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Hey Folks,
I've been waiting desperately to get my hands on the new Molehill API. Adobe made a public release with their flash player 11 incubator build.
I've been trying to keep up with the news and get my hands dirty. This post is just a summary of what all I've found out and tried so far 🙂
First things first!
What is Molehill ?
"Molehill" is the code name for a new set of low-level, GPU-accelerated 3D APIs that will enable advanced 3D experiences across screens through the Adobe® Flash® Platform runtimes. These new low-level APIs will provide advanced 3D and 3D engine developers the flexibility to leverage GPU hardware acceleration for significant performance gains. Today, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, renders thousands of non z-buffered triangles at approximately 30 Hz. With the new 3D APIs, developers can expect hundreds of thousands of z-buffered triangles to be rendered at HD resolution in full screen at around 60 Hz. Using the new 3D APIs in Flash Player and AIR will make it possible to deliver sophisticated 3D experiences across almost every computer and device connected to the Internet.
The 3D capabilities enabled by the new APIs will also be available to the broader developer community through popular ActionScript® 3D frameworks, such as Alternativa3D, Away3d, CopperCube, Flare3D, Minko, Sophie3D or Yogurt3D
How Can You Use Molehill ?
You need the following:
1) Flash Player 11 Incubator Build – This is a beta release by Adobe of the new Flash Player which has support for the Molehill API calls.
2) A 3D Framework/Engine/API – Well, you dont really need this if you can do really low level coding (Check out the link to Understanding Molehill below). But, in case you'd like to create a demo soon, I highly recommend using a 3D framework, like Away3D, Alternativa3D etc.
3) A 3D Artist – Yeah!!! You'd need 3D models to load up and have fun! If you're like me and don't know 3D modelling, you'd probably have to find a friend who can help you.
4) An IDE (Integrated Development Environment) – I use FDT, but you could try the free FlashDevelop OR IntelliJ (looks promising! I think its free!). John Lindquist has some really nice discussions about IDE to use for Actionscript3 development. He's got video tutorials for IntelliJ too 🙂
5) Enthusiasm! 🙂
Setup Everything To Start Using Molehill.
I started out by trying to use AlternativaPlatform. They released v8.5 of their API which has wrappers for Molehill.
Note: The links below would help you to setup Molehill (Flash Player Incubator) with your IDE (FDT4.3 for me). The 2nd link will help you setup Alternativa8 too.
In case you decide to use another 3D engine like Away3D or Sophie3D, their installation support / documentation would probably be the best place to get help to get setup.
To set Alternativa8 & Molehill up in FDT4.3, I followed instructions on the links below and then I could get their examples to compile!
– http://www.swfgeek.net/2011/03/07/targeting-flash-player-11incubator-build-in-fdt-4-2/
– http://alternativaplatform.com/en/support/setup/
– http://www.allforthecode.co.uk/aftc/forum/user/modules/forum (Away3D – Setting Up BroomStick examples.)
Since I haven't used Alternativa earlier, I wasn't too familiar with their API. So I started hunting for more news on
Molehill and got to know that Away3D's come up with an API wrapper for Molehill too. It's called "BroomStick"
The examples look brilliant!!
I am in the process of downloading the API right now and hopefully I can play around with it to get a demo up and running too!
My resources on Molehill are scattered as of now.
But here are a few that I thought were really helpful.
The Flash Player
Adobe Labs Molehill Page
Setup Flash Player 11 Incubator and FDT4
Alternativa Blog
Alternativa 8 Setup
Understanding Molehill – Digging Deeper Into Molehill
Understanding Molehill – Alternativa 3D 8 Migration (Talks about a few underlying concepts of the flash player).
Away3D – BroomStick
Away3D – Setting Up BroomStick examples.
MoleHill Demos
Gotta get back to work!!


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Find two passages that include nature imagery in chapters 7-11. Identify the images and explain the purpose of each passage.
In Chapter 7, Victor's brother os murdered by the monster. Shelly contrasts the pastoral tranquility of a country stroll with the ominous sense of absence,
"Last Thursday (May 7th), I, my niece, and your two brothers, went to walk in Plainpalais. The evening was warm and serene, and we prolonged our walk farther than usual. It was already dusk before we thought of returning; and then we discovered that William and Ernest, who had gone on before, were not to be found. We accordingly rested on a seat until they should return. Presently Ernest came, and inquired if we had seen his brother: he said, that he had been playing with him, that William had run away to hide himself, and that he vainly sought for him, and afterwards waited for him a long time, but that he did not return."
Victor flees to the mountains to find some sort of peace from the ruins inflicted by his creation. Again Shelly uses nature as a balance to violence and chaos. Always, however, the darkness is brought with Victor to wherever he runs to.
"Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me: but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations. It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows. My wanderings were directed towards the valley of Chamounix. I had visited it frequently during my boyhood. Six years had passed since then: I was a wreck -- but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes."


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On-line Book ReviewYO TOMITA
The literature on the work is equally numerous, covering a diverse range of issues surrounding the works origin, process of revision, reception as well as those dealing with theological significance. There are also several important developments in recent research, such as those addressing the chronology of individual movements in the collections (by Christoph Wolff) and Bachs understanding of the basic corpus of hymnody (Robin Leaver).
This is the first substantial monograph in English devoted to the Orgelbüchlein. When compared with the classic three-volume set by Peter Williams (The Organ Music of J. S. Bach, Cambridge, 1980-4) or the Kritischer Bericht of Neue Bach Ausgabe by Heinz-Harald Löhlein, Stinson clearly has the advantage over his predecessors from the recent research. Through a detailed and critical examination of Bachs autograph manuscript, Stinson not only points out the tenuous ground on which Löhlein proposed his version of the chronology and offered a more plausible alternative, but also demonstrates how Bach wrote the Orgelbüchlein in the order that he set each piece into the autograph manuscript, and how the work was developed stylistically.
For a more general readership, his one-page commentary of individual pieces in Chapters 4-6 is perhaps more immediately useful. Written in a style similar to Peter Williams, his discussion addresses certain stylistic issues as well as the interpretation offered by the previous scholars. The main difference between his and Williams is somewhat superficial, i.e. the arrangement: while Williams discusses them in the order of BWV, Stinson does it in a hypothetical order of compilation. By dividing the collection into three chronological groups, i.e. early, middle and late, Stinson attempts to draw our attention to Bachs stylistic development over the years. While his intention is good, there is an unfortunate drawback: since each piece is discussed individually, there is little narrative drive or connection to the other pieces. Furthermore, some readers may find it difficult to consult each piece at a second reading using either the contents or index provided: it is a mistake, in my view, not to have supplied BWV number in the contents page. Moreover, the index gives the pieces in BWV order, but since the works are discussed and referred to so frequently, it can be frustrating to locate the pages where the main discussion of the piece is made. This could have resolved by simply highlighting the page number(s) in bold or italics.
The other contribution by Stinson is the engaged, scholarly discussion
on the works reception in eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries
(Chapter 7). The reception history is a hot topic in recent Bach Studies,
and Stinsons contribution is particularly welcome here, filling in an
important gap left by the scholars in the past.
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Call of Duty World at War Co-op Is Not Working? Call of Duty: World at War
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Whenever I open the server browser and refresh, only a 5-10 games show up. Whenever I try to join one nothing happens at all. I can join a normal multiplayer game just not co-op.
