Prince Zeid bin Raad, Jordan's UN ambassador, and veteran U.S. diplomat Ambassador James F. Jeffrey debated responses to the Syrian crisis and the future of the Middle East at the 2013 Lafer Symposium. Watch their wide-ranging discussion.
A ruthless regime, jihadists tied to al-Qaeda, and a fractured opposition are locked in a devastating, sectarian battle for Syria's future. Beyond its borders, violence is spilling over into Lebanon and Iraq and refugees flood Turkey and Jordan, while Israel warily watches these threats on its borders. Is there still time to prevent the failure or fracture of this important crossroad of the Middle East?
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Opening statements in Bloody Thursday trial: The defendants were saviors, not terrorists
Reputable people who recited and sang in front of the Parliament, MPs who waved their hands without making any signs to open the door of the Parliament and let the crowd in, a policeman who saved the life of MP Zijadin Sela and a minister who safely evacuated the people who were inside the Parliament, on the evening of April 27th.
These are the opening statements of some defendants' lawyers for the so-called Bloody Thursday. Their lawyers persuaded the trial council and the public that the former interior minister, who led the critical day's action, Mitko Cavkov, lawyer Ljuben Arnaudov, former social media influencer and now member of the VMRO-DPMNE executive committee, Bogdan Ilievski, police officer Abdulfetam Alimi, actor Vlado Jovanovski, MP Ljupco Dimovski, opera singer Igor Durlovski, are people who saved lives, not terrorists.
Mitko Cavkov's lawyer Saso Dukovski said his client should have been rewarded, not punished.
"Cavkov needs to be rewarded, not punished," said Dukovski, because thanks to him the people in the Assembly were safely evacuated.
He also referred to the Guidelines, according to which Cavkov did not follow and did not engage police forces.
"Besides Cavkov, there are two more, the Minister of the Interior and the chief of the special police force, so it is unclear how Cavkov was tne one elected as the greatest devil, and the other two are exempted," said Dukovski.
Dukovski says the whole event ended in one hour and twenty minutes. "What were they supposed to do, teleport police officers to put an end to it quicker, or there would have been 100 dead if the police used excessive force," concluded Dukovski.
The lawyer who defends the accused Ljupco Dimovski and Munir Pepic gave an interesting interpretation of how they will prove that Dimovski is innocent. According to the lawyer, Elenco Milanov, they will prove that Dimovski accidentally made a gesture with his hands, and did not give a signal to open the doors to the Parliament. According to Milanov, this was the only evidence against MP Dimovski, and therefore they provided recordings of his public appearances to prove that the MP had a habit of making this gesture.
"I was not aware of this until the public session in Appeal when I noticed that Dimovski has a habit of moving his hands. For this, the court will be convinced of the footage that we have submitted, that is, it makes it by habit, and that he is not aware of it at all," said Milanov.
For opera singer Igor Durlovski, Milanov claims that he did not set foot in the press hall in the Parliament, but was only present in the plenary hall and the hall of the Parliament, where there was no violence, so he can not be prosecuted for terrorism.
In opening statement, lawyer Donco Nakov emphasized the words of his clients Ljuben Arnaudov, Bogdan Ilievski, Vlado Jovanovski and Abdulfetam Alimi, and said that they did the crime of terrorism by only using their words.
He described MP Arnaudov as a gynecologist who has delivered 15,000 babies, a MP who was elected in the Parliament with a broad majority and a man with a great reputation in Ohrid. For Vlado Jovanovski he said that there was no one who did not know him. "He is a normal person with credits that are not small, patriotic and emotional," said Nakov.
Bogdan Ilievski was an architect who managed to prevent any incident for 65 days in the protests of the "For Macedonia" initiative and a man who expressed his views through his articles and speeches in front of the Parliament.
The lawyer described Alimi as a great professional who saved Sela's life. Sela offered his house as a guarantee that Alimi would not run away.
The Bloody Thursday trial, in which 33 defendants, MPs, senior MOI officials and organizers of the "For United Macedonia" initiative are being tried, began Wednesday. The main judge in this case is Dobrila Kacarska, and prosecutor Vilma Ruskovska. The prosecutor read the indictment on Thursday that Cavkov is charged that although he knew that the lives of journalists and lawmakers were under threat in the Parliament, he did not issue an order for the deployment of additional and special police forces.
The defendants opened the Parliament doors to the citizens, and the organizers of the protests held speeches inciting violence.
Instead of director of the BPS – juror in the trial for the April 27 events
The retired general, Zoran Jovanovski-Celik, who was mentioned as a possible successor to the dismissed director of the Bureau of Public Security (BPS), Lazo Velkovski, is a juror-judge in the trial for the so-called 'Bloody Thursday'.
The trial for the April 27th events began Wednesday, following the announcement of the name of the new director of the Bureau, Saso Tasevski. After the dilemma that Velkovski was already resolved in the public, reporters saw the retired general in the trial council.
Jovanovski was the first name that was published as a possible successor to Velkovski. He spent his whole working life in the police force, and during his service he suffered a severe injury.
He is a great professional among colleagues. However, in the place of Velkovski, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski decided to choose Saso Tasevski, the head of the Sixth Administration, that is, the Security Department of the Ministry of Interior.
Tasevski was remembered in public as a defender of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and other MPs in the raid that took place in the Parliament on April 27th.
Today, the Director of the Bureau of Public Security has handed over the duties to the newly appointed director Tasevski.
Velkovski was dismissed from office because his bodyguard took his daughter to Greece to the Evridiki camp with an official vehicle owned by the Ministry of Interior. According to Velkovski, he was forced to do so because he and his family had been under death threats for a long time, and on August 2 he was not able to personally take his daughter to Greece because he had to go to work due to the incidents that occurred at Meckin Kamen.
Several photos and a video of the official Jeep vehicle were published to the public, but it is still not revealed who followed the car.
Frosina Fakova-Serafinovic
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In 2015, we can leave this world better than we found it!
January 15, 2015 in Ireland
The Irish Committee for the UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty supports action/2015!
action/2015 is calling on the public to join them in their calls to ensure world leaders commit to a better world. Throughout 2015, the campaign will provide ways for everyone everywhere to get involved in influencing the outcomes of these global debates that could achieve:
An end to poverty in all its forms;
The meeting of fundamental rights, tackling inequality and discrimination;
An accelerated transition to 100% renewable energy;
A world where everyone can participate and hold their leaders accountable.
