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Cardiff by the Sea, CA
Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA Skate Park, Encinitas, CA
It's fun to skate at the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA Skate Park because you can find classes for budding skaters as well as bowls, a vert ramp, and a concrete street section. Although…
It's fun to skate at the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA Skate Park because you can find classes…
The 7 Best Places for Dessert in California!
Betty's Pie Whole, Encinitas, CA
Betty's Pie Whole has a whole lot of pies—including breakfast and savory versions. Skip them and go straight for the sweet stuff, like the super-rich Mississippi Mud Pie that is…
Betty's Pie Whole has a whole lot of pies—including breakfast and savory versions. Skip…
The 9 Best Places for Appetizers in California!
Pacifica Del Mar, Del Mar, CA
Pacific Del Mar's stunning ocean-side location is the perfect place to relax with some internationally-inspired appetizers. Salads, chowders, cocktails, grilled seafood, and other light fare…
Pacific Del Mar's stunning ocean-side location is the perfect place to relax with some…
The 10 Best Farmers Markets in California!
The Vegetable Shop at the Chino Family Farm, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Chino Family Farm isn't a typical market, and it is definitely something to check out if you find yourself in Northern California. The farm dates back nearly 100 years, and supplies local…
Chino Family Farm isn't a typical market, and it is definitely something to check out if you…
10 Best Hair Salons in California
Cielo Hair & Skin Salon, Encinitas, CA
Experts here are skilled at helping customers find a style that embodies who they are. The relaxed, seaside environment is homey and comfortable, putting even the most skittish at ease for a haircut.…
Experts here are skilled at helping customers find a style that embodies who they are. The relaxed,…
The 7 Best Seafood Restaurants in California!
Lobster West, Encinitas, CA
Lobster West features East Coast-style lobster and crab rolls. The buttery rolls are filled with Maine lobster for a taste of Maine on the other side of the country. It's been recognized as one…
Lobster West features East Coast-style lobster and crab rolls. The buttery rolls are filled with…
The 10 Best Mini Golf Courses in California!
Pelly's Mini Golf, Del Mar, CA
Pelly's Mini Golf is tucked away at the Del Mar Golf Center. Kids will have a great time exploring the course that is filled with sea creatures like dolphins. The two courses take kids on an…
Pelly's Mini Golf is tucked away at the Del Mar Golf Center. Kids will have a great time…
7 Best Chocolate Shops in California
Carlsbad Chocolate Bar, Carlsbad, CA
Chocolates, coffee, wine. It's the trifecta of an amazing flavor adventure. The store is choco-full of bonbons, caramels, peanut butter cups, divinity and toffee. Some are made fresh daily. And…
Chocolates, coffee, wine. It's the trifecta of an amazing flavor adventure. The store is…
Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation, Carlsbad, CA
The Agua Hedionda Lagoon is the home of many natural wonders and the Foundation seeks to preserve it for future generations through education. It also seeks to offer public access to nature through…
The Agua Hedionda Lagoon is the home of many natural wonders and the Foundation seeks to preserve…
The 7 Best Places for Gelato in California!
Gaia Gelato, Carlsbad, CA
Using education in various areas and classes in gelato making, Gaia Gelato hails from Rome. Using Italian imported machinery and techniques, Gaia lovingly crafts a variety of gelato and sobretto…
Using education in various areas and classes in gelato making, Gaia Gelato hails from Rome. Using…
Best Things In & Around Cardiff by the Sea, CA
Dr. Green Rx, Vista, CA
Vista's Dr. Green Rx has a variety of marijuana products and a warm and welcoming atmosphere to help everybody enjoy the experience a little more. The friendly staff is available to help you… Read More
It's fun to skate at the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA Skate Park because you can find classes for budding skaters as well as bowls, a vert ramp, and a concrete street section. Although… Read More
Trilogy Sanctuary, La Jolla, CA
Trilogy Sanctuary is a go-to choice for vegans (and non-vegans) in La Jolla. This unique local spot has its popular vegan cafe but it also features a yoga studio and a boutique too, so you can have a… Read More
Featured in The 9 Best Places for Appetizers in California!
Pacific Del Mar's stunning ocean-side location is the perfect place to relax with some internationally-inspired appetizers. Salads, chowders, cocktails, grilled seafood, and other light fare… Read More
The Lodge at Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA
Featured in The 9 Best Spas in California!
The Lodge at Torrey Pines offers a variety of spa treatments inspired by the nearby Torrey Pines Reserve and Pacific Ocean. Relaxation and luxury combine in the treatment rooms, dry saunas,… Read More
La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA
Featured in The 10 Best Places for Live Theater in California!
The La Jolla Playhouse offers the opportunity to enjoy live theater in a variety of venues. Many plays have won awards, gone on to Broadway and furthered cultural discussions. La Jolla Playhouse is… Read More
Featured in 7 Best Chocolate Shops in California
Chocolates, coffee, wine. It's the trifecta of an amazing flavor adventure. The store is choco-full of bonbons, caramels, peanut butter cups, divinity and toffee. Some are made fresh daily. And… Read More
Featured in The 7 Best Places for Dessert in California!
Betty's Pie Whole has a whole lot of pies—including breakfast and savory versions. Skip them and go straight for the sweet stuff, like the super-rich Mississippi Mud Pie that is… Read More
Bahn Thai, San Diego, CA
Bahn Thai is named after the Thai word for "home," and you'll feel right at home from the moment you step into this San Diego restaurant. Enjoy its tasty delights on a small scale… Read More
Events around Cardiff by the Sea, CA
Exhibition - Cognate Collective, Tianquiztli : Portraits Of The Market As Portal
The Institute of Contemporary Art North, Encinitas, CA
Music By The Sea - Cristina Montes Mateo, harp
Encinitas Library, Encinitas, CA
Cristina Montes Mateo, harp And David Rejano, trombone
Blues in the Night at North Coast Repertory Theatre
North Coast Repertory Theatre, Solana Beach, CA
Led Zepagain
Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach, CA
San Diego Cat Show
Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, CA
Find it Fast Near Cardiff By The Sea
Cardiff State Beach
2500 South Coast Hwy. 101, Cardiff by the Sea, CA
About Here you will find a sandy beach with warm waters. This beach also has a variety of geographical features including patches of reef an... Read More
Encinitas Beaches
399 C Street, Encinitas, CA
About An eclectic mix of 60's inspired beach culture combined with boutique shopping, contemporary restaurants, new age meditation gar... Read More
Del Mar Racetrack
2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd, Del Mar, CA
 An American Thoroughbred Horse racing track. Each racing season starts in July and ends in September. Read More
Coast Highway 101, North San Diego County Coast, Encinitas, CA
About Leucadia is located on Coast Highway 101 on the north San Diego County coast. Heading south out of Carlsbad, the signs are everywhere,... Read More
Del Mar City Beach
1550 Coast Boulevard, Del Mar, CA
Del Mar City Beach stretches from 15th Street near Seagrove Park and Powerhouse Park northward to the cliffs at Dog Beach. Del Mar Beach is a great... Read More
Batiquitos Lagoon Nature Center
7380 Gabbiano Lane, Carlsbad, CA
About Us:The lagoon itself consists of 610 acres with a drainage basin of about 55,000 acres. The watershed basin includes the cities of Carlsbad, ... Read More
Skysurfer Balloon Company
2658 Del Mar Heights Road #198, Del Mar, CA
The History of Hot Air Balloons Experimentation and The Early Years The Montgolfiers were a big family, to say the least - but two of their sixteen... Read More
Legoland California Resort
1 Legoland Drive, Carlsbad, CA
About LegolandOle Kirk Christiansen started making wooden toys in his small workshop in Billund, Denmark in 1932. Two years later, Ole Kirk decided... Read More
5620 Paseo Del Norte,, Carlsbad, CA
A shopping center featuring 90 outlet stores as well as plenty of dining options. Read More
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The final four MENU links are from my first observatory: The Maine Astronomical Society Observatory (MAS Observatory), which was located in Greene Maine. This observatory was a roll-off roof design and hosted the Maine Astronomical Society's star parties and community outreach events. The images are of poorer quality and represent the first CCD images I produced, from my 16" Truss RC Optical Ritchey Cretian, Takahashi FSQ and Meade 12" LX-200.


Hey Future Choctaws! It's Admissions Counselor (and part time super hero) Michael Wright taking over the blog today. By the end of this, I'm going to convince you to come visit us down in the Admissions Office. Challenge accepted.


