a football team is used to create a terrorist group. Most of these boys are instructed to suppress their sexual urges, not watch television but are promised unlimited sexual activity in heaven with virgins should they become martyrs. And there's the sensual motivation.
Let me get specific. They are promised that when they die they will not only go to heaven but when they get to heaven there will be 72 black-haired virgins waiting to have eternal sex with them. Here they are with a pent-up sexual desire and a very sensual thing. By the way, the Koran says that Muslims can only have four wives. Muhammad had 16 and at least 22 named women that he cohabitated with. There was a sensual element in this. And the carrot they hang out in the face of the suicide bombers is not just heaven but eternal sex with 72 virgins. A recent review of 140 school text books of the Palestinian authority showed that all subjects are used to teach Palestinian children to admire the shaheed, that's the martyr. The great eight literature text books are filled with songs and poems glorifying child death...quote: "Draw your sword, death will call upon you and your sword will go wild. Palestine, the young will redeem your land." In a grammar text the following question is asked, quote: "Mark the subject and object of the following sentence," here's the sentence in a grammar book, quote: "Jihad, holy war to spread Islam is the religious duty of every Muslim." Another one says, "Cherish the jihad fighters who quench the earth of Jerusalem with their blood." This is in a grammar book, pick out the subject and pick out the object.
Palestinian Sesame Street teaches children the virtues of killing the ??? powers of Jerusalem with guns and stones. Chief Mufti of the Palestinian police Sheik Abd Al-Salam Skheidm specified the rewards according to Islamic tradition, and I quote, "From the moment his first drop of blood spills, the martyr feels no pain. He is absolved of all his sins. He seals his seat in heaven and he is spared the tortures of the grave. He is spared the horrors of judgment day. He is married to the black-eyed virgins and...here's another thing...he can vouch for 70 of his family members to also enter paradise." So if he does this, when he gets there he can pick 70 people out of his family who are going to get salvation out of his sacrifice.
A week before the suicide bombings in the Tel-Aviv Palestinian authority, the same kind of authority, Al Mufti Sheik Ikrima Sabri discussed this issue in the Al-Aqsa mosque right there in Jerusalem, it was broadcast on the Voice of Palestine radio May 25 of this year, this is what he said, "The Muslim loves death and martyrdom, just as you Jews love life. There's a great difference between he who loves the afterlife and he who loves this world. The Muslim loves death and seeks martyrdom."
Sure, you go to heaven and you get eternal sex. What a perverse perspective. That's the final carrot that hangs over these disenfranchised single men, lured by lust. The Koran describes these women, quote: "Beautiful like rubies, with complexions like diamonds and pearls." The martyrs then will, quote, "Delight themselves lying on green cushions and beautiful carpets." USA Today, Jack Kelly, the writer, July 5 of this year, just a couple of months ago, wrote in Habos run kindergartens there are signs on the walls in the Palestinian area, here are the signs, "The children of the kindergarten are the Shaheeds the holy martyrs of tomorrow." They start with kindergartners. Another sign, the classroom signs at Al Najjar University in the West Bank in Gaza, it's an Islamic university said, quote: "Israel has nuclear bombs, we have human bombs." At an Islamic school in Gaza City run by Homos(?) eleven-year-old Palestinian students, Ameds, small frame and boyish smile are deceiving. They mask a determination to kill at any cost. Quote he says, "I will make my body a bomb that will blast the flesh of Zionists the sons of pigs and monkeys." The reason he says that in the Koran it says Allah turned Jews into pigs one time, another time he turned them into monkeys.
Little 11-year-old Amad said, quote: "I will tear their bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain then they will ever know." Eleven years old. His classmates all responded, shouting in response: "Allahu Akbar, God is great. The teacher yelled back, "May the virgins give you pleasure." And so it goes.
