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Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to be walking with a prideful swagger in his step lately.
In spite of growing conflicts between Israel-driven-America and Russia over Syria, Iran and now the Ukraine, he appears unusually confident.
Other world leaders involved appear to be increasingly stressed out by these growing conflicts, but not President Putin.
What could be going on in the background which might explain this blatant confidence and swagger of president Putin?
Unsubstantiated rumors have been seeping out of deep contacts inside Russian Space Command the last few weeks that, not only does the new Putin's Russia have a well developed Secret Space war Program, but that this Program provides substantial ultra-high-tech back-engineered offensive and defensive weaponry.
And that such advanced weaponry can and will be deployed if Israel is able to once again deploy their hijacked American War Machine to start another Proxy War, this time in the Ukraine against Putin's New Russia.
Do Russians now have access to Space War Weapons based on back-engineered Alien ET technology gained through a new treaty negotiated between Putin and a certain group of Alien ETs who are enemies of the group controlling the World Zionists (WZs) and the International Zionist Crime Syndicate (IZCS)?
President Putin is a Firearms Expert (as well as a Judo Expert). Notice how he keeps his trigger finger outside the trigger guard when not firing the Pistol.
And even stranger, has this same Alien ET group who claim to be the avowed enemies of another Alien ET group which is directing the WZs and the IZCS the "Dracos", also contacted a certain newly-emerging and powerful secret group inside the Secret Shadow Government (SSG) and American Intel?
And with these reputed contacts, has this group of American Defense and Intel up-and-comers started to exert dominance over the US War Machine? Have they become convinced that the WZs and the IZCS must be stopped because their intent is to deploy DHS to tyrannize, enslave and serially mass-murder about 80% of all Americans?
And have they become aware that the 9/11 attacks were False-Flag, Gladio-style, inside-job attacks run by Israel, Israeli-American dual citizens, NeoCons, and PNAC individuals and had nothing to do with Arabs, but were merely False-Flag terror to justify more illegal, unprovoked, unconstitutional, undeclared wars of aggression in the Middle East as a proxy Wars for Israel?
Has this powerful group of up-and-comers inside America become convinced that DHS and its overlords and the true Hijackers of America (AIPAC, B'nai B'rith, the ADL, SPLC and the like) must be stopped cold now before they destroy America and all its Christian and Deist Institutions and the very American Republic itself, which is the secret Goal of the WZs and the IZCS?
A powerful new treaty has apparently been established between one group of Alien ETs (the Tall White Nordics) and Putin's New Russia. This new treaty President Putin has supposedly negotiated with this particular Alien ET group is purported to be like the ones American leaders negotiated with in the 1950's and early 1960's. However this particular Alien Group group is purported to be substantially anti-WZ and anti-IZCS. Their view is reputed to be that the core of all the mass death and destruction of at least the last 500 years has its origins all the way to the Roman Empire and ancient Babylonia, and is now reflected in the policies imposed on America by the WZs and the IZCS, which is undoubtedly the world's largest organized crime syndicate.
This crime syndicate the IZCS specializes in illegal drug and arms trafficking, money laundering, large corporate "bust-outs", sex trafficking and sex slavery (especially eastern Euro and Ukrainian young girls taken to Israel for "captive prostitution"), trafficking in children for pedophilia operations, American pornography, and massive human compromise operations to gain and hold control over top politicians, government Intel, military and Intel officials. The WZs and the IZCS are based on an ancient "Death Cult", "Money-Magick" and "black arts" philosophy dating all the way back to Babylon.
And so far the best information available suggests that this "City of London" Zionist Death Cult philosophy is based on an anti-human death-based religion created and deployed by the Dracos (Luciferian Reptilians) who reached an apex of power under the City of London private Central Banksters (whom they mind-kontrolled and en-cultured).
This new group of Alien ETs also has claimed that the "Dracos", aka Reptoids from the "Dark Side", hijacked the City of London when first incorporated. These evil and ancient Dracos, using the same technologies which they did in ancient Babylon before being driven out for many centuries, built up and then deployed their main Action-agents and Cutouts, Israel and America. they are believed to be World Zionism and using the rackets of the IZCS for off-the-books large funding for their Zionist lackeys to but more and more politicians through AIPAC and the like.
It was under Evil, anti-human Draco Power, the City of London Zionist private Central Banksters (COLZPCB) hijacked America in 1913. At that time America essentially became a new province of the City of London private Central Banksters using Draco-based Babylonian "Money-Magick."
The Dracos are believed to be the arch enemies of humankind, actual human parasites that live off of intense human suffering and death. Allegedly they are "negative energy vampires" that live off of manufactured human suffering and traumatic death. These Dracos are believed to have set up "death Cults" like Skull and Bones (Russell Trust), satanic cults, pedophile rings in high government circles, and various types of interlinked luciferian cults which have been used to completely hijack the highest levels of Freemasonry. These death cults are designed to "dirty up" and corrupt all humans, that is, to soften folks up in order to make it easier for their very souls to be "snatched" from them.
After the City of London established a Beachhead in America with its unConstitutional, criminal private Federal Reserve Central Bank, it was then later able to create, finance, build-up and deploy its new nation of Khazarian Judaic converts (the new post-WW2 "Israel"). Once accomplished, the City of London Rothschild World Zionists have been able to deploy Israel as their main Action-agent and Cutout to begin the transformation of America into a Zionist Israeli province and upcoming new Gaza (Gaza II). The party responsible for directing this transformation of America into a neo-Bolshevik tyranny is Israeli controlled Department of Homeland Security, which has now been dubbed the New American Gestapo, the New American Stasi, or the New American Red Cheka mass-murder operation (take your pick).
The purpose of these occult-linked organizations set up all over the world, supported by Draco powers, is believed to allow the eradication/extinction of all humans on Earth incrementally through war, disease, famine and pestilence. In order to condition "up-and-comers" to do their dirty work, the Dracos generate the false ideologies of "Survival of the Fittest" by the "thinning of the herd" as delusions. These delusional philosophies trick human leaders into leading their subjects and eventually all humans to their own destruction, like lemmings jumping off a cliff.
After the end of WW2, the City of London Banksters set up the new phony racial state of Israel to do their dirty work. To keep the new Israeli citizens adequately motivated to do their evil, they created a strong racial delusion based on the so-called "holocaust," aka "self-deployed fiery sacrifice". WZ propagandists periodically pound Israeli citizens and foreign based Judaics with the idea that unless they take down the whole world through World Zionism they will once again be persecuted and attempts to annihilate them will be made once again.
This deployment of an exaggerated, racial persecution delusion created the necessary background allowing the false charge of Anti-Semitism to be leveled against anyone or any group attempting to investigate what really happened during the WW2 "Work Camp" persecution of "low Judaics" by "fake/high Judaics/zionists who sat in the background in the City of London calling the shots.
This use of Israel as an artificially constructed so-called "racial state" based on racial delusions and falsities has worked so well playing on the sympathies of Americans and other Western Nations. This has allowed Israel to completely hijack America, asset strip it almost bare, and use it as a captive force to wage its foreign proxy wars against entities who were not enemies of America at all, but who were artificially created to appear so by deception. And now for the first time, these toxic World Zionists (WZs), NeoCons and Israeli-American dual citizen Traitors are transforming America into a new War Zone by the creation and deployment of the Zionist, pervert-driven Department of Homeland Security.
Yes, WZ's are not only attacking the Ukraine to weaken President Putin's New Russia but are now staging a serious major internal war to be waged against Americans inside America by DHS. And DHS has secret plans to incrementally mass-murder up to 80% of all Americans eventually. DHS and those behind it are the true "Enemy Within The Gates" of America and all involved at the senior management positions are Traitors who deserve to be prosecuted for RICO crimes and TREASON and SEDITION, which are capital Crimes.
President Putin is very skilled at catching his competitors off guard, taking them off-balance and throwing them for a loop. He is a very skilled "Black Belt" Judo Expert with many years experience. Perhaps those foreign leaders who desire to tangle with him geopolitically had better think twice before they charge ahead carelessly. They may get thrown for a loop unexpectedly.
If true, this would explain the now apparent reluctance of President Obama and his administration to proceed with more proxy wars for Israel in the Mideast and now specifically in the Ukraine which is loaded with extremely valuable resources and is considered essential to the national security of Putin's new non-Bolshevik Russia.
Now here is the grim truth. No matter how good American Intel has been about the Russian's Secret Space War Program and the level of advanced back-engineered Alien ET technology, which now has been deployed, it is limited. And it is unlikely that the full story has been gained by American Intel, due to the various levels of secrecy and "need to know" installed around the Russian's secret Space War Program.
Of course this kind of layered secrecy has been installed around America's Secret Space War Program. America's secret Space War program is unfortunately now run by foreign offshore-controlled, private defense Contractors, most of whom are deeply infiltrated by Israeli Intel, some of whom are actually deep cover spies who report directly to Russian Intel, unbeknownst to the Israelis who are cocky and getting quite careless lately.
President Putin firing Russia's famous AK-47 (now the AK-74 upgrade). Most don't, but this one probably has 1 MOA due to a longer barrel and thicker receiver.
And must General Dempsey take strong control and stop this Israeli Espionage through their Intel fronts like AIPAC, B'nai B'rith, the ADL, SPLC and the like to prevent some kind of major international confrontation with President Putin's new Russia over the Ukraine or Syria.
It is now generally recognized that Israel is working very hard, deploying every espionage and propaganda tool possible to propel American military might into another proxy war for Israel and the City of London.
The reason? To allow Israel to obtain its planned new oil and gas pipeline in Syria (after Balkanizing it through deployed terrorism). And to Balkanize the Ukraine to obtain its vast resources and block Russia's sale of oil and gas to Europe so that it can jump in its Russia's place and sell British controlled oil and gas through their planned new pipeline thorough Syria. It is also now recognized that this Israel Pipeline Plan for Syria has the full blessing and support of the City of London Big Oil.
Some of those who are in a position to know about such internal security matters deep inside the USG are claiming the answer is YES, that General Dempsey is completely informed about infil-Traitors, and has established the resources necessary deeply inside this program to exert immediate and complete control any time upon his instructions should this become necessary and should he desire to do so. Allegedly these Israeli moles have been allowed to remain in place to use them to feed misinformation that is designed to mislead any real or potential enemies.
At present, nobody on the inside has provided complete verified information on what actual advanced high-tech back-engineered Alien ET weapon systems the Americans or Russians actually have developed and deployed in their respective Secret Space War Programs.
The best we can do is construct estimates based on the actual weapon systems we do know exist. We know that America's Secret Shadow Government (SSG) has at least two separate very advanced anti-gravity craft fleets, one deployed by the USAF and the other deployed by the USN. Insiders have claimed that there is a secret competition for black-budget dollars between the two that has at times turned into space shootouts and other acts of spy-war.
The USAF and the USN have always been at odds after WW2 ended and the Cold War started. This deep conflict is all about money and power and the Navy's "Grey Beards" claim that according to the US Constitution, only the US Navy is authorized to employ international spying on behalf of America. It is important to note that traditionally for many centuries, Naval Forces were the primary sources of a King or Nation's international power and foreign Intelligence gathering. These Naval Forces were used to protect trade routes and to establish the authority for new Colonies in foreign lands.
It is now known that the US Naval Intel and accounting sectors were specifically targeted by the USAF during the 9/11 attacks. During these attacks, charges were planted inside those sections in the pentagon, including a sophisticated covert operation using space war technology like holographic images and sounds.
There have been isolated reports of past space shootouts between USAF and USN anti-gravity Craft (AGCs). And there have been some reports of serious turf wars inside Congress over funding. It is well known that the USAF sees the USN conventional forces, including most carriers and destroyers, as obsolete and easy targets for any enemy.
The actual state of back-engineered Alien ET technology for Russian weapons systems is not known by American Intel at this time. But estimates are constructed using advanced algorithms on advanced computers to make estimates. And the latest version of the Russian Sunburn Missile System is a good example of an advanced weapons system that can be used to project what could be considered a fairly good estimate of the current state of Russian Secret Space war weaponry that has been deployed.
Some military technology experts believe that the Sunburn is based on Alien ET back-engineered technology. Why would they think this? Because the latest versions of the Sunburn are believed to have hiving capability and the ability to travel at speeds up to 7,000 to 9,000 miles per hour. That is a lot more than the officially released figures of Mach 2.1.
Hiving is the ability of these missiles when launched in mass to remain in constant communication with one another on special scrambled frequencies which constantly change.
If one or more Sunburn missile is shot down or interfered with, the rest adjust in response to the threat, re-target, and resort to random defensive maneuvers to make sure every target is still covered and attacked by priority of importance. Some of these maneuvers are so gravity-defying, it is suspected that anti-gravity technology has been utilized in the latest model of the Sunburn missiles. It is also suspected that new anti-matter light and time warping technologies are used to provide advanced "cloaking" for these Sunburns.
If these rumors are even close to accurate it means that any USN ships within range of these Sunburns (which may be substantially greater than the claimed 1200 miles), could be sunk within mere minutes. Some experts believe that the USAF (or the USN) has nothing that can adequately respond to the Sunburn, and even the Rail guns and high-powered particle beams which have been secretly deployed on some carriers and destroyers and kept under wraps until needed, or on special Space war orbital platforms, cannot respond fast or accurately enough to stop all of a hive of Sunburns that are launched.
