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"The Black Owls rock. They rock like the Ramones rock, like early Bowie and Iggy and the Stooges rock. "- Midpoint Music Festival
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Formed in 2007, Black Owls claim that they "revise rather than revisit the classic rock genre" – but bearing in mind that they also describe their music as "the soundtrack for an Amish strip club" you probably can't trust a word they say.What you can believe is that we have TWO tracks by them to give away.Part of the Ohio River music scene that's given us CR-approved bands like Buffalo Killers and Foxy Shazam and alt.rock royalty like the National, the Breeders, Guided by Voices and Afghan Whigs, Black Owls straddle the two worlds admirably, with enough foot-on-the-monitor swagger to balance any skinny jeaned-indie-sophisto leanings.A ludicrous comparison? Coming right up guv'nor: Imagine Bristolian art-rockers the Blue Aeroplanes if you got them wasted on tequila and set them on fire. Too obscure? OK. Imagine Queens Of The Stone Age if they were a drunken Psychedelic Furs tribute band playing their last gig at a prison. - Scott Rowley, Editor in Chief, Classic Rock Magazine
2014 MIDPOINT CRITIC'S PICK - Black Owls (Cincinnati) Indie Glam Rock
What do Black Owls want from me? Do they want me to start a religion in their honor? Do they want me to cut a fatted calf and mutter incantations? Do they want me to swear a blood oath to be faithful to the beaked and horned raptor of the night? Then I will. Because Black Owls is among the few bands of right now that make me feel like way back when. They return me to that magical time when I was just beginning to love music and it was still fresh and exciting and discoverable. They tweak my invisible heart, the one next to my real one that beats in time to Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell, Ian Hunter and all the other icons that Black Owls hold dear and then transcend with their own what the future sounds like, set my watch to "well ahead" and let my Black Owls fly.
YDIIYD: Ian Hunter, Richard Hell, David Bowie and Tom Verlaine go all Freaky Friday and wind up in Mott the Voidoid Television Spiders.
-CITYBEAT MAGAZINE (BB)
"Rip-snorting Sabbath-esque rock n roll from the deepest, darkest thickets of Ohio. Dark pilgrims sets to colonize the new rock territories." - CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE
"Black Owls don't plunder '70's Glam Rock for influence, they pound it down like a Jack and Coke, let it soak into their flesh and then launch it back into the modern world with the visceral impact of pissing on an electric fence. Of course, there's that Tabasco dash of New York '70's Punk heat in there as well, but the quality that binds the whole concoction together is Black Owl's sturdy Midwestern foundation, a Rock solid belief that what the do is not only important but essential." - Midpoint Music Festival BB
BLACK OWLS & BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR voted the only two American Bands in the TOP 10
GLOBAL INDY ROCK BANDS of 2012 by NXNE editors TMAK
The Owls tore into their hour-plus set with the alcohol fueled bravado of Guided By Voices, the razor sharp choogle of T. Rex, the mutated Folk Metal of Mott the Hoople and the blazing Punk edge of everything good about the New York scene in the mid-'70s.
Black Owls translate their influences into a tumult from the grimy floor of their glitter garage, a Glam-slam-thank-you-maam assjacking that is as familiar as it is fresh. Their new eponymous double album (availabledigitally at Bandcamp) is a marvel, and the Owls turned out hypercaffeinated versions of the new songs, including the visceral ballkick of "She Was There," the Stonesy rumble of "Skynyrd" and the Bob Dylan-meets-Tom Verlaine Bowie tribute of "Octopus Flat," as well as older classics like "Glorious in Black," sounding like Marc Bolan fronting Steppenwolf and the cloudbursting joy of "Julius Morningstar." Ed Shuttleworth and Brandon Losacker craft a solid wall of guitar squall (without a single solo, mind you, orone so subtle you'd never identify it as such), Alan Beavers attacks his bass with lead guitar precision and power and Brian Kitzmiller is still the most amazingly solid drummer on the scene and the absolute perfect foil for the Owls' brand of contempo/retro Glam Punk. And at the front of it is David Butler, a lanky bundle of coiled energy with a voice that channels David Byrne's tremulous warble and Ian Hunter's power howl.
For all these reasons and a few more, Black Owls have built a sizable fan base here and they're close enough (north of Columbus) to make regular visits to Cincinnati. If you have the slightest affinity for any of the artist noted here, a single exposure to Black Owls will have you on your knees and singing the praises of Granville's favorite sons; if they were any better, they'd be banned as a controlled substance. Black Owls are your new favorite band … do something about it.- Brian Baker, Citybeat for Midpoint Music Festival 2012
"References to Guided By Voices commonly appear in write-ups for Granville, Ohio, four-piece rock band Black Owls, who, like GBV, are amplified to rock and have a good feel for personalizing a late-'60s,early-'70s classic-rock sound. "
- Chris Varias, METROMIX
"Images of Neil Young meets Black Sabbath meets Bob Dylan meets The Who. Blahhh, why try and define their sound. They are the Black Owls and they are classic rock made for the current decade. Along from a great set, we spent some time with the band and they are 5 of the nicest dudes I have ever hung out with."
- Terry, Toronto NOW
"Last night at NXNE, there were the Black Owls and then there was everyone else. For me, the Black Owls are like a cross between the Talking Heads and the Tragically Hip led by frontman David Butler whose quirky vocals brought images of David Byrne. Incredible performance and I'm looking forward to following them in the future. "
- Steve, Tmak - Toronto Music Press
"Black Owls is the latest self-titled album from the Ohio garage rockers. This double album is packed with 25 hard edged in your face tracks, but there is so much more. Black Owls meld together influences from blues, punk and classic rock to make you feel that the Rolling Stones have been reincarnated into a new band. This is a heady comparison that Black Owls wear to perfection. This is another must have album for your indie rock collection."
- Prevrat, FZB Music
"The thing that Black Owls does infinitely well is mash their British Invasion/Punk influences into a thick paste and apply it in broad trowel strokes to their distinctly Midwestern presentation, crafting a sound that is both maddeningly familiar and strikingly original. Dig: A parallel-earth Ian Hunter is born in Detroit and forms a garage-band Mott the Hoople after seeing Mitch Ryder and Iggy Pop, and still manages to obsess over Dylan and Bowie."
- Midpoint Music Festival Critic's Picks
"The blazing favorite sons of Ohio, the Black Owls headliner show at Midpoint Music Festival - nothing short of astonishing. For over an hour, the Black Owls howled like a summit meeting between Mott the Hoople and the Voidoids, blistering Punk anthems butting up against Hard Rock nuggets to create a third sound that references much but sounds like nothing else. And the capacity crowd at Arnold's loved every original note of it, begging for more and getting it at the end of a fantastic set. The Black Owls are a sound salvation, the Black Owls are cleaning up the nation. Don't miss them, the next or any time. "
- Brian Baker, CityBeat
"Black Owls are creating that kind of imaginary rock and roll some dream about, and many strive for. Strange magic with candor and tension. Blunt and stripped down, but captivating. Drawing upon British Invasion, both classic and punk, as well as a very personal take on Americana heavy 70's gas. Deliverance of story, glamorous punk and gritty, in lyrics that though dark reveal a well kept irony and freshness. The hook and ladder of Ed Shuttleworth's guitar range is so wide and yet it all manifests the "Black Owl Sound." That sound rests on the unique structures that Ed creates which uniquely reveal a perfect Gang of Four, the Who, Stones, Clash, Wire, Hoople, Stooges melange. They don't sound like any of these bands, but they sound like all of these bands, and that's their dirty little secret. Black Owls wear their influences on their sleeves, but they don't sound like anybody else. Play it again. "
- Denim Walton, FRE press
"This central Ohio band pimps the kind of stripped-down Classic Rock (think more T Rex than AC/DC) that's been the soundtrack to beer-swilling pub dwellers for more than four decades now. Butler's high-pitched delivery comes through loud and clear, giving voice to simple, dark-hued stories laced with the occasional head-sticking nugget, such as "When I'm cremated you'll smoke my ashes." Dig it: The Who, The Rolling Stones cut with Midwestern menace, Guided by Voices. "
- JG, CityBeat
"Somebody recommended several weeks back that I check out Black Owls, a band from Ohio, describing the music as a mixture of psychedelic blues and glam-punk. Good call. The band's second album shows off a sense of classic, take-no-prisoners rock 'n' roll, with an undercurrent of just enough artsy pretention. The rambling poetry and insouciance with which David Butler—who also plays drums—attacks his vocals recall Ian Hunter, and the band kicks it into overdrive like Mott the Hoople jamming with The Faces, but with the threat of the English punk-rock movement breathing down their necks. With the spirits of Iggy, Morrison, Bowie and early Alice Cooper hanging over it, the album feels genuine and a little stoned, as if it's observing a culture in which Woodstock is long over, and Altamont has left the music world with a sour taste in its mouth. Decadent and ramshackle and glorious, it kinda makes me cry."
- Gene Armstrong, Tucson Weekly
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"While Lost in the Trees angelic choir played into the main stage witness, I stepped out of the back to bear witness to a down-home soap box revival. Ohio's Black Owls were testifying on high, and the lead singer washed his sins in the rain with the congregation. As if in preparation for the rapture, the seasoned glam punks whipped the soaking masses into a frenzy. It was one of the most honest, raw, and downright celebratory performances of the show. I'd heard that these guys bore a familiarity with Guided By Voices, and I could see they owned that same swagger and dedication to anthem rock windmills and catchy hooks. As far as visceral experiences, these guys captured my heartstrings, and it appeared that the huge wet crowd that poured in to see them felt the same. A+"
- Tim, the melody lingers
"This is "put your back into it" song craft. These guys lay it out. Lyrics, structure, power. It's almost a lost art, but thank God there are dudes like the Black Owls preserving the national trust of rock. Check out June '71 on their own Amish Girl label on itunes or bandcamp. - Compare/Contrast: Rolling Stones, Guided by Voices, Mott the Hoople, Bowie, Jim Carroll Band "
- Warren Epstein, Dresdon Press Music
"Strange, beautiful things take place after the sun goes down, and the Black Owls revel in an all-nighter guitar sound that burns brightly in the dark. Lightning Made Us Who We Are, their 2008 debut album, is a masterful slice of booze-fueled super rock."
- Adam Scoppa, 614 Magazine
"With Guided by Voices long gone, the Black Owls are filling a real void in our lives, creating pompous, over-the-top-rock without making pains to show how tongue-in-cheek they are. They have a knack for well-crafted, substantial rock songs that are catchy as hell."
- Rick Allen, the Other Paper
"Black Owls are an anomaly in Amish country. The Owls push a garage-rock agenda that also draws from the British Invasion, new wave, glam and '70's post-punk. And despite the varied influences, this crew has fashioned its favorite styles into a focused and infectious sound. "
- Don Thrasher, Dayton Daily News - Active Dayton
"...for those about to rock, you may want to make the introduction of Black Owls. Chocked full of windmill-worthy tracks, Black Owls sift through their collection of Cheap Trick, Bowie, and The Who albums and serve up something distinct from their respective source material. "
- Meltones, the buddha den
"THE BLACK OWLS have put together some of the best well crafted songs with a firm foothold in creating a new history for Rock n' Roll. "
- Dave Fishwick, the Neus Subject


