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June 16, 2012 by Sandeep Bhalla
Nirmaljit Singh Narula alias Nirmal Baba
Religious Business.
Religion is the most flourishing business. Even after Osho depicted this fact with his 99 Rolls Royce cars, people remain blind. Lack of education compounded with miseries of life; like illness and occupation does not help the problem.
It seems unbelievable that problems can be solved on its own. It is more unbelievable that nobody can solve our problems. Our every action takes us deeper into misery but we don't see it that way. We desperately look around and find one con man after another posing as a religious Guru.
Yet another Religious Guru.
Another Guru type person in the news is Nirmaljit Singh Narula alias Nirmal Baba. His deeds are written all over the internet. His Wikipedia page has links to most of his deeds and there is no need to repeat the same here.
Guru or TV-Star
There is, however, a new development. Nirmaljit Singh Narula alias Nirmal Baba has filed a suit against Star News Channel seeking damages of Rs. 50 Crore i.e. about 9 Million USD$. He also claimed a temporary restraint order against STAR NEWS CHANNEL from telecasting news which is malicious. It made a special point that he is being called as thug and cheat etc. by Star News.
In this suit it is claimed (as mentioned in para 5 of the order dated 10.5.2012) as under:
Plaintiff's teachings and preaching emphasise the values of true, selfless prayer and devotion to one's duties and guides his followers/devotees to abstain from rather shun the path of 'mantra', 'tantra' or 'yantra' or in other words 'black magic' or 'tantric practices.'
As regard the hurt, it states:
"…..discourses are telecast/advertised through various TV channels (numbering over 35) in the name of "Third Eye of Nirmal Baba". Such programs are watched daily by about 10 million devotees/follower of the plaintiff and enjoy high TRP rating. During the week 1.4.2012 to 7.4.2012, the program "Third Eye of Nirmal Baba" was most viewed program with rating of 9 out of the top eleven (most viewed) programs in Hindi speaking market."
So what was the profession of Mr. Narula? A TV artist?
No. In other para he claimed to be teacher or preacher of certain values. Glory of Popularity must also be part of selfless living. If this happened to be a case of a TV anchor, would the pleading be any different? May be not. It boasts like a great TV artist.
Returning back to the suit. Star News Channel pleaded the defence that its news telecast was responsible journalism and it was based on facts which were duly verified before telecast. They claimed that before telecast Nirmaljit was also given opportunity to comment but he did not respond.
Delhi High Court, on the basis of above pleading did not issue any restraint order except that Star News Channel should not telecast anything on the basis of unverified facts. It is free to interview people. It does not say anything about contents of interview and rightly so because that would affect right of free speech of those people. So Star News is free to call him as thug, fraud and cheat if they have facts to support it during trial.
Now Baba type people are supposed to know everything especially the future. After all Third Eye is not the physical Third Eye. Did babaji make an announcement in advance that the court is not going to give interim relief of injunction?
There is one more question about legal hypocrisy. Can any person can claim to have THIRD EYE and telecast a program without having third eye or proof of having third eye?
© Sandeep Bhalla
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Avdhesh Tondak says:
It is true that some people call Nirmal Baba a "thug." I don't see people having a problem with Nirmal Baba being a fraud; the real reason is the money he charges in return of advice. People are, at the most, jealous of the money he has in bank accounts.


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December 31, 2016 December 31, 2016 Jim Dedman Milestones David Bowie
In December of 2015, I turned forty, an occasion which prompted much existential thought. To "celebrate" the occasion, I compiled My Life's Playlist, a collection of one song from each year that I'd lived. In the 40 days preceding my birthday, I identified a song a day, starting with Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road" from 1975 and ending with Lera Lynn's "The Only Thing Worth Fighting For" from 2015. In posting my choices to Facebook, I used the hashtag #40Songs40Days40Years. A fun project it was (and a challenge, particularly when I reached the meaningful songs of the early 1990's, of which there were many). You can read about that experiment – and see all of the song selections – here. If you find yourself on Spotify, you listen to the full set of songs here.
As this year's birthday approached, I knew I would add a new song to the list to represent 2016, a year which has robbed us of too many artists and musicians. The choice this year was simple: the powerful and somber "Blackstar" from David Bowie's album of the same name. Released on January 8, 2016 (which also happened to be Bowie's 69th birthday), the album was somewhat of a surprise foreshadowed only by a few digital singles in late 2015. Bowie's death just two days later on January 10 stunned the world.
Although it was technically released as one of those digital singles on November 19, 2015 (a month to the day before my fortieth birthday), "Blackstar" properly arrived two months later with the formal release of the album of the same name. I listened to it that day, unaware that the song would become all the more haunting in just 48 hours when we would all learn the sad news. Now, knowing what we know would come, the song – intended by Bowie to serve as his final farewell to his fans – is overpowering:
Something happened on the day he died,
Spirit rose a meter and stepped aside,
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried:
(I'm a Blackstar, I'm a Blackstar).
I've thought about Bowie a great deal in 2016. I read Rob Sheffield's excellent book, On Bowie, a collection of a music critic's observations and memories released just five months after Bowie's death. Not once, but twice, I saw The Wham Bam Bowie Band, a tribute band based in nearby Asheville, North Carolina (a video of whom you can find below). A week after his death, I penned my own obituary of Bowie, in which I wrote:
Now we find ourselves a part of a popular culture absent David Bowie, once its ubiquitous fixture. For many, including myself, there was never until this week a cultural landscape that existed without Bowie thriving therein. As Jemaine Clement, a member of New Zealand's Flight of the Conchords musical duo, remarked on behalf of that group, "Both born in the '70s, we hadn't witnessed a world without Bowie." To fans and followers of popular music, Bowie remained omnipresent in both his output and influence, and we always anticipated that he would soon release something intriguing and new. Unlike many of his contemporaries who long ago lost whatever edge they once maintained, Bowie never halted his quest to experiment and reinvent himself. One need only listen to Blackstar, his haunting final album released just a few days before his death, to confirm that fact. Its stark album cover . . . now seems especially foreboding in light of what we would soon learn about the state of his health.
There were other songs which resonated with me this year, including Angel Olsen's "Shut Up Kiss Me," Radiohead's "True Love Waits" (an ancient song by the band finally seeing its official studio release), and, of course, Leonard Cohen's "You Want It Darker" (the emotive impact of which was also amplified by the artist's death shortly after its release).
But, to me, "Blackstar" was the only choice for My Life's Playlist for 2016. I chose Bowie's "Heroes" – a marvelous gem – as the selection for 1977. In fact, only Bowie, Radiohead, and Arcade Fire appeared more than once on the playlist. Requiescat in pace, David Bowie.
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Game 105: Space Rogue (1989)
A number of readers have questioned Space Rogue's RPG credentials. It is admittedly not a classic RPG: The PC doesn't gain in experience and levels, the combat is mostly action-oriented, and there's no "equipment" in the standard sense, making it fail my criteria for an RPG on the surface. However, Starflight has the same problems, and you all would have organized a DDoS attack on my site if I hadn't played it. You have to make certain allowances for the different nature of science fiction RPGs, and in this case those allowances come with recognizing the ship as part of the "character" and the equipment upgrades that come with the ship a part of "character development." Plus, the game has NPC dialogue with choices, which rarely occurs outside an RPG.