As the Cold War came to a halt, it was rumored that the Soviet Union's secret Space war stopped, temporarily put on ice. This occurred when the Wall was torn down, thanks to the extremely effective efforts of the Great America Hero Lee Wanta, who served as President Reagan's Secret Agent. And it is now believed that under Putin's new Russia, not only has a new treaty been re-negotiated with a certain group of Alien ETs, who were introduced to the Soviets by Nazi Scientists brought into Russia after WW2 to work on advanced weapons systems (just like what happened under Operation Paperclip in America).
Another way to estimate the Space War capabilities is to examine open-source Intel of any alien technology applications that have been leaked in the press. There is one story claiming that Russia was in the process of developing a large anti-gravity craft (AGC) to use as a space platform deployed space weapon system, as well as for use as an advanced passenger airliner. It has been claimed by some that the first prototype has been built and tested.
Here is what may perhaps be an "Above Top Secret" video obtained clandestinely by a Western Intel Agency and leaked to the press, perhaps with a wink and a nod of Putin or his deputies. You must decide if it appears to be real and/or could actually be real. Why would Russia allow this kind of a leak? Such leaks can serve as a warning to western powers to show more respect for Putin's New Russia.
If it is a faked video and purposely leaked misinformation, it can serve as a Psyop to confuse and misdirect from real, already deployed Russian "deep black" or "above Top Secret" Secret Space War Systems that Putin perhaps wants to keep secret. Decide for yourself if this video might be real, and if so what its implications could be for Putin's New Russia.
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Conclusion: President Putin has appeared remarkably cool and confident in public lately. A slow controlled speech backed by steely blue eyes and what appears to be a iron constitution, as well as a over-confident swagger to his stride. Not prone to careless statements or bluffs, Putin appears to be a strong, confident leader who means what he says and is willing to back it up.
President Putin has been considered by some Russian Intel to have been Russia's equivalent of Britain's "Ian Fleming" (the Real James Bond) in the past. But he has a lighter side too. It has been reported that he rides horses for fun, and likes dogs and animals in general.
Those who know President Putin claim that he does not want war for his New Russia, but wants peace and prosperity and a major role in International Trading of oil, gas and other Russian commodities which are growing in development every day.
But it is also generally recognized that President Putin demands respect from other world leaders and is not likely to be pushed around.
Driving out the Judaic Zionist mobsters has appeared to have been a high priority, and this is an extremely difficult job, since these crime networks called the "Red Mafiya" are so entrenched. Various Russian experts in the west believe that Putin is committed to this and has made significant progress, but it is an arduous process.
Those who know President Putin claim that he is very calculating when he negotiates or pushes foreign policies for Russia. That he is not prone to idle bluff or exaggerations, but usually means exactly what he says.
This task of driving out Israeli-American dual citizen traitors who are Zionists is a difficult challenge for newly emerging groups within the USG, the American Military and Intel. It is these folks who are dedicated to fully exposing these Traitors to America the Republic and are working hard to stop AIPAC, B'nai B'rith, the ADL, the SPLC and the like. Based on the deep penetration Zionist criminals and Zionist espionage fronts have attained in America, one can easily imagine how difficult a challenge it is for Putin to do the same in Russia.
So far it seems clear that President Putin will give no new quarter to the Red Mafiya zios, nor will he allow Zionists from Israel, the City of London or those who have infiltrated America to determine his borders or his security situation with the Ukraine.
And besides, according to Lee Wanta, President Reagan's Secret Agent, a binding Agreement was negotiated between the Soviet Union's leaders who were leaving power and Russia's new up and coming leaders, that America would not ever interfere in Russia's close security situation along its borders, and Russia would refrain from the same for America's borders. (1) Sadly, recent news reports claim the the USG has given $5 Billion USD to rebel groups inside the Ukraine to start a Color Revolution. If true, this is a serious violation of the Agreement which is still binding. (2)
In spite of the evidence that Israel has deployed some of its Terrorist Patsy groups to the Ukraine to start a Color Revolution and America has also apparently deployed its Al CIA Duh Terror groups to the Ukraine to assist, President Putin has responded calmly, but decisively. He appears to have started deploying some of his best Anti-Terror troops to Crimea to secure the Ukraine.
It should be a fair assumption that if Israel and America do not back down and stop deploying terrorists to the Ukraine, President Putin will likely fight fire with fire and deploy whatever Russian Military force is necessary to stop this outside agitation and generation of violence, terror and chaos inside the Ukraine.
Will President Putin back down and let Israel and American offshore corporate interests Balkanize the Ukraine and divide its vast natural resources? A fair number of experts do not believe that President Putin will allow this to happen. And could it be that his strong confidence is a result of a newly updated treaty with a group of Aliens that is working hard to expose the Franken, Sabbattean World Zionists (WZs) and the IZCS, and to stop their evil reign of power?
If this particular group of Aliens has entered into an agreement to establish Space war parity for Putin's new Russia, perhaps this has bolstered his confidence and resolve to deal effectively with the Zionist Israeli/American-driven terror in the Ukraine. Perhaps this group of anti-Zionist Aliens has told President Putin to respond confidently and not to worry about the Zios at all, that they will cover his back.
In the not too distant future a critical mass will be reached.
That's when the World Zionist Parasites will really start getting it from all sides not only in what they consider to be their "highest conquest" America (what they refer to as "our Golden Calf", or "our fattened Calf for slaughter", but all over the World including the Mideast.
Imagine what will happen when the alternative news provided by the Internet diffuses into the mass-mind (shared consciousness of the masses) to the point that a 12% spontaneous eruption of this kind emerges, characterized by many millions of ordinary Americans who spontaneously resolve in mass to stop being victimized by an American government hijacked by Israel and the City of London private Central Banksters.
Never before in history has truth spread like lightning like it is today, and this is due to the Internet's deep penetration across almost every society and into every group. It can not be stopped, it is far too late for that. Yes, within a few years all secrecy will end. There are many beyond-black secret things going on in the background now related to supra-national forces at play using ultra-high tech quantum computers that will assure this, no matter what counter-measures are attempted. the end to all state secrets kept from the masses is right around the corner, bet on it. And the ramifications of this collapse of all state secrets, is going to be the greatest exposure of RICO crimes, perversions and occult practices ever, far beyond what most folks could ever imagine. Snowden's releases were just the tip of the iceberg. You are going to be shocked beyond belief at what is coming down the pike due to quantum computers putting a complete end to cryptographics.
The new NSA spy center used to eavesdrop on every American digital transmission after which are instantly and spontaneously downloaded to Israel by Satellite will soon no longer matter. The coming end to secrecy and cryptographics will render it irrelevant. This huge NSA building will be reduced to a white elephant of very little value and will be likely abandoned. The whole American Intel System hijacked by Israel is going to be exposed and made completely inconsequential and worthless. There will be an abrupt, unexpected end to the phony War on Drugs and the phony War on Terror and thousands of USG, DHS and American Intel officials and staff will be stuck in the unemployment lines with all their so-called "Federal Family" pensions gone, grabbed up by the out of control USG right before it collapses from within. These abandoned dupes will all feel like they are new members of the "Chumps R US Club" and their former status as Police State minions will be rendered irrelevant.
And it is highly recommended that top DHS and NeoCon, Israeli-American dual citizen Traitors and Infil-Traitors refrain from starting a civil war up or going door to door or using their puppet state and local police departments, and VIPR "murder squads" to do so like in the land of Sandy Hookers. Why, because there appears to be a growing number of American Military and Intel High Command that know the full story now of who did the 9/11 false-flag attacks, how they did it and why. And over 200 Sheriffs have refused to participate in any gun grab, smart enough to know that it is an Unconstitutional law that will eventually be voided in the Courts. Besides they do not want to die for nothing fighting normally law abiding citizens.
The new American High Military Command and Top US Intel Officers now know for sure that Israel and Traitors within America did 9-11.
Yes, word is still spreading like wildfire that 9/11 was an "Inside-Job". Of course this is due to the public testimony of Steve Pieczenik, MD, PH.D., and Alan Sabrowsky, Ph.D., and the numerous reports from Engineers who have studied 9/11 and exposed the USG lies about 9/11 as well as the numerous reports by Professor Jim Fetzer's research teams. And of course nobody sane disputes the smoking gun evidence that demolition charges were pre-planted in WT-7, which means if they were planted on one of the buildings before 9-11-01, they were planted in all of them too.
None of the hundreds of Controlled Major Mass Media or USG liars can explain why BBC announcer Jane Standley announced that WT-7 had collapsed 20 minutes before it did and was still standing on live TV over her shoulder in the distance through a window. The answer of course is that some dumbbell in MI-6 who typed her script screwed up and forgot about American Daylight Savings time.
Note to Dual Citiznes and PNACers and Top NeoCons that did 9-11 and covered it up.
Many in the High Military Command and American Intel now know that you have infil-Traited and hijacked all NSA lives feeds and all American Communications administration and billing and they are extremely bothered about this as yet unresolved, unpunished Treason due to these ongoing real Crimes of State.
And for you, the Perps, Traitors and Infil-Traitors, a quick reminder: Your hijacking of all American Intel and setting up of the "Six Eyes" NSA hijacked system run out of Israel has been the largest breech of real American "National Security" since the Bush/Scherff Cabal seized power and murdered JFK, MLF, RFK and turned the CIA Directorate of operations and the DEA into the biggest American Drug Trafficker in history.Understand that we are onto you, your parasitical death cult agenda and now you will have to bear the burden of what we decide to do with you. Understand this, you are going down, one way or the other. The jig is up and you have already been fully exposed.
If you Traitors start something up like another false-flag, perhaps nuking a large American City, you may find yourself in the very Internment Camps you have been building for all whom you have designated as your dissenter/domestic terrorists. Somebody like John Cathey may end up being your head internment inmate and camp supervisor. I wouldn't count on him or other camp supervisors who will be like him on being sensitive to your needs either, because they are criminal psychopaths like yourselves.
Soon we are all going to see the release of numerous previously secret conversations between top American Policy-Makers, Traitors and Infil-Traitors released for the first time on the worldwide Internet. This will be extremely revealing, shocking and will likely bring the whole corrupt system crashing down.
There is going to be a complete opening up of all Intel Files step by step and the American People are going to become fully inform,ed of your evil parasitical death cult Agenda. And when they reach a critical mass, you will be brought to Justice and final judgment with prejudice. Note to Perps, get out now and take your staches of loot with you and go in peace. This is by far your best option, so take it while you can and go now in peace.
The coming Intel Disclosures are going to generate shock waves across America and the whole World. Doubt it, just wait and see.
These coming complete disclosures of secret conversations by the "Perps" at the top of the Secret Shadow Government (SSG) and American private Central Banking and the USG and Congress, and all the Israeli Zio espionage groups like AIPAC, the ADL, B'nai B'rith and the like will shake the very foundations of the power of those who hijacked American and have attempted to bury the US Constitution and Bill of Rights in a Plethora of new illegal "laws", regulations and Executive orders using their Phony War on Drugs and phony War on Terror as cover.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to refer to the City of London Rothschild World Zionists as the largest Organized Crime Syndicate in the World which there is substantial evidence that it originated in Khazaria. Therefore it may be more accurate to refer to the Rothschild World Zionist crime Syndicate as the Khazarian Mafia (KM) as VT Financial Editor Mike Harris has referred to them. And we know that Khazarian Judaics are converts to Judaism who live in Israel and comprise 97.5% of the Israeli Judaics and carry no ancient Hebrew Blood like 80% of the Palestinians according to recent John Hopkins peer reviewed genetic research.
These Perps will be running for cover like cockroaches when the lights are turned on (many likely running for their very lives when this all comes out, and it will, all of it every single word). Stay tuned, your mind is going to be blown in the near future. If you think the Snowden disclosures were mind-blowing, just wait, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Light and Truth is coming, every rock will be turned over and you will see a complete end to the secrecy of the USG and American Intel top Policy-Makers. Watch the cockroaches scatter then.
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Hartford Acquires Old MFS Division From Sun Life
By Jim Connolly
December 13, 2007 at 08:31 AM Share & Print
A U.S. financial services company is acquiring a large retirement plan operation from its Canadian owner.
Hartford Life, Simsbury, Conn., a unit of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, has agreed to acquire Sun Life Retirement Services (U.S.) from the U.S. division of Sun Life Financial Inc., Toronto, the companies say.
Sun Life Retirement Services previously was known as MFS Retirement Services.
The deal does not include the investment company parent of the retirement services unit, Massachusetts Financial Services Company.
Sun Life announced a year ago that it had hired advisors to seek "strategic alternatives" for the investment company operations. Sun Life ended up deciding to keep the investment company.
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The Sun Life retirement services arm employees about 400 people. It provides recordkeeping and administrative services for defined contribution retirement plans that serve 6,000 plans with 465,000 participants with $17 billion in assets.
The price of the retirement services is not available, but Hartford says it will be keeping the retirement services unit offices in Boston and Phoenix and offering jobs to all of the unit's employees.
Hartford and Sun Life hope to close on the deal by March 31, 2008.
"This acquisition clearly boosts our retirement plans business, helping to accelerate growth, open new markets and better serve our customers," John Walters, president of Hartford's U.S. wealth management group, says in a statement about the deal.


