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This week I managed to secure a still sealed copy of the 1981, 8-LP box set simply called "John Lennon". Mine is the one in the silver box with the now famous Bob Gruen photo of John (taken in New York) on the front cover:
This is the Australian release of this set, put out by EMI.
The box contains:
1. "Live Peace In Toronto"; 2. "Plastic Ono Band"; 3. "Imagine"; 4. "Sometime In New York City"; 5 . "Mind Games"; 6. "Walls And Bridges"; 7. "Rock 'N' Roll"; and 8. "Shaved Fish":
The set came out just a year after John Lennon's death and followed the success of other Beatles box sets. It was released in several countries using very similar packaging. The set was first released in Britain, and was later sold in Japan, Germany, and of course Australia – with the catalogue number JLB8:
Mitch McGeary and William McCoy write (on their Beatles Rarities and Box Sets website) that all the LPs were issued on the Apple label and packaged in their original covers: "Included in the UK and other sets was a twenty-page, black-and-white booklet, "The Liverpool Echo's Tribute To John Lennon," which was loaded with pictures and song lyrics. The albums were encased in a silver box that had a color photo of John on the front. The set's title and facsimile of John's autograph were also embossed on the front of the box while the LP and song titles were printed on the back".
EMI in Italy also issued a Lennon compilation and it is unique. Its called the "John Lennon Anthology" and consisted of all the albums in the British/Australian edition, but omitted the "best of" album "Shaved Fish". Instead the box had three singles made up of tracks not found on any of the other seven LPs. Unlike the silver box versions these discs came in a blue, pizza-style box reminiscent of the "Live Peace in Toronto" cover:
Apparently only 1,000 copies were made of this one, making it quite a collectable item.


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IBM mainframes have been a fixture of Fortune 1000 companies for decades. When these companies deployed their mission critical applications on the mainframe, they really were the best approach to get the scale and reliability they required. Technology has progressed significantly since those early days and today, with Windows Azure, companies can now achieve high-availability through a scale-out architecture. This enables such companies to scale far beyond the capabilities of the largest mainframes while paying only for actual consumption.
It's great that Windows Azure can scale far beyond multi-million dollar mainframes but how can a mainframe organization take advantage of Windows Azure while preserving the applications they have developed and deployed on the mainframe over many years? Alchemy Solutions, has just announced a new version of their NeoKicks® product that tackles this mainframe application migration challenge. NeoKicks takes mainframe CICS/COBOL/DB2/VSAM-based applications and migrates those workloads to Windows Azure with minimal changes to the application code and data. This can help those organizations that wish to break free of the high cost of mainframes while getting virtually unlimited scale and improved price/performance over their prior environment. You can read more about this offering on Alchemy's site, as well as sign-up for a free evaluation version.
If you'll be at Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Florida this week, stop by the Alchemy booth (Booth 628) to see examples of migrated mainframe applications running on Windows Azure and learn what is possible once the migration is complete. In their demo scenario at the booth, Alchemy is also showing a Windows 8 Metro application running on a slate device going against the previously migrated mainframe application now running on Windows Azure.
Before: Video Rental application running on mainframe
After: Metro Application running against IBM mainframe application migrated to Windows Azure

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Well, I didn't know everyone would be mooding a Lexa case at the same time, but oh well.... I started my idea a long time ago.
This is my first mod, and consequently my first worklog. I will try to keep my story congruent and cohesive, as I don't always work in the most organized fashion. I tend to work on several things at once.
The case I'm using is the NZXT Lexa Blackline, with the red lights. It's a very nice looking case even by it's self. Here's some of the hardware I will be using;
eVGA 790i ftw digital motherboard,
Intel QX9770,
Tagan BZ 1100w psu,
eVGA GTX285 ftw graphics card,
Koolance Exos 2.5 watercooling system, with a Swiftech Apogee GTZ cpu block,
Hauppage winTV HVR-2250 TV card,
Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB 10K rpm HDD,
(5) WD 2TB HDDs,
(2) LG GGW-H20L bluray drives,
Antec Multi-Station Premier,
Fan controller, and sound card have not been decided yet.
Ok, a few generic before shots;
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By Mike Mount
The Iranian military says it has successfully test-fired a number of advanced missiles and air defense systems during coastal defense exercises near the strategic oil passageway of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian government press reports said its navy launched anti-ship "Qader" cruise missiles and a new "optimized" version of a long-range surface-to-surface missile, called the "Nour" missile. Both models are made in Iran, according to the reports.
The exercises are part of what Iran says is a six-day naval maneuver that started on December 28 and is designed to, "display the country's capabilities in defending its maritime borders."
The country also touted the testing of its indigenously made air defense system called Ra'd, translated as "Thunder," with surface-to-air missiles. The country says it's designed to target fighter jets and cruise missiles as well as helicopters and drones flying as high as 75,000 feet. The new Ra'd system was first paraded out in Tehran last September during a military celebration.
The Iranians said the exercise is one in a number of drills the country holds to "enhance the defensive capabilities of its armed forces and to test modern military tactics and equipment."
Military analyst Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based policy analysis organization, says the tests didn't dramatically advance Iran's weapons technology. But it sends a warning to other nations in the region that could one day offer assistance to any U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
"In the short term they may actually like the idea of telling us they can escalate, to make us think of this as not just a pinprick surgical strike but the beginning of a war. And they may feel they can intimidate certain participant countries into rethinking whether it's the United States or one of the Gulf states like Qatar, or UAE or Kuwait," O'Hanlon said.
According to the U.S. Navy, one of its aircraft carriers, the USS Stennis, is inside the Persian Gulf close to the Strait of Hormuz, at a port call in the United Arab Emirates.
A spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department said the Pentagon was aware of the exercises and was monitoring them, but would not comment on the specifics of the missiles the Iranian press highlighted.
The exercises come at a time when the United States and the international community is putting increased pressure on Iran as the country continues to push its nuclear program. Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most strategic waterways in the world for oil exports, if sanctions against it continue.
Both the U.S. and Israel have not ruled out a military strike on an Iranian nuclear facility that they claim is part of a weapons program, but Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
I think one of your commercials triggered my web browser to resize, you may well want to put that on your blacklist.
It's claim bothers me so much Iran claimed success in firing new missiles during naval war exercises. We are going to have to deal with them sooner then later. Sad, so sad.
Good for them "The Iranians said the exercise is one in a number of drills the country holds to "enhance the defensive capabilities of its armed forces and to test modern military tactics and equipment." We get to see them practice !
remember what i said to jason? same goes for james. yes, ladies and gentlemen, I'm back!
jason, go to hell! eff you
P.S.-jason is also racist
i will never visit this website again-you cannot get back at me, jason
Jason is f-ing @$$-hole
Interesting and illuminating intellectual discourse full of dispellation. But i like to reinstate the words of chuck Hague, " there is no glory in war, only suffering". So lets all seek a peaceful world, no matter how idealistic it sounds!
Of course we are very well aware of Iran's, and other coutries in the region's, antics. Do they have anything, more "impressive", to offer besides shooting into the air with Kalashnikovs as we often see and Mr. Ahmadinejadi's femine and sparsly populated beard?
If israel wants a war with Iran..go fight them yourself, the United States has no quarrels with Iran except the jewish congressman and senators that are driving us to war, while our brothers,sisters, and children die..Israel will just take more land..Thats all Israel wants, everything else is political theater for Israel
Jason is f-ing @$$-hole i will never visit this website again-you cannot get back at me, jason P.S.-jason is also racist
With in ten years the United States will be energy independent,we have more carbon based fuel in our shale gas and tar sands than the entire Middle East by a factor of 15 or 20 . We are on the way to becoming one of the major exporters of Oil. The entire ME and Iran will sink back into the 7th century backwaters that they deserve to be eat your Korans idiots.
During the Iran/Iraq war the Iranians sent approximately 400,000 children into battle against artillery, tanks and Infantry. As far as I know none returned. The lovely Ayatollah Khomeni made sure they were all supplied with a cheap plastic key (probably made in China) this was a key to heaven as the parents were told and each dead child would automatically enter paradise as a martyr (shaheed) In the main cemetery in Tehran there used to be a fountain of martyrs that ran red with dyed water to represent the blood of the children. The rulers of Iran are perhaps the most vile repulsive contents of a human cesspit to ever have lived.
America is the root of all terror. America has invaded sixty countries since world war 2.
In 1953 America overthrow Iran's democratic government Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed a brutal dictator Shah. America helped Shah of Iran to establish secret police and killed thousands of Iranian people.
During Iran-Iraq war evil America supported Suddam Hossain and killed millions of Iranian people. In 1989, America, is the only country ever, shot down Iran's civilian air plane, killing 290 people.
In 2003,America invaded Iraq and killed 1,000,000+ innocent Iraqi people and 4,000,000+ Iraqi people were displaced.
Now America is a failed state with huge debt. Its debt will be 22 trillion by 2015.
Yo mama is the route of all evil.
You are living proof that we can not fix stupid
seek mental help...or not!