It's safe to say we've all had enough of paying tax on our tampons, with sanitary items seen as luxuries not necessities, unlike bread and razors which are both free of VAT.
There has been decades of protesting around the issue with men and women across the UK deeming it unfair that the female population is forced to pay 5% tax for buying something that is actually a healthcare necessity.
Last year marked the 2016 tampon tax war, with pressure on the government to scrap the tax completely but instead they decided to compromise, putting the money raised from the tax towards women's charities. Sadly the charities in question weren't actually that female-friendly, with £250,000 reportedly going to an anti-abortion charity.
With news like this emerging, it's easy to think that little to no progress has been made towards axing the tampon tax in the UK.
Luckily, last week Tesco proved us wrong, becoming the first retailer to waive the tampon tax, absorbing the tax for its customers and paying the 5% rate themselves.
This reduced costing will apply to almost 100 products in Tesco's range – including both branded items and products from the supermarket's own label, making them more affordable.
The news gets better as it looks like other supermarkets are following suit, with Waitrose now joining Tesco in reducing the price of sanitary products by dropping the 5% tampon tax.
Waitrose has explained that it hopes its decision will 'make a difference', with the reduction in price set to be in place by the end of this week.
There's still a long way to go, but these two supermarkets are making a huge step forward.


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La Rosa por Italia (La Rosa per Italia) es un partido político italiano democristiano y de centro. También es conocido como La Rosa Blanca (La Rosa Bianca) y Movimiento Popular Federativo Cívico (Movimento Popolare Federativo Civico).

Historia
El 30 de enero de 2008, Bruno Tabacci y Mario Baccini anunciaban su salida de la Unión de los Demócratas Cristianos y de Centro (UDC) para formar un nuevo partido de centro; el 8 de febrero se fundó la Rosa Blanca.
El partido surgió justo después de la caída del segundo gobierno de Romano Prodi. Tabacci Baccini y quería apoyar la formación de un gobierno dirigido por Franco Marini, que aprobaría una nueva ley electoral en el modelo alemán. El líder de UDC Pier Ferdinando Casini prefería que se celebrara nuevas elecciones, al igual que la coalición de centro-derecha Casa de las Libertades.

Muchas personalidades se unieron al nuevo partido, sobre todo Savino Pezzotta (exdirigente de la Confederación Italiana de Sindicatos de Trabajadores), que fue nombrado presidente, así como Gerardo Bianco y Alberto Monticone (Italia Popular), Gian Guido Folloni (un exministro), Elvio Ubaldi (exalcalde de Parma), Gianni Rivera y Beniamino Donnici (ambos diputados). Tabacci y Baccini intentaron sin éxito reclutar a Antonio Di Pietro y su partido Italia de los Valores, a Luca Cordero di Montezemolo y Mario Monti.

El 28 de febrero de 2011, el partido decidió formar listas conjuntas junto a UDC para las siguientes elecciones generales, bajo el nombre de Unión del Centro (UdC). El 11 de marzo, tanto Bianco y Monticone abandonaron el partido, reincorporándose a Italia Popular. Rivera y Donnici se marcharon también. En las elecciones, la UdC obtuvo el 5,6% de los votos y 36 diputados, entre ellos Baccini, Tabacci y Pezzotta.

Unas semanas después de la elección, Baccini anunció su voto de confianza al gobierno de Silvio Berlusconi y su renuncia de la secretaria del partido. Fue sustituido así por Tabacci, quien también dejó en 2009 para poner en marcha Alianza por Italia (API). Desde entonces, el partido ha sido una corriente dentro de UdC ligada a Pezzotta.

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Partidos políticos de Italia de ámbito estatal
Partidos democristianos de Italia
Partidos políticos fundados en 2008
Partidos políticos disueltos en 2013

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El secret de confessió o sigili sacramental és una obligació i un dret que tenen els sacerdots per a absenir-se de revelar les confessions fetes per un o més penitents en el sagrament de la penitència. La revelació del secret comporta pena d'excomunió. El secret de confessió s'aplica fins i tot en aquells casos en que es realitzen confessions de fets no considerats pecat.

