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For some reading this I know addiction hasn't been your story but it has been mine therefore I tend to be touched by it quite frequently. I had the opportunity to pray with a guy who is in the thick of this battle and he has apparently had an addiction to pain pills for quite some time.
My pastor prayed first and then asked me to pray. As he prayed the tears came, and I was reminded of the darkness that is addiction. There is an unbelievable sense of guilt that comes with it not to mention the conflicts with spouses and family members. Oddly enough the same sense of helplessness and hopelessness is the very thing that ends up driving us to Christ who is the only one who can truly set us free.
While I quietly listened to my pastor praying a story in 2 Chronicles 20 about a king named Jehoshaphat came to mind. Jehoshaphat was informed there was a large enemy approaching and he became afraid. It isn't wrong to have feelings of fear but I want you to notice what the king did. He immediately proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. Everyone gathered to call on the Lord. After Jehoshaphat prayed and rehearsed the promises of God to his people he made a powerful statement. He said to God "We are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on You."
Recognizing our powerlessness is one huge step toward recovery. When I say recovery I am talking about anything that is keeping you bound up. It may be drugs, cigarettes, fear, peer pressure, religion, others opinions, guilt over the past or maybe it's your own false idea of who you are suppose to be but either way you simply can't defeat it on your own. This is the normal human condition. This is the way human beings were designed to work in the first place. We were meant to be powerless and yet house the one and only real power in the universe Christ himself.
Have you ever heard someone say, "God says he won't put any more on you than you can bear?" That isn't true. God in fact says the opposite. He looks at our feeble attempts to run our own lives and essentially says "Well, you think you can do it. Go ahead and give it a good try and when the load becomes too much to bear then maybe you will bring it to me." Jesus said, "Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." God doesn't have to put anything on us we tend to do it ourselves. We have falsely bitten into the lie of self-reliance. We're like a little child that says, "I can do it!" and then pulls away when you reach out to help them. The fact is it is only when we have come to the end of our trying to carry things that we will really give it to God. There may be many times we attempt to give it to him and yet turn right around and pick it back up only to find it has become even heavier.
When my time to pray for this guy came it was all I could do to form words. I really felt his heaviness and despair. I know victory is right around the corner, and his life will never be the same. He has a beautiful wife and two young children and they are on the brink of a revival. I don't know when, but I am praying and looking for a major breakthrough in their lives. We really are powerless before the enemies' addictions and strongholds, but our eyes are on Jesus Christ and he will see us through. The battle is his, but we get to enjoy the spoils.
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我回来了!Monday, January 02, 2012
Deleted the previous one because I really had no idea what I could post,
leaving it there to collect dust isn't a good choice either, so yeah.
School's reopening and my homework's like... T.T HELP.
Homework undone: 2 INT history essays, 1 SEA history essay and tutorial, 2 math tutorials, 2 GP comprehensions and 1 econs chapter summary, omigoshhhhhhhhhhh.
Actually I really like studying. I just hate the homework, thats all!
Love this picture! :D
Oh yes, help me click on these links as well! It won't take up too much of your time =p
Went for buffet with my dad's company at Hotel Intercontinental on 24dec! The food was awesome, especially the seafood!
Look at my first plate =p
Tada! First plate filled with oysters, prawns, mussels, scallops, lobsters etc etc I forgot some names =p
Salad! A must have whenever I go for buffet :D
Okay this plate's rather empty. I got quite full by this time. But look at the crab, omggggggg
Fish maw + cold noodles!
This plate isn't mine, its my sis's!
Dessert! I expected more variety though.. But it was still nice!
Chocolate fondue and stuff..
Ice cream! This one's nice, especially chocolate flavour!
A gingerbread dessert which I forgot the name ><
Eric Neo cutting turkey! The celebrity chef :D


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Keeper Chris Ferrey was the hero as Trafalgar claimed a 3-1 penalty shoot-out win in tonight's Scarborough FA Sunday Cup final against league champions Newlands at a breezy Queensgate.
Midfielder Jack Hakings and Kile Fields had their efforts saved by Ferrey, and when Kyle May hit the post with Newlands' fourth Trafalgar's players stormed onto the pitch to celebrate their third cup final win of the season.
Boss Liam Salt said: "Chris made two very good saves to help us win it on penalties, which was a great effort as he was carrying a leg injury from a challenge in the second half.
"To come out of the season with three cup final wins, including the big one, the NRCFA County Cup, is a great achievement even though we didn't win the league title this season."
The Traf chief added: "Curtis Henderson had a great game in defence while Dean Craig also did well when I moved him from right-back into a central role, while Ricky Greening also did well on the left wing.
"It wasn't a great final but we kept going and got there in the end."
Trafalgar may have added the Sunday Cup to their Senior Cup and County Cup successes, but will probably wonder how they managed it as Newlands had the better chances in a fairly low-key cup final.
The first clear chance of the game fell to Drew McCoubrey, who was a constant threat up front for Newlands all night, as he raced through the Traf defence but shot straight at Ferrey.
Two minutes later young Newlands keeper Callum Myers pulled off a great save to deny Traf skipper Neil Thomas.
Newlands then began to get a grip on the game and fine skill from McCoubrey saw him race free on the right flank and send in a sumptuous cross for Stew Bates but the striker failed to get his head on it.
Traf centre-back Shaun Dodson limped off nine minutes before half-time to be replaced by Alex Sheader, and Newlands continued to push for an opener, Gibbs shooting wide when well-placed in the 41st minute.
The left-winger then sent a stunning crossfield ball over to McCoubrey on the right and the latter beat his man and sent in an inch-perfect pass back to Gibb but his first-time volley skewed wide of the target.
Newlands spurned more chances early in the second half with Bates blazing wide when in on goal and Hakings heading wide from a Gibb corner.
The game then became scrappy as Craig and May were both booked for late tackles, then McCoubrey was cautioned for a high foot on the thigh of Ferrey, although the forward did seem to be making a genuine attempt to get the ball he injured Ferrey's thigh in the process but the keeper battled on after receiving treatment.
Henderson also went in Oliver O'Brien's book for a late challenge, but Traf almost snatched a winner late on when sub Luke Jenkinson's shot was saved by Myers in the 87th minute.
The final whistle sounded and the shoot-out began, with Gibb scoring Newlands' first and Jenkinson replying.
Hakings' effort was saved by Ferrey and Danny White coolly dispatched his penalty to put Traf 2-1 ahead.
Ferrey then saved Fields' effort and Kris Tate showed his experience to slot home Traf's third, and Kyle May struck the post with Newlands' fourth effort to spark the Traf party.
Henderson was the most impressive player on show all night, putting in some great challenges and showing great awareness for such a young player, while McCoubrey and Hakings excelled for Newlands, who have won the Kenward Cup as well as the league this season.
Trafalgar: C Ferrey, C Henderson, S Dodson (A Sheader 36), D White, D Craig, R Greening, K Tate, G Thomas, J Jowett (S Exley 75), C Dove (L Jenkinson 85), N Thomas.
Newlands: C Myers, K Fields, L Watson, J Gallagher, J Manson, N Gibb, J Hakings, K May, S Moon, S Bates (L Cooper 75), D McCoubrey. Subs not used: J Mintoft, A Thomas.


