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Syria: rebels retreat from Aleppo stronghold
Published: August 8, 2012 | 8:28 am
Syrian rebels have pulled back from their positions in their Aleppo stronghold of Salaheddin in face of an onslaught "without respite" from the Assad regime.
According to both regime and rebel sources, the Syrian army has taken the district in a major blow for insurgents.
Reuters reported from Aleppo on Wednesday morning that Syrian rebels had abandoned their positions in a district that has been a frontline of fighting in recent days.
"We have retreated, get out of here," rebels told reporters.
The news agency reported that a checkpoint that had been manned by rebel fighters for the last week had disappeared.
A Syrian government security source told Lebanon's Al-Manar television that Syrian forces were now in control of the Salaheddin district.
New satellite images have shown the impact of the Syrian regime's intensified bombardment of Aleppo the day after Bashar al-Assad pledged to crush Syria's rebels "without respite".
President Assad used a rare television appearance on Tuesday to dismiss high-level defections from his regime and to vow that he would cleanse Syria of insurgents.
"The Syrian people and their government are determined to purge the country of terrorists and to fight the terrorists without respite," he said.
Satellite images released on Wednesday reveal the extent of the Assad regime's war on rebels who control most of Aleppo, Syria's largest city and commercial centre.
But despite the onslaught the Free Syrian Army on Tuesday claimed to be holding up the regime's advance at the end of a day marked by intense fighting on the front line and shelling of rebel-occupied areas.
Amnesty International said that analysis of images from Anadan, a small town near Aleppo, revealed more than 600 probable artillery impact craters a residential housing complex from the fierce fighting over the north western city.
The human rights group is concerned that Assad's deployment of heavy weaponry in residential areas will lead to further human rights abuses and grave breaches of international law.
"Any attacks against civilians will be clearly documented so that those responsible can be held accountable," said Christoph Koettl, an Amnesty spokesman.
"The Syrian military and the opposition fighters must both adhere to international humanitarian law, which strictly forbids the use of tactics and weapons that fail to distinguish between military and civilian targets."
Over the weekend the Syrian military has stepped up shelling and air strikes while completing the build-up around Aleppo of 20,000 troops in readiness for a decisive battle over the coming days.
The head of the UN observer mission in Syria, Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye, has voiced concern for civilians trapped in the fighting in the city of some 2.7 million people.
Rebels say they control around half of the city.
In Aleppo, clashes rocked several central areas of the city while the army also shelled rebel-held areas in the east, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The fighting in and around Aleppo killed at least 20 people, the watchdog said, adding that the nationwide toll was 122 on Tuesday.
Near Homs in central Syria, opposition gunmen attacked an electricity company housing compound, killing 16 people, including Alawites, Christians and Sunnis, the Observatory said.
And rebels attacked an oil field in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, triggering clashes in which four rebels and six soldiers were killed, it added.
Riad Hijab, Syria's former Prime Minister, who defected from the regime to the rebels on Monday has gone to Jordan in a move that was widely seen as a sign that the Assad regime is crumbling.
Jordan's King Abdullah II said last night that Assad might make a "worst case scenario" retreat to an Alawite stronghold if he falls from power.
Experts have predicted that if Damascus falls to rebels, Assad could take refuge among Alawites in the north eastern mountains of Syria, where opposition forces say he has already been stockpiling weapons.
"I have a feeling that if he can't rule Greater Syria, then maybe an Alawi enclave is Plan B," King Abdullah said in an interview with US television network CBS.
"That would be, I think for us, the worst case scenario – because that means then the break up of Greater Syria.
"That means that everybody starts land grabbing which makes no sense to me. If Syria then implodes on itself that would create problems that would take decades for us to come back from."
King Abdullah predicted Assad would keep up his brutal crackdown to cling to power because he "believes that he is in the right".
"In his mentality, he is going to stick to his guns… I think the regime feels that it has no alternative, but to continue… I don't think it's just Bashar. It's not the individual. It's the system of the regime," he said.
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Switzerland Should Ban Dog Sausages and Cooked Cat, Group Says
MAINZ, Germany — Animal-rights activists in Switzerland want to ban cooked cat and sausages made from dog meat, traditional dishes they claim are still enjoyed by thousands of people. An estimated 1.5 percent of the country's eight million people eat cat and dog — some 120,000 people, according to SOS CHATS Noiraigue. The group has submitted a petition featuring 17,000 signatures to the Swiss parliament. "It is a tradition that is still followed in some remote parts of the country and dates back to war times when food was scarce," Tomi Tomak, the group's president, told NBC News. "Dog fat is said to be good against rheumatism."
Sales of dog and cat meat are banned in Switzerland and it is difficult to gauge the practice's popularity. Tomak was unable to say what the 1.5 percent figure is based on. The Swiss Food Safety and Veterinary office said it is legal for people to eat their own animals, but stressed that "domestic animals are generally not consumed in Switzerland so that we cannot speak of a common practice."
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An optimized ERP Brain-computer interface based on facial expression changes
Jin, J., Daly, I., Zhang, Y., Wang, X. and Cichocki, A. (2014) An optimized ERP Brain-computer interface based on facial expression changes. Journal of Neural Engineering, 11 (3). 036004. ISSN 1741-2560
To link to this item DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/11/3/036004
OBJECTIVE: Interferences from spatially adjacent non-target stimuli are known to evoke event-related potentials (ERPs) during non-target flashes and, therefore, lead to false positives. This phenomenon was commonly seen in visual attention-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) using conspicuous stimuli and is known to adversely affect the performance of BCI systems. Although users try to focus on the target stimulus, they cannot help but be affected by conspicuous changes of the stimuli (such as flashes or presenting images) which were adjacent to the target stimulus. Furthermore, subjects have reported that conspicuous stimuli made them tired and annoyed. In view of this, the aim of this study was to reduce adjacent interference, annoyance and fatigue using a new stimulus presentation pattern based upon facial expression changes. Our goal was not to design a new pattern which could evoke larger ERPs than the face pattern, but to design a new pattern which could reduce adjacent interference, annoyance and fatigue, and evoke ERPs as good as those observed during the face pattern. APPROACH: Positive facial expressions could be changed to negative facial expressions by minor changes to the original facial image. Although the changes are minor, the contrast is big enough to evoke strong ERPs. In this paper, a facial expression change pattern between positive and negative facial expressions was used to attempt to minimize interference effects. This was compared against two different conditions, a shuffled pattern containing the same shapes and colours as the facial expression change pattern, but without the semantic content associated with a change in expression, and a face versus no face pattern. Comparisons were made in terms of classification accuracy and information transfer rate as well as user supplied subjective measures. MAIN RESULTS: The results showed that interferences from adjacent stimuli, annoyance and the fatigue experienced by the subjects could be reduced significantly (p < 0.05) by using the facial expression change patterns in comparison with the face pattern. The offline results show that the classification accuracy of the facial expression change pattern was significantly better than that of the shuffled pattern (p < 0.05) and the face pattern (p < 0.05). SIGNIFICANCE: The facial expression change pattern presented in this paper reduced interference from adjacent stimuli and decreased the fatigue and annoyance experienced by BCI users significantly (p < 0.05) compared to the face pattern.
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I also suggest to embed it in text, so non-members could look it full size.
It is solid or this is 52-82mm ring and some screw in thing?
No, it is one solid piece. The front diameter is exactly 80mm and fits common accessories like clamp on matte boxes etc. I just tested it with an Arri LMB-5 matte box. I will also get fitting cine lens caps produced (not ready yet).
At the moment I have 52mm, 58mm, and 77mm, but if you have a lens with a different filter thread, you can use a step-up ring to 77mm and then use my 77mm Cine Ring.
Btw it can be good idea to make such screw in thing.
Just got filter tags, I will post pics of them later. I currently have ND.3, ND.6, ND.9, ND1,2, GRAD, HM (HotMirror).
You can use them on your matte box or camera, to keep track of the filters that are being used. Some 2nd AC also like to use them on the slate. Very useful to have on set!
They are printed on a thin sheet of plastic and have a piece of velcro on the back. Regular price is $1.50 each, for board members it's $1.
I got all the Cine Rings delivered today. Way earlier than expected :) All pre-orders will ship tomorrow! By the way, I just found out that a competitor (I think there's only one) charges $75 per ring!
Just received mine today and immediately installed them on my lenses.
This is the best priced front ring to get yourself an equal set of lenses for filters or if you are using a mattebox. It's like the Tokina short metal hood, adds a bit of length compared to a regular step up ring. Feels much safer for my front lens element. I'm only using my standard 77mm lens caps which work fine.
I bought 5 and I only have 4 lenses to put them on, put it that way. Awesome stuff.
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Mike Novogratz Bets Bitcoin Purchases via Credit Card Two Years Away
In CryptoCurrency NewsPosted July 3, 2019
A sizeable number of banks do not allow their customers to purchase bitcoin with credit cards. But according to billionaire investor Mike Novogratz, that distrust will eventually change.
The founder of U.S.-based Galaxy Digital told Bloomberg that financial corporations, including Visa and Mastercard, will enable bitcoin purchases with credit cards within the next two years. He reckons that the entry of regulated financial institutions will change the way credit card companies look at the bitcoin industry.
Novogratz borrowed sentiments from a couple of influential brokerage firms that announced bitcoin-enabled products earlier this year. U.S.-based brokerage frame TD Ameritrade, for instance, launched bitcoin futures trading services and further invested in ErisX, a regulated cryptocurrency exchange, to offer traders access to cryptocurrency spot, as well as future contracts. Novogratz said:
U.S. Can't Ban Bitcoin Because It's Free Speech: Abra CEO
CME Trader Buys Bitcoin Dip at $10,000 Because It's a 'Genuine Dollar Hedge'
"You have got exchanges that are regulated — there are the real players in the game. You are getting more and more pipes — ways for people to participate. One can buy bitcoin on their TD Ameritrade account. That's a big, big deal."
"I bet that in the next two years, Mastercard and Visa will accept bitcoin with their credit cards," he added, stating the payment giants were already experimenting with the technology with Libra, a blockchain-enabled payment project introduced by Facebook. The move would bring bitcoin before Visa's 50 million worldwide customers in a single masterstroke.
Bitcoin and Banks
Novogratz's statements follow the launch of many Visa and Mastercard-enabled cryptocurrency payment services but that of debit cards. Banks so far have expressed concerns over allowing customers to use credit cards to purchase bitcoins. Many of them fear that lenders would lose their money while investing in volatile assets like cryptocurrency. At the same time, some also fear that criminals would use the blockchain assets to facilitate money laundering.
Forbes contributor Naeem Aslam revealed that his bank barred him from purchasing bitcoin using his credit cards because they could not verify the source of funds. In an article published last year, Aslam stated that his bank had no clue how to factor bitcoin capital gains into their accounts.
"But here is a big question: Should these banks be allowed to control one's transaction when they already have approved their account," he questioned at the time.
US a Crypto Exchange Scarecrow — What Needs to Change? | Cointelegraph
Kevin O'Leary & Jeremy Allaire Clash Over 'Rogue Currency' Bitcoin


