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Postby BedderDanu » Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:37 am UTC
Thesh wrote: Why does this matter?
SELECT 1 WHERE 1 NOT IN (NULL)
That's why.
I know it's a few days old, but wouldn't
SELECT 1 WHERE 1 IS DISTINCT FROM NULL
get you what you want? IS DISTINCT FROM and IS NOT DISTINCT FROM treat null as a value
a | b | operation | result
null | null | a IDF b | false
null | null | a INDS b | true
null | value | a IDF b | true
null | value | a INDF b | false
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Postby Diadem » Tue Jan 14, 2014 8:40 am UTC
I downloaded it from www.threadbuildingblocks.org, which is the official site I think. The dowload is called "tbb42_20131118oss_win". I took a look at the header file, and there are two different atomics defined there, one with and one without fetch_and_add. As far as I can tell the latter should only be used for atomic<void>. But clearly it isn't. I can only assume that's a bug in tbb, though I'm not sure exactly under which circumstances it occurs.
Anyway, these are my results so far:
Short Algoritm, calculation of pi (100000000 steps):
Using Serial: pi = 3.141592653590426, 905 ms
Using OpenMP: pi = 3.141592653589683, 453 ms
Using PPL: pi = 3.141592653589739, 1123 ms
Using TBB: pi = 3.141592653590731, 7504 ms
Long Algorithm: calculation of sum of primes (100000 steps):
Using Serial: Sum of Primes = 454396537, 2589 ms
Using OpenMP: Sum of Primes = 454396537, 1498 ms
Using PPL: Sum of Primes = 454396537, 1310 ms
Using TBB: Sum of Primes = 454396537, 1295 ms
The 'short algorithm' is a single term in a series for pi, which is done in parallel for a lot of terms. The 'long algorithm' is a, purposefully extremely inefficient, test whether a number is prime. Overhead should be pretty low on this long algorithm. And indeed all parallel packages score well. TBB and PPL are I think very similar in architecture, so no surprise they score the same. I'm a bit surprised openMP is slower though.
openMP wins in overhead, but that could be insufficient skill on my part. Certainly the terrible terrible performance of TBB is due to not having atomics. PPL should also score better if you use a newer version - I only got Visual Studio 2010, and that misses a few PPL constructs that should simplify things. I also use the default scheduler for both, which probably is not ideal for such a short algorithm.
In the end, all three choices are probably workable. Which means I have to look at them in more detail to make a choice.
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Postby Yakk » Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:56 pm UTC
What compiler and version? Maybe it screws it up.
What is the atomic type you are using (is it actually int?)?
Tried std::atomic?
An advantage if ppl is apl simularity. Which opens up graphics cards.
Postby Diadem » Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:48 pm UTC
I'm using Visual Studio 2010. It doesn't support std::atomic. It's c++11 support is shaky at best. And yes, it was atomic<int>.
I now added boost::threads to my comparison. It's the most low level implementation, with thread creation done manually. Unsurprisingly it's rather fast, though not as fast as PPL or TBB for the long algorithm. Probably due to them having work stealing. Strangely enough it gets faster with more threads, and with just 2 threads it's in fact exactly as fast as the serial case - meaning it's not doing any parallelization. Anybody know why that is?
Anyway, the bottomline is that I still don't know which framework is the best. PPL has the friendliest syntax, but it's rather limited without upgrading to VS2013. Plus it means saying goodbye to any thought of ever making a non-windows version of the product. openMP seems a good choice, with a relatively friendly syntax and broad portability. However it also seems to be the slowest of the bunch, at least for my limited test. Plus I think openMP is more designed for task parallelism than data parallelism (but I could be wrong). PPL has good performance and power, if I can get those weird kinks straightened out, but I just don't like the way it complicates things. And using manual threading (with boost or the c++ stl) just seems too pedestrian.
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Postby Yakk » Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:53 pm UTC
I said APL -- I meant AMP.
AMP has been ported to a branch of clang, and AMP is basically PPL on steroids (the ability to write graphics card code in C++ and toss it at PPL-like interfaces):
http://isocpp.org/blog/2013/11/amp
is AMP widely used? I've heard of it, and it sounds awesome, but I can't find too much about it online, leading me to believe it isn't very popular.
Not that I know of: But it looks promising. And microsoft is pushing for standardization of it.
We need some standards. Parallel computing is the future, but the current landscape is still rather a mess. And most implementations are way too low level, forcing you to think about threads and race conditions and stuff like that. Ideally, I only want to think about algorithms, the rest should be done by my compiler.
Of course C++ isn't exactly the best language for that. Still, I have hopes.
Postby korona » Tue Jan 14, 2014 4:32 pm UTC
Parallel computing has been around for more than 25 years and the most commonly used standard are OpenMP for shared memory and MPI for distributed systems.
I don't think there hasn't been enough work on libraries for parallel computing. I think that parallel computing is inherently difficult.
The only viable strategy to avoid race conditions is to make communication explicit i.e. communicate via some message / pipe / event interface and avoid the use of mutable shared memory. This has the additional advantage of using only a minimal number of locks, atomic instructions and cache invalidations and is easy to port to distributed environments. However it can be slower than an optimized implementation build on low level primitives in certain scenarios.
EDIT: A better approach to compare parallel performance would be to parallelize the "map"-part of your program (i.e. the computation of primes) and do the "reduce"-part of your program (i.e. counting them) sequentially or do it using a parallel tree-based approach.
Postby EvanED » Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:11 pm UTC
Diadem wrote: Certainly the terrible terrible performance of TBB is due to not having atomics.
...which means your comparison is bad. What happens if you use parallel_for with, say, boost::atomic? You get the higher-level task-based API that comes with TBB but are giving it a fair test.
Or you could figure out why atomics aren't working for you, because Yakk's right -- from inspection they are there and should be working. I missed some macro expansions before, and there are versions applicable to more than pointers. tbb/atomic.h contains
__TBB_DECL_ATOMIC(long)
__TBB_DECL_ATOMIC(unsigned long)
__TBB_DECL_ATOMIC(unsigned)
__TBB_DECL_ATOMIC(int)
each of which expands to something like
template<> struct atomic<T>: internal::atomic_impl_with_arithmetic<T,T,char> {
where internal::atomic_impl_with_arithmetic contains both fetch_and_add and operator+=.