According to new research, almost a billion extra people face a life of extreme poverty if leaders duck key decisions on poverty, inequality and climate change due to be taken at two crucial summits in New York and Paris later this year, with billions more continuing to face a life of hardship.
That's the warning by more than a thousand organisations around the world which are launching a new campaign called action/2015 calling on local and world leaders to take urgent action to halt man-made climate change, eradicate poverty and address inequality.
The new calculation released by the action/2015 coalition shows that, even using relatively conservative scenarios, the number of people living in extreme poverty – on less than $1.25 a day – could be reduced dramatically from over a billion to 360 million by 2030. Based on work by the University of Denver, in the year 2030, about 4 % of the global population would live in extreme poverty, (compared to 17% today) if critical policy choices on inequality, poverty investment and climate change are made this year and implemented thereafter. Estimates of other researchers, looking at a longer list of variables, show that the eradication of extreme poverty is achievable for the first time in history – a key objective of the campaign.
However, if leaders fail to deliver and build on the growing momentum for ambitious deals at the UN Special Summit on Sustainable Development in September and the UN Climate talks in Paris in December, and scale back their efforts, the number of people living in extreme poverty could actually increase to 1.2 billion by 2030. This increase would be the first in a generation (since 1993) and almost a billion higher (886million) than if resolute action is taken. Under this scenario 1 in 3 of the world's population would live under $2 a day.
Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Malala Fund co-founder, who put her life on the line for the right to education said;
'People globally want an end to injustice, poverty and illiteracy. Our world is interconnected and youth are ready and mobilised more than ever to see real change take place. Together, we are demanding our leaders take action in 2015 and we must all do our part. I will continue to work tirelessly to call on world leaders to seize this opportunity to guarantee a free, quality primary and secondary education for every child. That is my goal and I hope that my voice will be heard as it is the voice of millions of children who want to go to school.'
Alongside Malala, dozens of high profile activists from Queen Rania Al Abdullah and Desmond Tutu to Ben Affleck, Bill and Melinda Gates and Mo Ibrahim have backed the coalition of over a thousand organisations in more than 120 countries around the world. The campaign is calling on world leaders to agree plans to eradicate poverty, prevent dangerous climate change and tackle inequality at these summits.
action/2015 – announced by Malala when she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize – is one of the biggest campaigns ever to launch – combining environmental, human rights, development organisations and faith networks. From household names like Amnesty International and Save the Children to grassroots NGOs working with local communities, the movement aims to make sure the agreements of 2015 are shaped by the people.
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Q: SPARC assembly btst I have an assignment to do but all of the topics have not been thoroughly discussed in class. We are coding in assembly (SPARC). This is the assignment:
Write an assembly program to test if the flag 0x10 is set in the register %l0. If it is set, then multiply the content of %l0 by 2 using the appropriate shift instruction and exit immediately. If it is not set, then divide the content of %l0 by 2 using the appropriate shift instruction and exit. You may test your program when %l0 is equal to 0x18 and when %l0 is equal to 0x08.
This is the code I have so far:
.global main

main:
    save    %sp,-96,%sp
    clr     %l0
    clr     %l1
    mov     0x10,%l1
    btst    0x10,%l0        !Test if a bit/s clear or set
    be      clear           !Goto
    nop
set:
    sll     %l1,1,%l3       !shift %l0 left (%l0*2)
    ba      exit
clear:
    srl     %l1,1,%l3       !shift %l0 right (%l0/2)
    ba      exit
exit:
    mov     1,%g1           !Exit
    ta      0

What does set and clear mean?
When using btst, what occurs?
What is the correct format for best?
Are my shift left and shift right(to multiply and divide) done correctly?
I have tried to look through the site and google as well, however I cannot come up with any thorough explanation for this.
thank you

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by: Briana Whitney
Four years of laughing, love and– most importantly– unexpected friendship.
"I just feel my life has been enriched since he's come into it," said 62-year-old Wanda Dench on Thanksgiving 2019. She and 20-year-old Jamal Hinton are now household names across the nation because Wanda accidentally texted him instead of her real grandson four years ago.
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For criminals, there are no crimes perhaps more enticing than bank robbery. The fame, notoriety, and financial rewards of robbing a bank are enough to entice hackers, gunmen and even politicians into attempting to rob a bank. Some of these bank robbers were successful in their attempts, and have never been found, while others had their elaborate schemes unraveled when they were later caught and prosecuted.
In 2003, before the US began bombing in Baghdad, Saddam Hussein sent his son Qusay to the Central Bank of Iraq ordering him to withdraw $1 Billion from the bank. US troops later found approximately $650 million in Saddam's opulent palace, but the rest was never found.
An international gang tried to rob $300 – $400 Million from Sumitomo Bank in London, England but after attempting various money transfers, all of which failed, the trio was tracked down and prosecuted.
A Group of Thieves known as the 'School of Turin' succeeded in robbing $100 million from the Antwerp Diamond Center in Antwerp, Belgium. The group's mastermind Leonardo Notarbartolo, spent nearly 2 years working in the district as a diamond dealer prior to the robbery. This extraordinary dedication to casing the scene of the crime was necessary to allow Notarbartolo to penetrate the 10 layers of security used to protect the diamonds.
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BIGGEST BANK ROBBERIES OF THE 21ST CENTURY
For criminals, there are no crimes perhaps more enticing thank bank robbery. The fame, notoriety, and financial rewards of robbing a bank are enough to entice hackers, gunmen, and even politicians into attempting to rob a bank. Robberies are committed left and right, usually for small amounts of money, however, some robbers choose to go-big-or-go-home.
CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ
HOW MUCH WAS STOLEN
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2003 – BAGHDAD, IRAQ
WHO DID THE CRIME
SADDAM HUSSEIN'S SON QUSAY
WERE THEY SUCCESSFUL IN ROBBING THE BANK
DETAILS INVOLVED
Before the United States began bombing Badhdad, Saddam Hussein sent his son Qusay to the bank ordering that the money was withdrawn. US troops later found approximately $650m in Saddam's opulent palace, but the rest was never found.