I have tried the following fixes: Re downloading Cod WAW, Reinstalling and updating Punk Buster, Downloaded patch 1.1, forwarding the ports on my router, running as administrator, and opening up all of the the filters.
Please help, I am at wits end -Cmdr31 cmdr31op - 10 years ago
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I'm having the same issue. I've forwarded the following ports: 28930-28970, 3074-3075, 443, 80, 5223, 27666. I can connect to all the multiplayer games, but no co-op. And when I'm searching for Co-op games, the only ones that come up are the ones that have an X under the hammer icon (which I assumed to mean Mod content).
But even the ones I see, I can't join. Some of them when I click Join server, nothing happens, like I"m not even clicking it. And for some of them it tries to connect and it always says "This game session is no longer available".
Me and my friend were trying for 3 hours to connect to each other in co-op to no avail. Anyone have a clue what's going on here? plowman33 - 10 years ago
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I can't really do that because there is more than one computer on my network. Also my computer is far away from my modem. I hope this gets resolved in the next patch. cmdr31op - 10 years ago
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I'm having the same problem, here's what I've tried so far. Didn't work for me but maybe you'll have better luck.
I've probably read 50 threads about coop problems trying to fix this issue, not just here but at other gaming forums as well. I'm fairly experienced with networking and computers in general, but I've tried everything I can think of (and I think everything that has been suggested so far elsewhere) and I still can't get a local coop game to work. I originally posted a similar thread in the technical support thread but I was told that was an inappropriate place so I thought I'd try here as well.
I've got two legitimate copies of the game, both patched to 1.4 and punkbuster up to date on both PC's. I've tried forwarding the following ports (as suggested by portforward.com):
Both: 28930-28960
Both PC's are using static IP address. I've tried two different routers (a Zonet ZSR4124WE, and a DLink DI-604), and a crossover cable. And I've verified that the PC's can see each other on the network (via ping and network neighborhood).
I've also tried turning off all port forwarding except for 28961 and 28962 and explicitly setting the port to use at launch (e.g., +set net_port 28961 at the command prompt). I'm using a 64 bit XP box and a Windows 7 64bit box. On the win 7 PC I wasn't able to figure out how to give it runtime commands through the shortcut so I just launched the game through the command line in order to use the +set net_port command. Also I tried having just one computer set with an explicit port as detailed in another post but that didn't work either.
I've tried using both computers as the server. I've tried using friend invites (these result in a "Game session no longer available" error). I've tried searching with Find Game and going to LAN sometimes I can see the game (detailed below), but get the session no longer available error when I try to join. I've set the max Ping to 999 and to 0. I've tried hosting an online coop game (once again I can find it but I can't join).
I AM able to join other players online coop games. And multiplayer works fine.
Firewall exceptions are all in place, and I've tried it with the firewall turned completely off too.
If I have the XP box host the game I can see it in the servers list from the win 7 box, but when I try to join it tells me that the game is not in session anymore. If the win 7 PC hosts the game I can't see it at all from the XP box.
I'm especially confused about why it doesn't work when I use a crossover cable. There's no router to complicate things, and I know I have a good crossover cable and the proper setup because all other networking tasks function correctly.
Like I said, I've seen a lot of other people who have had the same issue. Has anyone ever gotten it to work? Even if you don't know how to fix it I'd love to know how many others are being affected by this. Activision will not troubleshoot multiplayer problems over the phone, and their knowledge base answers for these issues are generic and unhelpful. Treyarch forums are really just links back to these. I feel like I'm at a dead end. Very sad, I was really (really) looking forward to shooting my buddies in the back. loweb1 - 9 years ago
Try plugging your computer directly into the modem and by passing the router all together. It worked for me. Razrak - 10 years ago
That happens to me a lot as well the best way to be in a coop is to host one. GoldenMegamanX - 9 years ago
I have had similar problems where i could enter Co-op games but could not host
after seeking forums i have opened these port which for 80% solved the issue for me
COD5 Ja UDP 20800 20800 192.168.1.5 mer0
COD5A Ja UDP 20810 20810 192.168.1.5 mer0
COD5B Ja UDP 28960 28970 192.168.1.5 mer0
and @Razak, Some people like myself have modem/routers which we get from our ISP's so there is nothing to bypass :-) Embay - 9 years ago
I have done alot of ways to make this game work, APPEARNTLY there are so many factors you will be very dissappointed.
take it from my years for working on my laptops and the different models i have used.
i did this for (LAN MODE ONLY)
How to make laptops , desktops work with one another to host a lan game that works.
1, models have to be very, very closely related, just being a dell is vague but sometimes works, models have to be within the same line of of models, like my laptops, inspirons with inspirons or latitudes with latidudes, sometimes inspiron with latitdudes sometimes works, but i have yet to see a compaq with a hp or a hp with a dell or dell with compaq.
2, must have same type of windows, xp with xp works/ xp with vista does not work/,xp with windows 7 does not work, /vista with vista works, /vista with windows 7 does not work./ windows 7 with windows 7 does not work.
for the ones that work they must be the same edition, as in pro with pro, or home with home, or prem with prem.
3 must be legit serial codes, not over used pirated ones.
If you have been ok with lan partys and managed to get past all of that or have never had the lan problem then thumbs up your one of the very few. Tedmouse - 6 years ago
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There just aren't enough models to go around tonight. Rival agencies are said to be threatening their girls with future unemployment to staff their Fashion's Night Out events. Elizabeth Frank, president of Eye5 Marketing, says bosses at rival Cosmopolitan Management are telling models they won't work again unless they cancel other bookings and work their events tonight instead. She said, "There has been a race among firms to book their models as fast as they can." Cosmopolitan Management's Michael McLean said, "We have a lot of loyal models on our books."
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|January 27, 2015 at 4:30 PM - Board of Education Special Meeting
1. Call to Order
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1.1. Roll Call
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2. Action Items
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2.1. Review of prior meetings, and approval (optional)
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2.2. Determine whether to notify the Superintendent that the Board will consider the cancellation or non-renewal of his employment contract; to discuss entering into negotiations for the buyout of the employment contract and other matters involving the Superintendent's contract.
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2.3. Discuss and determine whether to organize a committee to meet with other school districts regarding a co-operation agreement for athletics and other extra-curricular activities and to appoint members to that committee.
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2.4. Discuss the student incentives list and determine three to five items to pursue the possibility of implementing. Direct an individual or committee to explore the feasibility of implementing the determined incentives.
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I love Saturdays! Today, I am going to head down to Central World to do some shopping, then yoga in the park, then it's time for the organic Farmer's Market at K Village on soi 26. After that, my friend and I are going to meet up and I'll be making Chana Masala for the first time ever! Two new recipes in one day!
But first, I crave chocolate. Here's a delicious, simple and healthy chocolate muffin recipe! It's not too sweet, but you can add more sugar if you need to.
What I love about this recipe is that the main flours are great sources of protein and energy (buckwheat & oats). Oats are great for cardiovascular health, as well as stabilizing your immune system. Buckwheat is an ancient grain, so we humans are used to metabolizing this easily digestible protein. Both of these flours also gradually release energy, so you don't suffer a sugar crash, like with other muffins. These two flours combine the basis of all my cooking and baking needs.
