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Art Viewer
Seeker, 2020
Audio, wood, enamel, Big Mouth Billy Bass
24 x 72 x 5.5 in (61 x 182.9 x 14 cm)
Pleader, 2020
48 x 24 x 5.5 in (121.9 x 61 x 14 cm)
Chum, 2020
Pitcher, 2020
Trawler, 2020
30 x 27.5 x 5.5 in (76.2 x 69.9 x 14 cm)
Remember Big Mouth Billy Bass? Exhume him from the man-cave in the basement of your memory, out from a box with some Big Dog shirts and a PC tower that, if you were to boot it up, still has "Frog in a Blender" set as its only bookmark. We're in the domain of the Uncle. Not quite of the Father, who, despite everything and however nominally, still assumes the mantle of law and order. The Uncle, instead, is free-floating: he holds all the entitlement and threat of the patriarch, with none of the obligations. If Father is Tragedy, then Uncle is Farce: he's not a banker, but an RV dealer; not a fisherman, but still an Ahab of sorts, if only in the Rite Aid clearance section. It's telling that America fell in love with this fish when it did, on the eve of the twenty-first century.
Before he became nationally recognizable, Billy Bass was meant to surprise you. The first generation Bass was activated by motion sensor, the idea being that this innocuous kitsch-decor would come to life for unsuspecting passersby. The taxidermied prey peels off the wall and confronts the surveilled, an eerie reanimation set to the tune of either "Don't Worry, Be Happy" or "Take Me to the River." Later versions replaced the motion sensor with a simple button, softening his song's affront. But then you have your Uncle pressing it every thirty minutes to impress everyone at the family reunion.
This initial threat factor of Billy Bass—his sense of knowing—is preserved in his appearances throughout Season 3 of The Sopranos, where the fish functions as a cursed memento mori, half Yorick's skull and half Tell-Tale Heart. Whether it's Christopher assuming that Paulie is pulling a gun on him when in fact it's just the Bass, or Tony being triggered by the fish's accusatory gaze and bashing it over the head of the poor bartender, or Meadow gifting yet another fish to Tony the following Christmas, unaware of the terror it brings to her father, The Sopranos identifies some trauma lurking beneath the surface of Billy Bass's camp. It seems to have something to do with the awkward pain of intergenerational disconnect—the moment when the Uncle's joke misfires.
What else do fish know? In this exhibition, Dena brings in a bit of ancient folk wisdom with a mural that riffs on Pieter Bruegel the Elder's dystopic tableau, "Big Fish Eat Little Fish," drawn in 1556 and distributed as an engraving in 1557. A boatsman recounts to his son a Latin proverb, which has manifested before them with grotesque literality: "Look, son, I have long known that the big fish eat the small." The scene is replete with fish within fish; most fish are eating others, while themselves being eaten. A coastal trade city gleams on the horizon. Do you see where Bruegel is going with this? Dena recasts the scene for our own times and our own imperial capital, where exploitation and predation have taken on dimensions that an early modern Dutch fishmonger could never have fathomed.
On the mural's right, an emo fish sings a song on the East River Park Amphitheater's stage—an early Robert Moses construction, and so a symbol of a past era's paternalism, conceived by one of that era's most hated Fathers. And yet it's beloved, too, and now endangered: the city plans to demolish it this fall, along with the rest of the park, to fortify the Lower East Side against rising sea levels. Eventually, they will top the new landfill with new landscaping, designed to be more in step with the taste of contemporary real estate developers (the ultimate Uncles). This, though, was preceded by a more modest demolition of half the original structure in 2002, as part of Giuliani's post-9/11 downtown "rehab" campaign. The big fish comes even for Moses, and then a bigger one still…
Meanwhile, Dena has staged a performance of five Billy Basses talking past each other, each trying to get a grip in our sinking city. Each portraying an archetype, they stumble through something like a group therapy session, straining to connect from their respective mounts despite the imporosity of each's worldview. There's at least one thing they have in common: they're thirsty.
—Nick Irvin
Dena Yago (b. 1988, New York, NY) lives and works in New York City.
Recent solo exhibitions include High Art, Paris; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta; Bodega, New York; Sandy Brown, Berlin; and Boatos Fine Art, Sao Paulo. Recent group exhibitions include Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Watermill Center, Watermill, NY; Emalin, London; Bortolami, New York, NY; and Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles.
Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Mousse Magazine, CURA Magazine, Garage Magazine, Bomb, and DIS Magazine, among others.
Yago has published numerous texts including "The Walls Stays in the Picture: Destination Murals in Los Angeles" (e-flux journal, 2019); "Soft Serve: On Food, Affect, and the Silicon Valley Workplace" (Frieze, 2019); "Content Industrial Complex" (e-flux journal, 2019); "Bad Memory" (Flash Art, 2017); "On Ketamine and Added Value" (e-flux, 2017); and "Empire Poetry" (Texte zur Kunst, 2016). Multiple books of her work have been published including Fade the Lure (After 8 Books, 2019); Esprit Reprise (Pork Salad Press, 2015); and Ambergris (Bodega Press, 2014).
Her work is included in the permanent collection of The Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
This is Yago's second solo exhibition at the gallery.


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Q: Determine what subparser is used I'm building a software which has several subparsers, I'd like those ones having a different convert_arg_line_to_args definition so what I did is to replace the function of my parser considering the subparser selected:
parser = ArgumentParser(fromfile_prefix_chars='@')
subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(title='Available sub commands')

sub_parser = subparsers.add_parser("sub1", help="sub1")
sub_parser.add_argument("--paramsub1", required=True, dest="paramsub1")
sub_parser.set_defaults(cmd_object="sub1")

sub_parser = subparsers.add_parser("sub2", help="sub2")
sub_parser.add_argument("--paramsub2", required=True, dest="paramsub2")
sub_parser.set_defaults(cmd_object="sub2")

I'd like argparse do not check the arguments, but tell me which subparser has been selected:
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
if args["cmd_object"] == "sub1": parser.convert_arg_line_to_args = function1
elif args["cmd_object"] == "sub2": parser.convert_arg_line_to_args = function2
args = vars(parser.parse_args())

Any ideas?

A: Do you want to check the subparser name just so you can set the convert_arg_line_to_args function?  You could, instead, change that function during setup.
How about this setup?
def function1(arg_line):
    print('function1: %r'%arg_line)
    return [arg_line]

def function2(arg_line):
    print('function2: %r'%arg_line)
    return arg_line.split()

parser = ArgumentParser()
subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(title='Available sub commands', dest='cmd_object')

sub_parser1 = subparsers.add_parser("sub1", help="sub1",fromfile_prefix_chars='@')
sub_parser1.convert_arg_line_to_args = function1
sub_parser1.add_argument("--paramsub1")

sub_parser2 = subparsers.add_parser("sub2", help="sub2",fromfile_prefix_chars='@')
sub_parser2.convert_arg_line_to_args = function2
sub_parser2.add_argument("--paramsub2")

I moved fromfile_prefix_chars='@' from the parser to the subparsers.  That way the parser does not try to read the argument files.
Usually required arguments are defined as positional (without the --).
Using dest='cmd_object' puts the subparser name into the namespace.  sest_defaults also works, but is more useful when you want to set that value to a function (or other non-string).

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I have been getting to grips with rotary encoders on the Arduino, and to add a little drama I have gotten this working on the i2c bus. Here I will be showing how to set up the necessary hardware and demonstrate a program for the Arduino. I have used a similar setup to control an LED RGB light strip, with three rotary encoders to control the Red, Green and Blue and a fourth for special effects.
The i2c bus allows connection of multiple devices to the Arduino on just two wires, these can be just about anything from temperature sensors to motor controllers with each device having its own address, up to eight of these can be used using just two wires from the Arduino.
The address for the expander is set on pins 15, 16 and 17 (A0, A1 and A2), for a single encoder set all of these to ground. Should you require more expanders the addresses can be set as in the table below, the MCP address is for the Arduino program.
Inside they have mechanical contacts that output two square waves when rotated, A and B these are 90o out of phase with each other so when rotated clockwise output A is ahead of B, and counter-clockwise output B takes the lead, this is a two bit Grey code.
So by comparing the two outputs we can determine the direction of rotation.
My test setup comprises of two rotary encoders, one Arduino Uno, one MCP23017 port expander, and a couple of resistors. External pull-up resistors are not required on the GPx input ports as the MCP23017 has these internally. Encoder A uses GPA0, GPA1 and GPA2 for the push button. Encoder B is on GPA4, GPA5, and GPA6.
My program uses the Adafruit MCP23017 and standard wire libraries. The Adafriut library addresses the GPx ports from 0-15, so GPA2 is 2, and GPB2 is 9. I have written this to output the state of rotation to the serial port at 9600 baud.
// setup the encoders as inputs.
// do something when a particular encoder has been rotated.
// set the selection to 101 now we have finished doing things. Not 0 as there is an encoder 0.
For something I'm building I need have the Arduino detect a coin being dropped trough a slot, for this I have built an IR detector, it comprises of an IR LED, IR Photo-Diode, Op-amp and ATtiny85 micro-controller.
The circuit works by having the IR LED flood the Photo-diode so that when an object passes between them the Photo-diode stops letting current through, this is fed into the op-amp to provide a consistent output for the ATtiny85 micro-controller to detect the change in signal to then flash a couple of LED's and provide a signal to an Arduino.
* flash and makes pin3 go high for 120ms.


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Q: How to use the smoothed line with patsy cr in production? I smooth a set of features using patsy cr (with natural splines) however confused with something looking very basic. Here is a sample raw data points and corresponding smoothed points by patsy.
x = df[feature]
y = np.log(df['varTarget'])

x_val = 100
#y_val = np.log(df_val['varTarget'])

x_basis = cr(x, df=10, constraints="center", lower_bound=x.min(), upper_bound=x.max())
x_basis_val = cr(x_val, df=10, constraints="center", lower_bound=x.min(), upper_bound=x.max())

# Fit model to the data
# this model uses an input x_basis with 10 columns created through cr
model = LinearRegression().fit(x_basis, y)

# Get estimates
y_hat = model.predict(x_basis)
y_hat_val = model.predict(x_basis_val)

plt.figure(figsize=(17,7))
plt.scatter(x, y, s=4, color="tab:blue")
plt.scatter(x, y_hat, s=8, color="tab:red")

and the plot:

So the linear regression model based on the smoothed points expects an input with 10 columns. This is created by cr. So suppose in production I have a new x = 100. Then how can I get a smoothed value for the new x relying on the smoothed line already created?
When trying with one value I get the following:

Unable to compute n_inner_knots(=4) + 2 distinct knots: 1 data
value(s) found between lower_bound(=30.023212890625) and
upper_bound(=998.42234375).


