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ARTmania Festival 2019
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Event: ARTmania Festival 2019
Written by: RaduP
ArtMania 2019 - Day 2 by RaduP (35)
ARTmania is pretty much a yearly tradition for me, being the festival which I've attended for the longest time, yearly since 2013. I may not have attended both days for all of the years I've been, but the July trek to Sibiu is something I did for a long time and I'll do for as long as I remain in Romania. This time was also special, it being the first ever even where I got media accreditation. So I'm gonna tell you a bit about this year's edition.
ARTMANIA DAY 1: FRIDAY, 26th JULY
Me and my girlfriend got the train tickets two weeks early, remembering full well from last year where there were no seats left on the most convenient train as early as a full week beforehand. A full trip of socializing and getting to know the couple that sat in front of us replaced my initial plans of reading, watching movies and listening to music from the bands that would perform. Because we arrived so late, all of the city visiting was left for the following day, instead we arrived at the Large Square just to get the accreditation and entry sorted, with my camera ready to take some crowd pics, and soon some band performance pics as well.
Myrkur was initially supposed to perform, but due to her pregnancy, the performance had to be cancelled. It was a bummer for me, since I bailed on her Roadburn performance specifically thinking I'd see her here. Instead, ARTmania announced Fjørt and Möbius as replacements, me not being familiar with either bands. Or at least so I thought at the time, once I got home and looked at the cover art for Fjørt's Couleur did I realize that I had listened to it. Regardless they were still quite an unexpected addition to ARTmania , who seems to have warmed up to metalcore and post-hardcore stuff. Their performance was really passionate and I loved the language barrier for German, despite being able to pick up some words and phrases, because it made it seem all the more genuine. The energetic performance was enough to send a message without understanding any words, though they did seem to tackle on some social issues, as they stated in between songs.
WARDRUNA
Wardruna kind of ruined the rest of the festival for me, because I knew nothing afterwards could stand to be compared to it. Performance-wise, I loved it and there's nothing to complain about, but spectacle-wise it left to be desired. I can't help but compare Wardruna to a similar band that I had seen live before, Heilung. Though I love the music of Wardruna more, Heilung was something from which you couldn't take your eyes off with their costumes and theatricality. In contrast, Wardruna still had costumes, but the bland white background, lack of any movement and daytime setting all contributing to it feeling underwhelming. So I did what any sane man would do. I closed my eyes and all the downsides disappeared. And suddenly it became the best set of the festival.
Coming back from the Wardruna meet and greet just in time for Architects to start playing, I didn't have such high expectations of them, as I wasn't really that into their music. Which is why I had to see them live to really get it. It was a pretty big departure from the transcendental sounds of Wardruna, but with enough of a break between the two sets, I was able to really get into the energetic metalcore performance. And I mean really get, with their set being the only one where I really felt like headbanging and jumping around (which is admittedly less comfortable to do with a camera around your neck). With a bit more oomph than Fjørt but just as passionate, I could tell how much some of the audience connected to their songs, and how emotionally heavy some of the songs from Holy Hell were, especially in regards to Tom Searle's passing. Sam Carter, the vocalist, also seemed to have some connection to our country, telling us about his Romanian friend and how much she means to him, to later reveal that he's talking about his dog. I have to agree, Romanian dogs mean a lot to me too.
The band that most people seemed to be excited for. To my dismay, they had a special list of photographers that I obviously wasn't included on, so I had to try to snatch some decent pics from the crowd, something which isn't as easy to do when once you finally get a good shot, someone's phone gets in the view to get their own capture of the event. The musicians were obviously great, especially Petrucci, Myung and Rudess, with the latter moving around with a keytar at times. A lot of people I know asked me about Mangini's performance, but sadly I can't say I paid much attention to, I just saw how colossally big and cymbal-heavy his drum set was and just assumed he's up for the job. Having never seen Dream Theater before, so especially not with Portnoy, I couldn't really compare between the two, though I probably would've liked to see them back then. LaBrie was surprisingly decent, though he's still obviously the weak link of the band. What was the best part of the show was him announcing that they will return soon with a tour that celebrates the anniversary of Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory, which I'm now considering attending. And since they would come again, since the songs that I liked were on the end of the setlist, since both me and my girlfriend were tired from the road, we both went to get some food and then left.
ARTMANIA DAY 2: SATURDAY, 27th JULY
Tired no more, this was to be the day where we would finally have some time to go through the city and explore and eat out and all that. We knew that ARTmania had a lot of extra events and exhibits outside of the main concerts, but as with all years, we completely forgot to check those out and instead went to another museum from the Bruckenthal complex, this time the natural history museum, where we found out that humans would eat anything. We also found a place that served a steak that costs over 40 euros, so we got some burgers instead and then went to get some drinks with some workmates who were also at the festival.
MÖBIUS
While unknowingly knowing Fjørt, I was completely unfamiliar with Möbius. So you can imagine my surprise when I saw just two people on stage and started hearing a distorted wall of sound. After all this time, we finally had some droney sludge on ARTmania as well. Unexpected and also something I would rather have seen in a club than on the stage at midday, but a welcome change and a pretty delicious sound. An unfortunate name to say the least, since me and our friends theorized how hard it would be to find the band since searching for "Möbius" or "Möbius band" would probably get you just the actual Möbius band.
It wasn't the first time me and my girlfriend saw Alcest, but we were both really excited to see them again regardless. The set was obviously shorter than the headlining set we saw beforehand, so obviously some of our favorites weren't played, but it was great to hear "Percées De Lumière" and "Oiseaux De Proie" again, and even better to afterwards talk to my friends who haven't seen Alcest before. And what can I say about an Alcest performance that hasn't been said before. It may not have been spotless, but at the time it felt as such. I really wouldn't mind seeing them for a third time.
Even though I love both Opeth and Alcest, those were both bands that I had seen before, so it was Madrugada that I was actually most excited to actually see live. Having never heard of them before their announcement for some reason, they became the discovery of the festival for me and their songs entered heavy rotation, especially the songs from their debut, Industrial Silence, out of which the basis of the setlist consisted. And with the dark just setting in, it was the perfect mood for the bluesy alternative music, that felt very romantic and soothing.
But for some reason I decided to go to the Alcest meet and greet, which was a big mistake. First, I stood in the queue to get some food, in a place of the festival where I could both see and hear the band perfectly, but then we left that queue to get in the meet and greet queue, which would have started in 20 minutes, and knowing Alcest's popularity, there would be quite a lot of people willing to get it. And there was a big crowd waiting already, so we waited there, in the back of the stage where we could still somewhat hear the band. Only 30 minutes were scheduled for the meet and greet, with Madrugada themselves holding a meet and greet afterwards. So with groups of five getting in, just as there was just one more group ahead of us, we were informed that the meet and greet was over, and the group ahead of us, which got there after us obviously, told us that they were there for the Madrugada one and if only they had known that we wanted to see Alcest, they would've let us in. Great.
Bummed from sitting at two queues and still getting jack shit, we went to see the festival closer. A band which we have seen before and they played (almost) the exact setlist as before. So we stayed by the drinks queue and spent our last tokens just as the beers were running out, so our third time's a charm. Feeling joyful from the mischief of those who could no longer get a beer made Opeth's repetitive performance feel much better. Though I have to agree that this time Opeth actually sounded better, both sound quality and performance-wise than the first time I saw them, and the banter between songs was pretty funny. As the last notes of "Deliverance" were going on, we headed for the gates to avoid the crowded mess they would soon become.
CONCLUSIONS AND SUCH
This edition was really a special one for me, especially due to the accreditation. It was fantastic to be able to photograph bands from the designed area even though I still felt like an intruder considering how big some of these fellas' camera objectives were. I constantly felt like someone would turn to me and say "Wait a minute! What are you doing here!", and it felt a bit weird to photograph the people in the crowd too. But knowing my experience from previous festivals where afterwards I would search through the posted crowd pics in hopes I would find myself, I decided to get over the feeling. Obviously I still had to appear in some of mine, because if you want something good, you do it yourself. The biggest challenge was going from shooting a club gig to shooting a festival, where the stage was taller, the light was different and it was constantly getting darker, so I found myself constantly trying to find better shutter speeds, apertures and ISOs. I kinda fucked up, but less than I thought I would.
