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Raphael's Head of a Young Apostle achieves second-highest price for any Old Master work
A drawing by Raffaello Sanzio, otherwise known as Raphael called 'Head of an Apostle', estimated at 10-15 million pounds (16-24 million US Dollars) achieved £29.7 million / $47.8 million / 36.6 million in the evening sale of Old Master Paintings and Drawings on Dec. 5 in London. Photo: Sotheby's.
In a crowded saleroom at
London, the art world witnessed an historic moment tonight when Raphaels Head of a Young Apostle (c. 1519-20) dramatically set a new record at auction for the artist, when it achieved £29.7 million / $47.8 million / 36.6 million. Following an intense 17 minute battle between four bidders - both in the auction room and on the phones the hammer came down on the winning bid which was cast on the telephone. The room erupted in a round of applause as the drawing - which came to sale from one of the greatest Old Master Drawings collections in the world, the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth - achieved a price almost three times that of its pre-sale low estimate of £10-15 million.
Gregory Rubinstein, Worldwide Head of Old Master Drawings at Sothebys, said If you are lucky, at some point in your career a work like this comes along. A number of the worlds greatest collectors stepped up tonight in recognition of the genius of Raphael and the extraordinary beauty of this drawing with its exceptional provenance.
Head of a Young Apostle was the headline work at tonights Evening Sale of Old Master & British Paintings Including Three Renaissance Masterworks from Chatsworth, which achieved £58,061,500 / $93,513,852 / 71,514,547 (est. £35.6-52.9 million). In addition to the record achieved for Raphaels drawing, seven further records were achieved in tonights sale, including Jan Havicksz. Steen (full list below). The sale was 74.5% sold by lot and 86.8% by value, with nine works selling for more than £1 million and 11 works selling for over $1 million. Of the lots sold, half achieved prices over their pre-sale high estimate.
Alex Bell, Sothebys Co-Chairman, Old Master Paintings, Worldwide, said: Tonights sale was a great way to end what has been a fantastic year for Sothebys - from the record-breaking sale of The Scream, to tonights landmark sale of the exceptional Raphael drawing from the Devonshire Collection. While that of course was the undoubted highlight of the evening, the rest of the sale also demonstrated depth and strength in this market which has benefitted in recent years from an influx of buyers from new geographic areas, and collectors who have previously been active in other fields.
Raphaels Head of a Young Apostle
Executed in black chalk, the highly important drawing from the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth depicts one of the key figures in Raphaels Transfiguration one of the greatest of all Renaissance paintings, which now hangs in the Vatican Museum, Rome. When Raphael died, his body was laid out in state in his studio with the Transfiguration hanging at his head. Head of a Young Apostle, is one of only three Raphael drawings of this calibre have appeared at auction in the last 50 years each of which set an all-time record for an Old Master Drawing when they were sold.*
Cristiana Romalli, Senior Director in the Department of Old Master Drawings at Sothebys, commented: This very moving study is a paramount example of Raphaels draughtsmanship - and shows exactly why he is revered as very possibly the greatest master of drawing who has ever lived. The sheer beauty of this work is utterly breath-taking - and the way in which it allows us to join Raphael as he created his last great masterpiece is hugely exciting.
Also from The Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth, a flawlessly preserved 15th-century illuminated manuscript, The Deeds of Sir Gillion de Trazegnies in the Middle East, was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum for £3,849,250 (est. £3-5 million). Produced in Flanders for one of the greatest libraries of the 15th century and distinguished by a dazzling royal and ducal provenance, the manuscript was once among the most treasured works in the library of great Renaissance patron of the arts François I, king of France, 1515-47.
Other Notable Prices Achieved:
Jan Havicksz. Steens The Prayer Before the Meal, from the collection at Sudeley Castle (est. £5-7 million), achieved £5,641,250 .
Four extremely rare 14th-century paintings by the Florentine artist Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, depicting Scenes from the Passion of Christ estimated at £800,000-1 million achieved £1,105,250. Datable to circa 1390, they are the only known surviving examples of an Italian 14th century narrative cycle on linen.
Painted by Bernardo Bellotto at the age of just 17 or 18, Venice, The Grand Canal, Looking South-West, From the Rialto Bridge to the Palazzo Foscari (£1,200,000-1,800,000) sold for £3,289,250 The painting has been hung, consecutively, in two of the finest, and largest, nineteenth-century neo-Gothic castles in Great Britain: Saltmarshe Castle and Penrhyn Castle.
Portrait of Giovanni Gaddi (1493-1542), Head and Shoulders, Wearing a Black Cap (est. £600,000-800,000) was most likely painted in Florence in the first years of the 16th century. Formerly attributed to Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, this exceptional portrait by a singular hand is remarkably and tantalisingly - yet to find an entirely convincing attribution. This evening it sold to an online bidder for £1,273,250.
Further Records For Artists At Auction Achieved This Evening:
Lot 3
Jan Massys
An allegory of Charity
Sold for £445,250
Pre-sale est. £180,000-220,000
Lot 9
Jan Havicksz. Steen
The Prayer before the meal
Sold for £5,641,250
Pre-sale est. £5-7 million
Lot 13
Jan van der Straet
Caccia allelefante
Sold for £241,250
Pre-sale est. £200,000-300,000
Lot 16
Niccolo di Pietro Gerini
Scenes from the Passion of Christ
Sold for £1,105,250
Pre-sale est. £800,000-1.2 million
Lot 19
Giovanni Baglione
Saint John the Baptist
Sold for £313,250
Pre-sale est. £60,000-80,000
Lot 22
Andrea Vaccaro
Lot and his Daughters
Sold for £289,250
Pre-sale est. £120,000-180,000
Lot 45
Giuseppe Baldrighi
Portrait of Antonio Ghedini and his family
Sold for £205,250
Pre-sale est. £200,000-300,000
Sale Statistics:
Sold by lot: 74.5%
Sold by value: 86.8%
Of the 51 lots offered, 38 sold
Average lot value: £1,138,460
Gregory Rubinstein
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Milla Maxwell (Tales of Xillia) – Cosplay of the Day
To celebrate the release of Tales of Xillia, we're featuring its star, Milla Maxwell, as today's Cosplay of the Day!
Milla is the Lord of Spirits and is charged with both their well-being and the protection of all life in the world. She wields the Great Spirits: Efreet, Undine, Sylph and Gnome. Not only can she cast powerful elemental spells, but she can also handle her own with her trusty sword.
MAXWELLHeart is an Italian cosplayer whose name is very fitting, given that she's cosplaying Milla Maxwell here. We wouldn't mind having this Lord of Spirits guarding us and protecting us from the evils of the world. She's got Milla's sword, her unique hairstyle and even a bit of the character's attitude, exuding a kind yet firm aura of authority.
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Live, The Kut are a trio. Think Deftones, L7, Nirvana, Hole, Lunachicks, Incubus and Placebo. On record, they roar. Currently active on the UK and European rock scene, festival performances have included Download, Camden Rocks Festival, Rebellion Festival, Glastonbudget, Nice N Sleazy and Strummercamp among others, while tours have spanned the UK, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Voted into the winning spots of the MTV Brand New Unsigned Poll for 2014, subsequent EP releases have gained support from - deep breath - Scuzz, Kerrang! Magazine, Planet Rock, BBC Introducing Lancashire, Kerrang! Radio, Metal Hammer, Big Cheese, Q and Classic Rock, AXS TV and MTV-U USA. This year has seen The Kut featured as one of Kerrang! Magazine's Breakthrough Acts of 2017, while 'The Kut EP' was released on 500 limited edition picture disc for Record Store Day 2017, also featuring at number 4 in Kerrang! Magazines Top 10 Record Store Day Releases, alongside Baby Metal and Gerard Way. And now? Now this summer sees The Kut playing 21 UK mainland dates, ahead of news of the keenly anticipated debut album. .