The Bush administration and peace groups agree: a civilian corps for post-conflict reconstruction is urgently needed.
By Ann Vaughan and Trevor Keck. Edited by John Feffer, May 15, 2008 .
This is a very plausible dilemma for a U.S. president. U.S. policymakers must respond rapidly and often in an ad-hoc manner to crises. The lack of a civilian corps of experts to rapidly respond to a crisis often prevents the United States from taking advantage of a "golden hour" when reconstruction assistance is most helpful in preventing countries from sliding further into chaos. And while war-torn states require sustained foreign aid and civilian reconstruction assistance, the only U.S. government agency currently capable of rapid deployment is the military. Consequently, U.S. military forces have engaged in seven major stabilization and reconstruction operations since the end of the Cold War. The majority of these operations took place in weak and failing states, with the stated goal of restoring peace in the aftermath of instability and violent conflict.
While the military is able to provide security, it is not suited to perform civilian tasks, such as rebuilding infrastructure, setting up judicial systems, and establishing other government institutions. "It's like sending police to guard a ruined neighborhood, but not sending the carpenters and the electricians and the plumbers to help residents rebuild it," said one official regarding U.S. responses to weak and failing states.
After many failed interventions in places like Haiti and Somalia, a bipartisan consensus has emerged that violent conflict in failing states merits an improved civilian response to prevent catastrophes and fill security gaps that provide safe havens for radical violent groups. Some progressive voices disagree, seeing imperial designs behind reconstruction and stabilization efforts. But these critics fail to understand how a civilian response corps can meet human needs and help rehabilitate U.S. reputation abroad.
From the campaign trail in 2000, Governor George W. Bush lambasted the Clinton administration for its grandiose nation-building operations abroad. Yet after 9/11, the Bush administration sanctioned two expansive U.S. military-led nation-building projects in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Catastrophes often give birth to new ideas. The inability of coalition forces to establish a sustainable peace in Iraq and Afghanistan led many U.S. policymakers to question U.S. post-conflict reconstruction capabilities. And they were right. The chaos after the fall of Baghdad can largely be blamed on inefficient U.S. agency coordination, poor decision-making from senior policymakers, and a lack of a cadre of civilian professionals with reconstruction expertise.
To remedy these failures and in response to a legislative initiative from Senate Foreign Relations leaders Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Joseph Biden (D-DE), then-Secretary of State Colin Powell established the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) in 2004. The primary objective of S/CRS is to coordinate all U.S. civilian agencies involved in post-conflict reconstruction efforts.
Due to bureaucratic infighting and congressional reticence to fund a new office, S/CRS had a slow start, surviving on less than $15 million a year. Despite this underfunding, the new department has managed to deploy people all over the world including to Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America. After the war between Israel and Hezbollah last summer, for instance, S/CRS deployed two Foreign Service officers to coordinate U.S. post-conflict reconstruction assistance in Lebanon. In Haiti, a small team of U.S. civilians led by S/CRS has been working with local governments and police to provide development assistance and improve security in Cité-Soleil, one of Haiti's most impoverished and dangerous neighborhoods.
S/CRS is also working in Sudan and Chad, home to arguably the worst human security crises in the world. Since June 2006, a small team from S/CRS has been working with the UN-African Union hybrid peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID), and with local government and civil society in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state. They provide a U.S. diplomatic presence in the region, report on the implementation of key aspects of the 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement, and help coordinate U.S. diplomatic efforts to bring an end to the fighting in Darfur. In Chad, a smaller team from S/CRS has been monitoring the arrival of refugees and the internally displaced persons from western Darfur and Chad.
Ironically, many of these projects have been funded by the Defense Department, vis-à-vis "Section 1207" authority, a legislative initiative that allows the DoD to transfer money to the State Department for stabilization and reconstruction operations. There are two reasons for this unusual arrangement. The failure to establish a sustainable peace in Iraq has forced many in the Pentagon and administration to come to grips with the fact that military force cannot accomplish many of the challenges of the 21st century. Faced with this scenario, senior officials at the Pentagon have supported a transfer of funds to the State Department. This transfer, while a welcome infusion of cash, highlights grave problems in the U.S. budget, which grossly overfunds DoD while leaving civilian agencies starved for resources.
The House of Representatives and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have both approved bills (HR 1084 and S 613) to authorize the new office and create a cadre of civilian professionals to provide reconstruction assistance in crisis situations. Unfortunately, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has placed a legislative hold on the bill, blocking a floor vote in the Senate.
A 2000-person voluntary reserve corps, which would draw U.S. civilians from state and local governments, and the private sector. This corps would give civilians the opportunity to serve and support critical peacebuilding missions abroad.
In a bizarre turn of events, the Bush administration and a number of peace groups have found common ground on S/CRS. Washington based peace and security advocacy groups that strongly opposed the Bush Administration's pre-emptive war on Iraq have now found themselves lobbying Congress to support the Administration's funding request for S/CRS and the civilian response corps.
While S/CRS has gained its allies, it has its critics. In an article in The Nation, journalist Naomi Klein criticized S/CRS for its crisis planning agenda, calling it "sophisticated colonialism." However, Klein fails to acknowledge that planning for crises is critically necessary to save lives and resources. The failure in the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina is a case in point. The Defense Department invests millions in planning for future military operations. Due to both scant resources and a reaction-prone culture at the State Department, the agency responsible for U.S. diplomatic efforts hasn't ever aggressively planned for peace. S/CRS is a first attempt to change this dynamic.
Certainly, not every failing state poses a direct challenge to global stability, nor can U.S. resources be poured into reconstructing every war-torn state. U.S. policymakers should exercise extreme caution before intervening in any country. Yet some volatile states such as Somalia, Chad, and Lebanon do provide safe havens for radical armed groups not to mention put vulnerable populations at risk of serious harm. A civilian response corps would provide policymakers with a more appropriate tool than military or security assistance to shore up these unstable states.
These critics also fail to make the distinction between the foreign policy agenda and the tools available for policymakers. While U.S. military and civilian capabilities help shape the foreign policy agenda, the ultimate responsibility for casting the vote on important foreign policy matters lies with elected public officials. A civilian response corps is a tool that could be used to further U.S. hegemony, or provide assistance to civilians in places like Haiti or Burma. But expanding the U.S. foreign policy toolkit is not a substitute for a more ethical U.S. foreign policy or democratic oversight by an engaged citizenry. One safeguard against executive abuse is a provision in the House authorization bill that requires Congressional notification prior to the deployment of the civilian corps.
Finally, it is disingenuous to claim the United States has sufficient professional civilian capabilities to provide reconstruction assistance and help revive failed states. Since the end of the Cold War, consistent budgeting reductions for USAID— the primary agency responsible for administering foreign assistance—have undercut the U.S. ability to provide effective foreign assistance.
Similar cuts in the State Department's operating budget have left the U.S. diplomatic agency understaffed and ill-equipped to handle current much less potential challenges. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has highlighted the staffing disparity between the State Department and the military, by noting that the entire U.S. diplomatic corps (roughly 6,600 foreign service officers) could only man one aircraft carrier. Congressional funding of the proposed "Civilian Stabilization Initiative" would help address the effects of these budget cuts by providing new positions at the State Department and USAID.
In late July 2003, Senator Biden said, "Instead of a preemption doctrine, what we need is a prevention doctrine which diffuses problems long before they explode in our face." Past failures to manage and prevent conflict have been problems of will and resources. The U.S. foreign policy infrastructure is designed to respond to conflict in an ad-hoc fashion, not to prevent festering tensions from developing into deadly conflict. This is due in part to the U.S. budget for foreign engagement, which is weighted toward preparation for war, not efforts to prevent deadly conflict.
Approximately 90% of funds for U.S. foreign engagement are spent on the Pentagon, leaving a mere 10% of funds to support diplomacy, foreign aid, and civilian post-conflict reconstruction capabilities. As a result, U.S. policymakers rely heavily on the military to respond to conflict and instability. By default, ad-hoc interventions focus on short-term military security yet often fail to establish the conditions for a sustainable peace. Unsurprisingly, violent conflict resurges just months or years after a conflict ends. Reoccurring conflict in places like Haiti and Sierra Leone demonstrate how international responses fail to address the root causes of conflict.
The civilian response corps is a tool to help resolve this cycle of conflict in war-torn states. In addition to tools like S/CRS, we also need good policies. Like any government agency, S/CRS certainly has its flaws. The office needs to reach out more to international organizations, civil society, and those living in war-torn states.
Trevor Keck is a legislative program assistant and Ann Vaughan is the legislative representative for the peaceful prevention of deadly conflict program at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker public interest lobby in Washington DC. They are both contributors to Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org).


