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Wanted: Lawyer to assist House panel investigating governor
Aristides Shyamala August 16, 2021
THE Democrat-led House Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations wants to hire an attorney who will assist the panel in looking into the public expenditures of Republican Gov. Ralph DLG Torres.
According to the Job Vacancy Announcement, a copy of which was obtained by Variety, the "general responsibilities of the position include assisting the committee in the investigation of possible misconduct in office and misuse of public funds on the part of" the governor.
"The attorney will review pertinent documents, such as receipts, expenditures, requests for reimbursement, purchases, and the like; advising the Committee; and drafting the Committee Report and, if directed, Articles of Impeachment," the JVA stated.
"Other related duties and responsibilities will be at the direction of the committee," it added.
The term of employment is 60 days, subject to extension upon mutual agreement.
"Compensation is negotiable. The successful applicant will be an independent contractor and not an employee," the JVA stated.
"To apply, please submit a résumé and a cover letter via email to nmidems.sm@gmail.com. The position will remain open until filled."
Last week, the House JGO approved the issuance of a subpoena to Governor Torres, Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios, first lady Diann T. Torres, the governor's executive secretary Frances Dela Cruz, Commonwealth Utilities Corp. Executive Director Gary Camacho, Department of Public Safety Commissioner Robert Guerrero and six police officers.
The committee also approved the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum to the governor, the first lady, the lt. governor, the CUC executive director and police officer Joey Cruz.
In an earlier interview, the governor noted that the House committee was still "investigating" the documents that were provided to the House by his administration last year.
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Antarctica: Australia's Backyard
By Ridhwan Abu Bakar | 19, Aug, 2020
Cover Image Source: Photo by James Eades on Unsplash
The term Domestic travel just got a major upgrade, that is if you're in Australia. With the current border restrictions in many countries, many are rediscovering their own backyards, being tourists in their own country. Those down under, however, will be able to take a tour of the vast white and icy lands of Antarctica!
Qantas will be teaming up with Antarctica Flights to offer one of the world's most mysterious and curious routes through Antarctica. The tour will be a 12.5-hour flight where the plane will be taking off and landing at the same airport. Where the first signs of sea ice and icebergs appearing 3 hours into the flight. Passengers will have about 4 hours over Antarctica to soak in the icy expanse. Think of it like those drives on a tour bus, but this time you will be flying over glaciers and snowcaps (Kind of like a real-life magic school bus!). The flight will be a round trip without even touching the ground.
Flying out of different locations on different dates, the flights will be set to start from November this year till February next year, in conjunction with the Antarctic continent's summer daylight months. Paired with the large windows fitted on the Boeing 787s, this makes for a great recipe for beautiful views of what Antarctica has to offer.
Extra Safety Measures
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Keeping with the times, passengers will not have to worry about the COVID-19 measures during the tour. Qantas and Antarctica Flights have taken the liberty to provide a personal pack for the flight which will include disposable masks, sanitizer, and disinfectant wipes. In addition to the pack, passengers will be provided with extra headrest covers and sanitizing wipes for when the seats are rotated halfway through the journey. To ensure social distancing onboard, some seats in the economy cabin will be blocked. Lastly, as an added precaution, passengers will have to complete a mandatory health and safety declaration form before disembarkation.
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The tour will not only protect the people on the tour but they have also considered the protection of the environment while on tour. Safe to say the residents on the polar ice caps won't be bothered by this tour. The planes will be flying over at 10,000 feet above sea level to protect the various wildlife species living there. You can still see them roaming around (if you're lucky!) but not in any detail. Furthermore, the tour promises to offset will be working with Carbon Neutral to offset the carbon emissions from every flight on this tour with Carbon Neutral, a carbon solutions provider, and reforestation developer.
Image Source: Photo by Paul Carroll on Unsplash
With that out of the way, you must be thinking "How do I get myself a seat?". Bookings for the flights are available now with tickets starting from AUD 1,199 to AUD 6,499 depending on the seats and class. You can view the pricing here. You will not be needing a passport as this flight is considered to be a domestic flight, but it is still required for you to present a government-approved photo ID at check-in. Also, food will be provided on the flight provided by Qantas similar to any international flights, which is a great thing as there should be Halal food options available! You will probably have to pre-order the halal meals before your flight. Do note that there will also be a full-service bar serving alcohol on board as well.
Backdrop of dreams
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Popping out to fly over the Antarctic is really something extraordinary. So be sure to make the moment last! The white snowy expanse of the Antarctic is definitely a backdrop that only a small number of people can say they have seen or have taken pictures of. Although this may not be the first time Qantas has flights or tours over Antarctica, it certainly is something really special that is not often made available to the general public. This "Domestic" experience will definitely be unlike any other, a chance to awaken your inner Antarctic Explorer.
Ridhwan Abu Bakar
An aspiring writer trying to write about the outside world from the confines of his room.

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Q: Using c++, why am I getting the error message "string subscript out of range" when I know it is not? Or at least it seems that way EDIT - there are no blank lines.
EDIT 2 - my bad, it seems I was wrong all along. There is a blank line somewhere, although the csv file indicates otherwise. It's working now.
Okay so here is the entire (short) program:
#include <iostream>
#include <cctype>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
    char a;
    string stringmanip;

    fstream myfile("readthisfile.csv");
    if (myfile.is_open()){
        while ( myfile.good() ){
            getline(myfile,stringmanip);
            a=stringmanip[0];
        }
        myfile.close();
    }
    else cout<< "Unable to open file";

    return 0;
}

It makes no sense to me. I can copy stringmanip, I can cout stringmanip, I can use .substr with stringmanip. If I define a regular string I can use the [] operation just fine. I've tried .at as well, but that only leads to another error. (Out of range).
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Sorry I'm such a beginner, as I'm sure you can tell.
Thanks,
Ben

A: If readthisfile.csv has an empty line at the end of the file (or anywhere in the file), then you will get back an empty string. You can't dereference the 0th character of an empty string. string::operator[] only accepts indices from 0 to string::length() - 1. If you have an empty string, any call to string::operator[] will result in undefined behavior.

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Some of the children have also had a quick lesson in use of trailers in iMovie and we should be able to add those by the end of the end too.


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Une isoglosse (grec : « langue identique ») est une ligne imaginaire séparant deux zones géographiques qui se distinguent par un trait linguistique (dialectal) particulier. Celui-ci peut être de nature lexicale, sémantique, phonologique, phonétique ou morphosyntaxique.

Autrement dit, une isoglosse délimite l'aire géographique d'un trait dialectal.

Présentation
La notion d'isoglosse est un outil important de la dialectologie et de la géographie linguistique.