With Saddam's execution and Qusay's death in a fire fight with US troops, the remaining $350m may never be found.
Bank officials state that Qusay and another unidentified man oversaw the cash, boxes of $100 bills, being loaded into trucks during a five-hour operation.
SUMITOMO BANK
$300 – $400 MILLION
2007 – LONDON, ENGLAND
AN INTERNATIONAL GANG
The plan almost worked after hackers used a USB memory stick to install "key-logger" software on worker's computers to which they later downloaded user names and passwords from both private and business accounts of the bank.
The experienced hackers almost outwitted security systems on the Swift (Society For Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) payments mechanism. But unfortunately for the gang, some of the electronic forms has been filled in incorrectly.
After 23 unsuccessful attempts during the course of two days to wire the money, the fiasco unraveled.
Chief of the bank, Kevin O' Donoghue, 34, later explained that he had agreed to the heist after the master plan has already been formulated and his family was threatened.
After attempting various money transfers, all of which failed, the trio was tracked down and prosecuted.
DAR ES SALAAM BANK
THREE SECURITY GUARDS, WHO WORKED AT THE PRIVATE DAR ES SALAAM BANK IN BAGHDAD'S KARRADA DISTRICT.
Following the raid officials were relatively quiet and unwilling to answer questions so not much ore is known about the heist except that the guards must have had connections to local militias in order to get passed so many check points.
The raid got very little coverage in the media.
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2003 – ANTWERP, BELGIUM
A GROUP OF THIEVES KNOWN AS THE SCHOOL OF TURIN
The group's mastermind Leonardo Notarbartolo, spent nearly 2 years working in the district as a diamond dealer prior to the robbery.
This extraordinary dedication to casing the scene of the crime was necessary to allow Notarbartolo to penetrate the 10 layers of security used to protect the diamonds.
During the robbery, the thieves beat security cameras, motion detectors, a drill-proof steel door, and a lock with more than 100 million possible combinations to gain access to the vault, all without setting off the alarm.
Antwerp police later caught them but the $100 million worth of diamonds and other gems has never been found.
THE KENT SECURITAS DEPOT
2006 – KENT, ENGLAND
A CRIMINAL GANG
The Kent Securitas robbery was the largest cash robbery in UK history, which took place when the manager of the depot was abducted.
When he pulled over for an unmarked police vehicle with blue flashing lights, a man approached the vehicle and made the manager enter the police car.
He was then handcuffed by other gang members in the car.
The robbers then proceeded to hold the manager's wife and son hostage, as the gang members then proceeded to rob the depot of the equivalent of $92.5 million.
2005 – FORTALEZA, BRAZIL
A GANG OF CRIMINALS
Three months before the burglary, a gang of criminals rented an empty house in the centre of Fortaleza, just two blocks away from the bank.
Over the next few weeks, and under the pretense that the building was a plant shop, the burglars excavated a 78m (256ft) tunnel to the bank's fault.
On the final weekend, they broke through the reinforced concrete and evaded the security systems to make off with $71.6m.
So far, authorities have only recovered $3.8m of the notes.
NORTHERN BANK ROBBERY
£26.5 MILLION (AN ESTIMATED $51.6 MILLION USD)
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2004 – BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
A LARGE, PROFICIENT GROUP OF THIEVES
The UK government and Ireland police all claimed the robbery was perpetrated by the IRA, although this is denied by the IRA and their leadership.
What is known is that, by holding the families of the bank officers as hostages, the robbers were able to masquerade as bank officials and make off with the money.
As of 2009, the case is still being prosecuted and new conspirators are being charged.
2009 – DUBLIN, IRELAND
Criminals included a junior bank employee who kidnapped another employee and forced him to remove $9 million in cash from the bank as his girlfriend and two others were held hostage.
Seven people were later arrested, all believed to be members of a well-known Dublin gang.
€1.8 million of the stolen cash was located the next day, scattered across Dublin, and in 2010 the man who claimed he was held hostage was also arrested on the suspicion that the robbery had been an inside job.
THE AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA
2007 – HANDAN BRANCH OF THE ABC IN HEBEI PROVINCE, CHINA
TWO VAULT MANAGERS WITH THE HELP OF TWO SECURITY GUARDS FROM THE BRANCH
Purchasing tickets for the Chinese lottery with money they had stolen from the bank (with the intent of winning it and more back from gambling), one manager surprisingly managed it once, but the second manager failed at the second attempt.
Soon thereafter other branch managers discovered the missing money and notified police and those involved were arrested.
The heist also included 3 other accomplices: a landlord, a cab driver, and a car saleswoman.
All accomplices were found and arrested and the two bank managers were later executed for their displays of bank robbing bravado.
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Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a common goal. A leader inspires others to act while simultaneously directing the way that they act. They must be personable enough for others to follow their orders, and they must have the critical thinking skills to know the best way to use the resources.
S.M Muneer (Bhai Jan) Leader of Business Community of Pakistan accomplished each objective an individual can dream. M. Muneer is the Chairman of DIN GROUP OF INDUTRIES and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP). His company Din Leather (Pvt.) Ltd is the biggest exporter of leather in Pakistan and he has four textile mills in the name of Din Textile Mills in Lahore.
S. M. Muneer (Chairman) has been Awarded the "BEST BUSINESS MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD" by The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Karachi, which is the highest award given by F.P.C.C.I.(In presence of General Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan)
President of Pakistan Gen. Pervez Musharraf has conferred "SITARA-I-ISAAR" Award to S. M. Muneer (Chairman) on 30-06-2006 in recognition of his outstanding services for the cause of humanity.
President of Pakistan Gen. Pervez Musharraf has conferred biggest Award of "SITARA-I-IMTIAZ" to S. M. Muneer (Chairman) on 14-08-2007 in recognition of his outstanding public services for the cause of humanity. This Award was given in a special ceremony by Governor of Sindh Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan on 23/03/2008 at Governor House, Karachi.
On behalf of Secretary-General IHRC Sir Rafał Marcin Wasik we had a productive introductory meeting & on behalf of team IHRC we honored a legendary leader S.M. MUNEER (Bhai Jan) with IHRC Appreciation Shield.