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Top cities between Guayaquil and Machu Picchu
Best stops along Guayaquil to Machu Picchu drive
34 Best Stops Between Guayaquil and Machu Picchu
How long is the drive from Guayaquil to Machu Picchu?
The direct drive from Guayaquil to Machu Picchu is 1585 mi (2550 km), and should have a drive time of 1 day 14 hrs in normal traffic.
If you're going on a road trip from Guayaquil to Machu Picchu, we did the research for you and compiled some great stops along the way — with Lima, Cuenca, Trujillo, and Cajamarca and top places to visit like Spondylus Dive Center and Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción, or the ever-popular Las Pocitas.
1 day 14 hrs
The top cities between Guayaquil and Machu Picchu are Lima, Cuenca, Trujillo, and Cajamarca. Lima is the most popular city on the route — it's 22 hours from Guayaquil and 16 hours from Machu Picchu.
Cuenca (Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca) is a city in southern Ecuador's Andes mountains. It's known for its Tomebamba River waterfront and handicrafts including Panama hats. Its central plaza, Parque Calderón, is home to the blue-domed Catedral Nueva and the 16th-century Catedral Vieja, now a religious museum. The Museo y Parque Arqueológico Pumapungo displays ruins and artifacts from the Incan city of Tomebamba.
8% as popular as Lima
2 hours off the main route, 8% of way to Machu Picchu
Cajamarca is a city in Peru's northern highlands, in the Andes Mountains. Baroque colonial architecture surrounds the historic main square, Plaza de Armas. The Cajamarca Cathedral has a gold leaf–covered altar, while the Monastery of San Francisco has catacombs and a religious art museum. Nearby, El Cuarto del Rescate (Ransom Room) is where the last Incan emperor Atahualpa was imprisoned.
2 hours off the main route, 32% of way to Machu Picchu
Trujillo is a city in northwestern Peru. It's known for the nation's traditional dance, marinera. The colonial center is home to the grand Trujillo Cathedral, with its bright yellow facade, and the blue Casa Urquiaga. Nearby, the neoclassical Iturregui Palace has Italian marble statues and a courtyard. West of the city, the huge adobe complex of Chan Chan is an abandoned city once home to the ancient Chimu kingdom.
0 minutes off the main route, 35% of way to Machu Picchu
Lima, the capital of Peru, lies on the country's arid Pacific coast. Though its colonial center is preserved, it's a bustling metropolis and one of South America's largest cities. It's home to the Museo Larco collection of pre-Columbian art and the Museo de la Nación, tracing the history of Peru's ancient civilizations. The Plaza de Armas and the 16th-century cathedral are the heart of old Lima Centro.
17 minutes off the main route, 57% of way to Machu Picchu
The top stops along the way from Guayaquil to Machu Picchu (with short detours) are Park of the Reserve, Miraflores, and Larco Museum. Other popular stops include Pachacamac District, Plaza De Armas De Lima, and Cumbemayo Tours.
Swimming, rock pools & seafront dining on a sandy stretch backed by coconut palms.
4.2(6) •
Máncora District, Peru
Spondylus Dive Center
SCUBA tour agency
4.0(24) •
Av Piura 209, Máncora 20850, Peru
http://www.spondylusdc.com/
Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción
Landmark cathedral featuring 3 blue & white domes & Romanesque-revival architecture.
Mariscal Sucre, Cuenca, Ecuador
Av Mirador de Turi
Hugging a cliff overlooking the city, this narrow road features several lookouts for sweeping views.
Ecuagenera
Calle Cuenca, Gualaceo, Ecuador
Parque Recreacional Jipiro
Velasco Ibarra 1982, Loja, Ecuador
http://loja.gob.ec/
Plaza de Armas de Piura
City green space featuring old tamarind trees, flowers, park benches & the marble statue, "Pola."
Piura 20001, Peru
Royal Tombs Of Sipan Museum
Specialty Museums
Pyramid-shaped museum exhibiting elaborate funerary objects from the pre-Inca Royal Tombs of Sipán.
Juan Pablo Vizcardo Y Guzman 895, Lambayeque 14013, Peru
https://www.facebook.com/museotumbasrealesdesipanoficial/
Cumbemayo Tours
Amalia Puga 635, Cajamarca 06002, Peru
Los Baños del Inca District
Hot Springs & Geysers
Los Baños del Inca District is one of twelve districts of the province Cajamarca in Peru. It is centred on a spa which uses the water from thermal springs
The town is said to have been the favorite resort town of the Lord Inca Atawallpa.
06004, Peru
Ancient, Moche-era archeological complex with ruins, art, wall designs, a mummy & various artifacts.
Magdalena de Cao, provincia de Ascope, región La Libertad., a 60km al norte de Trujillo, Peru
Trujillo Central Park
Busy, landscaped plaza featuring a central sculpture celebrating the 1820 independence of Trujillo.
plaza de armas de trujillo, Trujillo 13001, Peru
La Huaca del Sol
Huge temple built by the Moche civilization as a royal residence, ceremony site & burial chamber.
Valle de Moche, Moche, Peru
http://www.huacasdemoche.pe/
Llanganuco Lakes
Bodies of Water
Huascaran
National park & twin-summit mountain, Peru's tallest, popular with mountaineers & climbers.
Plaza De Armas De Huaraz
Huaraz 02001, Peru
Sitio Arqueológico Chavín de Huántar
Landmark archaeological area featuring structures & artifacts from the pre-Incan Chavín culture.
Chavín de Huantar 02395, Peru
http://www.cultura.gob.pe/
Pastoruri Glacier
3.1 square miles in size, this receding, bowl-shaped glacier is popular among hikers & ice climbers.
Castillo de Chancay
Former castle now hosting 2 hotels, several restaurants & attractions such as live shows & museums.
1 de Mayo 1230, Chancay LIMA 1, Peru
Larco Museum
Mansion-turned-museum featuring a collection of pre-Columbian artifacts, including ceramic erotica.
Av. Simón Bolivar 1515, Pueblo Libre 15084, Peru
http://www.museolarco.org/
Plaza De Armas De Lima
Known as the birthplace of Lima, this plaza featuring a fountain is bordered by iconic palaces.
Plaza central Lima, Cercado de Lima 15001, Peru
https://www.facebook.com/plazadearmasdelima/
Park of the Reserve
Picturesque neighborhood park known for its fountains & evening laser light shows off the water.
Jr. Madre de Dios S/N, Cercado de Lima, Peru
https://www.circuitomagicodelagua.com.pe/
Marcahuasi (Markawasi) Stone Forest
Nature preserve
Geologic Formations
http://www.markawasi.com/
Huaca Pucllana
Remains of a clay & adobe stepped pyramid from the Lima Culture (200–700 A.D.), plus tours & museum.
Ca. Gral. Borgoño cuadra 8, Miraflores 15074, Peru
http://huacapucllanamiraflores.pe/
Miraflores is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. It is an exclusive residential and upscale shopping district south of downtown Lima. It is also one of the most affluent districts that make up the city of Lima. It has various hotels, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and department stores.
http://www.miraflores.gob.pe/
Barranco is one of 43 districts in Lima, Peru. Its current mayor is José Juan Rodríguez Cárdenas.
The district is considered to be the city's most romantic and bohemian, being the home and working place of many of Peru's leading artists, musicians, designers and photographers.
http://www.munibarranco.gob.pe/index.php/ciudad
Pachacamac District
The Pachacamac District is one of 43 districts of the Lima Province in Peru. The capital of the district is the village of Pachacamac. Its main asset is the archaeological Inca site Pachacamac.
Parque de la Identidad Huanca
Landscaped park with winding pathways & quirky stone sculptures celebrating local culture.
San Jorge 600, Huancayo 12000, Peru
Obelisco de la Quinua
Plaza de Armas of Ayacucho
Scenic, well-manicured plaza surrounded by an array of hotels, a cathedral, restaurants & shops.
Plaza de Armas, Ayacucho 05003, Peru
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Can I drive from Guayaquil to Machu Picchu?
Yes! You can drive from Guayaquil to Machu Picchu.
How far is Machu Picchu from Guayaquil by car?
The drive from Guayaquil to Machu Picchu is 1585 miles (2550 km).
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Longitudinal EM energy fills vacuum of space, the time domain of spacetime, time as compressed energy, E=tc2, waves of time, phase conjugate wave pairs.
"Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels."
"At any point and at any time, one can freely and inexpensively extract enormous EM energy flows directly from the active vacuum itself."
Tom Bearden
I guess the first thing to try to comprehend is that a "new" kind of electromagnetic (EM) wave has been discovered in the empty vacuum of space called longitudinal waves, which, when engineered, can be an inexhaustible supply of energy in great magnitude at any place in the universe.
The word "new" is in quotes because the discovery really goes back to Nikola Tesla and his discovery of what he called "radiant energy." It is also not "new" because the Russians (KGB) have been working on this technology for over 30 years and have weaponized these "new" longitudinal scalar waves to a great degree.
These are the very weapons Nikita Khrushchev spoke of in January, 1960.
"By 1957-8 the Soviets had progressed to the point of a giant scalar EM accident in the Urals which exploded nearby atomic wastes, devastating the area. They had also progressed to development of great new superweapons using their new energetics - weapons to which Khrushchev referred in 1960 when he informed the Soviet Presidium of a new, fantastic weapon in development, a weapon so powerful that it could wipe out all life on earth if unrestrainedly employed.'"
After over 30 years of development, and extensive testing around the globe, these new scalar electromagnetic weapons are up and running and ready to go. Tom Bearden, at his website Cheniere, discusses the history of these new scalar electromagnetic weapons in his paper "Historical Background of Scalar EM Weapons."
Some Immediate Implications
The implications of successful engineering of the longitudinal waves are enormous, and will change the world as we know it, one way or another.
Among other things, these discoveries mean that:
1. The solutions to the energy crisis and the "oil problem" are in hand. These oil wars are unnecessary. There is endless energy available freely from the domain of time.
2. Unbelievably powerful weapons are not only possible, but are already operating in several nations. The many powers of these weapons are unprecedented and mind-boggling.
3. The cure of diseases such as cancer and AIDS, in fact nearly any disease, has become possible within a few years of sufficient funding. Everyone can be made healthy and stay healthy.
4. Mind control on a mass scale has now become possible, and the machines to do it are already in place in certain nations. It has become possible to mentally enslave whole populations with the twist of a few dials.
So the layman will need to understand that there is a new kind of electromagnetic energy that is altogether different from what he knows, e.g. radio, TV, cell phones, etc. The ordinary EM waves that we have known about are called transverse EM waves, to distinguish them from the new longitudinal EM waves. These scalar waves do not actually exist in our "material" world, but exist only in the vacuum of empty space, or the time domain.
And we must keep in mind that this vacuum of space we speak of exists all through everything. Even our bodies are mostly empty space between atoms and molecules. So the gateway to this seething ocean of energy can be there at every point in the universe.
This seething ocean of energy is all around us and all through us.
Emptiness is Full
This amazing discovery announces that the "emptiness" of empty space is in fact not empty, but a great ocean of seething energy!
Col. Bearden refers to this ocean of energy as being of the "time domain." It seems like something from Star Trek but this is where scalar electromagnetics has come to. And where it is going may be beyond anything Star Trek could have dreamed of.
We live in a 3-dimensional world, which physics calls "3-space." But there is also spacetime, or 4-space, or the "4th dimension." Then suddenly comes this amazing new knowledge that time itself is actually compressed energy. And it is energy which is compressed by exactly the same factor by which matter is considered compressed energy: the speed-of-light-squared!
So we have a new companion to the famous E=mc2. It is now paired with E=tc2 (where t is actually "delta-t," or change in time). Or (amaze your family and friends and) say:
"E equals em-cee-squared"
"E equals delta-tee-cee-squared"
It has a nice ring to it, like some freedom bell announcing a new era. And as the atomic bomb released the compressed energy in matter, so can we now unleash the tremendous energy that is compressed into time itself. It gives a completely new meaning to the term "time bomb."
Some New Terminology of Scalar Electromagnetics
A new science, several new names
Those [Russian] weapon scientists resurrected an old term from the history of electrodynamics, called "energetics".
That is their approach to a unified field theory, where everything is based on "energetics". This model as its foundations uses a very similar approach to that "single fundamental unit" model, where energy is the unit. If one makes the energy EM in nature, then one has the Russian energetics approach.
This unified approach gathers everything in, including all energy actions and relations in inert matter (the first branch of energetics, called by the same name), all field and matter interactions in living matter (the second branch of energetics, called "bioenergetics"), and all mind operations and mind-matter interactions (the third branch of energetics, called "psychoenergetics"). [ed: sometimes also called "psychotronics" by the Russians]
Rick Andersen in an article called "What is Scalar Electromagnetics?" describes the new science this way:
"Scalar EM is the brainchild of Lt. Col. (retired) Thomas E. Bearden, a systems analyst and wargames specialist who has been advocating a view of electromagnetics which is based on the notion of a vast, unseen background of scalar energies (as opposed to vector energies) which underlie all physical reality.
"If Bearden is correct in his Scalar EM theory, then we can build devices which would enable us to alter gravity, time, inertia, and the apparent mass of an object. This of course has ENORMOUS implications for military applications, space-vehicle drives, time-travel, teleportation, paranormal phenomena, and just about every other area one can think of."
http://twm.co.nz/Beard_scalem.html
"Time-energy, time-currents, and time-structuring play the dominant role in electromagnetics. Time-as-energy eventually becomes engineerable, as easily as is spatial energy now. We are always dealing with spacetime and with spacetime curvature."
Bearden: The Unnecessary Energy Crisis
The scalar energy discovered in the vacuum of space is sometimes called "zero-point" energy. Thomas Valone explains how this term came about.
What does "Zero Point" mean?
"Boyer traces the historical creation of the vacuum as proceeding in stages in parallel with the historical development of ideas about the vacuum. To paraphrase, he says that in the 17th century, it was thought that a totally empty volume of space could be created by simply removing all matter and, in particular, all gases.
That was our first concept of the vacuum. Just get rid of all the gas. Late in the 19th century, it became apparent that the region still contained thermal radiation. But it seemed that the radiation might be eliminated by cooling. So the second concept of getting a real vacuum is to cool it down to zero temperature. Just go all the way to absolute zero.
Then we've got a real vacuum. Right? Well, since then, both theory and experiment have shown that there is a non-thermal radiation in the vacuum and that it persists even if the temperature could be lowered to absolute zero. Therefore, it was simply called the zero point radiation. "
Thomas Valone: http://www.seaspower.com/InsideZeroPoint.htm
"For our very survival, it is absolutely imperative that informed citizens be aware of this dramatic change, which is just now starting. The powerful new science and engineering must be controlled and used for humanity's benefit, not its detriment. Else it will eventually be let loose unrestrainedly, to destroy all life on earth - a possibility indicated by Nikita Khrushchev in 1960." (Original HERE)
Endless free energy, Tesla's radiant energy, the dipole as the gateway to the energy of the void, MEG in one year, Bedini, Yakuza, etc. End of Oil, geopolitical chaos, rogue groups
Move Over G.E. & Big Oil, Energy is Everywhere!
Third-world nations set to rise.
"Certain powerful interests did not wish the extended electromagnetics to be discovered or taught. That, after all, would lead to free energy and loss of economic control of the citizens. That was precisely why Nikola Tesla had already been suppressed... Today it is still being suppressed by the orthodox establishment."
