Victoria provided lots of valuable guidance to Samantha, after Victoria decided it was time to teach some tips.<|endoftext|> to those who familiarize themselves with the idea of failing to keep the public faith, either by fear of taxes or of excessive sacrifices: What is bankruptcy, if not the most cruel, the most iniquitous, the most unequal, the most disastrous of imposts 2 My friends, hear but a word—a single word : Two centuries of depredations and brigandage have made the chasm in which the kingdom is ready to engulf itself. We must close this fearful abyss. Well, here is a list of French proprietors. Choose among the richest, thus sacrificing the least number of citizens. But choose ! For must not a small number perish to save the mass of the people? Well, these two thousand notables possess enough to make up the deficit. This will restore order in the finances and bring peace and prosperity to the kingdom. Strike, immolate without pity these wretched victims, cast them into the abyss until it is closed You recoil in horror, inconsistent and pusillanimous men Do you not see that in decreeing bankruptcy, or what is still more odious, in rendering it inevitable, without decreeing it, you do a deed a thousand times more criminal, and—folly inconceivable—gratuitously criminal 2 For at least this horrible sacrifice would cause the disappearance of the deficit. But do you imagine that in refusing to pay, you will cease to owe ? Do you believe that the thousands, the millions of men, who will lose in an instant, by the terrible explosion or its repercussion, all that made the consolation of their lives, and constituted, perhaps, the sole means of their support, would leave you peaceably to enjoy your crime 2 Stoical contemplators of the incalculable evils, which this catastrophe would disgorge upon France 1 Impassive egotists who think that these convulsions of despair and misery shall pass like so many others, and the more rapidly as they are the more violent l Are you sure that so many men without bread will leave you tranquilly to the enjoyment of those dainties, the number and delicacy of which you are unwilling to diminish l No 1 you will perish, and in the universal conflagration you do not hesitate to kindle, the loss of your honor will not save a single one of your detestable enjoyments. Look where we are going ! . . . I hear you speak of patriotism, and the elan of patriotism, of invocations to patriotism. Ah! do not prostitute

the words, “country’’ and “patriotism ' ' ' It is so very magnanimous—the effort to give a portion of one's revenue to save all of one's possessions ! This, gentlemen, is only simple arithmetic ; and he who hesitates cannot disarm indignation except by the contempt he inspires through his stupidity. Yes, gentlemen, this is the plainest prudence, the commonest wisdom. It is your gross material interest I invoke. I shall not say to you as formerly : Will you be the first to exhibit to the nations the spectacle of a people assembled to make default in their public obligations 2 I shall not say again: What titles have you to liberty 2 What means remain to you to preserve it, if in your first act you surpass the turpitude of the most corrupt governments; if the first care of your vigilant co-operation is not for the guarantee of your constitution ? I tell you, you will all be dragged into a universal ruin, and you yourselves have the greatest interests in making the sacrifices the Government asks of you. Vote, then, for this extraordinary subsidy; and it may be sufficient. Vote for it, for if you have any doubts on the means adopted (vague and unenlightened doubts), you have none as to its necessity, or our inability to provide an immediate substitute. Vote, then, because public necessity admits no delay, and we shall be held accountable for any delay that occurs. Beware of asking for time ! Misfortune never grants it !

Gentlemen, apropos of a ridiculous disturbance at the Palais Royal, of a laughable insurrection, which never had any importance save in the weak imaginations or perverted designs of a few faith-breakers, you have heard these mad words: “Catiline is at the gates of Rome ! And yet you deliberate 1 ''

And certainly there has been about us no Catiline, no peril, no faction, no Rome. But to-day bankruptcy—hideous bankruptcy—is here; it threatens to consume you, your properties, your honor And yet you deliberate |

[A second brief extract will further serve to show the impetuous and striking character of Mirabeau's oratory.]

In all countries, in all ages, have aristocrats implacably pursued the friends of the people; and when, by I know not what combination of fortune, such a friend has uprisen from the very bosom of the aristocracy, it has been at him pre-eminently that they have struck, eager to inspire wider terror by the elevation of their victim. So perished the last of the Gracchi by the hands of the Patricians. But, mortally smitten, he flung dust towards heaven, calling the avenging gods to witness: and from

that dust sprang Marius;–Marius, less illustrious for having exterminated the Cimbri than for having beaten down the despotism of the nobility in Rome.

But you, Commons, listen to one who, unseduced by your applause, yet cherishes them in his heart. Man is strong only by union; happy only by peace. Be firm, not obstinate; courageous, not turbulent; free, not undisciplined ; prompt, not precipitate. Stop not except at difficulties of moment; and be then wholly inflexible. But disdain the contentions of self-love, and never thrust into the balance the individual against the country. . . . .

For myself, who, in my public career, have had no other fear than that of wrong-doing; who, girt with my conscience, and armed with my principles, would brave the universe; whether it shall be my fortune to serve you with my voice and my exertions in the National Assembly, or whether I shall be enabled to aid you there with my prayers only, be sure that the vain clamors, the wrathful menaces, the injurious protestations—all the convulsions, in a word, of expiring prejudices—shall not on me impose! What shall he now pause in his civic course, who, first among all the men of France, emphatically proclaimed his opinions on national affairs, at a time when circumstances were much less urgent than now, and the task one of much greater peril 2 Never ! No measure of outrages shall bear down my patience. I have been, I am, I shall be, even to the tomb, the man of the Public Liberty, the man of the Constitution. If to be such be to become the man of the people rather than of the nobles, then woe to the privileged orders' For privileges shall have an end, but the people is eternal |

HE great orator of the Girondist section of the Revolutionary T Assembly of France, Vergniaud, was too indolent and too indifferent to put himself at the head of the party, which he might have done had he chosen. He was quite content to fill the post of its orator. He was the most moderate of the Girondists, but suffered the fate of his fellows. In January, 1793, as President of the Convention, he pronounced the sentence of the king's death. In October he suffered the same fate himself. No man of his time met death more boldly.

“In parliamentary eloquence,” says Macaulay, “no Frenchman of his time can be considered equal to Vergniaud. In a foreign country, and after the lapse of half a century, some parts of his speeches are still read with mournful admiration.” Lamartine says, “His language had the images and harmony of the most beautiful verses.”

[We append two brief examples of Vergniaud's oratory, the first calling on the the people to defend themselves against their foes, internal and external, the second denouncing the terrorism of the club of the Jacobins.]

Preparations for war are manifest on our frontiers, and we hear of renewed plots against liberty. Our armies reassemble; mighty movements agitate the empire. Martial law having become necessary, it has Seemed to us just. But we have succeeded only in brandishing for a moment the thunderbolt in the eyes of rebellion. The sanction of the king has been refused to our decrees. The princes of Germany make their territory a retreat for the conspirators against you. They favor the plots of the emigrants. They furnish them an asylum ; they furnish them gold,

arms, horses and munitions. Is not the patience suicidal which tolerates all this 2 Doubtless you have renounced all projects of conquest; but you have not promised to endure such insolent provocations. You have shaken off the yoke of your tyrants; but it was not to bend the knee to foreign despots.

But, beware You are environed by snares. They seek to drive you, by disgust or lassitude, to a state of languor fatal to your courage; or fatal to its right direction. They seek to separate you from us; they pursue a system of calumny against the National Assembly; they incriminate your Revolution in your

 to those who familiarize themselves with the idea of failing to keep the public faith, either by fear of taxes or of excessive sacrifices: What is bankruptcy, if not the most cruel, the most iniquitous, the most unequal, the most disastrous of imposts 2 My friends, hear but a word—a single word : Two centuries of depredations and brigandage have made the chasm in which the kingdom is ready to engulf itself. We must close this fearful abyss. Well, here is a list of French proprietors. Choose among the richest, thus sacrificing the least number of citizens. But choose ! For must not a small number perish to save the mass of the people? Well, these two thousand notables possess enough to make up the deficit. This will restore order in the finances and bring peace and prosperity to the kingdom. Strike, immolate without pity these wretched victims, cast them into the abyss until it is closed You recoil in horror, inconsistent and pusillanimous men Do you not see that in decreeing bankruptcy, or what is still more odious, in rendering it inevitable, without decreeing it, you do a deed a thousand times more criminal, and—folly inconceivable—gratuitously criminal 2 For at least this horrible sacrifice would cause the disappearance of the deficit. But do you imagine that in refusing to pay, you will cease to owe ? Do you believe that the thousands, the millions of men, who will lose in an instant, by the terrible explosion or its repercussion, all that made the consolation of their lives, and constituted, perhaps, the sole means of their support, would leave you peaceably to enjoy your crime 2 Stoical contemplators of the incalculable evils, which this catastrophe would disgorge upon France 1 Impassive egotists who think that these convulsions of despair and misery shall pass like so many others, and the more rapidly as they are the more violent l Are you sure that so many men without bread will leave you tranquilly to the enjoyment of those dainties, the number and delicacy of which you are unwilling to diminish l No 1 you will perish, and in the universal conflagration you do not hesitate to kindle, the loss of your honor will not save a single one of your detestable enjoyments. Look where we are going ! . . . I hear you speak of patriotism, and the elan of patriotism, of invocations to patriotism. Ah! do not prostitute

the words, “country’’ and “patriotism ' ' ' It is so very magnanimous—the effort to give a portion of one's revenue to save all of one's possessions ! This, gentlemen, is only simple arithmetic ; and he who hesitates cannot disarm indignation except by the contempt he inspires through his stupidity. Yes, gentlemen, this is the plainest prudence, the commonest wisdom. It is your gross material interest I invoke. I shall not say to you as formerly : Will you be the first to exhibit to the nations the spectacle of a people assembled to make default in their public obligations 2 I shall not say again: What titles have you to liberty 2 What means remain to you to preserve it, if in your first act you surpass the turpitude of the most corrupt governments; if the first care of your vigilant co-operation is not for the guarantee of your constitution ? I tell you, you will all be dragged into a universal ruin, and you yourselves have the greatest interests in making the sacrifices the Government asks of you. Vote, then, for this extraordinary subsidy; and it may be sufficient. Vote for it, for if you have any doubts on the means adopted (vague and unenlightened doubts), you have none as to its necessity, or our inability to provide an immediate substitute. Vote, then, because public necessity admits no delay, and we shall be held accountable for any delay that occurs. Beware of asking for time ! Misfortune never grants it !