Hello VC. I did an Armoured theme that uses white and red instead of the original rust color.
I recolored, changed fonts and only adjusted a few small images but the theme's overall design remains intact and still badass as always. All Thanks and credits go to gor17981 (thanks for the blueprints) & Harvey Sewdin for their efforts in making the Theme.
And many thanks as well to Dark Knight for porting the theme for Windows 10.
This is the first time i've used Windows style builder on a windows 10 theme so please let me know of any errors or if i missed anything. Thank you guys I hope you like it.
Before anything please make sure your Windows 10 is Patched.
3. Tools you will need are Startisback & old new explorer.
This theme is compatible with Windows 10 RS2 to RS4 - that's Windows 10 v1703 to v1803.
Custom themes could brick your Windows OS so PLEASE make sure this theme is compatible with your version of Windows before using it.
Use 3rd party themes at your own risk.
ASK for help on the forum if you are unsure.
I take no responsibility for anything that happens hereafter.
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A nice fresh look on a badassed theme!
Looking good...Always loved this theme, but it is really outstanding in red.
Thanks yall. Im Happy you like it.


Geomagic® Control XTM is a comprehensive metrology software platform that delivers the industry's most powerful tools within straightforward workflows. With Geomagic Control X quality managers are enabled with revolutionary ease-of-use, intuitive, comprehensive controls and traceable, repeatable work ows for the quality measurement process. Its fast, precise, information-rich reporting and analysis enable significant productivity and quality gains in any manufacturing workflow.


Do you have a feeling like there is something missing? Like you have tried everything and you aren't getting the results you really want?
I work with with conscious women entrepreneurs - healers, coaches, leaders - who have done their work.
And still, there is always more work to do.
You have worked on your mindset, your beliefs, read the books, hired coaches, received support, maybe therapy... and there is something that is still keeping you from creating what you want. It's almost like it feels like it really has a hold on you and shows up in your everyday life. You likely don't know what it is that's holding you back, but you have this sense that there is something more going on.
With my clients who have done so much of their own personal development work we often turn to deeper work to create the shifts they need so they can finally create what they really want. This deeper work is at an energetic level, to release any blocks and restrictions that are showing up and keeping you from creating what you want.
So often there can be some energetic layer that is impacting your results. Perhaps an agreement about money, or how you treat others, or how you prioritize what's important to you, your willingness to let money come to you, your ability to receive what you want, and on and on.
When this energetic block or restriction is uncovered, and shifted, there is a new choice that can be created. A new possibility opens that allows you to begin to create from a clean slate. No more energetic ties holding you back, or keeping you playing the same story again and again without understanding why it's happening.
If you have a sense that there's something keeping you from creating what you want, even if you have (or haven't) done so much work to shift it already, I invite you to request a short clarity conversation to see if creating an Energy Upgrade will be something that supports you and where you are in your business.
This is a short conversation where you can share what you're experiencing and if it's something I can support you with, we can discuss how we can work together to create this energetic clearing and upgrade for you and your business.
To book a clarity session, click here to apply for 1 of the few spots I have available. This is valued at $250 and it is my GIFT to you - so you can FINALLY create this shift for your business and your life! If you want to apply for one of these spots, click here to answer a couple questions before Friday April 1.
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Accounting is a challenge to any entrepreneur, especially if you've just set up your business. Keeping your books in order can help you avoid financial problems and incurring penalties in Singapore.
If you're new to accounting, you will soon realise that it takes a little time to get used to it. However, you need to learn quickly, because as your business grows, your accounts become more complex. In this blog, I'll present 7 crucial accounting tips for you.
In the beginning, you may choose to handle the accounting side of the business yourself by using accounting tools. The best thing is that accounting software is listed as a qualifying item under the Productivity and Innovation Credit Scheme. This means that you will enjoy a 400% corporate tax rebate for your Singapore business when you buy and use such a software for your business.
So, instead of doing things the old fashioned way, you should use technology to make your life a whole lot easier.
However, doing it on your own is is only a temporary measure. Once your business starts to grow, you're going to need help.
There comes a point in the growth of your business, where you need to relinquish control of your accounting responsibilities. At this point, you need to hire a professional to do your job.
The cost of an accountant will be well worth it because your finances will be in order and tax season won't be such a hectic time for you.You'll also have more time to concentrate on the more strategic aspects of your business.
Hiring an accountant doesn't mean you should forget about accounting. As a business owner, you should know the in-and outflow of capital in your company. That is why you should periodically review the books. It will help you catch errors and fraud in a timely manner.
Trusting your accountant with all your finances without any system of checks and balances can also be your undoing. These are mistakes that can cost you in the long run.
Active participation is needed on your part for the smooth functioning of your business. If you're absent minded, then people will try to take advantage of that.
If you want your accounting to be simple, then you'll need to simplify your finances. Even if you're intending to run a sole proprietorship, never mix your personal finances with that of your business. It's a rookie mistake that many entrepreneurs make.
Maintain a separate bank account and credit card for your business purposes. If you're going to take a client out to lunch, then use this credit card. Always pay your bills on time and keep a record of the payments. Maintaining proper records is the key to good accounting. Your books will automatically be in order if you abide by these rules.
Payroll is an important aspect of accounting that you need to be extra careful about. There are many things that can go wrong with it. You could accidently underpay your employees or delay the payment of their salaries.
If this happens more than a few times, then your employees will become disgruntled and find someplace else to work. Worse, still, if you fail to pay within 7 working days of the end of the salary period, then you could be in for a S$3000 – S$15,000 fine and/or 6 months in prison.
Hiring a dedicated payroll manager will help you avoid such problems. When your employees are receiving the right salary at the right time, they will be less demoralised and less inclined to seek greener pastures. So, getting your payroll process right is in a way a kind of an employee retention program.
You don't necessarily need to have an in-house accounting and payroll department. You can outsource this function to a qualified payroll specialist so that they will be able to handle these duties in a better way. At the end of the day, you save yourself a headcount as well as the associated costs.
Accounting is a major function of any business. These tips will help you do it more proficiently. Once you simplify your finances and of the way you can concentrate on expanding your business.


The KAUA'I WILDLIFE REFUGE is located in a remote area of the island that, until recently, was not accessible to the public. Now, SAFARI HELICOPTERS has made it possible to land here and get a look at what one man is doing to save endangered Hawaiian species.
Located on a 10-acre site overlooking the privately owned OLOKELE CANYON, the refuge is owned and operated by Keith Robinson, who has spent two decades preserving rare Hawaiian plants.
Owned by the Robinson family, one of Kaua'i's original sugar plantation companies, the sprawling canyon extends from WAIMEA to the back west side of MOUNT WAI'ALE'ALE. Moviegoers may remember the rugged canyon from the film "JURASSIC PARK", but typically, it can be seen only from a seat on a helicopter. This unique tour provides visitors with an opportunity to see what it takes to save Hawai'i's rare, and very threatened, native species.


As a representative of the Trilobita, we present the well-known trilobite Elrathia kingi, from the Middle Cambrian of Utah, near the town of Delta. On the left is a normal specimen; the picture on the right is in reversed black and white, which makes it easier to see the features.
Trilobites ("three lobes") are so called because their bodies are divided into a central axial lobe in the middle and two pleural lobes on the sides. The head, or cephalon, is typically crescent-shaped and often bears two compond eyes (although some trilobites were blind). The swelling in the middle of the cephalon is the glabella; to the sides are the eyes and the facial sutures, which separate the free cheeks, or librigenae, from the rest of the cephalon. The free cheeks have been slightly detached on this specimen.
The pleural lobes are made up of overlapping pleurae, which covered the delicate legs. Trilobite legs were biramous, bearing both walking branches and feathery gills; food was passed forward to the mouth by the expanded basal segments of the legs, called gnathobases. At the posterior of the body, the pleurae were fused into a flattened tail-like segment, or pygidium. In some trilobites the pygidium is quite small; in others it is large and ornamented with spines.