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by dance2gether at Citysearch Nov 10 .
We have been very pleased with our experience at this studio. We have been taking lessons for over a year. Each time we have purchased a "package" we have been given a receipt stating what we agreed too. In addition a record is kept of each lesson for which you initial. Depending on your desire in dancing "competition" or "social dancing" we have found they will work to your goals.
We have been very happy with the level of instruction offered by the instructors at the studio. We do know that there are instructors trained on site and from what I understand, many instructors at other Jacksonville Studios began with Dance Elite.
We have made many great friends, good people and dance partners via Dance Elite and are glad to call it our home studio. Many of these friends have been taking from Dance Elite for many years which would lead me to believe they are also satisfied with the studio.
Pros: Great People, Friendly Atmosphere and plenty of opportunities to dance.
by DanceQueen2008 at Citysearch Nov 10 .
First - The post from danzaman on May 29, 2008 is NOT from a student but from the instructor Christopher Crisp at the Avondale Dance Studio.
**Florida statues REQUIRES all dance studios to provide a contract for EVERY package and services provided. They fail to do this.
**A dance studio may not use oral agreements as contracts. This is how this studio operates.
**The instructors are NOT certified to dance by any dance standards. They are taught in-house. Typical new students, have a instructor that has only been there a short period and is still learning what they teach.
**This studio skirts around resolving issues, by hiding behind the statutes that they themselves don't follow.
**Statues states that a studio may not falsely assure/represent to any customer that a given course of dance studio lessons will enable him/her to achieve a given standard of dancing proficiency. This studio does not follow this. When a package is presented to a student, they are under the impression that a certain amount of lessons will gain them enough dance knowledge to move them to the next level.
**My suggestion to prospective dancers, do your homework, would you rather pay a little bit more per lesson for a "real certified" instructor or would you rather pay less and get an instructor who is not certified to teach and is only a few steps ahead of you in dance knowledge???
by danzaman at Citysearch Nov 10 .
dance elite dance club is the best place for dance, and fun! i have met all my friends and my special someone here. the teachers are easy to learn from ,and the partys, and group classes are the best in town.
by ILuvDance at Citysearch Nov 10 .
The teachers are trained by the other teachers at the studio that do not have formal dance training or certifications. The group classes are taught by these new instructors that are not even teachers yet. They are not even in training three months before they are given individual students. If you have ANY dance experience at all, Dance Elite is not worth the money they charge. When asked a technical question in group class, these instructors are unable to answer my questions. And I'm only in Bronze III. They are not trained in the whole Bronze syllabus before they are trying to teach students that are on their same level or higher. Please ask your instructors at any studio for their background in dance and their qualifications and/or certifications. Ballroom dance is an expensive hobby and you should be getting instruction that is worth the money you spend in the studio. You will not get that here.
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Mavis Staples walked away from the 53rd Grammy Awards with a new trophy in hand.
That trophy was the coveted Best Americana Album for her 2010 album "You Are Not Alone." This, however, was not Staples' first award of her career, as she won the "Spirit of Americana" Free Speech in Music Award in 2007.
Staples competition for the night included the artists Los Lobos (Tin Can Trust), Rosanne Cash (The List), Willie Nelson (Country Music) and Robert Plant (Band of Joy). The announcement of the award was made during a pre-televised ceremony.
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Post by Arpie » Sun Feb 04, 2018 2:07 am
Gna: Perhaps they did it to help Donny? Make it look like they don't own him??
Post by Arpie » Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:58 am
Keep waiting for Koy to respond to Cna's last post. Saddens me this interesting theory hasn't attained more traction. Another indication the boards are dying.
Post by Koyaanisqatsi » Sun Mar 11, 2018 6:42 pm
[quote=""Gná""]Why is it in Russia's interest to disclose these meetings? [/quote]
As far as I can determine, they only announced (tweeted) about Naryshkin's visit.
According to the article, it is to sow discord but why would they release information that could undermine Trump's position?
There could be any number of reasons, but my guess would be to show Trump (as they must do on a regular basis) who is actually in charge.
Think of it in terms of a loan shark that has come to collect the money you owe him. He doesn't give a shit that you don't have it or that his presence in your life causes you problems. And while logic may dictate that he leave you alone in order for you to get him his money as quickly as you are able, it's really not about the money. You either pay him on Monday—by any means necessary—or he cuts your balls off as a lesson to everyone else and you in particular in regard to who has the power. And to remind you of that fact (and put appropriate pressure on you to that end), they guy who is going to cut your balls off is following you around town never more than ten feet away. Or the like.
Trump's job—first and foremost—was to lift the sanctions imposed by Obama specifically in regard to the Ukraine (not in regard to the more recent sanctions imposed due to meddling in our election). Those sanctions stopped (and are still stopping) the $500 Billion deal between Exxon, BP and Rosneft to extract the newly discovered Russian oil fields that—once again—would make Russia surpass Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil distributor.
Think about that for one second. That is—quite literally—one of the biggest single changes in global power in all of human history and Obama/the US prevented it from happening (and then nearly all of Congress, in spite of all of the bullshit rhetoric going on currently). Putin doesn't give a shit how it makes Trump look. Trump must remove those sanctions by any means necessary or his balls will be cut off. And it looks more and more like his balls are going to be cut off one way or the other, so Putin has nothing to lose by tightening his own grip before Mueller yanks them away.
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Post by Arpie » Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:43 am
Another cogent insight, Koy. Thanks for the reply. Still need to do some further searches to totally fathom your assertions, but many ring true and I spend most of my time following the news.
Post by Koyaanisqatsi » Mon Mar 12, 2018 2:41 pm
I think the key takeaways from all of this are the facts that Trump has been an asset (whether directly or indirectly) since the nineties, if not sooner and that the Steele dossier confirms the specific ties to Putin go back at least "five years," which, at the time that was written would have meant back to 2011, deep into Obama's first term, rounding the corner on his second term and coinciding with the year the deal with Exxon was made.
That deal was then destroyed by Obama's sanctions in 2014, but of course prior to the sanctions put into place, there was a build up that must have started at least as early as 2013–both in regard to political saber rattling but also of course in the planning and preparation phase for the invasion of the Ukraine itself, that of course was known about by our intell/military long before it was revealed to the public—which also coincides with the year Trump inexplicably just decides to hold the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow; a costly, logistical nightmare under any other circumstances.
Indeed, there is no good reason why Trump would even think to try and hold the contest in Moscow unless there were ulterior motives, particularly considering the political anonymosity between the Obama administration and Putin's.
And, as we know now, 2014 is also the year in which Putin begins the cyberwar against us for the 2016 election, which likewise means that the planning stage for such an operation had to start earlier as well so we're back to 2013 once again (i.e., to the Miss Universe pageant as the most likely time/situation/contrivance to get Trump into Moscow where he could be properly and directly "handled" in regard to Putin's plans).
If, as has been alleged, Russia simply wanted to fuck with the election in a general, disruptive sense, then why start a good two to three years prior? A general, hey let's fuck things up kind of "attack" could easily be set up in a month or less. A coordinated attempt to put your own asset into the Oval Office, however—the boldest espionage move on the books and therefore something a person like Putin would absolutely try if it were even remotely possible—would take years to plan and lay the proper groundwork.
And lo and behold, that's exactly what we're seeing. The timeline fits perfectly. Putin must have known that other nations—ours in particular—were not happy with the idea that Russia (and thereby him) would become the biggest oil distributor in the world. Again, think of the shift in global power that would portend. Russia as the new Saudi Arabia.
And Putin in particular—due to his own specialized KGB experience and training—would know how valuable an asset Trump was the second he read Trump's StB file circa 1992/93 and would absolutley have been keeping him on the hook, as it were, for exactly the right time. Whether any such time actually ever happened and for whatever use he could think of is not important (though clearly Trumps initial forays into politics were precursors and likely encouraged in various ways by Putin). It would have been second nature to Putin. This was exactly what he did in the KGB after all; groom Western assets for long-term activation/use when the opportunity arose.
Discovering that Russia can surpass Saudi Arabia as the ruler of the entire planet—and make no mistake, it is SA that rules the world; we and everyone else are merely middle management compared to he who controls the spice—well, again, look at the timeline. Even if Putin could not have foreseen something as obvious as economic sanctions as a means to prevent the cultivation of the newly discovered oil fields, he surely would have wanted his own puppet in the Oval at the time the rest of the world realized Russia's ascendency and what that would entail, so the notion of putting his own asset (again, whether directly or indirectly controlled) would have been a priority starting back in 2011/2012 regardless of any worries over future sanctions or the like.
Saudi Arabia isn't just going to turn its belly up, after all, and Putin would have expected the US to do SA's bidding the second it was clear what the newly discovered oil fields would mean. Again, from a realpolitik understanding of the global power structure, this deal/oil remains as the biggest possible issue overriding all others. This is bigger than North Korean nukes; bigger than any ISIS nonsense; bigger than anything that has come before it, including the initial discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia. That changed humanity and the Industrial Age, but this shift in power—at a time when climate change has become a paramount, specie-killing imperative—means that Russia and Russia alone will control the course of human history for the foreseeable future.
It's not just about billions of dollars that would flow directly into Putin's pocket; it's the dream of all tyrants, to be the ruler of the entire planet. And it's within Putin's grasp and something he would have immediately understood back when it was first discovered.
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Damn my dyslexia
Post by Koyaanisqatsi » Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:06 pm
As predicted: Tillerson is out.
ETA: Tillerson Says UK Spy Poisoning 'Clearly' Came From Russia and
Russian Exile Nikolai Glushkov Found Dead At His London Home.
My guess is Putin has discovered who Steele's contacts were and is cleaning house. And right at the time when the Republicans in the House of Reps prematurely ended their investigation proclaiming there was no collusion. We are no doubt witnessing a bloodless coup backed by the all mighty lust for oil (money).
Frankly, it's a little surprising that Saudi Arabia and the rest of the oil industry that's been in their pockets isn't making any noticeable counter-moves. Indeed, I haven't seen anything from Saudi Arabia in regard to any of this. The only thing reported is about Trump's stand on Israel and/or Iran, but nothing about Russia or the Russian oil fields. The only other country ever mentioned is Qatar.
ETAETA: Well fuck me raw. Look what just happened last week: Saudi/Russia Oil Deal Leads To Bigger Russia Role In Middle East!
Saudi Arabia's oil production agreement with Russia was opportunistic at first, but it is now the foundation for a broader relationship that has the potential to reduce already waning U.S. influence in the Middle East.
Experts note that Russia has relationships with many powers in the Middle East and is the only one that can deal with everyone, including Israel, Iran, Syria and even Hamas and Hezbollah. The United States, on the other hand, is at odds with Syria and has increasingly chilly relations with Iran.
It was the United States, ironically, that drove Russia and Saudi Arabia together in the first place, with the surprising rise of an oil sector that is now producing record-high volumes, last seen in 1970.
Endgame. Now it all fits (and helps explain why the House suddenly announced the premature end of their investigation).
This makes the perfect end to this thread. Now Trump's fate is entirely irrelevant. Putin found another way around the problem; Tillerson is free and clear; America is dead on the world stage.
If we don't win back everything in Congress and then the Oval in 2020, that's all she wrote. It will be nothing but vultures from the right picking over the carcas Trump will leave behind, while China/Russia/Saudi Arabia ascend, with the German-led EU surpassing us as upper management.
UK and US? Dead. We won't even be able to compete with alternative energy sources. Our only hope will be cornering the market on AI and other such technology driven advancements.
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Post by Gná » Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:01 pm
[quote=""Koyaanisqatsi""]As predicted: Tillerson is out.[/quote]
Since this thread is titled 'a new conspiracy theory', is it merely coincidence that Tillerson's departure coincides with the inquiry into the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and the death of Nikolai Glushkov? As we all know, there is a limited amount of attention for competing events in the modern news cycle.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... ondon-home
Edit: Tillerson did not follow the White House line on the recent Russian poisoning/deaths saying "US secretary of state Rex Tillerson has been less reticent about apportioning blame, however. He said on Monday that the poisoning "clearly came from Russia," AP reported, and that it "will trigger a response."" Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/white-ho ... &r=US&IR=T
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Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
Post by praxis » Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:56 pm
An objective view:
The suspected nerve agent attack upon former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, which also affected his daughter in the English city of Salisbury last Sunday, has given rise to too much speculation, too much hysteria, and too little analysis or insight. It has provided ammunition for the Russophobic Western media to make accusations that it was another example of Russia in general and Vladimir Putin in particular disposing of a supposed enemy of the Kremlin.
As with the Mueller investigation into the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election there are accusations with varying degrees of wildness, but little or no actual evidence that would get past first base in any independent court of law.
First, what are the known facts, only some of which have been accurately reported in the western mainstream media? The victim (assuming it was a deliberate attack upon him and his daughter) was formerly a Colonel in the Russian military intelligence service (the GRU). This is the largest of the Russian intelligence agencies and, as with its western equivalents, has a wide variety of functions, of which "spying" is only one.
In the early 1990s Skripal was recruited by an MI6 agent Pablo Miller, whom the British media declined to name. Miller was an MI6 agent in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Miller's main task was recruiting Russians to provide information about their country to the British. An interesting fact, possibly coincidental, was that the MI6 officer under diplomatic cover in Moscow at this time was Christopher Steele. Steele was later to become better known as the principal author of the infamous Trump dossier.
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/03/13/t ... poisoning/
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Post by plebian » Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:12 am
https://www.newcoldwar.org/category/art ... ert-parry/
he does seem a bit pro-russia.
Post by praxis » Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:48 am
[quote=""plebian""]https://www.newcoldwar.org/category/art ... ert-parry/
he does seem a bit pro-russia.[/quote]What does that mean?
Parry didn't write the piece.
Post by Koyaanisqatsi » Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:24 pm
[quote=""praxis""]An objective view:[/quote]
Oxymoron.
the Russophobic Western media
Credibility destroyed.
to make accusations that it was another example of Russia in general and Vladimir Putin in particular disposing of a supposed enemy of the Kremlin.
Tell that to Tillerson.
Credibility further destroyed. First of all, he has no idea of the amount of evidence obtained and/or still undiscovered in Mueller's investigation. It is standard procedure in ALL such investigations—all the way down to the local police level—to not publicly reveal what evidence has been collected and/or is still believed to exist until the investigation has concluded. That is precisely why the Dems in the House or so outraged by the Republicans suddenly (and for no legitimate reason) announcing the premature end of their investigation with multiple witnesses refusing to answer and numerous outstanding questions never addressed.
This is an oft-repeated Trump/Stone fallacy; asserting that because the investigation has not yet resulted in an indictment of Trump directly—iow, because the investigation is still open—it therefore means there is no evidence, which is the argument of a mob boss. "Because my investigation is still open, it means I'm innocent."
But, of course, this time it's qualified. No "actual" evidence "that would get past first base" in any "independent" court. The careful and deliberate use of such qualifiers proves that the author knows that there is, in fact, sufficient evidence and that it would indeed stand up in a court of law, so he must try to obfuscate that fact with shifting goalposts and insinuations of bias. What, after all, is an "independent" court of law? All courts in the US are supposed to be "independent," so what court is he here disparaging as biased? Well, we know the answer to that, of course, but he pretty much states it directly here:
In any major criminal enquiry one of the basic questions the investigation asks is: who had the means, the motive and the opportunity? Framed in that light, the Russians come a distant fourth behind the other prime suspects; the U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies themselves, and those elements of the deep state that sought to prevent Trump winning, and subsequently to undermine his presidency.
It is the court of the "deep state" that is somehow just so terrified of a Trump presidency—because, why again? He is a genius? No, he's a moron. His own Secretary of State said that, not some shadow member of a deep state illuminati. Well, "fucking moron" is what he actually said. He's a brilliant businessman? Nearly every one of his companies has gone bankrupt. He won't play by the rules? What rules are those, exactly? The "establishment" rules? And they are, because he is lock-step in line with GOP "rules" (and/or Putin's rules), while at the same time showing again and again that he doesn't even know what rules are in general, let alone what the "deep state" rules are that he's not following.
And the shit he IS doing has so far resulted in nothing but the destruction of America's standing on the world stage (i.e., Putin's rules). Baiting/encouraging North Korea has no endgame. Escalating Afghanistan and Iraq shows adherence to supposed "establishment/deep state" rules. Allowing (facilitating) Russia's ascendency with China and now Saudi Arabia only pushes us out of the game, not further in. Where, exactly, is this mythical messiah that so terrifies our entire intelligence community that they would take such extraordinary steps as to unify against him—as far back as 2014, which is when the Russian cyberwar is said to have begun—and manufacture a "witch hunt" to bring him down because if they don't....what? He'll fuck his daughter or another porn star? He'll seriously argue that we should arm teachers? TEACHERS ffs.
Back to your idiotic piece. As to getting "past first base," this is a tacit acknowledgement that, at the very least, there is enough evidence to hit the ball (to keep it in metaphor), which is, of course, all that is required of an investigation. As the author concedes, it is then up to a court to determine how many bases that results in, which ironically also destroys the author's own assumption of primacy in the same sentence.
In short, he can't know the extent of the evidence that has been gathered, he concedes that sufficient evidence has already been gathered and then further concedes that only a court can determine how far that evidence will go.
Here he does it again next:
First, what are the known facts
Known to whom? Mueller, the only one that matters at this point? The author tells us:
only some of which have been accurately reported in the western mainstream media?
So, once again, credibility destroyed. He asks "what are the known facts" (conceding that there are still facts that those outside of the investigation do not yet know) and then once again tries to demonize and conflate "the western mainstream media," yet in his careful wording we see, yet again, the same kinds of qualifying terms. "Only some of which have been accurately reported."
Take out the obfuscations/qualifiers and he just said, "Some of the western mainstream media has accurately reported known facts." Not exactly a groundbreaking revelation.
Next he finally gets to the relevant part (as it relates to my own speculation about ties to Steele):
An interesting fact, possibly coincidental, was that the MI6 officer under diplomatic cover in Moscow at this time was Christopher Steele. Steele was later to become better known as the principal author of the infamous Trump dossier.
And then he lays his own speculation down—which mirrors my own—but then spectacularly misses his own point:
The former British ambassador Craig Murray has suggested on his blog that a motive for the attempted murder of Skripal and his daughter was to further promote the anti-Russian hysteria that inflicts the Western media and the body politic.
That is certainly plausible, and it has certainly been one of the consequences, as the abysmal coverage of the ABC among other outlets makes clear. But an alternative hypothesis presents itself in the light of the above facts, and this hypothesis has not even been mentioned, let alone discussed by our major media.
My admittedly speculative hypothesis (but I would argue, not an unreasonable one) is that Skripal was likely involved in the production of the Steele dossier. He was therefore in a position to offer potentially very damaging information into the circumstances of the Steele dossier. As noted above, that particular narrative has not only spectacularly collapsed, but the revelations reflect very badly on, among others, the U.S. intelligence community, the FBI, the Democratic National Committee, the Obama White House and the Clinton campaign.
See what he did? He stuffed a great big straw man. He's actually attacking Craig Murray's position. Or, rather, his version of Murray's position, which is that Skripal was killed to "promote the anti-Russian hysteria that inflicts the Western media and the body politic" and then goes on to knock over his own strawman.
The "particular narrative" of his own supposed theory—that Skripal was killed by the Russians because it was discovered that he was one of Steele's contacts—is just swept under the rug with the assertion that it somehow "spectacularly collapsed" thanks to the strawman about Murray.
The author then goes on to ask "who benefits" from Skripal's death, ruling Russia to be "forth" in line for no legitimate reason and based entirely on his strawman that the only reason would be to sow distrust of Russia instead of his own theory. That Skipral was discovered to have been one of Steele's contacts and that's why he was targeted is the most logical reason to have him—and his daughter—killed in such a bold and horrendous manner; as an example to all who would dare cross Putin now (by testifying to Mueller) or in the future.
The author then relies on an argument of incredulity about the method of Skripal's attack; nerve agent, which he asserts would be difficult for a Russian assassin to smuggle in or otherwise get his hands on—in spite of the fact that the author also confirms that there is a nearby source for such an agent—and therefore it's far more likely that Skripal was attacked as a "false flag" op; or, iow, by the nefarious "deep state." Reboot "deep state" magical thinking here all under the guise of an argument from incredulity.
So, to cut to the chase, this author's speculation is that Skripal was attacked by (presumably) the US intelligence community and/or the British intel community in order to throw more shade at Trump—because Trump is just the most brilliant, devastating leader the world has ever known so of course—and/or to throw shade at Putin; a man who is a known murderer and has used such horrific methods of assassination previously and who stands to gain control over the entire world's oil distribution.
I can't figure this one out. Putin, the murdering tyrant ex-KGB officer inches away from global domination of oil using a method of assassination so horrific—and seemingly difficult to accomplish—as to terrify even the most seasoned of spies from ever crossing him, or MI6 just deciding out of the blue to murder a man (and his daughter and risking the lives of some twenty other innocent bystanders) in an horrific manner just to paint Saint Putin in a bad light that he has already painted for himself many times over.
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The Russian government has issued a decree allowing young Syrians to study in Russian military schools for free if they have sufficient knowledge of Russian and pass the necessary exams.
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Even though Patsy's sexuality is still a hanging chad around Billy Barnes, Dawn has made no secret of the fact that she wants to see where this thing between them goes. The two may have already hooked up and the professional boundaries that separate them could ultimately prove to be too much to deal with, but she still has the desire to go out on dates with Patsy and get to know the man he is away from work. Dawn wants something to look forward to and someone to be a consistent, positive presence in her life and she's willing to overlook the pitfalls associated with dating a co-worker in exchange for the chance of really connecting with Patsy and finding the right man who has been eluding her all along.
On the next episode of Getting On, an evening with Patsy turns south fairly quickly and Dawn is left tipsy and all dressed up with nowhere to go in the lounge. To occupy herself and keep from going home and getting down on the situation, she spends her time in the ward looking for stopgap comforts, only to quickly become a distraction to those working that night. With DiDi still needing evidence of Patsy's heterosexuality and Dawn not being in the right mind, there's a chance that the latter will be spilling her guts about everything going on with her fledgling inter-office relationship, possibly to the point of providing the evidence for DiDi herself, not thinking that her new friend would turn on Patsy like that. However, DiDi must do anything she can to keep her position at the hospital and avoid having to take the 18-hour course required in offenses like this, so if it means having a tiff with Dawn and getting Patsy in some trouble, then she's okay with that.
Elsewhere on Getting On, DiDi's serene nightshift gets interrupted by several visitors, while Jenna dreams of a fresh start in Cleveland and an elderly tourist shows off her gymnastics skills.
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Could this be the end of Dawn's attraction to/infatuation toward Patsy? How will DiDi handle the interruptions during her nightshift? Is Jenna ever going to escape the clutches of Billy Barnes?
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An example of Frum's assessment—and why it matters—was on full display when the magazine recently slammed Canada's energy sector. The Economist, in so doing, offered its readers misleading analysis. Its mistakes are relevant—and correcting them important— because the magazine's readership includes people in elected and corporate head offices around the world.
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Well, I have been pushing forward with my paper-piecing project. I like the Arkansas Traveler's block since it allows for regular piecing as well as paper piecing. As I continue to work through this project, I'm starting to learn a few things about paper piecing that I can share with you.
Lesson #1: The chain piecing really helped speed up the process and save me some thread. I had just a few more diamonds to make and I finally got those done the other night.
Lesson #2: Having an organized sewing space with your strips laid out and your iron ready to press after each strip sewn really helps.
Lesson #3: There are a lot of scraps/trash left over once you trim up your squares. Also, pulling the paper off the back is a bit time consuming and creates a lot of trash. I'm not sure how I feel about this yet.
Lesson #4: Having a design wall really helps keep your pattern in order. I have my 4 finished blocks at the top and the other diamonds ready to be paper-pieced.
Lesson #5: Having a sweet and quiet companion while sewing can calm the soul and make you smile. I'll admit I stopped sewing a few times to scratch behind his ears. Sam comes and stays with us while his owners go out of town. We love him dearly for his patience and gentleness with our children.
Lesson #6: When your husband does something that makes you proud, shout it out to the world!
Okay, I know this last lesson has nothing to do with sewing/quilting, but I can't help but brag on him a bit. My husband completed his Master's degree in Education and just received his diploma. I'm so proud of his accomplishment.
Love the look of these all scrappy on a white background! So cheerful.
And congrats to the husband!
Fabulous block... it is going to be a great quilt when done. Kudos to the husband.
I really love how this is turning out, and love your sweet sewing buddy! Congrats to your husband too!
Beautiful diamonds and congrats to your hubby. Well done!
Wonderful blocks! I also dislike the paper-bits-everywhere-thing!
Your blocks are looking fabulous! Paper piecing definitely makes a lot of scraps and mess -that's the least fun part of it!
Congratulations to your husband! What a great achievement!
Beautiful diamonds. And great tips all organized like that. And what a team, your husband and borrowed dog.
Congratulations to your hubby! Great accomplishment in a great field! Love your colors in your paper piece project. It can be messy but does make some perfect blocks with great points! It is nice to have a sweet companion. I have a Lhasa that sits outside my quilting studio/office. Most of the time she is content but she has learned that she can bark at me with a shrill once every evening because she wants her treat! Would you say she is spoiled? Anyways your project is wonderful and quite cheerful!
Congratulations to your husband! I love your piecing and your sewing companion. I use to have a boxer. She was such a good girl.
Congrats to your husband! What an accomplishment! Your blocks are beautiful and I like the idea of piecing and also PP the blocks. Taking the paper off can be a pain. Thanks for sharing.
Paper piecing still terrifies me and I've done it a few times. Good job!!!
Loving it, I am not sure how I feel about ripping out all that paper either. I am in my first big PP quilt. Now is the fun part, so we will see. Congrats to your hubby!
Congratulations to your hubby! And your blocks are looking great. I haven't decided how I feel about paper piecing yet either. The only PP I have done is a few string blocks.
LOVE the block and the tutorial is great, I think I can do that one now. AND a big congratulations to your husband, that is a wonderful accomplishment.
How awesome! Looks fantastic and love the look of all the blocks together. And yes, congrats to the husband!
Yay for the degree finish!!! That's something for a Friday Finish. Definitely!
I love chain piecing and an organized method, too. Definitely helpful. Those blocks are fabulous.


