We've had rain here. Rain and more rain. The sun will peep out, and then it will rain again. For days! I think maybe we are now due some clear weather, however.
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SLU men's basketball team earns 61-54 victory over Vassar
Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 8:46 am
POUGHKEEPSIE -- The St. Lawrence University men's basketball team earned a 61-54 victory over Liberty League opponent Vassar College on Friday night.
St. Lawrence, led by four in double-figures, improves to 9-8 and 5-4 in the league.
Junior guard Kyle Miller had 13 points for the Saints, including a perfect 7-of-7 from the free throw line. Senior guards Ralph Temgoua and Terry Parham added 12 points apiece and combined for 10 rebounds, five assists and five steals.
Sophomore forward Janpeter Brase added 10 points and six rebounds. The loss drops the Brewers to 6-9 overall and 2-4 in Liberty League play.
It was a back-and-forth first half that had six ties and eight lead changes that saw the Brewers take a 32-30 lead at halftime.
The home team led as many as five points after junior guard Jon Herzog made two free throws for a 29-24 lead with 4:08 remaining in the first half.
The second half featured timely shooting from both teams that produced 12 ties, the last coming at 50-50 with 5:47 to play when Brase connected on a layup in the paint. Over the next 2:19, St. Lawrence scored seven straight points, jumping ahead 57-50 following two free throws from Miller, and put the game out of reach for Vassar.
St. Lawrence, which owned a 35-31 advantage in rebounds, scored 21 points off turnovers compared to Vassar's 14 points.
The Saints finished shooting 44% from the floor while the Brewers shot 36%. St. Lawrence will play Bard tomorrow at 4:00 in a Liberty League contest.

