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Tag: Sakas
Posted on October 14, 2015 September 10, 2018
Subliminal Advertising and other Rabbit Holes
In the Fifth Century BC, Histiaeus was the ruler of Miletus on the western edge of Turkey when Darius enlisted him in his war against the Scythians, the most under-appreciated culture in world history, probably because they spread cannabis use to China, India, Europe and the Middle East from their original home somewhere in the Ukraine. The Scythians domesticated the horse, invented the wheel, built the first covered wagons and were the greatest horsemen and archers of their time. They preferred to trade, however, and had captured a large chunk of the slave, spice and drug trade when Darius decided to go to war against them. Darius had conquered most of the known world and sought to subdue the mighty Saka empire. (It didn't happen. The Scythians just kept migrating away until Darius gave up chasing them.)
Histiaeus was placed in charge of guarding the key bridge across the Danube and entered into complex negotiations with the Scythians, who wanted that bridge destroyed. Afterwards, he was sent to Susa as punishment, where he plotted a return to power. When ready to launch his revolt, he shaved the head of a slave, tattooed the Persian battle plans on it, and then waited for the slave's hair to grow before sending him on a secret mission. This was not a case of subliminal messaging, but steganography, an art-form frequently employed by spooks to this day. In fact, any photographic image can be secretly embedded with maps or text messages only those with a decoder can decipher and these images can be posted on innocuous websites that seem to contain harmless content. Happens every day.
In 1974, Wilson Bryan Key released a shocking expose on the print media claiming advertisements in the mass media were airbrushed with secret messages, mostly obscene words and sexually-charged shapes. In 1957, Vance Packard had published an expose on the advertising industry's latest techniques titled The Hidden Persuaders. Packard's book had been a bestseller and Key pushed his book as the latest developments in the industry. After reading it, many became convinced the media was conspiring to program the American population, especially after James Vicar claimed to have conducted a study proving subliminals in films worked.
There was only one glaring problem: it was all complete hokum. Vicar invented the study and when asked to replicate it, the hoax was unveiled. Likewise, instead of investigating the industry and interviewing people involved, Key had confined his research to photographs in magazines and newspapers. After much meditation, he began locating the word "fuck" in just about every newspaper and magazine photo he looked at. He especially liked analyzing shapes in ice cubes and claimed ice was employed to more easily hide the sexual image.
Unfortunately, this information ran like a wildfire through the counterculture. I first became aware of the theory when High Times did a cover story on Key's book. Instead of exposing the scam, High Times presented it as real info. Thus a major rabbit hole was seeded into the counterculture collective unconscious, one that could have easily been disproven with a smidgen of gum-shoe research. It's a hole many others would follow.
The modern equivalent of that great subliminal advertising hoax is the current trend for examining mass media for clues about shootings and other terror events, as if these events are being orchestrated years in advance by a satanic cult with immense power that seeks to reveal their power and control by planting clues in film and TV months or even years before the event. Mark Passio, one of the characters pushing this type of meme, has hundreds of hours of video you can watch free online. But watching this video is a form of mind control itself, and certainly not a mechanism for unveiling mind control. The more hours you log, the more you fall into his rabbit hole. But like Key before him, the dots being lined up here do not connect, and in another twenty years this hoodwink will become clear.
Posted on March 3, 2015 October 7, 2018
Reflections on cannabis, crowns and kings
The word "cannabis" was invented by the Greeks, who claimed they acquired it from Scythians (Saka) around the Black Sea, who first discovered the psychoactive effects of inhaling the smoking flowers of the hemp plant. The Khotan-Saka word for cannabis was kamha.
When Darius wanted to subjugate the Scythians, he identified three separate tribes spread out from the Ukraine to India: The Saka Tigraauda (pointed-hat Sakas), Saka Haumavarga (haoma-drinking Sakas) and Saka Tayaiy Paradraya (across the [Black] Sea Sakas).
Their ancestors had been the first to domesticate horses and invented the wheel, along with chariots and war wagons. They were the greatest warriors of their time, having mastered bow and arrow and combat on horseback. They spread horse culture all across Europe and Asia, and wherever the horse appears, so comes hemp and cannabis.
Scythian horses wore bronze armor and most of their weapons were bronze, but their body armor and jewelry was all gold. The armor shown above is dated from the 4th century BC, and was worn by a prince or princess, the scientists were not able to tell the sex, as women fought alongside men. I don't know about the red fabric, although, perhaps that color was reserved for royalty as this is the armor of a very rich person who died young around age 18, perhaps in combat. Golden crowns are just one of the Scythian creations that Greeks ended up taking credit for, and a word from which we derive the words "king" and "coronation."
I did come across an interesting tidbit from the Greek geographer Strabo:
"The mountaineers themselves live on wild fruits, but they have sheep also, though only a few, and therefore do not butcher them, sparing them for their wool and milk, and they variegate the color of their clothing by staining it with dyes of colors that do not easily fade."
If you go to the Syr Darya River valley (the area Strabo is discussing), it's called Fergana today and the markets are filled with splendidly colorful fabrics. Is this evidence of cannabis culture's long affair with psychedelia?
Posted on March 3, 2015 August 29, 2018
The first stoners in history
History celebrates every great warrior culture, except one, the Scythians, who were known as "Saka" to the Persians, and as "Shakas" to the Indians. This culture may have originated on the north banks of the Black Sea and migrated east and west after inventing the wheel and domesticating the horse. They may also have been involved with smelting metals and domesticating other animals and birds. I suspect their exclusion from history may be a result of their documented affection for cannabis, as they are the first stoners in recorded history. According to Herodotus, they employed tipis as smoke-inhalation tents.
