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From 1908 to 1932, Sidney Gamble (1890-1968) visited China four times, traveling throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside. A sociologist, renowned China scholar, and avid amateur photographer, Gamble used some of the pictures to illustrate his monographs. The Sidney D. Gamble Photographs digital collection marks the first comprehensive public presentation of this large body of work that includes photographs of Korea, Japan, Hawaii, San Francisco, and Russia. The site currently features photographs dated between 1917 and 1932; the 1908 photographs will be digitized and uploaded as part of future additions to the site.
In spring 2009 two sections of Duke University's freshman writing class, Writing 20, used the University's on-line collection of photographs taken by Sidney Gamble as a window onto Republican China. Here we present captions developed by class members; these captions are intended to contextualize Gamble's photos in the dramatic changes that took place during this period.
The photograph captions are based on the handwritten and typed descriptions found on the original negative sleeves and believed to be the work of Sidney Gamble. The captions and photographs may contain language or stereotypes reflecting the cultural perspective of the era. This content is provided as part of the historical record and does not reflect the views of the Duke University Libraries.
Sidney D. Gamble
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Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an avid amateur photographer, began taking pictures in China during his first trip to the country with his family in 1908. He returned three more times between 1917 and 1932 and continued photographing the daily life of Chinese citizens. Sidney Gamble used a few pictures from his extensive collection in his scholarly publications and in slide lectures, but the majority of images were never exhibited during his lifetime.


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The Lasik operation can be a terrific, life-altering choice for many people whose vision is less than best. There are a number of various types of Lasik operations now available, from the initial and well documented treatment to Lasik treatments finished with 3 dimensional wavefronts, or done completely with lasers. Each of these variations of the Lasik procedure need to be discussed with the physician that is to carry out the operation.
Like any surgery, Lasik does have the capacity for side effects.
In some cases checking out the scary stories of the outcomes of a Lasik procedure can prevent people from seriously considering such a option. It is also true that the huge numbers of people who have a effective, hassle-free Lasik surgery tend not to report a in-depth and long story of their experience, unlike those that have actually experienced difficulty later.
Nevertheless, it is good to understand what the possible adverse effects of the Lasik procedure are, as well as the likelihood that a person of these adverse effects will occur for a specific patient. Just like any medication we take, each has a possible number of side effects, however we normally assume that the probability of a major negative effects is small, and we take the medication anyway. This short article will hopefully put concerns of the potential Lasik patient into viewpoint so that they can calmly and thoughtfully consider having a Lasik procedure performed in the future.
More than one million Lasik treatments are done in the US every year, according to the FDA. This arm of the national federal government has actually accumulated the following stats for the most typical side effects of the Lasik treatment. These data will also vary by the physician carrying out the surgery, so ensure to obtain as much information on the potential Lasik doctor as possible.
After Lasik surgery, 1.7 percent of patients experience some glare or sensitivity to light after the operation. This varies by patient, but this level of sensitivity is especially visible when taking a look at a intense light, such as a streetlight when strolling at night, or other strong light and dark contrast. Another light related adverse effects is a halo around a light, and this happens in 3.5 percent of Lasik clients.
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Some patients do not get a fully remedied sphere of vision after their Lasik treatment. This happens with a small number of clients, and the FDA data are that just 3 percent of clients have this impact. In all or nearly all cases, the physician in charge will perform an additional Lasik procedure to enhance this.
This detailing of the major long-term negative effects of the Lasik procedure ought to put any individual scary stories into perspective. Notification that none of the percentages are above 3 percent, and this ought to bring convenience to a lot of prospective Lasik customers. However, it needs to also encourage them to look carefully at the Lasik physician's helpful site personal record.
There are go to the website a number of different types of Lasik operations now readily available, from the original and well recorded procedure to Lasik procedures done with 3 dimensional wavefronts, or done entirely with lasers. It is excellent to know what the possible side impacts of the Lasik treatment are, and also the probability that one of these side effects will take place for a specific patient. A lot of clients that have gone through the Lasik procedure find the change is irreversible within a couple of days. Some patients do not get a completely remedied sphere of vision after their Lasik procedure.
Data for Lasik Surgical Treatment Patients
The Lasik operation can be a terrific, life-altering choice for many people whose vision is less than best. There are a number of various types of Lasik operations now available, from the initial and well documented treatment to Lasik treatments finished with 3 dimensional wavefronts, or done completely with lasers. Each of these variations of the Lasik procedure need to be discussed with the physician that is to carry out the operation.

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text: I only have 3 pp's so far but with the upgrading to the 55 gal I'm thinking about getting more (little ones) However I do know who's who now, because its only 3, I'm affraid i wouldnt remember who all the littleuns would be. so do you all remember all your crabbies or is it just a guess as to who's who in large numbers? if you do remember, is there a secret to it? lol


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Here's a great photo of Chanticleer, Vince Peterson, and me! On April 6 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chanticleer gave an enchanting performance of our song "Cells Planets." To learn more about this event and the musical collaboration, check out this article from NYC Art Scene:
Grammy-Winning Men's Chorus Features Local Indie Music
In more recent news, we're currently putting together a new song demo of "Lovesick for the World" and another cover video. I'll be sure to keep you posted!
Until then,
Erika Lloyd
Erika was recently interviewed by San Fransisco Classical Voice about the use of Little Grey Girlfriend's hit song "Cells Planets" by the Grammy Award winning choir, Chanticleer. The article, Chanticleer: Out of This World touches on her similar philosophy of all-encompassing performance and writing and how the song was arranged for this choir. It's a cool article and a quick read, check it out!
"We're certainly singing for the same reasons and about the same emotions. The Pixies really aren't that far off from 11th-century troubadours."
~Erika Lloyd


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I would love to have this post be upbeat and funny but there are just some times that it just does not work out that way especially when you have a loved one in the hospital and they are not expected to leave. Unlike some folks, I love my in-laws as they have always been wonderful to me. My father in-law loved my cooking and I even created recipes for him. He is one of the reasons that my recipes do not have a lot of added salt. I will be thinking of a recipe which I will dedicate to him here when I have it completed. I want it to be a monument to his personality and one that will bring us all wonderful memories of a great man every time I make it. I love you Bill, even though out of respect I had a difficult time calling you that and see, I did take care of your daughter. In the interim, here is a post from the old site that was almost lost. It is a very, very easy recipe but awfully delicious.
Desperate times call for…
Some of the best things can be born out of desperation and this recipe is an example of one of them. I was in charge of cooking dinner one night for me and the children but had not had any time to go to the grocery store to pick up anything specific. I knew I had chicken in the freezer (Who doesn't?) but that was about it. I did not feel like serving the kids fast food because heaven knows that they will eat enough of that stuff in the course of their lives. So, I rooted around in the pantry and found a small jar of pineapple preserves and from the fridge a half bottle of teriyaki sauce and some soy sauce. I combined them together in this recipe which was so easy I recreated it with a pork tenderloin. (same steps and ingredients except for replacing chicken with pig)
Fast Hawaiian Chicken
(makes 4 servings)
1 – Small, jar of pineapple preserves
½ a bottle or less of low sodium teriyaki sauce
1tsp – powdered ginger
1 tsp – coarse ground black pepper
2 tbsp – low sodium soy sauce
4 – Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1tsp – dried basil leaves
1tsp – dried parsley flakes
Sesame seeds
¼ cup of peanut oil
9 X 13 baking dish
In a small bowl mix peanut oil, teriyaki sauce, soy sauce, parsley and basil and whisk together. Set this mixture aside for a moment. Spray baking dish with Pam or some other cooking spray and add about 1/4 cup of water to the bottom of the dish. You can even use rice wine as a liquid if you would like. (Less, if you are using a smaller pan or have reduced the recipe) Arrange chicken in the bottom of the pan and evenly sprinkle (distribute) ginger and black pepper over the top of each piece, kind of pressing the herbs into the chicken with your fingers. Take the teriyaki mixture which had been set aside and slowly pour over chicken. Spoon pineapple preserves evenly on each chicken breast so that each has its own layer. (It's kind of like adding a blanket to each of the chicken breasts) You can add fresh pineapple slices around the outside of the chicken because it kind of looks nice (and tastes pretty good too when it's done). Take sesame seeds and kind of "salt" them over top of everything before you put it in the oven.
