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Nintendo Hard
When developing games for the NES, Nintendo designers used to have a concept of Nintendo Hard. Most kids didn't have a lot of pocket money and games were expensive in the Eighties, so Nintendo wanted to ensure their games stood out as good value for money that provided a lot of play-time. To do this, they didn't just make games hard; they made them Nintendo Hard. They'd do the normal three difficulty levels - Easy, Medium, Hard - and then they'd make a fourth difficulty called Nintendo Hard which was too hard for the developers to beat. Then they'd just shift everything down a space in the menu. So Easy would actually be Medium, Medium would actually be Hard, and Hard would actually be Nintendo Hard. So was the genius of Nintendo.
The above story is absolute rubbish.
There's a thousand reasons why it makes no sense. Indeed, one of the things that makes Nintendo's first party games stand out from other games from the same era is how intuitive, accessible and forgiving they are.
But it was told to me in a pub by a drunk guy who was very insistent and I think he liked the idea that he was imparting valuable knowledge to a so-called professional game developer. Who am I to take that joy away from him?
Thus, this is an article about what it really means to be Nintendo Hard.
I've had an interesting relationship with difficulty in my own games. Codex Bash was never meant to be difficult. It is designed for exhibition spaces where visitors will want to move from exhibit to exhibit. My duty as a designer is to give them the best experience I can in the environment they're in. So they should have the best five-to-ten minutes I can offer and then be free to explore the rest of the exhibition with my game a highlight of their day.
Part of that memorable experience is a feeling of a success well-earned. So I want players to beat Codex Bash first time, but it's important that they had to make a genuine effort to do so. In other words, the game is meant to be easy but feel hard.
A game is nothing if it is not being played, so what a player feels a game is is the only thing that game actually is.
It matters that Codex Bash feels hard. It recognises the lateral thinking, imagination and teamwork you put in, and validates that with the the sense that you've achieved something against the odds. It matters that you feel like you classic Nintendo games have the legend of being Nintendo Hard. It makes you feel like you have rad skills. It comforts you if you're struggling.
Difficulty is not an absolute. A game is only as difficult as the player finds it. A beginner has to overcome the same intensity of challenge playing a game on Easy as a veteran does playing a game on Hard. The beginner gets the same pride in beating the game as the veteran, so long as they both felt they overcame a challenge that was beyond them starting out.
Difficulty in Modern Games
Designers' approach to difficulty in games has changed, certainly over the past ten or fifteen years. They haven't got easier, they haven't got harder, but they have got more forgiving. Tutorials are richer and more detailed and the explanations are better. Pictures have replaced text. Doing has replaced being told. Controls are increasingly re-mappable. Checkpoints are more common. These are great trends. They mean more people get to play, and people get to play the way that suits their preferences and their physicality. The trend has been to reject the ridiculous idea that getting into a game is something that must be earned.
Nintendo Hard in the early 2010's has changed too, albeit with some backlash from certain corners of the internet. Recent Super Mario games have given players the opportunity to skip over levels they can't beat, or super-strength power-ups if they're struggling. If you can't get past a level why shouldn't you enjoy the rest of the game you paid for? When you come back to it and finally master it you'll still get the same sense of achievement.
Nevertheless, with these wonderful trends there has been a parallel trend which has been frustrating. As developers have embraced the reality that a good game teaches its players, my personal feeling is that "the bit that teaches you how to play" has become longer, more restrictive and more forced.
A game that offers you an exciting new toy but won't let you play with it until you've jumped through a list of hoops is frustrating. A game that does not trust you to be able to figure out the toy on your own is condescending. "Let me get to the good bit" has become my most common whine about recent games.
Compare 1991's Sonic the Hedgehog - which opens with a massive playground of ramps and springs and lets you loose to feel out its novel momentum mechanics by mucking around - with 2013's Gravity Rush - where the first hour teaches you to use its tantalising gravity mechanics by hemming you in to small environments and metered "get to a location" quests and fights.
One game opens by giving you a racecar and the other opens by giving you a driving test. One game trusts you and the other is afraid to let you make mistakes.
Granted, one game is more complex than the other. But there's no reason Gravity Rush could not have opened with an open playground to experiment with the mechanics on your own terms. Targeted quests could be an opportunity to put your newly-found abilities into action, to take what you've discovered into the playground and use it to achieve a goal. Instead, main quests feel like a harder version of the tutorial - a test to see if you've been paying attention rather than an opportunity to show off.
This is, of course, a reflection of personal taste. Many people have applauded Gravity Rush for its design, and I'm glad that it's found an audience who have thoroughly enjoyed it, and no game should be expected to please everyone. I personally grew impatient with the game and could not get into it because it felt like work. But I also feel that for new studios and cheaper games losing the player's interest early on can mean the work gets entirely overlooked. An upfront investment, or the trust of a known studio or a box on a shelf, means players are willing to give a game with a weak opening the benefit of the doubt. Nevertheless, do any of us really want to rely on the benefit of the doubt?
Fortunately, it is entirely possible to have the best of both worlds. It is perfectly reasonable to support reticent players with a helping hand and offer confident players freedom. It's exactly what Nintendo have demonstrated this year with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey.
The New Nintendo
In Zelda, if you follow the suggested route you learn to fend off some simple enemies, and the fine folks of Kakariko Village teach you the tools of the trade. You'll have opportunities to get equipment and power up your hearts and stamina with some simpler puzzles. There's a neat learning curve that warms you up to the challenges, trains you in adventuring skills, and mounts the challenge when you've proven you get it.
The game is perfectly well equipped to train you. But if you don't feel the need to be trained it won't stop you going your own way.
As soon as I was given the opportunity to diverge from the suggested route I did. I felt confident. I wanted to be rebellious. I wanted to push the boundaries of what the game would let me get away with. If an area looked like it was supposed to be too hard for me I made a beeline for it and tried to prove the game wrong. I felt smart when I used my wits to climb rock faces that seemed way too high, and disarm enemies that could slay me in one hit. I felt like a maverick poking around the north edge of the map, with its lava pools and centaurs and only three hearts to my name.
This was an act of self-expression.
I got to express my rebellious nature and choose my own level of challenge. I could go straight to the harder puzzle rooms, straight into the tough puzzles that a Zelda veteran like myself would find satisfying. None of this prevented a beginner from engaging with the lessons that would help them reach the same position, and where to find these lessons was clearly marked out.
Not only this, but having easy sections in the game was of no detriment to my experience as a confident veteran. When I went back to the easy sections, well-armed and full of self-taught strategies I felt powerful. The easy puzzles felt like fun freebies, proof of my awesomeness. I'd been trying to prove to the game "look how good I am!" and it said "yes you are!"
Again, I stress that none of this means there are no tutorials in the game. Tutorials are plentiful and well-indicated, but it's your choice to engage with them. Gentler areas of the game exist too. The beauty of the game is that it trusts you to choose. It trusts you to decide how confident you are, and gives you a teleport back to the easier bits if you decide it's too much for you.
In Super Mario Odyssey, to progress to the next stage you need to collect a certain number of shiny gold moons. Some of these are indicated by plot points and markers which obviously guide you to the next one. Plenty are scattered around the area for players who want to go off the beaten track to demonstrate their lateral thinking and dexterity. Moons that you wouldn't find unless you spotted some unusual level geometry, or questioned what might be out of camera-shot.
Of course, a beginner finds following the path to the plot-marked moons is just as hard as a veteran finds hunting for obscure moons. The game makes few demands on which moons you need to get - any moons will do - and rates no one moon as more worthy than any other.
Beginners: you're not going to run across a point where your play experience stops dead. Veterans: you don't need to trudge through tasks that do not stretch you. The game applauds both approaches and rewards you with new levels for your efforts.
These are games that say "yes, and" to their players. You need a hand to learn? I've got your back, here's a tutorial. You want to just get on with it? Go ahead, pick the bit that looks most interesting to you - I promise it will pay off!
Of Toys and Teachers
This is the attitude that says the role of a game is to offer up a toy rather than teach a player a skill.
When I was starting out in the industry, and Raph Koster's A Theory of Fun for Game Design was a massive inspiration for me. Raph Koster's book proposed that we have fun as an evolutionary reward for learning, a thought which I found rational and compelling.
While I still largely agree with A Theory of Fun, I also don't think learning is the only source of fun. Nevertheless, either through other designers using this pattern in their work, or by noticing the trend more easily having read it myself, I feel I've come across more and more often. Games that, particularly in their opening segments, prioritise teaching their mechanics over providing inspiration to play.
"This section is there to teach the player" is the design philosophy of Super Mario Bros World 1-1 without the nuance.
World 1-1 is a level that's been analysed brilliantly time and time again by many astute designers. World 1-1 teaches you the basic mechanics of jumping on enemies, falling down holes, enemy patterns and behaviours, all by putting you in situations where you have to do them. It's learning by doing, not learning by being told. This is excellent, but it's only half the lesson. What World 1-1 also does is never feel like a tutorial. You don't realise you're being taught how to play, but like you're figuring it out for yourself. As an added bonus if you already know what you're doing you can burn through it really fast and feel awesome in the process.
Not feeling like a tutorial is important. If a game feels like it's trying to teach the player it doesn't feel satisfying to learn. It feels like performing a task rather than expressing yourself. The player does not get to take pride in their own achievement. At worst, if the player fails they will blame the teacher that set a frustrating task, rather than look to themselves for an alternative solution.
The designer's hand can direct a player to the lessons they need to learn, but we should aspire that the player should not see it. The player should see themselves spotting a detail and responding with a solution.
The player chooses to learn because the player has an intrinsic motivation to solve each challenge in the level. The player's goal is to get to the end of the level. Pits and enemies are in their way, but figuring them out means getting to that next level! But if the player can tell that each challenge is there to teach them a lesson their goal is not seeing the next tantalising stage - it's getting the teacher off of their back.
A good game lets the lessons a player learns be their own achievements.
Yes, and
If you want to be on your player's side you need to be able to say "yes, and" to them.
"Yes, and" means providing your game to players and letting them do whatever they want with it, learn what they want from it and achieve what they feel is a meaningful achievement to them. You can suggest new paths for them to follow, but if they choose to go a different path then your job is not to restrict that choice. It is to celebrate it.
"Yes, and" is about providing an opportunity to players. Give them an opportunity to jump around in crazy environments and go on a wild adventure. Give them an opportunity to express themselves. Give them an opportunity to prove themselves to themselves. Inspire them to ask "what if?"
A teacher gives you a task. A toy gives you an opportunity. Raph Koster was right when he said that when we learn we have fun. But the joy is much more memorable when we own the lesson we have learned.
That's the great lesson Nintendo have demonstrated this year. Nintendo Hard is not about being punishingly hard, and it's not about being trivially easy. Nintendo Hard is about letting players choose for themselves what they want to achieve and saying "yes."
Nintendo Hard is, to say to every single player who approaches your game, "this is my gift to you."
Winner: IndieCade 2017 Jury Choice Award


