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Cameroon: Man who could not honor Captain Abega Theophile sends Ali condolence to Obama 0
President Biya who was conspicuously absent during the burial ceremony of the late Dr Abega Theophile, the legendary captain of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon has addressed an official telegram to US President Obama from his five star hotel resort in Swiss over the death of Mohammed Ali. Cameroon Intelligence Report understands the Biya document was sent to Washington on Wednesday, June 8, 2016. In the said telegram, Mr Biya wrote:
"Mr. President, I have learned with emotion, the death of Mr Mohammed Ali, former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. I salute the memory of this legend. In these painful circumstances, I extend to you and to the family of Mr. Mohammed Ali my sincere condolences. Please accept Mr. President, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration." The funeral of the American triple heavyweight world champion will be held in the US on Friday, June 10, 2016.


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AN NCS PREMIERE: HEADSHRINKER — "SUFFOCATING TOMB" AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: SOL SISTERE — "NOTHOFAGUS"
AN NCS PREMIERE: WINDFAERER — "ASTRAL TEARS"
We've been following the momentous progress of the New Jersey black/folk metal band Windfaerer since early days, sprinkling our coverage (which began almost exactly nine years ago) with music premieres and increasingly elaborate and enthusiastic reviews of their accomplishments. It was thus a tremendous thrill to discover that Avantgarde Music would be releasing their new album, Breaths of Endless Dawns, and a no-brainer for us to accept the opportunity to premiere the new album's first single — "Astral Tears".
The band's last album, 2018's Alma, was (as we wrote) "a work of grand ambition and true passion, the band persistently driving themselves to unabashedly tug at the listener's heartstrings and also to send the heart soaring and the mind spinning toward mythic heights." The music was multifaceted, richly patterned, emotionally intense, and thoroughly immersive, creating moods that were dark and depressive, wrenchingly anguished, and vibrantly defiant. The songs become almost heart-stopping in their grandeur and explosive power, though every sensation of triumph was still edged with melancholy, as if modulated by the remembrance of loss.
Many of those same qualities are again on display in this new record, but the experience is, if anything, even more rich in its textures and moods, even more enthralling (and wrenching), and perhaps even more immense in its sheer unbridled power.
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It's no wonder that Michael Gonçalves and company chose "Astral Tears" as the lead single for the new album. On so many levels, the music is almost completely overpowering — in the explosiveness of the sound, in the searing, penetrating impact of the melodies, and in the raw emotional force that blasts through the music like a typhoon.
The sonic contrasts in the song are evident almost immediately, as it juxtaposes gut-thumping, spine-shaking beats and brazen, blaring chords, accented by sky-high tones that spear out, fluidly flow, and flicker like fireflies in the dark, revealing the complementary textures of both guitar and other instruments (the album includes Benjamin Karas' performances on violin, viola, cello, and orchestral synths).
The incendiary intensity of the vocals can't be overstated, nor can the force of the rhythm section, which causes the song to storm and quake the ground in ravaging fashion. But the gleaming and glittering brilliance of its borealis-like and darting melodies is equally gripping, simultaneously translating feelings of wonder, yearning, and melancholy. And following a riveting tremolo'd bridge, which seems to convey an anguished delirium, and a gripping, channel-shifting drum progression, the song soars to new heights of head-spinning, pulse-pounding magnificence, aided by vocals of spine-tingling passion and by a collage of sounds that are sweeping and scintillating.
Breaths of Elder Dawns by Windfaerer
No doubt, we will have more to say about this remarkable new album in the coming weeks. For now, we'll leave you with these comments from the band, more details about how the album was made, and some useful links:
"Breaths of Elder Dawns explores themes of hope, kinship, destruction of the natural world, shattered illusions and longing for the numbing comfort of death. It is a journey of mourning through the ruins of abandonded dreams and aspirations. This record is an homage to a romanticized past as much as it is a rejection of its glorification… and a journey through aesthetic desolation and saudade. Here, the light of the sun exposes the anguished disfigurement of the soul".
Breaths of Elder Dawns was recorded between July and December 2020. The album was produced and engineered by Benjamin Karas, mixed by Bobby Torres of Frightbox Recording in Passaic, NJ, and mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves in Queens, NY. The album artwork was created by Demura Artem. Windfaerer is:
Michael Gonçalves – Vocals, Guitars, Tres
Itay Keren – Vocals, Electric & Acoustic Guitars
Benjamin Karas – Vocals, Electric & Acoustic Violins, Viola, Cello, Orchestrations
Michael Muñoz – Bass
James Applegate – Drums
Avantgarde Music will release Breaths of Elder Dawns on August 27th.
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So damn gooooood song! A strong contenter for most infectious song 2021 list.
Already got it in my list of candidates!

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4 November 2018 / Spotlight
How a bicycle-sharing company is driving sustainability in Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria—AwaBike, a bicycle-sharing and lifestyle application has received an equity investment from Ingressive Capital, a venture fund targeted at early-stage startups in Africa.
It was founded this year by Ifeoluwa Ogundipe, a Master's degree holder from the Queen Mary University of London and an MBA grad from Grenoble Ecole de Management.
Speaking to Benjamin Dada, Ifeoluwa says "AwaBike is a lifestyle brand that focuses on promoting healthy living and environmental sustainability, with a particular focus on mobility".
The 11th United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals is targeted at Sustainable cities and communities but how can cities be sustainable when the automobiles plying the roads are emitting harmful CO2 gases?
As a result, Governments and private individuals have sought alternatives in solar-powered automobiles like Teslas and non-CO2 emitting automobiles like bicycles. For instance, in America, there are City Bikes run by Motivate who recently got acquired by Uber rival, Lyft.