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Pomace oil is a lesser grade and quality than olive oil due to the way in which it is extracted and the chemicals used in the process. It is important that you know the difference between pomace oil and olive oil before using it to avoid misusing the product.
The Pons family has been developing olive growing since 1945, a tradition continuing generation after generation. Pons is the legacy of a family which, after four generations, expresses its Mediterranean spirit through passion for the land and mastery in making its olive oils. The products produced by the Pons Group have obtained international recognition in more than 120 countries on five continents including United States, Australia and the United Kingdom markets.


Can anyone help me? I am drawing a graph of concentration of serum against absorbance at 490 nm, and I want to convert the x-axis % concentration (1%, 0.1%, 0.01%) to a log scale but I don't know how. Thanks in advance!


The gallery on my website - http://www.yimps.com - is no longer working properly. When an image is clicked on, rather than opening it up on the same page using an affect, I believe called FancyBox, it opens the image up in a new webpage. Any help would be much appreciated.
Your site is reporting an issue with MP_Ajax, which is a variable included as part of MarketPress. This suggests that there is a conflict somewhere.
Looking at your site I can see that either your theme or another plugin is calling an old version of jQuery, and not the one included in the core WordPress package. This is often a likely culprit for these kind of conflicts and is not recommended at all. If this is part of your theme, I suggest changing this to use the WordPress default jQuery script.
Other than that, we need to do some basic plugin troubleshooting, to try and establish where the issue is coming from.
I presume that MarketPress has not been edited in any way (other than perhaps styling) on your site? If it has, please install a fresh copy of MarketPress to revert any changes that may be causing the conflict.
Failing that I would suggest (for testing purposes) switching to a different theme (like Twenty-Twelve) to see if this fixes the issue. if it does then your theme is the culprit. If it doesn't fix the issue, it's time to look at plugins. Try disabling plugins one at a time to see if any one plugin is causing it.
That's enough to work on for now... come back to us when you've tried those and let us know how you get on.
OK, the theme was the most likely culprit, and I think it's possible your theme loading the old version of jQuery.
You can take a look a the theme code in the admin pages using the Appearance > Editor menu. Assuming you have the custom theme enabled, the files for your theme will appear in the right hand column (if not you can select your theme from the drop down top-right and hit select).
That will load the default jQuery script included in WordPress.
If we're lucky, this will be enough to fix it.. if not we will have to dig deeper.


1. How do you play Skyrim?
100+ mods ~80 enabled and on a laptop..... yeah my laptop impresses me but not as much as how easily Skyrim can run while looking utterly gorgeous.
at least 80 mods at any given time. Going to start a new game here soon with about 115 mods I've put together.
There's some nice mods out there, but after doing most of the things, after it got repetitive i stopped. Looking forward to ESO though.
I mostly only modded to fix some of the things about Skyrim that annoyed the crap out of me.
-I added more gold to merchants.
-Added better paths to the map.
-Added that merchants guild building so I don't waste so much time searching/purchasing/selling items (this has unfortunately cheapened the game substantially.
Probably a few other but I don't recall.
I primarely use mods that fix things. Like better followers and such. And then of course various texture mods. Though my graphics card has some memory issues, if I opt for ultra high settings.
Apparently I have more than 100 mods when I add everything up. Unofficial patches, HD textures, texture changes, realistic lighting, lanterns, bags, armor, weapons.. so many things.


A large insurance organization in Asia was faced with significant challenges due to an unprecedented number of bush-fires, floods and earthquakes. This environmental shift required a fundamental reframing of the organization's purpose and change management approach. In aspiring to achieve its new purpose, the organization selected a network of trusted leaders from across the organization to catalyze change while embedding the purpose in the day-to-day work activity of the business units they served.
Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE) partnered with the firm to launch a summit for 300 leaders. Within the program, the organization's new purpose was shared with the leader community who were equipped and enabled with frameworks, tools and practices to help embed the purpose within their respective business units. Teams visited disaster areas to viscerally experience the power of the firm's new purpose. They cultivated a Growth Mindset across their network and also implemented a "test and learn" experimental approach to guide their activity. Design thinking was further applied to redesign work practices and routines within the organization.
In addition to aligning the team around its shared purpose, the executive committee now leverages a second network of leaders as a sounding board for test-and-learn experiments. The company has accelerated launch of non-traditional cross-organization initiatives that support its purpose.


Dogbert sits on a pillow thinking, "I should keep myself busier." Dogbert continues thinking, "Time flies when you're busy . . ." Dogbert continues thinking, "Which means you die sooner. I better sit right here."
Dilbert: I'd fix it myself but I know it takes special tools... Plus I would just have to order a part... And I'm pretty busy... Ed: Take two of these... Dilbert: "Engineer's pills?" Ed: They'll knock you out until I'm gone.
Dogbert stands on a desk chair counting money. Dilbert says, "It looks like sales of the 'Dogbert Joggerobic Carpet Patch' are brisk." Dogbert replies, "Yeah, and I'm looking to expand." Dogbert continues, "Ratbert is busy researching new product concepts for the carpet patch." Ratbert holds the carpet patch on his head and thinks, "Carpet Club for Men."
The Boss: Let's each share our accomplishments for the month. Dilbert: To the untrained observer it might seem like I didn't accomplish anything. However, I did strategically "position" my project by socializing it within the company. Dilbert: Then Wally and I help a "tiger team" lock up session. Then I prepared the executive briefing package for the big meeting that got cancelled. Since then Ive spent most if my time looking for the best project management software to use. And I did it all within ten percent of my budget goal, Dilbert: Looking good. Wally: wow all I did was that tiger thing.
Dilbert sits in his desk chair and says to Ratbert, "Since you won't go away, I'll make you an intern." Ratbert says, "Great! What's an intern?" Dilbert explains, "You'll spend your day in a high-traffic cube trying to look busy. Your main function is to make the rest of us glad we're not you." As he sits in a cubicle moving a mouse Ratbert thinks, "How did people ever look busy before computers?"


On March 20, 2019 selected Atlas Corps fellows were invited to attend The Social Investors Day which was convened by Raffa – Marcum's Social Sector & Nonprofit Group in collaboration with CARE, the global humanitarian organization.
The event kicked off with a keynote address by Jean Case, the Chairman of the National Geographic Society and CEO of the Case Foundation. The keynote session was brief and crisp where Ms. Case talked about how her book, "Be Fearless" and how it reflects on her life experiences and career choices which she described as breakthrough experiences. She briefly talked about the philanthropy work which Case Foundation does with underprivileged and underrepresented communities around the world. Secondly, a principle she goes by and stressed upon was – "making failure matter", also one of the five principles from her book. For me personally, this theme was especially relevant since words like lessons learned and failure stories are often used in the context of evaluation and learning studies in the social development projects.
The signed copy of the book was a highlight!!!
Afterward the attendees broke into pitch rooms where each group heard three virtual presentations from three of the social enterprises running businesses in different parts of the world. Being an attendee, I also got an opportunity to evaluate the presentations as if I had $100,000 to invest in the ventures.
This session gave me the chance to interact with a select cohort of "Innovation Leaders" who facilitated the discussions and scoring. If I draw a naïve comparison here – the experience for me was like being on the show, "Shark Tank" where I was one of the Sharks! Aside from the experience, I got to learn firsthand some of the uber-cool social ventures that are promoting access to farming supplies, as well as lending support retail entrepreneurs in rural Bangladesh.
Each room voted to pick the top social venture for their group and the winners were announced at the Happy Hour party marking the end of the event.
I am so appreciative of Atlas making possible such opportunities for its fellows. It's a smooth, fun adjustment into life in DC.