Gentlemen, apropos of a ridiculous disturbance at the Palais Royal, of a laughable insurrection, which never had any importance save in the weak imaginations or perverted designs of a few faith-breakers, you have heard these mad words: “Catiline is at the gates of Rome ! And yet you deliberate 1 ''

And certainly there has been about us no Catiline, no peril, no faction, no Rome. But to-day bankruptcy—hideous bankruptcy—is here; it threatens to consume you, your properties, your honor And yet you deliberate |

[A second brief extract will further serve to show the impetuous and striking character of Mirabeau's oratory.]

In all countries, in all ages, have aristocrats implacably pursued the friends of the people; and when, by I know not what combination of fortune, such a friend has uprisen from the very bosom of the aristocracy, it has been at him pre-eminently that they have struck, eager to inspire wider terror by the elevation of their victim. So perished the last of the Gracchi by the hands of the Patricians. But, mortally smitten, he flung dust towards heaven, calling the avenging gods to witness: and from

that dust sprang Marius;–Marius, less illustrious for having exterminated the Cimbri than for having beaten down the despotism of the nobility in Rome.

But you, Commons, listen to one who, unseduced by your applause, yet cherishes them in his heart. Man is strong only by union; happy only by peace. Be firm, not obstinate; courageous, not turbulent; free, not undisciplined ; prompt, not precipitate. Stop not except at difficulties of moment; and be then wholly inflexible. But disdain the contentions of self-love, and never thrust into the balance the individual against the country. . . . .

For myself, who, in my public career, have had no other fear than that of wrong-doing; who, girt with my conscience, and armed with my principles, would brave the universe; whether it shall be my fortune to serve you with my voice and my exertions in the National Assembly, or whether I shall be enabled to aid you there with my prayers only, be sure that the vain clamors, the wrathful menaces, the injurious protestations—all the convulsions, in a word, of expiring prejudices—shall not on me impose! What shall he now pause in his civic course, who, first among all the men of France, emphatically proclaimed his opinions on national affairs, at a time when circumstances were much less urgent than now, and the task one of much greater peril 2 Never ! No measure of outrages shall bear down my patience. I have been, I am, I shall be, even to the tomb, the man of the Public Liberty, the man of the Constitution. If to be such be to become the man of the people rather than of the nobles, then woe to the privileged orders' For privileges shall have an end, but the people is eternal |

HE great orator of the Girondist section of the Revolutionary T Assembly of France, Vergniaud, was too indolent and too indifferent to put himself at the head of the party, which he might have done had he chosen. He was quite content to fill the post of its orator. He was the most moderate of the Girondists, but suffered the fate of his fellows. In January, 1793, as President of the Convention, he pronounced the sentence of the king's death. In October he suffered the same fate himself. No man of his time met death more boldly.

“In parliamentary eloquence,” says Macaulay, “no Frenchman of his time can be considered equal to Vergniaud. In a foreign country, and after the lapse of half a century, some parts of his speeches are still read with mournful admiration.” Lamartine says, “His language had the images and harmony of the most beautiful verses.”

[We append two brief examples of Vergniaud's oratory, the first calling on the the people to defend themselves against their foes, internal and external, the second denouncing the terrorism of the club of the Jacobins.]

Preparations for war are manifest on our frontiers, and we hear of renewed plots against liberty. Our armies reassemble; mighty movements agitate the empire. Martial law having become necessary, it has Seemed to us just. But we have succeeded only in brandishing for a moment the thunderbolt in the eyes of rebellion. The sanction of the king has been refused to our decrees. The princes of Germany make their territory a retreat for the conspirators against you. They favor the plots of the emigrants. They furnish them an asylum ; they furnish them gold,

arms, horses and munitions. Is not the patience suicidal which tolerates all this 2 Doubtless you have renounced all projects of conquest; but you have not promised to endure such insolent provocations. You have shaken off the yoke of your tyrants; but it was not to bend the knee to foreign despots.

But, beware You are environed by snares. They seek to drive you, by disgust or lassitude, to a state of languor fatal to your courage; or fatal to its right direction. They seek to separate you from us; they pursue a system of calumny against the National Assembly; they incriminate your Revolution in your eyes. O! beware of these attempts at panic! Repel, indignantly, these impostors,


John could not hear the sound of the revolver when listening to the radio because the revolver is farther.<|endoftext|>, he joined as a soldier in the army of Malik Chajju which brought where his poetry got noticed by the Assembly of  Royal Court.

The poems he used to write were the combination of Persian and Hindi language which he famously named as Hindavi.

Khusrau is regarded as the ‘father of Qawwali’ which were inspired by Bhajans. He introduced India to Ghazal style songs and the Persian, Arabic and turkish style in Indian music. Dehlavi also invented musical instruments sitar and tabla.

Khusrau was honoured with title ‘Parrot of India’.

Khusrau will always be remembered as a man who brought poetry and music closer.

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Cough syrup.

It's best to make two separate cough syrups, really.

That's because the tasty syrup will be gone by the time you get a cough, while the less than tasty one will keep.

So here's the tasty herb mix for making a cough syrup:

2 parts peppermint (Mentha x piperita)
1 part hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)
1/2 part thyme (Thymus vulgaris)

And here's the less than tasty herb mix for making a cough syrup:

2 parts peppermint
1 part hyssop
1/2 part thyme
1/2 part horehound (Marrubium vulgare)

The syrup:

40 g fresh chopped herb (or far less dried herb)
9 dl water
450 g sugar

Put herb + water into a pan, bring to a boil. Cover, turn heat down, let simmer for 20 minutes.
Let cool, strain liquid into a measuring jar while pressing all the goodness out of the herb. Clean your pan and pour the liquid back. Put the pan back on the stove, without a lid, and let the liquid evaporate slowly on low low heat.
Add the sugar when you have only 2 dl liquid left. Stir until the sugar has dissolved. The syrup can simmer but it shouldn't boil.

Pour your syrup into a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid, and keep the closed jar in the fridge.

If you did things right your syrup won't crystallize (too much sugar - that is, you evaporated off too much water) during the first few months, nor will it ferment (too much water).

It's best to use a small pan for this, as it's easy to evaporate off too much liquid in a large pan while you wait for the sugar to dissolve.

Also, don't let things evaporate until you have less than 2 dl left. A syrup made with 1 dl simmered-down liquid that's then brought back to 2 dl by adding water tastes like it should: ghastly. Check every half hour until you have 3 (or so) dl left, then check every 10 minutes.

That peppermint-hyssop-thyme syrup really is tasty. Mmmm.

Related entries: Elecampane root - Elderflower syrup - Sweet flag syrup

You could also add some echinacea to this cough syrup to help make it more effective.

Main menu 2<|endoftext|>Found this as I was cleaning up some backups from almost 15 years ago.  THought it would be interesting to let people see what my goals were for our merger with Yahoo back then.

Strategic Issues for Yahoo Broadcasting Group

June 18th 1999

General Strategic Issues:

Historically we have built value by adding content, expanding our network, building new business products, whether biz svc or advertising, before anyone else.  Because we were first for all of these , we had a huge advantage and there was not a significant cost beyond hardware , people and bandwidth to accomplish these.

I think we are getting past this stage, as an industry. I think we can expect that people will look at throwing money at content providers in order to try to play catch up. In order to still be attractive to all of our partners, biz svcs, advertising, and content, we must find new ways of adding value. That new way is via proprietary software

We have always said that software would be the last thing we added . We have taken this tact because there were so many other variables that were still evolving. From software being re-genned every 3 months from MicroSoft and Real Networks, the network, and learning what we can sell and what customers wanted to buy. We have reached the point now where our key value adds and differentiation have to come from software we produce in house.