The vast seething ocean of energy of the vacuum, the longitudinal scalar EM waves of the time domain, can now be tapped and "transduced" into ordinary (transverse) EM energy in our 3-Space world. The process can be compared to putting a paddlewheel into a river. The energy acquired is free, since the river is there flowing whether we tap it or not. And it is a mighty river, and is not diminished by our paddlewheel.
This means that a permanent solution to the "energy crisis" is at hand, if only those who hold it so secret would give it up to humankind.
It means our species' insane use of oil is no longer necessary. We can make automobiles that need no fuel at all. We can build motors that power themselves. It means that unlimited electrical power can be available for free anywhere in the world. Every house and even shack can have its own power supply.
Of course there is the cost of the equipment at first, but the energy flow is free for the presumably very long life (no moving parts) of the generator. It will probably take decades to shift over to scalar power.
But the ability to tap the scalar (longitudinal) EM waves of the vacuum (which exists everywhere) also means that unbelievably powerful weapons can be, and already have been developed. In fact these weapons are so dangerous that the fear engendered becomes a psychological obstacle to the grasping of the facts.
I struggled with this myself for months, and even though Tom Bearden had completely convinced me already, it is hard to accept the fact that for everyone on earth the "worst that might happen" has suddenly gotten much worse. It takes time to deal with that, to realize it and get over it.
Indeed, the possibilities of these new weapons, which are tapping the huge energies of time, are so terrifying it is natural for the mind to simply say: "I don't want to hear about that."
And the government, likewise, pretends these weapons do not exist and tries to keep it secret from the people. Because most people would indeed be truly alarmed to know the actual situation. Col. Tom Bearden has decided that the people need to know the truth anyway. As a People on a Planet we must face this now, and ban the use of scalar weapons in war or in mass mind control. The current deployment of these weapons is a world emergency which we must all face.
The physics and mathematics of the longitudinal waves and the time domain are clearly beyond the layman, but I recommend scanning through them anyway just to get a sense of the wonder and the elegance of it all and some of the exotic terms which are used.
Two of the most important papers by Col. Bearden are:
Giant Negentropy from the Common Dipole
The Final Secret of Free Energy
Despite the complexity of the science involved, Bearden sums up the essential secret of it all in a few words.
"There is no problem at all in extracting all the energy one wishes from the active vacuum, anywhere in the universe, at any time. Just make a dipole.
The problem is in (1) catching some of that freely gushing EM energy in a circuit containing a load, and (2) dissipating the caught and collected EM energy in that load to power it, without using half the caught energy to destroy the source dipole's. That is the ONLY real energy problem on the planet, and always has been."
http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/022502.htm
A dipole could be a battery, which is polarized into negative and positive. Or the terminals of a generator. Or any magnet with its two poles. Or an atom with its positive and negative charges. Or the earth's magnetic field, the sun, and all heavenly bodies.
Even a galaxy must be some kind of mega-dipole. Wherever there is a dipole there is already immense scalar EM energy ushering out of and back into the vacuum. And there have already been demonstrated a number of diverse methods for tapping that energy as it flows. (John Bedini, Edwin Gray, Bruce de Palma, and others).
Bearden provides what he calls a "partial list" on his website.
"In other words, nature then gladly gives us as much EM energy flow as we need, indefinitely just for paying a tiny little bit initially to "make the little dipole." After that, we never have to pay anything again, and nature will happily keep on pouring out that 3-flow of EM energy for us. This is the giant negentropy mechanism I uncovered, performed in the simplest way imaginable: just make an ordinary little dipole."
Bearden: Unnecessary Energy Crisis
How to Buy a Free Energy Machine
Answer: Just wait one more year! 2003. Then get off the Grid!
Perhaps the most eagerly awaited event now is the marketing of Bearden's Motionless Electromagnetic Generator (MEG) scheduled to begin in about a year's time. This is when the proof will hit the fan. Many people have said to me, when talking about free energy, "I'll believe it when I can go to the store and buy one."
Hopefully in a year's time they will be able to order their own MEG. And then they will believe, because it works and is working.
Says Bearden:
"I will admit that the chief scientist of an important experimental group in a large company was rather stunned at the type of output we were able to obtain. The MEG may look like just a transformer, but it is not. It is a completely different breed of cat."
Bearden : http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/011202.htm
Soon the cat will be fully out of the bag. The first MEG units will supply 2.5 kilowatts of free electricity. Forever.
Units can be connected together to double or triple the wattage. After that gets going, 10 kilowatt generators are planned. Energy will flow freely from the time domain indefinitely, and there are no moving parts to wear out. This manufacturing project is a heroic effort and will change the world as we know it.
For once people are in possession of such devices there can be no further denial from anyone, including the government and/or "secret-government."
The Motionless Electromagnetic Generator
(Successfully replicated here by J. L. Naudin)
The physics of how the MEG works is explained in the paper "The Motionless Electromagnetic Generator: Extracting Energy from a Permanent Magnet with Energy Replenishment from the Active Vacuum."
The device was successfully replicated by J.L. Naudin in France, and others, like Steve Utne, are also working on their own models. But Magnetic Energy Limited's MEG is actually scheduled for production soon and looks to be the first commercially available free-energy generator in history!
I imagine it will not take long for tinkerers to put them into their electric cars and make the first fuelless automobiles since Tesla's unheralded (and unheeded) experiments. Or for builders to begin building houses powered by MEG's.
Houses which will never see electric bills. How can they ever make enough of these to meet the demand that will suddenly be there? Bearden is right, it needs to be an all-out crash program of the government on the order of the Manhattan Project.
I must include here that Bearden is quick to point out that he is not himself the inventor of the MEG, but is a partner and advisor in bringing it to the public market through Magnetic Energy Limited, Inc. I must also admit that I am praying for the success of this venture, and the ending of the absurd and criminal withholding of this technology from the people by the black-ops military-industrial people. This secrecy has cost the planet over 30 years of unnecessary pollution.
The first units off the assembly line, which is being set up in a "friendly" unnamed nation, will usher the public at last into the new era of scalar electromagnetics.
As of December, 2001, the situation with the MEG was described by Bearden in a letter.
"What we presently have with the MEG is a successful laboratory experiment. At least a year's very hard research will have to be done before we will be ready to put a commercial power supply into production.
"Consequently, we have made an agreement with a foreign partner (the National Materials Science Lab of the National Academy of Sciences of a friendly foreign nation) to do that year's research. At the same time, we are trying to make an agreement with one or more large financial partners here in the U.S."
Bearden: http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/121901.htm
"So we are hopeful that we will be able to start introducing units on the market about a year from now. Quite simply, we will either succeed or we will fail. But we will give it our very best effort."
Bearden: http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/012202a.htm
Bearden has given another technical explanation of how the MEG works here in a letter.
Motionless Electromagnetic Generator patented, 3-26-2002 - Click here to read the patent
"In Magnetic Energy Limited, all business discussions and arrangements are taken care of by Dr. Lee Kenny, Managing Partner. There are five of us who are co-inventors of the MEG, and two of the others are really the principal inventors."
Bearden: http://www.cheniere.org/megstatus.htm
Free Energy has been Suppressed
Secret Government Aware of Free Energy
"In this world of contemporary times, all the agencies, CIA, FBI, KGB, NSA, Electric Power Research Institute, DARPA, Brookings Institution, Henry Kissinger, Edward Teller, et al., all are aware of [free-energy researcher Bruce] De Palma and his ideas.
"Because these individuals and institutions are employed by the ruling elite to forecast the future and satisfy present needs and demands, it is clear that free energy is a threat to the world order constructed by business and the mindset of those who want to own the world.
"Free energy represents Man's aspirations and dreams of freedom and equality, uniform division of resources and the ability to choose one's own future.
"The fact that free energy is suppressed speaks to the greed and self-interest of a ruling elite which, even in the face of an emergency of global starvation, resource depletion and environmental pollution, will not give one inch if it means loss of control. This is an attitude of paranoid delusion and fantasy which can only arise from the alienation of a class of elitists who, through their money, are completely insulated from the reality of the day to day fight for existence of the common man."
http://depalma.pair.com/Absurdity/Absurdity07/ProblemOfFreeEnergy.html
Bearden describes one case of suppression when the Yakuza killed the Kawai engine in his very presence in Huntsville, Alabama.
"That night a jet arrived from Los Angeles, with a Yakuza on board. The next morning Kawai no longer controlled his company, his invention, or his own fate. The Kawai party was in fear and trembling. The Yakuza coldly dissolved the agreement, they packed up the two Kawai engines we had, and left. And that was that."
So it is not only governments who are keeping this revolutionary technology from seeing the light of day. The Yakuza? KGB? The Aum Shinrikyo cult? Our "leaders" need to be honest about what is going on, otherwise they look foolish, acting out a kind of "Alice In Wonderland" script before the public, a script that has become completely unbelievable.
Concerning the criminal withholding of this scalar technology by the military black-budget people, and the cover-up of the actual situation regarding scalar weapons throughout the world, Tom has this to say:
"The high government officials of the United States of America grossly violated our constitution and their sworn oaths of office. Our constitution specifically charges the government of the United States to defend the people of the United States. That means our officials are specifically charged with defending our people. Yet they deliberately agreed not to do so, and they deliberately sacrificed us in advance.
"They committed treason of the highest kind, by deliberately surrendering us to total destruction anytime the big balloon goes up."
Bearden: HERE
Energy Crisis Solved
One of the "must read" documents at Cheniere is The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly, especially since the "oil wars," which Bearden has foreseen for decades, have now already begun.
Here are some clips from that Document:
"To avoid the impending collapse of the world economy and/or the destruction of civilization and the biosphere, we must quickly replace much of the "electrical energy from oil" heart of the crisis at great speed, and simultaneously replace a significant part of the "transportation using oil products" factor also.
"The technical basis for that solution and part of the prototype technology required, are now at hand. We discuss that solution in this paper."
And although the solution to the energy problem and the oil wars may be at hand, Bearden suggests there is still an urgent rush that needs to be made to save human civilization from collapse.
"Once the technology hardware solutions are ready for mass production, even with a massive worldwide deployment effort some five years are required to deploy the new systems sufficiently to contain the problem of world economic collapse. This means that, by the end of 2003, those hardware technology solutions must have been completed, and the production replacement power systems must be ready to roll off the assembly lines en masse.
"The 2003 date appears to be the critical "point of no return" for the survival of civilization as we have known it.
"Reaching that point, say, in 2005 will not solve the crisis in time, and the collapse of the world economy as well as the destruction of civilization and the biosphere will still almost certainly occur, even with the solutions in hand."
"The good news is that we now know how to easily initiate continuous and powerful "electromagnetic winds" from the vacuum at will. Once initiated, each free EM energy wind flows continuously so long as the simple initiator is not deliberately destroyed."
On page 9 he explains the concept of the dipole, and how there is already huge scalar energy flowing in the time domain around any dipole. Hold a magnet or a battery in your hand and you hold a stress in time and a beautiful flowing loop of longitudinal waves!
Bearden decries the scientific community in the West for being unable to let go of their dogma long enough to see that the greatest discovery in human history lies at their feet, but for their stubborn ignorance.
"The present energy crisis then is due totally to that "conspiracy of ignorance" we referred to, that is maintained by the scientific community, and that has been maintained by it for more than 100 years.
"This is the real situation that the environmentalists must become aware of, if they are to see the correct path into which their energies and efforts should be directed to solve both the energy crisis and the problem of gigantic pollution of the biosphere. "
As far as anyone in the legislative branch of government ever understanding the profundity of the discovery and engineering of scalar waves, Tom Bearden says they are at a great disadvantage in doing so.
"The nontechnical person e.g., a Senator or a Congressperson is operating under a distinct disadvantage. If he or she takes the stance that much better electrical power systems can readily be achieved, he or she is in fact opposing almost the entire set of University, Government Technical, Power Company, Battery Company, and Organized Science communities.
Further, in most cases his technical advisors are themselves from one or the other of those communities, and likely to go back into that community or those communities when the Senator or Congressperson leaves office, or even before. So the Congress and the non-technical government community at large operate at a great disadvantage... Bearden National Emergency Declaration is Needed
"The Government Non-Technical community (the Senate and the Congress, in particular) are in far better shape than the Government Technical community, to appreciate the world implications of the pending economic disaster. I am hopeful that both the environmentalists and the Government Non-Technical community will rapidly unite in a common goal to get this vacuum energy program launched, under a National Emergency declaration. If so, then they can solve the energy crisis and the pending economic crisis, in fairly short order, and permanently."
In the conclusion of his paper The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly Bearden again states the urgency of replacing our centralized power grids with highly dispersed and local taps on the freely flowing energy of the active vacuum.
Given the abilities of the Tesla howitzers, the power grids of all nations are sitting ducks.
"Personally, the present author regards the increasing energy crisis as the greatest strategic threat to the United States in its entire history. I will do anything within my power to help prevent what I perceive to be the looming economic collapse of the Western world, preceded or accompanied by a sudden, explosive, all-out and continuing exchange of the WMD arsenals of most of the world.
...In the name of all humanity, let us begin! Else by the time this first decade of the new millennium ends, much of humanity may not remain to see the second decade."