It\'s okay to cook but the biggest botheration is what to cook. Every morning, you find yourself staring endlessly over the kitchen refrigerator wondering what to cook.
It's okay to cook but the biggest botheration is what to cook. Every morning, you find yourself staring endlessly over the kitchen refrigerator wondering what to cook. This is soo common among most women. Here are some recipes you could try.
Soak Poha in water for 5 min, Wash and drain all the water.
Peel and cut the potatoes into small cubes, chop the onions, chillies, corainder leaves.
Heat oil and put chana dal, urad dal, mustard seeds, peanuts, curry leaves and fry until they crackle.
Add potatoes , saute for few minutes, then add chopped onions, chillies.
Cook till they are done. Add the poha, corainder leaves and stir.
Keep it on slow flame for 5- 7 minutes.
Let it set for sometime and add then lemon juice. and while serving add some peanuts a nd serve. It will taste good with Achar or even with sauce.
Apply green chutney on one side of all the bread slices.
Arrange the thinly sliced vegetables on each bread slice and sprinkle salt. Form a three- layer sandwich and apply butter on the outer slices and grill it until it's crisp and golden brown in color. If u have a sandwich maker at home that will make your sandwich even quick. Remove the top slice and spread butter over it and cover with the removed slice. Serve it hot with the Tomato ketchup.
Heat the pan, add some oil to it and the tempering ingredients, let the mustard crackle add the curry leaves to it and now add water. For 1 cup of Suji 1 ½ cup of water should do. If you want to eat even soft, add two cups of waters.
Once the water started boiling, add some salt to it and add Suji to it. Now put it in low flame and keep mixing put a lid . let it cook for 5 min. now add some 2 teaspoons of Ghee and mix it well. Seve hot.
Firstly clean and wash both the Puffed rice & regular rice and also Urad dal. Soak, both the rice & and the urad dal separately for 4-5 hours. Drain the urad dal, Reserve the water. In a wet grinder, add the urad dal and the soaked rice and grind well. While grinding the batter, add some soaked water to the batter. Keep on adding a few tbsps of water in between grinding. The batter should be light and fluffy when completely ground. Pour the batter in large bowl. And store it for 4 hours before you make the Dosa.
Heat the pan, add oil, and all the tempering ingredients to it. Once they crackle add onions, green chiles to it. Let them fry Till the onions change color. Mash the boiled potatoes and add to the masala mixture and add 1/ 2 cup water to it and cook well.
Now add salt to it. Finally add chopped coriander leaves to the potato sabzi. mix well.
Now heat a flat iron griddle or a non stick pan. Apply 1-2 tsp oil on the griddle. If using non stick pan than no need to apply 1-2 tsp oil on the griddle. Take a a big spoonful of the dosa batter. Pour it on the griddle. As soon as you pour it, quickly spread the batter in a circular manner to get a thin and round dosa . Pour some oil on the top and edges. now Flip and cook the other side. once both side turn brown or golden brown, add the potato mixture to it and serve hot.
In a mixture grinder add fried red chillies, green chillies, dal and lilttle tamarind and gring well. now add chopped coconut to it and gring well. now add lilater, coriander and salt and grind it again. now add tempering to it and serve it with hot idlis.
Take Urad dal 1 cup to which add 3 cups of Rice rawa or idli rawa and soak seperately. For 4 hours.
Preferably soak it overnight for better results.
One can grind the black gram in a mixie or in a wet grinder too. If the batter is thin we cannot make Idlis. It is always better to take care not to add too much water while grinding. After grinding take the batter into a bowl. Now add the dained soaked rawa to the batter and add salt to it. Let it set for 2 hours.
Take an IDLI cooker to prepare Idlis. Remove the plates and add water to cooker. Heat this IDLI cooker.
Add a a drop of oil to each plate and and add por indli mixture to it. Do not fill the slots to the brim. Arrange the plates into the cooker. Close the lid and allow them to cook. After say 5 minutes we can see steam escaping from the cooker. Then lower the flame and cook for 7 minutes. After seven minutes, the idlis are done. its better to check before putting off the flame.
Once they are done, serve them with karapodia nd the chutney.
First we have to learn cereal comes in a variety of different brands and flavors. How to eat these Corn flakes or Wheat flakes?
Pour cereal in an appropriate amount into a bowl. Adding milk increases the nutritional value of your cereal. Some popular alternatives to cow milk include: almond milk, soy milk, and rice milk. There are some people who prefer to eat cereal with chocolate milk, but this drastically increases the sugar content, calories, and chocolateyness of the cereal experience.
Also add some good fruit to mix in with cereal include: strawberries, bananas, raspberries, blueberries, apples etc. Mix well and have your healthy breakfast.
Take all ingredients to prepare batter. Pour approx. 2-3 cups water in steamer at bottom and heat it over medium flame. Grease 2 small plates or thalis (4-5 inch diameter) using 1-teaspoon oil.
Add 1/2 cup water and sugar and bring it to boil; let it cook for a minute over high flame. Tempering is ready, pour it over dhoklas and toss gently until each dhokla is coated well with tempering.
Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and grated coconut and serve.
Pressure cook dal with 2 cups of water. Once pressure cooked, mash, add 2 cups of water, shallots, drum stick pieces, bottle gourd pieces and turmeric powder. Bring to a boil, reduce flame and cook for 8-9 mts on low to medium flame.
Once vegetables are half cooked, add the tamarind extract, salt and jaggery and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and let it simmer for 12-14 mts, till the rawness of the tamarind disappears.
Add the sambar pwd and combine well. Let it cook for another 6-7 mts.
Heat oil a separate pan, add the mustard seeds and let them splutter. Add hing and red chillis and roast for a few seconds. Don't burn them. Lastly add curry leaves and immediately add to sambar.
Turn off heat and place lid. Keep covered for at least an hour and garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
Serve Samabr with the Vadas we made.


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Australia seizes meth concealed in bra inserts during S$1.2 billion drug bust
Seized drugs are seen on display, in the packaging they were concealed in, at the Australian Federal Police (AFP) headquarters in Sydney, Australia on Feb 15, 2016.PHOTO: EPA
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SYDNEY (AFP) - The Australian police have seized more than A$1 billion (S$1 billion) in methamphetamine, or ice, some concealed in inserts for bras in one of the country's biggest drug busts, the authorities said on Monday (Feb 15).
Three Hong Kongers and a Chinese national were arrested during the joint operation with China that Justice Minister Michael Keenan described as the largest seizure of liquid methamphetamine in Australian history.
"This has resulted in 3.6 million individual hits of ice being taken off our streets with a street value of A$1.26 billion," he said.
"This largest seizure of liquid methamphetamine to date is the result of organised criminals, targeting the lucrative Australian ice market from offshore."
Australian Federal Police Commander Chris Sheehan said the operation began in December 2015 when the Australian Border Force examined a shipping container out of Hong Kong in Sydney. It originated in mainland China.
"That shipping container was found to contain gel bra inserts and hidden inside those gel bra inserts was 190 litres of liquid methamphetamine," he said.
The seizure was referred to the Australian Federal Police who began an investigation which traced an additional 530 litres of liquid methamphetamine to five storage units in Sydney where they were found inside art supplies.
In January, a 33-year-old Hong Kong man was arrested and charged in connection with the original seizure.
A further two Hong Kongers, a man, 37, and a 52-year-old woman, along with a Chinese man, 59, were also seized and charged with knowingly taking part in the manufacture of a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug over the stash in the storage units.
"We are alleging that the people we have arrested weren't just mere bit-players, they were significant players within this criminal network," said Mr Sheehan, adding that they all face a life sentence if convicted.
The sting was part of Taskforce Blaze, a rare operation established in November between the Australian Federal Police and the Chinese National Narcotics Control Commission - the first joint effort between the two targeting the booming ice market.
The two sides are working together to gather intelligence relating to concealment methods, trafficking routes and syndicates facilitating methamphetamine imports from Southeast China into Australia.
"This critical international cooperation is already paying significant intelligence dividends," said Mr Keenan.
The bust comes two months after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unveiled a A$300 million strategy to combat the growing use of ice following a government report that Australia had proportionally more users than most countries.
The report showed that the use of the highly addictive drug had doubled since 2007 to more than 200,000 users in 2013, with anecdotal evidence of higher current numbers.
An Australian Crime Commission report published last year found that while US$80 bought one gram of ice in China, users in Australia had to pay US$500 for the same amount.

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Another game at the Centre on Saturday night between two teams that had nothing to lose as their playoff positions and opponents were already known. But a Spartans Titans game this year have been all very close games and this game was no exception. The final outcome was 6-3 Titans. But the highlight of the evening was the jersey retiring of Titans captain Dayton Murray in a pre game ceremony. On hand for this special evening were Dayton's parent Lori and Shawn as well well as older brother Ryder, whose jersey has already been raised to the rafters a couple years ago.
And in an appropriate manner at the 33 second mark of the first period on the Titans first shot, Dayton Murray scores his 20th of the season. Nikita SIdenko gave the home squad a 2-0 lead midway into the period. The Spartans replied about 5 minutes later to send the teams to intermission with the Titans holding a 2-1 lead. The second period saw the Titans score twice to the Spartans lone goal to head into the final period of the regular season with a 4-2 lead. Filippo Guaita and Joakim Braneby with his 40th of the season were the goal scorers. In the final 20 minutes, the Titans scored twice to lead 6-2 as Colten Smith and Bailey Chenier registered goals. A single reply by Almaguin and that was it for the scoring as the Titans registered their 27th win of the season. Axel Hallor collected a pair of assists. Tim Cachard got the win. Shots on goal were 54-38 Titans.
The Titans will now start the playoffs at home on Friday February 22nd against the West Nipissing Lynx, game #1 will be an 8pm start. Game #2 will be the following night Saturday February 23rd in Sturgeon Falls with a 7:30pm puck drop. If required game #3 will be back at the Centre Monday February 24th at 7pm.