We have to be able to demonstrate to our partners that our 4 years of experience have given us the base upon which to build applications that create unique opportunities . Our competition is falling into a trap thinking that internet based radio is a key offering. The real key offering is monetizing all digital offerings, regardless of whether its audio/video/flash or  ? on the outside and pushing down costs so that everything we do can happen in a lights out , no touch environment driven by software.

My feeling is that going forward , our biggest challenges will be

  1. Hiring Quality SW developers and Project Managers
  2. Developing and Supporting Leading Edge products that give us a sales and productivity advantage
  3. Having the balls to be willing to take chances and sell products and services that people don’t know they need yet.
  1. User Generated Content
    1. ability for users to deliver live or ondemand content to a bcst server in native streamed protocols (non-http)
      1. Build or Buy Software
      2. Subsidized hopefully by MicroSoft
      3. License of Real Producer or modify encoder from Real Networks
      4. Possible license of Software
      5. ability to provide low cost easy to use devices for digital encoding (dazzle)
      6. ability to provide streaming server plugins that automatically find an available server and host the content on that server

1. ability to monitor usage and enforce limits in real time

  1. ability to bill based on usage, length, subscription basis
  2. ability to report on usage and users
  3. Music detection for copyright protection via comparisonics or getmedia
  1. Lights out complete automation of encoding and serving systems
    1. Automation of Investment to provide a single port on Piso Audio/Video Matrix Switch for EVERY source of live content
    2. Ability to control any port to any port (or multiport) automation in realtime with realtime reporting
      1. With time based event triggers
      2. With tone (commercials) event triggers
      3. With Scene Transition event triggers (Islip)
      4. With Music to Voice to Silence Detection event triggers
      5. With Quality Control via noise tolerance detection
      6. Report within a programming matrix what programming is playing from which port to which encoder to which server, in text and graphical model with double click drill downs

7.  Quality Control reporting

One thing we don’t do, that would be a marketing goldmine, is to  track the quality of our user connections. It would be very simple. All of our servers report the number packets, delivered/lost and buffering. We should be using this information in real time to show our users and our customers the confidence we have in our systems and how they are actually better.

  1. With complete database integration of all programming for programming guide and personalization purposes.
    1. A user will be able to select from the programming guide of live and on demand content. The guide will know the source of the content and create using asp or cgi programming a personal station
    2. This will be a drag and drop system where a user will be able to chose from thousands of programs, or content items, and drop them in their personal schedule/calendar at a specific time, or chose a Network of preselected programs and modify that.

a. User will have the option to download to their choice of devices if the content is eligible and they have paid for the right

  1. There will a database of user selections for each user, and a user history of activity.
  2. Advertisers will be able to select the demo or psychographics of users and have their commercials inserted in to the user stations
  3. For pre programmed stations, or over the air stations, the advertiser will be able to insert commercials using the same user profiles through the use of Windows Media trigger driven switching or for real media, a plugin will have to be written the recognizes the trigger and inserts the media feed into the user specific stream
  4. Realtime reporting of usage with user name/email, by content type, by geography, by psychographic demographics for the purpose of providing advertisers the ability to monitor and SWITCH their ads in realtime.  This
  5. would mean an advertiser, or even a network programmer could program and ad in realtime based upon the number of viewers.listeners, and their response to an ad.
  6. All clicks and movement throughout the site would be tracked and maintained in a user movement database for data mining, not for sale

Bottom line is any content available to any user, with any other content interwoven inside of it., with complete user selectability and every click tracking and user identification

  1. Corporate Self Reservation and Broadcast Systems

The

, he joined as a soldier in the army of Malik Chajju which brought where his poetry got noticed by the Assembly of  Royal Court.

The poems he used to write were the combination of Persian and Hindi language which he famously named as Hindavi.

Khusrau is regarded as the ‘father of Qawwali’ which were inspired by Bhajans. He introduced India to Ghazal style songs and the Persian, Arabic and turkish style in Indian music. Dehlavi also invented musical instruments sitar and tabla.

Khusrau was honoured with title ‘Parrot of India’.

Khusrau will always be remembered as a man who brought poetry and music closer.

- Advertisement -<|endoftext|>Jump to Navigation

Cough syrup.

It's best to make two separate cough syrups, really.

That's because the tasty syrup will be gone by the time you get a cough, while the less than tasty one will keep.

So here's the tasty herb mix for making a cough syrup:

2 parts peppermint (Mentha x piperita)
1 part hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)
1/2 part thyme (Thymus vulgaris)

And here's the less than tasty herb mix for making a cough syrup:

2 parts peppermint
1 part hyssop
1/2 part thyme
1/2 part horehound (Marrubium vulgare)

The syrup:

40 g fresh chopped herb (or far less dried herb)
9 dl water
450 g sugar

Put herb + water into a pan, bring to a boil. Cover, turn heat down, let simmer for 20 minutes.
Let cool, strain liquid into a measuring jar while pressing all the goodness out of the herb. Clean your pan and pour the liquid back. Put the pan back on the stove, without a lid, and let the liquid evaporate slowly on low low heat.
Add the sugar when you have only 2 dl liquid left. Stir until the sugar has dissolved. The syrup can simmer but it shouldn't boil.

Pour your syrup into a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid, and keep the closed jar in the fridge.

If you did things right your syrup won't crystallize (too much sugar - that is, you evaporated off too much water) during the first few months, nor will it ferment (too much water).

It's best to use a small pan for this, as it's easy to evaporate off too much liquid in a large pan while you wait for the sugar to dissolve.

Also, don't let things evaporate until you have less than 2 dl left. A syrup made with 1 dl simmered-down liquid that's then brought back to 2 dl by adding water tastes like it should: ghastly. Check every half hour until you have 3 (or so) dl left, then check every 10 minutes.

That peppermint-hyssop-thyme syrup really is tasty. Mmmm.

Related entries: Elecampane root - Elderflower syrup - Sweet flag syrup

You could also add some echinacea to this cough syrup to help make it more effective.

Main menu 2<|endoftext|>Found this as I was cleaning up some backups from almost 15 years ago.  THought it would be interesting to let people see what my goals were for our merger with Yahoo back then.

Strategic Issues for Yahoo Broadcasting Group

June 18th 1999

General Strategic Issues:

Historically we have built value by adding content, expanding our network, building new business products, whether biz svc or advertising, before anyone else.  Because we were first for all of these , we had a huge advantage and there was not a significant cost beyond hardware , people and bandwidth to accomplish these.

I think we are getting past this stage, as an industry. I think we can expect that people will look at throwing money at content providers in order to try to play catch up. In order to still be attractive to all of our partners, biz svcs, advertising, and content, we must find new ways of adding value. That new way is via proprietary software

We have always said that software would be the last thing we added . We have taken this tact because there were so many other variables that were still evolving. From software being re-genned every 3 months from MicroSoft and Real Networks, the network, and learning what we can sell and what customers wanted to buy. We have reached the point now where our key value adds and differentiation have to come from software we produce in house.

We have to be able to demonstrate to our partners that our 4 years of experience have given us the base upon which to build applications that create unique opportunities . Our competition is falling into a trap thinking that internet based radio is a key offering. The real key offering is monetizing all digital offerings, regardless of whether its audio/video/flash or  ? on the outside and pushing down costs so that everything we do can happen in a lights out , no touch environment driven by software.

My feeling is that going forward , our biggest challenges will be

  1. Hiring Quality SW developers and Project Managers
  2. Developing and Supporting Leading Edge products that give us a sales and productivity advantage
  3. Having the balls to be willing to take chances and sell products and services that people don’t know they need yet.
  1. User Generated Content
    1. ability for users to deliver live or ondemand content to a bcst server in native streamed protocols (non-http)
      1. Build or Buy Software
      2. Subsidized hopefully by MicroSoft
      3. License of Real Producer or modify encoder from Real Networks
      4. Possible license of Software
      5. ability to provide low cost easy to use devices for digital encoding (dazzle)
      6. ability to provide streaming server plugins that automatically find an available server and host the content on that server

1. ability to monitor usage and enforce limits in real time

  1. ability to bill based on usage, length, subscription basis
  2. ability to report on usage and users
  3. Music detection for copyright protection via comparisonics or getmedia
  1. Lights out complete automation of encoding and serving systems
    1. Automation of Investment to provide a single port on Piso Audio/Video Matrix Switch for EVERY source of live content
    2. Ability to control any port to any port (or multiport) automation in realtime with realtime reporting
      1. With time based event triggers
      2. With tone (commercials) event triggers
      3. With Scene Transition event triggers (Islip)
      4. With Music to Voice to Silence Detection event triggers
      5. With Quality Control via noise tolerance detection
      6. Report within a programming matrix what programming is playing from which port to which encoder to which server, in text and graphical model with double click drill downs

7.  Quality Control reporting

One thing we don’t do, that would be a marketing goldmine, is to  track the quality of our user connections. It would be very simple. All of our servers report the number packets, delivered/lost and buffering. We should be using this information in real time to show our users and our customers the confidence we have in our systems and how they are actually better.