Beyond that, there is a traffic congestion problem in many of the world's busiest cities like Kolkata-India, Nairobi-Kenya, and Lagos-Nigeria which has led citizens to turn to two-wheel automobiles for their daily mobility needs.
AwaBike has seen that gap and is positioning itself to compete in the two-wheeled ride-sharing market currently dominated by Max.ng and Gokada. Their approach is to do more than move people around but provide information on their health and lifestyle–a concern many use third-party solutions for, like FitBits.
Their first challenge would be getting people to know about their app and showing them how it fits into their lifestyle. For that, they will be using a community-based approach. They intend to expand to 40 campuses across Nigeria within a year starting with Lagos State University (LASU). The AwaBike team will set up centres in their selected communities and hire key-personnel from the pre-seed funding gotten from Ingressive Capital.
Interestingly, AwaBike manufactures their bikes (AKA bicycles) from scratch using imported parts, so some of the funds will go towards enabling that process.
Speaking on the bike-sharing market in Lagos-Nigeria, Ifeoluwa says it's untested but has a lot of potentials, arguing that a sect of Nigerians already make use of bicycles for health and lifestyle purposes.
It's a market that has not been tested. We are particularly interested in seeing how best we can achieve success. We believe that there lies a high potential for success in bicycle-sharing
A number of Nigerians and Lagosians currently use bicycles for either health and lifestyle or just daily commute. It would be interesting to see what happens when we make bicycles readily available for everyone
There is a local adage that reads Black man no dey die which could explain why a lot of people from African countries tend to take the non-physical aspects of their lives with levity. For instance, mental health, and allergies may sound alien to the typical African. They struggle with those two concepts because they can't see the immediate physical impact. This same attitude has been carried over to exercising as many tend not to bother, saying "I can't come and kill myself".
However, Ifeoluwa thinks all that is changing, hence, their reason for adding a lifestyle spin to their mobility solution.
"We have the lifestyle bit because we are currently trying to get Nigerians to embrace healthier habits. The shift in health and fitness trends in Nigeria and particularly Lagos is astonishing. Seven years ago, you probably would see very few people jogging on the streets of Lekki, whereas today its hundreds of people.
The same goes for gyms and even healthy food vendors and dieticians. These were businesses that were considered dead seven years ago, whereas now they present some of the better growth opportunities moving forward. If people are going to cycle, it makes sense for us to give them the opportunity to be health conscious about it and they can easily incorporate their fitness goals into their daily means of commute", he said being thoroughly convinced about their timing and solution.
Ingressive Capital believes the startup has potential not just for growth but also for the venture capital's exit opportunities judging by what's happening around the world.
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Imagine a state like Lagos making bicycles an official means of transportation.
Lagosians can then expect dedicated bike lanes to be carved out, as in the case of the rapid bus transit system (BRT) in Lagos. Already, in February, the State signed an MoU with a French company, Smoove to deploy a 200-bike share project in Lagos.
For security, AwaBike's Bicycle will be geo-fenced meaning users will not be able to move the bicycles out of a specified region which will most times be the respective campuses or communities where it would be deployed. Like Uber, riders will be able to open a mobile app to find the nearest bike and would not have to worry about parking space, as the company would have negotiated those slots with the authorities of that community.
Their launch in LASU will determine a lot of this young company's future, even as we wish them all the best.
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"Drafting error" in Equality Act leaves doubt over enforceability of compromise agreements
The ability to use compromise agreements to create binding settlement of potentially high value claims under the Equality Act 2010 has been called into doubt by lawyers.
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The ability to use compromise agreements to create binding settlement of potentially high value claims under the Equality Act 2010 has been called into doubt by lawyers. The wording of section 147 of the Act, which sets out the conditions for a valid compromise agreement, arguably makes it impossible for any adviser to meet the requirement for individuals to receive advice on the terms and effect of entering a compromise from an "independent adviser".
The employment provisions of the Equality Act 2010 came into force on 1 October 2010 and replace previous legislation covering unlawful discrimination on the grounds of age, race, gender, sexuality, disability and religion or belief. Although the Act as a whole was the subject of lengthy public consultation and debate, the difficulty with the wording governing compromise agreements was spotted only after the first claims under the Act started to be settled. The Government Equalities Office has issued a statement that the criteria defining an "independent adviser" are no different than under the previous discrimination legislation replaced by the Act. At least one leading employment law barrister believes that this is the correct interpretation of the offending section – although an equally eminent barrister has given a contradictory opinion. Until the matter has been settled by case law or a legislative amendment employers seeking absolute certainty in compromising claims for any form of discrimination or harassment should consider using the services of ACAS to settle claims under the Act. ACAS offers a pre-claim conciliation service so it is not a requirement for proceedings to be started.
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Stanisław Koczwara (ur. 23 listopada 1958) – polski duchowny katolicki, kapłan diecezji zamojsko-lubaczowskiej, doktor habilitowany, były wykładowca Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II, specjalność naukowa: archeologia chrześcijańska, dzieje Kościoła w starożytności.

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Pochodzi ze Stalowej Woli. 15 grudnia 1984 otrzymał w Lublinie święcenia kapłańskie. Został duchownym diecezji zamojsko-lubaczowskiej.

W 1993 na podstawie napisanej pod kierunkiem Jana Śrutwy rozprawy pt. Likwidacja schizmy akacjańskiej uzyskał na Wydziale Teologii KUL stopień naukowy doktora nauk teologicznych. Otrzymał także stopień naukowy doktora habilitowanego.