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This week, NFL hottie Tom Brady and his equally hot model wife Gisele Bündchen welcomed their daughter Vivian Lake into the world. And while she's in the spotlight, we're wondering, will she take after her model mommy or quarterback dad? Tom Brady has a hunch! (CelebrityBabyScoop)
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GILBERTON, Pa., July 25 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania police chief said he expects to lose his job because of online posts in which he calls liberals "libtards" and tells critics "[expletive] you."
Gilberton, Pa. Police Chief Mark Kessler is seen in a YouTube clip firing federally restricted weapons along an old strip-mining road while unleashing a stream of vulgarity -- referring at one point to an earlier clip that had drawn criticism for its vulgar content, the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call reported.
A follow-up video shows Kessler appearing to apologize for the earlier clip, and then taking back the apology.
"This boy don't roll that way ... ," he says. "For all you people out there who cried and cried about, oh, I used profanity, f--- you."
Kessler posted an image of himself on Twitter with the caption, "shooting a libtard out of a tree."
Gilberton officials were scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss the matter. Kessler has been on vacation in Texas and the meeting was rescheduled for July 31, the newspaper said.
Speaking with NBC News Wednesday, Kessler said he expects to lose his job.
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Kessler called himself a "strict Second Amendment advocate" and complained negative public reaction to his videos threatened his First Amendment rights.
Gilberton Mayor Mary Lou Hannon said the borough cannot control what Kessler does on his own time, the newspaper reported.


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Growing Up Brooklyn
"Never buy a bridge while you're in Brooklyn"
(From the song: "Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy" by The Brides of Funkenstein)
Crown Heights: That Kid's Got Pipes!
After living in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey we moved to Hempstead, Long Island, around 1965 we moved to Brooklyn, New York. We lived at 1325 Eastern Parkway; this part of Brooklyn would become my stomping ground. Eastern Parkway is a main thoroughfare that crosses many famous streets like Nostrand Ave and is home to the Brooklyn Museum. There were tree-lined mediums that were cobble stoned and had benches for people to rest, watch the traffic of cars and other people, or meet up with friends. When I lived there, elderly people of Italian and Jewish descent mostly occupied the benches. Our apartment was alive with music, everybody from: Tito Puente, Willie Bobo, Peggy Lee, Miles Davis, Monk, Perry Como, Sinatra, Cal Tjada and many others could heard streaming out of our windows.* I found out that the elderly people on the benches liked the song "I left my heart in San Francisco" by Tony Bennet. Therefore, anytime my mom would take my little sister and I walking on the medium; I would sing that song to anyone who was willing to listen. The first time I sang it, a woman and her husband gave me a dollar! Something was placed in me that day; I found out later that it is called "The New York Hustle"*. It made life sweet to know that people would gladly pay you to make them smile, especially when there were plenty of candy stores around. Our family made weekly trips to Brownsville to shop at the Pickens Ave Market that hosted shops both indoors and on the sidewalks. You could stand on the corner and see carts for what seemed like miles. Everything from fresh meats, seafood, socks, household items, you name it and New Yorkers know how to sell it. Pickens Ave was alive with car horns blowing, music blaring and everybody seemed to know how to "Banter" (bargain) the bantering was loud and boisterous, and my mother was very good at it. A serious way of life for the New Yorker, in fact, I still have a hard time paying for my purchases without asking the salesperson to lower the price! But guess what, it still works in some places! I believe that if New Yorkers were not able to exercise their God given right to banter we would all die from broken hearts! While we were shopping, my step-dad would disappear, then my mom would find him in the record shop buying 45's and albums as though they were gonna stop making them the next day.
Flatbush: Summer in the City
A couple of years later we moved to East 52nd Street and Clarkston Ave. We were the first people of color to penetrate this Jewish or Hasidic community. It was a bit touchy at first, no one spoke to us, but they would turn to stare at us as we passed by. Eventually the women would say good morning to my mother and then ask her a question. The men began to strike up conversations with my stepfather, and before long, their children began to knock on our door for me and my sister to come out and play. My mother kept a busy schedule as a Jazz Vocalist my stepfather worked as a civil engineer for The New York Rapid Transit System he specialized in demolition. I never really knew if we were accepted or simply tolerated, I'd like to believe it was a little of both. Rain or shine, we were up at 5:30am and in line at 6:00am in front of the bakery across the street. We were there with the rest of the neighborhood shivering, laughing and talking while waiting for fresh rolls and bagels. It was well worth it when you got home and piled the cream cheese or scrambled eggs and lox on them while they were still warm. Oh, God how I wish my children had the same vast experiences that Brooklyn afforded me. In hindsight, I see that the 4-block area of Clarkston Ave from 53rd to Utica Ave was a micro-city that was in fact micro-managed by the shopkeepers, the Yenta's (nosey women) and us kids who were full of mischief. Dotted along two blocks was the fish market, a kosher meat market, a Met Food Store, an egg store, (Really, the family that owned it sold nothing but eggs!) an open air fruit and vegetable market, two luncheonettes, one Jewish Deli, two candy stores, and a pharmacy. While each proprietor had a specific product to sell there were times when the competition got heavy. Harry owned the vegetable stand; directly across the street Moshe (pronounced Mo- Shay) owned the Met Food store, which sold everything kosher. Harry had no love for Moshe, he had a problem with Moshe selling fruits and vegetables that he (Harry) felt were not fit for human consumption. Every morning Harry would open his stand and sweep the sidewalk in front, on cue Moshe would come out and began his tirade about how Harry had better stop saying ugly things about him and his vegetables. Harry would reply by telling Moshe that he and his vegetables were an abomination and that his mother probably died of shame. Moshe would then pronounce Harry as Satan telling him that he did not have a mother but crawled out of the ground from the pits of hell, and then he would invite him to go back down there. Occasionally the dialog got so heated that they would meet up in the middle of Clarkston Ave with their brooms (or shovels in the winter) and circle each other rising and lowering their weapons as if one was waiting to take the head off the other. It never took more than a minute for the men of our village to come out and separate them, the women stood on the sidewalk and put on a good show of lamentations because Harry and Moshe's behavior was sending the nation to hell in a hand basket. I would sit on a crate and watch the whole thing while laughing so hard I would sometimes pee my pants. It was the most creative marketing ploy I have ever witnessed; to keep the peace, no one in the neighborhood would dare to shop at Moshe's store without going across the street afterwards to buy something from Harry or visa-versa.*
The Moral of the Story
When the weather permitted, the grown ups would sit outside around the courtyard. It seemed they all had a story to tell about life, love, greed, envy and current social topics.* I caught on quickly that none of them would end the story without saying "So the moral of the story is" then they would bring you up to speed about what moral lesson you should take away with you. I must have heard a thousand of these stories of chastity, humility, charity, and moral dilemmas. I did not however, know back then, how dear to my hearts these stories would become. My family began to "Fit In" very nicely. My mom would participate in the washing of the hands ritual with the women when someone had died (or had done something so ugly that their relatives would have nothing more to do with them. This was very deep, painful and personal.) My stepfather would wear the yamaka (given to him by the men in the community, I guess that made us Honorary Jewish Citizens) and he would help the men prepare for the "High Holy Days" I had the unofficial job of turning the lights and stoves on and off during the Sabbath, Passover and other Holy Days. They would seek me out and give me a gratuity when the Holy Days were over. I went to the home of the family that lived next door to us, the woman needed her stove turned off, she did not speak English all that well, but enough that I knew what she wanted. As I was about to leave she stopped me by saying "Please!" I turned around to find her pointing at her wrist, I walked over to see what she was calling my attention to. It was my first time seeing a tattoo that people received while in a nazi concentration camp. I must have stood there forever staring at the tattoo, she allowed me to touch it then place my hand over it. I thought that if I covered it with my hand it would disappear along with her memories, it was the only form of comfort I could think of at that moment. I finally looked up at her, in her eyes I could see wildness, an almost animal like look as though she was afraid that this horrible thing could happen to her or her people again. I prided myself on being "A Tough Kid" and did not want her to see me cry, but I wanted to cry hard and long. I did pull myself together enough to say 'I'm Sorry" the look in her eyes went away instantly and she gave me a traditional Jewish pinch on the cheek. Finally, we both smiled as though we now shared something. I asked if there was anything else I could do for her, she nodded her head to say yes, pointed to the tattoo once more but never told me what she wanted me to do. It was not very long before I figured out the moral of that story. UNCHECKED HATRED DOES HORRIBLE THINGS TO PEOPLE.