Now in the end will Islam win the jihad? No. I can tell you how it ends, isn't that good to know? I can't tell you the end of a football game but I can tell you the end of this one. Turn to Ezekiel 36 and I'm not done so rest comfortably. I have three pages left out of 18...so you can calculate. Ezekiel 36:1, "And you, son of man, prophesy in the mountains of Israel, speak to the land, speak to the land, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord." What's going to happen? What's the message of God to the land? "Thus says the Lord God, because the enemy has spoken against you, Aha...that is to say we have you...and the everlasting heights have become our possession. The enemy is ours, we've got him, all we need is that one little piece of Israel, got all the rest, it's ours." They have it, they have Lebanon, they have Syria, they have it all. And then east. "Therefore the prophets prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord God. For good cause they have made you desolate, crushed you from every side, from the north, from the south, from the east they've crushed Israel. The Jew shall become a possession of the rest of the nations. You have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people..." I mean, it goes on all the time. It's all talk against Israel. "Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God."
What does God have to say to this, right? What does God have to say? "Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, the hills, the ravines, the valleys, all that land, the desolate waste, the desert, the forsaken cities which have become a prey and a derision of the rest of the nations around about you, therefore thus says the Lord God, surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of all the nations." God has set Himself against those nations. They are idolatrous. And against all Edom, representing all Israel's enemies, "Who have appropriated My land for themselves."
God sets Himself against those nations who take His land. It became for them a possession with wholehearted joy and with the scorn of soul they drive it out for a prey. And that's just exactly the attitude...scorn and get the Israelites out of this land. "But I have set Myself," He says, "against these nations. Therefore prophesy concerning Israel...verse 6...and say to the mountains and the hills and the ravines...thus says the Lord God, say to the valleys, Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations." Isn't that...God says some day...the day is going to come when you're not going to take any more insults, Israel, you're not going to take any more insults. "Therefore thus says the Lord God...in verse 7...I have sword that surely the nations which are around you will themselves endure their insults, but you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come. For behold, I am for you." Oh what a statement!
Who is God for in this battle? Israel. And this is amazing because Israel's in unbelief. But they are God's covenant people and He's going to bring them to salvation. God's for Israel. I don't know about you, but I want to be for who God's for. God's for Israel, I'm for Israel too. "I'm for you, I'll turn to you and you'll be cultivated and sewn and I'll multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt and I'll multiply on you man and beast and you'll increase and be fruitful and I'll cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and I'll treat you better than at the first." Isn't that something? "And thus you will know that I am the Lord," it's not Allah. "And I'll cause..." he's talking to the land here. "I'll cause men to walk on you, My people Israel, to walk on you and possess you, you'll become their inheritance and never again bereave them of children."
I'd say that's pretty clear, isn't it? Do you have any question of who's going to win? I don't have any question. Look at verse 22, this is the amazing grace of God to keep His promise. In verse 22, "Say to the house of Israel," let's talk to the land. God gave a message to the land. Now let's talk to the people, verse 22, "Thus says the Lord God, it's not for your sake, O house of Israel that I'm about to act, but for My holy name which you have profaned among the nations where you went." And here He says you're not worthy of this, you've profaned My name. "But I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations which you have profaned in their midst." That's where the sad thing, isn't it, today about Israel? Secular...indifferent to God and the Messiah of God. It's not going to stay that way.
"The nations...verse 23...are going to know that I am the Lord when I prove Myself holy among you in your sight." That's the salvation of Israel that's coming. "I'll take you from the nations, I'll gather you from the lands. I'll bring you into your own land." Guess what? It's happening, they're there.
Then this is going to happen. Oh, watch this. Verse 25, "Then I will...what?...sprinkle clean water on you, you'll be clean, I'll cleanse you from all your filthiness, all your idols, I'll give you a new heart, put a new spirit within you. Remove the heart of stone from your flesh, give you a heart of flesh. Put My Spirit within you. Cause you to walk in My statutes and you'll be careful to observe My ordinances and then you will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers. Then you'll be My people and I will be your God and I will save you from all your uncleanness and I will call for the grain and multiply it and I will not bring famine on you and I'll multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field that you may not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations. You will remember all your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations and I'm not doing this for your sake, you don't deserve it. I'm doing it for My sake."