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Do you remember this time last year? Banks were down 12-18% compared to all stocks and had been falling since February and by the Summer short-sellers were on message. The Sub-prime crisis was deemed to have started in July. By November, writedowns totaled a few tens of $billions with total loss forecasts of $2-400bn. The ratings agencies had downgraded only a $100bn or so,unyil following Moody's new models announced August 16, after which it became clear that the vast bulk if not all mortgage backed assets were to be severely downgraded. Bankers were scrambling to uncover what their own exposures were and guilty colleagues were no doubt hiding the figures. But then, when they could agree the totals, how to mark them to market? The illiquid ABX index covering maybe $1.3tn of ABS and CDOs circulating but not getting many deal prices was showing falls in 3-4 months of as much as 60% for AA when junk-rated was 80% off! That just seemed to reflect forced-selling, so clever guys said let's examine the fundamentals; where are they? Delinquency rates were up but 90-day overdues had not yet risen much, doubling or tripling from 0.3% or so for some banks did not seem like a whole lot, except steep compared to any earlier known recession shocks!
A Bank of England study said guys, the models pricing these bonds are extremely sensitive - if you tweak one tiny part hey presto the value is up 35% and maybe you've just gamed the rating! It was clear that to tinker on fundamental and values would just crash to the bottom. Ratings agencies could keep an eye on a load of SIVs but found that so far none were yet threatening collapse until Moody's new model (to reflect fast rising mortgage defaults) based downgrades from August onwards (causing a tsunami of asset values wiped out) and when one hedge Fund, not a bank, bravely said it was valuing all its basement tranches to zero. Maybe that was part of a short-selling strategy or let's torch it and claim on the insurance - but I doubt that. The big monolines had seen their shares crash, but not because of claims so much as their balance sheets don't make sense! Yes indeedy, the accounting for all this was shot. If you are using 30 year old accounting systems that have long exhausted their capacity for more details and definitions, then the real stuff is somewhere in the front or middle office accounts, or just in spreadsheets. Recall yesterday Barclsy going to court to get a bunch of contracts excluded from the spreadsheets (28,000 cells) that formed the basis of their purchase from the undertakers of Lehmans US.
Then through the Winter and into the Spring, banks were adjusting their reported exposures, re-vising massively the mark-to-toxic numbers just days or hours before Q407 and Q108 result releases. The Japanese had a strong right not to M2M and use fair value based on hold-to-maturity so US and European firms followed suit and found various ways of doing similar that continued to be argued back and forth with the regulators warning about taking all that's off balance sheet back on or formally moving the toxic from trading to banking books. Shareholders all the while got little of transparent detail in the published accounts covered over with confident assurances. But, all knew that the market was dead. Some said let's just bury the toxic and dig it up again in maybe a few years from now. Those banks like UBS who put their hands up when the value of ABS performance was publicly reported in its retail investment funds, and then Citigroup, whose collateral managers grabbed Bear Stearns ABS/CDO collateral and sold the stuff at fire-sale thereby busting their own bank's assets too, these got slaughtered in their equity capital. With all the uncertainty about true accounting and risk downgrades threatening no wonder interbank liquidity dried. But in the last quarter the quality of detail in banks reporting their toxic exposures has not improved and does not seem to be doing so even now! Is this not also at the heart of the problem?
Today, analysts and FT and others look at CDS spreads as indicators of likely revival of interbank lending. And good to hear the outgoing Chairman of RBS (slogan: "make it Happen")say it is very likely that existing shareholders will take up their first refusel of £15bn new 12% preference share issue (after £5bn goes to governemnt) because they represent a great opportunity for profitable investment (subject to general shareholder vote who have mixed feelings?). When the deal was struck between bank and government it took a bunch of Credit Suisse analysts hours to figure out on a little plastic table in a corridor of No.10 working into the night going through RBS's books on laptops with spreadsheets! We trust adequate and true detail is now in the prospectus. We also have to await the responses of the ratings agencies to see if government stakes in banks (subject to shareholder approval) will result in risk upgrades despite the onrush of recession and 30% falls in banking activity and capacity that is reducing bank profits considerably, if the most recent quarterly results can be thus aggregated. Some profits are only that thanks to tax credits and some losses only that because of further toxic asset writedowns.
Can shareholders confidently buy, or the ratings agencies up-grade, banks before knowing exactly what is happening to the toxic assets and what precise exposure types those 'assets' are? They may be CDO tranches or derivatives thereof. They may be actual securitization tranches or loans to SIVs, guarantees, underwriting, insurance, potential legal risks including over toxic assets that were transferred off the books into customers' accounts, investment funds, and of course whatever is in arm's length remote vehicles that banks originated or added to with bits and pieces of other firms' securitizable assets. Is US TARP still going ahead now that the funding for it is down $250bn for US SARP?
The light at the end of the tunnel will only be when banks' reserve capital gets reinflated with shareholders' equity in ordinary shares and that seems far off until the toxic assets are Tarp'd, buried, sold or quarantined and legal and reputational risks are clarified and quantified. Everywhere flexibilities are creeping in to how banks mitigate or dilute mark-to-market prices wih hold-to-maturity, not-for-trading, turbulence-adjusted, fair values. Apart from the light at the tunnel's end being an oncoming R-train, or merely another better lit tunnel, there are also, to stretch the analogy, tunnels within tunnels. This may be a good time to be a money-broker. Money-brokers sit in the innermost tunnel of the interbank markets broking at narrowest spreads between banks anonymously until settlement details are exchanged when done deals may get cancelled or not once the lender knows the risk grading identity and name of the borrower. And therefore the moneybrokers may know better than others if interbank liquidity is improving?
The not so plain fact is that all round the wholesale financial markets are shredded whereby we cannot really know what explains the directions of cash markets in terms of investors real views and requirements. Much of the blame for the present crisis had been laid at the door of liberalisation such as Bill Clinton's repeal of Glass-Steagel and of banks thereafter engaging in conflicts of interest between investment and traditional banking and shifting too far into consumer credit and mortgages and asset securitization because corporates borrowed less and also went off-piste when borrowing by doing so via bond issues rather than bank loans, and when deposits failed to grow as households and corporates savings rates fell with falls in government borrowing, and then came the vast growth of shadow-banking and banks' determination to get a share of that action and engage more aggressively in proprietary trading.
What then of classic rules for shareholder investment fundamentals when so much is going on out of the glare of regulatory transparancy or of economic assessments of the banking sector when so much is off-balance-sheet and in alternative investment funds of the shadow-banking community? Equities are least traded OTC unless one counts as OTC markets that are internal to large instutional investors, trading internally between portfolios. Regulators and stock exchnages at one time tried to ban this, along with institutions having direct access to broking markets, crossing networks, dark pools, and tried to ban algorithmic black box trading, now supported by low latency arbitrage networks. Shadow and dark and black box stuff are so-called by being unregulated, not volume measured or quality reported, but at least in traditional OTC markets like money markets and FX counterparties usually know each other in the back office settlement if not always on the deal tickets. They cannot know all the day and own-account private traders who have access to derivatives and short-selling instruments and who may be proxies for bigger fish gaming and arbitraging end of day and just after closing prices. There are so many modern 'dark pools', internal and external crossing networks and exclusive club high tier private exchanges for transacting large sizes away from the main regulated markets to minimise market impact and hide market signals. Market impacts are also reduced but may be signalled ex post to the rest of the market in regulated derivatives exchanges. A great deal of portfolio restructuring is by buying and selling contracts in derivatives exchanges to avoid resort to the underlying cash market. Then too we learn that short-sellers via puts, EFDs, and inverse ETFs are worth about 30% of stock market turnovers and that a few $trillion a year or 40% of hedge funds' $3tn are devoted to shorting and that double-figure percentages of bank stocks have been regularly loaned out to short-sellers in recent weeks by money market funds, custodians, and institutional investors, which is like renting apartments to people you know will trash the premises at a cost to you way above the rent and deposit.
