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The Mysterious Mister Hokum
Well-known technology historian Jason Scott tells the extraordinary story of the con artist named John Paul Aleshe, aka Robert Hoquim, at DerbyCon conference.
Welcome to The Mysterious Mister Hokum, presented to you by Jason Scott, proprietor of textfiles.com, documentary filmmaker, famous cat owner, problematic kickstarter, rehabilitation officer, and friend to all in terms of history.
When Robert Hoquim died, he died in the basement apartment that he had in Indiana. He, at that time, was a recently retired owner of an ISP called IQuest in Indianapolis, and he was a beloved member of the community. He was a car collector, he was somebody who would really play the part in the growth of the Internet in the Indianapolis area.
Of course, the police, finding him dead of a heart attack, wanted to find out more about what family members he had and maybe to notify them. And they ran into some problems. First of all, it turned out that his social security identification card wasn't real. It turned out that it was handmade. And his other information didn't match up; it matched to other people around the country.
And so, what ended up happening was that this beloved guy had all these holes, and they couldn't figure out what was going on. Again, he'd been around for years, he was a Vietnam vet, he'd got a degree in mathematics and everything else. It turned out that, in fact, none of that was true. They were able to go to his storage unit to maybe get a little bit more of information, and that is when it really fell apart.
So, hokum – the concept of hokum is one of not telling the truth, telling a little bit more of a story that, perhaps, you should, and kind of trying to put one over on people. Hokum was, in fact, his last name; Robert Hoquim. And Robert was not named Robert Hoquim.
His actual real name was Robert Aleshe, or I should say John Paul Aleshe. He had, in fact, been on the run for over 20 years. This photo you're seeing of him (see right-hand image) is a mugshot taken of him in Dallas. The reason he is in a cast is because his finger has been shot off. And the reason his finger has been shot off was because the lack of a partition in the cop car when you're busting somebody for writing bad checks meant that it was easier just to handcuff the guy and put him in the front of the cop car with you, which meant that when he was able to get one hand out of the handcuffs and he struggled with the cop for the gun. The gun went off and took his finger out. But they needed a mugshot from him, so they took a picture of him with the missing finger anyway.
John Aleshe had been kind of always on the periphery of getting away with things. He was a person who had run a number of scams, and I'll mention some of them, throughout his life. I wanted to talk about how I found out about him, and kind of the earlier lessons that I think come from him, and the wider ideas that we get from a guy like this.
Because this is a computer security conference, and security conferences are ones where people discuss the whole manifest of trust in the web. And one of the side effects of this is that people can get really hung up on believing that because they are aware of how things can go wrong, they themselves are fully capable of knowing when things can go wrong; I just wanted to show exactly kind of where it goes and our roots in it as computer industry.
In the glove compartment of a pickup truck that was gassed and ready to go, in the storage unit – only one is mentioned here (see left-hand image) – there were actually multiple fake IDs. Bear in mind: Robert Aleshe was in fact a multi-millionaire at this point, and yet, even at that moment he was keeping a truck ready to go at the slightest provocation in the storage unit, along with whole new identities waiting for him to go.
This is a different picture of him (see right-hand image). It looks like he's younger, but I believe that that's a hairpiece. He'd been arrested in Colorado, and his scams ranged from simple check cashing, kite schemes – to something called the bust-out. Does anyone know what a bust-out is? Here is how the bust-out works. You go to a place and you ingratiate yourself with the community, and you end up telling people that you'll help them.
It's, ironically, a lot of work to do this. You basically have to become friends with people; when there are shitty jobs, nobody wants them, you take them. You offer to get in on stuff and help people with things, and then over time the community depends on you. And that is when you fuck them. You, basically, step in and you say to them: "I came up with a deal. I'll do this investment with you. You'll give me some cash, I'll do some cash; maybe even do one successfully." But then you push for an unusually large one. And then when the money comes in and you go to do the next part, you disappear. And this is what he had done.
Now you're probably thinking when I heard about this. The interesting thing is I'm currently 43; I heard about this scam, about him, in 1988, when I was 18. And what had happened was: he was a member of a community on FidoNet. I won't go too much into FidoNet here, it's a personal favorite of mine. But think of FidoNet as a computer with a fat guy calling another fat guy. The way that FidoNet worked was that FidoNet's magic was in its network. And what would happen was you would post a message on FidoNet on the single-use BBS, single-person BBS, and at night, it would call another BBS and it would transfer files at night, very quickly, 3 in the morning. When these were wrong numbers, it was a bad day for that person. They would transfer the files, transfer the messages, and now you would have your post appear on two places. If it sounds weird that you would have to wait a day for an email – that's the way it worked.
Now, this didn't scale very well after a couple hundred nodes. So, what they came up with was a much more complicated system; this hub region system. What would happen is that one machine would be designated as the hub, and so the other machines locally – because at the time, back before 20% of you were born, there was local calling vs. long distance, and long distance was expensive, so the idea was that everyone in your local calling area would call one machine, and that machine would then, at night, do the transfer, and that was the hub. And then, over the next day, it would transfer back out.
And this was all had ad hoc, this was all being done by amateurs; it was a fantastically powerful system to be able to transfer things. But it had that one interesting flaw, which was that to be a hub was a relatively expensive process. So, when he joined the community that he was in, John Aleshe, at that time being called John Richard, became the hub.
So, he became the 'solve-all-your-problems' amazing guy. He ended up taking everyone's messages, and then quietly entering into these deals with people about getting some cool grey-market goods and investing in a business and doing everything else. And then one day he went to Boston for a computer convention and never returned. The way they found out was the phone number was disconnected on the BBS; they drove by his house – it was empty. And everybody started to piece together how many of them had invested something in him recently, and that he had blown town, never to return.
Now, some people would just go through various stages, but these folks decided that what they would do was they would sit down and they would write out everything about him they knew. And then they discovered his earlier life as John Aleshe. And then they would put it all in a FidoNet transferred file and send it to all the other FidoNet nodes. This was how I heard about it at 18, about this terrible scam artist who had taken all this stuff from people. They were angry, life savings were gone. But he had disappeared with it, and they were using FidoNet.
He was just a legitimate businessman who was on the FBI Wanted list.
Ironically, of course, he moved over two states – we now know. And he opened up another BBS and went back on FidoNet, where, extensively, he got to watch this cry for his head. Now, again, you would think that he would go in for that big scam again. And it was there that he founded what eventually became IQuest, one of the largest Internet service providers of Indianapolis. It turned out that starting an ISP in 1992 to 1995 was like starting a video store in 1980 or 1983 or a video arcade in 1978. Turned out he struck gold. And so, enough money came in that he was not running any fraud; he was just a legitimate businessman who was on the FBI Wanted list.
So, my question is: how much does it make him different than a lot of other similar organizations in time, a lot of similar other places. Because, if we go ahead and look at the computer industry, and you look at how marketing is done, and you look at how people make promises, it doesn't always catch up. And unfortunately, we've become relatively inured to that situation, haven't we? We've certainly gotten to the point now where we say to ourselves: "Of course, we're smart and we see this big cell phone." I mean, certainly, the wave of anger and trauma that comes with any new iPhone release seems to indicate that we are better educated people.
This (see left-hand image) is the Altair 8800, which is built as the first home computer, mini-computer, computer just for people that did not fill a room or make missiles fly. There's an earlier one called the Mark-8. However, the Mark 8 was particularly expensive and was a huge financial burden, so you probably wouldn't be owning that. It was the Altair that ended up on the cover of Popular Electronics in January 1975.
I've interviewed many people from that era. And there were people that basically said to me: "This was the moment at which I realized I wanted to own a home computer and I wanted to be a computer owner." It is a fundamentally beautiful piece of art.
Now, it has no video screen, and for people who might not go back to that time – you were basically flipping those switches on the front to be able to send programs into it. But it was amazing that you could get this thing for $400 in a kit and $498 assembled.
At a time when an Intel chip that would go in here was $400 – now, that should have been a red flag, you would think, right? The $400 chip in this machine plus machine equals $400. But no, what ended up happening was that, in fact, when they put this thing up for sale, it didn't exist. This computer was myth, it was a gamble, it was an idea, it was a hope.
They had developed a prototype that they thought was pretty good. They had shipped it to Popular Electronics for the cover photo. That was lost in shipping, so they sent them an empty box. So this iconic photo is of an empty box. It is a beautiful testimony to the computer industry that has come afterwards. They needed to sell 200 of these things to be able to make them – they had to pre-sell 200. They ended up pre-selling 2000, and within the first year they had manufactured 5000. They were onto something; they had struck oil. But they had not necessarily known that when they put the thing up for sale. So to me it always stands as a beautiful testimony to the industry.
At the time that we're talking about, there were a lot of ads making a lot of promises. This is a Heathkit terminal (see right-hand image), 16K RAM, only $1595*. It's got 100 Kbytes storage and two Z80-s.
It occurs to me that I didn't quite explain Altair 8800. So, wait a minute: "$400+blank=$400, what are you doing?" Here is the trick: they had cut a deal with Intel. Intel had cosmetically damaged terrible-looking chips that were testing functional. And they made a pre-deal with Intel to sell this chip for $75 if they removed the Intel logo from it. There is your secret sauce, there you go. I expect to see your Kickstarter next week.
This industry offered lots of things that were extremely underpowered that were portrayed as wonderful. This (see right-hand image) is a 64-character terminal kit for $325. There's no CPU – it's just going to take what you type and put it on the screen. That's your machine.
When people promise you more, they're promising you amazing things for expensive amounts. This is Altair Basic (see left-hand image) that went for the Altair. In 1976 it was written by the two little hippies, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. And I've actually found someone who has a receipt from 1978. The price was $213 with tax. This is what $200 gets you. Ah, the software industry, you will never fail me.
They ended up seeing so much money in Basic that they split off and had to settle a lawsuit with Altair when they moved away, because it was so amazing. And they left the center of computing at the time, which was Albuquerque in New Mexico, and went to Seattle, where they were never heard from again. So you have a lawsuit over a piece of software from a company that originally lied about having a computer.
Computers were expensive back then (see right-hand image). The upper left: you cannot beat the 4K system at $599. If you want to have a 16K system, that's 300 more dollars. And you want to add up a printer – that adds up to $1198. Or the Level II, 16K, printer + disk system bundle at $2385. How are you going to beat it? You're not. Actually, at the bottom you can see the amazing new 32K, Level II, 2-line printer system for $3874. That was a party. You were like: "Do we buy a second car or do we get a computer?"
Like I said, it was an expensive time, and there were a lot of promises. This (see right-hand image) is Radio Shack, who has turned out to be a relatively legitimate company. On the right is Omnisonix, Ltd, who is offering you a "Honeybox omnisonic imager, a quantum leap forward in stereo reproduction." There is so much goodness in the copy here, copy that you would take to your own products and apps. And I promise you instant, instant interest. Retro fits to most stereo systems. Now, remember that this was at the time when the RCA plug was the primary interface to an audio box.
"You can now experience the psychological and physiological sensation of what amounts to three-dimensional sound reproduction, what we call Omnisonic Imagery from just two speakers. Sound appears to come out of many sources in the listening area, depending on the quality of the signal source." It is promising you that this box will change everything. Now, I've had somebody who worked here tell me that it was actually pretty awesome, but it was mostly an echo chamber.
So, in this minefield of what's real and what isn't you have something like this (see right-hand image). This is "Hello fellow computerist…" from Perry and Coreen Pollock, who were talking about World Power Systems. World Power Systems, as you can see on the right, offered you wonderful things: three powerful interfaces for the TRS-80 and S-100 bus, consoles, programmers, modules that you could buy; serial parallel I/O modules.
As if through glass, let me tell you about the predator, because everything you're looking at here is an absolute lie. There is no World Power Systems, there is no such thing being sold. If you give them your money, you're never going to see that money again.
It gets even better: the two people in the picture are partners of the person and they are about to be screwed. They are painted as the CEO and the Head Treasurer, but, in fact, they have no power whatsoever. World Power Systems existed for one purpose: to advertise in as many magazines as quickly as possible things that did not exist, get you to send them money and then disappear, i.e. the bust-out.
The guy who ran it, the Colonel, had run previously a company called DataSync, the DS-100 Educated Terminal. Colonel Winthrop, which is not his real name, had basically sold this item, this kit (see left-hand image), which also didn't exist, and had gone to jail. But it was a minimum security prison, so he busted out and started World Power Systems.
So dude goes on the run, leaving these two people to get arrested. They were later released. I found an article about it where she showed up. She had since gotten married again, got a kid and was like: "Wow, people still remember this story," because for her this was well over 30 years ago, but it was still amazing, that World Power Systems.
Now, here's the thing: in a weird linkup, Tom Jennings, who created FidoNet, needed a group to do some of his electronics projects, and he named it World Power Systems, entirely on purpose, as a reference to these scam artists. And for a short period of time he lived in the same town as the original World Power Systems was running. And there were people 25 years later who thought he was the same guy. And he had to address people who were very angry. A quarter of a century later they were angry and bitter at how they got screwed over.