Start by preheating your oven to 180 degrees Celsius, or 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Next, gather your dry ingredients. In a large bowl, mix together the following ingredients:
- 3/4 cup buckwheat flour (available from Arrowhead Mills in most Topps, or order from Good Karma)
- 3/4 cup gluten free oat flour (I use Bob's Red Mills Gluten Free Rolled Oats. I blitz them into a flour using a food processor)
- 1/2 cup Hershey's Unsweetened Cocoa
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp flax seed (for extra protein and fibre)
- 2/3 cup chopped walnuts (optional – but great source of healthy fats for vegetarians. Go on, add some!)
- 1/4 cup Gluten Free Oats – for topping the muffins
In a second mixing bowl, mix the wet ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (usually 3 large ones. I like to freeze them the night before, as it softens them and adds a bit of moisture)
- 1/3 cup honey or brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg (Vegan? Use 1 tbsp of ground flax seeds and 3 tbsp of water)
- 3/4 cup milk (any type of milk – dairy, almond, soy, rice etc)
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Be sure to grease the top of your muffin tray, so that when the muffins rise, they don't stick to the tin. Use a tbsp measure to spoon the mixture into the muffin cups. Top with a sprinkling of oats.
Bake for 20-30 mins, or until a toothpick inserted in the centre of the muffins comes out clean. These muffins will make your house smell scrumptious!
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Edith Sharon (McCarthy) Friesen, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away at the Cypress Regional Hospital with her family at her side. Sharon peacefully entered into the arms of her personal Saviour, Jesus Christ, on December 10, 2015, at the age of 72, after a brief battle with cancer. Her Memorial Service was held on Friday December 18, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. from the Alpine Church of God, Swift Current, with Reverend Alex Allan officiating. The music was performed by Sharon Penny and Roxane Funk a solo and Power Point tribute were presented by Brenda Sebo and a musical presentation was performed by Janet Friesen and Diedra Whitella, eulogy presented by Sergeant Ryan Sebo. The Urn Bearers were her sons, Mike and Robert Friesen. The Life Tributes were presented by her grandsons, Master Corporal Matthew Sebo and Shane Friesen. The ushers were her grandsons, Sergeant Ryan Sebo, Master Corporal Matthew Sebo and Brendan Friesen. Honorary Pallbearers were all who shared in her life. Sharon was born on October 19, 1943 at Clearwater JCT, Tuberose SK. Sharon lived briefly on the farm south east of Kyle. Her parents later moved to Swift Current where she attended school at Elmwood Elementary School. She was united in marriage to George Friesen on October 19, 1960 at Swift Current SK. They made their homes in Webb, Gull Lake and Swift Current. Sharon was a passionate homemaker and loved her time caring for her family. She did work briefly at the Gull Lake Nursing Home but soon found herself missing being at home. Sharon also enjoyed crocheting and reading and absolutely loved living on the acreage and working in her garden. Sharon is survived by her husband, George; children, Brenda (Gerald) Sebo, Robert Friesen (Giselle Mourre), Tracy Hammett (Jason Looker), Mike and Janet Friesen; grandchildren, Amber (Shaun) Ring, Sergeant Ryan (Kelsey) Sebo, Master Corporal Matthew (Sarah) Sebo, Tay-Lynn Friesen, Chantel (Mike) Wychopen, Brendan Friesen, Sarah Hammett (Trevor Jones), Kyle Hammett (Cassandra Augustine), Ross Whitell, Diedra Whitell, Trina Friesen and Shane Friesen; by great-grandchildren, Eden Ring, Gabriel Sebo, Corbin, Kyra and Kristen Friesen, Kaidyn, Paetyn, and Westyn Wychopen and Amaris Hammett; by brother, Robert (Dolores) McCarthy; brother-in-laws, Herman (Sandy) Friesen, Clarence (Susan) Friesen, Harvey Friesen, Pete Thiessen and Ivan Stevens; by sister-in-laws, Martha (Dave) Neufeld and Keitha Friesen; and by numerous nieces and nephews. Sharon was predeceased by her parents, Joesph and Esther McCarthy; her infant son, Douglas William Friesen; brother, George McCarthy; mother and father-in-law, Robert and Helen Friesen; brother-in-law, Ed Friesen; and sister-in-laws, Irene Friesen, Lillian Thiessen and Doris Stevens. Sharon will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by her family and friends. Memorial Donations may be made in her memory to the Lung Association of Saskatchewan, 1231 8th Street E., Saskatoon SK S7H 0S5. Warren's Funeral Home were entrusted with the arrangements. For further information call 306-773-8831 or 1-800-267-6606 or visit our website at www.warrensfuneralhome.com and express your sympathy to family members in our book of condolences.


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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announced the 2015 Buick Regal five-star safety rating. This Buick is currently on sale at Buick Dealerships (like yours truly, College Chevrolet Buick).
Overall, the Buick sedan earned four stars for its response to the front crash test, five stars for the side crash, and four in the rollover test.
This rating is not only for the all-wheel-drive version of the Buick Regal, but also the front-wheel-drive version.
The standard safety package comes with a rearview camera, six airbags, stability control, traction control, and antilock brakes. Optional features include lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, forward collision alert, and side blind zone alert.
The 2015 Buick Regal has proven itself to be one of the safest vehicles on the road, and the US government has given the Regal its seal of approval with the Five-Star Safety rating.


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Episode 23 of The Cutting Room Chronicles! I don't have a clever introduction or statement this week. Let's move on.
On this week's episode, we talk about the very uniquely-shot Hardcore Henry, the new Melissa McCarthy comedy The Boss, and the Jake Gyllenhaal-led Demolition. It's a pretty mixed bag, and the only one that spurred much in the way of discussion is Hardcore Henry. Definitely recommend listening for the rec segment this week though, where you can learn all about the DC Comic where a bunch of characters get AIDS, and a villain gets his powers through cocaine use!
Next week, we're going to talk about the hotly-anticipated fourth film in the Barbershop series, The Next Cut. Oh, and some indie movie called The Jungle Book, made by some "Disney" guys. I dunno. (See what I did there – because Disney is VERY well-known!)
As always, listen to this week's episode below, and get at us on any of the social media links at the bottom with any requests, questions, comments, concerns, inquiries, rants, proposals, indecent proposals, queries, threats of violence, threats of non-violence, funny images, images that we'll say are funny in order to be nice but really aren't, etc, etc.


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Lifeguard positions are available at two swimming pools, the Walter Ulrich Memorial Pool in Rahway and the John Russell Wheeler Pool in Linden. Applicants can begin the certification process at age 15, but they must be 16 years of age or older by completion of their training. The starting pay is $11.00 per hour, and the 2016 season begins on June 25 and ends on September 5.
"Lifeguarding provides a unique opportunity to add a position to your resume or college application that demonstrates a high degree of reliability and responsibility," said Freeholder Chairman Bruce H. Bergen. "Our pools are conveniently located and we offer both part time and full time schedules. I encourage you to call now and find out how to apply."
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NY had a GREAT string of weather last week….Amazing. I met Cowboy for margaritas and dinner at Ariba Ariba Thursday to catch up and grub on some good Mexican food.
This is what I had: the choice of two taco combo. I got the pork tacos. They give you alot of food.
Look, it's not the prettiest food but I like my Mexican food hearty, full of flavor and just downright messy. This plate was a hit on all levels. I see why it's super popular in the hood: it's got outdoor seating, potent margaritas and good food.