Verse 33 He says, "I'll cleanse you from all your iniquities. I'll cause the cities to be inhabited, the waste places to be rebuilt, the desolate land will be cultivated. Instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by they will say the desolate land, look at this, has become like...what?...oh, the Garden of Eden. And the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fruitful and fortified, inhabited. Then the nations that are left around you will know it's not Allah but it's I the Lord that have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate. I the Lord have spoken and...what?...I'll do it. I'll even increase their men like a flock," verse 37. And at the end of verse 38, the end of the chapter, "Then they will know that I am the Lord."
That day's coming, beloved. I don't know when it's coming but it's coming. It's...can't be too far, they're gathered there. But until that day there's going to be war. Until that day there's going to be conflict, escalating, escalating, escalating. And now we're dragged into it, half a world away and we're dragged into it.
You say, "Well why we dragged into it?" I told you why. What should be our response? We should do what is just. We should do what governments are designed by God to do. What are governments designed by God to do? To bear a sword, Romans 13, and not to bear a sword for nothing. Civil government is not a pageant. Why do we bear a sword? To punish evil doers, to protect innocent people. And a war of protection and a war of punishment is a just war. If I have four children in my house and a man comes in and kills two of them, what do I do? Negotiate? What do I do? I stop him from killing the rest if I can. Sacrifices have to be made for the greater good. Evil has to be punished. Even human goodness has to be protected.
Civil government, folks, get it straight, is not primarily here to provide Medicare and Social Security. I hate to tell you that. Certainly doesn't exist for the redistribution of wealth. It exists to threaten evil doers with death and protect the people who obey the law. The noose, the guillotine, the firing squad, the gas chamber, the electric chair as well as the sword, the gun, the rifle, the canon, and the missile stand behind the stability of a civilization because people are killers. A just war is a war called for by the scale of the crimes. This isn't personal vengeance, it is national protection by the punishment of those who do evil and by stopping them permanently from doing more of it.
A lot of people have said to me...Is this an end time scenario? I don't think that the plane crash into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, I don't think that's apocalyptic. I don't think that's anything that indicates the end time. Well we know there are biblical signs at the end, Israel is in the land. That's true. The world is moving toward one world religion that Antichrist could rule and that Islam is moving in that direction. I've been so fascinated over the last ten years to watch the Roman Catholic Church making its overtures to Islam. We can see that. Weapons of mass destruction are not available and in the book of Revelation it says in the end of the age one third of the population of the world will die and one forth will die. That will take weapons of mass destruction. You couldn't do that with knives, and bows and arrows. Also it tells us in the end time, Daniel 9, there will be so much turmoil in the Middle East that they'll need a peacemaker...the peacemaker will be the Antichrist. While they have the turmoil, it's a perfect scenario for a false Christ to come and establish a false peace. I'm always watching whoever goes to the Middle East to negotiate to see if it's the Antichrist.
What have I given you? I've given you a natural reason why this happened...the evil depravity of man's murderous heart that has to be kept in check by fear and retribution, or he is a killer. I've given you historical reason why that happened...the deeply imbedded hatred for the Arabic world toward Israel and the long millennia of conflict between those people over the land. And America has been drawn into it because America is an allied-infidel nation. I've given you a religious reason why it happens. The theology of Islam allows for no assurance for salvation from hell except when one dies as a martyr in a holy war. Satan, of course, is behind that. I gave you a sensual reason as well as a religious reason why this happens. Self-killing suicide bombers working for eternal sex.