I whole-heartedly agree, Jannai. I also love how you continuously p!ss-off all the ignorant hubristic Clovers out there. Keep up the good work.
i agree with k. however, i will give a reason as to why your mom is the root of terror and evil: she gave birth to you
You want to know why?because Iran was fully out of supply and Iraq was fully armed thanks to US and Europe what should it have done?letting Iraq and sadam conquer it?it was the last choice because of shortage of weapons.if US wasn't helping sadam Iran had done his work and US wasn't forced to attack Iraq.everything that us lost in Iraq was because of its fault
I think that I'm speaking for everyone by saying I DON'T HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT!
As usual, Muslims kill other Muslims and blame America and the Jews for their own violence and stupidity...
What else is new?
Who talked about Jews? actually only time after shah that Iran and Israel were helping each other was in iran-Iraq war.
P - I do not recall Iran helping Israel during Iran-Iraq war or vice versa. On the other hand, virtually every poster who blames America for Islamic violence and terrorism also claims that it's the Jews who own and run America.
P: Actually Israel did back Iran and we backed Iraq in their war. We hoped they would exterminate each other and they tried.
Jews kills muslims and blame it on hamas, Jews also murder 10 times as many women and children as Hamas and than call Hamas a "terrorist organization" jews also steal land and kidnap muslims in palestine, and the jews say they need to defend themself...jews dont understand that just bc you lie 10000 times doesnt make your lie true, just makes you look stupid when the world can see for themself that jews are ethnically cleansing the muslim Palestinians..Jews say that the holocaust was horrible and yet imitate the nazis...than jews say that they are "peaceful" and "loving people...tell that to all the people you have ethnically cleansed
Jason... If the Palestinians did not like the current arrangement they would NEGOTIATE A BETTER DEAL long ago... and if the Jews "ethnically cleansed" them the number of Arabs living in Israel as full fledged citizens would not increase EIGHT TIMES... Nevertheless, you're right saying that when you lie 10000 times doesnt make your lie true, just makes you look stupid. So please STOP LYING about the "stolen lands", "ethnic cleansing" and the like, you look pretty stupid already.
Thinker: like other jews you are hard headed and get it through your thick skull that just bc over time the muslims have incrreased in number in Palestine DOES NOT MEAN ETHNIC CLEANSING DID NOT HAPPEN. It is still happening and the Palestinian Muslims know that only half their children will survive the Barbaric terroristic and evil conquest by the jews to steal more land. Like Hitler did you can try as hard as you want to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians but you will not get far just like Hitler didnt, and justice will prevail. Murdering entire families, women,babies,toddlers, and the elderly has not swayed the Palestinians from giving up their real estate, their homes, and their farms. One day the palestinians will fight back the terrorist jews with
modern weapons, and that day will be the reckoning that the world so hopes for.
WE both know that the Palestinians can try as hard as they want for a Peace deal, Israel will not give it bc Israel WANT THE LAND NOT A PEACE DEAL WHICH WILL AVERT THE THEFT OF THE LAND.so no matter what happens Israel is determined to wipe out the current inhabitants in order to steal their land no matter what...peace deal??? haha Israel doesnt want peace, they coulda had it a long time ago....preconditions you say? being able to defend yourself and keep your home is not a "precondition" it is Mans right, necessities not precodnditions as jews call them, life is not a precondition just as water is not a precondition....jewish rule over the United States will come to an end!!
@jason Ok so you really are not listening to anything anyone has said LOL! The other poster correctly stated that ARABS LIVING IN ISRAEL HAVE MULTIPLIED OVER THE YEARS which is much different from that silliness you said about Arabs multiplying in Palestine. No I'm not Jewish I'm a black guy that served in the Marine Corps and spent time in Israel and saw the huge Arab areas inside of Jerusalem. I also got to see buses burning in Tel Aviv from two suicide attacks, I also saw bombed out malls and residential areas hit by Iraqi scud missiles, and I also got to see what the IDF had to deal with close to the Syrian border so save your propaganda for someone that is as clueless as yourself.
Chris: your an idiot and you're not black, you are jewish , stop pretending to be somthing you're not...im sure you saw all of that there, and since yo u werent in palestine you didnt see little kids shot to death by the IDF, you didnt see people starving and malnurished by Israel, and you didnt see jews tealing more land on the west bank, you didnt see homes being bulldozed by Israel...again you're not black and you werent staitioned there so stop your lies, lying is how I knew you're jewish
Jason... Ethnic cleansing by definition means REDUCING of the ethnicity being cleansed, NOT MULTIPLYING of it. As an example of erthnic cleansing you may consider extermination of Jews by the Nazis who succeeded to reduce the number of Jews in Europe by 70%. As another example of ethnic cleansing you may use the number of Jews in Iran that DROPPED BY 85% since the Islamic Revolution. Further, you may consider that the number of Jews in the Arab countries DROPPED by 99% since 1948. Finally, you may recall that the number of Jews living in the Palestinian-controlled ares of the West Bank and Gaza is EXACTLY ZERO. Now you may compare these statistics with the number of Arabs living in Israel that INCREASED BY 800% since 1948 and you'll have an idea WHERE ethnic cleansing actually happened.
Good luck!
Balderdash! If the US were being overrun by a foreign nation We'd expect resistance from every man, woman and child. Protecting our way of life would be paramount in our willingness to fight, if need be, to the death. So our priorities would be no different than those of foreign nations who are fighting for what they believe in. Children have fought in all of our historical wars.
Its not any different than sending american kids over to die, and telling them your fighting for freedom.
The famous comment of a coward. Not ONE of those Americans that gave their lives was forced to go. They ALL enlisted of their own free will. Shame on you for using it for political purpose.
James: Amen!!!, every country sends their children to fight, while the ones who were for waging the war sit on the sidelines...Israel wants us to go to war with Iran bc they dont have the balls to do it themself, they know if Hezbollah can kick their ass, imagine what Iran would do..so of course they need someone with steel in their balls like us..and they want to use us to fight Irfan and than kill who ever if left...Who ever trusts Israel is a fool, they're not an ally and the world will eventually see that Israel is in it for itself and thats it
The Iranian leadership was, of course, facing several evil choices, thanks to the 'civilised world' (including the US) wanting to deny Iranians their freedom. The first was to sentence their children to slavery to an American supported dictator (under the Shah,the Iranians had no more rights than the slaves of the old South) with the most likely dictator having genocidal tendencies (Saddam). The second was to turn to the WMDs that were being used on them (with US etc. approval and assistance). The third was to send everyone, even the young, to the front lines to send the message that one could kill Iranians, but one would not be able to enslave them again. That you condemn them for having made that third choice, and buy the notion that they will willingly use WMDs when they refused while facing the prospect of extinction or sllavery says more about you than it does about them. Blaming the victim for fighting back is the mark of the worst of humanity.
You are an imbecile the anti logic in your retarded screed is painful to read. Aside from the fact that you distort history .
that is not true i was in the war wit iraq get your facts before making statements like that.
Let's just hope that this report by the Iranians is true. If so, this could serve to deter the West from launching a stupid invasion of that country which will be no good for anyone except those idiots in both Washington and London who crave Iran's oil!
Thank you, wjmccartan. I totally agree. Haven't we done enough to Iran already? I say we have! Enough is enough!
Iran has not started a war outside of their borders in over 200 years. I wish we could say that!
Still using my name goatboy, it hasn't worked before and it won't work now, you bag of excrement. Your mother fondles donkeys and your father diddles chimps, your profit is a stooge and so are you. Back back I say to the cave from which you came.
bunch of wyle e coyotes...
+1 to Paul's comment. and -1 to Justin's pathetic attempt at a deflection. I find it interesting that Paul mentions unarmed civilian jets shot down as the U.S. shot down an Iranian airliner in 1988 that killed 290 people. As for Luis and Mombser2's responses to Paul, they obviously have not done their homework.
@Luis, Iran was invaded by Iraq with Western support during the war (this is no secret).
@Mombser2, the U.S. uses proxies all the time. Iran was an American proxy before it's revolution, Israel is a proxy now.
niiiiiiice. my last comment was censored. despite no profanity or innuendo. it's too bad american's have to know what chinese people feel like.
I live in america, and to be honest with ya i hate america and americans too. i was once against iran and now im starting to think that amerrica and americans are what the british say we are terrorist. i belive that. I cant wait to move to canada or england. i am so tired of the good ol` USA.
@ Paul
Not worth the time, no one cares about New Zealand or New Zealander's because you and your country do not matter. You are a flee among giants. Insignificant its not a bad thing... its just truth.
For those who wish to paint Iran in a bad light, please advise this New Zealander how many countries Iran has invaded in the last 50 years? How many unarmed civilian jets have they shot down? How many heads of state have they overthrown? and how amy nuclear weapons they possess?
When you have proxies working for you- who needs to do it yourself-!
And have you forgot the 9 years war with Iraq? When Iran sent children to the front line!
Hi, Paul. As far as I remember Iran and Iraq were in war and almost 1 million people died...can anyone confirm this , please ?rgds
Iran is everywhere! in iraq, afghanistan, syria, lebanon, sudan... and the list goes on...
you dont have to bring in tank to conquer..