  1. With complete database integration of all programming for programming guide and personalization purposes.
    1. A user will be able to select from the programming guide of live and on demand content. The guide will know the source of the content and create using asp or cgi programming a personal station
    2. This will be a drag and drop system where a user will be able to chose from thousands of programs, or content items, and drop them in their personal schedule/calendar at a specific time, or chose a Network of preselected programs and modify that.

a. User will have the option to download to their choice of devices if the content is eligible and they have paid for the right

  1. There will a database of user selections for each user, and a user history of activity.
  2. Advertisers will be able to select the demo or psychographics of users and have their commercials inserted in to the user stations
  3. For pre programmed stations, or over the air stations, the advertiser will be able to insert commercials using the same user profiles through the use of Windows Media trigger driven switching or for real media, a plugin will have to be written the recognizes the trigger and inserts the media feed into the user specific stream
  4. Realtime reporting of usage with user name/email, by content type, by geography, by psychographic demographics for the purpose of providing advertisers the ability to monitor and SWITCH their ads in realtime.  This
  5. would mean an advertiser, or even a network programmer could program and ad in realtime based upon the number of viewers.listeners, and their response to an ad.
  6. All clicks and movement throughout the site would be tracked and maintained in a user movement database for data mining, not for sale

Bottom line is any content available to any user, with any other content interwoven inside of it., with complete user selectability and every click tracking and user identification

  1. Corporate Self Reservation and Broadcast Systems

The key to 99% margins in this business is the ability to allow corporate users to schedule , produce and broadcast their own


 on the job. Leno is host of a new daily prime-time comedy show for NBC.

Suggest a correction<|endoftext|>Weapons for peace? The West needs to convince Assad that he cannot win, by Tobias Borck

The war in Syria has to end in a political solution. This is one of the very few things that most members of the international community agree on. In his recent speech at West Point, US President Barack Obama made clear that that “no military solution that can eliminate the terrible suffering any time soon.”[i] The Russian Foreign Ministry agrees the lack of any progress on a political settlement of the war only “results in more deaths and suffering in Syria every day.”[ii] The Speaker of Iran’s parliament, Ali Lrijani, emphasises the need for “negotiations and dialogue,”[iii] and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague thinks that all sides need to “reach an inclusive political settlement that takes into account the needs and aspirations of all Syria’s communities.”[iv]

A political solution to the war in Syria is of course not a new idea. Neither is the apparent consensus within the international community that it is the only viable option to end the bloodshed. Peace initiatives, talks, and talks of talks are a constant by-product of the war. Nevertheless, it took almost three years just to get representatives from the regime and the opposition to sit down together in the same room at the UN in Geneva. For a few days in January and February 2014 there was a small glimmer of hope. It was quickly extinguished, though, and Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN’s chairman of the negotiations, apologised to the Syrian people that the talks hadn’t “helped them very much.”[v]

In the months since the Geneva conference virtually no progress has been made to find a political settlement. Instead around 200 Syrians die every day, adding to the war’s death toll that has already exceeded 150,000.[vi]

There are of course several reasons for why a political solution to the conflict remains elusive. The opposition is famously fragmented and al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists act as powerful spoilers. Perhaps the most crucial reason, however, is that Bashar al-Assad still thinks that he can win the war. This year, his forces have made some territorial gains, and although a total military victory is nigh on impossible, so is a total defeat. This is why the Geneva talks failed and why no new negotiations have happened. A political solution requires compromises and the Assad regime simply doesn’t see the need to make any at the moment.

If the USA, Russia, the UK, Iran or the rest of the international community are serious about their commitment to a political solution, they will have to convince Assad that there is no alternative to negotiations, that he cannot win the war. There are two options of how this can be done: through diplomatic or military pressure.

Russia and Iran hold the key to the diplomatic option. They have the greatest sway over the Assad regime. Without their financial, military and political support, Assad would be in serious trouble. However, this support in the absence of any concessions by the regime in the political process suggests that Russia and Iran are ultimately unwilling to use their leverage over Assad.

The only meaningful concession the regime has made since the beginning of the conflict was the deal to give up its chemical weapons, and Russia played a decisive role in this. But it is also important to remember that the deal was only reached after Obama’s infamous ‘red line’ had been crossed with the chemical weapons attack in August 2013. Russian pressure on Assad may have been important, but American missiles pointing at Syria surely helped as well.

“When you fear for your life, then you are going to trade,”[vii] says Alistair Burt, a former UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. To make Assad fear for his life and to bring him to the negotiating table, it may therefore be necessary to renew the military pressure on his regime by stepping up support for the opposition forces.

It is a sad reality that political solutions to end wars often only become possible through temporary escalation. The example of the war in Bosnia Herzegovina demonstrates this. Here, a brutal war raged for three years. All initiatives for a political settlement failed. Then, in 1995, NATO support enabled a Croat-Bosnian alliance to make significant advances against the Bosnian Serbs. However, NATO did not allow a total Croat-Bosnian victory. This would only have resulted in more ethnic cleansing, this time with the Bosnian Serbs as the main victims. Instead all sides were brought together to negotiate and the Dayton Agreement was reached.

The objective of empowering opposition forces in Syria should therefore not be to defeat the Assad regime, but merely to convince him that he cannot win the war. A western military involvement of the same scale as NATO’s Bosnia operation is currently unthinkable in Syria. There is no political will to launch missile strikes, an air campaign, much less a full-scale invasion. However, the USA and its European allies can certainly provide the armed opposition with the military equipment and training it needs to tackle the regime’s tanks and airplanes. In his West Point speech Obama suggested that operations in this direction are already underway.

So far, the Obama administration has been extremely cautious in its military support for the opposition, mainly out of fear that American weapons could fall into the hands of radical Islamists. This risk is of course difficult to eliminate, but it should also not be overstated. One of the main reasons why groups such as al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have become so influential in Syria is their military effectiveness, not their extremist ideologies. Increasing the military capability of more moderate groups could therefore also limit the influence of the radical Islamist.

The war in Syria has to end in a political solution. Ultimately it of course appears counter-intuitive to feed additional weapons into a war that has already killed so many people. American weapons in the hands of opposition forces will inevitably be used to kill more. But as long as Russian and Iranian influence, for whatever reasons, is not enough to convince Assad to make concessions, it may be the only way to create the conditions for meaningful negotiations.

[i] BBC (2014) “Obama West Point Speech in Full with Analysis.” BBC Online, 29 May. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27606537 [Accessed 31 May 2014].

[ii] Voice of Russia (2014) “Russia Urges Setting of Date for New Round of Syria Talks in Geneva.” Voice of Russia, 15 May. http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_15/Russia-urges-to-set-date-for-new-round-of-Syria-talks-in-Geneva-0341/ [Accessed 31 May 2014].

[iii] Press TV (2014) “Iran Backs Political Solution to Syria: Larijani.” Press TV, 5 May. http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/05/05/361455/iran-backs-political-solution-to-syria/ [Accessed 31 May 2014].

[iv] Hague, W. (2014) “Foreign Secretary William Hague to the Montreux Peace Talks on Syria.” Gov.com, 22 January. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/foreign-secretary-statement-to-geneva-conference-on-syria [Accessed 31 May 2014].

[vi] Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (2014) Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Facebook. Available at: https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe?fref=ts [Accessed 31 May 2014].

[vii] Burt, A. (2014) Interview. London, 4 March.

Posted on behalf of our Honorary Fellow, Cat Tully

Thank you very much.  And have a great #Futureday

Danny Steed to speak at “Spy Chiefs” conference in Venice

<|endoftext|>Matthew confided to Hunter that he dumps bleach in his yard.  Hunter was outraged.<|endoftext|>Blogs > Cliopatria > Swing Aloha!

Oct 29, 2004 6:36 pm

Swing Aloha!

What do Dick Cheney, Al Gore and Alexandra Kerry have in common? They're coming to the latest and oddest entrant in the"look at me, I'm a swing state!" category: Hawai'i. Clinton did video chats with our TV stations, too. Hawai'i has been a solidly Democratic state, so reliable that only incredibly popular incumbent Republican presidents (Nixon, Reagan) have won here since statehood forty-five years ago. The last time a member of the national ticket campaigned here was in 1960: VP candidate Richard Nixon visited Hawai'i. But now we have a Republican governor (inexplicably endorsed by my own faculty union, for all the good that did us), Linda Lingle, who is campaigning hard for Bush/Cheney here and nationally, and the game is afoot.

The combination of strong labor unions (Hawai'i is still, I think, the most unionized state in the union, so to speak) and a solidly Democratic Japanese American community (the largest ethnicity in the state) has kept this state one of the least contested, most political machine-like in the country. But demographics (rising Caucasian numbers in particular, plus a softening of Japanese American

ight" host in June, after Jay Leno's 17 years on the job. Leno is host of a new daily prime-time comedy show for NBC.