Arriba Arriba, 762 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY


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Val di Mazia
The Ötztal Alps are a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps, in the State of Tyrol in southern Austria and the Province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. Into the heart of the Italian part of Ötztal Alps is located the Val di Mazia. The beautiful valley of the Saldur river is located north from Solderno. The Val di Mazia stretches up to the Palla Bianca (3,700 m asl), and the upper part is characterised by charming Alpine pastures. The several hiking routes and Alpine trails stretch in the surroundings and provide hiking destinations in all difficulty levels.


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Choosing Motherhood
By S. Matteo
Nurturing a child can be one of the most rewarding experiences anyone can have. It's exciting to witness how a newborn learns to recognize faces, objects, and sounds, or how an infant comes to bond to those who love and care for him. It's exhilarating to share in the growth and development of a young child, helping them make connections so that life's wonders begin to fall into place for them. Because caring for children is one of the most important and demanding jobs anyone can have --being a Mom is a career for many.
Choosing motherhood could be one of the most important positions you ever take. You are the one responsible for the well being of a child or children. As a parent you are counted on and trusted to help or (solely) raise the children. Depending on the child's age and if you have childcare, you will be responsible for keeping their schedules, organizing their days, taking them to the doctor, or getting them to their piano lessons and baseball practices on time. You're also the one might rock them back to sleep when they have a bad dream, or help heal broken skin on their knees, or be the assistant scientist with their science experiments. You will have the role of an educator, a mediator, and a philosopher. You will need to be understanding and empathic, while at the same time be able to maintain authority. You will be both a playmate and a disciplinarian. That's what being a mother is all about.
In order to be a mother you have to be organized, creative, understanding, nurturing, patient, reliable, and levelheaded. You have to be able to handle adversity and ready to make quick decisions. You have to be a tower of strength and a well of comfort.
Most of the virtues mentioned here are innate in almost every mother. The job merely brings out the best in you. But there are even more rewards to being a mother that will help in your future. Being a mother is a wonderful way to grow as a person. You get to learn more about yourself through your experiences with your children on a one-to-one basis. These are important things. Things that mothers shouldn't lose sight of.
At certain times in a women's life being a mother may be a reward enough. Yes, it still may not have all the advantages in the business world---but that's another topic.


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An 11 minute solo round-up of the J.League week. J1 Matchday 23 and the next two rounds of fixtures to around 8 minutes in, before J2, J3 and Emperor's Cup updates.
Stream this episode on the player above, or download the mp3 by clicking on the J-Talk logo on the left.
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Players: 1 to 2 Player Game | Release Date: 11/13/01 | Genre: Sports
The Tony Hawk Pro Skater series has struck again, and this time it expands furthermore n the themes that has made the previous games so impressive. The superior level designs, perfect controls, and incredible soundtrack all seamlessly complete the juicy goodness crammed into THPS3.
First off, the graphics in the series are always improving, and the detail in THPS3 is further proof of that. The character motion is very life-like, and sometimes the skaters look so real, it doesn't even seem like a game. The huge levels also have an insane amount of detail that makes it appear as if they were picture perfect. The main addition to the levels never before seen on the series is the people. Workers, watchers, and pedestrians all can be found walking around in the areas, some of which you can interact with. New goals include helping some of these people, by covering a bully in snow in Canada, or knocking pick-pockets to the ground in the airport, etc.
The level designs are made so perfectly, that there is a near endless possibility of maneuvers to be done on each level. This helps big time with the replay value, to tear away at the well-planned structures time and again with a number of different characters. Added into THPS3 is the move called a revert, which will allow skaters to continue a combo after a vert trick on a quarter or half pipe. This also helps in trying the levels more than once. Exploring your options in this game will never be a completed task, for the possibilities have no limit.
Tight controls help the infallibility of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. Moves are super easy, giving you a superior feeling after doing an impressive trick. You just have to worry about your balance. You can even customize button combinations of the customizable tricks, making for a delicious all-you-can-skate trick buffet.
Perhaps one of the best features is the soundtrack. It is seriously the best soundtrack to a game I've ever heard. Bands like AFI, The Ramones, Motorhead, Bodyjar, The Adolescents, and Guttermouth blast through your speakers with fast, invigorating tunes that make the game that much more intense and addicting. And those are just a few bands to name off the top of my head. The songs are also in a way customizable. Get rid of the songs you don't like, and chose whether to play your favorite tunes in the listed order or in random order.
Another major incentive to play the game over and over and over again is the awesome videos of the skater you beat the game with. Achieve the gold medal on all three skatepark competitions, and a video of your skater will commence. And the videos I've unlocked so far are all very, very impressive, being video footage of the actual skater talking about skateboarding while showing some of his/her cool tricks. You are also able to create your own skateboarder, and this feature has a huge variety of options. Creating your own skatepark is also cool, and has a limited, but still massive, variety of options.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 is very addictive. If you purchase it, you will stay awake until the early hours of the morning playing this game. I know this from experience. I started playing one day at 4:00, played until 7:30, ate dinner, and played again until 2:00, thinking it was around 10:00. That has happened to me more than once. Time flies when you're having fun, and it goes light speed when you're playing THPS3. And if you don't buy it, you're insane. period. I've played Rogue Leader, Blue Storm, Super Monkey Ball, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 for GameCube so far, and Tony Hawk is hands down, no questions, absolutely the best there is right now for GameCube that I've played. I'm almost positive it is the best game as of now, although I haven't played Luigi's Mansion. I have a feeling I'll come back to THPS3.
My only argument is that I wish it had more levels. More levels and more tunes. I just can't get enough.


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|This document is available in two formats: this web page (for browsing content) and PDF (comparable to original document formatting). To view the PDF you will need Acrobat Reader, which may be downloaded from the Adobe site. For an official signed copy, please contact the Antitrust Documents Group.
| Timothy J. Brennan*
Department of Justice/Federal Trade Commission Hearings
Single Firm Conduct: Predatory Buying Panel
FTC Headquarters Building
Washington, DC
June 22, 2006
I am grateful to the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission for the invitation to participate on this predatory buying panel. It is a great honor to be here. I am especially grateful because I have been thinking for longer than I care to remember about how to support Section 2 of the Sherman Act, and yet reconcile it with less controversial, more accepted frameworks for prosecuting cartels and evaluating horizontal mergers.
I will offer a suggestion along those lines today. Although I believe that my suggestion will make deserving exclusion cases easier to bring, some aspects may be significantly different from established jurisprudence. For that reason, I particularly recognize the privilege of having a place at this distinguished table.
Before proceeding, I need to say that my statement today reflects solely my own opinions and does not represent those of the Competition Bureau or any of its staff.
For this complex topic, I offer a series of recommendations.
When first asked to participate in a panel on "predatory buying," my response was to object to the title. We should recognize that "monopolization" entails two essentially different types of practices, one that for shorthand could be called "predation," and the other "exclusion." The most succinct distinction is that "predation" cases involve doing too much of a good thing to bring about a bad result later. There, the understandable concern is with deterring energetic competition—not discouraging firms from charging low prices, adding product features, and the like.
Exclusion cases, on the other hand, involve doing a bad thing now. One way or another, they come down to acquiring control and effective market power over supply or access to an input or service needed to compete, what economists call complements. The most explicit way to acquire such control would be through a series of exclusive contracts with the complement's suppliers. It may involve overbuying inputs through explicit purchase or, as I'll suggest below, bundling, rebates, or other forms of "leaving money on the table." I call this practice "complement market monopolization, or CMM.