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Art and the naked Communist
Exclusive: Victoria Jackson lists ways Marxists historically soften up a people
Victoria Jackson, a "Saturday Night Live" cast member from 1986-1992, is an actress, comedienne, songwriter, uke player, wife, mother, ex-gymnast, Jesus-follower and new grandmother ... not in that order.
"All the Snowflakes Are the Same," Christopher Mir, 2010, 38″ x 34 "
"Art is preaching." – Anne Lamott
Christopher Mir is a gifted artist. The title of his above piece, "All the Snowflakes are the same" is interesting. It sounds socialistic.
I had a bad cough this week, so I discovered Turner Movie Classics.
TCM is so happy. They even pray, reverently, to God in the old movies. Not sarcastically or satirically. What happened? How did "Silent Night" (sung in Shirley Temple's "Heidi") change into "Losing My Religion"?
"Man dresses the wound; God heals it" was a placard in the war movie "Since you Went Away" with Claudette Colbert; it ended with a Bible verse, "Be of good courage all ye that hope in the Lord."
The TCM movies have morals that line up with the Ten Commandments – "Dial M for Murder" shows "you reap what you sow"; "Butterfield 8" shows the morbid results of adultery/fornication; "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?" reveals the slow, sad spiral of alcoholism.
I look at the TV lineup these days and go, "What happened?!"
In American Vision's "The History of the Conservative Movement," Dr. Gary North explains that since the beginning, our country has had this ongoing battle between two sides: bigger government vs. smaller government. In 1776, it was the Federalists vs. the Jeffersonian Democrats. Now, it is progressives vs. conservatives.
Simultaneously, there is another ongoing battle – Christianity vs. atheism. As early as 1853, a group attempted to separate Christianity from government. They wanted Christian principles removed from the public square. Congress discussed this and issued a statement: "Christianity … was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants."
Communism is atheism. If you bing the isms – Socialism, Fascism, Nazism, Communism – they all lead back to Nietzsche, Darwin and Lucifer ("Rules for Radicals" dedication page), whom the Bible says came "to steal, to kill and to destroy." More murders were caused in the 20th century by communism than all the wars of all time combined.
Socialism/Communism promotes the philosophy of the collective. All are equal. Obama's religion of Black Liberation Theology even teaches "collective salvation."
Christianity stresses the importance of the individual. All are equally created and loved by God, but each must make his own decisions, his own living and ultimately his own acceptance or rejection of Christ.
My artist friend above, if truly a socialist, should not take a $100,000 check for his piece. He should divide it up, take $1,000 for himself and then give the rest to his neighbors, $1,000 each. And, he should not own a home. Marx was against private property.
Christians who claim to be socialists are just taking Scripture out of context to serve their purposes. The Bible teaches each man should work for his wage, do the best he can with what he is given (Matthew 20) without complaining, tithe at least 10 percent, pay taxes, take care of the widows and orphans, and "love thy neighbor as thyself." Giving comes from the individual heart; it is not money taken away by the government and given to others.
My Christian high school warned us that communism would not take over America by force because we have the Second Amendment, but from the inside out, by the breakup of the family unit and moral decay – sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. We were required to read "1984" by George Orwell. I forgot about communism during my 20s, 30s and 40s as I skipped my way through Florida Bible College, Furman and Auburn, tap danced my way across the "Saturday Night Live" Update Desk and waltzed my way through the Florida suburbs raising a family. All the while progressives (secular humanism, socialism, communism) were slowly and powerfully infiltrating our universities, public schools, textbooks, unions, entertainment industry and local, state and federal government like a large, silent tsunami surging in, destroying, turning all to wreckage and then washing out to sea the broken, maimed and dead, leaving a trail of mud, lies, carnage and a changed landscape.
In my lifetime, we changed from God loving capitalists to God hating socialists. I wasn't paying attention. The movie "Agenda" brought to my attention "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen who made a list in 1958 of communist goals for America. Eerily, they have all come true. Here are a few:
Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
Do away with all loyalty oaths.
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
Gain control of all student newspapers.
Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.
Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. Skousen claimed that an American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
Control art critics and directors of art museums.
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity, masturbation and easy divorce.
Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.
Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems.
Control art critics and art museums?
As Hitler used art for propaganda, so is Obama. Patrick Courrielche exposed a plan between the White House and the National Endowment of the Arts in his series of Big Hollywood articles.
This was in a government document he uncovered: "We've been doing a lot of brainstorming about how we can add our skillset to this effort, and here are some of our thoughts. … Making prints that subtly encourage the progressive agenda. Health care, Employee free choice, immigration, energy conservation, etc."
President Obama with former NEA Communication Director Yosi Sergant
The NEA was exposed for propaganda: offering money to artists who would further Obama's agenda.
[Translation:] Vote him out! Are we still allowed to do that?
Do you think Obama and his NEA would give me a grant for my original T-shirts?