The Colonel, Mr. Hunt – it was his real name, by the way – made one major mistake, and it was the 3S+P Interface Card (see right-hand image). I'll give you 5 seconds to go: what is the terrible mistake that this con artist made which you should not make? Showing the actual chips wins the game, good job. Don't show people something that doesn't work, utilizing chips that don't do what you put them next to, with no obvious power running to them. This terrible snake oil chip, which could not plug into anything, and which was running all manner of things, immediately got the attention of people going: "I don't understand what this is," writing to the paper and things falling apart extremely quickly, causing him to go on the run and the other people to be arrested.
They had brought in, like, $250,000. This (see left-hand image) is an article from 1979 about it; I've put it there. It took the World Power Systems group. It turned out that they had gotten a lot of people to give them money. His name was Norman Henry Hunt; he was convicted of fraud. He escaped from Chino, which, apparently, was very easy if it's minimum security. He was later arrested for this and went to jail.
Here's the Colonel in various mugshots (see right-hand image). It turns out there's a lot of mugshots of the Colonel for some reason. Colonel's still in jail. And why is the Colonel still in jail? Well, this is where I just lost my shit because…
So, the Colonel was in jail, and it turned out in the 1990s there had been this scandal. It turned out that there was a tax fraud scheme where people were filing tax refunds for people who didn't exist, and getting thousands and thousands of dollars in tax refunds.
And when they figured out who was doing it, it was a bunch of prisoners, of which he was one of them. They then had to try and convict him for tax fraud in prison, where he was. So, in 1993, in prison, for things he'd done in the 1970s he was committing more fraud to give himself more money. Where does that come from? Where do we find that? That, to me, is the fascinating thing in all of this. Where do these people come from?
Of course, the other magazines were more than happy and quick to point out: "Oh, we wish that it never happened." And they produced this article in InfoWorld about how to tell if you're being scammed (see left-hand image). So they create a fake ad to warn you, which is kind of a things-you-should-be-aware-of deal in a police handbook. You know: "Oh my god, look out, it's wireless; who could trust something that's wireless? Look at this interactive square black box; who wants to trust a square black box promising you things?" And this is every goddamn ad in every goddamn computer magazine, from then till now, and until the end of time.
This (see right-hand image) was the article about him with the tax fraud. And they had actually gotten him $40,000, with total going to $136,000. So it was going pretty well.
How much scamming is out there? Well, this (see right-hand image), for instance, is the cover of the Atari Video Checkers program for the Atari 2600. This is a beautiful piece of art. This is a proud king overlooking this young man whose lady by his side lovingly adores him as he moves a piece forward with a sense of kingdom and justness.
This (see image below) is Atari Video Checkers in real life. That's what that was. That was on the cover; that was inside. And I think that's something you need to think about. How often have we had that happen, where that was on the outside and this was on the inside. I'm not the only person who thought this, by the way. People have made lots of little tiny jokes about this piece of work. Do we agree to just disagree and to assume that the unreality we're presented is the way things are?
We have this propensity for kind of overlooking rules (see right-hand image). If we get to things that we want to do, we do them. There's a concept of a term called the 'desire path'. In parks, that's the area of the park that is not paved, but it's been worn down because people said: "Fuck it, I'm going this way, it's easier for me." Life's riddled with these little desire paths, and to me fraud is the ultimate desire path, which is "Oh, these morals…"
This is a 1970s ad for cocaine accessories from a magazine (see left-hand image). This happened. You know what the best part is? They're made of ivory. This happened and you would actually be able to order it in a men's magazine; your cocaine accessories made out of ivory to have sent to your home, because: "You deserve it." Life changes, right? Things get weird. You look back and you're like: "I can't believe anyone would ever fall for that."
I'm gonna end up writing that waiting in line to the iPhone store or while they're playing Candy Crush, which is, essentially, a slot machine with candy. I have a real moral issue with Candy Crush. I think it will made illegal in the next 5 years, things like that, because it turns every single aspect of the gaming into a tollbooth, and it preys immediately on your sense of need. It's basically the gambler's fallacy combined with Bejeweled. So it's a very good harbinger of it, and it's right now. I know they are making millions of dollars a day at it. They are really making millions of dollars on Candy Crush. We're fine with this, in some ways.
I was lucky enough recently; I put up a page about Mr. Aleshe. I was fascinated by this story. He died in 2000. He was 41 years old. He had, again, just sold his company. He had shocked everyone that he had done this. And when I put all that story of him together I actually went back and I found the people on the FidoNet community that he had screwed that I'd read about, David Kramer and others. I said: "You've really got to go after this estate." And they thanked me and they did. Many people went after his estate in the wake of his death, people who had been screwed by him over the years.
Who loses a finger and doubles down?!
When I first gave this talk a while ago, I made an effort to maybe try to dig a little bit further into his story, because it's so easy to go: "ISP owner turns out to be a fraud – we're done here." But again, just like Mr. Hunt, the Colonel, you've got to say: "Where does this come from? When do you not think that getting your fingers shot off is kind of a tag out in the wrestling game? Who loses a finger and doubles down?!" And you're wondering what the people say to the guy, I mean, if it wasn't indicated from the previous writing. He would just tell people that he was in Vietnam and lost it, so that was his cover story for the missing finger, as opposed to: "A cop shot my finger off because I'm bad."
He has a brother, Tom, who is just a couple of years younger than him. I threw various easy means in the 2010s and was able to find his phone number. I also found his ex-wife's phone number, or technically his widow, although there's no indication they were together at the time of his death. He had gotten married at 20 – I found his wedding certificate. I left a message on her phone – no answer, no callback. But Tom called me back. Tom did not need to call me back, and I'm always going to say: "Thank you for calling me back." I said: "Yeah, I have this page on the Internet," and he said: "I know exactly who you are. You're the guy with the page. You are the person with that page about my brother." This (see right-hand image) is a picture of John when he was 17. It turns out they now put yearbooks online, too.
So this is John at 17 in Nevada, raised in a Catholic family, in a Catholic high school in Las Vegas. Tom and he went to school together. Tom said: "We were both adopted, if that matters." Tom has gone on to a very happy life. I have photos of his family, he lives very happily; no major perpetuated frauds on his record, no shooting out with cops, no mugshots. He has gone on to be a fine life, and he lived under the exact same roof as his brother.
Two things from his conversation with me were interesting. The first one was he said: "I bet you're calling me to find out the good part of John and how you just didn't understand what he was really like; and I can't do that for you, I can't tell you the good side – there isn't one. I can't justify anything he did and I can't say why."
The other one was that the last time he'd seen his brother alive was when his brother was driving away in a rented car that Tom had lent him to get some defense down for a court case he was in. And that was in 1989. So the last time he saw his brother alive was when he was driving away in a car. Later Tom was arrested at his workplace at a hotel for grand theft auto when the car was never returned. The next time he saw his brother was when he was dead in Indianapolis. Their father had died in 1993 – no contact, no mention of the funeral, anything. He was surprised to find out that he was married. He had not been told about that. So, complete cutoff – he said he could not recognize, he barely could recognize his brother. He was 300 pounds; he'd lived life large at 41.
I was talking to Aleshe's brother about: "Where do you guys come from?" And here is a picture: Tom is on the bottom here, sitting in the corner (see right-hand image). There's John – second from the left on the second row. Letterman, played tennis, got involved in other sports, smiling, all these guys in Las Vegas – good lives.
I mean, the parents, the adopted parents were fantastic – that's their adopted parents, a photo of them (see left-hand picture). The only thing that may be an issue was that the mother Margaret died in 1977, a few years before John went off. Did the loss of his adopted mother change him and make him look at life differently? Tom thought maybe he fell in with a bad crowd.
He is left with answering as many questions about his brother. One of the things he will not, however, say is that he was a good man. The estate issue after his brother's death was fantastic. He told me it took 10 years to unwind the legal ramifications of the estate. By the time it was done, there was no money left. So he was never given any money as the sole survivor. People came forward from all directions to go: "We need our money!"
This is another group photo (see right-hand image). If I sound philosophical about this, it's because as somebody who makes documentaries – anybody who has seen my documentaries, and I've made a few about such things as text adventures and bulletin board systems – I very quickly realized that we really don't care about the metal, we don't care about the network – we care about the people. Who are the people that do this?
Why do they care? Every time I interviewed people, their answers were always along the lines of "I met my best friend on a computer bulletin board." It would be less important for them what version of Cnet was running at the time, but who was their friend. And when I see this picture, in this picture is somebody who committed millions of dollars in fraud for the rest of his life. And the rest of them – probably not as much. So, philosophically, it just fascinates me.
This is one of the cars that he owned (see left-hand image). He was a Corvette collector, and it's funny to watch his name in documents. I looked through a lot of legal documents that would say things like: "IQuest's previous owner was a wanted fugitive from the FBI, therefore this, this and this…" And these cars all got sold. This is one of his cars, it says: "Previously, of the Robert Hoquim collection." So his name lives on in both false and greatness.
I was mostly haphazardly looking at this story over the years, and what I thought was interesting is that at one point I went to a computer show in Indianapolis, and I met a man who had been in Indianapolis working on another ISP. They were competitors, but they were also good friends, to as much as these two could be friends. And they would hang out together. And so, he was as shocked as anyone else. But he told me something so amazing. He said: "When you're an ISP, you're the center of a network and things can happen. You're kind of like a landlord, or somebody who owns things. You know, law enforcement takes an interest in you."
And so, as part of keeping track of crime and other stuff in the late 1990s, Robert Hoquim and this other person would meet with the head of the local FBI office once a month for lunch, for years on end, to catch up on how things were going. And I was like: "He's on the Wanted list and he's hanging with the FBI. What an amazing amount of self-control and brass balls!"
There's a lot to be learned from a life like this.
And his wife said to me: "Yes, and he died of a heart attack at 41." And it's true – he was always on the run. The price he paid for getting to do what he wanted was that he was constantly in fear, this man.
And one of the things that came out in my research, which wasn't pointed out, was that there had been a clerical error when they were divesting the rest. IQuest had been sold for $14 million, and they indicated in couched and very careful language and stuff that it turned out 7 million of it had ended up in his private account. And I'm sure to them it was like: "Oh, what's up with that?" And I think the answer was: "He was going to do the bug-out again." I think he was going to go for it.
In this world we're living now, with so much being offered to us and so many dreams coming true, I think there's a lot to be learned from a life like this. I think that there's a lot to be learned from somebody who looked at the world this way and what things we buy into and just accept, even though we all preach distrust in building networks, and how one smiling face can convince us to undo everything we've ever done. Down in the speaker room there's a beautiful AP that we're seeing down there called "Perfectly trustable Internet hotspot."
I've tried to think: "What did Robert Hoquim think while he was dying?" I don't know how fast it was; I don't know how quickly his heart attack took him: 300 pounds, overweight, having rejected all things, all family, having not seen his own brother for 15 years, having not known his own father had died, not knowing who he was going to run to next, but knowing that he had $7 million quietly in the bank that was going to send him to whatever new journey he was going to take. And all I could think was that this man was in this basement apartment in this house, thinking: "I almost made it."
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Last night A-Ward Attachments Limited captured the Supreme Business Excellence Award at the Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2014 – West.
Experts in shipping ideas offshore as customised container solutions, A-Ward Attachments has customers as far afield as Kuwait, Chile and Peru. "No day is the same here and our staff love it," says chief executive Simon Ward. "We live and breathe minute by minute innovation. It's a 'drop tools, flip the egg timer and nail the solution' approach.
"Our customised handling and shipping solutions allow for more efficient loading and unloading of materials into shipping containers," explains Simon. He says that one idea came from a matchbox – the tray of matches can slip easily in and out of the outer box – and they've applied the same principle to loading containers.
Earlier in the evening, A-Ward Attachments won the Excellence in Innovation, and the Excellence in Exporting awards. "Why do we go to China for solutions when we have some of the smartest people right here? We need to export more of our ideas," says Simon Ward.
Auckland Chamber of Commerce CEO Michael Barnett congratulates A-Ward Attachments Limited and all the West awards category winners which represent the diversity of Auckland's economy in size, management style and innovative business strategies.
"The West Auckland region has a real sense of pride and innovation, and this year's winners show that entrepreneurship is alive and well in this part of Auckland," says Barnett.
Auckland Mayor Len Brown says: "We are proud to support the awards and congratulate last night's winners. It is fantastic to see the growing level of excellence and innovation being shown by companies in the West region.
Simon Power, Westpac GM Business Banking, Private Wealth and Insurance says: "A huge congratulations to the Supreme and Business Excellence category winners at the Westpac Auckland Business Awards 2014 – West.
"Westpac is extremely proud to be associated with a programme that recognises the outstanding achievements of businesses across New Zealand, including the West Auckland region.
The West Gala Dinner and awards ceremony was a glittering occasion held at The Trusts Arena, Henderson attended by more than 300 guests.