I confess that when I first heard the title, I imagined that it would be some version of Rogue, but set in space, which of course isn't anywhere close to what it is. Instead, it feels more like a science fiction version of Pirates! coupled with the the NPC dialogue system of 2400 A.D.
The game is set in a region of space called the "Far Arm"; a network of nine planetary systems linked through "Malir Gates," which allow access to hyperspace. The well-written back story (supplemented by a pre-game sequence) describes how the protagonist, the son of a jeweler, had always dreamed of traveling through space. When he came of age, he joined the merchant marines and was assigned to his first ship, Princess Blue. After a year experiencing the wonders of the universe and the ship's technology, the protagonist was assigned to board and investigate a derelict ship, the Jolly Roger, that the Princess Blue found floating in space. While he was aboard the empty vessel, a group of "Manchi" ships appeared and, without warning or provocation, destroyed the Princess Blue. Left alone in space, the protagonist takes possession of the Jolly Roger and heads towards the nearest starbase to start investigating what happened to his ship and friends.
Space Rogue has only a few gameplay mechanisms and dynamics. The first, and the one I explored the most during this opening session, is trade. It is unsophisticated. There are a number of outposts scattered about the nine systems, and each buys and sells various goods for different prices. The goods available to buy at specific outposts are randomized upon each visit, but there is hardly any variance (maybe 10%) in the prices from visit to visit. This means that, for instance, if you find dilithium for sale at Hiathra, it will always be around $50, and you can always sell it at MiCon for around $85. It's just a matter of taking notes. Pirates! had things like pirate raids, plagues, Indian attacks, and gold rushes that affected the price of goods at various ports over time, but there's nothing that complex here.
"X-rated holos" sell for $90 on MiCron and $160 on Hiathra. It's not that I want to be a pornographer, but I can't resist those margins.
A couple of logistical barriers keep you from getting too rich too quickly. First, you actually have to take the time to travel from one base to another. Even within a single system, the navigation and docking maneuvers can take a little while. Between systems, where you have to navigate Malir Gates, it takes a really long time and is prone to bad things happening. Second, you have very limited cargo capacity. You start with room for only three or four items at a time, and even maxing out on cargo pods at $150 each gives you room for only eight items. Trading eight units of dilithium between Hiathra and MiCon nets only about $280. You soon learn to look for the items that provide the best buying/selling ratios in terms of raw dollars.
Keeping a log of prices at each station is the way to excel at trade.
Occasionally, goods "spoil" between ports, ruining your investment for that haul. With all of these logistical barriers, it took me about three hours focusing solely on trade to make $5000, enough to buy decent weapons and shields for my ship.
Some of the items in which you can trade are contraband--risky because the authorities do a random check of your cargo every time you dock. A robot sold me some "forged cargo papers" to use in such instances, but I haven't tested them yet.
Space flight and combat make up the second major dynamic of the game. In flying, you can switch between "cockpit" mode, where you see things in 3D view and have to do all the flying yourself, and "navigation" mode, where you set a destination and let the ship plot the course and fly itself there. But when you arrive, you have to take over and go to "cockpit" mode to dock the ship, so there's no way to complete the entire game on autopilot.
Flying on autopilot to the MiCon base. That "ALERT" notice is always on my screen, regardless of whether there's an actual alert.
I find the "cockpit" mode navigation difficult and frustrating, and clearly intended for players with a joystick. On the numeric keypad, 4 and 6 adjust the yaw, 8 and 2 adjust the pitch, and 1 and 3 adjust the roll. The + and - keys adjust speed. The problem is, it's not a simple matter of holding the key the way you want to turn and then letting it go when you've turned enough. Instead, these keys control the speed at which you turn, so if you hold down the "4" key for a few seconds, you'll be in an uncontrolled counter-clockwise spin. Pressing "6" at this point doesn't cancel the spin; it just slows it. You have to hit "6" enough times to counter the effects of all the times (or seconds) you hit "4" before you finally slow down and then reverse direction. Fortunately, the "S" key stops all rotation; otherwise, I'd find the ship impossible control. As it is, it's quite difficult.
Approaching the Hiartha station. The gauge in the lower left indicates my current thrust; the one in the lower right indicates my armor. For some reason, I have a nearby corsair targeted, but I'm not going to attack it. Instead, I need to carefully maneuver between the outer "wings" of the station and land on the gray section of the interior.
Docking with starports is a complex maneuver. You can't simply run right into them; that's "crashing." You have to identify the specific point where docking takes place, often signaled by nothing more than a different color, and aim directly for that.
The drunk pilot flies into port. This is speeded up about 2-3X.
The top-down navigation in spaceport actually mimics the shape of the station from the exterior. Note how my "dock" is on the interior ring of the station.
Combat in space is like maneuvering but with the added need to hit the SPACE bar to fire missiles or lasers. You can also enter "Newtonian" control mode during combat, allowing you to strafe enemies or suddenly turn on your axis (without affecting the direction of your thrust) to shoot at enemies behind you. I haven't had many reasons to engage in combat just yet--only a few random attacks by pirates--so I haven't fully mastered it.
Attacking the underside of a ship within an asteroid field. I can't hit the "screen capture" button quick enough to get the laser shots in there. I'll have to take video later.
Incidentally, I find it easy to accidentally hit SPACE and fire lasers while approaching a space port, at which point I get this message:
There are other objects in space. In an asteroid field, you have to shoot the asteroids to avoid losing your ship's armor. There are planets, but I don't think there's any way to productively interact with them; the manual specifically says that your ship can't take the stress of landing on them. There are stars, but you'd really have to try to fly into them.
What happened when I tried to land on a planet.
Curiously, the "Hawking Drives" on the Jolly Roger seem to require no fuel at all. There's no fuel meter nor any place to purchase fuel in the game. One logistical consideration that you don't have to worry about.
The third game dynamic involves exploring starbases in iconographic mode and talking with NPCs.
Exploring a room on the Hiartha base. There's an NPC to my lower left and lots of empty suits and bookcases to search throughout the room, but the "key card" I found in this suit was the only thing I found on the entire base.
The NPC dialogue system is not as advanced as in other Origin titles, but you do have some options, with consequences to the choices that you make.
In addition to pre-determined dialogue choices, you have an "Other" option with key NPCs, allowing you to ask about keywords given to you by other NPCs. There aren't many NPCs in the game, though--maybe four or five per station. There are a couple other things you can do while exploring stations, like interacting with shopkeepers (this is where you trade) and searching bookcases and chests and such. I hardly ever find anything. The interface here is very reminiscent of 2400 A.D. from a few years ago.
I had to break into this storage area, but I didn't find a single thing in all the containers that I searched.
In terms of the main storyline of the game, I started by getting my official "pilot's license" from the Imperium (the government that runs the Far Arm) from a functionary named Orellian on the Hiathra base (the first base you visit). Getting it involved answering some physics questions. If these ansers were anywhere in the documentation, I didn't find them, but fortunately I had Wikipedia. Getting the license allowed me to purchase equipment for my ship.