After a one-day party swap, Kazuma finds himself traveling with people he's never met, while Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness show off their new ally, and a monster responsible for the death of many low-level adventurers is lurking in their midst.
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Baird defends Schlumberger Sema rationale
Euan Baird defended Schlumberger's acquisition of Sema Group at a meeting with analysts in Paris this month. Despite troubled times in the IT sector, Baird sees bullish fundamentals in oil and gas, and a rosy future for the combined service offering from the new Schlumberger-Sema Group.
Talking to analysts in Paris this month, Schlumberger chairman Euan Baird was bullish on the oil price and on prospects for the new combined Schlumberger Sema Group (SSG). Following the announcement of Schlumberger's takeover of the Anglo-French consultancy, Schlumberger's share price has lost some 30%, with the poor performance of the tech segment more than offsetting the stronger oil sector. Baird presents the Sema acquisition as the last step in a long process of building an integrated oilfield services offering, from the automated oilfield into the networked office.
Schlumberger's strategy remains unchanged - that of "working on the shifting interface between what our clients do themselves, and what they outsource." Baird is convinced that the arrival of a very powerful private networking capability, "not the internet," will shift this interface further in Schlumberger's favor. The company's involvement in networking dates back to 1985 with the first commercial global network (SINET). The Sema acquisition adds a hitherto missing element, that of large scale systems integration. This adds a new culture to Schlumberger, making the company a credible competitor to major integrators like IBM and Accenture. En passant, Baird gave himself a pat on the back for IndigoPool, with a claimed $4 billion of assets currently on the portal, and also for the WesternGeco joint venture. This has created a seismic behemoth with a market share three times that of its nearest competitor. Baird's predictions for the future of the oil price remain fundamentally bullish. Spare capacity in the Middle East is down from 10 to 2 million bbl/day, with most of this heavy, sulfurous crude. Oil companies "must spend more" to assure future supply - especially as natural depletion is currently running at around 8%. All this translates into a rosy future for Schlumberger's high-tech reservoir focused offering. Fighting the down-trending depletion curve means technology - as witnessed by the high current spend on domestic US produced oil - an indicator of future world-wide spending patterns. A component of this spend is the increasing linkage of technical and business systems - where Sema's expertise in integration with Enterprise Resource Planning systems will be deployed. Baird claims "enormous" interest from oil and gas clients on the potential of this technology transfer into real-time reservoir monitoring and control.
Festooned
Notwithstanding the bullish future, Baird recognizes that the IT sector is "festooned with pessimism!" - but believes that costs synergies and a couple of strategic asset disposals will allow SSG to bring home the bacon with 20% revenue growth in financial 2003, maintaining a debt to capitalization ratio of below 30%. But Baird's underlying conviction, and indeed the lynchpin of his strategy, is that client companies "want to deal with a company that does everything."
Analysts expressed concern for the near term with difficult times ahead in the technology sector and with a slow-down in IT spend in the European Union. Baird defended the medium term outlook while acknowledging that, if the worst came to the worst "We will react appropriately, as you all know we can." Despite the ongoing pressure on Schlumberger stock, Baird ruled out a buy-back "unless the situation gets a lot worse." Baird also ruled out any more acquisitions for the next year or so - "All our bandwidth is dedicated to consolidating what we have now."