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        sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
        Date parsedDate = null;
        if (date != null) {
            try {
                parsedDate = sdf.parse(date);
            } catch (ParseException e) {
                throw e;
            }
        }
        return parsedDate;
}

I get the below out put.
Fri Nov 25 19:00:00 **IST** 2016

The time seems to be change from 5.30 hours but then if its a IST to UCT time converstion, it should be 5.30 hours before 13:30:00 which is 08:00:00?
Also how could I change the highlighted IST part of out put string to show the currect time zone in this case UTC?

A: When you call toString on a Date (by printing it) you get the default format (because a Date is an object that stores a number of milliseconds, or nanoseconds in Java 9+, since an epoch). To see the result in UTC you need something like,
final DateFormat sdf = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL,
        DateFormat.FULL);
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
Date date = formatedStringToDate(dateStr, dateFormat);
System.out.println(sdf.format(date)); // <-- format the Date

A: tl;dr
LocalDateTime.parse( "2017-11-25T13:30:00.000" )
    .atZone( ZoneId.of( "Asia/Kolkata" ) )

2017-11-25T13:30+05:30[Asia/Kolkata]

java.time
The modern approach uses the java.time classes that replaced the troublesome old legacy date-time classes.
Parse your input string as a LocalDateTime given the lack of any indicator of zone or offset-from-UTC.
Using standard ISO 8601 format for such strings is preferred. The java.time classes use the standard formats by default when parsing/generating strings.
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse( "2017-11-25T13:30:00.000" ) ;

ldt.toString(): 2017-11-25T13:30

If you are certain this date-time was intended to represent a moment by the wall-clock time of India, then assign a time zone to produce a ZonedDateTime object.
Specify a proper time zone name in the format of continent/region, such as America/Montreal, Africa/Casablanca, or Pacific/Auckland. Never use the 3-4 letter abbreviation such as EST or IST as they are not true time zones, not standardized, and not even unique(!).
ZoneId z = ZoneId.of( "Asia/Kolkata" ) ;
ZonedDateTime zdt = ldt.atZone( z ) ;

zdt.toString(): 2017-11-25T13:30+05:30[Asia/Kolkata]

You can adjust into another zone for comparison.
ZonedDateTime zdtMontreal = zdt.withZoneSameInstant( ZoneId.of( "America/Montreal") );

zdtMontreal.toString(): 2017-11-25T03:00-05:00[America/Montreal]

To parse/generate strings in other formats such as the one in your Question, use the DateTimeFormatter or DateTimeFormatterBuilder classes. Search Stack Overflow for more info, as these have been covered extensively.
DateTimeFormatter f = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "MM/dd/uuuu'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS" , Locale.US ) ;

Use that formatter for parsing.
LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTime.parse( "11/25/2016T13:30:00.000" , f ) ;

And for generating.
String output = ldt.format( f ) ;  // Generate string.

Consider using ISO 8601 formats instead.

About java.time
The java.time framework is built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the troublesome old legacy date-time classes such as java.util.Date, Calendar, & SimpleDateFormat.
The Joda-Time project, now in maintenance mode, advises migration to the java.time classes.
To learn more, see the Oracle Tutorial. And search Stack Overflow for many examples and explanations. Specification is JSR 310.
With a JDBC driver complying with JDBC 4.2 or later, you may exchange java.time objects directly with your database. No need for strings or java.sql.* classes.
Where to obtain the java.time classes?

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*Java SE 8, Java SE 9, and later

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*Built-in.

*Part of the standard Java API with a bundled implementation.

*Java 9 adds some minor features and fixes.

*Java SE 6 and Java SE 7

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*Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport.

*Android

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*Later versions of Android bundle implementations of the java.time classes.

*For earlier Android, the ThreeTenABP project adapts ThreeTen-Backport (mentioned above). See How to use ThreeTenABP….

The ThreeTen-Extra project extends java.time with additional classes. This project is a proving ground for possible future additions to java.time. You may find some useful classes here such as Interval, YearWeek, YearQuarter, and more.

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MTV officially announces Buckwild Season 2
Asa Hawks February 6, 2013 Buckwild, Cara Parrish, Salwa Amin, Shain Gandee, Tyler Boulet
UPDATE: Season 2 has been canceled due to the death of the show's star Shain Gandee.
The ratings have been fantastic for MTV's West Virginia based reality show venture Buckwild, but strangely the network has refrained from confirming plans to film a sophomore season… until now! Just one day before the season finale episodes, MTV issued a press release officially announcing there will be a Buckwild Season 2.
From the press release:
IT'S ABOUT TO GET WILDER AS MTV GEARS UP FOR MORE "BUCKWILD" WITH A SECOND SEASON PICK-UP
SANTA MONICA, CA (February 6, 2013) – MTV today announced a second season pick-up of its hit new series "BUCKWILD." The half-hour, 12-episode series follows a group of nine young, carefree and adventurous friends living in West Virginia, who find unique ways to create their own fun. Since the series premiere last month, "BUCKWILD" ranks as #1 rated original cable series of Thursday nights among P12-34, while pulling in an average of 3 million total viewers per episode (Live +3). Additionally, MTV has two of the top three rated cable series of the first quarter of 2013 among P12-34, with "Catfish: The TV Show" as #2 and "BUCKWILD" as #3.*
Leading into the upcoming season one finale on Thursday, February 7, MTV will air interstitial interviews with the entire "BUCKWILD" cast from West Virginia throughout the night beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, as they prepare to watch the end of the first season that introduced them to fans across the country.
Then, in the first episode airing at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, romance begins to blossom between Katie and Tyler. To put him to the test, Katie invites Tyler to meet her mom, but problems arise when Ashley throws an unexpected wrench into the relationship. Meanwhile, Joey learns that letting Shae drive his truck means more than what he had in mind.
Afterwards, in the final episode of the first season airing at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT, Shain tries one last time to win over Cara, the girl he's been vying for since she moved to town. Then, the gang takes their last trip of the summer to the lake and battles an epic self-made human slingshot. Check out a sneak peek clip here (embed code below).
Following the season finale, viewers can check out "Bucking Unseen Moments" at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT. In this "BUCKWILD" special, Shain, Joey, Cara, Anna, Tyler, Salwa, and Shae will take viewers through some outrageous and hysterical never-before-seen footage, from the guys "bucking" around on anything on wheels to the girls showing their mischievous and lighthearted side.
BUCKWILD Pregnant Salwa Amin and Ashley Whitt baby bump photos
Buckwild's Shae Bradley bikini photos!
West Virginia not so wild about MTV's 'Buckwild'
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SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS— The long awaited traveling exhibit designed and curated by the National Library of Medicine "Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness" will be at the Trickster Art Gallery the only Native owned and operated art institution in Illinois on Sunday, January 25th, at 1 pm to 4 pm.
Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness explores the interconnectedness of wellness, illness, and cultural life for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Visitors will discover how Native concepts of health and illness are closely tied to the concepts of community, spirit, and the land.
This extraordinary exhibition is currently on display in the rotunda gallery of the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.
Trickster Art Gallery continues to welcome all educators and general public to learn more about our culture from a first voice perspective to help create a better experience in the classroom and everyday life. Exposure to lesson planning, a Native way of life and health, while visiting you can also learn about the contributions of Native Veterans in the military, see a gallery of 1500 square feet of Native Veterans art, all in our "Wall of Honor" exhibit. Sharing exhibit space with the Native Voices is our "Walking through Native lands" exhibit designed for school tours, educators and the general public to learn and explore.
This exhibit will help to launch an all-inclusive (everyone welcome) 2015 Wellness workshops and talking circles program which will also support the gallery's veterans program that will be ready to launch in March 2015 with a full schedule for the year.
Exhibit will run: January 25th to March 20, 2015.
Correction: This article previously listed the opening as being Saturday, January 25, 2015. It should read: Sunday, January 25, 2015.
It will be good for people to learn about the life's and history of the beautiful people .


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Home » World feed production reaches 873 million metric tons
World feed production reaches 873 million metric tons
Poultry feed reaches 44% of overall numbers
The world's feed production has reached an estimated 873 million metric tons, according to a global survey commissioned by Alltech.
Asia came in as the number one feed producing region, at 305 million metric tons, and China is the leading country with 175.4 million metric tons, according to the report. Europe follows Asia with 200 million metric tons, while North America, Latin America and the Middle East/Africa round out the listing with 185 million, 125 million and 47 million metric tons, respectively.
"This new global estimate is quite significant, especially when compared to the 2010 WATT report, which indicated 717.6 million [metric tons]," said Aidan Connolly, vice president of corporate accounts at Alltech. "Feed production is an increasingly global phenomenon and this survey is the broadest in its reach and, therefore, also complete in terms of its review of the state of play in the world feed industry."
In terms of species, poultry feed represents 44% of world feed. Ruminant feed came in at more than 220 million metric tons, according to the report, but this does not include a similar quantity of dry matter fed as silage or forage on farm. Pig, equine and pet feeds have not changed significantly, but aquaculture is the fastest growing feed sector, totaling nearly 30 million metric tons.
"As we look to feed 7 billion people in 2012, it is clear that the efficient production of meat, milk and eggs has never been more important," said Dr. Pearse Lyons, president and founder of Alltech. "Alltech has invested in this evaluation of the world's feed industry as part of its ongoing commitment to information and technology transfer between providers and customers."
The survey was conducted through Alltech's regional managers and assessed the tonnage of 132 countries and all species.
Global corn production estimate cut to 838 million metric tons
World feed volume exceeds 1 billion metric tons
World animal feed volumes reach 1.103 billion metric tons in 2018
Ukraine corn harvest may reach 24 million metric tons


