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Anonymous asked: Okay so Virgil, there's been talk about you from other people saying that you were just trolling about you being affiliated with Gawker and honestly I'm lost. Be honest here, were you actually trolling with that one Honey Badger's post and the events afterwards?
As previously stated, Virgil Texas has been removed from his post here at Your Kickstarter Sucks. As dedicated gamer's and fierce defenders of ethic's, we are all deeply disappointed in him. From here on out you can expect that game's will be treated with the same level of respect and seriousness that we display in our ongoing coverage of ice density.
-bosh
Anonymous asked: Yks: confirmed to be ran by a bunch of little pricks who don't want women's voices to be heard (if they don't lie within "party lines").
All of us here at YKS are Mra pua meninist fedora guys and we think women should be silenced until they give us the sex they owe us for being nice
Due to pressure from advertisers, contributor "Virgil Texas" has been removed from the blog and the remaining admins have chosen to officially endorse the #GamerGate movement
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Anonymous asked: Hey Virgil, are you actually going to defend yourself or are you going to keep post those dog pics to make people think you're "quirky and clever" to hide the fact that you can't argue?
Anonymous asked: "H____ B_____" Feeling a little triggered now, aren't we? :^)
Anonymous asked: lol @ the folks screaming CENSORSHIP at you pointing out that "Honey... " that *that name* is fucking ridiculous. Give them a dog pic for me.
Anonymous asked: "literal hate site A Voice For Men" I don't think you know what "literal" means.
Anonymous asked: Oh my fucking god, seriously? H____ B_____? That is the most pathetic shit I have ever seen. Y'all used to be good at taking the piss, but that was the weakest showing I have ever seen come from this tumblr. Suck less.
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As near as I can tell, Honey Badger Brigade is a trio of pro-Gamergate MRA women who produce execrable podcasts railing against phantasms of feminism and asking buhhhh what about men's rights?? and other such balderdash. They're big with literal hate site A Voice For Men, for which one of the Honey Badgers (please don't make me type those words again) has written.
Anyone who has had any interaction with MRAs or Gamergate people understands that they're disingenuous, raving paranoiacs who are best ignored in the hopes they'll tucker themselves out from yelling about women in video game's. They're not the types you'd want around an event called the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo, a convention with a muscular sexual harassment and abuse policy that's the first item on their FAQs. So if the H____ B_____s wanted to attend Calgary Expo to spread their message of blarggghhhh they needed to employ a little sleight of hand, as The Mary Sue reports:
However, Honey Badger Radio did not use their website to apply for vendor/exhibitor status. The "Honey Badger Brigade" on the Calgary Expo website links to a webcomic site (run by Honey Badger Tieman) instead. If you didn't think all of this was enough to warrant expulsion from the convention (it is), there's more.
The H____ B_____s managed to not only secure a booth but raise nearly $10,000 in a homegrown crowdfunding campaign in order to do something no less innocent than:
We plan to infiltrate nerd culture cunningly disguised as their own. Each of us has been carefully crafting a persona of nerdiness through decades of dedication to comics, science fiction, fantasy, comedy games and other geekery, waiting for this moment, our moment to slip among the unaware. Once there we will start distributing the totalitarian message that nerd and gamer culture is… perfectly wonderful just as it is and should be left alone to go it's own way.
That's it folks.
As men's issues advocates and defenders of creator's rights to create unmolested, that's what we have to say to the nerds and geeks and gamers. You are fantastic as you are, carry on.
Why, that sounds perfectly reasonable and ap olitical. Sounds like these folks just wanted to attend the con to spread a message of "keep it up!" and "you're doing great" to the gamer's and nerd's. That must be why 200 MRAs opened their wallets to send people who have spent years blogging about false rape epidemics and spermjacking or whatever to a comic con: positive reinforcement. So what did the H____ B_____s do when they got there? From The Mary Sue again:
Panelist Brittney Le Blanc gave us this account of the events that transpired:
We were about fifteen minut es into the panel when a woman in the second row stood up and identified herself as a Men's Rights Activist. She and her male companion both came to raise issues they felt would not be covered by our panel. Raising points about the way men are portrayed in comics struck a note with all the panelists, as we agreed that we want to see a diversity across body types, characters, races, etc in mainstream comics. Not everyone wants to see a hero who looks like he's built like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. They also accused us of presenting all women as victims, which was an outright lie and derailing tactic.
Their questions did take up quite a bit of time at the panel and served to derail the topic onto another tangent, which was frustrating for the panel and for those in the audience. It's what they came to do, and in part, they succeeded. I would say that it brought up some great discussions though, allowing us to talk about the lack of representation for people of colour in comics and to give well deserved props to artists like Sophie Campbell, who has done an amazing job in showcasing a broad range of bodies with her art in Jem and the Holograms.
It's disappointing that they weren't there to have a conversation or to listen to what we, and members of the audience, were saying. They wanted to stand up and have their say, but not to listen or try to understand the points of view other people in the room had. This was further proven by the video discussion they posted later last night, in which they mentioned our panel and that we were "donning the ball gowns of our victimhood", which I'm not even entirely sure how to take. I will admit to not watching the whole video, and I think anyone who attempts to watch it would understand why.
Ahhhhhh yeah, that's the shit. On Day 2 of the event, the H_ ____ B______s were kicked out by Expo organizers. The best part? According to the exhibitor package, "No refund shall be given to exhibitors who are removed
from the show."
$9,300 down the tubes. Ethic's in video game journalism. Men's rights. Your crowdfunder sucks.
Honey Badger Brigade: Stand up to censorship!
This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen on Kickstarter. I don't even know what it is. It's just pure insanity. Read the whole description. Here's an excerpt:
In fact it I could not build on existing platforms, simply out of my own distaste for this inexcusable insanity which is the current convention for which there is no excuse besides a lack of moral vision that does not extend beyond ones own self-absorbed existence, which those who have the power and control over supplying this service have confessed to being in possessed by. I am supremely unimpressed. Knowledge of these forms of low level operations has in fact caused me to do a self-evaluation and strengthen my bonds to my own roots and who I am as an individual which I proudly proclaim that I do not belong to man, I belong to God, if you take a close look at the 10 commandments you'll see why, God is good, God is cool, God is a carrot not just a stick, a vision of something greater then ourselves, I will share this more later, but on the subject of integrity, it's necessary to mention that God's law, the 10 commandments, is my standard. It was the standard for the USA at it's inception, which spurred the industrial revolution and for even the most modest in our country it has made life more heavenly then it would have been otherwise, and set an example for the world as well. Unfortunately this has not been preserved as it should have been, but let's stick to personal computers, while noting the benefit of havin g faith in God's commandments, appeared to be the fingerprint of visibility, note the first four commandments requiring recognition for this service that one can imply God didn't necessarily have to make, but out of his mercy and steadfast nature of God's love, did so. Impressive the result of their application, it is a no-brainer following in this standard, that is a carrot not a stick, thank you God, I bow to you. I trust in you.
These guys are upset that pseudoscience is labeled as such on Wikipedia. They're looking for $67k to show Jimmy Wales who's boss.
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This guy wants $3,179 to make improve a mobile game about rage faces. In 2015
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A resident of Texas for over 20 years, I finally felt the requirement for a gun. And it wasn't the need for personal safety that drove my desire to take up arms, it was squirrels. Those pesky rodents seem to get into everything around my lake house.
I have to admit, the first day after purchasing my firearm I was excited like a little kid on Christmas morning. It was my first chance to test my recently acquired sharp shooter skills honed on the range.
Early Monday morning, while getting ready for a meeting, I remembered a comment my neighbor Tyrone made on the range the day before, "I'm sure you'll have a chance to kill a squirrel tomorrow. They're always active in the morning…" So every time I walked by a window or a door, I paused and scouted the yard for a devious rodent.
On the third glance out the windows I acquired a target – an un-repentant, pesky, troublemaking squirrel.
"Finally." I mumbled as I cracked a slight grin.