The Scythians built the Silk Trail and after a large number settled in what is now known as Pakistan, they invented Sanskrit, and seem to have stopped inhaling cannabis smoke, as they had learned to mix cannabis with hot milk and spices to achieve a much more medicinal effect. The Zoroastrians built great fire temples to produce this elixir, which became extremely popular and still is today although now known as bhang.
At this point in history the most popular temples were often the ones that provided sacred prostitutes. In Persia, a woman was required by law to have sex with a stranger at least once in her life, and had to accept whatever donation in coin he offered. This kept a steady stream of virginal prostitutes arriving at the temple. However, the culture emanating in the east was ascetic in nature, and sought to harness and control the senses. The Soma/Hamoa served in these temples quickly became known as the world's greatest medicine, and pilgrims began appearing from all corners of the earth to sample it.
The Scythians were also involved in the slave trade, always the most lucrative profession, and also would have been trading cannabis, opium and spices, and, much later in time, silk from China. Once writing and hemp paper appeared, sacred scrolls became quite lucrative. Only the rich could afford documents, and early documents would have assumed magical powers, especially if they contained wisdom from ancient sages. Temples would have purchased any scrolls they felt contained important knowledge.
The Phoenicians perfected the alphabet that had been pioneered in Sumeria by mixing it with Egyptian hieroglyphics. This alphabet spread around the world, first to Greece, and they only made slight adjustments. But some of the earliest writing took place around Pakistan, where the Scythian horse culture from the Russian plains was merging with an agrarian culture, producing an epic wave of spiritual enlightenment. Pretty soon documents from this area were filtering into Persia and Greece, and having a revolutionary impact on cosmology, law, philosophy and religion.
First, the Zoroastrians upended the pagan pantheons with the emergence of "one god," but their paradigm got upended by Buddha's "no gods" enlightenment. Buddha, like Moses and Jesus, sought to remove all icons from the altar, so naturally they turned him into the icon. After Alexander conquered the world, there was an enormous cultural mixing, creating Greco-Buddhism. Zoroastrian ideas morphed in the west into the worship of Mithra, the Persian sun god. Many Eastern concepts began appearing in Europe with a slightly different twist. The Cynics in Greece are comparable with the Zen Buddhists of Tibet. Documents like the Laws of Manu were used to construct the laws of Greece and Rome, and the question-and-answer format copied by Plato to construct his dialogues.
Jesus appears at the peak of this cultural revolution, and his myth integrated elements from previous spiritual traditions, although obviously, most of the myth was constructed on top of Zoroastrian sun worship. The reason Judaism and Christianity absorbed Zoroastrian concepts is simply because it was the first Zoroastrian king of Persia who freed the Jews from Babylon and allowed them to return to Judea. In gratitude the mythical Moses was based largely on the mythical Zoroaster. In the 1860s, Louis Jacolliot learned Sanskrit and quickly concluded Jesus Christ was derived from Zeus Krishna.
My theory is the real Jesus appeared around 240 AD and successfully merged all the great religions of his time to end war. He became a living Buddha in India, a Zoroastrian Magi in Persia, and was called an "apostle of Jesus" in the west. His father had been an early Christian/Jew, while his mother's family were Zoroastrians.
His name was Mani, and while still a young man, he was lured into a trap, tortured, skinned alive and decapitated. The gate where his head was put on display still carries his name to this day, yet few know the real story. When the general Constantine captured and remade Christianity to build his empire, elements from Mani's bio were placed into the story of the mythical Jesus. I suspect Mani deployed cannabis to heal the blind and lame, which is why both Mani and cannabis disappeared around the same time.
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François I and Dutch Art at the Louvre
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© RMN-Grand Palais / Michel Urtado — Jean Clouet, Portrait équestre de François Ier
The Louvre hosts the François I and Dutch Art exhibition until 15 January 2018, casting new light on a little-known aspect of the French Renaissance with an exhibition that reveals its many and varied facets, its extravagances and its monumental character.
Although the appetite of François I for Italian art is well known and his patronage is essentially identified with the creation of the Italian-influenced second School of Fontainebleau, his reign was equally notable for the well-established tradition of Dutch artists settling in France.
The best known of these Northern artists active in France during his reign - Jean Clouet and Corneille de La Haye known as Corneille de Lyon - were primarily portraitists. This wave of Northern influences (from Antwerp, Brussels, Leiden and Haarlem) swept through not only Paris, but also Normandy, Picardy, Champagne and Burgundy chiefly in the form of illuminated manuscripts and religious imagery. Recent research has gradually revealed a number of painters unjustly consigned to oblivion: Godefroy le Batave, Noel Bellemare, Grégoire Guérard and Bartholomeus Pons are just some of those artists who excelled in media as diverse as illumination, painting, stained glass, tapestry and sculpture. The king is known to have bought many such tapestries, pieces by goldsmiths and silversmiths, and Flemish paintings.
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After a somewhat humiliating attempt at doing one of my sister's crossword puzzles (I didn't get that gene), I decided that maybe I should start doing them regularly. There is a daily free newspaper in Boston that has crossword puzzle that's more my speed. Got to start somewhere. I learned three new words yesterday. Here they are (from the Apple dictionary).
(of a girl or young woman) sexually attractive because lively or saucy : a pert Belgian actress.
(of a bodily feature or garment) attractive because neat and jaunty : she had a pert nose and deep blue eyes.
(of a young person or their speech or behavior) impudent : no need to be pert, miss.
another term for PEART .
something regarded as worthless; rubbish : there are bargains if you have the patience to sift through the dross.
foreign matter, dregs, or mineral waste, in particular scum formed on the surface of molten metal.
an elderly man, esp. one who is old-fashioned or eccentric : old codgers always harp on about yesteryear.


