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<!-- MyWikiBiz users, note... Text that appears between these brackets are merely remarks. --> <!-- They do not appear in the actual page. --> Is Wikipedia taking on a darker tone? Where are the ethical and moral issues involved in creating articles with old [[Communists|communist]] propaganda rhetoric and it's false information? Is this the Balkan section of Wikipedia becoming the next [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Soviet_Encyclopedia#Purpose Great Soviet Encyclopedia]? This part of Wikipedia is not encyclopaedic work, pure and simple. [http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:The_Wikipedia_Point_of_View#History The Wikipedia Point of View-History] *[[Wikipedia's Communist Propaganda Articles!]] *[[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia]] *[[User talk:Ockham/Wikipedia & Political Agendas|Wikipedia & Political Agendas ]] '''Cazzo''' (www.sciforums.com): Registered Senior User (1,028 posts) 04-07-08, 05:47 PM *When you bring up the topic of the Holocaust (of 6,000,000 jews) to neo-Nazis, they usually respond in 1 of 4 ways. '''(1)''' They deny it ever happened. '''(2)''' They say it was an "exaggeration" or a conspiracy theory. '''(3)''' They try turning the tables or changing the subject. '''(4)''' They say nothing at all. The pure and simple fact is, they're evil people. ''But what about neo-Communists ? (and many other leftists)'' *When you bring up the topic of nearly '''100,000,000 civilians''' torchered and killed under '''Communist governments''' in the 20th century (not including deaths from wars, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bla...k_of_Communism), they react in the same way as the 4 catagories above. *Another excuse leftists make for this attrocity is that they were not "true perfect" Communist societies; well you could say that Germany wasn't a "true fascist" State too..... *Public schools barely touch (if even mention) the Communist mass killings, and Hollywood has put out how many films about this ''? 1 ? 2 ?'' And yet, the Communists killed several times more of their own civilians than the Nazis did! Think it's '''fair''' to say leftists that fit those 4 catagories are as evil as neo-Nazis? ''by'' '''Cazzo''' (www.sciforums.com) {| width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="10" style="background:#000000; border-style:solid; border-width:3px; border-color: #000000" | width="55%" valign="top" style="padding: 0; margin:0;" | <div style="float:right; width:100%"> <center> <youtube>Kspj_4TcjOQ&feature=related</youtube> <center> |} == Research on Wikipedia's Articles on the Former Yugoslavia == '''The Balkan World According to Wikipedia''': According to [[Wikipedia]] if a Commander happens to lose an estimate of '''100 000 POWs''' after [[World War Two]] , it is not that important. Sixty years later it was established that they were murdered and place in old mine shafts, caves and forests. The information is not to be mention in his biography as it is ''irrelevant''. On the 23rd of April in 1948, in a speech '''Harry Truman''' (the President of USA) stated: ''"I am told that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito Tito] murdered more than 400 000 of the opposition in Yugoslavia before he got himself established there as a dictator"'' Reference from: Keeping Tito Afloat by Lorraine M. Lees <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-Xkv7ym8hDYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keeping+Tito+Afloat:+The+United+States,+Yugoslavia,+and+the+Cold+War&client=safari&cd=1#v=snippet&q=%20tito%20trade%20papers%20four%20hundred%20thousand&f=false Keeping Tito Afloat] by Lorraine M. Lees.Keeping Tito Afloat draws upon newly declassified documents to show the critical role that Yugoslavia played in U.S. foreign policy with the communist world in the early years of the Cold War. After World War II, the United States considered Yugoslavia to be a loyal Soviet satellite, but Tito surprised the West in 1948 by breaking with Stalin. Seizing this opportunity, the Truman administration sought to "keep Tito afloat" by giving him military and economic aid.</ref> & Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman: Mission and Power in American Foreign Policy by Anne R. Pierce <ref> American Foreign Policy by Anne R. Pierce</ref> ''([[USA|US]] declassified documents from the 1990s)'' * Christopher Bennett: Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequences ''"Tito remained a Stalinist to the end of his life. Tito"'' . <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=FeiKg3TuNl0C&pg=PA56&dq=titoism&client=safari&cd=9#v=onepage&q=titoism&f=false Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse:] Causes, Course and Consequences by Christopher Bennett</ref> ([http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1207940.Yugoslavia_s_Bloody_Collapse_Causes_Course_and_Consequences book info]) Bennett, a British journalist who has the good fortune to speak both Slovenian and Croatian, a skill that has enabled him to draw heavily on literature of the region that would be unavailable to most American or British journalists. *Vladimir Tismaneanu: The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe: The Poverty of Utopia. ''"Tito was a season Stalinist"'' <ref>The Poverty of Utopia by Vladimir Tismaneanu</ref> * Vesna Pusic-Croatia at the Crossroads/Journal of Democracy - Volume 9, Number 1, January 1998, pp. 111-124 ''"Tito, a Croat and a Moscow-trained communist, ...... While his was a single-party, totalitarian regime, Tito was more a shrewd pragmatist than an ideologue. "'' <ref>[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_democracy/v009/9.1pusic.html Croatia at the Crossroads] Journal of Democracy - Volume 9, Number 1, January 1998, pp. 111-124 by Vesna Pusic</ref> {{GKAdBrite}} == Notes on References == '''Contemporary views''' of Josip Broz that are clealy referenced: *[http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ConferencePapers/Ms.%20Tamara%20Pavasovic%20Trost%20-%20A%20Personality%20Cult%20Transformed%20The%20Evolution%20of%20Tito's%20Image%20in%20the%20Former%20Yugoslavia%201974%20-%202009.pdf A Personality Cult Transformed:] The Evolution of Tito's Image in the Former Yugoslavia 1974 – 2009/Tamara Pavasovic Trost Ph.D. Candidate Department of Sociology Harvard University [[USA]]. *Lorraine M. Lees is an associate professor of history at Old Dominion University in Virginia, USA. *Anne R. Pierce Ph. D. Political Science from the University of Chicago. Independent Scholar & Author/USA [http://annerpierce.com/home/index.php Author's Web Site]* *'''BBC'''.UK/History Partisans: War in the Balkans 1941 - 1945 <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/partisan_fighters_01.shtml#six BBC-History Partisans: War in the Balkans 1941-1945] </ref> By Dr Stephen A Hart The article is written in the post ''Berlin Wall'' world. The Wiki article '''does not''' have the [[BBC]] as its '''source'''. This encyclopaedic articles clearly state the dark truth about Tito and his Army-[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/partisan_fighters_01.shtml#six Partisans: War in the Balkans 1941-1945] *Dr Stephen A Hart is senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is the author of The Road to Falaise: Operations "Totalize" & "Tractable" (Alan Sutton, 2004), "Montgomery " and "Colossal Cracks": The 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944-45 (Praeger, 2000). *'''Zdravko Dizdar''' [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hr&u=http://www.isp.hr/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D66%26Itemid%3D38&ei=VUn1SvGFEcaDkAXR0vmfAw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DZdravko%2BDizdar%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us]: In Mr Dizdar's ''Scientific Journal''-An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross -[http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=27516&lang=en Hrcak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia] states that Tito asked the "Croatian Home Guard" to surrender or face the consequences of not surrendering. After the war ended POWs who did not surrender were slaughter on mass, estimates are about 100 000 victims in total. *'''Encyclopaedia Britannica''' <ref>Encyclopædia Britannica: History & Society-Josip Broz Tito</ref> -The article is written post ''Berlin Wall'' but it's thin in terms of information, but does not hold back on economic realities: ''"At his death, the state treasury was '''empty.'''"'' The Wiki article has Encyclopaedia Britannica under its ''Notes'' section as its source, it might be just cosmetic. *'''BBC''' UK/History <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/yugoslavia_03.shtml BBC UK/History] by Tim Judah</ref> by Tim Judah: ''"The economy was built on the shaky foundations of massive western loans."'' The article is also written in the post '''Berlin Wall''' world. The Wiki article '''does not''' have the [[BBC]] as it's '''source'''. *'''Tim Judah''' is a front line reporter for The Economist and author. A graduate of the London School of Economics and of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University he worked for the BBC before becoming the Balkans correspondent for The Times and The Economist. Judah is also the author of the prize-winning The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, published in 1997 by Yale University Press. *'''Michael Portamm''': 2003-2005 Fellow of the ZEIT Foundation in Hamburg, doctoral studies at the University of Vienna (Dr. phil.). [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://histkomm.thinkabit.net/index.php%3Fpage%3D112%26menu%3D259&ei=zbNKS8vpKs-gkQXdmuj8Ag&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CB8Q7gEwBQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3DDr.%2Bphil.%2BMichael%2BPortmann%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us Author Profile] Professional activities: Since 2006, staff at the Historical Commission of the Academy, since 2008 Lecturer at the Universities of Vienna and Bern.[http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.grin.com/profile/27606/michael-portmann&prev=/search%3Fq%3DDr.%2Bphil.%2BMichael%2BPortmann%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhhB2BcrXAczmLe3LjqB9UefbI_GwA] *Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing: Genocide Carried out by the Tito Partisans: Hungarians & Italians [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=RWZLZaxPUXQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA8&ots=xdn2wNxBWP&sig=WN_VKCu5q6lVUOsSoxHdPJGiB-w#v=snippet&q=killed&f=false] ''Ref'' from: Communist Retaliation and Persecution on Yugoslav Territory During and After WWII <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=RWZLZaxPUXQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA8&ots=xdn2wNxBWP&sig=WN_VKCu5q6lVUOsSoxHdPJGiB-w#v=snippet&q=killed&f=false Communist Retaliation and Persecution on Yugoslav Territory During and After WWII] by Dr. Ph. Michael Portmann-The following article deals with repressive measures undertaken by communist-dominated Partisan forces during and especially after WWII in order to take revenge on former enemies, to punish collaborators, and "people's enemies" and to decimate and eliminate the potential of opponents to a new, socialist Yugoslavia. The text represents a summary of a master thesis referring to the above-mentioned topic written and accepted at '''Vienna University''' in 2002</ref>. by Dr. phil. Michael Portmann Other Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing: Genocide carried out by the Tito Partisans/Danube Swabian History (former Yugoslavia) 1944-1948 [http://www.dvhh.org/history/genocide/index.htm] *'''David W. Del Testa''' has a Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Davis. The below referenced information is from 'Government Leaders, Military Rulers and Political Activists: An Encyclopaedia of People Who Changed the World (Lives & Legacies Series)' by David W. Del Testa. ''Yugoslavia under Tito was a curious combination of relative economic and cultural freedom and total political repression and control. The lack of political freedom made debate on the role of ethnic identity in Yugoslavia impossible. Tito's regime had created temporary stability in a historically unstable region. Treated almost as a mythic hero in his lifetime, Tito's image began to decay in the years following his death, undermining the legitimacy of the regime so connected to his cult of personality.''' <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=vSwi2TYabS4C&pg=PR1&dq=Government+Leaders,+Military+Rulers+and+Political+Activists:+An+Encyclopaedia+of+People+Who+Changed+the+World+(Lives+%26+Legacies+Series)'+by+David+W.