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Capstone Strategic guides PSCU on acquisition of CU Recovery and The Loan Service Center
Capstone Strategic announced today that PSCU, the nation's leading credit union service organization (CUSO) has acquired CU Recovery and The Loan Service Center. With the acquisition, PSCU executes its strategy to expand comprehensive collections offerings for credit unions.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL (March 7, 2018) — Capstone Strategic, Inc. (Capstone) announced today that PSCU of St. Petersburg, Florida has acquired CU Recovery, Inc. (CUR), a full-service collection agency, and The Loan Service Center, Inc. (TLSC), a first-party collection company. Capstone advised PSCU on the transaction. The acquisition allows PSCU to expand its collection services and provide a more integrated member experience.
Founded in 1977, PSCU is the nation's leading credit union service organization (CUSO) offering a comprehensive, highly integrated suite of payment solutions for credit unions to optimize their member experience.
Headquartered in Wyoming, Minnesota and founded in 1990 by CEO Kelly Becker, CUR and TLSC provide two services for credit union clients. CUR is the leading full-service collection agency for credit unions offering a comprehensive suite of third party collection services and TLSC provides part time, full time, temporary, or permanent staff to credit union collection departments. CUR and TLSC will become wholly-owned subsidiaries of PSCU.
"Through understanding PSCU's culture and values, Capstone helped identify the right partner that shares our commitment to member service and is aligned with our strategy for growth. We are pleased to add CUR and TLSC to our CUSO, so we can provide a more robust offering and more integrated member experience," said Jack Lynch, Chief Risk Officer at PSCU.
"We are excited to offer a full line of debt recovery services to PSCU's member owners. We see robust collections as integral part of the overall risk management strategy for credit unions, enabling growth while minimizing charge offs. As a third-party advisor Capstone, facilitated a smooth and successful transaction," said Vel Davidov, SVP Finance and M&A at PSCU.
"We are excited to be joining a team that has a strong commitment to member service and the credit union industry. Together PSCU, CUR, and TLSC will enhance our services for clients and future clients," said Kelly Becker, CEO and owner of CUR and TLSC.
"We are thrilled to continue to help PSCU grow through strategic acquisitions. With the acquisition of CUR and TLSC, PSCU will further its solutions for members and accelerate its growth. We have enjoyed our long-term partnership with PSCU's team dating back to the call center acquisition of Digital Dialogue that has now blossomed into Total Member Care and are looking forward to the next chapter," said John Dearing, Managing Director at Capstone.
About PSCU
PSCU, the nation's premier payments CUSO, supports the success of 1,500 credit unions representing more than 2 billion transactions annually. Committed to service excellence and focused on innovation, PSCU's payment processing, risk management, data and analytics, loyalty programs, digital banking, marketing, strategic consulting and mobile platforms help deliver possibilities and seamless member experiences. Comprehensive, 24/7/365 member support is provided by contact centers located throughout the United States. The origin of PSCU's model is collaboration and scale, and the company has leveraged its influence on behalf of credit unions and their members for more than 40 years. Today, PSCU provides an end-to-end, competitive advantage that enables credit unions to securely grow and meet evolving consumer demands. For more information, visit pscu.com.
About Capstone Strategic, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Capstone Strategic, Inc. is the leader in mergers and acquisitions for credit union service organizations (CUSOs). Established by CEO David Braun, Capstone specializes in strategic not-for-sale acquisitions and corporate growth strategies and has facilitated over $1 billion of successful transactions in a wide variety of industries. The firm has helped numerous credit union and CUSO leaders in develop, evaluate, and implement initiatives for growth. Capstone utilizes a proprietary process, "The Roadmap to Acquisitions," to provide tailored services to clients in a broad range of domestic and international markets. Visit the Capstone website at http://www.CapstoneStrategic.com. For timely commentary and insights into the M&A market, please visit the Successful Acquisitions blog at http://www.SuccessfulAcquisitions.net. Capstone can also be reached at 703.854.1910 or Growth(at)CapstoneStrategic.com.
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First meeting between Pope and Russian Patriarch in 1000 years aimed at Khazarian Satanists
by benjamin
The first meeting between the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Pope in 1000 years is aimed at cementing an alliance against the Satan worshiping Khazarian mob, Russian and Pentagon sources say.
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This is important because forensic research by this writer has shown the Pentagon ultimately reports to the Roman Empire (as publicly headed by the Pope) and the power behind Russian President Vladimir Putin is the Russian Orthodox Church. "Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church agrees to meet the Pope in Cuba on Feb 12 as East-West unite to fight [the Khazarian mafia]," was how a Pentagon official described the planned meeting. Rockefeller stooge Henry Kissinger was "forced to accept a multipolar world and declare Russia not a threat but essential partner," the official continued.
Another sign of Russian, US rapprochement is the fact that ex-Defense Intelligence Agency Chief Lt. General Mike Flynn is advising US presidential candidate Donald Trump. According to the Pentagon source, Flynn was "key to bromance between Putin and the Donald." Military backing is why Trump and others can now safely and openly accuse Khazarian mob candidates like Hitlery Clinton and Ted Cruz of stealing elections.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-statesman-like-rips-cruz-article-1.2518650
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/02/04/leading-iowa-newspapers-says-something-stinks-in-hawkeye-state/
In any case, the Russian/US alliance against the Khazarian mafia is producing many results, especially in the Middle East. Khazarian top level mobster German Chancellor (and Hitler daughter) Angela Merkel is flying today (February 8th) to visit embattled Khazarian Satanist Turkish President Recep Erdogan following major defeats of their proxy armies in Syria. Both leaders are being targeted for removal, according to Pentagon sources. Somebody should tell them their fuhrer Bush is no longer in control and that surrender is their only option.
Furthermore, Saudi Arabia, in a bow to Russia as the new power broker in the Middle East, arrested 33 ISIS supporters, including 9 American CIA agents, based on Russian intelligence tips, multiple sources agree. This makes it likely the Saudis will soon follow Iran and Russia in a move to stop selling their oil in Khazarian controlled so-called US dollars.
There are also reports Saudi Arabia has begun dumping its $8 trillion in US Treasury bond holdings. Many Saudis interpreted snow falling on Mecca as a sign from Allah that they were on the wrong path, which may explain their sudden change of tone.
http://iceagenow.info/snow-on-the-road-to-mecca/
Pentagon officials confirm that Russian Intelligence ties in the Middle East now include the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Egypt. Israel, facing a global boycott and UN sanctions, is also now bowing to the Russians. This means that, if Saudi Arabia also leaves, as it seems to be doing, Turkey will be alone and will face disaster and partition as a result of Erdogan's stupid attempt to use military force to recreate the Ottoman Empire. Already, 1300 Turkish hotels have been put into bankruptcy sale by the drop in tourists and severe fighting has erupted inside Turkey.
Also, in an exclusive to this news-letter, Indonesian officials are reporting that 4000 armed terrorists financed by Khazarian mobster George Soros were
detained in the Indonesian portion of Borneo Island. The group was headed by an individual who spent 5 years in an Indonesian prison after which he was sent to the US for "special training," the officials said. When he returned, "he used funding from an NGO financed by George Soros" to set up and arm a "Muslim fundamentalist" militia called Gothatar. "They went to where the richest uranium ore deposit on the planet is and put a huge encampment around that village," a local Indonesian official said. "The uranium was flown out by French special forces," he added. According to buried documents uncovered by Indonesian officials, the group was supposed to create chaos in Indonesia, a country with a population of 250 million mostly Muslim people.
http://daerah.sindonews.com/read/1081304/174/evakuasi-eks-gafatar-aparat-temukan-rompi-antipeluru-1454072940
http://kapuas.co/2016/01/28/3249/gubernur-kalbar-tak-gentar-digugat-eks-anggota-gafatar/
In a further development, the Indonesian government has formally refused to renew the license of the giant Freeport-McMoRan gold mine in Indonesia. According to a CIA official in Indonesia, this decision stems from a visit to Washington in October by Indonesian President Joko Widodo where US Presidential Spokesperson Barack Obama demanded that he renew the mine's license. As a result, Widodo, or Jokowi as he is known, cut his visit short to a few hours and flew back to Indonesia.
http://www.theinsiderstories.com/freeports-export-permit-expires-without-extension/
The return of the mine to Indonesia has repercussions beyond the loss of gold because of the secret submarine base located there, CIA and Pentagon officials say. The gold is now going to be used to finance Chinese led infrastructure development projects.
However, in an effort to stave off a military confrontation with the US, the Indonesians have offered the Americans a chance to develop one of the richest platinum and gold deposits on the planet, located on the North East end of Kalimantan, the Indonesian controlled part of Borneo. The deposit is so rich that Platinum is found "not in grams per ton but in percent per ton," the CIA officer said. "The Platinum industry is untouchable because Platinum is used for off-world projects," he said. The Americans are also being offered the chance to develop a new port and submarine base there, he said. The Americans are interested and will be sending a delegation soon to confirm the nature of these mineral deposits, he said.
In any case, the loss of the Freeport-McMoRan gold mine is another huge blow to the Khazarian mafia banks and their hedge funds.
The Khazarian banks and hedge funds are already collapsing due to the loss of oil money and drug money. The fact that medical Marijuana is now legal in all 50 US States is a sign of how much drug money they are losing.
The Khazarian hedge funds also recently faced huge losses when they tried to gang up and force a devaluation of the now rising Chinese Yuan. They were betting on a cooling China and hoping to force China into submission by setting off capital flight. Instead, it turns out that the drop in the price of China's commodity and other imports has more than offset any fall in exports of trinkets to the US and Europe and so China's trade surplus is growing.
Khazarian mafia hedge funds like Vanguard, Carlyle, Blackstone and others held an emergency meeting last week to discuss their huge losses. This meeting was followed by an admission by Goldman Sachs, the "vampire squid," that "broader questions about the efficiency of capitalism" need to be asked. In other words, they were saying the system may be broken.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-03/goldman-sachs-says-it-may-be-forced-to-fundamentally-question-how-capitalism-is-working
Rockefeller and Saudi controlled Citibank, for its part, said the "world economy is trapped in a death spiral."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/05/citi-world-economy-trapped-in-death-spiral.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-03/its-probably-nothing-january-truck-orders-collapse-48
However, it is probably more accurate to say that it is Citibank and its fellow Khazarian mob institutions that are trapped in a death spiral. The fact that a growing number of bonds in Khazarian controlled financial systems like Japan and the EU are offering negative interest rates means capital flight from these economies. No sensible investor is going to keep funds in bonds that lose value. The excuse that this will promote investment is not fooling anybody. It is a death spiral, pure and simple.
Now that the Chinese New Year of the fire monkey has officially begun, we can expect plenty of new developments coming from China.
Perhaps in anticipation of this, the North Koreans set off a missile last week. This was followed by South Korean, US and Japanese announcements of a super new missile defense system to "protect against North Korea." Nobody in the world intelligence community is being fooled by this charade. What this really means is that Japan is using its proxy North Korea to announce it has inter-continental ballistic missiles equipped with hydrogen bombs. Furthermore, by announcing it has anti-missile defense against these "North Korean missiles," it is sending a message to Russia and China that it can stop their missiles.
The Chinese are putting out the word that the US troops based in Japan would never seriously take on China to defend Japan. However, that is not true because the Americans know that if they do not defend Japan and Korea against China, it will not be long before they find themselves defending Alaska and then the US mainland against China.
Fortunately, the Chinese have not the slightest intention of attacking Korea, Japan the United States or anywhere else. Instead, they are busy building factories, schools, roads, hospitals, ports etc. all over the world. At the same time, they are backing their currency with gold and other things that exist in the real world. They know that time is on their side and that war is the dumbest option available to them.
In a final note, two US military officials, one based in Japan and one in the US, contacted the White Dragon Society last week. The discussions centered on how to carry out a jubilee in Japan and the US. The WDS recommended confiscating all funds stolen by Khazarian mobsters and returning them to the people. This would mean about $100,000 for every man woman and child in Japan and about $400,000 for each American ( the Americans have been suffering from Khazarian looting longer than the Japanese which is why more is due to them). Also recommended was a write off of debt and redistribution of urban as well as rural property.
http://benjaminfulford.net/2016/02/08/first-meeting-between-pope-and-russian-patriarch-in-1000-years-aimed-at-khazarian-satanists/
Aside from from the fiat monetary scam and blood-soaked petrodollar, another significant source of funds for the Nazionist Khazarian Mafia is the "healthcare" industry which registered a whopping $3.09 trillion in 2014, and is projected to soar to $3.57 trillion in 2017, in the US alone. We believe that this is just a conservative figure.
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We demand conviction of a war criminal Barack Obama and trial in the International Criminal Court in Hague. He is guilty of crimes not only against the USA citizens, but against the whole world.
One of the most dreadful prisons in history – Guantanamo – continues to function. Libya was destroyed as a result of Obama's aggression. In Syria, Obama's agents train, fund and organize terrorist groups, deceitfully naming them "moderate opposition", who, among other things, bear a relation to Al-Qaeda, implicated in crimes against the American people. Secret services collect the Americans' personal data information on a 24 hour basis under the canopy battling terrorism, using electronic surveillance tools on political undesirables, effectively stomping on the Americans' right for privacy.
Published Date: Feb 08, 2016
Issues: Civil Rights and Liberties, Foreign Policy, Human Rights
Timothy Francis Miodowski says:
If either one of these piss ant fools had a clue as to how the church should be taught, l would not be insulting their intelligence,and peace would come swift. Honor the law, Honor the God
Government with all its power is all to often its biggest weakness.
You wanted to govern people, but uou let their population grow out of control. The universe is beyond your logic because it doesn't need you for balance. It is not unreasonable that those who gamble with the lives of men and women and children should pay with their own. LAW
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PT Freeport Indonesia and the Government of Indonesia Agree on Continuation of Operations of the Grasberg Mining Complex beyond 2021
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Fact Check II
23 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC
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Interesting response by Russian Patriarch Kirill to his meeting with Pope Francis:
http://novorossia.today/christians-are-under-pressure-in-many-developed-countries-russian-patriarch-kirill-to-ed-schultz/
George Bush Pedophile Sex Ring and Blackmail of Congress
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Apparently, just six months before Windows 7 hits retirement, users decided to take a break from migrating to the latest shiny, Windows 10.
According to web metrics company Net Applications, anyway.
The chances that everyone pressed Pause in June are about the same as pocketing a million from a scratch-it. In other words, highly unlikely. But that's what Net Applications claimed Monday.
Windows 7's share of all personal computers barely budged in June, remaining at 35.4%, and its portion of the PCs running Windows stayed put at 40.1%. (The second number was significantly larger than the first because Windows does not power every personal computer; in June, Windows ran 88.3% of the world's machines. All but a miniscule fraction of the rest ran macOS, Linux or Chrome OS.)
Meanwhile, Windows 10's numbers were almost as immune to change. The operating system's share of all PCs reached 45.8%, an increase of less than one-tenth of a percentage point. Windows 10's share of Windows PCs did not move at all, sticking with 51.8%. (The stubbornness of the share of Windows overall was an artifact of rounding.)
So, what's going on? Did Windows users, especially commercial customers tasked with getting off Windows 7 before security updates dry up, really stop doing — what they'd done the month before — upgrading from 7 to 10?
Who knows? As Computerworld has noted numerous times when discussing analytics data that tries (pretends, some would argue) to reveal Microsoft's secrets, the whole process can be an impenetrable black box. Everything must be inferred, whether X gained when Y declined, or in this case, movement stalled.
It may simply be the data itself; Net Applications has visibility only on sites it monitors for clients. Its user share numbers are extrapolations at best, and so far from definitive to be laughable. But failing Microsoft's own data — which it has, thanks to the telemetry embedded within Windows — it's the best outsiders have. (Virtually every estimate of OS or browser share is based on the same principles used by Net Applications.)
What's important, as always, is to keep an eye on the longer-term trends. If any of this is worthwhile, it's the over-time movements of an OS. That's why, even in a month which stumps easy analysis, Net Applications' Windows numbers can provide insight.
Windows 10 still accelerates
By Net Applications' numbers, Windows 10's growth still shows signs of speeding up. The average per-month change over the past 12 months has been +0.84 of a percentage point. But over the last 6 months, the average climbed to +1.1 points, representing an increase of about 24%.
However, Windows 7's decline has not kept pace. Rather than accelerate, it has slowed. While Windows 7's average per-month movement over the last 12 months has been -0.53 percentage points, the 6-month average was only -0.25 points, or less than half. If Windows 7's fall was speeding up, the 6-month average decline should be larger not smaller than the 12-month.
That's why Windows 7's forecast — based, as always, on the operating system's 12-month average change — now pegs its January 2020 user share at 35.7%, nearly half a point higher than the prognostication of the month before. (Windows 7 will exit support Jan. 14, 2020.) That's a lot of PCs destined to go without security updates.
Meanwhile, Windows 10 should stand at about 58% of all Windows installations when the older OS drops off support, a decrease of approximately two points from the early-June forecast. A year later — January 2021 — Windows 7 and Windows 10 will be at 28.5% and 69.5%, respectively.
Elsewhere in Net Applications' June reporting, the user share of macOS slipped by more than a tenth of a percentage point to 9.2%, the lowest mark for Apple's desktop operating system in over a year. macOS has lost user share for three straight months. Linux's user share climbed by almost two-tenths of a point to 2.1%, while Google's Chrome OS stayed flat at 0.4%.