Był nauczycielem akademickim w Instytucie Historii Kościoła Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II. Arcybiskup Józef Życiński pozbawił go misji kanonicznej "za nauczanie niezgodne z papieską wizją Kościoła i antysemickie wypowiedzi". Wcześniej odwołano go ze stanowiska wykładowcy Metropolitalnego Seminarium Duchownego w Lublinie. Otrzymał także zakaz wygłaszania kazań w kościele akademickim KUL.

Został profesorem Instytutu Teologicznego w Wilnie, który nie miał na Litwie statusu szkoły wyższej i został zlikwidowany w 2016.

W marcu 2021 został upomniany przez diecezję zamojsko-lubaczowską za to, że podczas mszy świętej zaczął obwiniać ofiary księży-pedofili o ataki na Kościół.

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What can Western Balkans learn from the past to build a better future?
Forum "Reinforcing the European Integration of the Western Balkans" in Skopje; Photo: Twitter / @IDSCS_Skopje
SKOPJE – What is the European perspective of Western Balkans was the main question discussed at the first day of Think Tank Forum Western Balkans titled "Reinforcing the European Integration of the Western Balkans – Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future" held in Skopje on Monday.
Key topics of the discussion were related to the Berlin Process in the context of the Polish presidency, such as regional cooperation, security, migration, EU integration of the Western Balkan countries and overcoming bilateral issues.
"The Berlin Process losses its potency if the EU enlargement is not credible enough. The EU doors must be open for the Western Balkan countries," pointed out the president of the Institute for Democracy 'Societas Civilis' (IDSCS) Marko Troshanovski in his welcoming remarks.
Speaking about the regional relations, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia Andrej Zhernovski said that "there are no frozen conflicts, but only frozen solutions."
"We would not change and cannot change our path. In order to reinforce our future, we need to have good neighbourly relations and regional cooperation," he said.
Zhernovski added that they understand the importance of the reforms, adding that the integration process is more transparent than before.
"We hope that in June we will have a positive message and we will start the accession process. We are more than ready to start off the new phase. With the Prespa Agreement, we did a big step forward. If the EU does not reward our efforts, it will lose much credibility in the region and it will send the wrong message to both reform-oriented and authoritarian rulers in the Western Balkans," explained Foreign Minister Zhernovski.
Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Poland, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, Plenipotentiary for the Western Balkans Summit, underlined the importance of the topics which will be brought up at this forum because it will serve as good preparation for the upcoming Summit in Poznań.
"I believe that the bottom-up approach of the EU integration is the right direction. Topics of today and tomorrow will be presented in Poznań this year. Your strong voice will have a chance to influence the decisions. Your policy paper will be read, your presence will be noted and your questions answered," said vel Sęk.
The significance of the topics which will be discussed at this two-day event was also underlined by the Deputy Director-General of the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) Maciej Popowski.
"The perspective is clear, next steps are clear, too. We just need to work hard in different formats and configurations to make it happen," said Popowski.
Instead of simulating the enlargement, there should be more concrete measures
There are few elements which have spread the scepticism towards the EU perspective, said Kai-Olaf Lang of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
"I believe that enlargement is a success. Why is there enlargement fatigue? Because the benefits of the enlargement are not distributed equally. The EU policy is to keep the club together rather than bring in new members. We also have a selective perception of the past enlargement rounds," pointed out Kai-Olaf Lang, adding that the EU has experienced securitization because of the eastern members and their own issues.
Kai-Olaf Lang thinks that instead of simulating the enlargement, the EU should start creating more concrete measures.
The Head of the Strategy Analysis team at the Polish Economic Institute Łukasz Czernicki gave an overview of the Polish experience regarding the accession process and benefits in the economic terms.
"If Poland had not joined the EU in 2004, its economy would have been 12% smaller than it is now and export would have been 30% lower," said Czernicki.
He pointed out that joining the EU is joining the certain area of legal standards which attracts much more foreign investors, which further leads to economic dependence of foreign capital.
"There are two things Balkans countries can benefit from entering in the EU but first, they have to try to attract these foreign direct resources and to develop their local companies in order to compete with these foreign ones," Czernicki concluded.
Michael Kořan, the Board President of the Global Arena Research Institute, thinks that we are in the period of redefining what Visegrád Group really is.
"Visegrád Group is kind of an empty box, it can be whatever you want it to be and it facing a period where they are discovering what will it be," said Kořan.
Grubješić: Regional cooperation is important, we need to improve it
In the light of that, the Secretary-General of the European Movement in Serbia Suzana Grubješić pointed out that things have changed since these countries became the EU members.
"The EU has changed, the enlargement process and Western Balkans also, but there are some things that can be learned from this, such as regional cooperation, which I believe is very important," pointed out Grubješić.
She also put an emphasis on bilateral issues in the Western Balkans.
"We need to improve our cooperation like Visegrád Group, we need our neighbours in the Western Balkans. It is important so we can catch up with other EU member states," added Grubješić.
However, she argued that in Visegrád countries existed the consensus in joining the EU and NATO, something it cannot be said for all Western Balkan countries. "Regarding Serbia, the support towards the EU is lower and it is around 50%, while the support towards NATO membership runs below ten per cent," stressed Grubješić.
When it comes to the Berlin Process, she explained she considers it to be a positive model, but it is not a substitute for the EU accession.
Grubješić concluded by asking why has the EU Commission postponed the progress report. "Why is there such an atmosphere of the EU enlargement that no EU politician dares to even mention the word and even the EU Commission has postponed report?" she asked.
Popowski: Policy regarding Western Balkans will not change
Maciej Popowski stated that policy regarding the Western Balkans will not change during this EU Commission mandate.
"We do not want to import any bilateral issues. Let me be very clear, all the bilateral issues need to be resolved before the EU integration of the region," pointed out Popowski.