Quand plusieurs isoglosses se recouvrent, on parle d'un « faisceau d'isoglosses », comme pour l'Ariège ci-dessous.

L'importance d'une isoglosse dépend essentiellement de la fréquence du trait qu'elle marque : plus un trait différentiel est fréquent et plus l'isoglosse correspondante sera importante dans la classification dialectale.

Les ensembles dialectaux sont souvent séparés par un faisceau important d'isoglosses, l'une étant généralement considérée comme emblématique. C'est ainsi par exemple le cas de la ligne de Benrath (séparant les parlers bas-allemands et haut-allemands, le trait emblématique de ce faisceau étant la seconde mutation consonantique » : maken vs machen), de la ligne Joret (séparant les parlers normano-picards du nord et du sud : quien / chien), de la ligne Massa-Senigallia ou ligne Carrare-Senigallia ou encore ligne La Spezia-Rimini (séparant les parlers de l'italien septentrional des parlers italiens centro-méridionaux, dont le trait emblématique est la marque du pluriel des substantifs : forme en -s au nord le plus souvent mais abandonnée dans de nombreux dialectes modernes sur le modèle de l'italien standard, alternance vocalique au sud).

Deux exemples d'isoglosses

Gascon

La carte ci-contre rassemble 11 isoglosses différentes de l'espace  gascon. Chaque définition donnée dans le tableau ci-dessous correspond à une innovation linguistique ayant affecté les variétés parlées au sud de la ligne.

Dialectes allemands en France

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Continuum linguistique
 Dialecte de transition
 Frontière linguistique

Bibliographie

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You can use the command line tool below to input an audio file and get the resynthesized audio. This tool implements the unsupervised method for resynthesis described in the paper. The way to invoke the command line tool is shown below.
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FAIRSEQ_ROOT=<path_to_your_fairseq_repo_root>
TYPE=<one_of_logmel/cpc/hubert/w2v2>
ACOUSTIC_MODEL_PATH=<path_of_pretrained_acoustic_model>
LAYER=<layer_of_acoustic_model_to_extract_features_from>
KM_MODEL_PATH=<output_path_of_the_kmeans_model>
TTS_MODEL_PATH=<unit2speech_model_file_path>
# A text file containing the codes, one per line
CODE_DICT_PATH=<unit2speech_code_dict_path>
WAVEGLOW_PATH=<path_where_you_have_downloaded_waveglow_checkpoint>