Stock exchanges and Regulators have tried over the years to defend the quality of markets, but for the last two decades these quality issues have all been disregarded in the interest of greater competition in market infrastructure to encourage innovation and ever lower transaction costs. Exchanges, banks, broker-dealers, market-makers, the major well-establish OTC markets, all are disintermediated and shredded to the point that even when Bloomberg and Reuters and the biggest Exchanges can still report reliable market prices, the fact is that we can no longer know what the quality of markets are generating those prices. Brokers and analysts read the crib sheets and media newss and give interviews to the FT and WSJ and join the talking heads on the tv about what sentiments pushed or pulled prices but much of this is just circular and almost subjective with insufficient or timely post-trade clearing and settlement data to know what was really happening - was the buying or selling by institutional investors, or private investors or hedge funds, short-sellers and day-traders? Is the sell-off due to a few big guys or lots of little guys, or delayed fed-through from derivatives markets or banks' de-leveraging? Does it matter if we don't klnow precisely. We knew better when market-makers and other broker-dealers spoke to buyers and sellers by phone.
In principle the more reasons that investors and traders have for buying and selling and the more choices on offer and the more regulated news the better because it is less possible for one or a few alone to move the market. But we need to be able to check that market quality is within acceptable bounds and that has certainly moved beyond today's regulators to ensure. The SEC is very impressive, but when it tried last time out to get more hedge funds transparency it was defeated in Federal court.
All that may have changed now that the general public and politicians are angered by what they see as dysfunctional amrkets and irresponsible players in those markets. The scope for legal remedy is enormous, and the sums involved are huge. We may now be entering a period of a decade or so when regulators who have hitherto deployed guidance principles and been reluctent to fix rules or make civil or criminal laws will be led by what the courts decide and even try to pre-empt those decisions now that governments share the liability of the banks and others.
Against all this turgid background, it seems to me and I'm sure many others, that a bigger priority has to be urgently given to TARP solutions and others directly related such as money market and credit derivative exchanges. Payouts of Lehmans CDS liabilities may be currently estimated at $6bn only, but law suits on CDS and the underlying concerning Lehmans are estimated by some lawyers to be hundreds of $billions, in fact nearly $1trillion! Luckily when JPM took over Bear it could cancel a lot of the liabilities between them. Precedents for what happens when this is not done includes Japan in the '90s. The Japanese and SE Asian banks took years to work through loss provisions after their crises in the '90s. If the the litigation culture and legal system of Japan had been anything like the US, the motivation to do more and faster to salve the problems would have been immense. In Japan the economy continued to suffer because household mortgage borrowers remained saddled with enormous lifelong and even triple-generation debt.
We do not have a functioning TARP system anywhere yet, though in the US new clearing standards have been written for CDS and DTCC, Chicago exchanges and others are intending to clear CDS as is Euex in Europe, and others. Handling the underlying toxic waste that TARP was intended to do appears to be languishing. It may be revived given Paul Volker's strong support for it, given that he is one of Barack Obama's innermost circle, in a speech in Singapore on Tuesday, but just as a third of the TARP money was grabbed for SARP style bank bailouts. John McCain, if he wins on 4 Nov, will kill TARP. Meanwhile, various writedowns, settlement, fire-sale auction and accounting flexibilities are handling the toxic assets. In Switzerland,
UBS's $3.9bn Gov pref share money goes into a work-out vehicle for the bank's remaining $60bn toxic assets. In Belgium, Fortis's Eur43bn toxic assets were left behind when the bank was dismembered by 3 governments and given to the remaining rump of the bank's board. The Fortis bank's spreadsheeting risk team simply wrote senior tranches off by 75%, and mezzanine & basement tranches by 90% to a total of Eur10bn for the board to work-out on! But, in these and other such cases also no-one is yet looking publicly at the toxic assets in detail. Are they sub-prime ABS total return instruments such as UBS dumped into pensioners' and other retail investment funds! No details either are forthcoming from banks as to precise details of the various types of exposure they have to toxic assets. Banks' quarterly and annual accounts treat these as notes to the accounts in crude tables even though from a shareholder's point of view they remain the single biggest factor determining the banks' share prices. Here again is where the regulators, in this case the accounting standards bodies, should be insisting on more public detail - after all there has been plenty of time to get models and systems fixed and reporting sorted. After the carnage by now what more is to be gained by not fully explaining the toxic parts of the accounts and showing fair value model and stress test and over-the cycle and point-in-time revenues and forecasting fundamental valuations if held to maturity?


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The following is an outdoor, sunlit shot (skin looks surprisingly good but I have practically no top lip...)
Lip primer almost definitely required. Not the colour/formula to wear if you are planning on doing a lot of eating or drinking. I don't mind touch-ups, but this berry shade obviously carries quite a high risk of high-impact smearing.
Rivoli has, like most berry lipsticks I imagine, some down sides, but it's such a gorgeous colour that I would recommend it to anyone who likes high-end lipsticks. Maybelline Red Garnet is very similar, and Revlon Red Velvet is similar but sheerer. MAC's Hang Up, Dare You and Dubonnet are all nice deep shades.


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Corey Campion, program director and professor of the Humanities program, is the 2015 recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award for Adjunct Faculty. As Graduate School Dean Maria Green Cowles said at the awards ceremony in May, Professor Campion's Humanities students are quite clear: He makes them work hard. And in so doing, he inspires them to do their best.
As one student wrote, Professor Campion's "classes are challenging (to say the least), but the class discussions are always informative and engaging….[He] truly pushes his students to create their best work. He doesn't give students any slack when it comes to writing and analysis… you absolutely cannot complete one of his classes without improving your academic skills."
At a time when the Humanities is often disparaged by political pundits, Campion is known for challenging his students to explore its meaning and relevance. He serves as a mentor in a manner that students cherish. In the words of other students, "he lets you know when you've done something well, and he encourages students to think about their futures beyond graduate school"; "he goes above and beyond to provide resources and advice for scholarship"; and "his integrity is unimpeachable."


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Justin Theroux Films 'Leftovers' on Jennifer Aniston's 45th Birthday!
Justin Theroux is all bundled up while filming scenes for his upcoming TV show The Leftovers on Tuesday (February 11) in New York City.
On the same day, the 42-year-old actor was spotted doing some shopping at perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas in the West Village. Perhaps he was buying a birthday gift for his fiancee Jennifer Aniston?
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Jennifer was celebrating her 45th birthday on the same day. Happy birthday Jennifer!
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|06 Jan 2011
Blue Screen of Death after installing the ATI 4670
Hey everyone,
I purchased a Pavilion p6624y with 64bit system two months ago.
Two weeks ago, i decided to replace the integrated graphic card with a ATI 4670. I also replaced my 250W GPU to 430W.
It worked well for about two days. Then, BSOD kicked in when i played Resident Evil 4. It is not a graphic demanding game. So i thought it was the game's problem.
BSOD had never occurred when i played graphic demanding games like Crysis.
However, today, i got two random BSODs when i surf the internet. I have upgraded all drivers to their newest version.
Any help will be appreciated! This problem have become very ignoring
I have attached all my dump files below.
Have a nice day
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BCCode 124
Please, could someone read these minidump files and help me to find the root cause of my BSODs
In addition, is device manager a good tool to update all my drivers?