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Q: How to pass multiple arguments to handlers in Google App Engine python? I was trying to build a wiki with the ability to see previous edits. Every wiki entry has its own relative url path and the revision number is appended with a '/rev=' to the url.
This is part of my code for the same.
class WikiPage(MainHandler):
def get(self, url, num):
    num = int(num) if num else 0
    ...    # Display the wiki-entry with that revision number

PAGE = r'(/(?:[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+/?)*)'

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
    (r'/wiki' + PAGE + r'(?:/rev=(\d+))?', WikiPage),
    ...  # Other Handlers
], debug = True)

This might not be the best way of doing this (for eg. I can use a query to get the revision numbers but I would like to know how to do it in this way)
When I run the above code, I get an error indicating that the get function takes 3 arguments but is only provided with 2. The url argument is passed correctly but the revision number is not passed. I have also tried naming the group in the raw string as num but it's still not working.
I would appreciate any help as to how I can pass 2 or more parameters to my handlers.
Edit: According to Jamie Gómez's answer, I tried modifying my program but I'm still not able to make it work (I'm getting a 404 error). I also tried it by using unnamed parameters but to no avail. Am I not implementing it correctly?
class WikiPage(MainHandler):
    def get(self, **kw):
        url = kw.get('url')
        num = kw.get('num')
        num = int(num) if num else 0
        ...    # Display the wiki-entry with that revision number

PAGE = r'<url:/(?:[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+/?)*>'

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
    (r'/wiki' + PAGE + r'(?:/rev=<num:\d+>)?', WikiPage),
    ...  # Other Handlers
], debug = True)

A: The format looks wrong, check out this section of the docs:
The URL template
┌──────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Format       │ Example                            │
├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤
│ <name>       │ '/blog/<year>/<month>'             │
├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤
│ <:regex>     │ '/blog/<:\d{4}>/<:\d{2}>'          │
├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┤
│ <name:regex> │ '/blog/<year:\d{4}>/<month:\d{2}>' │
└──────────────┴────────────────────────────────────┘

A: You could use webapp2.Route(). There's an example here (I'm still working on understanding it entirely, tho): https://github.com/svpino/blog-engine

A: why don't you pass the rev as a request parameter like
 /wiki?month=4&year=2015&rev=123

In this way you can get it in your handler in this way
 self.request.get('rev')

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Q: Suppress group based on if value exists in record What I would like to do is either suppress a group or (if possible) write this in to a selection record.
The goal would be to display all records in the group if any one of the records in the group meet the requirements.
For example if my group has three records and my requirement is that one of the records have a specific value in one field. Then display all three records in that group. Otherwise, if none of the three have that value then suppress the group.
I know where I need to put the formula and I thought the following would work but instead it only gave me the records that met the requirement not the others that accompany it.
Placed in the suppress group formula field:
if {table.field} <> "1" then true else false

Any thoughts on this?

A: Looks like I got it figured out. Here's what I did:

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*Create a Formula Field to check if the value exists in the record as follows:
if {table.field} = "X" then 1

*Create a Summary Field of the formula field just created and sum the total for the formula field effectively counting how many records in that group have the value sought after.