It was also great being able to go with my girlfriend for the second time in a row, and also getting some friends/workmates to come too, them even staying right next door to us in our accommodation. They mostly came for Dream Theater, but I was happy knowing that they got to enjoy most of the other bands too. Especially Wardruna and Alcest.
The thing about ARTmania is that it takes place in the center of Sibiu, the Large Square, which does mean a few things. First of all, it's a very beautiful area with buildings from a few centuries ago that are still in great condition. There is a lot that one can sight-see around the festival area as well and there are a lot of gift shops and places to eat around. With a few super markets around the festival area, you could chug as much alcohol before or in between sets so you wouldn't have to spend on the understandably more expensive stuff from inside the festival. It also being a big city means that there's plenty of accommodation to be found, though one must still not be too late in searching for one.
Food and drinks in the festival area were not cheap, but they were far from the most expensive I've seen. I'm not exactly fond of the token system, but 7 lei (1.5 euro) per token is a pretty decent price. I didn't get to eat anything from inside the festival, though I did try (blame the queues for that), but the drink menu was nothing I could really complain about.
So now the queues. Ugh. I know there isn't much that the organizers can do about most of these, with there being plenty of people serving at bars and with food obviously taking a lot less to be done than a beer takes to be poured. The queues and the security at the entrance also moved quite quick. The one I want to complain about is the meet and greet queue, which, as it happened, can lead to one staying in the queue for 50 minutes and still not getting in, with folks who came later but were more aggressive in getting to the front managing to do so.
It being a festival that takes place in a city, there are of course laws that stop the performances from lasting after midnight, which means that a lot of sets have to be shifted to earlier in the day, most of which were sets which really don't fit in the daytime. But this is obviously something common for most open air festivals, so ARTmania make up for that with having some of the best sound quality I've seen in an open air festival.
Also the worst and really weird part about Sibiu was that all shops/fast-foods/etc closed at midnight, just as the last band finishes. When we left early from Dream Theater, this wasn't a problem, but leaving after Opeth we were surprised to find out that our favorite shaworma place was closed and looking through food delivery apps, we found out that all the places were closed too. After some frantic searching for one place that was still open, we did walk a few kilometers but we did get our well-earned kebab.
It's also over way too soon for such a great experience. Being used to three of four day festivals, and getting there in the afternoon on the first day meant that we didn't spend even 48 hours in Sibiu. But those were some great less than 48 hours.
To wrap things up, here's a pic of us and Wardruna:
So check out the galleries for Day 1 and Day 2, and our crowd pics Facebook album.
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Sounds like a great two-day break man. And Madrugada are bloody awesome, Sivert Høyem is an outstanding vocalist. Because of him, this is one of Satyricon's top moments in their entire career.
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Written by nikarg on 12.08.2019 at 12:44
Oh man I didn't know that Satyricon thing
I wish I stayed for their whole performance, they were definitely a highlight
Sometimes you need a little wishful thinking just to keep on living.
This concert was also out of this fucking world, location-wise and music-wise. "Give It A Whirl" is one of my favourite songs of all time.
I guess I should also get into his solo work
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Man in sweden you can buy stake cheeper as there wtd, romania has higer prices. Great article man
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That was just the most expensive steak, of course most of the steaks were around 8-12 euro.
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musclassia
Really nice write-up man, sick that you got to meet Wardruna. I'm still annoyed I umm'd and ahh'd about getting a ticket for them last year and it ended up selling out, although I got to see the Einar Selvik/Ivar Bjornoson tour earlier this year which made up for it.
Interesting to hear the SFAM tour is coming to Europe, although the I&W one was slightly underwhelming and that's easily my favourite album by them, so unsure how much I'd enjoy that tour. Can't day their setlist from this festival looked amazing, bit of a shame that At Wit's End isn't being toured considering it's easily the best song from Distance Over Time. Solid Opeth setlist though
Written by musclassia on 12.08.2019 at 22:17
Wardruna are coming to Romania again next year and I'm considering going just to see them in a better setting.
The Dream Theater setlist was one of the reasons why I left the show early, with most of the first half of the setlist being DOT songs that I really wasn't interested in.
The only problem with the Opeth setlist is that I already heard them play every song before and I only saw them once before.
Written by RaduP on 12.08.2019 at 22:34
Did they already play Romania earlier this year? I kinda got the impression they mixed up their setlists fairly regularly
It was in 2017 actually
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Firebirds Fall in NCAA Division II Championship Second Round, 2-1 to Top-Seeded LIU Post
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BROOKVILLE, NY – The No. 5 seed University of the District of Columbia men's soccer team was defeated by No. 1 seed and Super Regional 1 host, LIU Post, 2-1 in the NCAA Division II Championship Second Round on a cold, autumn afternoon Saturday at Pioneer Soccer Park.
In what was the third meeting this season between these two East Coast Conference powers, the Firebirds (15-7) played the unbeaten, No. 4 ranked Pioneers (17-0-2) to a 1-1 tie for nearly 62 minutes before surrendering the game-winning header goal by Charlie Ledula off of a cross by Mike Sutton with less than five minutes remaining in regulation. This marked the second of three losses to LIU Post this season where UDC was defeated by just one goal.
LIU Post advances to play the winner of tonight's No. 2 seed Adelphi University vs. No. 6 Goldey-Beacom College, Second Round contest in the Third Round next week.
Senior goalkeeper Ever Guevera Alvarez had a season-high six saves in the loss, playing aggressive and limiting the Pioneers' scoring chances in the box. Defensemen Michael Agboola, Victor Salinas Furio and Pablo Basarte were stellar in front of Guevera Alvarez, and midfielders Chris Moke, Kelvin Hererra and Gabriel Velluto were outstanding possessing the ball in the midfield.
Playing with the wind in the first half, the Pioneers struck first with Lukas Ostermann dribbling through the Firebirds' defense and blasting a shot past Guevera Alvarez to open the scoring a little over seven minutes into the game. Ostermann, who registered a goal and an assist in LIU Post's 3-0 win over UDC in the ECC Finals last week, fired the first two shots of the game and capitalized on the second attempt to give the Pioneers an early, 1-0 lead.
A little over 16 minutes later, Hererra forced a 1-1 tie as he found an opening within a scrum in front of the net and snuck a shot past Pioneer goalkeeper Oliver Hessner Hansen for his 4th goal of the season. LIU Post went on to out-shoot UDC 4-1 in the remaining 22 minutes of the first half, with Guevera Alvarez stopping two, and another hitting off of the right post just before halftime. The two teams headed to halftime tied, 1-1.
The Pioneers came out the aggressors in the 2nd half, taking two corner kicks and a header shot on goal in the first six minutes once play resumed. Around the 62-minute mark there came some controversy. Guevera Alvarez came charging all the way just outside the top of the box to dive on a loose ball and stop a LIU Post advance by Ledula, taking Ledula's legs out on the play. Initially no call was made, but after play stopped to evaluate Ledula (who was lying on the ground), the officials deliberated for at least a few minutes and ultimately handed Guevera Alvarez a red card. They later changed the red card to a yellow card, allowing Guevera Alvarez to remain in the game, but setting LIU Post up with a free kick just outside the box.
The free kick resulted in a rocket of a shot by the Pioneers' Harry Pearse, but a fired-up Guevera Alvarez dove and punched the ball out. UDC then defended and cleared away the ensuing LIU Post corner kick to keep the game tied for the time being.
Following that clearance, UDC went right down the field and junior reserve forward Salah Warid headed a shot just wide to the right of the net that would have given the Firebirds a 2-1 edge. UDC went on to take three consecutive corner kicks in a span of 11 minutes, but could not manage to score on any of them.
Later on, after Ledulla's game-winning goal, UDC had one final corner kick just under the one-minute mark, taken by ECC Offensive Player of the Year, Gabriel Torres. The sophomore midfielder's kick was headed away though by a LIU Post defender, and the Pioneers held on for the narrow win.
UDC finishes the season tied for 2nd place in school history with 15 wins on the season, a new program record for East Coast Conference wins in a season (6), the program's first ever NCAA Tournament appearance, and UDC's first ever NCAA Tournament win – a 3-0 victory over Southern Connecticut State University in the First Round.
The Firebirds say goodbye to four seniors: Ever Guevera Alvarez, Liam Haycock, Christopher Moke, and Victor Salinas Furio. All four played pivotal roles in helping UDC to its best season since 2002.