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"Of all the artists to emerge in recent years from Jamaican Reggae culture, Sevad has to be one of the more interesting. Musically diverse, lyrically gifted and with a talent for production that is inventive and intuitive – his journey to this point is equally as fascinating as the artist himself" - Mr. topple of pauzeradio
Sevad (Steven Davis) was born in 1977 in Jamaica. His mother Margaret was his "musical inspiration at home". She taught Sevad how to sing and play the piano. And so, a career followed.
Since his 2014 debut album Everyday Is Like Valentine, and its first single Addicted, Sevad's artistic growth has been meteoric.
His pivotal 2020 album, Black Man's Government, went beyond Reggae into numerous other genres; delivering searing political and social messages, too.
Then, The Message EP showcased Sevad's artistic growth and talents. And now, in 2022 comes his brand-new album The Revolution.
Mr Topple of Pauzeradio said it's: "musically exquisite and groundbreaking, lyrically damning and with… production and engineering… of a major label. The Revolution is Sevad's seminal work… one of the most exciting talents to appear in recent years".
Sevad is a creative force to be reckoned with in the music industry – and is surely set to continue to enamour audiences worldwide.
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Sevad and House of Riddim are proud to present "Melodies" – "Melodies is a small but perfectly formed body of quite brilliant work from Sevad. It's in contrast to his last release, The Revolution, in terms of here he has crafted something perfect for those warm summer nights: intimate, lush and filled with emotive arrangements. The EP cleverly
Sevad and House of Riddim are proud to present "Melodies" – "Melodies is a small but perfectly formed body of quite brilliant work from Sevad. It's in contrast to his last release, The Revolution, in terms of here he has crafted something perfect for those warm summer nights: intimate, lush and filled with emotive arrangements. The EP cleverly covers varying genres: the lead single Out of Babylon is rich and compelling Roots Reggae. Calling Me takes on Old Skool Lover's Rock. The emotive I'm Sorry is smooth AfroDancehall-RnB; Love brings soulful Lover's Rock into the 21st century and My Melody is bang up-to-date, Trap-influenced Alt RnB. This eclecticism enables Sevad to show the full potential of his artistry. Overall, the collaboration with House of Riddim is a masterstroke; Sevad is at the peak of his vocal powers and overall, Melodies should be the release that mainstreams this talented artist".
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The site also lies about 10-15 km away from the Tuas-Jurong Industrial Estate and Jurong Island in Singapore. Additionally, the site is some 12km from the planned new megaport at Tuas being developed in Singapore to handle some 65 million TEUs upon completion of all of its 4 phases. The Tuas and Jurong industrial areas are home to many industrial plants and logistics facilities, including shipbuilding, offshore marine base, machinery manufacturing and the Jurong Port, an important port for handling bulk and general cargo. Jurong Island, being the largest fuel bunkering hub in the maritime industry, is one of the most important refining and petrochemical hubs in the world.
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This is environment we build for game WAR Challenge WAR Challenge (AA Race), which is Unity build, mobile game where player has to fly his stunt airplane through race course in various areas.
So, one of areas in latest update, Porto, we build and here is few screenshots that show how this environment looks like. Note that this was aimed at mobile devices, so quality is optimized according to that. Our main goal was to make area look dense and populated, while maintaining 60 FPS at all times.