The major problem with single-firm conduct law is the failure to recognize the essential differences between these two types of conduct, leading to the counterproductive imposition of predation standards on exclusion cases. Perhaps the failure arises from a presumption that one statuteSection 2must imply one principle. Perhaps it follows from the persistent belief that Section 2 must be premised on harm to rivals. Since competition also harms rivals, Section 2 law is thus driven by fear of over-deterrence. Instead, exclusion cases should be recognized as different, where we can apply horizontal tools and not predation screens to the delineation and protection of complement markets.
I would have changed the title of this panel to "Exclusionary Buying," because the leading cases involve creating of market power over complements. The recent DOJ/FTC certiorari petition in Weyerhauser v. Ross-Simmons illustrates an exception that proves the rule. The setting is unusual, in that the concern is not that a timber processor would acquire so much control over a relevant market in uncut trees to be able to raise their effective price. Rather, according to the petition, the allegation is that a mill would pay too much for trees to drive out other buyers, with subsequent recoupment by cutting prices paid for trees in the future.
I have little to say about which market power, price-to-cost, and recoupment tests are appropriate for preventing over-deterrence in these rare predatory buying cases. I do suggest that courts demand not only evidence appropriate for such tests. They should also demand evidence that specific assumptions behind strategic models are satisfied, i.e., that the alleged predator either has a reputation for non-profit maximizing behavior to protect, or benefits from identified asymmetric failures in capital markets. Theoretical possibility alone does not make a practice harmful.
Market power is often characterized not just as the ability to raise price but also as "the ability to exclude." This is a mistake of imprecision. Ability to raise the price of X depends on entry barriers or other impediments to competition, but those do not depend upon the price of X. Higher X prices would, if anything, encourage entry. Rather, the ability to exclude depends upon control over the prices of Y, Z, W, or something else needed to enter and produce X.
Delineation of the relevant complement market should therefore be the first step in all exclusion cases. Taking Dentsply as an example, the case rested on the premise that the national distributors constitute what in merger contexts we would regard as a relevant market, in this case for the distribution of teeth to dental labs. The HMGs provide the useful framework for testing this premise. They ask whether teeth manufacturers would turn to other distributors, or whether there would be entry into that distribution market in response to a "small but significant non-transitory increase in price" (SSNIP) of using such dealers.
I do not know the facts of that case and thus the answers, but the HMGs ask exactly the right questions. Cases eventually turn to evidence of entry or substitution into the complement market, but they do not make such concerns centralthe best indicator being the continued identification of the relevant market as that in which the alleged monopolizer is already dominant, not that over inputs or services competitors need to compete. Control over such a complement market is not only sufficient to raise competitive concerns; it is necessary for anticompetitive exclusion.
Hence, plaintiffs should focus on identifying that complement market and showing that the practices at hand cover enough of it to raise the complement's price. In effect, one should ask if one would be troubled if the complement providers covered by the alleged exclusionary practice merged. Unlike usual characterizations of monopolization cases, this is one we know how to answeruse the HMGs. If the answer is no, stop; if the answer is yes, go to the next step.
Barriers to entry cannot be raised, and competition impeded, by any more than the extent to which the price of the complement can be raised. Sometimes this higher price will be explicit, sometimes it will be only an inferred higher priceProf. Carlton has usefully called it a "shadow price"if the exclusionary practice so ties up the complement market that only higher priced substitutes, including self-provision, are available.
Explicit exclusive dealing contracts offer one such standard: Firms wanting to use those dealers would have to cover the cost of breaching the contract. Other alleged exclusionary practices, such as bundle discounts or loyalty rebates, may create a significant price increase—once one has established the first step.
Following the last point, one could ask whether bundles, rebates, or other programs have to increase the effective price of the complement as much as would explicit contracts. I have no reason to believe it should. Were we to follow the HMGs, as we should for complement market delineation, we might only need ask if the practice leads to a SSNIP of the complement.
This tells us that whether a bundle is anticompetitive has nothing to do with a predation-like test. It does not depend on whether the incremental price of adding a good to a bundle, or of supplying more of a product given a discount, is less than some measure of marginal or average variable cost. Rather, it depends only on the extent to which such practices create market power in order to raise the price others must pay for the services provided by retailers, distributors, or other complement providers getting the discount.1
Even for predation, some commentators have noted that some or all of these screens need not increase competition and consumer benefit. Nevertheless, they may be appropriate to prevent over-deterrence of competition through low prices or added features. However, in exclusion cases, controlling a monopoly share of complement markets is not inherently pro-competitive, and thus need not have high bars for its protection.
The profit sacrifice or "no business sense" testthe two are equivalent if one assumes that "business sense" means "maximize profits"substitutes concern with intent and tactics for concern with effects, as if whether someone had been murdered depends on the price paid for the gun. Others have noted that it creates an absolute efficiencies defense, in that a penny of gain from a practice excuses untold anticompetitive harms. As Rick Warren-Boulton has said, the test is notably inappropriate when regulated monopolists do the excluding.
Although I have criticized "raising rivals' costs," mostly for its emphasis on "rivals," Prof. Salop deserves enormous credit for pointing out long ago that predatory sacrifice and recoupment is unnecessary to carry out tactics that raise those costs. My difference is that I would focus directly on the complement market.
Ironically, the test also forgets that once upon a time, profit sacrifice implied previously unobserved efficiency, not anticompetitive harm. We learned that exclusive territories, exclusive dealing, tying, and even resale price maintenance must generate efficiencies because they reduce demand, making even monopolists worse off otherwise. That realization gradually reformed most vertical restraint law. Assuming now that a profit sacrifice must be anticompetitive forgets antitrust history and invites us to repeat mistakes that have not been fully undone after nearly a century.
On equally efficient competitors, I point out what should be obvious: Inefficient competitors hold down price. Complement market monopolization leading to their exclusion can raise price and harm consumers.
Having gone after two sacred cows, I may as well finish off the herd: The Grinnell prior possession of a monopoly test also can impede meritorious exclusion cases. It distracts attention away from the complement market, focusing instead on the characteristics of who monopolized it. Prior dominance could even be a defense, but once complement market monopolization is shown, it should be up to a defendant to claim it has no consequence because of monopoly elsewhere in the production chain.
Moreover, this test is counterproductive. Proving the cost, demand, and entry barriers necessary to establish prior dominance undercuts the argument that the alleged exclusionary practices make a difference. Using Richard Posner's phrase, the monopoly should be "fragile" at worst. An exclusion case will be strongest if the sector would be competitive, but for the practice under scrutiny.
Ask whether we would apply these standards to mergers. Should all mergers be legal unless one could show they would be unprofitable but for anticompetitive harm? Should any merger, including to monopoly, be legal if a more efficient firm buys and eliminates a less efficient competitor? Of course not. Even prior dominance may make the incremental effect of a merger less troubling. If these tests would gut merger law, and if exclusion cases are akin to acquisitions in the complement market, they do not belong on this side of Section 2.
Analogy to mergers opens the door to more creative remedies. Generally, either a practice is OK, or it is not and should be stopped. We should instead take a share-based approach. Exclusive dealing contracts, bundles, or other alleged monopolizing practices might have efficiency benefits. The problem is not the practices per se, but their scalethat they pre-empt so much of the complement market to raise its price significantly. Rather, defendants should be allowed to retain the practice, but only over a non-dominant share of the complement market35%, 50%, or some appropriate number. If the practice is actually efficient, it will be kept. If it serves only to exclude, this remedy would lead to its discontinuance.