+Del+Testa.&client=safari&cd=1#v=snippet&q=%20tito%20leader%20of%20yugoslavia&f=false Government Leaders, Military Rulers and Political Activists: An Encyclopaedia of People Who Changed the World (Lives & Legacies Series)] By David W. Del Testa, Florence Lemoine, John Strickland/ page181 Legacy</ref> David W. Del Testa's statement succinctly sums up Josip Broz and his political life. One could say it is well balanced in the objective sense. *'''Ivo Goldstein''': <ref>Croatia A History-Mc Gill Queen's University Press Publication by Ivo Goldstein. </ref> Ivo Goldstein: 'Croatia A History'. Josip Broz and his fellow communist were committing economic management suicide. The Wiki article does not have Ivo Goldstein as its source. :The articles clearly state: :1. Josip Broz Tito's failure in addressing ethnic tensions of the former Yugoslavia; :2. Failure in the economic management of the former of Yugoslavia; '''Note''': Ivo Goldstein is a Professor at the [http://www.unizg.hr/homepage/ University of Zagreb]. The university is the oldest (1669) and biggest in South-Eastern Europe. The university has 29 faculties, three art academies and the Centre for Croatian Studies. With its comprehensive programmes and over 50,000 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students. The University is the strongest teaching institution in Croatia. It offers a wide range of academic degree courses leading to Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees in the following fields: Arts, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Engineering, Humanities, Natural and Social Sciences. *'''Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia'''-created by Government of the Republic of Slovenia. Academics involved: *'''Joze Dezman''': Slovenian Historian-Director of the National Museum of Contemporary History-Ljubljana (Slovenian) National Museum of Contemporary History- Slovenia *'''Mitja Ferenc''': Slovenian Historian-University of Ljubljana (Identification of Skeletal Remains of Communist Armed Forces Victims During and After World War II [http://www.cmj.hr/2009/50/3/19480024.htm Croatian Medical Journal]) *'''Council''' of the [[European Union]] (January–June 2008) and the European Commission: Reports and proceedings of the 8 April European public hearing on "Crimes committed by totalitarian regimes", organised by the Slovenian Presidency. '''Totalitarian machine''': *Abuse of national sentiment to carry out racial and class revolutionary projects; * Cult of a great leader, who permits his fanatics to murder, steal and lie; * Dictatorship of one party; * Militarisation of society, police state – almighty secret political police; * Collectivism, subjection of the citizen to the totalitarian state; * State terrorism with systematic abuses of basic human rights; * Aggressive assumption of power and struggle for territory. Ref: Joze Dezman CRIMES COMMITTED BY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES <ref>CRIMES COMMITTED BY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES Crimes and other gross and large scale human rights violations committed during the reign of totalitarian regimes in Europe: cross- national survey of crimes committed and of their remembrance, recognition, redress, and reconciliation Reports and proceedings of the 8 April European public hearing on "Crimes committed by totalitarian regimes", organised by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the '''European Union''' (January–June 2008) and the '''European Commission'''.</ref> page 197 Slovenian Presidency of the-EU 2008 [http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/2005/PDF/publikacije/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf European Commission] '''Mass killings without court trials''': ''The Main Headquarters of the Yugoslav Army had already called attention to respecting the Geneva Convention on 3 May in its order on the treatment of prisoners of war. However, despite this injunction, both prisoners of war and civilians were killed massively at the end of May and in the first half of June 1945 in Slovenia. Tito's telegram on respecting the Geneva Convention was later revoked; however, it could only be revoked by the person who issued it in the first place, i.e. '''Tito himself'''.'' ''The killings without a trial were most massive in the first months after the war in 1945 and continued until the beginning of 1946. How extensive these killings were is illustrated by the fact that 581 hidden graves of victims of post-war killings without a court trial have thus far been found in the territory of Slovenia.'' Ref: Milko Mikola CRIMES COMMITTED BY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES page 163 Slovenian Presidency of the-EU 2008 [http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/2005/PDF/publikacije/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf European Commission] '''Note''': '''Natasa Kandic''' [http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/interviews/24056/?tpl=304&tpid=147] Call for Cross-border War Crimes 'Truth Commission' By Pedja Obradovic-30 November 2009 ''A broad regional coalition of civil society associations from the countries of the former Yugoslavia is planning to strongly pressure the succession countries into forming regional commissions to establish the facts on war crimes and other severe violations of human rights.'' Natasa Kandic: Founder and Director, Humanitarian Law Centre, Serbia and Montenegro. *'''Serbia''' to Uncover Mass Graves-Belgrade 13 August 2009 [http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/21609/] ''The Serbian Justice Ministry has announced that a state commission will be formed by September to mark out uncovered mass graves from 1944-46, daily Danas reported Thursday. The graves are thought to contain victims of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito's Partisans.'' *Croatian Law: The first online newspaper of the party in Croatia [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hr&u=http://www.hsp1861.hr/vijesti2009-4/30042009-1.html&ei=Lo5NS6isMsqHkQXiqtygDQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAwQ7gEwATgU&prev=/search%3Fq%3DTitoism%2Band%2BTotalitarianism%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DN%26start%3D20 -Recognition Regime Victims of the Totalitarian Communism, Fascism and Nazism in Europe!] *Dr. Zoran Bozic: Tito ordered massacre of the Croatian population in May and June 1945 The purpose of this [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hr&u=http://www.safaric-safaric.si/materiali_cro/bozic/20090624%2520IKA%2520Bozic%2520Tito%2520kontrolirao%2520genocid%2520na%2520terenu.pdf&ei=qpFFS5iJGsuHkQWm0uj8Ag&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DTito%2Bkontrolirao%2Bgenocid%2Bna%2Bterenu%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us presentation] is to contribute to the formulation and established chain of command and composition of the genocide perpetrators of one sixth of the entire Croatian population in May and June 1945. In this preparation partisan sources were used exclusively. Dr. Zoran Bozic an official of the Croatian Association of Victims of Communism. (Mr Bozic is a Doctor from Zagreb -Croatia, Master of Medical Science and has done 20 years intensive research into ''partisan communists'' in the former Yugoslavia) * Croatia: Amnesty International & PART II - LUSTRATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE The Draft Law on Removing the Consequences of the Totalitarian Communist Regime, proposed by: the Croatian Party of Rights (1998 and 1999) aimed to systematically bar high-ranking party and state officials of the former regime from holding high-ranking offices in the new state, if in the past these persons had violated human rights and opposed the establishment of democracy. The Law on the Security Services of the Republic of Croatia has been applied since 1 April 2002. The key intention of the law is the establishment of an appropriate model of supervision of their work (internal and external control). The law makes no distinction between the period from 1945 until 1990 and the period after 1990. Principally, the law allows for access to the documents and material. In the period 1990-1996 there were an estimated 2,200 dismissals and appointments of judges and state attorneys recorded in the Official Gazette. In Croatia there have as yet been practically no major public debates on the past. <ref>[http://www.amnesty.nl/bibliotheek_vervolg/thema_berechting_part_2 Croatia & PART II - LUSTRATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, Amnesty International ]</ref> == Mr Dizdar's ''Scientific Journal'' Study Notes== *''Item A''-An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross <ref>[http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=27516&lang=en Hrcak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia] by Mr Dizdar's ''Scientific Journal'' - An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross. This paper dedicated to the 60th anniversary of these tragic events represents a small step towards the elaboration of known data and brings a list of yet unknown and unpublished original documents, mostly belonging to the '''Yugoslavian Military''' and Political Government 1945-1947. Amongst those documents are those mostly relating to Croatian territory although a majority of concentration camps and execution sites were outside of Croatia, in other parts of Yugoslavia. The author hopes that the readers will receive a complete picture about events related to Bleiburg and the Way of The Cross and the suffering of numerous Croats, which is confirmed directly in many documents and is related to the execution of a person or a whole group of people and sometimes non-stop for days.</ref> '''Translated:''' Josip Broz Tito, the supreme commander of the NOV and PO-Yugoslavia and President of the National Committee of Liberation of Yugoslavia, sent on 30 August. 1944: ''"Last call to all deluded servants of the occupiers and to all Domobrani Croatian, Slovenian Domobrancima and seduced Chetniks to leave the occupier and surrender to the National Liberation Army by September 15, 1944, with a threat to all those who do not, will be brought before a war court, judged as traitors and punished by the strictest punishment and concerning on the issue of the Allies, they will not interfere in our internal matters and that no one will not stop to punish the traitors of the people and servants occupying forces." ''(See: N. BARIC, 2003, 496. / faksimil letka/) page 121 *''Item B''- '''Z. Dizdar''': An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross According to the research of ''Z.Dizdar'', Partisan General [http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/86-3-147.shtml Aleksandar Rankovic] was only answerable to Tito (page 128). Aleksandar Rankovic play a major role in these executions and the only person that could to give Rankovic such an order, was Tito. The report also states that there were huge Camps housing POWs, amongst them were women and children. On page 182 (66) it states that there were '''24 422 children''' in the camps.<ref>[http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:Xmg34OucoOoJ:scholar.google.com/++RESEARCH+OF+THE+PROBLEM+OF+BLEIBURG+AND+WAY+OF+THE+CROSS+++ZDRAVKO+DIZDAR+djeca+logor&hl=en&as_sdt=2000 Hrcak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia by Mr Dizdar's Scientific Journal - An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross.] This paper dedicated to the 60th anniversary of these tragic events represents a small step towards the elaboration of known data and brings a list of yet unknown and unpublished original documents, mostly belonging to the Yugoslavian Military and Political Government 1945-1947.