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Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page Discusses New Autobiography With Artist Jeff Koons In Front Of Rapturous NYC Crowd
by Benjamin Smith 11/4/2014
It's been a busy year for Jimmy Page. Earlier this year, the Led Zeppelin guitarist began an exhaustive reissue campaign, expanding each of the band's classic releases to include companion discs of outtakes and extensive liner notes, packed with rare pics. Last month saw the release of Page's "photographic autobiography," Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page, which tells the reclusive rock legend's life story in hundreds of never seen before photos, from his start as an innocent choirboy to the hedonistic heights of rock stardom. Last night Page appeared at New York City's 92nd St. Y for a conversation with famed modern artist Jeff Koons to discuss, literally, his past, present and future.
While the staged, sit down interview was mature and civilized, the room was packed with rowdy Zeppelin fanatics who cheered as Page sauntered on stage and whenever his legendary band was mentioned. "Jimmy you ARE a God!" screamed a female fan at one point, as if she was watching one of his epic guitar solos. Among the fans was artist and interviewer Jeff Koons himself, who first heard the group as a teenager and said "I listen to your music every day." For his part, Page is still the consummate rock star, dapper and eloquent in discussing his life which was "infected with music" at a young age.
Koons hand picked his favorite photos from the new book which were flashed on stage and fed the discussion. Tickets to the event reached well over $100, but Page gave fans their money's worth with captivating stories from his days as a session musician and with British Invasion group The Yardbirds. Speaking of a particularly famous boyhood chum former bandmate, Page said "Jeff Beck and I go back to the point where, when we first meet, we were both playing homemade guitars." While discussing Led Zeppelin's speedy ascent, Page said "I knew exactly what I wanted to do," adding "Led Zeppelin I was going to be a guitar tour de force." Perhaps the greatest takeaway from the event, however, was Page's announcement that fans could expect new music from him in 2015. "I'm still a young man," he said as the evening concluded, which was appropriately met with rapturous applause.
The cover of Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page, the new "photographic autobiography from the legendary classic rock guitarist.
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Welcome to the RVMYC website.
As you navigate around our site you'll find a wealth of information, whether you're a current member, a potential member or a visitor just looking for information.
As the pre-eminent motor yacht club on Port Phillip, we enjoy an active boating and social calendar.
We are blessed with magnificent clubrooms, located just 9km from Melbourne's CBD in the historic seaside town of Williamstown and our 300+ members come from all walks of life.
While obviously, we are first and foremost a boating club, you certainly do not need to own a boat to be a member and with our various member categories, including family membership, we have much to offer potential members.
I look forward to seeing current members around the club and if you're a potential member, call in and check us out soon.
View our "DIning and Functions"
Bar and Bistro: Closed Good Friday & Easter Sunday.
Members Bar open Easter Saturday: Bar snacks available.
The RVMYC have several marina berths available for allocation. If you are interested and would like further information regarding sizes, contact the RVMYC.
EDFD are an award winning boutique catering company.
'Dining and Functions' page for more information.
Perched on the waters edge in Williamstown, the club has expansive views of Melbourne. If you are a kindred club member, book a temporary berth or just come and enjoy a meal or drink in our clubhouse and then explore the historical port of Williamstown.
The Members Bar is open to club members, their guests and kindred club members only. Members are asked to book in the bistro early to avoid disappointment.


We have limited space for school age kids before and after school. We currently have bussing from Carder Elementary and Severn Elementary. This is a perfect option for families with both preschoolers and school age kids.
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School age kids are still kids, and they need some time to act like it. We will keep them happy with creative, athletic and fun activities.


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Ellen was a Bennett girl who pledged Delta and did her graduate studies at Columbia. She was full of life. Last year while I was working on the Obama campaign, she would call so we could chat about politics. We were political sisters. I attended the Democratic Convention in Denver and was at the Invesco Field speech. So on election night, assuming that I was in Chicago, she called to scream in my ear about Obama's win. She said, "I may have missed Denver, but I will definitely be in DC for the Inauguration." From that day forth, we began making plans for the Inauguration…….checking for ball tickets, what to wear, etc. Every week that past, the excitement was building.
Then just one week before the big event, she was gone.
The second of my friends was Harold. While I was a student, I began my first part-time off campus job as a sales clerk in a clothing store. Little did I know at the time, that the acquaintances made in that store would become life-long friendships. Harold fell in that category. After I moved to Atlanta, he & I didn't talk as often, but I would occasionally stop by when driving through Charlotte. When I eventually moved back to Charlotte, our offices were next door to each other. So, we would chat in the parking lot when leaving work. Then, a few years later, I moved to DC. After moving, we rarely talked, but was always an email away.
Just two weeks ago, I had received an email from him on some national news. If he thought I was interested in something, he would always forward and vice versa. So, after the tragic event at the Holocaust museum, I was awaiting an email from him to get his commentary.
Unfortunately, I received an email from a guy that I did not know with Harold's full name in the subject. My sick sense told me it was bad news before I even clicked it open. The sender, Thomas, had taken an email blast previously sent by Harold and replied to all of the recipients. He informed that Harold was in a fatal automobile accident.
Here are two people who started their day like any other day. Both left their homes and went to work. Then in the middle of their work day, their lives ended…..just like that.
I reminisce on the conversations Ellen & I shared the last two months of her life. We had so many plans, but GOD held the master plan.
This life that is given to us is a gift that we must cherish. Many of us wish for Friday beginning on Monday morning…..literally, wishing our lives away. Not taking the time to savor each and every day as if it is our last.
My friends Ellen & Harold could not have imagined that they were going to die so soon. Understanding how sudden their deaths were should be an example of how we should live. We all have a chance to live each day as if it is our last. We can apologize to those we have wronged; we can tell love ones how much we love them; we can assure that we have no regrets; and continue to pray for guidance.
So, as I relish the day of my birth, I want to thank GOD again for letting me see another day and another year. I hope that with each year passed, that I've gained wisdom and a closer relationship with HIM.
Lastly, I want to thank everyone who sent me cards, emails and birthday wishes via Facebook for sharing this wonderful journey with me called life.
A wonderfully said outlook on life, family and friends!