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Home, Karachi
We've only been in this city…
We've only been in this city of 15 million for about four days but it feels as if we never left—other than the fact that the weather and fruits in August are very different from what one experiences in the Karachi 'winter'. During most of the year, the weather is hot. There is extreme humidity or dryness and people shy away from sunshine. But for a few weeks between December and January, one can sit outside, pore through newspapers while peeling fresh oranges or eating mountains of guavas.
My personal winter passion is roasted pine nuts, which become an addiction for me; I sit outside and peel and eat and peel and eat more until my fingers hurt and my thumbs are tattooed with the pine nuts' brown shells. The picture painted above is only a very small window in life in Pakistan this December 2007.
Outside our quiet home in Clifton, Karachi, trouble brews. The lawyers' movement to resist the government is loud and there are demonstrations every day in Lahore, Islamabad and sometimes even Karachi, a more fragmented city where it's hard to mobilize—especially since the city is filled with MQM, supporters of Musharraf. Nonetheless, in just the few days that I've been here, I've talked and met with people who are taking risks speaking out. The Peoples Resistance is a grassroots movement –of which my sister is an active participant—is collecting ideas of how to galvanize forces against Musharraf.
A hot debate in the group's listserv is whether there should be support for a boycott of the upcoming January elections. The group is comprised of activists, academics, journalists—and of course, lawyers, who are leading the movement in this country. Everyday there are new issues about which one is angry and wants to take to the streets: yesterday, police completely surrounded the Lahore University of Management Sciences, where students were about to stage a protest, an act that is currently forbidden by Musharraf's 'state of emergency' when no more than six people can gather publicly. Students were only able to exit by driving out in cars, two or three at a time. At a larger scale, there was a human chain formed around the home of Justice M.A. Shahid in Pakistan, so he could resist the government move to evict him from his residence (government property). Justice M.A. Shahid is one of the judges who refused to take the new Oath to join the Supreme Court. Today, he suffered chest pains and was moved to a hospital.
According to my sister, Beena Sarwar, there is a rumor that tonight, at 2:00 am, police will try to evict Justice M.A. Shahid from his official residence tonight, around 2 am: "Heavy force expected, protesters to be arrested. Vigil outside his house continues. Lawyers and other activists are gearing up for the fight."
In Islamabad yesterday, police baton charged a protest organized by the Islamabad Student Action Committee, where between 700-1000 protestors gathered. Pictures of the rally are available on the Pak Voices website. Also, Code Pink/ Global Exchange peace activists Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry are expected to be deported from Pakistan later tonight. They were arrested yesterday for "visa expiration"—a false accusation. The two US activists have been in Pakistan to learn more as well as spread information about the lawyers' movement in Pakistan.
To get updated information, visit these sites or join Beena Sarwar's yahoo list (bsarwar1@yahoo.co.uk) Pak Voices Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Teeth Maestro On a different note, David Barsamian, producer of Alternative Radio (from Boulder, CO, USA), is presently in the country. He was invited as a guest of the Eqbal Ahmed Distinguished speaker series and he gave a talk yesterday at Karachi's Arts Council as well as another one two days ago at T2F. He's now left for Peshawar. No doubt when he returns to the States, he will have many stories to share. It was wonderful to see him—in a space completely different from Houston, where he and I have spent time before.
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The project aims to test the idea of an effective circulation system for material waste from additive manufacturing. Our goal is to map the prerequisites for closer collaboration between material suppliers and additive manufacturers, including new business models, partnerships and logistics solutions.
Additive manufacturing yields a large amount of material waste – up to 50% – which may represent more than half of its environmental impact, but also a significant part of the production cost. We estimate that the material cost of plastic additive production could be reduced by 10-30% if waste was recycled, in a close collaboration between material suppliers and manufacturing industry. The project aims to test an idea on designing an effective circulation system for material waste from additive manufacturing through a closer collaboration between material suppliers and additive manufacturers, including new business models, partnerships and logistics solutions. The market of additive manufacturing is a relatively new, but strongly increasing segment. By designing a system for efficient circulation of materials (eg waste and prototypes) early in this growth phase, Swedish industry can become competitive in the field, with a more economically and environmentally sustainable production. The system includes a business model providing incentives for the entire value chain in additive manufacturing, to contribute to effective circulation. The project will focus on plastic materials for additive manufacturing, but the possibilities to apply the idea/system on metals and ceramics will also be analyzed, to some extent. Technical, economic and system requirements for realizing a circulation system will be tested in collaboration with industrial partners.
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(Episode 15 of "The Project: Inside Corporate Location Decisions")
Welcome to our most international episode of "The Project" to date. NEST iON is a start-up company that manufactures specialized batteries for the law enforcement and security profession. The company was founded by a Spanish entrepreneur who relocated to Ireland, initially outsourced all of his manufacturing to South Korea and now has his sights on entering the U.S. market. In February 2017, the company announced plans to open a research & development/manufacturing facility at the Eastman Business Park, a 2.5 million square foot facility owned by Kodak. We interview company founder Boris Gragera, Matt Hurlbutt of Greater Rochester Enterprise and Matt Fronk of NY BEST (New York Battery & Energy Storage Technology Consortium) for the story behind NEST iON's decision to locate in Rochester, New York.
Andy Levine (DCI): We all have a collection of extra batteries in our kitchen or basement. When our electric toothbrush or flashlight stops working, we simply replace it. It's no big deal. But if you're a police officer or a soldier, and the battery in your communications equipment goes dead in a crisis situation, it's a huge problem.
Patience Fairbrother (DCI): Boris Gragera sought to solve this problem back in 2013. He first took the idea of batteries specifically made for law enforcement and security forces to his previous employer. When they said, "We'll pass," the Spanish entrepreneur started his own company. Back in 2013, he left Spain and launched NEST iON in Dublin, Ireland. When we asked why he and his wife moved from Madrid to Dublin to start the company, he gave us two reasons. Number one, Ireland is a business-friendly country and a great place for startups. And number two, my English isn't very good, and this will be a terrific learning opportunity for me.
Andy: Now, as you'll hear in a moment, Boris's English has improved a great deal. Certainly, much better than what I learned in three years of taking Spanish in high school. Basically, here's all I remember. Mi tío tiene, una verde caja de lápices. Now, Patience, did you take Spanish?
Patience: No Andy, I didn't. I have no idea what that means.
Andy: Okay. Well, I'll tell you. It means, my uncle has a green pencil box.
Patience: So, is that a phrase that you found to be useful in your life?
Andy: No, and I think it hasn't been…in the history of the world, it has not been useful. But enough about my language skills and Spanish classes. Let's get back to Boris and NEST iON. He wanted to scale up his company, he also wanted to enter the U.S. market. That brought him to Rochester, New York, where about a month ago he announced plans to open a research and development and manufacturing facility all under one roof.
Patience: So welcome to Episode 15 of The Project: Inside Corporate Location Decisions. I'm Patience Fairbrother of Development Counselors International.
Andy: And I'm Andy Levine also with DCI, and Patience's co-host of The Project. Today we bring you the story of NEST iON. A startup company that builds lithium batteries for law enforcement and security forces.
Patience: Now, this is certainly the most international episode we've ever completed. The company is run by a Spanish entrepreneur who relocated to Ireland, initially outsourced all of his manufacturing to South Korea, and now has his sights set on entering the U.S. market.
Andy: So let's meet Boris Gragera, who is the founder and CEO of NEST iON. So let's start with a little about your own background and your work at NEST iON. Tell us a bit about your background.
Boris Gragera (Nest iON): I'm the CEO of NEST iON and the founder. My background is in business marketing and sales. And before NEST iON, I was working as marketing director in an energy storage company, where I had had the opportunity to develop a high performing battery for law enforcement agencies and military. And after presenting this project to the board of the company, they decide, don't go with it. And this decision motivate myself to develop this business opportunity, starting my own company.
Andy: So NEST iON is growing, its product is being embraced by the law enforcement community in Europe, and he's getting strong interest from the U.S. as well. So when we asked Boris about his decision to expand in the Rochester area, he said there were three primary reasons. Number one, talent, number two, facilities, number three market access. We're going to look at each of these one by one.
Patience: Let's start with number one, talent. Boris told us that he first lived in Europe in Ireland, Germany, France, and the U.K., but he just couldn't find the talent he needed. What was that factor that you weren't able to find in those European countries that you then found in the U.S.?
Boris: Okay. First is the talent because in Europe, to find people with battery knowledge, impractical, because in Europe, there are a lot of, in our technology, knowing all the technology, there are a lot of experience in theoric areas, but later when you want to transfer the theoric to the practice, this is very, very difficult. Yeah, this is the principal reason.
Patience: So there are two other people we interviewed for this story, and unfortunately, both of them are named Matt. We'll start with Matt Hurlbutt, Executive Vice President of the Greater Rochester Enterprise. Here's his perspective on the talent pool in the Rochester region.
Matt Hurlbutt Greater Rochester Enterprise: Well, the interesting thing about Rochester and it kind of goes back to the Kodak legacy, is the fact that we've got people with outstanding… People and facilities, especially the people, with outstanding material science capabilities. And that can be in chemistry, nanotechnology, optics, imaging, and the physical sciences.
Patience: So yes, Rochester has well-known companies like Kodak and Xerox that have downsized significantly. And in the battery and energy storage space, there are companies like Ultra-Life Battery and a General Motors fuel cell facility that have shed staff as well. So, there's a concentration of available talent, really smart technical people that are actually a perfect fit with NEST iON's needs, and that's one of the key things Rochester talks with companies about like NEST iON.
Andy: And that brings us to the second item on Boris's list, facilities. It also brings us to the second Matt in our story. An energy consultant named Matt Fronk. Matt Fronk has a deep knowledge of the battery and storage industry, but he also knows Rochester really well, where he was director of the General Motors facility here for 19 years. He met Boris when he was just starting to look at the United States through a program called New York-BEST, which stands for New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium.
Matt Fronk (Matt Fronk & Associates): So I've known Boris I'm gonna say about a year and a half or so, and first was introduced to me by some of the folks at New York-BEST. He was interested in coming to the United States and had… He was referred to me to really start some discussions on what he would need. So I think that's really how the process really started, really trying to understand where he was in his development, what he would need when he came to the U.S., and he was looking for a particular set of clients in the U.S. and needed a U.S. presence. So, that's really how the process got started and we spent a lot of time talking about what he would need.
So for example, I know he's had some discussions with some of our local universities. We made the connections there for him. He has a spot at Kodak Eastman Business Park and has a laboratory there with some of his people, and he's also gonna be taking advantage of some of the role to role coding capability that Kodak has from their film days. So many companies are starting to do that as well.
Andy: Matt Fronk just referenced the Eastman Business Park, a 2.5 million square foot facilities that is owned by Kodak. Of course there are literally thousands of business parks in America, but this one was really critical to Boris and NEST iON because it had the technical equipment he needed for both R&D, as well as small scale manufacturing.
It had things like a pilot coder, which is a \$20 million machine that puts wet electrode ladders down battery foils, a dry room that holds to less than 1% humidity, that's part of a \$6 million upgrade that Kodak made with state support, and a \$6.9 million battery test durability facility that can assess everything from a single battery cell to a 240-kilowatt automobile pack. Now these price tags are big, but frankly, Patience and I have no idea what this equipment does.
Patience: Zero idea.
Andy: But to an entrepreneur like Boris Gragera, it's super important.
Patience: And it means he doesn't have to buy it because it's already at the Eastman Business Park.
Boris: We have a very good team with experience in manufacturing, in equipment, in chemist, and of course, we are a startup and we need this kind of support to help us to grow. And this is the principal key, is that they have maybe 50% of the material that we have, we will use there, and they have the operators with experience, and for us, is great because the transition to scale up the production is a challenge, and with the knowledge that they have in Eastman Business Park, for us would be easier to scale up our company in the next step.
Andy: Matt Hurlbutt of Greater Rochester Enterprise echoed that perspective.
Matt Hurlbutt: There is a lot of research and development that comes in on the energy, especially lithium ion battery storage technology. There are a lot of folks across the country doing this work, and there are a lot of folks doing research in it, that I think the difference for Rochester is, we have the ability to pull it off in the sense of, we've got physical assets, equipment that can really help a company get just like Boris said, you know, where we've got equipment that you can utilize so you don't have to spend \$1 million on equipment.
Patience: And that brings us to the final item on Boris's list, market or market access.
Boris: There's a factor, is the market size, because here is…we present the product two years ago in the most important urban in our sector, in law enforcement agency sector. And we receive a very good feedback for our customer and all is, we are looking for that and we need to start where would you buy the product? And we say, in our current facilities, we can't produce more to supply enough batteries to the U.S. market.
And we sent some samples and we received very good feedback, but we don't have enough production to supply. And this is reason to set up here the company, because the U.S. market is huge for us.
Andy: So let's put this all together. In the United States, NEST iON believes it has a tremendous market opportunity. And in Rochester, New York, it has both the talent and the physical facilities and equipment that it needs to be successful.
Patience: One final point came from Matt Fronk. There are a lot of places in America that Boris could have put a research and development facility, and there are a lot of places that he could have conducted manufacturing. But there aren't a lot of places that he could do both together, and that was a huge advantage for Rochester and the Eastman Business Park.
Matt Fronk: So for example, you might wanna station yourself near a national lab, but then that wouldn't have the manufacturing capability. If you station yourself near a university, then you wouldn't have the testing piece. And so, we're kind of in an interesting situation if you were to draw the little diagram that has all the pieces, probably within a 15 or 20-minute radius of itself, to be able to accomplish all of those all of those things, and then also scale up. And I think that's one of the parts that's really difficult in the U.S. is finding a place that could actually manufacture the product, which would be the battery, and let's say add volume, 500,000 units or more.
Patience: NEST iON announced its plans to set up a new facility in the Eastman Business Park on February 20th, 2017. Boris Gragera expects to hire 17 full-time employees in the coming months, and expects the first batteries to be produced by June 2017.
Andy: So we're up to the takeaways portion of this episode. Patience, what stood out to you about NEST iON and their decision to set up operations in Rochester?
Patience: Well, we hear it over and over again and it always seems to come back to that one word and that word is, talent. Now, in regards to talent, Rochester is a great example of a location that really took lemons and made it into lemonade. So they saw all of these layoffs coming specifically from Kodak and Xerox, and obviously, that's not the best-case scenario for them, but…
Andy: These are big, big companies that laid off a lot of people.
Patience: Exactly. So it's not the best news, but on the flip side, they see that it's actually an advantage to have all of this available workforce, not only that's highly skilled, but that's highly skilled in an industry that they're actively trying to attract.
Andy: Right. A lot of the skill sets of the folks out of Xerox, the folks out of Kodak, very relatable now to the battery and energy storage industry. So, from someone like NEST iON's perspective, that's a huge, huge plus.
Patience: Exactly.
Andy: In fact, when we asked Boris about it, he said it was the number one thing. The number two thing that Boris talked about were the facilities. And in this case, really the Eastman Business Park. So, Boris and his top engineer go to the Eastman Business Park together and they basically see all this equipment that they need in one place, and they don't have to buy it. It's there, it exists.
Basically, they can have access to it, they can essentially rent it, and for a startup company, there are tremendous, tremendous savings in that. So, probably less important to him than the talent, which was the number one thing, but having all these facilities, all this great equipment in one place that he could benefit from, it's a huge benefit to him.
Patience: So that is a wrap on Episode 15 of The Project: Inside Corporate Location Decisions.
Andy: Our special thanks to Boris Gragera, CEO of NEST iON. He was a bit nervous about doing an interview in English, which obviously isn't his first language, but it worked out pretty well. We also need to thank the two Matts, Matt Hurlbutt of Greater Rochester Enterprise, and Matt Fronk of Matt Fronk & Associates. Matt Fronk is also one of the founding members of the New York-BEST program.
Patience: We also need to thank Stacy Henning of the Greater Rochester Enterprise who arranged these interviews, and made the episode a reality.
Andy: The Project is sponsored by DCI. We are the leader in marketing places and have served over 450 different cities, states, regions, and countries. You can learn more about us at aboutdci.com.
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Andy: It's kind of a good cop bad cop thing, right? All right. We hope you'll subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Our next projects take us to North Carolina, Arizona, and Michigan. We hope you keep listening, there are many more projects to come.
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using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace Steam4NET
{