Head Coach Matt Thompson, who became the first head coach to win an NCAA Division II Tournament game with three different schools, has 21 student-athletes returning from this year's 25-man roster in Fall 2018.
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We Figured Out the Source of the Disputed '86%' Figure From Yesterday's Planned Parenthood Hearing
by Kelsey Rupp September 30, 2015, 5:12 pm 34.6k Views 9 Votes
A noteworthy exchange during Tuesday's congressional hearing on Planned Parenthood's use of its government funding dealt with how much of its revenue the organization receives from abortions.
Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee cited Planned Parenthood's self-reported figure that only 3% of the services the organization provides are abortion.
Then, she asked Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards:
"If you look at the 2013 statistics that you report, abortions, from revenue, would have been over 86% of your non-government (health services) revenue.
"How do you explain this massive disparity between the amount of revenue you collect from abortion and the fact that you only report 3% of your services being abortion?"
At first, Richards responded:
"One, is as we've already stated, federal money does not go for abortion.
"So the federal portion we are discussing is reimbursement for preventative care services. I think the other– so that's why those numbers are not connected."
She later added:
"It is important to understand that abortion procedures are probably more expensive than some other procedures that we provide, which might, you know, might explain what you were trying to get at."
According to Planned Parenthood's 2013-2014 report, the national organization had a total revenue of over $1.3 billion that year. The report states 41% of its revenue is from "government health services grants and reimbursements," equalling $528.4 million in taxpayer dollars last year.
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The two main sources of this government funding are the state and federal Medicaid health programs for low-income people and federal grants like the Title X family planning program.
Lummis's office confirmed to IJ how it calculated that 86% of Planned Parenthood's non-government health services revenue comes from abortion.
In its 2013-2014 report, Planned Parenthood breaks its revenue into the following categories:
Government grants and reimbursements (41%, or $528.4 million);
Private contributions/bequests (30%, or $391.8 million);
Non-government health services revenue (23% or $305.3 million);
Other (6%, or $77.9 million).
By law, federal Medicaid dollars can only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother's life is in danger. Because of this stipulation, Lummis's office considered the $305.3 million Planned Parenthood cites as its 2013-2014 non-government health services revenue.
Lummis's office also took Planned Parenthood's estimated price for a generic abortion pill at $800 per pill (which is cheaper than the estimated price of a generic first trimester in-clinic abortion). Given that Planned Parenthood reports providing 327,653 abortions in 2013-2014 — and assuming $800 per abortion — that yields $262 million in revenue, or nearly 86% of the total non-government health services revenue.
Thus, while 41% of Planned Parenthood's total revenue is from government grants and reimbursements, using the numbers from Lummis, another 25% of its total revenue — $262 million — is from abortion. That means the remaining 34% of total revenue comes from other services and donations, according to its calculations.
Richards did not challenge the figure that 86% of Planned Parenthood's non-government health services revenue comes from abortion during the hearing. Representatives from Planned Parenthood did not return IJ's request for comment if the figure was accurate.
In the hearing, Lummis further asked:
"Can you tell me how many of your (individual) affiliates receive the majority of their revenue from abortion?"
But Richards responded, "I don't know that answer" and said she "will talk to my team" about the question.
According to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute, over a million abortions are performed in the United States annually. Planned Parenthood states in its 2013-2014 report that it ended 327,653 pregnancies by abortion last year, making it responsible for about 31% of abortions in the U.S. and the nation's largest abortion provider.
Lummis also asked how many Planned Parenthood facilites have mammogram machines, to which Richards responded:
"There aren't any Planned Parenthood clinics — I believe, to the best of my knowledge, not any have mammogram machines at their facility."
Planned Parenthood's calculation that abortion is 3% of its total services has also come under scrutiny because the organization "unbundles" all of its services so that, for example, a pack of contraception, an STD test and an exam count as three separate services, even if they occur in the same appointment. And the 3% figure does not consider each services' share in the organization's revenue.
Tuesday was the third hearing called in response to the series of undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. Over the weekend, House Republicans announced they will vote to create a special panel specifically to investigate Planned Parenthood, which will be the most formal step by the legislature to probe Planned Parenthood thus far.
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Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe
Valentina Novoselac (2016)
Novoselac, V. (2016). Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe (Završni rad). Preuzeto s https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012
Novoselac, Valentina. "Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe." Završni rad, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Filozofski fakultet, 2016. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012
Novoselac, V. (2016). 'Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe', Završni rad, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Filozofski fakultet, citirano: 29.01.2020., https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012
Novoselac V. Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe [Završni rad]. Osijek: Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Filozofski fakultet; 2016 [pristupljeno 29.01.2020.] Dostupno na: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012
V. Novoselac, "Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe", Završni rad, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Filozofski fakultet, Osijek, 2016. Dostupno na: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012
Naslov Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe
Naslov (hrvatski) Mitologija i njen nestanak u ruralnim pjesmama Graya, Goldsmitha i Crabbea
Autor Valentina Novoselac
Rural life has been portrayed as idyllic for a long time in literature, while the reality of villagers' life was concealed. The eighteenth century was a harsh period of time, especially for villages, due to the advancement in economy and industry, which made villagers' life even harder. Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, and George Crabbe refused to create illusions about rural life in their poetry, so they described rural life as it was. Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is a well-known poem that sheds light on lives of the poor villagers and describes the hardships of their everyday work, breaking the illusions previously set by the pastoral poetry, but keeping beautiful descriptions of rural nature. Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" brings sadness into the speaker's realization upon returning to his idyllic childhood village that it is now in ruins and abandoned, blaming luxury and greed of the rich people for creating such atrocity. Lastly, George Crabbe brings the harsh truth in its purest form in his poem "The Village", describing the abject poverty and life full of suffering and sickness the poor people lived in, mentioning not a single positive feature about the so-called peaceful rural life. These poems bring another perspective to the usual pastoral one, creating a realistic picture of what rural life genuinely is.
George Crabbe
demythologizing
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Before you get serious about buying a home, figure out what you can afford. This will depend on how much you've set aside for a down payment (more on that below) and what kind of monthly payment will fit your budget.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's toolkit for buyers offers a worksheet to help calculate the monthly costs you can expect once you become a homeowner. Don't forget to budget for maintenance, which can add up to 1% to 2% of the purchase price of your home annually.
Building up a credit score takes time, but there are some steps you can take as you prepare to apply for a mortgage. Check your credit report for errors, and dispute any that you find. Also, pay down credit card debt as much as possible. This will improve your credit utilization ratio, which is the percentage of your available credit that you're using.
Refrain from opening new credit accounts in the months leading up to your mortgage application. New cards and loans lower the average age of your accounts, which can hurt your credit. That's especially true for millennials. Statistics on average credit scores show that young adults have the lowest average of any generation right now, and applying for additional credit before you begin your mortgage process can bring your score down more.
The ideal down payment is at least 20%, because that allows you to avoid paying for private mortgage insurance, or PMI. However, there are plenty of options for people who bring down payments of 15%, 10%, 5% or even less to the table.
Some buyers who have 20% of the price of their new home saved up end up putting less down so they can use some of the money for other needs. It's not a good idea to begin your career as a homeowner without a solid emergency fund, and closing costs can add up. Those can range from 3% to 6% of the price of the home, depending on where the home is in and any loan origination fees that apply.
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1. To begin for the arabesque, make sure you are holding on to something stable. Place both loops around your right foot.
2. Bend your right knee and draw it behind your back.
3. Thread your left arm through the straps, placing the foam pad around your left shoulder.
4. Extend the right leg into an arabesque.
Often, you will be holding the loops in each hand while your foot is on the foam pad of the Flexistretcher. Always put the foam pad around the center of your foot, not the heel or toes. This is to avoid the risk of the Flexistretcher sliding off the foot in the middle of the exercise.
For more advanced stretches, such as this one, both loops will be around the center of the foot and the foam pad will be around the OPPOSITE shoulder. Make sure to securely have the straps around the center of the foot and not the ankle. This avoids the risk of not being able to safely and easily come out of the stretch.
NEVER place both loops around the ankle, make sure the loops are around the center of the foot.
Actively engage the muscles throughout the movement.
Remember when you are performing this stretch, the band is only assisting, not holding you up!
Avoid bouncing or using momentum to swing your leg into a new range of motion.