Erythropoiesis maintains stable tissue oxygenation in the basal state, while accelerating red cell production in anemia, blood loss or high altitude. The principal regulator of erythropoiesis is the hormone erythropoietin (Epo). In response to hypoxic stress, Epo can increase a 1000-fold, driving erythropoietic rate by up to 10-fold. It's been suggested that survival pathways activated by the Epo receptor (EpoR) underlie its regulation of erythropoietic rate. A number of apparently redundant EpoR survival pathways were identified in vitro, raising the possibility of their functional specialization in vivo.
Here I assessed the roles of three survival pathways activated by EpoR in erythroblasts in-vivo: the suppression of cell-surface Fas and FasL, the suppression of the pro-apoptotic regulator Bim, and the induction of the anti-apoptotic regulator Bcl-xL. I used the novel CD71/Ter119 flow-cytometric method of identifying erythroblast maturation stages in vivo to measure these apoptotic pathways in fetal liver and adult erythropoietic tissues. I found that these pathways differ markedly in their regulation of erythropoietic rate.
Using mouse genetic models, I found that apoptosis mediated by interaction between erythroblasts that co-express cell-surface Fas and FasL plays a key autoregulatory role in stabilizing the size of the erythroblast pool in the basal state. Further, mice mutant for Fas or FasL showed a delayed erythropoietic response to hypoxia or high Epo. This suggests that Fas and FasL accelerate the stress response by providing an apoptotic 'cell reserve' that can be rescued by Epo in stress.
I also examined the in-vivo behavior of two cell-intrinsic apoptotic regulators, Bcl-xL and Bim, previously unexamined in stress. The induction of Bcl-xL was rapid but transient, whilst the suppression of Bim was slower but persistent. My data suggest that Bcl-xL is a key mediator of EpoR's anti-apoptotic signal very early in the stress response, before Bim and Fas are suppressed. Bcl-xL adaptation to high Epo occurs through inhibition of Stat5 activation, and resets it for the next acute stress.
My findings suggest that in vivo, Epo regulates erythropoietic rate through erythroblast apoptosis, and that various apoptotic regulators play distinct and unique roles in this process. My work provides new molecular insights into erythropoiesis that are relevant to cytokine biology and to clinical approaches of disease treatment.