Suggest a correction<|endoftext|>Weapons for peace? The West needs to convince Assad that he cannot win, by Tobias Borck

The war in Syria has to end in a political solution. This is one of the very few things that most members of the international community agree on. In his recent speech at West Point, US President Barack Obama made clear that that “no military solution that can eliminate the terrible suffering any time soon.”[i] The Russian Foreign Ministry agrees the lack of any progress on a political settlement of the war only “results in more deaths and suffering in Syria every day.”[ii] The Speaker of Iran’s parliament, Ali Lrijani, emphasises the need for “negotiations and dialogue,”[iii] and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague thinks that all sides need to “reach an inclusive political settlement that takes into account the needs and aspirations of all Syria’s communities.”[iv]

A political solution to the war in Syria is of course not a new idea. Neither is the apparent consensus within the international community that it is the only viable option to end the bloodshed. Peace initiatives, talks, and talks of talks are a constant by-product of the war. Nevertheless, it took almost three years just to get representatives from the regime and the opposition to sit down together in the same room at the UN in Geneva. For a few days in January and February 2014 there was a small glimmer of hope. It was quickly extinguished, though, and Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN’s chairman of the negotiations, apologised to the Syrian people that the talks hadn’t “helped them very much.”[v]

In the months since the Geneva conference virtually no progress has been made to find a political settlement. Instead around 200 Syrians die every day, adding to the war’s death toll that has already exceeded 150,000.[vi]

There are of course several reasons for why a political solution to the conflict remains elusive. The opposition is famously fragmented and al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists act as powerful spoilers. Perhaps the most crucial reason, however, is that Bashar al-Assad still thinks that he can win the war. This year, his forces have made some territorial gains, and although a total military victory is nigh on impossible, so is a total defeat. This is why the Geneva talks failed and why no new negotiations have happened. A political solution requires compromises and the Assad regime simply doesn’t see the need to make any at the moment.

If the USA, Russia, the UK, Iran or the rest of the international community are serious about their commitment to a political solution, they will have to convince Assad that there is no alternative to negotiations, that he cannot win the war. There are two options of how this can be done: through diplomatic or military pressure.

Russia and Iran hold the key to the diplomatic option. They have the greatest sway over the Assad regime. Without their financial, military and political support, Assad would be in serious trouble. However, this support in the absence of any concessions by the regime in the political process suggests that Russia and Iran are ultimately unwilling to use their leverage over Assad.

The only meaningful concession the regime has made since the beginning of the conflict was the deal to give up its chemical weapons, and Russia played a decisive role in this. But it is also important to remember that the deal was only reached after Obama’s infamous ‘red line’ had been crossed with the chemical weapons attack in August 2013. Russian pressure on Assad may have been important, but American missiles pointing at Syria surely helped as well.

“When you fear for your life, then you are going to trade,”[vii] says Alistair Burt, a former UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. To make Assad fear for his life and to bring him to the negotiating table, it may therefore be necessary to renew the military pressure on his regime by stepping up support for the opposition forces.

It is a sad reality that political solutions to end wars often only become possible through temporary escalation. The example of the war in Bosnia Herzegovina demonstrates this. Here, a brutal war raged for three years. All initiatives for a political settlement failed. Then, in 1995, NATO support enabled a Croat-Bosnian alliance to make significant advances against the Bosnian Serbs. However, NATO did not allow a total Croat-Bosnian victory. This would only have resulted in more ethnic cleansing, this time with the Bosnian Serbs as the main victims. Instead all sides were brought together to negotiate and the Dayton Agreement was reached.

The objective of empowering opposition forces in Syria should therefore not be to defeat the Assad regime, but merely to convince him that he cannot win the war. A western military involvement of the same scale as NATO’s Bosnia operation is currently unthinkable in Syria. There is no political will to launch missile strikes, an air campaign, much less a full-scale invasion. However, the USA and its European allies can certainly provide the armed opposition with the military equipment and training it needs to tackle the regime’s tanks and airplanes. In his West Point speech Obama suggested that operations in this direction are already underway.

So far, the Obama administration has been extremely cautious in its military support for the opposition, mainly out of fear that American weapons could fall into the hands of radical Islamists. This risk is of course difficult to eliminate, but it should also not be overstated. One of the main reasons why groups such as al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have become so influential in Syria is their military effectiveness, not their extremist ideologies. Increasing the military capability of more moderate groups could therefore also limit the influence of the radical Islamist.

The war in Syria has to end in a political solution. Ultimately it of course appears counter-intuitive to feed additional weapons into a war that has already killed so many people. American weapons in the hands of opposition forces will inevitably be used to kill more. But as long as Russian and Iranian influence, for whatever reasons, is not enough to convince Assad to make concessions, it may be the only way to create the conditions for meaningful negotiations.

[i] BBC (2014) “Obama West Point Speech in Full with Analysis.” BBC Online, 29 May. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27606537 [Accessed 31 May 2014].

[ii] Voice of Russia (2014) “Russia Urges Setting of Date for New Round of Syria Talks in Geneva.” Voice of Russia, 15 May. http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_15/Russia-urges-to-set-date-for-new-round-of-Syria-talks-in-Geneva-0341/ [Accessed 31 May 2014].

[iii] Press TV (2014) “Iran Backs Political Solution to Syria: Larijani.” Press TV, 5 May. http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/05/05/361455/iran-backs-political-solution-to-syria/ [Accessed 31 May 2014].

[iv] Hague, W. (2014) “Foreign Secretary William Hague to the Montreux Peace Talks on Syria.” Gov.com, 22 January. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/foreign-secretary-statement-to-geneva-conference-on-syria [Accessed 31 May 2014].

[vi] Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (2014) Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Facebook. Available at: https://www.facebook.com/syriahroe?fref=ts [Accessed 31 May 2014].

[vii] Burt, A. (2014) Interview. London, 4 March.

Posted on behalf of our Honorary Fellow, Cat Tully

Thank you very much.  And have a great #Futureday

Danny Steed to speak at “Spy Chiefs” conference in Venice

<|endoftext|>Blogs > Cliopatria > Swing Aloha!

Oct 29, 2004 6:36 pm

Swing Aloha!

What do Dick Cheney, Al Gore and Alexandra Kerry have in common? They're coming to the latest and oddest entrant in the"look at me, I'm a swing state!" category: Hawai'i. Clinton did video chats with our TV stations, too. Hawai'i has been a solidly Democratic state, so reliable that only incredibly popular incumbent Republican presidents (Nixon, Reagan) have won here since statehood forty-five years ago. The last time a member of the national ticket campaigned here was in 1960: VP candidate Richard Nixon visited Hawai'i. But now we have a Republican governor (inexplicably endorsed by my own faculty union, for all the good that did us), Linda Lingle, who is campaigning hard for Bush/Cheney here and nationally, and the game is afoot.

The combination of strong labor unions (Hawai'i is still, I think, the most unionized state in the union, so to speak) and a solidly Democratic Japanese American community (the largest ethnicity in the state) has kept this state one of the least contested, most political machine-like in the country. But demographics (rising Caucasian numbers in particular, plus a softening of Japanese American support for the Democrats), the relative decline of union


In order to keep the schedules in sync the manager wrote them down on paper instead of in a notebook because the paper was available.<|endoftext|>!”

Then my son, as you were not named, you shall from this day forsake all names that you have once carried, and receive thy True Name that I now grant thee. As it is the Evening Star, the brightest star above for which you have won, Lucifer I name thee, the Bringer of my Light!

Lucifer rose, and he was no longer naked with a toga, but was now clad in the majestic raiment of the First Angel. A golden circlet shined as a blue halo crowned his forehead above his brow, and its center a jewel shaped as the Evening Star burning bright.

“Lord.” Lucifer the First Angel spoke unto the Maker. “I wish to name the Archangel Gabriel as my Second. Her purity, wisdom, and strength shall serve most well as thy Left Hand.”

And so the Archangel Gabriel was summoned into the Eye. Upon seeing Lucifer in his new self. She was overcome with emotion. She embraced him with her arms and her great owl-like wings, tears of joy brimming in her maiden amber eyes.

But when she saw how solemn his blue eyes were. She understood became serious herself, perceiving her newly appointed duty.

“Come, My Lord First. Permit your Second the honor of your Annunciation.”

So saying, she took his hand and guided him out of the Eye.

When both Archangels stepped out of the Center, the heavenly hosts cried out as they saw Lucifer in his majestic true form as the First Angel, and fell down and worshipped him.

Only Michael stood frozen. He saw a dazzling blue light that seemed to illuminate the Maker himself, and within it, stood the angel who now revealed to all of heaven that terrible, incomprehensible, unmatched beauty that Michael had dreaded since the birth of the Archangels. The blue light expelled from within Lucifer buried the golden light of Michael like the brightest star of the universe out-shining the yellow sun.

“Will you not recognize your Lord First Angel, Michael?” It was Gabriel’s voice, and it was calm.

Michael was snapped out of his daze. He looked down at the kneeling Gabriel beside the feet of Lucifer. She held her head high and looked at Michael straight in the eye. Her once gentle maiden eyes were now hard and cold as ice as she gazed into his golden ones, as if daring Michael to challenge the divine verdict.

But despite everything, Michael knew his duty, and in it, his defeat. He had failed the divine Test, and now he knew well to submit and show humility. So he stepped forward, bent his knee, and bowed his proud golden head.