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The meeting was attended by Ambassador Asim Irshad & Youth Ambassador Hasan Ansari. A special thanks to Farhan Ur Rehman for attending & arranging the meeting.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Screaming Trees
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Arguably, Screaming Trees are a band that doesn't get as much recognition as it should. Originally formed in the mid-'80s as a group largely influenced by obscure '60s garage and psychedelic rock bands as well as underground punk bands, the Trees — singer Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bassist Van Conner, and drummer Barrett Martin — were among those who gained prominence in the wake of the early '90s grunge boom but never reached the same levels of commercial success that Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains did. In fact, many fans may remember them best as a rock one-hit wonder of sorts (not quite true) that didn't do much after singing about nearly losing someone there. Or as the band that feuded with Liam Gallagher after the Oasis frontman mockingly called them the "Howling Branches" (via Louder).
That likely changed in the aftermath of Lanegan's tragic death on February 22, 2022, as his passing reminded people that for a brief period in the 1990s, he was part of a band that was showing a lot of promise. And while the Screaming Trees were modestly successful throughout their career, their decade-and-a-half history as a band was filled with challenging moments, with their post-breakup history including a fairly recent feud between two ex-members that gained a lot of media attention.
They mostly knew each other from school, but were never the best of friends
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The Screaming Trees story starts way back in 1985 in Ellensburg, Washington, when Mark Lanegan joined forces with brothers Van and Gary Lee Conner and original drummer Mark Pickerel. The four young men knew each other from their time in Ellensburg High School, but unlike most bands whose members attended the same school and were familiar with each other before becoming bandmates, the Trees were notorious for their frequent intra-band skirmishes. In his memoir "Sing Backwards and Weep," Lanegan wrote that he "often found [himself] counting the seconds before [he] strangled Lee to death," referring to the band's guitarist, who mainly goes by his middle name.
Lee Conner admitted as much in an interview with Velvet Sheep, explaining that there was "nothing insane" but that the band did have its share of on-stage fights. And while they may not have been as antagonistic toward each other as, say, Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis, Lee and Van did have a bit of a sibling rivalry of their own.
Many years later, Lee was even more direct in explaining the dynamic within the Screaming Trees. In a Facebook post, he wrote that the Trees "did not ever get along like friends and sometimes it felt like we were enemies." However, he stressed that despite their myriad differences, the band worked together to "create a musical legacy" and write songs that remain popular even to this day.
Mark Lanegan dealt with heroin addiction during the Trees' peak period
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Although the chart action doesn't tell the whole story, Screaming Trees had become much more than a niche act by the early '90s. Now far removed from their roots as a punk-tinged 1980s version of groups like the 13th Floor Elevators, the Trees created quite the buzz with their 1992 album "Sweet Oblivion" and its lead-off single, "Nearly Lost You." But the band's newfound fame was of little consolation to Mark Lanegan, who was battling a severe drug problem at that time. "I basically had to stay in a band I didn't like in order to make money to support my drug habit," he wrote in his 2020 autobiography "Sing Backwards and Weep," as quoted by The Guardian.
To be more specific, Lanegan was hooked on heroin, a drug that supposedly prevented him from "dying from the horrors of [his] severe alcoholism." His addiction was so severe that while the Trees were on tour in 1992, he nearly had his infected arm amputated. Lanegan's heroin use was also cited by Gary Lee Conner as one of the main reasons why the Trees waited four years before releasing a follow-up to their breakout album. "Unlike when he was drinking and he was outgoing, he ended up not wanting to do anything," the guitarist told Kerrang in 2020.
If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction issues, help is available. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
Dust was a great album that may have come out at the wrong time
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There's no doubt that "Sweet Oblivion" — and the subsequent inclusion of "Nearly Lost You" in the soundtrack of the zeitgeist-defining 1992 rom-com "Singles" — helped raise Screaming Trees' profile, placing them solidly in the middle tier of Seattle grunge bands along with the likes of Tad and Mudhoney. Four years later, however, the rock scene had drastically changed. Kurt Cobain was dead, Pearl Jam was evolving beyond the anthemic tunes that were a staple of their first three albums, and grunge had been displaced by Britpop as modern rock's sub-genre du jour. All in all, the conditions weren't exactly favorable as the Trees prepared to release their follow-up album, "Dust."
While it can be said that "All I Know" didn't have the killer hooks that "Nearly Lost You" brought to the table, it was a strong lead-off single, and "Dust" got a fair bit of critical praise, with Kerrang naming it as its best album of 1996. AllMusic gave it four out of five stars, calling it Screaming Trees' "strongest" and "most consistently impressive" album. However, the outlet also pointed out that the band's sound had become "too idiosyncratic for alternative radio," and that limited the record's commercial potential. Gary Lee Conner likewise acknowledged this while speaking to Kerrang, suggesting that "Dust" came out at the wrong time and that was "reflected in the sales."
The band quietly broke up in 2000 after being dropped by Epic Records
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After releasing "Dust" and touring behind the album, Screaming Trees headed back to the proverbial drawing board in 1998. At that point, they were free agents, having been dropped by Epic Records. And as The National News noted, it wasn't like other major record labels were itching to give the Trees another chance at the big time. But they had an album's worth of new songs, and they headed to three different studios, including one owned by Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, to record those tunes. "We recorded for posterity's sake, and I don't think we thought beyond that," drummer Barrett Martin recalled. "The Trees never really had any grand strategy."
Despite apparently not having a clear-cut plan, Screaming Trees had a few things working in their favor, including guest contributions on the demos from touring guitarist (and Queens of the Stone Age founder) Josh Homme and R.E.M. axeman Peter Buck, and the fact that the band was finally "clean and sober," in Martin's words. But the Trees' efforts to cut demos and attract record labels were all for naught, as the band decided to break up in 2000, making the sad announcement after their final gig at the opening of Seattle's Experience Music Project.
It would be another 11 years before the Trees' "lost album" saw the light of day as the aptly-named "Last Words: The Final Recordings." The album, which was released through Martin's Sunyata Records label, received mixed reviews, with AllMusic giving it a decent 3.5 stars and Pitchfork describing it as "sort of a record about nothing much at all" and an "epitaph for a band that died of natural causes."