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Reflections upon the Eve of my 75th Birthday . . .
Posted on December 18, 2017 by Ann Kreilkamp
I sit here on the eve of my 75th birthday. Outside my windows, the day is cold, grey and damp. Fitting weather, now that transit Saturn sits close to my 27° Sagittarius natal Sun, which itself happens to be conjunct the Galactic Center. Yes, on this particular eve of my birthday, transit Sun, dragging Saturn, starts to cross over that 27th degree which it occupied when I was born.
This particular birthday feels very Saturn inside me, too. Stuck, stopped, clogged, even stomped on, squashed! — feelings which, in turn, are projected onto the kitchen sink which still needs to be unclogged, but plumber can't come until Wednesday, the day after my birthday.
I did manage to get a new bathroom shower head (the old one cracked, came off entirely), and even managed to fasten it up there myself, after wishing that others were home to do it. I dragged my aging body out of my comfort chair at 8 p.m. last night, drove to nearby Bed Bath and Beyond, picked out a new one, drove home, wrenched off the god-awful plastic covering, read the instructions, and did it. Just did it. Hooked it up in all three places. That felt good. But in an abstract way. More like that extended action might redeem my otherwise worthless day; I did it because I knew it should feel good. Should feel good to succeed in consciously tackling a practical job, paying attention to printed instructions, with no help.
Meanwhile, a part of me tells myself that, in honor of my 75th birthday I should do an internet fast. That I should just get off the goddamned screens for at least three days. But I "can't," I think, or I realize, or I acknowledge, sadly, for I am seriously addicted to this fucked flow of "news" about all the yucky stuff coming to the surface "out there," the pedogate stuff especially, and the huge military expenditures, and all the false flags, especially the fake, false flag "disclosure" in the NYT two days ago that makes me want to puke (see this and this). Oh yes, and then there's yesterday in Atlanta. Wha?? The largest airport in the world goes dark for 11 hours, electricity back on 12:12 AM? That repetitive number sequence feels weird. Feels intentional. Oh, and aha, this morning an Amtrak train derails near Seattle, crashes onto I5. Another distraction? From what, again. From pedogate. That's what. That's the pathology that has to surface big time, huge time. That's the horrific sickness that underlies everything else. That and associated trafficking, sacrificial murder, cannibalism, snuff films, Satanism, torture to drum up fear, or "loosh," for those who think drinking young adrenalized blood increases their life force.
Have I gone off the rails like that train? Have the lights gone out in me like in Atlanta? Or do I just, in my own person, express the astoundingly strange, surreal, shocking, constantly changing stormy weather that envelops humanity during this extraordinary time when Saturn conjuncts the massive, powerful, sucking Galactic Core, slowing everything down to a crawl, stopping forward movement, insisting on karma coming due; that, plus Mercury, still crawling retrograde, until December 22, the day after Winter Solstice, when it turns to go direct and finally, after three long weeks, we can begin to think straight.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention this early morning's 26° Sagittarius New Moon, at 1:31 AM at 26°31 Sagittarius, exactly conjunct my natal Sun and the Galactic Center, and only two degrees from transit Saturn, at 29°46 barely hanging on to the final Sagittarian degree, poised to move into Capricorn for the next two and a half years, tomorrow! On my birthday!
So yeah, look at that grand stellium in Sagittarius: Mercury, Venus, Sun, Moon, Saturn. You'd think it would be a thrilling time, idealism pouring forth from every pore, widening perspectives galore, a beautiful fiery, teaching moment. But it's not. Not at all. Why? Because stern, serious Saturn is sitting there, gumming up the works, squashing the huge fire, or trying to, and the result is frustration.
Or, you could say, that despite Saturn, and maybe even because of Saturn, perspectives are seriously, sternly, karmically widening; and yes, that's for sure, more and more people waking up to how we have been mind-controlled to have only one perspective, the one the MSM, in concert with the PTB, used to dictate to us on the tel-lie-vision"news." But that's just not happening anymore, that single point of view, that sureness that the official narrative for events is right, and anyone saying otherwise is wrong, or stupid, or "a conspiracy theorist." Instead, we have a million, billion points of view, each of us standing in our own point of view upon the world, looking through squinty, siloed eyes, not even at the real world, but at our screens, deciding which websites to pay attention to, which ones are real, which false, fake, or not!
Or, we can't decide! Or, there's no way to decide. All we can do is go with our own personal flow, informed, hopefully, by gut instinct, which of course changes with the food we put into our stomachs, the ideas we get obsessed by, the places we decide to go, people to see, "things to do."
Doing, doing, doing, that's all we do. We do; we're terrified to stop, and simply be. Terrified to sit there, silent, and allow the spacious presence to penetrate the mind games we play with ourselves. Me, too. That's the real #metoo. This insistence on doing, even if our only doing is consulting all those webites, the ones we're convinced, or we hope, are "telling the truth." What truth? Whose truth? For what agenda? Who wins and loses? you know the drill. There is no overarching TRUTH that we can go by, even tho, heaven knows, we wish there were! We long for those good old days when people told us what to believe and we believed them. Stayed obedient. Played by the rules. What rules? There are no rules. They went out with the rise of the internet and the decision by the US military industrial complex to fight "preemptive" wars, to break treaties, and to tell constant lies. That was a long time ago. In fact has there ever been a time when the U.S. Empire didn't "project power" by any means necessary for "national security"? What a joke. What a sick joke.
So you see how I'm feeling, how I'm doing on the eve of my 75th birthday. I'd like it to be all sweetness and light; to love where I am in my life now. And actually, I do! But not today, not during this twilight period when my birthday, damn it! comes at the dark of the year and gets completely squashed, sat on, by heavy, karmic Saturn, for the first time in 29-30 years. Glad I won't live another 30 years to see it again! . . . Hmmmm, where and how was I when Saturn's 30 year cycle reached that same 27° Sagittarius degree, two cycles ago, or 60 years ago? That was in December 1958. I was a sophomore in high school. I draw a complete blank! Have no idea, except no doubt I was worried about nuclear war, because that's what I always worried about back then. Worry was my middle name.
And what happened when Saturn, after another round, reached that same point again, in December 1987, and that time, it happened to do so when conjunct Uranus! Wow! That was the year when I realized my own value as an astrologer, and knew that therefore astrology was a major part of my path. I realized this when I went to San Francisco, and new clients there loved my work. San Francisco was the big time, for me, who had been incubating in tiny Jackson Wyoming.
Yes, that was a sudden (Uranian) breakthrough, which set the course of my next round of Saturn — and it felt fabulous.
Now, today, one more round, and Saturn is again at that same point, but without Uranus, so rather than breakthrough, it feels like stoppage, and coupled with the original "worry" that I had as a kid. Especially now, when the damn false flag "alien threat" is being rolled out, you betcha, by this so-called "disclosure" in the New York Times. See Steven Greer on the subject; however, I don't really trust him either! But I do think he's right on this matter, and has been ever since he posted this piece, in 1999. Why? Because my Sagittarian intuition is working overtime on this 75th birthday eve.
When Disclosure Serves Secrecy
Oh! The mailman just came, and delivered two birthday cards from two of my many wonderful sisters. Both hilarious. All of a sudden, my mood switches. Note, in the New Moon chart above, all those harmonious (120°) green lines from the stellium in Sagittarius, leading up to Uranus, at 24° Aries. Uranus: sudden, unpredictable changes! Lightning in a dark sky! Yes! Thank you Paula and Kathy. Despite the sodden stuckness, how little it takes to shift my entire mood. Just one Uranian moment, and Saturn goes off the rails. YES!
Tomorrow, son Colin and I will spend my birthday together in Indianapolis, going out to lunch and then to the Native American Museum. Since I'm very much looking forward to our (Uranian) adventure, I must have known all along that this Saturn soddenness will pass.
10 Responses to Reflections upon the Eve of my 75th Birthday . . .
annick says:
I wish you an inspiring birthday that brings you an ever deeper connectedness with all life forms around you. May joy fill your heart, peace reside in your mind, love pulse in your spirit, and light illuminate your trajectory. Thank you for being…
Ania V.T. says:
Hello, dear. Have a very good birthday, despite those sad data that make me feel so depressed too…. Because I can not assimilate that kind of things… It is too much for me…and I feel so much powerlessness… One of the songs of my next CD, will talk about those victims of satanism in their childhood, and it will be like a kind of pray to say… they must fight and there are a lot of people that would listen to them and would support and love… Peace, beautiful landscapes, God…God is LOVE…. dear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izsjRpcgfmk&feature=share
rose day says:
Ann, who is to say that you will not be around 30 years from now ever championing the move forward on humanity's evolutionary journey. Sending you a thousand thanks and wishes for many more wonder-filled birthdays!
Lilith says:
ah well
and so shall I (and all of us)
c'mon love, kick off those clogs and dance with (or without) Colin. I need to keep up with you, so find your way home.
Sharon Pearson says:
Happy Birthday Miss Ann,
Laughter is uplifting for one's heart and soul, so in light of that wisdom, I pray that you are blessed with all things Divine. Enjoy your day because you have certainly earned it, oh Goddess of the Earth!!!
Much Love and Many Blessings,
CindyW says:
Your sisters nailed it! Love those cards! (and thanks for the laugh from a Cap Sun Sag rising (1st decan on the Sag), who does remember the good & bad of last Saturn in Cap)
Happy birthday and Merry Solstice on Thursday! (lots of yums at your houses?)
Dixie Damron says:
Thank you, thank you for all that you do. You are a bright light. I'm thankful to be on the planet at the same time with you. I'm constantly impressed, inspired and educated by you. Happy birthday to you from the heart of one of your most sincere admirers.
Marilisa says:
Happy birthday Ann. Continue to enjoy the ride.
And in olden times here is the way the ancients behaved during the time of your birth, lasting 12/17 til 12/23; there was also a dark side to it, and perhaps you were feeling that reverberating thru the ages:
"The Lord of Misrule – December 17th. This is the first day of the Roman festival Saturnalia. It was a period of great feasting and festivity, with a lot of drinking and eating. Slaves would become masters for the festival, and everything was turned upside down. This part of the Roman festival survived into the 17th Century."
I took a two-day break from the Internet and so I am late in wishing you a happy birthday. Dixie (above) expressed my thoughts perfectly, so I'm not going to try and find a different way to say how important you are in my world.