*Go to Section Expert for the desired group and Suppress using the following formula.
if Sum ({@Formula}, {table.field_2}) < 1 then true


A racer's handlebars slipped off their mount during the Tour de Moselle. The aftermath was brutal.
French racer Maxime Roger of the Chambrey CF Cycling Club was having a normal time trial in the Tour de Moselle on Saturday just before disaster struck. In a second, he went from a comfortable position at around 60 kilometers per hour to violently flying over the front end of his bike and skidding across the pavement.
The culprit? Not a fellow competitor, but his own handlebars. The bars slipped off their mount, and Roger couldn't recover. His front tire also appears to have blown out.
Yikes. It's times like that when wet pavement is a blessing.
Roger wasn't seriously hurt and, by all accounts, remained a good sport about the crash. He later told the French website DirectVelo that the biggest injury was to his knees, followed closely by his pride—and his sadness about missing out on the General Classification in the stage race. But he said he plans to get back to racing as soon as possible, probably later this month.


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View Full Version : Got big problems with the patch.....Pls help.
Hey guys, I am new here so hope I have posted in the correct area. Well, I have downloaded the first 2 small patches and installed and have downloaded the 3 rd 1.5 Gb patch. Unfortunatly being the smartass idiot I am :stunned: tried opening with winrar instead of 7zip so now I can not open at all to install. Is there an easy solution to this? Any help would be extremely appreciated. Also while I'm here....been checking out YouTube of the patch....what a fantastic job you guys have made, just so looking forward to joining you guys online.
If you still have the 2 zip files, you can just open them with 7zip.
Just remember, the second file is the continuation of the first zip so there is no need to open it. Just opening the 1rst one in 7zip will automatically extract the contents of the second.
1.- Start 7zip, navigate to where the zip is and open it from there.
2.- right click on the zip and you should have a "7-Zip" menu where you can select "extract here"
Make sure you only extract the first one. If you do, you should get two files (the installer and another zip).