Some band members were still beefing in recent years
In the spring of 2020, Mark Lanegan released his memoir, "Sing Backwards and Weep," and in it, he documented his troubled life in great detail, from his adventures and misadventures with Screaming Trees to his solo music career to his past struggles with substance abuse. Given that Lanegan's tenure with the Trees was covered in several chapters, the book caught the attention of Van and Gary Lee Conner (pictured above in the '90s), as the two brothers released statements denouncing the memoir. While it seems that Van deleted his statement (via Kerrang), Lee's comments on "Sing Backwards" remain up on his Facebook at the time of writing.
"While many of the facts may be accurate, it is delivered with a venom that is perplexing," Lee wrote. "I moved far, far past all my problems and confrontations with Mark many years ago and airing all this now, after half a lifetime, in a very public forum, seems vicious and petty. I had one conversation on the phone in the last 18 years with Mark and [it] was very cordial. Any history between the two of us ended when the band did, in the year 2000."
In his interview with Kerrang, Lee Conner further alleged that Lanegan "never thought it necessary" to tell him what he planned to write about him on his autobiography, which particularly rankled him due to how negatively he was portrayed on its pages. And while he acknowledged that he'd like to have another conversation with the frontman, Lee said that he still questions Lanegan's motives in joining the Trees, as he feels he might have simply used the band to "get famous."


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Introduction of SF6 Ring Main Unit
The SF6 ring network cabinet seals all the live components (load switch, grounding switch, bus bar, etc.) used in a SF6 stainless steel metal box filled with a certain pressure, and is insulated with SF6 gas. The arc extinguishing medium, operating structure, and fuse are still in the air, which is easy to maintain and replace. The incoming and outgoing wires are connected to the cable through the cable terminal head. The cable head is of a touchable type, and there is no exposed live part. A pressure relief valve is installed on the back or lower part of the switch cabinet to protect the safety of the operator in the event of extreme failure. Its structure is more compact, the size is smaller, the performance is more safe and reliable, and because it is completely sealed, it is not affected by dust, condensation or even flood during operation, and can be used in most areas of our country. This type of switch cabinet now has two forms: ① It is made into an independent functional unit according to the function of the switch, which can be combined and connected when needed. The cabinet is small in size and flexible in combination, but the disadvantage is that it is difficult to assemble the cabinet and requires high civil construction. It is very suitable for use in some cable branch boxes with switches and small outdoor switch stations. ② Combine several functional units and put them in a switch box, share SF6, and reserve expansion ports on the upper or side of the switch, which actually becomes a small ring network unit (RMU), which can be used according to different combinations Many models are derived, such as 2 in 1 out, 2 in 2 out, 3 in 1 out, etc., and the incoming unit can be a circuit breaker. The biggest problem of this cabinet type is sealing, including the welding of the shell, the handling of dynamic sealing, the coordination of the expansion socket, and the guarantee of safety and reliability.
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SF6 gas trace moisture problem
Regardless of whether imported or domestic SF6 ring network cabinets, SF6 trace moisture content test reports are rarely provided. As the equipment operation unit, the power supply company cannot measure the trace water content. There is less gas in the air bag of the SF6 ring network cabinet. If the commonly used DP19 is used for the micro-water test, the air bag gas will almost be prevented and controlled. With the current equipment and technical conditions, it is impossible to perform micro-water measurement. However, the moisture content in SF6 gas directly affects the SF6 arc extinguishing performance and the safe operation performance of the equipment. For the SF6 ring main unit that has been in operation for many years, it will be very difficult to judge its arc extinguishing performance.
SF6 leakage problem
SF6 ring main unit may have gas leakage problems when the seal is not tight.
Most of the semi-inflated ring main units used in the power distribution network of the power supply company often do not set the SF6 pressure indicator, but the actual operation shows that although the imported equipment has good sealing performance, there are also air leakage. Because there is no gas monitoring device, even if the gas leaks, the user will not know it, which is likely to become a hidden danger of accidents, especially the insulation performance of the ring network cabinet under zero gauge pressure and the resistance to internal arc faults. In addition, SF6 gas has a very high global warming potential (GWP) and was included in the list of greenhouse gases announced in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. In the time frame of 100 years, the GWP of SF6 is approximately 22500 times that of CO2, and CO2 is the main contributor to the greenhouse effect according to the amount of emissions.
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Introduction of solid insulated ring network cabinet
The solid insulation ring network cabinet is a ring network cabinet that uses solid insulating materials as the main insulation medium. It is a single or combined main conductive circuit such as the vacuum interrupter and its conductive connection, isolation switch, grounding switch, main bus, and branch bus Encapsulated with a solid insulating medium into one or several fully insulated and fully sealed modules with certain functions that can be recombined or expanded. People can touch the ring network cabinet with conductive or semi-conductive shielding layer coated on the surface of the module . The main components of the solid insulated ring network cabinet are: insulation module with switch function, insulated main bus, operating mechanism, cabinet and control part.
The advantages of solid insulated ring network cabinet
Environmental protection and no explosion hazard
The solid-insulated ring main unit eliminates pressure gauges, explosion-proof devices, pressure sensors and pressure locking devices, inflation valves, gas pressure alarms and other components. It uses solid insulation technology to separate the vacuum interrupter and the main conductive circuit. Sealing, using the APG process to seal the switch components and the main conductive circuit, which solves the problem of SF6 gas low-temperature liquefaction and high-temperature decomposition of toxic substances and leakage, which can greatly improve the reliability of equipment operation. The connection technology of the insulated busbar can realize easy expansion, flexible combination and convenient adaptation to changes in site conditions. The phase-separated structure and insulation technology will prevent phase-to-phase short-circuit faults. While ensuring the rated operating conditions of the ring main unit, it is truly maintenance-free.
Adapt to smart grid construction
The structure design of the solid insulated ring main unit adopts modularization, one-two integration concept design, which can easily realize power grid automation and ensure the reliability and flexibility of the system. At the same time, special PT can be connected on site according to user needs, which can realize online temperature and insulation monitoring of some key positions in the cabinet, and can send the measured data to the control terminal through a variety of communication methods, providing technology and technology for multi-level distribution network automation Device support.