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Customize and personalize your Hey Siri experience
Now more than ever, customers want to feel connected. They want a personalized experience that speaks directly to them and their needs. In order for businesses to provide this level of customer service, they need to have voice recognition software capable of understanding the nuances in different dialects and accents. Siri is Apple's voice recognition software that has been able to understand many different accent variations since its release in 2011. However, it still does not always work as well as we all would like it too. This blog post will cover how you can customize your Hey Siri experience so that you are getting the best possible user experience!
There's a new feature on the iPhone called "Hey Siri." This allows users to invoke their personal A.I., without having press down masterfully and loudly for it each time they want access in an emergency situation or during downtime between tasks like driving home from work. It's easy as saying "Hey Siri" when you need something done - just make sure there are no other people around who might hear! You'll be able t find out what current weather conditions at your location are thanks to this amazing software program that lives inside every single one of us now: Apple Corporation (AAPL).
Imagine a scenario where you're asking your phone on the kitchen counter to set a timer while putting turkey into oven. The feature's ability listen continuously for "Hey Siri" trigger phrase lets users access Siri in situations like these, without having worry that they'll lose it again when driving or cooking!
In the world of smartphones, there are a lot more options for listening to music. In order to make it easier and quicker than ever before possible we can simply say "Hey Siri" which triggers an immediate response from your device! In recent years technology has advanced rapidly with voice commands becoming even more intuitive thanks in part by always-on processors on newer models like those available through apple inc.. As such you're able use this feature at any time without having worry about whether or not charged up because all functions will continue automatically while battery lasts - ensuring convenience isn't limited just during charging hours anymore.
The more general, speaker-independent problem of "Hey Siri" detection also goes by the name 'key phrase detections'. The technical approach and implementation details of our solution are described in a previously-published article that is freely available to read on the internet. This work is about the "Hey Siri" detector and how to personalize your device with it. I think that's pretty self explanatory, so let me just get right into explaining what you need for this project! You'll want some speakers or headphones attached in order to hear audio output from their microphone as well as access code installation on an iOS/Android device of choice - but first things first: we must assume there exist a Speaker Recognition System by which users can dictate text using only voice commands without touching anything else at all."
Deep neural networks are a popular way to model audio data. These models have been used in the past for modeling speech, but they struggle when applied on other sounds like music or environmental noises which make up most of our environment today - this can be solved with more robust representations that take into account both seasonality and acoustic properties specific only to each speaker . As described in, Apple improved upon these deep network based systems by using recurrent connections between layers while simultaneously training multiple styles at once through different methods such as genetic algorithm search spaces tuned via maximizing entropy loss function—allowing us not just hear one style during playback but many thanks largely due guitarist Andrew Hale's work.
Motivating Personalization
Siri is not only a fantastic assistant, but she's also become quite popular with the general public. One of her most endearing features are those little moments when you say "Hey Siri" without realizing what your doing and then find out that you can issue Commands just by uttering two words into an empty room! Siri may have started life as nothing more than some code written inside Apple products back in 2011 (and if we're being honest: who doesn't love coding?) But ever since launching on iPhone 4s users would randomly start barking orders at their devices completely unaware where these unfamiliar voices came from - until one day.
To solve the mystery of how to make an AI with high interactivity, we attempted offline experiments where it could be tested without interacting with other humans. A lot of people are afraid that if machines take over they'll hurt us but luckily I found this awesome game called "AI Kits" They're like little robots you can program yourself! And there is no coding needed at all; instead just choosing what type or function your robot should perform when they encounter certain situations (like walking through walls).
Imagine you're on your phone, scrolling through Facebook when suddenly the screen goes black and a robotic voice says "Hey Siri." This can be really annoying! But there's some good news-we have found ways around these false acceptances. To personalize each device so it only wakes up when I say 'Siri', our team uses techniques from field of speech recognition known as Speaker Intelligibility Estimation (SEI). A few weeks ago my friend messaged me saying he just activated "Google Now" by accident - no doubt because his microphone was picked up while talking to someone else nearby with an Android phone right next them both at their desk working elsewhere in.
Speaker recognition (SR) is the process of determining who speaks by using their voice. speech-to-text has been around for decades but recently there's been an increase in demand to know more about "who" rather than just focusing on what they said; it could be important, like distinguishing one person from another during natural language processing tasks where context plays a vital role or even deciding which fruit you want at your local grocery store!
It is important to note the difference between text-dependent and independent speech recognition. In a situation where there's already an established vocabulary, such as when using "Hey Siri" or some other phrase known beforehand this type of system operates more easily because words are less likely be unknown by either party involved in conversation. A new trend on voice assistants has started: calling them "podcasts" instead of conversations with humans - Keywords include artificial intelligence (AI), softwares that can comprehend what you say better than human beings do; advanced technologies.
Speaker recognition systems are commonly used for the purposes of conference delegate identification. There is, however, a difference between evaluating these devices based on their ability identify whether someone speaks at an event and also how many people speak with them during presentations - this can be measured by two metrics: imposter accept (IA) rate and false reject (FR). Imposter acceptance means that once an attending speaker has been identified as such; there's no need to continually evaluate or check if they're still present while frustratingly not realizing you've spoken too soon!
For both the key-phrase trigger system and speaker recognition systems, an error occurs when a user says "Hey Siri" but does not have their device wake up. This kind of problem typically happens more often in acoustically noisy environments such as on a bustling sidewalk or car ride; however it can happen anywhere there's too much background noise for our voice be recognized easily by technology. It was surprising how many times we incorrectly identified what somebody said because they were speaking under normal conditions without any additional distractions - like other people around you talking at once!
FR's are a fraction of the total number of true "Hey Siri" instances spoken by the target user. For key phrase trigger system, we observe FA when device wakes up to non-"Siri" phrases such as "are you serious" or even more unusual: "in Syria today." These FRs typically happen on per-hour basis and can have significant impacts for businesses who depend heavily upon voice search traffic from their customers' devices!
In this scenario, we assume all utterances sent by "Hey Siri" contain the text. This means that after correctly identifying one of these statements as being relevant for personalized responses in some way or another (e.g., because they were issued while nearby), then only those particular words will trigger what comes next - personalization step which occurs when voice data has been successfully captured from said speaker using their own device's microphone .
To this end, we refer to speaker recognition-based false alarm errors as imposter accepts (IA) and avoid confusing such an IA with a non-"Hey Siri" FA made by the key phrase trigger system. In practice of course there will be times where both types can occur at once; however typically speaking one would only notice if they were specifically looking for them!
The system's ability to make determinations may not yet be trained. We'll discuss this issue later, but first let me point out that there are three levels: FA (feedforward), FR (rationally default) and IA or Immediate Action which is when you get prompted with information relevant in the moment because it has high relevance for your needs at that time - like whether an incoming email contains malicious code for example; if so then its "too late" after reading through all my previous posts on cybersecurity hygiene habits.
The application of a speaker recognition system involves two steps: enrollment and recognition. During the first phase, you will be asked to say some sample phrases so that it can enroll your voice print in their database as well as recognize what kind of language is most natural for them - English or German perhaps? The second stage entails taking this data from all thirty thousand words said during our initial interview process--every word!--and then using those samples when necessary throughout future interactions with customers who speak languages other than one's own native tongue but still want access into these digital realms where communication happens primarily through text instant messenger chats instead spoken aloud face-toface where personal pronouns take up more space on paper yet alone.
In this process, a statistical model is created from the user's voice. The recognition phase compares an incoming utterance and decides whether or not it belongs in that context of existing data with no input needed by either party at all; because we're using machine learning techniques like Bayes theorem (which were originally developed for probabilistic modeling), they'll automatically guess what percentage chance there would be if one party tried guessing another person's language!
User Enrollment
The main design discussion for personalized "Hey Siri" (PHS) revolves around two methods of user enrollment: explicit and implicit. During explicit enrolment, a user is asked to say the target trigger phrase a few times in order that their on-device speaker recognition system training profile can be created from these utterances. In contrast, during implicit enrollments there isn't any need for them speak out loud since this process entails recording short clips where you are either speaking directly into your phone or using an input device like dictation software instead.
The "Hey Siri" feature of the iPhone has been designed to reduce IA rates by ensuring that every user has a faithfully trained PHS profile before they begin using it. However, most recordings obtained during explicit enrollment only contain very little environmental variability and so an initial one is usually created with clean speech but real-world situations rarely turn out this way in reality which means we need new ways on how recorders can be used more effectively for each specific task at hand or risk increasing our vulnerability toward hacks like those seen recently such as Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal where users had their personal details harvested without permission from third party apps then sold off.
Implicit enrollment is a key concept in speech recognition and it refers to the estimation of speaker characteristics from heard data. This process relies heavily on how we speak, which can be difficult for some people who do not wish their identity revealed or recorded by automated systems while using them.
There's an old saying: "You can't make a silk purse out of sows ear." It turns out, this may not always be true. Many people incorrectly believe that we need to use recordings with female voices for women or recording men speaking so as not to discriminate against any one gender - but in reality it just doesn't work like that! That is because our speech recognition algorithms are trained on specific voice types and ignore other features such as volume level changes when those different speakers speak near each other.
This is disastrous, because it means that you can't use your device to call for help! The false rejections may begin with the primary user's voice or another imposter. If this happens then there will be no way of telling whether they are rejecting our own voices as well until we try again later on down the line - but by this time it might already too late. This sounds like something out-of control happening in real life, which would make people think twice before using these features at all times unless absolutely necessary.
Our current implementation combines the two enrollment steps. It initializes a speaker profile using one of your explicit phrases, then asks you for an additional five words that will be used by default when creating new profiles - in order to get started as quickly and easily possible!
1. "Hey Siri"
4. "Hey Siri, how is the weather today?"
5. "Hey Siri, it's me."
The use of this feature can be controlled and manageable as it offers users a variety of ways to pose their shots. For those who only need one, the 1-shot mode provides for an easy take with no editing time needed while 2-shots may require some minor adjustments before you're ready to post online or send out automatically through social media channels like Facebook LIVE.
In the next section, we describe how speakers are implicitly updated with subsequently accepted utterances. Looking even further ahead, a future without any explicit enrollment step in which users simply begin using their "Hey Siri" features from an empty profile and then grow organically as more requests come through for it over time. A speech recognition system can be seen as an active listening instructor who starts out teaching one student at a time before graduating them all to full mastery of English grammar by providing feedback on every sentence they speak aloud into microphones hooked up near activating switches meant only as intermediaries between human voiceboxes. This would also make things easier for the users who cannot be bothered to skip a few minutes worth of setup.
The top half of Figure 1 shows a high-level diagram of our PHS system. The block shown in green, Feature Extraction converts an acoustic instance "Hey Siri," which can vary in duration into fixed length speaker vector for processing by other components on the stack - especially Sound Indexing and Classification! This vector can be referred to as a speaker embedding. Within the Feature Extraction block, we compute it in two steps: first converting speech utterance into fixed-length (super)vector that summarizes acoustic information such as phonetics and background recording environment; secondly computing how similar each sentence was when comparing against this summary of what happened during "Hey Siri".
In the second step, we attempt to transform speech vector in a way that focuses on speaker-specific characteristics and deemphasizes variabilities attributed from phonetic as well environmental factors. It is hoped that this model will be able to recognize a user's instances of "Hey Siri" in various environments and modes. For instance, it may know when your voice sounds different while at home than during work or if you're groggy after getting out of bed compared with how normal sounding on another day-like morning where there has been coffee consumed but also plenty time taken care of personal needs before starting the day like brushing teeth etcetera! Our output consists simply by representing speakers as vectors so they can all get boiled down into one number - aka speaker vector.
After you explicitly enroll in the system, we store a user profile consisting of five speaker vector. As previously discussed, this includes information about your voice model and how it responds to different sounds--the more data points there are for comparison purposes (i.e., cosine scores), then better accuracy can be expected when listening algorithms compare themselves against yours! In Figure 1's Model Comparison stage.
In order for a device to be able to process commands, it needs an active internet connection and speech recognition software. Once this has been accomplished by processing the subsequent command with greater accuracy than 50% of other devices on average (), then we will wake up from sleep mode so users can interact accordingly. Finally, once enrolled into our system through implicit enrollment processes which add user profiles until there are 40 accepted speaker vectors corresponding back at least one person who speaks fluently in English - including gender-, age-range (e-) location evidence via GPS coordinates), etc., these revisions have been added without any further input needed from you!
We store on the phone, both speaker vectors and audio portion of their corresponding utterance waveforms. When improved transforms are deployed via an over-the air update we can rebuild a user's profile using this stored information which is useful for when they want to customize services or provide feedback about what you're saying!
Improving the Speaker Transform
The speaker transform is the most important part of any speech recognition system. Given a vector, your goal with this transformation should be to minimize within-speaker variation while maximizing between speakers' differences in pronunciation and dialects as well as carrier tone/volume levels etc.; all without losing accuracy! The "Hey Siri" detector is a speaker-independent machine learning algorithm that models how people speak to their voice assistants. We used this approach in our research, where we derived an acoustic feature vector from the MFCCs and 28 HMM states of Hey siri utterances to parameterize speech recognition model parameters for text generation with deep neural networks optimized on tree ensembles trained using Lip programming languages like Torch7and Caffe2.
The speech vector is then obtained by concatenating the state segment means into a 28 * 13 = 364-dimensional vector. The result measures how much each sound in your voice changes over time, and can be used to control things like lighting or music volume during an event! The state-of-the art approach in research closely resembles a technique that uses concatenated acoustic speech segment means as its initial representation of the utterance. In speech recognition, a supervector is an arrangement of vectors that captures the directions and magnitudes in which speakers vary most. While it performed well on text independent problems like speaker identification (known as "i-vectors"), we found this same technique to be equally effective when used with dependent data—which can often result from texts containing multiple authors or contributors whose writing styles differ significantly from one another. In order to identify a reliable speaker representation within an audio signal, it is important that the goal be one which can serve in this capacity
In order to reduce FA rates, we used a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) approach. The initial version of our speaker transform was trained on 800 production users with more than 100 utterances each and produced 150-dimensional vector resulting in significant reductions when compared against control baselines.
The team at Custom Vectors took their already powerful deep neural networks and improved them by using explicit enrollment data, enhancing the front-end speech vector with enhanced representations specific to this task; they also made use of DNNs - non linear discriminative technique for classification which is better able to deal with unknown signals. In order to increase the accuracy of our speech recognition system, we introduced a new technique that uses 26 MFCCs instead of just 13. The first 11 HMM states effectively model silence so they were removed from consideration in this case study as well as an increasing amount research has shown higher order cepstral coefficients can capture more speaker-specific information for better identification algorithms with less training data required per frame or utterance .
The team trained an artificial intelligence bot to mimic the speech patterns and vocalizations of humans. The AI was fed 442 dimensions in order for it can understand our language, but this process took 16000 hours worth of data from users who spoke over 150 sentences each! Their network architecture consists 100 neurons hidden beneath a sigmoid activation with no feedback loop before hitting another one hundred nodes at linear levels which serve as output connections after processing all input information through them.
The network is trained using the speech vector as an input and corresponding 1-hot vectors for each speaker. After DNN has been trained, last layer (softmax) is removed to create output that corresponds only with one person's voice in this example; but it could also be used if needed on multiple speakers or audio clips at once! This process will become clear when we look at Figure 2.
In our hyperparameter optimization experiments, we found that a network architecture of four 256-neuron layers with sigmoid activations (i.e., 4x256S) followed by the 100-layer linear augmented performed best. We compensated for the additional memory required to accommodate these larger networks' increase in number of parameters by applying 8 bit quantization on weights at each stage; resulting in more efficient learning algorithms which can stabilize faster due to reduced error propagation through dimensions not being optimized yet
FR and IA rates are not the only metrics that summarize how well a speech recognition system performs. A single equal error rate (EER) value can also be calculated; this is when FR equals IA, which means no errors were made in transcription or understanding of what was said during test runs through all data sets recorded by microphones placed around speakers' voices during an event like conference call. The energy efficiency ratio, or EER for short is a good indicator of overall performance because it takes into account both desired operating points which are difficult to determine without extensive testing and also considers the prior probability that one will be dealing with an imposter or false target.
Speech recognition is getting much better, but it's still not perfect. Anecdotal evidence suggests that in large rooms with lots of echoes speech can be difficult for the machine to hear and understand; similarly cars often cause severe interference when driving around town. On windy days our phones sometimes lose reception altogether! One of our current research endeavors is focused on understanding and quantifying the degradation in these difficult conditions, when an incoming test utterance's environment does not match up with existing speaker profiles. In our subsequent work, we demonstrate success by using multi-style training. When a subset of the data is augmented with different types noise and reverberation this allows for improved prediction accuracy on hidden units that process sound waves as they bounce around within an environment.
The "Hey Siri" feature is a way to interact with your phone without having to take off the hands-free headset. The speech recognition portion only listens for trigger words such as " Hey Siri," but you can also use text independent speaker recognition which will allow you query things like weather forecast or other news updates just by asking out loud!
We have found that the "Hey Siri" utterance is a good way of isolating speaker information from variable-length audio sequences containing both text dependent and independent speech. Our results show significant improvements in performance when using this complete sentence for recognition purposes which has been one among many other techniques studied by us.
This finding points out an interesting point about how Artificial Intelligence can be used as well outside its intended function - taking parts away here or adding extra bits there might make things better but what if you could instead take everything? This would lead towards true comprehension because artificial systems don't only focus on specific tasks but rather think more practically ensuring maximum utility with every input.