Matteo Bonomi, Research Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, thinks that the EU does not have the instruments to transform the region. He also believes there is no sustainable status quo in the region.
"The lack of progress in the past period makes things worse. The region also has the ecological and demographic issues that will have economic and political consequences. So, the less the Balkans are relevant, populated, contented – more the failure of the EU action in the Balkans will be bombastic," said Bonomi.
He stated he hopes the EU will open the accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia.
That there are some questions, which need to be answered by both the EU and the candidate countries, so both sides could be sure they have something in common, pointed out the Editor-in-Chief of the Euinside Adelina Marini.
"The answers to these sorts of questions are very important for the EU. If you imagine that enlargement stays the same in the next 10 years, and all of the Western Balkan countries join the EU, then the fragile democracies in the EU would be in majority. What will happen then?" asked Marini.
Nechev: Commission needs to take the lead of the accession process
The Head of the Centre for European Integrations of the Institute for Democracy 'Societas Civilis', Zoran Nechev said that the Balkans needs to reflect on the past in order to reinforce the future. In addition, he said that the EU needs to change its procedure, especially when it comes to the accession process, allowing more qualify majority voting. This way, he believes, member states would still be involved, but not in this format.
"The Commission needs to take the lead of the accession process and finish unification of Europe. Member states should be involved, but not in the way they are at the moment – only at the end of the process. Commission Hahn was responsible for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations which was covered by Federica Mogherini, as well. Looking at his agenda we can see the Western Balkans was among his priorities, which has been shown by the number of his visits to this region," underlined Nechev.
Senior Research Fellow of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy and Assistant Professor of the University of Macedonia Ioannis Armakolas made an overview of the situation between Greece and North Macedonia.
"Greece has never hidden the fact that it wants to use its EU membership to resolve bilateral issues. Resolving the name dispute was the absolute condition for North Macedonia joining the EU", explained Armakolas.
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Dwight Howard Says He's Serious About Joining WWE: "No Doubt"
Sep 25 2022 6:01 pm By Cole Blake
Dwight Howard says that he's serious about leaving the NBA to join the WWE if the offer is right.
Dwight Howard, who recently appeared at a tryout for the WWE, says that he's serious about making the transition to professional wrestling. Howard discussed his future after the NBA during a recent interview with TMZ Sports.
"Whatever opportunity is best," Howard told the outlet when asked how he'd respond to being offered a bigger contract in wrestling than the NBA.
When asked whether he's serious about the pivot, he added, "Of course. No doubt."
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Howard is still currently a free agent after spending last season with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Howard's comments come after Triple H, who now works as the WWE's Chief Content Officer, spoke about the 18-year NBA veteran's wrestling potential.
"The ball's in his court," Triple H told Sporting News. "It's a funny thing, Dwight, in the conversations we had was like, 'You know, I really want to do this. I'm serious, I really want to do this.' We hear that a lot, and there's a difference between saying, 'I want to do this,' and putting in the grind and doing the work to get there."
He continued: "[He] came by our tryouts in Nashville, was incredibly entertaining. Jumping in promos by himself and then with others, incredibly entertaining. Really driven to want to do this, it's just a matter for him, he's got a lot of things going on, right? So when he says,' Hey I want to give this a shot,' he's got my phone number. All he's gotta do is call me, and we'll see what can happen. And if he's willing to put in the grind and the drive that guys like Logan Paul, and Bad Bunny and Tyson Fury are willing to put in, then let's go."
Check out a clip of Dwight Howard's appearance at the WWE tryout below, as well as Triple H's recent comments on the NBA star.
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Chinese company Coolpad's debut mobile in the Indian native the Dazen 1 was obviously an amazing phone, given the point that it was priced at Rs.6,999. At its selling price, the Dazen 1 offered very good value for money. 5 months later, Coolpad has introduced the Dazen Note 3, and listed it at Rs.8,999.
The Dazen Note 3 is the least expensive — under Rs.10,000 — phone to come along with a finger-print sensor, which usually works and works quite nicely for sure. Perhaps surprisingly, that isn't the sole interesting bit regarding the Dazen Note 3. There is much more, and when you take everything into viewpoint, the Dazen Note 3 definitely seems to be an amazing steal, mainly at its selling price.
The Dazen Note 3 basically follows in the footsteps of the Dazen 1, which is nice. We enjoyed the Dazen 1's simple, yet very ergonomic, design, and the Dazen Note 3 is no different. It is manufactured from plastic material, and that is fine thinking about its price. The plastic back is detachable and carries a soft matte texture which feels good in the hands as also improves grip. The back carries a comparable feel and look to it similar to the Dazen 1 and the Xiaomi Redmi 2.
The edges are outfitted by an aluminium casing that breaks monotony of the design and ups the phone's premium quotient.
At 155 grams, the Dazen Note 3 is as heavy (or light depending on your point of view) as the Lenovo K3 Note. It's not as thin though. Actually, at 9.3 mm its thickness is quite prominent. Nevertheless, it never gets beyond control. It is made possible by 2 things: good screen to body ratio and the gradual curve (of the back) towards the sides. The two things help enhance ergonomics making one-handed operability on the Dazen Note 3 quite achievable. For a 5.5-inch phone at this price, Coolpad has done a good job as far as design and dimensional parameters are concerned.
The right of the phone houses the power key while the volume rocker is on the left hand side. Their placement is not much of a problem and these offer good feedback. Coolpad provides you with physical capacitive keys for home, back and recent apps, but they are not backlit.