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Posted on March 27, 2012 by nataliehelen
Karol Bagh is situated roughly half way between the former British capital that is New Delhi, with its wide streets and Lutyens bungalows, and the Old Delhi of Shahjehanabad – the former Muslim capital founded by the Mughal emperor.
It is in Old Delhi that we start our tour, first catching a local bus outside the metro station. The conductor calls the destinations out the window at each stop, a fistful of rupee notes in his hand.
The morning traffic includes a slew of cycle rickshaws and the occasional oxcart.
We step down at the stop across the road from the Red Fort, impressive from the outside but apparently not as fine as the one in Agra, which we will see soon. Instead, our destination is the Jama Masjid, a huge mosque which was once occupied by a Sikh regiment after the so-called Indian Mutiny (or first war of independence, depending on your chosen historical perspective).
Today it is full of tourists and, after leaving our shoes outside, the women in our group are required to don brightly coloured overgarments which cover us from top to toe – all of us have shoulders and knees covered, so I can only assume that the blanket policy of, erm, blankets is a combination of money-gathering and just generally making female tourists look ridiculous.
Spot the foreign women…
We also need a token male with us if we are to climb to the top of the minaret, and luckily there is one guy in our group prepared to make the climb. The view from the top is fantastic, though curtailed slightly by the haze of pollution around the city.
Below us on one side is the Red Fort. On the other, a warren of alleyways, the bazaars of Chandni Chowk, and it is into this maze that our tour leader takes us next, past rows of shops selling nothing but ribbons and trim for wedding clothes, another selling sweets (where we do stop to taste some of the peanut and sesame toffees) – he sets a swift pace though, so there is little chance to stop and take photographs.
Emerging from the network of lanes, we find ourselves on a wide street, at one end of which is a large Sikh temple, the Sheeshganj gurdwara. Inside the complex, underneath the temple, we leave our shoes and don headscarves (the boys too this time, all heads must be covered, and scarves are provided for anyone who needs them). We walk through low jets of water to wash our feet, then ascend the main steps to the temple. Inside, three men are playing a drum and a harmonium, and half singing, half chanting readings from the Sikh holy book. We find a spare space on the carpet at the back and listen for a while. The atmosphere is peaceful and meditative.
Outside, we find the kitchen, where a turbaned Sikh is stirring a vast vat of halva.
Further on, people are making chappatis and, in the hall beyond, about fifty people are seated on the floor in long lines while food is distributed. It is part of the Sikh philosophy that free meals be provided to anyone (of any creed or none) who needs or wants it – and not just the poor, as it is hoped that people who eat in the halls will donate what they can, either in cash or in time spent in preparation of the meals. It's a pretty cool concept.
Back on the street the traffic noise is a bit jarring. To get back to the hotel, we take the flash new metro, most of which was completed in time for the Commonwealth games in 2010. It's the equal of any underground I've been in, and cleaner than most (certainly cheaper!). Security is high – every single bag is scanned and person searched as if at an airport. I can imagine riots breaking out if they tried to introduce a similar policy in London, but here it's is just something else to build in extra time for. Entry is by a small plastic token with value loaded for the trip (like a miniature oyster), which is swiped on entry, and dropped into a slot on final exit. There are also one day tourist cards which are pretty good value (100R for one day, 250R for three, plus a refundable 50R deposit). The other advantage, given the famously gropey hands of certain Delhi males who ought to know better, is that the first car of each train is for women only (well, it says ladies, but I presume they'll make an exception), and often less crowded than the other cars.
With the rest of the afternoon free, there is just time for the three musketeers (being the three solo travellers from the South Indian trip) to find an autorickshaw to take us to Humayun's tomb, a kind of mini-Taj Mahal in red sandstone to the South near Hazrat Nizamuddin station. I don't know if it's our pronunciation but it takes a while to find a driver who knows where to go – in the end we get as far as Khan Market and ask for directions.
Our driver waits while we go inside. Humayun was the second great Mughal emperor (after Babur and before Akbar, in case you were wondering). After a life of dramatic battles and intrigue (he killed most of his brothers to secure the throne), his death was utterly mundane – he tripped on his robe while running downstairs, cracked his head and that was that. His tomb, however is quite something – a rare oasis of green parkland, with the red sandstone dome soaring above.
One of the displays shows a picture of pre-British Delhi, with smaller domed cenotaphs dotted across the land.
The tomb seems to be under constant renovation, and the site hosts regular training workshops in the use of ancient carving and building techniques, such as the elaborate stone grills, or jali-work, in place of windows. This is the sort of place to which you could bring a book and a picnic and spend a peaceful afternoon away from the noise of modern Delhi.
Since we are in the neighbourhood, we make a quick stop at Khan Market, and immediately wish we had longer. There is a branch of Fab India here, and also a branch of Anokhi, which may just be even better than Fab India. There is also a camera shop which has a single precious 49mm UV filter for my camera – the original was smashed in a heartstopping incident in Periyar. There is nothing else for it – we'll have to come back here to investigate properly when we return to Delhi.
That evening we return to Om Saravana Bhavan, a brilliant South Indian cafeteria just around the corner from the hotel, for dinner. I had asked our trip leader that morning for a cheaper alternative to the mediocre hotel breakfast buffet, and he directed me here. When I walked in at 8am, I was the only foreigner in the place, and smoke was billowing out the door as a priest performed some kind of ceremony that involved lighting a small wood fire on the bare marble floor. But once past the smoke, I was seated with courtesy and served a delicious masala dosa and South Indian coffee within minutes, for half the price I would have paid for toast and dry omelette in the hotel.
We are just finishing up when everyone else from the group walks in to join us (news of good food travels fast) and I'm already looking forward to coming back to Delhi in a couple of weeks time for a return visit.
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How Fate/Stay Night's Saber is a Dad. Wait, What!?
Not much has been revealed regarding Saber's past in Fate/Stay Night (as it is assumed people know about King Arthur's legend already) but after hearing about that bold step of gender change by Type-Moon aiming to target the male audience, people are gonna be curious about the tweaks they made to the legend. And well, what do you know, we have surprising news!
Whilst trapped in a black hole reading deep within the uncharted territories of Type-Moon's Wikia, I encountered some cool yet shocking information regarding our dear servant Saber, Arturia Pendragon– that she actually has a son, Mordred, and that she was the one who fathered him! So wait, what? How the heck did that happen?
Fate/Zero ED: Saber, killing her son, Mordred, in the Battle of Camlann
Problem being, is that since Arthur was made into Arturia, having a son would mean her having to be pregnant and all. AND OUR OTAKU AND HIKIKOMORI FANS WOULDN'T WANT THAT. It's taboo for a main heroine in the anime society. 'Cause you know, they won't have first dibs on her as a waifu lol.
Also remember that Morgan le Fay is needed to be the other parent. If she is made to be a dude and then proceeds to rape and impregnate Arturia, then we'll have all sorts of problems. With that in mind, Type-moon stuck with the original story and temporarily made her a dude.
Long story short: Arturia's sister Morgan le Fay turned her to a pseudo-male via Merlin's magic and extracted sperm from her. Using those she would raise a child (Mordred) that would eventually lay destruction to the empire King Arthur has built. Mordred grew up to be a fine knight for the king, only to be constantly rejected by his father after learning the truth. This resulted to a serious daddy complex for him. His hatred grew, and eventually was able to convince the Kingdom to turn their back on the King, and serve him instead.
Their last battle is shown on the 21st episode of the original Fate/Stay Night, where Saber pierces this soldier, but then later on show's a face similar to hers, and then calls Saber her 'father.' Really, it was a very confusing scene when I first saw it, and it is if you didn't do your research on their story. I thought that the subbing group just made an error or something lol.
Why did Mordred look like Saber? It is said that like Irisviel Von Einsbern, he is a homunculus. As Type-Moon explains it, a homunculus is a creature given birth through Alchemy by the combining of human genetic material with several special substances and making the resulting embryo develop without the use of a womb. Well, that's the Nasuverse for ya.
Here's a video of the scene from where that picture is taken:
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A BRAND NEW COVER STORY!
. . .Three seven-letter words that perfectly describe the cover of my new book, cover artwork created by illustrator Helen Crawford-White and the fabulous design team at Macmillan Children's Books.
But wait! That's just the fabulous FRONT cover. This cover is actually much more than that . . . this cover goes on and on, it wraps around the story. Just when you thought the cover of 'Smart' was the best thing you'd seen, feast your eyes on this . . .
Not only have we got a fabulous cover, we have stupendous END-PAPERS!! It's art that just keeps on giving . . .
The end-papers cunningly feature key characters and clues to the mystery running through the story.
As you can imagine, I am totally in love with its wonderfulness. I'm currently pricing up having the end-papers made up into wallpaper for the WHOLE of our apartment. Well, OK, maybe not the whole apartment but you get my drift. I'm pretty darn pleased.
Thank you to my publisher, my editor and to everyone involved in producing such a wonderful cover for my second book.
'A Seven-Letter Word' is published by Macmillan Children's Books on 24th March 2016 and here's the blurb . . .
Finlay's mother vanished two years ago. And ever since then his stutter has become almost unbearable.