About two years ago, I gave a talk at the FTC on these ideas, entitled "Saving Section 2." As I began, an economist there asked, "Why should anyone want to save Section 2?" My answer may not have satisfied him, but in short, it is that it can and should be saved. Were all Section 2, single-firm conduct cases about protecting a monopolist's rivals by drawing vague or impossible lines between competing just enough and too much, I might have agreed with the questioner. However, exclusion cases are not about maintaining monopolies but creating new ones. In focusing on complement market monopolization, such cases can and should be no more controversial than merger and collusion cases are today.
Thank you again for the privilege of allowing me to share these observations. I hope I can clarify them through responses to any questions you have here, and as they arise in the future.
* Professor, Public Policy and Economics, UMBC; Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future. Email: email@example.com. 2006: T. D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics, Competition Bureau, Gatineau, Canada; email firstname.lastname@example.com. These opinions expressed here are mine and do not reflect the views of the Competition Bureau or any of its staff.
Some, but not all, of the views expressed in this paper and citations to supporting authorities are in my "Saving Section 2: Reframing Monopolization Law," available from the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies at http://www.aei-brookings.org/publications/abstract.php?pid=1002. A version is also forthcoming as a chapter in Ghosal, Vivek and Johan Stennek (eds.), The Political Economy of Antitrust (Amsterdam: North-Holland, forthcoming 2006).
1 Time does not permit a full explanation, but it turns out that the discounter's marginal cost may be relevant, but only to the degree that courts would use marginal cost in calculating damages for breach.


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Projection of the Population Profile of 2000 In the year of 2000, I predict that the residents in the census tract of 0012.01 will continue to grow drastically, due to the new subdivision constructed in this area recently. The new subdivision, Carpenters Creek, has successfully attracted many new citizens to this area, thus drastically increasing the number of residents. At the same time, all different kinds of residents are going to move in. The most abundant one of course, will still be the whites, since they are the dominating race in this tract. In the past few years, however, the incoming African Americans are also starting to increase in this area, but the Asian race is still one of the minorities, due to the fact that there aren't that many in the city of Pensacola. Soon the number of children in this tract will also have a vast change and increase heavily in the amount compared to the year of 1989, since the number of households have gone up a great number, due to the new subdivision.
Now the value of the location is still quite the same as it was 10 years ago, but in the 2000 census, it will most likely go up some due to the new housing, and the great location of this tract. Since the new houses are so expensive in this tract, this will only result in the average income per household to go up also, therefore bringing up the average income per capita. In this area, the most important and drastic change was the rapid growth in residents. This caused the value to go up, as well as the population, income per capita, the multi-racial families blending together, resulting in the quick production of the neighborhood for the better.


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Some relief in sight for cattle ranchers, ag bankers say
Second Quarter 1997 Agricultural Credit Conditions Survey
Published July 1, 1997 | July 1997 issue
"Cattle markets look better; a 25 cent increase in prices from last year should help more ranchers," is a Montana banker's assessment of the financial situation faced by his clients. This focus on long-awaited relief for cattle producers is echoed by many of the 104 other bankers responding to the quarterly survey of agricultural credit conditions conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in late May.
While increased cattle prices will not flow to many ranchers' bottom lines until the 1997 calf crop is sold later this year, the brightening light at the end of what has been a long tunnel has generally lifted confidence for both borrowers and lenders. However, many borrowers are still hard pressed. In Montana the proportion described as being against their debt limits rose another 3 percentage points to over 38 percent. But the general feeling seems to be that the worst is past and that the price recovery may be even larger in 1997 than many had hoped.
Farm income and spending
Farm income and spending estimates improved in Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana, but decreased somewhat in South Dakota and Wisconsin. Only in Minnesota does the preponderance of responses point toward above normal levels; in North Dakota and Montana there was some improvement, but levels still remain below normal. And while indicators for South Dakota decreased from the preceding quarter, they remain above those of North Dakota and Montana even after the decline.
Looking forward, Montana bankers apparently expect improved cattle prices to push income to or above normal levels during the third quarter. Wisconsin responses were few in number, but agree on income and spending levels somewhat below normal.
Farm loan volumes
Feeder loan volumes remain below usual levels, but are picking up from prior quarters as fat cattle prices improve. For example, 64 percent of South Dakota bankers rated feeder loans at or above normal levels compared to only 40 percent in the first quarter.
Other operating loans show little change, generally remaining slightly above usual levels. Machinery volumes picked up from the first quarter in all states, but most noticeably in Minnesota. Little change is evident in other intermediate-term loans and in loans secured by real estate. A higher proportion of Montana bankers describe real estate loans as above normal than in any other statenearly four times the proportion for Minnesota and North Dakota. Written comments indicate, however, that this may be indicative of an increasing number of bankers who are taking a security interest in land owned by hard-pressed ranchers rather than an unusually active land market.
Bank credit conditions and liquidity
The availability of funds tightened marginally from the preceding quarter, but is now at normal levels. Loan payments improved, but still remain somewhat below usual levels. The change came largely from a decrease in the number of bankers who described repayments as "significantly lower than normal," and most such respondents in preceding quarters had been in cattle dependent areas.
Interest rates and land prices
While a few categories showed an uptick of 10 or 20 basis points, interest rates overall show little change from the preceding quarter. Indeed, interest rates have been quite stable for more than a year. In the last six quarters the widest variation in any of the 10 categories surveyed is 40 basis points, and fixed-rate operating loans, the bread and butter or farm lending, are at an even 10 percent for the fifth consecutive quarter.
Similarly, reported land price increases are about average for the last two years, with Minnesota continuing somewhat above the mean and Montana somewhat below. A few respondents noted that land markets are sluggish, with few sales taking place.
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Hello, I was wondering if child support could be squashed? If so, how do you go about doing it? Thank you.
Child Support
The key to everything is to file a claim in a court of record. Anything that government is having you do can be challenged, because government has no jurisdiction over people.
Child Support is 100% Voluntary
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'Ran across the following video which shows that "child support" is made into a contract by parents of children, but technically should not be a contract. It's enabled by the ignorance and disinformation by Child Support parasites.
If both parents did not sign a birth certificate contract, then child support does not apply to the parent who did not enter that corporate state's obligation to extort funds from parents without further court orders.
See if you can get a copy of the birth certificate of your child, to see if you signed. Even if you signed, the contract is rescindable. An affidavit can be crafted instead to claim parentage, and the discretion of how such parent may reasonably support their offspring without the corporate state's oversight.
Wrong. Child support is not voluntary. A parent is legally obliged to care for his/her child. In the case of a married couple, a child born is legally presumed to be fathered by the husband; this presumption can be challenged, but this requires evidence (fortunately DNA is very reliable).
A birth certificate is NOT a contract, does not ordinarily require the signature of both parents - and might be submitted by the attending physician/midwife to the Health Dept without the signature of either parent. It simply reports the birth of a child at a particular place & date and identifies, as far as the attending professional could determine, the names of the parents and a few other details. I have had plenty of experience with these, and sometimes a birth certificate has been corrected after its initial filing (often because of some tardy decision about the name of the baby). Although the birth certificate is usually indicative of paternity, this is not iron-clad (unwed welfare mothers were often required to identify the father in order to be eligible for welfare and often named whoever was then in the White House).