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nice small local place. Nice fish tacos ! Nice variety on the menu, friendly service. Great prices ! Would eat there again.
Exit off 1-10 for excellent food!!
We ventured off I-10 to this little place as recommended! So glad we did! Food is delicious and fresh! Customer service is friendly and fantastic!!!!!
very good meals , and very reasonable prices I eat here frequently and very consistent . worth trying they have very tasty food you can't go wrong .
Best Limeade and Carne Asada Tacos!
Tacos Mirasol is amazing! The limeade and the carne asada tacos are SO fresh!! We stop here anytime we are traveling on the I-10. It's definitely worth it to detour if you love tacos!!
Tried the fish tacos and chips and salsa. Great flavor and spice in salsa. Chips are freshly made and hot. Fish tacos are amazing. Will try to plan my trip so I can stop here again when I drive on the 10 highway.
Skimpy portions, dry beans and rice. The orders when served were incorrect. Carnitas burrito was dry and lacked flavor. The boracha burrito was too salty served with dry, flavorless rice and beans. It is a hole in the wall, but clean. Very, very disappointed.
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Taking a look at Farranfore over the coming week and the average daytime maximum temperature will be around 20°C, with a high for the week of 22°C expected on the afternoon of Saturday 20th. The mean minimum temperature will be 7°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Thursday 18th at 6°C. The coming week will have mostly dry days although Wednesday is likely to see a little rain. The current forecast indicates Wednesday 18th will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 4.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be moderate.


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Auflick History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The surname Auflick was first used in the Scottish/English Borderlands by an ancient Scottish people called the Strathclyde- Britons. It was a name for someone who lived in the barony of Auchinleck in Ayrshire or from Affleck in Angus.
Early Origins of the Auflick family
The surname Auflick was first found in Ayrshire and Angus where one of the first records of the name was Nicholas of Haghenlek who is mentioned in the records of 1292 is the same Nicol de Achithlege of the county of Ayr who rendered homage to King Edward I of England on his brief conquest of Scotland in 1296. [1]
Early History of the Auflick family
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Auflick Spelling Variations
Spelling and translation were hardly exact sciences in Medieval Scotland. Sound, rather than any set of rules, was the basis for spellings, so one name was often spelled different ways even within a single document. Spelling variations are thus an extremely common occurrence in Medieval Scottish names. Auflick has been spelled Affleck, Athlyk, Athinkel, Auchlek, Athlek, Achleck, Achinfleck, Afleck, Authinlek and many more.
Early Notables of the Auflick family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Auflick family
Such hard times forced many to leave their homeland in search of opportunity across the Atlantic. Many of these families settled along the east coast of North America in communities that would become the backbones of the young nations of the United States and Canada. The ancestors of many of these families have rediscovered their roots in the 20th century through the establishment of Clan societies and other patriotic Scottish organizations. Among them: Andrew Affleck who settled in Barbados in 1678; Thomas Affleck settled in Frederick County, Maryland in 1787; George, John, and Joseph Affleck, all settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1872 and 1880.
^ Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
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High fashion brand makes a splash at New York Fashion Week
New York City , United States of America - 9 April 2020
International fashion house event creates product workshop throughout 5 story building.
We're Barco people to the core. And the EC-210 made everything work the way the way we wanted it to.
Danny Whetstone
Founder + President, DWP Live
This couldn't be done with a simple routing system
Fashion Week in New York City. It's a full week of parties hosted by international taste makers and the stakes couldn't be higher.
One such party was hosted by an international fashion house in a gutted five-story New York warehouse. They invited their guests into an artistic version of their workshop. The event utilized each floor for activities, music, food and drinks, and live entertainment projected onto a big screen.
There was a lot to take in. And to make sure that nobody missed out on anything amazing, they had 72 flat panel screens throughout the five floors, ranging in size from 24" to 75", and not one was set up in traditional landscape viewing. They leaned against walls and were tucked into shelving. Some were even stacked on top of each other.
The client had one simple request: capture it all and be able to send it to any and every monitor. Rising to meet the challenge was Danny Whetstone and his team at DWP Live.
"We had 16 body cameras, most mounted on eyeglass with wireless packs, and 10 fixed cameras set on specific scenes, for a total of 26 inputs," he said. "The requirement was to send images and footage from any camera to any output – that's 72 screens over five floors!"
In addition to this massive undertaking, Danny knew that the fashion house wouldn't want their party aesthetic interrupted with a bunch of unsightly cables, nor would they accept any hiccups in the operation. That's when Danny decided to enlist Barco's E2 Event Master processors to create a decentralized system instead of going with a standard video matrix switcher.
Working with Barco's product manager, Erik Iversen, Danny's solution included five E2s placed throughout the building. The signals were distributed from one floor to the next via Barco's expansion link cards that leverage off-the-shelf CXP transceivers and MTP-24 fiber optic cable. This allowed them to limit the cables on each floor to only two from above and two from below. It saved them hours of time and simplified both the load-in and load-out.
On the night of the party, the images for all five floors were managed from a centralized location on the fifth floor, where Barco's EC-210 large event controller was the star of the show. Danny explains, "It was crazy that night. We had people coming over all the time saying things like 'I want the images from camera 101 into monitor c-73' or 'broadcast this one camera to every floor.' The EC-210 is what made it do-able. The ability to grab them in groups and create pre-sets and control them all from the EC210 allowed us to put them where we wanted."
The system did what DWP promised the client it would do, and it turned out to be one of the largest temporary installations in terms of output connections for Barco and their partners.
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Still no word from the White House on selection of a nominee to put through the Senate confirmation process from a slate sent up by Rep. John Boozman.
Griffin was placed in the job as part of an effort to install picks of Karl Rove in U.S. attorney jobs throughout the U.S. Griffin once worked for Rove. The politics of the move has become more apparent in a succession of congressional hearings. Pryor's criticism of the ouster of Bud Cummins to give Griffin the job and the use of a permanent interim appointment under the Patriot Act helped trigger what has grown into a national scandal. A law to end the president's ability to make permanent interim picks without Senate confirmation now awaits the president's signature.
It seems to me that the law has to be changed: to make sure that something like this does not happen again.