The arabesque leg swinging past the midline of your body.
Medial rotation of the hip of the extended leg. The entire leg turning inward.
Inversion of the foot-a "sickled" foot.
NEVER place any part of the strap around your neck at any point.
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Day 3: Sliding into oblivion
As I entered Match Day 3 of my rookie season in the LearnedLeague trivia contest, my confidence was low after two shaky efforts. Unfortunately my third go-round did little to right the ship.
1. What is the specific common name for the government of France that existed from 1870, upon the collapse of the Second French Empire, until 1940, and the Nazi invasion and subsequent Vichy regime?
This was one of those topics I faintly remembered from a long-ago world history class in high school. Unfortunately we studied the French Revolution at great length and pretty much glossed over the post-Napoleonic era; it was all Robespierre, all the time. I speak French and spent the summer in La Rochelle, France when I was 16, but those weren't doing much for me either. I guessed "parlement" with little confidence, and sure enough, the correct answer was the French Third Republic. It sounded vaguely familiar.
2. During the third verse of the R.E.M. song It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), the instruments stop abruptly and briefly while the band shouts the name of what man?
The good news was that I knew the answer. The bad news was that so does everyone else: Mstislav Rostropovich. There are few questions about R.E.M. they could have reasonably asked that I wouldn't have known in my sleep, but they flattened it out so much they erased any Stipe-based advantage I might have enjoyed. As you know, the answer is actually "Leonard Bernstein! (Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs, birthday party cheesecake jellybean boom.)" At least my knowledge of Lester Bangs and his fellow grandees of rock criticism would soon pay dividends.
3. Identify the tabloid-style German newspaper whose name translates to English as Picture, and which is -- by far -- the largest circulation newspaper in Europe (and in fact the largest outside Japan). Its policy of showcasing a topless woman on every front page may have some effect.
I didn't know there were topless women in any European tabloids outside of England; maybe that's not why the U.K. sat out of the whole euro thing. I knew that the German word Spiegel means mirror, not picture, and I knew Der Spiegel was a German magazine, not a tabloid newspaper. But I didn't know the word for picture or the names of any other German periodicals, nor did I have a plausible guess, so I guessed Der Spiegel in honor of my buddy Matt Spiegel. The answer was Bild, which seems like a somewhat prosaic name ("Picture") for a publication that features words and pictures.
4. There are two generally established classifications in French cuisine for clear soups: bouillon (simple broth), and what other, which is essentially clarified bouillon?
Continuing the French theme, much like the French Third Republic, I knew the correct answer would sound familiar when I heard it, but I also couldn't think of it. I guessed bouillabaisse, a thick fish soup so far from bouillon I might as well have guessed the Beastie Boys. The correct answer was consommé.
5. The short films What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963), It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964), and The Big Shave (1967) are among the very early works of what Oscar-winning film director?
This one I regret because I could have made a much better educated guess. A few years ago I attended a screening of the first full-length feature by this filmmaker, Who's That Knocking At My Door?, his senior film project at NYU film school from the mid-1960s. That would have been consistent with short films made in the previous few years, and also with a predilection for the use of questions as somewhat lengthy film titles. And, for that matter, with a director who burst into prominence in the ensuing decade. But I rushed through this one a little, not giving sufficient thought to any of those things. I focused only on the era in question and the fact that the shorts sounded more or less comedic, and guessed Blake Edwards pretty much knowing it was wrong. Sure enough, the answer was Martin Scorsese.
6. What was the eventual name of the product which was first marketed in the UK as the Stowaway and in the US as the Soundabout?
I made a terrible guess here, not really thinking about the ramifications of the word Stowaway and instead trying to think of what a Soundabout might do. I guessed The Clapper, but the correct answer (which 65% of players leaguewide got, fully as many as Leonard Bernstein) was the Sony Walkman. In hindsight, this looks fairly guessable.
Another brutal 1 for 6 day. I was starting to dread being sent down to A ball, where I would be asked to name any two of the four Beatles.
As for defense, I gave my opponent 1 0 2 1 3 2 and he gave me 2 0 1 1 2 3. We both knew Leonard Bernstein and received 0 points for it. My opponent, living up to his Gallic-sounding surname, also knew the French Third Republic and consommé. So once again I played perfect defense, giving away the minimum number of points, but so did my opponent, and good defense can absolve ignorance only so far. In LL terminology, I lost 2(3)-0(1).
Now I was 1-2 and plummeting fast. In three days I'd dropped from the traditional Opening Day tie for first, to 32nd place in my 44-player division. It wasn't even clear yet who our better players were, but I wasn't looking like one of them.
What was clear was that I had little room for error. With just six questions per match, even one mistake or giveaway could be ruinous, and the LL seemed to go for the jugular every day with just one or two easy questions in the mix. Hell, even Jeopardy! starts with the simple stuff and only gradually turns up the heat. Few of their questions are this hard.
They were not asking things I felt confident about, and I'd squandered several chances to guess some crooked numbers onto the scoreboard. This was not going well. But as Robespierre said, it's always darkest before the dawn...
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What familiar saying with seven words has seven consonants in a row? The answer is a common saying, in ordinary English. Sometimes it's expressed in nine words rather than seven, but it's the same saying. And either way, in one spot it has seven consecutive consonants. What saying is it?
Enter here or email me for a hint.
Last week: Name something in seven letters that most people keep in their homes. Take the first, third, fourth and seventh letters and rearrange them. The result will be a four-letter word naming something that the seven-letter thing is commonly used for. What is it?
Highlight for answer: Aspirin, pain
Two weeks ago: The name of what character, familiar to everyone, contains each of the five vowels (A, E, I, O and U) exactly once? The answer consists of two words — eight letters in the first word, four letters in the second.
Highlight for answer: Question mark
Three weeks ago: Name a well-known person from the 20th century who held an important position. Take the first and last letters of this person's last name, change each of them to the next letter of the alphabet, and you'll get the last name of another famous person who held the same position sometime after the first one. Who is it?
Highlight for answer: Ford, Gore
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Q: Why does increasing Virtual Memory not help improve game performance? My RAM has a pathetic 2GB and most of my applications and background services take up at least 25% to 35% of it and thus causing the game to be laggy and all.
I've tried adding virtual memory, from 4GB to 8GB, and even 11GB but it's not even helping, the game still lags.
I also don't understand, why can't we use our HDD space as RAM? Increasing virtual memory to 11GB didn't even help at all, increasing the digital memory to 100GB or the whole hard drive space probably wouldn't help either.

A: Imagine you are a student in a classroom. You are working on an assignment
and you don't have your textbook. You can not solve the question and you
need to ask someone. Luckily you find some information about the calculations
on the board, however what's written on the board doesn't help you. Then
you remember that the assistant's room is next to the classroom you are in.
You leave the classroom, walk a few meters and there she is. You ask her
about the problem but unfortunately she couldn't answer your question.
Then you decide to ask the lecturer himself. But you have to go upstairs
this time. Okay, no problem. You went there, asked him about the problem.
I know it's hard to believe, but he is also unable to answer your question
because he somehow forgot the relevant part to your question. He immediately
asks another assistant of his to go check library for the relevant textbook.
The downside is library is 5-minute walking distance away. The assistant
goes to the library, searches for the book and fetches it, finally. There
your answer is! Now you go back to your classroom and carry on with the
homework.
Now you are the CPU. You carry out operations of any sort (arithmetic:
multiplication, addition, subtraction, division OR logic: or, and, xor, etc.).
You need some data to work on, so you go check the L1 cache first(board).
You could access the L1 cache very fast, simply by holding your head up
and looking at the board. Well, you reach fast, but it contains little
amounts of data. If the data you're looking for is not there, you go to
L2 cache, the assistant. It takes longer time, but she has larger data
to offer you. If you're out of luck, you have to go to RAM, the lecturer.
Come on we are all human, we forget things. Sometimes lecturer forgets too!
If you're having a bad day, like rainy clouds above your head, he has
forgotten the data you will ask for. That time, he has to go check the library (Hard Disk, or let's say Virtual Memory)
which has a VERY large space compared to board(L1), assistant(L2) and even lecturer(RAM).
But there is a crucial downside, you have to walk there for minutes!
A back and forth trip takes 10 minutes, add the textbook lookup as 2 minutes
there you have it! To get any data from library takes 12 minutes while asking the lecturer would take 1-2 minutes.