The USP of the Dazen Note 3 is its finger-print scanner, which is on the backside, similar to how it is on the new Nexus phones, and an odd couple of gadgets such as the Huawei Honor 7. It gives you a possibility to save up to 5 finger prints. And boy, it's fast. All it requires is a soft tap of the finger and boom the phone gets unlocked in a matter of moments. You can even use it to selectively lock applications which you want to keep private. The finger-print scanner is the headlining aspect of the Dazen Note 3, and yes it is not going to disappoint.
The dualSIM slots and the microSD slot are attached underneath the removable back cover. The phone does not have any kind of protective covering on the display.
The Dazen Note 3 has a 5.5-inch HD IPS display having a 720×1280 pixels resolution and 267 ppi pixel density that is certainly kind of a downer, since rival phones such as the Lenovo K3 Note and YU Yureka Plus offer you FullHD screens at around comparable price points.
The Dazen Note 3 on the other hand wants you to deal with an HD screen. Provided that you keep your expectations low, it works nicely. Actually, the phone provides excellent viewing angles for an HD screen which is great. And it gets vibrant, lower than the K3 Note or even the YU Yureka Plus though. The Dazen 1 got really bright too. For what it's worth that one had a smaller screen, with same resolution so that's kind of expected.
Even though the phone has great viewing angles, colours are somewhat off balance and also have an odd warm tinge. It comes with an option to manually control colour saturation. Switching it to vivid mode provides marginally greater results. The phone maintains manageable levels of brightness and viewing angles outside unless of course sunlight is directly reflecting at the screen. We have undoubtedly seen better displays in this price range.
The Note 3 runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box together with the company's custom made Cool UI on the top. Cool UI — like the majority of Chinese UIs — resorts to heavy customization which may or may not work in its favour according to users' preference.
It is made keeping simplicity of use in the mind though. The Note 3 wants you to get rid of multiple home screens, and as a result offers you most of the things (you need) on just one. You may still find multiple home screens — with no app drawer — however the drop down notification panel and Coolpad's version of floating apps/widgets means everything is right there on one home screen. All this is managed properly without much mayhem.
Let's get started with the drop down notification panel. This one's closer to Lenovo's Vibe UI, while offering as many as 16 quick setting toggles, in one go. You cannot modify them or change their position though.
Of the 16 quick setting toggles, the multitasking switch and C-button are worthy of a mention. The multitasking switch basically creates a floating menu that houses your basic apps (you can even add as many as you want to the list) and then enables you to pick 2 apps that you can then run simultaneously in split screen mode. Of course, they copied it from Samsung and it does not work as flawlessly though, but you know it's there. The C-button creates a toggle wheel which gives you direct access to system control apps such as power, volume and screen brightness, which is useful. The app switcher is closer to the Lollipop approach but additionally provides you with the option to lock apps.
The Note 3 is driven by a 1.3GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6753 processor along with Mali-T720. This is the first phone at its price to come having 3GB of RAM. On paper, the phone definitely seems to be perfectly endowed for the price. And, it's an equally good performer in real usage.
It's cunning, peppy and incredibly responsive. Despite the fact that Coolpad has literally gone out of its way and packed the phone to its brim with unnecessary apps, the same does not affect performance. In fact, barring some periodic hiccups — especially while streaming 1080p content — the phone showed no signs of lag or unrest, even if we had multiple apps to the tune of 10 or more opened simultaneously.
The phone was able to manage almost everything that we threw at it, without much pain. Performance was in line with phones such as the YU Yureka Plus. The phone has an advantage over the K3 Note, in overall performance and multitasking.
While basic games are handled well, the phone has some difficulties while dealing with graphical games like Asphalt 8: Airborne at maxed out settings, with frame rate drips quite evident. These games produced much better frame rates at medium and low settings. All this while, the Note 3 was able to keep a cool head. It did get warm (on long usage) but nothing alarming.
The Note 3 is sold with 16GB of built-in memory of which only 11.10GB is available for use. It supports expandable storage by up to 64GB via microSD card.
The Note 3 comes with a 13-megapixel camera on the back with autofocus and LED flash. There's also a 5-megapixel camera on the front. The camera app seems like it has borrowed a little something from everybody in the trade. At the same time, there is also an option to quick launch the camera by double clicking the volume down button. It's not exactly very 'quick' though. Nonetheless it helps bypass the fingerprint unlock so that is saving a few crucial milliseconds.
A word about the rear camera's autofocus and shutter speed: they are awesome. Then again, the same cannot be said about the photos you click with it. What you get is average at the very best, and if you know any better the under Rs.10,000 segment has some good camera phones now. So that doesn't help its case either.
Image clicked in outdoor well-lit situations came out well with good amount of detail — dynamic range was good — and colours that were mostly true to source. Metering issues were few, so was noise or grain. Having said that, the rear snapper really struggles in tricky light situations, with noise being far too much in low light environments. Meanwhile, images shot in well-lit indoor situations pack in some detail although they are grainy.
The camera app provides you with some neat tweaks in Pro mode — designed in classic Lumia style — which help control ISO and shutter speed. Auto HDR is missing so you will need to manually enable it. It does help a bit in tricky situations, but all in all, the camera performance is not the strong point of this phone.
The Note 3 uses a 3,000mAh battery which happens to be larger than what the K3 Note and YU Yureka Plus offer you. Battery life therefore is fantastic.
We put through the phone to 3 hours of 1080p video playback, 1 hour of music playback, around 30 minutes of graphics intensive gaming, phone calls to the tune of 1 hour over 4G and web browsing. We additionally clicked some photos with it. This gave us near to 11 hours of battery life on the device. The majority of users with more typical workload will be able to get close to one full day, without any hiccups.
