A few months ago I picked up a used Squier Affinity Jazz Bass and for what it is, this bass isn't bad at all. I am really surprised at how good this thing sounds and plays. If I am not mistaken there is only the Bronco beneath this bass? So again, for what it is I am very surprised at how it performs.
I bought this bass so I could learn more about setup and make some mods and not have to worry about screwing something up of value. I picked this bass up for $150 and I negotiated a set of authentic Fender tuners for another $25. I have not yet replaced the tuners as I will need to widen the peg holes and to do that I need to get my hands on a reasonably priced reamer. Which I have not been able to do, yet.
My idea is to mod this thing from head to body, including a total paint or stain job.
So, I have been fiddling around here and there. My setup skills have become strong, thanks in large to Marco, who taught me how to setup a previously temperamental floating bridge hollow body, and to Dave, from YouTube fame Dave's World of Fun. I've had the chance to see some of Dave's collection first hand and it is very nice.
This past weekend I was replacing the old jazz style tone knobs with some Chrome nobs. I was having a lot of difficulty removing the volume knobs and used too much force and pulled the entire shaft out on both volume knobs… Yeah. I have a lot to learn.
I've now decided to replace the electronics completely (lol) and have a Obsidian Wire solder less wiring harness on the way from New Zealand. From everything I have read on this unit it is top notch and should provide a better over all sound. Certainly better than the Chinese components that came with the bass. God are they cheap. So now what I want to do is replace the pickups and I would like your feedback on which ones to go with.
I've narrowed my choice down to 5.
You are probably familiar with the Fender pickups and I would still like to hear your opinions on them, but I am also interested in hearing if any of you have experience with the DiMarzio DP 123 and more so, the Bill Lawrence J-45. Apparently these pickups are out of this world. I doubt anyone has even heard of Tone Emporium. They are a small Canadian company.
I would also be interested in any suggestions on bridges. Any advice/feedback is appreciated.
Why stay so "stock' on the pickups? Why not go a little crazy with some Seymour Duncan SSB4-NYC-s (http://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/nyc-bass-set-4-strg-3) or SSB-4s Soapbars (http://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/passive-soapbar-set-phase-ii)? The NYC's will probably need a new tone circuit, but that's another mod that steps away from the Affinity.
I have a Silvertone SB-11 ($60, used) that I plan on converting to the point where only the body and neck are original. It will take some time, as I already spent the whole mod budget on the Seymour Duncan SPB-3, but I have more plans, including the tuners, bridge, tone circuit, and maybe adding a jazz/humbucking pickup in the bridge position (which will require some woodworking as well!!). The idea is to get it to the point where someone will look at it (and hear it) and say, "That's a Silvertone!!?!?!?" and not "That's a Silvertone…"
Like 2nick3 I am looking to do a total mod on this bass. Eventually it will be stripped down to the bare wood and refinished. It's going to be a total mod. I want to build this to be top notch and make it mine. It plays well and feels good, although it is a bit heavy, but that isn't a real issue. I simply want a better sound from it.
I'll check out the Duncan pups and remove the N3's from my list. I am still leaning towards the Bill Lawrence J-45's, I just wish that I could find more examples of how they sound online. I'll also look into the Wilkinson's. I have heard good and bad.
I've watched what seems like a 100 of these videos, but had not seen this one.
Thanks, Jay.I've watched what seems like a 100 of these videos, but had not seen this one.
I guessed so. I like the Lindy Fralin in the bridge position. Maybe Nordstrand in the neck position.
The Lindy Fralin's do sound good.


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Petri Kuljuntausta: The Great White Bird 26.4.-7.5. in The Main Library
Petri Kuljuntausta: Sound Installation The Great White Bird (2017)
Turku City Library, The Main Library´s Runohuone from 26.4. to 7.5. within the opening hours.
Opening 26.4. at 4 pm.
Sound Installation The Great White Bird (2017)
I started the composition work by arranging a recording trip to West Coast of Finland on 18-19th of May, 2012. The recording place was a tower build for birdwatchers at the conservation area by the sea (Mietoistenlahti, Mynämäki, or 60°63'N, 21°85'E). The place is called as the paradise for the birdwatchers. There were many birds singing in the area, but when I was watching and listening to this mythic and gallant bird, I made the decision that the swan will be the sound subject for my work.
During the recording there were dozens of swans in the Bay. The swans were singing, making sound signals, splashing water with their strong wings and fighting with the competitors. I have never seen so many swans in one place, so the place and timing was perfect for my recording session.
After the trip I listened and tested the recorded material at my studio, selected the sounds that I wanted to use, processed them, and started the composition work. The composition was ready in 10 days and I sent the work to Helicotrema festival, Italy, which had commissioned the composition from me.
In 2016 I got invitation from the Change 2017 project to create an installation version from The Great White Bird. The new work is based on the sound material that I used in the composition, but the realization is totally different. First of all, the installation is spatial work with aleatoric elements, whereas the composition is linear and fixed.
In the installation I am using many speakers and the sounds are distributed to the space from different points around the listeners.
Even the most alienated sounds are processed from the field recordings of Swan song.
The relation of sounds is not determinated, instead the sounds are associated with each other randomly. Thus the installation produce versatile, endless combinations of sound layers and textures.
Petri Kuljuntausta is a sonic artist, composer, and musician. In close collaboration with natural scientists, he has composed an underwater music and made music out of whale calls and the sounds of the northern lights. Enviro mental sounds, live electronics, improvisation and collaborations with media artists have influenced him as a co poser. He has published three books on Sound Art and Electronic Music. Kuljuntausta received the Finnish State Prize for Art in 2005.
The Sound Installation to Turku is produced by University of Turku, department of musicology´s research project "Suomalainen nykymusiikki 2000-luvulla: taidemusiikin kulttuurinen ja yhteiskunnallinen merkitys postmodernissa maailmassa" (Koneen säätiö) and musicology´s and Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki´s research project "Music, Nature, and Environmental Crises: A Northern Perspective on Ecocritical Trends in Contemporary Music" (Suomen Akatemia).
The Sound Installation is a part of Turku Philharmonic Orchestra´s project "You must be the change you wish to see in the world".