PYTHONPATH=${FAIRSEQ_ROOT}:${FAIRSEQ_ROOT}/examples/textless_nlp/gslm/unit2speech python ${FAIRSEQ_ROOT}/examples/textless_nlp/gslm/tools/resynthesize_speech.py \
    --feature_type $TYPE \
    --acoustic_model_path $ACOUSTIC_MODEL_PATH \
    --layer $LAYER \
    --kmeans_model_path $KM_MODEL_PATH \
    --tts_model_path $TTS_MODEL_PATH \
    --code_dict_path $CODE_DICT_PATH \
    --waveglow_path $WAVEGLOW_PATH \
    --max_decoder_steps 2000
```

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Home » Human Relationships » Conflicts » Meta Dehumanization: What I Think about What They Think about Me
Meta Dehumanization: What I Think about What They Think about Me
What does it mean to dehumanize another person and what happens when people feel dehumanized? In this article, discover the different theories of dehumanization and the negative consequences of meta dehumanization.
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To dehumanize means to deprive other people of positive human traits, personality, and dignity. In other words, it's believing that someone is less human and more animal. Human beings dehumanize others and can also feel dehumanized themselves. The term for that is meta dehumanization. Thus, meta dehumanization means believing that other people dehumanize you. You're aware that other people think you and/or the group you belong to fall in a category inferior to humans.
Meta dehumanization is a cognition, a belief. Experts call it "meta" because it means thinking about what others think of you. Meta dehumanization, then, consists of thinking that others believe you have more animal traits than human traits. This metacognition can make you feel more hostile towards those who you believe think badly of you.
Ways of Understanding Dehumanization
On a group level, you can understand dehumanization as a psychological process that strips others of their group identity. It places them outside of accepted moral ideas and highlights the incongruence of their values with yours. This process often leads to violence against the dehumanized group. Two models stand out in the theory of dehumanization: the infrahumanization model and the animalistic vs. mechanistic model.
The infrahumanization model posits that individuals deny emotions to the members of other groups, which puts them at the same level as animals. Those who dehumanize equate others with animals while maintaining their humanity. Usually, the dehumanizers deny other people the most human emotions (such as shame, joy, etc.) They allow primary emotions (such as fear) because they're more primal and animal.
The other dehumanization model proposes two types of dehumanization: animalization and mechanization. Animalization means to deny the exclusively human traits that distinguish us from animals. That includes cognitive aptitude, refinement, and being "civilized", among others.
Mechanization means to deny traits that are typical of human nature but not necessarily unique to the human race. These include warmth and emotion. In other words, if you deny someone that which makes them human, you likening them to an animal. If you deny someone their human nature, you're likening them to inanimate objects such as robots or automatons.
Types of Dehumanization
Dehumanization can also happen in different ways. Just like prejudice, there's subtle and explicit dehumanization. Subtle dehumanization denies some, but not all, traits. In other words, you think of the dehumanized group as neither fully human nor fully animal. Explicit dehumanization is when the members of a group are considered more animal than human. This is the most radical manifestation of dehumanization.
You can find one of the differences between these two forms of dehumanization in their consequences. Explicit dehumanization obviously has more negative consequences than its subtle counterpart. However, subtle forms of dehumanization are easier to accept, which makes them more difficult to eliminate. For example, comparing a person of color to a monkey might be unacceptable, but saying that people of color smell bad is easier to swallow.
"Eliminating 'savages' is less of a moral problem than eliminating human beings, and therefore American Indian came to be understood as a lesser race – uncivilized savages – thus providing a justification for the extermination of the peoples."
-Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness–
Meta Dehumanization
What happens when you think that someone is dehumanizing you? Meta dehumanization often leads to dehumanization. In other words, if you believe that someone is dehumanizing you, you'll probably end up adopting the same attitude. It's a vicious cycle that doesn't end there. Research shows that feeling dehumanized has to do with hostile reactions.
When we say hostile reactions, we mean aggressiveness, willingness to punish, and an unwillingness to share, among others. One example is what people think about immigrants. If you believe that a group of immigrants is dehumanizing you and your people, you're more likely to support laws that prohibit them from entering your country. On a more extreme level, you could end up supporting violence and revenge.
In conclusion, when someone denies your humanity, you're likely to deny theirs. This puts us all in a vicious cycle of meta dehumanization and mutual hostility that's difficult to stop.
The Link Between Social Class and Dehumanization
People dehumanize members of certain groups. In this article, discover the link between social class and dehumanization! Read on! Read more »
Kteily, N., & Bruneau, E. (2017). Backlash: The politics and real-world consequences of minority group dehumanization. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(1), 87–104. doi: 10.1177/0146167216675334
Kteily, N., Bruneau, E., Waytz, A., & Cotterill, S. (2015). The ascent of man: Theoretical and empirical evidence for blatant dehumanization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(5), 901–931. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000048
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(E11) The Reason for Using Alternating Current
The use of AC makes the transmission of electrical power to great distances much more economical.
Suppose we need to transmit power W (watts, or more likely megawatts, millions of watts) from the power station where it is produced (by steam turbines or water turbines) to distant users. To make things simple, assume that all currents or voltages are DC (or else, if this is AC, replace them by their r.m.s. values, which leads to the same expressions for power) and ignore the resistance of the return portion of the current.
If the distance (drawing below) is great, the cables connecting the two may be quite long, and may have a fair amount of electrical resistance R.
The total power delivered by the power station is
W = I V , but not all of it reaches the customer! An amount W' of it is expended on heating the cables, amounting to
W' = I2R
("twinkle, twinkle little star, power equals I squared R"). That power is a net loss to the customer, whose voltage (by Ohm's law, applied to that part of the circuit) is now diminished by
V' = I R
and the user does not get the full supply voltage V, only V –V'.
Obviously, the power company would like to make W' as small as possible. One obvious way is to reduce R--make the power wire thicker. But there exists an economic limit: thicker cables use more copper and cost more, and they are also heavier, making it hard to suspend them from slender towers, widely spaced.
But suppose one could somehow change both the voltage V and the current I without changing the rate W at which electric power is provided--say, increase V until it is 1000 times larger, while I becomes 1000 times smaller. The power IV delivered is then the same as before, but the power loss W' = I2R is reduced a million times!
True, the power lines may find it harder to prevent leaks from an "electric pressure" V that is 1000 times greater. Such a problem could well exist with water pipes! However, as already noted air is an excellent insulator and even voltages of 110,000 volts and more can be transmitted along power lines hanging in the open. Only the insulators which hold those wires need to resist a higher voltage--e.g by shaping them as a long stack of ceramic plates which sheds off rainwater.
It is also true that the voltage must be "stepped down" back to 110 volts before entering the home: wires hanging high above the ground may hold back very high voltages, but wires in homes and factories are wrapped in thin plastic and inside one's walls, safe at 110 volts but not voltages many times larger. Still, it remains an attractive idea.
Can it be done? Not with DC. However, it turns out that AC allows such exchanges--raise the voltage, lower the current--by means of devices known as electric transformers. Power companies all over the world use this trick. Transformers at the power station step up the voltage to 100,000 or 200,000 volts (sometimes even more), and well-insulated "high voltage lines" carry the power across the country, with high V but small I.