Bake in an oven that has been pre-heated to 350 degrees for 40 minutes making sure to gently (you do not want to blast the pineapple from the top of the chicken) baste chicken about every 10 minutes with mixture from bottom of baking dish.
I served this with pineapple jasmine rice and green beans dressed with ginger salad dressing.


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The 100th Anniversary of The Russian Bolshevik Revolution
The 100th Anniversary of The Russian Bolshevik Revolution
Renfield R. Renfield MP stood up in the British House of Commons and began his speech, "It was 100 years ago today that the Russian Bolshevik Revolution occurred when at 9:40 PM local time the cruiser gunship Aurora fired a shot at the Winter Palace in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) forcing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky to surrender.
The Revolution marked the start of a century of bloodshed as Communists killed millions of people in their attempt to create a Utopia of peace, bread and prosperity."
. . .
100 years earlier-
October 25th 1917 (on the old Julian calendar which Russia was using at the time)
November 7th 1917 (on the new Gregorian calendar which the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic under Lenin would later adopt in 1918).
On the cruiser gunship Aurora, the 50-foot long Egyptian Serpent Apophis was coiled aboard deck.
Apophis who had convinced the German Kaiser Wilhelm II to smuggle Lenin back into Russia via Finland.
Apophis who had convinced the "useful idiots" in the Woodrow Wilson Administration to allow Leon Trotsky to leave the U.S. and return to Russia.
Apophis who hoped the new Red Dawn would forever block out Ra's rising sun.
"Will anyone be able to stop this Revolution?" The Bolshevik captain of the Aurora asked.
"No," Apophis shook his serpentine head, "it's not likely that sometime within the next year that they'll dig up Set from his tomb and he shall once again slay me with his giant spear like he used to do when he rode as a passenger aboard Ra's solar barge."
. . .
Renfield (whose code name was The Spear of Set when he worked at Set Enterprises) concluded his speech, "Vladimir Putin's mistake in Russia is to attempt a synthesis of Imperial Czarist Russia and Soviet Stalinist Russia – a synthesis bound for failure. As with every other Hegelian synthesis in history. For as any person inclined towards sensible philosophy knows- Hegel was a pompous ass full of wind and fury whose flatulence in history will ultimately signify nothing."
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Tuesday November 7th
The Steampunk Girl Time Traveler
Dr. Cadbury Rocher had called his boss the billionaire ancient Egyptian vampire Set down to the Set Enterprises lab to show him something.
"This is a photographic image that Michelangelo the Psychic Lobster picked up from the date June 22nd 1931," Dr. Cadbury Rocher showed Set the photo.
"My god the Great Sun God Ra," Set whispered, "it's Serena."
Serena was the name of Set's fiancee who had been assassinated by a Soviet assassin Leonid Terovsky back in the autumn of 1924.
Her body was currently lying in a special lab at Set Enterprises.
Prior to that, she had been kept in a glass coffin (at low temperatures to preserve her body) at Set's colossal West London mansion.
She had been moved to Set Enterprises Laboratories in the year 2000 when Set had hired the scientist Dr. Cadbury Rocher.
Dr. Cadbury Rocher was the great-grandson of French scientist Dr. Louis Rocher (who had come close to discovering the secret of immortality prior to his being shot down by the Red Baron in April of 1918) and Sherrielock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes' lesser known twin sister who had attained immortality for herself by eating a specially prepared Lingzhi supernatural mushroom cooked for her by her husband Dr. Louis Rocher).
Set hoped that Dr. Rocher would find a way of bringing his beloved fiancee Serena back from the dead.
"That's Serena all right," Set recognized the Steampunk style skirted outfits that she loved to wear.
Steampunk is a genre of science-fiction where the science and inventions of the Victorian and Edwardian era carried on in an alternate universe and machinery was analog and not digital and based on steam power and not petroleum and where airships and dirigibles and monoplanes and biplanes and triplanes ruled the skies and not jets.
Steampunk genre had influenced movies like Wild Wild West, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Van Helsing and the 2009 Sherlock Holmes.
"What is she doing in that photo?" Set asked.
"Notice the Soviet Red Star on the train and she appears to be holding a detonator in her hands," said Dr. Rocher, "there was an attempt to blow up a train Josef Stalin was riding in back on June 22nd 1931."
"Serena has become a time traveler," Set gasped, "and she's tried to kill Josef Stalin the man who had arranged for the circumstances of her own death."
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Thursday June 22nd
Serena Slain
It was the autumn of 1924.
And the wealthy Egyptian vampire Set was showing his fiancee Serena the house he had bought them.
Soviet secret police assassin Leonid Terovsky watched the couple.
He then stepped forward into the moonlight, pulled out a revolver and fired six shots into Set.
Who didn't die.
Since he was a vampire.
Terrified and confused, Leonid stepped back.
Angered, Set approached the assassin.
Leonid pulled out his other revolver and started firing again.
This time in the direction of Serena.
Who being mortal immediately hit the ground.
Covered in blood.
"No," Set screamed as he turned around.
He rushed to Serena and held her in his arms where she died.
Terovsky fled down the street.
Set continued to hold the slain Serena in his arms as he wept.
Sherrielock Holmes (who was Sherlock Holmes' lesser known twin sister) was walking down the street when she saw the scene.
She approached.
Set explained what happened.
"I wish I had the chance to turn her into a vampiress as she lay dying but her death happened too quickly," Set wept.
"I know what you mean," Sherrielock said, "My love died before he had the opportunity to make himself immortal."
She told Set how her husband Dr. Louis Rocher had made an extract from the Lingzhi Supernatural mushroom which when she ate it had made her immortal.
But Dr. Rocher had waited to eat the Lingzhi Supernatural Mushrooms himself.
And before he could do so, he ended up being shot down by the Red Baron during the Great War of 1914-18.
"It's too bad Louis wasn't still alive," Sherrielock said, "he might have been able to bring your fiancee back from the dead."
"Did you and he have any children?" Set asked.
"Yes, five," Sherrielock replied, "three boys and two girls."
"I wonder if any of them or their descendants will have your husband Louis' genius," Set reflected.
"Possibly," Sherrielock answered.
Set resolved to have Serena's body frozen in the hopes that one of Dr. Louis Rocher's and Sherrielock Holmes' descendants would be a scientific genius capable of bringing Serena back from the dead.
In the meantime, Set tracked down the assassin Leonid Terovsky, had him tortured and later killed.