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At any time, you can create a QEventLoop object and call exec() on it to start a local event loop. From within the event loop, calling exit() will force exec() to return.
This enum controls the types of events processed by the processEvents() functions.
QEventLoop::AllEvents 0x00 All events except DeferredDelete are processed.
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QEventLoop::ExcludeSocketNotifiers 0x02 Do not process socket notifier events. Note that the events are not discarded; they will be delivered the next time processEvents() is called without the ExcludeSocketNotifiers flag.
QEventLoop::WaitForMoreEvents 0x04 Wait for events if no pending events are available.
QEventLoop::DeferredDeletion 0x10 Allow objects to be queued for deletion at a later time.
The ProcessEventsFlags type is a typedef for QFlags<ProcessEventsFlag>. It stores an OR combination of ProcessEventsFlag values.
Constructs an event loop object with the given parent.
Destroys the event loop object.
Enters the main event loop and waits until exit() is called. Returns the value that was passed to exit().
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Generally speaking, no user interaction can take place before calling exec(). As a special case, modal widgets like QMessageBox can be used before calling exec(), because modal widgets use their own local event loop.
To make your application perform idle processing (i.e. executing a special function whenever there are no pending events), use a QTimer with 0 timeout. More sophisticated idle processing schemes can be achieved using processEvents().
See also QApplication::quit(), exit(), and processEvents().
Tells the event loop to exit with a return code.
After this function has been called, the event loop returns from the call to exec(). The exec() function returns returnCode.
See also QCoreApplication::quit(), quit(), and exec().
Returns true if the event loop is running; otherwise returns false. The event loop is considered running from the time when exec() is called until exit() is called.
See also exec() and exit().
Processes pending events that match flags until there are no more events to process. Returns true if pending events were handled; otherwise returns false.
This function is especially useful if you have a long running operation and want to show its progress without allowing user input; i.e. by using the ExcludeUserInputEvents flag.
This function is simply a wrapper for QAbstractEventDispatcher::processEvents(). See the documentation for that function for details.
Process pending events that match flags for a maximum of maxTime milliseconds, or until there are no more events to process, whichever is shorter. This function is especially useful if you have a long running operation and want to show its progress without allowing user input, i.e. by using the ExcludeUserInputEvents flag.
This function does not process events continuously; it returns after all available events are processed.
Specifying the WaitForMoreEvents flag makes no sense and will be ignored.
Tells the event loop to exit normally.
See also QCoreApplication::quit() and exit().