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New research into how British women cope during pregnancy has revealed that, on average, pregnant women eat 2,930 calories per day during their third trimester which is 530 more than the recommended amount. What's more, some of the weirdest food cravings were uncovered, with some craving pickle with a Mars bar and others craving salt & vinegar crisps with toffee ice cream.
Whilst may say that pregnant women are 'eating for two', pregnant women are eating over 500 calories more per day than is recommended during their third trimester. Furthermore, it was found that three quarters of pregnant women now find that the foods they loved make them feel sick.
The team at www.VoucherCodesPro.co.uk conducted the research as part of an ongoing study into how Britons cope with pregnancy. For the purposes of the study, 2,298 British women aged 18 and over, all of whom stated they were at least six months pregnant, were quizzed on how their pregnancy was going thus far.
Initially all respondents were asked what food group they believed they ate the most of whilst they are pregnant, with 'carbohydrates' (27%) topping the list, followed by 'fats' (19%) and 'fruit and vegetables' (13%).
Furthermore, all respondents were asked whether there were any foods they used to love that now make them feel sick, to which almost three quarters of respondents (74%) stated this was the case.
When asked if they spend more money on food now that they are pregnant, two thirds (67%) felt this was the case, with 71% guessing they spend roughly £20 more each week.
Researchers then asked all those involved in the poll to guess how many calories they consume on an average day, since becoming pregnant. Once all responses were collated the average was revealed as 2,930 calories, which is 530 more than the recommended 2,400 calorie daily allowance for women in their third trimester.
Finally, all respondents were asked if they knew how many calories they were meant to be consuming, with 68% admitting that they 'weren't sure'.