But Set gleaned from Terovksy that Soviet Communist Party General-Secretary Josef Stalin had ordered the assassination.
Set resolved to destroy both the USSR and the worldwide Bolshevik movement.
But as Set surveyed the world stage, there did not seem to him too many politicians who were capable of destroying both the USSR and the worldwide Bolshevik movement.
Until a young Austrian born politician creating a ruckus in Bavaria came into his sights.
The name of the young Austrian born politician in Bavaria making a name for himself?
Adolf Hitler.
His movement the National Socialist German Workers' Party- the NSDAP- better known as the Nazis.
Set moved to Germany in 1925 in an effort to better promote and finance the movement.
Just like a stone thrown into water creates unforeseen ripple effects, evil like good can create the same ripple effects.
And no one knows where the ripple effects will end.
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Tuesday June 20th
Stalin Plans To Attack Set
Soviet Communist Party General-Secretary Josef Stalin was having a conversation with Felix Dzerzhinsky the director of OGPU (the name of the Soviet Secret Police at the time) during the summer of 1924.
Stalin was pissed off by the way the British Empire was carrying on at the time.
"Who the Hell do these Brits think they are anyways?" Stalin foamed with rage towards Dzerzhinsky, "Hell, you think they're the only people in the world who know how to make tea properly."
Stalin walked over to a samovar and poured himself a cup of tea.
He put it to his lips and spit it out.
"Do you have any more of that Red Rose tea brand you served me once?" He asked Dzerzhinsky.
"It's available only in Canada," Dzerzhinsky replied, "A spy from Canada brought me some once. Just before I shot him for sleeping with my favourite Moscow prostitute who I thought was for my eyes only."
"We'll have to invade Canada someday," Stalin thought philosophically.
"Probably one of those tough strict Jesuit schools in Quebec will produce a Marxist who'll become Prime Minister someday," Dzerzhinsky threw aside an old Canadian newspaper that contained Pierre Elliot Trudeau's birth announcement.
"I want to avenge myself on Britain," said Stalin, "maybe assassinate one of their leading politicians or businessmen."
"I don't think the Soviet Union can win a war with Britain at this point in our history," Dzerzhinsky said, "might I suggest assassinating a foreigner in the country. There's a wealthy Egyptian businessman and investor by the name of Mr. Sol Invictus Set. Very buddy buddy with the Prince of Wales. Just bought himself a big house in the Collingwood Hills district of Kensington in West London. Here's his picture."
"Who's the lovely woman with him?" Stalin asked.
"Only goes by the name of Serena," Dzerzhinsky answered, "she was a magician's assistant to that magician who goes by the name of the Great Houdini."
"Isn't that Houdini a Jew?" Stalin asked with the utmost contempt on his face.
"He is," Dzerzhinsky answered.
"One day we'll rid the world of all Jews," Stalin looked outside his office and noticed Leon Trotsky walking down the hall.
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Monday June 19th
Set Buys Himself A House
So now that Serena was free of her magician's assistant contract with the Great Houdini, Set decided to buy a house for them to live in once they were married.
He bought the house a colossal mansion in West London in 1924.
This was the house as it looked in a painting in 1926.
91 years after the painting was painted, the billionaire ancient Egyptian vampire Set was meeting in his colossal West London mansion with his Chief of Security and Intelligence Gathering Renfield R. Renfield.
"So Renfield, now that you've been elected a Member of Parliament, you'll probably no longer be able to carry out your duties as my Chief of Security and Intelligence Gathering," Set scratched a chalkboard with his 66 inch long fingernails.
Renfield held his ears, "No, probably not, boss."
Amadeus Emanon started playing Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik on the piano in the drawing room.
"Which means since you're no longer my employee, you'll no longer be able to live in this mansion," said Set coldly.
Renfield started to cry.
He hadn't thought of that when he first ran for MP.
But then again he never really expected to be elected.
Renfield expected he had scored quite highly on the autism spectrum in the test that his mental health counselor had given him yesterday.
"However I've been talking to my chartered accountant Ian Mandell Boring who professionally goes by his initials I.M. Boring," Set started feeling drowsy, "and he says if you pay me $12,000 rent a year to live here, you'll be able to declare that on your expense account and be reimbursed at the end of the tax year. Besides having an MP in the household is a good thing. That way, I might be able to influence government policy."
"Thanks, boss," Renfield loudly blew his nose into his handkerchief.
"So, of course in the meantime, I've had to hire a new Chief of Security and Intelligence Gathering for Set Enterprises," Set looked out the window.
"And who is that?" Renfield asked while drinking from a bottle of whisky.
"Sherrielock Holmes," Set answered.
"The world famous London dominatrix?" Renfield was shocked.
"Yes and I believe your personal dominatrix," Set played with his Rolex watch on a chain.
"Those are vicious rumours spread by the fake lying media in this country," Renfield did an impersonation of Donald Trump.
"Sherrielock will be able to use the dungeons in the basement for her dominatrix business by night," Set reflected, "and by day, she'll do what you used to do."
"You mean, during the day, she'll do nothing," Amadeus quipped as he entered the room.
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Wednesday June 14th
Houdini In A Cage: A Poem
Once the Great Houdini was all the rage
now he kneels imprisoned in a bird cage
for his magician's assistant Serena came up with his latest tricks
like how to saw in half a woman using only mud and bricks
But Serena had fallen in love
like peace and the snow white dove
she had fallen in love with a vampire no less
a vampire who would often dress to impress
This vampire was the ancient Egyptian Set
who fancied stormy nights not cats as his pet
he had fled his prison tomb on 1918's Armistice Day
and boarded an English ship in Alexandria's distant bay
These past few years he lived in England
with only some acquaintances ne'er a true friend
That changed when he met Serena who from the future came
now his investment analysis forecasts were no longer so lame
He's now making a huge fortune in various stocks and bonds
eating in the best London restaurants enjoying steaks and prawns
now he and Serena want to get closer together
holding wedding ring hands strolling in rainy weather
But Houdini says he won't allow it, she's just too good to leave
for finding a better assistant- he couldn't pull one out of his sleeve
he says if she leaves, he'll call the press and reveal all
how in a strange time warp, she came from 2017 in a backwards fall
But Serena had other tricks
and no time for Houdini's kicks
She imprisoned him in a cage
whispering, In here you'll start to age.
And Houdini begged and pleaded, all to no avail
and Serena said, I'm going to dip this cage in a keg of ale
Finally Houdini agreed to let her go
so from a keg tap, no mini magician would flow.
And Set and Serena would wander into sunset's glow
that is if his being a vampire hadn't spoiled the show.
-A poem and vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Monday June 12th 2017.
The Vampire Set and Lindbergh's Historic Flight To Paris
90 years ago today.
May 21st 1927.
The billionaire ancient Egyptian vampire Set was in Paris enjoying a bottle of champagne with Josephine Baker, Ernest Hemingway and the Aztec vampire princess Qonzilqointec.
They were waiting to see if American pilot Charles Lindbergh would arrive in the city in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis and become the first person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic.
Twenty minutes after 10 PM on the evening of May 21st 1927, there slipped out of the darkness over the skies a gray white airplane.
At 10:24 PM The Spirit of St. Louis landed.
"Well, I made it," said Lindbergh.
And the City of Paris went wild.
Lindbergh was carried by hand outside his plane.
Total mayhem among the crowd of 100,000 people who had gathered on the east side of Le Bourget Air Field.