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The artisans involved in custom-made types of furniture, such as those behind Bespoke Joinery Sheffield, are called joiners. These people are often more than just carpenters. In fact, the person we call a carpenter usually deals with the practical challenges of fitting elements inside a home. The work of joiners, on the other hand, also demands a good eye and a decent taste.
So, a joiner translates your ideas and concepts into executable form while making sure it remains sturdy and pleasing to the eye. In short, a carpenter might make a home functional, but a joiner turns a dream home into reality.
On average, choosing premade over bespoke furniture often turns out to be the cheaper option. However, it is difficult to illustrate the sheer number of opportunities a specialist team of bespoke joiners provide you with. You get to choose every single detail, from the type, thickness and a range of wood to the exact tone of the paint.
The process of contracting a joiner begins by your requesting a quote, as you can see on the Bespoke Joinery Sheffield homepage. What follows is a creative dialogue between the customer and the joiner.
For instance, you can provide a rough sketch of your ideas, and then the carpenter will mediate between those ideas and the available resources. In the end, the joinery asks the customer to confirm their plans before moving on to work.
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Dino H. (Enrico) Pirolo
MAPLE GROVE, Minn. — Dino H. (Enrico) Pirolo, 86, died Aug. 19, 2018, of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis at home in Maple Grove, Minn., surrounded by his loving family.
Dino was born Jan. 19, 1932, in Caspian, Mich. He married his high school sweetheart, Eloise Joan Anderson, of Stambaugh, Mich., in 1953. That same year, he graduated from Michigan Technological University with a BS in mining engineering. His 39-year career as a mining engineer and executive with Inland Steel included positions in Atikokan, Ontario, Canada; Ishpeming, Mich.; Iron River, Mich.; Crosby, Minn.; Manistique, Mich.; Virginia, Minn.; and East Chicago, Ind. Dino and Joan retired to Prescott, Ariz., in 1993, where they made many new friends, and Dino enjoyed volunteer work with the U.S. Forest Service. In 1998, he was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Mining Engineers by Michigan Tech. They returned to Minnesota in 2015 to be closer to family.
Dino loved his family, his Catholic faith, travel and the outdoors. He was proud of his Italian heritage and enjoyed sharing it with family and friends. An active man, his work ethic and zest for life were inspiring to all who encountered him.
Survived by his loving wife of 64 years, Eloise Joan; children, Donald (Elizabeth) Pirolo, Linda (John) Ethier, Susan (Frank Herrera) Pirolo; grandchildren, Daniel (Amanda), Isaac, and Andrew Pirolo, and Michael (Heather) and Sarah Ethier; great-grandchildren, Adam Pirolo, and Benjamin and Eloise Ethier. Preceded in death by parents, Silvio and Teresa (Zanconato) Pirolo; brothers, Remo and Bruno.
Funeral Mass will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 25, in the Silvercreek Chapel, 8200 Main St., Maple Grove, with visitation beginning at 11 a.m. and reception following.
Memorials to donor's choice of charity are preferred in lieu of flowers. Special thanks to our Amada caregivers and Allina Hospice Care Team. Arrangements with Gearty-Delmore Funeral Chapel (www.gearty-delmore.com).


