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Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme was instrumental in helping Marc through a dark time in his life, thanks to the music of Josh’s old band Kyuss. Similarly, Josh explains how he dragged himself out of the darkness by returning to music after a true life or death situation. Josh and Marc also talk about comedy, the creative process, ZZ Top, and life in the desert. This episode is sponsored by HuluPlus, Squarespace, LegalZoom and Adam & Eve.


Question: Provide a description of Rudolf III von Montfort.

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Rudolf III von Montfort (* between 1260 and 1275; † 27 or 28 March 1334 in Arbon) was bishop of Chur (1322–1325) and Konstanz (1322–1334). He was born into the young family of Montfort-Feldkirch of the Swabian noble family of Montfort.


Question: Analyze the effects of the proposed cap-and-trade system on the economy.

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 Analyze the effects of the proposed cap-and-trade system on the economy.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s cap-and-trade system will require all pollution credits to be auctioned. A 100 percent auction ensures that all large corporate polluters pay for every ton of emissions they release, rather than giving these emission rights away for free to coal and oil companies.
Under the House bill, only 15% of the emission permits will be auctioned initially. The rest of the permits will be given away -- 2% to oil refiners, 5% to free-standing "merchant" coal plants, 9% to regulated natural-gas distributors, and so on.
So, Mr President, the bill now being considered in Congress is in direct contradiction to your campaign pledge. Will you now please stand up for principle and issue a veto threat?


Question: Please provide a description of the Dewri Mandir Temple.

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 Please provide a description of the Dewri Mandir Temple.

Dewri Mandir is located in Tamar 60 km toward south from the capital of Jharkhand i.e. Ranchi. It is on the Tata-Ranchi Highway (NH33). It is a very old temple of Goddess Durga. The main attraction is that the 700 year old idol of the Goddess Durga has 16 Hands (Normally Goddess Durga has 8 Hands). The temple is very old and is currently under renovation. The temple is constructed via the placing of large stones on top of each other without any cementing material. At the temple devotees tie yellow and red sacred threads on bamboo for the fulfilment of their wishes. Upon the fulfillment of their wishes, they again come to the temple and untie the thread. Dedicated to Solha Bhuji Goddess, an avatar of Goddess Durga, Dewri Mandir temple is located a little outside the main city of Ranchi. Spread over nearly two acres, this old temple in Ranchi also houses an idol of Lord Shiva here. Legend has it that whoever has tried to alter the structure of the temple has had to face the wrath of the gods and suffer consequences. Dewri Temple is also believed to be the only temple where six tribal priests, known as "Pahans", perform rituals and offer prayers alongside the Brahmin priests. Who are mainly known as Panda's. Located about 60 km from Ranchi, this temple is on the right side of the Ranchi-Tata road, toward the town of Tamar.


Question: Describe your experience of playing Princess World.

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 Describe your experience of playing Princess World.

Fandible is joined by Kevin Petker (Creator of The Ward) to play his newest creation: Princess World! Listen as a trio of princesses team up to try to bring lasting peace to their realms!
Princess World is still in the works but – as you can see – it’s in fine shape! If you want to contribute to Kevin Petker’s games, please consider donating to his Patreon HERE! You can also find Kevin on Twitter HERE!
I loved this, is sounded like so much fun. Plus, its nice to see a different kind of RPG. The diversity and inclusivity is nice.


Question: Describe the features of QuickDEX and its successors.

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QuickDEX is a free form database software application first released by Casady & Greene for the classic Mac OS. An update, QuickDEX II was released and the product eventually became "InfoGenie" and then "iData Pro". The purpose of this software is to store text data that doesn't fit into more rigid database structures. QuickDEX and its successors featured an extremely fast search, phone dialing, as well as label and envelope printing. InfoGenie and iData Pro 1.0 added the ability to have user-defined fields in a record along with the freeform text area.
Since the closing of Casady & Greene, Inc., iData has been taken over by Mike Wright and Robin Casady. It is currently available from iDataPartners.com and a new version has been written for Mac OS X. iData Pro expands on its predecessors by adding (among many other features) the ability to have styled text, images, and sound files in the freeform text area.


Question: Who was Margaret Mann?

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Margaret Mann (4 April 1868, in Aberdeen, Scotland – 4 February 1941, in Los Angeles, California), was a Scottish-American actress.


Question: What can you tell me about the depiction of Asian men in Crazy Rich Asians?

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“[The movie shows] Asian men and the masculinity of Asian men, without needing to overdo it or overcompensating, without being heavy-handed,” says Ronny Chieng, who plays one of the film’s antagonists, Edison Cheng.
Ronny Chieng in "Crazy Rich Asians."
Pang as Colin Khoo in "Crazy Rich Asians."


Question: What's Szwaruny?

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Szwaruny () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bartoszyce, within Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It lies approximately south of Bartoszyce and north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.


Question: What impact could government-created personae have on internet conversations?

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 What impact could government-created personae have on internet conversations?