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The Future War Between Christendom and Islam Is Coming Very Soon, The Catholic Church Will Be In the War And Will Fight The Antichrist, And Jesus Christ And Mary Will Lead All Christians To Conquer The World And Establish The Empire Of Christianity
By Ted on April 9, 2016 in Featured, General
The song of Christendom has been heard from the very depths of the soul; the harmony of her sound emanates from the annals of her history, the cries of her martyr's blood, and hearing this sublime song compels one then to be confronted with the choice between advancing the empire of Christ or being a slave to the despotism of the devil. But how can one not choose Christendom after reading her valiant history? The inspiration of the Faith flows from an eternal spring; the enemies of truth may cut her down, but like a reed rooted onto a perpetual river, it always grows back. Eternity has no owner, time can never be possessed, and Christianity will never cease, for from the timeless realms do the words of Truth speak, and from them the soul is enflamed with the fires of love.
The fire is sparked, the heavens breath, the winds rush and the light coming forth from the coal becomes brighter. Such is the spirit of zeal. The soul is like coal, without the spark of zeal from the spirit it remains cold and callous. But once the soul is enflamed, once it has spirit, then its zeal and valor never die, because a heart burning with fire is a heart gripped by the hand of eternity. God is love, as St. John tells us, and a heart gripped by the liberating spirit of God will never cease in its battle against the enemies of love. The zeal, the enthusiasm, the valor, the will, the indomitable spirit, the thirst for justice, the aspiring to see evil vanquished, all of these virtues will never end once they are ignited in the soul.
All it takes is the flame to be ignited in our hearts, for the rising of Christendom, for the world to see our zeal, to behold Christianity and thus, to see God. Through beholding zeal, man sees the light of eternal love. "So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 5:16)
The modern world saw the light of the Faith in the 20th century, in that almost forsaken land of Mexico, when the government of the tyrant, Plutaro Elias Calles, imposed his despotic edicts to uproot Christianity from the land. The Episcopalian and Methodist churches sided with the government; the US government sided with the Mexican despot; Margaret Sanger and the Ku Klux Klan sided with the antichrist government. But only a small group of valorous warriors, were for Christ. These were the Cristeros, and they let their whole souls be illuminated by the light that beams from the Cross of selfless love and inspires us to sacrifice ourselves as the Holy One sacrificed Himself.
These Crusaders of Mexico were not just warriors, but intellects, who understood how their war was not one of physical desires, but of aspirations that transcended all things corporal. The Cristero general, Aurelio Acevedo, declared: "Our leader is Christ the King", and the Cristero and martyr, Noberto Lopez, declared before government soldiers executed him:
"Since I took up arms, I was determined to give up my life for Christ"
These warriors of the Cross, indeed did they take up arms for Christ, and they dauntlessly combated the evil government that ruled Mexico, which was filled with Freemasons and occultists. It is true that when the Cristeros fought in battle with government soldiers, that they cried out "Viva Cristo Rey!" (Long live Christ the King), while the enemy troops screamed, "Hail Satan!" The story of the Cristeros is the story of Christendom: a perpetual war beginning from the most ancient of times between the sons of God and the sons of Belial, between those who sit on the table of God and drink of the cup of God, and those who sit on the table of Satan and drink of the cup of the devils.
Cristero warriors
The Cristeros were Catholics who partook in the Mass and consumed the Eucharist — the Body and Blood of Christ —, and the enemy was a mixture of occultists and protestants who hated everything about the Catholic Church. The dictator of Mexico, Calles, was in fact a protestant who received support from the protestant Episcopalians (Margaret Sanger being one of them), the protestant Methodists, and the protestant Ku Klux Klan, and Calles even started his own church. While he was governor of Sonora, Calles wanted to create his own protestant church, and to drive out the Catholic priests and replace them with a new priesthood. He worked heavily on this goal with the Confederacion Regional Obrera Mexicana (Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers). This institution was headed by Luis Morones who hated all Catholic workers' unions, and who also founded the "Mexican Catholic Apostolic Church," founded as a protest against and a replacement for the Catholic Church.
An secret Catholic Mass during the tyranny of Calles
Thus, when the Cristeros rose up against the shackles of occult despotism, it was a war between those of the Catholic Faith and enemies who were but mere successors of the Protestant Reformation. The Cristeros, when they fought, they held up giant crosses and strived in the struggle against evil with total trust on and submission to the will of God. The Cristeros were the last of the Crusaders.
Hope overcame their souls and the eternal rivers of love and selfless compassion flowed into their beings and ignited zeal within them, and what kept their spirits up was a fervor ascending from the very depths of an enflamed heart. A journalist once asked the Cristero veteran, Antonio Alfonso Galvez, "Were you a Cristero?" and he responded with, "Yes, from the heart!" It was from the heart that he knew himself to be a combatant for the Holy Cross. It was from the heart that the Cristeros were aware that they were soldiers for a spiritual struggle, for the saints in Heaven — the spirits of men made perfect —; for the valorous angels who won the first sacred war which took place in Heaven; for the Son of God Who is Our Victory and our Hope and Our Inspiration, for it was He who vanquished evil on the Cross, as they combated evil while they carried their cross. Where did the zeal of the Cristeros come from? It came from Christendom; the ardour of the Cristeros was a continuation of Christendom that sprung from the beautiful heritage brought to Mexico through Catholic Spain.
When the Cristeros rose above the enslaving ways of conformity, and ascended to a higher awareness, one that looks beyond servitude to tyranny and gazes upward to Heaven; when they vanquished armies through Faith and subdued trained soldiers with the flames of passion and avidity, the American government gave weapons to the Mexican government so that they could slaughter the Catholics. Just as the protestants helped the Ottoman Empire to kill the Catholics, the protestant forces assisted the antichrist government of Mexico to slaughter the Catholics warriors. But as the Maccabees were a small body of warriors when they strived against an empire, the Cristeros continued on in their eternal struggle, regardless of their small number and of what power their enemies had.
It was from a heart burning with ardor that they cried out, "The soldiers of Christ will not be defeated!" Galves recounted how that when they exclaimed this war cry, and when they cried out "Long live Christ the King and our Lady of Guadalupe!", that, in his words, "we felt incredible bravery … incredible." This is because they had zeal sparked from the enflaming of the heart, and from that zeal, their enemies knew what true Christians were. They knew that true Christians are not those who comply with evil, who make deals with tyranny, who submit to despotism; they comprehended that true Christians fight evil and obey God rather than man. In the valor of the Cristeros, the world beheld true Christianity, they beheld the light of love that springs forth from mystical union between the heart of humanity and the Heart of Christ.
As the Serbian hymn says, "Lord, I am listening to you, speak to me until my heart burns". And in that day, the hearts of these Christians who sold their purses and bought swords, burned. Gregory Palamas spoke of the person united with God, that he knows that he is one with Him "from the peace which fills his mind, and the fire of love for God which burns in him." (Palamas, The Triads, 1.3.22) The warriors of Christ thirst after righteousness and they fight for it, as Moses fought the shepherds so that the women could take water from the well. They thirst for that which they fight for: righteousness, "judgment, and mercy, and faith." (Matthew 23:23) Their faith is manifested in their actions, and through their actions the world beholds the light that enlightens.
Cristero fighters
The warriors of Christ, the Cristeros, manifested their faith by their actions of selfless compassion, and truly could they say with the Apostle, "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus." (2 Corinthians 4:6) These words of the Apostle, indeed they are speaking of theosis, that union with God that all of humanity was created for, and surely are the emulator's of Christ's valor one with the Divine.
The soldiers of Mexico fled, but the Cristeros pushed forward without fear nor trepidation, because their enemies fought for transient things while they fought for that which is beyond the self. Surely can we say with these Cristeros,
"The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked." (Psalm 58:10)
Where are the Christians today reciting these verses? They are ashamed of them, ashamed of their own history, and thus have no identity. People who say they are Christians, but have no connection with the history of the Faith, have no connection with the martyrs of the Faith, no connection with its warriors, its selfless combatants, have no identity. The lie of the devil is that we can create our own identities, but the only true identity is one founded in Christ. Without Christ, we are nothing but dry leaves ready to be dissipated through the vicious winds, we are "clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion; wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever." (Jude 3:12-13) It is in Christ that humanity has its identity, and in Christ is all of His warriors and martyrs. Thus to see a holy combatant of the Cross, is to see Christ. As Juan Donoso Cortes wrote:
"The Church militant, the Church suffering, and the Church triumphant are one in our Lord Jesus Christ, through the prayers of Christians in heaven, whose petitions descend as a beneficent dew upon those who combat"
The martyr and Christ are one; the warrior and Christ are one, for both sacrifice, and wherever there is sacrifice, there is Christ. Every drop of saintly blood that drips upon the earth, is a reflection of the Cross, a small image of the blood of God that dripped in the victory over the Mountain of Death. The Crucifixion is not some mere execution, the Crucifixion is the war of all wars, for it is the war of humanity. It is the war between those who love humanity and those who want to destroy humanity; it is the war between those who emulate Christ and those who emulate the devil. When the Cristeros fought the enemies of God they saw themselves as in God, as participating in His divine nature. As the Cristero colonel, Ezequiel Mendoza Barragan said:
"You and I regret in a heartfelt way the death of those men who by faith gave up their lives, families, and other earthly interests; and shed their blood for the sake of God and our beloved homeland as true Christian martyrs do. Their blood, together with that of our Lord Jesus Christ and that of all the martyrs of the Holy Spirit, will afford us from God the Father the blessings we hope for on earth and in heaven."
The Cristeros did not see their war as secular, rather they knew that their struggle was simply a continuation of that war that commenced in Heaven, between God and His Angels and Satan and his demons. The Cristero warrior, Ezequiel Mendoza, knew of this spiritual war and comprehended the sublime truth that it was in the midst of the cause against the tyrannical government of Mexico:
"All those impious men who, from Cain to those who desolate the universe now, who appear to be great and powerful, who make a great noise and demand that men worship them, are only princes of error; they are nothing but beasts come up out of the abyss, but God has always sent truly great men to fight them, ever since the Archangel Michael in Heaven, all history is the history of this war. Woe to the tyrants who persecute Christ the King! They are the beasts in human shape of whom the Apocalypse speaks! … Now the Calleses are pressing us, they say it is because we are bad, because we are stubborn in wanting to defend the honour and glory of Him who died naked on the highest Cross between two thieves, because He was the worst of all humans because He did not wish to submit to the supreme lord of the earth."
When we read of how Don Juan de Austria fought the Turks, how the soldiers in the Battle of Lepanto, in unison, exhorted the Virgin Mary to pray for them in the fight; when we read of how El Cid pushed forward against the Moors for the retaking of Catholic Spain; when we read of how the Crusaders valiantly retook entire regions from the Muslims for the glory of Christendom; when we read of how Romanos Diogenes sacrificed everything he had, even his very life, for the empire of Christianity; when we read of how Constantine crushed the pagan tyrants through the power and valor of the Cross, we must never forget that the flame of Christendom was never extinguished. Christendom is ever ready to be awakened in our hearts. Once the flare of enlightenment is kindled in the hearts of the people, the world will witness the conquering Christendom rise again. Now is the devil's hour, but his hour will soon be eclipsed by the flaming sun of Christian warriors.
Hernan Cortez conquered Mexico and overthrew the Aztec empire. When he entered, the indigenous saw in him a humanity unknown to their souls which were so conditioned to sinister despotism. Catholic Spain brought to the Indians a new way — the Way — to life. And when they saw the righteous actions of these warriors of the Cross, they witnessed Christianity, they beheld the light. It was through arms and warfare that Christianity entered this land where God was unknown. Cortez commenced and led a revolt against the tyrannical Aztecs, and brought the people to freedom. Once the pagan bastions were destroyed, the Virgin of Guadalupe was seen by St. Juan Diego,and by the image that she imprinted on his poncho, Mexico was converted. If you say that the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is "idolatrous," do not forget that what you see on the icon is what John beheld with his own eyes:
"And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars" (Revelation 12:1)
Do you not see, how the saints of Heaven work with the warriors of God to convert nations?
God used the Conquistadors to overthrow pagan despotism, and it was the Mother of God the Son who brought the nation to the Faith. And if you think that Mary cannot bring people to Christ, read in the holy Gospel where it says, "His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5) Mary commanded people to obey her Son, and so she can have entire nations follow Christ.
Gorosieta, leader of the Cristeros
Mary asked her Son to make more wine, and He did. As St. Bernard of Clairvaux wrote: "that a woman should command the Son of God is a dignity without parallel." At the word of His mother, Christ made water into wine. Christ did not arise and do this miracle, until His mother told Him to do so. When she said to her Son, "They have no wine" (John 2:3), Christ told her, "Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come." (John 2:4) Christ did not say this to chide her, rather He told her that the hour of His Passion has not yet come. But what does wine have to do with Christ's passion? Wine is symbolic of blood and death, thus why Christ tells His Father, "let this cup pass from me" (Matthew 26:39), and to Peter He says, "Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me" (John 18:11). The cup is pictorially sublime, being filled with wine, that is, suffering and anguish.
Now, In order for wine to be made, grapes must first be crushed and squeezed under a winepress, and this is symbolic of the shedding of human blood in war, and it is this very imagery that God uses when describing the victory over His enemies. For in Lamentations we read:
"The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress." (Lamentations 1:5)
Thus, we know that the wine Christ made from the water represents blood, fury and slaughter. But what of the water? Water is symbolic of nations, of peoples. Hence the angel tells John,
"The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues." (Revelation 17:15)
As Mary entered Mexico to finish the conquest by the Cross, and as she told her Son to make more wine, so will she in the end participate with her Son in the Final Crusade in which the Antichrist will be defeated, all the world will be conquered under Christendom, and the flood of the enemies of the Cross made into blood as grapes crushed under the winepress. As Deborah exhorted Barak to crush the Canaanite tyranny, Mary will help lead the armies of Christendom to victory. St. Paul speaks of "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints." (1 Thessalonians 3:13)
Since all of the saints will be with Christ, then Mary will as well be with Him, and because she has a position so great (the Mother of our Salvation), it is not inadequate to say that she will have a distinct position in the army of the Lord. As Jael, Deborah, Esther and Judith all had distinct positions in the wars and defense of Israel, so shall Mary in that Final Crusade when Christ will establish His Empire throughout all the world, vanquishing and conquering all of the governments of Islam, of paganism and heresy. The warriors of the Cross will be as burning flames, filled with zeal so great that it will be as a thousand suns before the enemy. St. Louis de Montfort describes these soldiers, and their leadership under St. Mary as such:
"They shall be a burning fire of the ministers of the Lord, who shall kindle the fire of divine love everywhere, and sicut sagittce in manu potentis—like sharp arrows in the hand of the powerful Mary to pierce her enemies. … They shall carry on their shoulders the bloody standard of the cross, the crucifix in their right hand and the rosary in their left, the sacred names of Jesus and Mary in their hearts, and the modesty and mortification of Jesus Christ in their own behavior. These are the great men who shall come. But Mary shall be there by the order of the Most High, to extend His Empire over that of the impious, the idolaters, and the Mahometans." (Montfort, True Devotion to Mary, 1.56-59, ellipses mine)
When the Christians fought the Muslims in the Battle of Lepanto, every soldier had a rosary in his hand; when the Christians fought the Muslims in the Crusades, they held up the Cross; when the Cristeros fought Mexican troops, they held up the Crucifix. As these battles were, so shall it be in the Final Crusade, except that in that time the flames of zeal will be at their highest, greater than anything the world has seen.
Cristeros hold up the Cross
The Final Crusade will be between those who love and honor the Mother of Christ, and those who hate her. Read what St. John wrote of the end times, that "the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." (Revelation 12:17) The dragon — that is, the coming Islamic empire of the Antichrist — hates Mary and wars against her seed who are the Church. What John saw was a further expounding on what God said in Genesis: "I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed" (Genesis 3:15). Notice that the Scripture does not refer to an enmity, but enmities. The Scripture was saying that there will be many enmities, many wars and struggles between the seed of Mary, that is the Church of Apostolic succession, and the seed of Satan who despise Mary. As Montfort wrote:
"God has not only set an enmity but enmities, not simply between Mary and the devil, but between the race of the holy Virgin and the race of the devil" (Montford, True Devotion to Mary, 1.53)
What St. John wrote in regards to the enmity between the dragon and the woman, is an image of the entire history of Christendom, wherein tyrannies and despotisms war against those who revere Mary. The pagans warred against Christians who revered Mary, and Constantine defeated them. At around 250 AD, a hymn to Mary the Theotokos (God-bearer) was written that said:
"Beneath your compassion
we take refuge,
Theotokos! Our
prayers, do not despise
in necessities,
but from danger
deliver us,
only pure,
only blessed one."
This prayer was written at around the year 250, before the reign of Constantine in 312, which flies in the face of all those who argue that reverence to Mary is of more recent origin. Christians were revering Mary as they were being persecuted by pagan Rome, and it was these Christians who Constantine, guided and destined by God, defended and liberated. the Muslims for a millennia have been trying to destroy both the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches, both of whom revere the Mother of God.
When the tyrant Calles attempted to destroy Christianity in Mexico, it was not just some political move of despotism, but a manifestation of the eternal war that transcends all of the physical realm, of that war between the Mother of our Salvation and the devil, fueled by the desire to uproot the whole of the Faith, to prevent the people from worshipping Christ, from receiving the Sacraments, and from revering the Virgin of Guadalupe. St. John wrote the Book of Revelation and beheld the woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and her head crowned with twelve stars, as he lived imprisoned in Patmos for defying the tyranny of Domitian; and the lowly warriors in Mexico, with humble hearts melting under the candlelight of hope, beheld the same woman John once saw, as the Virgin of Guadalupe, when they defied the tyranny of Calles.
Cristeros with the icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe
The story of the Cristeros is the story of Christendom, a small kindling flame in which lies the whole spirit of the Cross, and the way of self-sacrifice; a shadow of the greatest glory in which humble men become self-sacrificers and ascend to be greater than empires; a small image of the greatest glory, an eternal love that saves us all.
Read the stories of Christendom, and what you will find is that her greatest warriors were either Catholic or Orthodox. What does this tell us, but that the Church Militant is of the Church that can trace itself back to the Apostles? and only the Catholic and Orthodox can do this. The Church Militant on earth is the Catholic Church, and it is this Church that can boast of being of the lineage from Christ to the Apostles to now. Throughout history the Catholic Faith — the Western and the Eastern — has fought the forces of evil, for its founder is Christ, the Holy One Who came to destroy the works of the devil.
The mission of the Church's Founder is the same aspiration of His Church, and the war never ends, it is ceaseless until the final victory of Christ and His armies of saints. And who will be these saints but those in Heaven and on earth? They will all be together, they will be one army under Christ, and the victory will transcend all corporal happiness, all sadness, all despair, all tears.
To read the history of Christendom is to read the continuation of divine history. So many believe that divine history ends at the New Testament. But the Apostles were just as historical as they were spiritual. They had successors, and their successors had successors; Christianity's history continued, and in it were martyrs, warriors, persecutions, empires, kingdoms and wars. As Israel had her miracles, martyrs, persecutions and wars, so did Christendom have the same. Christianity is not a letter on a book, but a living reality in which the beautiful and dauntless works of selfless men manifest the sublime and eternal truth that ascends our souls to the mountain of heavenly Zion.
To read the history of Christian warfare is to realize that Christianity did not go underground until the Protestant Reformation, or that it only kept going through some obscure heretical groups here and there; to read the stories of Christian wars is to realize Christianity itself, it is to realize that the Faith flowed like a river from an eternal spring, building empires and appointing great fighters and emperors, queens and monastics who upheld justice and charity; it is to realize that the Faith consists of so many peoples united by Christ for the cause of one struggle: to liberate all of mankind and bring humanity into the light of the Cross; it is to realize that the sword of St. Peter was never disposed, but always remained in the sheath of the Church; it is to realize the perpetual story of Christianity's struggle, that it was continuously done by the hands of Catholics and Orthodox, and righteous men who honored the Catholic Faith. To read the history of Christendom and her wars, is to cease to be protestant.
After the British conquered Jerusalem in 1917, the great General Lord Allenby — who was neither Catholic nor Orthodox — treaded the holy ground of the divinely destined city as a pensive pilgrim, as the warriors of the First Crusade were in their conquest of Jerusalem. On August 5th, 1918, a Dominican lay brother guided the soldiers in a pilgrimage led by a Catholic sergeant-major, carrying up high a silver crucifix, as the Crusaders of old had done, and as the Cristeros did in their battle against the enemies of the Cross. It was a carrying on of the beautiful custom of Christendom. In this event, Englishmen, Irishmen, Scots and Australians became one under the Cross and in the sacrificial emulation of their Lord. As the English monk, Dom Bede Camm, who was present in this procession, wrote:
"Down the steep hill from the gate into the Valley of Hinnom, and thence up the Mount of Evil Counsel on the other side, on the road to Bethlehem, as far as the eye could see, stretched the long ranks of soldier pilgrims, two deep – English, Scots, Irish, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, South Africans, British West Indians, and even some Catholics from the Indian Army. … It was an inspiring sight that met one's eyes. The big church was packed. The general [Weston] and the officers had seats in the nave, but the choir, sanctuary, nave, aisles, were thronged with men, some sitting on the ground, others standing pressed together so closely that the priests had the greatest difficulty in getting to the altar. I shall never forget facing that great throng of bronzed men who had been through so many dangers, endured so many hardships in order to deliver Jerusalem. …It was wonderful to hear them sing the familiar hymns during the Mass that followed. I have never heard anything like that Faith of Our Fathers shouted from fifteen hundred lusty throats, and it was even more wonderful to kneel in the hush and the stillness that fell on that great crowd when the bell rang out and the Host was raised. I don't wonder that the celebrant burst into tears and could hardly go on with the Mass. He told us afterwards that he had never been so moved in his life, and he wrote a detailed account of the pilgrimage to Rome, which (as I found later on) had delighted the Holy Father."
The unity of races, the enflaming of hearts, the rushing of warm tears from the overwhelming presence of the General Christ in the midst of His warriors, who embraced sacrifice and became one with divinity — this is of the essence of Christianity. Though Allenby was not Catholic officially, he fully welcomed this procession with grace and a pious heart, so much so that we can say that he was Catholic in spirit, and one can go so far as to say that he was more Catholic than most who take upon that title today.
The Final Crusade will not be limited to just Christians versus Muslims, but Catholic Christendom — in which Latin and Orthodox will be united — verses those who protest Catholic truth. Muslims are protestant, for they protest the Catholic teaching of the Trinity, of the Eucharist, of baptism and of the saints. I would go so far as to say that Muslims are some of the most zealous protestants, because they tried to conquer Rome numerous times, and managed to even sack Rome, and till this day they are bent on overtaking this holy city wherein lie the people, "called to be saints." (Romans 1:7) Do not forget how the protestants assisted the Ottoman Empire; do not forget how the reformers desired to see the destruction of Catholic Christendom; do not forget how protestant America, England and Australia gave weapons to the Indonesians so that the Muslims could slaughter the Catholics of East Timor simply because they wanted independence from an Islamic government; and don't forget that it was a protestant government, allied with protestant churches, organizations and institutions, that wanted to obliterate the Catholic Faith from Mexico.
To read the history of Christian war, is to know how much the world hates the Catholic Faith, and that which is the most hated, should be the one that we turn to, and not the most popular. To read the stories of Christian war, is to read the history of the Catholic Church. The holy wars were not just wars fought by armies; they were cosmic wars, they were the wars for the souls of humanity, they were our wars. Our war continues, but now we are being conquered by the forces of modernism and disorder. What is needed is not more diplomacy, rather an entire reconquista must be commenced over the world. All that is needed for the commencement of the restoration of Christendom is the will of the Universal Church; passion, enthusiasm, emphatic affirmation, the spark of hope's flame, this is all that is needed to commence the reconquest of the earth.
Christendom never ended, but is only waiting to be reawakened in our hearts. The Cristeros, the last of the Crusaders, the remnant of Christendom, the remaining flames that survived the floods of indifferentism, and who kept the ancient virtues of their ancestors lodged in their hearts, these men refused to bow the knee before the idol of diabolical conformity, and instead were determined to war against the enemies of humanity. For to war against Christ is to war against humanity itself, for in that most sublime day, when the Holy Virgin conceived the Savior of man, God became one with Humanity, and Mary gave birth to Emanuel, God with Us. The tyrant declared war on Christ, thus he made war against us. The war of the Cristeros is the war of us, it is the cosmic struggle of humanity, for it is the war for Love, the Creator of us all. Christ is Love, and in Christ, humanity becomes one with Love. All of the slaves of the devil, they hate humanity and are bent on destroying us, enslaving us with depravity and deceiving us to destroy ourselves in the name of some false good. Their hatred for humanity is always deeply rooted in their hatred for Christ, for in Christ we are one, and it is the unity of humanity that they so despise. A humanity that is in disarray and full of divisions and chaos, is a humanity easily controlled, but a humanity united under the Cross, under zeal, under will and the Divine Love, is a humanity that is one with God, in and in God nothing is moved.
A humanity united under Truth Himself, is a humanity filled with the flames of will to war against the imperialism of delusion.
This article is an excerpt from my upcoming book on Christian warfare and history, be sure to get it when it comes out. You will never see Christianity the same again. The war for Christianity and the Final Crusade is coming, and our souls must be spiritually prepared. This is why I spent over five years writing this book, to prepare the souls of the people for the Final Crusade.
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Dawn Neptune Adams holds a copy of the Phips Proclamation of 1755, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, in Bangor, Maine. Adams recently co-directed a film that focuses on the proclamation, one of the dozens of government-issued bounty proclamations that directed colonial settlers to hunt, scalp and kill Indigenous people for money. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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Despite a decent 2021 and a good start to 2022, I still view the FTSE 100 as undervalued. Here are three Footsie stocks I'd buy for their generous income! The post 3 cheap FTSE 100 shares I'd buy for their bumper dividends appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
Most and least affordable places in Britain for first-time home buyers revealed
People trying to get on the property ladder in some places face spending more than 10 times their annual salary on average.
Goldman, PwC and KPMG lead City's return to the office after Plan B scrapped
Inner London businesses are set for "bounce back" Monday next week as thousands of city workers return to the office. Banks, accountants and other professional services companies with major presences in the city have all told staff to return to the office next week after the government said on Wednesday that work from home guidance introduced in December would be scrapped. Goldman Sachs, Citi, PwC, HSBC, KPMG, Fidelity and Standard Chartered are among the major employers to have encouraged staff back to the office in recent days.
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Peloton denies rumours it has stopped production of bikes and treadmills amid questions over future
Peloton has denied reports that it has cut production, and says that it is still on course to hit targets – despite a rocky few months for the connected fitness firm. "The information the media has obtained is incomplete, out of context, and not reflective of Peloton's strategy," Mr Foley wrote. "Rumours that we are halting all production of bikes and Treads are false."