I'm going to give you one last reason and this is the real reason we need to understand. Theological reason...why did it happen? Why did all those people die? I'll tell you why, because the wages of sin is death. That's why, because it's appointed unto men once to...what?...die. I don't know how else to say it. Nothing happened to those people on Tuesday that wasn't going to happen anyway. They were all going to die, just not then, they thought. Nothing extraordinary about people dying. Are you ready for this? Since Tuesday 50 thousand Americans have died...since Tuesday. Have you been concerned? Fifty thousand. This year, 2.5 million will die. And eventually everybody will die, that's reality. We feel much more comfortable when they die one by one. We don't like it when they die 250 at a time in a plane crash. Sometimes a few thousand die in a Third-World flood, Third-World earthquake, volcanic eruption. Rarely do 5,000 people, or 10,000 people die and never in America. Oh, but everybody dies. Fifty thousand Americans die every week. Are we so concerned? We just go on blissfully living our lives with little regard for the fact that 50,000 Americans die every week? Amazing. As long as everything is kind of comfortable and we don't have to see that, we don't see mangled airplanes and mangled trains and mangled buildings, we're okay. It keeps death at some distance.
They died because everybody dies. They just didn't expect to die when they died. And you know, people say, "Well why did God let that happen?" It happens to everybody. The wages of sin is death. The bigger question is not why did God let it happen, the bigger question is why do any of us live? We should all be dead. The wages of sin is...what?...death. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The big question is not why did God allow those people to die, the bigger question is why does God allow you to live...and me? You know, we live under constant mercy so that when justice shows up we're shocked. We get so used to grace that we don't understand justice. Every once in a while, every once in a while God draws back the grace and a deadly disaster happens and we're shocked. Our shock should be that we're reminded of what we deserve.
People say, "Well what is God saying?" I'll tell you what He's saying. He's saying, "People, you're going to die and you don't have control of it. This is a reminder, I give you life, I give you love, I give you happiness, I pour out all the common grace and make life rich and rewarding, full. I do everything I can. I'm patient. I'm forebearing. I'm merciful. I'm gracious. But once in a while I have to show you a stark illustration of where you're going."
So we think it's our right to just live. We think the key to our life is exercise, diet. It's not your right to live, it's God's grace that gives you life. And when God allows a startling and dramatic tragedy to occur, don't question His fairness, thank Him for His grace.
Turn to Luke 13. Here is the definitive passage, this is the last page, we're there. Luke 13, "Now on the same occasion, an occasion when Jesus was teaching a large crowd, there were some present who reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices." Boy, that was a strange thing. Pilate was the Roman procurator, the Roman governor of occupied Israel. The Romans occupied Israel. The Galileans were Jews from the north part of the land and they were making sacrifices. They were at the temple. This is the only place in Israel you can make sacrifice so some people came down from Galilee, Jesus was a Galilean so were all the apostles. Came down to make sacrifice. Went into the temple, went in there making sacrifice, religious, dutiful, doing what the Old Testament told them to do, doing what God had revealed they should do. And Pilate mingled their blood with the sacrifice.
What does that mean? Pilate sent men in there to slice them up, kill them. This is just...I mean, these are religious people. And it says in verse 2 He answered and said to them, they didn't even ask a question, but He knew what was in their minds. "Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this fate? Do you think God did this because they're worse than everybody else?" I mean, see the question in their mind is these people are religious, these people are down at the temple, they're doing what they should be doing, what the Old Testament tells them to do. What is the deal? Why would God allow Pilate to go in there and kill them so that their own blood is mingled with the sacrifice? Very vivid. Why did this happen to these religious people? Well, they must have worse than everybody else.
No. Verse 3, "No, but unless you repent you'll all likewise perish." What is that? That's the message, folks. People die. Because they die doesn't mean they're worse than anybody else. God wasn't somehow judging people who worked in that building, or those buildings because they're worse than other people. No. No. They're not any different than anybody else. Jesus said Pilate didn't go in there, God didn't allow him to send in his soldiers to kill those people because they were worse than anybody else. The point is, you better repent or you will perish when you die. This is...what is God saying to this nation in this? He is saying you better repent because you don't know when you're going to die. If you die without being prepared, you will perish.
And then even a more vivid one, verse 4. "Do you suppose that those eighteen people on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem?" Now they've got another question. Hey, they had their own trade center, the tower in Siloam. It fell over one day. It wasn't hit by an airplane but probably poor construction, maybe an earthquake, it fell over. Eighteen people were walking down the street, the tower falls on them, kills them all. And the question in their minds is...why does this happen to these people? Are these people worse than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem?