Then at the destination the voltage is again stepped down, usually in several steps; transformers do so quite efficiently and consume very little power (which is just as good--if they absorbed energy, they would get too hot). The process ends with fairly small transformers, each supplying a block of apartments, a small group of dwellings or perhaps a single factory or farm; some can be seen attached (with input and output wires isolated by ceramic insulators) to the top of the poles that carry electric supply lines (image from "Principles of Physics" by Millikan and Gale, 1927). Often they are encased in (electrically grounded) metal containers filled with oil, which insulates electrically but helps carry away whatever heat is generated.
On the History of AC
The first public electricity system was devised by Thomas Alva Edison in the 1880s and used direct current. Electricity was not widely used--mainly for providing light (using Edison's lightbulb or its improved versions) and primarily in cities where distances were small. Long-distance telegraph used batteries.
George Westinghouse, aided by the Serbian engineer Nicola Tesla (reluctantly followed later by Charles Proteus Steinmetz at General Electric which Edison helped start), realized that with AC, long distance transmission lines could operate at higher voltage, transmitting energy much more economically. Tesla also introduced polyphase AC, where the same generator created several related AC waves, a more efficient scheme. Around that time electric motors were entering wide use--in industry and on trolley cars--and ultimately AC prevailed, after a nasty publicity "war of currents" between Edison and Westinghouse. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
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I don't have anything for you today; I'm totally alone in my skin.
Whoever was here is gone; I'm into other arms now.
I don't have time for listening; not listening, I have no time.
The soundtrack plays as my eyes are seeing twenty years ago.
O hai, that's the door over there. It works. You came in that way.
Birds can hear approaching thunder. I hear you walking away.
This will pass, this will all pass. It will pass, in time, it will pass.
I need to find that memory, talk to it, and make it go away.


I saw the Beinart article that everyone is abuzz about early this morning as I was scouring the web for articles with potential for JID. I didn't get a chance to really read it until much later in the day. My "blink" reaction is to loathe the article. Now I just have to figure out why.
To be sure, it is very well written and thought provoking. And for the most part I believe that his large brush strokes are pretty good. There is definitely a split between Zionist and universalist/non-Zionist (hard to say which it is; human nature tends to confuse pluralism and apathy) young Jews, and the first group tends to be more religiously committed.
And yet, I think he way oversimplifies on so many levels, and is simply off on many others.
Take, for example, this line: "Saving liberal Zionism in the United States—so that American Jews can help save liberal Zionism in Israel—is the great American Jewish challenge of our age." This is a great example of the American hubris that he apparently wrote an entire book in criticism of. Whatever the reasons for the fall of liberal Zionism in America, they are very different from the reasons for the decline of liberal Zionism in Israel. It smacks of "we know what's better for the Israelis than Israelis do." The sad reality is that the average American Jew - right or left - is terribly ignorant of the entire issue.
It's really disturbing how he lumps all of Orthodoxy into one camp - even shoehorning Shas and UTJ in there.
It's funny how he describes the Orthodox as being uncritical of Israel, when it was in fact the Orthodox who have been amongst the fiercest critics of Israel's and Zionism's secularism. I'm not talking about Neturei Karta here; it's standard Haredi rhetoric, and not only. The fact that they're not criticizing what YOU'RE criticizing does not make them uncritical.
He quotes a stat that only 25% of American Orthodox Jews are in favor of a two-state solution. I'd wager that it was a lot less a generation ago, just as it was a lot less amongst the general Jewish population a generation ago. So "not moving toward the center as fast as everyone else" is the same as "moving to the right?"
The assumption that being on the right wing presumes "naked hostility toward Arabs" and then backing it up with disingenuous or irrelevant facts - failing to note, for example, that Netanyahu openly advocated a 2-state solution less than a year ago while noting that 20 years ago he sang a different tune. Is it impossible that some people went right because of beliefs other than "naked hostility?"
If I were to point to a common denominator, it's that he misreads the Israeli political scene, erroneously assuming that it is similar to American Jewish opinion, and especially when it comes to the different demographics within Orthodox Judaism.
I'm still stuck between "blink" and "think" - I feel like I haven't figured out my main reason for disliking the article.


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CHINA: U.S. Military Races to Stay Ahead of China's Tech – Pure narrative. The Chinese military has gotten MOST of its military tech from the world's leader: the USA.
GREAT BRITAIN: The British people have risen at last – and we're about to unleash chaos – The reader can count on LOTS of chaos in the months ahead, no matter upon which part of the earth he may dwell.
Republicans Are Stuck with Donald Trump until November – We'll see.
Donald Trump warns Obama about campaigning for Hillary Clinton – One could say "Delusional" EXCEPT Trump is reading from his script perfectly.
Despite Clinton claims, 2012 email had classified marking – The only ones who believe this means anything are the ones who still believe the system works.
Hillary Clinton picks up another big endorsement – Endorsements are one of those things almost completely ignored by Americans outside of the media/government class, where it is pretended such things really matter.
Which is WHY they occupy so much space in the Corporate Media.
50 Slain in Gay Nightclub, Worst Mass Shooting in US History – This story, as all such narratives do, changed over the first ten-twelve hours.
For a while, there was a good deal of early Internet chatter that the gunman was a Christian extremist. The US population has been the subject of nonstop anti-Muslim propaganda for the past 20+ years. Over the past 2 years, this propaganda has been a particularly virulent strain.
Once the population has been indoctrinated into hate against a group, it is no great thing to substitute targets (Christians for Muslims).
At some point, it would not be surprising to hear from the government/media that 'extremist Christians' and 'Muslim terrorists' are acting together. That would prepare the way for widespread government crackdowns against anyone professing to follow Jesus Christ.
50 killed in Florida nightclub, shooter pledged Islamic State allegiance – One suspects the attack to send Americans 'over the edge' (and into war) will be much more horrific.
Senator Sessions: 'More of These Attacks Are Coming' – Oh, that's something that's not hard to guess.
Maybe that's why they've been making them eligible for all the government benefits?!?
Army veteran legally not male or female, judge rules – IF a person is of certain 'favored' groups, the government will fall all over itself to grant special rights, privileges and considerations.
IF however one is an average American, the only thing guaranteed is the steady erosion of rights, freedoms and liberties.
Men scheme and plan and labor behind the scenes to bring about the evil of the end times.
But, even though these men are at the top of the food chain on earth; even though they may be rich and powerful: they still are NOT in control.
These men are not even in control of their own affairs.
Principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places: demonic powers are pulling the strings to make the men at the top of the food chain dance.
Be that as it may, God Almighty is still in control of EVERYTHING.
No matter what deluded men may believe, demonic entities are weak tea when compared to the LORD of hosts. These entities are NOT in control. The LORD God Almighty is in control.
Which is WHY there are so many false prophets.
The familiar spirits and demons (and the various men they have enslaved) cannot do anything without the approval of God Almighty. They have set the stage for a while for the end times events foretold in the Bible.
But those events ultimate starting times are determined by God Almighty and God Almighty alone.
Those who have familiar spirits; those who listen to such evil sources of information; those among men who have planned the earthly schedules: may all THINK they know when the action of the end times begins.