Are you considering having money flow into your account via Payoneer? May be you are having beefs with Paypal because so many countries don't support its transactions. Then be quick, settle for Payoneer as the best alternative, and have monies from Upwork and Fiverr flow into your account. Or you get ones from Lazada and Wish stream unhindered to your account. This is especially for you if you are freelancing.
I thus opine because Payoneer is now in partnership with top eCommerce, freelance and affiliate marketplaces for provision of fast, convenient, and cheap means of receiving payments from more than 2000 companies. Based on the assumption that you are been newly introduced, the following are the steps you need to take to make money online into your Payoneer account.
Firstly, create a Payoneer account if you don't have one. It's a very simple as you will be guided through the portal.
Then, once you sign up and your account is created, visit the website of your client, which may be Amazon, Upwork, Lazada, ClickBank, or anyone else.
Thirdly, in your payment option, select Payoneer and start the process of registration the same way you would when applying for a new card (if relevant) or fund transfer in a bank.
Having done with that, you'll be asked to enter your Payoneer username and password (it's extremely important to keep these), please follow the prompt.
As simple as that! You have connected the company to Payoneer.
With that your money should start flowing to your Payoneer account anytime the company is paying for your services.
Repeat these steps for each of your clients. All these you'll do in less than 10 minutes.
Since its founding in 2005, Payoneer has been providing online money transfer to all its partners worldwide. Its services are available in over 200 countries in more than 100 currencies. The service delivery is within a minute. So, Europe- or US-based companies can pay directly into your Payoneer account. And a U.S Bank Account is opened for you to receive money globally. Once you are 18 or above, all these are within your reach.
Lower Fees: You will be able to save more of your income with the choice rates.
Greater Flexibility: You have opportunity to select the payment method that best suits you.
Global Payment Service: Usually, Payoneer gives you a personal receiving account number. This makes it possible for you to receive payments via ACH transfers from US companies, SEPA transfers from EU companies, BACS/ FPS transfers from UK companies and Zengin from Japanese marketplaces and others from anywhere in the world.
Payoneer Mass Payout Companies: Already, there is partnership between Payoneer and thousands of leading marketplaces and companies worldwide. These have adopted Payoneer as a fully integrated payment option with no hitch. With your Payoneer account, pays go directly into your account almost automatically.
Billing Service: The Payoneer Billing Service conveniently allows you to send a payment request and enables your clients to pay you safely and securely through your local bank transfer, eCheque or credit card.
With this little piece, you should be able to decide what to do with your Payoneer account and start raking in money in different currencies through it.
Caveats: Beware of sites hosted by and for cons. So determine in advance the nature of information you will and should never disclose. Also don't attempt to create a Payoneer account for fun of it and don't do so with fake details as this incurs a permanent ban on your account.
That's all on how, ways to make money online into your payoneer account even as a Nigerian in Nigeria. To wrap it all up, be reminded that you can still sell your payoneer dollars to us at a very good rate in Naira.