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Pianist Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu burst onto the world stage in October 2021 when he won the International Chopin Piano Competition, the first Canadian ever to take first prize in the long history of this most prestigious competition. The fresh, spontaneous dynamism and flawless technique that characterised his playing throughout the various stages ("his Concerto in E minor … held poetry and virtuosity in wonderful balance" Daily Telegraph) not only convinced the jury but have since been winning over critics and audiences at sold-out venues worldwide. The 24‑year-old Paris-born pianist has also impressed interviewers with his humility, sense of humour and intelligent interest in the history and culture of the many places he has visited since his victory in Warsaw.
Liu signed an exclusive agreement with Deutsche Grammophon on 29 March 2022 which, appropriately enough, was World Piano Day. Working in partnership with the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, the Yellow Label had already issued an album of live recordings captured during the various stages of the Chopin Competition. Released on 19 November 2021, a month after Liu was announced as the winner, the album was met with a flood of rave reviews. BBC Music Magazine, for example, noted that he has "something consistently interesting and always idiomatic to say about Chopin's music", in playing of "uncommon sensitivity", "rumbustious energy" and "breathtaking beauty".
Liu's recording of Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor, KK IVa/16 was released as an e-single on 1 April, with more tracks to follow throughout 2022. Two future albums are already being planned: one focusing on French music, including Chopin and Rameau, to reflect his desire to explore the music of his birthplace, the other featuring works by Tchaikovsky, notably the daunting Piano Concerto No.2.
Recent and forthcoming highlights of Liu's now packed touring schedule include his highly acclaimed debuts in Paris (a solo Chopin programme: "he caused a sensation with a recital that married tradition with originality", ResMusica) and the UK (Tchaikovsky's Second Concerto with the Philharmonia and Santtu-Matias Rouvali: "a telling and highly original performance", which was "calibrated by detailed touches and deft individual strokes of drama", Seen and Heard International); his debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and Lionel Bringuier; a six-concert tour of Florida with the Warsaw Philharmonic and Andrey Boreyko; and a return to Europe this summer to perform at the Ruhr Piano Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, La Roque d'Anthéron Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Duszniki International Chopin Festival and Edinburgh Festival, among others.
"What we all have in common is our difference," Bruce Liu likes to say. Born to Chinese parents in Paris on 8 May 1997, he moved with his father to Montreal at the age of six but has always made regular visits to China and speaks fluent Mandarin. His phenomenal artistry has therefore been shaped by his personal heritage: European refinement, North American dynamism and the long tradition of Chinese culture. He studied with Richard Raymond at the Montreal Conservatoire between 2011 and 2018, during which time he won the grand prize at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Competition when he was only 15. He is currently a student of Dang Thai Son (winner of the 10th Chopin Competition).
He has already performed with some of the world's leading ensembles, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Philharmonia Orchestra at such prestigious venues as the Royal Festival Hall in London, Paris's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Vienna Konzerthaus.
Liu has adopted a healthy attitude towards the demands of touring and performing, balancing his practice time with his many other hobbies and interests, which include swimming, chess, karting, cinema, jazz and history. He also recognises that the focus required by practising or performing has many benefits: "When I play, I forget everything else in the world. Music has the power to help me clean my soul."
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The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is an international awareness day sponsored by the United Nations (UN). Global dedication to ending FGM/C largely began thanks to the actions of the International African Committee on Traditional Practices (IAC), a Senegal-based organization that advocates for policies and programs to eliminate harmful traditional practices in the African region and worldwide. The IAC became the first to adopt Feb. 6 as the Day of Zero Tolerance, during an IAC-organized conference in Ethiopia in 2003. In 2012, it led the successful campaign for the adoption of UN Resolution A/RES/67/146 against FGM/C.
In commemoration of the Day of Zero Tolerance, PRB is highlighting six outstanding local organizations that are working to eliminate FGM/C around the world—Six for February 6. The International African Committee on Traditional Practices, Sahiyo, Kakenya's Dream, Tostan, Grandmother Project, Orchid Project, and Tahirih Justice Center have all contributed significantly to reducing the prevalence of FGM/C worldwide. Please join us in celebrating the achievements of these organizations.
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Find a great sale price on this 1963 Chevrolet Corvette at Park Place Aston Martin in Bellevue, WA. This 1963 Chevrolet Corvette is located at our dealership in Bellevue. If you're looking for a great price on this 1963 Chevrolet Corvette or just looking to get an auto loan for the vehicle you want... you've come to the right place! Park Place Aston Martin.
Stunning Numbers Matching 1963 Corvette Fuel Injected L84 327ci - 360hp V8, 4-Speed Manual Trans Roadster. It doesnt get any better than this! A true American Muscle Car Icon. This 1963 Corvette Roadster is 1 of just 10,919 Convertibles built in 1963. Built on June 20, 1963. Only 44,742 miles on odometer (believed original). Original Sebring Silver Corvette, which was a RARE special order one year only color in 1963. It comes with the Convertible Soft Top, as well as the optional Factory Hard Top. Accompanying this Corvette is a correctly produced and authentic appearing "Owners Protection Plan" Manual, Dealers Invoice, letter from Chevrolet Motor Division and a crest which was sent to the new owner, Plastic Corvette Owners Card and the Corvette Order form which itemizes all the options and RPO codes, and documents this car as being a very RARE L84 327/360HP Corvette (1 of 2,610). Sold new by Norton Chevrolet in Philadelphia, PA on July 25, 1963 to Paul Weyton. It also has a Shipping and Data Report certificate from the NCRS Historical Society and of course its ORIGINAL Owners Operating Manual. Factory Options for this fabulous Corvette consist of; L84 Engine FI 327/360HP, M20 4-Speed Muncie Manual Transmission, G81 Positraction Rear Axle, C07 Auxiliary Hard Top, P92 White Wall Tires, U69 AM/FM Radio, A02 Soft Ray Tinted Glass.
1963 was a big year for the Corvette and represents the first year of the notorious midyear Corvette legacy. Fresh new styling and among the most desirable of all Corvettes over the years, this 1963 convertible is a perfect driver that was restored approximately 25 years ago. Finished in Sebring Silver lacquer with black interior matching the factory trim tag, this Corvette carries both a black vinyl soft top as well as the optional silver hardtop. Knock off wheels enhance the appearance of this car, while all chrome and stainless have been well maintained to create a nice appearance. A 327 cubic inch engine brings the appearance of a 360HP setup and is coupled to the rare and highly sought-after Muncie M20 4-speed manual transmission. Undercar exhaust provides a nice tone and adds to the drivability of this car. Spare tire carrier is present under the rear end. Interior maintains all of the hard to find 63 only parts such as gauge cluster, console, glove box door, steering column and wheel. A great opportunity to own a great looking and driving midyear roadster.
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No costs were spared to have every tiny screw and nut correct and in its place. The 327/360 HP combination was the top dog and when you put your foot down it pulls like a thoroughbred wanting to go full out. It shifts effortlessly and smooth and firm. You don't even have to get close to 4000 RPM before you really are a uncomfortable with the acceleration it produces. This is a fine example of a very clean, tidy and correct Stingray and it is a pleasure to own - getting thumbs up whenever its seen. This Corvette is ready for its next owner to drive, show and enjoy.
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Metallica November 30, 2018 Vivint Arena Salt Lake City
By: Kevin Rolfe
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November 30, 2018, was a historic night for Vivint Smart Home Arena. Not only did Metallica make their return to the venue, and Utah, after a ten-year absence, but they also set the arena's post-renovation attendance record with 17,574 fans showing up for the concert. And I believe it! I don't think I've seen that place so packed!
Before I go into more depth about the show, I want to point out a really cool thing Metallica did earlier in the day. The band helps raise money for local charitable organizations with their All Within My Hands foundation. Here in Utah, they assisted the Utah Food Bank, an organization dedicated to their mission of fighting hunger statewide. They helped raise $10,000 for the Utah Food Bank. It's pretty cool that they would make a point to help out those in need along their tour stops.
As I was being escorted down to the soundboard area, where I would be taking photos, I was getting chills as I passed the dressing rooms and cargo boxes with the Metallica logo on them. I have been waiting to see these guys for ages, and not only was I seeing them, but I was walking backstage by their dressing rooms, and was about to review their show and take photos. It was surreal, to say the least.
As I walked through the tunnel to the arena floor, I could feel the energy of the crowd like a smack in the face. I haven't felt that many times before. The band still was at least a half hour away from taking the stage and this audience was already in a lather. I don't think I have ever seen so many black shirts in my life. I was wearing a black sweatshirt so I felt very fortunate to fit in!
Stand up comedian, Jim Breuer of Saturday Night Live fame was the opener. Unfortunately, I showed up after his main set. But following his stand up, he basically became the hype man for Metallica. He was all over the arena. When I first walked in he was way up in the highest parts of the upper bowl. At one point he got the crowd going with a "Metal" sing along. He would play songs like ACDC's "Highway to Hell", or Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills", and put the words on the screens. People were singing along as if they were at an ACDC concert. It was really entertaining. It was an awesome way to get the crowd going.
The lights went out. And the place went crazy. Metallica appeared on stage and the fans went crazier still. Metallica was set up in the middle of the arena with the drums placed in the center of the square stage. There were eight microphones set up, one on every corner and one on each side of the square. Frontman James Hetfield would make the rounds spending his time evenly at each microphone. I don't know how he timed it out so perfectly, but he did an excellent job with it.