I think i forgot to update my adapter driver and my new gamepad driver which i am going to do when i get home today.
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Special Olympics powerlifting event coming to Royal Oak Gym
Help Wanted: People who are able to do some heavy lifting. Experience helpful, but not necessary. Contact Art Little at the Royal Oak Gym at 248-543-7100.
How's an extra 500 bucks sound?
What about $200 or $300 then?
Not bad for a little extra lifting on Saturday afternoon, right?
That will be the prize money at the Powerlifting For Special Olympics benefit event that will be held at the gym, which is located at the corner of 12 Mile and Stephenson Highway.
Personal trainer and world champion powerlifter Art Little is promoting the event, along with attorney Matt Brimer. Their intent is to not only raise money for a great cause, but also introduce the sport to people who might not be that familiar with powerlifting.
"People think you have to be some big 300-pound guy to succeed in powerlifting," said Little. "Well, that is not the case at all."
While Little, who is 57 years old, does not exactly resemble his own last name, he certainly is not the biggest guy on the beach. He is 5-6 and weighs 160 pounds. That stature has not stopped him from holding numerous world records in his age and weight division in the squat, dead lift and total.
He has squatted 606 pounds and dead lifted 617 pounds. This from a guy who started with one of those 125-pound introductory weight sets when he was a teenager attending Cooley High School in Detroit getting ready for the track season. He was a sprinter and a long jumper.
He did not get involved in powerlifting until the mid 1990s when he trained out of a gym in Hamtramck.
On Saturday, there will be two weight classes for men (those weighing 230 pounds or less, and those above 230 pounds) and one division for women.
First place finishers in each division will receive the $500. Second-place nets $300, with $200 going to those who come in third.
The event starts at 2:30 p.m., Saturday. On-site registration must take place no later than 2 p.m., Saturday. The cost for participants is $60. For spectators it is $5, with children 12 and under free.
"People should not be intimidated to come through the doors of the gym," said Little. "While there are some of the strongest people in the world here, everybody is welcome. They don't care if you lift 500 pounds or five pounds."
Included on Team Armageddon, which is based at the Royal Oak Gym, are a pair of 69-year-old women, and another women who is 80 years old.
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After more than a few promptings since I started making jewelry, I've finally decided to take the plunge and throw my designs out there. I've been going back and forth between being super excited and really nervous. Most of the time I'm excited though.
There are a few things that I'm waiting on before I start listing items and "open" the shop:
One, is an order of supplies that will help me stand out from others when customers receive their purchases in the mail.
Two, is reviews from about four people whom I sent jewelry gifts to. I sent them on Thursday, so they should arrive soon. Hopefully, I can coerce them to take some photos of them modeling the jewelry. That would be fun.
Third, and most importantly, I want a few items for people to look at. I have about five right now. I'd like at least ten to start with. It will still feel like I don't have much up, but its a start. After that, I can and probably will, add items as I create them.
So far in this little venture I have discovered that my camera does not like taking close-up photos, I am not very tech-savvy at all, and working out of my in-laws house is a bit of a pain with having to set up and tear down every day.
Someday, I will have my very own room all to myself to design and create in. Until that day, I'm not letting circumstances out of my control bring me down.
Here's hoping for a swift delivery of those packaging supplies and many brilliant design ideas.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
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Sunny Leone's 'Ragini MMS 2' sizzles at the box-office
MUMBAI: Ragini MMS 2 has an eventful opening weekend serving the purpose of casting Sunny Leone in the lead, as she was expected to be the star draw. The film has collected Rs 21.4 crore for the opening weekend; but is not expected to sustain during the week.
Ankhon Dekhi, Lakshmi and Gang Of Ghosts fail to find the audience this weekend.
Bewakoofiyan starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Sonam Kapoor has failed to make a mark at the box office. After an indifferent four day opening weekend, the first week run accounts for Rs 12.55 crore.
Queen continues to defy all norms to exceed its first week collections in week two backed by much appreciation. The film collects Rs 19.2 crore taking its two week tally to Rs 37.7 crore. The film continues to do well in its third week as well; lack of a worthy opposition helping its cause as well.
Gulaab Gang drops below Rs 1 crore in its second week, adds just Rs 90 lakh taking its two week total to Rs 11.1crore.
Total Siyapaa takes its two week tally to Rs 6.35 crore after adding Rs 50 lakh for its second week.
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I've been going to Phnom Penh quite often lately for some projects. It's a mere 6 hour travel by bus but it feels like I'm going to another country. Phnom Penh's mood is so different from Siem Reap that I always consider it sort of a vacation when I'm there. Here's a few of the places I went to in Phnom Penh:
Sophy&Sina. Doesn't look like this building is in Phnom Penh, non? This shop sells original designer bags and items plus an atelier for made-to-measure needs of Khmer fashionistas. On the 5th floor is also the office of F Magazine, the best fashion magazine in Cambodia.
Bistro Lorenzo. A Filipino restaurant serving delicious sizzling squid adobo, paksiw na isda, seafood valenciana and other famous Pinoy dishes that I don't eat (you know, the meat dishes, hehehe).
Blue Pumpkin at the riverside. Stunning view of the river while you indulge in sinfully delectable ice cream, pastries and cakes. They also serve meals based on Khmer favorites but done in a Blue Pumpkin twist. Lovely place to relax especially with an all-white interior and huge comfy daybeds.
Rahu. From the same group that manages Metro comes this charming and chic place for Japanese nibbles and continental small plates while you enjoy a bottle of wine. The moody place is perfect for gossips with friends while you secretly eye the who's who in the crowd.
Korean Grill at Naga World. Lovely food at this Korean restaurant in Phnom Penh's biggest entertainment complex. The most memorable part of the dish was the rice porridge starter. Sublime flavor! The bibimbap was also good and I would go back just for that.
Some Pinoys from the Maldives who are friends with my blogger friend wanted to take a photo with me. It was embarassing but what the heck! It's so nice meeting them there and quite a funny coincidence, don't you think?
Nod's Moist Chocolate Cake. One of the best chocolate cake I have ever tasted. I think he accepts orders so if you're in Phnom Penh and you want to try this you can contact me and I will give you his number.
Franco and moi.
Eng and Toefi.
Noodle House. This hole-in-a-wall place serves that smoky, wok fried noodles you can only get from authentic Chinese restos. You can tell the noodles are also freshly made because of the texture and taste. Yummy! We also got some fried tofu with vegetables and it was a perfect compliment. I think we also had some vegetable dumplings, too. Very affordable place to eat although it's not really chic.


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(1) The name of an ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:30). In the King James Version it occurs also in Luke 3:26, but the Revised Version (British and American) has "Joda" (Westcott-Hort, Ioda).
(2) Judas Iscariot (see separate article).
(3) One of the brothers of Jesus (Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3).
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(4) An apostle, "not Iscariot" (John 14:22). He is generally identified with Lebbaeus (Matthew 10:3) and Thaddeus (Mark 3:18). See LEBBAEUS; THADDAEUS. He is called JUDAS OF JAMES (which see) (Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13), which means "the son of James" not (the King James Version) "the brother of James."
(5) A Galilean who stirred up rebellion "in the days of the enrollment" (Acts 5:37).
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(6) One with whom Paul lodged in Damascus, whose house was in "the street which is called Straight" (Acts 9:11). Nothing further is known of him. A house is pointed out as his, in a lane off the Straight Street.
(7) Judas Barsabbas (Acts 15:22,27,32; see separate article).