	[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential,Pack=4)]
	public class ISteamUser015VTable
	{
		public IntPtr GetHSteamUser0;
		public IntPtr BLoggedOn1;
		public IntPtr GetSteamID2;
		public IntPtr InitiateGameConnection3;
		public IntPtr TerminateGameConnection4;
		public IntPtr TrackAppUsageEvent5;
		public IntPtr GetUserDataFolder6;
		public IntPtr StartVoiceRecording7;
		public IntPtr StopVoiceRecording8;
		public IntPtr GetAvailableVoice9;
		public IntPtr GetVoice10;
		public IntPtr DecompressVoice11;
		public IntPtr GetVoiceOptimalSampleRate12;
		public IntPtr GetAuthSessionTicket13;
		public IntPtr BeginAuthSession14;
		public IntPtr EndAuthSession15;
		public IntPtr CancelAuthTicket16;
		public IntPtr UserHasLicenseForApp17;
		public IntPtr BIsBehindNAT18;
		public IntPtr AdvertiseGame19;
		public IntPtr RequestEncryptedAppTicket20;
		public IntPtr GetEncryptedAppTicket21;
		private IntPtr DTorISteamUser01522;
	};

	[InteropHelp.InterfaceVersion("SteamUser015")]
	public class ISteamUser015 : InteropHelp.NativeWrapper<ISteamUser015VTable>
	{
		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate Int32 NativeGetHSteamUser( IntPtr thisptr );
		public Int32 GetHSteamUser(  )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetHSteamUser>( this.Functions.GetHSteamUser0 )( this.ObjectAddress );
		}