America is the root of all terror. America has invaded sixty countries since world war 2.
In 1953 America overthrow Iran's democratic government Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed a brutal dictator Shah. America helped Shah of Iran to establish secret police and killed thousands of Iranian people.
During Iran-Iraq war evil America supported Suddam Hossain and killed millions of Iranian people. In 1989, America, is the only country ever, shot down Iran's civilian air plane, killing 290 people.
In 2003,America invaded Iraq and killed 1,000,000+ innocent Iraqi people and 4,000,000+ Iraqi people were displaced.
Now America is a failed state with huge debt. Its debt will be 22 trillion by 2015.
well as i see it all we want is the oil.... all israel wants is not to look over its shoulder when there bullying the palastians....thats why they dont want iran to have a nuke...
+1 Jerry: I've rarely seen the entire thing summed up with such brevity and eloquence.
Quite true jerry, quite true.
Hey you bag of dog excrement I see you still at it, go back to playing with your saddam and mubarak dolls, or better yet keep reading the Moran, you know the one written by your profit Moron. Tool, Al al al ah who give a crap.
Iran will go down there is no doubt of it, just a matter of time.
The scenario will come much like what is ongoing in Syria and the people of Iran can reliably be predicted to go bonkers just as Syria has.
WE Spend 10s of millions trying to destabilize by supporting two different groups.one trained by US/ISRAEL in moder Kurdistan and an old terrorist group operating out of. Caspian sea states who gei Israel and US support from central asia
Irans internal revolt will come from its middle class and mainly that classes spoiled brats.
Happy dreaming about the "Iranian middle class" revolt. But just keep in mind that even if there is any "Iranian Spring", and if the current regime gets overthrown, the first thing the next regime is gonna do is to accelerate the nuclear program. Whether the Americans like it or not.
In February 2011, Netanyahu called German Chancellor Angela Merkel to complain about Germany's vote in favor of a resolution at the United Nations Security Council to declare Israeli settlements to be illegal and she responded "How dare you! You are the one who disappointed us. You haven't made a single step to advance peace." A few days later veteran Israeli diplomat Ilan Baruch resigned saying that Netanyahu's policies were leading to Israel's delegitimisation.
Angela Merkel is absolutely correct in her response. What else is to be said to the President of a country that is steadily stealing land from the Palistinians? Israel is practising apartheid and must be called to account for it.
Fri. 29 Jul. 2011 @ 13.06 –
Hamas foreign minister reiterates Hamas' rejection of two-state solution and commitment to gaining 'Palestine in its entirety' by force.
Hamas' foreign minister, Mahmoud Al-Zahar, recently conducted a television interview in which he once more set out Hamas' rejection of Israel's right to exist. He argued that 'Palestine in its entirety is Islamic waqf land, which cannot be relinquished':
'At this moment in time, we say to you, first of all: We want Palestine in its entirety – so there will not be any misunderstandings. If our generation is unable to achieve this, the next one will, and we are raising our children on this. Palestine means Palestine in its entirety, and Israel cannot exist in our midst.'
Al-Zahar also declared that Hamas would view any Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, or a compromise agreement with the Palestinian Authority, as only a 'first stage' towards the destruction of Israel in its entirety. He asserted that this was the key difference between Hamas and their secular rivals, Fatah.
israel is *not* practicing apartheid. 1 in 5 Israelis are, in fact, Palestinian. Within Israel they work, travel, marry, pray, and generally live their lives as they wish. Israel is in conflict with Arabs living outside its (tiny) borders, but that is not apartheid either but a low-level conflict. If you want to see apartheid, walk around an Arab city dressed in traditional jewish clothing...we all know what will happen.
Paul... Can you answer my three simple questions below?
1. Who are 'Palestinians'?
2. What makes the lands Israel is "stealing" the exclusive property of the 'Palestinians' defined in (1)?
3. Can you SHOW THE LEGAL DEEDS to support your answer in (2)?
The UN has issued 232 resolutions with respect to Israel since 2003, representing 40% of all resolutions issued by the UN over the period and more than six times that of the second placed country, Sudan.
Considering out of 199 UN nations- 57 Islamic and then politically Russia and S. Africa all up the oil rich Arab rear ends- Whos surprised!
James - can you name ONE of these 232 UN Resolutions Israel VIOLATED but the Arabs COMPLIED WITH?
Instead of focusing on Iran, the U.S. should pragmatically turn its eye to three nuclear powers that have not signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT): Israel, and India. In contrast with Iran, Israel has started a number of wars, including two within the last six years. While it has been attacked, most notably during the October War of 1973, Israel is guilty of invading other countries on numerous occasions. During its last two wars alone, Israel killed around 2,000 civilians in Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, not including its numerous isolated attacks on Gaza. And now, war drums are beating amongst the Israeli defense brass for its next offensive, targeting Iran. When one objectively looks at who will be more likely to use a nuclear device in the near future, Israel seems a more likely candidate.
I'm sorry, but you're making absolutely perfect nonsense.
I used to think Iran were he "bad guys" but now I'm starting to see the truth.
please explain *how* this is nonsense...because if you can't. you're deflecting. unfortunate.
rizvi - I would not call James' post above a "nonsense" but rather a bunch of lies.
Israel will never be able to use its power against Iran. It has to take approval of UN, as well as the countries involved in its flight path, as well as NATO. All the three will never approve. And even if Israel defies all the three bodies and still goes for the attack, it is very sure, United States will bomb ISRAEL, yes Israel and pound its military infrastructure to a ruble moments before Israel actually launch the attack. So therefore all talk of Israeli action on Iran is abs BS and are promoted by journalists who have no responsibility and accountability and other fraudsters and conmasters.
You are dreaming, man!
Vin - Israel will not use force against Iran unless as a last resort in case there will be no other option to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. If it happens, however, Israel will not ask for anyone's approval to defend itself. Further, you should remember that Israel is considered to have one of the four most powerful militaries on the planet meaning that it has the capability to pulverize any (and I mean ANY) aggressor. Somehow I do not think that the US will be willing to sacrifice half or more of its own population to defend the Ayatollas in Tehran.
U.S. foreign policy is obsessed with demonizing Iran. It has been since the pro-American Shah was popularly overthrown in 1979. From instigating wars to military attacks and the present economic sanctions, the American government seems hell-bent on punishing a society who revolted against a pro-American despot. Our latest move — the economic sanctions — is ostensibly in direct response to Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear technology. However, given the very low likelihood of an Iranian preemptive attack, and other countries that pose more of a potential threat to international peace, the U.S. should be focusing its nonproliferation efforts elsewhere.
The iranian govt is the despotic one, not the US. Iran is ruled by a violent theocracy that crushes dissent, rapes and murders its own people.
America is the root of all terror. America has invaded sixty countries since world war 2.
In 1953 America overthrow Iran's democratic government Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed a brutal dictator Shah. America helped Shah of Iran to establish secret police and killed thousands of Iranian people.
During Iran-Iraq war evil America supported Suddam Hossain and killed millions of Iranian people. In 1989, America, is the only country ever, shot down Iran's civilian air plane, killing 290 people.
In 2003,America invaded Iraq and killed 1,000,000+ innocent Iraqi people and 4,000,000+ Iraqi people were displaced.
Now America is a failed state with huge debt. Its debt will be 22 trillion by 2015.
That there is funny.
Your Hasbara type answer is funny. Exactly like the answer of another hasbara troll above.
You answer a barrage of FACTS articulated by perfect logic with one-liners like : " Oh that's funny" or "You're making no sense"
100% truth but when might is right truth takes a back seat
Very misleading set of facts. For example, most of the deaths in Iraq were caused by their fellow countrymen, not due to Western forces. I agree deposing the Iranian president in the 1950s was stupid and short-sighted, and yes we supported Iraq in the war. However, in spite of all your protestations, the Iranian people are the most pro-US of any Muslim country. Explain that.
Iran & USA should be good friends Becuase both of their enemy is the same al Qaeda & Taliban. They should be natural allies. USA should stop listening to Isreali lies & properganda. Biggest menace in the Mid East is Isreal.
Well not exactly, the US has been cosying up with al Qaeda, supporting them in Libya and Syria. As for the Taliban, well their funded by Saudi Arabia and the Saudis are a US ally. US foreign policy is a strange and complex beast.
Israel is a natural ally of US, not current govt of Iran. Israel has the same basic values of US, including rights for women, religious and ethnic minorities, freedom of worship, freedom of press and speech. Israel is also a world leader in science, medicine, and technology. Iran compares poorly on all these issues.
racist and jerk
funny the more i read online the sadder i feel of the planet im on,,so many great people on this planet all want peace and to have a good life,,but all i read is hate..i think jimmy hendrix said it best..( when the power of love overcomes the love of power,then the world will see peace...
Nothing like the threat of invasion to get weapons research moving.
indeed. our belligerency towards them has made them completely self sufficient. we are making a crucible, putting them in it, and making them stronger.
I hope their picking a good place to sink, because that's all that's going to happen if they try to wear big boy pants. Russia must be taking oil for payment because their dollar isn't worth the paper its written on.
Iran has the right to defend itself.
Israels days are numbered.