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Would you rather have fees or a throttled internet connection? I'm still undecided.
By Joel Evans for The Mobile Gadgeteer | April 27, 2010 -- 13:25 GMT (06:25 PDT) | Topic: Telcos
According to Phone Scoop, T-Mobile has announced that instead of charging a per megabyte fee to users that go over the 5GB limit of its webConnect data plan, the company will slow down the user's data connections. The company has also announced that users of its 200MB monthly plan will now pay $0.10/MB instead of $0.20/MB.
I'm a bit torn on this latest announcement. On the one hand, I like the fact that if a user hits over the 5GB that there's no overage fee. However, on the other hand, what does a slower connection really end up being? I have yet to see details of how much slower the connection will become after 5GB is reached for consumption for the month.
I have a Sprint account for my USB dongle that does have an overage fee, and the current plan for Sprint's Overdrive on its 4G network has no limit, but Sprint does still enforce a limit and overage on its 3G, even with the Overdrive package. So, while Sprint is wrestling with what connectivity model to go with, it seems that T-Mobile has decided that throttling the connection speed of what is now essentially an unlimited plan makes the most sense.
I'm hopeful that as T-Mobile and Sprint both play with their plans, and AT&T gets into a new offering with the iPad 3G, that maybe we'll finally see an elimination of the overage fee and true all-you-can-eat bandwidth plans. After all, for almost $70 a month to Sprint and others, you'd think that instead of a 5GB limit, it would be all you can eat, especially when you compare that monthly fee to the one that most people pay for all-you-can-eat cable-based internet access.
UPDATE: I received word from a T-Mobile sales rep that when the connection is throttled, it will still be usable for browsing, email, and IM, but not for streaming audio/video. If that's really the case, I can deal with it being throttled, since I try to stay away from streaming on my mobile broadband anyway.
UPDATE2: The same T-Mobile sales rep just dropped off the below screenshot. According to T-Mobile, after customers hit 5GB of usage, the connection speed will be reduced to allow for
"light Web surfing and e-mailing, but does not provide an optimal experience for data intensive tasks like video streaming, file downloading, or picture viewing"
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"... Cellular Neural Networks are characterized by simplicity of operation. The network consists of a large number of nonlinear processing units; called cells; that are equally spread in the space. Each cell has a simple function (sequence of multiply-add followed by a single discrimination) that takes a ..."
"... In this work we present a new proposal for image segmentation using deformable models, as an application of Discrete-Time Cellular Neural Networks (DTCNN) [i]. This approach is based on active contours (also called snakes) which evolve until reaching a final desired location. The contours are guided ..."
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"... Abstract. In this paper we discuss the existence and uniqueness of a k-pseudo almost periodic sequence solutions of a discrete time neural network. We give several sufficient conditions for the exponential and global attractivity of the solution. ..."
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"... Two identical discrete time cellular neural networks are coupled and sharp conditions are found so that some or all neural units will eventually synchronize. In deriving these criteria, we make use of symmetry (invariance) principles, Ba-nach contraction technique and spectral properties of several ..."