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Samsung Galaxy S III 64GB Release Date Remains Unknown
When Samsung first announced the Samsung Galaxy S III, it said that a Galaxy S III with 64GB of on board storage space would be coming along in due time. However, it's now the middle of July, almost two months after the initial release of the Galaxy S III, and the 64GB model still hasn't launched.
Back in May, Samsung revealed the Galaxy S III to much excitement. Some of that excitement came because of Samsung's willingness to offer a model with a massive amount of storage space, specifically, 64GB.
Many Android smartphones do not come with that kind of on-board storage and users who fill up their device with music, games and more would definitely have reason to opt for a 64GB model.
The 64GB Galaxy S III has yet to see a release.
Samsung, since then, has remained mum on a release of the 64GB model. In fact, many consumers probably have forgotten that the company even announced a 64GB variant.
Unfortunately, there is some confusion about the device's release and right now, things aren't looking good. GSMArena is reporting that the device may have been cancelled. UK retailer Expansys has apparently cancelled pre-orders for the device which could mean that the device is cancelled altogether.
The device does remain available on MobileFun so it's unclear if the device has been cancelled or if there is just some type of miscommunication going on.
Whatever the case may be, the release date remains unknown.
Samsung has been having supply issues with the 16GB and 32GB models of its Galaxy S III so it's possible that it wants to get those taken care of before it decides to release the 64GB model.
The company has not yet confirmed any sort of bad news so as of right now, we still expect the 64GB model to launch as planned. However, it's certainly possible that we may see the device cancelled altogether at some point in the near future.
Has anyone been holding out for the 64GB Galaxy S III?
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#ifndef ROCKETCONTROLSELEMENTDATAGRIDCELL_H
#define ROCKETCONTROLSELEMENTDATAGRIDCELL_H

