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Yes, this diet might help your brain to recover from the overload of unwanted (or wanted?) information.
I did it – I survived it.
I took the decision super spontaneously when drinking a beer at the Galeria 540 and grabbing my cell phone to check if there were any updates in the world that would keep me busy for the next 30 seconds when the conversation around me got stuck. The moment I caught myself doing that, I knew I could need a Facebook Diet. An I was aware of the fact, that this was nothing to think about for too long, because I could have changed my mind easily during the process. Open Facebook – log out – Live with all the consequences.
The first day:
I received a couple of message advices from Facebook and was tagged in a post. It was a tiny little bit tempting to think about accessing my site to see if I really wasn't missing any big events. But then I convinced myself that whatever it was that I would miss, it just couldn't be that significant. And if there was anything really important, people would easily find a way to contact me in other ways.
The other days:
Didn't miss accessing Facebook that much and I am already thinking about a more radical diet the next time, including Instagram and LinkedIn.
I realized throughout the last weeks that my online behavior had changed. I was sometimes only a bit bored for a minute or so, had some time to pass. Like entering the elevator and running down twenty floors or arriving five minutes too early at my students'. A couple of free minutes: what should I do with all the boredom?
Occasionally I read an article of an acquaintance on LinkedIn two weeks ago, who was complaining about smartphones and wanted to get rid of his.
I have not much against smartphones themselves. Yes,they accelerated our lives but in my case, just like in many others, a smartphone is necessary for my job. I can do much more when outside my home office, send quotes, reschedule classes, prepare homework, work on our online marketing, etc. But the article was right about that one point I explained above: filling every free minute with input, forgetting what it means to be centered inside.
And when I saw this behavior developing in me, I needed to take a break.
The results:
I did not miss anything important.
I am more realistic again about social networking sites.
I had enough time to run some 'thought processes' to get some of my own projects back on track and to naturally find solutions to daily issues.
The 5-Day Zero Facebook Diet – You can do it!


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The 50 Best Action Movies
James Bond, John McClane, Bruce Wayne. If there's one thing Hollywood does right it's the action movie. Here now, the 50 essentials.
James Bond, John McClane, Bruce Wayne. If there's one thing Hollywood does right it's the action movie. Here now, the 50 essentials.
Like actions, thrillers get your blood pumping, though they use more subtle tactics -- suspense over pyrotechnics -- the action genre's brainier brother. These are the 50 best.
When most of us hear the word "movie", we think of Hollywood but foreign films deserve a place in the spotlight. This list features the 50 top foreign language films, period.
Romance movies aim to capture the highs of love found, the lows of love lost, and everything in between. We've added 10 more films to our list of the best romance movies. Time to get cozy.
"Netflix and chill," but for smart people.
Horror movies aren't for everyone. You've heard it a million times, or else you've said it a million times: "I just don't like them". Oh really? You don't like The Shining or The Exorcist or Shaun of the Dead or Psycho? Those are horror movies, jacko, and you like them. Admit it.
Part five of our series covers sci-fi and fantasy movies. Of all our sections, this was the most difficult to create: not because we argued over the selections (though we did), but because we argued over where to draw the line on what constitutes sci-fi and fantasy. For instance, does Richard Linklater's cerebral Waking Life...
Because "family film" and "kids movie" are far from the same thing.
Throughout the selection process to find the funniest comedies, we kept echoing the same mantra: "Is this movie really that good?" The answer was consistent: shouts of "it's hilarious!" were parried just as assuredly by "it sucks!" Comedy, we quickly discovered, is just as diverse and polarizing as drama. Really the two aren't so different....
Good movies bring art to life, combining audio and visuals (and occasionally smells, as in the case of 1959's disastrous AromaRama and 1960's Smell-O-Vision, may they forever rest in peace) in ways that push the limits of human imagination. They require little effort to watch, yet have the power to change a life. They represent...
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I Got Schooled is an ambitious book about education reform. The author M. Night Shyamalan is not an educator, policy analyst or even a parent of public schooled children (his three girls go to private school); but a film producer—a successful one at that. Readers may be familiar with the "Sixth Sense" and "The Village", two of many films produced by Shyamalan. He is in unfamiliar territory here. I admire Shyamalan willingness and tenacity to tackle the complex and gnarly issue of the achievement gap in U.S. public schools. His view on education reform is fresh and bold. The research backing up the five keys outlined in I Got Schooled is extensive. Though there is nothing really startling in Shyamalan's book, he does frame the five keys quite well. I appreciate the scholarly research referenced, and the extensive personal interviews Shyamalan conducted for the book. His interviewees are eclectic, teachers of public and charter schools, principals, economists, professors, students, and student teachers. Each provides a thought-provoking perspective on education. For these reasons alone it's a worthy read.
I also appreciate Shyamalan's neutral viewpoint on U.S. public education; he approaches the book without any baggage, or with an axe to grind. His purpose for writing the book seems to be to jolt readers into caring about education, to shock them with the numbers on the United States' public school performance for example (which are quite depressing), "My goal is to systematically awaken every part of us that cares" (p 17) —another reason why I found myself liking the book, and Shyamalan. He appears genuine, smart, and passionate about improving education.
Myths Uncovered – Class Size
Though not all readers will find Shyamalan's five tenets pleasing, nor the myths he debunks. He addresses numerous misconceptions about education which many hold dear. 'Myths' as Shyamalan calls them that he even admits to adhering to until digging into the research. One contentious issue addressed is class size. Shyamalan interviews an expert on public education, Professor Eric Hanushek, economist, professor of education, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute. Several pages in the book describe Professor Hanushek views on class size, as well as results from numerous studies, for and against.
All kinds of people believe in smaller class size. I did, and I had a lot of company. According to the Gallup Organization's survey "The Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools," the number-one choice for a change that would improve American education was reducing class size. I don't usually go with the crowd, but this one was common sense. (pp. 43-44)
Finding out just how much it would cost to reduce class size in the United States by a third was a wake-up call, but not because of the expense. After all, we're spending more than $ 500 billion every year on primary and secondary education, so spending another $ 10 or $ 20 billion or so isn't as crazy as it sounds— as long, that is, as it actually closes the achievement gap. The real problem with class-size reduction isn't that it costs so much but that it buys so little: barely a fifth of the difference between the bottom quarter of America's schools and the top quarter. (p. 53)
Other myths Shyamalan 'busts' are teachers salaries and education. He outlines that paying teachers more does not produce higher [and better] student achievement, and teachers with advanced degrees do not prove to be more effective teachers. There is no question that Shyamalan claims will rankle many. However, the topics do provide for discussion, consideration, and perhaps may be a catalyst for change, big or small.
Shyamanlan's five keys to closing the education gap
1. No Roadblock Teachers
2. The Right Balance of Leadership
3. Feedback
4. Smaller Schools
5. More Time in School
I agree with four of five of the keys; I disagree with number five, more time in school. Starting with using school time more efficiently, is the place to begin rather than lengthening the school day as Shyamanlan suggests. I'll use my children's public high school here as an example, cut out the daily brunch of twenty minutes (recess), shorten lunch hour and reduce teacher collaboration time at least change the timing so that it doesn't shorten the school day. In our district collaboration times translate to 'late start Wednesdays'. I suggest scheduling full days for collaboration throughout year and extend the school year by these days [this last point is updated based upon a comment from a reader]. Another option which some districts are implementing is year round schooling, which means shorter break periods, avoiding the summer break.
Overall the book is an enlightening and fresh read, highly recommended for parents and educators. However the downside, is that the barriers to implementing the 'five keys' are such that another book would need to be written on how to dismantle them.
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Today was a long day in the field with Moose, Joe and the DLWS group. We started off very early in Central Park, then made our way through Chinatown and ended up at the Brooklyn Bride for sunset.
It was a great day on the streets of New York and I'd like to thank the Dragonfighters of Ladder 6 in China Town for the warm welcome.
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Liberals Shown to Be Gullible, Stupid and Stubborn Once Again
Thanks to infowars.com for bringing this news back up recently. How did liberals this?:
from nytimes.com:
U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend
by Philip Shabecoff
Correction Appended
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25— After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period.
While the nation's weather in individual years or even for periods of years has been hotter or cooler and drier or wetter than in other periods, the new study shows that over the last century there has been no trend in one direction or another. – More here.
Massive super fail! I hope any liberals and pseudo-Christians reading this still have the ability to feel guilt and shame and can still blush.
Ancient Wall In Jerusalem Evidence of Bible's Reliability Says Archaeologist
from news.bbc.co.uk
Archaeologists say the wall formed part of the region's first fortifications
A 3,700-year-old wall has been discovered in east Jerusalem, Israeli archaeologists say.
The structure was built to protect the city's water supply as part of what dig director Ronny Reich described as the region's earliest fortifications.
The 26-ft (8-m) high wall showed the Canaanite people who built it were a sophisticated civilisation, he said.
Critics say Israel uses such projects as a political tool to bolster Jewish claims to occupied Palestinian land.
Excavations at the site, known as the City of David, are in a Palestinian neighbourhood just outside the walls of Jerusalem's old city.
It is partly funded by Elad, a Jewish settler organisation that also works to settle Jews in that area.
The wall dates from a time in the Middle Bronze Age when Jerusalem was a small, fortified enclave controlled by the Canaanites, before they were conquered by the Israelites.
Its discovery demonstrated Jerusalem's inhabitants were sophisticated enough to undertake major building projects, said Mr Reich.
"The wall is enormous, and that it survived 3,700 years – this is, even for us, a long time," said Mr Reich, an archaeology professor at the University of Haifa. – More here.
Arab Christian Spy Severely Disrupted the Islamic Hamas for More than Ten Years
from timesonline.co.uk:
by James Hider
[Jerusalem –] The son of one of Hamas's founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping to prevent dozens of Islamist suicide bombers from finding their targets, it emerged yesterday.
Codenamed the "Green Prince" by Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of the Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, supplied key intelligence almost daily from 1996. He tracked down suicide bombers and their handlers from his father's organisation, the Haaretz newspaper said.
Information supplied by him led to the arrests of some of the most- wanted men by Israeli forces, including Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader tipped as a potential president, who was convicted of masterminding terrorist attacks, along with one of Hamas's top bombmakers, Abdullah Barghouti, who is no relation of the jailed Fatah chief.
Mr Yousef, 32, a convert to Christianity who now lives in California, has revealed the intrigues of his years as a spy in a new book called Son of Hamas, much to the concern of Shin Bet, whose operations will be revealed in detail. – More here.
Latvian hacker tweets hard on banking whistle – Fat cat pay leaked all over the Baltics
from theregister.co.uk:
by John Leyden
Latvian hacker tweets hard on banking whistle – Fat cat pay leaked all over the Baltics
A hacker has become a popular hero in the Baltics, and scourge to the authorities, by leaking information on the finances of banks and state-run firms to Latvian TV.
The whistle-blowing cracker, who calls himself Neo in an apparent Matrix tribute, is feeding embarrassing information such as the pay of managers who work for a Latvian bank that received a credit crunch bail-out to the media via Twitter.
The information reveals that bankers failed to take promised salary cuts after their banks were forced to take a state hand-out to stay afloat. Other juicy titbits involve undisclosed bonuses to senior staff at supposedly near-destitute state-owned firms.
Senior government officials are reportedly earning 2,000 lats ($4,000) a month or more while the salary of teachers has been slashed by one-third to $600 a month as part of an unpopular austerity package, AP reports.
The chief exec of Riga's heating company, Aris Zigurs, received a 16,000 lat ($32,000) bonus last year, Neo has also revealed.
Neo's stated motive is to expose waste and graft, a mission that has gone down a storm with the public in the economically-troubled country where unemployment is running at 23 per cent. – More here.
Nigel Farage faces reprimand after calling Herman Van Rompuy 'wet rag'
from telegraph.co.uk:
by Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Nigel Farage faces reprimand after calling Herman Van Rompuy 'wet rag'
The comments by Ukip's leading MEP on Wednesday afternoon have generated a furious reaction in the European Parliament and across Belgium.
During a debate on Europe's economic prospects, Mr Farage astonished MEPs and the EU president by launching an "insulting" personal attack.
"I don't want to be rude," he began.
"But you know, really, you have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low grade bank clerk."
To loud protests, Mr Farage continued: "The question that I want to ask and that we are all going to ask is: who are you? I had never heard of you; nobody in Europe had ever heard of you. I would like to ask you, Mr President: who voted for you? And what mechanism – I know democracy is not popular with you lot – what mechanism do the peoples of Europe have to remove you? Is this European democracy?"
"Sir, you have no legitimacy in this job at all, and I can say with confidence that I can speak on behalf of the majority of the British people in saying: we do not know you, we do not want you, and the sooner you are put out to grass, the better."
Against a background of growing protests, Mr Farage accused a visibly shaken Mr Van Rompuy of being a "dangerous" Belgian European federalist.
"I have no doubt that it is your intention to be the quiet assassin of European democracy and of the European nation states. You appear to have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of nation states; perhaps that is because you come from Belgium, which of course is pretty much a non-country," he said.
Martin Schulz, the German leader of Socialist MEPs, called on Mr Farage to be reprimanded and demanded his resignation.
"It would be better, if Mr. Farage laid down his mandate, if the EU and the European parliament please him so badly," he said.
Parliament sources have confirmed that Mr Farage has been summoned by Jerzy Buzek, the Parliament President, to receive an official reprimand, and possible disciplinary action, next Tuesday.
"He has been summoned to the headmaster's office and expects a spanking," said a Ukip spokesman.
Sources have told The Daily Telegraph that the controversy, widely reported by the BBC, was deliberately staged to promote Mr Farage's appreance on the corporation's Question Time programme on Thursday night.
Many Belgians are angered by Mr Farage's description of Mr Van Rompuy, their former premier, as a wet rag.
"These English do not have any culture. When one visits museums it is Germans, Spanish, Italians, and French you see. The English 'get more' by asking for beer in low bars. You can recognise an Englishman by his football shirt on prominent paunch. His only reading is The Sun," wrote one Libre Belgique reader on Thursday morning[,]
"The English are cretins, whose arrogance is only equalled by their mediocrity of spirit." – Source
About Van Rompuy:
by Daniel Knight 3/24/2010/1:33 A.M.
Herman Van Rompuy was born On October 31, 1947, born in Etterbeek, Brussels, attended Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Brussels until 1965 and studied ancient Greek and Latin there. After that he studied at the Leuven Catholic Universiy and was awarded a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1968 and a master's degree in applied economics in 1971, worked at the Belgian central bank from 1972 to 1975, was chairman of the national CVP's youth council from 1973–1977, lectured at the Handelshogeschool Antwerpen from 1980 to 1987, and starting in 1982 has been a lecturer at the Vlaamse Economische Hogeschool Brussel, worked in the ministerial cabinets of Leo Tindemans and Gaston Geens from 1975 to 1980, was elected a member of the national CVP's bureau in 1978, was a Belgian Senator from 1988 to 1995, and served as Secretary of State for Finance and for Small and Medium Enterprises from 1988–1993, was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Budget from September 1993 to July 1999 in the two governments lead by Jean-Luc Dehaene. He was reelected in 2003 as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. In 2004 he was designated the Minister of State and reelected again in 2007 as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and remained a member until 2009. While he remained minister he was disallowed from governing as a representative. He helped drive down Belgium's debt from a peak of 135 percent of gross domestic product in 1993 to below 100 percent of GDP in 2003.
In 2004, he stated "An enlargement [of the EU] with Turkey is not in any way comparable with previous enlargement waves. Turkey is not Europe and will never be Europe. … But it's a matter of fact that the universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are also the fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigour with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey." As a Catholic he would have said this to put pressure on Turkey to convert to Catholicism (for the spiritual or wordly benefits, or both).
Following the 2007–2008 Belgian political crisis, King Albert II, who was reluctant to take up the role of Prime Minister of Belgium, asked Van Rompuy to form a new government. He was sworn in as Belgian Prime Minister on December 30, 2008.
More information Van Rompuy: Who is Van Rompuy?
Nigel Farage asks Van Rompuy: Who are you Mr President? (my corrected title):
Nigel's news journal: http://www.ukip.org/content/nigel-farages-blog
The "Last Days" Prophecies of the Bible Explained
Recently (I think two days ago), Alex Jones, when he was talking about the Austin IRS attack, he made references to the government's and banker's abundant criminal activity as "lawlessness", and knowing he studies Bible prophecy a little, it was obvious to me that he was referring to this verse:
For the mystery of iniquity already works: but he [the Holy Spirit] who now allows [this] will [only] allow it [to] continue until he [the anti-Christ] comes out of the midst.* – 2 Thessalonians 2:7. I had to insert implied words in that verse in order of it to be more understandable. Another translation that might be the correct one (I don't know because I'm not fluent in ancient Greek) might be, "For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he [the archangel Michael] who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way." (ESV). The second translation is maybe wrong because it's not simply one angel fighting off/restraining demons and shielding people from them. Imagine how strangely torturous and frenzied Michael would be if it were just him alone for thousands of years doing that. Poor Michael! But, if that is the correct translation, it would make more sense to say Michael is taken out of the way, then the Spirit, as if the Spirit was just a limited servant who only had one task on Earth, unless, it means the Spirit is taken away from a certain location in which the anti-Christ lives and where some demon or demons have been trying to raise the anti-Christ to a position of very wide-spread authority and popularity (and then that would also make it so that Michael could also just as reasonably be the person being spoken of who is removed out of the way, since then it wouldn't necessarily mean he was single-handedly (with God's help) fighting off demons everywhere all by himself).
In other words: It will no longer be a mystery to the world as to why everyone with great hatred is disobeying God, because it will become plain who the anti-Christ is and that he is Satan, or "the beast" as Revelation says non-Christians will call him.
But what does "lawlessness" mean? Does it mean what Alex implied: people breaking the laws of the U.S. Constitution or laws or good laws of their own countries? Maybe. But more likely or in addition to that, its disobeying God's word through forgetting it, and/or deliberately encouraging people to forget and disobey. Verses that came before 2 Thess. 2:7 are:
Many will say to Me in that day, Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in Your name, and through Your name throw out demons, and through Your name do many wonderful works? And then I will say to them I never knew you! Depart from Me, those working lawlessness! – Matthew 7:22-23
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness? – 2 Corinthians 6:14
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness. – 1 John 3:4
And a related verse is in Proverbs:
Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the law. – Proverbs 29:18
Notice that it says "Where there isn't any revelation", in other words where God's word doesn't exist/isn't able to be found" people will allow their hearts to run wild, will do whatever they feel like doing, but that those who remember God's law will be blessed (the saved Christians especially).
But what is so special about this disobedience that God mentions it? The whole world has been disobeying God for thousands of years, and his word was no where to be found. Why does God act like the future lawlessness will be something special, or different from the disobedience while before he said that? To learn that you would have to come across these passages, and there are enough of them in plain language that those who have access to a decent Bible and have no problem reading and who have the time to, cannot say that these teachings were hidden from them or too hard to find, especially with mp3 audio recordings of people reading the Bible freely available (and in multiple/more than one language):
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator[…] – Romans 1:18-25
But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, being seared in their own conscience, forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creation of God is good, and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified through the Word of God and prayer. – 1 Timothy 4:1-5
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth—men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone. – 2 Timothy 3:1-9
Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles. First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. – 2 Peter 3:1-6
And you shall be betrayed also by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends. – Luke 21:16, (Jesus was talking to Christians when he said, "you").
As many know, a person who is ignorant of a good law and breaks it, is not as bad as someone who knows a good law and breaks it. Jesus taught this:
The master [Jesus] of that servant [the false or traitor Christian] will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of [Judgment Day]. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers [Hell]. That servant who knows his master's will [God's unspoken commands which are in the heart of man] and does not get ready [obtain God's forgiveness] or does not do what his master wants [God' spoken commands] will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows [because everyone has the ability to learn right from wrong]. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. – Luke 12:46-48
Whether it is worse to forget the law and then break it, or to keep it mind and break it, I don't know, but it is sure worse then not having know it at all, just as Jesus taught. The Bible teaches or implies this "knowing and forgetting makes you worse" principle in other verses:
"When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first." – Matthew 12:43-46
"In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived." – 2 Timothy 3:12-14
"If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them." – 2 Peter 2:20-21
So now you know why this evil in the last days is worse: it's being committed by people who knew God's law but forgot about it or know it but break it anyways. But is this reasonable to say that this is the case with most of the world, billions? How can billions of people know God's word, especially with all the different religions? It's nothing hard to be exposed to God's word. Like some atheists imply, it's like a virus and multiplies. The Bible is the world's most read, sold, accessible book, and the one written in the most languages. Further, the Christians spread his word everywhere, including partial Christians like Catholics, whose popes have sometimes reminded the world of the God of the Christians through their public speeches and when traveling around the world. Many people, even atheists, know about the so called, "the Golden Rule", which came from Jesus, and know John 3:16.
But who are these people that will leave the true religion, who will deliberately forget (become without law in their minds and hearts and perhaps cut off access and destroy God's word from external sources like cutting off access to the Internet or certain websites, disrupting websites, removing and destroying Bibles from libraries, book stores, homes etc., or heavily altering God's word or at key points or removing verses (like Catholics have done with the engraven images law in the 10 commandments)? Did you guess Catholics? Catholics are the only Christian group that I know of, who, as a group, have removed a verse or verses from the Bible (the Catholic version) and who effectively forget that major law by bowing to idols, not even idols of Jesus, which wouldn't be so bad if that were all, but who bow down to all kinds of idols, even supposedly divine ones on absurd things (the absurd signs obviously being a sign of sick-minded demon at work, whether directly or through some deliberately lying human). Catholics are also indicated as being the worst group on Earth in Revelation whose corrupting influence is widespread:
I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, filled with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet. And she was gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman
- drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus
. And when I saw her, I marveled with a great marveling. And the angel said to me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, that has the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to ascend out of the abyss and go into perdition. And those dwelling on the earth will marvel, those whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman sits. – Revelation 17:3-9
The only modern "Babylon" (related to the Tower of Babel which was built by all the races of the world in an attempt to ascend to divinity), whose base is on seven hills, which is very richly and extravagantly dressed (very rich), which is associated for using a golden cup filled with red liquid, which has world-wide corrupt influence, even with royalty, yet which is not royalty itself (notice Revelation does not say that she has a crown despite her great riches), which has massacred many Christians, so many that God has singled out their massacres prominently, are the massacres of the Roman Catholic Church. The Church's official name even begins with "Rome", which is where these seven prominent hills are. The Catholic Church has been estimated by me and other researchers, as having killed or directly murdered about 50,000,000 people over 1000 years, and if you take into account the time when the Church was split into various kinds of Roman pagans in ancient times, you can include about 6,000,000 Christians, because that is how many the pagan Romans killed over a few decades. For confirmation of those numbers check these references (one is a book I think I've included at box.com, look to the right and look for the link that says, "The Difference Between Christians…" it will take you to various things I've written.
On top of all that, it over a billion members, so it's truly a Tower of Babel culture/Babylon (made up of roughly the entire world). It's leaders, some of them at least, including priests, even preach that non-Catholics (with the exception of the true Christians of course), will be forgiven of their sins and have eternal life, despite refusing to acknowledge Jesus as savior or worship him, or as long as they accept him as a good god. So in that way, they have even more members.
And as I've said in previous entries, a massive amount of Catholics are unfriendly, and nominal, nominal meaning they don't entirely obey Catholic doctrine, and many obey very little of it, and are wild, like the one whom I said worshiped Randy Orton, who was so hypocritical that on her profile said she was a strong Christian yet boldy said, "My parents are my Rock", giving them Jesus' place! And remember that one of the prophecies in the verses I posted above said that these faithless Christians will appear to be of God, yet will not acknowledge his power and make hypocritical lies? again.
As I told one Catholic here who commented back on my Ken Ham and government post: I' m not talking about a few Catholics I've met: every Catholic I've met has been very hypocritical like this, placing something above God, like tradition, or some sin, and forgetful of basic Bible verses. And how can anyone forget the at least bi-monthly reports of Catholics abusing children, and of all the types of Catholics to do so: their very priests!
Sadly, as I can say from experience and listening to other types of Christians, it's not just Catholics that backstab Christ, it's many types of Christians, the second worst type being Arminian Pentecostals, a type known for their endless near-begging for tithes and the absurd, embarrassing-to-true-Christians reasons for why people should tithe to them. In my experience, I've found A.P.s to be worse than Catholics in that they know and understand Scripture even better than Catholics, yet still twist it to suit their own personal belief that God either won't send many to Hell, will give the world endless chances to be forgiven after death, or that God chooses to save a person (forgiving every single one of their sins – which is often billions of sins if not more – and giving them his eternal mercy and love) in as a reward for their (mere) inherent goodness or for doing (one or some) "good" deed or deeds.
In addition to the law-forgetting/ignoring Catholics and witches, there are also a huge number of atheists who abandoned Christ or who knew about the good laws in the Bible (not that there are bad ones) and yet forgot them or arrogantly and callously gave credit to them to mere humans, and not even Moses or Jesus, but to idolaters like the Babylonians, Egyptians or Sumerians, and one stupid atheist (who I've refuted left and right over things as absurd as whether or not Google is useful and whether or not you should do whatever feels good, and who cuts herself, who still doesn't shut up or apologize for her endless insults), claimed that the entire Bible was "written by a Greek woman". Yes, ignorant, but even more ignorant to say something based on ignorance. But that's not the only bad thing about atheists, not even close: In the past 90 years they, as a group, have killed more than 150,000,000 people. That's more than three times the amount killed by Catholics and in less than 10%. Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, Huxley and Darwin, leaders of atheists, with their evil commands and evil teachings caused the deaths of over 150,000,000, not including the dozens of millions of abortions committed by people who believed that there was no God to punish them for killing another human or who trusted anti-Christian atheists who literally claimed that babies were merely "meat" (yet ironically many atheists pretend they are good for not "eating babies" and they mockingly claim Christians say of them; talk about "blind hypocrites") or "protoplasms" "without feelings" as if they asked the babies if they felt anything or not and the babies said, "No," (what evil morons).
God was clearly right when he said, "A very evil person says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; none of them do what is good.- Psalm 14:1
In summary, the Bible's prophecies about the last days being worse than the previous ones is true, and about it being because of some Christians who will abandon God's laws and betraying other Christians and because of the worlds exposure to various truths and laws of God and yet choosing to forget them and go on doing wrong. These prophecies have come true and are coming true more and more every day till they are completely fulfilled.
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This blog is the first in a series about how organizations across Central Texas are working to help improve graduation rates for low-income students. Among all Texas metros, Austin's low-income students have the lowest post-secondary outcomes – only 8 percent of low-income students obtain a college degree. We know that a higher education degree is a pathway out of poverty, so our partners in Austin are creating new models to address the complex combination of challenges that students face on their journey to a degree. This blog series will feature student stories and share the new models our partners are using to create pathways to success for students. Read the whole series here.
Let me start with a few stats about Central Texas that you might know.
- Among all Texas metros, Austin has the lowest post-secondary outcomes for students who are low-income – the region's fastest-growing student demographic – with just 3 percent obtaining a college degree. The Austin Chamber of Commerce found that 84 percent of the unemployed residents in Travis County never obtained a college degree. According to the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency (TEA), while 88 percent of Texas' class of 2014 graduated from high school in four years, only 17 percent attained a college-ready score on their SAT/ACT.
- Even more alarming, the achievement gap is worse today than it was 20 years ago. According to the 2016 Community Advancement Network (CAN) Dashboard, less than one-fourth of African-American and Hispanic adults over the age of 25 in Travis County have a bachelor's degree.
- Yet we know that a higher education degree is a pathway out of poverty. The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes degree holders earn on average 65 percent more annually than high school graduates and are far less likely to be unemployed. For many low-income students, the opportunity to build the skills needed to go to college and obtain a degree will shape the trajectory of the rest of their lives .
What can be done about the 7.3 percent?
I tell you these things not to be a downer, but rather to paint a picture of Austin that you might not have heard about. Austin is a city that is known as growing, burgeoning, healthy and robust. In reality, it's not that simple. While students living in one zip code attend some of the highest quality schools in the country, others right over the town line have very few educational options.
We know that people do better in life when they've graduated from college, so we have to do something about the dismal graduation rates among low-income students, the fastest-growing student demographic in Central Texas. It not only threatens the prosperity of Central Texas as a whole, it's also simply unfair to the children born on the wrong side of the town line.
So, we're digging into the data now with some great partners to figure out what's happening to our students. Are they struggling to finish their higher education because they have the added pressure of working to help support a family? Or is getting to and from class nearly impossible without reliable transportation? Or are challenges with mental or physical health keeping them from meeting their goals? What we're finding is that it's likely a combination of some or all these factors that stand in the way of our students. While we're learning more about the unique set of challenges that low-income students face, we are committed to supporting education models that strive to better student outcomes by addressing what their students need to succeed in post-secondary education. These models innovate academics to better improve college-readiness, invest in the wellbeing and character of their students, and ensure struggling students are given opportunities to succeed with the appropriate support they deserve.
If you don't know these four education models in our region, you should!
Now onto the better news: there are organizations and people in our city tackling these problems every day. They are looking at the problems through a new lens, or approaching the issues in a new way, or creating a new pathway for students. They are trailblazers when it comes to education for low-income students in Austin. Meet our new partners:
- Austin Achieve Public Schools (AAPS): We know that often struggling students lack social and emotional skills that they need to achieve success in academics, and AAPS knows this, too. With the success of its restorative practices program at the middle and high school levels, AAPS has decided to expand its new elementary school scheduled to open in August 2018.
- Bastrop Independent School District: The team in Bastrop knows collaboration between education partners is a key component to the success of their students. Recently, they have partnered with E3 Alliance and Austin Community College to offer a trifecta of supports and opportunities to position students for success: 1) implementation of an already successful high school program, RAISEup Texas, in the middle schools; 2) deployment of Math Pathways, and a college prep math course; and 3) Bastrop's early college high school, the Colorado River Collegiate Academy (CRCA).
- IDEA Public Schools (IDEA): From the first day students set foot on an IDEA Public Schools campus, they are instilled with the expectation that they will go to college. This expectation is woven in the fabric of everything the staff at IDEA say and do. They are committed to academic excellence and building strong character for today's world, all while taking a holistic approach to support each child on a path to college and beyond.
- PelotonU: PelotonU is one of the few programs nationwide blending in-person support with competency-based education from a nonprofit online institution. They are also the only program prioritizing working adults, many of whom haven't been successful in traditional college programs. PelotonU has partnered with College for America, a renowned competency-based division of Southern New Hampshire University, to offer a supportive and flexible alternative pathway to obtaining associates and bachelors' degrees. The path ahead to improve outcomes for students in the region isn't without its challenges, but we are inspired by this varied and results-oriented group of educators beating the odds for our students. In this blog series, you will hear from educators and students alike, as they tell their stories of changing their trajectory for success. I know you'll be as inspired as I am, so stay tuned!


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The Lowe's receipt is several shades of yellow, the staple marks at the top are browned by rust, and the handwriting is largely illegible — perhaps to be expected from a 63-year-old piece of paper. Clark Whittington discovered the receipt not long ago. It belonged to his great uncles, who had shopped at Lowe's in 1954 for materials to build their sister a house, which still stands in Concord, North Carolina. Maybe the most significant thing about the slip of paper is that it came from Lowe's first store in North Wilkesboro, about 90 miles north of Concord.
"My great uncles drove to North Wilkesboro when there were only two stores to buy materials," said Whittington, an artist now living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. "That was a long time ago. They probably had to borrow a flatbed to go and get the materials. You can't read half the stuff on the receipt. It's almost shorthand."
For Whittington and his mother, Sarah, the receipt is a reminder of home. They understand that home is more than the collection of boards, joists, beams and nails that make up a house. It's where the family's passions, hopes and dreams were brought to life. For Sarah, now 80, the receipt is a connection to her youth and also a symbol of how her life has come full circle.
Nettie Thomas (center), Clark Whittington's grandmother and Sarah Whittington's mother, in front of the family home in Concord
"I moved here with mother and my uncle after my uncles built the house in 1954," said Sarah, an artist by trade. "I lived here until I was married and my husband and I built a house behind Mother. After Mother and my husband passed away, I moved back here to my mother's house, where I have been living now for 20 years, maybe."
She doesn't remember a lot about the house's construction, she said, but can attest to its structural integrity.
"I have, of course, repaired it over the years, but it is really a well-built house considering its age," she said. "I don't know who designed it, but I still get a lot of compliments on the house."
The house still has the original windows and coal fireplace, some of the same kitchen cabinets, the original kitchen sink, and the same hardwood floors in three rooms and the living area, Sarah said.
For Whittington, an artist like his mother, the house built with Lowe's materials helped create some of his fondest memories of home.
"My great uncle Clyde Litaker (who helped build the house and lived there) was more like a grandfather to me," Whittington, 50, said. "He made a lot of things in the basement. I still have some of his tools."
Litaker's name is on the yellowed receipt from Sept. 3, 1954, along with more than two-dozen items he picked up for $194.10.
"I can still see him sitting on the porch smoking his pipe and drinking coffee near the warmth of a kerosene heater," Whittington said.
"My great uncle Clyde Litaker (who helped build the house and lived there) was more like a grandfather to me. He made a lot of things in the basement. … I can still see him sitting on the porch smoking his pipe and drinking coffee near the warmth of a kerosene heater."— Clark Whittington
As the years progressed, Whittington moved away and founded his own company, Art-o-mat, which might be best described as part art/part business. He takes retired cigarette vending machines, refurbishes them and fills them with homemade art for patrons to purchase. When he needs new lights for the machines, he picks them at the Lowe's in west Winston-Salem.
"I remember going to the Kannapolis store with my dad to buy stuff," Whittington said. "Lowe's has always been the go-to place, I guess."
The original Lowe's North Wilkesboro Hardware on C Street, just opposite the post office, was your typical small-town North Carolina hardware store. The brick-front store was stocked with rolls of barbed wire, kegs of nails, galvanized roofing and plumbing supplies, along with everything from overalls and wash tubs to horse collars. And in 1946, the store had one salesman roaming the floor.


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Dubbed the Nokia X Platform, the operating system mimics Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 interface right down to its Live Tile-style home screen. But don't expect to get all of your favorite Android apps on the device. Nokia curates its own App Store that cuts out Google's first-party offerings. The reason behind the decision is to force users into trying Microsoft and Nokia's apps including Office, One Drive and Outlook.
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Though the X2 is Microsoft's first Android device, it's actually Nokia's fourth. The Finnish company previously unveiled its X line of Android-powered smartphones a few months before its sale to Microsoft was finalized. At the time, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the low-cost X line would serve as a "feeder system" to the phone maker's more premium Windows Phone-powered Lumia handsets, and it seems Microsoft is onboard with the idea.
Positioned between Nokia's Asha and the aforementioned Lumia lines, the X2 features many of the same specs as the company's Nokia X, X+ and XL devices. Wrapped in a colorful polycarbonate shell, the X2 includes a 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 resolution display and runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor and 1GB of RAM. Memory is limited to just 4GB, though that can be expanded to 32GB using the handset's microSD card slot. Cameras include a 5-megapixel rear shooter and a 640 x 480 selfie cam.
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- Click Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features (if you are Windows XP user, click on Add/Remove Programs).
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Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Click on the gear icon (menu) on the top right corner of the browser and select Internet Options. Stay in General tab.
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- Now you should right-click on the Start button (Windows logo). Here, select Task Manager.
- When in Processes tab, search for Microsoft Edge.
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If Method 1 failed to help you, you need to use an advanced Edge reset method.
- Note: you need to backup your data before using this method.
- Find this folder on your computer:
- Select every entry which is saved on it and right click with your mouse. Then Delete option.
- Click the Start button (Windows logo) and type in window power in Search my stuff line.
- Right-click the Windows PowerShell entry and choose Run as administrator.
- Once Administrator: Windows PowerShell window shows up, paste this command line after PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> and press Enter:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml -Verbose}
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Open Mozilla Firefox, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Add-ons → Extensions.
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Reset Mozilla Firefox
Click on the Firefox menu on the top left and click on the question mark. Here, choose Troubleshooting Information.
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Open Google Chrome, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Tools → Extensions.
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Open Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu at the top left of the screen. Once you do this, select Preferences.
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Open Safari browser and click on Safari in menu section at the top left of the screen. Here, select Reset Safari....
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I like a good challenge. I really do. It keeps me feeling awake and alive. Last week, the insanely talented Marianne Morris challenged me to share my art journaling on Facebook for 5 days, I thought "No Big Deal! I share all the time." But I decided to really step up and challenge myself: no picking and choosing my prettiest or coolest pieces. Just share what's happening right now. No Big Deal.
So I shared my daily art journaling. For four days, I showed my day-to-day boringness and my works in progress that probably won't ever get past some pretty awkward stages.
Then I got hung up on something. Emotionally. And I knew I had to journal about it. And then I had to share it. It came from this little blurb I read in TheSkimm January 29:
"Sexual assaults on college campuses. Again. Yesterday, a former Stanford University student and swimmer was charged with raping an unconscious woman. The attack allegedly occurred outside and on campus grounds earlier this month. Two bikers riding by reportedly saw what was happening, stopped the student – a 19-year-old male – and restrained him until police arrived. Meanwhile, in other news you wish didn't exist, earlier this week two former Vanderbilt University football players were convicted of raping an unconscious woman in 2013. Even though the victim has no memory of the attack, Cory Batey and Brandon Vandenburg were convicted thanks to photos and video Vandenburg had on his phone. Two other suspects, also former football players at the school, are facing similar charges."
I just kept thinking, "That's not okay. That's not okay."
The horrific violation of sexually assaulting someone is NOT OKAY.
I'm not a great writer or researcher. I'm not well versed in the statistics that tell appalling numbers. But I will say, I have my own stories, my own horrible experiences. I wish they didn't happen. But they did. And it wasn't okay.
I won't share the gory details here. No names. I will simply say, bad things happened to me. And to the thousands and thousands of people who have their own terrible memories of being sexually assaulted and/or raped, I am so sorry. If you want to have a conversation, we can; I will. Because secrets steal power and make nightmares and fester disease, depression, and horrible self-hatred. Talking empowers and heals.
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As of late, a company named Canipre has been drumming up a lot of shadily defined fear mongering against "one million Canadians" who they insist are illegally downloading copyrighted material. If you have never heard of Canipre, they're a new company that is looking for record label and film studio clients who they can work with to suck the cash out of Canadian citizens. Canipre has teamed up with two god-awful movie studios to begin their noble journey. The first is Voltage Pictures, who have released a ton of movies that are barely bargain bin worthy, plus a film you may know called The Hurt Locker. Canipre's other companion in this shakedown mission is NGN Productions, who have released such gems as Paparazzi Princess: The Paris Hilton Story, a made for TV program, and Recoil, an action movie with Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Not only is it bullshit that Stone Cold Steve Austin has been dragged into this mess, the tactics behind Canipre's lawsuits seem to be bullshit to begin with. On Canipre's website, they proudly advertise to potential clients that "when asked, 95%" of accused file-sharers "stop" downloading entirely. Evidently, they like to brag about their bullying tactics. Their front page also has a randomly generating slogan that spouts out wisdom like, "it's an arms race, and your bottom line is the target," "your audience isn't rational," and "if they keep thinking it's free, when do you go out of business?"
A screenshot from Canipre's friendly website.
As for Canada's copyright laws, a close reading of the penalties detailed in our new amendment to the copyright act, C-11, leads to some uncertainties. For example, if you are to be found guilty of "circumventing" a "technological protection measure" you can be fined up to $25,000 or sentenced to a maximum of sixth months in jail. Would that include breaking the iTunes DRM off an album that someone purchased, then sending that newly "unprotected" digital copy to a friend?
In addition, the amount that one can be fined in "statutory damages," a financial penalty based on guesswork that is brought into a court case when no one can figure out the value of what the alleged damage amounts to in the first place, ranges between $100 and $5,000. This is a somewhat reasonable fine when compared to America, whose own recording industry tried to sue Limewire for $72 trillion, also known as nearly all of the Earth's money. They even sued a dead grandma in the midst of a mass lawsuit against over 700 American citizens.
Last August, Canipre's buddies over at Voltage Pictures launched a series of lawsuits in Canada against individuals (that they claim) downloaded their only good movie, The Hurt Locker. Voltage obtained a list of IP addresses of users that they say downloaded the film, got a court order to have the ISPs identify the individuals behind those IPs, and then instead of pursuing the next steps within a court of law they withdrew their case. After all that, they're back at it again.
As the Huffington Post reports, Canadian ISP Teksavvy (who is famous for their bandwidth generosity) received a request from Voltage Pictures to obtain the personal information from "2,000 IP addresses" that it claims downloaded their content illegally. Again, based on Voltage's list of movies, it's hard to imagine that any of their films could possibly have been downloaded by 2,000 people unless it was in fact The Hurt Locker which leaked onto the internet in January of 2009. Voltage has also launched these kinds of legal assaults in America where it sought damages from 24,583 IP addresses in connection to illegal downloads of The Hurt Locker. It seems as if their game is: find IP addresses of illegal downloaders, get court order to find the names behind the IP addresses, contact the offenders, threaten them all, collect money from some, officially abandon legal pursuit, then repeat.
The guy from The Hurt Locker is coming 4 u.
The people who follow file-sharing closely call this type of lawsuit blitz "copyright trolling," a phrase used to describe the scare tactics of skeezy middle-men (like the jokers over at Voltage Pictures and NGN Productions) who issue thousands of threats in the hopes that enough terrified users will quiver their way into paying a fine without ever going to court. Luckily, these cases have been met with resistance.
In Massachusetts, Judge Leo Sorokin told a porn company who was using copyright trolling techniques that they were demonstrating a "lack of interest in actually litigating." In this particular case, the porn company was looking to sue 11,570 individuals who they allege had illegally downloaded their sexy movies with naked people in them. According to Ars Technica, the company has been unable to turn any of the over 11,000 accused individuals "into named defendants." Though I bet they scared a few people into sending them cash, in exchange for the luxury of not having to go to court for their illegally downloaded anal porn.
Evidently, there's a profit to be made from the fear of file-sharers. These studios seem to be going after such large numbers of people, not so they can win a court case, but so that some of the individuals that they threaten will admit to wrongdoing and pay up to avoid a legal proceeding. These trolling lawsuit blitzes must lead to a pot of dirty money for companies like Canipre and Voltage Pictures, but they do not lead to convictions. Plus, these legal offenses have not been launched in Canada by any studios that make worthwhile films to begin with. Evidently, these pushers of mediocre films have found a darling of a partner in the smoke and mirrors watchdog that is Canipre. Hopefully their attempts to exploit the legal system and extort civilians will be met with a very critical eye and smart legal defense. Otherwise, you can always just buy that Stone Cold Steve Austin movie you were going to steal from NGN Productions over here at Amazon and avoid the whole thing.
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