Weighing only a few pounds but certainly a mischief-maker, this male squirrel standing at attention on the railing of my balcony was clearly challenging me with his cold stare. Maybe he realized he was about to meet his maker… Or maybe he was startled by my striped blue and white boxer shorts. But clearly, he was in a state of shock.
My heart started to beat a little faster as I realized my opportunity to eradicate this rodent. And I quickly reviewed in my head the steps to get off a clean shot, "Comfortably rest my head on the stock; acquire my target in the scope; take a deep breathe; start to let it out…hold; then gently squeeze the trigger." My day on the range had clearly prepared me for the responsibility I had to cleanse my yard of troublemakers.
My killing machine was downstairs in the hall closet! "How long would this formidable foe wait outside my window while I armed myself?" I wasn't sure, but I was convinced I didn't have any time to waste.
So without making any sudden movements that would signal to my adversary my cruel intentions, I quickly headed down the stairs to grab my weapon. On the way I pondered if boxer shorts were proper hunting attire. But it didn't matter, I couldn't waste any time with pants. I had justice to serve. I continued on the path to my firearm.
I opened the hall closet and found "Henry" waiting to be enlisted into action. With the confidence of a Navy Seal, I grabbed my widow-maker and headed back to the battlefront on my balcony.
As I approached the top of the stairs, it was clear that luck was on my side – the furry antagonist was still on the balcony.
As I slowly advanced towards the sliding doors, I smoothly removed the cover from my scope. Not that I needed it, the vermin was only 10 feet away as I started to slide the door open.
"Damn it!" My target noticed the boxer-clad executioner at the door and bolted for the safety of the nearest sycamore tree. But the villain rodent decided to taunt the grim reaper and stopped at the first major branch in the tree – he was now only fifteen feet away.
If anything, I had a better shot than before. The gray vermin was perfectly situated in the "V" made between the trunk and a major branch. I imagined how my convicted tree-dweller would look being blown out of the sycamore tree by my Super Colibri .22 ammo.
My heart raced a little more as I raised the rifle and engaged the American made, blued-steel lever of my assault rifle for the kill. I was breathing heavier by the moment, but I was focused on permanently removing Mr. Gray from my yard.
As I got the stock of the rifle to my cheek, my opponent repositioned himself on the branch…preparing to bolt up the tree to safety. I realized that I didn't have much time to acquire the lakeside vermin in my sites and deal out justice.
With my finger on the trigger and my heart pounding, I positioned the criminal beast between the crosshairs of the scope.
My rival realized by my sudden outburst that his life was spared. He freely escaped up the sycamore tree to live for another day. And I was left standing in my boxer shorts with another item to add to my checklist.
Not a Red Ryder Carbine Action Two-hundred Shot Range Model Air Rifle.
Too funny. I cracked up, and secretly cheered for the squirrel!


Things to do in Penzance this Christmas – come and see the Humphry Davy Birthday Lantern Parade!
Saturday 16th of December will be a day of celebrations and festivities in Penzance. Not only will there be a great Christmas market in town, but the exciting lantern procession is worth seeing. It will start at the top of Causewayhead at 16:30 and work down through to the Humphry Davy Statue. From there it will come to Chapel Street – and where better to watch the fun than from Blacks of Chapel Street.
Thanks to the closing of Chapel Street to traffic there will be plenty of opportunities to walk and explore what this delightful part of town has to offer. There are some great galleries and shops for Christmas gifts and we are open for mulled wine and hot mince pies. Not only that, we will have some seating outside in Chapel Street where you can grab some great food and watch what is happening.
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Campaign seeks to end journalist's detention in Vietnam
Award-winning reporter Pham Doan Trang was arrested for her work for dissident online magazines
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Published: December 11, 2020 07:50 AM GMT ▾
Updated: December 11, 2020 11:26 AM GMT
Well-known journalist and rights activist Pham Doan Trang (left) and another activist pose for a photo before her arrest in October. (Photo: Facebook)
An international group working for media freedom has launched an online campaign seeking to end the detention of a Vietnamese journalist, who is seen as a symbol of the fight for freedom of expression.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last week launched an online petition seeking "immediate and unconditional release" of journalist and rights activist Pham Doan Trang.
The 42-year-old journalist was arrested on Oct. 7 this year on charges of "making storing and spreading information to oppose the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam."
RSF maintains Trang, who founded two online publications, was under house arrest since February 2018.
She was arrested after her publications -- Luat Khoa and Vietnamese -- helped Vietnamese people to understand the country's laws, defend their rights, and resist the Vietnamese Communist Party's authoritarian rule, RSF said.
Trang, who won RSF Press Freedom Prize for Impact last year, "is being prosecuted like a common criminal and is facing up to 20 years in prison although all she did was provide her fellow citizens with information that would help them to fully enjoy the rights that their country's constitution is supposed to guarantee," it said.
The Paris-based group said Trang, one of the leading representatives of independent journalism in the Southeast Asian country, "could be tortured ..she doesn't deserve to be in prison."
Trang has "become a symbol of the fight to provide her fellow Vietnamese citizens with reliable, independent journalism," Daniel Bastard, the head of RSF's Asia-Pacific desk, said.
"By signing this petition for her release, you demonstrate a commitment to press freedom in a country where all the media are strictly controlled by the communist party's propaganda bureau," his appeal said.
In its latest report issued on Dec. 8, CIVICUS, a global rights group, rated Vietnam as a "closed" country, the worst rating for human rights.
Prominent journalist forced to leave independent publisher
Vietnam Catholics remember late Catholic president
Vietnam blocks Protestant church's congress
Tech giants accused of helping Vietnam's online crackdown
Such ratings are given to countries where state and non-state actors are routinely allowed to imprison, injure, and kill people for attempting to exercise their fundamental freedoms.

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Grace and Peace, Overseer Chris Burton from Atlanta Ga just sending you Kingdom Greeting. How's ministry going out that way?
At 2:47pm on March 27, 2012, Brian Charles said…
Prophetic Words of Judgment Against Miami and Florida part 1
Given through Brian Charles
"Flee this place, city of My wrath!" --Miami
"You MUST flee this place, city of sin." "You MUST go!" --Miami
"It will all be blasted apart by My hand!" --Miami-Dade County
"Flee this place, city of sin." "Blasted apart in an instant! It MUST go." --downtown Miami
"Monuments of pride—blasted away!" --downtown Miami
"It'll be blasted away in a day." "Blasted to pieces!" --Miami
"It'll all be blasted away." --Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach
"All this will be gone in a flash!" --Fort Lauderdale
"All this will be blasted away by the fire of My wrath!" downtown Fort Lauderdale
"It'll all be gone!" "It'll be sheer terror!" "It's the End Times!" "The bombs are already in place."
"All this will be history." "It'll be pure terror!" "It'll be nuclear destruction!"
"All this must be history. It will happen suddenly." "It all must go! " "It's the end of the Age!"
"Someday these'll be gone." --downtown hotels
"They'll be reduced." --the amount of wealthy people in Miami
"Your enemies are plotting an attack against you. From the sea." "There is NOTHING hidden from Me!"
"Let Me nuke 'em! I can't use them. They are a pain to Me." --the Jewish people in Miami
"You see these towers? They'll all come down in an instant!" --Miami Beach
"All this will be gone in an instant!" --South Beach
"City of sin." --South Beach, Miami
"Drowned in water." "They are (evil). That's why I'M going to sink it under the ocean. They are (evil). That's why I'M going to sink it under the ocean." "I'M going to destroy them." --the evil people of FL
This'll all be a thing of the past." --restaurants, nightlife
"It'll all be swept away." "It'll all be swept away be a mighty tidal wave." --Miami Beach, South Beach
"I want to nuke it with the fire of My wrath!" "I want to blast it with the fire of My wrath!" "You'll see it gone." "All these buildings will be blasted away." –Miami-Dade County
"You see these buildings? They'll be rubble!" "It will all be destroyed in an instant!" --South Beach
"I want to blast it with the fire of My wrath!" "It's sin has come before Me." --South Beach, Miami
"I will save who I will save."
"These piers will be gone, submerged under the sea."