Ok, thanks for the heads up!
thats right bro, iran has the right to defend itself. Every country in the world has the same rights. But israel has no rights to have nuclear weapon at all.
IIsrael has the right to defend itself, too. and if (as Marden here claims) "Israeli days are numbered" Israel has every right to use every legitimate weapon to prepare and do it if necessary. Nuclear weapons are NOT illegal. Chemical and biological ARE.
Israel has the right to defend itself too. So, lets all defend ourselves.
...numbered in the 100,000s
I'm starting to think for myself. Now, aren't many of the US allies assuming responsibility for self defense? Israel has self defense capability, right? And Pakastan? How about India? France? So what's the big deal over Iran developing an ability to defend herself? Has Iran actually attacked anyone? But several of the others mentioned above have? Hmmmmm...
If you beleive that Iran has legitimate reasons to develop ability to defend itself you should also know which country would be willing to attack PEACEFUL Iran. On the other hand, Israel did not actually attack anyone as well and (unlike Iran) it never threatened to erase any other country from the map. Hmmmmmm...
They all CRA CRA ...This earth doesn't fit anymore, better start looking for places beyond borders, I mean this earth's borders ..hahaha, otherwise, we should work together to conquere space...far space.
Instead of focusing on Iran, the U.S. should pragmatically turn its eye to three nuclear powers that have not signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT): Israel, India, and Pakistan. In contrast with Iran, Israel has started a number of wars, including two within the last six years. While it has been attacked, most notably during the October War of 1973, Israel is guilty of invading other countries on numerous occasions. During its last two wars alone, Israel killed around 2,000 civilians in Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, not including its numerous isolated attacks on Gaza. And now, war drums are beating amongst the Israeli defense brass for its next offensive, targeting Iran. When one objectively looks at who will be more likely to use a nuclear device in the near future, Israel seems a more likely candidate.
James - I repeat:Israel DID NOT START A SINGLE WAR in its entire history. Each and every war Israel was involved in since 1948 was started by the Arabs.
Further, if the Arab states and Iran were assured that Israel does not have nukes they would try to destroy Israel again as they've done in 1948, 1967 and 1973. The resulting war would cause hundreds of thousands or even millions of (mostly Arab) casualties) meaning that Israeli nukes save a lot of Arab lives.
Thinker: wheres your proof that israel did not start a single war? after what i seen i must say i dont believe anyone who says Israel did not start a war...Israel might say they did not start the war but thats the only proof anyone has...Israels heresay...Israel also tried to get the United States to go to war with Egypt when the Israelis bombed and murdered the people on the U.S.S Liberty, they tried to make it look like the egyptians did it, unfortunately for Israel our brave soldiers survived the ruthless and miscalculated terrorist attack by Israel. YOu cant trust Israel, i know your jewish and would sell out the united states in a heart beat to Israel like most jews in the U.S, but as a TRUE American I can say that Israel does not respect the United States and is using the United States in every way it can, from the Tax payers money to our armed forces as personal hit men for Israel...sometimes I wonder when the jews in the United States are going to sell us out to China or Russia
Jason... My "proof" that Israel did not start a single war is YOUR inability to NAME a war Israel started.
You see, in the world of intelligent adults where I live it's up to the accuser to prove that the accused is guilty, not the other way around.
Does Iran have a right to "self-defense"? Did Germany have a right to re-armament in the 1930s?
Big deal, we can still kick ur azz and you treat your people like crap. Eat your oil
The only person who needs to be treated like "crap" is you. Disgusting comment.


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Folks won't be gathering in large groups for the 30th annual Parkinson SuperWalk, but the event will still be taking place next month.
The annual fundraiser for Parkinson Society British Columbia typically takes place in numerous cities throughout the province, but this year it'll be happening anywhere participants choose.
The virtual Parkinson SuperWalk is Sept. 12 and 13.
"As we continue to practice physical distancing for the health and safety of our communities, the event will help us carry on providing the programs, support services, educational resources, and advocacy that people with Parkinson's, their families, and care partners rely on," the society said in an announcement.
As of Aug. 14, nearly $52,000 had been raised. This year's fundraising goal is set at $325,000.
People are encouraged to walk in a variety of places, including around their neighbourhood, on community trails, and through parks and forests.
There will also be exercises and fundraising challenges leading up to the opening ceremonies.
"We welcome all participants to send in their own messages of support, and photos or videos from their exercise challenges for a chance to be featured."
The online opening ceremonies are scheduled to be live streamed at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12. The celebration will feature addresses from Parkinson Society British Columbia and members of the Parkinson's community.
At the ceremonies, they will announce top fundraisers, teams, and communities, and the total amount raised over the summer.
For more info, including registration and to donate, go to parkinson.bc.ca/superwalk.
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A one thousand acre property for Whitby Falls Hospital was purchased from a William Paterson by the State government in 1897 for the sum of 7, 000 pounds. Fremantle Asylum by this time had become over-crowded and it was decided to move some psychiatric patients to Whitby Falls. The farmhouse on the property was renovated to accomodate 50 patients and the first 12 patients were placed there on 12 July 1897.
Despite a proclamation on 12 September 1900 declaring Whitby Falls an asylum, it was eventually deemed too remote a location and a new asylum was built at Claremont instead.
Whitby Falls Hospital became an auxiliary to Claremont Hospital and a cooperative dairy farm and cattle breeding program was implemented by the two hospitals.
In 1914, Whitby Falls was gazetted a home for male alcoholics under the Inebriates Act 1912. The Hospital reverted again to take psychiatric patients from Claremont in 1918.
Due to the small number of patients at Whitby Falls Hospital, the Under Secretary declared in 1932 that "as an institution Whitby hardly justified it's existence (financially)" and it was declared "first and foremost a farm". Whitby's agricultural program was used as occupational therapy and rehabilitation for patients placed there but it also became a profitable operation that included poultry, dairy, vegetable, orchard, piggery and beef production.
In 1958, the government built a new hospital on the grounds of Whitby Falls. The original farmhouse was left unused until demolition in 1971.
In 1972, Claremont Hospital was divided into Graylands Hospital and Swanbourne Hospital. Whitby Falls became an annexe to Graylands and was de-gazetted from being an approved hospital to a hostel. The Armadale Health Service supplied psychiatric and allied health services to the hostel from the 1980's.
(Administrative history reference: Mental Hospitals Department, "Whitby Falls Mental Hospital, Control and Development of", file 23/1964, State Records Office of WA, consignment 3614).


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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is raising rates for its more profitable express mail and priority mail shipping next year, part of its efforts to stave off bankruptcy.
The new prices, which take effect Jan. 22, include the introduction of a new flat rate of $39.95 for overnight express mail boxes weighing up to 70 pounds that are sent domestically; the flat rate for express letters is being increased separately to $18.95. Previously, prices for the overnight service were $13.25 or higher based on package weight and distance.
The prices for priority mail, which promises two-to-three-day delivery, also will increase by an average of 3.1 percent.
The post office said the rate hikes were partly aimed at keeping the ailing agency afloat while maintaining its pricing advantage in the shipping business. Private companies such as UPS and FedEx, which offer similar express shipping services, regularly adjust their prices and have posted modest profits in the sluggish economy.
In the past year, the post office lost $5.1 billion, mostly due to a 5.8 percent decline in revenue for first-class mail. Priority mail and express mail posted a 6.3 percent increase.
Still, the rate increase will make only a small dent in the Postal Service's losses, caused by the recession, movement of mail to the Internet and a requirement that the agency fund future retiree medical benefits years in advance.
Among the increases set for Jan. 22:
?Priority mail, small box, $5.35.
?Priority mail, medium box, $11.35.
?Priority mail, large box, $15.45.
?Priority mail, regular envelope, $5.15.
?Priority mail, legal-size and padded envelope, $5.30.
The new prices amount to an across-the-board increase of roughly 5 percent in postal shipping services. They are in addition to a previously announced 1-cent increase in first-class mail to 45 cents, also planned for Jan. 22. The independent Postal Regulatory Commission will review the proposed increases before they take effect.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has warned that the post office could face bankruptcy next September unless Congress acts quickly to give the agency greater flexibility to close underperforming offices, reduce delivery to five days a week, raise stamp prices and reduce health care and other labor costs. The Postal Service, an independent agency of government, does not receive tax money for its operations.
Separate bills have passed House and Senate committees that would give the post office additional authority and liquidity to stave off immediate bankruptcy, although Donahoe says neither goes far enough to address longer-term budget problems.
In the event of a shutdown, private companies such as FedEx and UPS could handle a small portion of the material the post office moves, but they do not go everywhere. No business has shown interest in delivering letters everywhere in the country for a set rate of 44 or 45 cents for a first-class letter.
"We're in a deep financial crisis today because we have a business model that's tied to the past," Donahoe said this week. "We are expected to operate like a business but don't have the flexibility to do so."