What compiler are you using?
korona wrote: A better approach to compare parallel performance would be to parallelize the "map"-part of your program (i.e. the computation of primes) and do the "reduce"-part of your program (i.e. counting them) sequentially or do it using a parallel tree-based approach.
That's better if it works. Not every problem fits into that sort of framework. Heck, in a theoretical sense not every problem can be efficiently paralleled.
Postby korona » Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:45 am UTC
Unless P = NC . Yeah, not every problem fits into that framework but both problems Diadem posted do.
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Postby You, sir, name? » Sat Jan 18, 2014 12:44 am UTC
Does anyone else get that thing where the BAs are all "Let's implement feature X", and they draw up specifications and everything is nice, and you develop it, and then 3 days before release they're all "X? Oh, the customers wanted that renamed that to Y"... and now all your code is located in classes called "com.company.project.X.moduleDoingX.SomeXFroobnikThatDoesX", and you can sort of make it work in the user-facing stuff, but all the internals refer X in a billion places and you're never going to change it to Y.
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Postby tastelikecoke » Sat Jan 18, 2014 12:03 pm UTC
So after some tinkering with C++ programs, I encountered a problem in integer overflow errors. So I searched for stackoverflow articles how to catch overflows and apparently there is no simple "try catch" way for it. I thought "Wow, I wish it was like Java".
I have usually denounced Java as slow trudging language with wordy data structures. Now I don't know what to believe in. And I also had complaints in python and its im/mutability rules. Is there truly no such thing as an ideal language for me? </3
Postby Xenomortis » Sat Jan 18, 2014 12:44 pm UTC
Yeah, you have to check for it yourself. Of course, it doesn't help if it's a signed integer that overflows, since I think the behaviour is only defined for unsigned integers.
tastelikecoke wrote: I have usually denounced Java as slow trudging language with wordy data structures. Now I don't know what to believe in.
Well I don't think the flurry of colons and angle brackets that form C++ data structures are particularly friendly.
I mean "std::vector< std::map< char, std::unordered_set< int > > >" isn't exactly pretty.
And of course that'll throw compiler errors unless you perform the necessary dance.
But just because you didn't like C++ doesn't mean you've been wrong about Java. I'll leave that to others to discuss.
Postby korona » Sat Jan 18, 2014 1:01 pm UTC
Java also doesn't handle integer overflow/underflow. That would require too many useless runtime checks. Java is not "safer" than C in this respect.
Postby tastelikecoke » Sat Jan 18, 2014 1:08 pm UTC
Xenomortis wrote: Well I don't think the flurry of colons and angle brackets that form C++ data structures are particularly friendly.
But it is pretty! I like nesting angle brackets, and I prefer my data structures to be free of referencing.
std::vector<std::map<std::string,int> >::iterator it = v.begin();
It's so cuuute!
Xenomortis wrote: And of course that'll throw compiler errors unless you perform the necessary dance.
I can dance all day!
If only I had a language as low-high-level as C++ and as easy to debug as Java[citation needed], maybe my life would be better and happier.
Postby Ubik » Sat Jan 18, 2014 2:45 pm UTC
I wanted to take a look into how the C++ standard library that comes with gcc does shared_ptr. It's not exactly obvious code to me. I guess I could retry after applying some code formatting program to get past the confusing layout. Not that it will probably be all that clear after that either.
More specifically, I'm interested to find out how enable_shared_from_this works. My first guess was that it turns the data structure into something similar that make_shared does, so that the reference counter, or whatever structure is being used, comes along with the object itself. Though now that I'm typing this, I realized the shared_ptr code could probably just detect the presence of enable_shared_from_this and set the weak_ptr inside of it.
Postby Thesh » Sat Jan 18, 2014 4:23 pm UTC
korona wrote: Java also doesn't handle integer overflow/underflow. That would require too many useless runtime checks. Java is not "safer" than C in this respect.
It shouldn't do it at all, as many things rely on integer overflow (usually unsigned). However, there is an x86 status flag that gets set when an addition operation overflows and I could see a language construct like overflows(a + b) to explicitly say "add a and b and return an enum indicating whether the operations overflows."
Hack: Use inline assembly and the "seto" or "jo" instruction (yeah, they have strange mnemonics ) to accomplish that in C++. Fall back to manual checking if not on a x86 platform.
On a tangentially related question, I wonder for people here what would prefer for data types in a statically typed language:
a) All integer types signed by default with a prefix to make them unsigned
b) All integer types unsigned by default, with a prefix to make them signed
c) 8-bit integer unsigned by default with a prefix to make it signed, all other integer types signed by default with a prefix to make them unsigned
I'm leaning towards b. It seems to me like 90% of the time I don't need a negativable (it's a word, google returns results) number. Granted, in most of these cases I would not notice a difference between signed and unsigned anyway. Signed integers just seem to be more complicated to me (although it's probably irrelevant), and I think the simplest choice should be the default choice.
Postby EvanED » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:07 pm UTC
C++ gives you typedefs, which help a lot with that.
Thesh wrote: It shouldn't do it at all, as many things rely on integer overflow (usually unsigned).
I strongly disagree. Overflows can and have lead to all sorts of obnoxious problems and security vulnerabilities. If you want overflow, you should ask for it.
Thesh wrote: On a tangentially related question, I wonder for people here what would prefer for data types in a statically typed language:
I use negative numbers a ton, and would strongly prefer (a). It's interesting, because I consider the situation reversed... I almost consider unsigned numbers to be more trouble than they're worth.
Postby Yakk » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:43 pm UTC
tastelikecoke wrote: So after some tinkering with C++ programs, I encountered a problem in integer overflow errors. So I searched for stackoverflow articles how to catch overflows and apparently there is no simple "try catch" way for it. I thought "Wow, I wish it was like Java".
Write your own checking integer type. Bit of boilerplate.
Probably easier to just do away with overflow however.
I do not want to pay for your checks. In C++ you only pay for what you use.
I have usually denounced Java as slow trudging language with wordy data structures.
And yet you want branches and checks and everythimg around every `int` operation. Do you think that comes for free?