Coolpad's Note 3 is certainly a fantastic value for money buy. It comes with a good display screen, provides good performance, comes with an amazing battery and features a fingerprint sensor that works like a charm. Now, you won't exactly be able to make mobile payments using this feature as the phone lacks NFC, however mobile payments are still a rare breed in India, which means you won't be losing out on much.
There are disadvantages. Many of them are related with the user interface. It is heavily customised and there are privacy issues. Then again it is possible to disable most of them (Cool Store and Xploree) from the settings. The Note 3 also offers a set of mediocre cameras – the YU Yureka Plus gives you better – that don't necessarily dazzle. Additionally, the display is no match for the K3 Note.
Although, when you go through the overall package, the Note 3 comes out as a better bet, and also a better value for money, with the additional bonus of a fingerprint scanner. The only 'major' thing bringing it down is the flash sale approach by which Coolpad is offering this phone. Beyond that we see absolutely no compelling reason why you should not buy the Note 3.
When you go through the overall package, the Note 3 comes out as a better bet, and also a better value for money, with the additional bonus of a fingerprint scanner. The only 'major' thing bringing it down is the flash sale approach by which Coolpad is offering this phone. Beyond that we see absolutely no compelling reason why you should not buy the Note 3.


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Is Religiosity Increasing or Decreasing?
aussieguy55 replied to smac97's topic in General Discussions
In Australia there is always a large difference between those who profess to be Latter Day Saints in the census and the numbers the church claims to have. " Australia census has reported increases in Latter-day Saint membership from 35,500 in 1986 to 45,200 in 1996, and 53,100 in 2006.[15] LDS Church figures for membership were reported at approximately 60,000 in 1986, 87,000 in 1996, and 116,925 in 2006. The percentage of members on LDS Church records that self-identified on the Australian census declined from 59% in 1986 to 52% in 1996 and 45% in 2006. In 2009, one in 170 was nominally LDS. http://cumorah.com Australians prefer their footy and beach on a Sunday. Only growth are the Pentecostals and Moslems.
Professor John Gee Leaves the Maxwell Institute?
aussieguy55 replied to Peppermint Patty's topic in General Discussions
I am hoping to get a copy of the script of Dan's interview this week. Dan said a lot of interesting things. I look forward to his second volume bio of Joseph Smith etc.
I dare you Robert Smith get out of your comfort zone here and engage his arguments in the comments section of the video. I got a feeling you might get some comment from Brian Hauglid. The scribes did not do it so you are left with the catalyst theory.
Dan Vogel in his latest videos with Gospel Tangents has demolished Gee's arguments about the missing BOA scroll.
Israel Finkelstein and Peter Enns convinced me that there was no exodus and conquest. As well as William Dever.
"As Far as It Is Translated Correctly": Bible Translation and the Church
aussieguy55 replied to Dan McClellan's topic in General Discussions
It seems Luther translated 1 Cor 6:9 differently to that of the modern versions The Catholic version (NRSV) uses sodamites. Luther used knabenschander Knaben is boy, schander is molester. "It turns out that the ancient world condoned and encouraged a system whereby young boys (8-12 years old) were coupled by older men. Ancient Greek documents show us how even parents utilized this abusive system to help their sons advance in society. So for most of history, most translations thought these verses were obviously referring the pederasty, not homosexuality! " https://www.forgeonline.org/blog/2019/3/8/what-about-romans-124-27?fbclid=IwAR2G6gSjhGuucqePGkJ0X0gljVZc36AqhqhDeFV31GHWIFDikgxtFtsuzIk Another paper disputing the translation in this verse is https://www.academia.edu/2507704/_An_Argument_Against_the_Use_of_the_Word_Homosexual_In_English_Translations_of_the_Bible_The_Heythrop_Journal_51_no._5_2010_723-729 Why use word sodomites? Ezekiel 16 49 "'Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. Anything in that passage link the sin of Sodom as homsexuality?
"The comprehensive conquest saga in the Book of Joshua is a fictive literary composition aimed at presenting the occupation of the entire Land of Israel, initiated and guided by the Lord a nd carried out by the twelve tribes under Joshua. Military events that took place in the course of the later history of Israel were used by the author as models for his narratives. These military episodes were entirely adapted to the new environment so that in no case can we trace a direct.literary relationship between the original story/tradition and its literary reflection. When were the conquest narratives of the Book of Joshua composed? The unified character of the text, in which J oshua and the twelve tribes play the major role, points to a relatively late da te. I have suggested above that Sennacherib's campaign to Judah in 70 I BCE possibly served as a model for the description of Joshua's campaign to the Shephelah and the hill country of Juda h (Jos 10:28-39), and that the mentions of hanging on O'llll (Jos 8:29; 10:26) possibly reflect the Assyria n way of punishing rebel leaders by impalement on posts. The composition of the conquest saga is certainly no earlier than the seventh century BCE.243 One cannot rule out the possibility that isolated episodes, in particular r the short anecdotes and notes, had been written sometime before the penning of the unified literary work. But the main block of material was composed at a late date as part of the Deuteronomistic history of Israel. Thus, hundreds of years separate the historical work from the time to which it is attributed . This enormous gap explain ins the minor contribution of the conquest stories to the early history of Israel https://www.academia.edu/13459417/The_Conquest_of_Canaan_in_the_Book_of_Joshua_and_in_History_in_I._Finkelstein_and_N._Na_aman_eds._From_Nomadism_to_Monarchy._Archaeological_and_Historical_Aspects_of_Early_Israel_Jerusalem_1994_pp._218-281
So you dismiss the work of Israel Finkelstein and William Dever?