</ref> *Treba kazati kako su postojali još posebni logoru za folsdojčere, kojisu još 21. XI. 1944. od Predsjedništva AVNOJ-a proglašeni kolektivnimkrivcima i neprijateljima naroda, na osnovi cega je od nove komunistickevlasti izvršena konfisciranja njihove imovine te zapoceo njihov progon,uhicivanja i upucivanja u logore.130 Tako je 18. I. 1946. u jugoslavenskimlogorima bilo 117.485 folksdojcera (58.821 žena, 34.214 muškaraca i24.422 djece) (Opširnije o tome vidi/ for more details: V. GEIGER, 200) == Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Tito & the Yugoslav Economy == ''Self-management as system was only slightly more efficient than the Soviet model. It was bureaucratised and cumbersome and could not compete with Western economies. '''People could obtain so much free''' or '''for less than the market price''' (e.g. apartments) that they could be obtain without work. All this made the settling of accounts in the 1980s and in the post-socialist age more difficult'' ''In Tito's system no interest or ideas could be expressed in a truly democratic way. This did most harm where feelings of ethnic identity were concerned because their suppression led to growth of extreme nationalism. Furthermore, the economic failure of Tito's system, most clearly expressed in the protracted crisis of the 1980s, left people who even if they were not poor, were disillusioned and open to manipulation by demagogues. Finally Tito's practical solutions ensured that he would retain unlimited power during his life time, but foreshadowed the problems would come after his death.'' Professor Ivo Goldstein's[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Goldstein] work ''above'' proves that Josip Broz, put simply, was a bad economist and the Communists Party members were bad economists too. According to these and other references [http://books.google.com/books?id=pSxJdE4MYo4C&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=Ivo+Goldstein+josip+broz+tito&source=bl&ots=LhBvNMaOlk&sig=xzaZOyX2NizYEnvG6LFgv5_sh2c&hl=en&ei=DrDmSsKeNI-PkQXukOTBBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=liberation%20of%20belgrade%20october%201944&f=false], this was one of the reasons that contributed to the break-up of Yugoslavia. As this was such a historical event, this information should be in the Wikipedia article in order to make it more encyclopaedic. == Deletion On Wiki Talk Page Josip Broz Tito (fun and games) == *[[Directory:Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia|Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia]] Dear reader just recently my thoughts on talkpage Tito have been deleted and it seems it's going to stay that way. Since I am faced with the fact that my opinions are being suppressed and then eventually will be blocked, I've decided to put this out there so these events may be known to the wider wiki community. The article in question is Josip Broz Tito (the former Dictator of Yugoslavia- East Europe). He was commander of the partisan forces during world war 2 and later a Stalinistic style dictator of the former Yugoslavia. The Wikipedic article is biased and does not mention crimes (Bleiburg massacre & foibe massacres)) against humanity that were committed under his leadership. I registered that this should be part of the article and as a result I have been deleted. One writer was very abusive and deleted my writings on talk back pages. His name is DIREKTOR. He was supported by Ruhrfisch ><>°° I would like to quote some of the Direktor's statements regarding this article just to inform you of what we are dealing with here. {{Cquote|Find yourself another one of your crappy "forums" to talk about your presumptions. Just forget about this, Luigi/Brunodam, you're not annoying anyone - you're just turning out amusing. I think I'll file a checkuser in an hour or so, you'd better believe it when I say I'll delete everything you wrote if you're a sock. --DIREKTOR (TALK) 15:49, 5 August 2009 (UTC)}} These events are not some conspiracy. They have been part of the western media since the break up of the former Yugoslavia. They have been presented as TV documentaries, on talk back shows and in general writings in England, other parts of Europe and USA, Australia and other parts of the free world. They are backed by eye witness accounts by people who were actually caught up in these events. The Croatian government is addressing these issues with investigations and financial reimbursement is being given to the victims. These are facts and should be present in the article and not deleted when someone points them out. These actions mirror the attitude of the regime that I am trying to expose. The Josip Broz Tito article is a dangerous biased piece of writing. It would fit perfectly in any article of the old the Yugoslavia or the old Soviet Union propaganda machine (Cult of personality). Why is it there? The only answer it seems is that Wikipedia has some writers of extreme views (Stalin Style) who don't tolerate being questioned. Referenced from www.britannica.com: "The irony of Tito's remarkable life is that he created the conditions for the eventual destruction of his lifelong effort. Instead of allowing the process of democratisation to establish its own limits, he constantly upset the work of reformers while failing to satisfy their adversaries. He created a federal state, yet he constantly fretted over the pitfalls of decentralization." Tito was the commander of the Partisans and there are far too many examples of mass murders & mass arrests for it to be ignored (& there are many more). Any good encyclopedic article should make reference to them. It would be like Stalin without his rule of terror being documented. This just dosen't make sense in the modern world. What we have here is a clear avoidance of these issues (in the article), thus making it biased. {{Cquote|Direktor '''stated''': they have absolutely nothing to do with Josip Broz Tito}} Well then, what ''' did Tito do'''? Did he let these horrible events just happen? Did he have a '''moral conscience''' (the war did end)? Was he '''incompetent?''' Was he the great leader that the Yugoslav Communist state propaganda machine portrayed him to be? Even the Wiki article states this. 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Vickery: Colombian football on the rise
4yTim Vickery
Inter hammer leaders Sao Paulo to go top in Brazil
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Four clubs in the Copa Sudamericana quarters shows Colombia is on the rise
Tim VickerySouth America correspondent
Colombia's Independiente Santa Fe are the reigning Copa Sudamericana champions. GUILLERMO LEGARIA/AFP/Getty Images
Three countries dominate this year's Copa Sudamericana, South America's Europa League equivalent.
Over the next two week, the quarterfinalists will be defined. Put together, 11 of the last 16 come from Argentina, Brazil and Colombia.
In the case of the first two countries, this is hardly a surprise. Three slots in the last 16 are reserved for Argentine teams, and four slots are reserved for Brazilians. All the clubs from these countries have done so far is beat one of their compatriots.
The representatives of all the other nations have had a rougher ride. They have come through two rounds against international opponents. All started with four teams in the field. Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru already have none left. Paraguay still have two teams, while Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela have one apiece. And Colombia still have four.
True, one Colombian side has been eliminated -- Tolima lost in the opening round to Deportivo La Guaira of Venezuela. The Colombians, though, still have four teams because they can boast last year's champions, Santa Fe, who got a bye in the first two rounds and go straight into the competition at this stage.
It would be unwise to base an evaluation of the strength of a country's domestic competition merely on results in the Copa Sudamericana. It is a second string competition, with very little of the prestige of the Copa Libertadores, the continent's Champions League. One of the main objectives of the Sudamericana is to give international experience and exposure to clubs who lack tradition. In itself, then, the strong showing of the Colombians in this year's Sudamericana is not especially relevant.
But it fits into a pattern. Because Colombia currently hold both South American club crowns. Santa Fe of Bogota won last year's Sudamericana, and some two months ago, in one of the most impressive campaigns in the competition's recent history, Atletico Nacional of Medellin won the Libertadores. The Colombians, then, are establishing themselves as a major continental force.
This, perhaps, is only to be expected. True, in relative terms Colombia was late to establish a professional league -- in the late 1940s, some time after the more traditional footballing nations to the south. But Colombian football has some obvious advantages to call on. Outside Brazil, it is the country with the largest population in South America.
Unlike many of its neighbours, it is decentralised, with a number of urban centres -- and football is the game of the city. It has a football-crazy population, with a refined taste for good passing play.
South America shares nine World Cup wins -- five for Brazil, and two each for Uruguay and Argentina. Though Chile are the reigning continental champions, the nation outside the traditional trio most likely to get their hands on the ultimate trophy in the future is Colombia.
That, though, is for the long term. Over the next two weeks, Santa Fe, Atletico Nacional, Independiente Medellin and Junior of Barranquilla will be trying to book their places in the quarterfinals of the Copa Sudamericana.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Kevin made a stylish but simple entertainment unit. You'll need a weekend to do it, mainly due to the paint. The only gear you will need is a saw, a couple of drills, sander and some hardware.
Step one: Cut the parts using your saw and a straight-edge. Work on the floor and lay the MDF sheets on sacrificial timber. Wear a dust mask when cutting MDF, as well as your other safety gear.
Step two: Assemble the cabinet on the floor. Glue each joint with Aquadhere, and countersink all screws to finish just below the surface. Drill pilot holes too, because MDF tends to split if you force screws straight in.
Step three: Fill all the screw holes with polyester resin (such as Selleys Plasti-Bond). When it's set hard, sand the surfaces and edges ready for painting.
Step four: Make the drawers by gluing and nailing the pieces together. Use fine nails so you don't split the MDF.
Step five: Paint the cabinet, shelves and drawers. Start with a primer (such as White Knight's MDF primer) to seal all the surfaces thoroughly and quickly. Then finish with the paint of your choice. Kevin chose a low-sheen acrylic.
Step six: Once the paint is dry you can fit the drawers. Roller drawer-slides make this step very easy. Then drill the holes for the shelf pins. Kevin made a template from a scrap of ply to make sure all the holes line up. He also used a drill-stop to make sure he didn't drill too deep.
Make cut-outs in the back of your selves to make cabling easy, and for the same reason drill a few large diameter holes in the back of the divisions.
On the cabinet bottom, fix on the 70 x 35mm stiffeners, then screw on the legs. Make sure the back legs are positioned so they won't hit your skirting boards.
Finish off by fitting the draw knobs, nailing on the plywood backs, and loading your new cabinet with all your entertainment gear.
Now sit back and watch Let's Do It!
Kev's Tip: Use a Warrington (also called a "Brad" or "Cross Pein" hammer) to drive short or fine nails. The cross pein is great for starting short nails, and the head is shaped for good control.