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Pakistan - In Lahore, Muslim women slam Valentine's Day for destroying the family.
Pakistan - In Lahore, Muslim women slam Valentine's Day for destroying the family. (AsiaNews).
The goal is "to defend our homes. Secularists and liberals condemn religious leaders for their outdated beliefs, but then do not tolerate it when their daughters and sisters date. We have to save our generation and propagate the culture of honour and respect," said Samia Raheel Qazi, president of the women section of Jamat-e-Islami (Jl), a conservative Islamist Party, during a protest in front of the Press Club of Lahore.
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Protesters also plan to write to those companies that publish unethical advertising in newspapers and magazines.
"The use of Internet and media is harming our culture," Samia Raheel Qazi said. "Our youth are being infected by immorality and their change in behaviour is destroying our family system."
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Film Flops
What makes a classic movie bomb?
By Tom Soter
from DIVERSION, 2000
Everyone knows when a movie's a stinker, right? Take Cutthroat Island, for instance. Anyone in his right mind would question the premise: Geena Davis as a swashbuckling pirate? Anyone looking at the insipid script would have to agree that there was no buried treasure on this Island. And, indeed, after the movie's release, it was pretty obvious that the producers had dug up a bomb of epic proportions. Although the pirate picture cost about $100 million to produce and market, within a month of its release in December 1995, it had taken in only $9 million.
Yes, they should have seen it coming.
But it's not that simple. How do do you explain the fate of the classic Citizen Kane? It was a flop on first release in 1941, ruining the career of its 25-year-old director/star Orson Welles. So were The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Fantasia (1940). Indeed, the Christmas TV perennial It's a Wonderful Life (1946) was such a financial disaster that director-producer Frank Capra initially disowned it, even allowing the copyright to fall into the public domain.
So what makes a flop? That's a question many in Hollywood must be thinking about these days as they await the returns on this summer's high-cost, high-risk releases, all budgeted in the $80-$100 million range: The Lost World, Batman and Robin, Starship Troopers, and Titanic. For as budgets increase (the average Hollywood picture now costs $60 million), so does the risk of failure.
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Finding the formula for flops is not easy, since film fiascoes are as old and varied as the medium itself. The most common type is the Big-Budget, Ego-Driven Failure. D.W. Griffith, considered the father of modern motion picture, also invented the "Director's Mega-Bomb."
The mega-bomb is crafted by a highly successful director like Griffith who has an ego and a vision – and financial backers who have neither. For Intolerance (1916), Griffith demanded and got whatever he wanted: 4,000 extras, a massive set, and a huge budget (the cost of an extravagant orgy scene was more than twice as much as the entire budget for his successful Birth of a Nation). His original vision was for an eight-hour movie. Even in a three-hour version, the confusing, multi-century saga elicited snores. Noted one critic: "The universally heard comment from high-brow or nobrow who tried to get it all in an evening: 'I am so tired!'" Griffith lost everything in the financial disaster.
Sixty-four years later, director Michael Cimino had apparently learned nothing from Griffith's experience, creating a movie that was to become a benchmark for most modern film failures: Heaven's Gate. Cimino, one of Hollywood "wonder kids" of the early '70s, rocketed to fame with a Best Picture Oscar for The Deer Hunter in 1978. He was quickly signed up by inexperienced management executives at United Artists to direct a film of his choosing. Budgeted at $7.8 million, Heaven's Gate was a Cimino-written script about a real-life incident: a violent skirmish between cattle barons and homesteaders in the 19th century American west. Although westerns were out of favor, United Artists' executives okayed the project, giving Cimino carte blanche to execute his dream. Instead, he executed the company.
By the time Heaven's Gate was released in 1980, Cimino had spent $50 million in ways that had become legend. A two-and-a-half minute epilogue cost $1 million. For a half-a-million dollars, he had an entire street constructed and then destroyed because it "didn't look right" to his artistic eye. And he shot 30 takes of a man dropping his pants. The movie needed to gross $140 million just to break even. During the movie's first weekend, however, its take was only $1.3 million at 843 theaters. The Los Angeles Times calculated that the sum was just over $500 a night for each theater which "will barely pay for the film cans used to transport prints of Heaven's Gate." The movie failed so totally – critic Vincent Canby called it an "unqualified disaster" – that United Artists' top management team was fired and the company itself sold.
As a director, Cimino is not alone in crafting Mega-Bombs: Steven Spielberg finished the blockbuster hit E.T. (1978) and made the unfunny farce 1941 (1979), while William Friedkin, flush with success from The Exorcist (1973), crafted Sorceror (1977), a pallid remake of the French classic The Wages of Fear (1953). Both movies were huge failures. Actor and sometime director Kevin Costner was so full of himself after the financial success of his Academy Award-winning directorial debut Dances With Wolves (1990) that he reportedly took over, uncredited, the directing chores of the multi-million-dollar flop Waterworld (1996). And not even the comic genius of director Elaine May (as in the 1950s comic team of Mike Nichols & Elaine May) could save the mega-dollar farce Ishtar (1987) from laying an egg. No one could believe – or apparently even wanted to see – Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman make fools of themselves as fifth-rate songwriters in a spy farce set in Africa. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope they weren't.
The Star Formula
Sometimes, it is not the director but the tyrannical star who becomes the dominant reason for a flop. Cleopatra (1963) had many problems, but the chief one was diva Elizabeth Taylor. Begun in 1958, the movie was started and stopped four times. It had two different directors, two Caesars, two Antonys, but only one Cleopatra: Taylor. She received $125,000 for every week of work that went over schedule (104 weeks), $3,000 a week for expenses, and 10 percent of the gross (her third husband, Eddie Fisher, was also paid $1,500 a day to see that she turned up). The result was a glitzy dud, dominated by Taylor's Cleopatra, depicted as a spoiled fashion plate with 58 costumes (which were constantly being refitted to keep pace with Taylor's expanding girth). Cleopatra, costing an unprecedented $40 million ($150 million in 1997 dollars), nearly bankrupted its studio and only went into the black in 1978.
Similarly, Arnold Schwarzenegger's $100 million Last Action Hero (1993) found another high-priced star out of control. Certainly the premise had promise: what happens when the glitzy fantasy world of movie super-hero Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger), connects with the gritty real world of young hero-worshiper Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien)?
The film was obviously meant to be a free-wheeling parody, but since most of the stunts were directed so deftly, it soon became hard to distinguish Hero from the movies it mocks. In fact, Last Action Hero's biggest difficulty was a big-budget and a creative split personality: it both celebrated and deplored mindless explosions, car wrecks, and death-defying escapes. Audiences were equally confused.
Absolute Producers Corrupting Absolutely
In other cases, the producer has power but no vision. That was the problem with Casino Royale, a 1967 James Bond spoof that has the distinction of being the only Bond movie not to succeed. In fact, it was a creative and financial mess, with an ever-ballooning budget and not one but five directors: John Huston directed 38 minutes, Ken Hughes 25, Joe McGrath 20, Robert Parrish 20, and Val Guest 26. "Three film studios were going at once for the making of the movie: the MGM, Pinewood, and Shepperton Studios," recalls Hughes. "None of us knew what the other guy was doing. When you've got five directors you've got continuity problems. I'd have to call up and find out what an actress was wearing in the sequence before mine. You'd often find, however, that people would walk through the door and have different clothes – and different characters, as well." The all-star cast included David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, John Huston, William Holden, cameos by George Raft and John Paul Belmondo.