Later I was sometimes going to my father's office, where I could spend a longer time browsing the Web. But my first connection at home was through a modem. You know - the device connected to the PC at one end and to the telephone landline on the other. It had to be configured to dial a special number: 0202122, so after emitting some horrible noises it could connect the computer to the Internet with a speed between 36 and 48 kbps (depending on the day or God knows what). The connection had to be paid per minute, just like any other phone call, and of course it was blocking the line, so my parents let me connect only for short periods of time.
That's when I joined a mailing list about programming. A mailing list is a system where, after registering, you can send your e-mails to a dedicated address and they are automatically forwarded to all other members. This way I could participate in an online community - prepare my answers, connect to the network only for a couple of minutes to send them and receive new messages, and later (after disconnecting) slowly read everything what others written.
Finally an option appeared in Poland to have a "constant link" to the Internet, as we called it - the one in which you don't have to dial and pay per minute. It was also significantly faster than modem connection. It was still too expensive for an individual household though, so an idea of local area networks with a shared Internet connection gained popularity. We have built one too, connecting few dozens of apartments in my neighbourhood. I can remember it to be lots of fun to spend my school holidays in the basements with a driller in hand, pulling all those Ethernet cables. We even deconstructed (and later reconstructed) a pavement and dug a ditch to connect two buildings! We called our network "NorthNet", as we lived in the northern district of the city. We then had to wait few more months before our network finally gained access to the Internet. A LAN network had many functions. Shared Internet connection was one of them, with regulations like "please download big files only at night so others can browse the Web during the day without much delays". But we could also connect to each other locally, whether for chatting using LANczat, playing multiplayer games or sharing various kinds of files.
Later (in year 2000) I joined an online community of Polish game developer passionates called Warsztat, which still exists under address warsztat.gd (with the most important part being its Forum). It greatly influenced who am I right now. Finally, when new trends in the Web arrived, I created this my personal website/blog and registered on social media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn etc.
What has changed in the Internet since then?
1. First, access to the Internet is by orders of magnitude faster and more affordable. I don't know about the rural areas - it might be different there, but in the cities we have many offers of fast Internet connection, provided by the same companies that also offer cable television and phone landlines, like Orange Polska (former Telekomunikacja Polska S.A.), UPC, Vectra, Multimedia and others. For example, my current connection is 120 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload and I pay for it 70 PLN per month (around 16 EUR or 18 USD). Everyone these days has his own public IP address with a home local network provided by router (using old terminology it's actually a modem, router, Ethernet switch and WiFi access point, all in one).
With faster connections, it became possible to transfer images, sound and finally video. At the beginning it was all about text - whether reading aricles or chatting with people. Images were significantly slowing down website loading time. Downloading a file was a big thing. Now websites are full of graphics, we can stream music and video in real-time and our only concern is how many minutes or hours will it take to download this new game weighting few gigabytes or whether we can watch live video in Full HD (you basically need at least 10 Mbps to do this).
But on the other hand, from user's perspective the Internet is easier to use than ever, with cleaner, better designed and better looking websites. Pages load faster, despite the average website is now the size of the original Doom. You no longer need to be technologically proficient to become an "internaut" (as we used to call Internet users) or to "surf the Web". Now everyone uses the global network - small kids do it, grandparents do it. We do it because we like it, but it's also essential in the modern world.
3. Third, Internet became more centralized. I think it was more popular in the previous decades to find yourself a hosting service (or even a "shell account" with remote access to full Unix account) and setup your own website or other internet service from scratch. Nowadays most companies and famous people (like musicians) still do it, but it becomes more and more important to just have a fanpage on Facebook. We search everything on Google. Almost all videos we watch are streamed from YouTube. Wikipedia is the go-to place for encyclopedic knowledge. Answers to programming questions are on StackOverflow. We also no longer play multiplier games through LAN or install our own servers, but instead we always connect to the central server of the game's producer (which they can shut down whenever they want).
Same happened with local versus worldwide online services. We used to have Polish social networking websites - Grono and then nasza-klasa.pl (renamed later to nk.pl), but now everyone is just on Facebook. We used to have our local instant messaging app - Gadu-Gadu (renamed later to GG), but now people chat through Facebook Messenger, Skype, WhatsApp or Telegram. The only exception is Allegro - a Polish auction website. It's still the most popular here in its category. eBay created Polish version, but it didn't succeed to compete with it.
But on the other hand, showing your stuff on the Internet is now easier than ever. Content creation has been democratized. You no longer need to know how to program to publish anything on the Web. It only takes few clicks to create a profile on Facebook, on YouTube or setup a blog and then you can publish your writings, drawings, photos or videos so anyone can see them.