Today we are in constant communication.
Feeding our communication needs is the perpetually innovating company, Apple (AAPL). You may have heard of it. In fact, I'd be willing to bet a fairly decent sum that you are reading this very sentence on an Apple product right now.
And stand in line they did. This week, Apple released an astonishing sales figure: the company sold 74.5 million iPhones during its fiscal first quarter (Oct. 27 – Dec. 27), exceeding analysts' expectations by over 12 million.
Apple's total quarterly revenue was 74.6 billion, coupled with a record net profit of $18 billion ($3.06 per diluted share for my AAPL investors). A significant improvement from just one year ago, when AAPL reported quarterly revenue of $57.6 billion and net profits of $13.1 billion.
While this news has been widely reported, the media has failed to mention the following: Apple's market share and success has risen in tandem with its commitment to corporate social responsibility. Particularly, labor practices.
The Chinese consumer is renowned for constantly aspiring to own the trendiest new gadget. Apple's first quarter revenues in Greater China (Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan) were calculated at $16.1 billion, a 70% increase from just one year prior. Moreover, China iPhone sales increased by 83%. This is no small feat. At 1.3 billion cell phones, China is the largest market in the world. Just one year ago, the iPhone was 6th on China's desirable smartphone list, trailing Huawei, Lenovo, Samsung, Xiaomi and Yulong.
Might the Chinese consumer be rewarding Apple with increased brand loyalty in response to the company's heightened efforts in corporate social responsibility?
Albeit Apple is well on its way to building the greenest building in the world and its energy sources are about 95% renewable, the company has not always been the epitome of corporate social responsibility. In fact, Apple has drastically turned the tables over the past few years. Prior criticisms have included the company's harsh treatment of factory workers, excessive use of dirty energy to power data centers, failure to recycle, and the hazardous mining of precious resources.
Importantly, fingers have been steadfastly pointed at Apple's labor practices in China.
Over 90% of Apple's products are assembled in China. To be fair, most multinational corporations are leveraging similar contract manufacturers, but often with greater success comes heightened scrutiny. The luster of Apple products was tarnished in 2010 when 18 workers at Foxconn, Apple's largest subcontractor, committed suicide and again in 2012 when disgruntled employees leaked videos of harsh working conditions.
Apple, recognizing the severity of the potential consequences, did not take these accusations lightly. At the beginning of 2014, gone was the "work until quotas are obtained" mantra. Labor requirements were reduced to 53 hours per week, seating areas were provided for workers who had previously been forced to stand for ten hours straight, and additional restrooms and lunch breaks incorporated.
And Apple knows it, too. The company plans to establish 40 retail stores in China by the middle of 2016, sell old iPhone models at less expensive prices, and increase marketing promotion to the chinese consumer. Given that the chinese market is four times that of the U.S., there is massive potential for Apple in China.
It seems as though competitor Samsung has been in the hot seat regarding working conditions and has been losing market share. In July 2014, Samsung was criticized by the China Labor Watch for abuse of child labor laws – five children under 16 were found working for one of its suppliers, resurfacing the memory of a similar situation in 2012 when seven underage children were working for that same supplier. Not coincidentally, in 3Q 2014, Samsung lost its #1 China market share to Xiaomi.
On the flip side, Apple, who has been improving its corporate social responsibility image is gaining market share. Is this a direct 1:1 relationship? Of course not. But it seems reasonable to conclude that if a company's main consumption is from the country in which lousy working conditions are prevalent, quality of labor conditions might weigh into brand perception. As cell phone features among suppliers become less differentiated, image marketing becomes vital. Admittedly, Apple has a strong product and the desire for an iPhone likely outweighs the memories of poor working conditions among chinese consumers.
But what about companies with less impressive products? The implications of poor working conditions could be catastrophic to bottom line.
Apple was well-served sticking to their strategy and not compromising quality, reputation or social responsibility.
Apple changed with the transition from Stene Jobs to Tim Cook – more than most realize.