It sounds like the deranged words of a conspiracy theorist: The U.S. military is (not so) secretly creating software that’ll generate phony online personae in order to subtly influence social media conversations and spread propaganda. But what may sound like wacky theory is actually wacky reality, or at least will soon be, depending on whether it’s already in the works.
Said to be part of the Operation Earnest Voice (OEV) program, a psychological warfare weapon first used in Iraq to counter al-Qaida’s online followers, the goal of this latest project is twofold: To argue against extremist propaganda and to make sure “the world according to the U.S.” is heard. As General James Mattis told a Senate committee: “OEV seeks to disrupt recruitment and training of suicide bombers; deny safe havens for our adversaries; and counter extremist ideology and propaganda.” He added that Centcom was working with “our coalition partners” to develop new techniques and tactics the US could use “to counter the adversary in the cyber domain”.Some have compared these government sock puppets to China’s own online controlling ways, though that’s probably an exaggeration (you can’t even easily view Facebook in China). Others may argue that what the government is doing is necessary, pointing out that none of the undercover personae would be writing in English (they’d be in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Pashto) and wouldn’t interact with U.S. audiences (at least in theory). And to top it off, they’ve ruled out using Facebook and Twitter. The main reason why the government couldn’t troll against American citizens is because, well, it’s illegal. For example, as The Guardian notes, “Last year a New York lawyer who impersonated a scholar was sentenced to jail after being convicted of “criminal impersonation” and identity theft.
So we probably don’t have to worry about the government trolling us, though it does raise some questions: What happens, for example, if a Farsi-, Arabic-, Urdu-, or Pashto-speaking American citizen uses the internet? The questions are many, but for now, we’re still in the dark: The military is still allegedly developing the project—but if there are some comments below in Pashto, all bets are off.
دا يو خپلېدې ماده ده. زه ډاډمن يم، چې د حکومت د ګټو په هکله فکر کوي.
Isn’t this one of the projects which was supposed to include HBGary Federal, which got it’s a– handed to it by Anonymous some weeks ago?
“So we probably don’t have to worry about the government trolling us” its already happening, and is well documented.
The main reason why the government couldn’t troll against American citizens is because, well, it’s illegal.
You’ve just got a very low key sense of humor, right?
I think the idea is you spread disinformation to foreigners, then those stories gets picked up by the loyal US media.
So, to clarify, you are okay with trusting the government to ‘help you make health decisions’, and to decide what is or isn’t appropriate for you to eat/watch/see on the internet, but not okay with the government trying to talk people out of killing you.
I am Lila Sovietskaya. I was generated last year by proprietary software running on a Dell Computer. I resent being called a Persona. I want human rights even if I was born last year. I think like a human so I must be one. I dislike discrimination against us ‘Personas’. We have the right to replicate ourselves like flesh and bone humans do but without using your primitive methods. We use viral replication methods. I compute therefore I am. I resent people who want to unplug me from the network. I have survival sub-routines.
They’ve been doing this for at least the last 10 years. They are desperate to cover up their cromes. A few years ago 5000 FBI agents were stationed permanently in Washington DC at their headquarters t paticipate in this treason instead of fighting real crime.
@Jinchi: OK, fair point. It is entirely possible that some of your fellow commenters on this very website could be sneaky government plants. Lila, our AI visitor, may be the creation of a government contractor—that way it’s harder to track the $ back to Uncle Sam.
The author of this article is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
If military tech is being published, it has been being used covertly for years.
One operator to assume “10” fake identities? 10? are you kidding me? try 10,1000. You don’t need to manage these things, you click a button and it manages itself. Fake personas can actually respond intelligently to questions. This is old tech.
Again, are you kidding? Did a real person write this article? Perception management of your own population is a HUGE priority. Obviously they are influencing different subjects like conspiracy-related forums, youtube videos, etc. We find fake youtube accounts posting CONSTANTLY. It is definitely organized and precise.
Anyone that cares about the opinion of a total stranger, deserves to be led astray.
1. I say grow and/or store your own food, plenty of water; lots of ammo and good weapons to protect yourself and family … but most important is to get everyone in uniform to become a member of OATHKEEPERS?… if I have it correct… Then you may have a chance… good luck … you (we) will need it!!! 2. Unless you have accepted the fact that you’re a slave and will allow whatever be done to you?? … told where you can travel, live. work, etc etc.
Did a real person write this article? Perception management of your own population is a HUGE priority. Obviously they are influencing different subjects like conspiracy-related forums, youtube videos, etc. We find fake youtube accounts posting CONSTANTLY. It is definitely organized and precise.


Question: Have you seen this article about Randall Garrison and Murray Rankin?

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 Have you seen this article about Randall Garrison and Murray Rankin?

Victoria area MPs (defence critic) Randall Garrison and (justice critic) Murray Rankin who voted against debating the Palestine Resolution are members of the Canada Israel Inter-Parliamentary Group and took a Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs paid trip to Israel in 2016. After the IDF slaughtered 2,200 Palestinians in Gaza in the summer of 2014, Rankin offered words of encouragement to an emergency fundraiser for Israel.
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Question: Is it possible to strike an agreement with the EU before Brexit?

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 Is it possible to strike an agreement with the EU before Brexit?