The key technology to promote the development of solid insulation ring mains
High-quality sealing technology
According to the mechanism of partial discharge, it can be concluded that the internal discharge of solid insulation is mainly due to the existence of bubbles inside the solid insulation. Most of the existing solid-sealing technology is to put the pre-heated solid-sealed parts in the pre-heated metal mold, vacuum the metal mold cavity and slowly inject the heat-curing epoxy resin, and take it out after curing. This kind of solid sealing technology is not only low in efficiency and high in cost, but the most important thing is that the air bubbles are not completely handled, which easily causes a large number of bubbles in the solid insulation parts. After the equipment is put into operation, partial discharges are prone to occur, which will cause the solid insulation parts to strike over time. Wear and discharge will affect the safe operation of the equipment. Therefore, it is extremely necessary to adopt advanced, high-quality and high-efficiency epoxy resin sealing technology.
Better electric field design
Corona discharge is the discharge that occurs when the electric field strength near the conductor surface reaches the gas breakdown field strength when the electric field is extremely uneven. At the edge of the high-voltage electrode, corona discharge may be caused by electric field concentration around the tip. As a kind of partial discharge, corona discharge will cause breakdown discharge along with equipment operation, which will affect the safe and reliable operation of equipment. It can be seen that designing reasonable conductive parts to ensure that the electric field strength is sufficiently weak and uniform is a key to solving the partial discharge of solid insulating parts. At present, a more effective design method is to use simulation software to calculate the electric field, adopt reasonable electric field distribution, optimize the insulation and electrode shape, and consider adding shielding cover to reduce the electric field intensity when necessary.
The ring network power supply method is playing an increasingly important role in our country's distribution network. As the main equipment of the ring network power supply method, the ring network cabinet is developing rapidly. SF6 ring main unit and solid insulated ring main unit each have their own advantages and disadvantages. The development of solid insulated ring main unit still needs to further improve the current solid sealing technology and insulation design level.
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VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Bevis Frond 9/26/19 Oxford, England
"We're All Fronds on This Bus": indeed, live at Oxford's storied Jericho Tavern, the wheels went 'round and 'round until the ecstatic punters were ready to be wheeled out themselves. Below, watch clips of "Lead On" and "Olde Worlde" (pay attention to the extended spoken intro for the latter, incidentally).
BY NIC LINTON
Last Thursday I had the rare opportunity to catch up with Nick Saloman and his band of merry men, at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. The venue, which I could have easily mistaken for a broom cupboard, turned out to be the perfect choice for an intimate evening in with The Bevis Frond.
It was a no-nonsense affair complete with something old, something new, and plenty of psychedelic guitar heroics. No introductions were necessary, the raw energy of the music spoke for itself. Great to see such a quintessentially English act previously described as unsung heroes, literally singing their hearts out to such a warm reception.
This entry was posted in Music News, Video and tagged bevis frond, jericho's tavern, live videos, nick saloman, oxford, psychedelia, video exclusive on September 29, 2019 by Fred Mills.
Track Premiere: GospelbeacH "Let It Burn"
There's probably no sweeter SoCal sound circa 2019 than this band – review of 2017's "Another Summer of Love" is here – as the title track from their upcoming album, "Let It Burn," offers ample evidence. (Photo credit: Chuck Harris) RIP the amazing Neal Casal, one of Blurt's heroes.
BY JOHN B. MOORE & FRED MILLS
It should come as no surprise to even the casual visitor of this site, that GospelbeacH is a Blurt favorite. So much so that many of you know to come here for regular song premieres from the band – late last year we offered up a track from their 2018 gem Another Winter Alive, for example. And their 2017 offering wound up on many of our contributors' best-of releases for that year, with editor Mills observing, "The band's debut album, 2015's Pacific Surf Line, wasn't shy about its Cali worship; two of GospelbeacH founder Brent Rademaker's other groups, psychedelic warriors The Tyde and mystic Americana wranglers Beachwood Sparks, have shared similar sentiments. But Another Summer of Love is a remarkable achievement unto itself."
We don't like to disappoint, (the feckless leaders in D.C. have that role handled) so here's a first listen of the song "Let It Burn," the title track off the band's soon to be released new LP. The song boasts a cameo by the brilliant, late Neal Casal who passed away just weeks ago.
"'Let It Burn' became a secret little mantra in my head while dealing with some heavy changes in my life, mainly loss. Letting go wasn't good enough I had to burn those negative feelings before they killed me," said singer-songwriter-guitarist Brent Rademaker. "Trevor [Beld Jimenez] and I came up with some verses to my open C-minor tuning and we cut it live with a cool flat dry 1970s production by Jonny Niemann. The great Nelson Bragg orchestrated the perfect So-Cal harmonies.
"Little did I know I would need to call on that mantra again, when just months after finishing the album we would lose our dear brother Neal Casal. Neal's otherworldly guitar playing weaves this whole song perfectly together and the outro solo that closes the whole album says more to me than any lyric we could've written. Neal made GospelbeacH legit, when we told him we were making a "rock" record he just shook his hand and shushed me up, plugged in and played his guitar…no second takes." Hesaid, "Just let it burn."
GospelbeacH's Let It Burn will be available October 4th on Limited Edition Colored Vinyl (grab it here, as I did – Ed. Mills) CD, digital and streaming formats via Alive Naturalsound Records.
This entry was posted in Audio stream, Music News, Track premiere and tagged alive naturalsound, brent rademaker, gospelbeach, indie rock, neal casal, new albums, track premieres on September 26, 2019 by Fred Mills.
Here's a Band to Die For: Mercvrial
Check out a couple of crucial tracks, below.
Cue up sound of palm vigorously slapping forehead. It is a poorly-kept secret that we music writers sometimes let our mail tubs get to the point of overflowing before we finally get around to opening the packages – which, typically, are overflowing with music, much (most) of it dreck, but once in awhile, utterly captivating.
Such is the case with Mercvrial – which I assume is pronounced "mercurial" – and their 5-song mini-album The Stars, Like Dust, which just this week I belatedly discovered in the aforementioned mailtub. They've been described, variously, as dreampop, neopsychedelia, and shoegaze, compared to Flying Nun- and Creation-era artists as well as our own vaunted Paisley Underground scene here in the States. So be it.