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Camera and the Mirror, a post-manuscript
Maria Lalou
Keywords: virtual presencealgorithmic governancecameraFarockiGodardMakhmalbafPost-history
In "Camera and The Mirror", Lalou analyzed the work of those major white male figures that made a significant stance on the role of camera apparatus in film production, planning her slow physical death as an artist-at-work, and her transference to a three-model algorithm, after fifteen years of producing works that incorporate cinematic and surveillance apparatuses as her tools, with references to the politics of the viewer. The first chapter is based on her own first ever feature film recorded as a single shot "The Dialogue", moving the narrative through the basis of those major works of film history "Parallel I-IV" (2008-12), "Salaam Cinema" (1995) and "Le Mépris" (1963) along with Flusser's writings on the functions of the apparatus. By marking an index of cameras demonstrating the ideas behind their medium, and by scrutinizing the ingenious of each film, she directs a manual towards freedom from algorithmic governance; where the relation between camera, view and actor, subject and object is foregrounded and destabilized. This essay is a non-linear narrative text, an attempt of a post-manuscript, aligning the writing of the video essay tetralogy "Camera and The Mirror" (an experimental documentary that involves the relation of the camera's role in the animated experience of the viewer) with an analysis of the function of the medium in our contemporary surveilled networked life. The post-manuscript was born by extracting the documentary's content out of the 'black screen' over layered by the unnatural voice sound of British Bot Selene. The text is typed on the 'black screen' by white Courier typesetting and extrapolates the significant films in Farocki's, Makhmakbaf's and Godard's research. It is an attempt to inaugurate thoughts in a dialogue with Vilém Flusser's Post-History, working towards 'a manual of resistance' against algorithmic governance, which questions the use of cinematic mechanisms in order to resist the authority of control of our data.
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Nermin Caro does well to perfectly display his latest huge carp.
GERMAN carp ace Nermin Caro – who started carping after reading the book Carp Fever by Kevin Maddocks – has become one of only a handful of anglers in the world to land both mirror and common carp in excess of 80 lb.
The 34-year-old truck driver did it with the capture of a fish known as Joe at 80 lb 2 oz from a German syndicate water. He connected with the mammoth creature on his 14th night of targeting the fish.
Nermin also landed the former World Record carp 'Mary' at a weight of 87 lb 3 oz from the same water – that fish has been overtaken in France by the current, massive 99 lb World record.
He said: 'The bite came at 4am in the morning and straight away I knew it was either Joe or Mary because of the sheer weight of the fish.
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This was presented on top of a bed of bait made up of 8mm and 12mm Robin Red Carp Pellets, 21mm Marine Halibut Pellets and 8mm Swim Stim Betaine Green Sinking Carp Pellets.
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By Joe Perry
Joe Perry remembers the night he first saw The Beatles (Image credit: James Palmer/Retna Ltd./Corbis)
"I was already into rock 'n' roll and pop music before The Beatles hit America. I remember being a little kid and seeing this guy Elvis Presley on TV - the girls would scream when he came on. That kind of stuck with me.
"The stuff I was into were things like Roy Orbison and the Phil Spector hits. I was definitely a music loving kid. From my earliest days, whenever I heard music, I felt happy and forgot all my problems.
"In fact, I even started playing guitar at a young age. My parents bought me a Silvertone acoustic guitar that cost $12.95 and it came with a little 45 single that said, 'Hold the plectrum with the right hand and the neck with the left.' I'm naturally left-handed, but since that's how the record said to play guitar, that's how I did it - it never occurred to me to change.
"The night The Beatles first played the Ed Sullivan Show, boy, that was something. Seeing them on TV was akin to a national holiday. Talk about an event. I never saw guys looking so cool. I had already heard some of their songs on the radio, but I wasn't prepared by how powerful and totally mesmerizing they were to watch. It changed me completely. I knew something was different in the world that night.
"The night The Beatles first played the Ed Sullivan Show, boy, that was something. Seeing them on TV was akin to a national holiday."
"Next day at school, The Beatles were all anybody could talk about. Us guys had to play it kind of cool, because the girls were so excited and were drawing little hearts on their notebooks - 'I love Paul,' that kind of thing. But I think there was an unspoken thing with the guys that we all dug The Beatles, too. We just couldn't come right out and say it.
"All of that changed when I went to see A Hard Day's Night. I wasn't into sports, I wasn't a great student, I didn't go out for school activities or anything - I was just kind of into my own little world. But seeing The Beatles on screen, running around and laughing, plus seeing them play all these incredible songs, I started to think, 'Hey, I wouldn't mind doing that.' It was like The Beatles were their own gang, and that seemed so cool to me."
"Quite soon after, I started getting into the Stones and other British groups, and the idea of playing the guitar seriously and being in a band really took hold. I followed all The Beatles records, of course.
"What's funny is, even though they were making so many breakthroughs sonically and changing the way music could be presented, I didn't process it that way at the time.
"Everything seemed to flow so naturally from them. You'd pick up Rubber Soul and it was fantastic. Then you'd get Revolver and it was amazing, too. You just came to expect it from them. I had no idea what hard work went into doing what they did.
"Guitar-wise, it's hard to say specifically what I got from them, other than their licks became part of my DNA like so many of the British bands I stated to follow, like The Yardbirds and Cream and Zeppelin. It all became this fantastic cocktail of guitar greatness that I was only too happy to drink in.
"The Beatles taught us all so much. They taught us to be brave, to follow our dreams and aim high."
"Later on, probably around the late '60s, when they were getting ready to break up, that's when I started to appreciate what geniuses The Beatles were, how they set trends and broke every rule in the book. How they went from being this live group to mastering the recording studio and showing everybody that nothing was impossible, as long as you had the imagination and the guts to go for it.
"Plus, they had gone from singing these simple love tunes to writing songs about any topic you could think of. I think that's what really impressed me the most - they taught me that music could liberate you, teach you, take you somewhere else, expand your consciousness, all of that.
"The Beatles taught us all so much. They taught us to be brave, to follow our dreams and aim high. That's a wonderful legacy to leave."
Joe Perry is a guitarist, songwriter and singer for the band Aerosmith. His newest solo album Have Guitar, Will Travel comes out 6 October.
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The Dark, Destructive, Murderous Psychological Forces of Cancel Culture
By Dr. Keith Ablow Feb 24, 2021 1:26 PM ET
Protesters celebrate after the Confederate statue known as "Silent Sam" was toppled on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. (Julia Wall/The News
The cancel culture we are living in should itself be canceled. That must be obvious to most people, given the way in which it stifles the free expression of ideas, but I think there's more happening than that. Cancel culture is the culmination of the cyberbullying, spiritually (and, sometimes, literally) homicidal social media experiment we've been running on the entire human race since the advent of venues like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat.
Canceling people taps into the most primitive and destructive of human impulses—dark, destructive, murderous psychological forces that, unleashed, have been manifested before in historical horrors like burning witches in Salem and burning Jews in the Holocaust (not to equate the scope of the two, at all). And while "canceling" human beings may not stop their hearts from pumping blood, it is certainly intended to stop their hearts, metaphorically. It is the modern-day equivalent of a stoning in the public square and—no exaggeration—if the people who celebrate this cancel culture could get away with pushing a button anonymously to vote to kill their targets for real, they would.
Cancelers are cancer. They are part of a metastatic social movement that, without massive interventions to stop them, will destroy the entirety of our society, instilling fear where freedom once reined, silencing and strangling not only those who err and act inappropriately but also those who dare to speak words or share ideas that are currently shunned. Left to spread, this disease will choke off not only the sharing of unpopular ideas but then the sharing of any idea that might prove unpopular. The victims of cancelers will come to include not only compassion (already on its last legs) but critical thinking and creativity.
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Lest anyone think that thoughts driven out of the public square by cancel culture will simply disappear, think, again. The free expression of ideas has the happy effect of moderating the most extreme of them, whereas that which is buried far from the light of public discourse can turn rancid underground. Labeling, threatening, and banishing people has consequences. It breeds, rather than extinguishing, rage and extremism.
Part of the problem is that this cancerous cancel culture is good for the media. Vicious attacks on celebrities, CEOs, and anyone else worth covering guarantees more viewership. If the attacks are vicious enough, they can even go viral. That's true for liberal and conservative media outlets, which explains why both gleefully spread cancel culture—as long as the targets are from the other side of the political spectrum.
Remember, the topics for news broadcasts are part of groupthink. No one person needs to assume responsibility for destroying a target. Network executives get involved. Producers and their assistants get involved. Reporters, too. Writers. Researchers. Hosts. Anchors.
It's time to cancel the cancel culture. And the only way to do that may be to shine a light on cancelers for their holier-than-thou posture and their willingness to commit metaphorical homicide—again and again. Cancelers should be met with cynicism and criticism. A list of cancelers might be more important to the health of America, in the long run, than contact-tracing for Covid.
Should those on the canceler list lose their jobs? No. Should they be subject to social media campaigns that are no less than orchestrated cyberbullying? No. Should they be targeted by investigative journalists to bring their own faults and foibles to light? No.
As Gandhi said, "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." We're almost there.
Dr. Keith Ablow is the founder of www.Pain-2-Power.com, a life coaching and consulting system designed to empower individual thought and action. He is a New York Times bestselling author of 16 books and served, for a decade, a Fox News Network Contributor.