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Where are You? Our question for the First Day of Rosh Hashanah
RH 1st Day 2016
If you have noticed, we have some yellow banners up on the corner at Fountain with the question, "Where are you?" Our pitch line, if you saw it, is" Be here with friends." I hope, indeed, that as you sit here, you truly feel that you are with us here among friends.
However, I must admit that this pitch line was not originally to pitch High Holy seats. It goes way, way back, to the dawn of human consciousness.
To get into this theme, I want to tell first you the story of courage. It is told of a wealthy, wealthy billionaire, that bought a palatial estate, and invited all his friends and acquaintances to see his 1500 acre estate, his mansion, and the largest, most gigantic swimming pool imaginable. However, he had it filled with alligators.
He turned to his guests:" Dear Friends, I have discovered that I was able to acquire my wealth only through courage, only through the guts to take on impossible challenges. I prize courage so greatly, that I challenge any one of you. If you have the guts to jump in and swim across, and get out alive, through my alligators, I will give you anything you want--my house, my ranch, money."
The guests stood in absolute silence, astonished, and then, all proceded to the house for lunch. Suddenly, they heard a splash, and looked back to the pool, to see one of their company swimming straight across the pool.
The billionaire was astonished. He pulled the fellow out, wrapped him in his towel, shook his hands, and said. "Amazing! I am a man of my word. What courage! What bravery! Tell me what ever you want and I will give it to you."
The fellow stood there chattering and said," Tell me, who was the dumb idiot that pushed me into the pool."
A little cynical perhaps. However, our response to the question " Where are you?" assumes that each and every one of us can actually take a stance and not wait till we get pushed into action by forces beyond our control.
Rosh Hashanah, by tradition, is associated with the creation of the world. 5777, if we count the days in the Torah exactly, I always add the caveat, "plus minus some several billion years. However, 5777 years is a very accurate date from the start of human written recorded history, and it was recorded for the very first time in the region in which the Biblical Adam lived.
Our question then, " Where are you" reflects the first question ever asked in written records. Adam and Eve have failed a simple command, " Don't eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil." We have the first recorded account of human failing. Then, Adam and Eve hide. We now have the first human record of lying low, keeping a low profile so as not to be found out. That is when the first question of humanity is asked," Where are you?"
We now have the first human record of waffling, fabricating, weaseling, of shifting the blame. This is moral cowardice of the first degree. 5777 years later, and we humans still give the same answer. Do we have a better answer?
In the Torah account, 20 generations go by till there is someone ready to give a different answer. That is in our Torah reading of these two days. Abraham does not need the question; he has the answer. God calls his name, and he responds, " Hineni", "Here I am."
There is one thing that Jews understood, throughout the ages—that life, reality, makes demands of us, demands that are no less than the demand to offer up Isaac on the altar. Our teachers and their followers understood that to be a Jew was to be up on the altar, to be on the Akedah, to stand at the edge, for the sake of what was right and sacred. The answer to "Where are you?" is "Hineni." It is to stand at the transition from child to adult. It is the heroic stance in life.
So, who is the true hero?
I am personally, highly impacted by the experience of the Holocaust. Both my parents survived, my father, in exile in the Soviet Union, my mother, by passing herself as a Pole in Warsaw. I have found, that over the years, that fact of Jewish history has shaped me and continues to shape me.
From time to time, I go back to my father's papers and writings. There is one, published sixty years ago, written less than a year after the fall of Hitler, with the Title: Hero or Saint?
He looked looked at the history of heroism among the Jewish people. We don't need to look at the Israeli army of the past decades for example. There is the obvious, the stories of the Macabees at Chanukah, of Bar Kochba taking on the Roman Empire.
Even in later ages, when we had been taught that Jews were meek and timid, we stood on the front lines, through the Crusades, the Chmielnicki massacres, into the past century when Jews served in numbers beyond their proportion in population in the allied forces during World War II.
Then, he went on:
"Our tradition and our history books ignore this fact. Physical heroism, the cult of the hero, is unknown in Jewish tradition.
"The glorification of might, the veneration of power, do not belong to the way of the Jew, even when it is in the service of such legitimate causes as the defense of the persecuted and oppressed.
"Honoring only physical heroism is strange to us, because this honor goes hand in hand with physical strength and power, and the devil, too, can do the same. The criteria for heroism in Judaism is not in conquering the enemy, but in conquering one's self, for it is greater than conquering foreign countries,something identified with raw power and stained with blood. Therefore, the traditional history of the Jews saw the leading Jewish personalities as greater than heroes, and called them "Rabbenu "our teachers--and Zaddik-Righteous.
"Our will is set, since antiquity, towards peace and our dream is so vastly different from the military culture of Prussia and knights in armor." Great is peace, for it is for the sake of peace that the Torah, God's teachings were given, to bring peace to the world, as it says: All her paths are paths of pleasantness, and all her ways are peace."
The Bible, our foundation book, is filled with military heroes, yet we remember them for much more.
Abraham is ready to fight for the oppressed, and goes out to war. But he is a hero, because he is ready to quarrel with God for what is right.
Jacob fights with an angel but makes peace with his brother.
Moses strikes down a slave master, but is chosen because he is a tender shepherd.
The villain is the man of force, the one for whom the expression of power is paramount.
The hero then, is the hero of the will to do just, the moral hero.
Do we not have any heroes anymore?
It's not a new lament
The prophet Ezekiel lamented the lack of courageous figures in his day, not military figures, not soldiers, but moral heroes. There was no one "haomed baperetz", no who was able to stand in the breach of the walls to defend his people, not against invading armies, but against injustice and corruption. And even take a stand against God.!
The German playwright, Berthold Brecht, fifty years ago, wrote " Woe to the country that has no heroes", to which he then replied, "Woe to the country that needs a hero". His country, he knew, had found its hero, its Adolph Hitler. The rest, we know, were merely following orders.
Today, we have the celebrity, and the celebrity, basically, does whatever he or she wants.
We used to live next to a video store in this neighborhood. One day, dozens of cars appeared, the street was full of paparazzi, and then many, many police cars. What was the fuss all about?, I asked one of the policemen.
Paris Hilton, who was awaiting arraignment, had to return a video to the store. The police had to accompany her and so did the paparazzi. "
He summed up, " Instead of protecting you from criminals, I have to protect you from Paris Hilton!"
That is the world of celebrity.
Don't we have any heroes anymore?
There are real heroes in the world. They just don't make it to the covers on the magazine racks in the supermarket line.
It has been 15 years since Sept. 11, of 2001, when 346 firefighters died trying to save the trapped victims of the Twin Towers. In the intervening years since, thousands of American soldiers, volunteers all, have been killed or injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But just as there is heroism in facing death, there is heroism in facing life.
I made mention of the survivors of the Holocaust. This congregation has been home to many. One of our veteran members, Joe Alexander, survived almost every concentration camp in Europe. Alex Satmary spent the war as a slave of the Hungarian army and then as a Prisoner of War in the Soviet Union. Another leader here in the past, Harry Kotler,z"l hid his family in a ditch underground, and went out, day by day, from his hiding place, to forage for food for them in the open and return to save them. Another leader here, Max Cuckier, z"l had been a head of a partisan force. Frances Mandel, may she live many years, here, with her husband, Jack Mandel, of blessed memory, would have parties here to raise funds for programs in Israel, and all these people who had narrowly escaped hell would dance with all their might, right in this ballroom. We had and still have many others such heroes in our midst.
To survive, to say yes to life, under such situations, to have the inner strength to make it from the morning to the night to the next morning again—that is courage, that is heroism. It was carried out by people that we have known who never received any medals of honor.
But just as there is heroism in facing the battlefield, and heroism in choosing life over death in time of horror, there is heroism in day to day life.
So, we have, in our sources, the implicit answer to the question the Rabbis asked question: "Aizeh hu gibor", who truly is a hero, what do we Jews truly consider to be heroes?
The answer, that they quoted in the words of Ben Zoma, is: Who is mighty?" Aizeh hu Gibor--Hakovesh et yizro." He who subdues his passions, and the proof, the Rabbi gave was from Proverbs (16:32):
"One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty and one whose temper is controlled than one who captures a city."
This is in a nutshell what Judaism is trying to bring about in all of us. Warfare of the physical kind is sometimes, necessary, sometimes unavoidable, sometimes morally just and sometimes, it is a mitzvah. But we do not live in warfare all out lives. Our lives, day to day, are without guns and tanks—our lives today are, however, with cars and banks. Rather than raging against Al-Qaeda, most have trouble with rage on the road. A few have to deal with terrorist bombs, but most of us have to deal, on a daily basis, with greed, jealousy, rapacious appetites for food, for lust, for power.
So that is Gibor, a hero, "hakovesh et Yitzro", who conquers his passions and drives.
It is what the Moslems mystics, the Sufis call, " the greater jihad". The real battle, they taught, is not against us infidel Jews or Christians; it is against unbridled infantile desire. If only the heads of Al Qaeda and ISIS would study their own scholars! The world would be so much better.
One of the great works on Jewish law is the Tur, upon which the Shulkhan Arukh is based. These are its opening instructions, upon which all the rest of Jewish law stands:
" Be as courageous as the leopard, fly high like the eagle, run as swift as the gazelle, and be a strong as a lion, to do the will of your Father in heaven."
The sage, Rabbi Jacob ben Asher, then goes on:
Be as courageous as a leopard. This is the first step to the worship of the Creator, for too often, one is afraid of carrying out his obligations to God because he fears those who would mock him. Thus said Rabbi Yochanan: May you fear God as much as you fear people.
Rabbi Meir was once asked ," Why did we Jews deserve to get the Torah." His answer was," We were" Azim"--we were brave. A courageous people deserved to receive God's word, and a courageous people could survive centuries of persecution. We are the spiritual and moral descendants of Abraham. Just as Abraham answered the call of God with, Hineni, Here I am, so may we be ready to answer the call in life, to make the right and just and necessary decisions in our lives. Amen
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I know it's similar to other posts regarding malaphors on the idiom, "kick the can down the road", but this one was again uttered in the political world and I can't pass it up. This time it is Bernie Sanders, appearing on the Andrea Mitchell show on MSNBC, talking about the DACA impasse between Congress and the president. A big thanks to Mike Browning for spotting this one.
I notice many of the malaphors are spotted from MSNBC shows. Is this because subscribers are left wing, right wingers are just well-spoken, or those who frequent Fox News and the like are just too stupid to recognize them?