"People moving out, people moving in, why, because of the color of their skin. Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide."
(Released by The Temptations in Sept 1970)
Ball of Confusion
By the summer of 1970, I had gone through a myriad of changes and so had my neighborhood. Now the face of the neighborhood represented faces from everywhere in the world. Some of the shopkeepers and families had packed-up and fled to Florida, some moved to Israel, while other chose to stay and raise their children in a diverse community. This had to be one of the coolest times of my young life. Yea, I was having the time of my life; however, being a realist even at a young age, I knew everybody was as mad as a wet hen about something. Women were angry, Black people were angry, people were angry about the war (some wanted war while others did not), while I was desperately trying to find my place in all of these issues. I had stopped singing to everyone and taken up playing congas. One of the older kids had turned me on to Jimi Hendrix, (Foxy Lady) then I discovered Janice Joplin and the groups just kept coming. Santana, Grand Funk Railroad, Sly and the Family Stone (I actually dressed like them and thought I was a member of the band!), The Chambers Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, took their place on my wall of hero's right along with Aretha, The Jackson Five, The Five Stair Steps, Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye. The problem was I could not say who or what cause was most dear to my heart. I read all the publications, practically lived at the library trying to get the facts straight, and participated in as many sit-ins as I could get away with. It seemed that everybody had valid talking points. Unfortunately, there were many disparities (and still are) for Blacks, Women and everyone else that was boiling mad at the time. My friends never knew whom I was coming out as each day, one day I am Angela Davis, the next day I am Abby Hoffman, then my step dad would do something stupid and I would align myself with Gloria Steinem, I remember even coming out as a Hare Krishna. In a way, I was all these people at once, but all I really wanted was PEACE. I found my peace in my drums and I found my roots in the Museums of New York. However, just as I found my peace, Janice Joplin died. (Oct 4th 1970) I was hurt, no; I was devastated because I knew that if she had lived I would have had the opportunity to play congas in her band. Now what I am gonna do with my life! Please do not get bent outta shape by that last statement; I was only 13 when I was having those thoughts.
Get Money!
Later that year my parents (at my mothers urging) bought a building one block away at 228 East 51st street. The building housed four apartments, an empty storefront and a Kosher Deli (Maxi's) on the corner. We turned the empty storefront into a full service Laundromat and when I say FULL SERVICE, I really mean it! We called our business "Sparkle Plenty" our sign was complete with a drawing of the Statue of Liberty. Not only did we do the wash, dry and fold thing, we actually picked up the laundry and delivered it when we were done. At first, I hated it, but the tips were good and it taught me how to serve people. We lived in the apartment above the laundry, which made it easy to work and play. It was a good community, at night the parents would come out with their lawn chairs and card tables and the kids never ran out of street games to play. As long as we did not get on their nerves, they would play cards, tell fantastic lies, and gossip while we played stickball, pop the whip, hot peas and butter, stoopball and Johnny-on-the-pony until one in the morning. The other kids taught me how to throw an egg from two blocks away and hit my intended target. (This might be a car window, a storefront or a person.) I learned how to run and jump from one rooftop to another, how to hitch buses, and last but not least how to be a major pain in the behind. (An activist in the making.) Yes, I learned everything a kid needed to know in order to survive and thrive in Brooklyn. By now, I was cooking on my drums and needed to expand my audience, so once a week I would go to Greenwich Village and play on the street with a hat out. Playing drums while reciting poetry, (Like Mary had a little lamb!) paid very well, I sometimes made over $100.00 a day! This was more than enough money to pay for my membership at the museum, buy my model airplanes and treat my friends to skating rinks, bowling, trips to the beach, and Coney Island. It also kept me waist deep in MAD magazines.* Mind you, my parents were not poor, in fact, we had it goin on, but I was driven to make my own money, my own way. When I was not wailing on the drums, I made money-selling Italian Ice's in the summer and shoveling show in the winter. My friends and I would set up roadblocks with the fire hydrant and charge people to pass without us spraying their cars, they would gladly pay us but that did not mean we weren't gonna spray them.
The Five Stair Steps
70's Soul Group, Hit Songs Include:
"Dear Prudence" and "Ooh Child"
You talkin ta me?
My husband insisted that I tell this story. My mom made sure that my sister and I were exposed to various cultural events. We in were attendance at Broadway plays, took meals at many of New York's four and five star restaurants, took part in marches for justice and anything else that would assure my mother that we were culturally fit and had proper social graces. We were regulars at The Apollo Theater, The East on Fulton Ave and I even got to hang out with mom at Trudy Heller's in the Village. One night in 1970 The Five Stair Steps were appearing at The Apollo, mom bought tickets for me and four of my friends. Even though they were my friends, we did not agree on things like fashion. They wore the latest in hip African American attire, The Wet Look, Hot Pants and those shoes that looked like the ones that the pilgrims wore. Their hair was different too; they had stopped wearing afros and started plastering their "Baby Hairs" to the side of their faces. I tried going out like that but it just was not me. So, I wore my very best hippie attire to the show. Oh yea, my purple blouse with the huge arms and ruffles going down the front, my 2 inch red, white, and blue suspenders, I wore my favorite hip-hugger elephant bellbottoms with the 50 carefully place patches on each leg! My garrison belt with the huge peace sign buckle. Oh yea, my white moccasin boots, I made a headband out of a multi-colored scarf to compliment my Jeanne Pace Afro, threw a few flowers in my hair for effect, then donned my granny glasses. Yes sir, I was ready for the show! Did I mention the Rose Oil I bought at the Head Shop and smeared all over myself?
That night my mom pulls up to the door and my friends run out of the house screaming because we were about to see Clarence of The Five Stair Steps! They jumped in the car, said hello to my mom (very proper like) then they looked at me as if I were a giant rat sitting next to my mom. I did not get angry with them, actually I was used it by now. As long as we have a good time and scream our heads off for Clarence that was all I wanted.
The show was going well when the intermission came, we then dashed to the lobby so we could talk about Clarence, and copy the dance steps. I was not as into it as they were so after a minute or so I stood to the side and let them have at it. This guy walked up to me and said hello, I did not know him and could not understand why he would say hello, so I moved out of his way. He moved with me and said hello again, this time I responded… I think. I looked over at my girlfriends for support hoping they would save me! They knew I did not like boys at least not like that! At the time all I knew about boys was how to out race them, how to build rockets or speakers along side of them and how to body-slam them when they needed a lesson. I looked at my friends again and they were jumping up and down screaming! That is when I realized I was talking to Clarence of The Five Stair Steps. Still confused and now scared to death I did my best to respond to his questions. He asked how old I was and I told him, he asked where I lived and I told him, he asked what I like to do and I told him, he asked for my phone number and my mother told him no! However, he was a gentleman, he did not walk away, he stayed and we talked about strobe lights and speakers. He had to excuse himself so he took my hand and kissed it, and then he said goodbye to my mom and me! HOW GROSS! I did not expect to get my hand kissed but before I could wipe it off Joanne grabbed my hand and rubbed his slobber all over her face! UGH! By the time the show started up again I was beginning to feel special, for the rest of the night I was looking at my hand. My friends never spoke to me again, and I do mean never! I was a bit hurt by it at first, but then, they dressed weird and kissed boys…forget them.