False prophets get their information from familiar (evil) spirits. But the evil spirits do not know: they only can pull the strings on their puppets and wait on God Almighty.
So the false prophets make their predictions based upon what their familiar spirits know. But because their spirits do not know, the false prophets do not know.
BUT, familiar spirits do not tell the men whom they have enslaved "I do not know." Instead, they lie. And, men believe their lies. Clever though they be, they are still lies.
Which is why the false prophets are so spectacularly WRONG so often: they believe the lies of their familiar spirits.
And the God of heaven and earth laughs at them all.
And now the reader knows.
After the space shuttle retired in 2011, the Delta IV Heavy became, by default, the world's most powerful rocket. Standing 71.6 meters tall, fully 15 meters taller than the full space shuttle stack, the rocket built by United Launch Alliance can deliver up to 28.4 tons of mass to low-Earth orbit.
"Gang stalking" victims who believe they are targets of mind control -"Gang stalking" does happen.
HOWEVER, gang stalking is, like most modern narratives, a name for a completely different situation.
BUT, if one does not know the problem, one can rarely find the solution.
This is nonsense. But if those people admit that THEIR SCHOOLS are horrible also, it means that they would have to do something about it–or admit that they don't care a whole lot about their own kids' education. They may even have to home school! What would the neighbors think? They may even have to quit their job! Oh no! This can't be happening! Not in America!
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Internet has become 'world's largest surveillance network' – The Internet was set up to become the world's largest surveillance network.
Who designed, funded and set up the Internet?
Oh, that's right: the U.S. military.
Subverting Our New Space Overlords – This more properly belongs in the Media Narrative section. But one cannot place everything there.
Egg producers pledge to stop grinding newborn male chickens to death – Inconvenient chickens won't be gruesomely killed.
More Than Ever, Americans Are Dying By Accident – Sure they are. Americans have suddenly come down with clumsy-itis!
The War of the Future? Picture Big Armies and Many Fronts – Gee, back in the '90s, this was just the type of war the US military said it would NOT have to be fighting ever again. It then set up its future plans around this publicly-announced contention.
Uh, Gabriel Gomez Isn't 'Too Conservative' – Hilarious!
It's Time to Prune America's Overgrown Alliance Network – JUST IN TIME for the USA to face foreign adventures by it's lonesome.
Blind Mystic's Bleak Predictions for 2016 will give you chills – We live in a time of false prophets and prophetesses.
A quick look at Bulgarian-born Prophetess Baba Vanga's past record is enough to mark her down as just one more spouter of demon-inspired (which means quite frequently wrong) gobbledygook.
Assassination / murder attempts on four heads of states that becomes one of the causes for the start of WWIII.
The start of WWIII in 2010. The war will begin around November of 2010 and will end around October of 2014. Will start as a normal war, then will include usage of nuclear and chemical weapons.
Muslims will wage chemical war against Europeans/NATO around 2013.
NOTE: This above article featuring this list of wrong "prophecies" attempts to justify much of what was wrong by re-writing history; e.g., claiming that Arab Spring was the beginning of World War III.
Larry Kudlow: 'Overthrow the Establishment' to Fix the Economy – Oh, don't worry: the establishment will be overthrown.
The carved candles are the shop's specialty and bestselling item, but the shop also offers a fully stocked apothecary with everything from mugwort to rosehips, an entire binder of custom oils and incense and a large selection of books. Behind a glass case in front of the cash register are a variety of tarot cards and silver occult jewelry, a shelf of statuettes of gods and goddesses of every ilk adorns one side of the shop and behind the front door, a small altar is tucked out of the way of customers' feet.
Spellbound: why witchcraft is enchanting a new generation of teenage girls – Witchcraft and demonic power are about power and control. It is therefore VERY attractive to those groups which historically lack power and control.
Mel Gibson Planning "Passion of the Christ" Sequel – The first Gibson offering was hyped by many pagan churches. One can bet the sequel will be worse and the churches will be solidly behind it.
"The Christ" is a term used by a particular group of antichrist occult people. And so, the sequel will be just as Christian as the original.
What if PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? – And what IF it's not either? What IF it's something altogether different?
The Animals Behind Power Outages – One suspects that the coming power blackouts will be attributed to many causes.
Animals sound as good as any.
HOW to tell a victim of demonic possession apart from someone with a mental disorder – The narrative begins in the headlines and continues throughout this article.
What is the Illuminati? – A fitting subject for a science website, since SCIENCE! is little more than just a collection of nonsensical stories meant to tamp down the curiosity of anyone who has the bad manners to ask questions.
Fixing potholes: The Hole Story – And what a collection of stories it is! This article functions as a sort of "narrative collector": quite a few of them are in this story about fixing potholes and WHY that seems to be beyond the capability of modern road crews.
Yes, there were potholes in years past. But they were not the ever-present fixture of roads (especially in the summer) that they are now.


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DRUMHELLER, ALTA. —The prairies give way like a sigh, exposing a moonscape of crumbling mudstone. Head bent, Dr. Philip Currie reads the terrain. Thousands of years of rain and wind have carved this arid swath of southeastern Alberta into deep coulees, towering hoodoos and brittle cliffs terraced in bands of black, grey, red and brown sedimentary rock: a cross-section of some 2.8 million years of prehistory eroding away from the green lip of the pastureland above.
Everywhere he looks, the veteran paleontologist sees fragments of a lost world littering the ground: tiny salamander verterbrae, shards of petrified wood, broken tyrannosaur teeth, fossilized tendons and shattered limbs scattered amidst rock, brittle grasses and small flowering cacti — fragments that are all but invisible to my untrained eye. Some things, like a hard brown flake that once made up part of the domed skull of a pachycephalosaurid, get picked up and put in a plastic bag.
Sometimes Currie will turn a tiny piece of broken bone in his hands, meditating on it in silence before placing it back on the ground. Or sometimes he'll just lay on his side in the dirt to look at and poke in the kaleidoscopic gravel, trying to understand what all these fragments were and how they ended up dead and shattered in Alberta's badlands.
We're in Dinosaur Provincial Park, some two and a half hours east of Calgary. Nearly 50 dinosaur species and more than 500 individual specimens have been unearthed at this 83 square kilometres UNESCO World Heritage Site since the late 19th century, making it one of the world's richest fossil sites. Currie, who began conducting field work here in 1976, is also one of the park's most prolific fossil hunters.
Excavating and collecting half a dozen dinosaur skeletons and thousands of dinosaur footprints and bones in his first five years here, Currie and his teams soon overwhelmed the storerooms of the Provincial Museum of Alberta, inspiring Alberta's government to open the impressive Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology in nearby Drumheller. In his nearly four-decade career in paleontology, Currie, now 65, has named more than two dozen dinosaur species, authored more than 200 papers and books, and worked in locales as diverse as Mongolia's Gobi Desert and the South Pole's Transarctic Mountains. But it is here in Dinosaur Provincial Park where the Ontario native most loves to dig.
"There's no place like this anywhere in the world," Currie says. "Everywhere, all over that hillside, all that brown and white — that's all bone," he adds, pointing into the parched distance.
Every summer, Currie assembles a team of University of Alberta students, technicians, colleagues, and volunteers to spend a month prospecting and digging in the park, most of which is off-limits to casual visitors. Overseen by Danish paleobotanist (and Currie's wife) Dr. Eva Koppelhus, their camp is nestled under a stand of old cottonwoods at a bend in the Red Deer River, providing stunning views of the valley's jagged badlands. Cattle from a nearby ranch meander around the camp's bright nylon tents, and in the evening, pods of white pelicans can be seen bobbing on the muddy river. When dinner's done and darkness falls, the researchers warm themselves around a campfire, drinking beer and trading stories while the valley echoes with the yips and howls of coyotes.