#include <Rocket/Core/Element.h>
#include <Rocket/Core/EventListener.h>
#include <Rocket/Controls/Header.h>

namespace Rocket {
namespace Controls {

/**
	The class for cells inside a data table row.

	@author Robert Curry
 */

class ROCKETCONTROLS_API ElementDataGridCell : public Core::Element, public Core::EventListener
{
public:
	ElementDataGridCell(const Rocket::Core::String& tag);
	virtual ~ElementDataGridCell();

	void Initialise(Core::Element* header);

protected:
	virtual void ProcessEvent(Core::Event& event);

private:
	Core::Element* header;
};

}
}

#endif

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2010 Cuba projects, $15 million
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657325 Creating Networks Empowering Communities (CNECT) Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Loyola University of Chicago $2,000,000
651817 Civic Participation Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Creative Associates International $2,000,000
646862 Civic Participation Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development NGO – United States Redacted $1,200,000
656860 Administration and Oversight Administration and Oversight Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Development & Training Services, Inc. $925,475
651055 Administration and Oversight Administration and Oversight Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Enterprise – United States Redacted $859,639
560517 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to International Republican Institute Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State International Republican Institute $800,000
657362 Delivery of Humanitarian Assistance to Political Prisoners and their Famili Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Grupo de Apoyo de la Democracia, Inc. $750,000
626142 Administrative costs Operating Expenses Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development U.S. Government – U.S. Agency for International Development $639,599
646883 Civic Participation Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Institute For Sustainable Communities $400,473
588005 Initial funding for Overseas Processing Entities Havana Overseas Processing Entities, FY 2010 Emergency Response Cuba Department of State U.S. Government – Department of State $350,000
562030 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to National Democratic Institute Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State National Democratic Institute $325,000
646820 Civic Participation Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Enterprise – United States Redacted $320,000
651123 Administration and Oversight (Civil Society) Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Enterprise – United States Other $297,679
657773 Human Rights Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development People in Need (Czech Republic) $250,000
587082 Havana Overseas Processing Entities Emergency Response Cuba Department of State U.S. Government – Department of State $242,621
557998 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to CubaNet Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State CubaNet $239,434
559384 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to Grupo Internacional para la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa en Cuba Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State Grupo Internacional para la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa en Cuba $200,000
654999 Civic Participation Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development People in Need (Czech Republic) $200,000
558021 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to Cuban Democratic Directorate Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State Cuban Democratic Directorate $175,000
555237 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to Afro-Cuban Alliance, Inc. Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State Afro-Cuban Alliance, Inc. $110,000
562662 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to People in Need (Czech Republic) Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State People in Need (Czech Republic) $103,875
555581 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to Asociacion Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State Asociacion Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana $91,000
557770 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to Committee for Free Trade Unionism Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State Committee for Free Trade Unionism $90,000
558435 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to Evangelical Christian Humanitarian Outreach for Cuba (ECHOcuba) Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State Evangelical Christian Humanitarian Outreach for Cuba $60,064
557513 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de Amrica Latina Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina $60,000
557301 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to Center for a Free Cuba Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State Center for a Free Cuba $55,000
558168 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to Disidente Universal de Puerto Rico Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State Disidente Universal de Puerto Rico $50,000
559909 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to Instituto Poltico para la Libertad Per (IPL) Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State Instituto Político para la Libertad Perú $49,967
651043 Administration and Oversight Administration and Oversight Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development U.S. Government – General Services Administration $40,341
562676 National Endowment for Democracy Grant to People in Peril Association CVO (PIPA) Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of State People in Peril $40,000
651036 Administration and Oversight Administration and Oversight Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development U.S. Government – U.S. Agency for International Development $30,438
653492 Program Design and Learning Program Design and Learning Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Personal Services Contractors – USAID $7,196
646855 Civic Participation Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Personal Services Contractors – USAID $6,501
590435 Reimbursement for Dedicated Bandwidth for World Refugee Admissions Processing System (WRAPS) Overseas Processing Entities in Cuba Emergency Response Cuba Department of State U.S. Government – Department of State $2,200
656824 Administration and Oversight Administration and Oversight Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Freedom House $473
697450 ATF eTrace Program/Basic Firearms and Explosives Identification and Tracing Course Government and Civil Society Cuba Department of Justice U.S. Government – Department of Justice $333
646821 Civic Participation Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Enterprise – United States Redacted $255
651117 Administration and Oversight (Civil Society) Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development U.S. Government – U.S. Agency for International Development -$14
626200 Administrative costs Operating Expenses Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Enterprise – United States Redacted -$27
649740 Program Support (Civil Society) Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Personal Services Contractors – USAID -$428
649629 Program Support Program Design and Learning Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Personal Services Contractors – USAID -$2,606
651131 Administration and Oversight (Civil Society) Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development Personal Services Contractors – USAID -$5,451
616036 CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPED THROUGH INFORMATION DISSEMINATION Government and Civil Society Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development University of Miami -$10,070
647052 Crisis Assistance and Recovery Emergency Response Cuba U.S. Agency for International Development U.S. Government – Department of State -$20,000


Tanya has been at the forefront of emerging creative technology spanning games, film, TV, comics, music, immersive theatre, Transmedia VR, AR and AI. She is the creator of the the VR Writers Room; the co-organiser for the VR & AR focused meetup group "Augmenting Reality" and co-chair of the Immerse UK content sub group. She is also a Trustee for both the World Youth Organisation and UN Influx, the winner of a Women in Games Award for her contributions to the games industry and the vice chair of BAME in Games.