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Welcome to "One Canon Park"
Canon U.S.A., which opened its new headquarters in February 2013 and continues to realize growth, oversees the company's operations in North, Central and South America.
This capped a long journey for Canon U.S.A., which for many years had been searching for a place on Long Island that would be a suitable location to establish a new home.
Located off the Long Island Expressway and near the technology corridor of Route 110, the headquarters features modern amenities and a 52-acre campus.
Measuring more than 500 feet long and nearly 300 feet wide, the building reflects Canon's strong commitment to environmental sustainability. "One Canon Park" has been awarded LEED® Gold certification, a recognition for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of high-performance green buildings. The facility stands as a model for environmental stewardship and innovation, and is the largest commercial property on Long Island to achieve this level of LEED.
The grounds have an open, campus-like feel with plenty of green space, a walking trail and two retention ponds. Within the five-story building (plus lower level), employees enjoy a state-of-the-art learning center, cafeteria, fitness center and other amenities.
As always, Canon aims to be a good corporate citizen within the community and will continue fostering relationships in the surrounding area.
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Howlround Closes The Gate – Vinyl Reissue Sells Out – That's All Folks!
To celebrate my heroic non-inclusion in this year's Record Store Day, due in no small part to failing to get my affairs in order, I was planning to use this week to spring something exciting onto a grateful world: namely a surprise vinyl reissue of Howlround's third album Torridon Gate, in an edition of 100 only, complete with gorgeous screen-print of the sleeve by Hannah Brown of Modern Day Magpie and a natty translucent inner. However, thanks to the noble efforts of the good folk on my mailing list, I'm unable to do so…
The fact is, I sent my subscribers an email last week giving them first dibs on the new record and they literally bit my hand off – the entire edition sold out in less than twelve hours!
Sorry to disappoint those of you who missed out, but that really is your lot! The 'name your price' digital download is still available, but the number of regretful, peevish or outright inconsolable missives I've received in the last few days tells me it's proving little consolation. However, the fact is that in my original email I promised it would be first-come, first-served, with no second edition and no re-reissue. And I intend to keep that promise until such future times as when it will prove especially financially lucrative to go back on my word and let everyone down – a major career retrospective, perhaps, a deluxe vinyl box set in mahogany, a nomination for the Mercury prize, that sort of thing. Frankly, such worries are quite a way off yet – not much point having a major career retrospective without having a major career first. But I digress…
I do plan to spring other surprises in this manner in the future as it's quite an enjoyable (if not particularly lucrative) way of running my affairs and keeping my followers on their toes. If you're not yet on my mailing list and gaining such preferential treatment yourself, why not send an email with the subject line 'Yes! I wish to be kept on my toes re. this kind of thing in the future' to robinthefog at gmail dot com? I will take care of the necessary and first dibs on my next vinyl surprise will be yours for the taking!
To Radiophrenia news now, and congratulations to Mark Vernon and his team for the culmination of a successful week of broadcasting to Glasgow and the surrounding areas on 87.9FM (while streaming worldwide online), with a wide and varied programme of original radiophonic works, lectures and performances, including a couple of new works by myself (along with the writer Leila Peacock, of course).
I'm extremely proud to report that one of them, 'Mount Shock – Music For Microphone Cradle' was chosen as the work to mark the final broadcast, signing-off and closure of the station at roughly ten minutes to midnight on Sunday 19th. Quite an accolade with over seven hundred pieces to choose from!
Photo by Andy Popperwell
Penultimately, the Howlround tape-loop quartet finally came out of dry-dock last week when I performed a solo set (Chris still being on his arts residency in Dubai) for the music technology students of Havering College in Essex. It was good to be back behind the spools and the students responded well to my demonstration of what it's possible to achieve without resorting to plug-ins, fx pedals and other bits of digital technology. In fact it went so well that for a moment I almost felt 'cool' and 'relevant', but thankfully those feelings passed before I attempted to get too far 'down with the kids'. Could have been seriously embarrassing for a chap of my vintage.
And lastly, I've moved house too. 80+ boxes of vinyl, tape spools CDs, books and other assorted ephemera (not to mention my army of tape machines) have been successfully transferred to my new abode in Penge, thanks to the efforts of some very strong friends (both literally and metaphorically). This photo was taken at about the halfway point, when there was still some floor-space in which to stand swinging a camera. No such luxuries now. I haven't seen the carpet since:
There are those who claim that moving house, performing a Essex-based solo tape-loop set and releasing a new record in the space of less than forty-eight hours is sheer, unadulterated lunacy. And you know what? I wouldn't dream of arguing with such people. The upshot of all of this is that I'm currently sans-internet at the newly-appointed Fog Towers, which is why I'm writing this while day-drinking in Crystal Palace, next to two men engaged in a fascinating discussion about why it's never a good idea to take cocaine at a funeral. If you're thinking that sounds rather like stating the bleedin' obvious, I should inform you that some poor misguided chump once offered me viagra at the send-off of a much-loved elderly relative, so perhaps such activities are more common than you or I might imagine. But all that's for another time…
Anyway, for these reasons, and all of the above, it's an exciting time. More soon, my friends, and don't forget to subscribe if the mood takes you!
Author Robin The FogPosted on April 20, 2015 April 26, 2015 Categories UncategorizedTags 100, Chris Weaver, Cocaine, Crystal Palace, Day Drinking, Hannah Brown, Havering College, Howlround, Jack Russell, LP, mailing list, Mark Vernon, Modern Day Magpie, Mount Shock, Music For Microphone Cradle, Penge, Radiophrenia, reissue, Robin The Fog, Sell-out, subscribe, Torridon Gate, Vinyl
Radiophrenia – How It Is
Very pleased to announce the launch today of Radiophrenia, an art radio station broadcasting live on 87.9FM for one week only (13th-19th April) to Glasgow and the surrounding areas, also streaming worldwide via Radiophrenia.scot. Curated by Mark Vernon and Barry Burns and with a programme of several hundred exclusive and original radiophonic works, including contributions from Octopus Collective alumni John Hall and Felix Kubin, Jez Butler, The Resonance Radio Orchestra and many, many more. My own submissions include another collaboration with the brilliant Leila Peacock and a brand new tape-composition using a recording of a New Broadcasting House microphone with a squeaking cradle. You'll have to tune in to hear them in full of course, but magnanimous fellow that I am, I've included a sneak preview:
The schedule can be perused here and you can also follow the latest updates on Twitter. I'm predicting that I shall be listening to this a lot over the coming days, partly owing the relentlessly high-calibre of people involved, but also to attain some respite from heroically supervising the packing of thousands of records into boxes. But that's for another time…
Another recent collaboration that I can finally reveal is Michael Garrad's entry to the Kings College Creative Responses to Modernism competition, a dramatized extract from Samuel Beckett's 1961 novel How It Is. Barry Ward provides the voice and I provide the soundtrack. The results are as relentless and visceral as anything I've been involved with to date, and it's about as intense and bleakly thrilling (or thrillingly bleak) as anything the great man ever wrote.
This recording is interested modernism's concept of making it new and conversely how outmoded techniques can evoke the futuristic and etherial. A squeaking drawer is the source for the electronic sound, recorded and manipulated on ancient quarter-inch tape machines, extracting hidden sound. The reading is monotone, breathless and the digital recording eliminates dynamic with harsh sibilance, distortion and extreme compression.
I can't claim to be much of a Beckett scholar, though from my own perspective he made a huge contribution to radiophonic drama with works such as pioneering radio play All The Fall in 1957. It's said that he was hugely influenced by the creative possibilities of then-nascent reel-to-reel technology, a fascination that manifests itself most obviously in works such as the quietly horrific Krapp's Last Tape. And on a more personal note, I have a print of the Beckett quote 'Fail again, fail better' blu-tacked to the wall of my studio next to the mixing desk. It's been a constant source of solace, as anyone who invests their career and general happiness in the functioning of a number of broken down and erratic tape machines will be able to readily imagine. Hand-painted by Sarah Tanat Jones as a reward to donors to her recent Kickstarter campaign, it's a quote I first read on the back of a Peanuts calendar, of all things, a surprisingly deep nugget of wisdom compared to the previous day's entry – 'take snacks on long road trips to avoid having to buy them'.
In the selection from How It Is, the narrator, static in an abstract land of mud, has a lucid moment, reminiscing of 'life above' with his wife, whose death torments him. The piece crosses futures and pasts, warmth and harshness, and in its form exists out of body, place and time.
It's another rather hurried post from me, unfortunately, as I must return to my frantic box-related activities. But hopefully these two and the promise of many Glaswegian radiophonic delights for the week ahead will keep you sated until THIS happens:
Author Robin The FogPosted on April 13, 2015 April 13, 2015 Categories UncategorizedTags 87.9FM, Barry Burns, Beckett, Chips For The Poor, Fail Again, Fail Better, Felix Kubin, How It Is, Jez Butler, John Hall, Leila Peacock, Mark Vernon, Michael Garrad, Octopus Collective, Radiophonic, Radiophrenia, Resonance FM, Resonance Radio Orchestra, Robin The Fog, Samuel Beckett