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New projects at Arlington cemeteries aim to resurrect interest in past leaders, local communities
in All African News
O.K. Carter is an author, historian and holds a seat on the city's Landmark Preservation Commission. The former Arlington Star-Telegram publisher has published essays and produced YouTube videos on local history.
But even with his extensive experience in city history, Carter says finding historic graves near downtown remains a hassle.
"Every time I come here, I have to rediscover where things are," Carter says.
Arlington Cemetery at 801 S. Mary St. is a city-owned property that holds several cemetery sites, some of which are as old as the original town, and more than 2,000 graves. The site is the final resting place for nine mayors, several postmasters, war veterans and original settlers. A partial list of the interned reads like an Arlington roadmap.
"If you drive around Arlington, you'll see it, looks like street names—Collins, Cooper … Abram. All of that, those people are here," Carter says.
Also on the list is Mary Street, which was named after Mary Carlisle Cravens. Her husband, Dr. M. H. Cravens, smoothed the foot path to the cemetery with his tractor to visit her grave. The path became her namesake street.
The commission (LPC), after mulling navigation difficulties with Carter, named the gravel roads that connect the cemetery after some of the most notable buried historical figures and are developing QR codes to install at a couple dozen sites.
"I expect people to eventually be jealous and put their own QR signs up," Carter says while standing near George Finger and Weeks ways.
Kailey Broussard
KERA News
New street signs in Arlington Cemetery mark gravel roads named after notable people buried in the graveyards, including George Finger Way and Weeks Way.
People behind another site two miles south has a similar idea in the works.
The Arlington Heritage Memorial Grounds Corporation (AHMGC) plans to install QR codes in its multi-cemetery site around the 600 block of West Arkansas Lane. The site holds three cemeteries: the Mill Branch Cemetery, the Middleton Tate Johnson Family Cemetery and the Arlington Colored Cemetery. The site, between 1900 and the 1950s, was the only place where Black families could bury their loved ones.
Fundraising efforts to install QR codes and pathways are the latest in decades efforts to pay homage to the people buried, including Johnson, known as the founding father of Tarrant County, and nearly 80 known graves of Black and African American residents.
"It's been an ongoing project and now it's really come into its own. It's going to be a great tool for education," says Geraldine Mills, the society's executive director.
In 2000, the society removed cabins that had been placed atop the graves of Black people. Arlington Historical Society built a list of the interned and constructed an ornate fence around the property—as well as fundraised for repairs when a drunken driver drove into the gates and damaged several gravestones in 2021.
Arlington Historical Society members took control of maintenance and cleanup in the 1980s after decades of different philanthropic groups leading piecemeal cleanups.
Mills, who is also an AHMGC board member, says she expects progress to be made on the paths and codes in the next six months. Volunteers have also made constant progress on finding more information on those buried onsite.
"It's a great attempt at connecting history and connecting people in this town because … everybody contributed in some way," Mills says.
Cataloguing local history
The research Mills and the Historical Society are doing has filled in substantial gaps in the archives of Arlington's Black history over the past couple of decades.
Mills' work to collect records and stories from The Hill, Arlington's segregation-era neighborhood specifically dedicated to African Americans, was instrumental to the ongoing docuseries "Echoes from the Hill." The first episode aired Juneteenth weekend, and four new episodes will air over the next four years.
Carl Pointer, one of the interviewees on the first episode, brought an extensive list of family members to the Historical Society that were buried in the African American cemetery.
Mills says interest in Arlington's broader history—including its Black history—has picked up recently, as people and communities reckon with their past. She says the current climate offers a time for learning and healing.
"I think that's what they're seeing this as, is realizing the struggle that a lot of these people that are buried out there had through years, but yet they continued through faith in their religion, faith in their family and learned from one another. They were community and contributed greatly to Arlington's growth," Mills says.
Arlington's growth has made capturing history difficult at times, Carter says. The town grew in half a century to become the 50th most populous city in the United States.
"Most of that growth takes place after 1950, and so what you have is a city that all of a sudden switches over the next half century from less than 8,000 people to more than 400,000," he says.
Additionally, around half of residents had a different address a decade ago, Carter says, as people look for convenient places to settle down and commutes to Dallas and Fort Worth.
"Even though the town is growing all the time, Arlington's mid-cities location is just so ideal for access to all the jobs in the Metroplex that people can come and go," he says.
However, that will not stop local historians from cataloguing local history, he says.
"It's … a fairly straightforward situation. Read signs, QR codes; history comes alive again," he says.
Got a tip? Email Kailey Broussard at kbroussard@kera.org. You can follow Kailey on Twitter @KaileyBroussard.
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METHANE-BASED
from : http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/methane-based/
the Simplest Answer is Often Correct
http://nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/titan20100603.html
What is Consuming Hydrogen and Acetylene on Titan?
"Two new papers based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft scrutinize the complex chemical activity on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. While non-biological chemistry offers one possible explanation, some scientists believe these chemical signatures bolster the argument for a primitive, exotic form of life or precursor to life on Titan's surface. According to one theory put forth by astrobiologists, the signatures fulfill two important conditions necessary for a hypothesized "methane-based life." One key finding comes from a paper that shows hydrogen molecules flowing down through Titan's atmosphere and disappearing at the surface. Another paper maps hydrocarbons on the Titan surface and finds a lack of acetylene. This lack of acetylene is important because that chemical would likely be the best energy source for a methane-based life on Titan. One interpretation of the acetylene data is that the hydrocarbon is being consumed as food. On Titan, where temperatures are around minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit, a methane-based organism would have to use a substance that is liquid as its medium for living processes, but not water itself. Water is frozen solid on Titan's surface and much too cold to support life as we know it. The list of liquid candidates is very short: liquid methane and related molecules like ethane. While liquid water is widely regarded as necessary for life, there has been extensive speculation published in the scientific literature that this is not a strict requirement. In addition Cassini's spectrometer detected an absence of water ice on the Titan surface, but loads of benzene and another material, which appears to be an organic compound that scientists have not yet been able to identify. "Titan's atmospheric chemistry is cranking out organic compounds that rain down on the surface so fast that even as streams of liquid methane and ethane at the surface wash the organics off, the ice gets quickly covered again," Clark said. "All that implies Titan is a dynamic place where organic chemistry is happening now.""
Methane-Based Life
http://dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/03/life-of-saturns-titan-could-it-be-methane-based.html
"Saturn's giant moon Titan has water frozen as hard as granite and Great Lakes-sized bodies of fed by a complete liquid cycle, much like the hydrological cycle on Earth, but made up of methane and ethane rather than on water. Methane-natural gas-assumes an Earth-like role of water on Titan. It exists in enough abundance to condense into rain and form puddles on the surface within the range of temperatures that occur on Titan. "The ironic thing on Titan is that although it's much colder than Earth, it actually acts like a super-hot Earth rather than a snowball Earth, because at Titan temperatures, methane is more volatile than water vapor is at Earth temperatures," even going so far as to call Titan's climate 'tropical', even though it sounds odd for a moon that orbits Saturn more than nine times farther from the sun than Earth. But on Titan, which rotates only once every 16 days, "the tropical weather system extends to the entire planet.""
The team found two types of bacteria living in Lost Hammer that feed off the methane and likely breathe sulfate.
Non-Hypothetical
http://sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=73778
Bacteria Suited for Life on Mars Discovered
"Researchers have discovered that methane-eating bacteria survive in a unique spring located on Axel Heiberg Island in Northern Canada. The Canadian spring's sub-zero water is so salty it doesn't freeze and it has no consumable oxygen in it. There are, however, big bubbles of methane that come to the surface, which had provoked the researchers' curiosity as to whether the gas was being produced geologically or biologically and whether anything could survive in such an extreme hypersaline sub-zero environment. "We were surprised that we did not find methanogenic bacteria that produce methane at Lost Hammer," Whyte said. "But we did find other very unique anaerobic organisms — organisms that survive by essentially eating methane and probably breathing sulfate instead of oxygen.""
Flammable Methane Rivers, Flammable Methane Rain
http://newscientist.com/article/dn6910-methane-rivers-and-rain-shape-titans-surface.html
"Hills made of ice and rivers carved by liquid methane mark the surface of Saturn's giant moon. Scientists speculated long ago that some kind of hydrocarbon liquids might flow on Titan. They now know that the fluid that carved the moon's rivers and channels is methane. "Titan is a flammable world." But all the oxygen is trapped in ice. "That's a good thing, or Titan would have exploded a long time ago."
imagery from Galileo showing emission of gases
June 12, 2010 by Jay Babcock	Categories: Spectre Group Reports	| Tags: Spectre Group Reports
About Jay Babcock
I am the co-founder and editor of Arthur Magazine (2002-2008, 2012-13) and curator of the three Arthur music festival events (Arthurfest, ArthurBall, and Arthur Nights) (2005-6). Prior to that I was a district office staffer for Congressman Henry A. Waxman, a DJ at Silver Lake pirate radio station KBLT, a copy editor at Larry Flynt Publications, an editor at Mean magazine, and a freelance journalist contributing work to LAWeekly, Mojo, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Vibe, Rap Pages and many other print and online outlets. An extended piece I wrote on Fela Kuti was selected for the Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 anthology. In 2006, I was one of five Angelenos listed in the Music section of Los Angeles Magazine's annual "Power" issue. In 2007-8, I produced a blog called "Nature Trumps," about the L.A. River. Today, I live a peaceful life in the rural wilderness of Joshua Tree, California, where I am a partner in JTHomesteader.com with Stephanie Smith. https://linktr.ee/jaywbabcock
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ICYMI: Djokovic withdraws from Cincinnati Open
Djokovic withdraws from Cincinnati Open
World number one Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from this month's Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, United States.
He said he needed more time to recuperate from a season in which he won three Grand Slam tournaments and competed at the Tokyo Olympics.
"I'm taking a bit longer to recover after quite a physically taxing journey from Australian Open up to Tokyo," he wrote on Twitter.
"Sadly, this means I won't be ready to compete in Cincinnati this year so I'll be turning my focus to the U.S. Open and spending more time with my family.
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"Can't wait to see you in New York soon!"
Djokovic, a 20-time Grand Slam champion, is a two-time champion at the Masters 1000 hardcourt event played at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Ohio.
Djokovic had won all three of the Grand Slam tournaments he entered this year and had sought to be the first man to win all four and an Olympic gold in a calendar year.
But those plans were dashed when he lost to eventual gold medallist Alexander Zverev of Germany in the Olympic semi-final and then to Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta in the bronze medal match.
The Western & Southern Open runs from Aug. 14 to Aug. 22.
Tags: Cincinnati masters Novak Djokovic