"Paris probably hasn't seen such excitement since the Armistice of 1918," Hemingway remarked as he uncorked another bottle of champagne.
"I was being dug out of the prison of my ancient Egyptian tomb on Armistice Day in 1918," Set recalled.
Both Josephine Baker and Ernest Hemingway laughed at Set's remark.
Only the Aztec vampire princess Qonzilqointec (being one of the living Undead herself) smiled sympathetically.
"Do you suppose Lindbergh will join us on this sidewalk cafe?" Josephine asked.
"I don't know," Hemingway shrugged, "did you invite him?".
Everyone laughed.
"I wonder if anything else as exciting will happen this year?" Qonzilqointec mused philosophically.
On the other side of the Atlantic, singer and entertainer Al Jolson was sitting in a bar
He heard someone at one of the tables say, "You ain't heard nothing yet."
Jolson's ears perked up.
That would make a great closing line for the new movie he was doing.
The world's first talkie.
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Sunday May 21st
Mei-ling Manchu
The year was 1933.
And the billionaire ancient Egyptian vampire Set was paying a visit to Britain's House of Lords to see his friend Lord Oswald Jennings give a speech on China in the House of Lords.
Lord Oswald Jennings had a son Spencer Jennings who was the British Conservative MP for the constituency of Stamford On The Welland.
And Spencer Jennings had an 8-year-old son Byron Jennings.
In the opinion of the said vampire billionaire who called himself Mr. Sol Invictus Set, Byron Jennings was a spoiled brat.
But fortunately Lord Oswald Jennings did not invite Set back to his home after the speech where his son and daughter-in-law and spoiled brat grandson would be attending.
Instead he invited Set to dinner at his club.
"I agree with you," Lord Jennings winked at Set over a brandy, "my grandson is a brat. I find Spencer and his airhead wife Lillian are too enamoured with this progressive education nonsense. Letting the child do exactly whatever he wants."
After dinner and brandy at the club. Sol Invictus Set walked out into the night.
He noticed a very attractive young Asian woman walking up the street.
She was wearing a black dragon emblazoned red dress slit up the sides in that sleek chic oriental fashion that Set found so arousing.
It's too bad that he had to rush home as he was expecting a phone call from Stanley Baldwin. Otherwise he'd have asked the beautiful young woman out for a drink.
But the beautiful young Asian woman had plans of her own.
For she was Mei-ling Manchu the real life daughter of the real life scientist Dr. Fu Manchu who was so grossly slandered in Sax Rohmer's stereotypical books.
Her father feared that Lord Oswald Jennings was far too sympathetic to the idea of Japanese control over Manchuria and quite possibly the rest of China.
Thus he had instructed Mei-ling to kidnap Lord Jennings' grandson Byron hoping to influence His Lordship away from a pro-Japanese position.
How Mei-ling wondered, would she do it?
She noticed a boy standing at the corner looking through the window of a bookshop.
She looked at the photo of Lord Jennings' grandson that her father had given her.
Then she looked at the boy on the corner.
They were the same individual.
She walked up to the boy.
Ironically, the boy was looking at the cover of one of Sax Rohmer's stereotypical books.
Said Byron (who was about as horny as his poetic namesake), "Wow. I'd like that woman on the cover to take me home and spank me."
"Oh, this was going to be easy," Mei-ling smiled to herself.
"How'd you like me to take you to my home and give you a spanking?" Mei-ling adjusted the slit skirt of her dress.
"Okay," said the boy.
So kidnapping the grandson of Lord Oswald Jennings turned out to be as easy as taking candy from a baby.
And quite possibly the boy might even cease being a brat under Mei-ling Manchu's tutelage.
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Tuesday May 16th
80 Years Ago Today- The Hindenburg Disaster
The billionaire ancient Egyptian vampire Set was recalling where he was 80 years ago today.
Aboard the dirigible airship LZ 129 Hindenburg as it caught fire trying to dock with its mooring mass at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township New Jersey on May 6th, 1937.
Of the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), there were 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen). One worker on the ground was also killed, bringing the final death toll to 36.
The vampire Set had departed aboard the Hindenburg from Frankfurt Germany on the evening of May 3rd 1937.
He was carrying a message with him from Der Fuhrer Adolf Hilter (Set was an important financial backer of Germany's leader) to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
When Set arrived at Lakehurst, he would board an American Airlines flight from Lakehurst to Newark, New Jersey. He would then catch a plane from Newark to New York City and then on to Washington DC where he would meet in secret with FDR to deliver the message.
In the message, Hitler proposed an anti-Bolshevik crusade with FDR for some time a few years down the road.
Hitler would attack the USSR from the West (from Europe) and America would attack the USSR from the East (from Alaska).
In return, Hitler proposed that America take and keep Siberia (which of course was just across the Bering Strait from Alaska).
Hitler would take the rest of Russia.
However the Hindenburg caught fire as it was about to land.
Set promptly turned into a bat and flew down to safety as Herbert Morrison cried into the radio microphone for radio station WLS in Chicago, "Oh, the humanity…."
To this day, there were still debates going on about what caused the fire aboard the Hindenburg. Some said it was sabotage. Others said it was caused by an electrical spark.
Set personally believed it was sabotage.
Because once he was on the ground in Lakehurst and had resumed his human shape, the vampire who called himself Sol Invictus Set saw his arch enemy, sister and sister-in-law the Paris-based Egyptian vampiress Isis standing there.
Isis had with her by her side the Moroccan wrestler Abdul the Butcher who was her bodyguard at the time.
Abdul hit Set over the head and knocked him out.
When Set came to, Der Fuhrer's message meant for FDR's eyes only was gone.
How the world might have been different had that message been delivered, Set reflected.
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
Saturday May 6th
Orson Welles, Donald Trump and Dracul Van Helsing
The year was 1946 and actress Rita Hayworth was filming the movie Gilda with her co-star Glenn Ford.
She returned home to her husband Orson Welles only to see a mysterious entity de-materialize in front of her.
"Who was that who just disappeared outside the door?" Rita asked Orson as she kissed him on the cheek.
"That was that London-based billionaire Mr. Sol Invictus Set who had asked me to direct a film for him," Orson replied.
"Well, he certainly got the Hell out of here," Rita quipped.
"I should say so," Orson poured himself a glass of whisky and soda, "Hell is definitely where he belongs. He wanted me to write and direct a film about Hitler."
"The subject material would certainly catch the attention of the world," Rita poured herself a glass of milk.
"But he wanted it to be a film expressing admiration for Hitler," Welles' eyes flashed anger.
"Well, then you were wise telling him where to go," Rita kissed him again.
Welles softened, "Thanks, Rita."
Rita was thoughtful, "You seem to have a habit of offending billionaires, Orson. First William Randolph Hearst and now this Sol Invictus Set. I hope this doesn't cost you."
"Cost me? How?" Welles looked quizzically at his wife.
"I hope Hollywood doesn't decide to blacklist you," Rita looked almost clairvoyant, "turn down your ideas for making films. Europe would probably be more accepting of a genius such as yourself. But it would be a shame if America turned its back on supporting your artistic excellence."
For once in his life, Welles was speechless.
. . .
U.S. President Donald Trump was sitting at his desk in the Oval Office wondering how he'd be able to use the Mary Poppins word Supercalifranchilisticexpealidocious in a tweet and still be able to make a profound statement.
The phone rang.
Trump picked it up.