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Indiana Catholic priest charged with domestic violence against wife
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Indianapolis, Ind., Mar 1, 2018 / 16:53 pm
A married Catholic priest in the Indianapolis archdiocese faces several criminal domestic violence charges after he allegedly assaulted his wife in September 2017.
The priest serves the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, a special church jurisdiction set up for Anglicans who wished to enter the Catholic Church, often as a group, while retaining many of their customs. Because they come from the Anglican tradition, some priests in the ordinariate are married.
The ordinariate said in a statement that it is "committed to collaborating with authorities to ensure justice is provided for all concerned, and affirms the Catholic Church's clear teaching that domestic violence is never justified," the Indianapolis television station FOX59 reports.
Father Luke W. Reese, 49, is charged with kidnapping, criminal confinement, intimidation, and domestic battery in a Sept. 24 incident after he allegedly discovered his wife was having an affair.
According to the Indianapolis Star, charges were filed in October 2017. The Star said the story was initially reported by independent journalist Damien Fisher.
A former Anglican clergyman ordained as a Catholic priest in June 2016 for the ordinariate, Reese was serving at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Indianapolis.
The victim's probable cause affidavit said she was in the backseat of a vehicle with a man when Reese arrived and told her to get out. He then drove her around the city as he hit her and played loud heavy metal music. He took her to Holy Rosary Church and, the victim claims, forced her to kneel at the altar. He said he could choke her, then slammed her into a wall and hit her head on their vehicle before they left.
He reportedly drove his wife to Auburn to force her to tell her grandmother what had happened. When they returned home, the priest allegedly forced her to have sexual relations.
The ordinariate said the priest was put on administrative leave on Sept. 27, 2017 "when he disclosed actions that resulted in criminal charges related to domestic violence."
Mary Foley Panszi, the alleged victim's attorney, said, "It is unfortunate when anyone is a victim of domestic violence or physical abuse." She lamented comments "from people within the church and the greater Indiana community at large, saying it must be the victim's fault," given the current environment in which men and women are "much more conscious and aware of the devastation that is caused to the abused victims and their families."
Soon after the alleged assault, Holy Rosary pastor Father C. Ryan McCarthy said in a church bulletin announcement that Reese had notified him of "some personal and family issues which would require a greater amount of his attention." Reese had asked for a leave of absence from Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, who granted a leave of absence of indeterminate length.
The pastor asked the parish to respect the privacy of Reese and his family and continue to pray for them.
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Telstra Corporation
Telstra pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem
Pre-paid users get some Telstra 4G love at a reasonable price
Ross Catanzariti
Ease of use and setup
Handy LED screen
Fast speeds
4G coverage still limited
Average battery life
At $169, Telstra's pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem isn't the cheapest option on the market, but it's certainly one of the fastest. Provided you're using it in an area serviced by 4G coverage, the pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem is a pretty impressive device.
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$ 169.00 (AUD)
Telstra has continued to add to its 4G product portfolio since the network was switched on in late 2011, but the pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem is the first product targeted at pre-paid users. It offers excellent speeds provided you are in a 4G coverage zone and is competitively priced.
Compact and functional
The Telstra pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G is a battery powered, portable modem manufactured by ZTE. It allows up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices to connect to it wirelessly for shared mobile Internet access, through Telstra's 4G network where available. It offers largely the same functionality as the Mobile Wi-Fi 4G modem, which was made available for post-paid customers back in March.
The Telstra pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem is a fairly simple device, about the size of a deck of cards in both height and width. It's constructed largely from glossy white plastic, though the front of the modem has a gloss black panel which houses the small OLED screen. A chrome strip runs around the edge of the modem in an attempt to add a touch of class, while the corners are smooth and round making the device comfortable to hold.
A large power button sits below the screen with an LED ring surrounding it that flashes blue when the device is powered on. A WPS button and two antenna sockets on the right side allow users to boost reception in flaky coverage areas if needed. The pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G charges via a micro-USB connection on the left side, next to a micro-USB card slot that's concealed by a plastic flap. If the battery is flat the pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem can be connected to a computer via the included USB cable and used as a wired modem.
The Telstra pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem is about the size of a deck of cards.
Aside from impressive 4G speeds where available, the best feature of the pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G's design is the LED screen. It displays information including signal strength, the number of devices connected, a battery level indicator, how long a connection has been active for, the network type and the default SSID network name. The screen can also display your network password so you don't have to remember it every time you want to connect a new device, though this can be hidden if you're concerned about security.
To hide the displaying of your network password and change any other settings, you'll need to access the Telstra pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem's Web interface. It's accessible by pointing your browser to http://telstra.wifi.4g and logging in using the default password supplied. The Web interface is both straightforward and functional. Options include editing the SSID name and password, editing the APN, changing the screen time and a host of other advanced networking and security options.
4G speeds impressive, if you can get them
The Telstra pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G Modem is marketed as a 4G device, but it uses both 3G and 4G technology. If you move out of an area with 4G coverage, the pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G falls back onto the company's regular Next G network, supporting HSPA+ dual channel speeds of 1.1 megabits per second (Mbps) - 20Mbps.
The Telstra pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem promises "typical" download speeds ranging from 2Mbps to 40Mbps when in a 4G coverage zone, while typical upload speeds range from 1Mbps to 10Mbps. These are best case scenarios though, and the results we achieved were far less, albeit still pretty impressive. Like all mobile broadband products, the speed of the pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem will depend on a number of factors including time, location, network coverage, signal strength and congestion.
Telstra's 4G coverage is currently available in all eight capital cities (5km from GPO) and their respective airports in Australia, along with over 80 regional and metropolitan centres (3km from city centre), so you obviously don't get 4G coverage everywhere. Telstra says it will continue the LTE rollout into other coverage areas "where demand requires the extra capacity", so the network will continue to expand over time.
You'll need to be in a Telstra 4G coverage zone to achieve the fastest possible speeds. In the above map, 4G coverage is denoted by the dark blue colour. (Image credit: Telstra)
If you happen to be in a 4G coverage zone, you can expect impressive speeds. Using PC World's Broadband speed test, we managed to achieve a top download speed of almost 30Mbps, though speeds generally hovered between 16Mbps and 23Mbps on most occasions. Upload speeds during testing peaked at around 15.8Mbps (higher than Telstra's quoted 10Mbps). We also used the pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem to stream live video for almost two hours and it worked seamlessly.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment of the Telstra pre-paid Wi-Fi 4G modem is its battery life. In our tests, it lasted just over three hours before needing to be recharged. This is nearly an hour short of the four hours ZTE quotes on its specifications sheet. It's not a terrible result, but if you will be using the modem on a daily basis and aren't always near a computer or power outlet, it may be an idea to purchase an extra battery. Unlike many other devices of this kind, we found that the Telstra Pre-Paid Wi-Fi 4G doesn't get too hot with constant use. It warms up, but doesn't become hot enough to be an annoyance.
The Telstra Pre-Paid Wi-Fi 4G sells for $169 and comes with 5GB of pre-paid data to use with a 30 day expiry. A full list of Telstra's pre-paid mobile broadband plans can be found on its Web site.
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Craft, The: Supernatural Comedy Thriller Starring Robin Tunney and Fairusa Balk
June 15, 2007 by EmanuelLevy
(Supernatural comedy-thriller)
Four gifted and attractive actresses struggle hard to render a semblance of dramatic coherence to The Craft, a neatly crafted film that begins promisingly as a black comedy a la Heathers before succumbing to a tricky machinery of special effects.
Still, young audiences, particularly women, are likely to connect with this energetic high-school tale about vengeful empowerment of rebellious misfits, resulting in a reasonable spring B.O. entry for Columbia.
Recent American movies about modern witchcraft, most notably Disney's Hocus Pocus, have been disappointingly humorless, effects-laden concoctions. The Craft, produced by Douglas (Wolf) Wick and co-written by Peter (Flatliners) Filardi and Andrew Fleming, is also an artistic disappointment. However, its creators have figured out that a movie based entirely on special effects will fail to involve its viewers emotionally. With this in mind, they have constructed a supernatural comedy-thriller that features four likable characters grounded in a realistic setting.
Story begins with the relocation of Sarah (Robin Tunney) to yet another high school, L.A.'s St. Benedict's Academy, where she's at first completely isolated. Living with her dad, she still suffers the effects of her mother's death at childbirth and her own suicide attempt. Not surprisingly, Sarah attracts the attention of three outsiders who've also found themselves banished to the margins of the school's pecking order–they're described as "the bitches of Eastwick."
The strongest of the bunch is white trash Nancy (Fairuza Balk), whose mother and brutish stepfather endlessly bicker and fight. The other clique members are Bonnie (Neve Campbell), an insecure teenager badly burned and scarred in a fire, and Rochelle (Rachel True), an overachiever who hides her wounds deep inside. Displaying a knack for "the craft," Sarah joins their secret circle, thus completing the four corners needed for magical spells: north (earth), south (fire), east (air), and west (water).
The Craft owes more than a bit to the 1989 indie Heathers, a satire which also revolved around the terror executed by four high school bitch-queens. The movie depicts, often quite sharply and humorously, the adventures of tough girls who know they'll never fit in, but are nonetheless determined not to let their peers back them into a corner. Early episodes in which the girls probe the dark corners of their minds, as they embark on a journey that takes them from passive impotence to intoxicating empowerment, are cleverly scripted and pointedly acted. The revenge that Sarah and her cohorts take against obnoxiously insensitive guys like cocky football jock Chris (Skeet Ulrich) are singularly biting.
Two delicious sequences underline how engagingly funny The Craft could have been had it not surrendered to the lure of special effects, which awkwardly dominate the last reel. The scene in which racist student Laura (Christine Taylor) gets her comeuppance at the pool, losing her beautiful blond hair, is horrifying and hilarious in a wicked manner that will make De Palma proud.
And a later episode, when Nancy's mom, Grace, (resourcefully played by Helen Shaver) shockingly finds out–courtesy the craft–that her abusive macho-pig hubby has left a huge insurance policy is so poignant that the audience joins her hysterical reaction with a big liberating howl. Grace, who utterly lacks finesse, goes on a shopping spree, buying herself a tacky purple suit, a gaudy orange couch and a jukebox that plays only Connie Francis songs.
Unfortunately, pic begins to lose its narrative pull after the first reel, and yarn progressively deteriorates into a series of well-executed special effects, culminating in a power play between Nancy and Sarah which is staged in routine horror-movie style. Nonetheless, Fleming, who previously directed the romantic comedy Threesome, gives the film's early segments a focused feel and tight pulse. And he has coaxed marvelous performances from his inviting ensemble, particularly the appealing Tunney, who in her first leading role demonstrates strong potential for becoming a star.
Tech contributions are adroitly pro, especially Alexander Gruszynski's atmospheric lensing, Marek Dobrowolski's vivid design, and Graeme Revell's cutting-edge music. Sony Imageworks visual effects are appropriately creepy, most notably a sequence with an army of crawlers which amasses the largest number of reptiles seen on screen in recent memory.
Too bad The Craft is marred by structural problems, for its tale of maladjusted girls who turn to witchcraft as a way out of their misery could have struck a stronger chord with female adolescents.
MPAA Rating: R
Running time: 100 minutes.
A Columbia release of a Douglas Wick production. Produced by Wick. Executive producer, Ginny Nugent. Co-producer, Lisa Tornell. Directed by Andrew Fleming. Screenplay, Peter Filardi and Fleming, based on Filardi's story. Camera (Technicolor, color), Alexander Gruszynski; editor, Jeff Freeman; music, Graeme Revell; executive music producer, Ralph Sall; production design, Marek Dobrowolski; art direction, Gae S. Buckley; set decoration, Nancy Nye; costume design, Deborah Everton; makeup, Jeffrey Hamilton; sound (Dolby), Jim Stuebe; supervising sound editor, Bobby Mackson; special effects coordinator, David Kelsey; visual effects produced by Sony Imageworks; visual effects supervisor, Kelley R. Ray; assistant director, John R. Woodward; casting assistant, Amy Gerber.
Sarah……….Robin Tunney
Nancy……….Fairuza Balk
Bonnie……..Neve Campbell
Rochelle……..Rachel True
Chris……….Skeet Ulrich
Grace……….Helen Shaver
Mr. Bailey…Cliff De Young
Laura……Christine Taylor
Lirio………Asumpta Serna