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Slogan Travel Moves You.
Broadcast area National
Dish Network 196; 9437
DirecTV 277 (SD/HD)
Launched February 1, 1987; 30 years ago (1987-02-01)
Owned by Scripps Networks Interactive
Picture format 1080i (HDTV) Downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTV feed
Headquarters Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
Sling TV Internet Protocol television
Parent organizations Scripps Networks Interactive, Cox Communications
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Travel Channel (originally The Travel Channel from 1987 to 1999) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive. The channel is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States.
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It features documentaries, reality, and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has included shows on African animal safaris, tours of grand hotels and resorts, visits to significant cities and towns across the world, programming about various foods across the world, and programming about ghosts and the paranormal in notable buildings.
As of February 2015, Travel Channel is available to approximately 91.5 million pay television households (78.6% of households with television) in the United States.
The Travel Channel was launched on February 1, 1987; it was founded by Trans World Airlines, presumably to boost airline patronage. The channel's name was derived from the travel-related filler programming that aired between programs on the Home Theater Network. TWA purchased the name rights from Group W Satellite Communications in 1986, and took over HTN's transponder spot following the shutdown of the premium cable channel in January 1987. The network was later sold to Landmark Communications, then-owner of The Weather Channel, and eventually to Paxson Communications.
Discovery Communications acquired a 70% ownership stake in the channel in 1997, and subsequently acquired the remaining 30% interest from Paxson in 1999. In May 2007, Discovery Communications sold Travel Channel to Cox Enterprises subsidiary Cox Communications as part of a larger multibillion-dollar transaction. However, Discovery Communications still distributed the channel through its Discovery Networks unit.
On November 5, 2009, Scripps Networks Interactive acquired a 65% ownership interest in the network for $1.1 billion; the deal closed in January 2010. Scripps currently distributes the Travel Channel and rebroadcasts some of sister channel Food Network's programming on the network.
On March 22, 2012, Scripps Networks Interactive announced that it had agreed to pay £65 million (equivalent to US$102.7 million) to acquire Travel Channel International Limited, the UK-based distributor of the Travel Channel brand across the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific markets. The deal was completed on May 1, 2012, following regulatory approval. The international channels were integrated with Scripps' Travel Channel.
In late 2015, Scripps announced that it will relocate the Travel Channel headquarters to Knoxville, Tennessee, in order to consolidate its networks in one place. Current employees are given the option to move to Knoxville, though some may relocate to New York.
On February 25, 2016, Scripps acquired the remaining 35% stake in Travel Channel from Cox Communications, giving it full control over the network.
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A recent study of more than 500,000 sales conversations, conducted by a tech company called Gong.io, uncovered that the highest performing sales people asked many more questions of their prospects. Their sales conversion rates were highest when they asked between 11 and 14 questions.
According to the Harvard Business Review, the study also discovered that top performing salespeople scattered the questions throughout the conversation. Poorer results were noted when salespeople frontload questions as they would a to-do list.
Listening and gaining knowledge from your prospect is critical to best meet their needs and secure the purchase.
To be successful in sales requires gaining knowledge through asking many questions and actively listening.


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The Keeper è un film del 2004 diretto da Paul Lynch.

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In una cittadina degli Stati Uniti uno sconosciuto entra in un motel uccidendo un uomo e inseguendo Gina, la sua ragazza, che riesce a mettersi in salvo. Gina, una giovane spogliarellista di origine italiana, viene ricoverata in ospedale e, dimessa, accetta di essere accompagnata dall'irreprensibile tenente Krebs alla stazione dei pullman. Durante il tragitto, tuttavia, il poliziotto la narcotizza e la rinchiude in una cella sotterranea che custodisce nella propria abitazione.

A nulla vale la reazione rabbiosa della donna: Krebs, afflitto da gravi problemi psichici, è determinato a "purificare" la spogliarellista, costringendola alla sottomissione e all'obbedienza. Le promette quindi dei punti ogni volta che "farà la brava", rimettendo in scena la propria infanzia, governata da un padre autoritario, il quale sottoponeva a una stretta clausura la moglie (anche lei un tempo ballerina nei locali notturni) e il figlio, finché uccise la donna, ribellatasi alla sua vita insopportabile.

Così, tra accondiscendenze interessate e tentativi di fuga, Gina passa un anno da reclusa, visitata quotidianamente dal padrone di casa fino al giorno in cui Ruthie, una produttrice televisiva visceralmente innamorata di Krebs, la trova casualmente e invece di liberarla, la filma ricattando l'uomo. L'imprudente mossa le costa la vita, mentre di fronte a una nuova ribellione di Gina il tenente, disperato, capisce che non la può redimere e deve sbarazzarsene. Condotta verso un lago situato nelle vicinanze, la ragazza viene salvata dal sergente Burns, che nel frattempo ha scoperto ogni cosa. Insospettito dalla scomparsa di Gina e di una sua collega, precedentemente eliminata da Krebs, giunge sul posto appena in tempo. Burns viene accoltellato da Krebs - ma riuscirà a salvarsi -, e la giovane, impossessatasi di una pistola, uccide il proprio aguzzino ponendo fine a un incubo.

Così, dopo che la polizia ha individuato anche l'assassino del motel, può raggiungere nuovamente la stazione dei pullman.

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Darlington Raceway is known for many things. It's the supposed "Track Too Tough to Tame" and "The Lady in Black." Its egg-shaped configuration is unique among Sprint Cup Series circuits, creating a driving experience tough to master for even the most talented competitors.
Darlington is one of the few "once-visited" tracks on the Sprint Cup Circuit. Do two race dates a year improve a driver's chance of winning?
It's also one of 10 racetracks on the Sprint Cup circuit that are visited just once during the season.
It wasn't always that way. Up until 2005, Darlington had two dates on the schedule, both providing challenging portions of the schedule dreaded by rookies and beloved by fans. That year, its two races were combined into one, to the ire of many fans who enjoyed the hard racing, its history and the fact that it wasn't your usual cookie cutter circuit.
Now, Darlington joins nine other speedways as once-visited dates on the 36-race Cup schedule. Atlanta, Chicagoland, Las Vegas, Sonoma, Watkins Glen, Indianapolis, Kentucky, Auto Club and Homestead are the other such races.
Fans probably aren't the only ones still a little salty about Darlington's lack of a second race, particularly the Southern 500's long-gone placement on Labor Day weekend. Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski have the highest average finishes at the track in its last 10 races, and Jeff Gordon claims the most wins by an active driver at the speedway with seven victories. One can't necessarily predict that things would remain constant if the track had two races instead of one on the Cup schedule, but good past finishes are good past finishes.
Heck, let's not stop there. What about the other nine tracks? What if they had more than one event on the schedule?
Jeff Gordon might enjoy that. At the 10 once-visited speedways on the Cup schedule, Gordon has 31 wins, over a third of his 87 career victories. He's also the career win leader among active drivers at three of the tracks, including Darlington, Sonoma and Indianapolis.
Gordon's far and away the best in that category, with a 10-win cushion on second place. That distinction goes to Tony Stewart, who has scored 21 victories at these 10 tracks, approaching half of his 47 career wins. Jimmie Johnson, who has won 20 times, currently places third.
Part-time driver and elder statesmen Mark Martin is the only other active racer on the list with double digits in victories, having won 11 times in his many races at Darlington, Las Vegas and more.
In total, 27 drivers who have run at least a race this season have won at these racetracks, ranging from Gordon's 31 to a sizable tie between nine different competitors with one win.
This season, the series has already visited Auto Club and Las Vegas, meaning that eight of these tracks remain on the schedule. Looking at the last 10 races at each speedway, Stewart, Gordon, Johnson and Matt Kenseth are among the best drivers in terms of average finish.
Of the eight remaining tracks, Stewart and Gordon notch a top 10 in average finish during the last 10 races at seven of them. In particular, Stewart leads drivers with an average of 6.6 at Chicagoland and 7.4 at Indianapolis, while Gordon leads the way at Sonoma with an average finish of 6.9.
Johnson and Kenseth can lay claim to being in the top 10 at six of the eight tracks, with Kenseth averaging a finish of 7.4 in the last 10 races at Atlanta.
Conversely, Ryan Newman, Clint Bowyer and Martin Truex Jr. probably don't mind the lack of races at these tracks. Newman and Bowyer only have one win each at the 10 circuits, while Truex has been unable to score a victory at any of them. That said, Bowyer and Truex are in the top 10 in average finish at four of the tracks, while Newman's only in two.
Point is: imagine if some of these tracks were visited more than once (Darlington and Atlanta once were, of course). Could we have seen better championship finishes, either recently or otherwise, from these contenders? Or would the law of averages have come into effect?
It's hard to say, but just imagine if there were more, say, road courses on the circuit, or if Denny Hamlin's blistering average finish of 5.9 at Darlington could be duplicated?
Actually, that doesn't sound bad in terms of more road courses, but that's a whole other can of worms.