Escitalopram in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder: double-blind, placebo controlled, flexible-dose study.
Escitalopram has been shown in clinical trials to improve anxiety symptoms associated with depression, panic disorder, and social anxiety disorder. This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of escitalopram in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Outpatients (18 years or older) who met DSM-IV criteria for GAD, with baseline Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAMA) scores > or = 18, were randomly assigned to double blind treatment with escitalopram (10 mg/day for the first 4 weeks and then flexibly dosed from 10-20 mg/day) or placebo for 8 weeks, following a 1-week, single-blind, placebo lead-in period. The primary efficacy variable was the mean change from baseline in total HAMA score at Week 8. The escitalopram group (N = 158) showed a statistically significant, and clinically relevant, greater improvement at endpoint compared with placebo (N = 157) in all prospectively defined efficacy parameters. Significant improvement in HAMA total score and HAMA psychic anxiety subscale score for the escitalopram-treated group vs. the placebo-treated group was observed beginning at Week 1 and at each study visit thereafter. Mean changes from baseline to Week 8 on the HAMA total score using a last-observation-carried-forward (LOCF) approach were -11.3 for escitalopram and -7.4 for placebo (P<.001). Response rates at Week 8 were 68% for escitalopram and 41% for placebo (P<.01) for completers, and 58% for escitalopram and 38% for placebo LOCF values (P<.01). Treatment with escitalopram was well tolerated, with low rates of reported adverse events and an incidence of discontinuation due to adverse events not statistically different from placebo (8.9% vs. 5.1%; P=.27). Escitalopram 10-20 mg/day is effective, safe, and well tolerated in the treatment of patients with GAD.