Memory is a delicate part of your computer system. To store larger data, they have to be slower. The CPU operates at very high speeds (2-4 GHz) compared to other devices. A RAM module runs in 1-2 GHz speed. The hard disk is even WAY MORE slower. The cache memories are in the CPU die. Therefore CPU doesn't have to slow down to access the cache memories. But when the required data resides in the RAM, CPU have to wait for the buses which connect CPU and RAM to get the data from the ram. Getting data from hard disk even takes MORE time. Well, this was a very simple version of what happens. Actually, there are more going on (more levels of cache memory, memory access times, cache miss/hit, architectural differences: Intel vs AMD, bus speeds, instruction architecture and so on). For further reading, Hardware Secrets has nice tutorials explaining all these things.
An Intel CPU architecture:

AMD architecture:

The south bridge (which is slower than the north bridge which connects faster components like video card) is responsible for communication of peripherals such as USB, hard disk, ethernet and such.
This is the reason. Your game requires large amounts of memory and you provide a larger library to your system, but you have to walk there to get the information. Therefore the amount of virtual memory you provide doesn't really matter when it comes to speed. You need more RAM to overcome the bottleneck caused by low RAM.

A: The hard disk paging virtual memory is rather slow, and paging in and out has a lot of overhead (IMO). While having some "virtual" spaces for the uneeded and unnessisary items to be paged out to disk, the system is still in control of what gets paged.
If your game needs more ram than is made available, paging parts of that programs data out to disk, really is not that much faster than getting them from disk to being with, or re-getting them from disk when they are rolled out of memory completly.
Things that may help:
1) Get more ram (ok it had to be said) Win7 64bit wants to have ~4Gig.
2) Shut things off, go through and carefully disable unneeded services, and programs that are not in use. (even drivers that are unneeded for that last bit). Ex: Disable superfetch, I cant see that helping at all in this situation, it loads the ram with stuff you may use later.
Must have a Backup of the system to be messing with these things
3) Use RAMMAP and "JAM" stuff out of ram, While most of it will head right back in again, especially when needed, you can flush even working sets out, and free up some memory temporarily.  This will also force some (other) working stuff out to paging, making them slower, but out of your games way.
4) Use a SSD for paging, while it might not be good for the drive it should speed up the paging action itself by measures.  Still wont cut it.
5) Flat out task end things via a batch or manually, before running the game.  Crasy people (like me) would even end the explorer temporarily to play a game, and restart it on game exit (batch or using the task manager) when on a very low ram system.
6) Turn off windows programs in "programs and features" / "turn windows feature on and off".  While few of these items in the components section will take memory when not active, some of them do.  Turn off only the ones you never intend to use.
7) A few games allowed for changes that use much more memory right in the settings, sometimes those changes are in a config file for the game, and listed on the web somewhere.  Switching from high-res textures to low-res textures could (have not tested this well) free up not only video texture memory, but system memory moving and storing them before heading there.
8) Shrink things, getting desperate there are sometimes ways to shrink the components of a game, drop Bits (24-16bit) Crunch audio, squish movies.  Most of these are in some form of compressed format, but there are ways to get it out, squish it down, and put it back where it was.
 Disclaimer2: altering game parts may set off the "cheat buster" things when playing online.
9) Defrag, not just defrag but defrag & reorder.  When you must depend on the disk a lot, having the data your moving in and out sequential and closer together can help some.  if the disk is a mess it can help lots.
10) Have the paging and/or the game parts and pieces on the faster disk places, and split between 2 disks if possible.  If your game data is on one disk (seperate hardware item) and your paging location is on a different disk item, it will slightly improve your I/O for both tasks, each having thier own (slow) parellel activity going on with less conflict of writing while reading.

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"Maybe that's all I need to say."
In one of the most delightfully unexpected Hollywood coupledoms of all time, Jennifer Lopez and Drake were dominating #CoupleGoals for a bit. Aside from all the Instagram flirting, Drake reportedly gave J.Lo a $100,000 necklace, and the two were spotted dancing together. It was all enough for Rihanna to unfollow Jen on Instagram. However, about a month ago, reports surfaced that DraLo had called it quits, and now in a new interview, Jennifer confirms that this is indeed the case.
In a new interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, J.Lo denies that she and Drake are dating, and does it in a way that seems to imply that it was never anything serious to begin with. "Genuinely, did you get with Drake because you didn't know me yet?" Trevor Noah begins during Jennifer's segment. To which Jennifer laughs, and replies: "Let me clear this up. I am not with Drake". She then adds that, "Maybe that's all I need to say." Trevor, for one, responds to the confirmation of Jennifer's singledom with a "Hallelujah!".
However, what makes matters more interesting, two months ago, Jennifer told Entertainment Tonight that she and Drake have actually been working on a music collaboration...and that they were the whole time. "He just asked me to do a song with him and that's what we've been doing," she said. Hm. Guess only time will tell what the real story is.


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The Obama and Clinton ISIS calamity in Syria, Iraq and Libya continues. What were they saying in 2011.
The NATO war of 2011 delivered Libya not to one government with a monopoly over violence, but to a chessboard of competing militia groups who have allegiance to regional powers.
ISIS flourished in the chaos and the refugee mess has created misery throughout the Middle East and Europe.
Tribalism was unleashed and was aided and abetted by the regime changers in the US and Europe.
Militia groups were either rooted in their cities, in their tribes or in an extremist world-view.
One of the most powerful militia armies was from the city of Misrata. It is the one that is leading the fight to remove ISIS from Sirte.
The US has been bombing Sirte with hundreds of raids, causing additional and continued misery on an incomprehensible scale.
I thought it would be useful to look backwards as to who said and did what.
Nigel Farage:
Hillary Clinton:
Background on Clinton and Libya:
Deuce ☂ Fri Dec 09, 03:59:00 AM EST
CAIRO — Libyan militias backed by American airstrikes said they have cleared the stronghold of the Islamic State in Libya, a defeat that would set back the group's ambitions in North Africa. The country, however, remains very unstable amid battles between rival militias, and the remaining militants could still undermine a fragile U.S.-backed unity government, analysts say.
Libyan fighters erupted in celebration in the coastal city of Sirte on Tuesday after a nearly seven-month struggle to oust the Islamic State, as the mostly pro-government forces were searching for any remaining militants.
The Islamic State's hopes of extending its self-proclaimed "caliphate" beyond Syria and Iraq into Libya have been dashed, at least for now. But while their propaganda war and recruiting efforts have also been weakened, analysts said, the group remains active in other parts of the country.
Libya faces the specter of clandestine cells staging terrorist attacks, much like they've done recently in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan after battlefield reverses in those countries.
"The retaking of Sirte is certainly a negative blow to Islamic State affiliates in Libya because they will no longer have a territorial stronghold in the country," said Claudia Gazzini, senior Libya analyst for the International Crisis Group. "This is significant because it no longer gives them the possibility to operate in the open or to recruit and levy taxes directly."
Libya was ruled by Gadhafi because Libya needed Gaddafi.
Under Gaddafi, Libya had the highest standard of living in the whole Middle East.
Libya is a mostly desert and oil-rich country with a small population - 6.4 million, residing a vast land area - 1.77 million sq km (685,524 sq miles).
Since the Obama Clinton disaster, hundreds of rival militias fighting are in constant war and the outcome has been ISIS.
With all that, there is still support for war criminal Hillary Clinton and incompetent Barack Obama.
Doug Fri Dec 09, 05:24:00 AM EST
Please give at least 2 minutes to his great legacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Xc_n7pow0
I must agree with Quirk:
This guy IS a Dick.
THE FIERCE UNRELENTING OPPOSITION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!
Axelrod: Racists
Obama: Northern Whites are different than Southern Whites.
Birthers are all Racists, esp Trump, a Northern White.
The highly trained Cambridge Policeman acted stupidly.
Travon Martin could have been Barrack's son.
...I quit.
Ambush-style killings of police up 167% this year
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/11/02/ambush-style-killings-police-up-300/93155124/
Charlton Fri Dec 09, 09:59:00 AM EST
Fareed used to write for Newspeak I think, among other outlets, newspapers among them.
Then he got busted for plagiarism.
He let a little time pass and returned to his usual activity.