A few years later, I learned a lot more about boys, and then I understood why my friends were nervous.
Still Crazy after All These Years!
Please do not ask me to grow up and leave my 60's and 70's behind. At lest, do not be serious when you say it. Growing up in Brooklyn in that era was both turbulent and joyous. Scary and reassuring, some of the most meaningful words ever put to music came out in those days. The aspirations and dreams of the people changed and it challenged. I know that we can never bring those days back. Nevertheless, we can keep them alive in our minds and our hearts, especially if those days were good for you any way. As for me, I experienced many painful moments back then, more than any child should ever be subjected to. However, the good things make me the person that I am. The bad things help me to witness to others that they too can grow and get passed them and begin to plant miracles everywhere they go. (For what other reason did I survive) Thank you all for taking the time to share the good things. Please take the time to remember and share yours too!
- People were not nearly as bourgeois and uptight as they are today. We often found people singing as they walked pass our windows; some would even stop to dance. Does this still go on in New York?
- New Yorkers are born with the gift of knowing supply and demand. They know a good thing when they saw it, and they are not at all afraid to step up and sell it.
- People could agree to disagree without actually killing each other.
- People were happy to know their neighbors, and even happier for the opportunity to fellowship with each other.
- We had each other's back, my mom threw rent parties for anyone, and you paid according to what you weighed or just bought a plate and gave a donation. No one would stand around and watch a person get displaced. Rent parties also covered food, utilities and anything else you needed. People were always ready to return the favor. We were constantly paying some kid's way to events; if one child went, all the kids went. You did not have to be a member of some special club, group or religion for this to happen; being a neighbor was reason enough to help.
- Children played! I mean we really played, the TV could hold us maybe 30 minutes, after that you had to go build something (like a go-cart), or do something that required some energy. Moreover, it was a lot safer for us.
- The courage to be different is rare. The courage to speak up is even harder to find.
- Peace, Sistah Nedra
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February 29, 2012
"Despotism does not discriminate between east and west." – Warwick Ball, "Towards One World: Ancient Persia and the West." 2010. East & West Publishing: London. Pg. 23.
"…we are here dealing with a totalitarian state of which the philosophy included an utter contempt for the individual… any freedom of thought or action was inconceivable in the Aztec world… dependence and instability were absolute, fear reigned. Death lurked ceaselessly everywhere, and constituted the cement of the building in which the individual Aztec was prisoner… Clearly the spirituality of some aspects of Aztec life must have sprung from an old pre-Aztec tradition, later betrayed…" – Laurette Séjourné, "Burning Water: Thought and Religion in Ancient Mexico."
"High Priest: O warrior, unafraid and willing, with your blood you renew the world! From age to age! Thanks be to you." – Apocalypto, 2006. (Screenwriters Mel Gibson and Farhad Safinia).
We live in a funny world.
In Iran and the East, anti-government dissidents look to the West for news and analysis. In America and the West, anti-government dissidents look to the East for news and analysis.
Channels like Iran's Press TV and Russia's Russia Today are big hits with the truth-tellers of the West. But they're not offering their media services out of a sense of responsibility to the truth and a genuine interest in journalism. State media propagandists, whether in the West or the East, don't care about truth-telling, but protecting the interests of their state right or wrong.
The despotic governments of Iran and Russia are waging an information war against the despotic governments of America, Israel, and England, which, in turn, are waging an information war against them. All the totalitarian governments involved in the global information war are benefiting from the stupid and counter-productive war between the West and the East.
But not all sides are equally guilty. The totalitarian fascists in America, Israel, and the West are the criminal aggressors in this clash of civilizations. Their mass murder of innocent Americans on September 11, 2001, is a monstrous crime that they have gotten away with because of their vast media warfare and state propaganda operations.
There has been a planet-wide resistance movement against the mind invaders and truth destroyers in the Pentagon, CIA, Mossad, and MI6. The biggest heart of this civil society movement is in the heart of America–Austin, Texas, the Alex Jones show. But that is only one heart. There are many other hearts around the world that are pumping much-needed truth and knowledge into the global intelligence nervous system.
The global mainstream media has been blocking the flow of information and facts into the global intelligence nervous system since the September 11 state-terror attacks. But they have failed, especially in North America and the West, where most educated citizens are demanding a new investigation into the events of 9/11.
In Canada, courageous citizens have signed a petition that calls for the Canadian Parliament to review and reexamine the September 11 events. Wayne Coste has more information about this positive development in his article, "Pivotal 9/11 Petition Confronts Canadian Parliament":
"On November 11, 2011, the petition for a parliamentary review of the destruction of the three WTC skyscrapers on 9/11 was submitted to the Government of Canada by members of the Canadian 9/11 truth movement. The petition will soon be formally read in Parliament.
It was signed by 1,405 Canadians, and under long standing protocols, a formal response is required within 45 days."
This act by Canadian citizens is a great victory for the 9/11 truth and justice movement. It is further proof that the bad guys in Washington, Tel Aviv, London, and Ottawa are losing their hypnotic hold on the global public.
Last year, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the U.S. is losing in the global infowar. Speaking in Washington on March 2nd, 2011 at the Senate Appropriations Committee, the witch of war declared: "We are in an information war, and we are losing that war." The bloodthirsty demon added:
"I'll be very blunt in my assessment. Al Jazeera is winning. The Chinese have opened up a global English language and multi-language television network. The Russians have opened up an English-language network. I've seen it in a few countries, and it is quite instructive."
Washington and Israel are losing the global infowar because the force of truth and justice is not on their side. They have turned their backs on reality and on democracy. They have decided to go in Satan's corner, and spit on the creations of God. These totalitarian fascists have deified the State, sacrificed innocent human beings on the mountain of war, and destroyed the creative forces of society.
First and foremost, the Totalitarian State is a mind-killer and a truth-destroyer. It spreads intellectual poison and contaminates civil society with foolish beliefs and illogical hatred towards the Other in distant and foreign lands. The totalitarian and deified states in America, Israel, and Iran should all be destroyed. These Machiavellian and devilish governments are wasting our youth, our hopes, our energy, our potential, and our future.
The totalitarian leaders of America, Israel, and Iran brainwash heroic soldiers and treat them like cannon fodder. They are all committing crimes against the rule of law and human rights. They exploit public grief and anger for their own selfish political purposes. They are spitting on the blood of our forefathers and our ancestors. They wage war in the name of our countries and our religions. They lay siege to our lands and our cultures with totalitarian ideologies, and call it freedom.
They burn our flags and destroy our cultures in the name of world government and "global harmony." They are creating a global hell, while posing as the enlightened ones who will save us from annihilation by imprisoning our nations in a fascist and despotic world government. They believe we are stupid slaves and that we will fall for their big lies, historical frauds, and grand deceptions.
But the global 9/11 truth and justice movement is proving them wrong. We are putting our priorities in perspective.