		[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)]
		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate bool NativeBLoggedOn( IntPtr thisptr );
		public bool BLoggedOn(  )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeBLoggedOn>( this.Functions.BLoggedOn1 )( this.ObjectAddress );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeGetSteamID( IntPtr thisptr, ref UInt64 retarg );
		public CSteamID GetSteamID(  )
		{
			UInt64 ret = 0; this.GetFunction<NativeGetSteamID>( this.Functions.GetSteamID2 )( this.ObjectAddress, ref ret ); return new CSteamID(ret);
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate Int32 NativeInitiateGameConnectionBICUUB( IntPtr thisptr, Byte[] pAuthBlob, Int32 cbMaxAuthBlob, UInt64 steamIDGameServer, UInt32 unIPServer, UInt16 usPortServer, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)] bool bSecure );
		public Int32 InitiateGameConnection( Byte[] pAuthBlob, CSteamID steamIDGameServer, UInt32 unIPServer, UInt16 usPortServer, bool bSecure )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeInitiateGameConnectionBICUUB>( this.Functions.InitiateGameConnection3 )( this.ObjectAddress, pAuthBlob, (Int32) pAuthBlob.Length, steamIDGameServer.ConvertToUint64(), unIPServer, usPortServer, bSecure );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeTerminateGameConnectionUU( IntPtr thisptr, UInt32 unIPServer, UInt16 usPortServer );
		public void TerminateGameConnection( UInt32 unIPServer, UInt16 usPortServer )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeTerminateGameConnectionUU>( this.Functions.TerminateGameConnection4 )( this.ObjectAddress, unIPServer, usPortServer );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeTrackAppUsageEventCES( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 gameID, EAppUsageEvent eAppUsageEvent, string pchExtraInfo );
		public void TrackAppUsageEvent( CGameID gameID, EAppUsageEvent eAppUsageEvent, string pchExtraInfo )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeTrackAppUsageEventCES>( this.Functions.TrackAppUsageEvent5 )( this.ObjectAddress, gameID.ConvertToUint64(), eAppUsageEvent, pchExtraInfo );
		}

		[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)]
		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate bool NativeGetUserDataFolderSI( IntPtr thisptr, StringBuilder pchBuffer, Int32 cubBuffer );
		public bool GetUserDataFolder( StringBuilder pchBuffer )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetUserDataFolderSI>( this.Functions.GetUserDataFolder6 )( this.ObjectAddress, pchBuffer, (Int32) pchBuffer.Capacity );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeStartVoiceRecording( IntPtr thisptr );
		public void StartVoiceRecording(  )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeStartVoiceRecording>( this.Functions.StartVoiceRecording7 )( this.ObjectAddress );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeStopVoiceRecording( IntPtr thisptr );
		public void StopVoiceRecording(  )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeStopVoiceRecording>( this.Functions.StopVoiceRecording8 )( this.ObjectAddress );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate EVoiceResult NativeGetAvailableVoiceUU( IntPtr thisptr, ref UInt32 pcbCompressed, ref UInt32 pcbUncompressed );
		public EVoiceResult GetAvailableVoice( ref UInt32 pcbCompressed, ref UInt32 pcbUncompressed )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetAvailableVoiceUU>( this.Functions.GetAvailableVoice9 )( this.ObjectAddress, ref pcbCompressed, ref pcbUncompressed );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate EVoiceResult NativeGetVoiceBBUUBBUU( IntPtr thisptr, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)] bool bWantCompressed, Byte[] pDestBuffer, UInt32 cbDestBufferSize, ref UInt32 nBytesWritten, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)] bool bWantUncompressed, Byte[] pUncompressedDestBuffer, UInt32 cbUncompressedDestBufferSize, ref UInt32 nUncompressBytesWritten );
		public EVoiceResult GetVoice( bool bWantCompressed, Byte[] pDestBuffer, ref UInt32 nBytesWritten, bool bWantUncompressed, Byte[] pUncompressedDestBuffer, ref UInt32 nUncompressBytesWritten )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetVoiceBBUUBBUU>( this.Functions.GetVoice10 )( this.ObjectAddress, bWantCompressed, pDestBuffer, (UInt32) pDestBuffer.Length, ref nBytesWritten, bWantUncompressed, pUncompressedDestBuffer, (UInt32) pUncompressedDestBuffer.Length, ref nUncompressBytesWritten );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate EVoiceResult NativeDecompressVoiceBUBUUU( IntPtr thisptr, Byte[] pCompressed, UInt32 cbCompressed, Byte[] pDestBuffer, UInt32 cbDestBufferSize, ref UInt32 nBytesWritten, UInt32 nSamplesPerSec );
		public EVoiceResult DecompressVoice( Byte[] pCompressed, Byte[] pDestBuffer, ref UInt32 nBytesWritten, UInt32 nSamplesPerSec )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeDecompressVoiceBUBUUU>( this.Functions.DecompressVoice11 )( this.ObjectAddress, pCompressed, (UInt32) pCompressed.Length, pDestBuffer, (UInt32) pDestBuffer.Length, ref nBytesWritten, nSamplesPerSec );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate UInt32 NativeGetVoiceOptimalSampleRate( IntPtr thisptr );
		public UInt32 GetVoiceOptimalSampleRate(  )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetVoiceOptimalSampleRate>( this.Functions.GetVoiceOptimalSampleRate12 )( this.ObjectAddress );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate UInt32 NativeGetAuthSessionTicketBIU( IntPtr thisptr, Byte[] pTicket, Int32 cbMaxTicket, ref UInt32 pcbTicket );
		public UInt32 GetAuthSessionTicket( Byte[] pTicket, ref UInt32 pcbTicket )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetAuthSessionTicketBIU>( this.Functions.GetAuthSessionTicket13 )( this.ObjectAddress, pTicket, (Int32) pTicket.Length, ref pcbTicket );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate EBeginAuthSessionResult NativeBeginAuthSessionBIC( IntPtr thisptr, Byte[] pAuthTicket, Int32 cbAuthTicket, UInt64 steamID );
		public EBeginAuthSessionResult BeginAuthSession( Byte[] pAuthTicket, CSteamID steamID )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeBeginAuthSessionBIC>( this.Functions.BeginAuthSession14 )( this.ObjectAddress, pAuthTicket, (Int32) pAuthTicket.Length, steamID.ConvertToUint64() );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeEndAuthSessionC( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamID );
		public void EndAuthSession( CSteamID steamID )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeEndAuthSessionC>( this.Functions.EndAuthSession15 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamID.ConvertToUint64() );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeCancelAuthTicketU( IntPtr thisptr, UInt32 hAuthTicket );
		public void CancelAuthTicket( UInt32 hAuthTicket )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeCancelAuthTicketU>( this.Functions.CancelAuthTicket16 )( this.ObjectAddress, hAuthTicket );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate EUserHasLicenseForAppResult NativeUserHasLicenseForAppCU( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamID, UInt32 appID );
		public EUserHasLicenseForAppResult UserHasLicenseForApp( CSteamID steamID, UInt32 appID )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeUserHasLicenseForAppCU>( this.Functions.UserHasLicenseForApp17 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamID.ConvertToUint64(), appID );
		}

		[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)]
		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate bool NativeBIsBehindNAT( IntPtr thisptr );
		public bool BIsBehindNAT(  )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeBIsBehindNAT>( this.Functions.BIsBehindNAT18 )( this.ObjectAddress );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate void NativeAdvertiseGameCUU( IntPtr thisptr, UInt64 steamIDGameServer, UInt32 unIPServer, UInt16 usPortServer );
		public void AdvertiseGame( CSteamID steamIDGameServer, UInt32 unIPServer, UInt16 usPortServer )
		{
			this.GetFunction<NativeAdvertiseGameCUU>( this.Functions.AdvertiseGame19 )( this.ObjectAddress, steamIDGameServer.ConvertToUint64(), unIPServer, usPortServer );
		}