On Monday, August 26, 2013 the newly arriving students began their collective seminary journey by participating in New Student Orientation. After three full days of introductory instruction on campus life, seminary communication and email system, library resources, campus stewardship, and community praxis, the new students who until this time were clothed in the customary white dress-shirt and black pants, were blessed by the new Dean of the Seminary, the Very Reverend Fr. Steven Voytovich, to begin wearing the black cassock. The cassock will remain their official uniform until the day they graduate.
On Thursday, August 29, 2013 the returning students joined their new classmates for the Beginning of the Year Retreat. 14 new students including 5 Mdiv, 2 Priestly Formation (Undergraduate Remedial) 1 Non-Matriculated, and 7 Diaconal Formation joined with 41 returning students to begin the 2013-2014 Academic Year.
The seminary community then enjoyed addresses by the Rector of the Seminary, His Grace Bishop Michael, the Dean of the Seminary, Archpriest Steven Voytovich, the Abbot of St. Tikhon's Monastery, Igumen Sergius (Bowyer) and other members of the Seminary Faculty and Board of Trustees.
Also on Thursday, August 29, 2013 The Board of Trustees hosted a reception for the welcoming of the new dean in the monastery bookstore. This was an opportunity for the Trustees, along with the Faculty, Administration and Staff to welcome him to the community and to share words of encouragement as he begins this next phase of his public ministry.
At this time the community also sang many years to His Grace Bishop michael as well as several members of the Board of Trustees who were celebrating their birthdays on Thursday or in the near future.
The 2013-2014 Academic Year promises to be a year of dynamic growth and self-reflection for St. Tikhon's Seminary and for the entire St. Tikhon's Community.