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(2014) Sports Documentary (First Run) Ariel Hsing, Lily Zhang, Michael Landers, Michael Hsing, Joan Landers, Massimo Constantino, Brenda Young, Jonathan Bricklin, Stefan Feth, Barney Reed, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Michael Croitoros, Sean O'Neill, Jun Gao, Dory Gheorge, Stan Landers, Xinhua Jiang, Linda Liu, Erica Wu. Directed by Sara Newens and Mina T. Son
Back in the day, my family used to have a ping pong table in our Southern California backyard, a table my father, who tended towards formality in such things, insisted on calling "table tennis." He taught me how to play and after a bit of a learning curve, I got to be okay at it. In fact, I remember enjoying the fast-paced play although when we moved from that home the table did not move with us and I stopped playing.
I cannot even fathom the dedication and perseverance displayed by three young American Olympic hopefuls – Ariel Hsing (a national champion), her friend and rival Lily Zhang and young Michael Landers. All three are making their bids to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics and are training like fiends, in addition to completing their schoolwork and getting ready for college.
Most of us probably don't have much regard for table tennis but it is an Olympic sport for a reason. The ball moves nearly as fast as the eye can see; the players have lightning quick reactions and must have nimble footwork, agility and arm strength to return volleys at sufficient speed to compete at the highest levels.
It is also a sport that America doesn't dominate; in fact, we are ranked only 45th in the world. As you can guess, the Chinese tend to produce the best players. Landers in fact skipped his last semester of high school (taking correspondence courses online in order to graduate) so that he can train in China where he discovers he is nowhere near the level that the focused and disciplined Chinese athletes are, although he tries gamely.
It turns out that the kids are more or less no different than any kid their age, although Hsing pretty is one of those blessed individuals who seems to succeed at everything she does and makes it look effortless, although judging from how hard her father trains her that it is anything but. Her father Michael is ambitious and relentless; there might well be a little stage father in him but not only is she genuinely gifted but she is as ambitious and relentless as he; any dad worth his salt will move heaven and earth to give his little princess whatever she dreams and that's what he's doing and successfully I might add.
It might be said that the Hsing family fits the Asian-American stereotype as being driven for success and focused on it to the exclusion of all else, and maybe they do. However the Zhang family is a bit more laidback about it, although Lily is just as primed to make the Olympic team as her friend and rival is. While Ariel wins most of their head-to-head matches, the two are both high on the national rankings and their rivalry is both fierce and friendly. Watching them play each other is to see sports at its finest.
The qualifying process for the American Olympic team is a little bit unusual compared to other more familiar sports. The top finishers at the US Championships are sent to the North American Championships for a round robin tournament with the Canadian champions; the winners of the various divisions qualify in total; no Americans may qualify or only Americans might qualify. It all depends on how they do in the tournament. Waiting for them is the Canadian champion, Jun Gao who might be the best player not living in China.
I have to admit I wasn't especially jazzed to see a documentary on young people playing ping pong when I originally heard the movie was playing at the Florida Film Festival but Da Queen was so I made sure we attended the sole screening at the Festival. I can't say that the stories of these extraordinary kids really moved me to any extent; we've seen these kinds of documentaries before, either on ESPN or in theaters. Extraordinary kids pursuing a dream, be it in the arts, sports or in some other endeavor. While the directors give us a sense of the dedication of these three teens and in some cases of the isolation and loneliness that they endure, we don't get a real sense of the pressures and social conflicts that come with pursuing that dream. I would have liked a little more in-depth examination of how the kids themselves felt at living an abnormal lifestyle compared to what their friends are doing.
The filmmakers take ping pong VERY seriously and you probably will too after seeing this. I will admit that I was not enthused about this film the way some of those in my circle of film buffs were; I was impressed with how the physics of the game were examined and displayed in super slow motion camera work which gives you a more graphic idea of the athleticism that is required to excel in competition table tennis, but quite frankly while I was rooting for the kids to succeed, it felt like I'd been through it all before.
I may have been a little too hard on this movie. I'm well-aware that those who saw it at the FFF came away impressed, more so than I. Maybe I was just in Festival exhaustion mode. In any case, while my interest wasn't necessarily held, I suspect that most people will feel the opposite once they see it. It's hard not to admire the filmmakers passion for the sport and the players; while their stories may not especially seem much different than other sports and other players, it is sufficiently inspiring that even non-players of the sport and non-buffs of film may find their interest piqued.
REASONS TO GO: Clear love for the game of ping-pong. Physics are breathtaking.
REASONS TO STAY: Not very different from other prodigy docs. Not enough detail.
FAMILY VALUES: Suitable for all ages.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Both Newens and Son have received M.F.A. degrees in Documentary Filmmaking from Stanford University.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: First Position
NEXT: Poltergeist (2015)
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The Audi S3 is Audi's method of combining a utilitarian sedan build with high-performance dynamics. The 2.0 TFSI 4-cylinder engines is a beast combined with Audi's efficacious Quattro system for power distribution. It isn't an all-out beast like the RS3, but rather a much tamer car. As such, it more suited to the streets than the RS.
Although underpinned by VW Group's MQB platform as well as sharing engine similarities with the Volkswagen Golf R, the S3 Sedan outperforms its competition in various aspects. MSRP for the 2018 Audi S3 starts just under $33,000, which is a great value considering all the performance and features on offer.
The car now gets an 'S' sports package amongst other tweaks in feature availability.
The S3 comes in two trims, namely Premium Plus and Prestige. The base trim comes standard with 18-inch wheels with summer performance tires, 60/40-split folding rear seatbacks, a panoramic sunroof, driver-seat memory settings, and leather upholstery.
Other noteworthy standard features supported by the Premium Plus trim includes a 10-speaker sound system, a rearview camera, Audi Drive Select, Audi's MMI electronics interface, blind-spot monitoring, front and rear parking sensors, LED headlights, and power front sports seats.
The optional Technology package equips the S3 with a 14-speaker Bang & Olufsen audio system, a navigation system, an expanded digital instrument cluster, an upgraded MMI system, Audi Connect online services, and native voice controls.
The top-of-the-line Prestige trim comes standard with the Technology package. Additionally, it comes standard with adaptive cruise control, heated and power-folding exterior mirrors, lane departure warning and intervention, LED interior lighting, and additional doublet USB ports.
Optional packages available for the Audi S3 are the Black Optic Dynamic offering 19-inch wheels and special exterior trim, S Sport offering red brake calipers with adaptive suspension dampers, and S Sports Seat offering manually adjustable front seats with premium upholstery. 18-inch wheels with all-season tires and rear-seat side airbags are available as standalone optional upgrades.
The 2018 S3 Sedan packs a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine. It is capable of producing 292 horsepower and 280 lb.-ft. of torque. The engine is paired with a 6-speed, dual-clutch automatic transmission. The power generated is distributed via the Quattro AWD.
2018 Audi S3 Sedan tops the performance chart in its segment with a 0 to 60 MPH acceleration time of merely 4.7 seconds. The S Tronic technology makes up for a smooth transmission across the entire speed spectrum. The 2.0-liter TFSI engine produces a mighty roar mirroring its ability.
Much of the S3's interior bears a close resembles that of the Audi A3, with a similar total seating as well. Four people can fit in the car very snugly, and squeezing in another one should be discovered. The clean dashboard design pairs perfectly with high-quality material construction. The headroom and legroom are spacious and accommodating in the front as well as in the back.
You get a sporty looking flat-bottom multifunction sports steering wheel, covered in perforated leather that makes the insides of the sports sedan even better. In addition to the airy seating, there is more than enough trunk volume to tag along with some decent volume of luggage.
The S3 Sedan benefits from the revised S-specific sports suspension, although the stiffer springs and dampers make the ride less comfortable than the car it's based on, the A3. Grip remains exceptional due to the Haldex-based AWD system capable of diverting entire torque to the rear wheels if the need arises.
In order to minimize understeer, the car gets brake-based torque vectoring. This results in a very sharpened handling characteristic. The bigger 13.4-inch ventilated disc brakes make up for additional stopping power. Although the steering is unsympathetic, it is highly precise.
The 2018 iteration of the Audi S3 Sedan tops the NHTSA charts with an overall "5-star" rating. The sports sedan comes with a multitude of safety and driver assistance features.
2018 Audi S3 Sedan has a rearview camera, adaptive cruise control, cross traffic alert, forward collision warning, and lane keep assist in addition to the mandatory ABS with EBD and multiple airbags.
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A Double-Headed Secret: An Interview With Cyclobe
Russell Cuzner , May 2nd, 2012 04:51
Cyclobe, the ex-Coil duo of Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown, have spent over a decade honing a beguiling blend of electro-acoustics and folk instrumentation. Ahead of their show at this year's Meltdown festival, they speak about current projects, the occult and their friendship with Coil