Instead of chanting "Death to America," "Death to Israel," "Death to the West," "Death to Iran," and "Death to Islam," we should chant "Death to the Totalitarian State," "Death to Fascism," "Death to Psychopathic War Criminals," and "Death To A Despotic World Government."
May all the totalitarian fascist leaders of America, Israel, England, and Iran burn in hell. And may we all come together as one and send them there before they begin World War III and send us all to early graves.
The authoritarian and despotic leaders of America, Israel, and England want a world war. Fine. Good. I want war too. But let it be a war of ideas, information, facts, and truths against these totalitarian governments and their media puppets, not a manufactured clash of civilizations between the West and the East.
We should not stand in perpetual shock like lambs and watch America, Iran, Israel, Syria, Pakistan, Lebanon and other nations fight an unnecessary world war only to be sacrificedon the altar of world government by satanic psychopaths. That is not fate, that is spiritual madness.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Senate recently passed a package of bills designed to strengthen sexual predator laws, and Florida is now solidifying itself as one of the toughest states on sex offenders.
The four bills passed unanimously Tuesday are designed to tighten loopholes in a law that allows the state to civilly commit the most dangerous sexual offenders once they've finished their prison terms.
More offenders could be reviewed if the measures become laws, including people serving jail sentences for sex crimes. Right now, only people convicted of felonies can be reviewed for commitment.
Prosecutors and victim advocates would also be part of the review process.
Another bill will also create a 50-year mandatory sentence for people who rape children, the developmentally disabled and the elderly. The mandatory minimum for raping children is now 25 years.
"We all remember children like Cherish Perrywinkle, abducted from a Walmart at age 8 and raped, strangled, and her 60-pound body -- of all places -- found behind a church," Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, said as the session began Tuesday.
Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Flagler County, sponsored one of the bills.
"Recent events have shown we need to do more to keep these criminals away from our children. Through this legislative package, the Florida Senate has taken steps necessary to ensure sex offenders are kept behind bars for longer periods of time, and that once they are allowed back into society, they are closely monitored," Bradley said.
Richard Kurtiz, a former prosecutor, says he believes one of the changes being made to the laws could have saved Cherish Perrywinkle. Registered sex offenders in county jail like Donald Smith, who was arrested for Perrywinkle's murder, are not committed for treatment after being released.
Kurtiz said with the new regulations, Smith would have been in civil commitment and court ordered into treatment at a hospital.
"Because he came out of county jail as opposed to state prison, there was no option to have him civilly committed," said Kurtiz. "Now if you're in county jail, we can have you civilly committed."
Diena Thompson, mother of Somer Thompson, traveled from her home in Orange Park to witness the passage of the Senate bills. Seven-year-old Somer was abducted in 2009 while walking home from school, sexually assaulted and murdered. Since her daughter's death, Thompson has become an advocate for increasing protections against sex offenders and sexually violent child predators.
"It's absolutely tough, also though good, because they're actually doing something about it now," Thompson said.
"It's an important day, historic for the state of Florida. Florida's going to be scorched Earth for these sexual predators," Bradley said. "What it means is, as close to zero tolerance as the law will allow. It means we're going to have the toughest laws in the nation. We're going to close every loophole."
Thompson mouthed the words "thank you" to Bradley and the entire chamber after the Senate passed the bills.
"Diena is special person I've gotten to know," Bradley said. "Her strength of character, she is resolved to make a difference so that someone perhaps others won't have to suffer as she has suffered. And today is a solemn day, a special day. Hopefully we can keep this from happening again."
"Obviously, these rules they're passing, these laws wouldn't have changed it for Somer," Thompson said. "But unfortunately, I can't just fight for the Somers. I have to fight for the Cherishes and the other children that fortunately don't end up murdered."
The governor must now sign the bill, and Bradley's hope is that things move swiftly -- as swiftly as this legislation did following last summer's kidnapping and killing of Cherish.
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Magazine sales suffer from the hard cell
It is a scene playing out in supermarkets across the world: a consumer waits to pay and, instead of browsing the magazines and chewing gum displayed alongside, she pulls out her mobile phone for a quick digital distraction.
US magazine executives call the habit the "mobile blinder" after the vision-narrowing headgear worn by racehorses, and say the trend is wreaking havoc on the industry.
Data released on 7th February show a big decline in single-copy sales of US magazines at newsstands and retail outlets, amid increased digital competition and reduced retail space. Single-copy sales fell 9.5 per cent to about 26.7m in 2012 from the previous year, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. That is about half the 52.9m magazines sold on newsstands a decade ago.
The trend is even more pronounced for the women's, fashion, sex and celebrity gossip titles prominent displayed in supermarket and drugstore checkout aisles. Cosmopolitan, which has the highest single-copy sales of all US magazines, saw single-copy sales plunge 18.5 per cent to 1.2m in the second half of 2012. People, In Touch Weekly, US Weekly, Glamour and Star Magazine all reported double-digit declines in single-copy sales for the period.
"We do find a number of people, if stalled for a minute, will steal a look at their email or news feed," said David Carey, president of Hearst Magazines, which publishes Cosmopolitan and 19 other magazine titles in the US. "Everyone that has products at checkouts has to battle for consumer attention."
Chewing gum and other impulse buys are facing the same "mobile blinder".
"Just think about your own behaviour. Even when you walk up to pay, you barely look up," said Bonin Bough, vice-president of global media and consumer engagement at Mondelez, which sells Trident, Chicklets and Stride chewing gums.
Publishers are trying to combat "mobile blinders" by jazzing up their print magazine covers with attention-grabbing digital features and placing copies in different areas of a store. Cosmopolitan put a digital QR code on its September cover, tempting consumers to scan the code each day for a surprise deal.
Hearst also recently conducted a promotion with Diet Coke to feature Cosmopolitan beside it in stores.
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"Studies show that devices are impacting impulse purchases and in some cases even have the power to influence," Mr Bough said.
Single-copy sales are considered a pulse of health for the magazine industry because they best reflect consumer demand. Publishers are not able to prop up the numbers, as they can with subscription figures by offering cheap deals.
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It would be nice to package this with pre-built installs for OAMP and perhaps Postgres and links to download Peter Moylan's FTP Server and Weasel. OS/2 does make for a good web server platform. SSH should also be included, as well as, of course, SAMBA. Once we get an updated JVM, even Tomcat should work well for us. About the only thing missing is good multi-user shell support, but I get very few requests for those services on my box these days.
I have another client running eCS 1.1 with the above configuration on an older Proliant 1200 (mine runs on an ML370 G3, and for the most part, sings - loudly) with - of all things - Hethmon's Inet.Mail 1.3, and he's extremely pleased with it (it gets restarted about as often as his NetWare 6.5 server, and the last time I checked uptime on that, we were at around 270 days).
I would suggest that once 2.0 is GA, a few of us gather our thoughts together on how best to package a server offering (at least no audio is required, and video is also a secondary concern!!) and pick up on it from there.
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In Joe Croley's Aug. 5 column, he points out the inappropriate thought process of the Beaufort County Transportation Commission that has yielded a flawed Hurricane Evacuation Route for Sun City.
While nobody doubts the eventual usefulness of widening all of S.C. 170, the prioritization of widening the route going north from Sun City's
170 Gate rather than south is throwing good money after an ill-conceived "escape" plan. The practical truth is that if Sun City residents are precluded from using U.S. 278, they will leave Sun City at
S.C. 170, and while common sense dictates that they should head South (if the road were widened) and get to where they have multiple options of getting out of the area, they are being herded north to an eventual road block of cars toward an overcrowded S.C. 462.
The only thing that is sure about the thought process which created this evacuation plan is that it was developed and passed by a majority of the County Council serving people north of the Broad.