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EvanED wrote: I strongly disagree. Overflows can and have lead to all sorts of obnoxious problems and security vulnerabilities. If you want overflow, you should ask for it.
It was a bad argument on my side, since most of the time you don't expect overflow. However, it's cost vs benefit, and I don't think the benefit is worth the cost.
EvanED wrote: It's interesting, because I consider the situation reversed... I almost consider unsigned numbers to be more trouble than they're worth.
I've been playing around a lot with cryptography lately, and a lot of stuff relies on addition modulo 2^n, so I'm probably looking with a very biased perspective. Of course, in actuality, there is normally no multiplication or comparisons, just addition and subtraction, I could probably replace the unsigned ints in my code with signed ints and not see a difference at all. Most of the time, when I'm using negatives, it's finance related and I'm using decimal data types. When I am using integers (apart from cryptographic stuff), it's usually counters or memory related stuff, where I would not expect a negative.
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Postby jaap » Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:43 pm UTC
Thesh wrote:
EvanED wrote: It's interesting, because I consider the situation reversed... I almost consider unsigned numbers to be more trouble than they're worth. :-)
One irritating situation that occurs with unsigned integers is when you have a for loop with a decreasing index, and you want to have it count all the way down to zero.
With signed integers, you would just use the standard for loop:
for( int ix=n-1; ix>=0; --ix) { ... }
This does not work with an unsigned ix variable - it becomes an infinite loop as ix underflows from 0 to UINT_MAX. Instead, you would probably have to use something like this:
for( unsigned ix=n; ix--; ) { ... }
I find this less readable, as it is far too easy to make fencepost errors.
Note that ix will still underflow even in this working version, so you would not want that to raise an error.
Postby Thesh » Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:43 pm UTC
That's why you do this:
int a[10] = 0;
//do stuff with array
while (i>0);
Postby Diadem » Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:00 am UTC
Using a do-while to make a for-loop? Ugly!
Postby Thesh » Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:18 am UTC
Diadem wrote: Using a do-while to make a for-loop? Ugly!
Counting down is always ugly. "for (i=length-1;" - shoot me now.
Even better:
uint64_t i = 0;
goto entry;
//do stuff
} while (i != UINT64_MAX);
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Postby mr-mitch » Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:32 am UTC
jaap wrote: One irritating situation that occurs with unsigned integers is when you have a for loop with a decreasing index, and you want to have it count all the way down to zero.
But that's why I got into the habit of writing ix < n.
It makes things quite interesting. If you're iterating forward or backward, the condition is still the same.
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < n; ++i) { ... }
for (unsigned int i = n-1; i < n; --i) { ... }
One other problem is what do you do if your parameter is a size_t (and if it's a length, it *should* be)? That's guaranteed to be unsigned, and mixing signed and unsigned is bad.
Postby phlip » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:47 am UTC
Of course, there's always this idiom:
size_t i = length;
while (i --> 0)
(note: please don't actually do this in real code...)
Postby PM 2Ring » Sun Jan 19, 2014 6:14 am UTC
I learned my first assembler language (IBM 360/370) before I knew C existed. I've occasionally been annoyed by C's lack of overflow handling, but I guess Ritchie & co decided that it was too hard to do it portably, and that if anyone really needed it they could revert to assembler.
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Postby operator[] » Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:34 pm UTC
If you don't care about portability, gcc has a flag -ftrapv for trapping (i.e. crashing, by default) on signed overflow. Performance is about as terrible as you'd expect, but it's lovely for things like Project Euler.
Postby tastelikecoke » Mon Jan 20, 2014 1:32 pm UTC
Damn. I wish EEE people had a hardware way of checking overflows. It sounds easy to me
But there's always BigInteger in Java Note that I'm not really into speed for my current problem. More on correctness, as it's for a programming contest.
Postby You, sir, name? » Mon Jan 20, 2014 3:20 pm UTC
I think the reason the V and C flags (in x86 notation) aren't accessible in higher level languages is because there is no decent abstraction for it.
Postby korona » Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:22 pm UTC
You, sir, name? wrote: I think the reason the V and C flags (in x86 notation) aren't accessible in higher level languages is because there is no decent abstraction for it.
Well you could define a add-and-throw-exception-on-overflow operator in C++.
Postby lgw » Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:20 pm UTC
PM 2Ring wrote: I learned my first assembler language (IBM 360/370) before I knew C existed. I've occasionally been annoyed by C's lack of overflow handling, but I guess Ritchie & co decided that it was too hard to do it portably, and that if anyone really needed it they could revert to assembler.
I guess it depends on the sort of "overflow handling" you're looking for. I believe it was Ritchie who explained that C arithmetic operations can't overflow, because they're all defined modulo 2n: MAX_INT + 1 = MIN_INT, because the domain is a ring.
Still, you might be surprised at how the optimizer might be your friend. Just because there's no abstraction in C (and we don't call C a "high level language" these days ) doesn't mean you can't get at the functionality, if you can express it in C in a round-about way. I haven't messed with the carry and overflow flags, but for example for 32-bit ints
(x << n) | (x >> (32 - n))
will be optimized to a single rotate instruction with modern compilers/platforms. I was once upset about the lack of a rotate abstraction, but really it's just syntax sugar: I can express what I want, and the optimizer will be smart about it, so I can make a macro for clarity if needed.
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Postby EvanED » Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:27 pm UTC
lgw wrote: I guess it depends on the sort of "overflow handling" you're looking for. I believe it was Ritchie who explained that C arithmetic operations can't overflow, because they're all defined modulo 2n: MAX_INT + 1 = MIN_INT, because the domain is a ring.
That's true for unsigned numbers, but not for signed ones, so not of MAX_INT+1=MIN_INT; overflow of signed integers is undefined behavior, and compilers will take advantage of that to optimize away conditionals in the right situations. For example, int x = foo(); if(x+1 < x) { ... } can be optimized to int x = foo(); because the only situations in which x+1 < x is true is when undefined behavior happened anyway.
(I'll come back to the unsigned int vs cost question in a few days; I want to run some tests first, and I'm busy at the moment.)
Postby Xenomortis » Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:17 pm UTC
So I started looking at the Java code base that I'll soon be working with.