Indie Games | Bytes that Rock!
Creating a great videogame is always a challenging task. Doing it with a very tight budget is even more impressive. We wanted to take a moment to appreciate the indie games developers, so created an award category especially for them. The variety that this league presents is especially relevant. Engaging with an audience (or players in this case) is no longer about money, it is about talent, original ideas and hard work. Here it is our Indie Games Awards category!
Videogames do not necessarily need to be serious, and Goat Simulator proves that better than anything else. You would think that sandbox games are always supported by great budgets, then Rising World is the exception to the rule. Indie games can either opt to offer great graphics, like This War Of Mine and Transistor did, or take a completely surprising approach and focus on something a little bit different like using real video footage in Her Story or focus on just being pure fun with an ingenious idea like car soccer in Rocket league.


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DENVER, CO - AUGUST 11: Nolan Arenado #28 of the Colorado Rockies looks at his bat during the fourth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Coors Field on August 11, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
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Dodgers: 3 moves to answer recent Padres trades
by Scott Edwards 1 week ago Follow @ScottEdwardsJr
The Los Angeles Dodgers are more determined than ever to match their division rival.
It's rare that the Dodgers are in a spot where they need to make a move to try and match one of their division rivals. The San Diego Padres went all out this offseason, adding All-Star starter Yu Darvish and former AL Cy Young winner Blake Snell to their starting rotation. Now, the defending World Series champions could be looking at an equal opponent in their own division.
With a plethora of prospects still in their system and money to spend in free agency, the Dodgers have a chance to land a big player to fight the trades of the Padres this offseason.
The Dodgers front office has a real opportunity to not only match their division rival with a major move, but repeat as World Series champions as well.
3 moves the Dodgers can make to match the Padres' trades
1. Trade for Nolan Arenado
Inter-division deals are always difficult, but the interest has been there. Nolan Arenado wants to win. He doesn't care where that is as long as he can try and win a World Series title. Or at the very least, make the playoffs consistently. That sure sounds like the Dodgers. And while it is likely they would have to shell out a lot more because they're in the same division, it could be worth it to show the Padres that they are still the "kings" of the NL West.
Arenado's price tag could be a bit cheaper after his worst season in a long time. While it was only a 60-game season, Arenado finished with a .253 batting average and only 8 home runs in 48 games. This was likely an outlier, and what he brings to the team with his glove alone makes him worth it no matter how low his batting average may be.
Arenado entering a lineup that already has former MVPs Mookie Betts and Cody Bellinger in it seems unfair. But with a package that could involve top prospect Gavin Lux, the Rockies could be willing to move on from their franchise player. And the Dodgers would be the clear-cut favorites for their division and the World Series yet again.
That's all that matters to "The Boys in Blue."
Next: 2. Sign the top bat in free agency
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Investor immigration programs have been growing in popularity around the world, while governments have sought to constantly adjust their requirements to the increased demand.
Our stories on the varied routes investors can take toward gaining residency in different jurisdictions proved highly popular with the International Adviser audience in 2015.
In particular this gallery providing details on 10 of the world's most popular investor immigration schemes provided by the Global Investor Immigration Council was among our most retrieved items of the year.
In Portugal both the Non-Habitual Residency (NHR) programme introduced in 2009 and the Investor Visa programme introduced in 2012 are among those schemes which have been described as unqualified successes.
This article was originally published in International Adviser by Richard Hubbard, and can be found here.


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For most people, it is probably easier to imagine how a gorilla or a chimpanzee experiences the world, and what they may need to have a good quality of life, than a snake or other reptile. However, knowledge about the natural environments of animals can help illuminate their behavioral needs. This information can be used to design habitats that promote these species-typical behaviors.
The Detroit Zoo is home to five individually housed juvenile Madagascar giant hognose snakes that reside behind-the-scenes at the Holden Reptile Conservation Center. Like other hognose species, these snakes have an upturned snout that they use to burrow through leaf litter to catch prey. Recently, their habitats were redesigned to include more overall space as well as new substrates for burrowing and exploration. Researchers from the Center for Zoo and Aquarium Animal Welfare and Ethics observed the snakes before and after their transition to the new space. In the more complex, naturalistic habitats, the snakes showed a greater diversity of behaviors, and they spent more time tongue-flicking – a behavior that helps them explore their environment – and burrowing.
The responses to the new habitat also varied between individuals, demonstrating the important point that all animals, great and small, have individual needs and experience the world in different ways. This study contributed information to the limited body of knowledge surrounding the welfare of reptiles in human care.


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Hufnagel, Glenda Lewin
Dr. Glenda Lewin Hufnagel earned her Ph.D in Educational Leadership at the University of Oklahoma where she is a faculty member in the Human Relations Department and an affiliate in the Women's Studies Program
History of Women's Menstruation From Ancient Greece to the Twenty-First Century
Hufnagel chronicles the historical inaccuracies in understanding menstruation which have contributed to viewing women as a 'second sex' and perpetuated feelings of shame. Her argument claims that only in the last few decades has science begun to fully understand the issue. Subsequent social and psychological treatment of menstruation in recent years has helped women to have an increased sense of comfort with their bodies. From Ancient Greece where Aristotle claimed that women were closer to animals, to contemporary misunderstandings about menstruation leading to increased acne, which was viewed as a sign of sexual immorality beginning with pubescence, the book tells the tawdry tale of women learning to accept themselves through successive scientific breakthroughs.
Reproductive Lives of Twenty Middle Class North American Women. Autoethnographical Analyses with Bibliographical Extensions
This collection contains twenty-three chapters which chronicle women's lived reproductive lives beginning with menarche and ending with daughters who were caretakers of their own mothers as they were dying. The contributors are women from universities in the United States and Canada.