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Rather than attach to your pants with vulgar clips, which damage the fabric along the waistline, these suspenders button into place for style that's clean and classy. Leather tabs complete the gentlemanly look.
To be sure, you should never ever wear suspenders and a belt together. In fact, you'll get the best style when you wear the Stripe Button-In Suspenders with a suit that doesn't have belt loops on the pants.
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Q: On a strange integral The following integral came into my way today.
$${\Large \int_{0}^{\infty} }\frac{\sum \limits_{k=1}^{\infty}k\sin(kx)\,e^{-tk^2}}{\sum \limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\cos(kx)\,e^{-tk^2}}dt=\frac{\pi^2({\pi-x})}{8} \quad , \quad 0<x<2\pi$$
I have no idea how to attack it. First thing coming into my mind is Poisson summation formula but I am not used to using it.. So, basically no clue.
Can we deduce a general form for those two sums in there? I have this strange feeling we can , no?
By the way, since I don't have an attack I am not sure the answer is correct.

A: Houston, we have a problem. The given integral is not well defined: for many fixed values of $x\in(0,2\pi)$, the function
$$ g(t)=\sum_{k\geq 1}\cos(kx)e^{-tk^2} $$
has a simple zero in a right neighbourhood of the origin that is not shared by $\sum_{k\geq 1}k\sin(kx)e^{-tk^2}$.
Simple poles are not integrable singularities, hence the LHS is not well-defined for any $x$ in the range $(0,2\pi)$.


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285/30-18 PS2 to 285/35-18 Super Sport?
Has anyone changed their rear tires from Michelin PS2 285/30-18 to Super Sports 285/35-18? The SS's are less expensive and better regarded than the PS2s, but they don't come in a 285/30-18 size. I did the math (and browsed previous postings on the subject), and the 35s are about .5" taller in radius. I prefer not to go narrower to 265. Does it make that much of a difference in handling? What about acceleration? My speedometer is currently 10% fast, so this may bring it down, though it's the least of my concerns in all honesty. Thanks.
I have a 2003 911 cabrio (no PSM) with the Carrera 18" wheels and need a new set of tires. I have decided on the Michelin Pilot Super Sports based on reviews and price. Unfortunately, they do not make stock sized rear tires (285/30 ZR18). My choices for rear tires are: 285/35-18 - (taller) or 265/35-18 - (narrower) My choices for front tires are: 225/40-18 - Original size 235/40-18 - Seen others recommend... not sure why 2 questions: 1) Which rear tire size would you recommend? 2) Why should I change the size of the front tires from the original size? Thanks for you input.
Hi everyone: I had a rear tire blowout on my way in to work today (steel plates in road....grrrr) and since I use my car as a daily driver (2000 C4 996)I need to get it fixed fast. Here is my situation: I have Pirelli PZero's N3's all around which are all worn and due for a change. I would like to swap ALL them out for either: Option1: Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 N3 ($$$$) Option 2: Michelin Pilot SuperSport (cheaper, better rating at Tirerack) Option 3: Michelin Pilot Sport All Season Plus So, two questions: 1. How important is that N3 designation? The TSB for approved summer tires seems to make me think that I can't run any rubber other than N2, N3, N4 etc. 2. Anyone like all season tires. I live in the Washington DC area and we get little snow here....a set of dedicated snows seems like overkill. Thanks for your help!!!!