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Happy Birthday Spaghetti Junction, 40 today. As it enters middle age, it is worth reflecting on what the Gravelly Hill Interchange near
The big excitement 40 years ago was that Spaghetti Junction completed the missing "
Midlands link" of the M6. In 1962 the minister for transport, Ernest Marples, had announced plans to
complete a thousand miles of motorway in the next ten years. The target was met
and Spaghetti Junction meant that motorists could get the full benefit
of this thousand miles. Motoring journalists drove the 300 miles from to the Scottish
borders and reported back excitedly on this epic journey, made without meeting
a traffic light or roundabout. One newspaper headline read, "I'll take the
Spaghetti road and I'll be in London
afore ye". Another, just in time for the late May bank holiday, read, "Spaghetting
away from it all". Scotland
But Spaghetti Junction was also finished just as the early excitement about motorways was curdling into disillusionment and anxiety about their effects on congestion and the environment. That is why, for such a complex junction, it is quite frugal with land, using just 30 acres. And of course the nickname it was immediately given is not especially flattering. The main thrust of the metaphor was that spaghetti just arranges itself as a series of random loops on a plate – which is how messy and unplanned the new junction seemed to the British sensibility. Motorists worried that they would drive round it in perpetuity, unable to find their way out. In fact, it is quite easy to navigate, and if you are driving through it on the M6, all you have to do is keep straight ahead.
The main problem with Spaghetti Junction's image today is that its stanchions are made of that unloved material, concrete. As the signature material of the 1960s, concrete has become the scapegoat for more complex and intractable social failures. Concrete is now an all-purpose metaphor for the supposed planning disasters of that era - not just the flyovers but the related inner-city landscape of pedestrian subways and tower blocks. Many subways have since been replaced by footbridges, and the ceremonious dynamiting of high rises has been a common sight since the Thatcher era. But the flyovers cannot be demolished without creating traffic mayhem and were anyway, at least technically, a success, being durable, safe and easy to use. And so they have remained, as a stigmatic image embodying the false hopes of that era.
But there is no accounting for taste. "Seen from the air, the ribbons of curving carriageway seem to interlace with the pleasing intricacy of an Elizabethan knot garden," enthused Clive Aslet, the conservationist and Country Life editor, about Spaghetti Junction in 2005. For a while today Spaghetti Junction was trending on Twitter, and the muddled affection apparent in some of the tweets was not always ironic. Perhaps, now the excitement of the motorway age is a distant memory, there is space for some double-edged nostalgia about its naive embrace of the future. Spaghetti Junction reminds us how long ago the third quarter of the twentieth century now seems - an era that Jonathan Meades calls "that brief and far off parenthesis when
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The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) and the government of Germany recently sealed an agreement that seeks to intensify technical vocational education and training (TVET) programmes to prepare skilled graduates for employment.
Tesda Director-General Joel Villanueva signed a cooperation agreement with the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) for collaborative research and development of TVET and further promotion of the dual training system. Villanueva also witnessed the signing of a joint declaration of intent between the Philippines and Germany focused on 'furthering technical vocational education and training through consultancy, technical assistance, and exchange of information, experiences, best practices, joint research, study tours and expert meetings'.
Both initiatives are seen to boost TVET so that it could provide students' skills and make them eligible for work, thereby reducing unemployment and underemployment. 'In Germany, many students take vocational training, and for those not yet ready, an intensive pre-apprenticeship programme backs the youth. Their government has been investing massive amounts of talent and money in TVET, and it is paying off,' Villanueva said. 'The challenge we face in skills development is the need to increase permeability of TVET. Since the issues in TVET are now global in nature, the more we should consider external support in design of our training programmes,' he added.
By signing the cooperation agreement, Villanueva said Tesda will next identify concrete actions for capability-building, research and development and dual training. The Tesda chief acknowledged the need to strengthen Philippine TVET research, and stressed that the cooperation agreement with BIBB can open up channels to fund research projects in the country.
According to him, output from research and development can address not only current needs of the labor market, but also future needs such as technologies, markets and development strategies changes. 'With occupational standards and qualifications aligned with Germany, Filipino workers who desire to work in Germany can have a better competitive advantage,' Villanueva said. 'Quality TVET will result in a quality, skilled workforce, which will serve as a great incentive to German and other foreign direct investors and domestic investments,' he added.


text: Back Feeling 'Pins and Needles' Is a Circulation Problem A tingling or numb sensation in the muscles is a condition called paresthesia. It's a sign that a nerve is irritated. Think of that pins-and-needles feeling as a traffic jam in your nervous system. When traffic is running smoothly, tiny electrical impulses move along the nerves that run from your spine to your arms and legs. These sensations then move up the spinal cord to the brain. But if sustained pressure is placed on a nerve, you create a roadblock that prevents the nervous system from carrying the electrical impulses that normally transmit feeling. While the nerve is compressed, so are the arteries that feed blood to the nerve. The nerve can't function for long without a conistent supply of oxygen and glucose. Interfering with the nerve's ability to send signals or with its blood supply causes a limb to "fall asleep." For example, people in wheelchairs who sit for long periods of time are more prone to nerve "traffic jams." When the blockage is removed, the nerve cells begin waking up as they start receiving impulses again. You may begin to feel an uncomfortable pins-and-needles sensation. The nervous system tends to become hyperactive as nerves regain normal function. The nerve structures, as they recover, tend to be irritable for a period of time. That's because the nerves are firing spontaneously. Most of the time, the irritability--the feeling of pins and needles--is a good sign, a temporary phase that means nerves are coming back to life. In some cases, however, a nerve may be seriously injured, perhaps in an accident. Then the nerve may get stuck in a pins-and-needles stage and the person may experience continuous pain. A good example is carpal tunnel syndrome. In this instance, "pins and needles" can be a danger signal. Most often, though, "pins and needles" is just an odd but harmless sensation that we feel from time to time.


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He wants to talk to a woman before he proposes marriage to her
How do I propose to her and approach her for marriage, since I am a practising muslim, and do not talk to sisters what is the best way?
Should I go and speak to her and get to know her first, without stepping beyond the boundaries of Allah? or shall I propose straight away?
I am afraid that because she does not really know me, and that we are from different cultural backgrounds I will be rejected instantly if I propose straight away without getting to know her first.
Whilst on the other hand I fear that I am doing something Un-islamic If I talk to her and get to know her.
I am in a difficult situation what is the best thing to do?
Note that it is permissible for a man to speak to a non-mahram woman, subject to important guidelines and conditions, the purpose of which is to prevent fitnah and sin. These conditions include :
1- That should be done without being alone with her (khulwah).
2- That should not go beyond permissible topics.
3- There should be no fitnah (temptation). If his desire is stirred by talking to her or if he starts to enjoy it, then it is haraam.
4- The woman should not speak in a soft manner,
5- The woman should be wearing full hijaab and be modest, or he should speak to her from behind a door. It is better if they speak on the phone, and even better if they communicate via letters or e-mail, for example.
6- That should not go beyond what is necessary.
If these conditions are met and there is no fear of fitnah, then it is o.k. And Allaah knows best.
Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan said, in his answer on the ruling about young men speaking to young women on the telephone: "It is not permissible for young men to speak to young women because of the fitnah involved, unless the girl is engaged to the man who is talking to her, and they talk only about matters pertaining to their engagement; but it is preferable and safer for him to speak to her guardian about that." (al-Muntaqa min Fataawa al-Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan, 3/163, 164).
You have not proposed to this girl yet, so you have to be very careful and avoid exposing yourself to the causes of fitnah by taking all possible precautions to achieve your goal without approaching this girl.
The basis for this is two aayahs from the Book of Allaah:
1 – "O wives of the Prophet! You are not like any other women. If you keep your duty (to Allaah), then be not soft in speech, lest he in whose heart is a disease (of hypocrisy, or evil desire for adultery) should be moved with desire, but speak in an honourable manner"
[al-Ahzaab 33:32 – interpretation of the meaning]
2 – "And when you ask (his wives) for anything you want, ask them from behind a screen, that is purer for your hearts and for their hearts" [al-Ahzaab 33:53 – interpretation of the meaning]
Finally I would like to remind you that the Muslim's standards when choosing a wife should be the standards encouraged by the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) when he said: "Choose the one who is religiously-committed, may your hands be rubbed with dust [i.e., may you prosper]." (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5090; Muslim, 1466).
And I warn you against everything that may lead you into doing haraam things or bring you close to that, such as being alone with her, going out with her, etc. I ask Allaah to make it easy for you to find a woman who will help you to obey Him.


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A trap set on the UVic campus for the feral rabbit population. Photo Andrew Allen.
Martlet.ca posted an article that summarizes the situation up to date about the feral rabbit population inhabiting the UVic campus.
Basically, the pilot program to trap the rabbits, spay/neuter them, and then rehouse them was cut short due to a permitting issue with the Ministry of Environment. According to a UVic spokesman, the sanctuaries set to take in the rabbits were unwilling to go through the process to get this special permit.
So UVic cut the program short and began to cull the rabbits on May 8.
For more info on the UVic bunnies, see:
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Walmart evacuated after 17 complain of respiratory problems
White, powdery substance spills on floor in meat department
A Walmart was evacuated Friday after more than a dozen people complained of irritation from a strange substance found in the meat department.