I can't comment on the code, because I found it so hard to parse in Eclipse; something about that editor's defaults made it extraordinarily difficult for me to read.
I don't really know why either, I can read (with only some difficulty) code without any syntax highlighting, in fairly dense format.
But I couldn't read this.
Maybe it's the combination of long class names, no real highlighting beyond Java keywords and the little use of whitespace* beyond indenting made it really hard for me to read.
But I think the font was the real culprit; I found it much easier to read when I quickly opened one of the files in vim, and it didn't highlight much more (although it is light on dark).
I hope simple style changes in Eclipse are sufficient.
*I'm weird in that I like superfluous spaces at times, particularly inside parentheses.
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Postby Link » Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:59 pm UTC
phlip wrote: Of course, there's always this idiom:
As with several things I've seen in this thread, that's actually quite reasonable in embedded use: such code may compile to something marginally smaller than a safer and more intuitive approach. Atmel even recommends this approach for 8-bit AVR programming.
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Postby phlip » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:35 pm UTC
To be clear, "while(n--)" is an idiom I've seen in a number of places, and is fine if you're trying to squeeze out every last instruction (and have a compiler with a less-than-impressive optimiser)... it's specifically when typed it to look like some kind of "arrow operator" that I say "please don't actually do this".


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This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of work--museum installations, landscape and park commissions, home and office designs, avant-garde films, poetry collections--that challenges traditional notions about the built environment. This book promotes a deliberate use of architecture and design in dealing with the blight of the human condition; it recommends that people seek architectural and aesthetic solutions to the dilemma of mortality.
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Audacious and liberating, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of 20th-century poetry, postmodern critical theory, conceptual art and architecture, contemporary avant-garde poetics, and to serious readers interested in architecture's influence on imaginative expression.


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Clarence Fountain, 88, Dies; Led the Blind Boys of Alabama – The New York Times
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Clarence Fountain, 88, Dies; Led the Blind Boys of Alabama
George Scott, left, Clarence Fountain and Jimmy Carter of the Blind Boys of Alabama at the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan in 2002.Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images
Clarence Fountain, who sang gospel music fit to call down the heavens as the leader of the award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama for more than 60 years, died on Sunday at a hospital near his home in Baton Rouge, La. He was 88.
The Blind Boys' manager, Charles Driebe, said the cause was complications of diabetes.
The Blind Boys of Alabama sang a raucous, exuberant style of gospel that mixed harmony vocals with impassioned call-and-response shouting intended to rouse an audience into a religious fervor.
Explaining the group's sound to The New York Times in 1987, Ray Allen, a folklorist and music historian, said it had evolved from the more staid style known as jubilee gospel into one that is distinguished by "a prominent lead singer shouting and preaching and backed by a rhythm-and-blues band."
"Vocally, it made use of stronger rhythms and vocal techniques, such as moaning, melisma, falsetto and trance-induced kinds of behavior that had obvious antecedents in Caribbean or West African worship," Mr. Allen continued. "The jubilee groups, by contrast, stood up straight and didn't move around much." The Blind Boys, he said, "were at the forefront of the transition."
Mr. Fountain, who had a deep, versatile voice that became weathered over the decades, often sang lead. When he did, he could sound as explosive as James Brown. (Mr. Driebe said it might be more accurate to say that Mr. Brown sounded like Mr. Fountain.)
The Blind Boys had their roots in the mid-1940s at a segregated school for the blind in Talladega, Ala., where Mr. Fountain and five friends formed a group they originally called the Happy Land Jubilee Singers.
Renamed the Blind Boys, the group was well established on the gospel circuit by the time many other performers, including Otis Redding, Little Richard, Sam Cooke and Mr. Brown, became famous for moving from gospel to secular music.
Mr. Fountain said that over the years some producers had tried to persuade him and the group to make pop records, but he refused.
"I didn't turn my back on the Lord," he said on the NPR program "Morning Edition" in 2001. "I said I wanted to sing gospel music and I wanted to sing it for the Lord."
Still, the Blind Boys' foot-stomping sound appealed to secular audiences — and to secular artists. They worked with Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, Tom Waits, Aaron Neville and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.
The Happy Land Jubilee Singers shortly before the group was renamed the Blind Boys of Alabama in 1948. From left were Johnnie Fields, Mr. Fountain, J.T. Hutton, Ollie Thomas, George L. Scott and Velma Traylor.
Beginning in the 1990s, the Blind Boys became more open to covering songs by artists like Mr. Reed, the Rolling Stones, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Dylan, Prince and Curtis Mayfield, as long as the lyrics did not betray their spirituality.
The results could be striking. In one instance the group sang the lyrics to "Amazing Grace" over the Animals' arrangement of the traditional song "The House of the Rising Sun."
"I've taken the theory that music is music, and all you have to do is just sing it and keep your lyrics clean and you're on your way," Mr. Fountain said on NPR's "Weekend Edition" in 2002. "So we try to put the gospel feel to it, and it makes it much better than it was when it was rock 'n' roll, you know?"
In 1994 the Blind Boys received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Their "Spirit of the Century" won the 2001 Grammy for best traditional gospel album, and they went on to win four more Grammys before receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2009.
They collectively sang the part of Oedipus in "The Gospel at Colonus," a musical retelling of "Oedipus Rex," which starred Morgan Freeman and was presented on Broadway in 1988. They performed all over the world and visited the White House repeatedly, singing for Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Mr. Fountain did not perform for Mr. Obama; he retired from touring with the group in 2007. But he still sang on occasion, Mr. Driebe said, most recently at a performance with Marc Cohn and the Blind Boys in Baton Rouge in May.
Mr. Fountain was born on Nov. 28, 1929, in Tyler, Ala., to Will and Ida Fountain and grew up in Selma. His father was a sharecropper. Clarence lost his vision when he was 2 after a caregiver tried to cure an eye infection with a lye-based solution. He was sent to the Alabama School for the Negro Blind in Talladega (now part of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind) when he was 8.
He joined a boys choir there before forming the Happy Land Jubilee Singers. By the late 1940s the group was touring full time, and in 1948 they changed their name to the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. They have used variations on that name ever since, including Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama.
The Blind Boys lineup has changed over the years. The last surviving original member is Jimmy Carter, who is still touring with the group.