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Q: Tkinter: one or more mainloops? I have an already large Tkinter program, so that I have an init file, where the root = Tk() window is defined (containing basically a Text widget and a few other things), some more code, and last the call to mainloop() function.
Everything works, until I needed to call a procedure before the mainloop, and I wanted to raise a wait window at the begin, to be destroyed at procedure's end.
I wrote something like:
msg = Message(root, text='wait a few seconds...')
msg.pack()

But it doesn't and cannot work, since mainloop() has not been called yet!
If I instead do:
msg = Message(root, text='wait a few seconds...')
msg.pack()
mainloop()

The program stops at this first mainloop, doesn't finish the procedure call.
mainloop() should be used as your last program line, after which the Tkinter program works by a logic driven by user clicks and interactions, etc.
Here, I need a sequence of raise window > do stuff > destroy window > mainloop

A: You are correct that mainloop needs to be called once, after your program has initialized. This is necessary to start the event loop, which is necessary for windows to draw themselves, respond to events, and so on.
What you can do is break your initialization into two parts. The first -- creating the wait window -- happens prior to starting the event loop. The second -- doing the rest of the initialization -- happens once the event loop has started. You can do this by scheduling the second phase via the after method.
Here's a simple example:
import Tkinter as tk
import time

class SampleApp(tk.Tk):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):

        # initialize Tkinter
        tk.Tk.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

        # hide main window
        self.wm_withdraw()

        # show "please wait..." window
        self.wait = tk.Toplevel(self)
        label = tk.Label(self.wait, text="Please wait...")
        label.pack()

        # schedule the rest of the initialization to happen
        # after the event loop has started
        self.after(100, self.init_phase_2)

    def init_phase_2(self):

        # simulate doing something...
        time.sleep(10)

        # we're done. Close the wait window, show the main window
        self.wait.destroy()
        self.wm_deiconify()

app = SampleApp()
app.mainloop()

A: You should use Tkinter's method to run asyncore's loop function, but you should use asyncore.poll(0) instead of asyncore.loop(). If you call function asyncore.poll(0) every x ms, it has no longer an effect on Tkinter's main loop.

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Q: Facebook Open Graph Debugger bug? I have recently renewed my website, but for some reason the Facebook Open Graph Debugger is not able to re-scrape my new og tags.
When I enter the website, I receive a couple of error messages which makes no sense.
For example:
1.Circular redirect path detected (see 'Redirect Path' section for details).
2. URL requested a HTTP redirect, but it could not be followed.
When I debug my website, and see which HTML status code is given, it is 200 OK. So where does the 301 come from which the Facebook Debugger detects?
What am I missing in my set up?
Thanks in advance.

A: Redirecting error have happened to me on websites that redirect http to https.
The errors output explains explicitly what is the path the debugger needed to pass. In my case it showed me that it had to pass the following path: https >> http >> https.
This have occurred since the page url i tried to share used https, but in the op meta definition, I have defined it as http. Fixing that resolved all.


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Phillip Barker, également connu sous le nom de Phil Barker est un producteur, réalisateur, décorateur et scénariste canadien de cinéma, et plus précisément de Vaudeville.

Biographie

Filmographie
 1987 : Zoeken naar Eileen
 1997 : The Sweet Hereafter
 1997 : Bach Cello Suite #4 : Sarabande
 1998 : My Own Country
 2000 : Prelude
 2000 : The Line
 2002 : Arabat
 2004 : Cavedweller
 2005 : Where the Truth Lies
 2005 : The River King
 2006 : The Wicker Man
 2007 : Camille
 2007 : Redacted
 2008 : Adoration
 2013 : Devil's Knot d'Atom Egoyan (directeur artistique)

Liens externes

Producteur canadien de cinéma
Réalisateur canadien
Scénariste canadien de cinéma
Naissance en 1955


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Front Matter Early Inhabitants of Greece The Deluge of Ogyges Founding of Important Cities Story of Deucalion Daedalus and Icarus The Adventures of Jason Theseus Visits the Labyrinth The Terrible Prophecy The Sphinx's Riddle Death of Oedipus The Brothers' Quarrel The Taking of Thebes The Childhood of Paris Muster of the Troops Sacrifice of Iphigenia The Wrath of Achilles Death of Hector and Achilles The Burning of Troy Heroic Death of Codrus The Blind Poet The Rise of Sparta The Spartan Training The Brave Spartan Boy Public Tables in Sparta Laws of Lycurgus The Messenian War The Music of Tyrtaeus Aristomenes' Escape The Olympic Games Milo of Croton The Jealous Athlete The Girls' Games The Bloody Laws of Draco The Laws of Solon The First Plays The Tyrant Pisistratus The Tyrant's Insult Death of the Conspirators Hippias Driven out of Athens The Great King Hippias Visits Darius Destruction of the Persian Host Advance of the Second Host The Battle of Marathon Miltiades' Disgrace Aristides the Just Two Noble Spartan Youths The Great Army Preparations for Defense Leonidas at Thermopylae Death of Leonidas The Burning of Athens Battles of Salamis and Plataea The Rebuilding of Athens Death of Pausanias Cimon Improves Athens The Earthquake The Age of Pericles Teachings of Anaxagoras Peloponnesian War Begins Death of Pericles The Philosopher Socrates Socrates' Favorite Pupil Youth of Alcibiades Greek Colonies in Italy Alcibiades in Disgrace Death of Alcibiades Overthrow of Thirty Tyrants Accusation of Socrates Death of Socrates The Defeat of Cyrus Retreat of the Ten Thousand Agesilaus in Asia A Strange Interview The Peace of Antalcidas The Theban Friends Thebes Free Once More The Battle of Leuctra Death of Pelopidas The Battle of Mantinea The Tyrant of Syracuse Damon and Pythias The Sword of Damocles Dion and Dionysius Civil War in Syracuse Death of Dion Philip of Macedon Philip Begins His Conquests The Orator Demosthenes Philip Masters Greece Birth of Alexander The Steed Bucephalus Alexander as King Alexander and Diogenes Alexander's Beginning The Gordian Knot Alexander's Royal Captives Alexander at Jerusalem The African Desert Death of Darius Defeat of Porus Return to Babylon Death of Alexander Division of the Realm Death of Demosthenes Last of the Athenians The Colossus of Rhodes The Battle of Ipsus Demetrius and the Athenians The Achaean League Division in Sparta Death of Agis War of the Two Leagues The Last of the Greeks Greece a Roman Province
Story of the Greeks - Helene Guerber
Death of Demosthenes
When Alexander left for the East, the orator Demosthenes began to urge the Greeks to rise up against him, and win back their freedom. All his eloquence, however, was not enough to persuade them to make war as long as Alexander lived.
But when the conqueror's death was made known, Demosthenes again tried to arouse them, and this time with success. Phocion, a cautious Athenian, vainly begged the people to wait at least until the news was confirmed, saying, "If Alexander is dead to-day, he will still be dead to-morrow and on the next day, so that we may take counsel at our leisure."
Phocion.
This wise caution, however, did not suit the Athenians, who were joined in their revolt by most of the little states and principal towns of Greece, except Sparta. The united Greeks soon raised an army, which marched northward, and met the Macedonian governor's troops near Thermopylæ.
The Greeks were successful here, and, after shutting up the enemy in the fortress of Lamia, closely besieged them. But after a time the Greek general was killed; and, when the Macedonians were reënforced, they gained a decisive victory. This really ended the war; for the Macedonian general, Antipater, broke up the union, and made separate terms of peace for each city.
In his anger, Antipater said he would punish all those who had encouraged the Greeks to revolt. He soon learned that Demosthenes had been one of the principal men to advise the uprising, so he sent his soldiers to make him prisoner.
Demosthenes, warned of his danger, immediately fled, but had only time to take refuge in the Temple of Neptune. There, in spite of the holiness of the place, Antipater's guards came to get him.
Seeing that it would be useless to resist, the orator asked for a few moments' respite, that he might write a letter to his friends. The men consented; and Demosthenes, closely watched, took up his tablet and the reed with which he generally wrote.
The soldiers saw him trace a few lines, then stop and bite the top of his reed, as if thinking about what he would say next. But, instead of going on to his letter, the orator soon covered his head with his cloak and staid quite still.
After a few moments' waiting, one of the men went to him, and, receiving no answer to his question, drew aside the folds of the cloak. He started back in terror, for the orator's face was very pale, and he was evidently about to die.
The men quickly carried him out of the temple, so that it should not be defiled by death, and then they found that the reed with which he wrote was hollow, and had contained a deadly drug. Demosthenes had taken the poison, thinking that death would be better than prison.
The Athenians now saw that it would have been wiser to listen to the cautious Phocion: so they set him at the head of their affairs, and promised to obey him. Although honest, Phocion was not very clever, and his caution little by little became cowardice.
In his fear of the Macedonians, he allowed them to have more and more power; and Greece a few years later was entirely under the rule of Antipater, the Macedonian governor.


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Getting books from the doctor is becoming a part of regular pediatric care, thanks to a new partnership with Reach Out and Read and Wake County SmartStart. Doctors, nurse practitioners and medical staff incorporate Reach Out and Read's evidence-based model into regular pediatric well-visits by advising parents about the importance of reading aloud and giving developmentally-appropriate books to children.


I brined my 17lb turkey the full three days and want to eat at 5pm. I'm stuffing the bird with a sausage and prune stuffing, and was wondering if putting the bird in at noon was too early?
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It might be a little early -- it will probably be more in the 3/12-4 hour range, but you'll want it to rest the turkey for at least 30 minutes (and a little longer can't hurt -- just tent it with foil if you're worried it's cooling off). So 12pm sounds fine!
And be sure to wait till the stuffing is 165 degrees -- the dry brining should help protect the meat from drying out.