"Hello?" Trump ran a radioactive monitoring comb through his hair.
"Hello, Dad, it's me," it was his daughter Ivanka, "you had called me earlier while I was busy chatting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau."
"Yes, it was your closeness to Justin Trudeau that I was wanting to talk to you about," Trump explained, "I was listening to a radio program about the paranormal on the radio last night featuring some former Canadian cabinet minister- some guy called Paul Hellyer. Anyways Paul Hellyer was saying that Justin Trudeau is in close contact with an ET gray from the planet Nibiru – some alien chap by the name of Gali-Gula whose ET body is supposedly possessed by the spirit of the ancient Roman Emperor Caligula. I was wondering if you could phone Prime Minister Trudeau for me and ask him if this is true."
"But Dad, why don't you just phone him yourself?" Ivanka asked.
"Yes, but as you know somebody has been leaking all the phone conversations I've been having with world leaders. If that one gets leaked, especially in lieu of the unusual subject matter, there may be some among the American people who'll start to think I'm nuts," Trump was shocked by the high level of radioactivity in his hair when he looked at his comb monitor.
"All right, Dad, I'll call him," Ivanka put her mobile phone down, smoothed her skirt and then speed dialed Justin Trudeau's number.
. . .
The Aztec vampire princess Qonzilqointec and Canadian vampire hunter Dracul Van Helsing were making love in a gondola on a canal in Venice.
"In Venice, veni, vidi, vici," Dracul said as he collapsed in Qonzilqointec's arms and even though he was a non-smoker, he longed for a cigarette for some reason.
"In Venice, you came, you saw, you conquered," Qonzilqointec sighed in ecstasy.
He certainly came all right.
Qonzilqointec thought maybe she really should have taken her dress completely off.
She lit a cigarette and wondered what dry cleaner Monica Lewinsky used on her blue dress.
"We're here at the house of the masked ball," the gondolier announced.
"Who puts on a masked ball during Lent?" Qonzilqointec asked, "aren't carnival masquerade balls supposed to happen before Lent?".
"Welcome," the billionaire ancient Egyptian vampire Sol Invictus Set materialized before the door.
-A vampire novel chapter
written by Christopher
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Read this book from a friend at National Service camp and it really enlightened me. It's compilation of moral and Dhamma messages from various celebrities and other people compiled by a Buddhist, Oh Teik Bin. This is the kind of books that should be thought in Moral Studies lessons in Malaysia instead of dozens of unnecessarily defined moral values. My personal favourites are:
1. Life is uncertain but death is certain
2. A person is born into the world empty-handed and departs in a like manner
3. There is one certainty and that is uncertainty
The full book can be found Here
Let this be an eye-opener to the path of light in achieving greatness and happiness in life.


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For my first blog, I wanted to just brows through different photographer's works, to see what different people are doing, and maybe get some ideas. I think I found two artists worth sharing.
Francois-Xavier Maricat took the photo above in Belgium. I love the almost spiral composition, and heavy black and white contrast. Because I love full rich colors, I rarely put my photos in black and white, but Maricat consistently used black and white compositions effectively in his series of European Landscapes. You can check them out here: http://expo.f6creations.com/.
Underwater photographer Nicholas Samaras seems to be taking an opposite approach in his series of night shots. In the photo above, Samaras utilizes the dark background of the ocean after dark to enhance the brilliant colors of this jelly fish. Although I doubt I will be shooting underwater this semester, I hope to get some practice with night shots, and experiment with the unique effects they can offer on contrast and color. More of Samaras' photos, and information on underwater photography equipment can be found at his website: http://www.underwater-photography.gr/#/info/.


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The Texas Supreme Court on Feb. 22 dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit against Texas A&M University–Kingsville.
After being terminated from her position with A&M-Kingsville, Gertrud Moreno filed suit against the university in Kleburg County District Court, bringing a claim under the Texas Whistleblower Act and a free-speech claim under the Texas Constitution.
Court records show Moreno, an assistant vice president and comptroller of A&M-Kingsville, claimed that her supervisor, Thomas Saban, fired her for reporting to the A&M-Kingsville president that Saban's daughter had received in-state tuition in violation of state law.
Judge Manuel Banales, 105th Judicial District Court, granted A&M-Kingsville's plea to the jurisdiction, which was later reversed by justices on the Thirteenth Court of Appeals of Texas, court papers say.
On June 20, 2011, A&M-Kingsville filed a petition for review with the Texas Supreme Court, arguing that Moreno's internal report falls short of what the Whistleblower Act requires: a good-faith report of a violation of law to an appropriate law enforcement authority.
"We agree and accordingly dismiss Moreno's suit," states the high court's per curiam opinion. "Accordingly, without hearing oral argument … we grant the petition for review, reverse the court of appeals' judgment, and dismiss the case."
The university was represented in part Greg Abbott, attorney General of Texas.
Moreno was represented in part by the Law Office of Gay E. Gilson in Corpus Christi.
Appeals court case No. 13-10-00083-CV
Supreme Court case No. 11-0469
The Texas Supreme Court on Feb. 22 dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit against Texas A&M University–Kingsville.
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Niger, Chad troops fend off Boko Haram attack, destroy militant base inside Nigeria
NIAMEY, Niger – Niger says its troops fended off an attack on its territory by Boko Haram and destroyed a base used by the Islamic extremists inside neighboring Nigeria.
Niger's Defense Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that the militants tried to attack Bosso, on the border with Nigeria, on Monday. But troops from Niger and Chad — who are helping Nigeria root out the insurgents — intervened, killing 47 militants and destroying several of their vehicles and mortars.
On Saturday, troops from Niger and Chad destroyed a Boko Haram base inside Nigeria, near Talagam, killing 54 militants. Three troops from Niger were wounded.
The two confrontations come as Nigeria elected a former military dictator as its new president amid anger over the insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.


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A black uniformed policeman is recruited by a devious drug enforcement agent to infiltrate a smuggling organization seeking to expand into designer drugs. This 'ugly side of the war on drugs' explores the context of race, identity, and hypocrisy within a brutal and alienating investigation.
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Writing novels has been both an adventure and a challenge. Earnest Hemingway said "We are all apprentices in a craft, no one ever masters." We are still learning how to write better. We do not believe we will ever learn all the techniques and nuances of creative writing. John I had a unique idea Read More »
A Simple Guide to 55 Common Literary Devices
Professional writers use unique words. This is a list of some of the more common Terms and Literary Devices along with what they mean. It took us a while to learn the proper vocabulary used by professional writers. We hope this Guide will be useful to you. Read More »
How to Engage your Readers with a Theme
A Compelling Theme Produces an Inner Richness to Your Story. I know, you say, I am writing a murder mystery, I don't need a theme. Guess What? Every story needs a theme, a moral premise, if it is to be memorable. From ancient times stories have been told and retold about virtuous heroes and heroines. Audiences Read More »
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Use furnishing in a sentence
- For Carmen, as well as for Margaret, the decoration and the furnishing of the house had been an occupation. [4]
- He was furnishing the money to put a young brother through a polytechnic school and satisfy his desire to become a civil engineer. [5]
- We were very thankful to Satan for furnishing that good help at the needful time. [5]
- Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house. [9]
- General York has put into operation a perfect system in regard to furnishing relief. [5]
- I hesitated so long about furnishing your house, my dear, but Howard insisted, and said he wished to surprise you. [9]
- Not poverty in inventing situations, but poverty in furnishing reasons for them. [5]
- Having heard that Count Mamonov was furnishing a regiment, Bezukhov at once informed Rostopchin that he would give a thousand men and their maintenance. [2]
- The sea-air had been prescribed for Margaret, and Henderson had built a steam-yacht, the equipment and furnishing of which had been a prolific newspaper topic. [4]
- A letter came back, by order of the President, furnishing me the names of the members-thirty-two in number. [5]
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herbed butter steak
my own recipe
- 1/2 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1 tsp lime juice
- bunch of fresh basil, finely chopped
in a bowl, add butter, garlic, lime, and basil and mix until incorporated. take a piece of plastic wrap (you can cut a baggie and make flat if you do not have plastic wrap) and scoop mixture on it. roll the butter up and mold it so it looks like a stick or log of butter. place in refrigerator and let harden again. once steak is cooked, cut a tbsp of butter and serve on top of steak!