Joseph Smith: The World's Greatest Guesser
aussieguy55 replied to JarMan's topic in General Discussions
On the other board there were over 712 responses and over 19000 views (many were guests)on this paper. I came away from this debate better informed. I was pleased that the same contributors on MD debated with the Dales on the Interpreter blog and stuck to the debate with little acrimony unlike that occurring on a certain blog.
Was Facsimile 3 Tampered With, and If So, Why?
Is "Shulem "represented by the characters above his hand? I understand the names can be read and match the Egyptian characters for Isis etc. Why is the Prince holding his hand? Again the Princes' name is supposed to be above his hand?
Why do you block critics on this matter. ? Oh well in this matter you have a lot at stake.
I think that the "slave"" and the "Prince" are holding the "waiter" because he was upset because "Abraham" complained about the service.
It seems a philosopher who accepts the Book of Mormon as authentic but does not accept the Dale's apologetic argument. http://www.ldsphilosopher.com/a-response-to-the-bayesian-analysis-of-book-of-mormon-historicity/?fbclid=IwAR2RrC1UrdVDoQ66Qt7veVcStQ99hxh3io4v_fyI68ZPdIhb27G5aj2lyp4
What amazed me about the discussion was I saw some really smart people on stats from both sides, the guys who came over from Mormondiscussons and had reasonable discussions on the Dales paper. Brant Gardiner seems to have managed both sides.
Friendly Fire from BYU: Opening Old Book of Abraham Wounds Without the First Aid
aussieguy55 replied to cinepro's topic in General Discussions
Israel Finkelstein in The Bible Unearthed calls it The Failed Search for the Historical Abraham. p.33.


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New OWASA board members
Submitted by Ruby Sinreich on July 21, 2005 - 1:02pm
For those unfamiliar with it, the Orange Water And Sewer Authority Board of Directors is considered by many to be the most powerful non-elected body in Orange County. Members are appointed by the elected officials of the various government bodies. According to a recent announcement from OWASA:
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen, Chapel Hill Town Council and Orange County Board of Commissioners recently made four appointments to the OWASA Board of Directors.
Mr. Mac Clarke of Chapel Hill, who began serving on the OWASA Board in 2003, was reappointed.
Ms. Terri Buckner and Mrs. Laura Sandvik were appointed by the Carrboro Aldermen.
Ms. Marge Anders Limbert was appointed to the OWASA Board by the Orange County Commissioners.
Ms. Buckner has served on Carrboro's Transportation Advisory Board and Environmental Advisory Board. She is now Vice Chair of the Chapel Hill Information Technology Committee and a volunteer researcher for the local Community Initiative to End Homelessness.
Ms. Limbert is the Coordinator of North Carolina Citizens for Clean Water, which worked successfully for the recent passage of the Drinking Water Reservoir Protection Act by the State General Assembly. She sits on the Orange County Commission for the Environment and on the Board of Directors for the Village Project.
Mrs. Sandvik has worked in the NC Division of Water Quality's Coastal Non-Point Source Pollution Program, and at the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy in Raleigh. She is pursuing a Master of Public Administration degree at North Carolina State University.
Mr. Clarke is a retired marketing and sales executive. He retired in 1991 from the position of Director of Business Development with Pfizer, an international pharmaceutical and chemical firm.
The OWASA Board of Directors has nine members. For more information about OWASA Board Members, please visit the OWASA Website, www.owasa.org, and see the section on the Board of Directors.
Terri, you are a busy bee! How do you find time to post here on OP so often?
Interestingly, this may be
Submitted by Mark Marcoplos (not verified) on July 21, 2005 - 1:38pm
Interestingly, this may be the first female majority Board for OWASA. And beyond that, I think the local governments made some outstanding choices which bode well for OWASA's future.
Boy has OWASA changed since
Submitted by Joe Capowski (not verified) on July 23, 2005 - 11:03pm
Boy has OWASA changed since the early 1990's. Here's a story
I told Ed Kerwin (OWASA's director) at some meeting a few
years ago:
When I was running for town council the first time and was
unsure how I would perform at the candidates' forums, I would
seek advice from Art Werner, who had then served six years,
and like me was an engineer-turned-local politician. Art said
"It's simple Joe, whenever you're asked a question and don't
know the answer, just bash OWASA". The board changed,
became (and remains) very competent, they hired Ed Kerwin,
and now OWASA does an excellent job for us.
So today's advice to new candidates: "When you're asked a
question that you don't know the answer to, just bash DOT."


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Shohaku Okumura, founder and abbot of Sanshin Zen Community, was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1948. In 1970, he was ordained by the late Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, one of the foremost Zen masters of the twentieth-century. He received Dharma transmission from his teacher in 1975 and, shortly after, became one of the founding members of Pioneer Valley Zendo in Massachusetts. He returned to Japan in 1981 and began translating the works of Dogen Zenji, Uchiyama Roshi and other Soto masters from Japanese into English. In 1993, he moved back to the United States with his wife, Yuko, and their two children. He has previously served as teacher at the Kyoto Soto Zen Center in Japan and at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, and was Director of the Soto Zen International Center in San Francisco for thirteen years.
Today, Okumura Roshi is recognized for his unique perspective on the life and teachings of Dogen Zenji derived from his experience as both practitioner and translator, and as a teacher in both Japanese and Western practice communities. He gives frequent lectures on the Shobogenzo and other foundational texts. His translations have been published in several books, including Dogen's Extensive Record (Wisdom Publications, 2004) and The Wholehearted Way (Tuttle Publishing, 1997), and his lectures have appeared in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, Dharma Eye, and Buddhism Now. He continues to lead sesshin (intensive meditation retreats) and genzo-e (Shobogenzo study) retreats at Sanshinji and at various other centers in the US and around the world.