One of my missions in life is to help alleviate some of the pain and suffering in the world so we can create a fairer, kinder more sustainable world for all.
Through these talks I hope to support encourage and inspire you to make changes which enable you to live healthier happier lives because I believe healthier happier people help create a healthier happier world.
Having recovered from ME/CFS, overcome depression, chronic social anxiety and disabling distress about what is happening in the world I feel it's about time I shared some of the tips, tools and techniques which have helped me so you too can find some relief from any pain and suffering you are experiencing.
They will be suitable for and open to all so please pass this information on to anyone you think may be interested.
All talks will be held 7.30 – 8.30 pm at the Rockfield Centre ,Oban.
To find out more about what is coming up in each talk you can follow me on Facebook here or join my mailing list here or give me a call if there is something specific you would like to ask about.
Please let me know if there are any particular aspects of health and happiness which you would like to hear about and I will do my best to slot them in.


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Q: Graphics on boot like the backtrack linux or the Gentoo live DVD after you press alt+F1 on boot Would like to find a good tutorial on how to make a boot splash similar to the one on backtrack {3,4,5}. It has all of the terminal text that you would see on a normal boot up but it has a nice border. Another example is the gentoo live DVD, a picturesque title bar that has the Gentoo logo on it. It seems to me that it is able to put the graphics into the virtual console. I would like to find a way to make programs take advantage of this and make my boot up screen look cooler as well.
I'm running gentoo X86_64 with GCC -v gcc version 4.6.3 (Gentoo 4.6.3 p1.6, pie-0.5.2)

A: Backtrack 5 uses old-fashion bootsplash (the nice border) plus plymouth, BT{3,4} use bootsplash only (it support a verbose mode and silent mode, that means a background picture plus boot progress bar)
But gentoo now ships with fbsplash by default.
You will need to patch the kernel with latest bootsplash patch and plymouth (Install the userland tool as well), I don't think this has official support as this moment, good luck with ti. But you might just copy the kernel source code shipped with BT5 (in /usr/src/linux-source-3.2-*)
P.S: fbsplash / bootsplash suffers a slow output, e.g try man ls in the framebuffer, you're likely to screen flashes. I stopped using them for a long time, it only server to slow down booting.

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We'll start with a bunch of examples of ways to draw the pieces that go together to make a face. These aren't the only ways to draw the parts, but they should give you an idea of where to start.
Here are some face shapes.


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Kim Kardashian proud after Kanye's 'magical' Sunday Service at Coachella
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West (PA)
Kim Kardashian West has said she is proud of husband Kanye West for following his heart after the rapper took his Sunday Service to Coachella.
The musician has been holding regular outdoor performances of spiritual music, which Kim often documents on social media.
On Easter Sunday he held the service on a hillside at Coachella music festival in Indio, California.
The show, attended by many members of his wife's family, was streamed live through the vantage point of a peephole on YouTube.
Kim has now shared several images of the event on social media.
COACHELLA 2019. Sunday Service was so special to experience here at Coachella especially for my first time here! Kanye started Sunday Service for healing for himself and his close and family and friends. He had this vision of starting a church for few years and it was magical seeing everyone else get to experience it. I'm so proud of you babe for doing exactly whats in your heart. The choir and band work so hard and have so much fun! It's so inspiring to watch. Thank you to everyone who woke up early to spend Easter Sunday with us. It's a memory we will cherish forever. ✨  @JimJoe @LiamMacRae
A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Apr 22, 2019 at 9:51am PDT
"Sunday Service was so special to experience here at Coachella especially for my first time here!" the reality TV star said.
"Kanye started Sunday Service for healing for himself and his close and family and friends.
"He had this vision of starting a church for few years and it was magical seeing everyone else get to experience it.
"I'm so proud of you babe for doing exactly what's in your heart.
"The choir and band work so hard and have so much fun! It's so inspiring to watch.
"Thank you to everyone who woke up early to spend Easter Sunday with us. It's a memory we will cherish forever."


Every Primary School in the country receives funding in order to improve provision of Physical Education and Sport in Primary schools. This funding is ring-fenced and therefore can only be spent on provision for PE and sport in school. We have a plan which has been produced by staff. The funding will be shared between quality training for staff, delivery of PE lessons and clubs by professionals, extending swimming opportunities and purchasing the necessary resources. At Barnett Wood we are using this grant to give teachers training in dance teaching working alongside a professional dancer. In this way chidren and staff benefit from professional support. We also plan to train our staff to deliver quality swimming lessons in May 2019.
For 2018 -19 we are allocating our budget to further enhance our swimming facilities and to provide extra swimming sessions. We are also plan to work with a local cricket club to provide coaching and we plan to fund some individual football and swimming club places. We need to update and renew some of our gymnastic equipment and out door sports facilities. Safe storage with ease of access for our outside resources is essential.
1. Provide high quality training for staff in Swimming. This will be followed by peer mentoring and coaching. We will employ a professional swimming teacher to support staff in their first year of teaching swimming. this will give staff support and guidance during this season along with providing children with top quality support.
2. Review the resources needed in order to provide top quality PE lessons and extra curricular activities. For example, we require new PE mats for safefloor work. we are also researching outdoor PE facility.
3. After school clubs have led to children joining other clubs, receiving awards and making excellent progress with their skills. We will continue to provide sports clubs during the year.
4. Having a professional dance teacher focusing on strengthening children's core has really impacted on children's strengths across the PE curriculum. We will continue to employ a dance professional for the Spring Term.


What? Michelin-starred chef Tom Aikens has teamed up with luxury tour-operator Destinology to offer a special culinary tour to Mauritius. Guests will be based at the Royal Palm Hotel and will enjoy Aikens hosted masterclasses, three four-course dinners by Aikens and a demonstration on Mauritian cuisine with Michel de Matteis and Aikens. The package also includes seven nights accommodation with breakfast and flights. Prices from £3,499 per person.


Protect Yossi Govrin's vision as founder & Director of our Santa Monica Art Studios!
The Santa Monica Art Studios (SMAS) was first built and brought to life by Yossi Govrin back in 1985, with the vision of creating both a sanctuary for the arts and a center of community.
Since then, it has been a landmark in the cultural scene of Los Angeles, providing emerging and established artists alike with unique creative spaces and opportunities, engaging the arts community with it's platform through national and international exhibition programs, and humanitarian efforts throughout the years including Yossi hosting over 600 fundraisers and events held for the disadvantaged in the local community; working with Fresh Start, ArTribe, Habitat for Humanity and long list of organisations big and small.
Through these positive contributions to the citizens and the city, our founder & director Yossi Govrin has been recognised with the Critical Leadership Art Award from the Santa Monica Art Foundation and personally received the certificate from the California Legislature Assembly in celebration and appreciation of the Studios and it's exceptional achievements and significant local impact.
Today we find the beating heart of our entire creative home here is under threat, as the Santa Monica Art Studios finds itself caught in the crossfires between the City and the Santa Monica Airport's turf war. With the rights of the studios falling through the cracks of this external disagreement between two giants, the City is now regretably using this as an excuse to strip Yossi Govrin's 33 year business from him and strong-arm in some external developers to continue the management and legacy of his very own independent business.
As with all things in life that hold genuine value, what Yossi has built here cannot and should not be reduced to numbers and spreadsheets. A true artists home and nothing short of an extension of Yossi's vibrant and creative spirit, we must stand together to protect this ecosystem and all that Yossi has rightfully cultivated here over the past 33 years. We call on the Cultural Affairs dept, the Santa Monica mayor and the Santa Monica City council to protect their community from cultural bleaching and to protect their citizens rights to manage their own businesses.
We who call this Studios home wouldn't wish it any other way.
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I'm posting Byte of the Week a day early today to share some fun, timely news. Tonight at 5:20 BizPathways is going to be mentioned as KCCO-James J Hill Reference Web 'O Week! Listen in at 5:20 at KCCO 950 AM. If you miss the broadcast you can read about us on the web.
BizPathways is an online tool that connects Minnesota entrepreneurs with the resources they need. We match entrepreneurs with tools, events, and organizations based on location, industry, and business development stage. We also have interactive business plan templates and business development checklists.
I say "we" because I have been very involved with developing BizPathways. I developed the taxonomy for the site, wrote the content, and serve as technical liaison. BizPathways is just one very neat project of Minnesota Rural Partners. I'll be announcing some other fun MRP projects in the upcoming weeks.