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Taltsy ethnographical museum
Architectural ethnographic museum "Taltsy" is a unique collection of monuments of history and architecture of peoples in Eastern Siberia in 17-20th centuries. This is one of 5 open-air museums in Russia. It was founded in 1966, and it was opened for visitors in July 1980. The territory of the museum occupies an area of 67 hectares. There are more than 40 historical-architectural monuments and about 9,000 items which are of significant historical value. The first wooden constructions were moved to this place from the flooded area of Ust-Ilimsk water reservoir. The exhibition gives an idea of conditions of life and cultural features of peoples who inhabited the Baikal region in 19th - beginning of 20th centuries. Rare items in the museum are restored architectural monuments of republican value. Among those is the Tower of the Saviour (1667) and Kazanskaya chapel of former Ilimsk fortress (1667-1679), which were built from larch tree more than 300 years ago without any nails. In the architectural complex of the museum there is Evenk summer and autumn campsite, a cascade with three watermills, the farms of Moskovskiy, Seryshev, Prokopyev, Nepomiluev peasants, also a common bread barn Mangazeya, a church-parish school, a cemetery complex, Troitskaya church and Buryat summer camp. Various public celebrations and holidays with folklore shows are held each year. In February-March - Maslenitsa (Mardi gras), in April - Easter, in June - Trinity, in July - Day of all Russian Saints, in August - Transfiguration Day.