How many people know this answer? The first question was the number of light years in a parsec; the second was the spectral type of the hottest star.
On the MiCon base, an NPC named Sir Eld asked me to bring a statuette to Orellian. Once I'd done so, he gave me some trading advice ("buy low, sell high" was particularly welcome; I'd been doing it all wrong!) and a "stealth box" to help keep me hidden from pirates.
To be fair, he also gave me more targeted advice.
That seemed to exhaust my opportunities in the first sector, so I made my way to the Malir Gate to jump to the Deneb system and see if I could speak to Duchess Avenstar, whom everyone seems to adore. Navigating Malir Gates is tricky. You have to fly through a twisty wormhole. If you go outside the tunnel, the jump is rendered "faulty," and you end up back where you started but with decreased armor. And you have to navigate the tunnel quite quickly, because the "gasses" in the wormhole continually eat away at your armor. Go too slow, and your ship will be destroyed. It took me a few tries.
Flying through the rings of a wormhole. It gets a lot twistier than this, but I was too busy during those moments to take screen shots.
I found Avenstar on the Deneb Prime base, and the encounter was interesting. She made me hold a "Sphere of Truth" that she said would kill me instantly if I lied (but after the conversation, she admitted it was a hoax). After a few questions about my ship and how I got it...
...Avenstar told me that I was "the one" but she wouldn't elaborate. She sent me out the door and told me to return when I have "become a seasoned warrior."
According to the manual, my options for doing this are a) piracy and b) bounty hunting. I don't fully understand the mechanisms for either. I did destroy a pirate ship at one point (or maybe it was a Manchi ship), but no one hastened to give me a reward for it. By next time, I should know what I'm doing.
I assume that becoming a successful pirate or bounty hunter affects your "repute" and your status with the various factions.
Some other potentially-interesting plot threads and quests are developing. Some NPCs talk about a "Black Hand Cult," a group of psionic assassins, and there are rumors that Avenstar is under their spell. There is, of course, the Manchi threat; the Manchi are clearly aliens, but the game has given me no clues as to their motives or what they look like. A robot wants me to find his lost love, a maid robot, who's in danger of being reprogrammed into a trash compactor.
"Interfaced perfectly" is more than I needed to know.
The game seems to feature the right amount of difficulty. I've had some misfortune, but nothing game-breaking. You can only save in space, and there's no "load" option, which means that if you want to try different dialogue options with NPCs, you really have to want it, because you'll have to go through the process of killing the game, restarting, answering the copy protection question again, re-docking with the starport, and finding the NPC.
Finally, Space Rogue features a reasonably-complex minigame called HIVE which you can find at terminals in bars. HIVE casts you in the role of a pilot whose ship has crash-landed on an alien planet. He's immediately attacked by insects and has to blast them to escape. The gameplay is primitive--just face the enemy and shoot--but it's still a fun little diversion. I'm not sure if it serves any story purpose within the game; it feels like perhaps it was the result of an interface mechanic (planetary exploration) that never got implemented in the main game.
In general, Space Rogue feels like a minor game, with a few innovative elements, that I'll be happy to play to the end but that I hope doesn't last overly long.
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Sounds like a disappointment to me - and I always was curious about this title. So thanks for tackling it for me. ;-)
At least Designer & programmer Paul Neurath went on to bigger things in the future (ha ha): He was one of the designers of the Ultima Underworld games.
According to Mobygames he worked on another 3D space shooter/sim before:
"Deep Space: Operation Copernicus" - so that's where he got his know-how for the 3D sequences.
Right now he is apparently with Zynga - one of final repositories of old game designers (the others are EA and Microsoft).
Neurath was also the founder and Creative Director of Looking Glass Studios (called Blue Sky Productions when they made Ultima Underworld).
Any Origin RPG game that isn't an Ultima game never seems to quite hit the mark. They're good games, but not great games.
That's been my impression, too. We've had a slew of Origin games this year that all have intriguing ideas but are flawed in some way that prevents them from being truly enjoyable.
Reiko July 6, 2013 at 9:56 PM
Your screenshots look really familiar to me. I think I played this game at one point quite a while ago. All I remember is really really hating the Malir gates. But that's mostly because I suck at real-time navigation like that and kept failing the jumps (and as you said, the controls aren't too great). I think I gave up on the game after failing a Malir jump too often.
Victar July 6, 2013 at 10:49 PM
'I find the "cockpit" mode navigation difficult and frustrating, and clearly intended for players with a joystick.'
Why not get a joystick then? Or even hook up an Xbox 360 controller to the computer (my former roommate used to do this). Is there any particular reason to force yourself to play with mouse & keyboard?
My initial reason was that I didn't have a controller. Then I remembered that I bought a Logitech controller to try with Dragons of Flame back in December. I found that. Now my reason is I can't get it to work. Something isn't connecting between the Logitech Profiler, DOSBox, and the game, and for this game, I don't know if I want to take the time to figure out what it is.
Ah, come on, take the time to figure it out. Many games of this era are better with a joystick than a keyboard and mouse. You're the guy who wants to play all the old games as they were meant to be played...spend a few hours becoming a master of DOSbox. A good craftsman knows his tools inside and out.
AnvilOfDOOM July 8, 2013 at 2:59 AM
I don't know if it would be any easier to work with (or if it works with non-360 controllers), but perhaps try with xpadder? http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5869-xpadder.html
Dirk Kok July 7, 2013 at 2:22 AM
I found this game to be quite enjoyable. After a while you master the space combat, docking and worm gates. Especially when you've built up a strong ship/character.
Not sure how the story matches up but for a 12 year old it was good fun at the time :)
Acrin1 July 7, 2013 at 2:53 AM
It sounds a lot like the old space combat and trading game Elite (which I played a lot) but with the addition of top down exploration on the space stations.
DeS_Tructive July 7, 2013 at 7:15 AM
Yup, even the docking sequence and the message for shooting up a base.
I wonder if Elite was a stripped down C64/Amiga port.
No. Elite is from 1984 and served as inspiration for Space Rogue.
Giuseppe July 7, 2013 at 10:37 AM
Yeah, I think so too: it's pretty much a space trading and combat game, a genre which Elite kick-started back in 1984, with some additional elements bolted on top.
I don't normally think of this sort of game as "RPG", but if this one has enough elements to give it some RPG credentials... why not? I'm not a stickler when it comes to categorizing and defining game genres.
P.S. "How many people know this answer? For what it's worth, I do. Also, it's cool the game devs got things right with the parsec being a measure of distance, not time (Yes, I'm looking at you, Han Solo, and give me none of your retconned explanations). :D
Max July 7, 2013 at 11:18 AM
@Giuseppe but then the devs went and forgot the "s" on "homo sapiens" :)
Ah, yeah. I noticed that too, but then forgot about it. :)
Ragnar July 7, 2013 at 1:51 PM
On the other hand it is equally common to think a light year is a measure of distance.
*measure of time* I meant. Meh.
Kellandros July 8, 2013 at 10:44 AM
If I remember, technically a isn't exactly distance, or not a consistent distance.