Allan Lindoe, a burly and bearded long-time volunteer, tells me to be careful of rattlesnakes.
During the day, the team divides into groups. Some prospect for new fossils while others dig in established quarries.
While prospecting, Currie moves with a determined ibis-like stride, effortlessly scrambling up steep slopes or plunging into gullies while scanning the ground for bones, his neck stooped and skin baked from decades in the field. He's tall, silver-haired, and soft-spoken. There is a slight distance to him, as though his mind is always being taken by something: a ledge in the distance, a femur protruding from the next ridge, a hill flecked with pieces of white clamshell.
Currie's students had warned me about their supervisor's feverish pace — warnings that I shrugged off. After all, I'm in decent shape, and how hard would it be to keep up with someone more than double my age? They grinned and wished me well before hiking to a nearby quarry.
I kept up with Currie — but barely. And when we returned to camp after eight hours of hard trekking in the badlands, I immediately retired to my tent for an exhausted muscle-aching nap that was soon cut short by the steady thwack of someone chopping wood. I peeked out of my tent, and there was Currie wielding an axe.
I follow as close behind Currie as I can. He carries a rock hammer — a steel tool with one blunt end and another curved into a pick — and a handheld GPS. Prairie falcons circle overhead while wrens dart in and out of stunted conifers. In the distance, we see deer negotiating the slopes of mudstone — a type of sedimentary rock composed of mud and clay that comprises most of the badlands.
Mudstone can be incredibly treacherous to hike on: in the heat, it crumbles underfoot, making it easy to slip into sinkholes and pincushion cacti that leave tiny barbs embedded in your flesh (Currie offers me his tweezers), and when the wind picks up, the loose dust can be blinding. Sporadic rainfall also punctuates the day, making the mudstone incredibly slick.
None of this seems to slow the paleontologist.
Currie's passion and undaunted resolve developed at an early age. As we hike, he tells me about growing up in southern Ontario, and about how his dinosaur fascination started at the age of 6, when a plastic Dimetrodon — a carnivorous sail-backed reptile — tumbled into his breakfast bowl from a box of cereal.
Currie, who has a particular fascination with carnivorous dinosaurs, would have to wait until 1981 to find his first tyrannosaur.
After his family moved from Brampton to Port Credit, Currie would spend long days hunting for fossilized marine life in the limestone rocks scattered along the shores of Lake Ontario. He also became a frequent visitor of the Royal Ontario Museum, and when he realized that most of the dinosaur specimens at the ROM had come from Alberta, Currie made up his mind to move out west.
In 1976, at the age of 27, Currie got a job as the curator of paleontology at what is now Edmonton's Royal Alberta Museum. While working in the museum and the field, he completed a PhD in absentia from McGill in 1981. That year, he also began working for the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology, which opened its doors to the public in 1985. In 2005, Currie became the Canada Research Chair in Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta. He has received numerous Canadian and international awards and recognitions for his work — particularly for his research on dinosaur behaviour (imagine toothy tyrannosaurs hunting in packs!) and the origin of birds (that blue jay in your backyard is related to T. Rex) — and in December of this year, he will also be honoured with the opening of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Grande Prairie, Alta.
Using the GPS as a guide, we visit sites where dinosaurs have previously been exhumed.
In addition to bone fragments, we see prehistoric logs, massive intact limb bones, and softball-sized vertebrae poking out of the mudstone, sandstone and ironstone layers. Excited, I point out a lichen-covered tibia that's nearly the size of my arm. Currie only gives it a cursory glance.
Currie explains that hadrosaurs, the most common large reptiles in the park, were like the cows of the dinosaur world. A lone bone, he adds, offers little hope of finding an intact skeleton.
Currie jokes that researchers visiting from other parts of the world often become overwhelmed by the plethora of fossils scattered throughout the park.
The park owes its wealth of fossils to its geographical location. More than 75 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, it stood near the western edge of a shallow sea that once blanketed North America's prairies, separating the slender island continent of Laramidia from Appalachia in the east. Warm waters lapped a low coastal plain: a humid place of tangled verdancy, much like southern Louisiana. Further back, the lush and swampy shoreline gave way to dense forests of redwood, cypress, magnolia, sycamore and fern. Fossilized leaves, pollen, seeds and spores are sometimes found in the park.
Meandering rivers bisected this landscape, flowing from mountains in the west. Large herds of herbivores, like hadrosaurs and massive horned ceratopisians, roamed the land, hunted by fierce predators such as the Albertosaurus and the frighteningly feathered Dromaeosaurus, while Eodelphis and Mesodma, our rat-sized mammalian kin, scurried underfoot. Early birds and winged reptiles like the Pterodactyl took to the skies and crocodilian reptiles waded in rivers and estuaries.
The region often flooded, washing carcasses into its waterways where they would be covered in silt and sand carried by rivers and rain from Laramidia's mountainous interior, preserving bones and sometimes even impressions of skin and feathers.
The study of dinosaur paleontology, he adds, also offers some valuable contemporary lessons.
"Even dinosaurs become relevant when you realize that they dominated the world for more than 150 million years, and yet crashed spectacularly," Currie says. "The extinction of non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous is interesting in that evidence suggests that their biodiversity was being reduced, probably because of climatic change, which made them susceptible to extinction when the asteroid hit the Earth.
The asteroid he speaks of, which hit the Gulf of Mexico some 65 million years ago, is widely believed to have heralded the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that annihilated the dinosaurs.
The bone beds fascinate me. Currie describes them as lengths of river — some more than a kilometre long — where thousands of different dinosaur corpses washed up over centuries, creating jumbled miscellanea of large and small limbs, skulls and vertebrae. There are more than 200 of these in the park. We also visit a mass death site where an entire herd of large horned dinosaurs perished. Currie imagines the herbivorous animals being overtaken by floodwater. When their bloated bodies came to rest at a bend in a river, predators feasted. Paleontologists have found the broken and chewed bones of hundreds of young and old ceratopisians here along with countless tyrannosaur and crocodile teeth.
Towards the top of the badlands, Currie points out a darker layer of sediment from when the Bearpaw Sea inundated the park between 74.8 and 68 million years ago. Currie sifts through the stone and fossil rubble, picking out shark teeth and pieces of softshell turtle. Large marine reptiles reminiscent of the Loch Ness Monster would have dominated these waters.
Currie hikes down from the Bearpaw Formation and scrambles along a precipitous rock face, digging his hammer into the mudstone for balance. He stops at a scattering of red-brown rock twisting along a ledge. He stares at it for a long while, and I ask him what he sees.
He points out the badly eroded features and I start to see. Completely intact skeletons, Currie says, are very rare. He jots a description in his notebook, then saves the co-ordinates on his GPS.
As the day wears on, I start to think about the process of paleontological discovery; about how basic yet profound prospecting is: how a casual glance or a trick of light and shadow can reveal or obscure a monumental discovery; how missing a patch of earth during one season could leave a magnificent specimen eroded beyond extraction; how just millimetres under my boots and waiting to poke through the earth might lie an enormous tyrannosaur that would have regarded me as a gangly (and tasty) rodent; how Currie's experiences present his mind with a richly labelled lost world where most others would just see a bleak and foreboding wasteland.