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Sep 19, 2013 / Scoliosis & Spine
Scottish Rite Hospital Featured in The New York Times for Scoliosis Bracing Study
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children's young patients are accustomed to receiving top-flight, technologically-based treatment for a variety of conditions, but a recent study examining the effectiveness of back braces to correct scoliosis proves that, sometimes, old school methods still produce the most desirable outcome.
The randomized study, which was published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, provided verifiable proof that the 50-year-old practice of bracing children with scoliosis brings significant pain relief, and helps young people avoid delicate surgery to correct the condition.
The practice of using braces was brought into question several years ago after the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended discontinuing scoliosis screening in schools because of insufficient evidence that bracing helped children.
A Difficult Condition to Treat
Scoliosis is a progressive condition that causes the spine to curve from side to side. The curve typically is three-dimensional, and is shaped like a "C" or an "S." It's caused by congenital vertebral anomalies and, in some cases, is idiopathic.
Outside of bracing, common treatments include spinal fusion surgery in which physicians place screws in the spine to straighten it out. Although scoliosis surgery produces excellent results, patients face all of the inherent risks of undergoing surgery.
The Proof Physicians Are Looking For
The study analyzed data on 242 patients at 25 sites in the United States and Canada. Patients were 10 to 15 years old, and all had spinal curvature of 20 to 40 degrees. The analysis indicates that among the children that wore a brace 18 hours a day, 72 percent were successfully treated, versus 48 percent that were observed without a brace.
Additionally, researchers noted that the longer a teen wore the brace, the more successful treatment was. More than 90 percent of young people who realized the best outcomes from bracing wore the device more than 13 hours per day.
However, bracing was deemed a failure if a child's curvature progressed to 50 percent or more, which is the point at which surgery becomes imperative.
Dr. B. Stephens Richards told the New York Times that evidence cited in the study was "very convincing."
"It scientifically proves that brace treatment works for adolescents with scoliosis who are at risk of curve worsening to the point of needing surgery," he said.
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A mathematical model of electromechanical conjugation in a longitudinal smooth muscle layer of the gut is formulated. The general assumptions of the model are based on electrophysiological and mechanical experimental data demonstrating slow oscillatory activity (at the resting state) and spiking activity (at the excited state) with concurrent development of active forces of contraction-relaxation. The myogenic syncytium is considered as a continuum of weakly connected oscillators. Strong connections among oscillators are provided by an intermittent fast propagating wave of depolarization along the syncytium. The description of electrical behavior of each oscillator is based on Hodgkin-Huxley formalism. Electromechanical coupling concludes intracellular calcium dependent mechanisms of force generation. Passive relaxation forces are mainly due to the elastic properties of the collagen and elastin fibers. The dynamics of the propagating nonlinear electromechanical wave of contraction-relaxation is studied numerically. The results demonstrate good qualitative and quantitative agreement with the results of physiological experiments.