It is the measurement of parralax visible from Earth. As the Earth orbits the sun, stars appear to shift in position, the most extreme case is when we flip sides of the sun.
It is the best mechanism we have for figuring out how far away stars are, by measuring the angle of change in their position at different times of the year.
But it is purely tied to the Earth and our particular orbit. I would expect light-years to be a more universal measurement for dealing with multiple planets and alien species.
About the Alert signs, can it be that your color blindness works against you again? The Alert sign in those screenshots are green. If it changes color to red when there is an alert you might not notice the difference.
Note that I haven't played the game so I don't know if this is the case.
Captain Kal July 7, 2013 at 11:18 AM
If I remember correctly, when your ship is attacked, it changes color to red. You have to play the game with a joypad or a joystick (and use Control+J to activate it). And remap some keys to it (so you can control your speed, while you are piloting the ship).
" I'm not sure if it serves any story purpose within the game; it feels like perhaps it was the result of an interface mechanic (planetary exploration) that never got implemented in the main game."
I think it serves!!!
VK July 7, 2013 at 11:41 AM
"How many people know this answer?" - is this some joke I'm not getting? I always thought force equation is something that everyone who's been through high school should know...
BD July 7, 2013 at 12:16 PM
I think everyone who's been through high school has seen it at some point; whether they retain it after not using it for x decades is another matter.
I never took physics in high school. I guess I'm in the minority on that.
VK July 7, 2013 at 1:05 PM
What I mean is that it's not such an esoteric concept that it's unreasonable to expect people to know it. Quite the opposite, actually - it's fundamental and very simple. Unlike two other questions Addict lists - about parsecs and star type - that are pretty esoteric. Which that makes me wonder even more why the force one was chosen to illustrate this point.
Ah, I keep forgetting that the american education is heavy on electives. In Russia physics in high school is compulsory (as are almost all subjects for that matter ;))
Dave July 7, 2013 at 2:46 PM
Yes, in the United States, children are allowed to decide what to study. Increasingly, American society seems to believe that providing no guidance for children will enable to them become more fulfilled adults. What is actually happening is that each generation gets more self-entitled, self-centered, and lazy.
Most Americans have no concept of hard work and believe that "the rich" should pay more taxes so they can have free healthcare and more time to watch television. Over the next 100 years, China and India are going to take our jobs and then Indian corporations will be hiring Americans to staff their call centers.
Russian heavily standardised and overloaded with subjects education doesn't do much good in terms of character building either. It's extremely demotivating.
I disagree with your second paragraph completely (chinese are a bad role model) but have no desire to start a political discussion, so let's just leave it there.
Giuseppe July 7, 2013 at 4:03 PM
Thinking strictly from a teenagers' perspective, I'm not sure if I should envy American kids. In high-school we covered pretty much all classical physics fields and also some notions of modern physics. Yet today I have very little practical use for all that knowledge.
Same with most of the great many things I had to study in high-school. What's the point in knowing every capital on the planet or every important mountain range if you don't go on to become a geographer? What's the point of knowing the periodic table of elements by heart, being able to name every Alkali metal or every halogen, if you don't have any interest in becoming a chemist? Or learning about Plato's allegory of the cave if philosophy is about as interesting to you as watching paint dry.
I imagine it's similar in most Eastern European countries.
Our system has one thing going for it: this kind of education makes it a lot easier to change your professional field midlife (and I speak from experience, having gone from programming to culture studies). Is it worth all that stress and tedium? Probably not. At least, I believe, the same effect could be achieved with much less.
AnvilOfDOOM July 7, 2013 at 6:08 PM
@Dave:
"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers." - Socrates (supposedly)
Imagine how supremely wonderful people our distant ancestors must have been, for today's youth to STILL manage to be even worse than whatever generation you happen to like :P
Not touching the political stuff with a 10 ft. pole...
Maldeus July 7, 2013 at 6:11 PM
What China and India have in common is nothing to do with education. China's education system is a pathetic cripple radically different from that of India. What these two nations have in common is an overwhelming population advantage. It should come as no surprise that China is rapidly gaining a stronger economy. An economy is simply the production and consumption of goods, and China has five times as many people to be doing the producing and the consuming, India even more. It's the same reason why the United States and Russia rose to such prominence, and why Brazil dominates the South American political and economic landscape, why Germany leads the European economy even compared to similarly developed nations like the United Kingdom and France.
There are factors to the economy besides population, of course, primarily infrastructure and natural resources. Once a nation is sufficiently large, however, natural resources become irrelevant because everyone has access to an extraordinarily diverse amount of materials and can easily trade with others to get more. Likewise, infrastructure has made an incredible difference between America and China in the past, but China can replicate existing infrastructure far faster than America or anyone else could ever hope to invent new infrastructure. In the end the race will be decided by population, and there can be no reversing the advantage held by China and India in that theater.
Nothing can stop the ascent of China and India. Even an attempted genocide would fail for the same reason: We simply do not have the population to hope to successfully invade either of these two, let alone both. We might dominate the skies and the oceans for as long as we like, but until we put boots on the ground, we won't be exterminating anything. And that's assuming we would actually commit atrocity on such an incredible scale simply to maintain our position as global superpower.
I personally think this discussion should end before the entire comment section gets derailed.
-BelatedGamer
Zenic Reverie July 8, 2013 at 12:30 AM
Better late than never. ;)
Malor July 9, 2013 at 4:30 AM
"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority;".....
Remember, Greece >failed<. Pointing back at a collapsed civilization's musings about their young people losing self-discipline and willingness to work is not at all a good counter-example. If anything, it strengthens the original argument.
We know civilizations fail. They have done so many times. Finding that strong a correlation should worry you, not make you sanguine.
VK July 9, 2013 at 5:27 AM
Well, it took about four centuries from Socrates to the earliest event you can consider the fall of Ancient Greece (I mean Roman conquest, and it's disputable since Greek culture actually continued on after that), so we can safely assume that it had nothing to do with his contemplation of contemporary youth ;)
PetrusOctavianus July 9, 2013 at 5:41 AM
Reading Greek history is so frustrating. Think what the ancient greeks could have accomplished if the city states weren't almost constantly (except when the Persians threatened them all) fighting each other...
Damn, just realised I used the wrong word. Probably got condemnation and contempt mixed up ))
@Malor: What VK said.
Secondly, it wasn't meant as a counterexample, it was meant to be an example of how old people will always (or at least very often) complain how things and people were better in "their day".
MalcolmM July 7, 2013 at 1:37 PM
I remember buying and playing this game on the Apple II. I must not have gotten very far because I don't remember much about it.
The trading part of most of space games almost always seesm quite boring to me, like playing with a spreadsheet. I recall one game that threw in an interesting twist, I think it was Sundog - the screen that showed you the items for sale was constantly updating - each item for sale (with price and quantity available) would only display for a few seconds before being replaced by another item. A really good deal might never show up again. This added a nice tension to the item trading.
Davzz July 7, 2013 at 9:36 PM
I guess this means Uncharted Waters falls under the criteria because it's basically a Pirates! variant too.
Raifield July 8, 2013 at 6:57 AM
Uncharted Waters is easily one of my favorite games. The sequel, New Horizons, seems universally acclaimed (especially the SNES version) but to me it's quite a horrible game due to there being zero challenge whatsoever.