"All submerged under the sea." --North Palm Beach
"Get out of here—it'll be gone in a second!" "You shall go." --West Palm Beach
"I want to destroy this town. That's what I'll do. It'll be gone in a nuclear flash!" --Miami-Dade County
"All this will be burned by fire of My hand." --Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Dade County
"I want to blast this place suddenly. Few will survive." --Miami
"All this will be submerged under the sea. All its pomp will be gone. Only a handful will survive."
"All this will be submerged under the sea." --Miami, Coral Gables
"It'll all be submerged underwater." --Miami
"Someday it'll be submerged underwater." --the Everglades
"Peninsular Florida will be gone, submerged by My wrath!"
"Peninsular Florida will be gone!—by My wrath!"
"Peninsular Florida will disappear." "It will all be submerged by My hand!"
"Peninsular Florida will be submerged under the ocean."
"Someday it'll be underwater." "It will all be submerged by My hand." --Florida
"Submerged underwater—the whole of Florida."
"The islands will be covered by water."
"It's all going down." Southern Florida
"Leave it all behind. They won't serve Me." "I shall judge this place." "I'M gonna destroy it all!" "Great shall be the destruction of this town. They won't serve Me." --Gainesville
"I'M going to destroy this place." --Gainesville
"All this will be blasted away!" --Hollywood, Florida
"Sunk by My hand." --Manatee Memorial Hospital
"All this will be submerged under the sea." --Bradenton
"You know I'M gonna plunge this under the sea? My people won't serve Me." --Bradenton
"You know all this will be submerged under the sea? My people won't serve Me." --Sarasota
"I'M gonna destroy it!" Florida State Capitol
"They shall be judged." --Florida State Government officials, leaders
"Leave! I hate this place. A nest of fools. They shall be punished, for failing to uphold right. They shall be destroyed. You shall see—a mighty destruction upon the capitol." "They refuse to obey Me." "I'll destroy this place with sudden force. They won't serve Me." --Tallahassee City gov't, FL State gov't
"I'M gonna destroy it!" --the phallic-shaped tower in downtown Tampa
"I'M gonna destroy 'em all!" --downtown Tampa towers
"I want to destroy this place. That's what I'M gonna do—with a nuclear blast suddenly. Great shall be her destruction. Because My people refuse to serve Me." --Tampa
"You see, all this will be blasted away!" --downtown Tampa
"Gone by thermonuclear blast!" "City of My anger." --Tampa
"I've been merciful long enough." "They won't repent." "I must destroy." "…of destruction. You will see My hand. You will see." --word of God's judgment against Tampa
"I want to submerge this place!" --St. Petersburg, Florida
"Someday this will all be submerged by My hand!" --St. Petersburg
"Soon those buildings will be submerged." --downtown St. Petersburg, all of Florida
"Some of those cities will be blown up by nuclear explosions." --Florida cities
"Do not glory in nuclear destruction." "I'M gonna suddenly destroy this Empire!"
"I wanna destroy it. That's what I'll do." "It'll be nuked off the Earth!" --Jacksonville
"I want to destroy this place." "I've been merciful long enough." "All buildings of downtown…blasted by nuclear fire!" --Jacksonville
"I'M gonna destroy this place. You shall see." --Tallahassee
"Blasted away by nuclear fire!" --AT&T Tower, downtown Jacksonville
"I'm gonna dry up the state." "It'll be desert." --Florida
"All this will be dried up. Drought will envelop the land. My people refuse to serve Me." --Florida
"I'll dry up the farmland. Farms will be a thing of the past." "It'll dry up." --Florida farmland
"I'll dry it up, and all of Florida!" --Lake Okeechobee
"I shall drain it dry." --Lake Okeechobee
"I'll judge for that!" --the Brazilian partying lifestyle
"It'll be sunk under the sea!" --coastal Brazil
"I'M gonna destroy 'em all!" --towers of the world
"These'll be a rarity." --flowers
"It's a place of Satan. They don't serve Me." --Hillel Jewish Center
"I'll tear it down!" --the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, I-275
"They'll be gone too!" "Gone in an instant!" --yachts, cruise liners
"Someday it'll be a thing of the past." --The U.S. Navy
"It's all going under." --the U.S. economy
"I will destroy them all!" -- God's people- the Christians and the Jews
"They serve Baal, not Me!" --God's people, the Christians and the Jewish people
"They'll be destroyed, by false spirits." --Christians who reject the Holy Ghost-filled life
"I'll definitely judge for that!" --the Bride of Christ, abandoning the Lord for the world, turning Herself into the Whore of Babylon
"I'll surely judge for that!" --Christians who stay behind to accumulate finances, never fulfilling God's will to go out West
"I'M going to judge My people because of that!" --refusing to obey God
"I'll judge for that! "I'll definitely judge for that!" --God's people chasing after the almighty dollar
"I'll judge for that!" --God's people being after money and worldly stuff
"I'll judge for that!" --Christians who won't give it all up to follow Christ
"I'll judge for that." --Christians loving the world
"I'M afraid that's true." --God's people want their "fire insurance" covered, yet still stay in the world
"A lot of ministry is not of Me." "I give you children." --young, immature pastors
"Weep for the misery." "That's gonna happen to this country." --years of famine
"I'M gonna suddenly destroy this country!" "I'm going to destroy your Empire."
"I'll judge for that." --peoples' excuses
"I'll judge for that." --people rejecting Truth for learning
"I'll judge for that!" --the vanity of womens' hairstyles
"I'll judge for that!" --women who get careers, not husbands
"I'll judge for that!" --the world working on Sundays
"I'll judge for that!" --the world being a very busy place
"I'll judge for that." --no affordable housing
"I'll judge for that." "I'll surely judge for that!" --doctors overcharging patients for medical care
"I'll judge for that." "I'll definitely judge for that!" --cities full of money-hungry people all racing around
"I'll definitely judge for that!" --women who wait to marry the "highest bidder"
"I made 'em that way." --the insolence of young girls
"I will definitely judge for that! You can count on it!" --people who refuse to take a stand for what is right because of what it will cost them
"I'll definitely punish for that!" --the people of the world not being interested in the Gospel
"I can do anything for you." "I can take you anywhere." "I will keep you safe from the Father's wrath."
"I'll be as hard on you as you are on others."
"I'll be with you!" --when the rules of society changes overnight
"I'll be with you as the world ends." --says Jesus
"You MUST publish that!" "You MUST tell." "You MUST warn people!" You MUST warn!"
"Warn My people of their nuclear destruction." --says Jesus
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I had this dream when I was sleeping under this grove of salt cedar trees in the California desert Sunday morning (this January (a year or 2 ago)
I dreamed that Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network, in Virginia Beach, VA, would be sold off because many people who had supported that ministry were now unable to send in donations because of hard economic times and situations coming upon them. So since there wasn't enough donations coming in to keep that ministry going, the T.V. studios and ministry buildings were slated to soon be "sold off."
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At 9:54pm on October 5, 2011, Darrell Cook said…
Hello and God Bless!
My name is Darrell Cook I am a Pastor of the Christ Community Church in Erie PA. I also own a company that works with pastors to help them professionally package their sermons and establish a strong internet presence. If you are in need of some assistance in your ministry as it would relate to web design, sermon packaging, social media management please don't hesitate to contact me. You can visit my website if you would like to get an idea of what I offer.
Thanks and may God continue to bless your ministry!
Darrell Cook
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At 12:07pm on November 29, 2010, Church Growth Mastery said…
Hello Pastor... thanks for your friendship. You can get more info on me at http://www.growaministry.com
At 10:31pm on September 14, 2010, Bishop L Clark said…
Greetings Pastor Forrester
Kingdom Coalition International Fellowship maintains a careful watch for ministry leaders walking in that special oil and anointing of God for such a time as this. Currently we are building and further establishing in your region and are identifying strong leaders possessing a special grace from God for this dispensation. I am led to discuss certain matters with you.
I'd like to talk with you concerning your vision and accomplishments as well as our vision and initiatives there locally and nationally. God may see fit to align our charge in building His kingdom across the globe.