Jesus answered, verse 5, "I tell you no, no. They're not any worse than you, but unless you repent you will also perish." People in the Pentagon, people in those World Trade Center towers perished...I'm sure some of them were believers, some were not and the ones who were not perished, went to hell forever without God, without hope. They weren't worse than anybody else. You'll perish too if you don't repent. That's the message, that's God's message. See, the difference in people is only the difference in degree, it's not a difference in kind. We're all sinners. And death and judgment is sure. But you're not dead. You weren't in those buildings. You weren't in those airplanes. You're alive and the message from Jesus is...repent of your sin, embrace Christ so that when your day does come you won't perish, you'll go into His presence.
And then in verse 6 Jesus tells a story. A certain man had a fig tree. He planted it in his vineyard. And he came looking for fruit on it, didn't find any. And he said to the vineyard keeper, the man he had hired to take care of it, "Behold, for three years I've come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down. Why does it even use up my ground? It's pointless."
"He answered and said to him, Let it alone, sir. But this year, give it one more year and let me dig around it and put in some fertilizer and if it bears fruit next year, fine. If not, cut it down."
Oh, is that vivid? We're living on borrowed time. God could say to us...cut it down. Say to you. But God in His grace says we will wait. Just give me a little more time to see if it bears fruit. This is the heart of God. This is the heart of God. And the message is to repent of sin and embrace the gift of forgiveness and the gift of salvation in Christ.
Let me tell you something, folks. Two and a half million Americans are going to die this year and some day all of them are going to die. It's really time for people to take life and death more seriously, don't you think? Enough of the parties, enough of the games, it's time to repent and call on God to save you from eternal hell. You're living on borrowed time. It's as if Christ is saying to the Father...Well just another...let me work on it another year. I think it's time for preachers to stop the theatrics, the psycho babble and funny stories, the trivial entertainment and speak of life and death matters in biblical terms and rescue the perishing, care for the dying. It's time for you to make your life count as a gospel witness. What else matters?
Let me tell you where to start. Show some love and give the gospel to a Muslim. They need Christ, they're not your enemy, they're your mission field. You should have no attitude toward them except compassion and love for people in a religion of deception and damnation. If you know Arabic people, if you know people who are Muslim, tell them there is a Savior. Tell them there is forgiveness. You're missionaries and in this day I think we've got a stark realization to the fact that the world ahead of us isn't going to be like the world we've just come out of. It's time to be serious about eternal things.
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Unless you are a political junkie, the name Andrew Breitbart may not ring a bell. The 40-something activist made his name and his living bullying opponents into submission. This Atlantic essay by Ta-Nehishi Coatesis a classy take on Breitbart's heritage and death. The existential truth is that we all die. We all have a choice to live in a way that will result in the lives around us being better, or worse, or averaging out. Breitbart used Ted Kennedy's death as a way to spread more hate, stating " Kennedy was a special pile of human excrement" and calling Kennedy "a "villain," "a big ass motherf@#$er," a "duplicitous bastard" and a "prick.""
Breitbart did leave behind a family, who will now have to go on without him. Was he a good husband and a good father, or was he a bully at home, too? There is no way to know. Did he drop dead because of his temper lead to high blood pressure and as stroke or heart attack? We may or may not learn about that. I don't see anything wrong with some schadenfreude regarding the demise of a bully, a jerk who poisoned public discourse with fraud and out-shouting his opponents. Whether on the political right or the left, we are better off without bullies like Breitbart.
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Yeah he is really a bully in that video. I had never actually heard of him until recently. Thanks for the post.
Does it make me a horrible person to say good riddance to a big pile of rubbish?
His family may miss him but the rest of the world is better off without him.
SB - I've heard that said too, but I am wondering if his family will miss him....after a bit anyway. I know, I'm terrible, but so was he....
Insane, and the kind that damages others. I suspect his wife and children, if he had any, have a lot of mental and emotional garbage to clean up. Some of his victims never will. For those who do, life can be very sweet, indeed.