A court order for child support should not be ignored. Child support obligations are not a debt that can discharged by bankruptcy, nor sloughed off by time - even decades later the child, now full grown, could sue for back payments with accumulated interest. If the father (I speak of the "father" as the deadbeat parent, rarely is it the mother) dies with support owing, the child could seize on his estate ahead of the father's second family. The only proper means to reduce child support orders is to reopen the case in the same court (or, in another state, open a case in a corresponding court - usually the Domestic Relations Court), and be entirely open about one's finances. When the father's financial situation changes (usually for the worse), try again. A challenge to paternity would involve a blood test - this usually is a one-time challenge.
Do you know the difference in legal and lawful? There is a difference. What you are claiming is "legal" and "required" only affects "US citizens" or "persons". It does not apply to "people" because people do not have to subject themselves to anything out side of the common law.
This is going to be a hard issue for you to get. Statutes to not apply to people without said people's consent. People can challenge jurisdiction at any time and once challenged, it must be proven on the record. A judge does not get to take jurisdiction by deciding he has it. It must be proven on the record, and he will not be able to prove he has jurisdiction over a people, because the law upholds the people is sovereign.
We have 21 case cites on the case reference page that uphold the once jurisdiction is challenged, it must be proven. I personally vetted 13 of them. Once of them does state that a judge the proceeds without jurisdictions, "proceeds at his own peril." This cite goes against your clam that judges cannot be held accountable for his actions. As I have repeatedly told you, a judge is only immune while carrying out his "official" duties. Once he exceeds his jurisdiction, he is no longer immune. That is not my opinion. That is the opinion of numerous other judges before me.
You tell me that a civil court, in my state the law clearly say family court is NOT a court of judicial.. Let me ask you then.. how would any idiot go to a court that once you argue thier subject you atomotically loose your civil rights!! NO right to an attorney" by the way the attorneys in these cases are not attorneys, law says they cannot be attorneys in these matters, No right to a jury trial, No right to even argue your side, or even bring in claim...Not only, we know that the mangistrates are NOT equal in any sense of the word. read title 42, where it was all stated from and take it forward. In my state the child support is under USC code 42 human welfare division. If now your in a civil "family Court" court, then the judge sitting must be working under contract, not as a judge. SEPARATIONS OF POWERS .. How can a judicial judge be sitting in a non judicial court and practice as a judge ? They CANNOT>>>If you dont believe me do some research. I am thinking that you are a woman.
People should have to pay for the children they make! After reading I think I understand the child support clearly
You are right. No administrative proceeding has any authority over a people without said people's consent. It is the birth right of every single people born or naturalized within these united states to have his case heard in a court of record where statutes are "foreign to the court". You are right. It has become rather obvious that Fortinbras is a government corporation paid attorney. As we all know only people who are "infants or of unsound mind" hire attorneys. Says so right there in the Corpus Juris Secundum. We also know that since government has not been seated for many years, she in merely working for a corporation.
I did not say that Domestic Relations Court (or, in some states, Family Court or Orphans Court) does not allow someone to have a lawyer, I did not say that the Family Court is not a judicial court - it very definitely is. By the way, Family Court is invariably a non-federal court; these matters are not covered by federal statutes.
I might add that most defendants, either civil or criminal, wouldn't willingly "consent" to be on the defendant end of a court action. Individual consent to be sued/charged is not dispositive of jurisdiction; it doesn't prevent a court from exercising its jurisdiction and it won't give jurisdiction to a court that lacks it.
Fortinbras your confusion seems to be due to a lack of knowledge about the different types of courts that exist in the same building. It is a fact that one building houses multiple types of court. It is also a fact that any court that uses statutes is an inferior court and any inferior court requires the people's consent to proceed against him. Here is why.
We are guaranteed common law by the Constitution for the United States of America. We are also guaranteed a republican form of government. As such, any time government was to get us to be held to a statute, it must get our consent. Under common law, there is not crime or remedy due if there was no injury. It is a fact that government lies on documents to support its position. For example, the charging documents in a cocaine case I helped with listed State of Texas as a "victim". Maybe you could explain to me how "State of Texas", a corporation, was injured by someone possessing cocaine.
It is also a ruse that case against people for these types of case are title "People of Texas" versus whomever. The fact is, most people couldn't care less. People are guaranteed the right to face their accusers, the injured parties.
There are many tactics of deceit the are used to fool people into consent. However, for those of us who know better, you as a government attorney will no be able to get around it. If you could, then your counterparts in at least one of the cases I am familiar with could have done so. We have 21 case cites that uphold once jurisdiction is challenged, it must be proven on the record. It may not simply be decided by the judge and some of those case cites do say that a judge "commits a trespass", "commits a treason" and "proceeds at his own peril".
Perhaps you could cite a legal authority for the claim that "any court that uses statutes needs consent".
Also for the claim that "we are guaranteed common law by the Constitution".
And perhaps you can provide "some of those case cites [that] do say that a judge ... 'commits a treason'". As I have not heard of a case that accuses a judge of treason.
Oregon, 180.345 CHILD SUPPORT PROGRAM
The dept. Of Justice is responsible for the operation of the program authorized by the Social Securities Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) Hmm last time I checked that the social security is not a Judicial law, its in the hands of the Executive branch, but seam to authorize the state of oregon the Authority to dispense such code as enforceable law. Does anyone see a conflict of powers? MN state supreme court ruled mn had an unconstitutional child support law in 1999 based of the conflict of powers. Of course the federal courts don't want any part in this matter because they know the truth, feds issue a plan to the state, fed courts say its not thier business, And the injustice goes on and on. Break the family. Equals more sheep, whats your take Fortinbras? Sheep or is this Justice?
The US Dept of Justice is an EXECUTIVE department, not a judicial office. The DOJ is responsible for handling court actions of the IRS and other executive agencies as well.
It wouldn't hurt to proofread your messages before you transmit them.
HI Fortinbras,
Sorry I wanted to get back to this, and explain it more clearly. Oregon, Administrative Procedures ACT
183.360 Publication of rules and orders; exceptions; requirements; bulletin; judicial notice; citation.
(4) Courts shall take judicial notice of rules and executive orders filed with the Secretary of State.
So this is more clear how they are taking executive Administrative Rules and making them judicial process. I have a hard time accepting that these admins, can make rules, and the courts look at it as judicial (law). Not only are they making the law they are acting as the judges themselves.
183.310 Definitions for chapter(9) "Rule" means any agency directive, standard, regulation or statement of general applicability that implements, interprets or prescribes law or policy, or describes the procedure or practice requirements of any agency. The term includes the amendment or repeal of a prior rule,
183.615 Administrative law judges; duties; qualifications; rules. (1) An administrative law judge employed by or contracting with the chief administrative law judge shall conduct hearings on behalf of agencies as assigned by the chief administrative law judge. An administrative law judge shall be impartial in the performance of the administrative law judge's duties and shall remain fair in all hearings conducted by the administrative law judge. An administrative law judge shall develop the record in contested case proceedings in the manner provided by ORS 183.417 (8).
Let me ask you , why would they need to contract ? with the chief? So they are acting like the judicial office. making rules, accepting as law, and acting as the judges. It scares me...
Whats your thoughts ?
They are not real judges operating with any judicial capacity. We are working on a case now that is going to help on all cases after this. I will be seeking some volunteers to help do some research to find things similar to what we have found in Colorado in the other states. We will try to simplify this for everyone to assure they do ot fall into the fake judge trap.
Any thing I can do , let me know... I find now that this moral country give me 36 days a yr with my children that give me 329 days to help someone else. so lead the way
I appreciate you stepping forward. The more of us who participate, the safer we will all be.