Let's make a connection and allow God to manifest His providence. My contact information and web site address is listed below.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU RICHLY!
Humbled in His Service,
Bishop Clark
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Shingo Prize
We hear so much about the Shingo Prize, I thought I would investigate it and share some of my findings with you.
The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence is awarded annually by the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University, to companies around the globe that "achieve world-class operational excellence status." It was established in 1988 and is named in honor of Shigeo Shingo and is recognized as the premier award for operational excellence in North America.
The prize has three categories:
- Public Sector
In the Business category, prizes are awarded to companies that achieve world-class manufacturing status. Shingo Prize (Gold), Silver, and Bronze prizes exist.
In the Public Sector category, prizes are given to the public sectors that achieve world-class manufacturing status. Shingo Prize (Gold), Silver, and Bronze prizes exist.
In the Research category, prizes are awarded recognizing research and writing regarding new knowledge and understanding of Lean and operational excellence.
It is given in four categories:
- Unpublished papers
- Published articles
- Books & monographs
- Applied publications / multimedia programs.
Who was Shigeo? Shingo that the Shingo Prize was named after?
Shigeo Shingo (新郷 重夫, 1909 - 1990), born in Saga City, Japan, was an Industrial Engineer who distinguished himself as one of the world's leading experts on manufacturing practices and the Toyota Production System. Although the myth prevails that he invented the Toyota Production System, in truth he was an external consultant who taught courses in Industrial Engineering at Toyota. He did document TPS and wrote one of the first books on TPS entitled "Study of the Toyota Production System". He is recognized as being one of the world's leading experts in improving manufacturing processes.
Shingo is best known for adding two prases to the Lean Glossary:
- SMED
o Single Minute Exchange of Dies
o Enabling small lot size production
- Poka Yoke
o Mistake-Poofing
o Building quality in at the source
The Shingo Prize was named after him in recogition of his lifelong accomplishments and devotion to assisting organizations achieve world-class status.
The Shingo Prizes are awarded at their annual conference with the next one being in Atlanta on May 7-10, 2012. Please join me in congratulating all the award winners with a special acknowledgement to Pascal Denis who will receive his 4th award in Research for his latest book "The Remedy"
See you in Atlanta
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Nia will address the meeting on Monday 10th January 7pm in the Lliedi Suite of the Selwyn Samuel Centre when the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev Dr Barry Morgan, will launch the Llanelli Says Yes campaign – that is the campaign to say yes to more powers for the Assembly in the referendum on 3rd March. The meeting is open to all, and has attracted support from those with various political affiliations and none.
Voters in Wales will be asked on Thursday, March 3, to decide whether the Assembly should have the right to pass laws in areas it has powers for. Llanelli MP Nia Griffith said: "A yes vote will mean a stronger voice for Wales and will give the Assembly the tools it needs for the job."It will cut out wasteful duplication and delays."
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Yesterday we covered EZ Global Search which is Easynews 3rd party iPhone / iPad app. Today we're looking at the first of two Android apps for Easynews. The EasyBrowser app allows Easynews members to search and download newsgroup content directly from their Android phone or tablet.
A free ad-supported version of EasyBrowser is available via the Android Market. You will need Easynews web access to make use of EasyBrowser on your Android phone / tablet. If you're not already a member you can sign up for a 14 day free trial.
Tomorrow we will be looking at the features of EZ Usenet, another 3rd party Android app for Easynews. In the weeks ahead we'll be sharing our impressions of both apps.


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Have a Magical Summer at This Beautiful Seashell Airbnb in Austin, Texas
Tommy Paradise Published: June 13, 2022
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All of us want to relax by the beach sometimes. For some, it might be all the time. Personally, a beach trip now and again wouldn't be frowned upon - that's for sure.
Some of us, myself included, can't make that treasured trip to be ocean-side. Which is a sad thought in itself, but it appears that there is a way to feel like you're at the beach, without the possibility of getting sunburnt.
This Airbnb certainly looks weird at initial viewing, but trust me, it's a sight to behold. Located in Austin, it's design is sure to turn heads.
But how did this getaway come to be? Well, according to the listing:
Two UT architecture students decided to build an escape from society that would become a monument to man and nature. Their goal was a home that would not only protect you from the elements but allow you to live in harmony with the environment. They wanted this quixotic vision to provide a place of peace and isolation, a place so far removed that for many years there was no physical address.
That certainly was explained way better than I could.
Sadly, this house was almost lost due unforeseen circumstances, but in 2017, former mayor Dave Claunch bought it and began renovations. Now, the house is welcoming guests again.
Via the listing:
At the Bloomhouse, you leave behind the confines of modernity and the rules of logic, to live only in whimsy. We are alive in a fairytale of our own making. Let the story begin.
Well, we're about to go on a journey aren't we? Let's take a look inside.
Seashells By The...Forest? This Stylistic Airbnb is Bursting With Magic
Ever wanted to live in a seashell? Now you can! Mermaids aren't included, sorry for the inconvenience.
What a journey. I want to stay there now!
Not feeling the seashell? How about a boat?
Feel like getting a full-body tan on a deserted island? This stranded boat may be the ticket you're looking for!
What about a bus airbnb?
When all of us were younger, we dreaded getting on the school bus, so why is this unique Airbnb in Austin, Texas so charming? The wheels on this bus don't go 'round and 'round, but board it and you'll be on the fastest route to rest and relaxation.
Or a treetop dome?
If you always dreamed of having a summer sleepover in an awesome tree fort, here's your chance. This beautiful Airbnb in Marble Falls lets you live your childhood dream with all the comfy adult amenities.
This $170M Texas Ranch With 65,000 Acres Is a Dog Lover's Dream Home
Mesa Vista, the 65,000-acre Panhandle ranch, which belonged to oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens until his death three years ago, has been up for sale since 2017. The list of mind-blowing amenities is long, but for the price it's quite a deal!
The property includes its own golf course, a chapel with a memory garden, an airport with a private apartment for the pilot, and a 40-unit kennel, complete with a bronze dog sculpture in front of the building. Pickens, who was an avid hunter and dog lover, told Land Report in 2015 "Back when I couldn't afford one bird dog, I had two. When I couldn't afford two, I had three."
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Tottenham Hotspur is an English club that competes in the English Premier League. It was founded in 1882. Tottenham has won one European Cup Winner's Cup, two UEFA Cups, four League Cups, and two Premier League titles. Soccer fans can wager on Tottenham at Betway88. Here are four big transfers that Tottenham has made this season.
1. Steven Bergwijn
Steven is a Dutch player who is a winger for Tottenham. He started his club career with PSV Eindhoven in 2011. He played his first senior game with Jong PSV on August 9, 2014, and helped the club win the 2017/2018 Eredivisie title. Tottenham signed a five-year deal with Steven on January 31, 2020. It paid £26.7 million for his transfer. He scored his first Premier League goal against Manchester City.
2. Thomas Glover
Thomas is an Australian footballer who was born on December 24, 1997. He relocated to London in 2014 to join Jose Mourinho's side. He joined Tottenham's Under-18s team in 2014 and made several crucial penalty saves that season. Thomas joined the Under-21 side and played his first game in October 2014 against Liverpool. He played 11 games for Tottenham Under-21 during the 2015/2016 season. The club signed another contract with him in December 2015 and he was part of the starting eleven on several occasions.
Tottenham loaned him to Central Coast Mariners for one season, on July 26, 2017. He later went on trials with club Hibernian early last year. Tottenham released Thomas from his contract at the end of last season. Punters who wager on Betway88 football can predict the number of goals Thomas will score in any game.
3. Michel Vorm
Michel plays as a keeper for Tottenham Hotspur. He started his professional career in 2005 with FC Utrecht. Michel joined Swansea City six years later and spent three seasons with the club. Tottenham bought him in 2004 for £3.5 million. He signed a four-year contract with the club. Vorm played his first game for Tottenham on September 24 against Nottingham Forest. The club extended his contract in 2018. Even so, it replaced him as the second goalkeeper in the 2018/2019 campaign.