Mr. Fountain married Barbara Robertson in 1999. She survives him. His survivors also include several children.
Mr. Fountain said in a 1993 interview that he did not mind performing in secular venues because "God is everywhere, and we think he's in the nightclub too, if you bring him in there." By the same logic, he said, he saw nothing wrong with bringing the energy of a rock concert to a revival tent.
"If James Brown could come in here and do the twist, and do the mess around for the Devil, then I feel like it's all right if I stand up here and mash potatoes for God," he said at one live performance, moments before launching into "Look Where You Brought Me From."
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First, the Forever Rose is a real rose, not something made of silk or paper or something else to make it looks like rose. Second, unlike ost floral arrangements that wither within a week or 2, the Forever Rose will remain beautiful, well, forever.
According to the luxury flower company Forever Rose London, Each rose stands upright in a glass dome. If left encased in the bell glass, the rose can last forever without sunlight or even water. If removed from the protective cloche, it will still retain its recently-plucked appearance and remain wilt-free for up to 3 years.
How is that possible? Of course, the company won't tell their secrety. But based on what they can say, a mixture of glycerin and other oils is used to preserves the flowers and helps them stay fresh. Of course, the quality of flower is also important. In addition to classic red rose there are a wide variety of colors and arrangements. Of course, they don't come cheap. Prices range from $200 to $4,000.


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A: Click in the Category axis or Number axis (which one you want to change color) > go the the editor (right side of scene builder) > choose color in tick label fill

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If you ever get an email message in your Inbox that includes multiple file attachments, you can easily download all the attachments to your hard disk as a single zip archive with a click. Such a feature is available in all popular email clients including Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and even Microsoft Outlook.
However, let's now consider a slightly different problem.
You have multiple emails that contain multiple attachments of multiple types and you now want to download them all (the attachments) to a local folder? How do you do this?
Well, here's an easy workaround.
Step 1. Go to drop.io and click the "Create a Drop" button. Drop.io is now a paid service but you can still create temporary accounts for free.
Step 2. You'll be assigned a unique email address for your drop.io account. Copy this email address to your clipboard (it's listed in the right sidebar).
Step 3. Go back to your email inbox and forward all the messages, that you would like to download, to your new drop.io email address. Within seconds, drop.io will pull all the file attachments from your emails and will add them to the new "drop" that you created in Step 1.
Step 4. Now click Share – > Zip file to create a compressed zip file containing all the email attachments that you can save to your computer with a click. Once you are done with the download, go to Settings – > Maintenance – > Destroy Drop to delete all your files from drop.io permanently.
Drop.io, as you can see in the video screencast below, is blazingly fast. Another advantage is that if there're any file attachments in the "drop" that you would not like to download locally, like a big video file or some PowerPoint slideshow with pictures of cute kittens, you can easily delete them from drop.io before creating the zip.


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EIS SEIS
Arts, Photography and Design Catering, Food and Drink Housing and Property Manufacturing and Retail Professional, Financial and Business Technology
Envestors
HEMSPAN Ltd Envestors	Manufacturing and Retail	EIS
Hemspan states that it designs bio-based building systems and products for construction by combining modern methods, technology and hemp to produce net-zero carbon solutions. The company argues that every time an average house is built, the CO2 emitted by the manufacture, transport and assembly of the materials used is around 50 to 60 tonnes. Hemspan says that one hectare of UK-grown industrial hemp can absorb 11 tonnes of CO2 each year with regeneratively farmed hemp capable of sequestering a further 6 tonnes per hectare of CO2 into the soil each year. Hemspan intends to activate significant demand for hemp farming in the UK and develop processing technologies to reduce reliance on imports and enable large scale manufacturing of bio-based cladding and insulation products that spin out of R&D programmes. It asserts that the global industrial hemp market is expected to grow at 25% CAGR reaching US$ 27 billion by 2028. It aims to be a contender in this segment.
pledged: 200% days to go: Stretch	investment: £200,000
Buy Me Once Crowdcube	Manufacturing and Retail	EIS
Buy me once (BMO) researches and sells long-lasting products, providing value for money for customers and a way for brands to compete on quality while also tackling climate change driven by overconsumption and waste. It claims that conventional appliances break at twice the rate of 2004, with the UK dumping 22 million furniture items with more than half of it being fast fashion. BMO aspires to change this and dominate the £100 billion sustainable consumerism market. The company raised £780,000 with Crowdcube, private investors and Green Angel Syndicate in 2019-2020. It claims to have grossed £680,000 for its 2020-2021 year sales with a 332% YoY growth. BMO has 38,000 email subscribers with a social media presence of 67,000 followers. The company states it will use the investment to accelerate its marketing activities, develop its website and expand its product range.
ioLight Magnificent Mobile Microscopes Crowdcube	Manufacturing and Retail	EIS
ioLight makes microscopes that fit in a user's pocket or inside laboratory incubators and display high-resolution images of cells on any mobile phone. The company claims that climate change is driving scientists to the most remote places on earth to look at its impact on the smallest, most fragile organisms. It also stresses that pandemics are driving bioresearch, which relies on monitoring cell growth in incubators. ioLight argues that its products address the aforementioned objectives. The company has sold 400 units to date and aspires to dominate the global microscope market that is worth $9.5 billion and growing at 7.9%. The company has raised £815,000 in equity funding since its launch in 2014 and has featured in two National Geographic videos on Mount Everest and in the BBC Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. It states it will use the investment to accelerate its company revenue and win new opportunities to expand its business.
pledged: 129% days to go: Expired investment: £259,586
Rype Office Crowdcube	Manufacturing and Retail	EIS
Rype Office (RO) remanufactures high quality used office furniture to as-new condition ones. It argues that 30% of the greenhouse gases created by a commercial building over its lifetime are from furniture and every year in the UK around 75,000 tonnes of office furniture goes to a landfill. RO claims that its products have reduced an estimated 1 million kgCO2e carbon emissions. It further asserts that its business model provides it higher margins than new furniture sales. The company also employs, on larger projects, local long-term unemployed team members with disabilities or a homeless background. RO has acquired clients such as JLL, British Land and the NHS, worked on more than 200 projects and was named in the 'Top 10 European B2B startups to watch in the circular economy category. It aspires to dominate the £1.44 billion per annum UK furniture market. RO states it will use the investment to prepare for expansion into Europe as legislation enforces lower carbon solutions.