Swardeston Sharks win Norfolk Under 19 Club T20 in final ball thriller.
Swardeston Sharks scampered 1 off the final ball to win the ECB Vitality Norfolk U19 Club T20 Competition for the 2nd time at Barton Turf on Sunday against Ashmanhaugh and Barton Wanderers Spartans.
The final between the Spartans and Sharks was originally due to be played on 26th August on Finals Day at Great Melton but was unfortunately rained off. Both sides went into the final boasting 100% records in the 2018 competition with both sides comfortably winning their semi-finals against Fakenham and Brooke respectively.
The Spartans, lead by Joe Everett won the toss and had no hesitation to bat first on a sunny day at Barton Turf and got off to a good start reaching 36 inside the powerplay before Swardeston first teamer Joe Flatt dismissed both openers within the space of two overs. Some tight bowling from the Sharks continued to keep the score down before some good middle order hitting from Thomas Harris (38) and Cameron Marrable (20) helped lift the Spartans to 129/7 from their allotted 20 overs. Wickets were shared around amongst the bowlers; Flatt (2), De Coteau-Spring (2), Clarke (1), Harmer (1) and Fox (1).
The Sharks chase got off to a bad start with Cameron Marrable dismissing Chapman with the score on 6. This bought the Sharks skipper Alfie Cooper to the crease, and he along with Will Kidner began their pursuit of the 130 runs required. It was Kidner who seized the initiative depositing anything off line to the boundary on multiple occasions with Cooper happy to take a supporting role. Kidner was dismissed by Joss Brannigan going for one shot too many in the 8th over with the score on 53 and departed for 38 from 30 balls including 5 fours and 1 six. 53/2 was soon 56/3 with Tyler Murphy removed by Mulhall. Cooper now needed to play a captain's innings if the Sharks were to get close. He upped the tempo with a straight six into the sightscreen and continued to punish any wayward bowling. But just as the Sharks looked on top, Beth Harmer was dismissed to leave the score on 74/4 with 8 overs remaining. This bought 15-year-old Elliot Fox to the crease to join Cooper who went into top gear, hitting boundaries on regular occasions before having to retire on 52 as per competition rules with the score on 110 with 3 overs remaining. His innings including 7 fours and 1 six from 45 balls.
Some tight bowling from skipper Joe Everett and Cameron Marrable left Swardeston requiring 5 to win off the final over with 5 wickets in hand. Joe Everett was the bowler; 4 runs came off the first 5 deliveries which left the Sharks needing 1 to win off the final delivery with Fox on strike. With a tie meaning a Super Over, the large crowd and onlooking players were very tense. A full delivery was produced and Fox managed to drive the ball past a diving mid-off to ensure the Sharks secured victory by wickets with Fox finishing 20 not out.
The Spartans have now been runners-up two years in a row after losing to the Fakenham Falcons in 2017. The Sharks have now won the competition in 2015 and 2018.
Alfie Cooper was awarded man of the match by Kevin Denmark of the Norfolk Cricket Board for his match winning 52 not out. He also collected batter of the tournament by scoring the most runs in the competition. Crispin Clarke of the Sharks received bowler of the tournament as leading wicket taker.
Lewis Denmark, competition organiser was delighted with 2018 competition "Once again we had 17 teams take part in the 2018 Norfolk U19 Competition which is really positive and to have a final like this makes it ever more special. In the four years the competition has been running we have always hoped for a close final and todays finals will take a lot of beating in terms of entertainment, tension and talent on show. Well done to everyone involved and special thanks to Barton Turf for hosting at short notice."