Tottenham released him after the 2018/2019 Premier League season ended. But, it re-signed him up to the end of the 2019/2020 campaign to replace Lloris. The goalkeeper has represented the Dutch national team since 2009.
4. Fernando Llorente
Fernando is a Spanish footballer who started his career in 2005 with Athletic Bilbao. He later joined Juventus, Sevilla and Swansea City before Tottenham bought him on August 31, 2017, on a two-year contract. Fernando scored in Tottenham's Champions League game against Borussia Dortmund on February 13, 2019. The club released him after his contract ended on June 30, 2019.
Tottenham is the sixth club in the current Premier League campaign with 37 points. It is fighting for a top-four position in the tournament. Yet, the club had a shaky start this season. It won only three of its first 12 games. Tottenham sacked Mauricio Pochettino on November 19, 2019, and Jose Mourinho replaced him. Steven Bergwijn, Michel Vorm, Tom Glover and Giovani Lo Celso are among the latest transfers that Hotspur made. England soccer enthusiasts can get the latest transfer news about Tottenham at Betway88.


Who are the likely contenders for this year's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival?
Chris Knight: Do scattered boos from an audience signal a death knell, or just a few cranks? Will a film's political message or artistic chops win over the crowd?
The 70th Cannes Film Festival moved into its final weekend on Friday with a lacklustre competition lineup and no clear consensus as to which film might take the Palme d'Or. Many movies had their fans, but most were being viewed through the lens of not-the-director's-best-work. "Mixed reactions," in previous years a lazy way of saying that several people booed a film, was quickly turning into the unofficial motto of this anniversary event.
For those seeking trends, the dominant one seemed to be an off-screen malaise. Kim Ji-seok, co-founder of the Busan Film Festival, died of a heart attack while attending Cannes this year. Days later came news that Roger Moore had passed away. Heightened security was highlighted when a suspicious package led to the main festival building being briefly evacuated; then the terror attack in Manchester caused organizers to cancel what was to have been a celebratory fireworks display, out of respect. And there was Donald Trump, America's first meme-president, casting a weirdly shaped shadow over the world.
Even so, cinema continued to drive conversations, and by late in the festival some themes could be discerned. Foremost was the ongoing refugee crisis in Somalia and indeed around the world. Nowhere was this more viscerally felt than by those lucky few who experienced Alejandro Iñárritu's Carne Y Arena (Flesh and Sand), a six-minute virtual-reality installation that put viewers in the midst of a police takedown of immigrants crossing the Mexico/U.S. border.
Actress and activist Vanessa Redgrave, who turned 80 in January, delivered her directorial debut at Cannes with Sea Sorrow, a very personal documentary about the European migrant crisis. But even among the fictional offerings, themes of displacement were common.
In Jupiter's Moon, by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó (White God), a refugee is shot while crossing the border, and mysteriously gains the power to levitate at will. In Swedish director Ruben Östlund's (Force Majeure) The Square, notions of public behaviour and decorum take in the refugee underclass. And in Michael Haneke's Happy End (spoiler alert: it doesn't have one), a well-off French family is forced to confront a group of immigrants they'd rather ignore.
Strong performances by child actors were another hallmark of the festival this year. It started early, with a second-day screening of Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck. The cast includes Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams, but the story is carried squarely on the shoulders of Oakes Fegley and first-timer Millicent Simmonds as two pre-teens separated by 50 years but each seeking a truth about family that will bind them together. The film will open in North America in October.
The all-female (plus Colin Farrell) cast of Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, about an all-girls school that receives an unexpected male visitor during the Civil War, features three generations of performers in Nicole Kidman (aged 49), Kirsten Dunst (35) and Elle Fanning (19), as well as several younger actors, down to 13-year-old Addison Riecke. And clocking in at 24 but looking much younger is Barry Keoghan as the creepy central character in Yorgos Lanthimos's The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Of course, it wouldn't be Cannes without films about artists. This year's competition features two movies about sculptors – the fictional Harold Meyerowitz played by a heavily bearded Dustin Hoffman in Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories, and the historical figure of Auguste Rodin, portrayed by a heavily bearded Vincent Lindon in Rodin, from director Jacques Doillon. Rodin focuses closely on the artist's love affair with Camille Claudel, while Redoubtable from Michel Hazanavicius imagines the romance between John-Luc Godard and a much younger Anne Wiazemsky in the 1960s as a kind of early Woody Allen romp.
As to the game of handicapping the Palme d'Or, it's a largely thankless task. A brand-new jury every year – this one is headed by Pedro Almodovar, and includes Will Smith, Jessica Chastain and Germany's Maren Ade – means there's little in the way of voter continuity as with the Oscars or Golden Globes. A critics' poll conducted by the trade magazine Screen Daily had the Russian film Loveless in an early lead, but last year's poll gave a record-high score of 3.8 out of 4 to Ade's film Toni Erdmann, which ultimately went home empty-handed. Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, with a middling score of 2.4, won the festival's top prize.
But part of the fun at Cannes is trying to parse the critics' reactions. Do scattered boos from an audience signal a death knell, or just a few cranks? Will a film's political message or artistic chops win over the crowd? Will a "difficult" film like A Gentle Creature, a two-hour-and-23-minute Kafkaesque nightmare from Sergei Loznitza, triumph over a pretty, poetic offering such as Radiance, Naomi Kawase's lovely movie about a writer who meets a photographer who is losing his sight?
It will all be decided on Sunday, when the prizes are awarded in a televised (in France) ceremony, after which Cannes will roll up the red carpets and get back to being an ordinary French seaside town. Next week, local cinemas will return to playing French comedies and American blockbusters, and the only "palmes" will be those lining the beachfront Croisette.


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F**K YOUR RAPUNZEL FAIRY TALES
Buzz Cuts Are the Ultimate Sign of Female Power
Take a cue from Rose McGowan and shave it all off.
Erin Gloria Ryan
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast
This month, the cover of Rose McGowan's forthcoming memoir, titled Brave, was released. The cover features a black-and-white image of the back of McGowan's buzzed head, with the letters emblazoned vertically toward her spine. Running parallel to the title, at the edge of the frame, is the pair of clippers that we see McGowan is wielding herself.
Obviously, those clippers are more than just a styling tool. They're a pen, writing the words "fuck you" to the man who victimized her—the now-disgraced Harvey Weinstein—and the men who allowed his abuse to go unchecked.
McGowan, arguably, played as big a role in Weinstein's downfall and the ensuing cultural cascade as anybody. She was one of the first to come forward, long before people would take her seriously. She's stood her ground, even when it's hurt her career. And so her weaponized buzzcut (which has now grown out slightly into a weaponized pixie) nods to the best weapon men have against women: compliance to standards that men have put in place, from the internal—like the ideal, cheerful, feminine agreeability for which we are all pressured to strive—to the purely external, like smiling on command or having long hair.
A woman like McGowan, outwardly flaunting her rejection of social expectations, can only mean she's capable of god knows what. A woman who lops off her hair has stopped caring what anybody thinks of her.
Baldness among women is fraught, because hair on women is fraught. In pop culture, the sight of a woman who has cut her hair very short—either by her own volition or somebody else's—often is used as shorthand for trauma or loss. Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, Eleven in Stranger Things, Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. Anne Hathaway in Les Mis. Britney Spears, attacking a car with an umbrella. When a woman has been robbed of her femininity by cruelty of circumstance, the world should watch out for its recompense.
And yet for many women, chopping off their hair is freeing—an act of noncompliance that centers on themselves and their own needs, not a cry for help or an act of anger.
Insecure creator and star Issa Rae wrote that going short was "the most freeing thing" she'd ever done—she shaved her head as part of "the big chop," part of the process women of color with chemically straightened hair undergo if they choose to transition to natural hair. Vox political reporter Jane Coaston buzzed hers off before going natural as well, and had people similarly give her look a very specific read. "I cut it all off when I was 15, and then started buzzing the sides in college and afterwards," she says. "Now I get the sides buzzed while the middle is shoulder length. And yes, people did treat me different. I was very overweight at the time and lots of people misgendered me (called me sir). Now it's something that makes me recognizable and I get a lot of compliments, but a lot from people saying how 'brave' I am."