Not to be confused with the one-eyed giant of ancient mythology, the Cyclobe is an elusive, two-headed beast formed of ex-Coil members Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown. While a first sighting came in 1999 with the release of Luminous Darkness, there have only been a handful of other occasions since – three further albums and a single live performance – that have given the outside world a chance to witness their extraordinary anti-corporeal blend of electro-acoustics and folk instrumentation. Such a refined yet undefined sound is arguably born of a range of dualities that merge serendipitously and fork philosophically to weave a beguiling, and at times genuinely scary, set of propositions in sound.
Yesterday Cyclobe announced that their debut UK performance - their second ever - will take place at the Antony Hegarty-curated Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre in August. Part of a night themed Albion - Hypnagogue - Ghost: Hallucinatory Queer British Paganism, they will perform live alongside David Tibet's new project Myrninerest. Four films by Derek Jarman will also be shown, alongside newly composed and recorded scores by both artists.
In advance of that performance, Ossian and Stephen recently took time out to chat with The Quietus about their most recent album, 2011's Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window, the complex paths that led to its arrival, their friendship and collaborations with Coil's Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and Jhon Balance, and beyond.
The latest album took five years to complete, perhaps the longest gestation period of any Cyclobe album. Did you have difficulties with recording?
Ossian Brown: We very rarely start a piece and keep working on it until it's finished. After the initial sketches are laid down I find it's good to leave it for a while, so it can germinate in the back of our minds, release spores, so ideas about where we could take it come to us organically. It's a slow process for us. It's almost like our recording periods operate in a different time altogether, scattered throughout a year… throughout years in some cases. It just takes time to really see clearly what path we should guide it down. It has to feel completely alive to us, to hold a magic and complexity we find compelling emotionally, so a lot gets added and then disregarded, until we find the key we need.
There were difficulties and it can be very stressful, exhausting sometimes… I can be very obsessive when we're working, and can hang on the most minute detail. Getting it right can become a huge issue. For instance, I don't like to think about instruments when I'm listening to our music, the experience has to be completely emotional, I don't want to think about what model of synthesizer's being used. The magic cracks! It's spell-shattering. I want to make music that's timeless, almost as if it were found growing on a rock, inside a broken piece of meteorite, in a starfish's stomach!
I feel these days, personally, we get bombarded with just about every thought anyone ever has, every scrap of sound gets uploaded the moment it's made, so much of it is unconsidered. There's a storm of it all, a gigantic dirt cloud. The thought of it makes me feel claustrophobic. It seems to be the nature of things these days, and people are surprised when you don't play that way. It's so hard to navigate your way through it all and find really interesting work. I'm not saying music has to be complicated, or that it has to take a long time to make to be interesting, but I do think people need to take more time. The world is too 'now' orientated and we're littering, smothering each others' minds with all this uncensored mundanity.
Stephen Thrower: I'm still a bit shocked that we took so long, actually. Some pieces were extremely difficult to get a handle on; they sounded almost finished for what seemed like an age, but every time we tried adding the finishing touches nothing worked... The title track actually started life during The Visitors sessions [their second album of 2001], but only came to a conclusion the year we released it. We both have a very selective attitude to what we do, and any new piece has to get past two very stroppy gatekeepers! There's no casting vote (we've tried it - doesn't work). Lots of arguing, lots of walking out in a rage, lots of banging your head against the studio wall. It's rarely a peaceful process, but out of all the Tasmanian-Devil arguing, comes stuff we really think has its own unique identity, so I guess we have a method!
The Wounded Galaxies cover created by the American artist Fred Tomaselli depicts a seven-headed serpent, a symbol that enjoys a wealth of associations across several ancient mythologies and is even the badge of the Symbionese Liberation Army (who kidnapped Patty Hearst in the Seventies). What lead to you choosing it for the album?
OB: It's a stunning picture, astonishing, and we just felt emotionally, abstractly, it conjured so much of what we wanted to express with this collection of recordings…
Fred was so kind to let us use it. It's a Naga, a nature spirit. In Tibetan Buddhism they're beings, snake deities sensitive and vengeful of mankind's disrespect and ignorance of nature, sensitive to the pain of nature's suffering and the gradual devastation of our natural world. They're also known in Buddhism to transmit 'Termas', hidden treasures of knowledge, concealed teachings in and out of the human realm. But it's the nature spirit aspect I really responded to. The Patty Hearst connection isn't really of interest to me.
ST: I was unaware of the SLA usage until afterwards! I know of them, naturally, but I've never really studied them. For me, the pleasure of the picture is twofold; it suggests some sort of slithering, airborne creativity emerging from a tiny source (which would be us, naturally), and also it responds to the title rather than illustrating it. It's a welcome committee for those wounded galaxies! Plus, snakes are just sexy. I'd make it with a seven-headed snake. Who wouldn't?
You're both published authors, with Stephen as a leading expert on horror/underground cinema and Ossian's recent publication of his collection of antique Hallowe'en photographs, and you have both previously alluded to esoteric beliefs including paganism and magick. Indeed, your piece 'The Woods are Alive with the Smell of His Coming' (subtitled 'A Hymn to Pan') premiered in an exhibition at Tate St. Ives in 2009 that explicitly explored 'Magick and Modernity in British Art'. Are you active practitioners of esoteric beliefs or do you enjoy a more scholarly or inquisitive relation to the spiritual side of things?
OB: We premiered 'The Woods Are Alive' alongside Mark Titchner's excellent 'Protection' sculptural piece, Austin Osman Spare, work by David Noonan, and Graham Sutherland's fantastic dark landscapes. Having our piece played in close proximity to such a great collection of work felt perfect to us. The Tate was being bombarded with coastal storms that day, with rain pounding the glass ceiling - it made quite an atmosphere when we played our piece.
I consider myself pagan – [Coil member] Jhon Balance used to call me a hedge witch. Well, that's me alright! My beliefs feed enormously into the work I do, the art I create, of course it couldn't be any other way. I'm not a member of any group though, I'm not interested in joining magickal organizations. I'm not following strict recipes. It's all very instinct-based for me, intuitive and personal, it's very nature-based. I think we become sensitive when we're working, it can feel like we're touching, conjoining with something magical that's expressing itself through us, that we're interpreters. When I work I like to think it has an effect, that it's active, very much so with a sense of invocation. I want it to be charged, to change things, to move people, transform spaces.
ST: Ossian and I have different takes on all this. He's intuitively in sympathy with magickal ideas. I think we create these beliefs to explain the things that we do, and then we put it out there as an external force, partially to look at it and get a grasp of it through symbolism, and partly because it gets lonely in your own head. I'm sympathetic to the idea of hermetic or communal challenges to consensus reality, the desire to carve non-rational world-views, though I'm a bit more wary of them than I used to be. I've become more distrustful over the last ten years. We're heading for a second dark age with organised religion as the enemy. 'Exterminate all rational thought' makes a good T-shirt, but you need to give a rat's ass about who's going to come knocking afterwards, when you're lying in the irrational rubble. And with the various God squads on the march around the world, I have my concerns about what the real world effect of too much repudiation of the rational might be. I reserve my interest in these things to an appreciation of the poetics.
Paganism is a bit different though - less 'esoteric' and 'abstruse'. At the core is a desire to embrace and celebrate mankind's place inside nature, rather than placing us outside it, as the sky religions try to do. I'm very much in favour of that... From the folds of the intestine to the spray of supernovae we're as much embedded in nature as the birds and the insects and the galaxies. (I loathe that bit in the Bible where God supposedly gives man dominion over the animals, which epitomises the human race's sense of entitlement and separation from nature.) There's awe in the Pagan mindset, but it's awe arising from contemplation of the majesty and beauty of nature and the universe, which works for me. And there's still plenty of mystery at the edges of science - quantum, cosmological or psychological - to excite my imagination. As Ossian said to me recently, "Nature doesn't end where space begins!".
While your music remains among the most elusive to describe (let alone imagine how much of it's made), it is often described as 'psychedelic'. How do you feel about that oft-used term and to what extent have altered states defined your sound?
OB: We were amphetamine and mushroom boys! Listening to music and recording music was a huge part of the way we experimented with psychedelics and amphetamines, although it's not something we do any more, not for many years now. The neural pathways have been burnt in, though, they're permanent, so the doors are always open. Perhaps we have a magnified psychedelic sensibility now, which we intuitively locate and work with.
The word psychedelic has so much baggage, a lot of tired associations that in truth for me anyway were pretty disappointing in regards to music. I never really explored Terrence McKenna's writings or found myself drawn to Timothy Leary. When I hear a lot of psychedelic music, my mothership starts sinking in the mud! Psychedelic music should be such an enveloping unearthly experience. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, that's psychedelic to my ears.
ST: I guess the fact that the word is still around means it's the best we have to describe music that evokes altered states of consciousness. The best experience with music is transporting, where the limits of your room and your life and your consciousness lift away to reveal a wider vista that you have no control over, and you've never experienced before. Whether this chimes with your experiences with acid, or meditation, or fasting, or concussion, or hospitalization with acute schizophrenia, the point is that music can lift you out of your own head and show you other lives and other panoramas. A great piece of music can change the emotional temperature of the room in an instant (well, even a 'bad' piece of music can do it - it's the most powerful medium for changing people's moods, I think, more than any other art form, because it's so damn quick).