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- bobby's butt rub (mixture of salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic salt, celery salt, white pepper, and paprika)
heat grill to medium to high heat. rub olive oil on steaks and coat with butt rub. place steaks on grill and cook on both sides for about 4 minutes. serve with herbed butter on top!


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Use individuality in a sentence
- She was a woman of brains, of great individuality, and his own individuality might influence her. [11]
- The others, too, were somehow fallen under the spell of this remarkable individuality. [9]
- That animals retain their mental individuality is unquestionable. [1]
- Is it true that cultivation, what we call refinement, kills individuality? [4]
- He knew that such a life would act like a narcotic to his real individuality. [11]
- Her birth and position gave her confidence and self-reliance, but there was nothing gracious or captivating in her individuality. [10]
- Whatever their degree of merit, they possess freshness and individuality of outlook. [11]
- Those extraordinary eyes of his, when they were functioning, marked his individuality as unique. [9]
- Although the least obtrusive of beings, his individuality always made itself felt. [4]
- The Drawer is not urging this journey, nor any break-up of the social order, for it knows how painful a return to individuality may be. [4]
- But they do not lose their birthright or their individuality, and have the world all before them to choose their creed from, like other persons. [6]
- And what we must have also is individuality in house and in furniture; that makes the city, the village, picturesque and interesting. [4]
- They were, it might be said, one person, for they were seldom seen apart; yet each had preserved his own distinct individuality. [10]
- He is a man of vigorous yet reserved aspect; he has a rare individuality. [11]
- He was the incandescent medium, and yet, paradoxically, gained in identity and individuality and was inseparable from the thing itself. [9]
- The highest thing in architecture, as in literature, is the development of individuality in simplicity. [4]
- Its very monotony had its own individuality. [11]
- Such leadership was granted only to those whose force and individuality compelled men to obey them. [9]
- Perhaps I have failed to make appear the individuality of character that was so evident to those who knew him. [4]
- Some parts would be dry and technical were it not for the character, the marked individuality which pervades every page. [14]
- Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. [6]
- Property, a refuge a man may call his own, and on which he may express his individuality, is essential to happiness and self-respect. [9]
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Please note this module descriptor is indicative of the structure of this course and may be subject to change.
The aim of this module is related to a topical issue within the business management area. It will provide scope for the student to demonstrate their ability to learn independently, research, analyse, synthesise and evaluate appropriate literature. Students will select a title from a range that will be made available from advisers via the module tutor
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The Fine Art of Crafting Friends Out of Strangers
Mind & Matter
[NOTE: Apologies for posting this column. We, like many, fell victim to the fraud and deception of UCLA political science grad student Michael LaCour's so-called study, which became a bit of a media frenzy a few months ago. See this interesting read about lessons learned from this episode, in New York Magazine:
(Originally published in the Wall Street Journal on February 28, 2015 – Page C2 – Available only in US Print Edition)
By Robert M. Saplosky
People change their minds.
My generation (yeah, including me) once thought cranberry bell-bottoms looked cool. And sometimes, people change their minds about socially divisive issues concerning an "Other."
Say you meet someone who seems so different from you that their needs and feelings don't register ― but shazam! ― something changes, and you now see the similarities rather than the differences. Who counts as "us" expands.
The granddaddy of theories about what fosters such change is the 'contact hypothesis.' The idea is straightforward: Contact between hostile groups reduces hostility. When that actually works is anything but straightforward.
Extensive research has revealed circumstances when contact tends to make people open-minded about the Other: when both groups are roughly equal in number, when contact is prolonged in a neutral setting or when participants engage in a shared goal (think Palestinian and Israeli teenagers doing summer camp in Scotland, practicing curling to beat the Tutsi/Hutu camp team from across the lake).
In contrast, the wrong kind of contact worsens things. In an earlier column, I discussed an example of this. Place two people chatting in Spanish, every morning at a suburban train station for two weeks, and exclusionary attitudes about Hispanic immigrants increased among the white commuters.
A recent study in Science magazine demonstrates how remarkably brief contact changes opinions about a divisive social issue. The researchers, Michael LaCour of the University of California Los Angeles and Donald Green of Columbia University, recruited people to fill out repeated surveys about politics over a period of months.
At one point during this period, the researchers had a canvasser knock at subjects' doors, advocating same-sex marriage. Canvassers were polite and respectful, making their points from a prepared script. In the process, they revealed their motivation. Half the canvassers discussed their gay relative or friend who wished to marry someone they loved.
As assessed three days later, meeting either type of canvasser equivalently increased support for same-sex marriage. And this was a big effect, with support increasing from the levels of a state like Nebraska to those of more-liberal Massachusetts.
Then a key difference occurred. Following contact with "straight" canvassers, increased support for same-sex marriage only lasted a few weeks. But with "gay" canvassers, support persisted nine months later. Moreover, when asked about their feelings about gay individuals, the canvassed subjects showed a large, persistent increase in favorable ratings. Canvassers advocating abortion rights or recycling (and revealing themselves, in passing, to be gay) had no effect on support for same-sex marriage.
More strikingly, the contact-induced changes in opinion were ― to use a medical term now increasingly part of social scientists' lingo ―"contagious." Speaking to a gay canvasser in favor of same-sex marriage increased support among the housemates of subjects (with no such effect from the other Interaction conditions). The conversations presumably went something like this: "Hey, while you were out today, I spoke to this guy who came to the door…." The increase in support was about half as large as that showed by the subjects, and just as persistent.
Thus, hearing from strangers about the needs of Others close to them doesn't persistently change opinion. But hearing from someone close about the needs of a stranger who is an Other does. It's how opinions spread whether the hominids are sitting around the dinner table or are huddling around the campfire feasting on mammoth.
This study is intriguing because minimal contact brought about large, persistent and transmittable changes in opinion. "I remember that guy I spoke with back in August; we had a lot more in common that I'd have thought."
But the results wouldn't surprise a journalist who knows the first rule of a good story: Dump the statistics, and put a face on an issue.
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Riccardo Tisci Opens Men's Givenchy Store in Paris
The Paris storefront is one of three men's stores slated to open in the coming year.
Since taking the reigns as creative director of women's haute couture at Givenchy in 2005, Riccardo Tisci has built quite the fan base. Despite their differing styles, everyone from Kim Kardashian (who walked down the aisle in a courture Givenchy creation) to Julianne Moore to Madonna have all fallen for the Italian designer's creations. But it's not just womenswear with which the 40-year-old has found success. Tisci's Givenchy menswear line has also impressed, with fans including Jared Leto, who memorably rocked a lilac Givenchy tuxedo at the 2015 Oscars.