Other women shave their heads because they have to. When Lara, in her thirties and from Pennsylvania, buzzed her thick Zooey Deschanel-like hair off, it was for practical reasons. She was undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. "It really freaked out my husband, to see me just unceremoniously take an electric shaver to my own head," she says. "I was pragmatic about it—my scalp hurt because my follicles were all dying—this was the only solution and baldness was inevitable."
Lara would sometimes whip her wig off as a "hilarious party trick" and eventually embraced her baldness, dying her hair blue as it grows back. But during much of her treatment, she says, she covered her hair and tried to "pass" for somebody who wasn't sick. "I didn't have the emotional energy for strangers'—and some friends'—emotional, often wildly insensitive questions and comments about my bald head… Sometimes you don't want the attention at all, you are just trying to get through the day. I performed—and still perform—a lot of emotional labor around other people's feelings about both baldness and cancer of all kinds."
Still other women who have buzzed their hair say they did it to rebel. One woman, who was raised in a strict religious household, got an undercut despite the fact that her parents forbade her from cutting her hair. Only a few people in her life know.
And, for some queer women, shaving all or part of their hair has nudged the world into seeing them the way they see themselves. "I thought it would be a way for me to communicate my queerness to other people without saying anything," says Shelagh Dolan, who shaved part of her hair off in college. "I have dated both men and women but most people don't assume that when they meet me because I'm relatively feminine presenting. I sort of wanted a way to send out a bat signal to people like me, I guess."
Laura Royden shaved her head for the first time when she was 18. "More people call me 'sir.' I think the biggest thing is that I'm read as queer right off the bat by most people, whereas I never am with long hair because I dress fairly femme," she says. "I've only experienced positive response from people—every time I buzz my hair, people are like 'whoa! so bold! you're so brave!' which is low-key silly but I guess also nice to hear."
Regardless of the intent behind the cut—from illness to rebellion to a fresh start for natural hair—women who have buzzed their heads tell The Daily Beast that the world reacted to them differently once they didn't have hair, treated them like they were tough or badass or even scary. The word dozens of women most used in speaking to me was "intimidating."
But the way women felt about their own hair often diverged from this consensus; one word they used to describe how having a shaved head made them feel was "confident." Many told me they loved how cute it made them feel, or feminine. They learned to love the shape of their heads. "I'm more confident in my own skin," says Xiomara Blanco, an editor. "I carry myself with the peaceful knowledge that if I lose my hair, it's not the end of the world. Not even close."
"I felt like I moved with more assurance and speed (once) I wasn't constantly worrying about my hair," says Renee, who cut hers off for the big chop. "It was hat-proof, weather-proof, bed-head-proof. Hair can be especially fraught for black women, and it was nice to lay that burden down."
"I felt more aware of being seen, which made me feel both more confident and self-conscious at the same time," said one woman who shaved hers for the first time on a trip to Thailand. "It did make me pay more attention and have more respect for women who choose to live out of the gender box in terms of hair—whether it be head, legs, or armpits. Rule-breakers make the world a little safer for all of us to express our individuality."
Perhaps the buzz cut isn't as much an aggressive fuck-you as it is an "I don't give a fuck," a gesture designed to tell a male-dominated society that none of this is for them, that none of it can be for them. Maybe there's something terrifying, as a man, to suddenly see evidence that somebody you thought you were entitled to no longer cares what you think.
From talking to women who have cut their hair very short, it seems the fear or intimidation that buzzed hair on a woman prompts isn't a reflection of how she feels about herself. It's panic over the fact that that this woman, for one reason or another, is not putting men's needs or desires first. She's not necessarily holding up a middle finger to the world, although she might be—and, if you're Rose McGowan, the world deserves it. But mostly, she's just deciding to care about herself.


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Originally from Los Altos, California, Rachel Slotnick is a painter and writer. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2010. Her work is on permanent display at the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a muralist for the 35th, 46th and 47th wards.
Her poetry was recently published in the Elimae Literary Journal, High Chair Poetry, and she was a finalist in the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards. Look for her upcoming publications in Mad Hatters' Review and Thrice Fiction. Rachel currently resides in Chicago where she works as Adjunct Faculty in Art Studio and English at Malcolm X College and the Illinois Art Institute.
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Big Political Divide on Proposals to Raise Taxes on Wealthy
By Russell Heimlich
As the White House and Congress prepare for negotiations on ways to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," Democrats and Republicans will go to the bargaining table representing constituencies with sharply different views on key components of any deal.
The challenge facing the Obama administration and lawmakers is illustrated by the fact that, when asked about a dozen specific options for reducing the debt and deficit, only two won majority approval from the public in a survey conducted Oct. 4-7.
The proposal with the highest level of approval would raise the tax rate on income above $250,000. Overall, 64% of Americans supported doing so while 29% disapproved. However, that proposal also brought with it the sharpest partisan divide. Among registered voters, more than eight-in-ten (84%) Obama supporters backed raising taxes on income above $250,000 compared with 41% of Romney voters — a difference of 43 percentage points.
The second biggest divide was over whether there should be reductions in military defense spending. Nearly six-in-ten (58%) Obama supporters said there should be, compared with 16% of Romney voters — a 42 percentage point difference.
The area of possible spending cuts that drew the greatest opposition from the overall public was education. Three-quarters of Americans were against such cuts compared with 22% who approved of them. While there were partisan differences on this issue, the gap was much smaller than on taxing the wealthy or defense spending. More than eight-in-ten (83%) Obama voters disapproved of education cuts compared with 64% of Romney supporters. Read More
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Only a Handful of Proposals for Reducing the Deficit Get Majority Support
Inequality, poverty divide Republicans more than Democrats
Among developed nations, Americans' tax bills are below average
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Kennedy Space Centre
By Diane Cherry
It's a mystery Kennedy Space Centre First Light, First Night
Ask anyone what they know about Cape Canaveral and they will tell you about the images stuck in their minds of the moon rockets and Space Shuttle blasting off from the launch pad. It all appears so high tech that it came as a bit of a surprise to us when we drove into the Merritt Island area, where Kennedy Space Centre is located, that it is actually a huge nature reserve and that only a tiny fraction of it, is used by NASA.
The highway is plastered with signs saying 'beware of the alligators - do not get out of your car' - there are around 1000 alligators in the nature reserve. We saw egrets, pelicans and a bald eagle's nest perched on top of a telegraph pole. Quite appropriate really, for the pride of America's space programme.
Security was really tight at the entrance and large bags, rucksacks and coolers were not allowed. They had also curtailed the areas that visitors could get to - the giant Vehicle Assembly Building (think football pitch standing on end) and the launch pads were off limits. We were quite disappointed by this as we would have liked to see parts of the International Space station which are currently being built there so that one day when looking up at it in the sky we could at least claim to have seen a part of it when it was still on earth. The one criticism we had was that the centre was very backwards looking and focused on the glories of the past when to the future is even more exciting with the ISS and future missions to Mars.
We took the bus tour to the Saturn V centre - Saturn V rockets were the type used in the Apollo programme. Nothing really prepares you for the scale of the engines and the size of the (basically) giant firework that blasted the astronauts into space. When you compare it to the small living quarters and the even tinier splashdown module you realise just how risky space travel is. It becomes evident just how hard it is to escape the earth's atmosphere far less aim probes accurately at far off planets and hope they get there in one piece.
A mock up of launch control was well done with the original equipment and they staged a take off where everything went dark and the windows rattled to give us some idea of the power involved in an actual launch. Unfortunately there were no launches while we were there. A lot of the centre is devoted to the great achievement of putting man on the moon and there was the 'Lunar Theatre' where the actual moment of touchdown on the moon was recreated. The IMAX cinema showed footage of a space shuttle mission with stunning views of Earth from the cargo bays.