Quirk Fri Dec 09, 12:13:00 PM EST
Another look at the Obama legacy
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/12/08/assessing_the_obama_legacy_--_against_his_own_mileposts_132514.html
Cooked to death:
http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/12/01/enlighten-us-fatal-sweat-lodge-visit-sidner-pkg.cnn
Always use a temperature gauge in the sweat lodge.
NEXIT
Geert Wilders is convicted of saying unpopular things
POSTED AT 8:41 AM ON DECEMBER 9, 2016 BY JAZZ SHAW
We're still not finished talking about Brexit, but next slogan to gain international attention may be "Nexit" given what's going on in the Netherlands these days. In a very troubling sign, Dutch member of Parliament Geert Wilders was convicted of "hate speech" in court this week. His crime? Addressing a rally of his supporters earlier in the year where people were shouting "fewer" when speaking of how many Moroccan immigrants they wanted in the country. (The Guardian)
A Dutch court has convicted populist anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders of hate speech charges at the end of a trial he branded a politically motivated "charade" that endangered freedom of speech.
Presiding Judge Hendrik Steenhuis said the court would not impose a sentence on Wilders, saying that the conviction was punishment enough for a democratically elected politician.
The charges stem from a 2014 incident in which Wilders led supporters to chant that they wanted "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!" Moroccans in the Netherlands.
You read that correctly. An elected representative was convicted in a trial for talking about public policy. If that doesn't send a chill down your spine then you are considerably more comfortable with socialism than you should be. As for Wilders himself, he found the idea to be insane. (Reuters)
Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders said his conviction on Friday of discrimination and inciting hatred was "insanity" and said the three judges who handed down the ruling were "haters" of his far-right Freedom Party (PVV).
"Three PVV-hating judges declare Moroccans a race and convict me and half of the Netherlands. Insane," he wrote in a tweet shortly after the verdict.
It's interesting that the court decided not to impose any sort of sentence on Wilders, saying that the conviction itself was "punishment enough." That conclusion is obviously based on the assumption that the public could take care of chastising the politician for his unpopular speech by ostracizing him. Since Geert is the founder and head of the Freedom Party (or more properly translated, "Party for Freedom") you'd expect them to be taking a hit in the polls from this embarrassing defeat. How's that working out? (Express.co.uk)
Geert Wilders' Freedom Party soars ahead in polls
The party, led by the controversial Geert Wilders, would beat prime minister Mark Rutte's ruling conservative liberals if elections were held today.
The Freedom Party (PVV) can count on 29 seats out of the 150-seat chamber, according to the latest IPSOS poll, making it the largest party in the Netherlands.
In the space of one month the popularity of the PVV has surged with an increase of six seats.
In terms of European politics specifically, Nexit could be the next big thing. The growing unrest over the immigration crisis, terrorism and crime has spread across much of the EU and the Netherlands is no exception. If a large enough chunk of the people are hungry for change, Wilders seems to be the face of that movement. They have their own elections coming up in a few months and a sharp turn to the right would be an indicator that one more domino is getting ready to fall.
The item here which American observers might view optimistically however is the "insanity" which Wilders referred to. We can think of the Dutch as pleasant folks in a western nation who grow wonderful flowers if we wish, but underneath it all they are still essentially a socialist state. It's a small and comparatively prosperous one to be sure, but they carry with them many of the typical hallmarks of socialism. One of those is the lack of any meaningful freedom of speech. Sure, you can say all sorts of things in public, provided it's not too "controversial" or something the government doesn't like. They technically have freedom of speech in their constitution, but as we've seen here with Wilders, all they have to do is slap the phrase "hate speech" on the charges and that freedom evaporates pretty quickly.
So with the rise of the Freedom Party, are people finally getting tired of this? We'll find out in a few months, but it would be nice to see actual freedom on the rise and more of a rejection of socialism at large.
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/12/09/geert-wilders-is-convicted-of-saying-unpopular-things/
The conviction is great for Wilders and his 'far right' Freedom Party.
He may be the next PM.
Certainly hope so.
Geert's one of the few sane people left in The Netherlands.
Actually Geert was convicted of saying popular things that the current rulers have ruled one ought not say.
Electoral disaster awaits the rulers.
Doug Fri Dec 09, 04:21:00 PM EST
Stop having elections.
MOME Fri Dec 09, 11:00:00 AM EST
Hillary is lamenting about fake news and suggesting it helped her lose the election. Is fake news and lying the same thing? Someone please tell her to go away.
The DNC giving the questions for the debates to the networks is real news.
Likewise for CNN giving the questions to Hillary.
Charlton Fri Dec 09, 12:24:00 PM EST
Millions and millions of people have told her to go away.
She never listens.
MCAULIFFE SAYS PET CHICKEN NAMED HILLARY DIED RIGHT BEFORE ELECTION....DRUDGE
At least he had a chance to get a meal out of it.
Speaking of 'Fake News'...
Here is Boondock Bob denying that fake news is fake news and at the same time pulling a Hillary in blaming a cybersecurity breach for his loss,
Idaho BobFri Dec 09, 02:36:00 AM EST
Obviously, the integrity of your data has been degraded, perhaps by some sort of cyber attack.
This refers to a story I put up yesterday in which the Israeli IDF admitted they put up a fake news story and map. Now Bubblegum Bob refuses to admit the fake news story is fake, this even though the authors of the fake news story, the IDF, have admitted it is a fake news story.
How can we describe Bob's aberrant behavior? Abnormal commitment to Israel to the point of denying reality or merely pure buffoonery? It's a toughy.
Ahem, Slicker, my post refers to the integrity of your data, which obviously has been degraded, then I continue to speculate as to the cause, 'perhaps by some sort of cyber attack'.
An alternative explanation might be another episode of 'intermittent windshield wiper information flow' in your brain.
I will be discussing this possibility with someone who knows this subject very soon, and will report back if something can be done to help you.
The nonsense flow continues gushing from the boondocks of the northwest.
You comment is ridiculous. You offer no specifics merely a jumble of words. What is it you are saying, that the Times of Israel created a 'fake news' story? That there story was hacked and altered? Are you really that stupid? Do you know what editors, proofreaders, and fact-checkers do at a newspaper? Or, are you saying that the IDF in admitting it made up a fake news story is actually creating a new fake news story? Appealingly inscrutable but what is the point? To make themselves look like fools to... Gee, I don't know who. Enlighten us. Or, better yet, if you have no actual point just leave us in peace.
No, I suspect you are simply throwing up a lot of words in a stream of gibberish to try to distract from the fact that you have no answer to the point I made in my post, a point you so desperately want to have.
Quit embarrassing yourself.
I will be getting back to you in a day or so with some high quality advice for your condition.
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Another nonsense flow from Bubblegum Bob.
Intermittent Windshield Wiper Brain Information Flow Blockages are a tough problem.
I wish to get my facts firm from my source before continuing the conversation.
Just hang with me for a day or two.
Take Prevagan in the meantime.
Doctor Carson attests to the efficacy of Prevagan.
For a fee.
Right, Bubblegum Bob has to visit his fake news source about his fake news stories.
False Advertising Class Action suits in the news
2. Many firms also follows the strategy of keeping high prices initially and later offering high discounts. By keeping high price initially customers have a high refernce price and when they see a high discount based on the high base price, they have a notion that it is a very great deal. This lead to increase in sales.
Example: A store launches new clothes range for fall and after a week or two offers 50% discount on them
http://www.mbaskool.com/business-concepts/marketing-and-strategy-terms/11370-reference-pricing.html
Many retail firms, including Sears, Macy's, JC Penney's, Cole's and Quirk's are being sued for false advertising over this season of Christmas and sharing.
A slight variation on the above is often used and is the subject of these suits.
An item is advertised as being dropped in price by, say, 50%, even when the original price was less or equal to the new advertised price.
Originally offered at say $50, the ad say the price has been dropped to $60 from the original price of $100.
They just change the signs and the tags.
This is, in the business, called "Quirking", after the originator of the practice.
Christmas shoppers have finally caught on and are super pissed, and the Class Action lawyers are on the case.
Pope Francis compares 'fake news' to fecal fetish....DRUDGE
Imagine what the old boy might think of false advertising !
Idaho Elevator Report: America's Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, has removed his name from consideration for any post in the Trump Administration.
This is disheartening news, and might point to the possibility of Romney becoming Secretary of State.