Saw this as I was reading wired.com this morning. Apparently they help people who are color blind to "see" colors. Since I know you have that issue and it has come up in gaming and affects the way you interact with the games I figured I'd point it out. I honestly have no idea whether or not these really help, but I enjoy your blog alot and figured the least I could do would be to tell you of something I didn't know existed on the off chance that you didn't also know it existed.
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Burzmali July 8, 2013 at 8:42 AM
Given that DOSBox emulates the CGA/EGA/VGA adapter, I'm surprised that no one has patched in a color-blind mode. It should be feasible to have DOSbox boost the contrast and/or shift the hue of the pallet the game requests to keep it out of troublesome areas of the spectrum.
"Your ship blaze[s] down from the heavens like a fiery meteor. ... It's a wondrous sight."
Not enough games focus on the ephemeral beauty of your party's death. This is much more poetic than "The monsters rejoice" or whatever. Do you get fun messages for any of your other deaths?
gewy July 9, 2013 at 10:30 PM
A minor point, but I have a vague recollection that the Manchi are the alien insects in the Hive game. Could be wrong though, or just an unsupported assumption.
Canageek July 10, 2013 at 2:15 AM
Man, I love the idea of this game, and Elite, but the having to use a joystick and fly a ship as always a turnoff. I want to be the captain, not the pilot! I've found a few space trading games on various platform. There was an OK on on PalmOS that had a better PC version, but it had a weak plot and was very easy. There is one on android that seems to be mostly faction management. Both had boring combat where you just click attack over and over. There is one on PC where you trade around the solar system and make extra money in fps segments. The structure always has you on deadlines though, instead of trading freely, which sucks. Oh, and there was a sweet flash game called Caravaneer that had great combat, and a cool inventory/caravan managment bit, but I could never figure out the trading. Anyone have suggestions fo rmodern trading games? Sorry about the lack of names, I am on my phone.
I love the Liaden Universe novels due to them basically being Elite, with Balance of Trade being my favourite due to that aspect.
Garry G. May 5, 2014 at 5:25 PM
This is a decent game, and very overlooked IMO. I bought it when it was new and played it through to the end. One of the first RPG's I finished. And it definitely is an RPG, you do level up, the ship, and to a lesser extent your character by the objects you uncover as you work through the games story tasks, in your quests to complete the story, which was quite good for the time.
By the way, the Manchi are insect like aliens that have been portrayed as monstrous by the humans, who are at war with them. The in game arcade machine is one of the propaganda tools used by the humans. You do encounter the Manchi in the RPG portions later on in the games story.
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Ipswich Musician, Phil Jackson, is playing with one of the most famous English writers, comedians and musicians alive – Neil Innes of The Rutles, who are setting out on tour – including stops in Ipswich and Cambridge. He popped into Grapevine HQ for a chat about what to expect from the tour, and how he went from giggling fan to band mate…
The Rutles are back on tour, and you're heading to The Smokehouse in Ipswich and the Cambridge Junction – have you played those venues before, are you familiar with them at all?
I've never played the Junction before, it's quite a well-known place so I'm looking forward to that gig, it'll be fun. I've played the Smokehouse a bunch of times, and I did an album launch there a couple of months ago, so I know it well and I know a lot of the people that work there, and I've taught some of them as I teach piano there occasionally. It's a really good venue, and hopefully it does a lot more of what it's doing.
Seeing as you're a bit younger than Neil Innes himself… How did you first become aware of The Rutles?
Shhh! I've always been a really big fan of The Rutles, and like most people, I knew about them because you know The Beatles, and you stumble upon The Rutles somehow as they follow the same pathway.
I was probably about 9 or 10 years old, something like that. They parody a lot of the songs in The Story of The Beatles, and they've got a song called Cheese and Onions, and in the film of The Rutles they feature that song in a segment which is like the Yellow Submarine segment, and the animation looks exactly like the same, and they actually had the same people make it, so it fools you. At that age you're there going "ah there's this song…" and for a few years I didn't know the difference, and when Yellow Submarine came on the TV, or I think I had it on video, I was convinced that song was in it! I kept playing the video and trying to find it… then a few years later I saw on TV – it was in a documentary about quirky films, and I was like 'I can't believe it…' but then I became a real fan of it, got CDs and such, and low and behold all these years later I'm in the middle of it, and I don't know how that happened really.
How did you meet Neil Innes and get involved then?
Well, my old band The B Goodes was quite Beatles-esque and poppy, and we were quite well-known around Ipswich. We used to record in a studio called Spring Vale studios, and Neil also recorded there.
The chap that worked there, Mark Harwood – it's all down to him really, kept saying to Neil 'Oh these guys should be your band' so he played him my some of my stuff and he seemed to like it. After a little while, we got to meet him and we did a couple of gigs in town with him. Long story short, a few years after that he needed a new keyboard player and he basically knocked on my door, which was extremely nice of him.
You touched on it earlier, but I'm guessing you were a fan beforehand…
Yeah, I was a very big fan! I was almost like a giggling fan, I had to tame myself, and it was a bit too unreal to understand. Here's this guy, who's done it all and is so great; and here I am, playing these songs with this god of music. Yeah, I was definitely a big fan.
In terms of shows, does Urban Spaceman get put on the set?
Not really. We did it when I first started, as we had a few shows with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, which was Neil's band in the 60s, and that was for the anniversary shows; it was their hit, so it made sense to do that.
Some people want him to do that, but it does get left out most of the time. Unless we're playing a specific gig, where he knows it's been requested by the people putting on the gig or something. Unfortunately no, and that's disappointing because I really like it, because I'm the person that gets to play the flute solo and I think it's such a nice, fun song.
What is your favourite song to perform with The Rutles then?
They're all such fun!
I'm guessing you probably have quite a following as well?
Yeah, it's a strange band because Neil describes us as 'the only tribute band that plays our own songs'. The Rutles as an entity is really very famous, but at the same time it's sort of under the radar because it's real but with an unreality to it, as we're pretending to be this band, that's parodying another band. If people don't know who you are, it's hard to explain to them.
But yes, they're fanatic fans! I mean, they know every word to every song, and they're waiting to sing everything back at you. It's a lot fun, and the vibe is so good. It's so happy, and the tour is called 'The Major Happy Tour', which is based on a song, and I think Neil's sort of themed it to that this time. In these times of political uprising, he's really conscious of that and just wants to put out a good vibe to people.
You're going to a few different places, so what are the best and worst parts of touring?
I don't know if there are any worst parts, maybe it's just the travelling as you get tired after a while. Neil has said previously, if you ever stop doing something then it's really hard to start doing it again, so I think he's been doing it nearly all his life, so you got to keep doing it. I'm gigging regularly myself anyway, but the travelling is the hardest thing. We've got dates in Glasgow and Aberdeen and those sorts of areas. We stay overnight but it's a lot of travelling in a van. The best things I guess are everything else, it's just the stem reality and that we forget about our real lives for a little bit. Then we come back to it – actually that's the worst bit, coming back!