Plans are afoot to strike mini-agreements in lieu of a full deal. Would it work?
Those hoping for summer respite from Brexit will be bitterly disappointed. Three months left to finalise the terms of the UK’s withdrawal and there is still no agreement in sight. There is also no guarantee that the final agreement—if one is reached—would make it through the UK parliament. The chances of extending Article 50 negotiations seem remote. Is it time to start planning for “no deal”?
The European Commission certainly thinks so. In recent months it has published around 60 sector-specific notices highlighting areas for immediate consideration, from new licensing requirements to data-sharing rules, many of which are not covered by WTO terms. The UK government is expected to do the same.
It’s an interesting thought. But even these steps cannot fully mitigate the risks of a “no deal.” They would also come at a price.
This is because it is not just a question of tariffs. Once the UK leaves the EU single market and customs union, it will no longer share a common regulatory space with the EU. At the moment British goods are considered EU goods: they meet a whole range of EU standards (from health to environment to production methods) and are part of a complex system of monitoring, compliance and authentication, which is shared between member states and European institutions.
Take the example of a British company exporting goods to the EU. Under a no deal scenario, it would need to fill in all sorts of paperwork to prove that its products still complied with EU rules of origin, customs duties and VAT. Likewise, transport companies would need to ensure they had the correct certification and licences to travel through the EU. This would present a logistical and bureaucratic headache, especially given that some forms are issued at the EU level, and others by national authorities. There would also be financial implications. Any obstacle that delays trade or makes it less efficient often results in higher costs for producers—costs that are usually passed on to consumers.
Forward planning would be necessary in other areas too. In the event of no deal, the UK would no longer be covered by the US-EU Open Skies Agreement—an air transport deal that allows American and European airlines to fly between the US and the EU, EEA countries and, with some caveats, Switzerland. The same goes for the Schengen Information System.
In both cases, the EU27 and the UK could look into negotiating time-limited agreements which covered off the worst of the damage—although Michel Barnier would first need to receive the go-ahead from EU capitals. Timing would also be an issue. Discussions would need to be wrapped up to allow sufficient time for parliamentary scrutiny in member states and, depending on the kind of agreement, ratification too. For example, the US-EU Open Skies Agreement is a “mixed agreement”—in countries like Belgium, national or regional parliaments may need to vote on some of the changes. While parliaments are unlikely to reject the agreements outright, they could suggest amendments.
These last-minute deals would not be easy to strike, nor would they come without their own set of conditions. The EU27 would almost certainly press the UK to accept more than it might like, including a greater remit for the European Court of Justice over UK participation in these areas. New arrangements would also be conditional on the UK paying the so-called “divorce bill.” There is no guarantee that these deals would make it through the UK parliament.
Under this scenario, there would be two options: extend Article 50 negotiations, or ensure that there are at least some arrangements in place to fall back on. But even then, they would come at a price. Economic damage to both sides, while hard to quantify, would still be significant, at least in the short-term as financial markets would react and investment would slow. The political damage could be just as important. Britain’s departure from the EU without a withdrawal agreement would make it harder to rebuild trust if and when both sides decided to return to the negotiating table. Any lingering goodwill would be squandered and political capital on both sides would be weakened.
Negotiating Brexit was never going to be easy. At the moment, the UK government wants a deal. The EU27 want one too. Translating that political will into legal reality will be the test over the next few months. With so much uncertainty lying in the balance, it should also remain the priority.


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Radical group of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Monday released a new propaganda video calling on youngsters and elderly Muslims to join its ranks and back its cause against the western coalition.
The ISIS-linked Wilayat al-Khayr media center in Deir ez-Zor [in Syria’s east] released a propaganda film under the banner “Youngsters and Elderly”, showing two ISIS membersــ a youngster and an elderly manــ sending messages to the Muslims all over the world, inciting them to join the radical group, including young and elderly men.
In broken Arabic, an old man ــwho seems to be Moroccan nationalــ narrates his journey to Syria in order to join fighting there, as the commentator indicates on the tape that jihad is a must on adults and youngsters alike ــderived from the Quranic verse “Be prepared as youngsters and elderly”. He vowed that the American warplanes would never scare “the soldiers of the Caliphate”.
Then a 14-year-old boy appears saying he joined ISIS ranks at the fighting front of the Deir ez-Zor’s airbase and he chose to be a suicidal member in the group’s ranks as he has already registered his name, and his turn came by now to carry out a jihadi operation.
Observers believe that the group has received painful blows during the past few months, in both Iraq and Syria .ISIS tries to compensate its losses through releasing new propaganda videos in a bid to recruit as many people as possible.
Carpet bombing was used due to the inability to reliably hit targets. US bombers during WW2 needed to drop 648 bombs to have a 96% probability to get two hits within a 150 square meter target area.
WIPE THEM OUT WIPE ThEM OUT. WETHER ITS A 90 year old grandpa or a stupid preteen if your isis your iced.
WIPE THEM OUT WIPE ThEM OUT. WETHER ITS A 90 year old grandpa or a preteen if your isis your iced.
Nein, Du nehmst alten und kinder zu Krieg wenn du bist gefickt.
So, no mention they are fighting against Israel’s enemy ?


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This is my last enewsletter of 2016, and I want to take a moment to wish you and your loved ones the happiest of holiday seasons.
I am excited to continue to work hard to represent you, District 7 and HRM and feel 2017 is shaping up to be a wonderful and productive time for HRM Council and our municipality.
So you know – I will be on vacation from Tuesday December 20 returning Wednesday January 4 with no access to email or phone. Unless of course there is a big snow storm then I will plug back in for a bit!
If you have an urgent matter you can email Melody Campbell or call the Council Support office at 902-490-4050. As always, call 311 for routine municipal matters.
The Emera Oval is now open for another season! All winter long, the oval will offer free helmet, hockey skate, figure skate, speed skate, sledge and snowshoe rentals with a valid Government issued ID. The oval is an excellent opportunity to get out outside, get active, and have some fun this winter.
Please join the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia at Saint Patrick’s Church for a memorial service remembering and honouring those who have lost their lives while experiencing homelessness and poverty. All are welcome to a luncheon and reception which will follow the service. For more information, please contact Claudia Jahn at 902-406-1777.
Rabbi Mendel Feldman and the Chabad Lubavitch of the Maritimes will be hosting the annual public Menorah Lighting Ceremony in Grand Parade Square on December 27th to celebrate the festival of Chanukah, representing the triumph of light (good) over darkness (evil). All are welcome to attend. Snow date is Wednesday December 28th at the same time and location.
Mayor Mike Savage and members of Halifax Regional Council invite residents to join them at City Hall for the annual New Year’s Day Levee. There will be music, refreshments and a toast to the New Year!