In another producer-run mess, The Swarm (1978), the plot finds cockney scientist Michael Caine trying to convince an all-star cast that African killer bees should be taken seriously. Naturally, no one believes him, until a plane, a helicopter, a military base, a picnicking family, and Fred MacMurray are all covered in honey. The Swarm, from disaster film king Irwin (The Poseidon Adventure) Allen, is a 1950s B-flick blown up to epic proportions, with plenty of dull action and cheapo special effects, lots of inept soap opera stuff, a pile of priceless bad sci-fi dialogue ("Cardipep might have eased their palpitations"), and a roster of big stars in small parts. The "take the money and run" prize, however, must go to Jose Ferrer, who appears just long enough to say, "Bees can't hurt me" – and then get blown up in a bee-induced nuclear blast. The movie lost $11 million.
Failures in Cash Only
Many times, however, failure is not justified. The Wizard of Oz went into the red partly because "nearly half of a typical audience for the picture consisted of children, who got in for reduced prices," observed Aljean Harmetz in The Making of The Wizard of Oz, "so that even when the picture played to full houses, the theater made considerably less money than usual."
Studio or outside pressures may also play a role in a movie's lack of success. Citizen Kane, a thinly disguised expose of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, faced attacks from the Hearst empire. Fearing reprisals, many theaters refused to show it. After its initial run, studio RKO claimed it had lost more than $150,000 on the movie. More recently, Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) became embroiled in a studio-director power struggle over the final cut. The result: the studio did not back the film with a solid advertising campaign and it never found a large audience.
Eventually, changing times, a good script, and/or repeated showings on television may help turn a flop into a classic. That certainly has been the case with It's a Wonderful Life and The Wizard of Oz, which have both gained new life with old age. "Distance would do many things to The Wizard of Oz," observed Harmetz. "The over-produced quality that was so offensive to critics in 1939 has 38 years later lent a hand to the picture's being seen as significant. Time has given a wistful charm to the painfully literal Kansas in the picture..." Part of the movie's current appeal is the "revelation of seeing one's own innocence restored, the innocence that allows one to return home...it is in the tangled subtext – beyond or beneath art – that the film has remained alive."
So which of today's flops will be tomorrow's classics? It's anybody's guess. For in Hollywood, making movies has always been both a conjurer's trick and a high-budget role of the dice. "Everyone is gambling with high stakes," former TriStar Pictures chairman Mike Medavoy once told Variety, "It's not unlike Vegas...We'll find out after the fact which ones are smart."
And check your common sense at the door.


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|"Dick Captured by the KGB" won Voina Group the 2011 Russian contemporary art Innovation award
"The tweet, which calls for Putin's assassination, was posted before the prime minister's visit to the Higher School of Economics (http://free-voina.org/post/2608378114). Pyotr chose to post this tweet on behalf of Voina despite knowing that Twitter accounts and blogs are being monitored by the police. At that time, Oleg and I were kept in pre-trial detention.
"This tweet could become a reason for the police to charge both of us under article 277 of the criminal code (which implies a life-term in prison)."
|"As the Truth Turns" Photograph by Stefan van Drake (2006)
Why do Pyotr (Peter) Verzilov and Nadezhda (Nady)Tolokonnikova call themselves the Voina Group although they have nothing to do with authors of the "Dick captured by KGB" and "Palace Revolution" actions: Oleg Vorotnikov, Leonid Nikolayev, Natalia Sokol and Alexei Plutser-Sarno?
Moscow-based cultural expert, philosopher and author Vadim Rudnev (b. 1958) decided to explore this in an interview he conducted in St. Petersburg with Voina members in hiding, specifically for publication in the ArtTraveler blog.
|Dr. Vadim Rudnev
Here it is:
Vadim Rudnev: What's the ideological cause of this discrepancy in the Voina Group?
Why are the authors of the "Dick captured by KGB!" and "Palace Revolution" actions--Vorotnikov, Nikolayev, Sokol and Plutser-Sarno--trying to disassociate themselves from the imitators Pyotr Verzilov and Nady Tolokonnikova?
Natalia Sokol: It's not just an ideological difference of views that we have with them. Those provokers and betrayers were expelled from the group. In 2009, soon after they were drummed out of the group, they occupied themselves with plagiarism and fraud.
Vadim Rudnev: What was their role in the group?
Alexei Plutser-Sarno: In 2008-2009, Pyotr and Nady were ordinary "walking people" in the actions of Oleg Vorotnikov and Natalia Sokol. In my presence they didn't suggest a single idea for an action. They never did creative work. They were occupied with self-promotion.
Vadim Rudnev: Do you have a concrete example?
Alexei Plutser-Sarno: Let's take a look at how one of the Voina actions, say, Decembrists Commemoration, was planned. Brainstorming started with Natalia's idea to stage something horrifying with a lethal outcome in the end. Oleg suggested the whole group should hang themselves in public.
|Alexei Plutser-Sarno
Oleg Vorotnikov: Plut <Alexei Plutser-Sarno's nickname> said then that the effect would be more dramatic if we'd be hangmen – not "suicide" victims. Koza (Natalia's nickname) and I agreed. Plut told us that it would be great to dedicate this action to Decembrists and suggested a slogan "No one gives a fuck about Pestel!"
Yana Sarna: Pyotr Verzilov didn't participate in this creative work. As usual, he came to the action to show off in front of the photo cameras. As usual, he drew supermarket security by his silly behavior and nearly ruined the action.
Oleg Vorotnikov: Nady Tolokonnikova was told to go up the ladder, attach a loop around the neck of one of the "victims".
Well, she went up the ladder all right, but she completely forgot about the loop. That's why one part of the photo shoot failed. Usually we tried not to give her two tasks at a time, but that time we hoped that she could handle it. Apart from that, all she could do was march in front of the cameras with a "revolutionist-like" face.
Yana Sarna: After the action in various interviews Pyotr and Nady called themselves the authors of this action, as well as leaders and ideologists of the group. They always plagiarize and take the credit for other people's works.But you know, an apprentice can't take credit for his teacher's masterpieces even though he helped him to mix colours and handled him brushes.
Natalia Sokol: Four activists were arrested within this action. Plut and Vor <Oleg Vorotnikov's nickname> went to liberate them from the police office in the supermarket. Among them there were two photographers. Plut secretly managed to take away all the memory cards with photo documentation.
Alexei Plutser-Sarno: Pyotr and Nady disappeared from the place immediately. They didn't help anyone.
Vadim Rudnev: What was the final reason of Pyotr and Nady's expulsion from the group?
Alexei Plutser-Sarno: In Kiev, Pyotr and Nady were going to make an action together with activist Alexander Volodarsky. As the action started they left him in the hands of the local cops and ran to give interviews to mass media.
Oleg Vorotnikov: Pyotr ratted out Volodarsky to the cops and informed us about it with joy and satisfaction.
He tried to convince Koza and me that it'd be a good PR move for the Voina Group. He is so immoral that he didn't even understand why we were so outraged by his words. He said to us: "Are you insane! It's such a good opportunity and an incredible PR move for us. I've already given a dozen interviews!".
As a result, Alexander spent two months in pre-trail detention. He got one year in a labor camp. This incident led to their expulsion from the group.
This decision was carried unanimously at the meeting of the Voina Group's leaders on December 20, 2009 (http://plucer.livejournal.com/229596.html).
Natalia Sokol: Pyotr and Nady not only ratted out Alexander, afterwards, they also stole his personal belongings – laptop, money etc.