Loopster Crowdcube	Manufacturing and Retail	EIS
Loopster is a D2C platform that aspires to make selling and shopping for secondhand clothes an easy and sustainable lifestyle process. It argues that fashion is one of the most polluting industries on the planet projected to use one-fourth of the world's carbon budget by 2050. It argues that secondhand shopping offers a way out of this crisis. The company aspires to dominate the secondhand fashion industry projected to be worth $64 billion by 2024. Loopster has processed over 4000 garments and sold over 1900 in June 2021 earning revenue worth £122,000 as of May 2021. It allows sellers to order a Loopster Clear-Out Bag, send in discarded clothes, and the company does the rest, paying them for everything it accepts. For shoppers, Loopster offers hand-checked quality clothes at a quarter or less of high street prices. Loopster has featured in press entities such as The Sun, The Guardian, The Telegraph and Drapers Magazine. It has over 23,000 social media followers and 15,000 newsletter subscribers. Loopster states it will use the investment to continue scaling and building out a service for brands, hire a marketing manager and further optimise its processing technology to scale rapidly.
pledged: 78% days to go: Expired investment: £393,149
Occuity Seedrs	Manufacturing and Retail	EIS
Occuity seeks to develop revolutionary non-invasive screening and monitoring devices for chronic diseases like diabetes and Alzheimer's. It argues that its device safely shines a low power beam of light into the eye and then collects and analyses the return signal to accurately measure structures within the eye and detect changes associated with the onset of the aforementioned diseases. Occuity is targeting three distinct markets, namely Ophthalmology, Disease Screening and Disease Monitoring, which is worth an estimated $35 billion per year. It claims that its 'Occuity Indigo' product enables earlier detection of diabetes and provides a non-contacting, pain-free glucose monitor. Occuity was awarded over £1.5 million as part of the Innovate UK grant for the development of technology within Occuity Indigo. It has also signed a partnership with one of the UK's leading ophthalmic distributors, Birmingham Optical, to distribute its PM1 pachymeter device. It states it will use 42% of the investment towards Research and Development (R&D), 23% towards sales and marketing, 20% towards management and finance, 9% towards managing CAPEX and NRE, and 6% towards paying fees.
Bird & Blend Tea Co. Crowdcube	Manufacturing and Retail	EIS
Bird and Blend Tea (BABT) is a British independent tea mixologist. The company claims to offer 100+ blends of tea in a vegan-friendly product range, employs 125+ people and runs a global e-commerce platform attracting 100,000 monthly users. It claims to have achieved a £3.97 million turnover in 2020-2021 despite lockdown closures of its retail stores. BABT asserts that it operates 13 experiential retail stores across the UK since its last crowdfund in 2017. It has also featured in press entities such as The Independent, OK!, Huff Post, The Telegraph, and GQ Magazine. The company states it will use the investment to expedite the growth of its brand with investments in digital innovation, develop its technology stack, strengthen its team, open more multisensory stores, and undertake impactful projects to achieve B Corp status.
Beija London Seedrs	Manufacturing and Retail	EIS
Beija London (BL) is a digital lingerie brand for cup sizes AA-H with a flagship store at Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross. It argues that women have suffered because of the over glamorisation of the intimates sector. BL intends to solve that problem. It asserts that every single bra it makes caters to different cup sizes and different needs. The company has received an investment of £1.8 million in equity finance to date. BL witnessed +1300 fittings being completed on its online bra fitting service portal since its launch in April 2020 and garnered a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 57. BL was approached by Victoria's Secret US in 2019 to help the latter expand its offering and be more inclusive of different body shapes. It states it will use the investment to ensure that it has a sufficient stock of fast selling fashion lines to boost cash flow and increase the lifetime value of its loyal customer base.
Perkier Seedrs	Manufacturing and Retail	EIS
Perkier is the UK's fastest growing healthy snack bar brand. It asserts that its bars are 100% plant based, contain 60% less sugar, and are free from gluten and palm oil. Perkier aspires to dominate the global snack bar market that is worth $22 billion. The company claims that its products are distributed in every Sainsbury's supermarket, in over 450 Morrisons stores and over 400 ASDA stores. It further points out that it is listed in major foodservice companies including Compass, Brakes and Bidfood. The company has over 55,000 followers across social media, and a brand ambassador program including team GB Olympians reaching 1.6 million people. Perkier states it will use the investment to expand its team, increase digital marketing, and invest in innovation.
OXTO Energy Seedrs	Manufacturing and Retail	EIS
OXTO Energy is an energy storage technology provider that intends to transform the way energy is stored. It claims to have developed an innovative energy storage flywheel technology made using 100% recyclable steel, having a low cost of operation, and being easy to manufacture. It argues that it has secured approximately £1.7 million worth of revenues through contracts for 2021 in UK, Kenya, and France, to name a few. It also aspires to become a minority partner of large infrastructure projects by offering its units at a discounted rate, guaranteeing a consistent revenue stream while increasing profitability throughout the project. It wants to dominate the estimated £70 billion energy storage market. The company states it will use 25% of the investment to grow its team, 60% for project delivery, and 15% towards growth and commercialisation of its business.


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Empty Bowls Virtual Fundraiser
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2020 News & Announcements
Empty Bowls Virtual Fundraiser to Raise Money for Local Food Banks
The City of Burien and Discover Burien are hosting their 14th annual Empty Bowls event to raise money for the White Center Food Bank and Highline Area Food Bank.
Since 2006, Burien Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services, Moshier Art Center potters, Discover Burien, and Burien businesses have worked together to host a popular community event that combines good food and handmade pottery to raise funds for local food banks. The event has raised close to $250,000.
Since in-person events are not permitted under state and local public health orders, the event organizers have transformed the January tradition to a new virtual event that is set to run January 15-29, 2021.
"We are excited to continue the tradition of helping our local area food banks during this pandemic year so that our neighbors most in need receive the care and attention they deserve and are not left behind," said Debra George, Executive Director of Discover Burien. "We appreciate all of the supporters who are adapting to this year's virtual fundraiser and remain hopeful that we can raise the much-needed funding for these community programs."