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Alltheniko is een Italiaanse powermetalband.

Geschiedenis
Alltheniko werd in 2002 opgericht in Vercelli door Dave Nightfight (zang en basgitaar), Joe Boneshaker (gitaar) en Luke the Idol (slagwerk).

In 2006 brachten My Graveyard Productions (Italië) en Trinity Records (Hongkong) hun debuutalbum uit. Het album werd positief ontvangen en in 2007 stond de band op Metalcamp.

Bandleden
 Dave Nightfight: zanger en basgitarist
 Joe Boneshaker: gitarist
 Luke the Idol: slagwerker

Discografie

Albums
 We Will Fight! (2006, Trinity Records, My Graveyard Productions)
 Devasterpiece (2008, My Graveyard Productions)
 Millennium Re-Burn (2011, My Graveyard Productions)
 Back in 2066 (2012, Pure Steel Records)
 Fast and Glorious (2014, Pure Steel Records)
 Italian History VI (2017, Pure Steel Records)

Demo's
 Animal Thing (2002)
 Sound of Rust (2003)
 Extermination (2004)
 Make a Party in Hell (2010)

Externe link
  Officiële website

Noten

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Powermetalband


Today, Halong Bay is the first destination for foreign tourist when they come to Vietnam. Therefore, many modern hotels are growing here to serve this huge potential. Among them, Novotel Halong is one of best hotel.
Located at the center of the Bai Chay tourism area with Halong Bay view, Novotel Hotel is the first 4 star hotel of Halong Bay that is mixed by the modern, luxury features and the traditional of East Asian. As a result, Novotel Hotel will give the best pleasure and comfortable to valued guest.
To begin with its location, Novotel Hotel is situated in convenient location, far from Noi Bai International airport about 165km, in front of Royal Park, far from Bai Chay Wharf about 1km and far the Water Puppet Theatre and Vietnam's culture Theatre about 100m. In addition, surrounding Novotel Hotel is some famous destination for visitor such as: Halong bay, Tuan Chau Entertainment Center, Long Tien Pagoga, Halong Market- famous for fresh seafood, Cat Ba Island, Yen Tu Area- 65km. Visitor will visit one these sites easily.
Next to the room and services, Novotel Halong provides 214 big room and most of them have a private balcony facing to the sea where guest can relax and admire the beauty of Halong bay, especially in sunset and sun rise, so romantic and unforgettable. Moreover, all of room are fully furnished as in a five star hotel with air-conditioning, mini-bar, IDD phone call, safety box, Internet, LCD 26'' with Cable/Satellite Channels, free water, tea and coffee…All the room are clean, spacious, superbly designed and offering a nice view to Halong Bay. Furthermore, as a luxury hotel, Novotel Hotel has an outdoor pool that gives a nice view to Halong Bay. With an area of 300 square meters, a large pool is a highlight of this hotel.
Next, Novotel Hotel also offer a luxury bar called The Square restaurant where guest will served by many excellent dishes by a professional way. By the combination of European and Asia dishes, every day, a lot of good meals will given and guest will feel happy to enjoy it. In particular, in Saturday evening, we offer the outdoor BBQ at the pool area; it is so interesting and attractive. Besides, a luxury bar with many specials drink will bring to guest a nice surprise. Guest can find here many imported wines, real coffee and nice cocktail from here. And a band from Philippine will makes Novotel hotel is more special.
On the other hand, Novotel hotel is ideal location for M.I.C.E with four large conferences that is consisting of 300 people. This is also a location for family party and other activities like that. Not only that, Novotel Hotel has a professional team whose are so friendly, polite and helpful. Also, guest will served by a some other services like laundry, room service 24/24, organizing all the tour that visitor can join…It can be said that, coming to Halong Bay, Novotel Hotel is a recommended for a nice stay.