Oleg Vorotnikov: Pyotr even suggested to share the money with other activists, assuming it's normal to do so.
Leonid Nikolayev: To prevent the spread of information on his expulsion, Pyotr planted a lie about "a split in the group" and "a Moscow fraction", which never existed.
Yana Sarna: The lie about "Moscow fraction" sounds ridiculous, as Tolokonnikova is from Norilsk and Verzilov is a Canadian citizen.
Plutser-Sarno, Nikolayev, Curpen and some others were born and have lived their entire lives in Moscow. Vorotnikov and Sokol have lived in Moscow for 16 years. So what we have is Verzilov and Tolokonnikova, provokers and plagiarists, and the Voina Group – Oleg Vorotnikov, Leonid Nikolayev, Natalia Sokol, Kasper, Jenny Curpen, Alexei Plutser-Sarno.
Leonid Nikolayev: In 2010, Pyotr and Nady kept on giving interviews about the actions, in which they never participated and which were held by Vor, Koza and me, - namely Dick captured by KGB, Palace Revolution, Crazy Lenya is our President and others. Despite not having been involved in them in any way, Pyotr claimed authorship in an interview to REN TV.
Oleg Vorotnikov: In this video as a proof of being a Voina leader Verzilov shows our banners and other stuff, which he stole from Voina secret storage. Earlier he denied the fact he committed the burglary.
Leonid Nikolayev: In summer 2010, when Pyotr was already expelled, he called me and asked "for old time's sake" to inform him about new actions so he could give interviews on our behalf.
The unprincipled man promised me benefits in return. Now Pyotr travels all over Europe with the works by Oleg, Natalia, Alexei and shows them in galleries, claiming that he is the group's leader.
For example, now he is exhibiting Oleg and Natalia's work of authorship – "All cops are bastards: Punk-concert in the courtroom" in Sweden. Neither Pyotr nor Nady thought up that action. They just were present in the courtroom along with many other activists.
There are three creative authors and an ideologist in the group who are responsible for all the old actions – Oleg Vorotnikov, Natalia Sokol and Alexei Plutser-Sarno, group's media artist.
Vadim Rudnev: What happened to the group's archive?
Oleg Vorotnikov: In May 2010, Pyotr Verzilov and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova broke into our storage and stole the whole Voina archive: banners, my personal library, original video footage of the actions, disks with various info, our music library, equipment, including amplifiers, loud speakers, DVD-players, projectors etc. They stole my desk top with all the info on Voina. They denied the fact of burglary, but a bit later their friend Katya asked us to take some of the stolen stuff from her balcony – things that Pyotr and Nady left there as useless.
Natalia Sokol: I caught Peter once when he was downloading all the data, including a Voina photo archive from my laptop. He didn't return anything and insisted he didn't do anything. Later I realized that his theft was much more extensive than I thought before. For example, he also got all my usernames and passwords to various websites. He changed passwords to several Flickr accounts, where to I uploaded photos of Voina actions. In happened in January 2009. Now I don't have any access to them.
Alexei Plutser-Sarno: Peter stole the idea of the "Cockroach court" action from Oleg. The idea of using insects, such as cockroaches or bees, was discussed at the group meeting in 2009, when Peter was still in the group.
At the "Cockroach court" action Peter didn't manage to get the cockroaches inside the courtroom. But he lied about it to journalists. You won't be able to find any pics or video of this co-called action as they don't exist – cockroaches were confiscated by the court security at the entrance.
Natalia Sokol: Pyotr tried to compensate this total failure by his usual clownery, posing and lying to the cameras in front of the court.
Oleg Vorotnikov: There is only one glamorous pic of this action - naked Nady lying with cockroaches on her breasts (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4793202948_43ba720c98_b.jpg). That's not Voina style. That's a disgrace. Pyotr simulates protest and counts on gutter press.
Alexei Plutser-Sarno: Our slogan, "Anyone can make actions!" is still alive. But if Oleg, Natalia and Leonid make new risky actions, Peter and Nady only use this slogan as a cover to steal our ideas and make feeble copycat actions.
Leonid Nikolayev: When they try to do their own actions it turns out to be a complete disaster. Take for instance, their latest shallow action in which they hugged cops and fed them with chicken. Previously, they once again discredited Voina's name by frenching young female police school students in the Moscow metro.
Alexei Plutser-Sarno: Their actions are a mere clownery that has nothing to do with heroic art of the Voina Group.
Oleg Vorotnikov: We provoke the authorities. Pyotr is occupied with provocations against Voina.
When Volodarsky was taken to the police, he called Pyotr three times to warn that cops were heading to the flat where Pyotr, Nady, Koza and I stayed. Pyotr and Nady packed their belongings very quickly and told us they were going "for a walk". They didn't give us any hint at what was going on. A bit later we saw the cops from the window coming for us. We managed to escape, but we had to leave all our stuff there.
Natalia Sokol: Pyotr tried to rat the Voina Group to the police many times. When asked to turn off his cell at the group meetings, he never did it as he knew his phone was tapped. It was an absolutely deliberate act. Other activists not only turned their phones off but they also took out batteries.
Oleg Vorotnikov: But the most hideous of his provocations was one when he filmed anarchists' faces during the well-known Khimki forest rally. He afterwards uploaded this video to the Internet and credited it to the Voina Group (http://news.nswap.info/?p=36820&cp).
This aroused honest anarchists' hatred towards our group. You see Pyotr introduced himself to them as a Voina activist and wormed himself into their confidence. Anarchists believed his words that he would never publish their faces. That's why they didn't hide their faces from him.
Natalia Sokol: He set up a lot of people, even journalists. Peter justified his title of provoker.
Leonid Nikolayev: Pyotr and Nady are using their fake Twitter account (http://twitter.com/gruppa_voina) to publish statements on behalf of the group. One of those statements appeared to be a provocation aimed at initializing a new case against the Voina Group.
The tweet, which calls for Putin's assassination, was posted before the prime minister's visit to the Higher School of Economics (http://free-voina.org/post/2608378114). Pyotr chose to post this tweet on behalf of Voina despite knowing that Twitter accounts and blogs are being monitored by the police.
At that time, Oleg and I were kept in pre-trail detention. This tweet could become a reason for the police to charge both of us under article 277 of the criminal code (which implies a life-term in prison).
Natalia Sokol: When Oleg and Lenya were arrested, Pyotr rushed to give interviews in which he misinformed everyone about their location. He said they were kept in the Kresty prison.
This provocation led to dramatic consequences – in the first 10 days all the food, letters, clothes etc, sent by Voina supporters didn't reach our guys. The lawyers were also misled by this lie.
Leonid Nikolayev: Neither Pyotr Verzilov nor his wife Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who claim to be Voina leaders, supported or helped us while we were in prison. They never sent us a single food parcel, never wrote us a single letter; we got nothing from them.
At that time Pyotr Verzilov had the nerve to lie in mass media about his generous help to us. To help a prisoner you don't need to have anything but goodwill. This is exactly what Verzilov is lacking.
Oleg Vorotnikov: At the same time Verzilov blacked other activists, who really helped us, while we were in jail. While Plutser-Sarno launched a campaign in mass media in our support, helped to organize food parcels – he transferred an honorarium for his new book to Lyubka, who was buying food for us, Peter in his blog wrote fantastic cynic lies about him.
Alexei Plutser-Sarno: Verzilov and Tolokonnikova maintain the LiveJournal account http://wisegizmo.livejournal.com which has been used by them to discredit the group by publishing fake news about Voina actions that never happened and to fling mud at real activists.