I'm here ready able And Willing To aide in any manner i can
I will have some assignments for volunteers soon. I thank you for stepping forward.
I am currently in a movement for this issue.
M.R. Hamilton,
i am new to this research as I am trying to deal my own case in UT.
I will be very willing to help any way I can
first to FORTINBRAS child support is not law. Title IV a and d are additions to the social security act. this is not law. you will find in the documents bellow that it is in fact much the opposite!
the supreme court has stated:
'" title IV D does not create an enforceable right"
read this stuff that I have gotten from Divorceracket.org
for the OP if you look on youtube you will find the info from the folks I got this from or use the address abouve.
this is some scary stuff that is going on in our family courts.
I am in the same boat as I have had my child ripped away from me, have not seen him for 9 years cause of my ex wife.
As well as having $475 a month stolen from me
this is all depervation of right under color of law!
read this
M.R. Hamilton, how does one file a claim in a court of record for termination of child support. Thank you!
I have started this thread with my own research on this matter.
the evidance kit I posted earlier is a big help,
as well the writ of Quo Warrento
This is not an easy fight at all, you need to change your statues in there rolls before you do any thing!
as long as they have you classed as a 14th amendment citezen you will see they will railroad you into continuing to pay this.
if you were married, there is your best bet to get things done.
as the man you are the power in the marage, the children and you now ex wife are your property, this is a view that is not acceptable in the US anymore, but biblical cannon law, as the man you make the final decissions that affect the home and family, if you want a child put to death so be it.
use the froad in the marage ciontrct to toss out everything they did in the divorcee as its now void as the marrage is viod on it face as well.
non disclossed contracts are void on the face, not voidable just void!
Fake ads on backpage, etc., are made by women that gather information of men's data and send to police-women that are concerned men are pedophiles, etc.--NPR 2017
so I have been watching the last on you tube folks as they post up.
seems the Habius corpus is being used to fight child suport.
I cant get Rick to respond with more than " dont sign anything"
so can anyone give direction??


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17 comments:
- O'Quilts said...
not flops...no, not flops! I do know how you feel though when something is not just what you like.
- September 19, 2011 at 6:25 PM
- Impera_Magna said...
O'Quilts is right... neither are flops at all! Just not what you envisioned... which is perfectly fine... after all, quilting is an on going learning process!
- September 19, 2011 at 6:30 PM
- Elaine Adair said...
I, among many I am sure, are going to whoop you up side the head with a wet noodle - these are NOT FLOPS!!! I LOVE them both!!!
- September 19, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- Kyle said...
Each quilt we make is part of our quilting history. We learn as we try new and different styles, techniques and experiment with color and value. Thanks for sharing part of your journey.
- September 19, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- Lisa said...
I know what you mean about your tastes changing over the years. I have shelves of batiks, which is all I bought for 10 years. I have no idea what I'm going to do with them now!
- September 19, 2011 at 9:45 PM
- Marilyn Robertson said...
I must add my thoughts here too - these quilts are not flops. Sometimes we don't really know what we like or dislike until we have actually sewn our choices into a quilt. If the art of quilting wasn't a learning process I think I would have become bored with it a long time ago. :)
- September 20, 2011 at 12:38 AM
- Maureen said...
I know the feeling of ending up with a project that isn't as appealing as you thought it would be. It is hard to finish these. At least they went to a new home and have been finished, I hope. Interesting post.
- September 20, 2011 at 6:25 AM
- Barb said...
Well at least you made the flops into tops. I know what you mean. I have couple of UFO that I think I"m moving into the "not worth it" pile. I really like the grid quilt - it's very unusual.
- September 20, 2011 at 11:43 AM
- The Civil War Quilter said...
They're not flops if someone wanted them for their collection. I think we've all made some disappointing quilts (in our own eyes), but it helps us learn our style and improve. It's brave of you to share yours. My first quilt has been hidden, unfinished in a closet for 40 years!
- September 20, 2011 at 8:18 PM
You know...I think sometimes we believe a top is a flop but when it gets machine quilted (adding the frosting) it just sort of takes on a new look on life....but then you have to invest in backing etc too....yeah...I've been in your shoes.
- September 21, 2011 at 7:14 AM
- Janet O. said...
I think both quilts are very visually appealing--nothing floppy about them. But, as you said, our tastes do change. I have some finished tops I made in the 90s that I had planned on hand quilting--I loved them so. Now I don't think I like them well enough to go to that much effort.
- September 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM
- Coloradolady said...
These are really nice, very pleasing...not flops at all! I have some blocks that I don't care for and need to take apart and sash them to make things look better. I had just started out when I put them together and now know what is wrong with the pile of mess....now....that is a FLOP!! Your quilts are not in that same category at all!!
- September 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM
- Melisa @ Sweet Home said...
Just view them as learning experiences...you know exactly why they didn't work for you and those are mistakes you won't make again! BTW, the Corn and Beans looks fabulous from a distance! :-)
- September 24, 2011 at 12:10 PM
- liz said...
Flops is a hard word. Those quilts didn't work out to be perfect for you, but then, how many do? I think the learning-curve approach is closer to the mark. Every quilt we make gets us closer to the ultimate perfect one.
Personally, I like them both and they look like lots of time and effort went into them. Great, provocative post.
- September 25, 2011 at 5:26 PM
- Mary said...
Nope...gotta disagree...definitely not flops. Very pretty quilts, in fact.
- September 26, 2011 at 7:20 PM
- Jovita said...
boy, i sure wish my flops were as nice as yours. the red one with scrappy strips is especially intriguing.
- October 2, 2011 at 12:32 PM
- Wonky Girl said...
I could see some applique fall colored leaves spilling across the grid quilt.
I like both quilts! If you don't like them maybe finish and donate to a chemo clinic to keep patients warm. Both quilts would be very snuggly when finished :)
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Re: does nikyo hurt?
I have really been working hard for awhile to develop a nikkyo that doesn't hurt. I have not had a huge amount of success so far.
I had a very interesting conversation with a Hakko ryu practitioner earlier this year. The gentleman showed me that it is possible to lock a joint without causing pain or causing uke to feel much at all. He locked my wrist softly and then rather than continuing to apply pressure, he locked my elbow softly. Again without continuing to apply pressure he took control of my shoulder and I had to go prone on the mat to deal with it.
I am not very good at feeling how much of a lock I have on different uke's joints at this point, so i am trying to figure that part out. I figure at the end of the day it is about drawing energy from one of my heels, letting it spiral up my body and then into uke's body and back down into them....then a bunch of stuff I haven't figured out yet...(step 3 profit).
A couple years ago Ellis Amdur introduced me to the idea that nikkyo is essentially a general shape of energy... a "gathering" movement of energy, as though you are scooping up armsfull of tall grass and bringing them into your belly. Daito ryu seems to have the same kind of thing going on, with Nikkajo being characterized by a certain kind of spiral movement. It would be neat to be able to do this without overt physical movement at all....just, when someone touches you, they sort of get sucked into these grinding gears of ki.
Well, I'll let you know if I ever figure THAT out.
In the meantime, my advice is, pay attention to how much pressure you are applying to the wrist. Learn how to lock the wrist without applying so much pressure that uke feels pain. When you get there, consider how to lock the elbow, also without pain. From there go to the shoulder, or skip the shoulder and go to their center, or skip their shoulder and go to their front foot.
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