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According to WWD, the success of Tisci's menswear collections has led to the opening of a flagship store in the Marais neighborhood in Paris, which opens today, as well as future men's stores planned to open in both New York City and Milan in the coming year. A London store is in sight for 2016.
Each room of the interior of the Paris store, which Tisci had a heavy hand in designing, features a slightly different aesthetic, influenced by one of Tisci's inspirations. For example, the entry salon, with its "dark, polished wood and green silk walls" against the backdrop of stark white subway tiles, is the elegant execution of Tisci's sixties and seventies Italian design-inspired vision. Said Tisci of the flagship store, "In each room, you have a different journey, but altogether when you look at it, you feel that you're in a Givenchy world."
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The two-level store will sell customer favorites including leather backpacks and sneakers as well as formal wear and runway collections.


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Hey there, I'm Tali, a journalism major who is embracing life in every season. I write, I dress, I do make-up and I talk. Most importantly, I am on the verge of exploring something worth smiling for while "adult-ing" and taking control of my life. Welcome to my channel you're in for a delightful surprise.
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In response to our passionate readers' pleas, we here at IGN TV are trying to give a voice to the unappreciated metal band known as Dethklok. We have seen your emails and we understand your love for death metal... and let me say that I understand where you are coming from. So in an act to give the most violent band alive the justice it deserves, we have created the 'Metalocalypse Showdown'! This daily contest will pit the most ruthless hard metal gods against each other in an attempt to see how Dethklok stacks up against the best heavy metal bands of all time.
A new week has started and a new competition begins. This week we shed the darkness of the death metal, and embrace the light with Christian metal. Call it lowering the bar, or call it decent competition, this is all yet to be seen. So to start it off we are placing Dethklok against another Norwegian band in Extol. Playing the same type of music as Dethklok, Extol has only the difference of having a 'higher' meaning to their lyrics. So with styles so closely matched, this should be interesting to see how the competition fares. Let's see how this hardcore match-up breaks down:
Best Album
Who can dispute with an album so hard that it can blind those that listen to its music? With such amazing hits as "Thunderhorse," "Mermaid-er," and "Underwater Friends," there is no mistaking why it went pentuple platinum.
Some might say that The Blueprint Dives is Extol's best album, but I would disagree. Burial is a hardcore metal album that rocks from beginning to end. Combining multiple styles, such as grindcore, death metal and trash metal, Burial is a hardcore tribute to God. Plus who can argue with hardcore track "Celestial Completion".
Edge: Extol
|Burial is just heavier than Dethwater. It just is.
Hit Single
This song has become a controversial one. Blamed for a teenager's stupidity on last weeks Metalocalypse, we know now, the weight that this song carries. Also, this single was good enough that it convinced their agent that Dethwater was worth publishing.
Although not as hardcore as other their other songs, "Gloriana" proves that Extol can be good even when they aren't screaming heavy metal. With great (non-guttural) vocals and some good guitar work, we are found focusing on the lyrics rather than the rock.
Edge: Extol
|We have to give props to a band that can excel diversely in their music. Although not more hardcore, "Gloriana" is just better music.
Band Members
5 Members
Comprised of a vocalist, two guitarists (rhythm and lead), a bass player, and a drummer, Dethklok has everything necessary for a great metal band. With guttural vocals, two lightning fast guitarists, a thumping bass player, and a drummer who can set an awesome metal beat, Dethklok shows just how heavy metal should be played.
5 Members
Comprised of a vocalist, two guitarists (rhythm and lead), a bass player, and a drummer, Extol has everything necessary for a great metal band. With guttural vocals, two lightning fast guitarists, a thumping bass player, and a drummer who can set an awesome metal beat, Extol shows just how heavy metal should be played.
Edge: Tie
|Upon inspection, it seems as if the two bands are more alike then we would have first thought. Both bands sound the same, look the same, and have the same band set up... but we weren't going to sway the vote based on theology.
Heavy Metal Style
Death Metal
With an awesome metal sound - Dethklok burns through most of their competition. Their fast vocals, and hardcore guitar riffs are enough to sway any heavy metal fan to their musical style.
Christian Metal
Even though Extol refers to themselves as Christian metal, their heavy metal style is more focused more around the black metal, death metal, and trash metal styles. No matter what you call their style, it ends up being extremely hardcore.
Edge: Extol
|Dethklok focuses more around the death metal style, while Extol finds themselves branching their music out into many different (and equally hardcore) styles. This diversity helps Extol stand out from the pack.
Musical Themes
|Dethklok has had many different albums that have focused on many issues. Whether it be underwater life, family issues, coffee, or just hardcore incantation spells, Dethklok has made whatever they sing about metal (and that is tough with coffee).
|Who can dispute with singing about God? On the surface it may not be as hardcore as singing songs about death and destruction, but they decided that if you aren't going to make out what they are saying (guttural screaming) anyway, they might as well sing for their salvation.
Edge: Extol
|If you actually believe in God, you would think singing to him would be a good idea as well. Plus, what, Dethklok was supposed to beat them out singing about coffee and sealife?
Overall: Extol
|More hardcore than Dethklok in all areas, Extol makes them look bad by not only having diverse metal music, but by adding purpose to their songs. If the two bands sound the same, you can't fight with the more ambitious of the two getting the win.
Well the power of Christ compelled Extol to a win... but that would mean that Dethklok would slump to fifteen straight losses without a win. We really thought that with the theme of this current week, Dethklok would have it easier, but I guess that will remain to be totally seen - as there are still a couple more competitions left. But, it is hard to find good Christian metal bands... so we ask you: if you have any ideas as far as what bands Dethklok might be able to beat in the future please email them to IGN TV and we will see if we can't make it happen. Either way, make sure to come back tomorrow to see if Dethklok can break their losing streak.
Dethklok: 0-15
Other Heavy Metal Bands: 15-0


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We copied our GroupWise data to new Linux servers this weekend. We have everything up & working, however, 7 users on a post office are coming back when I email them with "Item to "JDoe" was undeliverable...opening up the undeliverable reports "Dependent store file does not exist on the disk Error=C05D
I've checked and their user databases were copied over, but of course, there's some type of issue with them. Perhaps they were open when the copy occurred or something.
Can a backup of their user database from before the move be simply restored to the new server and then run a structure rebuild on them....or are any other important related files or other steps to take to restore them?


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Great Achievements of Dr. David Anderson!
David Anderson is really an intelligent person. He has done a lot of great achievements in his career as a researcher.
Dr. David Anderson got a graduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin. He worked as the faculty of the U.C. Berkeley Computer Science Department from 1985-1992.
He also published his research that includes volunteer computing, distributed systems, real time and multimedia systems, graphics, computer music, and psychometrics applied to learning and aesthetic preference. Since 1998 he has directed SETI@home, a pioneering project in volunteer computing. In 2002 he founded the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) project, which develops platform software for volunteer computing. He is currently a Research Scientist at the U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.
1997 up to the present, David serves as the project director at SETI@home, a research project the uses Internet-connected computers to analyze radio-telescope data in the search for extraterrestrial l intelligence(SETI). He was also the technical lead, designing and managing the implementation of the client-side and server-side software, the database, and the server hardware architecture.