Kuyun, L. 2019. "LEVELS OF PROINFLAMMATORY AND IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE CYTOKINES IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD IN PHLEGMONOUS PERITONITIS PATIENTS". Medical and Clinical Chemistry, no. 4 (January), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.11603/mcch.2410-681X.2018.v0.i4.9785.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Marine facing dismissal for running a Facebook page called Armed Forces Tea Party that criticizes the Obama administration is still speaking out but has been getting little support from military law experts and free speech advocates who say he may have crossed the line.
The Marine Corps notified Sgt. Gary Stein Wednesday that it is moving to dismiss him for violating the Pentagon's policy barring troops from engaging in political activities.
The military has had a policy since the Civil War limiting the free speech of service members, including criticizing the commander in chief.
David Loy, of the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego County, said he has not followed Stein's case closely, but that based on what he has seen in the media, he thinks there may be a legitimate concern on the part of the Corps about Stein appearing to be speaking as a member of the armed forces because of his Facebook page's name.
"The military has a very strong interest and appropriately so to remaining neutral," he said. "The last thing we want is our military taking side on political issues."
Former Navy officer David Glazier, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, agreed.
"He's really rubbing the government's nose in it," he said. "It's really hard to have sympathy for him."
Stein said he is not swayed. He said he received hundreds of emails from service members and the public in support of him.
"They're entitled to their opinions, but I still think this is a freedom of speech issue," Stein said. "I'm standing up for the Constitution."
Stein, a nine-year member of the Corps, said he started the page to encourage fellow service members to exercise their free speech rights.
The Marine Corps said in a statement that it decided to take administrative action after Stein declared on Facebook that he would not follow unlawful orders from Obama. He later criticized the comments of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
According to Pentagon directives, military personnel in uniform cannot sponsor a political club; participate in any TV or radio program or group discussion that advocates for or against a political party, candidate or cause; or speak at any event promoting a political movement. Commissioned officers also may not use contemptuous words against senior officials, including the defense secretary or the president.
Stein said his statement about Obama was part of an online debate about NATO allowing U.S. troops to be tried for the Quran burnings in Afghanistan. In that context, he said, he was stating that he would not follow orders from the president if those orders included detaining U.S. citizens, disarming them or doing anything else that he believes would violate their constitutional rights.
Stein said in addition to being discharged, he would have his rank reduced to lance corporal if he is proven to be in violation. He said he was removed from his job at the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot in San Diego on Wednesday and given a desk job with no access to computers.
Stein was first cautioned by his superiors at Camp Pendleton in 2010, after he launched his Facebook page and criticized Obama's health care overhaul. Stein volunteered to take down the page while he reviewed the rules at the request of his superiors.
He said he determined he was not in violation and relaunched the page. Stein said he now plans to fight the charges. He had applied to extend his service, which was set to expire in a few months.
Former military prosecutor Lisa Windsor said since the Civil War, military members have been testing those limits and gotten in trouble. Now those cases can go global because of the Internet.
"I think they've been very lenient with him so far," Windsor said.
Stein said he will not wear his uniform when he speaks to tea party supporters but he likely will mention his case.


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El Retrato de Andrea Doria como Neptuno es una pintura al óleo sobre lienzo (115 cm x 53 cm) de Bronzino, fechada entre 1540 y 1550 y conservada en la Pinacoteca de Brera de Milán. Retoma conscientemente la convención romana de presentar dioses, héroes y emperadores en desnudez triunfal.

Historia y descripción
La obra fue adquirida por la Pinacoteca en 1898 de los herederos de Paulo Jovio, humanista de Como al servicio de los Médicis que encargó la obra para su célebre colección de retratos de hombres ilustres, ubicada en su villa cerca de Como.
Se desconoce la datación de la obra, que es considerada por los críticos atribuible a la madurez del artista, en los años cuarenta del siglo XVI. El almirante Andrea Doria, nacido en 1466, entonces era ya anciano, convertido en el señor indiscutible de la República de Génova tras la alianza con el emperador Carlos V, celebrada por sus innumerables e históricas victorias en los mares.

A diferencia de los otros retratos de señores y condotieros, como Stefano Columna, Guidobaldo De la Rovere, o del mismo gran duque Cosme I de Médici, inmortalizados en brillantes armaduras de desfile, aquí Bronzino elige una inusual representación alegórica mostrando al fundador de la dinastía Doria bajo la apariencia mitológica del dios romano de los mares, Neptuno como ya había hecho años antes representando al mismo Cosme I, en su juventud, bajo la apariencia de Orfeo, en el lienzo hoy conservado en el Filadelfia Museum of Art.

Sobre un cielo oscuro, "opresivo" pero con una luna o relámpago visible, se perfilan parte de una vela y el imponente mástil de un barco, con evidente alusión al rol dominante del almirante, cuyo nombre está grabado sobre el propio mástil en letras romanas doradas. El protagonista es representado a media figura, con un expresivo giro de la cabeza hacia la derecha mientras el cuerpo está orientado de tres cuartos hacia la izquierda. Tiene una barba fluida, evidente referencia al Moisés de Miguel Ángel, y exhibe orgullosamente el torso desnudo que apenas envuelve con la vela escondiendo, no completamente, el pubis. La mirada es distante y absorta. Originalmente sostenía un remo, símbolo de su mando sobre la flota, pero un artista desconocido lo sustituyó posteriormente por un tridente, descrito por la crítica de arte Camille Paglia como "caricaturesco". El contorno del remo todavía es ligeramente visible. El mismo individuo debió añadir también el nombre de Doria.

Bronzino, célebre por el empleo de colores brillantes y tonalidades contrastantes, muestra aquí en cambio una gama tenue de marrones y grises, confiando la celebración del héroe al verismo con el cual describe la anatomía del cuerpo maduro, pero aun así no correspondiente a la ancianidad real, celebrando también el vigor y poderío todavía evidentes.

Hay una segunda versión en la villa Doria en Génova, donde Doria sostiene un remo como también sucedía inicialmente en la obra de Milán.

Bibliografía

 Edi Baccheschi (coordinada por), L'opera completa del Bronzino, Milán, Rizzoli, 1973.
 Antonio Paolucci, Bronzino, Florencia, Giunti, 2002. ISBN 88-09-02642-X
 Brera. La Pinacoteca e i suoi capolavori, a cura de S. Bandera, Skira, Milán 2009.

Cuadros de Bronzino
Cuadros de los años 1540
Barcos en el arte
Desnudo (género artístico)
Retratos de Bronzino

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« Guest post: Still no foresight, beyond the quarterly statement
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Feb 11th, 2019 | By Ophelia Benson
Priorities. On the one hand, permanent brain damage; on the other hand, profits. We all know which one wins; it's The American Way.
Former NBC sports commentator Bob Costas says the network pulled him from its football coverage after he criticized the NFL and its handling of the concussion crisis. In an interview with ESPN's E:60, Costas revealed that NBC executives removed him from its Super Bowl LII broadcast after he spoke at a 2017 journalism symposium. "The reality is that this game destroys people's brains," he said during that discussion. After an ensuing series of media appearances, Costas says NBC Sports' executive producer texted him, "You've crossed the line."
What line? I guess it's the line between rah-rah coverage of football and factual reporting on how football as currently played features a great deal of head trauma.
Costas had been at NBC since 1979 and often used his platform to discuss controversial topics. He had covered concussion-related illnesses on Football Night in America before, but the ESPN story notes that NBC nixed a monologue he intended to read during a 2015 Sunday Night Football game relating to the release of the Will Smith movie Concussion. "I remember the reaction almost verbatim," he tells ESPN. "They said, 'This is a very well-written piece, wouldn't change a comma. We can't air it.' " Shortly thereafter, Costas drew ire from NBC executives by mocking the NFL's "Football is Family" ad campaign in outside interviews.
After his 2017 appearance at the University of Maryland journalism symposium, NBC released a statement saying, "Bob's opinions are his own, and they do not represent those of the NBC Sports Group." Costas was subsequently informed that he would not be part of the network's Super Bowl broadcast at the end of that season, which was already slated to be Costas' last Sunday Night Football appearance.
Well now who matters more here? The workers or the bosses? The players or the owners? Silly question, isn't it, this is America, where unions have faded to ghosts and the boss always wins.
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Sunday I was listening to a radio interview of a neuroscientist. She was asked how many concussions was too many. Before the question had even be finished she answered "One."
She went on to clarify that studies of people who had a single mild concussion and apparently fully recover, could pass cognitive tests with flying colours, even years later. However, when placed under physiological stress (taken to 10,000′ in a hypobaric chamber), their performance plummeted. The brains resilience and ability to function was permanently diminished, even though under most conditions the subjects seemed perfectly normal.
I guess football is another one of those products that we're not supposed to look too closely at, lest we discover the conditions under which the people producing them work. In this case the workers are often paid millions of dollars, but what price brain damage? Maybe it's not quite the same as working in an Asian sweat shop and risking death in some industrial firetrap, but the mindset of management and ownership in both industries is perhaps not so different.
the mindset of management and ownership in both industries is perhaps not so different
It's the mindset of management and ownership in most, if not all, industries. I see it in my industry, too (teaching), but the obvious threats to health are not there. It is more that they are willing to continue slashing faculty while increasing workload, which can lead to eventual problems, but not dramatic and immediate enough, and the consequences are often less world-shattering. The problem with football is that the owners think like all other owners, in a business where failure to take proper precaution leads to serious injury and even death…and the employers remain as callous about it as employers in other fields, like mine, where the threats are not as dramatic or severe. In short, the owners see it as just another business, a particularly lucrative one, and they don't want to risk their profits in the slightest.
I was using a bit of ironic understatement there. I'm betting the football team owners wouldn't see themselves as being as similar to sweatshop owners as they clearly are. Just a guess, though. Humans are experts at self delusion, rationalization, and sweeping ugly truths under rugs (or astroturf). Sweatshop owners probably don't see themselves as "sweatshop owners, " and slum landlords probably have a higher opinion of themselves than do their tennants or health and housing authorities.
YNNB, football owners would probably point out that players in the professional league make much more money than in sweatshops, and in many cases, much more money than the rest of us. Fair enough, but…how much is a brain worth? Especially since football is at best a temporary career; age is a bigger detriment than in most other industries.