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Giveaway: Itzy Ritzy Infinity Breastfeeding Scarf
On April 14, 2014, in Celeb, by ayesha
Posted: April 14, 2014 by Jenny Schafer Itzy Ritzy introduces the next big thing in nursing, the Nursing Happens™ Infinity Breastfeeding Scarf. Easily transforming from a trendy scarf to a soft, breathable nursing cover, the product is designed to be convenient and easy to use with no snaps, buckles, or complicated wrapping required. The Infinity Breastfeeding Scarf unwraps from a double-looped infinity scarf around the neck to a single loop that drapes over the shoulder for feedings.
Posted: April 14, 2014 by Jenny Schafer
Itzy Ritzy introduces the next big thing in nursing, the Nursing Happens™ Infinity Breastfeeding Scarf. Easily transforming from a trendy scarf to a soft, breathable nursing cover, the product is designed to be convenient and easy to use with no snaps, buckles, or complicated wrapping required. The Infinity Breastfeeding Scarf unwraps from a double-looped infinity scarf around the neck to a single loop that drapes over the shoulder for feedings. It provides full coverage for nursing moms and comfort for their precious babies.
Made of high-end jersey knit material, Itzy Ritzy's Infinity Breastfeeding Scarf allows mother and child the opportunity for skin-to-skin bonding while nursing or bottle feeding. And moms can even infuse the scarfs with their own natural, comforting scent by wearing them during pregnancy.
With a SRP of $24.99, the Itzy Ritzy Nursing Happens™ Infinity Breastfeeding Scarf is available for purchase at www.itzyritzy.com, and nationwide via stores and independent specialty boutiques in April. Designed and Made in the USA.
Celebrity fans of Itzy Ritzy products include Pink, Jennifer Garner, Tori Spelling, Beverley Mitchel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Nicole Ritchie.
We are giving away an Itzy Rizy Infinity Breastfeeding Scarf to 3 lucky winners!
One easy way to enter:
This contest ends Friday, April 18 at 7:00 pm EST. This giveaway is open to Canada & USA residents only! Good luck!
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Chris Hemsworth's Daddy-Daughter Date
Posted: April 14, 2014 by Jenny Schafer The Avengers star Chris Hemsworth stepped out with daughter India, 23 months, on Thursday (April 10). The father-daughter duo enjoyed some one-on-one time together in Malibu, Calif.
The Avengers star Chris Hemsworth stepped out with daughter India, 23 months, on Thursday (April 10). The father-daughter duo enjoyed some one-on-one time together in Malibu, Calif.
The Thor actor and his wife, Fast Five actress Elsa Pataky, welcomed twin sons Sasha and Tristan on March 18.
Last week, we spotted Chris and Elsa getting some groceries with their adorable toddler.
Elsa has been blogging for Glamour España, where she talks about motherhood, exercise tips and her must-have items.
"Enjoy every second with your baby because it is the most wonderful thing of the world," Elsa recently shared with her fans.
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Halle Berry: "I No Longer Can Afford To Have The Gypsy Life"
Posted: April 13, 2014 by Lisa Estall Halle Berry was spotted on the set of Extant in Los Angeles, Calif. this week.
Posted: April 13, 2014 by Lisa Estall
Halle Berry was spotted on the set of Extant in Los Angeles, Calif. this week. The actress is happy that the new CBS series is based in Los Angeles.
The 47-year-old told People, I really wanted to work in town and be with my kids. I no longer can afford to have the gypsy life. There are others who are more important and who I need to think about. This allows me to stay home and still do something really creative and cool that I love."
"So far, it is a lot of work. It is long days, but at least I'm in the city where my kids are so I can see them and they can come visit me. I can tuck them in at night. I can see them every weekend."
Referring to Nahla, 7, she added, "Sometimes she comes up with stuff and I am like, that was pretty good. But no, she hasn't got the acting bug. She isn't even really sure what acting is. She thinks I am a real life princess that is what she tells her friends. She sees me when I say, 'I am going to work,' and I am dressed up and wearing fancy dresses so she says you are a real princess why else would you be dressing up like that for work?"
Berry explained why she chose to do the sci-fi thriller.
"It is like the new golden age of television," she said. "As a woman, when I read this, it was such a strong character. I always gravitate toward strong, complicated woman characters. When I heard Steven Spielberg is a part of it, I thought, wow, that is another big reason to be a part of it."
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Undekhi: Release Date, Plot, Cast and more!
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By Janhavi Sawant Last updated Jul 14, 2020
What if you eye-witnessed a murder but never spoke up about it? A series based on true events that justice always serves for the powerful people in society. A story of a dancer shot because she refused to dance with a drunk man, sadly in India or anywhere outside it we find similar cases like this. Sony tv has taken a huge step in uncovering the crimes we never see or maybe we do but we just shut ourselves for our own security. Keep reading to know everything about the series.
The show is already released on Sony Tv on 10th July 2020 with 10 episodes of 30 minutes each. There were two looks of the glimpse of the series where we find 3 murders.
The cast includes Kulwinder Kaur as Papaji, Surya Sharma as Rinku who is like a son to Papaji, Ankur Rathee who was seen in four more shots series will be playing the character of Daman, Dibyendu Bhattacharya as the loyal policemen DCP Ghosh, Apeksha Porwal as Koyal and Abhishek Chauhan as the cameraman named Rishi.
The plot starts at Himachal Pradesh in Manali, wherein the family is celebrating Daman's wedding but the celebration turns into a tragic incident! A dancer is forced to dance with the father in law of the groom but when she refuses, she gets killed in one shot. Everyone witness the events, the music stops however Rinku as the left hand of papaji asks to play the music again. In which a journalist captures the events on his camera.
People stay numb as Papaji is a gangster and runs a fake business to hide his wrongful deeds. We also see a policeman who finds a policeman's body in Bengal. He was killed first then eaten hideously by animals. However, the lead of the murder drives him to Manali to Papaji's family. The girl and the policeman have something connected. A story of the poor girl who disagrees to dance costs her life!
The story is based on true and there is one story which uncovers a similar situation. A 22-year-old dancer in Punjab's Bathinda district named "Kulwinder Kaur" was shot on the brain. The news was posted on India TV
, that a pregnant dancer denied to dance with a drunk member killed her with a gunshot aiming her brain. The news claimed that it was "Accidently" done by the accusers. However, Lucky Goyal alias Billa who killed her and 3 people in charge were taken down by the police.
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Promotions:
Rajkumar Rao the famous actor from Stree also shared a promotional video of how much he likes the web series. He said that the series will keep you hooked, he started and ended on the same day. The show has many twists and turns and he has been a fan of actors working in the show named Dibyendu Bhattacharya.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCi7ht_hbEi/
Anurag Kashyap also greeted one of the actresses named Apeksha Porwal claiming her great performance in the show.
Critics:
The show was promoting by calling the citizens of Mumbai through an unknown number saying that they have just encountered a murder and the person calling is going to be killed soon. And further, the person reveals that this is the Undekhi team promoting the upcoming series. However few people panicked and created chaos calling police stations.
The era of 'any publicity is good publicity' is a passé. Any publicity creating panic amongst citizens and suggesting a threat to their security will be dealt with necessary severity. Hope the fake calls for promotions aren't bothering you any longer, Mumbaikars #SoNotDone
— Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) July 10, 2020
The Mumbai police commented that " any publicity is good publicity" is a passe but creating chaos and panic is not done. They also asked if anyone is still receiving the calls.
If you have received a call for our show Undekhi & it has disturbed you we would like to sincerely apologise to you. This was a test activity which has gone out accidentally & our intention was not to cause any kind of discomfort or panic. We sincerely regret any inconvenience.
— SonyLIV (@SonyLIV) July 10, 2020
Sony Liv's official page on twitter apologized say9ing that it wasn't their intension and the team is sorry to create such a panic situation.
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Located in Westchase, a vibrant business district, the Hilton Houston Westchase is an excellent choice for business travellers. Its close proximity to downtown Houston is another plus. Galleria Mall, Sharpstown Golf Course, Memorial City Mall, and Town and Country Village are all within 6 miles. For a real taste of Texas, grab a bite at the Rio Ranch restaurant, which does an excellent brunch. After a busy day, you can relax in the spa tub or in the pool area, or enjoy a cocktail in the tropical setting of the Atrium Lobby Lounge.
What Can I Find Near the Hotel?
Houston is home to a vibrant multi-ethnic community, and in Westchase, you can get a taste of this by visiting one the local ethnic restaurants like Saldivia's South American Grill, or the Kasra Persian Grill. Westchase is also home to Chinatown, where you'll find a huge range of Chinese restaurants and shops. For a unique experience, check out Painting With a Twist, a painting workshop for people who can't paint.
You can expect to pay $89 for a standard room at the Hilton Houston Westchase, and this rises to $150 for an executive suite. Compared to other similar hotels in Westchase, like the Houston Marriott Westchase, the Best Western Plus Westchase, and the Hilton Garden Inn Westchase, this is an average price. Standard rooms have pillowtop beds and premium bedding, cable TV, and free WiFi.
Overall, the location, price, and amenities make the Hilton Houston Westchase a great hotel for all kinds of travelers, whether you are in Houston on business, shopping, or enjoying a family weekend away. The only drawback is that some guests report noise from adjoining rooms, so bring some earplugs if noise bothers you. The main selling points are the friendly service and the brunch.
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Over nearly 17 years on the CWU faculty, Lubinski has taught 20 different general education to upper division, and master's degree courses in anthropology and cultural, and environmental resource management. His teaching has been done in classroom lectures, online courses, and in the laboratory, and through field schools.
One colleague commented, "He wants the best for his students and the best from his students." As further recognition from his colleagues, he is often sought out by new faculty to serve as a teaching mentor.
Lubinski is also regarded as meticulous researcher, who has published peer-reviewed journal articles, technical reports, and presentations on his research.