Further exacerbating this issue is a letter sent to the county engineer in January by the Bluffton Transportation Project Manager Karen Jarrett wherein she "strongly" requests that the traffic light currently planned for S.C. 170 at the Sun City Boulevard intersection be moved north to the Del Webb Boulevard intersection. In addition, the letter requests re-configuration of yield lanes and crosswalks to "… provide a refuge for pedestrians as they cross 170."
Neither suggestion has any merit and, I believe, are politically motivated. The planned traffic light is exactly where it needs to be. There are no pedestrians that cross S.C. 170 between Sun City and Verdier. The only reason to move a traffic light to that location is that someone with a vested interest in Verdier wants a light there and has convinced Bluffton politicians that it is in their best interest to move the light.
We need the County to reprioritize the widening of S.C. 170 to the south rather than the north. We need the town of Bluffton to listen to the common sense coming from Sun City, rather than just say that those 14,000-area residents are outside our town limits and do not count.
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Private company Northwest Carbon wanted to cull and sell the camels in exchange for credits under the Commonwealth's carbon farming initiative.
Managing director Tim Moore says the plan would make camel elimination a sustainable project.
"The carbon farming initiative specifically identifies feral camel management as an activity that should be able to generate carbon credits," he said.
Mr Moore says the rejection of the proposal is a major setback to controlling camel numbers.
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Over the years,
University of North Florida student-athletes have built successful professional
careers after college.
Koran Godwin, the
all-time leading scorer in UNF men's basketball and a 2003 business management
graduate, is still making a difference both on and off the court.
Godwin, who scored
1,513 points in his three-year Osprey career after transferring to UNF from the
University of Buffalo, has utilized his success on the court to help others
score big. He recently co-authored an e-book with former NBA star and
three-time college player of the year Ralph Sampson titled "Winners Circle –
The Ralph Sampson Game Plan: What Great Players Do Before, During, and After a
Basketball Game."
In 2006, he produced
his first instructional video, "Fundamentals of Scoring," and has
since produced "The Fundamentals of Shooting," "The Fundamentals
of Ball Handling" and "The Fundamentals of Post Play."
"When I
graduated from UNF, I started training kids in the area and someone suggested to me
that I start putting some of my stuff on video. That is when I launched
JumpStartHoops.com," said Godwin.
After his video work
he ventured into writing on basketball Web sites. He currently writes for
TheHoopDoctors.com, where he also creates video blogs and podcasts.
The attention his
writing garnered on the Internet prompted him to put his advice into a book,
"Everyone Hates A Ball Hog but They All Love A Scorer: The Complete Guide
to Scoring Points On and Off the Basketball Court," which he wrote and
self-published in 2008.
Godwin said the book
gives kids a blueprint for success, teaching them how to balance their lives on
and off the court.
"Most kids get
it because they say it increases their scoring average," Godwin said. "Parents
love it because of the balance, the priorities I give the kids about my
personal experience - keeping God first, going on to school and then
He attributes much
of his success to his experiences at UNF and former UNF head coach Matt
"I had a
wonderful career at UNF and met a lot of people I am still in contact with
today. It just put me on the path
for success," Godwin said. "Coach
Kilcullen did a great job of being a leader and showing us that life out there
is tough, but if you stick to your principles and what you believe in, you will
be successful."
Kilcullen speaks
highly of his former player, calling Godwin the epitome of the student-athlete.
"He had very
high character as a person and he always had his academics first. On the court
he was a silent assassin. He was one of the most natural scorers I have ever
seen," Kilcullen said. "It is not any surprise to me that he is successful in
life now as well."
Current men's basketball
head coach Matthew Driscoll is also a fan.
"It is always
great to have alumni involved in our program," Driscoll said. "Koran and I have spoken about
different issues, both athletically and socially, and I really loved his book,
especially the title - how true is that?"
Godwin served as
boy's head basketball coach at Allen D. Nease High School in Ponte Vedra for
three years before moving to Washington, D.C., in 2009 to be closer to his
mother-in-law who was battling cancer. He's now an assistant basketball coach
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Why I love the Mother Road.
Yes, this is Rt. 66, I took this pic while driving back to work from lunch.
The Mother Road is my favorite road because I can eat at places like the Metro Diner on this road.
The Metro Diner has the BEST breakfast for not a whole lotta money! The sign there reads "Elvis eats here"
I also like the Mother Road because in or not too far from Tulsa you can see things like these:
A Big Blue Whale - in OKLAHOMA!
The Admiral Twin, a double sided drive-in. The best prices in town. 6.50 for an adult, 2.00 for kids and you CAN bring your own food! And its ALWAYS a double feature!
This is the wall around my old school - painted with really cool pics of all the states on the Mother Road.
Also - a lot of my all time favorite movie, The Outsiders, was filmed on or near Rt 66.
BUT, the number one reason I love the Mother Road is: It takes me home from work EVERY DAY!
PS - I also love I-35 because, come September, it will take me to meet Monkee!


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MERTHYR TYDFIL, South Wales -- In a world in which most young people are more familiar with pinball apps than the real thing, Andrew Heighway has made it his mission to change that. The 41-year-old entrepreneur, and head of Heighway Pinball here, is priming his first flipper game for the coin-op market, and a new generation of players.
Called Full Throttle, Heighway's first pin game is not your traditional one-off. It's designed on a platform that supports the creation of new games, which in turn streamlines operations and product marketing. Hardware and software for the Heighway game are engineered to be updated regularly with new themes to keep the gameplay fresh. The playfield, backglass and game software can all be changed out on location to provide a new pinball experience. A changeover, according to Heighway, should take only 10 to 15 minutes.
In this regard, Heighway's business model is based on selling two products -- basic machine cabinetry and additional games for those units. Heighway hardware can be installed on site and stay there for years, while key components, like the playfield, can be replaced, eliminating the need for costly game rotations. This is not unlike the basic concept behind countertops or jukeboxes, which regularly receive refreshed content and stay on locations for years. Heighway said the success of his pinball business model will rely on steady releases of new games. The new pinball company plans to release three games annually, some built on licensed properties.
Full Throttle's motorcycle racing theme provides a fast-paced pinball experience. The player takes on the role of a racing hero who uses his or her pinball skills to master several playfield challenges. The machine plays a tutorial to help players understand the game's features and rules.
If Heighway's concept for pinball sounds familiar, it should. In the late 1990s, WMS Industries released Pinball 2000, a hybrid flipper and video game in which games could be swapped; Revenge From Mars (Bally) was the first title. However, WMS pulled the plug on its pinball division on Oct. 25, 1999, not long after the second game in the 2000 series, Star Wars Episode I (Williams), was released. "The industry widely recognized this system as having been a major step forwards, but it never had the time to prove itself," Heighway said. "So, we looked at the WMS system in detail and came up with what we believe to be an even easier and better one."
"I believe pinball lost itself to a generation of players by standing still and not evolving, while the potential playing public moved on," said Heighway. "Pinball machines have basically remained unchanged for the past couple of decades due to lack of competition in the sector, lack of investment in new technologies and other reasons. It should come as no surprise that pinball is seen as a retro activity in most people's minds."
Heighway hopes Full Throttle will change all that. Heighway is offering two screen versions for its games. Standard models will have a 10.4" LCD embedded into the playing surface. Deluxe models, due later this year, will have a 46" transparent screen that resides over the playfield surface and below the top glass. With images and video appearing and disappearing during play, the transparent screen will reportedly provide truly immersive experience. But core gameplay remains true to tradition with plenty of ramps and drop targets. The digital technology, Heighway explained, is intended to enhance traditional play, not replace.