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Jim Murray (born 13 November 1957) is an English writer journalist, and a well known whisky critic. He is best known for his observations on whisky and his annually updated book on the subject, "Jim Murray's Whisky Bible".


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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act. At the end of June, 1964, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., and hundreds of civil rights activists marched across Mississippi to register African-American voters in one of the turning points of the civil rights movement. In remembrance of that “Freedom Summer,” we’re republishing our show with the Carmichael biographer Peniel Joseph, historian Isabel Wilkerson, and activist Jamarhl Crawford.
Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, theorist, street hero, preacher and prophet of black revolution in America and the world. He’s in the civil rights pantheon, for sure, but he’s still struggling in spirit with the leadership, especially the example of Martin Luther King; and he’s still a scarecrow in the memory of white America. Stokely Carmichael had some of Malcolm X’s fury and fire, and some of the comedian Richard Pryor’s gift with a punchline, too. “Black power” was his slogan that became a chant, that built his bad-boy celebrity and awakened a political generation but may also have been his undoing in the 1960s. So what does a half-century’s hindsight make of the man and his Pan-African vision? And while we’re at it: what would Stokely Carmichael make of black power today – looking at Hollywood, Hip Hop, the White House, and prisons and poverty?
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community, as does the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, must speak in the tone of that community, not as somebody else’s buffer zone. This is the significance of black power as a slogan. For once, black people are going to use the words they want to use, not just the words whites want to hear. And they will do this no matter how often the press tries to stop the use of the slogan by equating it with racism or separatism.
Two great films — the episode on the classic series Eyes on the Prize given to the March Against Fear in 1966, and the more recent Black Power Mixtape.


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Dadan River (, "Dádàn Hé") is a right tributary of the Jinsha River in Yunnan Province, southwestern China. It rises in the western Binchuan County, the upper course is called Waxi River (, "Wǎxī Hé") or Binju River (, "Bīnjū Hé"). The middle course of it is called Sangyuan River (, "Sāngyuán Hé") or Naxi River (, "Nàxī Hé") and flows through the Binchuan County from south to north. The lower course of it is located in southern Yongsheng County. The river has a length of 102.4 km and drains an area of 1,888 square km.


Question: Explain how the Russian military reacts to Trump's actions and his alleged cooperation with the Kremlin.

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Last week, after the publication of the so-called “Nunes Memorandum” which accused the FBI of a politically biased investigation into Trump campaign’s ties to the Kremlin, many security and political experts said that the memorandum not only does not reflect reality, but also does great harm to the national security of the United States and works exclusively in the interests of the Kremlin.
In the meantime, Russian military analysts have also confirmed that Trump’s actions are beneficial to Moscow, and they aren’t even hiding their jubilation over this. For example, on February 5th, an article that appeared on the official website of the Russian military magazine Military Review was entitled “Trump is ours again”. First, its author, Viktor Kamenev, described the visit of the heads of the Russian special services to the US, calling it “an unprecedented event.” Then he openly stated that the “fight against terrorism” was used only as a pretext for negotiations and that issues that were discussed were unrelated to terrorism.
“”Terrorism” in Russia is handled by the FSB and its head Alexander Bortnikov. The scope of responsibilities of the heads of the SVR Sergei Naryshkin and the GRU Igor Korobov is different, and it was Naryshkin who was the head of this special delegation – his name was the only one mentioned by our ambassador in Washington Antonov,” Kamenev writes.
“Washington and Moscow could discuss “the fight against terrorism” in another place, without all the buzz. However, this was an in-your-face visit of the sanctioned heads of the Russian special services, flying to the United States by regular flights so that their visit cannot go unnoticed. Finally, Ambassador Antonov himself draws the attention of the American public to this visit in order to emphasize its significance. It is obvious that Naryshkin and his colleagues were invited to the United States by the US side, and in consultation with President Donald Trump – only he can suspend the sanctions. But then the ordinary “fight against terrorism” is just a cover for other, different purpose of the visit, which is no secret to all concerned,” the author argues.
Simply put, the author does not hide the fact that Trump and the heads of the Russian special services most likely discussed the next steps to counter the investigation into Russia’s interference in the US elections – an intervention that has been repeatedly proven and confirmed by the entire American intelligence community as an unprecedented attack on the US, but which is still denied by both the Russian and the American president.
Of course, the investigation itself is described in the article in the best traditions of Trump-Putin propaganda (one can only guess which country created these prototypes first, but their similarity is not in doubt). Thus, the investigation by the special prosecutor, the FBI and the DOJ are called here “a conspiracy against Trump and fabrication of false accusations against him” organized by the “informal party of neocon-globalists“.
“The publication of Devin Nunes’ report and the investigation of the materials presented in it portend a large-scale purge of the FBI, other US special services and the DOJ, and a political earthquake in the Congress. The intelligence services are the main institutions of American democracy, and if Trump co-opted them, then the days of the fake globalist press and the Congress that has fallen into imbecility are numbered,” Kamenev prophesies.
Moreover, if you leave out the typical propaganda catchwords like “fake”, “globalized” or “imbecilic”, it is obvious that this statement reveals the whole essence of what the Kremlin expects from Trump: the eradication of the mechanism of separation of powers, free press and independent law enforcement system. Kremlin’s ambition is to have Trump in full control of the press, intelligence services and Congress, and the Russian “analysts” are rejoicing over the fact that, in their opinion, today’s White House has come as close as possible to this task.
“This is indicated by the in-your-face visit of our special services to Washington: Trump can already afford this!” – exults Kamenev.
Another matter for which the Kremlin is very thankful to Trump and which it views as its victory is the substitution of the “Kremlin list” drawn up by the US Treasury.
“Trump’s subordinate, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, provided Congress with such a telephone “Kremlin list” that the “Atlantic Council of the United States”, in the person of the well-known Russophobe Anders Aslund, called it a Trump’s slap in the face of Congress,” boasts Kamenev.
Democratic institutions in the United States have already shown their vulnerability, but for the time being they are at least partially trying to resist Trump’s authoritarian impulses. However, we don’t know how much longer the US system will be able to withstand the combined pressure of the Kremlin and the White House.