RomneyWatch™: Giuliani reportedly out of running for State job, Tillerson moving up the list; Update: Rudy withdraws
POSTED AT 4:01 PM ON DECEMBER 9, 2016 BY ALLAHPUNDIT
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/12/09/romneywatch-giuliani-reportedly-out-of-running-for-state-job-tillerson-moving-up-the-list/
Quirk's Obama Legacy link is by VDH, and should not be missed.
A lean, mean, long list of the disaster that his Presidency has been.
Conway: Clinton's Attack On "Fake News" Shows Lack Of "Self-Awareness," "Blaming Everybody But Themselves"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/12/09/conway_the_fake_news_hillary_clinton_should_worry_about_was_everyone_who_told_her_trump_could_never_win.html
Hillary Clinton Calls For Regulation Of "Malicious" Fake News; "Lives Are At Risk"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/12/08/hillary_clinton_calls_for_regulation_of_epidemic_of_malicious_fake_news_lives_are_at_risk.html
Brian Williams: "Fake News Played A Role In This Election And Continues To Find A Wide Audience"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/12/08/brian_williams_fake_news_played_a_role_in_this_election_and_continues_to_find_a_wide_audience.html
Obama: Attitudes About My Presidency Among Whites In North Very Different From South; "I Seem Foreign"
Gotta love Hillary and Brian Sermonizing about Fake News.
Corrected Obama link:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/12/08/obama_attitudes_of_my_presidency_among_whites_in_northern_states_very_different_from_southern_states_i_seem_foreign.html
Fake Combatant:
Jason Stern, of the Committee to Protect Journalists, tweeted that Buttrill had put journalists in danger by shooting at ISIS fighters.
"Jason, journalists are detained and killed all over the world over false accusations of being combatants," Stern tweeted on Friday. "This doesn't help."
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/reporter-shoots-at-isis
My God that woman's got brass tits.
Benghazi ? - why caused by a video out in California, of course....
LOCK HER UP !!!!
Question of the Day:
Which is worse, Fake News, or False Advertising
And defend your position.
Quirk, you are invited to go first.
In the alternative:
Compare and contrast Fake News and False Advertising
Both of your questions are silly as one would expect. Speaking of both in general, they are both deceitful and potentially harmful but the only way you can compare them is in the specific and then only in a relative sense, that is, only in how much harm each respective instance produces. They can either be simple shit bordering on satire or they can be seriously dangerous. An example of the latter in the case of advertising would be the many years of false advertising by the tobacco companies. As far as fake news, we have many examples that have either the potential or have actually led to wars, such as, WMD's in Iraq, 'humanitarian crisis' in Libya, and the recent story put out by the IDF on Hezbollah.
The latest example of Fake News, "Pizzagate', could have proven disastrous. Luckily it didn't.
Fake News Story Leads Gunman to Open Fire in Pizzeria, Police Say
This involved the story about the Clinton's running a child sex ring out of a pizzeria. The only interesting things about the story were the assholes who started it and the idiots who spread it. The latter included some of Trump's people like Michael Flynn, the son of general Flynn. And while Gen. Flynn didn't specifically refer to 'pizzagate' himself, he did write an article saying that Clinton e-mails proved she was involved in "Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc".
Gen. Flynn has been called demented by some for all the conspiracy theories he posts on social media. It brings into questions Trump's judgement in appointing him National Security Advisor.
Of course, Pizzagate also went viral because of the millions of lesser morons on social media that spread it. In fact, the story was posted here. No point in naming names as to who posted it. That should be obvious.
Lessons of the Next Missile War
JONATHAN S. TOBIN / DEC. 9, 2016
AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File
Israelis have slipped back into a degree of complacence about the missile threat from Gaza since the war in 2015. The same could be said about their level of concern about a repeat of the 2006 conflict with Lebanon in which the terrorist group rained down missiles on northern Israel. Due to the success of the Iron Dome anti-missile system developed with the United States and the devastating counter-attacks against both Hezbollah and Hamas by the Israel Defense Forces, the terrorist groups are believed to understand they have more to lose than to gain from another war. But assumptions are no guarantee, and the Israeli government and military may not be taking into account the increase in the arsenals possessed by their enemies or whether sufficient resources have been allocated to ensure adequate civil defense in the event of another war with either or both.
That was the conclusion of a recently published report by Israel's State Controller about Operation Protective Edge — Israel's counterattack against Hamas terrorists in 2014. It pointed out shortcomings in the government and army's response to the war as well as the possible impact on future conflicts. Up to two million Israelis don't have access to adequate shelters in the event of missile or rocket attacks. The country's early warning system also was found to be faulty and may not be able to detect all possible forms of attack or give citizens adequate time to seek shelter.
After extensive re-armament campaigns financed in part by Iran, both Hamas and Hezbollah may now be in possession of so many rockets that Israel's highly successful missile defense systems might be overwhelmed. Throw in the possibility that as a result of the Syrian civil war, Hezbollah may now be in possession of at least some of the Assad regime's chemical weapons arsenal, and the report paints a potentially fearful picture.
The report has caused considerable embarrassment for the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu and the IDF. That's especially true since the report notes that the Cabinet has not spent much time discussing civil defense issues since the last war. But there is another conclusion to be drawn from the report. The strongest arguments mounted generally by critics of Netanyahu's stance on the Palestinians have come from some of Israel's former military and intelligence officers. They argue that Israelis are foolish to worry about the military threat posed by efforts to trade land for peace. These security experts assert that there is no border that can be drawn—even the 1949 armistice lines that the late Abba Eban described as "Auschwitz borders"— that can't be defended by the IDF. In particular they point to the relative peace with Hezbollah in the North and with Hamas in the south as proof that deterrence works. Fears about replicating the dangerous aftermath of 2005 withdrawal from Gaza in the far larger and more strategic West Bank are exaggerated, they say, because Israel's army is so strong and its missile defense so foolproof that even a hostile Palestinian state in the West Bank rather than a demilitarized one, would pose no existential threat.
But as the State Controller's report shows, Israel's security rests on assumptions that may be proven false if, encouraged by an Iranian regime that has been enriched and emboldened by President Obama's attempt to appease them, Hezbollah and Hamas coordinate their next attacks and launch missiles in the kinds of numbers that might cause far more damage than the ineffectual campaign of 2014. If the West Bank were also held by a hostile Palestinian regime that refuses to accept Israel's legitimacy that had access to such weapons, that peril would be compounded.
This wouldn't be the first time the assumptions of Israeli military leaders were mistaken—the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the 2006 Lebanon War being just two such examples. The lessons of the last and the next missile war don't just apply to those tasked with defending the Jewish state against Hamas and Hezbollah. They also apply to those who would further burden its defense by the creation of yet another potential terrorist missile launching pad in the West Bank.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/israel/the-lessons-of-the-next-missile-war/
I'm a former CIA officer and a Democrat. Here's what Obama still doesn't get about terrorism
...Obama also reiterated that there is no "war between the United States and Islam." Islamic State and Al Qaeda, he said, do not speak for Muslims everywhere.
To me and many of my former colleagues at the Central
Intelligence Agency, such pronouncements reflect Obama's greatest blind spot in his fight against terrorism:
He has been unwilling to acknowledge that Islamic ideology plays a role in what motivates terrorists to strike.
Meanwhile, men like Imam Bujar Hysa, a jailed cleric in Albania, frame the war on terrorism quite succinctly:
"Islam can coexist with other religions, but with democracy? No!"
Hysa isn't an anomaly. He is a Salafist Muslim — a sect also called Wahhabi — who follows an ultraconservative set of beliefs propagated by Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab nations. Wahhabis do not believe in a separation of church (mosque) and state.
For them, government should be made up of religious clerics — and only clerics — that use the Koran to justify their decisions...
Many interesting examples follow, including Albania.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wright-obama-islam-20161209-story.html
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There's a shadow looming over If You Have To Go—the poignantly-titled and brilliant collection of poetry from Katie Ford—and it's the dissolution of Ford's marriage. Each poem within the collection is either softly shaded by the event or completely subsumed in its darkness. She grasps for meaning in small objects, flickering moments of peace amidst the pain, and communion with the divine. That none of these seem to provide solace only makes her journey that much more devastating and beautiful.