Currie is modest. In frequent interviews, he has attributed his successes to hard work and luck. But there is more at play here. There's his infectious enthusiasm, his energy, his enduring positivity, and an unassumingness that makes him beloved by students and colleagues alike. There is also his brilliant mind, his natural eagle-eye, as well as an element of fate. He tells me about the time he accidentally dropped a camera case down a slope, then scurried after it to find it resting on the partially-revealed skeleton of an almost perfectly intact tyrannosaur..
Then there was the time when he discovered hundreds of 120-million-year-old bird footprints — the oldest known at the time — pressed into the top of a boulder in British Columbia after he accompanied a photographer into a canyon to search for some lost equipment. But he's also made numerous significant finds on normal head-stooped days of prospecting in the field. One of his favourites is a specimen on display in the park's visitor centre: an incredibly rare metre-and-a-half-long baby ceratopsid.
One species, however, has eluded Currie for decades.
On another day, Koppelhus, Currie's wife, joins us in the field.
Koppelhus, who studies prehistoric pollen and plant life, is cheery and outgoing: a perfect foil to her amiable yet introspective husband. She often takes on the role of Currie's spokesperson.
"Phil got me hooked on dinosaurs," Koppelhus laughs. The two, who met at a conference in 1993, have been inseparable since she moved from Denmark to Alberta in 1994. Together, they now spend more than half the year conducting field research around the globe.
We visit a small, sandy gulley ringed by towering hoodoo formations that a student had marked on his GPS while prospecting earlier in the week. Armed with awls, brushes, scrapers and dental picks, Currie drops to the ground to uncover part of a hadrosaur limb that the student had found. Satisfied that the two bones stand on their own, he shifts his attention to a football-sized bone that Koppelhus has been scrutinizing.
Together, the two scientists pick, scrape and brush around the specimen. When it's revealed, Currie begins impregnating the brittle fossil with a thin, clear glue to enhance its structural integrity. Once dry, they cover it with toilet paper, then begin wrapping it with wettened bandages saturated in plaster. They jacket the bone layer by layer until it's bulbous and white.
The work is painstaking and meticulous. An entire skeleton, Currie says, takes two to three weeks to extract, then another four to five person years to prepare for display. The remoteness and inaccessibility of much of the park means that specimens usually come out in small pieces — it would be all but impossible, Currie says, to carry anything large across the crumbling, undulating terrain.
While technology has revolutionized the study and preparation of dinosaur fossils, the process of removing them from the ground — often using little more than burlap, plaster, and water — has remained virtually unchanged since the 1870s. Modern equipment like mass spectrometers can shed light on where and what a dinosaur ate, and computer imaging can even show us how a skeleton would have moved, but extracting fossils remains basic, arduous — and dirty.
When the plaster jacket is dry, Currie and Koppelhus dig deep underneath the fossil before flipping it over. The only time I hear Currie swear in the few days I spend with him is when a piece of bone breaks off the flipped-over cast.
Everything assembled, Currie and Koppelhus pack up their gear. With the sun leaning to the west, washing the badlands in an orange glow, Currie delicately cradles the heavy plaster cast in his arms as though it were a baby before striking out ahead over the windswept landscape for the long hike back to camp.


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Golden Sands has all the facilities you would expect from a top quality holiday park and the atmosphere is also very friendly. We have a reputation for providing some of the best holiday park entertainment around - and you can enjoy top class shows on most nights - all in the price! In fact that's one of the main reasons so many people come back year after year!


Windsor is quite an expensive place for hotel accommodation. At least that was true until the Travelodge and Holiday Inn Express opened their hotels in the last few years.
The Travelodge Windsor, bang in the centre of Windsor is right next to Windsor Central railway station and Windsor Castle is only 3 minutes' walk away.
Nearly all other accommodation options are in much grander accommodations.
The Mercure Castle Windsor and Harte and Garter hotels are in old coaching inn properties directly opposite the main Windsor Castle gates.
The Sir Christopher Wren hotel is down on the River Thames just five minutes' walk from the castle by Eton Bridge and its stable mate The Christopher over the river in Eton is a similar proposition.
Very close to Windsor is Heathrow Airport. There are quite good public transport links between Heathrow and Windsor and especially at weekends hotel rates can be very attractive.
We have many pages covering in depth Heathrow hotels.
Windsor Travelodge Central is in the centre of Windsor within the shopping centre called King Edward Court.
The entrance is in a pedestrian precinct of the shopping centre, there is no vehicle drop off point. The only car parking is in the multi storey for the shopping centre.
However for those coming by public transport things are much better. The hotel is just around the corner from the platform of Windsor Central Station a distance of around 100m through the shopping centre with frequent trains to London Paddington. In the other direction you can take local buses to Heathrow Airport.
The hotel is in the heart of Windsor, three minutes' walk from the entrance of Windsor Castle and the choice of restaurants can be overwhelming.
There is a handy full size Waitrose supermarket next to the Travelodge.
Travelodge routinely offer Saver Rates that can offer outstanding value. These Saver Rates are only available on-line in advance and the further you book in advance the better your chance of picking up the best rates.
The Holiday Inn Express Windsor is just a 10-minute walk to Windsor Castle and the town centre, offering a solid mid-range option to the budget Travelodge well below the price of the luxury hotels that predominate.
Directly opposite the main entrance to Windsor Castle are two grand old coaching inns, now luxury hotels. The Harte & Garter and the Castle Hotel certainly have prime position.
Down by the River Thames by Eton Bridge is the Christopher Wren Hotel, another luxury hotel where you can dine with views of the river. Its stablemate, the Christopher Hotel is another historic coaching Inn on the other side of Eton Bridge on Eton High Street.
Windsor is the gateway for the Legoland theme park, located just on the outskirts of Windsor. Legoland have their own Legoland hotel accommodation offering within the Legoland site where you can stay in Lego themed hotels.
The Legoland hotel options offer the ultimate Legoland experience but you do pay a significant price premium. You may prefer to save significant cash on your hotel bill by staying at a hotel in the Windsor area.
We have a dedicated page of money saving flexible packages combining Legoland tickets and a wide choice of hotels in the vicinity.
If you do not have your own car then you need choose wisely the location of your hotel and Windsor is the most convenient place to look for accommodation as all public transport for Legoland starts at or runs through the town, with bus stops by Windsor Castle.
All the hotels are within walking distance of the Legoland shuttles. The map on this page shows the location of the hotels described and the bus stops for Legoland.
Consistently the cheapest rooms in Windsor especially if you can get advance purchase saver rates. An A1 position every bit as good as the most expensive hotels in Windsor with Windsor Castle 2 minutes walk. The hotel is situated in a complex in which there is Windsor's main shopping area as well as Windsor Central Station.
Just a 10-minute walk to Windsor Castle and the town centre. Just 57 rooms, family rooms have sofa beds for the kids. Free Wi-Fi is featured in each air-conditioned room as well as a flat-screen LCD TV and an en suite bathroom. Breakfast included in the room rate. Plenty of pubs and restaurants in the locality.
This 17th-century house is between the banks of the River Thames and Windsor Castle. It is now a 4-star hotel and has free Wi-Fi, air-conditioned rooms, an award-winning restaurant and a spa. The spa at Sir Christopher Wren Hotel has a sauna, an outdoor spa bath and a large 3-level gym with yoga and a relaxation room.
Dating back to 1711, this newly refurbished former coaching inn is Eton's only hotel, offering style, comfort and sophistication on historic Eton High Street. Just 10 minutes walk across Eton Bridge and you are at Windsor Castle and railway stations. Christopher's Bar and Grill is open all day every day for informal dining and drinks.