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namespace fb {
struct Task2::Task2Data {
	SyncEventPtr wait_event;
	ThreadSafeCounter* children_counter = nullptr;
	ThreadSafeCounter children_counter_source;
};

Task2::Task2(bool wait)
	: m(new Task2Data)
{
	if (wait) {
		m->wait_event = CreateSyncEvent(true);
	}
}

void Task2::OnExecuted(TaskProcessor* tp) {
	if (m->children_counter_source == 0) {
		OnFinish(tp);
	}
	else {
		tp->AddChildrenWaitingTask(&m->children_counter_source, shared_from_this());
	}
}

void Task2::OnFinish(TaskProcessor* tp) {
	if (m->children_counter) {
		auto counter = --(*m->children_counter);
		if (counter == 0) {
			tp->CheckChildrenWaitingTasks(m->children_counter);
		}
	}

	if (m->wait_event)
		m->wait_event->Trigger();
}

void Task2::AddChild(TaskProcessor* tp, Task2Ptr child) {
	child->m->children_counter = &m->children_counter_source;
	++(*child->m->children_counter);
	tp->AddTask(child);
}

void Task2::Wait() {
	if (m->wait_event)
		m->wait_event->Wait();
}

void Task2::Reset() {
	if (m->wait_event) {
		m->wait_event->Trigger();
		m->wait_event->Reset();
	}

	if (m->children_counter_source != 0) {
		Logger::Log(FB_ERROR_LOG_ARG, "children_counter_source is not zero. Rest failed.");
	}
}

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Campbell invested almost $2,000 in the DivCoins,1 which were supposed to be tied to the lucrative Bitcoin market.
The company posted a note on its website in February saying the business was closed and unclaimed funds would be reduced by 25% per month until there was no balance.
Campbell tried for four months to get his investment returned.
After The Expositor attempted to contact Curry, Campbell suddenly received a cheque for $623.92 but he knows the rest of his money — about $1,900 sunk into DivCoins — is gone.
Vault of Satoshi was a product of Canadians Ryan van Barneveld and Mike Curry, and their modus operandi increasingly seems to be similar to another "Bitcoin Bank" operator.
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To me this reads like he invested in company "shares", and is mad now he lost his "investment"


David & Stacy met on the Internet in February of 97 using mIRC. At the time David was stationed in Korea with the U.S. ARMY. Stacy was living in her home state of Washington. They were married in February of 1998, merging two families to make the Huddle Bunch.
The Huddles have lived and traveled all over the world. They have made countless road trips back & forth, across the United States due to the fact that David is from Virginia on the East coast and Stacy is from Washington state on the West coast.
Before marrying each other, David had been married twice and Stacy once. Chrissi, Jamie & Greg are from David's previous marriages. Melissa & Dylan are from Stacy's previous marriage. Megan is David & Stacy's daughter together.


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#pragma once

#include <caffe/net.hpp>
#include <opencv/cv.h>
#include <v4r/features/global_estimator.h>

#include <boost/program_options.hpp>
#include <glog/logging.h>

namespace po = boost::program_options;

namespace v4r
{

class V4R_EXPORTS CNN_Feat_ExtractorParameter
{
public:
    size_t image_height_;
    size_t image_width_;
    int device_id_;
    std::string device_name_;
    std::string output_layer_name_; ///< name of the layer of the CNN that is used for feature extraction
    std::string feature_extraction_proto_, pretrained_binary_proto_, input_mean_file_;
    cv::Vec3b background_color_; ///< background color of pixels not representing the object (only used if remove background is enabled)
    bool remove_background_; ///< if true, removes background for pixels not representing the object
    int margin_; ///< margin in pixel added to each side of the object's bounding box
    CNN_Feat_ExtractorParameter() :
            image_height_ (256),
            image_width_ (256),
            device_id_ (0),
            device_name_ ("CPU"),
            output_layer_name_ ("fc7"),
            background_color_ ( cv::Vec3b(255,255,255) ),
            remove_background_ (false),
            margin_ (10)
    {}

    /**
     * @brief init parameters
     * @param command_line_arguments (according to Boost program options library)
     * @return unused parameters (given parameters that were not used in this initialization call)
     */
    std::vector<std::string>
    init(int argc, char **argv)
    {
            std::vector<std::string> arguments(argv + 1, argv + argc);
            return init(arguments);
    }

    /**
     * @brief init parameters
     * @param command_line_arguments (according to Boost program options library)
     * @return unused parameters (given parameters that were not used in this initialization call)
     */
    std::vector<std::string>
    init(const std::vector<std::string> &command_line_arguments)
    {
        po::options_description desc("CNN parameters\n=====================");
        desc.add_options()
                ("help,h", "produce help message")
                ("cnn_net", po::value<std::string>(&feature_extraction_proto_)->required(), "Definition of CNN (.prototxt)")
                ("cnn_pretrained_net", po::value<std::string>(&pretrained_binary_proto_)->required(), "Trained weights (.caffemodel)")
                ("cnn_input_mean_file", po::value<std::string>(&input_mean_file_)->required(), "mean pixel values (.binaryproto)")
                ("cnn_device_name", po::value<std::string>(&device_name_)->default_value(device_name_), "")
                ("cnn_output_layer_name", po::value<std::string>(&output_layer_name_)->default_value(output_layer_name_), "")
                ("cnn_device_id", po::value<int>(&device_id_)->default_value(device_id_), "")
                ("cnn_image_height", po::value<size_t>(&image_height_)->default_value(image_height_), "")
                ("cnn_remove_background", po::value<bool>(&remove_background_)->default_value(remove_background_), "if true, removes background for pixels not representing the object")
                ("cnn_margin", po::value<int>(&margin_)->default_value(margin_), "margin in pixel added to each side of the object's bounding box")
                ;
        po::variables_map vm;
        po::parsed_options parsed = po::command_line_parser(command_line_arguments).options(desc).allow_unregistered().run();
        std::vector<std::string> to_pass_further = po::collect_unrecognized(parsed.options, po::include_positional);
        po::store(parsed, vm);
        if (vm.count("help")) { std::cout << desc << std::endl; to_pass_further.push_back("-h"); }
        try { po::notify(vm); }
        catch(std::exception& e) {  std::cerr << "Error: " << e.what() << std::endl << std::endl << desc << std::endl; }
        return to_pass_further;
    }
};

/**
 * @brief Feature extraction from a Convolutional Neural Network based on Berkeley's Caffe Framework.
 * Extracts the image from a RGB-D point cloud by the bounding box indicated from the object indices
 * @author Thomas Faeulhammer
 * @date Nov, 2015
 */
template<typename PointT, typename Dtype = float>
class V4R_EXPORTS CNN_Feat_Extractor : public GlobalEstimator<PointT>
{
public:
    using GlobalEstimator<PointT>::indices_;
    using GlobalEstimator<PointT>::cloud_;
    using GlobalEstimator<PointT>::descr_name_;
    using GlobalEstimator<PointT>::descr_type_;
    using GlobalEstimator<PointT>::feature_dimensions_;