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Outlook and Apex
You are probably familiar with sending email using PL/SQL; there's the UTL_SMTP package, the APEX_MAIL package, and various other utilities that do this.
But what about reading email using PL/SQL? You need to investigate the POP and IMAP protocols.
A quick search on Google turns up some sample code and even a feature-rich package, although the latter requires Java in the database (which I try to avoid whenever possible, and which is not available in Oracle XE in any case).
Approaching this from a different angle, a lot of companies use Microsoft Exchange as their mail server. Exchange has (since at least Exchange 2007) a robust set of web services that expose its features:
Exchange Web Services (EWS) provides the functionality to enable client applications to communicate with the Exchange server. EWS provides access to much of the same data that is made available through Microsoft Office Outlook. EWS clients can integrate Outlook data into Line-of-Business (LOB) applications. SOAP provides the messaging framework for messages sent between the client application and the Exchange server. The SOAP messages are sent by HTTP.
o it's basically SOAP (XML) over HTTP. We can easily do that in PL/SQL!
Use Cases
Of course, you can use Exchange Web Services for lots of things besides just reading your email, for example:
- Integration with other systems via email messages (your PL/SQL program checks email periodically and processes the contents of the email and/or attachments)
- Searching email archives, combining the search results with search results from the database
- Checking availability of people for scheduling
- Adding or updating appointments and tasks
- Sending emails
- And lots more
You are welcome to add a comment below if you have more good examples of how the Oracle Database and Microsoft Exchange can work together.
The building blocks we need to work with Exchange Web Services in PL/SQL are:
- For building and parsing the SOAP messages we can use the built-in XMLTYPE data type.
- For calling the web service we can use the APEX_WEB_SERVICE package, or alternatively the FLEX_WS_API package (which is more or less the same package as that included in Apex, but the code is not wrapped, so you can study and modify it).
- Your Microsoft Exchange server is very likely set up with Integrated Windows Authentication, which means we need to authenticate to the web service using NTLM. I wrote a package last year called NTLM_UTIL_PKG which allows us to do just that.
- Your Microsoft Exchange server is probably also set up with SSL security, in which case you need to set up an Oracle Wallet with the SSL certificate of the Exchange server. There is a good explanation of that here and here. (By the way, there has been some confusion as to whether you can use Oracle Wallets with Oracle XE, as the Wallet Manager is a feature of the Advanced Security Option not included in XE, but this old thread states that "only the latter [call ins (i.e client to database network encryption)] requires ASO, SSL call outs don't". Since we are doing callouts from the database to Exchange that should be okay then.)
The MS_EWS_UTIL_PKG package
Given the above building blocks, I have started implementing a PL/SQL package that offers an easy-to-use API for working with Exchange Web Services (EWS). The name, unsurprisingly, is MS_EWS_UTIL_PKG.
Currently, the quite-not-yet-ready-for-public-consumption package handles the following operations:
- Get Folder Id By Name
- Find Folders
- Find Items
- Get Item
- Get File Attachment
- Move Item
- Delete Item
Note that an "Item" in Exchange can be an email item, a calendar entry, a task, and so on. Currently, the package handles email items and calendar entries.
So here's me, checking my inbox from SQL*Plus....
Of course, if you wanted an actual inbox in your database, you could just run "create or replace view my_inbox_v as select * from table (ms_ews_util_pkg.find_items(...) )".
Or create an Interactive Report on top of it in Apex. Or create a Region Plugin for Apex that displays a mail folder. Or create an Apex calendar on top of the calendar entries.
The possibilities are many!
- Exchange Web Services Reference
- Simple example in VBScript, how to list contents of your inbox using EWS
Next Steps
When I get this polished enough for an initial public release, I'm going to include it in the Alexandria Utility Library for PL/SQL.
Leave a comment below if you are interested in this package, and if there are any specific parts of the EWS API that you would like to see implemented (and why).
Original article by: Morten Braten
link to article: http://ora-00001.blogspot.com/2012/05/select-from-inbox.html