With views directly over Windsor Castle, the hotel enjoys one of the finest locations in town. Luxurious and individual bedrooms, retaining some of the original features free WiFi Internet Access. The original stables have been transformed into the luxury Stables Spa with four themed treatment rooms.
The Mercure Windsor Castle hotel is just a few minutes walk from the castle and grounds. The hotel has 108 modern and traditionally-decorated rooms, all with minibar and internet access. There's an award-winning menu at Eighteen Restaurant, and you can meet for coffee or cocktails at Bar@18.


Naperville has stepped up its efforts to fight the proposed purchase of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway by the Canadian National Railway.
On Tuesday, the City Council approved spending as much as $10,000 for a lobbyist to represent its concerns and opposition to the proposed acquisition. Naperville is part of a regional coalition that includes Plainfield, Aurora, DuPage County, Will County and communities from Waukegan to Indiana in opposing the transaction.
If the purchase is approved, traffic on the EJ&E tracks, which run along the western perimeter of Naperville, is projected to increase from an average of about 15 trains per day to 42 trains per day. The Surface Transportation Board, a federal agency, will rule on the proposal this year.
City officials have expressed concern over the effect the purchase would have on Naperville's proposed "quiet zone" designation. They also expressed concern over an increase in hazardous cargo carried along these tracks and additional street traffic congestion caused by the greater number of trains.


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for outstanding contributions to solid geophysics, in particular to the understanding of mineral physics and the dynamics of the Earth's interior.
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Shun-ichiro Karato, Water distribution across the mantle transition zone and its implications for global material circulation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 301 (2011) 413–423.
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To Cloud or Not to Cloud? Is That Really the Question?
Home Blogs Infrastructure To Cloud Or Not To Cloud? Is That Really The Question?
The cloud is the single biggest development to hit IT since its creation, therefore anyone who is not on the cloud will be left behind in a swamp of obsolescence.
It seems pretty straightforward, but I can't help but think about all the other bold new things throughout history that started off with great promise but ultimately went nowhere − Segways, for example, and Cindy Lauper.
To be clear, there is certainly nothing to suggest the cloud is a fraud. Quite the contrary, it seems that each day brings a new dimension to what the cloud has to offer and how it will change the enterprise for the better. Just this week, we saw a new push to integrate the cloud with the Unified Communications (UC) movement with BT Global Services leveraging the Microsoft Lync platform for enhanced video, web and audio conferencing services to enterprise customers. The program will coordinate with BT's on-premises Lync and Cisco solutions to enable enterprises to scale up their UC capabilities as needed while still offering a high degree of customization that most organizations require.
That means IT can either join the movement or face irrelevancy, and perhaps even elimination, as the industry transitions to a more efficient and low-cost means of satisfying its data needs.
If that is the case, then, what could possibly come along and spoil this party? Several things, according to UC Strategies, the first of which is that old Internet bugaboo: metered bandwidth. At the moment, many cloud providers offer unlimited access, but as demand for the cloud increases there is every reason to believe that some form of rationing will be necessary. After all, hardly anyone has unlimited data plans on the cell phone anymore. As well, there is the question of data ownership that comes when information is off-loaded onto someone else's infrastructure. And considering the slow pace at which the law moves in comparison to technology, it could be a while before this crucial aspect of the cloud is fully addressed.
There is also the fact that there are many entrenched interests who see the cloud as a threat to their way of doing business. Established IT vendors like HP, Dell and IBM, for instance, put on a brave face when it comes to the cloud, but the fact is that as reliance on the cloud grows, enterprises will require less hardware. No matter, your say? Data has to reside somewhere, so losses in the enterprise will be compensated by gains from cloud providers? Not exactly, according to Cloud Watch's Jack Clark, given that top providers like Google and Amazon are finding they can build their own hardware cheaper on their own.
So where does that leave us? Are we headed for an all-cloud universe where everyone but the largest enterprises ditch their local IT for low-cost services? Or will it run out of steam before too long, becoming the latest in a long line of products that looked promising but just wasn't meant to be?
My straightforward, unequivocal answer is that it will be neither, and both. The thing to remember is that the IT industry is not a monolith. Rather, it consists of thousands of independent entities pursuing often widely disparate goals, which can be met by a growing plethora of solutions. So I'm betting that the cloud will grow, and traditional IT will probably shrink, but we are not headed for an either/or data environment.
No, this doesn't jibe with the marketing efforts of leading service providers that the cloud is coming, so don't be late. But it does mean that whatever your goals, whatever your current infrastructure, there is a solution out there. It may be on the cloud, or you may find that you've had the capability all along.


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American UN envoy Susan Rice described the veto on Saturday as "shameful", saying Russia and China aimed to "sell out the Syrian people and shield a craven tyrant"."Any further bloodshed that flows will be on their hands," she said.
"What happened yesterday at the United Nations was a travesty," she said.


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Head to Newquay on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall and you're likely to encounter bronzed surf dudes, as the town's population swells to 100,000 in summer. Drawn by ten long sandy beaches (and a healthy tourist economy to go with it) the town has reinvented itself in recent years – with a lively nightlife and decent eateries to boot.
There's a fine selection of hotels in the Cornish town of Newquay. Many have sweeping coastal views, including the boutique Lewinnick Lodge (Pentire Headland), which is perched on a cliff in a breathtaking location, and the very comfortable Atlantic Hotel Newquay (Dane Road).There are also some excellent lower-budget choices, such as Tregarthen (1 Arundel Way), a guest house that has chic rooms that come with iPod docks and flatscreen TVs, or the bright and breezy Surfside Stop (35 Mountwise), which likewise has designer looks, a great location, flatscreen TVs, DVD and MP3 players.
Newquay is the homeland of the Cornish pasty and the clotted cream tea, so you're advised to sample both of these while in town. Try the Coast Café (54 Fore Street) for the latter, while for other hearty options, The Beached Lamb Cafe (72-74 Fore Street) is great for a fry-up and brunch. But there's a wealth of other choices too. Besides British and Cornish specialities, there are also plenty of international restaurants, including Chinese, Indian, Mexican and Thai. A short distance from town is the renowned Fifteen Cornwall restaurant (Watergate Bay), with Jamie Oliver's signature innovative cooking, as well as superb views. Advance booking is recommended.
Big names perform at this annual beach-based surf and music festival. There are amazing coastal views from the site, which encompasses eight stages, as well as bars and food stalls.
This is a huge sailing regatta, with over 450 yachts racing over eight days, plus lots of other entertainments on shore. The races kick off with Falmouth Classics, a race of classic yachts.
Celebrating the all-important local fish industry, the Newquay Fish Festival combines plenty of food stalls and activities with family events and entertainment. Expect cookery demonstrations, sandcastle competitions, fish barbecues, real ale bars and more.
Running since 2001, this local film festival has been based in Newquay since 2011. It concentrates on Cornish film and premieres over 100 interesting locally made movies, as well as international short films.
This three-day festival features lots of live music in a marquee venue and a great range of ales. Bars and pubs around the town take part in an ale trail that festival-goers can follow to sample a variety of local tipples.