Oleg Vorotnikov: Verzilov is a liar, a thief, a police provoker and dexterous deceiver.
Vadim Rudnev is a Russian linguist, philosopher and theoretician of psychiatry, having earned a PhD in philology from Tartu University. He authored 18 professional publications, according to Wikipedia, including "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cultural 20th Century," "Madness and Success in the Culture." He lives and works in Moscow.
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Bush Man Scares People in Park [VIDEO]
Now this is funny! The Bush Man pops out and scares people in New York's Central Park.
What a great idea! The Bush Man covers himself in ivy and waits for people to walk then jumps out at the them! Ya, gotta love this!


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"The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over. If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts, or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office." -Leonardo DiCaprio
The vibe that I am getting from here, there and everywhere is that your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists.
Of course, your blog is your blog. But, I sense that you are about to experience the 'Big Cutoff' from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included. -Michael Schlesinger to reporter Andy Revkin


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How many meters?
How Many Meters
I was reading a science magazine about the amazing sights seen through the Hubble and noticed a comment regarding some of the pictures being events having occurred billions of years ago. My immediate response was to say, really, you took a picture of something that happened billions of years ago, what a cool trick.
Now, most people take billions of light years at face value, in that a distant galaxy is in fact situated billions of light years from the Hubble, but is it?
I don't believe in light years, in fact I insist that light is not even in linear motion and if light is not moving like a train or a plane how could it travel all the way from the far reaches of space? The short answer is that it doesn't.
What you see is what you get and that's it, as there are no billions of light years to even consider.
But on the forum Jim brought up an interesting point about the speed of gravity versus light speed, in respect to the question of whether gravity travels faster than light speed, as when the gravity of the sun is checked out, the sun is situated 8 min. ahead of where we see it located, which is thought to be due to the idea that the image of the sun takes 8 min. to reach us traveling at the speed of light, whereas the speed of gravity might be considered instantaneous or faster than the speed of light.
In that time slows isometrically from the center of the Earth and accelerates symmetrically to the center of the Earth, there is a difference between the distance to the sun from the Earth and the distance from the sun to the Earth, as the two are not the same at all. The shorter distance is from the sun to the Earth, with the Earth as the system of reference.
But if you were to reverse the process whereby it might be possible to have the sun as your system of reference, the shorter distance would be from the Earth to the sun.
Consequently there is a differential in dynamic potential existing between the Earth and the sun, with the sun having the higher dynamic potential, which maintains the space between them and their relative motion to each other.
In this respect the sun is moving away from the Earth faster than the Earth is moving away from the sun, while at the same time the sun is expanding faster than the Earth, so we notice very little difference in the size of the sun.
Like light, gravity doesn't move linearly through space, as gravity is a dynamic condition of field which is decreasing in proportion to the acceleration of field.
Gravity decreases in proportion to the square of the distance as does light diminish from it's source in the same manner.
So the differential between the Earth and the sun is roughly 8 min., relative to the Earth as our system of reference, which is continuously increasing.
But when we measure the gravity of the sun, we are measuring the gravity of the sun and not a differential in dynamic potential, so there is no differential to measure.
We must realize that the condition of the sun affects the suns field, as a unified field of frequency, which means the continuous acceleration of the sun's field affects an instantaneous increase in the expansion of Universe remaining relative to the sun, in the same manner as the condition of the Earth's field, as a unified field of frequency, which means that the continuous acceleration of the Earth's field affects an instantaneous increase in the expansion of Universe remaining relative to the Earth. But both conditions and both rates of expansion are different.
To clear up any misunderstanding about light traveling from the depths of space we can consider the basic concept of vision, in that it is assumed that light enters the eye. Whoa, would that be painful or what, as you'd be blinded in the process.
Light does not enter the eye, as the eye is a field frequency receptor which is intended to provide us with sight adequate to our survival. So vision is a lot like memory, in that both the field of vision and the content of memory exist as field frequency.
So it does not require light to be in linear motion to be received by the eye, just as memory is not in linear motion, whereby we can remember a memory as often as we wish for many years. But we have this crazy idea that memory is embedded in the fabric of our brains, but just how that works no one is quite sure. And of course memory is not trapped in our brain, otherwise we would run out of storage space and require an auxiliary brain.
So when we look into deep space we see what exists relative to the Earth as our system of reference. And even in space, despite our limited understanding of space, we remain within the field of the Earth.
A distant galaxy seen through the Hubble exists relative to our Earth at the present time and does not exist billions of years ago, as it exists in the present relative to the Earth as it is. The billions of years are pure fiction, they don't exist.
The lens of the Hubble modulates the condition of space relative to the Earth, which gives us these fantastic pictures of distant galaxies, but it does not involve billions of light years. What it does involve is a differential in dynamic potential remaining relative to our planet Earth, which is not the same thing at all.
You can't measure space with a meter rule or a yard stick, as the meter rule and the yard stick get longer as you move deeper into space, just as the second becomes longer as you move deeper into space, which means you wont reach your distant galaxy.
But coming the other way the meter rule gets shorter and the second gets shorter, which makes the return trip shorter than the out bound voyage, which is why the Earth looks so big from the moon. The two distances are not the same, as the distance from the Earth to the moon is longer and the distance from the moon to the Earth is shorter relative to the field of the Earth.
So the distance involved is a differential in dynamic potential and has nothing to do with meter rules or yard sticks, nor does it have anything to do with the speed of light or light years.
To attempt to defend the idea of light speed being constant requires some fictional information to be injected, as the speed of light is a relative variable at best.
The apparent speed of light is a condition of the field in which the light is perceived to be in linear motion, but it is not the light which is in motion as it is the field itself which is accelerating, but not going anywhere other than expanding or contracting.
The linear motion of a planet, moon or star is a very serious occurrence as this really upsets the harmony of Universe. In fact the linear motion of the Earth in any direction would bring about global disaster.
So while we're at it why don't we consider the dynamic differential between the sun and Mars, as this differential suggests that Mars should be closer to the sun. This means that Mars has at some time in the past been displaced from it's original orbit, which means there is a very real potential for further restructuring of the solar field.
Time is different for every system of Universe, of course it is, but there is no known means by which to determine the linear dimensions of Universe, despite what anyone might like to believe.
There is a different non-simultaneous condition of Universe remaining relative to every system of Universe, each of which is expanding or contracting at a different rate. And each and every one of these conditions is equally valid in terms of the real deal, as the physical condition of Universe is a dynamic condition remaining relative to the system of reference.
This allows both past and future conditions of Universe to exist simultaneously and remain relative to the non-simultaneous condition of Universe remaining relative to the system of reference, whereby there are an infinite number of conditions existing simultaneously. Therefore no one condition is any more real than another, as they are all equally real.
I suppose the people who think they can take pictures of events having occurred billions of years ago are the same people who think rockets are going to get us to the stars. Yet if you asked these same people if the condition of the moon existing relative to the Earth was a historical condition of the moon or a future condition of the moon, they would say neither one. They would say that the condition of the moon was contemporary with that of the Earth.
Unfortunately they would be wrong, as the existing condition of the moon, which remains relative to the Earth, is a historic condition of the moon existing relative to the present condition of the Earth. Yet the moon is our closest neighbor.
Time is not the result of space and motion, but space and motion are the result of time, in relation to a non-linear evaluation of time field frequency acceleration.
And meter rules have nothing to do with it, nor does the linear speed of light.