    CNN_Feat_ExtractorParameter param_;

private:
    boost::shared_ptr<caffe::Net<Dtype> > net_;
    bool init_;
    cv::Mat mean_;
    cv::Size input_geometry_;
    int num_channels_;

    void SetMean(const std::string& mean_file);
    void Preprocess(const cv::Mat& img, std::vector<cv::Mat>* input_channels);
    void WrapInputLayer(std::vector<cv::Mat>* input_channels);
    int init();

public:
    CNN_Feat_Extractor(const CNN_Feat_ExtractorParameter &p = CNN_Feat_ExtractorParameter(),
                       const std::string &descr_name = "alexnet",
                       size_t descr_type = FeatureType::ALEXNET,
                       size_t feature_dimensions = 4096) :
        GlobalEstimator<PointT>(descr_name, descr_type, feature_dimensions),
        param_(p),
        init_ (false)
    { }

    bool compute(Eigen::MatrixXf &signature);

    bool compute(const cv::Mat &img, Eigen::MatrixXf &signature);

    bool needNormals() const { return false; }

    typedef boost::shared_ptr< CNN_Feat_Extractor<PointT, Dtype> > Ptr;
    typedef boost::shared_ptr< CNN_Feat_Extractor<PointT, Dtype> const> ConstPtr;
};

}


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"We are honored to receive this prestigious award from our long-time partner," said Chris Milano, president of AbelConn Electronics. "I'm proud of our team's continued commitment to providing superior support that enables Honeywell's success."
AbelConn has provided Honeywell with engineering services, manufacturing, test and product life cycle support since 1997. This award recognizes AbelConn's recent collaboration with Honeywell on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. AbelConn provided a dedicated account team responsible for identifying cost savings opportunities, conducting BOM analysis and completing DFx (Design for Excellence). AbelConn executed these tasks on an expedited timetable resulting in cost savings, reduced schedule impacts and meeting critical delivery dates. This is AbelConn's second Supplier of the Year Award from Honeywell.


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This session starts off with clear instructions on how to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the Gift of Tongues. Mike then describes the functions of our spirit - our life source, able to energise and illuminate our whole body, illuminate our mind, release creativity, bring insights, commune with God, and flow out to others. Learn how to cultivate and strengthen your spirit dimensions, including meditating on scripture to encounter God.
How many have been challenged in your thinking during the morning, just starting to think - that's great, wonderful. It takes a little time for these concepts to get in, because they shift how you view your life, and your responsibilities, and how you interact with them. I had some very good feedback in between times, very good. Okay, so before we go any further, I just want to, just for the sake of several who are not baptised in the spirit, or not released in tongues, I want to just speak about being filled with the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, so I want to speak about it a little bit, just so faith lifts up. I want to show you how you can receive, and then what we'll do is get those who don't speak in tongues, we'll get you to come towards the front. We'll get everyone else to gather around, one big crowd, and then we'll just pray all together, and that takes it away from being sort of self-conscious, that maybe you just haven't got the breakthrough yet.
So let me just give several scriptures related to being filled with the Holy Ghost. Firstly, very clear Jesus' ministry, He began His ministry with an encounter with the Holy Spirit. The Bible says the spirit of God came on Him, and the heavens opened up, and He heard the voice of God. From that point on in His life, He encountered an open heaven, an open spirit world. He encountered His Father's voice, and the leading of the spirit of God, so before He left, in Luke 24 He says this, in Verse 49: He says behold, I send the Promise of My Father on you; wait in the city of Jerusalem until you be clothed with power from on high. Now He's not talking here about being born again. He's talking about an empowerment, or a clothing.
In John, Chapter 20, He talks about sending them, so in John 20 He says this, Verse 21: As the Father sent Me, so I send you. So He's commissioning them again, and He said when He had done this, He breathed on them, and said: receive the Holy Spirit. So what happened was, He imparted to them the Holy Spirit. They were born again at that point in time. The parallel of course, when God created man, He breathed into him the breath of life, and man become a living soul. Now Jesus the last Adam, breathes into His followers, and they are born again, and He imparted through breathing the flow of the spirit of God. But He did say again, Acts 1 and Verse 4, He said being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the Promise of the Father, for He said: John baptised you in water, but you will be baptised in the Holy Spirit.
So now He's saying, even though they're born again, before they begin their ministry assignment, He wants them one, to be clothed with power - He uses different language to describe the same thing. He calls it the Promise of the Father; He calls it being clothed, or being endued from on high with power. He also calls it being baptised, or immersed into the spirit realm, and so what He's referring to when He uses the word baptised in the spirit, He's referring to us being immersed into the realm of the spirit. So the baptism in the spirit, being baptised in the spirit, is an entry experience into engaging the spiritual world, but it's only an entry experience. It's a great entry experience, it's a powerful entry experience, but the expectation is there'd be other things happen once we'd had that experience.
Then we read of course in Acts, Chapter 2, how the Holy Ghost came upon them, and suddenly the sound came from heaven like a rushing mighty wind. It filled the whole house were they were sitting. There appeared to them divided tongues like fire, set on every one of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost - and they began to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. So we see here in Acts 2, the first experience of being baptised in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost came on them. The power of God literally broke out of heaven upon them, and the first consequence of being filled was to overflow vocally. It says they spoke as the Holy Spirit gave them, so you have to speak. It's the Holy Spirit who gives the language, so the language of tongues is not a language that we learn. It's an imparted flow of the Holy Spirit into our spirit, so the spirit of God clothes our spirit and we choose to speak, so you can't expect God to open your mouth and talk. You've actually got to speak, you've got to actually do the speaking.