Along the Alpine Way, between Jindabyne and Thredbo in Australia's Snowy Mountains, is a private, relaxing summer and winter retreat offering private luxury Snowy Mountains accommodation set on a secluded Australian bushland site.
Warreen is close to all the highlights of the Snowy Mountains Region. Your accommodation is just 15 minutes from Jindabyne, 20 minutes by road to Thredbo or 5 minutes to the Skitube to Perisher Valley or Mt Blue Cow. Go skiing and snowboarding in winter; both Perisher and Thredbo are at your doorstep, go fishing for trout, mountain biking, bushwalking, climb Mt Kosciuszko, play golf, horse riding is just down the road, sailing on Lake Jindabyne, canoeing and kayaking on the lake or Snowy Mountains rivers, paddle dragon boats at the Jindabyne Flowing Festival and visit the Thredbo Festivals.
Absolutely brilliant place to stay. Stunning lodge in a quiet and secluded location yet only 15min from the ski fie..


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МБР-1 (микроскоп биологический рабочий, тип 1) — монокулярный биологический световой микроскоп производства ЛОМО.

Назначение
Микроскоп предназначен для наблюдения прозрачных препаратов в проходящем свете.

Конструкция

Общая конструкция
На основании штатива микроскопа смонтирована коробка с микромеханизмом. С одной стороны коробка имеет направляющие для кронштейна конденсора, а с другой — направляющие для тубусодержателя. К коробке прикреплены поворотный предметный столик и поворотное зеркало. На тубусодержателе устанавливается револьвер на три объектива и монокулярный тубус.

Объективы, окуляры и осветительные устройства
Микроскоп снабжён тремя объективами:

планахроматом ОМ-2 (9 Х);

ахроматом МЩ (40 Х);

ахроматом М-101 (90 Х).

Микроскоп имеет три сменных окуляра Гюйгенса: М-7 (7 Х), М-10 (10 Х) и М-11 (15 Х).
Освещение объекта производилось осветителем ОИ-19.
Микроскоп имеет следующие увеличения:

с объективом ОМ-2 — 63 Х, 90 Х и 135 Х;

с объективом МЩ — 280 Х, 400 Х и 600 Х;

с объективом М-101 — 630 Х, 900 Х и 1350 Х.

Разновидности

Микроскоп МБР-1А
Отличается от МБР-1 только комплектацией окуляров и объективов.

Микроскоп МБР-3
Отличается от МБР-1 более массивным штативом, наличием бинокулярного тубуса и механизмом для двухкоординатного перемещения предметного столика. Штатно оснащен объективами-апохроматами, апланатическим конденсором. Является рабочей версией исследовательского микроскопа МБИ-3.

Дорожный микроскоп МБД-1
МБР-1 с уменьшенными по размерам основанием и предметным столиком. Комплектуется препаратоводителем.

Литература
Скворцов Г. Е., Панов В. А., Поляков Н. И., Федин Л. А. Микроскопы. Л.: Машиностроение, 1969//Биологические рабочие микроскопы, стр. 294—295.