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HomeNews VolkerRail appoints new director of Specialist Businesses.
VolkerRail appoints new director of Specialist Businesses.
VolkerRail is pleased to announce the appointment of Niall McCreanor as its new director of specialist businesses.
Niall joined the company on Monday 3 February, taking over the role from Ken Robinson who is retiring after a decade with the business and who has developed our signalling, power, p-way, and plant divisions to become the industry-leading specialist providers that they are today.
Niall joins VolkerRail from TSP Projects. Niall has over 25 years' experience in the sector, contracting on a variety of civil engineering schemes, including the Great Eastern Resignalling scheme, Kings Cross Station redevelopment, Reading Station Area redevelopment and the East Coast Main Line Power Supply Upgrade project – for which VolkerRail is one of the main alliance partners.
Niall McCreanor, director of specialist businesses, said: "I'm delighted to join VolkerRail, a company which I have always admired for its commitment to safety, quality in delivery, and for building a genuine collaborative culture with partners and clients. I look forward to connecting with colleagues from across the business, and to build on Ken's great work."
Steve Cocliff, managing director at VolkerRail, said: "I'm pleased to welcome Niall to the team. His commitment and knowledge have already been a benefit to company, through his TSP Projects leadership roles within our Rail Electrification alliance and our TransPennine Route Upgrade – East of Leeds alliance.
"The wider senior management team and I look forward to working with Niall and seeing him further enhance the strength and market position of our Specialist Businesses division."
VolkerRail appoints new professional head of signalling
VolkerRail is pleased to announce the appointment of Kevin Robertshaw as its new professional head of signalling.


Sunnen, P.; Arend, B.; Maquil, V. "There Was No Green Tick": Discovering the Functions of a Widget in a Joint Problem-Solving Activity and the Consequences for the Participants' Discovering Process. Multimodal Technologies Interact. 2018, 2, 76.
Sunnen P, Arend B, Maquil V. "There Was No Green Tick": Discovering the Functions of a Widget in a Joint Problem-Solving Activity and the Consequences for the Participants' Discovering Process. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 2018; 2(4):76.
Sunnen, Patrick; Arend, Béatrice; Maquil, Valérie. 2018. ""There Was No Green Tick": Discovering the Functions of a Widget in a Joint Problem-Solving Activity and the Consequences for the Participants' Discovering Process." Multimodal Technologies Interact. 2, no. 4: 76.


Telling great stories is an effective way to connect the things we do in the social profit sector with the reason we exist as organizations. Great stories celebrate our value and illuminate our impact. Great stories get shared and repeated, in a way that is highly social and absolutely critical….
Each year, we gather together all the charitable agencies who either receive funds from the United Way or hope to in the future. The Agency Development Forum and Info Session is scheduled for Thursday, August 27th from 2 pm to 7:30 pm at the Golden Years Society on Main Street….


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"Tedha hai par mera hai"- Kurkure, the product launched in 1999 and since then transformed the way of Indian snacks. Named after the Hindi word for "crunchy", Kurkure is the flagship of Frito Lay's Indian Division.The snack comes in 4 flavors.They are Masala Munch (orange pack), Green Chutney Rajasthani Style (light green pack), ChilliChatka (dark green pack) and Tamatar Hyderabadi Style (brown pack). There are two new flavors too. One is the Kurkure Xtreme Electric Nimbu and the other is Kurkure Xtreme Risky Chilli. Now let us have a look at the kurkure production process by PepsiCo.
The extrusion process is the base for Kurkure production process. The fully automatic production process begins with the procurement of raw material; Cornmeal, Grammeal, and spice mix masala seasonings. The procurement of raw material depends on the quality parameters set by PepsiCo Global Standard for Safety and Quality. In addition to this, the sample goes through the quality control lab and then the process starts. Production begins by blending meal i.e. rice, corn, and gram at a certain ratio with an addition of water.
Extrusion of the blended meal begins by passing through an apparatus called Extruder. In the extruder, the raw materials are pressed through a die using high-pressure build-up by the screw and high temperature created by shear between sleeve and screw. The pressure drop at the die causes the snack to expand and the face cutters set the desired snack length and mass.
After extrusion, the frying process begins in fryer using edible oil for extra crispness and for shelf-life. Further Spice mix seasonings sprinkled throughout the batch through seasoning tumbler. Now the product is ready for packaging. In addition to this, metal detector scans the final product to look for foreign particles.
In a survey done by Economic Times, the brand has been voted as the most trusted brand in food products category in India for the past five years since 2010.
This imperfect shaped snack gives the perfect taste to the consumers.


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Mystikal Facing Life In Prison After First-Degree Rape Indictment
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Mystikal may spend the rest of his life behind bars if convicted on yet another sex crime charge.
The New Orleans-born rapper was indicted Wednesday (September 7) on a first-degree rape charge stemming from an alleged attack at his home on July 30. If convicted at trial, he'll face a mandatory life sentence.
According to The Advocate, an Ascension Parish grand jury handed back the rape charge and nine other criminal charges against Mystikal (real name Michael Lawrence Tyler).
Per two indictments, he faces additional charges including single counts of simple criminal damage to property, false imprisonment, domestic abuse battery by strangulation, simple robbery, possession of heroin, illegal possession of Xanax, possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
RELATED: Mystikal Arrested On First-Degree Rape Charges
The rapper's lawyer, Joel Pearce, spoke after the indictment was handed down.
"It's an indictment," Peace said. "It means nothing. We look forward to our day in court."
Mystikal is currently being held at Ascension Parish Prison without bail. Pearce is the same attorney who represented him in a 2017 rape accusation for which he spent 18 months in jail. Prosecutors ultimately dropped the charges against him. Pearce has been seeking a hearing on the possibility of bail for the rapper but one hasn't been set yet.
Tyler was arrested on July 30 after authorities accused him of attacking the woman in his home in a violent encounter the night before. During the alleged assault, he took her car keys, held her against her will, raped and strangled her and at one point, prayed with her to remove her "bad spirits."
The drug charges were handed down after police discovered the items in his home and from additional claims by the victim who said she'd seen a white crystalline substance in the home.
Mystikal is a lifetime registered sex offender after being convicted of sexual assault and extortion of his hairdresser in 2003.
Mystikal Facing Life In Prison After First-Degree Rape Indictment was originally published on hot1009.com


We Drink Your Milkshake!: Charming Potato Busts a Move in The 22 JUMP STREET Trailer!
I am stoked. Nick Offerman's dialogue at the beginning of this trailer is what will make this sequel (hopefully) so great. Lord and Miller get it. They understand that poking fun at yourself is one of the easiest ways to win over an audience. Also, Charming Potato dances, which already makes it a great film in my book.
22 JUMP STREET will be released June 12, 2014, is directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, and Jillian Miller.