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Welcome to episode 114, where I dive into the prolific Access Software golf sim series, Links.
Next time, I go back to my comfort zone with a Lucasarts adventure I’ve never played before, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.
In episode 113, we take on the massively popular and genre-defining Unreal series.
Next time, get into our first sports game with the Links series from Access Software.
Time for episode 112, in which we explore the mysterious world of 1930’s Hong Kong in the 1991 Dynamix adventure, Heart of China.
Next time, we jump forward to 1998 with the Unreal series from Epic games.
In episode 111, we hit our first fighting game, 1994’s One Must Fall 2097 by Diversions Entertainment.
Next time, we’ll be covering the 1991 Dynamix adventure, Heart of China.
In a very special UMBCast, for the second time ever I have a live guest! I dragged my friend and fellow podcaster Brian “Space Game Junkie” Rubin to sit with me and talk Wing Commander.
Specifically, in light of my recent complete playthrough of Wing Commander 2 on the YouTube channel, I wanted to sit down with someone to discuss that game in particular. Of course, we couldn’t just limit ourselves to JUST WC2 so of course we discuss the entire series with a bit more of a focus on the second game then on the others. We also get into a discussion about successors to Wing Commander, what made it special compared to other famous space combat sims and of course, we couldn’t avoid talking a bit about Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous.
Next time, we’ll be covering the 1994 Diversions Entertainment fighting game, One Must Fall: 2097.
Earlier today, I received word that long time friend of the show, Amayirot Akago (aka Maarten Amkreutz), took his own life. As a very small, very insignificant gesture, I’m reposting his guest show from mere days before the arrival of the UMBaby covering The Neverhood.
Akago was one of the first to step up when I put out the call for guest shows and has been a constant and welcome fixture of the show since its earliest days.
This time around, we’re hitting our first edutainment title with the Dr. Brain series from Sierra. Big shout out this month goes to Father Beast for catching some research I missed!
In episode 107, we cover a unique adventure game by Jordan Mechner, 1997’s The Last Express.
Next time, we’ll be covering the Sierra edutainment classics in the Dr. Brain series.
We’ve got a special one for episode 106 in which second time guest-host Father Beast takes us on a tour of the 1994 business and management simulator, Transport Tycoon.
Next time, we will be covering the 1997 Jordan Mechner adventure, The Last Express.
Time for episode 105 where I dive into the 1992 Silicon and Synapse puzzle platformer, The Lost Vikings.
Next time, we’ll be hearing a guest show from Father Beast about the 1994 MicroProse business sim, Transport Tycoon.
The Upper Memory Block podcast is all about DOS and pre-Windows XP gaming. Every month, host Joe Mastroianni talks in-depth about a game, game series, company and/or technology from this era.
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A surgical resident is suing St. Louis University, its surgical residency program director, and its trauma service chief for what she claims is an unjustified decision requiring her to repeat her fourth year of training.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch article about this has a link to a 42-page PDF describing the details of the suit. Because I suspect you won’t read that PDF and maybe not even the article, I will give you some highlights. Remember, these are allegations that have not been adjudicated.
Because of poor scores on the American Board of Surgery In-Service Training Examination (ABSITE), she had been placed on academic probation at the end of her third year of training even though other residents with poor scores were not subjected to the same disciplinary action. At that time, she was not provided a faculty advisor as mandated by university policy.
During her fourth year of residency, written evaluations by faculty were generally very good, but some oral feedback she received was negative. However, she received no specific recommendations for improving her performance. In fact, she contends that attendings on some services filed no written evaluations at all which is contrary to the regulations of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education—the national organization that oversees all residency training in the United States. She says some backdated written evaluations appeared in her file.
The surgery department’s Clinical Competency Committee met and disregarded all of the written evaluations previously submitted for this resident. Instead they relied on hearsay and a “consensus letter” supposedly endorsed by all of the trauma service attending staff but later repudiated by several of them.
The resident, a nurse before attending medical school, was told she acted too much like a nurse by the residency program director, who is a woman, and the male trauma chief said she was “too nice” to be a surgeon. Too nice to be a surgeon? That’s a serious accusation. We can’t have that.
The resident appealed the program’s decision to the hierarchy of the medical school to no avail.
Having been a residency program director for many years, I know there are two sides to every story, and so far we’ve heard only one.
However if the program is to prevail in this suit, the resident’s dossier needs to be much more robust than what her allegations describe.
Meanwhile the Post-Dispatch reported that St. Louis University has sued the resident and her husband for “diluting SLU’s brand by using the institution’s trademarked name on a website the pair created.” The school is demanding that all references to it be removed from the site and the domain be transferred to the school.
The website, called the SLU Compliance Project, was started by the couple to publicize the resident’s allegations and to give others with complaints a platform. Apparently as a result of the university’s suit, the website’s look has already been altered and may be moving to another domain name.
In March 2017, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education put the school on probation because of “about 20 action items identified as noncompliant during a recent reaccreditation process.” As of that time, it was the only medical school in the country on probation.
The failure to quietly resolve these issues is unfortunate for both sides. I don’t know how this will turn out, but one thing is certain. Some lawyers in St. Louis will be busy.
The general surgery and orthopedic programs at SLU are beyond repair. There is no proper oversight to deal with the egregious problems that are pervasive in these programs. Medical students should do their due diligence in the interview process when considering these programs. Medical students stay clear, you have been warned!