Navayugakavicakravarti Gurram Jashuva was born in 1895 in Katragaddapadu.
embrassed by that ferocious devil throughout his entire life.
Jashuvaas father's name was Virayya and mother's name was Lingamma.
Jashuvaas parents did a fantastic job in the upbringing of the children.
(as Virayya, Jashuvaas father accepted Christianity as his religion).
family were dismissed from their Christian society.
suffering from unemployment, he still was writing wonderful poetry.
During those times he was recognized by the literary and poetry lovers.
He was employed again.  Publishers came forward to publish his works.
side and Gurajada Apparao on the other.


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Chinese tech companies write off India
Club Factory's app was wiped from Indian phones after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed back against China's technology companies © FT montage; Reuters
Five months after his business was banned in India, Aaron Li has resigned himself to being locked out of the country forever.
Sitting in his office in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, Mr Li said he had no idea when Club Factory, which sold cheap fashion and homewares to hundreds of millions of Indians through their smartphone, would be allowed to trade again after New Delhi blacklisted scores of Chinese apps.
India this week banned 43 more Chinese apps, continuing a campaign against Chinese tech companies that began in June after a border clash between the two countries left 21 Indian soldiers dead. The so-called "digital strike" has hit large Chinese tech companies including Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance.
Last year, Mr Li raised $100m from investors to expand in India, as Club Factory hit the top of India's download charts and was looking at profitability. He said he saw more opportunity in India than in China's crowded market, describing it as a "blue sea" for ecommerce.
But now he expects to lose most of the investment. The months in limbo have destroyed his business, he said. "If the consumers cannot see you for a long time, they will not come back," he said.
Mr Li said he was at home one evening when the news broke that India would ban 59 Chinese-owned apps for security reasons, including Club Factory. In a stroke, almost all of China's top apps were wiped from Indian phones, including the short-video app TikTok, Alibaba's popular UC Browser and Tencent's messaging platform WeChat.
"I was at home playing video games when suddenly I received a message saying the Indian government was going to block our app," Mr Li said, initially refusing to believe that the edict was real.
Aaron Li, founder of Club Factory, does not know when the ecommerce app will be allowed to trade again in India
Soon Mr Li was embroiled in an all-out battle to save his business. The following day, he talked with Club Factory's board members. "All the investors were shocked too. No internet people have experienced things like this," he said.
A note from India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology simply said Club Factory would be removed from Google and Apple's app stores.
Indian telecoms companies soon blocked Club Factory's domain name as well, which stopped customers from being able to track their orders. Even communicating to his staff in India became a problem, since they had mostly used WeChat to send messages and make calls.
Mr Li drafted a letter to the Indian ministry with his lawyer. "Club Factory has invested approx. INR 650 crores ($87.5m) in India to set up critical infrastructure for ecommerce," he wrote. "We are in no manner engaged in any activity which is prejudicial to [the] sovereignty and integrity of India."
But he never heard back. Attempts by his legal team to contact the ministry also floundered. "The order came from [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi," he claimed, adding that the other affected Chinese companies were similarly in the dark about the situation. "We immediately found it was useless to talk to others. Nobody knows," he said.
In Hangzhou, his employees began asking what his plan was. India was their only market and Club Factory's $100m of monthly orders dropped to zero in July. Within two weeks, Mr Li had laid off half his staff, more than 300 workers, to buy some time.
"We had no better way. You have to make a tough choice. We have to look at the runway," he said, adding that the redundancies meant the company had enough money to keep going for five or six months without revenue.
More than 200 Chinese apps have now been blocked from the Indian market, with New Delhi adding another 43 apps to its blacklist on Tuesday.
China's tech companies, once keen to invest in the vast untapped potential of the Indian market, remain in the dark about how long the bans will continue.
Alibaba has laid off employees in the country and curtailed its "innovation initiatives". Tencent returned the publishing rights for its hit game PUBG Mobile to its South Korean developer in an effort to get it unblocked.
TikTok has not yet started lay-offs for its staff of roughly 2,000, but a person close to the company said morale was low. "They are doing busy work, team building, planning for how to win back India when TikTok is allowed back in. But we are worried [employees] will start to leave," the person said.
Another person close to TikTok said Indian officials are stalling while the border stand-off between the two countries continues.
"Until China tensions ease up there is no reason for the Indian government to relax their stance," said Ganesh Rengaswamy, co-founder of venture firm Quona Capital. "It is not just about business right now, it is social and political."
Mr Li said there was little the Chinese government could do to help.
A Chinese government spokesperson said on Wednesday: "Since June, India has in four batches blocked Chinese apps on the pretext of protecting national security, the action obviously violates market rules and [World Trade Organization] rules."
At the end of July, Club Factory received a list of questions from the ministry, including: what services does your app provide, what is your privacy policy, who are the owners, where are your servers located?
"After seeing those, we realised this is not a good sign for us — we realised they didn't block us for a specific reason," said Mr Li, who dutifully submitted answers to each question. "Since then, we haven't heard anything from the government," he said.
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A spokesperson for the ministry said it was still reviewing the banned apps. "It is ongoing, it is a quasi-judicial process, as per the act, the cyber law division, has issued some notices to them, and submitted their responses," said the spokesperson. "The judicial process is ongoing."
Meanwhile, Mr Li and his team at Club Factory have pivoted to building a new app for Europe and the US. Even if India relaxes the ban, he said he wanted an apology before he re-entered the market.
"Why should I invest in a country if it has a risk to fall to zero?" asked Mr Li. "Today, it is Chinese applications, the next day it could be American applications. It is an unknown."


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