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Lady Phoenix Ready to Rebound
The challenging game that gave the Lady Phoenixes a goal for the season.
The Rock Ridge girls' varsity team gets hyped up before a tense game.
Kate Anarfi, Web Manager
On Jan. 15, the Rock Ridge varsity girls' basketball team went head-to-head against the formidable Freedom Lady Eagles, their toughest competition yet. During last year's season, the Lady Eagles won the state 5A competition.
Rock Ridge was leading throughout the majority of the first quarter, but by the end, Freedom was up 24-19. Going against the fifth-ranked team in the state was far from easy. "I was kind of scared, but I knew that I would not let it get to me," said junior Kayla Davis.
Rock Ridge did not score after the first quarter. "As a team, we need to stay calm and collected during the game and not let our emotions get the best of us," said sophomore Haley Priftis.
The girls fell to Freedom, ending with a final score of 61-19. Following the loss, Coach Joshua Pierce tweeted, "When you're learning, it's little steps for you to build on." Coach Pierce congratulated the team for their hard work during such an intense game.
On Jan. 25, the Lady Phoenix will play Broad Run. "My personal goal is to work on communication. During out game against freedom, our communication wasn't the strongest," Davis said. "We have developed a lot over the past two years,I know we can continue to grow as a team."
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For the first time, we have inserted tiny compartments from cyanobacteria - commonly known as blue-green algae - into crop plants that form part of a system that could lead to a 60 per cent increase in plant growth and yield.
"For the first time, we have inserted tiny compartments from cyanobacteria - commonly known as blue-green algae - into crop plants that form part of a system that could lead to a 60 per cent increase in plant growth and yield," said Dr Ben Long from the ANU Research School of Biology whose work has been funded by the international Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) consortium.
"We need every creative effort to improve crop yields if we want to be able to feed the growing global population and these options take time, so we need to do it now," said Professor Price, who is a Chief Investigator with the RIPE consortium and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis.


Bed bugs are on the increase. According to a study, bed bug infestations have risen around 80 percent since the years 2000. However, when it comes to the truth about bed bugs, there are both facts and fiction. Some people are not really aware of the facts associated with the bed bugs and their habits.


I have always believed that food is one of life's simplest and most enjoyable pleasures. I am a big fan of trying new flavours and cuisines and have never shied away from sugary treats.
Growing up, sweet things were my weakness. I would devour a whole packet of chocolate biscuits whilst studying, and when I was at uni, I enjoyed a medium McFeast meal with a vanilla coke three or so times a week. When I started working, my desk drawer housed a generous selection of chocolates and confectionery to get me through the day. How I have never had a weight problem, I will never know.
In more recent times, I still love food (and probably fill up my plate more than I should) but I am becoming more aware of what's good for me and what's not. After having kids, my body shape has changed and sweet snacks didn't help with the weight I gained from pregnancy. I realise I will never have the body I had when I was 19 but I don't want that anyway. What I do want is to look and feel healthy and have the energy to get through my busy days. I can tell you that consuming too much sugar every day did not make me look or feel good at all.
Earlier this year, I started writing regularly with a new friend I met at a writing workshop. Sally is vegan and we would work at a cafe which served vegan and raw foods including green juices and smoothies. I respect Sally's food choices and have been lucky enough to try some amazing meals she has made which has opened my eyes to some new healthy food options. Sally has never lectured me on what I should or shouldn't eat or pushed her food preferences onto me and I really like her for that.
When I met Sally, I was quite new to this kind of food and had never had a green smoothie before. At our first writing session, Sally ordered a green smoothie and when I went up to the counter to order myself something, I saw that it was mostly fruit so I thought I would give it a try. The smoothie was surprisingly yum and I was hooked. From that day on, I started making my own green smoothies at home in my Thermomix.
My first green smoothie ever!
One major issue of eating so much processed sugar is that you crave it constantly and I knew I needed to do something about this once and for all. I had read a lot about juice cleanses but never thought I would have the determination or the will power to actually go through with it. About a month ago, I decided I'd had enough of being like this and it was time to have a go at a juice cleanse. I had been visiting the Pure Glow Cleanse website for months and later that day, without hesitation, booked myself in for a Radiance Reset 3-day cleanse.
The following Monday night, the 18 juices (6 per day) were delivered to me and I felt quite excited and proud that I was actually doing this. Me! The meat-eating, sugar-loving me who had only tried my first green smoothie earlier this year.
So here's how the 3-days went.
I woke and waited til my usual breakfast time to have my first juice – the Sunrise Elixir which was made up of water, lemon, cucumber and aloe vera. Needless to say I was STARVING! I started panicking and whinged and complained to everyone I spoke to that morning that I had made a dreadful mistake and couldn't go on!
The next juice was a bit more filling but my head started to feel really fuzzy and this continued throughout the day. I also found myself going to the toilet every half an hour or so which was a bit of a pain because I was out for much of the day.
I again felt like I couldn't go on when I started drinking the last juice of the day – the Chai Vanilla Dream. Apparently, this one gets rave reviews but it definitely wasn't my favourite and I think that's because I am not a fan of nut milk.
I cooked spaghetti bolognaise for my family that night and made extra so they could have leftovers the following night. Cooking that meal was hard but I managed to find the will-power and focused on my juices.
At the end of day 1, I was so tired and went to bed early.
I enjoyed the Sunrise Elixir a lot more on the second day. In fact, all the juices were rather pleasant and I found day 2 to be much easier. Even the Chai Vanilla Dream was easier to get through.
The juices and smoothies were not sweet which was a massive change to what I am used to but strangely, this didn't bother me and I really enjoyed them. My favourite juice was the Good Karma which was probably the most sweet of all as it was made with carrot, grapefruit, green apple, ginger, turmeric and lemon.
The fuzzy feeling I had experienced on day 1 had gone but I did still feel a little hungry at times. I was also a bit cranky and short-tempered, especially towards the end of the day. I think my husband was happy when I went to bed early again that night.
On the third day, my parents cooked bacon and eggs for breakfast for themselves and my daughter Emma while I drank my Glowing Greens juice. The smell of the delicious bacon did not bother me because by this time, I was totally enjoying my juice cleanse experience. It did feel a bit weird not to chew anything for 3 days but I could feel my body was loving this.
I felt so proud of myself when I finished my last juice. I went to bed early again that night feeling so pleased that I had made it.
I didn't lose much weight after my cleanse but that wasn't my intention. My stomach, however, was flatter and my skin was clear and I felt so good all over. I slept really well over those three days and my insides felt so clean.
For the next week or so, I found it really easy to make good food choices and to watch my portion sizes. I missed and craved the Pure Glow Cleanse juices for many days after.
It's been 3 weeks since I finished my 3-day juice cleanse and since then, I have had a few days of not eating that well but I can truly say my sugar cravings have subsided significantly and I have further improved my eating habits.
I will definitely do another juice cleanse with Pure Glow Cleanse in the new year when my girls go back to school. Next time, I will make sure I don't have to cook for my family and I will prepare myself better by cutting out sugar completely for at least a few days beforehand and increase my water intake.
There are so many people out there who have made significant lifestyle choices when it comes to healthy eating and they are very passionate about their choices. This is NOT ME. I will never become vegan or eat only raw food. I will still eat meat, cupcakes, chocolate, cheezels and all those other yummy bad things I have always enjoyed. Just not everyday.
What I am striving to become is a person of moderation and I am achieving this by introducing more healthy food options into my diet and reducing the quantity of unhealthy treats I consume. Since my juice cleanse, I have been going a day or two without eating chocolate each week and when I do eat it, I only have a small portion and that feels like enough.
If, like me, you are wanting to kick-start better eating habits, I highly recommend you give a juice cleanse a try. If 3 days sounds too much, Pure Glow Cleanse also have a 1 day cleanse to ease yourself into it. They deliver their juices across the Perth metro area so it's so simple to get started.
I am sure you won't regret it!
I just had to go back and read this again, knowing you've just completed another cleanse. Great insights into juice cleansing.