If in the next national election, everybody who voted Republican dropped dead in the voting booth, the country would be finished. You can't have a functioning society consisting of bureaucrats, academics, welfare parasites, Jews, coloreds, feminists, fruit juice drinkers, and assorted busybodies. But if every Democratic voter dropped dead, my own family would be more than decimated, but society would go on. It would definitely be more orderly and more prosperous, although it would also be drab and hideously uptight.
Aside from politics, in which I completely reject egalitarianism and multiculturalism, I am pretty much a liberal. But one cannot deny that White Nationalism today is a phenomenon of the right. If White Nationalism is to triumph, it will have to become the common sense of the whole political spectrum. But for the time being, we are rightists, and we have to make the best of it.
But although we are Rightists, we are not conservatives. Conservatives share some of our values, but they don't share all of them, and they certainly don't share our goals. In fact, it is hard to speak of conservatives as goal-oriented at all. Conservatives are backwards-looking or fixated on legalism, procedure, and rights, but they do not have an image of a perfected society that is the proper goal of political activity. White Nationalists, like leftists, do have such a vision.
Conservative goals, such as they are, are confined to piecemeal resistance to the implementation of the grand designs of the left. As often as not, conservatives are just trying to hold on to the leftist programs of the past.
William F. Buckley's description of conservatism as "Standing athwart the tracks of history yelling stop" pretty much captures this mentality, as unseemly as it is for a serious-minded individual. We White Nationalists, however, want to be in the engine of history, steering it toward our goal, and cheerfully pouring on the steam when the Buckleys of the world try to get in our way.
The core of Pierce's argument is that conservatives can't win because they aren't really trying. The left plays for keeps. They have an overriding goal. They have a world to win. Conservatives are just trying to hold on to the 1950s or the 1980s. Conservatives may fight ferociously from time to time, but they are always playing defense. They think the election of a Nixon or a Reagan is a great victory, then lapse into complacency, only to awaken a few years later to find that the left has been on the march the whole time.
Other things being equal, the side that fights to win will defeat the side that fights for a draw. Fortune favors the bold, those who launch offenses, not those who merely play defense.
Conservatives also make a virtual cult out of being good sports, graceful losers, and ready compromisers.
Well, conservatives STILL can't win. But neither can they learn, so they continue to promote their folly to new generations. Recently, two White Nationalist publications that once showed real promise have been lost to conservatism: Occidental Dissent and The Occidental Quarterly, which I edited for two and a half years, along with its sister publication, TOQ Online, which I created and edited for a year. I have already dealt with Occidental Dissent in "White Nationalism and the Political 'Mainstream.'" Here I wish to deal with TOQ.
On November 6, 2010, John Gardner ("Yggdrasil"), the new publisher of TOQ, published "Why The Occidental Quarterly Exists" in which he explains the aims of TOQ under his watch. This article contains sound advice to whites to become as independent as possible from the consumerist system and its values and to create mutual aid networks.
But when it comes to the political system, Gardner is still very much a conservative, a Republican even. He thinks that White Nationalists—a tiny, voiceless, despised, poorly funded, and poorly led movement—should aim at lobbying and "conditioning" Republicans to represent white interests. Gardner actually thinks that whites can vote and lobby and game ourselves out of this mess, as if our people have not been slated for slow and systematic genocide but are merely having a run of bad luck at the polls.
I think it is too early for White Nationalists to get involved in electoral politics and lobbying. We need to become a much bigger, richer, and more politically threatening group before we can make a difference in that realm. (And if we become powerful enough, we can dispense with electoral politics altogether.) But for any of that to happen, we need to invest our time, money, brains, and talent in community building and outreach. We need to win people over to our way of thinking, by packaging and delivering our message to every white group through every medium available. We need to build up our community so it has something more to offer prospective converts than ignominy and the company of the insane.
Our competing racial groups have an identifiable "them" in their stereotype of the evil and undeserving White man.
Then the trick is to make the "them" apparent to our own people without inflaming and motivating our opponents.
If this is taken seriously as TOQ policy, then every back issue of the journal will have to be pulped and reprinted, with references to Jews replaced by euphemisms like "liberals" and "cultural Marxists." Furthermore, Kevin MacDonald now seems like an odd choice for Editor. And in the end, it will never work, because the SPLC will always be around to remind people of the truth about White Nationalists who scuttle crabwise toward the mainstream, begin speaking in riddles and euphemisms, and try to reinvent themselves as conservatives.
We few who know the most important truth in the world—that organized Jewry (not "liberals," not "cultural Marxists") have set the white race (not "conservatives," not "Christians," not "Western Civilization") on the path to extinction—have an absolute duty to get this message out and wake our people up. Because if we don't do it, nobody else will. Those who know the truth but can't shout it from the rooftops have the duty to support those who can spread the word.
Gardner's claim that "the trick is to make the 'them' apparent to our own people without inflaming and motivating our opponents" is just a version of the old idea that we can "sneak up on the Jews" and catch them napping. But the enemy has millions of lidless, unsleeping eyes. And the idea that the enemy is not already inflamed and motivated and working against us at 99% capacity is laughable.
Gardner's "trick" is not to name "them" but to support policies that negatively impact the interests of the enemy, so they rise from their slumbers and attack us, which will then motivate us to fight back.
(1) Aren't the Jews attacking us enough already? And if decades of Jewish attacks have not motivated whites to unite and fight back, then why does Gardner think that ratcheting up the Jewish pressure will produce a different result this time?
Our people have suffered enough. The role of White Nationalists should be to explain who has been attacking us, and why, and how to fight back. That is the leadership our race needs.
(2) When and how are White Nationalists going to gain enough power to credibly threaten Jewish interests? How, exactly, is White Nationalism going to grow without first talking about race or Jewish power? If we don't say anything to set us apart from conservatives, if we don't act any more honest than system politicians, then why would we expect any growth? Gardner's strategy for gaining political power begins: First, gain sufficient power to threaten the interests of the enemy. It doesn't work that way.
(3) It is a tried and true method of political agitation to present a moderate petition to an arrogant power and hope that it is denied. There is nothing wrong with using this technique from time to time, when it is appropriate. But to depend on this technique alone—because one has adopted a policy of never speaking the enemy's name—is an abdication of leadership. White Nationalists should be the primary educators and agitators of our people. Again, if we don't argue our case, nobody else will.
(4) What exactly is the advantage to our people of being kept in the dark about our real enemies? The mainstream right has been doing that for decades, and what has that gotten us? Richard Nixon knew the score, but he spoke the truth only in private. In public, he made a foreign-born Jew Secretary of State and created Affirmative Action. The enemy operates under no such self-imposed handicaps.
(5) Gardner's strategy is obviously based on the experience of the Tea Party, a piously color-blind, universalistic movement promoting fiscal conservatism and constitutional government which was nevertheless viciously attacked as "racist" by the left. These attacks have prompted ever-angrier denials of "racism" but not much more. Perhaps White Nationalists can reap some benefits from this polarization, but it is not a phenomenon that we need to imitate or encourage. It is doing quite well without us. Furthermore, leftist attacks on the Tea Party might move some people in our direction, but we will not move them any further unless we stay true to our own message rather than blending in with conservatives.