Palm Beach County hazardous materials crews were called to the Walmart at the corner of Belvedere Road and Military Trail.
WPBF 25 News' Randy Gyllenhaal reported that people were complaining of coughing and crying from a white, powdery substance on the floor in the meat department.
Paramedics could be seen treating some patients in the parking lot.
Firefighters said 17 people were treated for respiratory difficulties. Seven people were taken to a hospital.
The powder tested negative for any toxic substance. It was not clear how the powder spilled or what it was.
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I love a good tortured hero - I think anyone who visits here with any kind of regularity has been able to figure that out *g*. When I think back on my favourite books and what they might have in common, probably 90% of them feature a hero who has been tortured in one way or another:
- Derek Craven - born of a prostitute, lived a horrid life including many nasty jobs; chimney sweep, resurectionist etc.
- Gabriel St. Croix - sold to a Parisian brothel when he was just a young boy and used by both men and women.
- Johnny Harris - sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, raped while he was there and before that, beaten by his father and abandoned by his mother.
- Lord Ian MacKenzie - delivered to an insane asylum when he was young and witnessed his father killing his mother, whereupon he underwent horrible abuses.
- Conor's Way - watched his family starve to death in Ireland, he came to America and earned his way as a boxer until he was beaten nearly to death for not throwing a fight.
- Branden Kel Paton who was painfully turned into half machine and forced to live his life watching his every thought and loving a woman from afar.
- And many more.....
- Nicholas Kenleigh who was captured and tortured and left with terrible scars and a feeling of overwhelming guilt over surviving.
- He wore a leather mask for the first part of his life and he had worn it for so long, it grew into his skin and then it was ripped right off his face.
- He had his finger nails ripped out and as if that weren't enough, they were then dipped in acid so they wouldn't grow back
- His mother threw him away and he spent his formative years in an orphanage
- He had to drink out of a toilet - because the people who looked after him considered him an animal
- He was constantly beaten and had many a bone broken
- He had to wear a 'collar' that could inflict and control pain
- He was thrown into a cell when just a young lad with rapists and pedophiles
Having already read several books in this series, I've already noticed that Sherrilyn Kenyon tends to make her heroes really suffer. I mean REALLY. Just wait til Zarek, if you haven't read the books.


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This is one of those things that makes you go WTF!
This one is as bad as the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan disgrace, where Harding's husband attempted to disable Kerrigan so she could not compete against Harding in the skating championships.
It may well have been that Harding was guilty of nothing more than exceptionally low standards in terms of the men she married…
So what is the Virginia State Football Players excuse who took on the opposing quarterback in a bathroom at the Championship Banquet… 5-1?
I hope these morons get to spend a few days behind bars to consider their transgressions…And their scholarships revoked as a warning to any other athlete.
CIAA championship canceled after Winston-Salem State QB is attacked
Winston-Salem State quarterback Rudy Johnson was expected to lead his team on the field Saturday as it attempts to win its third consecutive Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAA) football championship. But after an alleged incident at a celebratory banquet Friday, Johnson won't be able to play, and neither will anyone else.
The CIAA on Friday night canceled the game between Winston-Salem State and Virginia State in the wake of the incident, as well as the conference's volleyball championships that also were to be held in Winston-Salem, N.C., this weekend. The move comes after Johnson was allegedly beaten by a group of Virginia State football players in a bathroom of a WSSU campus building during the CIAA football banquet.
The Winston-Salem Journal obtained an arrest warrant from Winston-Salem State campus police for Lamont Britt, a Virginia State sophomore running back, who was charged with misdemeanor assault inflicting serious injury. According to the Journal, Britt is being held in Forsyth County (N.C.) Jail with bond set at $7,500 and has a date in Forsyth District Court set for Dec. 9.
A voice message and email from USA TODAY Sports to campus police lieutenant and crime prevention officer Henry Gray were not returned.
The university's associate athletics director for media relations, Kevin Manns, confirmed to USA TODAY Sports that Johnson had been treated and released from a nearby hospital. According to the arrest warrant, Johnson had been hit in the face and head and suffered a head laceration and swollen eye.
In announcing the cancellation, CIAA commissioner Jacquie Carpenter said in a statement, "Our singular focus is on the safety and security of the CIAA's student-athletes and those who follow them. It is important that everyone involved in the CIAA embody our mission every day by acting as upstanding individuals on and off the field. We must work together to hold each other to higher standards of responsible judgment and conduct because we must demand that if we are to succeed.
"We did not make this decision lightly, as its impact is far and wide – affecting our student-athletes, alumni, fans, sponsors and more. But the CIAA has long had policies to encourage responsible behavior, and must consider what is necessary to assure days like today are not repeated, ever."
Winston-Salem State Chancellor Donald Reaves said in a statement Friday night, "I am saddened to report that at today's CIAA pre-championship game luncheon held at the Anderson Center of the WSSU campus that our starting quarterback, Rudy Johnson, was viciously beaten by one or more members of the Virginia State football team.
"There is no excuse for the behavior of the Virginia State players. One suspect has admitted to his role in the attack and has been arrest on criminal assault charges. The University Police Department is attempting to identify the other VSU players who were involved. Today's event was supposed to be a celebration for both teams and for all the players who were being recognized for an outstanding season. The actions from the Virginia State players certainly changed the outcome for everyone."
On its university web site, Virginia State released a statement reading, "Virginia State University is aware of an incident involving student athletes from Winston Salem State and Virginia State Universities. VSU officials are fully cooperating with the CIAA in their investigation, and as a result, will not be able to comment any further."
Johnson, a junior from San Diego who transferred from Texas Southern earlier this year, has led his team to a 9-1 record and was named the CIAA's first-team quarterback on Wednesday. Winston-Salem State has been ranked as a leading contender for the 2013 NCAA Division II football playoffs after reaching the championship game in 2012.


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Getting bored with Siri? Us too. Finding out what the weather is, setting reminders and asking question gets old. You know what never gets old? Hearing a robot voice curse. I mean, we're all teenage boys at heart, right? Here's how to make Siri curse like a motherfucking sailor.
If you're easily offended by salty language, don't watch the video. It's a cussing bonanza that murders every curse word rule in the book. Very, very NSFW
Change Your Name to a String of Expletives
Siri won't respond with an f-bomb if you curse at her but she will call you whatever you tell her to call you. So if you replace your name with Mr. Dickfuck Shitlicker Damnbitch Asshole, she'll call you just that. Easiest and least confusing way to do it is to ask Siri for your name pre-expletive change and then tap the white address card. Fill in your bad words in the first name field and listen to her spew curse words. I love it when you talk dirty baby.
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One of the most useful features of Siri is how she can read text messages out loud for you. Yup, you can see where this is going already. Take a friend's phone and try to fit as many curse words you can in 160 characters. Or if you want to keep the fun for yourself, text yourself from Google Voice.
Play a Song with a Curse Word in the Song Title
Cee-Lo's Fuck You. Lily Allen's Fuck You. Dead Kennedy's Too Drunk to Fuck. NWA's Fuck Tha Police. South Park's Uncle Fucka. Akon's I Wanna Fuck You. Brian Jonestown Massacre's Fucker. Choking Victim's Fucked Reality. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's Cats Are Cunts. And the list goes on. Tell Siri to play (song title), and she'll repeat the (song title) before the song plays.
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When it comes to providing teams with the right equipment to produce content faster, collaborate more efficiently and manage large media files, one size does not fit all. Many media and entertainment professionals are prolific technology users in their personal lives and expect their professional digital experience to be as powerful, or even more so. Consider types of work end users perform, and where they do it from, to develop a "good-better-best" solution approach for each of these three user types:
Non-mobile Users
These users are your back-office or administrative workers, have their own desk space and do not travel. Laptops, AIO and desktops all work well, but prioritize space optimization and connectivity to meet your specific workspace, collaboration and cloud computing needs. For example, in "hot-desk" or shared desk situations, individual laptops that can connect into docking stations already connected to monitors and other peripherals make the most sense.
Mobile Users
Media and entertainment professionals who travel frequently or are field based require mobile PCs to effectively do their jobs. When choosing devices, consider factors such as balancing thin and light with battery life and performance. Need anti-glare screens? Is WiFi performance ideal? While smartphones and tablets provide connectivity benefits, business-grade laptop PCs provide greater productivity results.
Advanced Users
Content creators, developers and data scientists require high-performance devices, multi-monitor setups and specialized applications. For example, 3D video content creators can benefit from dual-processing systems like ThinkStation, featuring the latest generation of Intel® Xeon® processors that provide superior performance and I/O. With numbers of this user group population on the rise at media and entertainment companies, multiple options can create an ideal work environment that fits everyone's needs:
- Workstations are ISV-certified to run powerful applications with efficiency, speed and stability and easily adjust to work load changes. Lenovo workstations are certified to run a wide range of must-have media & entertainment production softaware. Furthermore, with Windows 10 Pro for Workstations content creators can speed through advanced workloads with the fastest data storage possible on workstations.
- Desktops provide ease-of-use, reliability and powerful productivity in a range of energy-efficient form factors.
- Notebooks and laptops enable and enhance mobility and flexibility without compromising power and performance.