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Air Ops
Aerial Missing Person Searches
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Our Airplane and Air Crew are available for AERIAL MISSING PERSON SEARCHES for your lost love-one whether they are lost in the woods, the snow, in the country or the city.
DO NOT fall for the false comfort of using a Drone. Drones are the latest toys and are fun, but NOT as useful or efficient as human eyes looking directly at the ground with high powered gyro stabilized optics.
Everyone is so caught up with using the "latest technology" that successes are less frequent now. But they pat themselves on the back about how they used a drone and it makes them feel "state-of-the-art". DRONES ARE A TOY. AN AIRPLANE IS A TOOL.
Advantages of using an airplane in an aerial search:
We can stay aloft for hours
Human eyes looking directly at the ground instead of a drone operator looking at a screen
Instant two-way radio communications with the search command post
Drones must stay in view of the operator at all times
Drones cannot fly within five miles of an airport or other restricted areas.
Our AIRPLANE & CREW are available to search for missing persons but unfortunately no one thinks to utilize this important resource until it is too late.
Here are some examples of loved ones located by real airplanes and helicopters:
"The rescue of hiker Amanda Eller in Hawaii. "This is where we rescued Amanda & the three guys that found her from the private helicopter. The helicopter which YOU bought. Your donations on Go Fund Me paid for the helicopter that spotted Amanda and got her home!! It takes a village."
"The body of Raffaella M. Stroik was spotted floating in Mark Twain Lake by a PRIVATE PLANE PILOT [emphasis added] Wednesday morning, south of the Mark Twain Lake State Park Highway 107 boat ramp in rural Monroe County." Read the Article
"Helicopters can't stay aloft as long as an airplane (and burn a lot more fuel) and drones are very limited in their use and capabilities (they are trendy but not really practical). And law enforcement aircraft are susceptible to being called away to greater emergencies and other law enforcement needs. OUR airplane once called for your search is YOUR airplane and is dedicated to your missing person case. We will fly many more hours looking for your family member than law enforcement can. BUT DON'T WAIT!"
Here are some examples of opportunities lost because a real airplane was not used:
We offered our airplane and crew for the Sherri Papini search but it was turned down; she was found weeks later off I-5 near Woodland. We offered our plane for a search of missing Bay Area man Ed Cavanaugh in El Dorado County and they turned it down; he was found dead on a trail near a cabin days later. We offered our airplane for the search of the owner of the Sammy Hagar restaurant in Roseville but were turned down; he was found dead on the coast weeks later. We offered our plane for the search of veteran Stanley Norman but the offer was declined. The missing person's vehicle in the Alycia Yeoman case in Sutter County was located in Live Oak days after she disappeared in a field near a levee by a passerby and her body in the river over a month later. We may have been able to locate the truck quicker and quicker is what counts to find your family member alive.
We use gyro stabilized optics, wing mounted video cameras and UHF radios with mountain-top repeaters and tactical channels (car-to-car) to communicate with a command post on the ground or our own ground units and can remain aloft for hours at a time and cover great distances. And we won't get called away from your search. Your search is our search.
Cost: Yes the "free" aircraft (law enforcement) are great for the initial search BUT they will very soon depart for other missions. We will stay and keep searching. And remember that in many cases the family gets a bill later from law enforcement or fire for the costs of their search per the Calif Government Code which allows Counties and other local jurisdictions to bill the families for emergency response, search and rescue, etc if it was determined that the search was a result of "wanton and reckless misconduct in disregard for his or her safety." And it doesn't take much for the Agencies to say your missing person acted that way; just be on a dangerous trail, or an out-of-bounds ski area, or do anything stupid that gets them lost and that definition will be satisfied so the County can send you a bill. So while all the dedicated search professionals are searching for your family member, there is someone behind the scenes counting every penny so they can bill you later. So the "free" aircraft may not be so "free" after-all. Our aircraft and crew can be paid for with funds raised by the family either privately or on a GoFundMe page or similar and there will be no surprises later.
And unfortunately less than scrupulous Private Investigators or other so called "abduction experts" attach themselves to these missing persons cases for the publicity and often block our efforts to offer real help which only does the family a disservice.
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Q: login to site and download a file? I have implanted a login code to a site  , after that I want to download a file from a server .
    HttpWebRequest http = WebRequest.Create(@"http://www.website.com") as HttpWebRequest;
    //    http.Connection = "Keep-alive"; //uncertain
    http.Method = "POST";
    http.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
    string postData = "FormNameForUserId=" + @"username" + "&FormNameForPassword=" + "pass";
    byte[] dataBytes = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
    http.ContentLength = dataBytes.Length;
    using (Stream postStream = http.GetRequestStream())
    {
        postStream.Write(dataBytes, 0, dataBytes.Length);
    }
    HttpWebResponse httpResponse = http.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
    // Probably want to inspect the http.Headers here first
    http = WebRequest.Create(@"http://www.codeproject.com") as HttpWebRequest;
    http.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
    http.CookieContainer.Add(httpResponse.Cookies);
    HttpWebResponse httpResponse2 = http.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;

How can I find out I have loged in correctly , also What should I do after login to download a file ?

A: You have two issues

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*Login

*Download File

Did you ever Google this?

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*Login

*Download File | Download File | Download File
Note: You said you already implemented a login page ... the easiest part is set a session variable after the login is done and for every page recheck that variable.
This is the old way, there is plenty more we can do, but form your questions, please go with this:
if( txtUsername.Text == "user" && txtPassword.Text == "pwd" ) {
    // Login correct
    Session["Login-User"] = txtUsername.Text;
}
else {
    // Login not correct, show error message and clear session
    Session["Login-User"] = "";
}

then in any page, at the beginning (best placed in Page_Init method)
If( Session["Login-user"] != null && Session["Login-user"].ToString().Length > 0 ) {
    // Login OK
}
else {
    // Login Not OK, redirect
    Response.Redirect("~/Login.aspx");
}

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Q: No titlebar and no scrollbars in a gtk3 app in Plasma desktop I'm using a GTK3 app called Tilix. It's a terminal app.
I have 2 computers with KDE Neon based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
In one of them, Tilix works ok. In the other one, no title bars and no scrollbars are painted. It is like they were transparent.
Investigating a little, I've seen it uses the gtk3 theme called Breeze. No theme customization.
I've tried to compare both computers, and to reinstall Tilix. How can I solve this? I think there must be some theme misconfiguration.