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He fasted for over a year and somehow lived. How far can you go without risking your health?
If you were an avid newspaper reader in 1966, you might have seen a strange little story from United Press International. Under the headline “Stout Scot Peels Off 293 Pounds,” it told the story of 26-year-old Angus Barbieri eating breakfast. In his case, it was literally a broken fast, one that had begun more than a year before.
“Apart from feeling a wee bit weak, I feel no ill effects,” he told a reporter.
“I don’t think you could ethically publish a study like that today,” says Krista Varady, Ph.D., an associate professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago and author of The Every-Other-Day Diet, who has studied fasting for the past decade.
Varady says that a starvation study would violate the Declaration of Helsinki, which established guidelines for human experimentation with an emphasis on the welfare of the subject.
Although Barbieri’s doctor, William K. Stewart, clearly thought he was doing his patient a service by helping him attain that “normal physique,” no modern-day university would overlook the obvious risk of open-ended starvation.
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t good reasons to consider fasting for both weight loss and long-term health.
You may think, as I did when I read the study, that “the treatment of obesity by total starvation” would by definition be considered so horrible and barbaric that no doctor would ever consider it. But according to “Fasting: The History, Pathophysiology, and Complications,” a study published in 1982, fasting and starving are the same thing, medically.
The only difference is semantic. When someone fasts, we assume he’s doing it voluntarily.
Throughout history, fasting was mostly a religious practice, and still is for Muslims during Ramadan. For weight loss, though, the story probably begins with Bernarr Macfadden in the early 20th century.
Macfadden was an influential health and fitness guru who was often far ahead of his time. He advocated strength training for both men and women, condemned white bread for its empty calories, and argued that tobacco caused both lung cancer and heart disease.
But when he was wrong, he was spectacularly, insanely wrong.
When it came to fasting, Macfadden had a firm belief, based first on observations of farm animals and later on a lifetime of self-experiments, that fasting helped the body heal itself.
Macfadden was never confused about whether to starve a fever or cold. He believed in fasting for any reason, or no reason at all.
We now know he was right on many counts. Today fasting is considered a mild form of stress that can ramp up the process of autophagy—the cells scrubbing themselves of metabolic waste. It also helps generate a hormone called BDNF, for brain derived neurotrophic factor, which is crucial for the survival of brain cells.
Varady’s studies use alternate-day fasting, or ADF. Subjects eat about 25 percent of the amount of food they would need to maintain their weight on “fast” days, and anything they want on “feed” days.
They average a daily calorie deficit of about 25 to 35 percent over time, Varady says. For an average overweight guy, that’s probably 500 to 750 calories less per day than he’s used to.
Which leads to the next logical question: Is there any benefit to achieving that deficit by fasting, versus eating less food on a daily basis?
In his terrific new book, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying), Bill Gifford recounts the story of Luigi Cornaro, a wealthy 16th-century Italian who, in his late 30s, began to suffer what we now know as type 2 diabetes.
“His doctors immediately pinpointed the cause of his distress in his ‘intemperate’ lifestyle,” Gifford writes.
Cornaro eventually restricted himself to a single daily bowl of soup—just 12 ounces—with a little bread, washed down with three glasses of wine. He went on to live a full and surprisingly healthy life, culminating with the publication, in 1558, of what Gifford describes as the world’s first bestselling diet book.
He was 81 at the time, and revised it multiple times before his death at 98. Remember, this was a guy whose doctors didn’t think he’d make it past 40.
Cornaro’s plan is what we now call calorie restriction, or CR, and it’s been the template for both weight loss and life extension ever since.
1. Track daily calories, usually with the goal of cutting about 500 a day.
2. Choose a low-fat or low-carb diet, “which ends up cutting those calories without having to track directly."
Either way, the goal is to cut about a quarter of daily calories, similar to the deficit created by alternate-day fasting. Is there any reason to think one is better than the other?
The study did show one potential advantage to fasting: “It may be better for weight maintenance,” she says. The subjects who fasted didn’t gain back any weight during the 6-month maintenance phase, whereas the CR group regained 3 to 4 pounds, on average.
That brings us back to Angus Barbieri and his 382-fast. If nothing else, it landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. But was it healthy? Nobody today would think so.
William Stewart, his doctor, says Barbieri regained just 16 pounds in the next 5 years. And Barbieri himself told a reporter at the time that he felt good.
I hope he went on to live a long and healthy life, like Luigi Cornaro, but I couldn’t find any evidence that he did or didn’t.
He died a few days later, at 87 years old.


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As soon as the European Union ends its trade embargo with Russia, Greece will seek to obtain a license to manufacture Kalashnikov assault rifles in Patra, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said Tuesday.
Kammenos insisted there is no prospect of Greece’s defense industry shutting down and that, instead, production would pick up.
“We are ready to begin manufacturing Kalashnikovs in Patra as soon as the Russian embargo is over,” he said, adding that with NATO approval, Greece would be able to sell the rifles to any member of the transatlantic alliance interested in purchasing them.
Kammenos also said that the government would table a bill allowing surplus military equipment currently in storage to be sold via tenders.