As the balance of user types change, developing "good, better, best" solutions options for each user type will empower workers with the sense of choice. Use the options to drive internal discussions on investments and priorities, balancing desired capabilities with budgets accordingly.


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Super filmi week: OCDing on Neetu Singh's LPs!
Birthdays galore, brouhaha over Bollywood's most unexpected war, a brilliant Friday with the Kapoor & Sons topped off by binging on The Devil of Hell's Kitchen, this entertainment junkie can hardly complain. Monday It's Sir Michael Caine's 83rd birthday! What a life, … Continue reading
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Hi, Everyone!
Yes, I am now the host of my own radio show, "Explorations in Consciousness with Dr. Joe"!
The show will start on Tuesday, August 13 and will continue every Tuesday for an hour at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time until November 5. It will be hosted on the 7th Wave Channel of VoiceAmerica (NOT Voice OF America). Each episode will be re-broadcast several times during the week it first airs, and there will be an archive of past episodes. You may access the episodes for free, either by going to my homepage on the VoiceAmerica website, or by downloading the Voice America app to your smart phone and searching for my show. If you subscribe for free to VA, you will get a program by email.
If you miss the first broadcast, you can hear, via my VoiceAmerica home page, the show re broadcast at 10:00 pm Eastern time. If you cannot tune into the re-broadcasthow, don't worry, for you can go to my Voice America Homepage and check out the Episode Directory (Archive). Click on the show you want and then the "Listen Now" link to hear the show. There are also links to download the episode as an MP3 file and to get it free from iTunes.
During the thirteen weeks, I will focus with my guests on past-lives, past-life regression, and related matters. We will cover many topics including the nature of past lives, the therapeutic effects of past-life regression, soul contracts, reincarnating souls groups, children's past lives, incarnations in Atlantis and in the time of Christ, Life Between Lives, "spiritual birth control," and much more. My underlying metaphysical approach is based on the Seth Material channeled by Jane Roberts. For more detail, check out the list of episodes following this introduction.
You may be interested in how all this came about. On April 18 of this year, I was able to purchase Jane Roberts' work table on which she wrote some of her own books, accessed her "spiritual library," painted her sketches, and read proofs of the Seth Books. The table was in her writing room in the "Hill House" in Elmira, New York, and later in the house in Sayre, Pennsylvania, that her husband, Robert Butts, and his new wife, Laurel Davies-Butts, lived in for a number of years. (Jane died in 1984, and Rob in 2008).
I am awed and joyous over the presence in my home of this table filled with great psychic energy. I hope to do some of my own channeled writing (though with a computer rather than with a typewriter or pen!), while seated at the table. It is no accident that the table found its way to my group room–what a great thing for me to manifest!
And it is no accident that, on the same day that I received from Laurel the first half of Jane's table, I received also a phone call from the Senior Executive Producer for VoiceAmerica, the largest creator and distributer of internet radio in the world. I thought with excitement that maybe he wanted to interview me about some aspect of my work. Well, I was wrong–he wanted me to submit a proposal to host my own radio show once a week for an hour for thirteen weeks! I was flabbergasted, awed, and, I must admit, a bit scared. Geez, I would be heard in 32 countries!
Within a week, my proposal was accepted. The producer said that he had asked his staff to search for potential hosts on the internet, focussing on spiritual counseling, hypnotherapy, and past-life regression. I was one of about 12 individuals who had made the final cut out of 300 contenders. And I knew nothing about any of this (though my soul certainly did) until he called on the 18th. He also told me that what clinched the deal for him was that I said that the Seth Material would serve as the underlying metaphysics for my discussions!
So, please join my guests and me for a spectacular exploration in consciousness!
Date: August 13, 2013
Episode Title: Past Lives and the Seth Material, Part 1: An Interview with Rich Kendall
In this episode, Rich Kendall, one of the New York Boys in Psychic Jane Roberts' ESP class in the early '70s, will help set the stage for the entire 13-week focus on past lives. Seth, the "energy personality essence" channeled by Jane from 1963 through her death in 1984, talked a great deal about past lives, including the idea that they do not actually exist in our "pasts." Besides discussing Sethian notions about the true nature and influence of past lives, Rich will share some of his own encounters with Seth and what that gentle, but provocative personality said specifically about Rich's past lives. Rich will also share the impact of Seth's teachings on his life then and now. Some of his reflections can be found already in his book, The Road to Elmira, the first volume of a proposed three-volume work.
Date: August 20, 2013
Episode Title: The Nature of Past Life Regression and Participants' Stories
In this episode, Dr. Joe's guests are several individuals who have participated in either a group or individual past life regression with him. With their help, he will explain the process of a typical past life regression and the difference between the individual and group modalities. They will discuss what is most important to remember in order to have a successful journey to a past life. They will focus also on the pitfalls that can frustrate success, such as fear both of not being able to access a past life and, paradoxically, of being able to do so. Tips for overcoming other potential obstacles in the process will be offered, as well as tips about how to select a regressionist. Finally, one or more of the guests will have a chance to discuss aspects of his or her past life regression and the effect the journey has had on his or her present incarnation.
Date: August 27, 2013
Episode Title: Children's Past Lives: An Interview with Carol Bowman
In this episode, Dr. Joe will ask Carol Bowman, M.S., to discuss her fascinating and paradigm-busting research on children's past lives. Stimulated by the voluminous, pioneering work on this topic by Dr. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia, Carol furthered his research in her first book in 1997, Children's Past Lives. In that book, she describes how she came to believe in her own children's accounts of past lives and gives guidance to parents about the nature of this phenomenon and how to respond appropriately to the past life disclosures of their children. Her second book published in 2001, Return from Heaven, is the first to describe reincarnation in the same family, that is, for instance, the return of a deceased adult as the newborn of the daughter of the deceased adult. While family return in particular has many implications for family members, the greatest implication is that children's past lives offer the greatest proof for the actuality of past incarnations.
Date: September 3, 2013
Episode Title: Past Lives and Attached Entities: An Interview with Greg McHugh
In this episode, Dr. Joe invites Greg McHugh, CHT, to share the ideas incorporated in his book, The New Regression Therapy. Greg's trainings and initiation experience in a semi monastic Gnostic Christian order contributed to the development of protocols for the healing of past life and present life wounds and limiting beliefs through the application of Divine Presence. Such Presence may be drawn upon from the client's Higher Self, Interlife resources, from Angelic Higher Resources, and great beings like the Heart of Elijah. Greg will discuss how he releases attached entities (mostly spirits who have left their bodies but have not gone into the Light). He will explain how such spirits' own feelings and issues affect the client. He may also talk about his remote regression protocol with the use of a surrogate for a client who cannot be physically present in the therapy room.
Date: September 10, 2013
Episode Title: Past Life Regression and Shamanism: An Interview with Dana Robinson, B.A., C.S.C. and Shana Robinson, M.S.
In this episode Dr. Joe discusses with Shana and Dana, authors of Shamanism & the Spirit Mate, the connections between Past-Life Regression and Shamanism. After discussing the nature of core shamanism, Shana and Dana and Dr. Joe share how they c0-created and c0-facilitated the first ever workshop combining the techniques of past life regression and shamanic journeying to effect healing. Lasting two days, the workshop showed how seemingly very different modalities were in many ways very similar in their intentions, actions and effects. Workshop participants who call in will discuss their impressions of this unique merging of disciplines, including their enlarged sense of their multi-dimensionality.
Date: September 17, 2013
Episode Title: Past Lives and Soul Contracts: An Interview with Linda Baker
In this episode, Dr. Joe interviews Linda Baker, RN, CHT, author of The Bridge Between the Worlds, Soul Contracts and co-author of Alchemical Scents.. Linda will describe the nature and purpose of Soul Contracts, particularly how they affect our lives and relationships today. In the first of two kinds of contract, souls reincarnate together to work through unresolved issues between them; in the second kind, the personality makes a contract with his or her soul to end a pattern of events that persists no matter who the other players are. Linda will also talk about what she calls Spiritual Post-Conception Birth Control, a very loving process wherein the pregnant woman can communicate with her unborn child about whether the time is right for a birth; when it is agreed that the time is not right, a natural miscarriage can occur. Of course, what karma is and is not is a theme that will permeate the discussion.
Date: September 24, 2013
Episode Title: Past Life Regression for Intact Groups: An Interview with Janet Cunningham
Dr. Joe interviews Janet Cunningham, Ph.D., author of A Tribe Returned, the amazing story of herself and 25 other people who have memories of being together in a Native American Tribe. Told that she was the reincarnation of the daughter of Chief Silver Eagle, Janet will talk about how she unwittingly gathered together members of that past tribe. Janet was told also that she was selected by the Grandfathers to be the next Chief. As a past-life therapist, she then assisted the reincarnated members in releasing their traumatic memories of a devastating massacre. Janet not only did enormous healing work for the friends, family members and clients who were part of that tribe, but also pioneered a new regression modality practiced today by very few other practitioners: intact-group past life regression, wherein an entire group of individuals who were connected to each other in a past life are regressed together to that lifetime. Listen to a discussion of an amazing collective journey.