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From the Archives I: 1972
A 20-minute French programme on Scientology from 1972 includes interviews with some key figures from the movement. Can you help name some of the other members interviewed?
Here's a little gem that turned up during a rummage around the website of France's broadcasting archive, l'Institut national de l'audiovisuel.
This is an extract from a 20-minute report on Scientology, broadcast in January 1972. It was filmed mainly at Saint Hill, East Grinstead, southern England – Hubbard's base in the 1960s until the authorities made it clear he had outstayed his welcome.
It's a fascinating little time capsule, featuring at least two senior figures from the movement at that time. But who were the others? If you can brave the best-forgotten hair styles and fashions, perhaps some of you can help put some names to the faces.
In this opening segment we get six people introducing themselves, some of whom we don't see any more of in the full report.
Pause and savour the title, as it unrolls across the screen 34 seconds in: "La Scientologie", it says, in the typographical equivalent of flare jeans.
The scene now is a Scientology church service – they have those all the time, right? – featuring a self-conscious looking choir singing what sounds like a tailor-made hymm for Scientology.
Listen hear all you beings near and far,
There's a way you can change the way you are,
You can be free, free just like me,
I found the road that will reach the stars...
Does anyone know if this was one of Hubbard's efforts?
A minister walks to the pulpit and begins reciting the Creed of the Church of Scientology. As the clip ends, he's telling us how all men are created equal and that the spirit can be saved.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of what I've heard from former members suggests that this kind of service was for show, to impress outsiders with Scientology's religious credentials.
I was curious to know who the others were, so I ran a short preview of this piece over at Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker earlier and appealed to them to fill in the blanks. They delivered, as I knew they would.
Before I went to the Bunker, of the six people who introduce themselves at the beginning I had only identified David Gaiman, one of Hubbard's most capable lieutenants, who died in 2009. You can find an official tribute to him here.
So who are the others? Here are the names the Bunker came up with: unless otherwise specified, I had at least two credible sources. UPDATE: I've been able to add some more names after some emails from contacts and a very helpful exchange at the Ex-Scientologist Message Board (ESMB). This is the line-up we now have:
The spokesman for Scientology is David Gaiman;
The Commanding Officer is John Aczel;
A communicator: blonde woman, couldn't catch the accent; sources at ESMB think this might be Eva (Eva?) Isaacson/Marinowicz/Ronnqvist.
Commanding officer of the college is Malcolm Nieman;
Deputy for Policy Knowledge: I think the consensus is now that this is Donat Perbohner, but if you don't agree have a look at the debate over at ESMB;
The Registrar is Heidi Keeley (now Vos).
We have also made progress identifying the choir, though there is still some uncertainty about the rather uncharismatic Scottish minister.1
Here's a screen shot of that Scottish minister (Tony Ortega has another at his site). A number of people have suggested that this is Ian Logan (or perhaps Iain, given he was Scottish).
For the choir, one source suggested, left to right: Lynn Collins, Doris Brown Annie Watts, Catherine Layton (Barton) and Marion Barton. Collins, Brown and Marion Barton have been named by at least one other source, Barton by her daughter, which I think settles it. (The video above gives you close-ups of them all.)
David Gaiman pops up a little later in the programme, doing a decent job of presenting Scientology as a reasonable way of life. He was rather good at that – better, certainly, than some of his more excitable successors.
"He was a delightful man," one source told me. "He was what you would call a real mensch. He always tried to do the right thing, whatever the difficulties."
In the early 1980s, John Aczel was one of the victims of the purge carried out by Miscavige. According to several sources he was victim of one of the notorious "spitting orders" issued by Hubbard, which is to say at least one senior executive spit in Aczel's face in compliance with a written order from Hubbard. Several sources tell me they saw the order: others witnessed Aczel's humiliation.
This is how one former colleague, Joe Howard, described Aczel during a discussion a few years ago over at Marty Rathbun's blog:
John Aczel was the mildest mannered person I ever met in the S.O. [Sea Org]. English, educated at Cambridge. His passion was poetry. He loved cats. Kind of eccentric but very intelligent and a very, very sweet person. I considered him a very good friend... I still consider [him] a friend. One of the many still in the S.O. that I miss.
Scroll down that discussion and you'll find more than one person agreeing with that assessment. Among them is Chuck Beatty, who posts a picture of Aczel, apparently taken in 2008: so far as anyone knows, he is still in Scientology.
The full report also features an interview with another major player from that period: Jane Kember.
Kember, who is is described as the Commander in Chief, would I think at that time already have been the most senior figure in the Guardians Office after Mary Sue Hubbard and the Commodore himself.
Jane Kember
"Ron Hubbard is the greatest man on this planet," she tells the interviewer. "There is no doubt in my mind of that." Much good her devotion did her when the U.S. Courts went after them for wholesale espionage a few years later.
She has been showing up on Scientology Service Completion announcements (in their own publications, as recently as 2011).
"She is a powerful personality," Terril Park writes over at ESMB. "I recall OTs trembling at rebutting her comments," he adds. (OTs are Scientologists doing the advanced levels, members who are themselves meant to be powerful personalities.)
Here she is during the interview: is it me, or has she adopted a characterisically Hubbardian pose (which he himself borrowed from Crowley)?
Patrick Deluz (sp?)
As you might expect, the team interviewed a number of French-speakers among the followers. This young man, described as a supervisor, talks about the joie de vivre and the sense of power Scientology has given him.
"I have found a practical philosophy that gives me and gives my friends, desirable changes in life," he says. One source over at ESMB thinks this might be Patric Deluz (sp?).
This woman, another Francophone, tells the interview how happy she is, adding: "The whole world would be happier if everyone was a Scientologist."
"And will that happen, one day?" asks the interviewer.
"Yes," she answers, without hesitation.
The documentary films standard Scientology practice, such as the clay demo exercises that are supposed to help you learn things by expressing them in a tangible manner through clay models.
There is also an extended sequence showing one of the early Training Routines, where two students try to stare at each other without flinching. "To learn to control oneself but also to control other people, is one of the basic exercises," says the commentary. Someone's done their homework.
Another French member tells how she was recruited in Australia eight years earlier (which would make it around 1964) She explains how she had left France in 63 and met a Scientologist in the house where she was staying. She asked about his beliefs, he gave her a book and everything followed from there.
Asked why she had chosen Scientology and not another system, her response echoes the kind of thing Hubbard says in his lectures and writings. It was something she could observe, understand and apply, she explains.
"I didn't want to – like the intellectuals – learn something and sit on the divan to impress the neighbours. I wanted to really use what I learned in Scientology, you see."
Describing the benefits of being Clear and then OT II – well into the advanced levels of Scientology training – she says: "I am very sure of myself now, I had much more certainty than I had before, and my ability to learn work and to perform – " she clicks her fingers " – is very fast."
But her most important ability is to be able to love, she says: she really know what love is. By now, the camera has gradually pulled away from its initial close-up of her in front of a window to show her standing beside a giant photograph of Hubbard.
She humours the interviewer with a few scraps in response to questions about past lives, but it is clear she thinks he is trying to make her look foolish.
"Do you believe you are immortal?" the interviewer asks. "I don't believe," she replies: "I know."
Cut to a ceremony where an official is presenting an ecstatic student – Ina Weiss? – with her certificate for having qualified from the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course as a Hubbard Senior Scientologist.
Ina Weiss?
The venue looks a little like a village hall with a podium covered with a dark green-and-gold Scientology symbol. (According to "Techie", over at the bunker, this is the chapel at Saint Hill, "...site of the famous Clearing Course films and and the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course." He reckons it held about 60 people.)
The mistress of ceremonies struggles to generate the kind of charisma and humour that came so easily to Hubbard. The consensus over at ESMB is that this is Sheila Massey-Hicks, from South Africa. (And a trawl back through the message board's archives suggests that she was not universally loved.)
Sheila Massey-Hicks
The scene switches to another interior, another service, this time on board the Athena. The team interviews the vessels captain, identified only as Captain Spence, but this would probably be Mitch Spence.
He pops up in the accounts of one or two former members and according to Travers Harris, who posts as "Lexmark", over at the Ex-Scientologist Message Board, he is now dead.
His name appears on this Scientology document, which includes a long list of people declared suppressive. (He's at the bottom of page 21 – and it's a two-column list that runs for nearly 35 pages. No doubt it's got a lot longer since then.)2
Mitch Spence
Spence tells the interviewer that he had spent four years in the United States navy (and perhaps also the Merchant navy – it's hard to catch because of the French voiceover). Certainly he looks the part, and of all those interviewed he comes across as the most natural.
The report does offer a brief interview with Cyril Vosper, one of the few former members to speak out in those day. His exposé, The Mindbenders, had been published a year earlier, in 19713
He explains how he was kicked out of the movement after 14 years because he no longer believed in the system. Scientology has become a fascist organisation obsessed with power and control over people, he tells the interviewer.
The piece closes with Kember giving a sermon and more choir girls singing – exactly the kind of religious service that many ex-members say were staged strictly for visiting journalists and other investigators.
"The Scientologists have been in France for three years," says the voiceover.4
This programme played on Fr3, one of France's state channels, on its Le troisième oeil slot (The Third Eye). It went out on January 28, 1972.
The commentary is limited, though they do mention that Hubbard is now persona non grata in Britain and that the movement has suffered a string of convictions around the world. Mainly though, the film-makers sit back and let the Scientologists say their piece.
This rather softly-softly approach – giving their interview subjects enough rope, so to speak – is quite effective. Light years away, certainly, from some of the more aggressive investigations of recent years.5
The programme was directed by André Weinfeld, a French-born writer and director. As he explains on his website, from the mid-1960s he made dozens of programmes for French television, covering the music scene in the Paris into the 1970s.
Along the way, he also worked as a war correspondent and made a detour into advertising at McCann Erickson. Later, he covered the music scene in the States, rubbing shoulders with the legends of that era, everyone from Hendrix and Joplin to the Stones and The Who.
And then there was the 10 years married to Raquel Welch – so tough all round really.
If you want to see the full 20-minute programme on Scientology – in French, no sub-titles – you can download it from the INA archives here. It will only cost you two euros.
1 When I hear his delivery I can't help but think of Rikki Fulton's Rev I M Jolly.
2 The document, Flag Executive Directive 2830, is dated September 10, 1990. But since it is an updated list, Spence may well have been declared much earlier. Any details gratefully received.
3 Atack acknowledges Vosper's help in the introduction to his A Piece of Blue Sky.
4 In fact they claim to have been in France as far back as the 1950s, but the reference in the documentary may be to the opening of their first public office – I'll try and get back to you on that.
5 This edition of Le Troisième Oeil went out of FR3 on January 28, 1972. It features interviews with senior Scientology figures from that period, including Neil Gaiman and Jane Kember. "Ron Hubbard is the greatest man on this planet. There is no doubt in my mind of that," Kember tells the interviewer.
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The meaning of this words | Fab Forum
HomeFab ForumAll together nowThe meaning of this words
The meaning of this words
I want to know the meaning of you've really got a hold on me.
Is it an idiom in English ?
I think it means you left me waiting .
Please illustrate me.
...They've forgotten all about God
He's the only reason we exist...
It means someone is hooked on someone, like a tight grip emotionally.
In You Really Got A Hold On Me the singer wants to walk "i want to leave you, dont want to stay here, dont want to spend another day here" but cant "i want to split now, i just cant quit now" because he loves her, even tho he doesnt really like her.
The writer was an American called Smokey Robinson who was in a band called The Miracles before going solo. John and the other 3 Beatles were massives fans of their work. All Ive Got To Do, another song on With The Beatles , was a nod of appreciation to Smokey.
Thank you;
I knew about Smokey Robinson , and I love his music.
I only couldn't understand the meaning of those word beside each other , But now I learnt.
I want to know the meaning of this part of Get Back Lyrics :
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can
Ben Ramon
"She's got it coming" means that something's going to happen to her, probably something bad, or she's going to learn her lesson.
"She gets it" in the context of the next line doesn't really explain what it means in any way.
SHUT UP - Paulie's talkin'
Thank You , It was usefull.
I always thought "She gets it while she can" was a reference to sex.
Would agree with you Joe. During the Get Back sessions as they are running thru an early take of Get Back Paul sings "all the girls around say she's got it coming, but she gets it while she can" and John gives out a very knowing laugh "hey, hey, hey, hey".
I've always thought the bit about Loretta Martin means that she was a woman who looked like a man and although she told all the women"look, I'm really a girl", they kept coming on to her and eventually she just gave up… to them. I don't know if that's what it's "really" about, probably not
But the last verse "You mother's waiting for you wearing high-heel shoes and low neck sweater"… What is that supposed to mean? I bet Paul had fun writing these lyrics
What means Roll Over Beethoven (Or somebody),
Its meaning is Being above Beethoven.
The song is saying that Beethoven and classical musical was old and it was time to be replaced, move out of the way for new music – rhythm and blues.
Roll over is another way of saving move out of the way.
Von Bontee
A Hole In The Road
Actually, I like to think Chuck Berry was telling Beethoven to literally roll over (in his grave) and tell Tchaikovsky about this exciting new music called "rock and roll"! It's a very clever and amusing inversion of the idea of Serious Music fans despairing that classic composers like Beethoven would "roll over in their grave" if they knew what young people were listening to these days.
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Von Bontee said
Actually, I think Chuck Berry was telling Beethoven to literally roll over (in his grave) and tell Tchaikovsky about this exciting new music called "rock and roll"! It's a very clever and amusing inversion of the idea of Serious Music fans despairing that classic composers like Beethoven would "roll over in their grave" if they knew what young people were listening to these days.
That´s another way of looking at it. I had never thought of it like that before!
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Von – that's an interesting interpretation. I never thought of it like that. As for that Super Simple Songs vid, I've had to watch that literally dozens of times with my boy. Is there no escape???
Since I was searching around for threads that mention interpretations of songs, I came across this one.
@Von Bontee has this in a post above about the meaning of Roll Over Beethoven
…classic composers like Beethoven would "roll over in their grave" if they knew what young people were listening to these days.
That's the way I've seen it. I like his interpretation also. See post 12.
@Joe, are you going to share the "roll over"video with your daughter one day…or just let it quietly pass?
@Ahhh Girl Hopefully I can let it quietly pass. I'd imagine she'll be more exposed to the stuff Ted is watching (currently Frozen – "Let it go, let it go!").
Why is that video missing out lines from the song? What happened to
"so they all rolled over and one fell out and banded his head and gave a shout,
Please remember to tie a knot in your pyjamas,
Single beds are only meant for,
One, Two, Three. . . "
…ok, Ludwig would definitely have been a rocknroll fan. He was rocking the early 19th century!
I've been discovering little Beatles-Beethoven parallels recently. Like, the way in the 5th Symphony and the "Appassionata Sonata", the way the third movement of each segues directly into the fourth, just like SPLHCB reprise into ADITL. Or the way the Finale of the 9th self-consciously quotes the previous movements, just like the "You Never Give Me Your Money " melody returning in "Carry That Weight ". Also LVB was always kept up with the arts/revolutionary politics/technology, specifically the technological development of the hammerklavier – probly would've loved to have lived to the age of the Moog. And advances in hearing-aid technology. Plus he could go see "Help !" and maybe have a rare belly laugh or two. (Def. could've used one, poor bugger.)
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Which just goes to show that Chuck Berry didn't bother to learn anything about LuddyV.
…Anyway, Ringo's drums have his name on them!
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Major upgrades coming to Waterbury branch of Metro-North's New Haven Line
Passage of the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will mean at least $30 billion for rail upgrades throughout the northeast corridor.
Author: Tony Terzi
Published: 7:54 PM EST November 8, 2021
Updated: 7:54 PM EST November 8, 2021
ANSONIA, Conn. — Connecticut residents can expect roads, bridges and rail to see significant upgrades after Congress approved the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package last Friday.
Once President Biden signs off, the state will be on its way making the changes over the next decade, Gov. Ned Lamont announced.
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The governor and other state leaders visited the Ansonia railroad station Monday to discuss how the Waterbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line will improve.
The federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will mean at least $30 billion for rail upgrades throughout the northeast corridor.
Ansonia's mayor can't wait.
"We want additional stops," Mayor David Cassetti (R-Ansonia) said. "We want improvements in the train station. We have 400 luxury apartments going in right across the street on the other side of this building."
It's coming, according to Lamont.
"A year from now or less than a year from now, we're going to have two-way service and those cars going back and forth, those trains are going to be much more frequent than they are today," he said.
New rail station platforms are part of the plan between Waterbury and Bridgeport, as well as better rail cars that are scheduled to be in service within several years.
Officials say this is great news for many blue-collar workers who rely on trains for work.
"I remember talking to one young man who worked for a barbershop in Bridgeport, and he left money on the table because there wasn't a train late enough for him to stay on the job and get those last few appointments done," U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) said.
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These investments will leverage transit-oriented development in communities from Waterbury down through the valley to Bridgeport, officials said.
"We had a briefing a couple of weeks ago with the governor and we outlined the 800 units of housing and 30 new commercial spaces built in downtown Shelton in anticipation of this rail," Bill Purcell, president of the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce added.
The Waterbury Branch is a 27-mile-long, single-track line with six train stations in Waterbury, Naugatuck, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Ansonia and Derby. By adding an additional track, service will increase on the branch to 22 trains each weekday beginning in the summer of 2022.
The project was funded by $1.23 million in state funding that will match federal dollars.
Lamont said the investments will help advance his administration's Time for CT initiative, which delivers a roadmap to bring faster and more frequent train service between Connecticut and New York. Additionally, the Northeast Corridor Commission's CONNECT NEC 2035 (C35) initiative, aims to improve rail throughout the Northeast.
"Right now, for me to drive to Washington, DC takes the exact same amount of time that it takes for me to hop on a train," U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Connecticut) said. "That is unacceptable in 2021."
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Oliver Fights His Fate in New Arrow Episode 8.06 Promo
Tudor LeonteWednesday, November 20, 2019
The CW has released a new promo for the upcoming Episode 6 of the eighth and final season of Arrow. Next week, Oliver will find himself trapped in a sort of alternate reality created by The Monitor. Laurel Lance and John Diggle will try to help him escape from this nightmare. The synopsis of the next episode of Arrow reads as follows:
After being double-crossed by Lyla (guest star Audrey Marie Anderson), Oliver (Stephen Amell) finds himself facing a life or death situation that seems very familiar. Laurel (Katie Cassidy) has the opportunity to make amends with the past.
David Ramsey directed the episode written by Onalee Hunter Hughes and Maya Houston. You can watch the new Arrow Episode 8.06 promo in the player below. Then check out the new set of promotional photos from the episode.
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Arrow stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, as well as David Ramsey as John Diggle, and Katie Cassidy as Laurel/Black Siren. Rick Gonzalez plays Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog, with Juliana Harkavy as Dinah Drake/Black Canary. Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll) joined the cast as Diggle, Jr. — known as J.J. — the Flashpoint-born son of John Diggle (David Ramsey) and Lyla Michaels (Audrey Marie Anderson). We'll meet J.J. in the future as the leader of the Deathstroke Gang. There he faces off against Mia and his adopted brother, Connor.
Based on the DC characters, the series is executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, as well as Wendy Mericle and Sarah Schechter. Additionally, Bonanza Productions Inc. produced the show in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
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From the time I was a little girl I felt the innate magical quality of solstices and equinoxes. In my mind, the mythical Mother Nature turned a special dial to officially change the season.
I still feel that magical pull on those days.
As I've aged, I've learned that my childhood view of magic has allowed me to harness the belief that there is magic to be found all around us. When I chose to begin living a more conscious life, I found traces of magic in the everyday.
Pucker up, buttercup! There's lots of love ahead for you with a dash of truth.
You see, kitten: if you want to a life that you love, you have to be willing to do the work to create it.
Want to love your daily life? Then you need to get clear around what you want (and what you don't). You create a big picture view of what you want life to look like.
Then you follow through and put supportive routines into place to help keep you on track. This includes tasks like daily writing, meditation, exercise, prayer, adequate sleep, and good food for your body.
The paradox of conscious living is that you also have to be willing to surrender when things don't go as plans.
It's part of the human condition that unexpected stuff pops up. We have a flat tire or get an unexpected visitor. We plan to have a writing day and a client has an emergency. We plan to clean the closet and the basement, and the chance to accompany our partner on a business trip. We have to bend and be flexible.
Now, kitten, before you begin to ponder ways to get out of doing the work and blame them on flexibility and serendipity, let's be frank: there's a difference in serendipity and outright distraction. I'm not the first woman whose head has been turned by a pretty bauble or a luscious pair of shoes.
The reason I brought up magic of solstices and equinoxes is that we are approaching the Winter Solstice. What this means in general terms is that, in the northern hemisphere, it's the shortest day of the year. What this means for living a conscious life is that I choose to harness the inherent magic of the solstice to take a good hard look at my daily routines, personal rituals, and hone in on what i want to create in the months ahead.
Let's get something straight right now, darling. I don't make New Year's Resolutions.
The last time I made Resolutions was in 2004. I believed that if I could get skinny and keep perfect house, then I could fix my failing marriage. Well, I did lose weight – about 190 pounds of weight by the end of the year. I finally realized I couldn't tolerate living a half-life any longer and finally got a divorce.
Besides, most New Year's resolutions are broken before the calendar page is flipped to February.
Instead, I choose a focus or "touchstone" word to serve as my guide for the year. It's like creating my own theme song. (Don't we all need a theme song?) And, as I make those big and little decisions in the process of work and play, it keeps me on track and guides me towards what my heart truly desires.
The time around the Solstice is the perfect time to choose my touchstones. Sometimes, those words have come to me like an angel's whispers. Sometimes, it feels more like prying their little angel lips apart and begging them to speak.
To help me along, before choose my touchstones, I close out the previous year. I assess what isn't working, what I'm tolerating, and I celebrate the good stuff. This is an extension of the questions I ask myself in my Weekly Review.
Celebrating the triumphs of the year – on paper – is super important to the process of living consciously. It forces you to look for the successes while you're acknowledging where you fell short. It's also a good way to bring gratitude into the process.
I look ahead to what I desire in the coming months. What do I want to be? What do I want to create? What do I want to stop tolerating? Since I'm a planner by nature, I usually do some of my business planning around the time of the Autumnal Equinox. After I close out the previous year, I tweak the business stuff and lay an nice foundation of my personal desires into the mix. Yes, I set some goals, but goals are different from resolutions.
To be totally transparent: my personal life gets the veto power over business stuff. Because, baby, I don't believing in living to work any longer. Been there. Done that. The T-shirt no longer fits.
Then, my darling, it's time for the important parts: how am I going to bring my dreams into reality?
It begins with the details of daily existence. Are my daily routines supportive of what I want to create? Are those actions not only nourishing, but do they reflect the heart of my touchstones? Where am I slipping into auto-pilot actions? What do I need to ditch? What do I need to add?
I see where I can bring more ritual into my routines. This changes seasonally, which is another reason I pay attention to the solstice and equinox dates.
As we approach the Winter Solstice this year, I find myself leaning into new routines and craving more sacred moments in the everyday living. I'm adding a lot of candlelight to both the beginning and endings of my day because, not only does it nourish me, but each candle flame is like a little prayer connecting me to the sacred.
It also means a little less screen time and a lot more time focusing on the beauty around me, like sunrises and sunsets and the soft moonlight on freshly fallen snow. I'm spending more time with my journal and my books than I am with my computer.
Creating a life you love is about the big things, like a plan and touchstones. And it's also about the little things, like Christmas China and candlelight dinners and sitting on the porch in the freezing cold to watch the sun rise.
It's about everyday magic. It about faith and belief. It's about love. It's about choosing yourself and keeping your deepest desires as priorities.
What about you? Do you see the magic of the season? Do you make resolutions or do you choose touchstones? What do you want to leave behind this year? What do you want to celebrate? What routines do you need to add or tweak?
What can you do to choose yourself in the coming months?
How can you harness the power of this winter solstice to support you in making 2014 your most amazing self?
Need some help with this process? Want to close out the year but not sure what to ask yourself? Need some help choosing your touchstones? Snag my new eBook: Create a Life You Love: Choosing Your 2014 Touchstones.