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Amsterdam ArenA to receive 4 MWH storage system built with repurposed EV batteries
Storage system to be developed by The Mobility House and Eaton using 280 used Nissan LEAF batteries stored in racks; will eventually replace diesel generators used for back-up power during major events.
December 1, 2016 Ian Clover
The world-famous Amsterdam ArenA – home to Dutch soccer team Ajax Amsterdam – has signed groundbreaking 10-year deal for a large battery storage system that will provide back-up power during major events, grid stabilization services and on-demand power during busy periods.
The 4 MWH system will be built using 280 repurposed Nissan LEAF batteries, making it the world's largest commercial storage system comprised of second-life batteries.
The Mobility House, a German storage specialist, is leading the project in conjunction with power management company Eaton and Japanese car firm Nissan. The xStorage Buildings system will be able to draw energy from the grid whenever required, and can store and distribute power as needed.
Currently, the stadium has diesel generators as back-up, and the battery system will eventually replace this polluting source of energy. Buildings in the surrounding neighborhood will also be able to draw on the system, which will be managed by The Mobility House to ensure it performs all manner of energy services, including strengthening local grid stability.
"Nissan is proud to be using its expertise to transform the energy management systems of commercial premises," said Nissan Europe chairman Paul Willcox.
"This announcement is a world first and has the potential to revolutionize the energy industry. Since we announced xStorage back in May we've seen overwhelming interest from consumers and businesses alike.
"Not only will xStorage Buildings provide vital back-up power to the ArenA but it will also help to stabilize the national grid in the Netherlands at times of high-energy demand. This is the first of many exciting commercial announcements to come from Nissan in this rapidly developing market."
Amsterdam ArenA CEO Henk Markerink added: "We're talking about a huge advantage in sustainability. Soon we will be able to store generated energy from our solar panels and windmills and put it to use when we need it. A great innovation – in the future, the Amsterdam ArenA will be the first stadium in the world that won't be using fossil fuels anymore."
Nissan and Eaton has also made available its xStorage Home battery system to consumers in the U.K., Norway and Germany.
Ian Clover
Ian joined the pv magazine team in 2013 and specializes in power electronics (inverters) and battery storage. Ian also reports on the UK solar market, having worked as a print and web journalist in Britain for various multimedia companies, covering topics ranging from renewable energy and sustainability to real estate, sport and film.
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Archdiocese of New Orleans' Missing LGBT Webpage Mystery Is Partially Solved, But Questions Remain
July 20, 2015 /6 Comments/in Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor
In the Bondings 2.0 post on July 19, 2015, we described a communion denial near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in the course of the story, we provided a link to the Archdiocese of New Orleans' webpage of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on LGBT issues and the Catholic Church. We commented that it was one of the best resources on LGBT issues coming from a website of the institutional Church.
One of our readers, however, informed us that by the afternoon of July 19th, the FAQ webpage was no longer active. Indeed, the entire webpage for the LGBT ministry that the archdiocese had set up was also taken down.
Bondings 2.0 was able to obtain a copy of the page's text from the morning of July 19th, and it contained a wealth of information from authoritative Catholic sources on issues directly affecting LGBT ministry, presented in a pastorally sensitive way, which is why we had recommended it. You can read the material by clicking here.
Today, the Archdiocese of New Orleans posted the following statement on their main website concerning why the LGBT webpage was deactivated:
"The website and Facebook page for the Pastoral Care of Persons with Same-Sex Orientation, also known as LGBT, have been deactivated. An unauthorized person was able to access the website and post information that contradicts the teaching of the Catholic Church. We deeply regret that this has happened and are taking steps to secure the websites. Our mission is to represent accurately the teaching of the Bible and the Catholic Church and to provide ministry with integrity.
"We are very sorry that this misleading information has been posted and has caused confusion."
The mystery of this story lies in what the definition of "unauthorized person" is. Does this mean that someone hacked into the website? Or does it mean that someone from the archdiocese had posted the information without getting clearance from higher sources?
It's very sad that this information has been taken down because it actually explained the full teaching of the Catholic Church on lesbian and gay issues, including teaching on conscience, biblical interpretation, the evaluation of the sinfulness of sexual activity, civil rights, and the development of doctrine.
The archdiocese has said that it is unknown as to when the webpages will become active again.
It will be interesting to see which of the explanations that were on the site on the morning of July 19th will re-appear when the page comes up–particularly those sections which come from authoritative church documents and leaders.
For example, in answer to the question "What about conscience?" the webpage yesterday included the following quotations:
"A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his [sic] conscience. If he were to deliberately act against it, he would condemn himself." Catechism of the Catholic Church, # 1790
"If a man [sic] is admonished by his own conscience—even an erroneous conscience, but one whose voice appears to him as unquestionable—he must always listen to it. What is not permissible is that he culpably indulge in error without trying to reach the truth." John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, 1994, p. 191
"Deep within a person's conscience one discovers a law which one has not laid upon one's self but which one must obey. Its voice, ever calling the person to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in that person's heart at the right moment. . . . For one has in his or her heart a law inscribed by God. . . . One's conscience is one's most secret core and one's sanctuary. There one is alone with God whose voice echoes in that person's depths." Gaudium et spes, par 16; also Catholic Catechism, #1776
"Above the pope as an expression of the binding claim of Church authority, stands one's own conscience, which has to be obeyed first of all, if need be against the demands of Church authority." Fr. Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI); from a commentary on "Gaudium et Spes" ("The Church in the Modern World"); Published in Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II (Vorgrimler, Herbert – Ed, Burns and Oats, 1969), p. 134.
It will be a shame if this sound Catholic doctrine on conscience is not included in the new page. It should be included in every discussion about LGBT issues.
On the topic of development of doctrine, the page contained opinions of some leading theologians and church figures, as well as this excerpt from the Code of Canon Law:
No doctrine is understood to be infallibly defined unless it is clearly defined as such. Code of Canon Law, 1983, Canon 749 §3.
In the section on the evaluation of sexual sins, a passage from an official document from the Bishops of England and Wales was cited:
Pastoral care does not consist simply in the rigid and automatic application of objective moral norms. It considers the individual in his (or her) actual situation, with all his (or her) strengths and weaknesses. The decision of conscience… can only be made after prudent consideration of the real situation as well as the moral norm… the pastoral counselling of homophile persons cannot ignore the objective morality of homosexual genital acts, but it is important to interpret them, to understand the pattern of life in which they take place, to appreciate the personal meaning which these acts have for different people…" Catholic Bishops of England and Wales Catholic Social Welfare Commission, An Introduction to the Pastoral Care of Homosexual People, 1979.
Too often, people think of Church teaching on LGBT issues as narrowly focused on sexual matters. They also forget that teachings on conscience and evaluation of any act's morality must also be considered in these discussions. Let's pray that the new webpage will keep these important topics as part of their explanation of the Catholic Church's view on LGBT topics.
–Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry
Tags: Archdiocese of New Orleans, Catholic, church teaching, conscience, Gay, lesbian, LGBT
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Wendeln, Noreen says:
I know, I tried it, but it's been deactivated. I was hoping you might have the information on the "Frequently Asked Questions" that I can't get to right now because it was deactivated.
I understand if you can't, I was just hoping you would have the info.
Thank you for replying so quickly!
Noreen Wendeln
1436 Needmore Road
nwendeln@catholiccincinnati.org
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths."
Proverbs 3:5,6
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newwaysministryblog says:
Please see the new blog post explaining the missing Archdiocese of New Orleans LGBT ministry web page:
https://newwaysministryblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/archdiocese-of-new-orleans-missing-lgbt-webpage-mystery-is-partially-solved-but-questions-remain/
Joe Pugh says:
Thank you! I am still working on reconciling my orientation with my faith – the page you linked was very helpful – I read it but did not save it alas. Joey PughPhoenixville, PA
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METALLICA 'Hardwired' Cover Creator Says CROWBAR Similarities Are Coincidental
Dimitri Scheblanov of Herring & Herring, one of the creative directors and photographers of METALLICA's "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct" album, has denied drawing influence from the cover of CROWBAR's 1998 classic "Odd Fellows Rest" for the design of METALLICA's disc.
While both covers feature four band dudes with their images superimposed into one hydra-like face, with the band dude on the left sticking out his tongue, Scheblanov said the similarity was "definitely not an intentional one." He told Decibel magazine: "I think while the look might be somewhat similar, I think the intention behind it was probably pretty different for us and also for Turner Duckworth, the design agency [who worked on the cover]. I guess I like the CROWBAR cover [laughs]; there's nothing wrong with it or anything. But, yeah, it was pretty shocking that there was such a similar-looking thing. But I had never heard of the band or the music so it was also interesting that it was another metal act."
He continued: "I'll tell you the funny thing: on Tuesday the record [cover] came out, then I guess that Friday or Saturday we went out to Minneapolis to see METALLICA play because they were projecting the photos up on the screen [at the concert]. So afterwards when we were at the afterparty with the band, we were talking with management and with some of the guys from the band and talking about all the different comments we'd gotten since the album art came out. Somebody brought up the CROWBAR thing. The funniest bit of it was everyone was like, 'Who the fuck is CROWBAR?' That made it feel a little bit better, because we were kind of shocked, but because other people within the community didn't really know about them either we felt it wasn't such a huge deal, that it wasn't a well-known enough thing to where most people would think that there was some kind of copycatting. So at first we were really shocked by it but then hearing that they were kind of a smaller act we definitely felt better about it since it'd be pretty bad if people felt we were trying to rip somebody off."
Asked what the chances were of both covers featuring the face on the left with its tongue sticking out, Scheblanov said: "That's the thing; it's pretty crazy. When we started working on the project and were making these covers in August-ish, there were actually about nine different combinations, there's the vinyl cover and the deluxe vinyl cover, there's a bunch of them. Originally there were nine, and the band just picked one out of those nine to be the actual cover, and that was the one. It's weird. It's definitely like, whoa. But it's one of these things where it's some kind of strange coincidence, or I don't know what to call it. I don't know how exactly it came to be that, like… yeah, I think the tongue thing is pretty interesting. But we gave 400 images in the end to Turner Duckworth and they were probably just going for the more interesting silhouettes."
CROWBAR's Kirk Windstein was one of the first ones to point out the similarities between the "Odd Fellows Rest" and "Hardwired…To Self-Destruct" covers, writing on his Facebook page: "In all fairness, after touring with the mighty METALLICA while in DOWN, I know the fellas know who CROWBAR is. However, I seriously doubt that any member of METALLICA stole this idea from us. Maybe the artist? Anyway you slice it... it's a cool cover idea!!! Now James and Lars, go listen to 'Odd Fellows Rest'!!! LOL"
The "Odd Fellows Rest" art direction was handled by John Buttino.
"Hardwired...To Self-Destruct" was released on November 18 via METALLICA's own Blackened Recordings.
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Clay Wilson recently released his debut album Desperate. The cover is an attention-grabbing piece of pop-art. The symbolism and thought process behind this cover photo is unique in the iTunes age where it is often merely an afterthought for many artists.
Part of the joy of buying records used to be studying the cover and thumbing through the liner notes with a keen eye looking at who wrote what, who played on each track and where it was recorded. It's cool to see Clay and his crew remember that. And the genius thing about it is that the attention-grabbing aspect of it translates to the computer and mobile screens of iTunes too.
We have 5 autographed copies of Clay's album to give away.
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Damn. I love this. Alot.
Very cool and different. Photography/design by Kim Brian. She's phenomenal!


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