Community members can participate in two weeks of virtual activities by doing the following:
Donate to support the Highline Area Food Bank and White Center Food Bank.
Purchase raffle tickets to win serving bowls and other fun items.
Watch videos to learn more about the critical community service food banks provide.
Enter into a drawing to be an Empty Bowls Soup Judge in 2022 by sharing soup recipes.
"My husband, our friends, and I have been honored to volunteer for the wonderful Burien Empty Bowls event since its humble origins at Moshier Community Art Center so many years ago," said Dana Lasswell, Empty Bowls volunteer. "It has blossomed into an incredibly successful annual fundraiser that brings our community together and provides funds that assist so many of our neighbors who are experiencing food insecurity. Everyone's enthusiasm is truly heartwarming to witness."
Empty Bowls events raise money across the country to combat hunger in our communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sharp increase in need at food banks.
"I am inspired each year by seeing the community come together for a common cause to ensure their neighbors have adequate access to food," shared Carmen Smith, associate executive director of the White Center Food Bank. "The funds from this event make a big difference to us, especially this time of year when we see support wane after the holidays. Last year's donation of $12,500 (half of what was raised) provided nearly 6,000 meals to the community. We look forward to connecting (virtually) with you all again this year. Thank you for helping us keep the community well-fed."


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Taliban Updates
Critics 'dismayed' over Ottawa's plans to install plaque praising Afghan evacuation
The memorandum says deputy ministers held a June 2022 discussion that included an event to commemorate the Afghanistan evacuation, but it doesn't say who came up with the idea.
Protests break out in Afghanistan's capital after Taliban ban women from universities
Large-scale protesting has become rare in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over the country, as they are often shut down forcefully by security agencies.
Taliban carry out 1st public execution since Afghanistan takeover
The announcement underscored the intentions by Afghanistan's new rulers to continue hardline policies implemented since they took over the country in August 2021.
Taliban crackdown on women's rights possible crime against humanity: UN experts
The Taliban took over from a western-backed government in Aug. 2021. They say they respect women's rights in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic law.
Afghanistan: Taliban lash 12 people before stadium crowd, signaling hardline return
The first confirmed public lashing since last year's Taliban takeover took place Nov. 11, when 19 men and women received 39 lashes each for various crimes.
Afghans will struggle for their lives this winter under Taliban rule: Red Cross
The religious group's seizure of power in August 2021 sent Afghanistan's economy into a tailspin and fundamentally transformed the South Asian nation.


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Whitsundays diving liveaboard and Airlie Beach diving liveaboard, Kiana, sails to Bait Reef on the outer Great Barrier Reef as part of their 3 day 2 night liveaboard scuba diving trip. Scuba diving is optional on this Whitsundays diving trip. Kiana is 50 ft ketch that combines sailing, scuba diving and snorkelling with visits to Whitehaven Beach and other Whitsunday Islands. The Airlie Beach Great barrier Reef diving liveaboard provides certified scuba divers with enough time for up to 4 dives. Introductory dives are also included for those who are uncertified but who would like to experience the thrill of scuba diving. See our full Australia scuba diving trips selection here and see Getting to Airlie Beach for transport tips.
Whitsundays diving liveaboard and Airlie Beach diving liveaboard, Kiana, sails to Bait Reef on the outer Great Barrier Reef as part of their 3 day 2 night cruise. Scuba diving is optional on this Whitsundays diving trip. Kiana is 50 ft ketch that combines sailing, scuba diving and snorkelling with visits to Whitehaven Beach and other Whitsunday Islands. The Airlie Beach Great barrier Reef diving liveaboard provides certified scuba divers with enough time for up to 4 dives. Introductory dives are also included for those who are uncertified but who would like to experience the thrill of scuba diving.
The interior teak finish of this Whitsundays Great Barrier Reef diving liveaboard is traditional and quite beautiful. It exudes a warm luxurious feel and is heavily booked throughout the year often with returning guests.
20% deposit required on making your booking. Balance is payable when checking in at the Airlie Beach Office.
Please complete the email Booking Enquiry form below or give us a call on 07 4946 1067 to check availability for the Whitsundays 3 day 2 night dive liveaboard trip.
These photographs will give you some idea of the craftman like timber interior of this well appointed vessel.
From Airlie Beach Monday and Friday morning from the Abel Point Marina at 8:00 am.
Check in at Airlie Beach booking office before 7:00pm the night before departure.
Rates include all Government taxes, fuel levy, stinger suit hire, bed linen, snorkeling equipment, meals.
scuba dive equipment and wetsuit is included.
Once your enquiry has been received we will confirm whether places are available on the dates that you have chosen. You will then receive directions for payment of a deposit to secure your place on the cruise. The balance owing is paid when you arrive on board.


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Posted in: Aliens, Annunaki, Area 51, Clones, Extraterrestrials, Illuminati, New World Order, NWO, Reptilian.	Tagged: Aeronautical Engineer, Air Force, aliens, annunaki, anunnaki, Arch Bishop, Area 51, bilderbergers, Bill Clinton, cabal, Canada, Canadian Minister of Defence, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Command Sergeant Major, Conspiracy, counsel on foreign relations, David Rockefeller, demons, Dulce Base, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dying, Edwards air force base, ETs, extraterrestrials, First Army, Former, Government, Greys, Henry Mcelroy, intelligence organizations, international banking cartel, Legislator, Mike McIntyre, Military, National Security Agency, NSA, Official, oil cartel, Orean, Paul Theodore Hellyer, Pleiades, President, reptilians, Robert O Dean, Romeda, Roswell, Rurak, seek the truth, seeker, Showdow government, Tall Whites, Testimony, Theorist, Theory, Three Sisters, trilateral commission, truth, Truth seeker, UFOs, ulterior star systems, Unidentified Flying Objects, United States, WikiLeaks, Zeta, Zeta Reticuli.	1 Comment
As an alien theorist, I do not understand why it's hard for some people to believe in extraterrestrial life. When I try to convince somebody of the extremely likely possibility of alien life this is the argument I like to use.