Finally, why should people come and see The Rutles…
Because I'm in it! I'm kidding… I think it's the best drug you're going to get around at the moment. It's a really happy vibe, really funny, really musical, and if you like The Beatles, you'll like The Rutles. Plus, you've got John Halsey on the drums, two of the original members in the group still playing; Ron Nasty and Barry Wom – who's probably the funniest man in the world, and of course Neil Innes, who is one of, if not the greatest songwriters, and most inspiring people, so you should come along.
Thanks for chatting to us Phil, and have a great time on the road!
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It happened at an international inter-faith conference. The organizers decided to end the conference with readings from the scriptures of major religions, done by followers of other religions. As it happened, an Arab Christian read a passage from the Qur'aan. He was a good reciter. Every one seemed to be moved by his heart-rending reading, including the reciter himself. Immediately afterward, prominent Muslim thinker and writer, Maulana Waheeduddin Khan, who narrated this story, asked him: "Do you think Qur'aan is the Word of God?" In a moment of truth he said: "Yes." But, then, he had second thoughts so he added: "But only for the Arabs."
Actually not only the Qur'aanic message keeps attracting people all over the world, its words also move people who may not know a word of Arabic language. Famous Egyptian reciter Qari Abdul Basit reportedly once accompanied then President Gamal Abdul Nasir to a meeting with the Soviet leaders. During a break in the meeting, Nasir asked him to recite the Qur'aan before the top Soviet leaders. When he finished the recitation, Qari Abdul Basit saw four of them shedding tears. "We don't know what it was," they later explained. But there was some thing touching in those Words!
Ironically at that time Qur'aan was the forbidden tree for the Muslims in the Soviet Union. Reading, teaching, or even possessing a copy of the Qur'aan resulted in the most severe punishments. The KGB was always on the lookout. Its agents could enter any house, any time, if they suspected anyone inside of reading Qur'aan or offering prayers. Religious leaders were drafted for compulsory labor. Mosques and Islamic schools were closed down and turned into cinema houses, factories and offices. One could not find a copy of the Qur'an anywhere. The ruthless state machinery did everything within its power to extinguish the flame of Qur'aan from the empire. Yet during those seventy dark years Muslims kept the flame burning. They developed elaborate camouflage mechanisms, at tremendous risks, to teach Qur'aan to their children. Little children had to stay away from their parents for months at a time as they retired to secret hujras (rooms) where they memorized Qur'aan and received religious instructions without ever having looked at a printed page. Their stories remain a neglected but extremely bright part of our recent history.
What kind of Book can command such devotion and sacrifices? Only the Book that begins by asserting:
"This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear Allah." (Al-Baqarah 2:2).
And then each and every line of it attests to that assertion. It declares:
"The Most Gracious! It is He Who has taught the Qur'aan." (Al- Rahman 55:1-2).
It challenges:
"Say If the whole of mankind and Jinn were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur'aan, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support." (Bani Israel 17:88).
It claims:
"Verily it is We Who revealed the Remembrance and verily We are its guardians." (Al-Hijr, 15:9).
Qur'aan is the first document in the Arabic language. There is no other language of the world that has withstood the passage of fourteen centuries. Over the centuries, rivers change courses, civilizations rise and fall, and languages become extinct and new ones develop. Consider the expression "faeder ure on heofonum" from Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 from a Bible of 900 C.E. We are told it means: "Our father in heaven." It also means that any writing from that time cannot be read by an English speaker today. But any Arabic speaker can open the Qur'aan today and understand its message. As did all the people in the intervening centuries!
Prominent scholar Dr. Hamidullah tells of an effort in Germany by the Christian scholars to gather all the Greek manuscripts of Bible as the original Bible in Aramaic is extinct. They gathered all manuscripts in the world and after examining them reported: "Some two hundred thousand contradictory narrations have been found… of these one-eighth are of an important nature." When the report was published, some people established an Institute for Qur'aanic Research in Munich with the goal of examining Qur'aan the same way. A gigantic research project was started that continued for three generations. By 1933, 43000 photocopies of Qur'aanic manuscripts had been collected. A report published shortly before World War II showed the results of the examination of these manuscripts. While some minor mistakes of calligraphy were found, not a single discrepancy in the text had been discovered!
Of course the love, devotion and care that Muslim showed toward the Qur'aan, and that became the immediate cause of its miraculous preservation, was inspired by the Prophet Muhammad, Salla-Allahu alayhi wa sallam. On one occasion he asked the companions in Suffa: Which of you would like to go out every morning to Buthan or Al- Aqiq (two markets near Medina) and bring two large she-camels without being guilty of sin or without severing the ties of kinship? Camels were the valuable commodity of the time, she-camels even more so. Its equivalent today may be a brand new automobile. As they showed their interest, Prophet Muhammad, Salla-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, explained: To teach or recite two verses of the Qur'aan is better than getting two she-camels. And three verses are better than three she-camels. (Muslim).
And so, for centuries this ummah displayed an unprecedented love and devotion for the Book of Allah Ta'ala. It began the education of its children by teaching them how to read Qur'aan. It began its day by reciting from the Qur'aan. Qur'aan was divided into seven parts, each called a manzil, so it could be read completely every week. It was divided into thirty parts, each called a juz, so it could be read completely every month. Qur'aan is the most read and memorized book in the world!
Today, though, we see a change. Thanks to the twin scourges of a colonial education system and the television, today we find millions of Muslim children for whom learning to read the Qur'aan is not part of their education. We find millions of Muslim homes where Qur'aan is read only on special occasions. When someone dies, for example. This despite the fact that in most parts of the world today, unlike the Soviet Union of yesterday, reading the Qur'aan is no longer a high risk proposition. How unfortunate is the person who should die of thirst while holding the refreshing glass of water in his hands! How unfortunate the person who should die of disease while holding the perfect medicine in his hands!
Of course we must read it, understand it, and put it into practice. But we must also remember that reading with full deference and proper etiquettes is a pre-requisite for understanding the Qur'aan, just as understanding its message is a pre-requisite for practicing it. Our goal must be to live by the Qur'aan. For only then we truly live. Otherwise we only pretend to live.
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Many PCR-based molecular diagnostic tests utilize a hot-start thermostable DNA polymerase. The hot-start format of these Taq DNA polymerase products are preferred because of their ability improve the specificity of the amplification assay by reducing non-specific amplification.
Hot-start Taq DNA polymerase enzymes reduce non-specific amplification by temporarily blocking Taq DNA polymerase function through either chemical modification, aptamer, or antibody blockage of polymerase function until heated at a high temperature that restores polymerase function.
The enzyme GoTaq® MDx Hot Start Polymerase (cat# D6001) is supplied by Promega labeled as a General Purpose Reagent intended to be used as a component of PCR-based molecular diagnostic amplification assays. The enzyme is supplied without requiring additional license or royalty payments for use in clinical applications.
GoTaq® MDx Hot Start Polymerase is manufactured under Promega's rigorous quality management system which has been certified to ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 standards to meet the stringent quality requirements for clinical applications.
Promega's GoTaq® MDx Hot Start Polymerase is an antibody-mediated hot start polymerase where the GoTaq® DNA Polymerase is bound to a proprietary antibody that temporarily blocks polymerase activity below 70oC.