Date: October 1, 2013
Episode Title: Past Lives and Natal Regression: An Interview with Tim Simmerman-Sierra
Dr. Joe interviews Tim Simmerman-Sierra, Certified Medical Support Clinical Hypnotherapist, the lead instructor at the Hypnotherapy Academy of America in Albuquerque, about Natal Regression, a modality not usually taught in hypnosis schools. This process, which begins in the Interlife, may involve information from past lives that can be used by the soul to prepare for his or her current incarnation. After becoming aware of agreements with significant others in the present incarnation, the person is taken through the moment of conception, womb time and the actual birth experience. During this journey, the soul tunes into the varying feelings and thoughts of parents and the medical personnel present at birth. Alternating between expansive and narrowed levels of awareness, clients can see patterns in their lives that are the result of unconsciously held beliefs formed during this period of development. This is one of the fastest ways to heal blocks to accessing your divine nature.
Date: October 8, 2013
Episode Title: Past Life Regression to Capture Lost History: An Interview with Joanna Prentis and Stuart Wilson
In this episode, Dr. Joe interviews Joanna Prentis and Stuart Wilson, authors of several books, including a trilogy on the Essenes that focuses in large part on the figure of Mary Magdalene. They will discuss how they worked using regression techniques and with the channeled help of an Angel named Alariel to capture otherwise lost history. From the past-life perspective of Daniel, a friend of Joseph of Arimathea, they reveal Jesus' healing in the tomb with the help of the Essenes. Joanna and Stuart will tell us also how they facilitated other regression subjects to reveal the real significance of Mary Magdalene as a deeply beloved spiritual partner to Jeshua; as a charismatic, powerful and articulate leader of a group of female disciples; and as a counterpoint to the dominance of some of the male disciples. Come join us for a mind-blowing excursion back to an erstwhile unknown past.
Date: October 15, 2013
Episode Title: Edgar Cayce and Past Lives in Atlantis: An Interview with Nancy Eubel
In this episode, Dr. Joe discusses with Nancy Eubel, MBA, CHT, Rt., QHHT, what the renowned psychic Edgar Cayce has said about past lives and karma and the effect of his perspective on her own teaching and facilitation of past life regression. Focusing principally on the past lives in Atlantis that Cayce revealed in his readings for others, Nancy will share with us the main implications those past lives have for us today, especially since many Atlanteans have apparently reincarnated during the present time. With its development especially of nuclear power and the potential for world-wide devastation, our current world seems eerily similar to Atlantis before each of the three cataclysms that apparently ultimately dropped the continent below the surface of the Atlantic.
Date: October 27, 2013
Episode Title: Past Lives and Life Between Lives: An Interview with Dee Chips
In this episode, Dr. Joe interviews Dee Chips, BSW, MHt., CRM, LBLT, owner of American Holistic University and President/Owner of the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists, NATH. We will discuss the process of Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy, first popularized in the works of Michael Newton starting in 1994. In 2000, Dee, along with her late husband, Allen Chips, DCH, and in collaboration with Newton, designed and implemented the first LBL certification training program under the auspices of NATH. With the help of case studies, Dee will talk about how the process works: it starts from a client's going back to a past life and then entering the Interlife after the death in that life and meeting guides, his/her soul group, various schools, the Council of Elders and those whom he or she will contract to work with in the next lifetime. Come join us for an absolutely fascinating excursion into a deeper reality.
Date: October 29, 2013
Episode Title: Research on the Positive Effects of Past Life Regression: An Interview With Heather S. Friedman Rivera
In this episode, Dr. Joe interviews Heather S. Friedman Rivera, RN, JD, Ph.D. about her personal and professional discovery of the uses of Past Life Regression and the recent research she has done on the positive effects of Past Life Therapy. Plagued by chronic illnesses, Heather found much relief in Past Life Regression and decided to do research on what other participants in this modality had said were its most likely and most therapeutic effects. Her research is unique in that it relies not on anecdotal data and individual cases, but rather on a broad cross section of data gathered from respondents of various ages, gender, religious upbringing, and experiences. Among other therapeutic effects, the most prevalent reported is that death no longer holds as much fear for most participants in Past Life Regression.
Date: November 5, 2013
Episode Title: Past Lives and the Seth Material, Part 2: An Interview with Lawrence Davidson
In this episode, Dr. Joe interviews Lawrence Davidson, another of Jane Roberts' ESP students in the early '70s. Lawrence shares how he came to find out about Seth, the "energy personality essence" channeled by Jane, and why he came to Jane's weekly classes. He also shares his own memories of how Seth approached the topic of past lives and perhaps even what Seth said about Lawrence's own. His anecdotes about the Seth phenomenon then and through the years, and about how those early class experiences changed his life, add much color to his story. Finally, his perspectives on the San Francisco Bay Area Seth Conference he has organized for the last several years show the ongoing power of the Seth Material.


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"In Egyptian, the name Isis means throne and Isis was thought to be the embodiment of the royal throne."
That's usually the first thing you find when you look into the meaning of the name "Isis." (And if you're interested in the meaning of Her name, you probably already know that Isis is the Greek version. In Egyptian, Her name would have been more like Iset (Ee-set) or Eset (Eh-set), which you have probably seen as Aset. For a detailed explanation of the pronunciation of Her name, please see my post here.)
The Goddess Isis is the Goddess Throne. It is certainly true that Isis was associated with the kingship—as were all the major Deities and most of the minor ones. The living king, seen as the embodiment of the God Horus, was considered the son of Isis (as well as many other Goddesses). After death, the king became an Osiris, so naturally Isis became his mourning widow. As the personification of the royal throne, Isis is the institution of the kingship itself. A feminist interpretation could rightly be that no king could take his place on the throne unless he had a right relationship with the Goddess Throne. To rule, the king must sit in the lap of the Goddess as Her child and husband. To identify Her, the Goddess often wears the hieroglyph for throne on Her head.
But to me, defining Isis—arguably the Greatest Goddess of all time—as merely the "royal throne" is the most bloodless and boring of the possible explanations of the meaning of Her name.
Other meanings of Iset
Interestingly, "throne" isn't even the most common meaning for the hieroglyph Isis wears on Her head. More generally, iset means seat. The ancient Egyptians seemed to have had a flexible, idiomatic use for the word similar to its use in English. For example, when we say "he is in the seat of power," we are not often referring to an actual seat, but we mean that he is in charge. Similarly, iset smeter means judgment seat and the term referred to a tribunal of judges. Just as we say we have our heart set (a word that comes from seat) on something, the Egyptian wished for her iset ib—literally the seat of the heart—but meaning her heart's desire.
Even more generally, iset means place. Judging by the uses of it we have left to us, it often means an important or sacred place. Iset Weret is the Great Place, an idiom for Heaven. The iset wabet is the place of purity; that is, the sanctuary. The Iset Maat is the Place of Law or Truth, that is, the Otherworld. Iset neferet is the beautiful place; the cemetery. Iset hotep is the place of peace; the tomb. Temples can be designated as isets, as the special places of the Deities. The Iset en Neit is the Temple of Neith. The Iset Heqit is the Place of the Frog Goddess, Heqit.
The coming together of society
Egyptologists believe that the coming together of people around the shrines of Deities played an important part in the early organization of Egyptian society. What's more, the Egyptian term for a settlement was the seat or abode of the Deity—and generally, Egyptian place names are feminine. So iset is a seat, an abode, a tomb, a place, a temple, a chamber—a feminine seat, abode, tomb, place, temple, or chamber.
The coming together of all things
In the Coffin Texts, the Creator God Atum says He was "alone in lassitude" in the Nu, the Primordial Chaos, and describes it as a time "when my throne had not yet been put together that I might sit on it." Here, the throne is a symbol of everything. With the coming together of the throne is the coming into being of all things. Thus, I believe we can say that the Goddess Throne is the Goddess of Existence. She is the seat not only of the king, but of all things. Without the Throne, nothing exists but the Primordial Chaos and the Divine consciousness.
The Goddess Throne is the Seat, the Abode, the Place; but importantly, She is The First Place, the First Holy Point of Being, the Sacred Something that First Came Into Existence from Nothing. The Goddess Throne is the One Who First Came Into Being and She is also the Divine Creatrix, the One Who Brings Into Being. Utterance 1153b of the Pyramid Texts says,
She [a Divine Cow Goddess] leads him [the deceased King] to the Great Throne [Iset Weret], who created the Gods, Who created Horus, Who engendered Thoth. Isis conceives him, Nephthys engenders him. He sits upon the Great Throne, Who creates the Gods.
To me, and perhaps to you, dear Isiacs, this is a much more satisfying explanation of the meaning of the name of the Great Goddess Isis, the Great Goddess Throne. She is the Goddess of Existence and She is the One Who is Great of Magic due to the enormous magical power it takes to bring something into being. Isis creates by conceiving something in Her heart/mind, then speaking it into existence with Her magical tongue. Through the holy power of Isis, Something comes from Nothing, Being comes from Non-Being. From the Mysterious Womb of the Mother comes the Holy Child—always, always, as if by magic.