A new survey of general counsel and law firm partners suggests that legal directories and "brand" are less important and valuable than other factors such as international reach and thought leadership.
The Looking Glass Report 2015 is a UK-based study, based on research with 122 in-house counsel and 160 law firm partners, which "looks at firms' and in-house law departments' responses to the economic environment and evolving market conditions; technology and innovation; and the relationships between inside lawyers and the external firms they hire".
Thomson Reuters, the law firm Mayer Brown, and Winmark, a market research consultancy, collaborated on the research.
Critics of legal directories tend to jump on these reports as evidence that directories are irrelevant to sophisticated clients and law firms should instead spend their time on more "productive" marketing initiatives.
Likewise, for branding – it's all a great deal of time, effort, and money, for not much return.
I'm skeptical of these findings.
I took part in a discussion with a bunch of other legal marketers recently about this subject, and a couple of the participants, who know far more than me about market research techniques, made the point that if you ask the question "what is important?", you inevitably get skewed results.
The issue being that respondents underestimate the importance of brand and directories.
In other words, if someone asks you how important are brand and directories relative to various other things, you will likely say unimportant, but we know that the impact of brand and advertising is meaningful, although less direct.
If you bought a product, and someone asked you why you bought it, you would rarely say because of an advert, but we know that advertising seeps into consciousness, and has a considerable effect on buying behavior.
Studies show that brands influence our purchasing decisions, sometimes in ways that are irrational or hard to quantify statistically.
The same could be said for directories and brand in a legal context.
Respondents are instinctively likely to say directories are unimportant, but in reality we know that they influence behavior in less obvious but significant ways.
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Jillian Lukacik advises clients on employment law issues, and helps to keep employers current on the latest laws and regulations impacting their workforce and employment best practices.
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While in law school, Jillian was a research assistant to Professor Michael Moreland and was a Managing Board member of the Villanova Law Review. Additionally, Jillian participated in the business law concentration and co-authored an article with Professor Benjamin Willis that was published in Volume 170 of Tax Notes Federal magazine.
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Non-thermodynamic approach to including bombardment-induced post-cascade redistribution of point defects in dynamic Monte Carlo code
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The redistribution of the elements as a result of atomic relocations produced by the ions and the recoils due to the ballistic and transport processes is investigated by making use of a dynamic Monte Carlo code. Phenomena, such as radiation-enhanced diffusion (RED) and bombardment-induced segregation (BIS) triggered by the ion bombardment may also contribute to the migration of atoms within the target. In order to include both RED and BIS in the code, we suggest an approach which is considered as an extension of the binary collision approximation, i.e. it takes place "simultaneously" with the cascade and acts as a correction to the particle redistribution for low energies. Both RED and BIS models are based on the common approach to treat the transport processes as a result of a random migration of point defects (vacancies and interstitials) according to a probability given by a pre-defined Gaussian. The models are tested and the influence of the diffusion and segregation is illustrated in the cases of 12 keV Sb-121(+) implantation at low fluence in SiO2/Si substrate and of self-sputtering of Ga+ ions during profiling of SiO2/Si interfaces. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Israeli steht für:
 Staatsangehöriger Israels, siehe Israelis
 Israeli (Zeitung), eine israelische Tageszeitung

Israeli ist Teil des Personennamens von:
 Isaak ben Salomon Israeli (* 840/850, † um 932), jüdischer Arzt und Philosoph

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Baudreville est une ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Manche en région Normandie, devenue le  une commune déléguée au sein de la commune nouvelle de La Haye.

Elle est peuplée de  habitants.

Géographie
Baudreville est située dans le parc naturel régional des Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin.

Située en pleine campagne, Baudreville est une petite commune tranquille, calme. La mer n'est qu'à quatre kilomètres. Les commerces les plus proches sont à Denneville, Portbail ou à La Haye-du-Puits. Le relief est un paysage de bocage normand.

Toponymie
Le nom de la localité est attesté sous les formes Baudrevilla vers 1150, ecclesia Sancte Margarite de Baudrevilla entre 1185 et 1188, Baudrevilla début du , ecclesia Beate Margarete de Baudrevilla en 1332, Sancta Margareta en 1351 et en 1352, Baudreville en 1551, saincte Marguerite en 1648, Baudreville en 1689, Beaudreville en 1713, Baudreville en 1716.

Histoire
Anquetil de Claids ( au ) donna le patronage de l'église à l'abbaye de Lessay, donation qui fut confirmé en 1186 dans une charte que donna le roi d'Angleterre et duc de Normandie .

Pierre Lefol, propriétaire du manoir de Baudreville, fut anobli en 1594 pour avoir contribué à la défense de Cherbourg lors des guerres de Religion.

La commune, après avoir fusionné en 1972 avec Saint-Sauveur-de-Pierrepont et Saint-Nicolas-de-Pierrepont sous le nom de Pierrepont-en-Cotentin, a repris son autonomie.

En 2006, après enquête et consultation auprès de la population, le projet d'un parc éolien est confirmé.

Politique et administration

Démographie

Économie
Les principales ressources et productions sont les pâturages, les bovins et le parc éolien.

Lieux et monuments
 Église Sainte-Marguerite (, ) dont le clocher a été restauré et remis en service en 2005. L'église abrite un maître-autel () et des autels latéraux (), les statues de sainte Marguerite et saint Jean-Baptiste (), une chaire à prêcher () ainsi qu'une verrière () de Paul Bony et Mauméjean.
 Croix de cimetière ().
 Vestiges du château médiéval de Baudreville : plate-forme fossoyée, murs, restes de tours d'angle circulaires.
 Restes d'enceinte quadrangulaire crénelée, chemin de ronde en galerie de bois, portail armorié  et fuie cylindrique (basse cour du château ?).
 Manoir des Fols ().
 Ferme-manoir du Tronquet et ses tours.

Activité et manifestations
La fête patronale a lieu le .

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Clotilde Ozouf, Reine des Reines de Paris (reine du carnaval de Paris) en 1900, est née à Baudreville en 1879.

Notes et références

Notes

Références
 Altitudes, coordonnées, superficie : répertoire géographique des communes 2013 (site de l'IGN, téléchargement du 19 mars 2014)

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de la Manche

Liens externes

 Résumé statistique de Baudreville sur le site de l'Insee

Ancienne commune dans la Manche
Ancienne commune associée en France
Commune déléguée dans la Manche
Énergie éolienne en Normandie
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