The band opened with "Hardwired" from their latest album, 2016's Hardwired…to self-destruct. It was almost impossible to take photos during that first song. People were jumping and throwing their fists in the air, and giving the band the rock symbol. There would be a lot of rock hands going on in this show. I don't know if there is a more appropriate setting for that though. I spent most of that first song just looking around at how excited people were. Ten years is a long time to wait for a band to come back. And who knows how long it will be until they come back, so it appeared as if they were just going to let it all out on this night. But it's very possible that that's how it always is at a Metallica concert.
Hetfield addressed the audience saying, "Salt Lake City, Metallica family, are you with us tonight?!" The crowd roared and from what I could tell, (at this point he was on the opposite side of the stage from where I was.) there was a guy getting a little too aggressive, or maybe starting a fight. James Hetfield calmly and simply said, "Alright, hey calm down there buddy. We're all here to have some fun just chill out." And that was it, he moved on. And from my vantage point, whatever was going on was over. Hetfield went on to say that they'd be playing some new songs, some songs in the middle of their career, and "If you're lucky, you might get an old one." Right then, much to the crowd's approval, "Seek and Destroy" from their debut studio album, Kill'em All began.
Hetfield was right, they weaved their way through their career catalog, playing a song from Ride the Lightning, then something from Reload, then they'd play something again from Hardwired…to self-destruct. I'd imagine it's hard to play newer songs when there are so many songs from the early day's people are wanting to hear. Metallica was smart in the way they performed their new songs. First off, I have to say that their new album is good, so it's not like when they played the songs people were bored, or not into it. It just says more to how much they're nostalgic for the songs that made the Metallica fans. So they played two new songs to start the show. Great idea. People are so fired up they're on stage they don't care what's being played. Then later they played "Now that we're dead". With that song, these cubes rose up from the stage, the other three band members joined drummer Lars Ulrich by playing these cubes with drumsticks. It was like a huge drum off in the middle of the song. It was an added feature to keep the audience with them and feature a track of their latest album in a creative way. I think it's a brilliant move. Then again later in the show, they performed "Moth into Flame". This was getting later in the show, and the appearance of a new song could have been a downer to some fans. But Metallica is wise to this type of thing happening. So the stage opened up, and about fifty lit up drones rose from the stage and flew around in various patterns throughout the song. It fit the song perfectly and again added a creative punch to the song.
The staging initially seemed simple. A huge square in the middle of the arena, tons of lights, and a screen forming a square high above the stage. But then the square screen broke off into a bunch of screens that would move and create a variety of visual effects throughout the night. And what is a Metallica show without the occasional pyrotechnics? Each element, seemingly simple, yet collectively stunning, and innovative.
While the way they present the music with staging and effects is impressive, it comes down to the music their fans love. And those songs came in abundance. Songs like "For Whom the Bell Tolls", or "Fuel", where huge flames burst from the four sides of the stage, sent this massive audience into a frenzy. "Sad But True" was another favorite. That song is so interesting to me because it's almost danceable. It has this driving beat to it, and if it was constructed another way, it could totally be a dance song. Fortunately, this is a Metallica song, so it had all the elements needed to keep it in that realm. That's the beauty of this band, they know who they are, they know their sound, and they know how to create great songs to fit into that. So instead of "dancing" there was a lot of head banging to that pulsing beat.
On the various screens, the video for "One" appeared. Now if you haven't ever seen the video, take a look. It's a trip. And if you've seen it once, you recognize it immediately. So when the fans saw it, they were pumped. The amazing thing about Metallica is they avoided the "Power Ballad" pitfall that so many metal bands succumbed to. "One" starts as a slow tempo song, but it's not ballady at all. That could not have been easy to do in the 80s when so many other bands were being talked into releasing slow sappy love songs to stay relevant. "One" is a deep dark song that has stood the test of time.
I think the best song of the night had to be "Master of Puppets". They played this song at the end of their main set. This is a great song, but I was blown away at just how crazy everyone got. Chaos broke out throughout the arena. I couldn't keep my eyes focused on one place for too long in fear that I'd miss something. On the floor, there were a few mosh pits that started. The one directly in front of me was what one might call a "friendly" mosh pit. That's an oxymoron if I've ever written one, but it really was that way. The guys were all smiles, and if someone fell they'd stop, pick him up, and then start slamming into him again. There was the occasional woman that would jump in, but then she'd get moshed, and she'd exit the pit. There was one guy in particular who looked just like an 80s pro wrestler. He was really tall and totally jacked. He was wearing a black (no surprise there) tank top, with the tightest jeans in America, and a headband. He had muscles on top of muscles. He seemed to be the target of the rest of the guys. That's usually the case, where the punier guys in the mosh pit try to take down the beefcake. I have to hand it to this WWE lookalike. He held his own. Guys were slamming into each other hard! There was even a drunk guy that came in and cheap shotted him, and instead of taking the guy out, he just grabbed him by the shoulders and escorted him out of the pit. Wrestler Guy had a smile on his face the whole time. Shirts were torn, sweat was pouring from the smaller guys. Another point for Wrestler Guy, he had a headband. So he could see clearly to take out his attackers. I have to admit, that mosh pit looked pretty fun, but with my luck, I would have been the guy to crack his head open, so I stayed away. I still don't know how not one dude didn't get injured. It was intense. There were people in the seats who were shouting with whatever vocal cords they hadn't already destroyed and sung in each other's faces. One lady had a beer in her hand and was swinging her arm around so much that I thought she was going to spill it on the people in the row in front of her. But the lady had skills. Not a drop left her cup. There wasn't a song the entire night that surpassed the level of this song. Some may have met it, but none of them were as crazy or chaotic. The song lasted for ten minutes and at no time did the energy dip, or the crowd mellow or tire. It was as metal a moment as I've ever experienced. The song ended, the crowd was in a frenzy, and James Hetfield said "You make us feel good!" as they left the stage.
Metallica returned for their encore with "Fight Fire With Fire", "Nothing Else Matters" and finished the night off with "Enter Sandman". As I said, no song exceeded the fury of "Master of Puppets". But Metallica was sure up for trying. Mosh pits did resume for "Fight Fire With Fire", but I think the "Master of Puppets" moshing tired them out. I honestly don't know how the crowd had a voice at this point of the show. They had either been singing along of shouting "Hey, hey, hey!" whenever they were asked to. But when Metallica played "Nothing Else Matters", the crowd sounded amazing. And the top contender to exceed the craziness of "Master of Puppets" was "Enter Sandman". The moment that song started it was pandemonium. And as huge as that song is, and as mainstream, as it became, even the truest and most hardcore Metallica fan can't deny how much they love that song. Hetfield would sing "Exit light!" and then let the crowd follow with "Enter Night!" It was a choir of metalheads that rang throughout Vivint Arena.
This is one of the greatest bands America has ever produced. They give it their all every night. With this kind of music, it's impossible to mail it in. It seems like it takes everything they have to put on a great show. There's a real blue-collar feel with the band that carries over to the masses. Metallica fans work hard, therefore they appreciate a band that is working hard for them. There's a grit to Metallica that has kept them at the top of the hard rock world. Never giving in to the "sell out to keep things going mentality". They've stayed true, and it's clear their fans are grateful for it.
As the show ended, each member of the band took to the stage. James Hetfield stated, "Much love and respect to you, Salt Lake City, from your friends in Metallica". Then guitarist Kirk Hammett told us how much we "Kick Ass!". Bassist Robert Trujillo yelled out a big "Hoooaaaa!" and the crowd returned the sentiment. Drummer Lars Ulrich took to the mic and reminded the crowd that they opened for Ozzy Osbourne in 1986 at the old Salt Palace. He then stated that "Unlike many of the other bands' they were "Just getting started!" and they'd be back soon.
The contrast of having seen opera singer Andrea Bocelli in the same venue the night before was severe. It was hard to believe I was in the same place. Both shows were filled with emotion and a certain energy. But they could not have been more different. When I was leaving the arena I thought to myself 'I'm going to sleep well tonight.' The show was a workout. People looked like they were leaving the gym, not a concert. But I was wrong. I was so amped up it took me forever to fall asleep after the show. It was an incredible show.
Atlas, Rise!
Seek & Destroy
Now That Were Dead
Halo on Fire
Moth into Flame
Sad But True
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Prince Chrishan and the Majestic 'Minneapolis Sound'
Posted in News on August 14, 2014
For BMI singer-songwriter-producer Chrishan, his nickname, Prince, is more than a moniker: Drawing on his love for his hometown, he calls it part of his persona since he considers himself the reigning monarch of the "Minneapolis sound" (a synth-heavy fusion of funk, rock and pop), not unlike fellow Minnesota native and namesake, Prince. After writing and producing hits like Little Mix's triple-platinum ditty, "Wings," he penned and produced the song, "2 a.m.," sung by Adrian Marcel and featuring Sage the Gemini, which peaked at number 79 on the iTunes charts. Chrishan's music has also been featured in recent movies including Baggage Claim and The Best Man Holiday and TV shows such as Glee and Hawaii Five-O.
But Chrishan's blend of late-night, loved-up R&B is best evidenced by his own recordings—which he's planning to do more of—as he continues to write and produce releases for Akon, Eric Bellinger, Chris Brown, Chief Keef, Marcel and other artists. Indeed, on his Japan-released album, Heart of a Lion, the meet-cute sensibilities of "I Got You" and the clubby mix of "Fallin'," show that his signature sense of urgency is present in all his work.
Part of being prolific comes from his energy: "I can't sleep. I feel like I have so much to give to the world, whether it's a song that makes you dane or one that saves your life," says Chrishan. It's that regal energy producing the sounds that are making the world take notice.
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Q: Frequently Vs Frequent: adverbial form or adjectival form? So normally  adjectives like  frequent modify a noun or a   pronoun, whereas adverbs like frequently modify verbs or adjectives.
However, in this sentence both options seem fine to me but I couldn't tell which form is more appropriate.