Ссылки

Микроскоп

Оптический микроскоп

Микроскопы
Продукция ЛОМО


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The Light of the World - Week Four: "The Light & The Arrival"
As a pastor, I often find the scheduling of the Fourth Sunday of Advent to be a bit off---especially this year. The fact that the final Sunday in this season of expectation is literally the day before Christmas Eve offers a temptation of sorts. I'll call this temptation The Temptation of Tomorrow.
Tomorrow is fairly tempting in its own right, especially when Today is not shaping up to be that spectacular, if you know what I mean.
But when Tomorrow is Christmas Eve... that's a whole other level of temptation, my friend, especially since we find ourselves at the end of a very long, and difficult Advent.
Let me ask you something. Are you limping to the finish line this year? Are you ready for all of this to be over and for December 25th to finally arrive? Are you feeling a bit battered by the gauntlet of shopping traffic and other assorted obstacles that you have had to face each and every blessed Advent day?
I feel you.
And so I give you a story that may lessen your pain a tad--a story entitled, "The Annual Cursing of the Lights" or "Roof Shingles Are Like Sandpaper."
It seems that even though the Christmas decorating of the inside of my house was completed last week, what was sorely needed in order to make the rest of the family happy was the decorating of the outside of the house. Decorating the inside of the house is a team sport. This year it included everyone on the team: Mom, Dad, Biggest Boy, Middlest Boy, Biggest Boy's Girlfriend and even Littlest Boy, who obliged the rest of us by not breaking anything.
But when it comes to the outside of the house---now that's a sport sort of like golf. When you play golf, people might ride around with you on the golf cart, but when you step up to the tee box, it's all on you.
My wife is partial to lights all over the outside of the house including high above on the roof line. Lights all over the house make my wife happy, and I have learned after 21 years of marriage that a happy wife is a pretty darned good thing. So needless to say, when I halfheartedly suggested that we just stick with lights that were closer to terra firma, my wife said that would be "Okay," but I could tell that she had started to slide from happy to not so happy, and I heard myself vowing to handle the rooftop lights if that's what she wanted.
The roof of my house is a precarious place with a variety of pitches and some scary footing on top of shingles that have the consistency of shark skin and make you feel as sure-footed as a spider on roller skates.
I don't know exactly if a spider on roller skates would not be sure footed, but it sounded funny in my head, so I wrote it down.
At any rate after a couple of hours on top of the roof in the 80-plus degree Florida winter sun, I was parched and sunburnt. I was in shorts so my legs were skinned in a number of places from moments when I'd had to cling to the roof like a burr to keep from sliding off of it. I also had small chunks missing from several fingers where I had banged them on the shark-skinned shingles while trying to hang unruly strands of lights.
But I got them up. And then I put up about twenty strands of lights on or near the ground. And then I replaced a bunch of fuses, about fifty bulbs and had to untangle one strand that was wound worse than the Gordian Knot.
I was proud of myself because I am pretty sure I didn't cuss once.
Well maybe once.
So yeah, I feel you. I'm tired, too. I'm ready for Baby Jesus to be born, man.
We're not really good at waiting anyway, are we? When I say "we" I mean the collective "we," the average "us." But before we get to Tomorrow--even if it is Christmas Eve--we need sit for a while here in Today.
The passage of Scripture that captures our attention for this sermon is from Luke 1:39-55. It's the passage of Scripture commonly referred to in church-y places as The Magnificat: Mary's Song.
Let's do this in two parts. First, read this:
39 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40 where she entered Zechariah's home and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 In a loud voice she exclaimed: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! 43 But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45 Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!"
The meeting between Mary and Elizabeth is a poignant and beautiful story. It's about the confirmation of hope and the fulfillment of a promise. Some people might wonder whether Mary needed any confirmation after hearing the declaration of the angel Gabriel---a declaration that she was going to be the mother of the Messiah.
Well, I don't know about you, but if I had a vision that nobody else saw, I would want to have some confirmation just to be sure I wasn't seeing things. Mary travelled almost 80 miles from Nazareth to where Elizabeth lived---we don't know how long it took her, we don't know who went with her, but we can presume that it took a while, and that she had company, since a young girl wouldn't have made that long journey on her own.
When she sees Elizabeth and sees that her aged cousin is indeed pregnant she is filled with joy and the baby inside Elizabeth's womb is also famously filled with joy, too, because he leaps and boogies at the sound of Mary's voice.
Then the singing starts again.
Luke, the author of the Gospel According to Luke, loved singing. He was like the Andrew Lloyd Webber of the first century. If you go back to the beginning of chapter one and start counting, you'll see that this is the second time that someone bursts into song, and there's another one to follow a little later when Jesus is brought to the Temple as a baby. I like this addition of singing in his narrative. It sets a worshipful tone for the birth narrative, and there's just so much power in the poetry of the words of these songs.
Here is what Mary sang:
"My soul glorifies the Lord
47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
48 for he has been mindful
of the humble state of his servant.
From now on all generations will call me blessed,
49 for the Mighty One has done great things for me—
holy is his name.
50 His mercy extends to those who fear him,
from generation to generation.
51 He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;
he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
52 He has brought down rulers from their thrones
but has lifted up the humble.
53 He has filled the hungry with good things
but has sent the rich away empty.
54 He has helped his servant Israel,
remembering to be merciful
55 to Abraham and his descendants forever,
just as he promised our ancestors."
This song is known as The Magnificat, a Latin word that corresponds with the line of the song that talks about the "Mighty One" who has done "great things." First of all, the voice singing the Magnificat is not a powerful and a privileged voice. It's the voice of a peasant girl from a backwater Galilean town--a town whose only claim to fame was the fact that it was three miles from Sepphoris, which had been destroyed by the Romans because of an uprising. Mary's is a tired voice, a voice that is already world-weary even at a tender age. But it's also a voice that is filled with hope.
The world described in Mary's song is one that is topsy turvy. What was powerful is brought low, what was low is made powerful. The hungry are given food, while the rich are sent away empty. Then finally, Israel, which had endured centuries of subjugation to more powerful nations, will at last see the fulfillment of the promise God made to Abraham that through his descendants the whole world would be blessed.
So what's this all about? What can we take away from this?
I see two things embedded in this story that need to be lifted up.
First, God is good. Second, God keeps his promises.
This is the essence of Mary's song, the hope behind her words, the strength in her tired, small and powerless voice.
God is good and God keeps his promises.
Here are some questions that I would like you to ponder.
If you find your way into church this Fourth Sunday of Advent, why are you there? If you didn't, then why are you bothering to read this?
What are you expecting... really? Do you feel inside like maybe that your expectations have run out? Maybe what you are feeling is just fatigue---in your body, your mind and your spirit. You've been watching television and seeing countless stories about the tragedy in Newtown CT. The faces of those little angels--those children who are forever frozen in time now because of the horrific act that claimed their life---are burned in your mind. The news around the world doesn't seem to be great either.
And so we sort of find ourselves in this weird place where we are throwing ourselves into Christmas, trying to piece together something that has meaning---on our own of course, just like we always do.
Politicians are vowing to pass laws, change things, do something to fix all of our societal ills. As if they can change the ills that live in the depths of the broken human heart.
And here's something else... Stress levels are too high. We can't balance the demands between the needs of our families and our careers, and as a result families are suffering, splitting up, going through hardship. We're losing the plot. We say that we wish things were simpler, and we look back to Christmas Past with a sense of longing as we hope to recreate what is long gone here in the present.
People are looking backward instead of Godward, aren't they?
Mary's song reminds us that God's story, God's economy and God's plan are not of this world.
As I have said before, the song is not sung with a privileged and powerful voice. It comes from a place of brokenness, a place of waiting. And it speaks to us of a future that will be so much brighter than we could ever imagine even as it looks back to a past where the God of History has been at work.
The prophet Micah wrote this:
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
though you are small among the clans of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
from ancient times."
All of history points to the moment of Jesus' birth. And the God who intervened in history speaks to us from the future where Jesus has already prepared a place for us. We are at the crossroads of history, you and I. We have a front row seat to the dawning of the Light of Jesus Christ, who is eternally Savior---yesterday, today and forever.
And so what are we to do on this Fourth Sunday of Advent, teetering as we are on the edge of Tomorrow?
We string some lights, that's what. Because it's better to string some lights than to curse the darkness. It's time to put aside mourning and celebrate. The Light of Christ is about to dawn, and to shine on our faces like pure unadulterated joy.
The night I finished with the lights on my house, I couldn't wait for my family to come home so I could plug the whole thing in and watch their faces when they saw the finished product in all of it's glory. It was everything I imagined it would be. The Littlest Boy ran around like a squirrel saying, "Lights! Lights! Lights!" over and over again. My Middlest Boy smiled that snaggle-toothed eight year-old grin that he musters for really awesome things. My wife glowed, and not just because there were so many Christmas lights it was almost an affront to God, but because she was so happy.
It was a good moment.
As we walked into the house, my Biggest Boy, who is almost 18 years-old said to me, "Good job, Dad." I put my hand on his shoulder and I said to him, "Listen, Boy. These are the things that you have to do when you are a dad. They are important. Do you know what I mean?" He looked at me very seriously, with a misty sort of look in his eyes that made be believe that this was one of those important and holy moments you want to remember.
"I'll be doing this sooner than you think," he said to me.
"Wait awhile," I said. "Wait a while."
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Eleven Injured, Suspect Killed in Ohio State University Attack
A Somali-born Ohio State student crashed his vehicle into pedestrians on the Columbus campus Monday, then slashed students with a butcher knife before being fatally shot by a university police officer, authorities said.
Via USA TODAY:
Eleven people were rushed to hospitals and one was in critical condition, according to university Police Chief Craig Stone. The incident is being investigated by the FBI, although no confirmed information has surfaced yet as to whether the attack was terror-related.
The drama began shortly before 10 a.m. ET, when the suspect deliberately drove over a curb and began his attack, Stone said. He said the officer arrived about a minute later and engaged the suspect.
"We are very fortunate that an OSUPD officer was there and took quick action," Stone said.
The @OSUPolice confirm Officer Alan Horujko shot and killed the suspect, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, Monday morning. pic.twitter.com/6BuZ9GN1zY
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Monica Moll, the university's public safety director, identified the assailant as Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a student at the school. Multiple media outlets including NBC News and the Associated Press, citing sources who requested anonymity, described him as a 20-year-old native of Somalia living in the United States as a legal permanent resident.
He was shot by Officer Alan Horujko, 28, who has been on the university force for almost two years, Moll said.
Columbus Police Chief Chief Kim Jacobs, whose officers also responded to the attack, said terrorism had not been ruled out. "That's why our federal partners are here and helping," she said. "I think we have to consider that it is."
Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that while the bloodshed is still under investigation, it "bears all of the hallmarks of a terror attack carried out by someone who may have been self-radicalized."
"Here in the United States, our most immediate threat still comes from lone attackers that are not only capable of unleashing great harm, but are also extremely difficult, and in some cases, virtually impossible to identify or interdict," he said.
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"While past Islamic State media releases have focused on who to kill, recent media from the group has shown a strong focus on how to kill," SITE Director Rita Katz said.
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Q: User-select not working on a:visited I'm working on a Math website, and it has some exercises on it with solutions on the bottom of the page. I want to make so solutions are hidden when the user scrolls by them, and needs to click on the block for it to show the answer. I want to achieve this using only css and html. Here's what I have made so far:
HTML:

  2+2=4

CSS:
.solution {
  width:80%;
  margin:25px auto;
}

.solution a:visited{
  color:black;
  background-color:white;
  user-select:text;
}

.solution a{
  background-color:#49FF59;
  display:block;
  width:100%;
  padding:25px;
  text-align:center;
  color:#49FF59;
  text-decoration:none;
  user-select: none;
}

This code works great, except for the user-select. I want it so that the user can't copy the solution, before the block is clicked on. But the a:visited won't apply the user-select:text; I have tried to add more classes, but i wasn't able too fix it. Keep in mind most of the CSS is for asterisk.

A: If I'm correct, the approach you're trying to take is to prevent someone from doing a select all and seeing the solutions on screen due to the text being highlighted.
If that's the case there are better style properties to use for this, particularly visibility or display.
For example you can use visibility: hidden or display: none to hide the solution until a specific condition is met.
I'd also advise against using :visited for something like this, unless you have specific urls for each question that you plan to override (if you use href='#') for everything, then once you click one, they are all 'visited'). You're going to also have struggles with browser caches when using :visited.
As an example, you could alter your container to be the clickable element, and hide your content using visibility, then show the answer on the :active state as opposed to the :visited state.  This will show the answer while the mouse button is pressed.  Under normal circumstances the text isn't selectable because it's hidden. If you want to keep it shown after a click but not use :visited you'll need a javascript solution.
Worth stating that this solution will not hide answers in the source code, but as you mentioned above that is not a concern for you.

.solution {
  width:80%;
  margin:25px auto;
  background-color:#49FF59;
  display:block;
  width:100%;
  padding:25px;
  text-align:center;
}

.solution:active {
  color:black;
  background-color:white;
  user-select:text;
}

.solution:active a {
  color:black;
  background-color:white;
  visibility:visible;
}

.solution a{
  text-align:center;
  text-decoration:none;
  visibility: hidden;
}

  2+2=4

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Correct my view of the multiverse?
"Think of the universe as a gigantic block of Swiss cheese, with the cheesy parts being regions where the inflaton field's value is high and the holes being regions where it's low.
Taken together, the two processes yield an everexpanding block of cosmic cheese riddled with an ever-growing number of holes. In the more standard language of cosmology, each hole is called a bubble universe."
Is the "block of cheese" the Multiverse? Or is it our Universe, which wouldn't make a lot of sense to me. If it is the multiverse, does it mean that the inflation field permeates throughout the multiverse, and is not limited to our universe?
Also, the "bubble" universes expanding "like in the cheese" don't really make sense to me if some of the universes are flat, in this case infinite? How can an infinite universe even be located inside something? Wouldn't it occupy all the space, instead of a "bubble"?
Edit: Also, are the laws of physics limited to our Universe, or the entire Multiverse?
The general problem here is that, while it is a nice analogy for picturing a bubble of our universe within the multiverse, it is far from perfect. To try and address your questions directly; it is the block of cheese that is the multiverse and our universe is a 'hole' inside this.
Your next question and the question in the edit are linked and relate to what I see as one of the nicest points of the multiverse theory. The laws of physics within each universe do not have to be the same. This can be used to explain why we happen to be in the universe with the right conditions to allow for life. There are very many universes with different physics and the one that allows for life is the one we are in. However, I think what the quoted text is getting at is that there is an inflaton field throughout the multiverse but with different field values in different universes.
Your final question is probably the most difficult to answer and hints at some of the more complex points about multiverse theories. I'd like to refer you to https://www.space.com/31465-is-our-universe-just-one-of-many-in-a-multiverse.html and the wikipedia on the multiverse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse which are both useful here. Essentially in this analogy we are only considering the observable universe which is not infinite and does form a nice bubble in the multiverse. If you want to try and picture universes of infinite extent in a multiverse it is probably more useful to think of sheets of paper lying on top of each other, so that they are separated by a distance in one (or more) extra dimensions.
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New jobless claims were higher than expected this week. The Labor Department's weekly report showed that new filings for state unemployment rose to 297,000. The median forecast was for new claims to have fallen to 275,000 from last week's figure of 282,000.
This was the highest level in over four months and pushed the four-week moving average up to 297,000. Continuing jobless claims also showed a higher tally this week at 2.3M up to 26 June.
The dollar held firm after the disappointing jobs data as traders focused on the wider picture, namely China. The US dollar index was up half of one percent with the greenback making gains against most of the majors.
The dollar rebounded over half of one percent against the yen. USD/JPY recovered yesterday's steep losses and moved back up to 121.3. The yen eased back a notch after Asian stock markets underwent a sharp recovery. This initiated a reversal of some of the safe haven funds.