The polymerase activity is restored during the initial denaturation step of a PCR amplification where the reaction is heated for 2 minutes at 94-95oC.(1) Hot-start PCR allows convenient, room-temperature reaction set-up and is advantageous for some amplification targets by minimizing or eliminating primer-dimer and secondary product amplifications. The result is a more specific amplification that my result in higher yield.
Furthermore, the enzyme is formulated in a proprietary cationic detergent which provides superior stabilization of the enzyme under PCR conditions. Users are not required to acquire further license or pay royalties for the clinical use of Promega's GoTaq® MDx polymerase products.
Each lot of enzyme is tested to contain less than 10 copies of bacterial genomic DNA, 1 genome equivalent of fungal genomic DNA, and1 genome equivalent of mammalian genomic DNA.
Each lot of enzyme is tested to contain undetectable amounts of exonuclease, endonuclease, nicking and ribonuclease activity.
Each lot of enzyme is tested to perform quantitative amplification of a DNA target. Additionally, hot-start function is tested by amplifying a hot-start model template that produces a single 1.5kb band without extraneous bands.
The enzyme is stable for 24 months from date of manufacture.
Utilizing a hot start Taq DNA polymerase improves assay specificity by decreasing the probability of non-specific amplifications.
PCR amplifications were assembled using either non-hot start GoTaq® MDx DNA Polymerase or GoTaq® MDx Hot Start Polymerase and primers specific for a 1.5 kb sequence encoded by a plasmid included in the reactions.
Mis-priming with this model is well-characterized (data not shown) and results in formation of a 410 bp product. Reactions were assembled at room temperature and incubated at 22oC for 3 hours prior to thermal cycling to encourage mis-priming. Following thermal cycling, reactions were analyzed with an Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer.
The resulting electropherogram of the non-hot start reaction (left panel) shows the presence of both the 1.5 kb amplicon and the 410 bp mis-priming product whereas the electropherogram of the GoTaq® MDx Hot Start Polymerase reaction (right panel) shows only the desired 1.5 kb amplicon. This demonstrates the specificity provided by GoTaq® MDx Hot Start Polymerase. Green and purple arrows indicate side standards.
Sensitivity was examined by comparing the performance of eight commercial hot-start Taq DNA polymerase products, including GoTaq® MDx Hot Start Polymerase. Using the manufacturer's recommended PCR conditions, a 2.4kb target of the ademonatosis polyposis coli (APC) gene was amplified from 104, 103, and 102 copies of genomic DNA (cat# G3041).
Under these test conditions, the GoTaq® MDx Hot Start polymerase enzyme demonstrated greater sensitivity by amplifying the APC gene from 102 copies whereas the other hot-start DNA polymerases required 103 copies.
A multiplex amplification of seven loci were amplified in a single reaction using fluorescently labeled primers and the amount of amplified product was compared when the amplification was performed using either GoTaq® MDx Hot Start Polymerase or AmpliTaq Gold® DNA polymerase.
Reactions performed using the GoTaq® MDx Hot Start Polymerase show robust multiplex amplification and performed as well as or better than AmpliTaq Gold® DNA polymerase under the same conditions.
Robust and reliably performing amplification-based molecular diagnostic assays require a rigorous characterization assay parameters. Guard-banding of PCR reagents and assay conditions to achieve the optimally performing formulation necessitates the need for a variety of enzyme formats and may require the ability to finally customize the enzyme format specific to the application's requirements.
Promega's GoTaq® MDx Hot Start polymerases are all manufactured under cGMP and available in a variety of standard formats, including a glycerol-free product that is suitable for further manufacture processing and lyophization. (Table 1) Additionally, any of the GoTaq® MDx polymerases can be formulated to any custom concentration between 5 to 80 units/ml.
Standard product formulation. Enzyme concentration ≥ 5u/ml. Actual unit activity reported on product's certificate of analysis.
The glycerol-free product formulation that is suitable for further manufacturing and lyophilization. Enzyme concentration ≥ 5u/ml. Actual unit activity reported on product's certificate of analysis.
A high-concentration formulation suitable for performing guard-banding experiments or applications requiring more units of enzyme. Enzyme concentration ≥ 50u/ml. Actual unit activity reported on product's certificate of analysis.
For clinical laboratories, Promega's GoTaq® MDx Hot Start polymerase is an ideal solution. The enzyme is a general purpose reagent intended to be used as a component in amplification-based molecular biology assays.
Produced under cGMP, within a rigorous quality management system, ensures consistent product performance lot-to-lot. GoTaq® MDx Hot Start polymerases can perform sensitively with specificity in common clinical diagnostic applications like real-time quantitative PCR. Custom formulations of the enzyme further provide the capabilities to optimize the enzyme specific to the needs of the amplification assay.
Knoche, K. et al. (2008) Get the convenience of hot-start PCR with the new GoTaq® Hot Start Polymerase. Promega Notes 99, 8-11.


Does failure of Digital Death campaign mean bad things for social media?
If you've ever seen an episode of 30 Rock, you know Jane Krakowski plays a self-absorbed actress named Jenna Maroney who vastly overestimates her popularity and importance.
She's exactly the type of person who would conceive of and participate in the Digital Death campaign. Unfortunately Digital Death isn't part of a 30 Rock plot and is very much a real-life social media disaster.
The website has the celebrities who've "sacrificed" their digital lives laying in coffins, in full hair and make-up. Next to their pictures is a coffin with a tally of how much money has been raised. As of this morning, only $298,718.15 had been raised.
Several other news sites have pointed out that the original $10 minimum for donations automatically eliminated a huge chunk of people. (The mininum donation has since been lowered to $1) Also, the campaign removed the ability of these celebrities to actually promote the campaign by taking them completely off of social media. But what does the failure of the Digital Death campaign mean for social media in general?
Celebrities participating in the campaign were Twitter heavy-hitters and wield huge influence – people like the Kardashian sisters and Lady Gaga. But their virtual deaths haven't sparked much of a response from people. They're gone from social media, and it doesn't seem like they'll be coming back any time soon.
I Googled "celeb-fluence" and came up with nothing but I think it can be defined as the unique influence celebrities hold. No doubt celebrities have influence over followers, but it's a different kind of power. When they provide their opinion about something like a Carl's Jr. hamburger, their followers might be more likely to buy one but it's usually a one-time, random endorsement. The Kardashians give their approval to a lot of things so while their opinion matters, they're not the "go to" influencers who are the Holy Grail for PR and marketing professionals.
This is where celeb-fluence is different from "true" influence. (Tru-fluence? No? OK now I'm pushing it.) The "true" influencers are the people whose opinion about something would truly be missed if it were no longer there. These influencers exist in specific and highly-engaged niches. There are likely Carl's Jr.'s experts out there who have a loyal following of people that would certainly be disappointed if their go-to source for information was no longer available.
Do experts and influencers in other fields face the same reaction if they're suddenly gone from social media?