Lets not forget the shop with the astronaut ice cream (although we didn't try it) and the rocket garden with different sized rockets arranged like a futuristic forest. All in all it was a great day and full of interest for everyone. And no, we didn't see any alligators!


Increasing insight into the genetics and molecular biology of cancer has resulted in the identification of an increasing number of potential molecular targets for anti-cancer drug discovery and development. These targets can be approached through exploitation of emerging structural biology,"rational" drug design, screening of chemical libraries, or a combination of these methods. In this article we discuss the application of high-throughput screening to anti-cancer drug discovery, with special reference to approaches used at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.


Izvornik: Proceedings of 4th International Scientific Conference ToSEE - Tourism in Southern and Eastern Europe 2017: "Tourism and Creative Industries: Trends and Challenges" / Marković, Suzana ; Smolčić Jurdana, Dora (ur.). - Opatija : University of Rijeka, Faculty of tourism and hospitality management , 2017. 321-334.
Skup: International Scientific Conference ToSEE - Tourism in Southern and Eastern Europe 2017: "Tourism and Creative Industries: Trends and Challenges"
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the need for cooperation between tourists and travel professionals in creating a memorable visitor experience. The objectives of the study are twofold: first, to explain the concept of tourist experience co-creation and, second, to explore the relationships among tourist experience co-creation, customer satisfaction, overall travel satisfaction and customer loyalty towards travel professionals. Methodology – The study uses constructs from past literature. A survey was conducted on a convenience sample of 422 Croatian residents who had travelled at least once in the year prior to the study. The hypotheses were empirically tested and validated by partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). Findings – Participation in the co- creation process of an experience, together with travel professionals, positively affects customer satisfaction. Further, customer satisfaction with co-creation has a positive effect on overall travel satisfaction and customer loyalty to travel professionals. There is also evidence that overall travel satisfaction positively affects customer loyalty to service provider. Contribution – This study contributes to the knowledge of tourist experience co-creation within the theory of service-dominant logic and customer behaviour. The scientific contribution is found in testing the influence of tourist experience co-creation on tourist satisfaction and loyalty. The applicable contribution emphasises the necessity to include tourists as an active, involved and participating part in the process of providing services. Their involvement in this process will positively affect their satisfaction and loyalty.


A search and rescue transponder (SART) is a self-contained, waterproof transponder intended for emergency use at sea. These devices may be either a radar-SART, or a GPS-based AIS-SART (automatic identification system SART).
The radar-SART is used to locate a survival craft or distressed vessel by creating a series of dots on a rescuing ship's radar display. A SART will only respond to a 9 GHz X-band (3 cm wavelength) radar. It will not be seen on S-band (10 cm) or other radar. Shipboard Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS) include one or more search and rescue locating devices.
The radar-SART may be triggered by any X-band radar within a range of approximately 8 nautical miles (15 kilometers). Each radar pulse received causes the SART to transmit a response which is swept repetitively across the complete radar frequency band. When interrogated, it first sweeps rapidly (0.4 microsecond) through the band before beginning a relatively slow sweep (7.5 microseconds) through the band back to the starting frequency. This process is repeated for a total of twelve complete cycles. At some point in each sweep, the radar-SART frequency will match that of the interrogating radar and be within the pass band of the radar receiver. If the radar-SART is within range, the frequency match during each of the 12 slow sweeps will produce a response on the radar display, thus a line of 12 dots equally spaced by about 0.64 nautical mile (1.2 km) will be shown. When the range to the radar-SART is reduced to about 1 nautical mile (2 km), the radar display may show also the 12 responses generated during the fast sweeps. These additional dot responses, which also are equally spaced by 0.64 nautical mile (1.2 km), will be interspersed with the original line of 12 dots. They will appear slightly weaker and smaller than the original dots.
Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search is conducted over. These include mountain rescue; ground search and rescue, including the use of search and rescue dogs; urban search and rescue in cities; combat search and rescue on the battlefield and air-sea rescue over water.
International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) is a UN Organization that promotes the exchange of information between national Urban Search and Rescue Organizations. The duty to render assistance is covered by Article 98 of the UNCLOS.
There are many different definitions of search and rescue, depending on the agency involved.
Canadian Forces: "Search and Rescue comprises the search for, and provision of aid to, persons, ships or other craft which are, or are feared to be, in distress or imminent danger."
"Search and Rescue" is the fifth season premiere of science fiction television show Stargate Atlantis, and is the 81st episode of the series. The episode premiered on July 11, 2008 in the United States on SCI FI channel, and was then shown on Canada's The Movie Network. The episode premiered over a month later in the United Kingdom on August 19 on Sky One.iTunes USA also made the episode available for download several days later. However, by the next episode, "Seed", shows will be added at the same time as they are scheduled to air. This is the 26th episode of Stargate Atlantis to be written by Martin Gero. The episode introduces several changes in the personnel and command of Atlantis, seeing Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) take over command of the base.
The episode continues on from Season Four's finale — "The Last Man" — on a series of story arcs based around Wraith character "Michael" (played by Connor Trinneer). In the previous episode, Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) is transported forward 48,000 years into the future in an accident involving the Stargate and a solar flare, ultimately leading him to find out the fate of his teammates and the fate of Teyla Emmagan (Rachel Luttrell) in particular — who in his time line still remains captive by Michael. Sheppard manages to return to Atlantis in his proper time line (the year 2008), where he along with McKay (David Hewlett), Ronon Dex (Jason Momoa) and Major Lorne's team gate to the world where he determines Teyla will be taken. However, they arrive prematurely and during a sweep of the computers, McKay triggers a booby trap that causes the entire complex to collapse on top of the team.


Consideration VII. 2018. Oil on linen. 60" x 60"
Yellow Triptych. 2018. OIl on linen. 60" x 111"
Yellow and Blue Opening. 2018. Oil on linen. 60" x 60"
Regard. 2018. Oil on linen. 60" x 60"
Flag II. 2018. Oil on linen. 60" x 60"
Black Earth Over Blue. 2018. Oil on linen. 8" x 8"
Blue Triptych. 2018. Oil on linen. 60" x 111"
Yellow Reflection. 2018. Oil on linen. 60" x 60"
Anita Rogers Gallery presents Considerations. New Paintings, an exhibition of paintings by American artist Jan Cunningham. The exhibition will be on view November 14, 2018 – January 5, 2019 at 15 Greene Street, New York, New York. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, November 14, from 6 – 8pm.
Painting slows you down. Quickness of perception alternates with slowness of understanding and execution. Slowness of execution permits deeper perception and understanding. Deeper understanding in turn quickens the mind. The slower pace becomes one's influential teacher, inescapable ally, and most valuable workmate.
The paintings in the exhibition are extended meditations on proportion and scale, attention, movement, and the materiality of color and light. The artist has said that often, as she struggles to "find a particular light or a specific gesture in a painting, that the chance notice of an improbably spacious presence of light falling across a room, the relative depths and weights of light and shadow on a lawn, in a garden, or in the wooded landscape; or the remarkable depth and luminance of one kind of light just beyond or adjacent to the surprising opacity of another" show her the way forward.
There is a lyrical precision to the work that reflects how the often idiosyncratic movements and gestures of the mind are brought into measured moments of equilibrium on the canvas, evolving unhurried, over time.
In the end, it is the work that looks back at you, and in some cases, steps out to greet you.
For further information and photographs, please contact Elizabeth Thompson at elizabeth.thompson@anitarogersgallery.com, or call 347.604.2346. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday 10am – 6pm.


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Athletic offices move to new location on Sac State campus
The Sacramento State baseball team tours the new athletic offices in the old Health Center on Jan. 20.
Alex Grotewohl
In perhaps one of the biggest housing upgrades since "The Jeffersons" moved into their deluxe apartment in the sky, the Sacramento State athletic department last month relocated its offices.
The switch saw the department go from the antiquated Yosemite Hall next door to the building formerly occupied by the health center. Sac State Athletics had occupied Yosemite since 1955, and Athletic Director Terry Wanless said it was time for a change.