The yardener can help these pretty birds make a comeback by offering suet, dried fruit, especially raisins, dried figs, currents, nutmeats, peanut hearts and baked goods. They are more likely to use a platform feeder situated at some distance from the house than a hanging feeder up close to the kitchen window.
All three species of bluebirds feed on the ground and low bushes where they can find an abundance of insect life and fruits they enjoy.
The young do not require water while on the nest because the insect bodies provide them with all their liquid needs. This is nearly true for the adults but the adult needs to supplement this form of receiving liquids, by having access to water the yardner provides all the birds. Again the birdbath needs to be out in the open and away from the house.


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My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy
Def Jam, 2010
1. Dark Fantasy
(K. West, R. Diggs, E. Wilson, J. Bhasker, M. Dean, M. Jones, J. Anderson, M. Oldfield)
Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)/Ramecca Music/Universal Music-Careers Publishing (BMI)/Let The Story Begin Publishing/Chrysalis Songs (ASCAP)/Way Above Music (BMI)|Sony ATV Songs LLC (BMI)/Copyright Control/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)/Opio Publishing (BMI), all rights administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)/Stage Three Songs (ASCAP) 0/b/o Stage Three Music Ltd. and Oldfield Music Ltd. (PRS)
Produced by The RZA, Kanye West for Very Good Beats/Hip Hop Since 1978 & No ID for Rich Daily Since 71
Additional production by Jeff Bhasker & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Recorded by Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions at Avex Recording Studio, Honolulu, HI and Noah Goldstein at Glenwood Place Studios, Burbank, CA and Platinum Sound Recording, NYC
Mixed by Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions & Andrew Dawson at Platinum Sound Recording, NYC
Assisted by Gaylord Holomalia, Christian Mochizuki & Phil Joly
Keyboards: Jeff Bhasker
Piano: Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Cello: Chris "Hitchcock" Chorney
Cello Arrangement: Jeff Bhasker & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Background Vocals: Nicki Minaj, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)
Additional Vocals: Teyana Taylor and Amber Rose
Nicki Minaj appears courtesy of Young Money/Universal Motown
Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) appears courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
Teyana Taylor appears courtesy of Star Trak, LLC
Contains samples of "In High Places" by Mike Oldfield, under license and courtesy of Mercury Records Limited. Written by Jon Anderson and Mike Oldfield and published by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI) and Opio Publishing (BMI). All rights administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)/Stage Three Songs (ASCAP) o/b/o Stage Three Music Ltd. and Oldfield Music Ltd. (PRS). All Rights Reserved.
2. Gorgeous feat. KiD CuDi & Raekwon
(K. West, E. Wilson, M. Dean, M. Jones, C. Smith, C. Woods, S. Mescudi, G. Clark, R. McGuinn)
Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc.(BMI)/Let The Story Begin Publishing/Chrysalis Songs (ASCAP)/Copyright Control/Universal Music-Careers (BMI)/Elsie's Baby Boy Publishing (ASCAP)/Gene Clark Music (BMI) administered by Bug Music (BMI)/Chrysalis One Music Publishing Group, Ltd. (IMRO). All rights on behalf of Chrysalis One Music Publishing Group Ireland administered by Chrysalis One Songs (BMI)
Produced by Kanye West for Very Good Beats/Hip Hop Since 1978, No ID for Rich Daily Since 71 & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Recorded by Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer, Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions & Christian Mochizuki at Avex Recording Studio, Honolulu, HI and Noah Goldstein & Phil Joly at Electric Lady Studios, NYC
Mixed by Anthony Kilhoffer at Avex Recording Studio, Honolulu, HI and Electric Lady Studios, NYC
Assisted by Christian Mochizuki, Pete Bischoff & Phil Joly
Guitars, Bass, Organ: Ken Lewis
Keys, Drum Programming: Brent Kolatalo
Guitar Solo: Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Background Vocals: Tony Williams
KiD CuDi appears courtesy of Universal Motown Records
Contains portions of the composition "You Showed Me," written by Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn, published by Gene Clark Music (BMI) administered by Bug Music (BMI). Used by permission. Contains elements of "You Showed Me" by Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark © 1965; Copyright Renewed. Chrysalis One Music Publishing Group Ireland, Ltd. (IMRO). All rights on behalf of Chrysalis One Music Publishing Group Ireland administered by Chrysalis One Songs (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Published by Horipro Entertainment Group Inc. d/b/a Sixteen Stars Music (BMI).
(K. West, L. Griffin Jr., M. Dean, J. Bhasker, A. Gardner, K. Lewis, F. Bernheim, J. P. Lang, B. Bergman, R. Fripp, M. Giles, G. Lake, I. McDonald, P. Sinfield)
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Produced by S1 & Kanye West
Additional Production by Jeff Bhasker, Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions & Andrew Dawson
Recorded by Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions at Avex Recording Studio, Honolulu, HI
Mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Assistant Mix Engineers: Christian Plata & Erik Madrid
Keyboards: Jeff Bhasker & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Guitar & Bass: Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Additional Vocals: Dwele
Chant Vocals: Alvin Fields & Ken Lewis
Engineered by Ken Lewis & Brent Kolatalo
Handclaps performed by Ian Allen, Wilson Christopher, Uri Djemal & Chris Soper
Dwele appears courtesy of E1 Music
Contains elements from the Cold Grits recording "It's Your Thing," produced under license from Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Contains elements of "Afromerica" (Francois Bernheim/Jean-Pierre Lang/Boris Bergman) published by Warner Chappell Music France (SACEM)/EMI Music Publishing (ASCAP). All rights administered by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved.
Contains material sampled from "21st Century Schizoid Man" performed by King Crimson Taken from the album: In The Court Of The Crimson King and composed by Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles & Sinfield (Universal Music Careers on behalf of E.G. Music Ltd. (BMI). Appears courtesy of DGM Ltd. on behalf of King Crimson.
4. All Of The Lights (Interlude)
5. All Of The Lights
(K. West, J. Bhasker, M. Jones, W. Trotter)
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Produced by Kanye West for Very Good Beats/Hip Hop Since 1978
Co-Produced by Jeff Bhasker
Recorded by Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions at Avex Recording Studio, Honolulu, HI & Noah Goldstein at Electric Lady Studios, NYC
Rihanna's vocals recorded by Marcos Tovar at Westlake Sound Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Mixed by Anthony Kilhoffer at Electric Lady Studios, NYC & Westlake Sound, West Hollywood, CA
Assistant Engineers: Christian Mochizuki, Pete Bischoff & Phil Joly
Piano: Elton John
Brass and Woodwinds: Danny Flam, Tony Gorruso & Ken Lewis
Horn Arrangement: Ken Lewis
Engineered by Brent Kolatalo
Orchestral Arranger & Conductor: Rosie Danvers
Producer: Tommy D.
Trumpets: Mike Lovatt, Simon Finch, Andy Gathercole
French Horns: Tim Anderson, Tom Rumsby, Richard Ashton
Trombone: Mark Frost, Philip Judge
Flute: Chloe Vincent
Violins: Kotono Sato, Jenny Sacha
Viola: Rachel Robson
Cello: Rosie Danvers, Chris "Hitchcock" Chorney
Cello Arrangement: Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Additional Vocals: Rihanna, KiD CuDi, Tony Williams, The-Dream, Charlie Wilson, John Legend, Elly Jackson (La Roux), Alicia Keys, Elton John, Fergie, Ryan Leslie, Drake, Alvin Fields & Ken Lewis
Charlie Wilson appears courtesy of Jive Records
John Legend appears courtesy of Getting Out Our Dreams/Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Elly Jackson (La Roux) appears courtesy of Interscope Records
Alicia Keys appears courtesy of J Records
Elton John appears courtesy of Mercury Records Limited
Fergie appears courtesy of Interscope Records
Drake appears courtesy of Young Money Entertainment/Cash Money Records
6. Monster feat. JAY-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver
(K. West, S. Carter, P. Reynolds, M. Dean, W. Roberts, O. Maraj, J. Vernon, J. Bhasker)
Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)/EMI April Music, Inc./Carter Boys Music (ASCAP)/Copyright Control/Copyright Control/First-N-Gold Publishing/Sony ATV Songs LLC (BMI)/Harajuku Barbie Music (BMI)/April Base Publishing (ASCAP)/Way Above Music (BMI)|Sony ATV Songs LLC (BMI)
Additional production by Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions & Plain Pat
Mixed by Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions at Electric Lady Studios, NYC and Glenwood Place Studios, Burbank, CA
Assisted by Gaylord Holomalia, Christian Mochizuki & Pete Bischoff
Piano: Jeff Bhasker
Background Vocals: Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)
Bon Iver appears courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records
7. So Appalled feat. Swizz Beatz, JAY-Z, Pusha T, Prynce Cy Hi & The RZA
(K. West, E. Wilson, M. Dean, S. Carter, T. Thornton, C. Young, K. Dean, R. Diggs, M. Mann)
Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)/Let The Story Begin Publishing/Chrysalis Songs (ASCAP)/Copyright Control/EMI April Music, Inc./Carter Boys Music (ASCAP)/Neighborhood Pusha Publishing (BMI)/Bu Vision/Swizz Beats Publishing (SESAC)/Ramecca Music/Universal Music-Careers Publishing (BMI)/Scalehand Limited
Produced by Kanye West for Very Good Beats/Hip Hop Since 1978 & No ID for Rich Daily Since 71
Co-Produced by Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Recorded by Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions at Avex Recording Studio, Honolulu, HI and Noah Goldstein & Pete Bischoff at Electric Lady Studios, NYC
Mixed by Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions at Electric Lady Studios, NYC
Keyboards: Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions & Jeff Bhasker
Contains samples of the Manfred Mann's Earth Band recording "You Are – I Am." Produced under license from Warner Bros. Records Inc. by arrangement with Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Used courtesy of Creative Music Limited. Written by M. Mann, published by Scalehand Limited.
8. Devil In A New Dress feat. Rick Ross
(K. West, R. Harrell, M. Dean, W. Roberts, M. Jones, C. King, G. Goffin)
Please Gimme My Publishing|EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)/One Shot Deal Muzak (SESAC)/Copyright Control/First-N-Gold Publishing/Sony/ATV Songs, LLC (BMI)/Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI)
Produced by Bink! for One Shot Deal
Additional Production by Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Recorded by Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions at Avex Recording, Honolulu, HI and Noah Goldstein at Electric Lady Studios, NYC
Bass, Guitar & Piano: Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Contains samples of the recording "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" as performed by Smokey Robinson. Courtesy of Motown Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Written by C. King and G. Goffin, published by Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI).
9. Runaway feat. Pusha T
(K. West, E. Haynie, T. Thornton, J. Bhasker, M. Dean, M. Jones, J. Branch)
Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)/Heavycrate (ASCAP)/Sony ATV/Neighborhood Pusha Publishing (BMI)/Copyright Control/Way Above Music (BMI)|Sony ATV Songs LLC (BMI)/Metrolina Pub. Co. Inc. (BMI)
Co-Produced by Emile, Jeff Bhasker & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Assisted by Christian Mochizuki
Mixed by Anthony Kilhoffer at Westlake Sound Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Assistant Mix Engineer: Cary Clark
Additional Vocals: The-Dream
Contains a sample of "Expo 83" performed by Backyard Heavies, used courtesy of Gusto Records. Written by J. Branch and published by Metrolina Pub. Co. Inc. (BMI)
Contains excerpts from Rick James 'Live at Long Beach, CA' 1981,
courtesy of Universal Music Enterprises. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
10. Hell Of A Life
(K. West, M. Caren, E. Wilson, M. Dean, S. Stewart, T. White, T. Butler, A. Iommi, J. Osbourne, W. Ward)
Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)/Mike Caren Publishing Designee/Let The Story Begin Publishing/Chrysalis Songs (ASCAP) Papa George Music (BMI)/Clears Music, Inc. (BMI)/Combine Music Corp. (BMI)/Essex Music International
Co-Produced by Mike Caren, No ID for Rich Daily Since 71 & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Recorded by Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer & Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions at Avex Recording Studio, Honolulu, HI and Noah Goldstein at Electric Lady Studios, NYC
Mixed by Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions, Anthony Kilhoffer & Andrew Dawson at Electric Lady Studios, NYC & Platinum Sound Recording, NYC
Additional drum programming: Anthony Kilhoffer
Keyboards: Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Additional Vocals: Teyana Taylor & The-Dream
Contains samples of the Mojo Men recording "She's My Baby." Produced under license from Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Written by Sylvester Stewart, published by Clears Music, Inc. (BMI). All Rights Reserved.
Contains samples of the Tony Joe White recording "Stud-Spider." Produced under license from Warner Bros. Records Inc. by arrangement with Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. Written by T. White, published by Combine Music Corp. (BMI).
Contains portions of "Iron Man," written by T. Butler, A. Iommi, J. Osbourne and W.T. Ward, published by Essex Music International.
11. Blame Game feat. John Legend
(K. West, J. Franks, K. Mitchell, M. Dean, J. Stephens, R. James)
Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)/J. Franks Publishing|WB Music Group (ASCAP)/Copyright Control/Copyright Control/John Legend Publishing/Cherry River Music Corp. (BMI)/Chrysalis Music Ltd. (PRS) administered by Chrysalis Songs (BMI)
Produced by Kanye West for Very Good Beats/Hip Hop since 1978 & DJ Frank E for Side 3 Entertainment
Recorded by Andrew Dawson at Avex Recording Studio, Honolulu, HI and Noah Goldstein, Phil Joly & Ryan Gilligan at Electric Lady Studios, NYC
Mixed by Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions, Andrew Dawson & Anthony Kilhoffer at Platinum Sound Recording, NYC
Piano & Bass: Mike Dean for Dean's List Productions
Cello played & arranged by Chris "Hitchcock" Chorney
Poem by Khloe Mitchell
Additional Vocals: Chris Rock and Salma Kenas
Contains elements of "Avril 14" by Richard James. Published by Chrysalis Music Ltd. (PRS) administered by Chrysalis Songs (BMI). All rights reserved.
12. Lost In The World feat. Bon Iver
(K. West, J. Bhasker, M. DiBango, J. Brown, J. Vernon, G. Scott-Heron)
Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)/Way Above Music (BMI)/Sony ATV Songs LLC (BMI)/Universal Musica Inc. (ASCAP) o/b/o Universal Publishing SAS (SACEM)/Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI)/Dynatone Publishing Co. (BMI)/April Base Publishing (ASCAP)/Brouhaha Music (ASCAP)
Mixed by Anthony Kilhoffer at Henson Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Assisted by Alex Graupera, Christian Mochizuki & Pete Bischoff
Additional Vocals: Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Charlie Wilson, Kay Fox, Tony Williams, Alicia Keys, Elly Jackson (La Roux)
Tribal Drum Programming: Ken Lewis
Contains portions of "Soul Makossa," written by M. DiBango and published by Universal Musica Inc. (ASCAP) o/b/o Universal Publishing SAS (SACEM)
Contains a sample of the recording "Think (About It)" as performed by Lyn Collins. Courtesy of Polydor Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Written by James Brown, published by Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI) & Dynatone Publishing Co. (BMI). All rights administered by Unichappell Music, Inc. (BMI)
Contains samples of "The Woods" performed by Bon Iver, used courtesy of Jagjaguwar, Inc. Written by Justin Vernon, published by April Base Publishing (ASCAP). All rights administered by Chrysalis Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved.
Contains samples of "Comment No. 1" performed by Gil Scott-Heron, used courtesy of Flying Dutchman. Written by Gil Scott-Heron, published by Brouhaha Music (ASCAP).
13. Who Will Survive In America
(K. West, J. Bhasker, G. Scott-Heron)
Please Gimme My Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)/Way Above Music (BMI)/Sony ATV Songs LLC (BMI)/Brouhaha Music (ASCAP)
DVD contains music from: "Dark Twisted", "Gorgeous", "POWER", "All Of The Lights", "Devil In A New Dress", "Runaway", "Hell Of A Life", "Blame Game", "Lost In The World"; and Mozart: "Lacrimosa (Requiem in D Minor, K626)". Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker Choir: Konzertvereinigung WienerStaatsopernchor. Produced by Herbert Chappell, Franz Kabelka, Christopher Raeburn.
Executive Producers: Shawn Carter, Kanye West, Gee Roberson & Kyambo "Hip Hop" Joshua
Executive Producer: Antonio "LA" Reid
A&R Direction: Patrick "Plain Pat" Reynolds and Don C.
A&R Administration: Terese Joseph
A&R Coordination: Leesa D. Brunson
Mastered by Vlado Meller at Universal Music Studios East, NYC
Marketing: Al Branch for Hip Hop Since 1978 and Tracey Waples
Marketing for Def Jam: Chris Atlas
Management: Hip Hop Since 1978
Legal Counsel: Alison K. Finley, David Rappaport and Bea Koramblyum for Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, LLP
Art Direction: Kanye West and Virgil Abloh
Paintings by George Condo © 2010
Handwritten Titles and Illustrations: M/M (Paris)
Package Designed at M/M (Paris)
Kanye West Photograph: Fabien Montique
Artwork Coordination: JP Robinson, Kristen Yiengst and Todd Russell
DVD Coordination: Davina Gazo
Package Production: Doug Joswick
Sample Clearances: Eric Weissman Music Licensing, Inc.
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It has long been believed in Europe and the United States that a seventh son is especially lucky or gifted with occult powers, and that the seventh son of a seventh son has healing powers. In Scotland, the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter was said to have the gift of second sight (prophetic vision). In Ireland, the saliva of a seventh son was said to have healing properties. However, in Romanian folklore, a seventh child was believed to be fated to become a vampire.
"In January, 1606-7, it is reported from London by credible letters, that a child being the seventh son of his mother, and no woman child born between, healeth deaf, blind, and lame; but the parents of the child are popish, as so many say as are healed by it. The Bishop of London, Doctor Vaughan, caused divers [various people] to be brought to the child as aforesaid, who said a short prayer as [he] imposed his hands upon, as 'tis said he did unto others; but no miracle followeth any, so that it appeareth to be a plain lie invented to win grace to the popish faction."
Thomas Lupton, in the second edition of his book A Thousand Notable Things (1660), noted, "It is manifest, by experience, that the seventh male child, by just order (never a girl or wench being born between) doth heal only with touching (through a natural gift) the king's evil [scrofula], which is a special gift of God, given to kings and queens, as daily experience doth witnesse."
In France, there was also a tradition that a seventh son had the power to cure the king's evil. He was called a "Marcou" and branded with a fleur-de-lis. The Marcou breathed on the part affected, or else the patient touched the Marcou's fleur-de-lis.
Robert Chambers, in his Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution (1858), stated that in February 1682, a certain Hugh McGie, "… gave in a bill to the Privy Council, representing that, by the practice of other nations, any tradesman having seven sons together, without the intervention of a daughter, is declared free of all public burdens and taxes, and has other encouragements bestowed on him, to enable him to bring up the said children for the use and benefit of the commonwealth; and claiming a similar privilege on the strength of his having that qualification. The Council recommended the magistrates [of Edinburgh] to take Hugh's seven sons into consideration when they laid their 'stents' (trade taxes) upon him."
A tradition in Donegal, Ireland, claimed that the healing powers of a seventh son required a special ceremony at the moment of the infant's birth. The woman who received the child in her arms should place in its hand whatever substance she decided that he should use to heal in later life. This substance could be metal (e.g., a silver coin) or a common substance like salt, or even hair; when the child was old enough, it would rub the substance and the patient would apply it to an afflicted part for healing purposes. There was also an Irish tradition similar to the Scottish belief that a seventh son of a seventh son possessed prophetic as well as healing powers.
The belief in the healing powers of a seventh son of a seventh son has persisted into the twentieth century, and there are two Irish healers of this kind: Danny Gallagher and Finbarr Nolan. Both are "touch healers," although Gallagher additionally "blesses" soil that is to be mixed with water and applied to the afflicted area of the patient; both healers recommend a sequence of two or three visits for maximum healing. They are credited with remarkable cures. Gallagher is reported to have restored the sight of a woman blind for twenty-two years, and Nolan claims to have successfully healed injured race horses as well as human beings.
Chambers, Robert. Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1858.
Lupton, Thomas. A Thousand Notable Things. London, 1660.
"Seventh Son." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. . Encyclopedia.com. 8 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.