In 2000-2002 United Devices developed a platform for Internet-scale distributed computing and storage, and marketed this platform in a number of application areas such as Bioinformatics and Web load testing. David was the one who is responsible for the platform architecture which includes its API, its cross-platform client software, and its back-end server and database.
At Tunes.com he also worked as a Chief Technology Officer in 1995-1999. He was the one who implemented and architected a database-driven, Web-based system for personalized music directory and marketing.
In 1995 up to the present, he works as a consultant. His consulting contracts includes the following: (1.)For Virtual University International. Developed basic technology (Java/Javascript/SQL) for presenting personalized structured instructional material via the Web. (2.)For Hotwired.com: prototyped collaborative-filtering system for content personalization. (3.)For Jump! Software Inc. Developed a web site for sheet music sales, and an associated aggregation/shipping system, using Cold Fusion, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access and VB.
David also developed and operated rare.com, a Web-based system for rating-based recommendation of movies, TV, and other entertainment; and HORSE, a kiosk-based science museum exhibit that teaches the principles of radio SETI using interactive audio and animation.
1992 – 1995: Director of Software Architecture, Sonic Solutions, San Rafael CA. David Anderson was the technical leader in developing SonicSystem, a distributed digital audio editing system based on FDDI, Macintosh, and proprietary DSP and I/O boards. I designed and implemented a high-performance file system, a custom transport protocol, and a system for reserving device bandwidth so that multiple users can share resources without performance conflicts. He was also responsible for the system-level software of SonicSystem and MediaNet. My role included cross-platform software design, software architecture for Sonic's next generation of audio and video products, and the design of software interfaces for OEM partners.
David Anderson authored or co-authored 69 papers in Computer Science, with 17 papers in refereed journals (including Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Graphics, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, IEEE Computer, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering), 28 conference papers, and 13 unpublished technical reports.
Dr. Anderson is sole inventor on two pending patent applications for technology related to MediaNet, a patent related to distributed computing, and a patent for an invention involving 3-D interactive television.
Good job for Dr. David Anderson that he was able to achieve all this and his work performance was really great! Well done Dr. David Anderson! 😉
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A new light-rail link between the eastern suburbs and the CBD could be the "great breakthrough" needed to break Sydney's congestion problems, the city's mayor says.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore says she is awaiting a briefing from the NSW government following media reports that a light-rail line between the University of NSW campus in Randwick and Central Station has been given the green light.
A link between Central down George Street towards Circular Quay would be part two of the construction project, News Limited reports.
"I think it's wonderful that there's a step forward," Ms Moore told reporters on Thursday.
The Sydney CBD was "the centre of a global city" and contributed a quarter of the state's GDP, yet its public transport options were inadequate with congestion costing $4 billion annually, she said.
"We believe that a way of unlocking that congestion which is causing such problems, economically and socially, is to have light rail running regularly," Ms Moore said.
"It could be the great breakthrough we need for Sydney."
She would continue to negotiate with the state government on her plan to make George Street a pedestrian mall, she said.
Turning over the city strip to foot traffic was one of several projects recommended by an Infrastructure NSW report in October.
The body also recommended the development of a bus bypass tunnel with two major underground bus and rail interchanges at Wynyard and Town Hall, along with reforms to bus operations.
The $2 billion project would have allowed George Street to become pedestrian-only in some areas without the light rail proposed by the City of Sydney.


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It wasn't long ago that the much improved Winnipeg Jets appeared to have all but punched their ticket to Lord Stanley's annual blood bath and gala.
Then the All-Star break ended and the shirt collars of True North executives on Portage Street began to get oh so ever subtly tighter. The Jets have now dropped five straight, picking up just one measly loser point along the way.
This recent run of feckless play has caused the Jets' playoff odds to plummet. After briefly touching 90 percent in January, their odds of qualifying for the postseason for the first time in the Jets 2.0 era have fallen below 60 percent, according to sportsclubstats.com.
So what's going wrong in Winnipeg? Let's get stuck into it.
The Jets have been a surprisingly solid puck possession team at even-strength this season. Their top-line of Bryan Little, Andrew Ladd, and Blake Wheeler has been decent for years, but where the Jets have really improved is a bit further down the lineup. Though they're not scoring as much as perhaps Jets fans, coaches, and management might like, 21-year-old pivots Mark Schiefele and Adam Lowry have been excellent at controlling the middle of the ice in second- and third-line roles respectively.
Beyond their decent forward group, though everyone knows they'd like to augment it with another top-nine forward, the Jets defense has performed solidly well this season. Among Winnipeg's regular blue-liners, only Mark Stuart is below water by shot differential this season.
For the most part, Winnipeg's 5-on-5 game has remained solid throughout their recent losing streak. In fact, they're the second best team in the league by raw Corsi For percentage since the All-Star Break and the fourth best team by score adjusted Corsi For percentage.
In terms of what's ailing the Jets, it isn't their puck possession game.
That the Jets are receiving top-10 goaltending at even-strength league wide is a major reason this club has improved so enormously.
Since arriving in Winnipeg, only five teams have received worse goaltending than the Jets have, which has served to make a team with a good deal of two-way skill look – more often than not – permissive and soft. For the most part, the opposite has been true this season.
That us until the last five games. Between them Michael Hutchinson and Ondrej Pavelec haven't been able to buy a save of late, and have combined for an .890 save percentage since All-Star weekend.
In two appearances since All-Star weekend Hutchinson is carrying a ghastly .852 save percentage, while Pavelec has done only marginally better with a .894.
Overall no team has received goaltending as bad as Winnipeg has since the stars left Columbus. It's tough to win games when your opponents are converting on nearly 15 percent of their shots, and that's been the case for the Jets during their losing streak.
Special Teams
The Winnipeg Jets have been lit up when short-handed of late, to the tune of eight goals in their past five games. If you want a second major reason why the Jets are losing, this is it: their opponents are scoring in bunches on the power-play.
The Jets are extraordinarily aggressive when they're short-handed, and for much of the season that's worked for them. Of late though, they're getting lit up on the shot clock and giving up goals and scoring chances aplenty.
It doesn't help that Winnipeg's discipline is all but non-existent. During their five game losing streak the Jets have been penalized an astounding 34 times, or nearly seven times per game. That's nine more raw penalties called against the Jets than the next closest team since the All-Star break.
Nothing makes a sputtering penalty-kill look worse than an awful lot of opportunities to fail. Winnipeg's total lack of discipline throughout their lineup is a major culprit in their recent struggles.
Finally we get to the power-play, where the Jets have been fine. They're generating shots at a rate somewhat lower than they've done on the season during their recent losing streak, but it's a small sample and their results aren't very much out of line with what was occurring when they were reeling off wins in December.
Anyway the Jets have been a below average team with the man-advantage all year and have been essentially that since the All-Star break. It's not a reason for optimism, but it's not a reason they're struggling enormously either.
So there you have it: Winnipeg's stretch of losses has largely been the result of brutal goaltending, and a complete breakdown in discipline throughout the roster compounded by atrocious penalty-killing.
To get back into the driver's seat in the Western Conference's hotly contested Wild Card race, Winnipeg needs their goaltenders to mix in a save or two, and to stay out of the box.
Frankly if Paul Maurice, Kevin Cheveldayoff and the Jets' players allow an endless parade of boneheaded penalties and brutal goaltending to derail a club that remains formidable at even-strength, that would be borderline tragic for North America's best hockey town.