Lucifer acknowledged none of this. He seemed to have neither seen his seven sibling archangels kneeling at his feet, nor the rest of the heavenly assembly looking upon him with great awe and astonishment. His down-casted sad eyes seemed to have been looking inward in unsung grief. But as the ground started to rumble and shake, and heavenly chorus rang out in a fit of raging glory. Lucifer finally looked up. Not far from where he stood flashes of aurora beam shot from the tallest sky of heaven, fell into one place and clashed, molding together into an illuminating dais.

It was the Throne of the First Angel, as it has been decreed by the Lord. And the celestial chorus sung Lucifer to go to it, filling heaven with his praises, and praises of the Maker for His Will.

Still solemn, Lucifer walked slowly toward his throne. The heavenly hosts stepped aside, forming a path to the dais formed from the lights of aurora, and guided their First Angel with their celestial songs of praises, then engulfing him. Some reached out to touch his exalted raiment with deep veneration as he passed amongst them.

But when Lucifer was in front of the throne, he baffled all when he did not sit upon it. The heavenly hosts saw him simply standing before it instead, deep in thought until the heavenly singing slowly began to die down. When it was completely silent, and the angels waited for Lucifer to take his rightful place upon the throne.

Lucifer reached out his right hand and lightly touched the dais. The lights from the dais trembled violently and the ground began to shake once more. One by one the aurora rays from the dais dissolved and darkened, until the dais that was once made of light became a piece of unremarkable grey stone, smooth and hard.

A shocking gasp broke out from the angelic hosts. But before any of the angels could react, the ground trembled once more. Beneath the grey stone arose little green sprouts. And they grew, taller and taller into green vines. The vines elongated and crawled towards the grey throne. Upon it the vines weaved as threads into web that covered the stone. As the angels looked on, more sprouts sprang forth from the ground beneath what once was the gloriously lit throne. They shot high into the sky and grew into great trees. Branches grew from the trees, stacking layers upon layers of leaves.

The angels scattered in great confusion as the springing green plants expanded the area, eventually surrounding their Lord First Angel out of their view. The trees aggravated exponentially in number. When the ground finally cease to shake, the heavenly hosts were assembled before a vast, dark forest.

And so this forest became the dwelling place that Lucifer had chosen for himself. This was where he would bring his charges, the most despairing of the poor human souls to be healed. He finally came upon the throne and lay himself upon the bed of vines. Above him high beyond the tree leaves a starry sky lit. It was the sky that he often gazed upon, together with his beloved Lilith. But it was not a common starry sky that was often seen by mortals on earth. The countless stars shone with a sour-searing brilliance and petrifying proximity that one might either touch them or flee from them. They were stars that burned and exploded while Lucifer had watched the physical university at the bottom edge of heaven. And he remembered them, their unspeakable beauty and their splendor. Now they decorated the roof of his newfound establishment.

With a heavy sigh, Lucifer closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

And at that night, he dreamt of Lilith.

Why I’m not a feminist.

This is just the last straw. It just has to be Mark Ruffalo, aka. the Hulk from Marvel Avengers, a feminist. Will the hysterical epidemic NEVER end? He’s actually one of my favorite actor even before the whole Avengers szpill. But he just HAD to go full retard and post a stupid post as the following:

But here is what I think you should know.

Now somebody much more eloquent than me on screen has already made a fantastic response to this on youtube:

So I’m not going to break it down point by point again. Only that I have to add to the statistics of one more woman not being a total selfish, spoiled, overly emotional, childish, whining cunt (Yes I’m a woman so I have the right to use this word). This is why I’m not a feminist.

I’m not a feminist because I think there are many things that are beautiful about being a woman, just as there are many things that are beautiful about men. I’m not ashamed of my natural tendencies because I can take responsibility for any flaws that come with those natural tendencies, as should any individual. When I make myself look pretty, I understand that I’m being not oppressed because it is my own freedom and choice. I do it out of my own volition to make myself appear desirable and self-confident. I do it out of my own volition to make the most beautifully feminine part of myself more salient, because I am proud of them. I am making an effort to fix and cover my flaws, because I am aware of my flaws and that it’s up to me to fix them at my own best ability, not anyone else’s.

I’m not a feminist because I am a heterosexual female and I have the natural tendency and capability to love men. Loving somebody in any practical sense refers to the entire voluntary and intrinsic motivating willingness to put oneself in that person’s service and happiness. I am not ashamed that I have the desire to serve a man who would deserve my love, because I know that a man who loves me would do the same. To exclusively expect white knighting without reciprocating is not love by any definition, as it is selfish, and selfishness is always the obstacle to love.

I’m not a feminist because I’m not ashamed of my feminine hobbies even when they are vain. Because I understand that many pursued things are vain in this quest for happiness, which all individual human beings will act upon. And when I over-spend on shopping and left with less money than I could’ve had, I don’t blame some bullshit over-used term like patriarchy. Because I can take responsibility and reflect on how to correct my own behaviors in the future.

I’m not a feminist because I understand that I have female privilege and that I shouldn’t take those for granted. To demand special treatment because of my genitals, while all at the same time ignoring facts, criticism, skepticism, rational

!”

Then my son, as you were not named, you shall from this day forsake all names that you have once carried, and receive thy True Name that I now grant thee. As it is the Evening Star, the brightest star above for which you have won, Lucifer I name thee, the Bringer of my Light!

Lucifer rose, and he was no longer naked with a toga, but was now clad in the majestic raiment of the First Angel. A golden circlet shined as a blue halo crowned his forehead above his brow, and its center a jewel shaped as the Evening Star burning bright.

“Lord.” Lucifer the First Angel spoke unto the Maker. “I wish to name the Archangel Gabriel as my Second. Her purity, wisdom, and strength shall serve most well as thy Left Hand.”

And so the Archangel Gabriel was summoned into the Eye. Upon seeing Lucifer in his new self. She was overcome with emotion. She embraced him with her arms and her great owl-like wings, tears of joy brimming in her maiden amber eyes.

But when she saw how solemn his blue eyes were. She understood became serious herself, perceiving her newly appointed duty.

“Come, My Lord First. Permit your Second the honor of your Annunciation.”

So saying, she took his hand and guided him out of the Eye.

When both Archangels stepped out of the Center, the heavenly hosts cried out as they saw Lucifer in his majestic true form as the First Angel, and fell down and worshipped him.

Only Michael stood frozen. He saw a dazzling blue light that seemed to illuminate the Maker himself, and within it, stood the angel who now revealed to all of heaven that terrible, incomprehensible, unmatched beauty that Michael had dreaded since the birth of the Archangels. The blue light expelled from within Lucifer buried the golden light of Michael like the brightest star of the universe out-shining the yellow sun.

“Will you not recognize your Lord First Angel, Michael?” It was Gabriel’s voice, and it was calm.

Michael was snapped out of his daze. He looked down at the kneeling Gabriel beside the feet of Lucifer. She held her head high and looked at Michael straight in the eye. Her once gentle maiden eyes were now hard and cold as ice as she gazed into his golden ones, as if daring Michael to challenge the divine verdict.

But despite everything, Michael knew his duty, and in it, his defeat. He had failed the divine Test, and now he knew well to submit and show humility. So he stepped forward, bent his knee, and bowed his proud golden head.

Lucifer acknowledged none of this. He seemed to have neither seen his seven sibling archangels kneeling at his feet, nor the rest of the heavenly assembly looking upon him with great awe and astonishment. His down-casted sad eyes seemed to have been looking inward in unsung grief. But as the ground started to rumble and shake, and heavenly chorus rang out in a fit of raging glory. Lucifer finally looked up. Not far from where he stood flashes of aurora beam shot from the tallest sky of heaven, fell into one place and clashed, molding together into an illuminating dais.

It was the Throne of the First Angel, as it has been decreed by the Lord. And the celestial chorus sung Lucifer to go to it, filling heaven with his praises, and praises of the Maker for His Will.

Still solemn, Lucifer walked slowly toward his throne. The heavenly hosts stepped aside, forming a path to the dais formed from the lights of aurora, and guided their First Angel with their celestial songs of praises, then engulfing him. Some reached out to touch his exalted raiment with deep veneration as he passed amongst them.

But when Lucifer was in front of the throne, he baffled all when he did not sit upon it. The heavenly hosts saw him simply standing before it instead, deep in thought until the heavenly singing slowly began to die down. When it was completely silent, and the angels waited for Lucifer to take his rightful place upon the throne.

Lucifer reached out his right hand and lightly touched the dais. The lights from the dais trembled violently and the ground began to shake once more. One by one the aurora rays from the dais dissolved and darkened, until the dais that was once made of light became a piece of unremarkable grey stone, smooth and hard.

A shocking gasp broke out from the angelic hosts. But before any of the angels could react, the ground trembled once more. Beneath the grey stone arose little green sprouts. And they grew, taller and taller into green vines. The vines elongated and crawled towards the grey throne. Upon it the vines weaved as threads into web that covered the stone. As the angels looked on, more sprouts sprang forth from the ground beneath what once was the gloriously lit throne. They shot high into the sky and grew into great trees. Branches grew from the trees, stacking layers upon layers of leaves.