Look at the sky, there are countless stars in this, what most say is an infinite universe. If you were to hold a grain of sand at arms length, you would be covering 10,000 galaxies. Most of the star we see are not even stars, or suns, they are galaxies; Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has an estimated 300,000,000,000 stars! Our galaxy is not the largest one in the Universe, a star you see my be a galaxy hold trillions, possibly quadrillions of stars! Each of these suns must have planets revolving around them. Why is it so hard for most people to accept the fact that we may not be alone in the universe, that life may have existed even before our planet was habitable. There is much proof that Aliens exist, and have visited planet Earth. There is evidence that we have had contact.
FBI Files Claim they are here, as do other officials of the United States and http://vault.fbi.gov/UFO/UFO%20Part%201%20of%2016/
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Aliens Exist according to Former Canadian Minister of Defense, and Aeronautical Engineer.
[quote: Paul Theodore Hellyer: Former Canadian Minister of Defence, and Aeronautical Engineer] "Decades ago visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help, but instead we or at least some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. An official US policy insists that UFOs don't exist. The veil of secrecy must be lifted and has to be lifted now before it is too late." It is ironic that the US would begin a devastating war in search of weapons of mass destruction. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Allegedly to bring democracy to these two countries, when it itself can no longer legitimately claim to call itself a democracy when trillions, I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects of which both the congress and the commander in chief have both deliberately been kept in the dark. Has America developed flying saucers that are visually indistinguishable from the visitors? As alleged, and if so, what do they propose to do with them? Even more critical what progress has been made in the development of clean energy sources that could conceivably replace fossil fuels and save the planet from becoming a wasteland? Well who has the answers? Someone does, but apparently they are not telling either secretary of defense or presidents because they don't have "a need to know." President Clinton was asked by white house reported Sara McClellan about why he didn't do something about disclosure; and Clinton replied,
"Sara, there is a government inside the government, and I DON'T CONTROL IT." Quoting: President Bill Clinton
The people of the United States who have paid the bills have a right to know, the people of the world demand to know because it is our descendants whos lives are in immortal danger."
It is up the the people of the United States to launch a new war against the evil of lies deceit of darkness and go all out to win the victory of truth transparency and light"
Canadian Former Minister of Defence Paul Hellyer states the United States Government is working with aliens
[quote: Paul Theodore Hellyer: Former Canadian Minister of Defence, and Aeronautical Engineer] "My name is Paul Hellyer I'm a former minister of national defense of Canada I've served in three governments during a total of 23 and a half years as a member of Parliament. UFOs are as real as the air planes flying overhead. A document was prepared which concluded, That at least four species had been visiting earth for thousands of years. I named five different spices here Zeta Reticuli, Pleiades, Orean, Romeda, and the ulterior star systems. There are live ETs on earth at this present time, at least two of them working with the United States government. The other species that I learned about are called the Tall Whites who were living on United States Air Force property, and cooperating with them and sharing technology with them. My interest is in full disclosure. Technology for clean energy exists, being kept secret by the Cabal, and the Cabal comprises the members of the three sisters; The counsel on foreign relations, the bilderbergers, the trilateral commission, the international banking cartel, the oil cartel, members of various intelligence organizations, and select members of the military; who together have become a shadow government, of not only the United States, but of much of the Western world. The counsel on foreign relations, as early as Oct 1940, drafted a memorandum outlining a comprehensive policy to set forth the political military territorial and economic requirements of the United States and its political potential leadership of the non German world, including the United Kingdom itself, as well as the western hemisphere and the far east. Mr. David Rockefeller, was a member of all three of the sisters, was quoted saying this at a meeting of the Bilderbergers in Europe "We are grateful to the Washington post, the New York Times, Times Magazine, and other publications whos directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we were subjected to the lights of publicity during those years, but the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government. The super national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries." The aim of the game is a world government comprised of the members of the Cabal who are elected by no one and accountable to no one. Does this help to understand to why our civil rights are being taken away from us? I say us because Canada too is in the grand plan.
Testimony Of Dying CIA Official About UFO's And Extraterrestrial Aliens 2013
[quote: Description on YouTUbe] On March 5th, 2013 at an undisclosed location in the USA, a terminally ill former CIA Official is interviewed about what he says is too important for people not to know. He was drafter into the military and got into the US army, after that and was send to the signal training center in the eastern United States back in 1958. He became the director for the CIA for the eastern United States of America. He began working on Project Blue Book while in the CIA. He says the CIA told the world UFOs were hoaxes, misidentification, weather balloons, or ramblings of psychological issues. Claims President Dwight D. Eisenhower was going to invade Area 51 with the First Army. Also claims the Roswell craft was a UFO. He also interviewed a Grey alien.
[quote: Legislator Henry Mcelroy Jr.]
Thank you for your attention to this brief message concerning the worlds interaction with both earth based and off world astronauts. The reason im making this announcement because I believe in the foundational wisdom of our nation. A recurring topics is the reason I am addressing you this evening, I would like to submit to this nation my personal testimony of one document related to one of these on going topics which I saw while in office. The document I saw was an official brief to president Eisenhower. This brief informed president Eisenhower with the presents of extraterrestrial beings here in the United States of America. The brief seemed to indicate that a meeting between the president and these visitors could be arranged as appropriate if desired.
[quote: Command Sergeant Major, Robert O Dean] Among the group that greeted the Annunaki in 1954 at Rurak, which is now Edwards air force base. There was an Arch Bishop from Los Angeles by the name of Mike McIntyre. These guys scared the shit out of everybody with their technology. The two hovered over the runway for two days, never landed, no legs or nothing they just hovered over the damn runway. Its all on film. After it was all over with, our intelligence people got a hold of McIntyre and say, you gotta understand something, you can't talk about anything you've seen, this is beyond top secret, you can't say a word about what we have just experienced here.
THIS VIDEO WAS LEAKED BY WIKILEAKS IN OCTOBER 2011. This ain't a weather balloon, or some CGI thrown together.
UFO Cow Abduction. This video was shot in the 80s before it could have been faked
Gary Stollman
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If you have not heard of this man, check it out and tell me what you think
https://reptilianilluminati.wordpress.com/gary-stollman-and-his-experience-with-the-cia/