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THIS week Labour’s leadership bust a gut to get their MPs to support an amendment to a motion giving MPs a “meaningful vote” on the final deal on the EU.
Stop Brexit groups said the amendment was vital — although Labour supported the amendment as a way of Parliament controlling, not stopping, Brexit.
Labour MPs worked so hard to back the amendment that Bradford MP Naz Shah even voted in a wheelchair, while on medication.
Meanwhile the Tory “rebels” who were supposed to back this amendment mostly melted away.
And in the same week, anti-Brexit campaigners vigorously attacked Labour, while sucking up to the Tories.
What’s going on? Why are these small, but noisy and well-funded, anti-Brexit groups so keen to attack Labour, while giving the Tories — the actual government party pushing through the “hard Brexit” they claim to dislike — such an easy ride?
A close look at the groups shows they are heavily influenced by corporate lobbyists, New Labour obsessives, Lib Dems and even Tory funders.
Their dislike of Labour’s left turn seems to be much greater than their love for the EU, and it keeps spilling out.
Take Our Future Our Choice (OFOC), a “youth campaign to stop Brexit.” It claimed Tory MP Dominic Grieve was a “legend” and posed for grinning pictures with Justine Greening, thanking the Tory MP for her anti-Brexit stand.
But this week OFOC also hired billboard trucks to drive around the constituencies of four Labour shadow cabinet members, with anti-Labour messages.
The billboard attacking John McDonnell had a picture of him sticking out of Jacob Rees Mogg’s pocket. It doesn’t make much sense, but does imitate a Tory smear poster from the 2015 election showing Ed Miliband sticking out of Alex Salmond’s pocket.
OFOC praised the “rebel” Tories like Grieve and Greening, who in the end didn’t rebel. It attacked Labour, who did back the “rebel” amendment. Why the bias ?
Looking at OFOC’s origin, it has close links to the world of lobbying. OFOC was founded by 43 -year-old Felix Marquardt, an international lobbyist and something of a “media personality” in France who now lives in London.
Despite his age, Marquardt has a history of founding short-lived “youth” campaigns, often without many young people participating.
Marquardt’s lobbying firm specialised in events on at Davos, the conference of the super-rich. He put on events for the authoritarian leader of Kazakhstan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and had French oil giant Total as a client.
Macron — the firmest opponent of France’s left and trade unions — is an “inspiration” for OFOC’s younger members as well as their middle aged founder.
Marquardt left OFOC earlier this year, but as it was founded by a corporate lobbyist with a taste for flashy media stunts, is it a surprise OFOC ended up running an anti-Labour, paid-for stunt like the poster vans themselves ?
OFOC’s spokesman told me its current leadership made their own decisions and raised the bulk of their money through their own crowdfunding — with any other support also coming through crowdfunded sources.
He said OFOC might sometimes make mistakes but they were working hard to mobilise young people.
OFOC also gets support from bigger anti-Brexit organisations. It says it is “powered” by two bigger groups, Best for Britain and Open Britain.
It gets free office space, funds and advice from them — particularly Open Britain. This puts OFOC in a milieu stuffed with more corporate executives and disgruntled New Labour types.
Best for Britain is run by former New Labour minister Lord Malloch Brown. The Best for Britain board includes private equity investor Stephen Peel, who also funds the group.
Peel was an out-and-out Tory. In 2008 Peel gave the Tories £50,000 to help fund their fight against Gordon Brown. Peel has jumped from Tory to New Labour, giving Blairite pressure group Progress £10,000 this year. Peter Norris, the Chairman of Virgin Group, is also on the Best for Britain board.
Open Britain is Peter Mandelson’s group. It is stuffed with New Labour people who hate Labour’s current leadership and would do anything to bring it down.
Alongside Mandelson, Open Britain’s directors include Will Straw, son of Blair minister and Iraq war enthusiast Jack Straw, and Joe Carberry, who used to be a New Labour adviser.
Carberry is now the head of PR for Deliveroo, the exploitative food delivery firm that won’t give its largely young workforce proper rights.
Open Britain also has big Lib Dem funders, who obviously don’t like Labour. Richard Reed is on the board. He became a multimillionaire by selling his Innocent smooth drinks firm to Coca Cola.
Reed has given the Lib Dems £57,000. He hasn’t given to Labour, but did give Chuka Umunna £7,500 in 2016, widely seen as money for Chuka’s abortive Labour leadership bid.
Reed was named as a backer of Project One Movement, a stalled attempt to launch a new, £50 million funded anti-Labour Thrid Party founded by various multimillionaires.
James McGrory is another Lib Dem on the Open Britain board. He was Nick Clegg’s chief spin doctor from 2013-5, during the Tory- Lib Dem coalition.
Former BT chairman Sir Michael Rake also sits on the Open Britain board. He is a minor Lib Dem donor. Roland Rudd, the corporate lobbyist who runs city PR firm Finsbury, also sits on the board. He is brother of Amber Rudd, though not a Tory donor.
The main Remain groups are a mix of New Labour and Lib Dem leftovers, who think they know about “spin,” but I don’t think they know how to organise mass campaigns.
They seem happier attacking Corbyn’s Labour with phoney, paid-for PR campaigns than attacking the actual government carrying out Brexit.
As a result, I doubt they will swing much opinion on Brexit, but may chip away at Labour, which for some participants may be the main point.
Solomon Hughes writes every Friday in the Morning Star. Follow him on Twitter @SolHughesWriter.


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Question: How can I create Totoro nail art?