"Although the core pinball experience is the same -- humans have a fascination with challenging the laws of physics by attempting to control a heavy steel ball at breakneck speeds -- it can be enhanced by using new technologies," he said. "Display technology like transparent screens creates an immersive experience for players by putting amazing graphics right in front of them in a new, cutting-edge way.
Heighway's pinball design is also taking on service issues that have plagued pins in the past. He said that pinball is perceived as being unreliable for operators, particularly those with limited mechanical abilities. "We have improved aspects of the pinball machine to make it more reliable and easy-to-service, even by non-skilled people."
For instance, pinball machines have wiring looms, sometimes using a cable length of a half-mile. Snagged or broken wires and dry solder joints are common problems that can impact reliability. The Heighway machine, on the other hand, uses modern connectivity components that efficiently daisy-chain power and data throughout the playfield.
All of the machine's major components are designed with modularity in mind, too. For example, flipper assemblies, traditionally a tricky mechanism to fix and adjust, have been simplified: unplug a connector, undo four nuts, drop out the old mech and replace it with a new one. And the Heighway game incorporates inductive switches, which replace less reliable microswitches that need contact wires poking through holes in the playfield. Multicolored RGB LEDs also feature prominently in the game.
It hasn't been all smooth sailing for the new concept. Originally, Heighway was set to debut the new machine with an ancient Greek theme featuring the enchantress Circe from Homer's "The Odyssey." The concept may have been original, even mythical, but it didn't register with the market. "Circe's Animal House was a fun, light-hearted game, set in a bar with a twist of Greek mythology," Heighway said. "We were at an advanced stage with the game, but after talking to operators, we decided that the theme was not universal enough for a first release."
Responding to the market, Heighway went back to the drawing board and came up with the conventionally themed Full Throttle. "It was better to have a theme that would be understood globally, especially in foreign-language markets. Our first game targets the male, 16 to 50 years old. Future games will target different demographics." (the Circe game is not dead, and remains on hold.)
It could be said that Heighway comes by his love of pinball honestly. "I have played videogames and pinball machines all of my life, but I didn't truly get into pinball until my early 20s, in the early 1990s, when it boomed in the UK -- as it did globally," he said. "After three years of playing games, I purchased my first game, Rollergames (Williams Electronics, 1990), which I still own today. Over the next 10 years, I owned a few different games, but it wasn't until I moved to Ireland in my early 30s that I got into pinball in a big way."
Heighway noticed that pinball activity in Ireland was almost nonexistent. Having become proficient at maintenance, he started buying, selling and repairing games for the Irish market. Naturally, he added operations to his budding pinball services. His business eventually reached the UK, where his company became a leading supplier of machines.
When the UK Pinball Show folded four years ago, Heighway stepped into the void with his own show, the UK Pinball Party. "The whole show is under one roof -- at a four-star hotel in Daventry, Northamptonshire," he said. "It is now one of the biggest pinball shows, if not the biggest, in Europe."
Not surprisingly, Heighway plans to merge a social media element into his games. "Pinball needs to join the 21st century," he said. "To attract new players it is necessary to give them a product with which they can identify, and one that uses technology they recognize. A successful pinball product must fit into the player's lifestyle."
By putting pinball online, players can share their flipper experiences in their social networks, alerting friends and other pin fans about what games they're playing and their scores, and where they are. It's possible such information can become viral and lead to other people seeking out these locations to share in the experience. This may prove good news for locations and operators, and even better news the overall health of pinball. Networked machines can potentially allow players to challenge each other in different locations, and even different countries, by webcam links.
"In the near future, players will be able to create profiles online and the games will be able to recognize them via their smartphones, pin codes or text messaging," Heighway said. "We are exploring ways in which payments can also be made online or via smartphones to allow players without coins in their pockets to play pinballs. After their games, scores will be updated to local, national and global high-score tables."
Heighway believes there is still growth potential for the right pinball product. "Fresh ideas, technology and a new approach to operating pinball can spark a revival," he said. "Operators want equipment that is reliable, easy-to-service and makes them money. Players want a product that they can relate to, excites them, embraces technology and fits into their social lifestyle -- and it has to be fun. Our products have been designed with these factors in mind."
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Why D.C. won't break up the banks
NEW YORK – The angry pitchfork brigade bent on breaking up the nation's largest banks now includes unlikely members George Will and Peggy Noonan. Republicans at times outflank liberals in their zeal to downsize financial giants. And CPAC hosted a session at its convention on the threat posed by mega-banks.
But turn down the bipartisan Beltway static, and the true signal is clear: There is virtually no chance any significant piece of legislation will pass Congress that would meaningfully reduce the size of the nation's biggest banks or restrict their activities.
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It's true the recent rise in break-up-the-banks fever could embolden regulators to get a little tougher in final Dodd-Frank rules, expected later this year. And a strange bedfellows, left-right coalition is now pressing for more dramatic action.
( Also on POLITICO: Too big to fail, too hard to change)
Still, there's nothing on the horizon likely to satisfy those who say the biggest banks — led by JPMorganChase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Bank of America — continue to pose a systemic threat to the U.S. economy.
Here's why: The White House has no desire to reopen any part of Dodd-Frank and believes too-big-to-fail will soon be a closed chapter. To admit otherwise would be a huge political walk-back. Some Republicans have warmed to the idea of bank breakups, but they're nowhere close to agreement on how to do them. And the Democrats most associated with the idea, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), remain highly polarizing figures not likely to create a broad legislative coalition.
( Also on POLITICO: JPMorgan is taken to the woodshed)
"It's a populist cause at the moment coming from the further reaches of each party," said Tony Fratto, a former George W. Bush White House and Treasury official.
Even some of the biggest proponents of breaking up the banks acknowledge that while public support for their efforts is growing, the political dynamics still don't favor them. At least not yet.
"I don't think it's inevitable that we break up the banks, but I do still think it's likely," said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who plans to introduce legislation later this year with Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) to limit bank size. "It may not happen in six months. It may not even happen in a year."
Brown said the contents of his bill remain "very much in flux" but are likely to include higher capital requirements than even those contemplated by international regulators in Switzerland and a higher fee on "systemically important" institutions. Brown said he could get upwards of forty votes for the bill.
But financial industry lobbyists and senior officials on both sides of Capitol Hill and in both parties believe the number will be significantly lower.
They also say any other legislative efforts to cut down on bank size or repeal and replace parts of Dodd-Frank — such as toughening the section that purports to end the prospect of bailouts — have very little chance of success. "Cooler heads will prevail," one senior Hill Republican said.


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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger demands response after FA Cup elimination
Arsene Wenger has admitted it was 'very painful' for Arsenal to lose to Blackburn, but he is determined to bounce back.
Last Updated: 19/02/13 4:11pm
The Gunners' hopes of ending an eight-year trophy drought are now resting on the UEFA Champions League after Colin Kazim-Richards netted the only goal of their fifth-round tie at Emirates Stadium.
Wenger acknowledged after the match that Arsenal's performance was poor, but has challenged his players to bounce back against Bayern Munich in midweek.
"It is very painful and disappointing to lose a game like that. It is now important to focus on the next game," he said.
"We were not good enough to win today. It's as simple as that.
"Not one defeat is acceptable. You are in this job to win every single game.
"The season is not over. For you maybe, not for me.
"If we feel sorry for ourselves we would be completely wrong. We have a massive game on Tuesday night and we have to show that we some response in the team.
"I couldn't see how we could lose the game because we had a lot of the ball and they had one shot on goal but they defended well and it's the kind of game you can lose if you make a mistake at the back like we did."
Wenger, who controversially left Jack Wilshere, Theo Walcott and Santi Cazorla on the bench, only for Kazim-Richards to score shortly after the trio all came on, said he had no problem with Arsenal fans' jeers at the end of the match.