Grand Master Gene Wolfe, 87, died April 14, 2019 after a long struggle with heart disease. Wolfe was famed for his ambitious, challenging, and enthralling novels and stories, most famously the Book of the New Sun series.
Author Vonda N. McIntyre, 70, died April 1, 2019 of cancer. She is best known for her groundbreaking feminist SF.
Writer W.H. Pugmire, 67, died March 26, 2018 in Seattle WA. Pugmire was best known for his Lovecraftian fiction, and was a beloved figure in horror fandom.
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Legendary editor and publisher Betty Ballantine, 99, died February 12, 2019 at home in Bearsville NY. Her career in publishing began in the 1930s, and she was instrumental in the rise of mass-market paperbacks and helped found both Bantam Books and Ballantine Books.
Author Carol Emshwiller, 97, died February 2, 2019 in Durham NC, where she was living with her daughter.
Larry Eisenberg, 99, died December 25, 2018 in a Lincoln MA hospice of complications from leukemia. Eisenberg published dozens of SF stories in the '60s, '70s and '80s, beginning with "The Mynah Matter" (1962), and is best known for his sequence of humorous SF stories about Emmett Duckworth, many collected in The Best Laid Schemes (1971). Story "What Happened to Auguste Claro?" appeared in Dangerous Visions (1967).
Legendary comics writer and editor Stan Lee, 95, died November 12, 2018 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles CA.
Fan and collector David J. Willoughby, 67, died October 5, 2018 of complications from pancreatic cancer at home in Tuscola IL. Willoughby was a regular and beloved presence at SF conventions for decades, known for his avid collecting and the vast library he assembled over his 50 years in fandom, and as a dedicated autograph-seeker.
Writer Michael Scott Rohan, 67, died August 12, 2018 in an Edinburgh, Scotland hospital.
Award winning editor and author Harlan Ellison, 84, died in his sleep on June 28, 2018.
Editor and author Gardner Dozois, 70, died May 27, 2018 at a Philadelphia PA hospital of a sudden overwhelming systemic infection. Dozois was involved in science fiction for over 50 years, and was easily one of the most influential editors in the modern era of the field.
Author Kate Wilhelm, 89, died March 8, 2018 in Eugene OR. Wilhelm was an influential SF writer and writing teacher with a career that spanned six decades. She wrote more than 40 books of SF and mystery, helped run the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference, and was instrumental in the creation of the Clarion Workshop.
Author, editor, critic, and historian Peter Nicholls, 78, died March 6, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. Nicholls created (and edited, as long as his health would allow) The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, arguably the single most essential reference work in the field of SF.
Writer Victor Milán, 63, died February 13, 2018 in Albuquerque NM after years of declining health due to cancer.
Dallas Mayr, 71, who wrote horror as Jack Ketchum, died January 24, 2018 in New York. He had cancer. Ketchum was named a World Horror Grand Master in 2011, and won a Bram Stoker Award for life achievement in 2015.
Grand Master Ursula K. Le Guin, 88, died January 22, 2018 in Portland OR.
Author Julian May, 86, died October 17, 2017.