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Shahid is an advisor to several early stage firms focused on the telecom and digital sectors helping entrepreneurs turn innovative ideas into world class companies. He is currently Co-Founder and COO of EQITII – a blockchain based foundation that enables companies and people to easily exchange data. He is also a visiting professor teaching Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) course at McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.
Between October 2016 and January 2017, Shahid was a Partner at PwC responsible for several digital businesses including Emerging Technologies, IoT, Data & Analytics, PwC's Emerging Technologies Lab, and PwC's Center for Technology and Innovation. As the practice leader, Shahid's goal was to transform PwC Consulting into a digital business. Shahid was also the New Ventures Lead helping PwC launch innovative new businesses in the consulting marketplace.
Prior to joining PwC, Shahid was a Managing Director with Accenture, where he was responsible for Accenture's North America Communications $1B+ business. In this role, Shahid helped telecommunications clients build new digital capabilities, operate more efficiently and drive new growth. He was also responsible for the Network Practice in North America. During his 20-year tenure at Accenture, Shahid was involved in creating many practices including the formation of the wireless practice, the Accenture Cisco Business Group and the Accenture Alcatel-Lucent (now Accenture Nokia) Business Group.
America. Shahid was also responsible for rolling out the first cellular digital packet data (CDPD) network in the US.
Shahid is an active member of several industry groups. He currently serves on multiple advisory boards such as the Smart Network Council, Cellular Telecommunication and Internet Association (CTIA), Northwestern University Masters in Engineering Management (MEM) program and The Coral Group. Shahid was also a board member of Chicago Sinfonietta — a symphony founded in 1987 to promote diversity, inclusion and innovation in classical music.
In February 2011, Shahid was appointed as an Advisor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) advising on technology issues facing the United States. Shahid has worked on several policy issues and currently serves as the chair for IoT and cyber- security working groups.
Shahid holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Elmhurst College and a Masters in Engineering Management from Northwestern University. He resides in Chicago.
Shahid is an advisor to several early stage firms focused on the telecom and digital sectors helping entrepreneurs turn innovative ideas into world class companies. He is currently Co-Founder and COO of EQITII – a blockchain based foundation that enables companies and people to easily exchange data. He is also a visiting professor teaching Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) course at McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. Between October 2016 and January 2017, Shahid was a Partner at PwC responsible for several digital businesses including Emerging Technologies, IoT, Data & Analytics, PwC's Emerging Technologies Lab, and PwC's Center for Technology and Innovation. As the practice leader, Shahid's goal was to transform PwC Consulting into a digital business. Shahid was also the New Ventures Lead helping PwC launch innovative new businesses in the consulting marketplace. Prior to joining PwC, Shahid was a Managing Director with Accenture, where he was responsible for Accenture's North America Communications $1B+ business. In this role, Shahid helped telecommunications clients build new digital capabilities, operate more efficiently and drive new growth. He was also responsible for the Network Practice in North America. During his 20-year tenure at Accenture, Shahid was involved in creating many practices including the formation of the wireless practice, the Accenture Cisco Business Group and the Accenture Alcatel-Lucent (now Accenture Nokia) Business Group. Before Accenture, between 1992-96, Shahid held several management positions at Sprint where he spent four years expanding Sprint's wireless services in North America. Shahid was also responsible for rolling out the first cellular digital packet data (CDPD) network in the US. Shahid is an active member of several industry groups. He currently serves on multiple advisory boards such as the Smart Network Council, Cellular Telecommunication and Internet Association (CTIA), Northwestern University Masters in Engineering Management (MEM) program and The Coral Group. Shahid was also a board member of Chicago Sinfonietta -- a symphony founded in 1987 to promote diversity, inclusion and innovation in classical music. In February 2011, Shahid was appointed as an Advisor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) advising on technology issues facing the United States. Shahid has worked on several policy issues and currently serves as the chair for IoT and cyber- security working groups. Shahid was also a commencement speaker at Northwestern University's McCormick Engineering School in June 2015. Shahid holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Elmhurst College and a Masters in Engineering Management from Northwestern University. He resides in Chicago.


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Guild Ball Shifts Cards To Companion App Ahead Of Season 4 Launch
Guild Ball Manager
Navigator's Guild release delayed almost two months
Guild Ball is embracing digital with the launch of a new mobile companion app that will replace the sports miniatures game's physical cards.
The Guild Ball Manager app is free to download on iOS and Android, and will serve as the main way for players to check the latest stats and point costs for their team of characters when building tournament-legal sides for the fantasy football title.
The app will include the cards for the game's upcoming fourth season, set to launch on October 13th, but publisher Steamforged has confirmed that it will make all of Guild Ball's cards available as a free download for the foreseeable future.
Guild Ball Manager includes various other utilities for players, such as a dedicated chess clock designed to measure the game's one-minute timeouts and a fast reference of dice roll odds. There's also an online directory of players around the world, with the ability for fans to contact potential opponents directly to organise matches.
Guild Ball is just the latest major miniatures game to offload its shifting meta to an app, following the decision by Fantasy Flight to handle points and upgrades in the second edition of the X-Wing Miniatures Game via a squad-building app, with no costs printed on the game's physical cards.
As well as announcing its digital plans for Guild Ball, Steamforged also revealed that the release of the game's Navigator's Guild has been delayed by almost two months to "ensure supply is readily available to meet the customers' demands".
The guild had been due for launch on September 21st, but will now take to the pitch on November 16th.


SportsLine's advanced computer model simulated Kentucky vs. Wofford 10,000 times.
The 2019 NCAA Tournament continues on Saturday with the second round, and two of the most exciting teams in the nation will go head-to-head in Jacksonville as No. 2 seed Kentucky takes on No. 7 seed Wofford at 2:40 p.m. ET. Both are coming off dominant opening-round victories. Kentucky demolished Abilene Christian 79-44 and Wofford got hot late to cruise past Seton Hall 84-68. The teams have 58 wins combined, with Kentucky at 28-6 and Wofford at 30-4, and win No. 59 determines who goes to the Sweet 16. The Wildcats are five-point favorites, with the over-under set at 140 points in the latest Kentucky vs. Wofford odds. Before you make your own Kentucky vs. Wofford picks, be sure to check out the 2019 NCAA Tournament predictions from the SportsLine Projection Model.
Now, the model has zeroed in on Kentucky vs. Wofford. We can tell you it's leaning over, but it also has a strong against the spread pick that hits in well over 50 percent of simulations. You can see it exclusively at SportsLine.
Entering Saturday's showdown, the model knows that one big potential advantage for Kentucky should be its ability to attack the rim. The Wildcats rank 20th in the nation in free-throw attempts per game, getting to the charity stripe 23.5 times per contest. Tyler Herro and Keldon Johnson are both exceptional slashers, while Reid Travis does great job of establishing post position.
Against a Wofford squad that ranks No. 135 in the country in opponent shooting efficiency, Kentucky should be able to get to the spots on the floor it wants to and finish around the rim, or at least apply pressure by putting Wofford in foul trouble.
But just because the Wildcats are loaded with playmakers doesn't mean they'll cover the Kentucky vs. Wofford spread and advance in the 2019 NCAA bracket.
Wofford is the second-best 3-point shooting team in the nation. Fletcher Magee just set the all-time NCAA record for 3-point field goals with 509 for his career. Magee hit seven of them against Seton Hall, passing Oakland's Travis Bader for the record.
However, Magee isn't the only weapon for Wofford. The Terriers shoot 41.7 percent from beyond the arc as a team and Nathan Hoover (46.1 percent from 3-point range), Storm Murphy (47.5 percent) and Tray Hollowell (41.6 percent) can all fill it from deep. It's been the great equalizer for Wofford all season, and if Kentucky can't find a way to run the Terriers off the 3-point line, it could be a long game. And with P.J. Washington (14.8 ppg, 7.5 rpg) expected to miss this game due to a foot injury, that's one less Kentucky star that Wofford will have to deal with.
Who wins Wofford vs. Kentucky? And which side of the spread hits in well over 50 percent of simulations? Visit SportsLine now to find out which side of the Wofford vs. Kentucky spread you need to jump on, all from the model that has crushed college hoops, and find out.


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