		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate UInt64 NativeRequestEncryptedAppTicketBI( IntPtr thisptr, Byte[] pDataToInclude, Int32 cbDataToInclude );
		public UInt64 RequestEncryptedAppTicket( Byte[] pDataToInclude )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeRequestEncryptedAppTicketBI>( this.Functions.RequestEncryptedAppTicket20 )( this.ObjectAddress, pDataToInclude, (Int32) pDataToInclude.Length );
		}

		[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)]
		[UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.ThisCall)] private delegate bool NativeGetEncryptedAppTicketBIU( IntPtr thisptr, Byte[] pTicket, Int32 cbMaxTicket, ref UInt32 pcbTicket );
		public bool GetEncryptedAppTicket( Byte[] pTicket, ref UInt32 pcbTicket )
		{
			return this.GetFunction<NativeGetEncryptedAppTicketBIU>( this.Functions.GetEncryptedAppTicket21 )( this.ObjectAddress, pTicket, (Int32) pTicket.Length, ref pcbTicket );
		}

	};
}

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PSPC 2020 Postponed
PSPC 2020 postponed until 2021
We're working tirelessly to share more details as soon as we have them. For more information on this postponement, please keep revisiting this page.
It is with great regret that we've had to make the decision to postpone the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship (PSPC) 2020 and EPT Barcelona, due to be held at Casino Barcelona, Spain.
Here at PokerStars, we really look forward to these events taking place and particularly so with the PSPC, which will now take place in in 2021.
PSPC Postponement FAQs
To keep you informed, here are some frequently asked questions.
Will the PSPC 2020 event go ahead as scheduled in Barcelona from 20-24 August?
Due to the challenges posed to health and international travel as a result of the global pandemic, Covid-19, we've made the decision to postpone EPT Barcelona in August, and as such the 2020 edition of the PSPC.
When will the PSPC event now take place?
We've not decided on a definite new date for the PSPC event. We're currently monitoring the global health situation and will announce information and accompanying promotions as soon as we can.
Will PokerStars continue offering free Platinum Pass packages to enter the PSPC?
Yes. In fact we'll award 400 PSPC Platinum Pass packages in total; 80 more than originally planned. We're currently working on upcoming promotions. We'll share details nearer the time.
How can I win a Platinum Pass?
For the time being we have suspended all promotions where we were awarding a Platinum Pass, but we'll update and announce new promotions both online and live as soon as we've a confirmed new date for the PSPC.
What will happen to my Platinum Pass?
Your Platinum Pass is still valid for this event and your hotel booking will be arranged for the new event dates once these are confirmed.
Can I have my Platinum Pass value refunded to my account?
Unfortunately, no. The Platinum Pass is non-refundable and non-exchangeable and it can only be used to enter the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship event.
I have already booked my flights for Barcelona in August. What will happen to my booking?
Please email us at live@pokerstarslive.com with your flight reservations so we can review your request.
Will the other live events that were awarding Platinum Passes still go ahead?
We've also cancelled the following events for the same reasons as the PSPC 2020.
Road to PSPC Cannes
Manila Super Series 14
We'll advise about the other stops detailed on our live events calendar if it becomes necessary to review these too.
Dare to Dream – Win your place at the PSPC with a Platinum Pass
Now we have more time than expected before our second ever Championship, we've decided to giveaway 80 more Platinum Passes. This takes the total to 400 passes. In the coming months, this will enable us to bring you even more ways to win.
There are multiple ways for you to win a Platinum Pass worth over €26,000 (approximately $30,000) to the event. More details will be coming soon. A Platinum Pass includes:
Buy-in to the €22,500 PSPC 2020 event
Six nights' hotel accommodation for you and a guest in a five-star hotel
Bespoke PSPC Merchandise
€1,250 expenses
Platinum Pass winner experiences during the event
How to win a Platinum Pass and more
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PokerStars Players NL Hold'em Championship Platinum Pass Terms & Conditions
The following PokerStars Players NL Hold'em Championship Platinum Pass Offer Terms & Conditions ("Platinum Pass Conditions") together with the general Terms & Conditions ("General Terms") (collectively, the "Agreement") shall apply to this offer and allocation of any Platinum Pass ("Platinum Pass"). The Platinum Pass may only be used at the PokerStars Players NL Hold'em Championship 2020 (the "Championship").
1. Offer Details
1.1 Each Platinum Pass will be awarded via different channels. These could take place online, at live events, through social media channels, or alternative promotional means that we choose to conduct.
2. Platinum Pass Details
2.1 Subject to Clause 2.2 below, the winner of a Platinum Pass will be entitled to the following package:
€22,500 buy-in to the Championship which takes place from August 20-24, 2020 at Casino Barcelona.
Six nights' standard accommodation (for two persons) at a five-star hotel in Barcelona (August 19 to August 25)
Airport transfers to and from Barcelona airport.
Furthermore, please note that you will also be entitled to receive €1,250 in travel expenses if you have arranged and paid for your travel to Barcelona without the assistance of our travel partner; or where you have used our travel partner to arrange your travel to Barcelona, you will receive the difference between the actual travel cost and the amount of €1,250.
Any amounts due to you under Clause 2.1 will be paid upon your arrival at the Championship.
2.2 It is a condition of this Offer that:
any winner of a Platinum Pass must be present at the Championship to receive all elements of the prize.
Platinum Pass winners must submit written confirmation of their intention to attend the Championship tournament via email to the Registrations Team. The date for confirmation will depend on the date you are awarded your Platinum Pass and shall be as follows:
(aa) Those who win a Platinum Pass between August 27, 2019 and April 1, 2020 - confirmation is to be received no later than May 1, 2020.
(bb) Those who win a Platinum Pass between April 2, 2020 and June 1, 2020 - confirmation is to be received no later than July 1, 2020.
(cc) Any Platinum Pass awarded after June 1, 2020 will be given specific confirmation dates at that time.
3.1 An individual shall not be entitled to receive more than one Platinum Pass under any circumstances and the following rules shall apply.
3.1.1 If a player wins a second Platinum Pass, it will be forfeited immediately upon discovery, and the player will not receive any compensation. An additional Platinum Pass awarded to a player already in receipt of one will be allocated to another player at our sole determination.
3.2 All employees of The Stars Group and their immediate family members are ineligible to take part in this Offer.
3.3 Any player in receipt of a Platinum Pass, who is barred from PokerStars or from participating in PSLive sponsored events as of August 19, 2020, will forfeit their Platinum Pass and shall not be entitled to any compensation.
4. Offer Requirements
4.1 All Platinum Pass winners will be required to complete a registration and consent form at the time of their selection to participate in the Championship. Failure to do so will disqualify you from the Offer.
4.2 For the avoidance of doubt, the Platinum Pass and all elements of the prize on offer is non-refundable and non-transferable in any way. If a Platinum Pass winner does not confirm attendance by the specific date prescribed above, or is unable to attend the Championship for any reason, they will forfeit the Platinum Pass and will receive no compensation. We reserve the right to award or distribute any unused or forfeited Platinum Pass at our sole discretion.
4.3 Travel arrangements (including obtaining any applicable visas) together with the cost of getting to Barcelona, Spain for the required dates set out in Clause 2 above, shall be the sole responsibility of the Platinum Pass winner. Failure to secure proper documentation and authorisation for travel to the Championship will result in the forfeiture of your Platinum Pass.
4.4 Please note that further Terms & Conditions may apply to each element of the prize on offer.
4.5 Hotel accommodation dates cannot be amended or varied without incurring costs which shall be at the sole expense of the Platinum Pass winner.
4.6 Winners are responsible for payment of any taxes, licenses, registrations and other fees associated with the Platinum Pass.
4.7 We reserve the sole right to alter or amend any part of this Offer where there are circumstances which prevent the Championship from taking place as scheduled.
General PokerStars Terms & Conditions apply.
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