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Police promise action in 'easy target' village where there were 50 crimes in a month but only one person is being prosecuted
"We understand the frustration that residents of Boothstown feel"
A total of 54 crimes were reported to police in Boothstown - but only a single shoplifter is facing prosecution (Image: Manchester Evening News)
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A top police chief has promised to introduce a dedicated neighbourhood officer to a Salford village after it was revealed more than 50 crimes were reported in a month but only one person is being prosecuted.
A total of 54 crimes were reported to police in Boothstown, an area of 10,000, that month, but only a single shoplifter is facing prosecution, according to data published on police.uk.
The figures for crime in the village have become steadily worse over the last few months.
In May, there were 37 crimes in the Boothstown and Ellenbrook ward, in June there were 32 and in July 45.
Angry locals accused GMP of letting the village down and allowing it to become an easy target for criminals.
One local, who asked not to be named, told the M.E.N: "We're forgotten about. The message is being sent to criminals that they can get away with it. And the more they get away with it, the more they're going to try.
"Criminals think Boothstown is an easy target - it invites it."
A neighbourhood officer will be introduced early next year (Image: PA)
Now the Chief Insp responsible for Salford has responded, saying he understands why residents are angry, and will introduce the neighbourhood officer early next year to clamp down on crime.
Chief Insp Lee Parker said: "We understand the frustration that residents of Boothstown feel and would like to reassure the community that we are taking steps towards tackling concerns in and around the area."
Officers regularly patrol the area, and target hotspots, he said.
He said there was 11 pc less crime in the Boothstown area between June and August this year, compared to the same period last year.
"We will endeavour to reduce this even further during the next few months", he said.
"However, we are aware that crimes are continuing therefore the area's local police officer is developing an operation to combat crime in the area and we will keep local residents updated on this.
"We also have plans in place for early next year which will be to bring a dedicated neighbourhood officer to the area. It's vital that people continue reporting crime to us so that we can consider the overall picture of crime when targeting offenders and crime hot-spots.
"We are committed to continuing to work closely with the public, partners and wider communities across the area to reduce crime and build relationships."
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