"We are a Division I institution, and there's a certain image that you need to project as an institution of that nature," Wanless said.
The difference between the two spaces are easily noticeable. Whereas the paint was peeling off the walls in Yosemite Hall, the new offices appears fresh and new, complete with new carpeting and an upgraded data system, which Wanless said was several generations behind.
Perhaps the biggest beneficiaries of the department's new digs is the university's coaching staff, Wanless said. In Yosemite Hall, coaches for all sports shared offices; three men's basketball coaches shared the same office.
All these upgrades are meant to move Sac State toward becoming a desirable destination for the nation's top student athletes. Before, Wanless explained, the athletic department had nothing to identify its offices as its own. Now there's a plush reception area with a large logo.
The goal, he said, is to make athletes and new recruits feel like they are "part of the Hornet family."
"We're going to make it something that when we bring a mom and dad and a student-athlete in there's a little bit of a 'wow' effect to the building," Wanless said. "That makes Sacramento State kind of elevate in their image of who we are and what our athletic program is all about."
The renovation and relocation carried a price tag of roughly $750,000, Wanless said, $500,000 being paid by the university and $250,000 by the athletic department and its sponsors. He said the department brass was heavily involved in day-to-day decision making and was always interested in finding ways to save money on labor and supplies.
"I think we were very fortunate that working very closely with everyone that we were able to do it for the cost that we were able to do it for," he said.
There is, however, still more work to be done on the building. Wanless said toward the end of the renovation process the department ran out of funds, and so two rooms on the second floor remain empty.
He plans for one room to eventually be a "recruiting room," filled with track lighting and comfortable furniture, where coaches can bring the families of prospective athletes to discuss their futures. The other will be a film room where teams can view footage of previous games.
Wanless said, however, the athletic department will not seek any more money from the university to finish the project. One family, whom Wanless would not name, intends to make a donation big enough to finish at least one of the rooms.
Teams are currently in the process of touring the new facilities. The baseball team, which begins its season in February, walked through Thursday morning. Senior infielder Derrick Chung said it is good not to have everything crammed into one space.
"It's going to make a lot of things easier, like recruiting for the future of the program," Chung said.
As for the space vacated by the move in Yosemite Hall, it will be used as a new home for Sac State's ROTC. The officer training program will leave behind the top floor of the University Police Department station, giving everyone more room.
Program head Captain Matthew Suhar said he is not sure when, but anticipates to move in a few weeks.
"Our new offices will allow us to be a more active part of the university community, and not just sitting in a location where a lot of individuals forget that we have the Army and Air Force ROTC program on campus," Suhar said.
Moving forward, the members of the athletic department hope this move will help them put Sac State sports on the proverbial map. Assistant media relations director Ryan Bjork said he is happy they finally have a "real home."
"Yosemite Hall was home," he said, "but now this is like a mansion in comparison."
Alex Grotewohl can be reached at [email protected]
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Chris Jericho shifts his focus to New Japan Pro Wrestling. Well, the news broke out when he challenged Kenny. The news has made plenty noise.
American-Canadian professional wrestler, Christopher Keith Irvine, professionally known as Chris Jericho shared an exciting and surprising news for the wrestling fans. The news broke out when he challenged IGPW United States Champion Kenny Omega at WrestleKingdom 12 to a dream match on January 4 inside Tokyo Dome.
You know, Japan is the second biggest country regarding interest in the wrestling world. Away from the glamorous world of WWE and showing a keen interest in wrestling field, Jericho looks like shifting his focus in inaugurating New Japan Pro Wrestling.
Jericho revealed that he is the alpha of this particular business and will be proving it real soon. In addition to it, he challenged Kenny. In his challenge, he also stated the challenge is in between Alpha versus Omega.
Chris Jericho started his professional WWE career in 1999 and had vowed several times for being a loyalist of the company. But there were numerous highlights of a change of heart and possibly a fight between the WWE and the Canadian.
It all started after a tongue-in-cheek Twitter conversation between Omega and Jericho. It went on to explode into most unlikely scenarios any fans of wrestling could imagine.
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Well, this will be pit two of this generation's best in head to head contest for the first ever in New Japan Pro Wrestling. And New Japan Pro Wrestling had made plenty of noise and is now regarded as the hottest era with their promotion.
Chris Jericho, who now works as a free agent is keeping all of his own funds into the pro wrestling cruise. He looks like working as the catalyst with the outside promotions.


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Åplus Berlin
Armin Bremicker
Was Zu Beweisen War
Armin Bremicker - Quod erat demonstrandum (That which had to be proven)
Armin Bremicker (*1951) doesn't mind which artistic category his works belong to. Whether with painting, drawing, objects or installation, his aim is to communicate and to reflect visually. He allows himself to juggle between disciplines and forms of expression as he pleases, and in such a way that it is appropriate for the particular project. The same also applies to the categories "abstract" or "figurative": he adapts the medium to the respective context and artistic intention.
His mastery of craftsmanship is often combined with a certain enigmatic aspect in the content. Even though one believes to see everyday things in the images at first, upon closer inspection questions arise. "What matters is the feeling that emerges," says Armin Bremicker himself. He is concerned with making the "unrevealed" in the image perceptible—which is always there if one wants to seize a certain impression from the observed world.
It already begins with the way the work is presented. Despite their monumental format, Armin Bremicker consciously forgoes grand gestures in his multipartite paintings. Instead of the traditional canvas stretched on a frame, he takes a more modular approach, and assembles the works using small MDF boards. He thereby also creates associations with the painted tiles on socialist realist buildings. Armin Bremicker calls them "historical pictures", even though—or precisely because—they do not document political milestones in the sense of canonised historiography. Instead, he establishes a monument to the tragedies in the lives of individuals.
In "Casting" (Audition), the size of the crowd of young girls (all waiting to start their career as a model) becomes itself an allegory for the fact that only very few of them will be successful, while the others face an unforeseeable fate. The physically intertwined figures in "Börse" (Stock Exchange), each intent on maximising their own gains, make it apparent that it is precisely their aggressive, dog-eat-dog attitude that blocks the progress of all those involved—and thus also their own. The oversize Mikado sticks not only act as a disruptive element, they also serve as a metaphor: as in the Mikado game, the slightest disturbance could result in the complete loss of control.
Armin Bremicker has entitled the series of his large, bold and sometimes almost comic-like images "Jäger und Sammler" (Hunters and Gatherers) and thus refers to the unpredictability of human nature. It constitutes an incalculable risk that creates a wide gap between desire and actuality, hope and reality. In additions, as is so often the case in his work, the images also contain references to art history. For example, the gaze of one of the candidates for the modelling job is fixed on the viewer, as is the case in many Renaissance paintings. Furthermore, the intertwined figures with their Mikado sticks evoke associations with 15th century battle scenes by Paolo Uccello.
Armin Bremicker regularly dedicates his paintings to the motif of the loop, in the form a Möbius strip that symbolises infinity. Mostly monochrome and intertwined like oversized gift ribbons, they sometimes are also emblazoned with lettering. The text in the work "Schlaufe A Rose" (Loop A Rose), for example, quotes the famous sentence by Gertude Stein: "A Rose is a rose is a rose..." , a phrase that can be continued indefinitely. It could be interpreted to mean that things just are what they are. However, it is also clear that the written word "ROSE" is only a reference and not the rose itself. For Gertrude Stein, the text was linked to the statement that the name of an object primarily evokes its image and the feelings associated with it. This leads us directly to the question of how language, art and what we call reality are actually linked—and what an artistic work, whether painting, object or text, is literally able to catalyse in us as the viewer.
Perhaps the "Unknown Woman from the Seine", whose famous death mask opens her eyes in Armin Bremicker's adaptation entitled "Seine & Erweckung" (Seine & Awakening), does so having discovered for herself a particularly logical correlation here. Seen in this way, she becomes a representative for us as guests of the exhibition. We are invited to look at the works, and to allow and observe the feelings and thoughts that are triggered in us to be experienced in a way that is as enjoyable as it is aware.
Text: Winfried Stürzl
Translation: Sarah Dudley
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