Sexual Risk Reduction program  is one of the .... implemented programs in college campuses...

A: Sexual Risk Reduction program is one of the frequently implemented programs in college campuses.
is the only correct one.
"implemented" is a past participle, a verbal form, even though here it's used attributively.
Now, let's think about the meaning of:
frequent, implemented program = program that is frequent and is implemented [kind of strange]
frequently implemented program = program that is implemented frequently (in a frequent manner) [makes sense]
Also, search for such combinations at Google Books (not vanilla Google):
"the frequent implemented"
0 results
"the frequently implemented"
About 51 results
Thus the 2nd clearly takes it from this point of view too.

A: Still Frequently
though it should either read "most frequently",
or perhaps, to keep it vaguer,
Sexual Risk Reduction programs are a frequently implemented program in college campuses...
or, most concise…
Sexual Risk Reduction programs are frequently implemented in college campuses...


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So with the Audible version of The Venusian Gambit now live, I happen to have a couple promo codes for freebies. Time for a giveway? Absolutely!
I'm gonna keep it simple. Leave a comment on this blog post below by Monday at 9 a.m. EDT. I'll choose a winner at random and post it here and in the comments as well. If you're the winner, you can drop me an e-mail to claim your code and download the book.
You have to be registered with Audible to use the code and get your book, but registration is pretty simple, so don't let that stop you. I mean, we're talking more than 13 hours of entertainment here, delivered by the fantastic narrators Bernard Setaro Clark and Kristin Kalbli. What's not to like?
As for the comments themselves, you don't have to write an essay or anything — a simple "I'm in!" or something will suffice. And if you've not commented before, your comment will automatically go to moderation, which I'll monitor and clear out regularly before Monday. So don't panic if you don't see it right away.
There you go. Get commenting!
UPDATE: The winner has been chosen — see the comments below. Thanks, everyone!
NATHAN! Awesome meeting you in Phoenix, man!
Are those a pirate, a guy in a space suit and an alien on the cover? Okay, I'm in! Looks good!
So amped to get hold of this book anyway.
AND THE WINNER (selected by the random number generator that is my 11-year-old daughter) IS….
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This is the website of New Zealand based musician and audio engineer Tony Koretz. Watch Tony's music videos on youtube as shown below.
New World Order – economic collapse, natural disasters & a regime of totalitarian global government to rise from the ashes. Is this a reality that is almost upon us?A catchy rock song by Tony Koretz set to stunning video that shows how this could occur.
"Free Spirited" is a catchy and uplifting rock song that will set you soaring with the eagles and hawks. Even the musical instruments and vocals appear to be set in the sky. The music has a 70's retro feel to it with chunky guitar riffs and a smooth Hammond organ & Leslie backdrop.
Exposing the "Order out Of Chaos" that is enveloping the earth, and is setting the stage for A New World Order. Hidden in the shadows, The Illuminati has an evil intent to enslave us all. A powerful song that asks searching questions of YOU the listener! A hard-hitting and thought provoking rock song with an urgent message for NOW!
Bound to be controversial, this stunning music video highlights predictions of a coming 'global currency reset,' followed by 'World financial crash,' and the establishing of a new global currency. A powerful rock song set to video. Exposing the plans of the Elite and their NWO agenda. Thought provoking and enticing with outstanding visual effects.
A "mash-up" style music video for the song "Great To Be Alive" by Tony Koretz. This is the first song released from the album titled "World Gone Mad" due out in mid 2012. The songs are classic 1970's meets 21st century rock. The video was compiled and edited by Hudson Millar. Check out the crazy military tank manoeuvre in the middle…insane!
Set to pictures of New Zealand's remarkable and majestic scenery, this instrumental ballad features a soaring melodic electric lead guitar over a rich rhythm section.
Rock Music Video – 'If Your Love Was a River' is a catchy up-beat tune with a memorable lick of harmonised guitars, and a chorus that will stick in your head for days.
The song is a story about seeing someone you had once loved, and after a long break from them, and having those feelings rekindled. The reaction then becomes a desire to win them back, and throw oneself full-on into it.


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Bartosz Gelner, né le  à Chorzów, est un acteur polonais. Il termine en 2012 à Cracovie l'École nationale supérieure de théâtre Ludwik Solski. Depuis 2014, il est intégré à la troupe du Nouveau théâtre de Varsovie.