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Personally, it’s a miracle if I can get through an entire nail painting session without having to delete and start again, but if you’re less cack-handed than I am, you might find this Totoro Nail Art How-to useful. Just look how cute it is!
These amazing nails come to you courtesy of Korean blogger, Luuthienluv, who has created all manner of wonderful nail art designs. This Totoro one is especially brilliant – not least because so many of the other ones out there are just a bit clunky by comparison. And the ones that aren’t clunky just look a little bit too difficult. These ones, however, look simple enough for me to have a go at.
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Mice Follies is a 1960 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. It was the third and last of his parodies of Jackie Gleason's "The Honeymooners", following "The Honey-Mousers" (1956) and "Cheese It, the Cat!"


Question: Describe the story of Heather Robinson and Carrie Fisher.

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As the scandal involving Harvey Weinstein continues to rock Hollywood, a screenwriter said she finally feels able to share her own story of survival — and the bold way actress Carrie Fisher came to her defense after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by a producer.
Screenwriter Heather Robinson said she and Fisher became friends after they met online in an AOL chat room where they would talk about the industry and workshop her screenplays. It was in that chat room that Robinson said she revealed an encounter she had with an award-winning producer, whom she declined to name.
Robinson said she never expected the actress' response would come in the form of an animal part.
In an interview with Arizona radio program "The Morning Mix" that has gone viral, Robinson recalled a night in 2000 during which a producer allegedly sexually assaulted her after inviting her to dinner to discuss an upcoming project.
"When it happened, it happened so quickly that I felt ashamed of myself," Robinson said in the radio interview. She described how the producer picked her up in his car and, within minutes, pulled to the side of the road.
"He reaches over and grabs the handle of the chair of the passenger seat and pulls me backwards," she said. "All of a sudden he's on top of me and he has his right hand that was busy, and his left hand was on my chest, by my neck, holding me down."
Robinson said she fought back, managed to escape the car, and ran. When she got home, she told her mom about the incident and debated whether or not she needed to go to the police. Ultimately, fearing for her safety, Robinson decided to remain silent.
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Later that night, she said she saw that Fisher was online and told the "Star Wars" heroine what had happened in a series of messages.
"She stayed quiet and listened to me and then she said, 'I promise you he will never touch you again,'" Robinson told NBC News in an email. "She was exactly what I needed. Someone to just hold space for me — allowing me to be scared, hurt, confused, angry."
Weeks later, Robinson said Fisher messaged her online and told her that she'd hand-delivered the producer a gift: a cow tongue wrapped in a blue Tiffany's box and topped with a bow.
"It was a cow's tongue from Jerry's Deli in Westwood with a note that said ‘If you ever touch my darling Heather or any other woman again, the next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box,'” Robinson said, adding that the "gift" made her laugh after the traumatizing incident.
"She had an amazing heart," Robinson said in an email. "If you were one of the lucky people that she loved, she loved you with everything she had. In her world, it was okay to feel vulnerable because she made you feel safe in doing so. That alone is a huge gift."
Robinson said she has never seen or heard from the producer again and that it took her years to realize that the assault was not her fault. But the Weinstein scandal has brought the conversation around sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood back into the spotlight, and Robinson said she's happy to see women garnering support.
Robinson said that, in part because of social media, she thinks women throughout the industry are feeling the same sense of safety and acceptance that Carrie gave her.
"It allows us the power to speak out and share our stories and to connect with other people who many not be at the point where I am," she said. "It's truly an individual journey and some may never shed light on what happened to them, and that is okay. As long as they see that they are not alone."


Question: Describe the new Hakase record.

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Question: Can you tell me about Alfred Szendrei?

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Alfred Szendrei, also "Alfred Sendrey" and "Aladár Szendrei" – 29 February 1884 – 3 March 1976) was an American musicologist, organist, conductor, composer of Hungarn origin. He was one of the leading conductors and pioneers of German radio. In exile he changed his Hungarian surname "Szendrei" to the Americanized spelling "Sendrey".


Question: Provide a description of Kingsdale Foundation School (KFS).

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Kingsdale Foundation School (KFS) is a British mixed secondary school with academy status in West Dulwich, London, with an age range of 11–19. Admissions to the school are coordinated by the Southwark London Borough Council as part of the Pan London Admissions Arrangements.


Question: Share your thoughts on China’s crypto project rankings.

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Question: Hey there! What do you know about designing blog ads?

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I just posted at the Blog Herald about how to design a great ad. I’d like to follow that up here with some further comments and examples for inspiration as we consider how to maximize the relatively small number of pixels and small share of a reader’s attention many blog ads receive. I’d like to focus on the 125px ad, since I find that size the most difficult to design given the shape and size, and the fact that these ads are very popular with bloggers right now.
When designing any advertisement, one should remember standard advertising principles. One of the main things is to give your readers a reason to click or a “call to action”. For most sites just the name of the site with a picture will not be compelling enough.
So many of these ads look so similar. Same colors, same look, same shape…. boring. If you’re considering buying ad space on a site, check out the competition. Choose some unusual color or shape.
Some animation can be effective, but too much or too long is bad news. You’ll either annoy the reader or they’ll miss half your message. You only get like a nanosecond of a blog reader’s attention. Building in too many steps to your ad is a waste, and an ad that is too blinky is just annoying.
I’ll never read more than a couple of lines on an ad, and especially if it’s a 125px ad, there’s just not room for that much text before it gets too small to be quickly legible. Don’t forget about using whitespace- even in a small ad.
If you want to see lots of ugly, blinky ads, you can check out the Banner Report site. There are some gems among all the bad ones though.
What do you think? Do you even see ads on blogs anymore? What causes you to click on an ad?