I don't take chemical 'mood enhancers' very much any more though. For the music that we make, I'm drawing on deeply imprinted memories and stored insight. If I try topping up the vessel these days, it leaks. One hit of a joint and I'm hopeless. The last time I took speed I ended up in agony. My balls shrank so much I thought my body was trying to eat them - try explaining that to a locum on night duty at A&E! The only things that still work as they were meant to are mind-wiping extremities like K, but I don't go there very often.
In the eighties, you both upped sticks for London within a year of each other when Stephen joined Jhon Balance and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson of Coil, as they moved away from their work in Psychic TV, with whom Ossian subsequently became involved. Yet the two of you didn't meet until 1993 in what retrospectively could be viewed as a kind of tag-team manoeuvre: Ossian moved in with Coil at the same time as Stephen was leaving the band, meaning that the two of you were never part of Coil at the same time. Was all this simply down to serendipity?
OB: Yes, I just missed Jhon and Sleaz when I moved into Gen's [Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle / Psychic TV] house in London in the mid 80s. If I'd been there a couple of years earlier I'd have most probably left with them when they went their own way and formed Coil! In a way, subconsciously I was looking for them, looking for Steve, but I didn't really know it then. I think we were all looking for each other. I'd always felt estranged, somehow, until I met Jhon, Sleazy and Steve... That was really when I found my family so to speak, my queer family.
I was only 17 when I first started working with Genesis, I'm several years younger than Steve and Jhon. I was still skipping to school when they started hanging out together, with my stick and hoop. I was just drawn to that hive of activity, the feeling of a magickal arts collective, and to the music, very much so, which was largely influenced by Sleaz's contribution on those first two PTV albums, and the films like Sleaz's Polarvision and Terminus. John Maybury's hallucinatory short for 'Unclean' was excellent, mesmerizing, watching Leigh and Trojan, John Gosling swung upside-down naked. Derek Jarman's involvement of course drew me as well. That's how I first came into contact with Austin Spare's visionary art, his magical ideas, he became a huge influence on me and I'm still an avid collector of his work.
Me and Steve met earlier than 1993, but that's when we became partners. I first met Steve at Jhon and Sleaz's, all of us having been up for several nights tripping on MDA. That must've been around 1990, just as I was about to move in, after they'd finished recording Love's Secret Domain. On reflection it was odd, initially. Steve used to come around and work there, using Sleaz's word processor to make his magazine, Eyeball [a journal of 'Sex and Horror in World Cinema'], in the room next to my bedroom. We'd talk a little, but relationships were getting raw between Jhon and Steve after LSD. Everyone was burnt out after those sessions. The very first time we made contact, though, was at a Butthole Surfers show. Sleaz was doing the films for it. Steve and Jhon were hanging around with the Buttholes a lot back then, and we met each other in the audience, not knowing each other.
ST: One of the things you get involved in music for, when you're queer and living in some small town or other, is to mix with people like yourself, who share your sensibility, and also to try and find a life partner to share it all with. Coil were my family, really, when I moved to London. They brought me and Ossian together and for that and many other things I owe them a massive debt of gratitude. It's still hard to believe they're both gone. It's almost as if they're pulling some massive headfucking prank. With Jhon there were warning signs, but Sleazy… I feel as if huge parts of my past are melting away. So many of the people who were important to me in the 1980s are gone. And to think they used to lecture me about having a death wish and taking too many drugs - well I outlived you both, you nagging bastards!
Before the sad and untimely passing of Coil's Jhon Balance at the end of 2004 and Peter Christopherson six years' later, were there ever plans for all four of you to work together?
ST: We'd patched up our differences by about 1998 and got close again. Both Geff [Jhon] and Sleazy liked what we were doing with Cyclobe, and I was very impressed by their Moon Musick records. By 2002 we were discussing plans for a Coil/Cyclobe record called Wormsongs - but it remained more of a chance for us to swap ridiculous song titles and cover concepts, not so much a musical thing. We never got it onto the starting blocks, sadly.
You've just announced Cyclobe's premiere UK performance as part of this year's Antony-curated Meltdown Festival. How did it feel to be selected for the Festival and what sort of set are you planning?
ST: To receive the invitation from Antony was such a thrill - a great artist and a beautiful human being. My first instinct was to say yes loud and clear.
OB: We were so thrilled that Antony asked us to perform at Meltdown, really flattered. There's a very queer, very pagan current running throughout the evening, threading everything together, which is important to us and to Antony. The evening is called ALBION - HYPNAGOGUE – GHOST, and it'll be our first ever concert here, and only our second since we formed, so it's an important step for us creatively. We've been asked to play live many times over the years but it's rarely felt right. Looking back, I think we really had to finish Wounded Galaxies first - we needed to realise those pieces before we could consider expanding into new territory.
We'll be performing with our friends Michael J York, playing duduk and border pipes, and Cliff Stapleton with his hurdy-gurdy. We'll be joined by Ivan Pavlov (COH) and Dave Smith (Guapo) as well, so it's a close family supporting us... We'll be premiering some new Cyclobe recordings, including a beautiful, mesmeric piece with a very special guest - but our lips are sealed on that one! The theme of the evening was also an integral part of Coil, so that same spirit is there. We're drawing our water from the same well, there's a strong feeling of shared ancestry, of our heritage. David Tibet's close friendship with Jhon Balance is the focus of the new work he'll be premiering with his group Myrninerest. We'll also be screening some rarely seen films by Derek Jarman, showing four of his magical and hallucinatory short super-8 films made in the early 1970s. Hugely inspiring and evocative work. Myrninerest are recording a new soundtrack for Derek's haunting short film A Journey to Avebury, a meditation on one of England's most important pagan monuments - it was Jhon Balance's favourite Jarman film.
ST: Ossian and I are writing three new scores, for [Jarman's] Sulphur, Tarot and Garden of Luxor - Derek would just play records when screening them, so they've never had specially composed 'soundtracks' as such. We're so happy to be working on them for this event. For me it's the first time I've put sound to Derek's images since my Coil days, working on The Angelic Conversation back in 1985. I knew Derek very well in the 1980s and spent a lot of time with him, he was one of the first people I bonded with when I started to come to London and visit Geff and Sleazy. I grew so much and so rapidly thanks to his influence. Derek had that spark about him, he was one of life's great energisers. There was never any wasted time in his company, he was alive in the fullest sense and a massive inspiration to me.
When he contracted HIV and developed AIDS, he took the path of most resistance and really pushed himself into the public arena, at a time when hardly anyone was speaking out in a combative way against the hate and ignorance peddled by mass media and government. He could have just retired and cocooned himself, but instead he went out and fought tooth and nail. He was right in there at the birth of Queer politics, attacking conservatism and conformity in both hetero and gay culture. He had the balls to stand up against the vileness coming from the gutter press, and the eloquence to deal with 'educated' but unsympathetic media types whose homophobia was couched in sneering sophistry. He could take your breath away sometimes - such a strong and intelligent man.
Being able to present some of his amazing short films is very meaningful to me; Derek was one of the vital forces in my younger life, so screening these beautiful films is a way for me to reconnect with that vitality, and share it with an audience who perhaps have never seen his Super-8 work projected before.
Are you perhaps now experiencing an accelerated phase of composing and recording and, if so, can we expect its results in the near future?
OB: We're more than halfway through the next album, perhaps even three quarters done. With much the same line-up as Wounded Galaxies… and also with Dave Smith from Guapo, who's been working on percussion for us. We're extremely excited about some of the new pieces, they're all just uncurling slowly, although I do think we're working a little faster now. It is difficult though, ideally we'd like to spend more time recording, but we get distracted by other projects and necessities. We're hoping to have it released for spring next year.
In the meanwhile this year we're going to release an expanded version of The Eclipser on CD and vinyl. We felt we could go much further with those pieces and didn't want them or Alex's [Alex Rose who designed the sleeve of the original 7" release] incredible work to vanish in a limited edition. We also have recordings made to accompany my book Haunted Air, which will be played at some exhibitions I'm planning… And our soundtracks from Derek's Sulphur, Tarot and Garden of Luxor. There's a plan to make The Visitors available again on CD and vinyl as well. I'm hopeful we'll find the time to do all that.
ST: I believe the new album contains some of our best ever material. I'm very excited about a couple of pieces we're close to finishing. One track called 'Arc' we actually played live in Austria a few years ago. The studio version is a monster, and we're planning on doing it live at the QEH [London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, where much of the Meltdown Festival will be staged]. I think it will cut a few heads off when played nice and loud!
Cyclobe perform at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 4th August as part of Meltdown, alongside Myrninerest and films by Derek Jarman.
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If è il pezzo d'apertura del secondo lato di Atom Heart Mother, scritto e interpretato da Roger Waters.