Ford makes a bold choice early on. She's written the core of the collection as sonnets. Though the form of the sonnet has evolved dramatically since its invention in the 13th century, sonnets are still commonly associated with the romantic sentiments of poets like Shakespeare and Keats. Ford's work offers no such sweetness, but neither is there irony to her decision. Bundled together under the chapter heading "Addresses," the sonnets make small discourses directed to herself, her ex, and the universe at large.
If You Have To Go closes with as soft a landing as Ford can allow herself without being cloying or false. She sees a small reflection in the fraying marriage of two friends, using the symbol of an elk that came to sleep on the couple's porch to represent the ugly thud of a relationship's end. She finds agency in the final poem "All I Ever Wanted" ("In the middle of my life / it was right to say my desires") and in her simple plea "to sit by a fire with someone / who wanted me in measure the same to my wanting." Even if you have never been through the trials of a divorce, or even a serious heartbreak, those lines still thrum a chord deep within.


EPA promulgated the Electrical and Electronic Components (E&EC) Effluent Guidelines and Standards (40 CFR Part 469) in 1983. The regulation covers direct direct dischargerA point source that discharges pollutants to waters of the United States, such as streams, lakes, or oceans. and indirect indirect dischargerA facility that discharges pollutants to a publicly owned treatment works (municipal sewage treatment plant). dischargers. The E&EC Effluent Guidelines and Standards are incorporated into NPDES permits for direct dischargers, and permits or other control mechanisms for indirect dischargers (see Pretreatment Program).
What is the Electrical and Electronic Components Industry?
E&EC facilities manufacture semiconductors, such as integrated circuits and light emitting diodes (LEDs); electronic crystals (made from quartz, ceramics and other materials), cathode ray tubes; and luminescent materials used as coatings in fluorescent lamps.
Wastewater is generated from processes such as etching, cleaning, degreasing, cutting and grinding. Pollutants found in wastewaters include fluoride, arsenic and organic compounds.
Cutting and slicing Crystals are cut or sliced using diamond blade saws or slurry saws. Water can be used for cooling and lubrication and to carry away removed material.
Lapping or polishing Mechanical grinders and chemical etchants are used to remove surface oxides and to provide a smooth surface. Water can be used for cooling and lubrication and to carry away removed material.
Cleaning, rinsing and degreasing Removal of etchants, photoresist material, stripping solutions and acid and alkaline solutions from materials after various processing and production steps.
Note: the NAICS listing is provided as a guide and does not define the coverage of the E&EC category. For precise definitions of coverage, see the applicability sections in 40 CFR Part 469.
How many facilities are covered by the existing regulation?
Do these facilities discharge directly, or indirectly?
What is the volume and composition of the waste streams?
Have the waste stream compositions changed since the regulation was promulgated?
Are new treatment systems being utilized or have process changes been implemented to reduce pollutant loadings in wastewaters?
How effective has the regulation been in treating waste streams?
Are there industries, not present in 1983, that should be included in this category?
Are there industries, contemplated in the near future, that should be included in this category?
The Agency solicits information on these questions, as well as any other information believed to be relevant to this study.
For additional information regarding E&EC Effluent Guidelines, please contact Anthony Tripp (tripp.anthony@epa.gov) or 202-566-1419.


We at Everlaw are pleased to announce our commitment to Data Privacy Day—an international effort held annually on Jan. 28 to create awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust—by signing up as a Data Privacy Day 2019 Champion.
As a 2019 Champion, as well as a 2018 Champion, Everlaw recognizes and supports the principle that all organizations share the responsibility of being conscientious stewards of personal information.
Data Privacy Day is part of a greater campaign that promotes awareness of the importance of privacy, highlights easy ways to protect personal information, and reminds organizations that privacy is good for business. In North America, the Data Privacy Day initiative is officially led by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a nonprofit, public-private partnership dedicated to promoting a safer, more secure and more trusted internet. Everlaw joins the growing global effort among nonprofits, academic institutions, corporations, government entities, municipalities, and individuals to raise awareness at home, at work, at school, and in their communities.
We have customers around the world, and are committed to cultivating an organizational culture in support of privacy and data protection.
This means that we take the time to explain our approach to data protection to all of our team members—giving people control of their personal data in line with the right to respect for privacy, and ensuring that personal data is secure. Each team at Everlaw, from Engineering to Sales, has implemented Privacy by Design Principles into their day-to-day activities. Our Security and Compliance team is active in the privacy community, and are looking forward to joining the NCSA at Data Privacy Day Live, hosted at LinkedIn in San Francisco this year.
For more information about getting involved in Data Privacy Day and becoming a Champion, visit staysafeonline.org/data-privacy-day. You can also follow NCSA on Facebook and Twitter for updates and resources and use the official hashtag #PrivacyAware to join the conversation.


SMART calculates early offsite consequences from nuclear reactor accidents. Once the air and ground concentrations of the radionuclide are estimated, the early dose to an individual is calculated via three pathways: cloudshine, short-term groundshine, and inhalation.
The model predicts time-integrated air concentration of each radionuclide at any location from release as a function of time-integrated source strength using the Gaussian profile or, optionally, as an average over the cross-section based on a top-hat distribution.
The solution procedure uses simplified meteorology and involves direct analytic integration of air concentration equations over time and position. Dispersion parameters are calculated from exponential fits to the Pasquill-Gifford curves for six atmospheric stability classes designated A to F.
SMART is an interactive code, and the sample problem runs in a few seconds.
SMART runs on IBM PC or compatible computers under DOS and VAX mainframe computers running VMS.
NEA-DB ran the test included in this package on both a DEC VAX-6000 minicomputer and a PC/80486 compatible desktop computer.
The code was written in FORTRAN 77 and was tested at RSIC using the Microsoft Version 4.01 compiler. The IBM PROFORT compiler was used to create the executable file included in the package.
The test cases executed on VAX under VMS and on PC under MS-DOS V.6.0.
Keywords: atmospheric precipitations, radiation doses, radioactive release.


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DREW PARRISH NAMED MAY TEXAS LEAGUE PITCHER OF THE MONTH
The left-handed starting pitcher has been recognized for his outstanding pitching during the month of May.
Left-hander Drew Parrish was named the Texas League Pitcher of the Month in May, as he went 3-1 with a 0.59 ERA across five starts. (Kelsey Chanler/NWA Naturals)
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SPRINGDALE, Ark – Minor League Baseball announced the Pitcher and Player of the Month honors for each of the respective Player Development Leagues and Naturals' left-hander Drew Parrish was named the May Texas League Pitcher of the Month for his outstanding performance in the season's second month. Parrish is the
SPRINGDALE, Ark – Minor League Baseball announced the Pitcher and Player of the Month honors for each of the respective Player Development Leagues and Naturals' left-hander Drew _Parrish_ was named the May Texas League Pitcher of the Month for his outstanding performance in the season's second month. Parrish is the first Naturals player to claim a monthly award in 2022 but was previously recognized as the league's Pitcher of the Week, back-to-back weeks on May 8 and May 15.
During his award-winning month, Parrish started five games and went 3-1 with a 0.59 ERA (2 ER in 30.2 IP). He only allowed 15 hits and four walks, while striking out 29 opposing hitters. Among qualified Texas League pitchers in May, Parrish pitched the most innings and had the lowest ERA and WHIP (0.62), while holding opponents to a .144 average.
The Rockledge, Florida native pitched at least 5.0 innings in all five starts, including three quality starts. In back-to-back outings on May 7 at Springfield and May 13 vs. Wichita, he threw 7.0 scoreless innings, including a season-high nine strikeouts against the Wind Surge, both starts earning him the league's subsequent Pitcher of the Week Honors.
The Royals' eighth round selection (229th overall) in the 2019 First-Year Player Draft out of Florida State University, Parrish has made a league-best 10 starts this season, with a 4-3 record and 2.13 ERA (13 ER in 55.0 IP). He leads the Texas League in WHIP (0.82) and opponents' batting average (.160), as well as innings pitched, while ranking second in ERA and tied eighth in strikeouts (48).
Infielder Enmanuel Valdez of the Corpus Christi Hooks (Double-A, Houston Astros) was the Texas League's Player of the Month in May, as he slashed batted .367/.453/.653 with 16 extra-base hits and 26 runs batted in, finishing second in the league in hits (36), to the Naturals' Michael Massey.