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About Your Library Press Room 10/3/2019 - Library to Be Transformed into a Wizarding Wonderland on October 25
Library to Be Transformed into a Wizarding Wonderland on October 25
Westerville, OH – On a gloomy and wet autumn evening, swarms of wizards, superheroes, and book characters seek shelter from the rain in one of the world's most hallowed places; the library. Lanterns lead the way as thousands of book lovers and adventurers arrive for the first annual Wizards & Wands Festival in 2018.
With lights dimmed and cozy music swelling overhead, the library is quickly transformed from a bright and bustling hub of information to a magical wonderland filled with otherworldly delights. Once inside, heads immediately turn to the cavernous ceiling in the atrium, aglow with stars. Giants and ghosts loom large as costumed stilt walkers amble by. A stone statue comes to life, delighting unsuspecting visitors as they walk up the sweeping staircase.
The whole place is buzzing with excitement. A toddler watches in awe as a magician disappears a playing card while a professional illustrator teaches a handful of budding artists to conjure monsters and critters with a few flicks of the pen.
Upstairs, a group of kids dressed as Hogwarts students marvel as a house crest slowly takes shape on the glass plate of the library's 3D printer. Meanwhile in the meeting rooms, a parent and child learn how to make a "bloody" handprint change colors by painting it with ammonia and lemon juice.
For some families, this was the first event they attended together where everyone could participate. "It wasn't a work thing, it wasn't a sports thing, it wasn't a school thing. It was a bonding, togetherness sort of thing," shares librarian Michala Sage.
While libraries are often portrayed as dusty warehouses full of old books and bespectacled shushers, the Westerville Public Library is embracing a new reputation – as a real-life magic school. According to librarian and lead event planner Annamarie Carlson, "Last year we started this event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter, one of the most popular book series in the world. But the event quickly grew to celebrating the magic of libraries."
To those who have never been inside, the building looks deceptively small when viewed from State Street. But after four major expansions, the library is currently a sizable 102,300 square feet. Some of the renovations have created fun anomalies, like a staircase that leads to nowhere and a 5-foot courtyard that can only be accessed through a door in a closet, like the wardrobe in Narnia. And connecting an old 1800s house that acted as the Anti-Saloon League headquarters resulted in a ½ floor reminiscent of the movie Being John Malkovich.
But the real magic of the library has nothing to do with the building itself. "We see magic happen here every day. I got online for the first time – before Google, before Yahoo! – at this library. For a 17-year-old who grew up with a typewriter, that was magic. For others, it's learning how to email a distant loved one or discovering 3D printing and virtual reality. For little ones, it's reading a book for the first time. The library is often the gateway to these experiences and every time you see it happen, it makes the impossible seem possible," says Tamara Murray, Marketing Manager for the Westerville Public Library.
The library is now looking to rekindle the magic of their inaugural Wizards & Wands Festival on October 25. "We had such an amazing response from the community in 2018. Over 2,300 people attended, some of who had never been inside the library before. Families stayed all night, exploring every nook and cranny of the building. This year is going to be even bigger, with 14 different artists, entertainers, and organizations scheduled to perform," says Erin Francoeur, Executive Director
Not only that, but a 30-foot, smoke-breathing dragon named Hilda will be perched on the library's roof, keeping a watchful eye on State Street. Designed and created by The Point at Otterbein University, Hilda is an art installation made of steel, wood, vinyl, foam, and latex. The Friends of the Westerville Public Library - a volunteer organization that helps to raise money through book sales and a gift shop – eagerly sponsored the opportunity to bring even more attention to the Wizards & Wands Festival and to Uptown Westerville's Midnight Madness event happening that night.
When asked what makes this experience unique, staff said it's the attention to detail. Currently stored in an affectionately named "room of requirement", hundreds of cauldrons, brooms, birdcages, teacups, and other props have been gathered from all over town, including many decorations handmade by staff and volunteers. "This is an immersive experience that brings together the entire library, the local community and the Uptown area. It's a way to celebrate the town and to celebrate a book that's remained relevant for over 20 years," says librarian Michala Sage.
The goal is not only to offer a fun experience but also to give people a way to escape reality for a night. Carlson remarked, "The fact that you can wander through a wizarding village in your own backyard for free - that's a huge way for us to give back to our community."
Even if you've never read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Halloween is your least favorite holiday, there will still be plenty to entertain the entire family. "If you know and love Harry Potter, you get it. But this goes far beyond the wizarding world. There's bugs and stilt walkers and wood carving and science experiments and music. It's like you're stepping through the pages of a book," says Robin Gibson, Youth Services Manager.
Libraries are filled with stories, and this is one you don't want to miss.
For more information about this year's event, visit westervillelibrary.org/wizards.
7/30/2020 - Fiscal Officer Receives Auditor of State Award
2/24/2020 - Donated books highlight Indian culture, inspire conversations
2/10/2020 - Letter from our Executive Director - Reflecting on 2019
1/31/2020 - Westerville Public Library receives 10th star rating since 2009.
1/30/2020 - Library Earns Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting
12/19/2019 - Library receives $2,000 mini-grant to help achieve a complete count in 2020 Census
12/2/2019 - Library now requires PIN number to access account
10/3/2019 - Library to Be Transformed into a Wizarding Wonderland on October 25
9/1/2019 - Voted Favorite Library Children's Area in Columbus Parent Magazine's Family Faves
7/10/2019 - Library selected for $1,000 Grow with Google grant
5/17/2019 - Big Changes Are Coming
4/29/2019 - Library Earns Award for 'Above and Beyond' Service to Students
4/24/2019 - Library plays important role in smart city recognition
4/8/2019 - Library introduces auto-renewal to increase customer convenience
2/11/2019 - Letter from our Executive Director: Reflecting on 2018
3/16/2018 - Water leak causes damage at Westerville Library
8/17/2017 - Your library is now fines free.
4/5/2017 - Erin Francoeur Named Executive Director of the Westerville Public Library
5/24/2016 - Westerville Public Library is ranked one of 2016 Best Employers in Ohio.
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We spent most of the day out of the house and in the car. I got up extra early and put together some breakfast sandwiches to take with us. To start I fried up some bacon while I showered.
When the bacon was done, after about 30 minutes - it does cook a little faster when it's not frozen - I drained off most of the fat, added sliced onion and a diced baked potato that was left over from the other day, put the pan back in the Sun Oven.
After ten minutes or so I poured the egg and bacon mixture into the pan. By the time we were ready to get going, I'd say between and forty-five minutes and an hour, the egg bake was ready and I made sandwiches to go. I never would have made something like this on a busy morning without the Sun Oven. I'd never leave the kitchen while bacon is frying in a pan and I avoid turning the oven on at all cost during the hot summer months. Granted, it is possible to burn bacon even in a Sun Oven, but that's the worst thing that can happen, it's not like you could start a grease fire and burn down your house.
I just found your blog and you have me very excited to start experimenting. I have had a sun oven for a while - sort of emergency backup - but have never tried it. So..I will be back here a lot because I am determined to start using this wonderful piece of equipment!


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Question: On the Motion to Table (Motion to Table Paul Amdt. No. 18 )
Vote Result: Motion to Table Agreed to
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 18 to S. 223 (FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act)
Statement of Purpose: To strike the provisions relating to clarifying a memorandum of understanding between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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