Il brano
Un semplice arpeggio di chitarra introduce la voce di Roger Waters. È una delle canzoni più intime scritte dal bassista e si riferisce agli aspetti più difficili del suo carattere. Qualche critico ha affermato che il brano rappresenta il primo tentativo di esprimere i sensi di colpa provati da Waters per il modo in cui lui si era comportato con Syd Barrett, estromettendolo di fatto dalla band (era stato proprio lui a comunicare all'amico che il suo contributo nel gruppo non era più gradito).

Il testo del brano è impostato come l'omonima poesia di Rudyard Kipling, con la differenza che il grande poeta si rivolge al figlio mentre l'autore del brano a se stesso.

Formazione
Musicisti
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Roger Waters: voce, chitarra classica, basso
David Gilmour: chitarra lap steel
Nick Mason: batteria

Tecnico del suono
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 Alan Parsons

Cover e riferimenti
Neil Hannon, cantante e leader dei Divine Comedy, si è ispirato alla canzone per la sua If, contenuta in A Short Album About Love del 1997. Nel 2003 il cantautore italiano Morgan ha inciso una reinterpretazione del brano in lingua italiana (con il titolo Se) nel suo album Canzoni dell'appartamento.

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Several inside sources, who include Peter Propertyseller and Miss Beverly Boulevard, have sent covert communiques to let us know that CAA's managing partner and uber agent Kevin Huvane has quietly engaged the services of Edward Fitz, a partner at The Agency, to surreptitiously shop his plummy Beverly Hills estate, with a traffic-stopping $50 million-ish price tag. Acquired by the high-powered agent in 2003 for an undisclosed amount, the roughly 10,000-square-foot, many gabled and half-timbered Tudor mansion was originally designed by Playboy Mansion architect Arthur R. Kelly.
Huvane unsuccessfully attempted to sell the then un-renovated estate in 2007, for a tad less then $16 million, but with no serious buyers, opted instead for a massive renovation. He hired major league architecture firm Ferguson & Shamamian to handle the overhaul, and brought in A-list designer Michael Smith to do up the decor. The elegant but low-key and no doubt prodigiously pricey result was swooned over in Architectural Digest (July 2012), includes six bedrooms, six full and three half bathrooms, a voluminous entrance hall with floating staircase, spacious living and dining rooms, a family room that doubles as a screening room, and a round, oak-paneled library. The 1.5-acre city-view estate offers a gated drive and circular motor court, multilevel terraces, swimming pool, tennis court and a newly constructed guesthouse with two bedrooms and three bathrooms in about 2,500-square-feet.
Mister Huvane, who reps a who's who of Hollywood heavy hitters, once owned a home on a celeb-lined street in the Beverly Hills Post Office that's currently owned by Channing Tatum, and our research shows he continues to own another much less grand house in Beverly Hills, as well as a three bedroom and 3.5 bathroom condo in New York's Chelsea 'hood.
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Queen of Katwe Movie Poster
Take a look to this new poster of Queen of Katwe, the upcoming biography drama movie directed by Mira Nair for Disney and starring Madina Nalwanga, Lupita Nyong'o, and David Oyelowo:
"Queen of Katwe is the colorful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion."
And thanks to VEVO we may listen to the theme song of the film:
Alicia Keys – Back To Life (from the Motion Picture "Queen of Katwe") (Audio)
Singer Alicia Key revealed why she sings for the film in this featurette:
Queen of Katwe – Alicia Keys "Back To Life" Featurette
The film will be released in theaters on September 30, 2016.
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Five double / twin rooms with two shared bathrooms (both of which have a hairdryer). Dining area. Free Wi-Fi.
Breakfast is served at the guesthouse, there's a diner in neighbouring town Skálafell (200 metres / 218 yds.), and a dinner buffet at country hotel Smyrlabjörg (5 km / 3.1 mi). The nearest supermarkets are in fishing town Höfn í Hornafirði (40 km / 25 mi).
Your hosts gladly provide information about local hiking routes, and a marked trail goes from the farm and to Heinabergsjökull's southern icefall Skálafellsjökull. Explore further trails in the southern part of the Vatnajökull national park (road no 985, 3 km / 1.8 mi). A petting zoo, popular with the young ones, at Hólmur á Mýrum (12 km / 7.5 mi). Hot tubs at Hoffell and quad tours along Hoffellsjökull glacier (30 km / 18.5 mi). Visit the Huldusteinn rock museum and the Glacier Museum at Höfn, which is also a tourism information centre (40 km / 25 mi). Day trips to Jökulsárlón (40 km / 25 mi) and to Skaftafell (98 km / 61 mi). Horse rental in Árnanes (33 km / 20.5 mi). The nearest town is Höfn, where you'll find a swimming pool, a golf course, supermarkets, restaurants, tour operators and various other services.
Guesthouse Stekkatún stands on a green field by a remarkable cliff, close to glacial river Kolgríma that originates in one of Vatnajökull's icefalls, Heinabergsjökull, and is the boundary between the region Suðursveit and Hornafjörður. The driveway to Stekkatún and neighbouring farm Skálafell marks the beginning of a trail to the popular Hjallanes just by the icefall Skálafellsjökull. This area belongs to Vatnajökull National Park, which covers 13% of Iceland's total area, or 13,600 km2 (3,360,633 acres) in total, and is the largest national park in Western Europe. If you travel 3 km (1.8 mi) along road no 985, you'll find tour operators that offer daily guided snowmobile tours to Skálafellsjökull.
Stekkatún is on farm Skálafell's land, the eastern-most farm in region Suðursveit, but the region goes along the coastline by Vatnajökull's foothills to the famed Jökulsárlón in the west (40 km / 25 mi). Suðursveit is a charming region and should impress nature lovers and outdoor enthusiasts alike, where glaciers, high peaks, green pastures and black beaches all come together in an unforgettable experience. Head to Lækjarhús in Borgarhöfn (11 km / 6.8 mi) to go on various tours like jeep tours and coach tours (where you might or might not know where you're headed!). From there, you can travel 12 km (7.5 mi) to Hali í Suðursveit, where there's a good restaurant that emphasizes locally sourced ingredients. You can also visit a museum about one of Iceland's most beloved 20th century authors at Hali, which is only 14 km / 9 mi from Jökulsárlón.


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by Cynthia B. Astle
The end of days. End times. Apocalypse. Doomsday. Even the old Norse term, Ragnarok. Whatever we call it, the events of the past nine months have unleashed a constant undercurrent of anxiety across the church and around the world.
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Chadwick Boseman gives the "Wakanda Forever" salute as he attends the 90th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Events from the last week of August, which need not be repeated in detail, brought our collective anxiety to the surface again. After an agonized week of shootings in Kenosha, Wis., and Portland, Ore., overlaid with two hurricanes hitting the U.S. Gulf coast, came shocking news that cancer had claimed the life of Chadwick Boseman, the actor who became a worldwide hero through his portrayal of the comic book superhero Black Panther. Social media bewailed Mr. Boseman's death, not only because he was a brilliant actor whose portrayals of real and fictional Black heroes inspired children and adults of all races, but also because he was a human being of dignity, integrity, and compassion. The qualities of his character shone through his art, making his untimely passing even more painful in a time when it seems that public figures of true integrity are in short supply.
Awash in an ocean of pain and loss, United Methodists have turned to prayer to make up for the lack of in-person community caused by coronavirus restrictions. Thus far United Methodist Men have held five national days of prayer, each sponsored by different U.S. jurisdictions. Discipleship Ministries sends out daily prayers for change focused on eradicating racism. Individual congregations hold worship services and frequent, even daily prayer sessions over the Internet. Social media bursts with prayer requests of all sorts, from personal illnesses and tragedies to global reactions such as the outpouring of grief over Mr. Boseman's death.
We are a nation, nay, an entire planet, overcome with grief, pain, and fear. Though we may not recognize it fully, now is the time for which followers of Jesus Christ have been preparing for generations. The world needs Jesus' disciples to respond to events around us with clear, calm courage. Wounded as we are, we must take up the crosses of our own pain and loss and carry them into the public square with us. The world needs to see that even in our vulnerability, we resolve to resist evil in whatever forms it presents itself, as we United Methodists promise in our baptismal vows.
The task before us looms as great as any of the historic events that shaped our parents and grandparents. We must contend on many fronts.
We face an invisible invader in the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, an invader against which we must take precautions that keep us separated from our sources of strength in human community.
We face the revelations of 400 years of racism, a sin so ingrained in our society that it seems impossible to remove.
As Americans, we face a political campaign that threatens the very bedrock of our democratic experiment, the ideal that our government should be of, by, and for the people.
The gravity of our situation tempts us to despair. The forces of evil seem so powerful as to be unassailable, but this perception is a lie. It's a pernicious lie, one that breeds ever more physical, emotional and spiritual violence, as polarized groups seek to silence their ideological foes in both the church and society in order to gain and keep power.
Yet we aren't powerless, for we possess the greatest power the world has ever seen: the ability to stand up to evil and injustice in non-violent love. We can express our love in many ways: kindness in everyday encounters; excess generosity of spirit when we are confronted; even placing ourselves, physically if need be, between the vulnerable and their oppressors. We will not strike any blows, but we must be prepared to receive them and not respond in kind, as Jesus teaches in Matthew 6.
Where do we find the fortitude to act as Jesus' disciples in these ways? Through prayer, through community despite distance, and with more prayer.
Since shortly after the coronavirus pandemic was declared, United Methodists everywhere have set up prayer groups online via Zoom, FaceTime, and other social media. For example, St. Stephen UMC, the sponsor of United Methodist Insight, holds morning and evening prayer on its Facebook page every day. My husband John and I now structure our days around these prayer times. Other churches have set up similar sessions that have formed a great river of prayer counteracting the undercurrent of fear that besets us. These contacts will sustain our immediate future and beyond. If we give into the anxieties that haunt us, the forces of evil will win. We cannot, we must not, allow that to happen.
Yes, we're worn down emotionally. We've lost so much in these past months, including the shining example of Chadwick Boseman, who was a baptized Christian. Nonetheless, along with many others, I console and fortify myself for the coming days with his final speech as the fictional King T'Challa of Wakanda, AKA, Black Panther:
"In times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe."
It doesn't take acute hearing to detect in T'Challa's wisdom the words of Jesus: You shall love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Cynthia B. Astle serves as Editor of United Methodist Insight, which she founded in 2011.
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