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Blu-Ray: 'Prince Of Darkness' (1987)
26 November 2018 Iain MacLeod Film 0
❉ The middle chapter of Carpenter's Apocalypse trilogy contains some of his most ambitious ideas as a writer.
"Prince of Darkness is Assault on Precinct 13 by way of Nigel Kneale. On one hand we have a siege film with a bunch of homeless zombies, led by a pasty-faced and mute Alice Cooper, and on the other hand we have a film dealing with the lurking evil that mankind can barely comprehend which can only be best explained by theology."
Once seen as the first blip on the radar that started to mark the decline of quality in his directorial output, John Carpenter's Prince Of Darkness has revealed itself over time as a flawed but darkly philosophical work that contains some of his most ambitious ideas as a writer. Working with his lowest budget in years, as a result of a deal with Alive Films that afforded him more creative freedom, he confronts the viewer with what may be his most diabolical antagonist; an "anti-god" held captive in an ancient chamber that risks discovery once unearthed beneath a church in Los Angeles.
Donald Pleasence, possibly Carpenter's second-greatest secret weapon in his recurring troupe of actors, plays the priest, imaginatively named "Priest", who – alarmed by the greatest evil the planet has ever known possibly being unleashed once more – enlists a university department to investigate and raise awareness of said evil when his own church turns its back on him. The students, who appear to have been studying since the mid-seventies, are the film's weakest link.
Carpenter, who was usually so good with heroes and anti-heroes, whether it was Laurie Strode, Snake Plissken, Dr Loomis, Macready or Jack Burton, presents a frankly unmemorable gang with very little to distinguish themselves other than Jameson Parker's blonde moustache. Dennis Dun, who was so good as Wang in Carpenter's previous film Big Trouble in Little China somehow comes across as the most annoying character here, when he's not cracking lame come-on jokes at his fellow female students he can be found screaming and moaning about his predicament once the evil is unleashed and enslaves his friends.
Thankfully to balance things out we also have returning from Big Trouble… the estimable Victor Wong as the department professor Howard. It is through the discussions between Howard and the priest that the film reveals its ambitious, if sometimes wacky, philosophy. Christ is casually mentioned as of being from extra-terrestrial ancestry at one point whilst a computer monitor warns our heroes onscreen that "You will not be saved by the god Plutonium." Arriving onscreen in 1987 this was, and still is, refreshingly ambitious stuff for a horror film. The boom of American horror that was so prevalent in the early to mid-eighties was winding down and dominated by Freddy Krueger who by then was becoming a staid and predictable presence. Carpenter reveals his main influence here with one of his many pen names; Martin Quatermass.
Prince of Darkness is Assault on Precinct 13 by way of Nigel Kneale. On one hand we have a siege film with a bunch of homeless zombies, led by a pasty-faced and mute Alice Cooper, ready to dispatch the students and on the other hand we have a film dealing with such subjects as quantum physics, hidden history, dream broadcasting and lurking evil that mankind can barely comprehend which can only be best explained by theology. And often is, at length. At the time of its original release the audience may simply not have been ready for such heady themes when they may have only been expecting a standard stalk and slash thriller from "The Master of Horror."
Not that Carpenter forgot to give his audience what they wanted however. One particular and protracted death scene, involving a multitude of bugs, shows the director managing effortlessly to both gross and spook out his audience. At times as well as his love of Kneale he also seems to display an appreciation for Italian horror cinema, one shot tracing the descent of a knife recalls Argento and the films tone recalls Lucio Fulci's more dreamlike imagery and the viewer is even reminded of Lamberto Bava's Demons as more and more of the cast become mindless killers spewing green bile from their decaying bodies in the increasingly claustrophobic church.
As the middle chapter of his self-proclaimed Apocalypse trilogy, preceded by The Thing and followed by the even more ambitious Lovecraftian-themed In The Mouth of Madness, this shows Carpenter at his most thoughtful and yet pessimistic. By the film's climax, one of Carpenter's most haunting, organised religion is exposed as nothing more than a security blanket for the masses and it is not a question of how the world will fall to darkness but when.
 StudioCanal have done well by the film. It has never really had a decent home release in the U.K. so the commentaries, documentaries and interviews are a more than welcome bonus that reveal the films gestation and process behind it nicely. As with their recent re-releases of The Fog, Escape From New York and They Live we are gifted with another 4K remastering that reveals and preserves more of the details in the darkness. It may not be a stone-cold classic like those just mentioned but it shows that at his peak Carpenter was one of the greatest genre directors around. Unafraid to reclaim his independence after big studio film-making as a director and writer and equally unafraid to tackle and combine horror and science fiction in new and interesting ways.
❉ 'Prince of Darkness' 4K Restoration (STUDIOCANAL) receives its theatrical release on 26 October 2018 and Blu-Ray Release 26 November 26 2018 (Steel-book Oct 29th).
❉ Iain MacLeod was raised on the North coast of Scotland on a steady diet of 2000AD and Moviedrome. Now living in Glasgow as a struggling screenwriter he still buys too many comics and blu-rays. Has never seen a ghost but heard two talking in his bedroom when he was 4.
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Maiden Chat
Which Maiden songs we should consider as a ballads/power ballads ?
Thread starter Kalata
Belshazzar
Yer Mum Can't Come
Wasting Love, the one and only Power Ballad from Maiden. Even that's tenuous.
R@inmaker
Educated Fool
how is Wasted Years not being mentioned here more? to me that is THE definitive (if few) Maiden power ballads! all about longing for home and and the love you left behind and of course growing older etc etc
chaosapiant
Ancient Marinade
R@inmaker said:
Wasted Years does not strike me at all as a ballad, or power ballad. Very few of Maiden's songs do, since they're almost always just a bit too heavy (wasting love) or a bit too fast (wasted years) to be ballad material.
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yeah, i guess i'm more just playing along with the "IF you had to label any Maiden songs power ballads..." argument. i agree, Madien has never really done a power ballad or ballad for that matter...just not their thing and probably a big reason why they've always been "true metal" despite trend/fashion etc
Samantas5855
Purgatory perhaps
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As you scream into the web of silence...
Samantas5855 said:
Wat.
Diesel 11 said:
Before being renamed to purgatory the name was Floating (its still in the lyrics, they are the same) and it was a ballad. You can find snippets of Dennis Wilcock singing it
As far as I can tell, these are Maiden's ballads:
Remember Tomorrow
Children of the Damned
No Prayer for the Dying
Afraid to Shoot Strangers
Wasting Love
Fortunes of War
Judgement of Heaven
The Educated Fool
Como Estais Amigos
Dream of Mirrors
Face in the Sand
When the Wild Wind Blows
The Man of Sorrows
Empire of the Clouds
But there's room for discussion.
MindRuler
That would make one hell of a compilation album! Although I have one question for you: Lightning Strikes Twice a ballad?
Travis The Dragon
"Can you see them riding. Riding next to you!"
To me a power ballad type song should contain the following: The song should start with a verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure with at least the verses being acoustic only. And the choruses need to have strong, powerful vocal parts/hooks. So, any songs with a slow acoustic intro that turn into electric not long after don't qualify. Songs such as Children Of The Damned and Dream Of Mirrors would qualify since they both have a good part of the song that follows the structure. Now, if you're talking simply a ballad or songs that have good portions of ballad type parts, then songs like No Prayer For The Dying, Afraid To Shoot Strangers and Empire Of The Clouds would qualify. But songs like Revelations, The Aftermath, No More Lies, and Face In The Sand have too much electric guitar in them.
As far as I can tell, you have no idea of what a ballad is
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Sköldpadda
The most power ballad-like Maiden songs I can think of are like... "Wasting Love" and "Coming Home".
Clear-cut power ballads are for me songs like "The Flame" by Cheap Trick and "Alone Again" by Dokken.
In the end though, I don't think Maiden has done any song that's a true power ballad or true anything else.
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jvitor_amaral
Prodigal Son, Wasting Love, Journeyman, Out Of The Shadows and Coming Home are the only actual ballads imo.
Spaldy
Strange Worlds, Prodigal Son, Wasting Love and Coming Home are the closest to power ballad material Maiden have managed and even then do they really class as power ballads?
These are what I constitute a power ballad as;
Foreigner - "I Want to Know What Love Is"
Whitesnake - "Is This Love"
REO Speedwagon - "Can't Fight This Feeling"
Bryan Adams - "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)"
Toto - "Africa"
You get the idea. THOSE are power ballads.
Wasted Years is a mid tempo rocker with a stadium rock chorus. It is absolutely not a power ballad.
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if you read all my comments i agreed that Maiden has NEVER actually written a power ballad. WY is thematically similar to power ballads in that is about love/longing/loss. they often touch on the latter two but NEVER hit on love but Adrian was clearly writing a letter back home with that song. as for what i personally feel are good examples of power ballads? "house of pain" - faster pussycat, "every rose has its thorn" - poison, "don't close your eyes" - kix, "slipping away" - dokken. what do they have in common? LEGIT power chords (sorry, that eliminates Toto, Bryan Adams, REO and Foreigner for me) and earnest attempts to get into womens' pants
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Let's see what we have here. If you put 'definition of ballad' in google you get two modern definitions - one is a 'folk ballad', which is a folk tale over music in short stanzas. For instance, "jozin z bazin" would be a ballad of that type, Irish folk songs, etc. Someone goes somewhere and this and that happens to him. The other type is a pop definition which is almost exclusively tied to sentimental, romantic affairs. "a slow sentimental or romantic song.". The third, more older definition would be "dance music", e.g. music to dance to.
None of this is applicable to any Maiden song.
If you think songs like Children of the Damned fit the description of the narrative ballad, e.g. folk ballad, they don't. This is a snippet from one of those ballads
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young girl calling
"Michael, they have taken you away
For you stole Trevelyan's corn
So the young might see the morn
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay"
Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing we had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry
So lyrics about vague emotions and abstract things, COTD, Wasting Love, do not apply. There needs to be a real story behind it.
The giveaway about folk ballads is 0 classical structure, the musical fabula is non existing. They sing the verses backed by some traditional instruments. So even if COTD was fully acoustic and had straightforward lyrics like depicted above, it still wouldn't fit, due to the arrangement.
About the second and third definition, love songs, dance songs, well you be the judge of that.
Dickinson's solo career is another matter. Arc of Space is clean example of #1. TOAD is a good example of 'love' sort, with an added instrumental section, so you might call it a power ballad.
"slipping away" - dokken.
GREAT song.
Zare said:
COTD
Everytime I see an acronym being used for a song, I have to go through 16 albums and then back again before I figure out which song people mean. Can we not agree uniformly to stop using acronyms/abbreviations?
Maturin said:
Can we not agree uniformly to stop using acronyms/abbreviations?
Lmao no. If you think someone is going to write "Loneliness of the long distance runner" three times in a sentence, you're wrong...


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