But why not simply check 'em out, below – our brothers over at The Big Takeover premiered a couple of tracks earlier in the summer, and they basically do the talking for the band that you need to hear. If you like what you hear, reach out to the band at the above link or via email (mercvrialmx[at]yahoo[dot]com) and demand more. I know I plan to. (And to David Mercvrial – thanks for reaching out to me in the first place. Looking forward to hearing you guys in the future.)
This entry was posted in Music News, New Releases and tagged big takeover, indie rock, mercvrial, neopsychedelia, shoegaze on September 22, 2019 by Fred Mills.
Just Out: Tracy Shedd "The Carolinas" Album
Way back in 2013 we enthusiastically covered NC-by-way-of-Arizona songwriter Tracy Shedd, who had just released her remarkable album Arizona. (Additionally, check out a review of it here.)
Shedd's new one, The Carolinas, her sixth, has now officially dropped via NC's Fort Lowell Records as of yesterday, Sept. 20, and it a dreampop delight. (Yes, folks, it'll be available on vinyl as well courtesy Science Project Records.) I'll save the review-style verbiage for later, but here are a few salient details the label has kindly supplied… First, though a couple of tunes… aw hell, let's make it three tunes… for your sonic edification:
After having Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth sit in on drums for Tracy Shedd during a US tour, Shedd began writing songs for The Carolinas in her new home of North Carolina; combining her indie rock roots of 20-years with recent electronic experience from Band & The Beat. The Carolinas is Shedd's most playful, yet proficient, album to date, celebrated by the inaugural release of "Kissing and Romancing": the superfun and fuzzy shoegaze single with its supercute and funny stop-motion video – followed by the second single "Holding On": a classic indie pop dance hit in the making, accompanied by an engaging performance video.
Looking forward to some live dates from Shedd? Us too, no kidding!
This entry was posted in Audio stream, Music News, New Releases, North Carolina Music and tagged band and the beat, dreampop, fort lowell records, new albums, singer songwriters, tracy shedd on September 21, 2019 by Fred Mills.
Video/Review Exclusive: Hater, live @ Berlin 9/19/19, New York City
PHOTOS, VIDEO, & TEXT BY JONATHAN LEVITT
Fire Records band Hater, hailing from Malmö, Sweden, rode into town last night (September 19), for a two-night stand at Berlin here in New York City. With their great 7" "Four Tries Down / It's a Mess" fresh off the presses, the band sounded like a more sedate Bettie Serveert, mixed with early-era Lush. There was one song where one of the guitarist's pedal twiddling took on a Cocteau Twins-like smear that sounded awesome.
Ultimately, I think the show suffered because the mix on the PA was poor. Often, singer Caroline Landahl's beautiful voice would be muffled and/or clipped at the high end. Hopefully, for the second night, they'll get this right. That said, I was impressed by the band's music and the feeling these songs evoked. This is definitely a band I'll be looking to hear more from in the future.
Until then, check out my video and stills from last night's show down below and also don't forget to check out Haters' latest single at their Bandcamp page: https://haterfire.bandcamp.com.
You can also check out my prior review of the single here at Blurt.
This entry was posted in Concerts, live review, Music News, Video and tagged berlin nyc, concert reviews, fire records, hater, rock videos on September 20, 2019 by Fred Mills.


A quick how-to on setting up Pi-Hole (DNS Sinkhole) on Ubuntu 16.04.x and then adding CloudFlare for DNS over HTTPS.
We are going to cover a lot of ground here.
And, we are going to break it into two parts.
Part one will be getting Ubuntu 16.04.x running as a DNS server running Pi-Hole (DNS sinkhole).
Part two will be getting Ubuntu 16.04.x running using CloudFlare as the DNS provider via the DNS Proxy.
You can setup, or have, a machine running Ubuntu 16.04.x and you can SSH into it (it will make life easier).
You have an active/working internet connection.
You know how to configure DNS on Windows/Linux/Mac.
NOTE: To use the system right now, you will need to point the local system to 127.0.0.1 for DNS. At that point, the proxy will pick up the request and forward it to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 over HTTPS.
NOTE: We will be changing the script that starts the service when we install Pi-Hole to make sure we listen on a different port than 53 for DNS... and so we can loop-back to ourselves for proxy.


THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE O! This year's Summer Membership Drive was a tremendous success!
This year's Summer Membership Drive was a tremendous success! We'd like to thank everyone who renewed their membership this year and extend a warm welcome to those who decided to join the O. Your generous support allowed us to surpass last year's numbers by 51 memberships with a total of 754 sold between July and August.
Now is a great time to be an Ogden Museum member because we have lots of exciting things happening this fall! We're opening our largest photography exhibition to date, New Southern Photography, in October and in November, we're highlighting some of the largest holdings in the Museum's Permanent Collection in our upcoming exhibition, BIG. Ogden Museum members can enjoy free admission to these exhibitions and the opening receptions.
There are also several opportunities to utilize your membership perks coming up! Get free admission to Ogden After Hours each week and discounted tickets for our monthly Craft Happy Hours, Drawing in the Galleries and more!
Ogden's Art of Giving event on December 5, 2017.
Don't forget to mark your calendars for winter events too! The Art of Giving is coming up on Dec. 1 and members will receive 15% off their purchase and complimentary wine during this holiday shopping event.
We're so thankful for our amazing members and their passion for Southern art and culture, and we are glad that we were able to add so many new members to our community during this year's Summer Membership Drive. We can't wait to Share the South with you!


BioShock Infinite presents the absurdity that is mankind, the crux of our corrupt existence and the reflection of unattainable redemption. Only through forgiveness, can one start the journey.
"Of thy sins shall I wash thee.
From Sodom shall I lead thee.
To thine own land shall I take thee.
Set in a man-made Shangri-la in 1912, this shooter is unlike anything you've experienced before. The breathtaking floating city of Columbia is home to one of the best written casts to date and host to the greatest retro-science fiction a video game has ever produced. In every sense of the word, it's a true work of brilliance.
BioShock Infinite makes no apologies for its back-story and pulls no punches. It's the raw depiction of political repression and the heinous consequence of religious extremism. The game explores subjects most development studios and writers dare not touch. Unlike the previous games in the franchise, it is not an exaggeration of our world or an ideal as such, but closer to a true interpretation than most care to admit. The honesty in every aspect of it is refreshing not only for a video game, but for any medium of entertainment in our society.