The angels scattered in great confusion as the springing green plants expanded the area, eventually surrounding their Lord First Angel out of their view. The trees aggravated exponentially in number. When the ground finally cease to shake, the heavenly hosts were assembled before a vast, dark forest.

And so this forest became the dwelling place that Lucifer had chosen for himself. This was where he would bring his charges, the most despairing of the poor human souls to be healed. He finally came upon the throne and lay himself upon the bed of vines. Above him high beyond the tree leaves a starry sky lit. It was the sky that he often gazed upon, together with his beloved Lilith. But it was not a common starry sky that was often seen by mortals on earth. The countless stars shone with a sour-searing brilliance and petrifying proximity that one might either touch them or flee from them. They were stars that burned and exploded while Lucifer had watched the physical university at the bottom edge of heaven. And he remembered them, their unspeakable beauty and their splendor. Now they decorated the roof of his newfound establishment.

With a heavy sigh, Lucifer closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

And at that night, he dreamt of Lilith.

Why I’m not a feminist.

This is just the last straw. It just has to be Mark Ruffalo, aka. the Hulk from Marvel Avengers, a feminist. Will the hysterical epidemic NEVER end? He’s actually one of my favorite actor even before the whole Avengers szpill. But he just HAD to go full retard and post a stupid post as the following:

But here is what I think you should know.

Now somebody much more eloquent than me on screen has already made a fantastic response to this on youtube:

So I’m not going to break it down point by point again. Only that I have to add to the statistics of one more woman not being a total selfish, spoiled, overly emotional, childish, whining cunt (Yes I’m a woman so I have the right to use this word). This is why I’m not a feminist.

I’m not a feminist because I think there are many things that are beautiful about being a woman, just as there are many things that are beautiful about men. I’m not ashamed of my natural tendencies because I can take responsibility for any flaws that come with those natural tendencies, as should any individual. When I make myself look pretty, I understand that I’m being not oppressed because it is my own freedom and choice. I do it out of my own volition to make myself appear desirable and self-confident. I do it out of my own volition to make the most beautifully feminine part of myself more salient, because I am proud of them. I am making an effort to fix and cover my flaws, because I am aware of my flaws and that it’s up to me to fix them at my own best ability, not anyone else’s.

I’m not a feminist because I am a heterosexual female and I have the natural tendency and capability to love men. Loving somebody in any practical sense refers to the entire voluntary and intrinsic motivating willingness to put oneself in that person’s service and happiness. I am not ashamed that I have the desire to serve a man who would deserve my love, because I know that a man who loves me would do the same. To exclusively expect white knighting without reciprocating is not love by any definition, as it is selfish, and selfishness is always the obstacle to love.

I’m not a feminist because I’m not ashamed of my feminine hobbies even when they are vain. Because I understand that many pursued things are vain in this quest for happiness, which all individual human beings will act upon. And when I over-spend on shopping and left with less money than I could’ve had, I don’t blame some bullshit over-used term like patriarchy. Because I can take responsibility and reflect on how to correct my own behaviors in the future.

I’m not a feminist because I understand that I have female privilege and that I shouldn’t take those for granted. To demand special treatment because of my genitals, while all at the same time ignoring facts, criticism, skepticism, rationality, honesty, is undermining any and all efforts of individuals in the past who fought for my rights as a human being.


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Ray Turner said...

I seriously doubt that technolgy.
As you have said before, such evidence has never been presented in court.

Anonymous said...

Sooner or later, the contents of those vans will be revealed............<|endoftext|>The bilateral Sensitivity test

In the following I describe my experiences as a medical doctor in my work with patients. One could also take Person X and Person Y as the Sensitivity test can be done by every person. The intensity of the information signals felt by participants solely depends on the difference in the energetic potential of the participating subjects. The balance between energetic potential and the programme for cellular regulation decide our physical, mental and social well being.

In my clinical practice the sensitivity test is the first and preparatory diagnostical step to examine the threshhold for sensing FRONTODUALE INFORMATION FIELDS . The test is standardised and has already been performed ca. 2000 times.
The sensitivity test consists of several individual tests. The patient is seated on a swivel chair, facing the doctor, his arms hanging down in a relaxed position by his side. The practitioner now tests whether the patient feels on the inner sides of his spread hands "prickly" information signals (time delayed in a sinus curve), or warmth and cold. If the answer is positive the patient is turned by 180 Degrees, i.e. away from the doctor. If the information signals are disappearing now, the patient can be classified as "sensitive". We are looking ere at a basic instinct, which warns the prey of the frontal approach of the predator. See: TV- ATLASMEDICINE

After having been questioned about the information signals the patient is asked about changes in his sense of gravity ( sense of gravity= a kind of "ebb and flow" of the water column of the body ). When he is facing the doctor the patient mostly reports an increase in gravity (depressive information direction), this changes to a decrease in gravity after a turn by 180 degrees i.e. away from the practitioner. The patient describes this regularly as "lightness" (euphoric information direction). In rare cases is the perception of the patient inverse.
Tests also include the information flow on the sides (45 degrees). The patient senses the difference between the dominant and sensitive side of the body, i.e. he realises which side he has to protect in relation to information signals and which side can protect him. If the questions are repeated at short intervals the intensity of patient reactions diminishes.

dominant position             frontal             sensitive position

A final functional test is performed by the patient himself. He put his right hand on the left knee and his left hand on the right knee ensuring that a space is kept between the lower arms. The resulting deep warmth in one of the two knees indicates which side of the body dominates regarding the regulatory energy. The increased warmth in the knee of the less dominant side of the body is induced by the energy from the hand of the dominant side of the body.

The CHILD- SYNDROME from the perspective of human cybernetics:

The dominant and the sensitive half of the human body are bilaterally regulated by two autonomous programs of self-healing. The self-healing potential of the cell depends on the balance between the regulatory energy of the cell and the regulation program of the cell.
The biological cybernetic imbalance between the two halves of the body is natural. Nature provides for a certain biological room for maneuver regarding the regulation of energy. Only when this range is not maintained will the human body become sick.

The CHILD SYNDROME represents an extreme case of imbalance.

CHILD stands for "Congenital Hemidysplasia with Ichthyosiform Nävus and Limb Defects", Features of this syndrome are a one sided hypoplasy of the brain,the lung, the heart and the skeleton together with an ipsilateral inflammatory naevus of the skin. Only girls survive with this genetic defect.

FIRST EDITION: 2003-3-15

LAST UPDATE: 2009-11-23

The video evidence of a strong binary switching funktion (0°-180°-0°) of water!

The biological effect Bluetooth: WASSER VIDEO III<|endoftext|>The gerbil of Kenneth died from neglect, while Hunter's is nice and healthy. Hunter is a competent pet owner.<|endoftext|>Meet Mik Zenon, One of the Finest Social Media Influencers in the Affiliate Marketing Space

Mik Zenon emerges as one of the most adopted social media influencers, because of his wonderful movies on his Amazon Finds.
Some folks from the very starting know what they want to obtain in life and begin working from a really early age in direction of acing that aim, whereas some others take a number of years to appreciate their true calling and get forward on their path to realize their definition of success. In any case, people who thrive in their respective industries are people who exude pure ardour, dedication and perseverance to take over their chosen niches. Today, making a reputation for oneself in the ever-growing and evolving digital world is simple, they are saying, however in actuality, it may possibly get a frightening job if not carried out proper. Hence, specialists at all times advise that individuals who want to make it large throughout the social media world and the digital realm should select to be taught every day and innovate continually. Doing precisely that and way more in the digital world and rising as one of the best social media influencers in the internet online affiliate marketing area is a passionate younger man named Mik Zenon.
Who is Mik Zenon, you marvel? Well, he hails from Toronto, Canada, from a humble background and is initially from a small city in Walbrzych, Poland. After finishing highschool, he started his post-secondary schooling in Health Science and Education and began his profession as a highschool bodily schooling and math instructor after finishing his Bachelor Degrees in each fields. His experiences of a variety of cultures and communities of varied socioeconomic standing earned by transferring from one half of the Greater Toronto space to a different allowed him to simply adapt to the circumstances of his atmosphere and join with folks from all walks of life, which has confirmed to be a useful trait as a social media influencer.
Today, Mik Zenon has a large following of practically 3 million, because of his artistic talents, visions and methods as a social media influencer in the internet online affiliate marketing area, the place he predominantly promotes his distinctive Amazon Finds. In simply 14 months, he has amassed 1 billion views and has even generated tens of millions of {dollars} in income in the e-commerce area. Mik Zenon remembers how in 2019, a sure podcast impressed him to show from being a client of on-line content material to a creator, the place he understood the potential of social media to remodel lives for the higher.
From inventory buying and selling, forex buying and selling, curiosity in e-commerce to lastly coming into in the internet online affiliate marketing area, Mik Zenon got here a good distance. Mik Zenon’s channel, which started as a 100 Part Amazon Finds sequence entitled “Amazon Products You Need (Or Don’t)”, quickly was prolonged into 365 components resulting from widespread demand. What has helped him make strides as a social media influencer is his excellence in showcasing a product’s distinctive options in addition to creating an entertaining storyline that displays his sense of humour, together with recurring hidden objects for viewers to search for in every of his movies.
Another purpose that helped Mik Zenon join deeply along with his audiences was his curiosity in varied fields, which motivated him to create movies for various merchandise like self-stirring pots, wearable keyboards, motorized pool loungers and plenty of others.
Mik Zenon’s capability to depict a significant product in a visually stimulating manner with a powerful storyline, offering comedic worth, has thrust him ahead as a social media influencer in the internet online affiliate marketing area.