The number of the company employees is continuously increasing due to the oil refinery development and introduction of new process facilities. The policy pursued by the company management is focused on the social protection of the employees and creation of favourable work environment. Currently, there are about 2,000 employees at the company. This makes the development and improvement of the social and personnel policy one of the company priorities.
The above tasks are solved in active cooperation of both parties: the Company's management and the Council of Employees.
In 2016, Antipinsky Refinery took the 1st place in the "Participation in solving social problems and corporate charity development" category at the regional stage of the All-Russian contest "Russian organization of high social efficiency". The contest results once again show that Antipinsky Refinery ranks high in Tyumen region labor market.
The number of the company employees is continuously increasing due to the oil refinery development and introduction of new process facilities. The policy pursued by the company management is focused on the social protection of employees and creation of favourable work environment. Social and HR policy improvement is one of the focal areas of the refinery's activity. The above task is solved in active cooperation of the company management and the Council of Employees, whose first priority is building and implementation of a social labour partnership at the refinery.
Council of Employees is a representative body of workers, promoting interests of all the Company's employees and endowed according to the procedure established by Russian laws (by the Conference of the Company employees) with the authority for collective bargaining, development of a single Collective Bargain Draft Agreement, entering into or making amendments to the Collective Bargain Agreement, control of its execution. The CE was established at Antipinsky Refinery in 2007 and since then has not only been helping to build a two-way, a consistent communication between the plant management and employees, but also aims at addressing a number of serious issues (control over condition and organization of occupational health and safety; interaction with the employer on the wage issues, tangible and intangible incentives, etc.).
The Collective Bargain Agreement provides for various compensations and social benefits: extra days off (on child birth, marriage, to women having two or more children under the age of 7, etc.), material support (birth of a child, marriage, single parents and multi-child families, employees who are on leave for child care, in case of natural disasters, upon retirement, death of close relatives, etc.). The company supports its employees through compensation of their expenditures for sanatorium-resort care and children's recreation.
Much attention is paid to ensure that employees complete a healthy diet. There are two canteens in the territory of the refinery, where employees are provided with delicious and varied hot meals at prices much lower than the market prices due to subsidies of food fr om the administration.
Antipinsky Refinery, as a large and technology-intensive production, requires a special approach to the medical support of the personnel. The required medical specialists' advice and treatment are available for the company personnel at the Niginsky consultation and diagnostic centre and "Neftyanik" medical unit.
The refinery also has its own medical service with mandatory and periodic medical examinations by specialists,seasonal vaccination against influenza virus and tick-borne encephalitis, in-process control with laboratory and instrumental studies at the workplace of employees, prevention of contagious and non-contagious diseases and diseases associated with harmful and dangerous working conditions, staff training in first aid in emergencies, with skills training on mannequins. The medical staff inspects the sanitary state of the canteen, assesses the quality of food and sanitary state of water supply.
N 2017, after obtaining a license for medical activities, there will be new areas in the organization of work to improve the health of staff: physiotherapy, dental and other rooms equipped with modern facilities. The plans include engaging single-discipline medical specialists for dispensary observation of groups made up on the results of physical examinations.
For emergency medical response, a non-stop medical service operation will be introduced from early 2017.
Since Antipinsky Refinery is located in the industrial area of the city, distantly from Tyumen main transportation junctions, the company organizes return transfer of the employees by comfortable buses. In 2016, the transport workshop has optimized routes for transportation of employees to the place of work and back; in order to ensure enough passenger seats and cover more areas of the city, new external routes (Zarechnyi - AOR, Preobrazhensky - AOR), as well as routes between the refinery facilities (warehouse 9 km, ARDCU, RVU, Capital Construction Directorate (UKS), LPG, Water Treatment and Conditioning Site (OSiV)) were introduced. In 2017, due to the increasing number of Antipinsky refinery workers, two new routes are scheduled for introduction.
The extensive service housing programme is the company social priority. As part of this program, a multifamily 20-storey residential building with 152 flats was put into service in Tura microdistrict of Tyumen. In October, more than 100 young professionals - Antipinsky Refinery employees - were given their keys to new apartments. The construction was fully funded by Antipinsky Refinery at all stages. Erection of the main structural parts of the building, masonry, roofing, MEP facilities, interior finishing were provided by professionals of TEHINZHSTROY Construction Company. TEHINZHSTROY has performed landscaping and gardening in the area adjacent to the house territory. Parking lot is at a walking distance from the building. In addition, Antipinsky Refinery management has rendered assistance to the Master Developer in completion of water supply networks construction. In the nearest future a kindergarten and a school construction will start by the house, stipulated for by the urban development plan of Tyumen, with a convenient and spacious parking area.
In addition, in the area of 6.5 hectares in the center of Malkovo village (14 km from Tyumen along the Old Tobolsk road) 52 sites on the average of 10 acres each were leased for Antipinsky Refinery employees. Any Antipinsky refinery employee could apply for construction on one of the sites. The enterprise, despite country's the tough economic conditions, has taken a number of commitments, including surveying, construction quality control and other costs, which were borne by the refinery. JSC Antipinsky Refinery has signed land sublease agreements with employees.
Antipinsky Refinery does not only care about its employees, but also about their family members. Together with the Commission on cultural events of CE, the refinery regularly holds themed events aimed at team building and involvement of the refinery employees and their families into the social life of the refinery. The events are timed to the calendar holidays: 23 February, 8 March, 1 June, etc.
A mandatory tradition, unfailingly kept by Antipinsky Refinery, is celebration of the Victory Day. In 2016 the refinery employees did not only take part in the parade devoted to the great date, but also opened the procession of the organizations of the Leninsky District of Tyumen.
The refinery also renders targeted aid to the veterans of the Leninsky district of Tyumen: on May holidays, the refinery delegation visits WWII participants with valuable gifts.
This year, the refinery employees decided to follow the example of the refinery: the Council of Employees organized fund raising to buy food baskets for veterans. Many refinery employees wanted to take part in the campaign.
As part of May 9th celebration activities, a number of events were also organized for children. Over 100 children (2 times more participants than in 2015), whose parents work at Antipinsky Refinery were taken for an excursion named "From Tyumen citizens to the front." In addition, an excursion to the Patriotic War Places of Honour was organized for the pupils of Borkovsky Orphanage to whom New Stream Group has been rendering aid for several years.
2016 was the year of a number of new initiatives. For the first time the refinery organized a Talent Show for children of employees and the What? Wh ere? When? intellectual game for different units of the refinery. An extensive program of events is scheduled for 2017, including tournaments in bowling and paintball, Fort Boyard, Zarnitsa, and others.


Movistar Yamaha MotoGP riders Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi kicked off the first flyaway race at Twin Ring Motegi, making the most of the perfect riding conditions in the first practice sessions ahead of this weekend's Grand Prix of Japan.
Lorenzo didn't let the slight shoulder injury, which he sustained last week whilst training, stop him reminding race fans of his strong form at the Japanese circuit. The Aragón race winner started the morning Free Practice session with a competitive pace and needed little time to position himself ahead of his rivals when he dropped under 1'46 mark. He continued to improve his times and led for most of the session to ultimately top the FP1 standings with a 1'45.432.
The Spaniard duplicated his strong performance in the second 45 minute session. Directly on the pace, he posted multiple 1'45 laps and comfortably led the way. His fastest lap of 1'45.426 remained unchallenged until the final minutes of the session. Having been pushed back one place by fellow Yamaha-rider Bradley Smith, Lorenzo felt encouraged to put his head down once more and quickly set a 1'44.731 to reclaim the lead by 0.128s at the end of the session and top the overall times.
Teammate Rossi also showed his determination to fend off the competition and defend his lead in the world championship in FP1. He slowly brought heat into the bigger carbon brake disks, which are cooled with braking cooling ducts because of the Twin Ring Motegi circuit's heavy braking character, and soon topped the rankings with a 1'46.265 until he was pushed down a place by his teammate. The Doctor went on to spend most of the morning practice perfecting his setup and finished third with a lap of 1'45.844.
The nine-time World Champion also had a positive session in the afternoon. Once again making most of the perfect weather conditions, he held provisional fifth position with a best time of 1'45.785 before the pace picked up at the end of the session. Rossi also gave another push and set a 1'45.554 at the very end for eighth place, 0.823s from his teammate. The result also leaves him in eighth place in the combined times ahead of tomorrow's sessions.
This weekend Yamaha's usual rider line-up is joined by five-time All Japan Superbike Champion Katsuyuki Nakasuga, who won this year's Suzuka 8-Hour race alongside Bradley Smith and Pol Espargarò. He finished his first day as a wildcard for the Yamaha Factory Racing Team riding his special '60th Anniversary'-styled YZR-M1 to 23rd place in the combined free practice times.