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Olivier Dacourt (25 de septiembre de 1974 en Montreuil, Francia) es un exfutbolista francés que jugó profesionalmente por última vez en el Standard Liège.

Biografía
También ha jugado en varios equipos como Everton F.C., RC Lens, Leeds United y AS Roma, por lo que tiene mucha experiencia tanto en el fútbol italiano como en el inglés y así también para su selección nacional, tiene 21 partidos internacionales y un gol. Ha jugado en las Olimpiadas de 1996 y la Eurocopa 2004.

En 2006, Dacourt decidió firmar contrato por dos años con el Inter de Milán, por el cual el equipo no pagó su traspaso, ya que él terminaba contrato.
En el mercado de verano del 2009, Dacourt fue traspasado al Fulham Fc de Inglaterra.

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Futbolistas del Racing Club de Strasbourg
Futbolistas de la Associazione Sportiva Roma
Futbolistas del Leeds United Football Club
Futbolistas del Inter de Milán
Futbolistas del Everton Football Club

Futbolistas del Standard Lieja
Futbolistas de Francia en los Juegos Olímpicos de Atlanta 1996
Futbolistas de Francia en la Copa FIFA Confederaciones 2001
Futbolistas de Francia en la Copa FIFA Confederaciones 2003
Futbolistas de Francia en la Eurocopa 2004

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Q: Radio buttons using Simple Form in Rails 4 I am struggling to understand the Simple Form documentation. I have a form in my Rails 4 app - which has been built with simple_form.
I have read the Simple Form documentation. I just can't understand it and can't find any resource to help with breaking it down.
The documentation provides the following example for using radio buttons in simple form:
 f.collection_radio_buttons :options, [[true, 'Yes'] ,[false, 'No']], :first, :last

and you can see from the documentation that it goes on to describe labels to apply.
http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/simple_form/master/SimpleForm/FormBuilder#collection_radio_buttons-instance_method
I can't understand this documentation in several respects. What does :first, :last do?  I get an error (undefined method `merge' for :last:Symbol) when I try to follow this example. I don't understand any of the construct of the label examples in the documentation. Is there a  break down of these example anywhere that you could refer me to?
I have tried to gather feedback from answers to other's posts and have come up with the following. Please can someone help me identify what is wrong with this line.
<%= f.collection_radio_buttons :project_image, :options, [[true, 'Yes'], [false, 'No']], :first, :last, :default => true, label: 'Would you like add an image to your project pitch?'  %>

I'm keen to learn how to use Simple Form but feel that the documentation is beyond my grasp on its own. I have used the Railscasts to fill some of the gaps but suggestions for other resources to help me improve would be gratefully received.
Thank you.

A: this might make more sense
 <%= f.input :project_image, :as => :boolean, input_html: {checked: false} %>

A: The document is easy to understand.
- (Object) collection_radio_buttons(method, collection, value_method, text_method, options = {}, html_options = {}, &block)

collection_radio_buttons have those params .
f.collection_radio_buttons :options, [[true, 'Yes'] ,[false, 'No']], :first, :last

For this expamle

*

*:options is method name.

*[[true, 'Yes'] ,[false, 'No']] is the collection, it's an array of array, all the member has the stucture of [value, lable].

*:first is the radio button's value_method, means to get how to get value from every member of the collection, use first method can get true and false from the members in the collection.

*:last is the radio button's text_method, to generate lable for every radio button.

So you may just use replace the method name to project_image and add another lable like this:
<%=f.collection_radio_buttons :project_image, [[true, 'Yes'] ,[false, 'No']], :first, :last %>
<%=f.lable  :project_image, 'Would you like add an image to your project pitch?'%>


Prepare your tech gadgets and plan ahead. Storm season is rolling in.
Spring brings storm season to the Midwest home of Mission Repair. Just yesterday afternoon we saw a wild storm blow over our store in Lenexa. When it comes to weather in the Midwest, expect the unexpected! A hot and sunny day can quickly transform into a stormy mess.
Choose 2-3 weather, news, or safety-related apps to alert you of special warnings and updates. Many local news stations offer apps to live-stream weather reports.
Charge your device batteries well in advance, in the event that you lose power.
Program an emergency list of contacts into your phone for easy access. Include family, friends, coworkers, police & fire agencies, power and insurance companies.
The insurance industry pays out hundreds of thousands of dollars in claims for losses due to lightning each year. The best approach is to unplug your devices before the storm arrives. However, surge protectors can offer some reassurance and protection for around $30-$100.
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