He said: "What do you expect, people to applaud when you lose a game like that? It's absolutely normal."
Wenger was also upset with the way Arsenal conceded as Kazim-Richards scuffed in a shot on the rebound after Wojciech Szczesny had parried a Martin Olsson shot.
He said: "We made a massive mistake on the goal. I don't want to go into much detail about it."


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Drudge No. 1 and WND No.2
An independent news organization has named the Drudge Report and WND among the "most trustworthy news sources" for 2012, citing Drudge as the "top-trusted site for millions" and WND for "continual commitment to the truth and top-notch journalistic practice."
The list of the top news sources, where WND was second only to the Drudge Report, was announced today by the Discerning Times at Enumclaw.com, an online source that bills itself as a "Small Town Newspaper, Big Time News."
The Christian organization said it based its decision on several factors, including the news reported "results from the fullest research possible" and that news "will be reported without favoritism."
Other factors include an emphasis on beneficial news, the appropriate use of photographs "with due consideration for personal dignity" and that "no specific political viewpoint will be represented."
The Discerning Times' Thomas McGee told WND the news site's operation consistently offers "fast, balanced, and reliable news."
The Times noted that candidates were evaluated on reliability, accuracy, quality, balance and reach. Those factors represent concerns for "consistent, regularly updated delivery of news," "well-rounded stories which focus upon facts rather than gossip or hearsay," "informative, well-written pieces over sheer quantity," "stories reported aside from bias or agenda" and "strong authority and readership."
"With a continual commitment to the truth and top-notch journalistic practices, WorldNetDaily has time and again exposed corruption in the media and politics while maintaining good journalistic practices," the evaluation concluded. "WND clearly differentiates when they're reporting news and providing commentary or opinion."
The only site listed ahead of WND was the Drudge Report. The paper said, "With a reach and readership higher than that of the New York Times, Drudge Report is the top-trusted news site for millions."
No. 3 was TheBlaze, which, although new, has "gained a solid reputation," and No. 4 is Breitbart News, which has a "central focus on political issues."
No. 5 is Fox News, which "has made a noticeable effort to keep news fair and balanced," and No. 6 is NewsBusters, which has exposed "corruption in the media."
No. 7 is The Weekly Standard, and No. 8 is the Wall Street Journal.
Conspicuous by their absence were such legacy media organizations as the Associated Press and the New York Times.


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My manuscript is almost ready and I placed a local ad in Qatar for a professional copy editor. I have been contacted by two men and one of them seems to be a professional (At least that is what he is saying) and he is asking for 1000 dollars to copyedit my work, around 54000 words. I will give him about 3-4 pages in order to assess his capability, to see if he can really add any value.
To apprise all members here, I have decided to self publish and a local printer will print the book, they have yet to quote the price they will charge for the printing job and a professional graphic designer is making the title cover of the book.
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Learn about the issues in color control and proofing that printers face when producing ceramic decals with process-color separations.
While controlling color is challenging in any type of screen printing, printing designs for ceramic and glass decoration poses some unique obstacles. Among the most significant is that the image color at the time of printing is quite different from the fired color, which won't be seen until several hours, or even days, later. In the following pages, I'll take a closer look at this and other issues in color control and proofing that printers face when producing ceramic decals with process-color separations.
Fundamentals of ceramic color
Screen printing for ceramics is generally done in one of two ways: Colors are printed directly onto the ceramic or glassware, or they are printed onto decal release papers and then transferred onto the ware. In either case, after the decoration is applied, the product is fired at temperatures ranging from 950-2200°F (510-1205°C) to yield the final image.
Decorations on ceramic and glassware range from solid, single-color designs to continuous-tone spot-color images featuring upwards of twenty colors, and from basic process-color images to process colors with additional integrated "boost" colors. The final fired design is extremely durable and may include many special effects, such as bright or burnished gold and platinum, iridescent colors, and textures. All the fired colors are permanent.
The color fidelity of a fired decal depends on three major factors:
1. Pigments Ceramic pigments tend to be much less pure and vibrant than the corresponding pigments in conventional printing inks, such as those used for offset lithography and screen printing.
2. Color space Because of pigment limitations in ceramic inks, the color information for the original image must be "remapped" from a standard color space, such as SWOP-CMYK, RGB, or L*a*b, into the unique color space that will be used to render that image with ceramic colors. However, even after a color has been remapped into ceramic color space, significant areas of the conventional-printing color space will remain unattainable.
3. Firing Fired color is the result of chemical interactions that occur within the inks at high temperatures. Therefore, anything that influences these interactions will affect the final color.
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Music is available to us in many different formats. Some music is listened to on CD. Music is also very popular in the downloadable format, via MP3, etc. Still, even with the new download revolution CD music is still the mainstream. More and more CDs are still purchased everyday, making the CD the number one music format.
Now, the future of music listening is here. Introducing music being enjoyed in the DVD format. DVD music takes listening to a whole new level by dropping the listener right in the middle of the band. DVD music discs encoded in a surround-sound format allow the sound to come from all the speakers in the room, not just the stereo speakers. Thats not all that DVD Music has to offer. Most DVD music discs have a menu system just like DVD movies. Also, incorporated along with the surround-sound mix is high quality video production as well. So not only is there high quality surround-sound music to be enjoyed, but also video of your favorite band.
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Ok, today I saw something really cool. In fact it was something that I figured was already a 'been there, done that' machine.
You get yourself a White Goat Paper Recycler. This machine will shred your office paper, wet it, press it, dry it, and roll it for use in the bathroom.
They said it only takes about 40 sheets of office paper to make 1 roll of toilet paper and can save about 40 trees a year.
40 trees may not sound like much but, just think if every big company used a machine like this - that could really add up the tree count fast.
There is a few small catches - the machine weighs about 1,322.77 Pounds, is almost 6 feet tall, and will cost you about $100,000. But if it only cost 11cents per roll to make, saves on recycling cost the company would normally pay, then in the long run it might be worth the money.
You can see how the machine works over at YouTube - Office Paper to Toilet Paper - White Goat Paper Recycler : DigInfo
ps. I don't think that the potty paper shown in the video looks to soft but hey...most companies use the 'sandpaper' type anyway.


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Earlier this month, Southern California Edison announced a deal with solar power plant maker BrightSource to install and operate solar power plants totaling 1300 megawatts in the deserts outside Los Angeles. The first of the seven solar thermal facilities covered by the deal would begin operation by 2013, if regulators approve the project and construction goes as planned.
Southern California Edison has called the agreement "the world's largest solar deal." 1300 megawatts would power nearly 845,000 homes, the utility company said. The facilities use a design often called a 'power tower,' in which thousands of small ground-mounted mirrors called heliostats reflect sunlight onto a boiler atop a tower to produce high temperature steam. We'll find out more about the project and its prospects.


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The 2016 Olympic host welcomes IRONMAN racing.
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The 2016 Olympic host city welcomes IRONMAN racing.
Rio de Janeiro is one of the most visited cities in the Southern Hemisphere and is known for its natural settings, carnival
Athletes will begin their day with a 1.2-mile (1.9 km) swim, 56-mile (90 km) bike and 13.1-mile (21 km) run around the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro. The race starts at Recreio dos Bandeirantes where the one-lap swim will take place. The bike course will lead athletes through breathtaking landscapes on a three-loop course. Finally, the two-loop run course will take athletes close to the unique seashore and offers breathtaking views of the city and its surroundings. Athletes will conclude the day by crossing the energetic finish line at Recreio dos Bandeirantes.
This race will offer 30 age-group qualifying slots for the 2019 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship.