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Celebrity hairstylist David Lopez's roster of clients is enough to make anyone jealous. After all, Ashley Graham, Chrissy Teigen, Kristen Stewart, Hailey Baldwin, and even Kelly Kapowski herself (ahem, miss Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) are all on it. But this beauty pro isn't content to simply stand behind the chair: Lopez is on his way to becoming a full-fledged celebrity himself.
He actually prefers the term "beauty expert." Though his bread and butter is still styling the coolest girls around, he's expanded his horizons: he uses his own social media to share his own personal grooming routines and talk extensively about his obsession with all things beauty. What started with a blog called Groom and Comb has transformed into a full-on social media movement, where he speaks openly about what it's like to be a gay man of color in an industry traditionally built upon speaking to (mostly white) women.
It hasn't been an easy ride. Lopez was born in Puerto Rico into a military family, so he moved frequently. "I had such a hard time in school socially that hair was my escape," he says. That openness really makes him stands out. Equally comfortable in front of QVC television cameras as he is behind the chair or on social media, he delivers an infectious blend of humor, honesty, and positivity.
On a recent fall afternoon, we met up with Lopez to talk about his life in beauty, his styling secrets and — of course — his extensive personal routines. Below, he spills everything about his favorite products, how beauty helped him find himself and how everyone can use a little makeup (even dudes).
Spotlyte: How did you get started in beauty?
David Lopez: There wasn't a time where beauty and self care wasn't a focus in my life, or my family's life. I'm Puerto Rican — in Latin culture it is very normal to take care of your skin, take care of your teeth, iron your clothes before you go out . . . you present yourself well. My mom would get a blowout every week and she loved putting on makeup. I loved seeing the way it made her feel.
Hair was the first thing. I would play with my sister's dolls and my mom's hair. I was around 12 when I asked my mom if I could blow dry her hair with a round brush. I was pretty good at it for being 12! It became a standing appointment with us every Friday. I'd wash her hair and blow dry it and try different products.
I remember there was a conversation in high school with my grandmother and she said, "you should just go to beauty school," but I thought, "no, I want a real job." I wanted to be an actor. I moved to New York when I was 18. I was doing hair in the dorm. All of a sudden, I was highlighting people's hair and people were paying me $5 to flat iron their hair. [But] even then, I thought it wasn't a real job. Then I dropped out of school, and was waiting tables and bartending, and I finally decided I would go to beauty school.
Spotlyte: What was your first job in beauty?
DL: I got a job at Cutler Salon℠. I started working front desk there while I was still in school. Then, I got put on the assistant roster — I was assisting the most junior of the senior stylists. One day, I did a blowout in front of Rodney (the owner) and he looked over at me and said "You're my assistant now."
That threw me into a world of fashion that I had not been introduced to. All of a sudden, I was at Fashion Week. I was like, "holy sh*t, this actually exists." I didn't know anything about anything, I was so sheltered and new. I had so much to learn — I soaked it all in. I paid my dues, worked very hard, and learned a lot from Rodney.
I left without a job lined up and I ended up working at DevaCurl®. I worked the front desk, so I had time to work on photo shoots. Everything started clicking into place, Transformers-style. I met with an agent and by the time I signed with them, I had already gotten a contract with a hair tool company on my own. Video and social media were starting to bud and I was very comfortable on camera, so I started to do more things like that.
Spotlyte: Your popular Instagram account isn't just about hair. How did that come about?
DL: As my social media was growing, I was getting a lot of questions about my skin. Because I had such bad acne in high school, I love skincare. I just decided to share. I thought, "I don't want to just do hair for the rest of my life, this is not enough for me." I needed to figure out what to do next.
[So] I started my blog called Groom & Comb. I created a men's section, a women's section, a general self-care section. It has since evolved. I had to start getting over these self-made constructions of how I was seen on social media. I always wanted to be seen as masculine, cool, and stylish, [but] that's not fully me. I thought that no one could ever know that I wear concealer, or that I am a little bit overweight sometimes and have to work really hard to be in shape. Doing the blog helped me get over that fear.
Spotlyte: Was putting yourself out there on social media scary for you?
DL: I know what it's like to feel like you're the only one who has a certain issue. I know what it's like to be the other. There was a moment where I did a "get ready with me" post about how to get a glow as a man of color. I got all these messages from other men of color — Latino men, black men — who said they'd never heard anyone talk about their skin. I thought, "Oh, there's a space to continue having this conversation." So I just went full on . . . I started sharing it all.
When I decided to be more myself, I was surprised — the type of people who responded to it were the type that I never thought would. The perception we have of people is so different from what they are in reality. For a long time, I wanted to be all things to all people. When I'm honest, people connect emotionally to me. They feel comfortable, happy, and positive, and that's what I want.
Spotlyte: What's your beauty philosophy?
DL: A question that I ask is "how do you feel good?" Learn what your skin and hair does best, and learn to enhance it. Always enhance and optimize versus trying to change something — you shouldn't feel like you have to change. Work with what you have!
Spotlyte: What's your favorite thing about your job?
DL: I like making people feel like the best version of themselves. Even someone like Ashley Graham — I love when I do her hair and she says, "I love what I feel like right now." I love seeing my work out in the world. I love talking to people and getting information out there in a friendly relatable way.
Spotlyte: What's the most common hair advice you give to all your clients?
DL: I always remind people that hair is a fabric and you should treat it like the most precious fabric you've ever owned. If you wouldn't wash that shirt or dress every day, you shouldn't do that with your hair. People are just thrashing their hair around. My one thing is switching to a naturally-derived detergent in your shampoo, like saponified beet sugar or saponified coconut, or just going to something that is sulfate-free. I like SheaMoisture®, [most of] its shampoos are sulfate free, or Devacurl Low-Poo® ($22).
Spotlyte: You love makeup. What's one of your best makeup tips?
DL: Skin prep is key for makeup. It makes or breaks what your skin is going to do throughout the rest of the day. Don't put on a mattifying lotion if you're going to use a matte foundation. I would suggest having your skin be a little juicy before you put it on. It will velvetize it and make it look more natural. If I'm going to use a matte product, my skin is juicy as hell. I always do everything right out of the shower because your skin is still wet and moist. It's so much easier to apply and easier to blend. Similarly, don't put juicy makeup over juicy skin. It's going to move around and crease.
Spotlyte: What are some of your favorite skincare products?
DL: My current faves are all the Sunday Riley® products. I'm acne prone and I put a few drops of U.F.O.® Oil ($40) into my moisturizer. In the winter, I go for a creamier moisturizer to balance out oil production, but right now my moisturizer is Lab Series® Matte Renewal Lotion ($65). It's not too mattifying, it's just going to control it. It still leaves a nice sheen.
OLEHENRIKSEN Banana BrightTM Eye Crème ($38) is everything. It brightens under the eye and it's so juicy and rich but not oily or greasy. Before that I was using Origins GinZing® Refreshing Eye Cream ($32).
I'm so oily and I wear so much stuff, my skin can handle a lot of exfoliation. I also shave my whole face (when I shave my beard) and that's even more exfoliation. It was Glossier® Solution ($24) that changed my skin in a way I had never seen before. I also love Good GenesTM ($105) from Sunday Riley and Biologique Recherche® Lotion P50. The exfoliation factor of P50 is unlike anything else, and your skincare works better if you use it. If you're getting that top layer off, your skincare can actually penetrate deeper and better. [Editor's note: Read our editorial director's review of Biologique Recherche Lotion P50 here.]
My nighttime skin routine has made a bigger difference than my daytime because your skin is regenerating at night. I use LunaTM Oil from Sunday Riley ($105), which is amazing. If I don't have that, I use a straight-up face oil like the Elemis® Superfood Facial Oil ($55), which is really good. Kiehl's® Midnight Recovery Concentrate ($73) is a classic, and my skin always looks amazing the next morning when I use it.
Spotlyte: Have you taught your husband anything about skincare?
DL: My husband has become super high-maintenance because of me. He has a little ritual now, and he feels so good. There are things he never thought about — and things that he was always a little self conscious about that never thought he could change. Like, he tends to get a little red and he thought that's just how his skin is, but I taught him to help it. That confidence and level of self-care is what makes you feel good. It's not just about the results you're getting, it's that time you're giving to yourself.
Spotlyte: You're always traveling. What are some of your beauty travel tips?
DL: If I'm on an overnight flight, I try to have my skin clean before I get on the plane and then I put on a moisture mask during the flight and put some eye gels on. I have a little mini dopp kit in my carry-on that has face wipes, Bliss® That's Incredi-Peel® Pads ($22), a gel moisturizer, and some concealer. Before we land, I go in the bathroom and go through my little routine.
Spotlyte: What is some advice for guys who might be curious about makeup?
DL: Makeup should not be a gender-specific thing — get rid of that idea. Concealer is my number one thing for men, and it's the most common thing I get asked about on social media. There are so many guys that go buy concealer but don't want to ask questions, so they get a shade that's wrong for them. Don't be shy to ask for help. Find a concealer that doesn't have to set with powder so it doesn't crease. I like Tarte® Creaseless Concealer ($26), MilkTM Flex Concealer ($28), and Amazing Cosmetics® AmazingConcealer® ($28).
Also, all men should use a clear brow gel. Groom your brows, for Christ's sake!
Spotlyte: You're a hairstylist, but who cuts your hair?
DL: I go to Tony at Made Man Barbershop® for my fade and Doug at Persons of Interest℠ in Williamsburg for the top. My hair has texture to it and it's black and I have a very specific fade, so people that know my hair type know how to cut my hair really well. With black hair, you see every mistake. Tony knows my head shape and gives me a perfect fade. Doug is great with the top and cuts my hair dry — never wet.
Spotlyte: Do you get facials? Where do you go?
DL: I don't get facials that often because I get hyperpigmentation. The Rescue Spa℠ facial was the first time I've ever gotten an extraction that didn't leave me with a dark mark. I don't want to go anywhere else. Danuta Mieloch (the owner) is so hyperfocused on different types of skin and how they react to different things. She has taught their technicians so well and makes sure they're up on everything.
I had a facial at Sarah Chapman® in London that was really good, too. They have a machine that you put your face into, and it tells you all about your skin like sun damage, wrinkles, everything. I was in the 90th percentile for all of it (which is really good).
Spotlyte: What about medical aesthetics?
DL: Yes, I have great skincare and yes, I use eye patches and eye creams but I also have filler on my cheeks. My practitioner Nurse Lynne at Center Aesthetic & Dermatology℠ is really amazing. She does a lot of men and she's good at saying no.
I was never interested in injectable wrinkle reducers because I never had a lot of lines, but I finally got some [lines] on my forehead because I'm so expressive. I went in January to get it for the first time. I loved that my forehead looked [smooth] but it could still move. I liked the experience . . . Now I feel the lines have been softened.
I like talking about [cosmetic injectables]. I think it's important to know that it's been a journey for me. At the beginning, I [shied away from discussing it]. But the way the social tides are shifting, I thought, "No, I should talk about it!" I would never tell someone to get something just because, but if there's something that really bothers you . . . and there is a solution available, you could try it.
[Editor's note: Injectable wrinkle reducers temporarily smooth the look of moderate to severe wrinkles in certain areas of the face, including the forehead, frown lines, and crow's feet. Injectable filler is a temporary treatment that adds volume to areas of the face such as the lips, cheeks, and laugh lines. Like any medical treatment, both injectable wrinkle reducers and injectable fillers have potential risks and side effects. Talk to a licsenced provider to see if they're right for you. And learn more by chatting now with a trained aesthetic specialist.]
Spotlyte: You're a very fit guy. How do you keep in shape?
DL: I have to work out a lot. I'm naturally meant to be a husky guy. I also have an obsession with donuts and cake and sweets — I have a complicated relationship with sugar. I found that everything changed when I got a trainer. It took away the anxiety I had going into a gym. I know what to do now: I know what weights to use, I can go in and look like I know what I'm doing. My husband is a personal trainer, and he gives me advice, too. My first personal trainer started BRRRNTM and it's incredible. You work out in the cold and then you go into an infrared sauna after. The infrared sauna is super good for your skin too — [it's rejuvenating].
Spotlyte: Any parting words of wisdom?
DL: Beauty is all things — it's not just about hair and skin. It's about your hands, your body, general self care. It emcompasses more than just a lotion or a shampoo.
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A10 closed in Royston after crash
PUBLISHED: 15:03 06 August 2018 | UPDATED: 16:04 06 August 2018
A stretch of the A10 in Royston is currently closed after a crash this afternoon.
The A10 from Sun Hill to the Melbourn Street roundabout near Royston Town Hall is closed in both directions, according to HCC Highways on Twitter.
"Avoid the area as delays are likely," they said.
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text: Hi, In the crashdump viewer, you can click on the process that spawned this process (the "Spawned by" field) several times to go up the process hierarchy of your application to see where in the process tree it was spawned. Also, you can see it was executing a call to xmerl, and is linked to a Erlang port, which should help you narrow down which process it was in your application. Cheers, Gustav Simonsson On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:21 AM, cao xu <cao.xu@REDACTED> wrote: > Hi, > > I got an erlang crash dump file on a 2G memory linux with following info: > > eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 78362800 bytes of memory (of type "heap"). > > =memory > total: 1510245164 > processes: 1360838774 > processes_used: 1360720438 > > The total memory consumed by the VM was about 1.5G and most of them were > used by process. According to the process info in the dump file, the > biggest Stack+Heap was 15672560 and the owner's state was garbing. I am > not sure whether the process was the killer of the whole VM. > > *Name* *Spawned as*proc_lib:init_p/5*State*Garbing (limited info)*Last > scheduled in for*xmerl_scan:'-initial_state0/2-fun-1-'/2*Started*Tue Nov > 6 17:00:39 2012*Spawned by*<0.48.0><http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/proc_details?pid=%3C0.48.0%3E> > *Reductions*20600887*Stack+heap*15672560*OldHeap*8024355*Heap unused*202*OldHeap > unused*8024355*Number of heap fragments*1*Heap fragment data*119*Program > counter*0x02ea24dc (xmerl_scan:'-initial_state0/2-fun-1-'/2 + 4)*Continuation > pointer*0x02e8a254 (xmerl_scan:scan_char_data/5 + 2408)*Arity* *Link list* > [#Port<0.16239279><http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/port?port=Port%3C0.16239279%3E> > , <0.48.0><http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/proc_details?pid=%3C0.48.0%3E> > ]*Msg queue length*0 > > > Is there a way to find out which process or function call was the reason > of the allocating action, and how can I get more info from the dump file to > help locating the error? > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > erlang-questions mailing list > erlang-questions@REDACTED > http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/attachments/20121213/4daf6b85/attachment.htm>


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It wasn't easy, but the Chicago Blackhawks skated past the New York Islanders on a night that saw a number of firsts for the organization.
Among the firsts realized for the organization on Friday night:
- Rookie Joakim Nordstrom scored his first career NHL goal in the first period to give the Hawks a 1-0 lead. The score came off a pretty pass from Niklas Hjalmarsson.
- Netminder Nikolai Khabibulin recorded his first win as a member of the Blackhawks since the 2009 postseason.
- Netminder Antti Raanta earned his first victory on North American ice, leading the IceHogs to an early season win.
- And forward Vince Hinostroza scored his first collegiate goal in Notre Dame's victory over Western Michigan.
The first 18 minutes of play at the United Center were dominated by the Blackhawks. Jonathan Toews added his second goal of the young season to give the Hawks a 2-0 lead, but that quickly evaporated in the final minute of the opening frame.
Josh Bailey and Kyle Okposo scored 49 seconds apart in the final minute of the first to tie the game, and the Isles had momentum heading into the dressing room.
When the second period started, coach Joel Quenneville had thrown his lineup in a blender. Brandon Saad spent the rest of the night skating with Toews and Patrick Kane, and Andrew Shaw moved up to be between Marian Hossa and Patrick Sharp. Marcus Kruger found himself between Bryan Bickell and Nordstrom, and Michal Handzus dropped to the fourth line with Ben Smith and Brandon Bollig.
Toews had a fantastic night, leading the Blackhawks with seven shots on net and winning 16 of 23 faceoffs in 21:15. Saad's speed looked more effective on the top line immediately, and that line had a number of quality shifts and scoring chances in the second period.
Quenneville also sent out Toews and Hossa as his first two forwards on the Hawks' initial penalty kill opportunity of the night. In the game, Toews skated 5:31 with an advantage and another 1:24 short-handed on Friday night.
Nordstrom had his best regular season game in the NHL. Not only did he score the first goal of the night, but he finished tied with Bollig with a team-high three hits and one takeaway on the night.
Kruger skated 2:12 short-handed in the game and was much more effective at the dot, winning seven of 14 faceoffs. After struggling to kill penalties early in the season, the Hawks were perfect in two short-handed situations against a talented Islanders team.
Handzus, who won all five of his faceoffs in the game, was limited to just over nine minutes of total ice time in the game, but scored the game-winning goal at 6:45 in the second period.
Hossa showed a few flashes of the beastmode many fans have been hoping to see, and led the Hawks with five takeaways in the game. Ben Smith was credited with an assist and one hit, and was plus-two in only ten shifts and a team-low 6:17 on the ice.
On the other hand, Bickell continues to be a ghost in the early season. He was credited with only one shot on net and was limited to 18 shifts and 13:32 on the ice.
On the blue line, Johnny Oduya played another strong game. He led the team with six blocked shots and skated a team-high 2:44 short-handed, while Duncan Keith was credited with two assists in over 24 minutes of ice time.
Khabibulin stopped 17 of 19 shots to earn the victory.
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AKIR | Interview
From Brooklyn, NY, AKIR is a hip hop artist, producer, and songwriter known for his complex lyrics and social-political content. He entered the hip hop scene in 1994 as an on-air personality at the high school radio station, WNMH. In 1998, AKIR ranked second out of 50 in Howard University's Verbal Armageddon emcee competition. Collaborating with his brother Southpaw, he co-produced a track for Immortal Technique's album, Revolutionary Vol. 1. Soon after, AKIR released his first song, "Best Friend", which appeared on DJ N'finit's mixtape, The Blockbuster Vol. 1. In 2005, Akir and ten other emcees formed a group called The Reavers and released the album, Terror Firma. Soon after, Akir released Legacy, his debut solo album. In 2009, he released the mixtape, The Secret, with DJ Static and Statik Selektah. Akir has completed six international tours, nine domestic tours, and over 500 total shows. Additionally, AKIR has been involved with the Flocabulary project, collaborating with 9th Wonder to transform the story of Romeo & Juliet into a Hip Hop song for school curriculums. He's currently working with at risk youth teaching writing, production, and recording with the non-profit organization Art Start.


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a few days ago it's Saturday i guess, me and my family went to Pahang. Cameron :)
Well, i can say that i love to be there. suitable for honeymoon location. wakakaka :)
the only thing that i can think is the environment.
It's cold and and and and i love it =)
1st location is we heading to Strawberry field. They will give us some plate so that soon we just pick up any strawberry's that already ready to take. Yeah! it's fun to be there and around the strawberry's field we can smell all the fresh fruits.
My nephew was so excited to pick up the strawberry's. Just let him, and he called me "Cik Na here here, let me take it!" Okay then, just let him picked which one that he likes. Of course i picked the big ones. hehe :D
2nd location is tea plantation!
I really love this place!
It's so beautiful with all the vertical line which is refer to the tea tree.
Awesome. Plus all of you should try the tea with ''serai''.
Okay y tu gua mengalah xnak minum xbest.
I want stop writing, can i?
Here, i put some pictures.
|Look at him. Like pro isn't ? haha
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|Kakak and nephew :)
|Here ! :) Each Strawberry's still fresh
|Here, we can picked which one we like. It's depends :)
|See, like i told u previously
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|Here, :) Love this picture so much
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No Chance – Why I Hate Sheamus
For those who don't listen to Classy Ring Attire on a weekly basis (which you should totally be doing) I seem to have managed to, at least once a podcast, for the past month or so, spent at least a little bit of time complaining about how much I truly hate Sheamus these days. As Chris would say, it's a bit uncharacteristic of me. After all, I've said good things about John Cena on numerous occasions. I still think that if used correctly, there could be something great for Randy Orton to do. And though I have had complaints about it, in the long run, I'm still glad that The Rock came back to the WWE. So if I so frequently go out of my way to find good in wrestlers and storylines where there is only bad to find, what is it about Sheamus right now, that I find so unforgivable?
There are a whole lot of reasons that it could be. It could be that he got an unreasonably huge push right out of the gate based on looks instead of talent. After all in less than six months (June 30th to December 16th) this guy went from his ECW debut to winning his first WWE championship. But that's not really a problem for me personally. At the time, I was actually more impressed that the WWE was able to create a story where a guy could believably go from his debut to champion in half a year. Plus he defeated Cena cleanly (though didn't pin him) something that arguably didn't happen again until The Rock at WrestleMania 28. Sure I might not have been all about Sheamus back then as a character, but I was impressed in the attempt to create such a character, regardless of how it would eventually turn out.
Another complaint I could have about Sheamus is his ring work. And while there are negative things to be said there, I don't necessarily condemn the guy for it. Yes his matches can be formulaic and uninspired, but that doesn't automatically make them bad, and while Sheamus isn't the greatest of sellers, one advantage of his skin tone, is that even the lightest of hits, will leave an impressive mark on him.
So what is it about this guy that makes me truly despise him? Because right now, I can very assuredly say that of the entire roster (a roster I might add that includes Khali) Sheamus currently reigns as my least favorite.
Honestly it's no one thing. Yes, I denied the reasons already mentioned as being the dominant reason for hating Sheamus but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I get a bit upset when comparing the WWE's treatment and nurturing of Sheamus, when comparing it to that of say, Daniel Bryan. And there's no question that Sheamus rarely if ever is in a match that would even be up for consideration of a match-of-the-night title. But it really is more.
See, Sheamus right now is a character that, like John Cena is catered toward the youngest members of the fan base. I get that and, while I might gripe about that from a creative perspective, I get it from a business one. But when I watch Sheamus on the show, I can't help but marvel that the guy is truly a terrible role model for a kid to have. Sheamus is the shining example of a guy that the WWE wants us to cheer for no other reason than they say he's a face. Sheamus constantly not only displays heelish tendencies but commits outright full-blown heel style acts, which we're supposed to laugh about and cheer because he's Sheamus. The best example of this is obviously when Sheamus recently stole Del Rio's car and took it on a "joyride" through the city while systematically destroying the thing. And this isn't a "tweener" type of thing, where Sheamus will sometimes be a little rough around the edges when dealing with his heel foes. No, Sheamus continually seeks out and torments his opponents, so that he can laugh at their misery. This is the very definition of a bully, and one of the current faces of WWE's "Be A Star" campaign. Right now, the feud that Sheamus is in with Damien Sandow seems to surround the fact that Sheamus has chosen Sandow as a foe because his character is one that values intelligence, and Sheamus can get away with physically assaulting him and laughing about it. We're two steps away from Sheamus cutting a promo that simply him pointing at Sandow and yelling "NERD!!"
There is an art to working a crowd. Just as the best heels can get a crowd to really hate them, the best faces in the business can tap into emotion in a way that can get a crowd to genuinely care for a character, root for them, believe in their motivation, all while being fully entertained by them at the same time. In no way is this the case with Sheamus. Dolph Ziggler gives the impression that he thinks he's going to win a match because he genuinely believes in his talent and abilities. The same goes for CM Punk. Hell, even Brock Lesnar comes out looking like he believes he'll win thanks to his build and sheer strength. Sheamus? Sheamus gives the impression that he thinks he'll win because he read the script. Sheamus never works the audience. He knows that they're going to cheer him. That's what their supposed to do, because he's a face. It doesn't matter that his character is, quite frankly, a terrible human being that is utterly unlikable. He gets cheers, because the WWE said he should get cheers. And that's good enough for him.
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MSP430 Capacitive Touch MCUs featuring CapTIvate™ Technology Training Series
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This training series details the key features of MSP430 MCUs featuring CapTIvate technology, enabling you to get started on your next great capacitive touch design and get to market more quickly.


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OpenCV is the most popular and advanced code library for Computer Vision related applications today, spanning from many very basic tasks (capture and pre-processing of image data) to high-level algorithms (feature extraction, motion tracking, machine learning). It is free software and provides a rich API in C, C++, Java and Python. Other wrappers are available. The library itself is platform-independent and often used for real-time image processing and computer vision.
What's new in 2.4.9
- new 3D visualization module 'viz'
- performance fixes in 'ocl' module
- fixes in Android Camera
- improved CUDA support for mobile platforms
- bugfixes from community
- 55 reported bugs have been closed
- 156 pull requests have been merged
See the full ChangeLog for more information
Install OpenCV
Step 1: Make Directory
mkdir opencv cd /opencv/
Step 2: Remove any pre-installed ffmpeg and x264
sudo apt-get -qq remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev
Step 3: Install Dependenices
[box type="info" icon="info"]As reported by kumaranbus, installing 'libopencv-dev' on non nvidia graphics card messes up the drivers. As a workaround for non nvidia cards like AMD/ATI, Radeon, replace libopencv-dev below with 'ocl-icd-libopencl1' which is a generic driver. Please note that I have not tried this out yet as I have no ATI/Radeon cards to test with[/box]
sudo apt-get -qq install libopencv-dev build-essential checkinstall cmake pkg-config yasm libjpeg-dev libjasper-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libdc1394-22-dev libxine-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libv4l-dev python-dev python-numpy libtbb-dev libqt4-dev libgtk2.0-dev libfaac-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libxvidcore-dev x264 v4l-utils
– Install ffmpeg
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
Step 4: Download and extract OpenCV
wget -O OpenCV-2.4.9.zip http://fossies.org/linux/misc/opencv-2.4.9.zip unzip OpenCV-2.4.9.zip cd opencv-2.4.9
Step 5: Begin Build Process
Note that this bit would take some time to complete
mkdir build cd build cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D WITH_TBB=ON -D BUILD_NEW_PYTHON_SUPPORT=ON -D WITH_V4L=ON -D INSTALL_C_EXAMPLES=ON -D INSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -D WITH_QT=ON -D WITH_OPENGL=ON .. make -j2 sudo make install sudo sh -c 'echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opencv.conf' sudo ldconfig
– Reboot your machine
Step 6: Example using OpenCV
– Change directory to following location
cd /usr/local/share/OpenCV/samples/c
– Execute following commands
sudo chmod +x build_all.sh sudo ./build_all.sh ./facedetect "/usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml" lena.jpg
./facedetect --cascade="/usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml" lena.jpgcomments powered by Disqus


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Khi Nỗ lực phanh phui tại Úc Thòi Lòi tổ chức mua bán tình dục và cưỡng dâm trẻ em của tập đoàn thượng đỉnh quyền lực nhà nước chính phủ- bao gồm bọn cựu thủ tướng Úc, các chức sắc của tòa án tối cao, giáo sư đại học và hệ thống giáo sĩ cao cấp của Vatican- đang bị cho chìm xuồng- quần chúng gần như chẳng còn trí nhớ gì về sự kiện này- dù chỉ mới chưa đầy 30 ngày!
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Tất cả vẫn chỉ tiếp tục hì hục mưu toan kiếm tư lợi, xăm xoi đời tư ca sĩ, tài tử, các trò nấu ăn Faceboook.. và căm thù đố kỵ Hồi giáo theo nhịp điệu của báo chí chính qui một cách không ngơi nghỉ quên lãng tí nào !!!…. Thì tại Anh quốc và Mỹ một nỗ lực phanh phui tổ chức mua bán cưỡng dâm trẻ em của tập đoàn quyền lực chính phủ có tầm mức quốc tế lại đang diển ra, bị phanh phui và đang nghị án – do các nhóm báo chí độc lập, các nhóm vận động và luật sư ủng hộ trợ lực nạn nhân tiến hành và tranh đấu …. Và "quần chúng" Anh Mỹ… cũng nối đuôi nền bao chí chính qui đang cố gắng tảng lờ vì "liên can đến các thần tượng ứng viên tổng thống yêu quí" và các tên "đại bản chủ nhân" của họ!!! … trừ những nhóm người thông tin độc lập đang vận động gióng trống loan tải đến công chúng.
Sự vụ này đang được xét xử tranh tụng căng thẳng và quyết liệt tại tòa án giữa hai bên- Vì cái án "chơi gái trẻ" này đã khởi đầu từ lâu (2008) và kéo dài đến hôm nay- Nó liên can đến hàng chục nếu không nói là hàng trăm các tên tội phạm thần thế thượng tầng của xã hội không chỉ Mỹ, Anh, mà Do Thái nữa- như hoàng tử Anh quốc Andrew- các "lãnh đạo chính trị", lãnh đạo quốc gia như cựu thủ tướng Do Thái Ehud Barak, cựu tổng thống Bill Clinton, các nhà tài phiệt như Donald Trump – (đang gào thét trò hề tranh cử), giáo sư luật sư nhân quyền "lừng danh" Zionist Dershowitz kẻ từng bị Giáo sư Norman Finkelstein vạch mặt gian lận khoa bảng và chứng cớ về sử liệu Palestine…v.v Kể không hết. Trong cuộc điều tra và danh sách chứng nhân, có một nạn nhân trẻ bị ép dục sau đó trốn được và ẩn nấp hàng năm trời nay mới được "an toàn" công khai trước tòa!
Cho đến hôm nay, bằng chứng dựa theo lời khai với ủy ban điều tra và báo chí chính thức, tổ chức "ăn chơi gái trẻ" tại dinh thự đảo Palm Beach, thuộc bang Florida này là tài sản tư hữu của Trump hoạt động dưới sự bảo trợ ngầm của Jeb Bush khi còn là "thống đốc bang"- như một tổ chức cung cấp "ăn chơi gái trẻ" cho các "nhà lãnh đạo tài phiệt và thiên tài chính trị" lui đến tiệc tùng để làm áp lực chính trị khi cần thiết!
Sự vụ cực kỳ căng thẳng cho phe quyền lực vì đã có quá nhiều bằng chứng cũng như lời khai của các nạn nhân trước đây… (với cả một danh sách KHÁCH LÀNG CHƠI CAO CẤP -phần phụ lục bên dưới)
Nhưng quyền lực nhà nước vẫn là quyền lực nhà nước và não trạng quần chúng hôm nay dầy đặc Karaoke, Facebook, và quần áo ca sĩ tài tử Hollywood và…lòng căm thù Hồi giáo! Cho nên sự vụ có khả năng sác xuất thật cao – cũng SẼ bị bó nhỏ và trôi theo giòng thời gian với vài con dê tế thần nho nhỏ như ở Úc vùa đây mà thôi. Vì thế kết quả cuối cùng vẫn là Các "thiên tài chính trị" các anh hùng vĩ nhân "kinh tế", các "vị đức cao trọng vọng" vẫn thản nhiên nắm quyền sinh mạng quần chúng, vẫn thản nhiên rao giảng đạo đức hành xử thượng tôn pháp trị, dân chủ tự do v.v và v.v Chỉ còn nạn nhân là mãi mãi và mãi mãi vô danh chịu đựng với những vết thương và ác mộng suốt cuộc đời còn lại của họ.
Một bài học, cần được giả thiết nhắc đến rằng – Có thể và Có lẽ những nạn nhân này, khi chưa là nạn nhân cũng đã tứng ca ngơi nhà nước chính phủ dân chủ và rêu rao biện hộ cho "nền pháp trị công lý" chính qui. Và hẳn họ cũng đã từng mỉa mai chế diễu những người đối kháng và khinh miệt quay lưng phủi tay những lời kêu gọi của những NẠN NHÂN trước họ… Cho đến khi chính họ, gia đình họ là nạn nhân, và hiện đang kêu gào công lý và sự ủng hộ QUAN TÂM của quần chúng hôm nay… "quần chúng", cái đám quần chúng khôn ngoan thức thời an phận từng có mặt họ trong đó- hiện đang quay lưng lại cũng như chính họ đã từng quay lưng với lời kêu gọi của các nạn nhân trước đây…. Và cuối cùng những người luôn đứng bênh vực họ, can đảm kiên nhẫn phanh phui và phơi bày thông báo tội ác rộng rãi để bảo vệ và tìm công lý cho họ, vẫn là những kẻ, có lẽ đã từng bị họ không muốn biết đến, hoặc mỉa mai gạt bỏ như những kẻ "bá vơ- ăn cơm nhà vác ngà voi", làm chuyện khùng điên ngược đời , thuyết âm mưu (conspiracy theorists) v.v
Sự tồi bại và nuôi dưỡng tồi bại vẫn có cái gốc đi từ lòng ích kỷ tham luyến và tính an thân hèn mọn, dĩ nhiên với 1 triệu lý lẽ "chính đáng".
"Hòn đảo giải trí thú vui gái trẻ" của giới thượng tầng quyền chính
Chỉ riêng sự vụ tham nhũng và tổ chức mua bán hiếp dâm trẻ em của đám quyền lực trong xã hội tại Úc vừa qua, vừa nổi lên đã chợt tắt, và "cao trào tố cáo tội ác Hồi giáo" đang dâng tràn cao độ của "quần chúng"… mà đám "quần chúng" này cố tình quên hẳn tội ác thật sự KHỞI ĐẦU từ CHÍNH SÁCH KHỦNG BỐ, SÁT NHÂN của chính phủ nhà nước quân đội Âu Mỹ Úc Do Thái của họ, chính thân nhân gia đình lính tráng của chính họ đang là khủng bố- Tất cả đã và đang thực hiện hành động man rợ PHÁ NÁT ĐỚI SỐNG XÃ HỘI của người Hồi giáo hàng ngày từng giờ trên đầu người dân và trẻ thơ tại các xứ sở này. Nạn nhân chính là những người Hồi giáo – KHỦNG BỐ chính là Âu Mỹ Úc Do Thái. Sự đảo lộn lý lẽ và công tâm này cũng đã cho thấy sự tồi bại không chỉ nằm ở bọn quyền lực, mà chính là nhân tâm của quần chúng đang băng hoại thoái hóa bán khai.
Tôi đến Úc đã hơn 30 năm. Nhân tâm con người Úc đã khác hẳn, khác thật xa, tồi tệ hơn đặc biệt từ khi tên John Howard được "bầu"- CHỌN (SELECTED) làm thủ tướng với chính sách "chủ nghĩa quốc gia" bản sắc Úc. Chỉ hơn 20 năm trước, những cuộc biểu tình mà Tôi tham dự -chống nhũng lạm của chính phủ, chống chiến tranh bênh vực người dân tị nạn bị đàn áp, bênh vực nạn nhân chiến tranh- luôn luôn ít nhất vào khoảng hàng chục ngàn cho đến vài trăm ngàn. Và hàng năm những buổi họp mặt hội thảo và quyên tiền cho tị nạn- gồm các cựu tị nạn- luôn là con số ngàn- và tham dự viên gốc Á luôn có thể đếm ở đầu ngón tay, dù số lượng tị nạn di dân gốc Á tại Úc là cao nhất trong 3 thập niên qua! Nhưng giờ đây chỉ còn vài trăm là cao nhất.
Cuộc biểu tình ủng hộ Jullian Assange, và ủng hộ tị nạn, bênh vực quyền người Hồi giáo mà Tôi tham dự tại Melbourne.. không quá hai (2) ngàn người- (đây là ước lượng lạc quan tích cực- con số có thể thấp hơn)
Cái ma trận giải trí tầm phào mà kỹ thuật điện toán mạng đưa đến đã được tận dụng hữu hiệu cùng với "chiến dịch khủng bố kinh tế tài chính và an ninh" đã thành công trong mục tiêu phân hóa xã hội và bó nhỏ con tim khối óc của dân chúng. Ít nhất là trong tình hình hiện tại.
Điều may mắn và kỳ vọng còn lại, cũng vẫn luôn là các cá nhân và các nhóm độc lập ăn cơm nhà vác tù và thiên hạ, những kẻ "dở hơi" làm chuyên "bao đồng", làm những việc "không đem lại đồng bạc nào", những kẻ "lập dị sống khác người", chỉ gây "phiền toái" cho xã hội chính phủ…đang lớn và lan rộng dần, vẫn có mặt để làm "thiểu số" – và vẫn đang miệt mài gõ trống đánh thức nhân tâm của nhân loại này dù họ đang bị chính nhà nước và đám quần chúng đối xử tệ hại đến như thế nào.
Để xem vụ án xử "tổ chức ăn chơi hưởng thụ mua bán cưỡng dâm trẻ em" tại Anh Mỹ của giới "lịch sự đang hoàng tử tế, tài ba đẹp đẻ, giầu có cơ ngơi và quyền bính" sẽ kết thúc nhanh đến mức nào so với sự vụ tại Úc Thòi Lòi- và lần này sẽ có thêm kẻ nào ngoài tên tỉ phú Jeffrey Epstein làm con dê tế thần đỡ đạn cho các "thiên tài chính trị lãnh đạo quốc gia" của nền "dân chủ pháp trị" Âu Mỹ?.
Và cuối cùng để xem quần chúng có nhận ra rằng những kẻ họ thần tượng trân trọng, ngưỡng kính, với niềm tin sắt đá rằng những kẻ này luôn ưu lo bảo vệ chăm sóc cho họ, chính là những kẻ gian manh, lừa đảo, và tàn độc, và cái hệ thống quyền chính luật lệ không phải để giữ trật tự và công lý cho họ mà phục vụ bao che cho tội ác của những kẻ thượng tầng quyền lực. Và những kẻ bị coi là làm phiền nhiễu đời sống, gây náo động xã hội, biểu tình làm kẹt xe. làm "lộ bí mật quốc gia" v.v chính là những người quan tâm lo lắng và đấu tranh cho họ, cho quần chúng xã hội.
Phi Quyền Chính phỏng đoán khi chứng cớ liên quan đến bọn thượng đỉnh bị phanh phui, chắc chắn sẽ có vài tai nạn mà trong đó nạn nhân và nhân chứng sẽ thành con số tử vong ..
Và phỏng như mọi việc êm xuôi, "công lý" được trả giá với vài triệu Mỹ Kim bồi thường bởi một điều đình ngoài vòng tòa án (settle out of court)…và nạn nhân chắc rồi cũng sẽ hả hê vui vẻ ca tụng hệ thống công lý . Cũng sẽ tiếp tực hàm ơn ngưỡng vọng những kẻ đã gia hại mình, vẫn sợ hãi lánh xa những người đã tận tụy trợ giúp mình vì sợ bị "ảnh hưởng" con đường tiến thân hoặc việc làm ăn buôn bán…
Mong rằng sự chuẩn đoán về căn bệnh ức chế loạn tâm này hoàn toàn sai!!!
Phi Quyền Chính
Vụ án tổ chức cưỡng dục trẻ em của giáo hội Vatican và giới thượng lưu Quan Chức Mỹ Do Thái bị nhận chìm tại Mỹ – Conspiracy Of Silence (Banned Discovery Channel)
1-Jeffrey Epstein
2- Details on Bill Clinton's ride on pedophile's 'Lolita Express
3-Bill Clinton And The Pedophile: The Sex Scandal
4-Trips to 'Pedophile Island' Troubling
5-Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile
SỔ ĐEN DANH TÍNH CÁC KHÁCH LÀNG CHƠI THƯỢNG ĐẲNG – Here Is Pedophile Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book
Donald Trump, Courtney Love, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and uber-lawyer Alan Dershowitz may have been identified by a butler as potential "material witnesses" to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's crimes against young girls, according to a copy of Epstein's little black book obtained by Gawker.
An annotated copy of the address book, which also contains entries for Alec Baldwin, Ralph Fiennes, Griffin Dunne, New York Post gossip Richard Johnson, Ted Kennedy, David Koch, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, and all manner of other people you might expect a billionaire to know, turned up in court proceedings after Epstein's former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez tried to sell it in 2009. About 50 of the entries, including those of many of Epstein's suspected victims and accomplices as well as Trump, Love, Barak, Dershowitz, and others, were circled by Rodriguez. (The existence of the book has been previously reported by the Daily Mail. Gawker is publishing it in full here for the first time; we have redacted addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and the last names of individuals who may have been underage victims.)
According to an FBI affidavit, Rodriguez described the address book and the information contained within it as the "Holy Grail" or "Golden Nugget" to unraveling Epstein's sprawling child-sex network. But despite having been subpoenaed for everything he had on his former boss, Rodriguez didn't share it with the FBI or Palm Beach Police Department detectives investigating Epstein. Instead, he tried to make a $50,000 score by covertly peddling the black book to one of the attorneys launching lawsuits at Epstein on behalf of his victims.
Who is Jeffrey Epstein? Click here for our primer about the billionaire pedophile.
The plot backfired when the attorney reported Rodriguez to the FBI, and he was promptly charged with obstruction of justice. But not before he had, according to the FBI affidavit laying out the crime, marked up the book and an accompanying notepad with "handwritten notes" that contained "information material to the underlying investigation that would have been extremely useful in investigating and prosecuting the case, including the names and contact information of material witnesses and additional victims."
Rodriguez, who spent 18 months in prison, died in December after a long illness and never spoke out about the address book, so the precise significance of the names he circled remains fuzzy. But the FBI's case against him makes clear that Rodriguez regarded the address book as crucial to understanding Epstein's crimes; during a conversation with an undercover FBI agent posing as a potential buyer, he "discussed in detail the information contained in the book, and identified important information" to the agent.
In addition to the names above, as well as scores of apparent underage victims in Florida, New Mexico, California, Paris, and the United Kingdom listed under the rubric of "massage," the circled entries include:
- Billionaire Leslie Wexner
- Former New Mexico Governor Bruce King
- Former New Mexico Governor and Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson
- Peter Soros, the nephew of George Soros
- Former Miss Sweden and socialite New York City doctor Eva Andersson Dubin
Some of the circled entries include additional notes—one address in New York City, for instance, is marked as an "apt. for models," and two names bear the marking "witness."
Asked why Rodriguez might have circled his name, Alan Dershowitz told Gawker, "I've never seen the book and I have no idea what it means. I was neither a victim nor a material witness—I never witnessed any crimes or participated in any crimes, and I can prove it."
Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's alleged victims, has claimed in repeated court filings that Epstein instructed her to have sex with Dershowitz on several occasions, charges that Dershowitz categorically denies.
Trump, through a spokesperson, said, "Mr. Trump only knew Mr. Epstein as Mr. Trump owns the hottest and most luxurious club in Palm Beach, [redacted], and Mr. Epstein would go there on occasion."
Although Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew have been mentioned in connection with Epstein's sordid deeds, their names aren't circled in the black book. But Epstein did have 21 contact numbers and various email addresses for Clinton, as well as several contact numbers for the prince.
Here is the address book:
Nick Bryant is the author of The Franklin Scandal, the true story of a nationwide pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful, and the co-author of Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail, which will be published in March. Additional reporting by J.K. Trotter. If you have information to share about Epstein's activities, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire's Sex Jet
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the " Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein's address book under an entry for "massages," according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to one count of soliciting underage girls for sex (and one count of adult solicitation), for which he served just over a year in county jail. But sprawling local, state, and federal investigations into the eccentric investor's habit of paying teen girls for "massages"—sessions during which he would allegedly penetrate girls with sex toys, demand to be masturbated, and have intercourse—turned up a massive network of victims, including 35 female minors whom federal prosecutors believed he'd sexually abused. He has reportedly settled lawsuits from more than 30 "Jane Doe" victims since 2008; the youngest alleged victim was 12 years old at the time of her abuse.
Who is Jeffrey Epstein? Click here for our primer about the billionaire pedophile.
Epstein's predatory past, and his now-inconvenient relationships with a Who's Who of the Davos set, hit the front pages again earlier this month when one of his victims, Virginia Roberts, claimed in a federal court filing that Epstein recruited her as a "sex slave" at the age of 15 and "sexually trafficked [her] to politically-connected and financially-powerful people," including Prince Andrew and attorney Alan Dershowitz. (The latter, the filing claimed, had sex with the victim "on private planes"; Dershowitz vigorously denies the charges, as does Prince Andrew.)
Two female associates of Epstein—the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen—have been repeatedly accused in court filings of acting as pimps for him, recruiting and grooming young girls into their network of child sex workers, and frequently participating in sex acts with them. Kellen in particular was believed by detectives in the Palm Beach Police Department, which was the first to start unraveling the operation, to be so deeply involved in the enterprise that they prepared a warrant for her arrest as an accessory to molestation and sex with minors. In the end, she was never arrested or charged, and federal prosecutors granted her immunity in a 2007 non-prosecution agreement that described her as a "potential co-conspirator" in sex trafficking.
Maxwell, the daughter of the late media mogul Robert Maxwell, has been accused by Roberts of photographing Epstein's victims "in sexually explicit poses and [keeping] the child pornography on her computer," and "engag[ing] in lesbian sex with the underage females she procured for Epstein." She has denied the allegations in the past.
Clinton shared Epstein's plane with Kellen and Maxwell on at least 11 flights in 2002 and 2003—before any of the allegations against them became public—according to the pilots' logbooks, which have surfaced in civil litigation surrounding Epstein's crimes. In January 2002, for instance, Clinton, his aide Doug Band, and Clinton's Secret Service detail are listed on a flight from Japan to Hong Kong with Epstein, Maxwell, Kellen, and two women described only as "Janice" and "Jessica." One month later, records show, Clinton hopped a ride from Miami to Westchester on a flight that also included Epstein, Maxwell, Kellen, and a woman described only as "one female."
In 2002, as New York has reported, Clinton recruited Epstein to make his plane available for a week-long anti-poverty and anti-AIDS tour of Africa with Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, billionaire creep Ron Burkle, Clinton confidant Gayle Smith (who now serves on Barack Obama's National Security Council), and others. The logs from that trip show that Maxwell, Kellen, and a woman named Chauntae Davis joined the entourage for five days.
That last name—Chauntae Davies—shows up elsewhere in papers unearthed by the various investigations into Epstein's sex ring: his little black book. Davies is one of 27 women listed in the book under an entry for "Massage- California," one of six lists of massage girls Epstein kept in various locales, with a total of 160 names around the globe, many of them underage victims.
Today, Davies is an actress with credits including HBO's Enlightened. In 2002, she was 23. According to her IMDB profile, in addition to her apparent massage work for Epstein, she landed a role that year as a "lingerie model" in Exposed, a movie produced by a softcore porn company called MRG Entertainment. (Other MRG films include Deviant Desires and Carnal Confessions; the company has since been purchased by Larry Flynt. Exposed, appropriately enough, was directed by a pseudonymous auteur who went by the name of Clinton J. Williams.) Davies's role in Clinton's flying AIDS-prevention circus isn't clear, and though her LinkedIn page claims a certificate in Swedish massage, there is no evidence that she ever actually treated Epstein to one. Reached via e-mail, she said only, "I really am not interested in being slandered in the media for having known this person a time ago. Some of the things being said are not things I have information on."
Clinton's office did not respond to an inquiry. Kellen and Maxwell did not return messages.
Other prominent figures whose names appear in the logs, which document globe-spanning flights on Epstein's planes during various periods from 1997 to 2005, include Dershowitz, former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers, Naomi Campbell, and scientist Stephen Pinker.
The logs also cast doubt on public statements made by Dershowitz, who has been vigorously downplaying his relationship with Epstein since Roberts levied her accusations against him. Dershowitz has attempted to paint himself as a mere passing acquaintance of Epstein, suggesting to the American Lawyer last week that he only began hanging around the billionaire to fundraise for his school, Harvard.
Q. From what I've read, your relationship with Epstein seemed chummy. You socialized with him and you and your family stayed at his various homes. Isn't it a bad idea for a lawyer to be so close to a notorious client?
A. Let me tell you how I met him. I was introduced to him by Lady de Rothschild as an academic colleague. He was friendly with Larry Summers… He was in the process of contributing $50 million to Harvard for evolutionary biology.
Epstein did indeed pledge a substantial donation to Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, though it was $30 million, not $50 million. The first installment of $6.5 million was announced in 2003. And Epstein was indeed friendly with Summers, who assumed the mantle of president at Harvard in July 2001. The clear implication of Dershowitz's answer is that he didn't start hanging out with Epstein until it was in his interest to, because Epstein was the boss' friend and was donating money to his university.
What's more, Dershowitz told the American Lawyer, he is loyal to his wife, who is always by his side: "I've been married to the same woman for 28 years. She goes with me everywhere. People know that I won't argue a case or give a speech unless my wife travels with me. This is not the profile of someone who screws around."
But according to the flight logs, Dershowitz was close enough to Epstein to have accompanied him on a flight from Palm Beach to New Jersey's Teterboro Airport as early as December 1997. On that flight, the pair was accompanied by a number of people, including one unidentified "female," a "Hazel," a "Claire," and Maxwell.
The logs also show Dershowitz on a flight with Epstein from Bedford, Mass., to Teterboro in October 1998, and a flight from Teterboro to Martha's Vineyard in 1999. And a 2005 trip from Massachusetts to Montreal shows him traveling with Epstein, "Tatianna," and others.
One things the logs don't show: Dershowitz's wife traveling with him.
In an interview with Gawker, Dershowitz repeated his emphatic denials of ever having sexual contact with any underaged girls, and acknowledged that he first met Epstein way back in 1997. "It was just before [ Epstein confidant] Les Wexner's 60th birthday," Dershowitz said. "My first substantive contact with him was to fly with him to Les Wexner's house to attend dinner with Shimon Peres and John Glenn."
As for who else was on those flights, Dershowitz couldn't recall. Hazel? "I don't know." Claire? "I have no idea." Tatianna? "I think that was a woman in her 20s who was Epstein's girlfriend, but I never flew with her." The unidentified female? "That could have been my mother."
As for why his ever-present wife didn't appear in the flight logs by his side, Dershowitz said that she did accompany him on several Epstein-sponsored trips that don't show up in the logs obtained by Gawker. (It is also possible that the logs, which pilots generally keep primarily to record hours of flight time, could also be incomplete or inaccurate as to the passengers.) "She travels with me all over. On occasion, she's working or travels separately. I travel with her almost all the time, not all the time."
One thing is for sure, though: "I have a very clear, unequivocal recollection that I was never on a plane with any young women, period."
In the same American Lawyer interview, Dershowitz claimed that his relationship with Epstein was "entirely professional," and that allegations that the two were "chummy" were "a total bum rap."
Contrast that with his testimonials to Vanity Fair in a 2003, pre-pedophilia profile of Epstein:
• "Alan Dershowitz says that, as he was getting to know Epstein, his wife asked him if he would still be close to him if Epstein suddenly filed for bankruptcy. Dershowitz says he replied, 'Absolutely. I would be as interested in him as a friend if we had hamburgers on the boardwalk in Coney Island and talked about his ideas.'"
• Dershowitz also said of Epstein: "I'm on my 20th book. . . . The only person outside my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jeffrey."
Asked how those comments tracked with his more recent portrayal of his relationship with Epstein, Dershowitz said simply: "He was a friend with whom I talked about ideas. We never discussed women or his social life."
If Dershowitz was a good friend to Epstein, he was a better lawyer. Along with a dream team of attorneys that included Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black, and Ken Starr, he was successful in getting federal investigators not to charge Epstein with moving his victims across state lines and other associated crimes. The federal non-prosecution agreement Epstein's legal team negotiated with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida immunized all named and unnamed "potential co-conspirators" in Epstein's child trafficking network, which includes those who allegedly procured minors for Epstein and also any powerbrokers who may have molested them. Although Dershowitz wasn't a signatory to the plea agreement, the latest filings in Roberts's case against Epstein accuse Dershowitz of essentially negotiating his own immunity:
Dershowitz would later play a significant role in negotiating the NPA on Epstein's behalf. Indeed, Dershowitz helped negotiate an agreement that provided immunity from federal prosecution in the Southern District of Florida not only to Epstein, but also to "any potential co-conspirators of Epstein". . . . Thus, Dershowitz helped negotiate an agreement with a provision that provided protection for himself against criminal prosecution in Florida for sexually abusing Jane Doe #3.
Dershowitz says the self-immunity accusation is preposterous, and that while he negotiated its broad outlines, he never read the agreement and wasn't involved in drafting the language. Besides, he says, "If I had had sex with Virginia Roberts, which I didn't, I wouldn't be a co-conspirator, I'd be a perpetrator," and thus not immune under the agreement, he told Gawker. "I did not know this woman, I did not touch this woman, and the entire story is made up out of whole cloth."
Dershowitz has pledged to seek disbarment of Roberts's attorneys, which include the respected former federal judge Paul Cassell, telling the American Lawyer: "Either [Cassell] will be disbarred or I will be. And if I knowingly had sex with a sex slave then I would deserve disbarment."
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Correction: Due to an editing error, this post originally confused Bedford, Mass., with Bedminster, Mass.
Nick Bryant is the author of The Franklin Scandal, the true story of a nationwide pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful, and the co-author of Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail, which will be published in March. Additional reporting by J.K. Trotter and Natasha Vargas-Cooper. If you have information to share about Epstein's activities, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Top image by Jim Cooke.
John Kerry Kêu Gọi Hollywood Làm Phim Tuyên Truyền cho Chính Phủ "chống ISIL"
Voltaire Network | 23 February 2016
Secretary of State John Kerry visited Hollywood on February 16, 2016, to meet with key producers and ask them to help in the fight against Daesh ideology.
Those in attendance:
Jeff Shell, Universal Pictures, President of Broadcast Board of Governors (the official propaganda organ of the United States)
Chris Dodd, president of Motion Picture Association of America
Donna Langley and Jimmy Horowitz, chairman of Universal Pictures
Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation president
Michael Wright, President of Amblin Partners
Jim Gianopulos and Stacey Snider, co-chairmen of 20th Century Fox
Kevin Tsujihara, president of Warner Bros
Sean Bailey, director of Walt Disney
Ron Meyer, vice president of NBC-Universal
Hollywood traditionally cooperates with Washington. Washington provides means (free access to its military equipment, aircrafts, ships etc.) in exchange for input into scripts.
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Who is the former Australian Prime Minister and judges who are paedophiles?
Senator Bill Heffernan claimed in Parliament on Tuesday (19/10/15) that he has a police list of 28 prominent people that includes a former Prime Minister and current judges that are suspected of being paedophiles. This is dynamite and an issue that will not go away until it is dealt with in full in an open and public manner.
There is enough detail in Senator Heffernan's allegations to make them very credible. Some of the details are:
- The list "formed part of police documents that had been "signed off" by Gary Crooke, QC, the former senior counsel assisting NSW's Wood royal commission into police corruption in the 1990s. Mr Crooke declined to comment when contacted by Fairfax Media on Tuesday."
- The list includes a former Australian Prime Minister, judges, members of the legal fraternity and others.
- "Every Commonwealth attorney-general since Philip Ruddock had seen the list". This seems to have been confirmed by Philip Ruddock and Former Labor Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus.
- Senator Heffernan "accused former royal commissioner Justice James Roland Wood of refusing to investigate lawyers who had allegedly attended a Kings Cross "boy brothel". (Click here to read more)
- The name of the club was Costellos and was a known "boy brothel" attended by members of the Sydney legal fraternity. (Click here to read more)
- Former Royal Commissioner Wood denied the allegations by Senator Heffernan, but not outright. "Mr Wood could not recall if the alleged list had been raised at the 1995 commission but said: "I reject that we failed to investigate anyone that fell within our terms of reference." That is a very weak denial by Mr Wood and allows him plenty of wriggle room to change his story later down the track if needed. (Click here to read more)
Below is the video of Senator Bill Heffernan on Tuesday making the allegations in parliament:
The above video is very similar to the below video of UK Labor MP Tom Watson making similar claims.
"In October 2012, Labour MP Tom Watson stood up in the British House of Commons and lobbed a grenade – metaphorically speaking."
"Tapping a sheaf of paper in his hands, he told the Prime Minister that police had – or used to have – a file of evidence containing "clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No. 10″." (Click here to read more)
Tom Watson's 2012 address to the UK parliament sparked a number of inquires that continue as of today. Then there is the Jimmy Savile scandal which resulted in the ongoing paedophile investigation Operation Yewtree which also helped catch Rolf Harris.
Then there is Prince Andrew's links to a paedophile network and allegations he is a paedophile. (Click here to read more) With what is happening in the UK and given Senator's Heffernan's police list it is very conceivable that there is a paedophile ring at the highest levels of government in Australia.
Suspected paedophiles is the judiciary / legal fraternity. Some examples are:
This site is meant to focus on judicial corruption and its associated matters. But when investigating judicial corruption evidence regularly comes to hand that forces me to write about paedophilia and its cover-up in the judicial / legal fraternity.
Three examples are:
Suspected paedophile Judge Garry Neilson
In July 2014 I wrote an article titled: "Has Judge Garry Neilson outed himself for being a paedophile given he implied incest and paedophilia are OK?" (Click here to read more)
In December 2015 I wrote a follow-up article: "Premier Mike Baird & Chief Justice Bathurst fail to act on paedophile supporter Judge Garry Neilson" (Click here to read more)
So where is it at now? Judge Garry Neilson received nothing more than a reprimand and continues to work as a judge. (Click here to read more) That's the judicial and political system at work protecting their own.
Paedophile protector and former NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith. Currently a barrister
In 2012 Greg Smith who was then the NSW Attorney-General attacked the credibility of child victim of Father Finian Egan who is Mr Smith's friend. Greg Smith said she was only after money in an attempt to defend Father Egan. I wrote an article titled "Protecting paedophiles the judicial way. Justice Ken Taylor and the Attorney General Greg Smith." (Click here to read)
Father Finian Egan was convicted of being a paedophile in 2013 and sentenced to 8 years jail with a minimum of 4 years for abusing numerous girls. (Click here to read more)
Tony Abbott and George Brandis
In July 2015 I wrote a post titled: "Tony Abbott and Brandis both secretly met with paedophile protector George Pell. Why?" (Click here to read more) The title says it all and raises many questions.
In just the 3 examples above we have numerous people with serious questions to answer which should be done at a judicial inquiry specifically for the legal fraternity. Some of those questions are:
- So why did Greg Smith attack one of the victims in an attempt to defend a paedophile and should Greg Smith be allowed to work as a barrister?
- Why has Premier Baird allowed Judge Garry Neilson, who at best is sick and demented, to continue to work as a judge?
- Given the list Senator Heffernan has relates to alleged paedophiles in NSW why has Premier Baird been totally silent on the issue?
Then there is regular stories in the media about paedophiles getting reduced sentences, suspended sentences and bail when they have pleaded guilty. The judges and prosecutors who do this or allow it to happen need investigating.
A dangerous game for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull if he fails to act
The matter cannot be swept under the carpet and has to be investigated as it won't go away until it is dealt with the same as it hasn't gone away in Britain. If PM Turnbull tries to cover it up then he owns it and is part of the problem. To be left as it is will smear the name of all former Prime Ministers and eventually at least one or two of them will demand an inquiry you would think.
There is a lot more to come in this story. It's just a matter of time.
Former Australian Prime Ministers named in VIP pedophile ringWhy was Dr. Antony Kidman at the middle of an Australian pedophile ring?Australia: Woman Claims to be Victim of "VIP Paedophile Ring" including THREE Former Prime Ministers
1- Former prime minister paedophile claims: Survivor to speak out
8-Former prime minister paedophile claims: Survivor to speak out – Reddit
Revisiting: Former Australian Prime Ministers named in VIP pedophile ring
Former Australian Prime Ministers named in VIP pedophile ring
A woman claiming to be the victim of a "VIP pedophile ring", which involved three former prime ministers, has alleged she was prostituted to "pedophile parties" at Parliament House in Canberra.
Speaking to media in Sydney, Fiona Barnett detailed her alleged abuse by the alleged elite pedophile ring 40 years ago.
The 45-year-old said she was abused by the ring, which included high-ranking politicians, police and members of the judiciary, at the age of five and claimed there were thousands of other victims.
"My experiences were horrific beyond words," she said. "But the way I've been treated for reporting the crimes I witnessed and experienced has been far worse than my original abuse experiences."
The northern NSW woman went on to detail "hundreds of crimes" she claimed she had witnessed, including child abduction, torture, rape and murder.
Fiona Barnett speaks to the media in Sydney.
Ms Barnett described the alleged operation as a "very well-coordinated international pedophile ring", and said there was a strict hierarchy.
"I was only saved for the VIP pedophiles," she said.
"It's a hierarchy, what I witnessed was the very top of the hierarchy."
Ms Barnett said she "lives in absolute fear" and only decided to speak out because she "has nothing left to lose".
She maintains the network is still in operation, and urged Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to make it a priority to "make the kids safe".
Ms Barnett said she had taken the allegations to multiple health professionals in the 1980s, NSW Police in 2008 and approached the Royal Commission in 2013. She said she and other victims of "VIP" perpetrators were "stonewalled" by authorities.
ACT Police release a statement this afternoon after Ms Barnett's press conference.
"The matter was thoroughly investigated by ACT Policing's Operation Attest and there was no evidence to substantiate the complainant's allegations," the statement read.
"The matter was finalised and the complainant was notified on April 30, 2015."
Ms Barnett described her ordeal as a child sex victim as "horrific".
Leader of child sex abuse advocacy group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) Nicky Davis said Ms Barnett's alleged experience was not unique.
"SNAP has heard from a number of survivors of very similar offences who have been raped, who have been tortured, whose perpetrators include the most senior people in Australia."
SNAP says allegations have been ignored by the Royal Commission and government officials.
The group claims many survivors have spoken to police, the Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse, politicians and government officials and had produced "considerable" evidence.
"There are a large number who want to speak out," Ms Davis told news.com.au.
"These are some of the worst crime committed by the most powerful against the most vulnerable."
Allegations of the elite pedophile ring surfaced in a Senate estimates hearing earlier this week, with Liberal senator Bill Heffernan claiming he had obtained a police list containing the names of 28 prominent people.
Senator Heffernan wouldn't name names on Tuesday but called on Attorney-General George Brandis to expand the child abuse Royal Commission to include the legal fraternity, as well as a former prime minister.
He told the Senate estimates hearing in Canberra he had provided the Commission with documents, one naming the alleged pedophiles including "a whole lot of prominent people."
Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan is an anti-paedophile crusader.
Senator Heffernan is a vociferous campaigner against pedophiles, but in 2002 he used parliamentary privilege to falsely accuse a judge of using commonwealth cars to procure young men for sex.
Senator Heffernan said the documents relating to these allegations, delivered to him by a police agency some time ago, were very disturbing.
Ms Barnett said she wanted to see her claims and the claims of others investigated the Royal Commission.
"I'm not the only one who's seen this stuff," she said.
"What I want to see happen is not just my claims, I want all of the claims pooled and I want them investigated."
SEE ALSO: Australian comedian slams pedophile politicians live on air
Peace rally clogs Melbourne city streets
February 14 2003
Tens of thousands of peace protesters packed Melbourne's city streets tonight in a show of strength against a US-led war in Iraq.
It was the first in a series of planned peace protests across Australia this weekend, which will culminate in rallies on Sunday in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide.
The weekend protests in Australia coincide with anti-war rallies around the world.
Touted as the biggest protest in Australia since the anti-Vietnam War marches of 30 years ago, today's Melbourne rally kicked off with mock air raid sirens to symbolise air attacks on Baghdad.
Protesters gathered outside the State Library in Swanston Street, waving placards with slogans including: "No War for Oil", "Howard's End" and "Will the Pollies' Kids Go to War?"
They were addressed by former Democrats leader Natasha Stott-Despoja and Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown.
"It is an amazing scene here with you today in a show of solidarity to send a strong message to Prime Minister Howard and the Australian government that Australians don't want war," Senator Stott Despoja told the huge crowd.
Senator Brown told protesters the possible war concerned United States president George W Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
"But this war is not Australia's war," Senator Brown said.
The protesters made their way down Swanston Street to Federation Square, where they were to be addressed by union and political leaders as well as rock singer and conservationist Peter Garrett.
The event, organised by churches, peace and student groups and unions, will wind up with a 90-minute music concert.
Police would not immediately put a figure on the size of the crowd, but organisers put it at up to 200,000.
Organisers say millions of people are expected to protest tomorrow in hundreds of cities around the world, from Vancouver and Mexico City to Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Hundreds of thousands are expected to march through central London tomorrow and will be addressed by US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, playwright Harold Pinter and activist Bianca Jagger.
Up to 100,000 people are expected in New York, where Archbishop Desmond Tutu and actors Susan Sarandon and Danny Glover will address a Manhattan rally.
German anti-war groups say 80,000 will gather in Berlin. The French and German governments have led European opposition to a military strike.
In Japan, a demonstration is planned in front of the US Embassy at noon tomorrow.
Students, professors, artists and Muslims were planning a "March for Peace" through the Philippine capital Manila today that was to end in a candlelight vigil outside the US embassy.
Anti-war sentiment has even reached the tiny South Pacific island nation of Fiji, where the Fiji Anti-War Movement (FAWM) sent floral messages to foreign embassies imploring them to pressure the US and its allies to avoid war.
Several organisations in Hong Kong, including the Beijing-backed party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, staged protests today outside the US consulate.
A larger rally outside the US and British consulates was planned for Saturday.
Islamic Asia is also due to mark its opposition to the war. Tomorrow, hundreds of Malaysian activists are expected to protests in the capital Kuala Lumpur and on the island state of Penang.
And in the Islamic republic of Pakistan, the Lahore-based Pakistan Anti-War Committee, a coalition of labour and political groups, says it has protests planned for 20 cities.


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BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — Brandon Benn scored five goals as seventh-seeded Johns Hopkins breezed to a 19-9 win over Stony Brook in the opening round of the NCAA men's lacrosse tournament Sunday.
Chris Boland also had three goals and four assists and Zach Palmer added another three goals for the Blue Jays (12-3), who will face the winner of Sunday night's game between Maryland and seventh-seeded Lehigh at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis.
Matt Bellando had three goals and Russ Bonanno scored twice for the Seawolves (7-10), who along with Canisius (6-8), were the only two teams with losing records to make the tournament.
Johns Hopkins opened a 7-1 lead at the end of the first quarter thanks to Boland's three goals and two from John Ranagan. The Blue Jays, who never trailed, won all nine faceoffs and outshot Stony Brook 17-3 in the opening period.
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Sidmouth and Padbrooke Park seniors both beat the other 5-1 – at home!
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Sidmouth seniors met Padbrooke Park in a pair of matches over the course of two weeks, writes Chris Grubb.
The first meeting, played at Sidmouth, ended in a 5-1 home success, but the tables were turned a week later with the Mid Devon side recording a similar victory on their course.
An unusual feature of the two meetings was that, on both occasions, each team was unchanged!
What the scores did reflect is the significance of being the home side!
The only Sidmouth pairing to win both home and away were Colin Mitchell and Charles Brown.
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About three months ago, Dealey Plaza near the West End was pretty much shut down thanks to J.J. Abrams and James Franco. They were filming for a Hulu thriller series, 11.22.63, based on Stephen King's book by the same name. You were either really mad at all the traffic it was causing or you were really excited to catch a glimpse of the movie star.
This week, the official trailer for the eight-episode series hit the web. By the looks of it, Franco, who plays Jake Epping, walks in a closet because some man told him to, and time travels back to 1960. Man Who Owns The Closet wants Epping to go back in time and stop the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Like any good human being, Epping does this and the closet land is a bit like Narnia. Except not at all. More like Dallas in the 1960s.
The trailer offers this little tidbit: "The past doesn't want to be changed." It also shows a car wreck into a telephone booth, a little bit of conspiracy ("I don't know whether Oswald is the man who did it"), and Franco falling for a beautiful blonde, who we hope doesn't end up being his mother. She says, "Everything you say is a lie," because he's not even from her decade, but she doesn't know that yet! Oh, and Josh Duhamel shows up at some point to punish Epping for breaking some rules.
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I've been in the music industry as a vocal teacher for over 10 years, and work with artists across all contemporary genres including R'n'B, pop, rock, musical theatre and metal. I'm also one of the only vocal teachers in New South Wales teaching vocal effects.
Currently I am a Contemporary Voice Lecturer at JMC Academy in Ultimo, Sydney, and President of the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing (ANATS) - NSW Chapter.
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Following that degree I undertook and now hold an Anatomy and Physiology Diploma, Estill Level 1 & 2 and Music Teachers NSW Accreditation.
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Kids toys and game consoles have developed at lightning speed since I was a child, which actually wasn't all that long ago (in the grand scheme of things…), but the evolution that we see today, really is something special. Toys and brands that I loved as a child have grown and changed directions, making the products available today extra special.
If I look back down memory lane to a Christmas many, many years ago, I cannot quite pin point how old I would have been.. But I get the feeling that I was in my early school years. I had been out shopping with my parents, and it was there in the shopping arcade that I came face to face with… The Nintendo GAME BOY! This particular model was Yellow, and I just had to have it. I placed it at the very top of my Christmas List, and thankfully Santa must have received the letter.. Because on Christmas Day there it was.. My very own GAME BOY.
Back then this was one of the top end consoles, there was no colour screen, it was rather chunky and you couldn't sit and play it in the dark because the screen didn't have any lighting. But boy did I love that GAME BOY! Flash forward to 2014, and Nintendo are still going strong, but the range of consoles available has grown dramatically in specification and performance. Today the hand held consoles all boast full colour screens, the graphics are so much more detailed and those pixel games I once loved have been re-developed into digital masterpieces! Even years after I was supposed to have 'grown up' I couldn't resist picking up a copy of the new Super Mario Bros to have a dabble, suffice to say I played it until I completed it!
This year Leo has been really excited about Christmas and the magic that comes with it, he has reeled off specific items that he longs for Santa Clause to bring along on his sleigh. In one of our conversations about what he would like for Christmas, he told me very matter of factly 'I want a Nintendo DS like Alice'. Alice is my younger sister and Leo's Aunt, and she had been letting Leo have a play on her new 3DS recently, and he had surprised us all by being rather good at it.
Having a look around the gaming market, I came face to face with the decedents to my beloved GameBoy. The shape, size and performance of these models blew my now ancient model right out of the water. The latest Nintendo DS models can connect to your home WIFI, take photographs with their built in camera, some even boast 3D game play, and all of them can be played in the dark thanks to the full colour screens!
With Leo being just shy of 3 and a half, I was looking for an entry level console that would be a good starting point for a younger gamer. I soon found myself drawn toward the Nintendo 2DS due to its chunkier look and because it was all in one piece un-like the 3DS which folds. I found that the GAME website offered a great level of information through their GAME Junior service. GAME Junior offers parents just like you and I, an insight into what our children want and which games are suitable for certain age ranges. They are there to answer any questions that we may have, and aid us in making the right decisions before we buy. I actually popped into our local GAME with Leo recently to see how he would potentially get on with a Nintendo 2DS, and they happily let us look at a sample model, giving Leo the opportunity to get his hands on one, and they talked through the available games that were available from 3+.
I thought this service was really great, it meant that I came away with the knowledge about the game content instead of buying blind and not having a clue about what Leo may come across while playing these games. The staff members were clued up on everything that I wanted to know, and even the things I hadn't really thought about! I left happy in the knowledge that we had been really well looked after. If you are looking at consoles and games for children this year and you aren't really sure about the classifications or what the content actually involves, I highly recommend popping in and having a chat before purchasing anything.
The Nintendo 2DS Review
What's in the box?
The Nintendo 2DS with Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario Folio Kit (Only available at GAME) retails at £99.99.
In the box you will find:
Nintendo 2DS Console (pre-installed with Mario Kart 7)
Nintendo 2DS Charger
Over the last few weeks Leo has been having a first-hand experience with the Nintendo 2DS, and he has been really pleased with it. I have sat and watched him playing with the console and I have often been really surprised with just how deliberate his actions are. His favourite game so far has been Mario Kart, that actually comes pre-installed on this special edition available only from GAME.
The Nintendo 2DS really is the perfect entry level console for a younger child, they are advised for children aged 7 up, but Leo has shown an active interest in playing and has picked up the skills to be able to give it a pretty good go!
I found the 2DS the most attractive option initially because of its one piece design, it takes out the need for hinges to fold it, and removes the risk of the screen snapping in clumsy little fingers. My only concern with not being able to fold the DS like you would the more traditional models, was that it may be too big and take up more room when taking it out and about, but we haven't experienced this at all. In actual fact it's a really nice size, and Leo can hold it happily with two hands while he plays.
You can hold the 2DS like you would a tablet and it boasts twin screens with touch screen controls. This makes it easy for younger players to operate and navigate through the menus and of course the games. Leo like many children is no stranger to touch screen operation, and he has very quickly worked his way around the 2DS, all be it a little through trial and error, but even though he doesn't read it hasn't held him back. The 2DS menu screen features words alongside images, which assists pre-schoolers in being able to enjoy.
The twin screens are both very clear and offer crisp game play, this has been discovered through the times I have had a secret play when Leo has been tucked up in bed… I am not ashamed to admit that I will be treating myself to the latest release of the Super Mario Bros Series.. and will most likely spend my evenings glued to the 2DS until such a time that I complete it…. (Some people are not meant to grow up!).
Along with the clarity of the screen size and performance, the actually controls for the console have also been really easy to get on with. The controls are split out over the Left and Right hand side of the console to ensure easy access while you are holding it. On the Left hand side you have the directional controls and the joystick which I prefer to use during game play, Leo dabbles between the two at present. On the Right hand side you have the action buttons 'A' 'B' 'X' and 'Y', that will all enable you to control different aspects of the games you play. Below the action buttons you have the 'Start', 'Select' and power buttons. Finally at the very bottom below the screen you have a 'Home' button that will take you out of whatever you are doing and return you to the main menu. It has all be kept nice and simple to ensure you get the most out of using it.
Since the arrival of the 2DS I have invested in a few games to go alongside it, and what I think is really great about this console is that it plays all DS games, including the 3DS! Obviously the 2DS cannot play the games in 3D, but it opens up an alternative console option for those gamers who want to enjoy the 3DS game content, but the budget restricts them from purchasing the pricier 3DS Console.
The Technical Bit
Battery & Battery Life: The 2DS has a 1300 mAH Lithium-ion battery that can play 3DS Games between 3.5 hours – 5.5 hours, DS Games between 5 – 9 hours and rest in sleep mode for up to 3 days.
Camera: One user facing and two forward facing VGA Cameras.
Online Services: Nintendo eShop, Miiverse, SpotPass, Nintendo Zone.
Dimensions: Width: 14.4cm – Height: 12.7cm – Depth: 2.03cm
Overall Thoughts
Over all my expectations of the Nintendo 2DS have been met and exceeded, I think the price of £99.99 is very reasonable. It has provided and continues to provide play value, and proves in-valuable on car journeys where Leo would ordinarily get bored. The quality and specification for the money is generous and it has proven to be somewhat child proof. I am not suggesting it would withstand being thrown on the floor deliberately, but when Leo has accidently dropped it before now, it has been resilient enough to survive. One of the most attractive options for me is that you can play 3DS games, and I think it is an alternative option if you don't want the 3DS.
I think that the 2DS offers great value for money and I have one happy 3 year old. You can see how we got on here in a short video clip of the 2DS in use.
Disclaimer: We were sent the Nintendo 2DS for the purpose of this review. All views and opinions expressed are completely honest and my own.