The absolute depth of dialogue, environment, architecture and character leaves the player wanting for nothing. No matter your religion or political affiliation, no matter who or what you are, the game will move you in a most intimate way.
What is, was, and will be. Ask not "where am I?" but when.
There are more delectable twists to the tale than you'd know what to do with, but served in carefully measured portions, each is sure to blow your mind. The intensity as the story unfolds ensnares your cognizance and the riddle that is every new chapter keeps you addicted. Right from the start the player is strapped in on a rollercoaster of uncertainty, just when you think you have it all figured out, you descend into a new concept at 100 miles per hour.
BioShock Infinite offers an improved combat system to the franchise. Although the classic elements which we enjoyed in BioShock are prominent, they have been polished to absolute perfection. The multiplicity of choice provides the most creative ways to ensure your survival, through weapons and vigors or super powers (plasmids as seen in BioShock) and new ways to utilize your environment.
Equipped with two weapons at any given time and as many vigors as you've picked up along the way, you're duel wielding both weapons and super-human abilities. Both are easily upgradable from vendors, ammunition and salts are abundant throughout the game. Salts are used to power your special abilities, like mana for magic spells. Changing the way you play is easy and can frequently be done, with different kinds of guns lying round after battles; you can choose to switch form being a heavy gunner to a sniper in seconds. Adapting to each fight by countering your opponents is seamless. If you play smart, the masses who so willingly give their lives to the cause will stand no chance. That being said, when played on the medium or hard difficulty, most fights will prove to be a challenge for gamers familiar to, or even seasoned in the shooter genre.
BioShock Infinite introduces random pieces of gear that can be discovered, which give players extra bonuses, and a simple way to upgrade either the health bar, armor- or salts bar.
Enter Elizabeth, a wide-eyed young lady keen to see the world. Once you've met her, she'll accompany you for the remainder of the game. Elizabeth can be a powerful ally, but you'll have to work hard to get her there. Her character development is in sync with that which she is prepared to do for you. Not sure who or what she is, she is able to provide you with super-natural aid as well as simple things such as giving you med kits or ammo when you need it during a brawl. Elizabeth will pick locks which lead to useful rewards or serve to open doors to progress in the game, gaining her trust creates an unbreakable bond. As the game progresses, Elizabeth is the only thing tethering you to the world, to whatever sanity you may have left. Navigation has also greatly been improved on; while Elizabeth will to an extent guide you in the right direction, you can at any time know exactly where to go at the press of a button – similar to Dead Space.
The change of scenery in BioShock Infinite from the previous titles in the franchise is almost poetic. Depicted as a paradise, it can be interpreted as the feeling of rapture; Rapture also being the underwater city in which BioShock 2 takes place. But while Columbia is in the same way an escape from society as Rapture is a retreat from post-World War II political, religious and social anxieties its appearance is the complete opposite.
The heavenly, crisp, enlightening exterior is a fresh break away from the usual derelict and grim surroundings of the previous titles. Only as the game nears its end, will players experience true destruction, the face of Armageddon. The light palette of soft colours make the floating city more believable, creating the feeling of being in the clouds, in paradise, and creates a false sense of security. But as any one would expect, the candy-coated setting has at its core the most tyrannical, brutal and disturbed villains hell has to offer.
Much like William Winwood Reade's book "The Martyrdom of Man", BioShock Infinite can be divided into four chapters: War – the imprisonment of man's body; Religion – the imprisonment of man's mind; Liberty – which man has been deprived of; and Intellect – the tool through which those shackles are overcome.
War is prominent in BioShock Infinite. Physical war between purists – the reigning one man government Comstock and his army and so called rebels fighting for their freedom – the Vox Populi. But war is suffered on a more personal level by most of the characters. Our protagonist Booker DeWitt, the role of which players take on, fights a roaring war within himself. At first glance, he is just a hired gun, a man trying to pay off a debt to some bad people; But the deal he has made is everything but simple.
Elizabeth, the mysterious girl whom Booker is sent to retrieve fights a war against her father, Comstock and her imprisonment both physical and mental by him. She is conflicted with who and what she is. Elizabeth has great supernatural power, the power to tear rifts between time and space. The ability to transport objects from one world to another becomes crucial in her aid to you during combat but is even more so when it comes to the story.
Organised religion is depicted as an unbreakable bond over the minds of the citizens of Columbia. Comstock, the prophet, the dictator has imprisoned the minds of his people, attempts to imprison the mind of Elizabeth and destroys any individual who opposes him. He has created his own religion to accompany his Utopia. In the same way the religion of slave labor is forced upon a certain demographic and the rebels attribute the same kind of religious behavior towards their cause.
Liberty is something that no one has, not even Comstock. Booker is bound by his mission to wipe away his debt, deprived of his liberty through his own actions. Elizabeth had always been deprived of it, being imprisoned her entire life.; she may never have freedom unless she destroys the cause at its roots. Needless to say, through war and religion the citizens of Columbia do not enjoy any form of freedom, and neither do the rebels.
Most of the villains and protagonists in BioShock Infinite are highly intelligent characters, having the ability to either rule or oppose political repression or mold the masses to their will. In contrast to their intellectual abilities in some matters, they do not have the faculty of reasoning and being objective when it comes to anything they oppose. Elizabeth is the only character in the game with a higher sense of intellect. She sees everything as a whole.
BioShock Infinite is everything you want from a video game and more.
BioShock Infinite is no doubt the most profound game I've played in a very long time. Take from it what you will, whether it's an adrenaline pumping shooter experience or a deeper, intellectual experience or both, the almost perfect and flawless game is worth taking the time to play. This game will be rivaled by few for Game of The Year 2013.
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Getting your team engaged is hard. Keeping them engaged is harder. Cyrano augments your company's leadership with skills to engage, motivate and inspire their teams. It transforms your company into a world class team.
Cyrano provides a prescriptive approach to employee engagement and handles all the heavy lifting and logistics that has previously bogged you down.
- We've taken our api to the next level, so don't even worry about those big uploads.
- There's no need to slow down anymore now that our power recording preview is landscape.
- As per the usual, we're fixing up some bugs.