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 2011: La Chambre des suicidés (Sala samobójców): Aleksander Lubomirski
 2012: Dzień oszusta: Leszek
 2013: Ligne d'eau (Płynące wieżowce): Michał
 2017 : Ultraviolet : Kamil Łoziński (série télévisée)
 2021 : Sexify : Konrad

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Naissance en avril 1988
Acteur polonais du XXIe siècle
Naissance à Chorzów

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The International Eucharistic Congress over the years has developed the tradition of choosing a symbol, with the inspiration of the World Youth Day Cross, that will embody and represent the spirit and identity of the place where it is to be held.
The Cross of Magellan symbolizes the Christianization of the Philippines, whose beginnings can be traced to the year 1521.
The shrine that contains the Cross of Magellan symbolizes the Church which is the mystical Body of Christ. When the Church celebrates the Eucharist, Christ is truly in us, our hope of Glory.
The Cross of Magellan symbolizes the call to mission to all the Gentiles. Although the means of evangelization in the past need to be purified, the Cross, itself a symbol of contradiction, will be the principle of its purification. The Cross of Christ becomes the way of the New Evangelization – proclamation of the love and compassion of Jesus through the witness of our lives.
For more info on the pilgrim symbol, download FAQ HERE.
For photos and videos of the IEC Pilgrim Symbol journey, like us on facebook: www.facebook.com/IEC2016pilgrimsymbolofficial.
To know the next visit of the pilgrim symbol, view the National Pilgrimage Schedule.


Pearl White (1889-1938, US American silent film star.
Bao Dai (1913-1997), the last Emperor of Vietnam.
The last resting place of the Georgian Prince David Dimitry Tsouloukidze and his wife Princess Emma, née Dunbar.
Tomb of the Russian artist Marie Bashkirtseff (1860-1884). According to Wikipedia her tomb is a recreation of her studio and has been declared a historical monument by the French government.
Grave of Prince Leila of Iran (1970-2001), daughter of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Grave of Princess Ghislaine of Monaco (1900-1991), née Dommanget, spouse of Prince Louis II (1870-1922-1949).
Grave of the artist Édouard Manet (1832-1883).
Grave of Maurice Bellonte (1896-1984), who together with Dieudonné Costes made the first east to west crossing of the Atlantic by plane in 1930.
Grave of Princess Nathalia Romanovskaya-Brassova (1880-1952), née Cheremetevskya, wife of Grand Prince Michael of Russia (1878-1918), and of their son Count Georgy Brassov (1910-1931).
Grave of (among others) Prince Claude Beguin Billecoco, Duke of Durazzzo (1914-2001), Charles Baron Tascher de La Pagerie (1811-1869) and Princess Sophie Therese of Leyen and Hohengeroldseck (1798-1876), née Countess of Schönborn-Bucheim.
Grave of Count Louis Nicolas Wilmar de La Roche d'Oisy (1806-1885).
No doubt about the profession of this bloke!
General view of the cemetery.
Grave of Count Stefan Czarnecki (1904-1971).
I wonder if the deceased's grave can be identified by the arms?
Cimetière de Passy at 2 Rue du Commandant-Schloesing in Paris can be reached by the metro. The nearest station is Trocadéro (line 6 and 9), but it is also only a short walk from the Eiffel Tower.
I never got the time to watch the TV series "Harry & Charles" which NRK broadcasted last Christmas. The TV series dealt with Prince Carl and Princess Maud and the events of 1905 which lead to the election of Prince Carl as King of Norway on 18 November 1905.
Most people I have talked with say that I didn't miss much and that I probably saved myself of much annoyance because fiction dominated the TV series rather than the facts. Obviously I am not going to buy the book that has been published following the TV production.
Far more interesting is the little exhibit the Norwegian National Archives created in connection with the TV Series. In the exhibit named "Harry & Charles - Maud og Carl" the National Archives presents five documents in connection with the royal election.
The first document is the telegram in which the Storting informs Prince Carl of his election as King of Norway. The second document presents Prince Carl's acceptance of the election and his choice to take the name Haakon for himself and the name Olav for his son Prince Alexander.
Prince Carl's grandfather, King Christian IX, had to give his consent, and the third document is the telegram from the President of the Storting, Carl Berner, to the King of Denmark where he informs of the royal election and that the Storting would send a deputation to Copenhagen to formally ask the king for his consent.
The fourth document shows how Fritz Wedel Jarlsberg assisted Prince Carl in preparing his acceptance of the royal election. Wedel Jarlsberg was the Norwegian Government's unofficial envoy to Stockhoolm, Copenhagen and London in several periods during 1905.The pompeous diplomat was often too outspoken, which lead to his replacement by his relative Frithjof Nansen.
The fifth and last document shows Fritz Wedel Jarlsberg's role as a messenger on 18 November 1905. Wedel Jarlsberg had quite a busy time in Copenhagen in the afternoon and evening of 18 November. The telegrams that the Storting and the Norwegian Government sent concerning the royal election were according to the agreement delivered to him. Then it was his task to bring them to the addressees, Prince Carl and King Christian, something Wedel Jarlsberg tells about in his memoirs.
In his memoirs he also tells that Prince Carl's reply was given by telephone to Prime Minister Christian Michelsen, as it was shown in the TV series. The archived telegram was in other words just a written confirmation of the reply. But according to Wedel Jarlsberg it was himself, and not Prince Carl, who forwarded the prince's message by phone.
I was obviously not the only one who was surprised by Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts special election to replace Senator Edward Moore Kennedy in the US Senate. Martha Coakley must have done a really bad campaign after having had a 20 percent lead earlier in the race. Another reason could of course be that many people are disappointed with President Barack Obama's first year as President.
I am not sure if it is too healthy that one person or one party dominates for so long as Edward M. Kennedy and the Democratic Party have done in Massachusetts, so in this respect it might not be too bad that Scott Brown won the race, but it is a pity if this will affect the most needed health reform now as the Democrats' filibuster-proof dominance has ended.
It will be interesting to see how President Obama will handle this and other challenges in the next three years. It might be an uphill struggle with more disappointments. I don't think one can expect the Democrats to win back the filibuster-proof dominance (why on earth did they create this silly system anyway!?) in the fall, as the Republicans are expected to win back more seats in the Senate.
Lars Olav Karlsen is in Norway first of all known for his participation in the TV reality show "Heia Tufte!" ("Go Tufte!"), broadcasted on the commercial TV channel TVNorge in 2005.
He is also known for his rather impressive collection of autographs. How often isn't he spotted outside Grand Hotel in Oslo when a celebrity is around! The sympathetic and good-hearted Lars Olav is also a blogger, and until recently his main topic was to write about his fight to loose weight, but now he has decided to write about other matters as well.
Earlier this week he wrote an article about a card he has obtained, signed "Haakon, better known as Charles". The card - to a friend in England - was written on 2 December 1905, only a few days after he arrived in Norway as King Haakon VII. Not sure who the friend was, as King Haakon's handwriting has always been a great challenge. Maybe someone can figure it out?
King Haakon was, as Prince of Denmark, named Carl, and was therefore called Charles by his wife and other British relatives and friends. They continued to use this nickname also after he succeeded to the Norwegian throne.
The Danish Royal Court announced today that HSH Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg*, a niece of Queen Margrethe II, has got engaged to Alexander Johannsmann.
Princess Nathalie, b. 1975, the youngest daughter of the head of the princely house of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Prince Richard, and Princess Benedikte of Denmark, lives at Schloss Berleburg in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, where she is responsible of breeding and training the family's dressage horses. The princess herself is an active rider. She became a Danish champion in dressage in 2002 and 2009, and won a bronze medal with the Danish dressage team during the Olympic Games of Beijing in 2008.
Mr. Alexander Johannsmann is, according to the press release, 32 years old and thus (most likely) born in 1977. He is a German citizen living in the city of Gütersloh near Bielefeld in Nordrhein-Westfalen, where he works in his uncle's international company specializing in horse transport.
Johannsmann also grew up in an environment where the equine sport has played a large role, as his father is a recognized German jump racer and coach.
The couple has today started a combined business and family trip to Australia and is expected to return to Germany towards the end of January.
It is not yet known when the couple intends to get married.
(*) The Danish Royal Court refers to Princess Nathalie as Højhed (Highness, HH), although it has never been granted in a special act, cf. among others Peter Kurrild Klitgaard's article Conditional Consent, Dynastic Rights and the Danish Law of Succession (see note). If Germany had still been a monarchy, the princess would have been styled Durchlaucht (Serene Highness, HSH), a reference which is continued in a social setting only.
Updated Tuesday 5 January 2010 at 22:50.
I have made a collection of royal blogs, i.e. blogs that mainly deal with aspects concerning royal families and monarchies, as a supage to my Hoelseth's Royal Corner. Please check it out!
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Happy New Year! I am pleased to tell that the royalty index page Hoelseth's Royal Corner is finally back again!
Most of the supages from the old website at Geocities.com are not available yet, but I hope to get the work done soon. I plan to make more additions and changes to my royalty pages during the spring, so please come back later.
See also Changes.html for a survey of all the new and updated pages at my website Hoelseth.no.