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About the Author: Amanda<|endoftext|>The Case for Tim Tebow

I don’t think I ever remember a time when there was a more overwhelming negative media assault on a NFL quarterbacks ability to play than I saw this preseason with Tim Tebow. You would think that he must have had the worst rookie debut in the history of the NFL last year, threw way more INTs than TDS and just crumbled under pressure. He must have shown up late to practices, didn’t work hard, and had an entitled attitude. He had to have done something to rub people the wrong way. But the fact is none of those statements are true, except the last one.

 Tim Tebow definitely had a huge following before he ever even put on a NFL jersey. He was something of football folklore in the Southeast, winning two National Championships and becoming the first sophomore to ever win the Heisman trophy while at Florida. As well as setting a BCS record in his final game at Florida in the Sugar Bowl against undefeated Cincinnati throwing for over 500 yds and breaking Vince Young’s BCS record for most combined yards in a BCS bowl game. These were the kinds of things Florida fans came to expect from there QB they often referred to as superman. And then you have the stories of young Tebow in High School refusing to come off the field after breaking his leg and running a 20 yd TD on it instead. There is a video of that run and an x-ray of his leg after

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Ray Turner said...

I seriously doubt that technolgy.
As you have said before, such evidence has never been presented in court.

Anonymous said...

Sooner or later, the contents of those vans will be revealed............<|endoftext|>The bilateral Sensitivity test

In the following I describe my experiences as a medical doctor in my work with patients. One could also take Person X and Person Y as the Sensitivity test can be done by every person. The intensity of the information signals felt by participants solely depends on the difference in the energetic potential of the participating subjects. The balance between energetic potential and the programme for cellular regulation decide our physical, mental and social well being.

In my clinical practice the sensitivity test is the first and preparatory diagnostical step to examine the threshhold for sensing FRONTODUALE INFORMATION FIELDS . The test is standardised and has already been performed ca. 2000 times.
The sensitivity test consists of several individual tests. The patient is seated on a swivel chair, facing the doctor, his arms hanging down in a relaxed position by his side. The practitioner now tests whether the patient feels on the inner sides of his spread hands "prickly" information signals (time delayed in a sinus curve), or warmth and cold. If the answer is positive the patient is turned by 180 Degrees, i.e. away from the doctor. If the information signals are disappearing now, the patient can be classified as "sensitive". We are looking ere at a basic instinct, which warns the prey of the frontal approach of the predator. See: TV- ATLASMEDICINE

After having been questioned about the information signals the patient is asked about changes in his sense of gravity ( sense of gravity= a kind of "ebb and flow" of the water column of the body ). When he is facing the doctor the patient mostly reports an increase in gravity (depressive information direction), this changes to a decrease in gravity after a turn by 180 degrees i.e. away from the practitioner. The patient describes this regularly as "lightness" (euphoric information direction). In rare cases is the perception of the patient inverse.
Tests also include the information flow on the sides (45 degrees). The patient senses the difference between the dominant and sensitive side of the body, i.e. he realises which side he has to protect in relation to information signals and which side can protect him. If the questions are repeated at short intervals the intensity of patient reactions diminishes.

dominant position             frontal             sensitive position

A final functional test is performed by the patient himself. He put his right hand on the left knee and his left hand on the right knee ensuring that a space is kept between the lower arms. The resulting deep warmth in one of the two knees indicates which side of the body dominates regarding the regulatory energy. The increased warmth in the knee of the less dominant side of the body is induced by the energy from the hand of the dominant side of the body.

The CHILD- SYNDROME from the perspective of human cybernetics:

The dominant and the sensitive half of the human body are bilaterally regulated by two autonomous programs of self-healing. The self-healing potential of the cell depends on the balance between the regulatory energy of the cell and the regulation program of the cell.
The biological cybernetic imbalance between the two halves of the body is natural. Nature provides for a certain biological room for maneuver regarding the regulation of energy. Only when this range is not maintained will the human body become sick.

The CHILD SYNDROME represents an extreme case of imbalance.

CHILD stands for "Congenital Hemidysplasia with Ichthyosiform Nävus and Limb Defects", Features of this syndrome are a one sided hypoplasy of the brain,the lung, the heart and the skeleton together with an ipsilateral inflammatory naevus of the skin. Only girls survive with this genetic defect.

FIRST EDITION: 2003-3-15

LAST UPDATE: 2009-11-23

The video evidence of a strong binary switching funktion (0°-180°-0°) of water!

The biological effect Bluetooth: WASSER VIDEO III<|endoftext|>Meet Mik Zenon, One of the Finest Social Media Influencers in the Affiliate Marketing Space

Mik Zenon emerges as one of the most adopted social media influencers, because of his wonderful movies on his Amazon Finds.
Some folks from the very starting know what they want to obtain in life and begin working from a really early age in direction of acing that aim, whereas some others take a number of years to appreciate their true calling and get forward on their path to realize their definition of success. In any case, people who thrive in their respective industries are people who exude pure ardour, dedication and perseverance to take over their chosen niches. Today, making a reputation for oneself in the ever-growing and evolving digital world is simple, they are saying, however in actuality, it may possibly get a frightening job if not carried out proper. Hence, specialists at all times advise that individuals who want to make it large throughout the social media world and the digital realm should select to be taught every day and innovate continually. Doing precisely that and way more in the digital world and rising as one of the best social media influencers in the internet online affiliate marketing area is a passionate younger man named Mik Zenon.
Who is Mik Zenon, you marvel? Well, he hails from Toronto, Canada, from a humble background and is initially from a small city in Walbrzych, Poland. After finishing highschool, he started his post-secondary schooling in Health Science and Education and began his profession as a highschool bodily schooling and math instructor after finishing his Bachelor Degrees in each fields. His experiences of a variety of cultures and communities of varied socioeconomic standing earned by transferring from one half of the Greater Toronto space to a different allowed him to simply adapt to the circumstances of his atmosphere and join with folks from all walks of life, which has confirmed to be a useful trait as a social media influencer.
Today, Mik Zenon has a large following of practically 3 million, because of his artistic talents, visions and methods as a social media influencer in the internet online affiliate marketing area, the place he predominantly promotes his distinctive Amazon Finds. In simply 14 months, he has amassed 1 billion views and has even generated tens of millions of {dollars} in income in the e-commerce area. Mik Zenon remembers how in 2019, a sure podcast impressed him to show from being a client of on-line content material to a creator, the place he understood the potential of social media to remodel lives for the higher.
From inventory buying and selling, forex buying and selling, curiosity in e-commerce to lastly coming into in the internet online affiliate marketing area, Mik Zenon got here a good distance. Mik Zenon’s channel, which started as a 100 Part Amazon Finds sequence entitled “Amazon Products You Need (Or Don’t)”, quickly was prolonged into 365 components resulting from widespread demand. What has helped him make strides as a social media influencer is his excellence in showcasing a product’s distinctive options in addition to creating an entertaining storyline that displays his sense of humour, together with recurring hidden objects for viewers to search for in every of his movies.
Another purpose that helped Mik Zenon join deeply along with his audiences was his curiosity in varied fields, which motivated him to create movies for various merchandise like self-stirring pots, wearable keyboards, motorized pool loungers and plenty of others.
Mik Zenon’s capability to depict a significant product in a visually stimulating manner with a powerful storyline, offering comedic worth, has thrust him ahead as a social media influencer in the internet online affiliate marketing area.

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About the Author: Amanda<|endoftext|>The Case for Tim Tebow

I don’t think I ever remember a time when there was a more overwhelming negative media assault on a NFL quarterbacks ability to play than I saw this preseason with Tim Tebow. You would think that he must have had the worst rookie debut in the history of the NFL last year, threw way more INTs than TDS and just crumbled under pressure. He must have shown up late to practices, didn’t work hard, and had an entitled attitude. He had to have done something to rub people the wrong way. But the fact is none of those statements are true, except the last one.

 Tim Tebow definitely had a huge following before he ever even put on a NFL jersey. He was something of football folklore in the Southeast, winning two National Championships and becoming the first sophomore to ever win the Heisman trophy while at Florida. As well as setting a BCS record in his final game at Florida in the Sugar Bowl against undefeated Cincinnati throwing for over 500 yds and breaking Vince Young’s BCS record for most combined yards in a BCS bowl game. These were the kinds of things Florida fans came to expect from there QB they often referred to as superman. And then you have the stories of young Tebow in High School refusing to come off the field after breaking his leg and running a 20 yd TD on it instead. There is a video of that run and an x-ray of his leg after the game on youtube, it was a nasty break. No denying this kid