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Sea view Apartment for sale in Kamala
Kamala, Phuket 1 bedroom Apartment for sale with Foreign freehold ownership. Open plan living- & dining area and in Kamala on Phuket.
This is a splendid 1-bedroom condo in a development in a prime location. The unit was completed half 2006 and comes fully furnished.
There is a fully fitted western style kitchen, nice spacious living- and dining area, an en-suite bedroom, ample storage space and a large balcony from where you can enjoy the ocean view and sunsets.
The total space measures 110 sqm and the unit is purchased in foreign freehold.
The common facilities of the development include a gym, management office, 24h security and a large infinity swimming pool.
Kamala Apartment Sales Details
Property Name: Sea view Apartment for sale in Kamala
Type: Apartment
Price: THB 6,500,000 (Please also contact us for best price and deals available right now)
Bedrooms: 1
Bathrooms: 1
Location: Phuket, Kamala
Owership: Foreign freehold
Built up area: 110 Sqm
Built in: 2006
Style: Modern Western style
Layout: Open plan/ 1 bedroom/ Corner unit
Kitchen: Open plan, fully fitted Western style kitchen
Livingroom: Open plan living- & dining area
Pool: Common swimming pool
View: Sea view
Distance from beach: 3 min. drive to the beach
Distance from Town: 3 min. drive to shopping area
Category: Kamala Apartment for sale, Kamala property
Kamala Apartment for sale facilities:
1 Bedroom
1 Bathroom
Open plan Living- & Dining area
Open plan western kitchen
Walk-in closet
Large outside terrace
TV & Satellite TV
Air Conditioning
Telephone line
Internet ADSL
Fully Furnished
Part of managed resort
24hr Security
Fitness Center
Common Swimming Pool
Kamala Apartment For Sale Buying Notes:
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About Kamala
This Kamala Apartment on Phuket island, Thailand is for sale and located only 3 min. drive to the beach. Kamala beach, Phuket, pronounced "Ga Ma Lar", provides a haven for those who prefer the quieter life. Although the southern end of the beach can get busy in the high season, the northern end is peaceful all year round. Kamala offers a friendly and village feel, and a diversity of restaurants and small bars can be found on this small road. Cheaper food options/market stalls can be found on the main Kamala Road.
If you are looking to spend most of the time on the beach enjoying the sea, this is a very good place to be. The beach is quite nice and is not too crowded. The sea floor is nice and sandy. In the afternoons the water spectacularly recedes leaving a blanket of rocks at the left end of the beach for local fishing and a beautiful swimming area at the right end of the beach.
About Phuket
Name: Kamala, Phuket.
State: Phuket island
Phuket's Capital: Phuket City
Airport Name: Phuket island airport in Thailand
Place / Location: Phuket island, Thailand
Airport Code: HKT
Elevation: 25 m
ICAO code: is VTSP.
Location: Phuket is located at longitude 98° 18′ 45? and latitude 08° 06′ 38?, 82 feet above sea level and is located 32 km northwest of the city centre, in the north of Phuket in Thailand.
Language: Thai
Currency: Baht
Local time: GMT+7
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Can a foreigner buy this 1 bedroom Apartment in Kamala?
The short answer is yes. Generally, the key requirements for buying this 1 bedroom Apartment, or any property around Kamala on the island of Phuket are the following: A) A deposit of 10% to 20% of total price to be paid on the 'Promise of Sale' (before signing the final Apartment contract). B) A foreign buyer has two options: either a 30-year leasehold or purchasing the Apartment through a limited company. 1 bedroom Apartments can be purchased by foreigners as long as at least 51% of the building is owned by Thais. C) Stamp duty is normally 0.50% of the total price. D) Registration fee between 2% and 2.5% of total Kamala 1 bedroom Apartment price plus agent fee. It is also important to know that if you are a non-Thai citizen, you may be subject to specific regulations and in certain instances be required to hold a specific permit enabling you to acquire any Kamala Apartment, or Phuket island property. This does not apply to 1 bedroom Apartments situated within special designated areas, such as developments in Kamala, or on Phuket island in Thailand.
Who pays for the Kamala 1 bedroom Apartment stamp duty?
On Phuket island, Thailand the 1 bedroom Apartment stamp duty is paid by the seller, and stamp duty is generally paid at rate of 0.50%.
If I buy a this Kamala 1 bedroom Apartment is there any tax fees?
Yes. Once you buy this 1 bedroom Apartment in Kamala a withholding tax is levied at 1% of the declared amount or the assessed value of the Kamala Apartment, whichever is higher.
Is it safe drink water from the tap around Kamala or Phuket island, Thailand?
Personally I do NOT drink water from the tap on Phuket island in Thailand, but they say you can. I buy bottled water from the local Kamala mini markets for drinking. I do though, as with other expats and locals around Kamala, brush my teeth with tap water, and use it for making tea / coffee etc, but only after boiling a few times. If you are unsure when you arrive to Kamala stick to the bottled water.
Where is the best places to watch the sunset on Phuket, Thailand?
In my view the beach. Kamala is OK but the best places are: Promthep Cape (Laem Promthep), Big Buddha or Kata Rocks. Anywhere around the west / south side of Phuket island.
BIG question! How much is a print of beer or larger in Kamala or Phuket island, Thailand?
The beer or larger costs around Kamala on Phuket in Thailand is: Domestic Beer (0.5 liter draught) is around 70 / 90.00฿ while Imported Beer (0.33 liter bottle) will be around 100.00 ฿. Nightclubs, and higher end venues can be a lot more and supermarkets / mini markets will be a bit cheaper. Check out the 'Happy Hour' signs as you walk or drive by. Most bars will have them. I have known people on Phuket in Thailand island who only track these events and save a load of money. Everyone to his/her/their own right :)
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Can I pay for my flight to Phuket island, Thailand in a differant currency?
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If you are flying to Kamala / Phuket island check for flights on weekdays to avoid weekend flight surcharges.
Are flight prices higher on Kamala / Phuket, Thailand national holidays?
Bottom line is 'Yes'. This goes for national holidays in your own Country also. Try avoid flying in heavy traffic holidays by travelling from / to Kamala or Phuket island in Thailand before or after any major holidays.
Is there a smoking lounge at Phuket airport?
If you are flying to or from Kamala, or anywhere on Phuket there is a smoking room in Phuket International Airport (HKT). In the departure lounge, and after immigration, its by a small coffee shop. Be warned. The smoking room is very small and even before you lite up it feels like you have already had 5 cigs :)
Is there WIFI Internet at Phuket International Airport?
Yes. You can get free Wi-Fi at Phuket International Airport' by connecting to the airports access point. Simply log-in to the airport website, which pops up on your mobile/tablet browser once you arrive. As far as I know, or remember, there is also walled computers to use in the departure area also.
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BeagleBoard/DSP Howto
This article explains how to use the DSP in OMAP3 at BeagleBoard with TI's deliverables. For DSP tool chain see C64x+ DSP.
Kernel driver
In order to use the DSP you would need TI's bridgedriver module on the kernel. For that you would need Hiroshi's patches on top of linux-omap:
git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git
cd linux-omap-2.6
wget http://4869037.web.fc2.com/tidspbridge-20081021.tgz
tar xvzf tidspbridge-20081021.tgz
git am *.patch
make omap3_beagle_defconfig
make menuconfig and add the following options in the menuconfig:
CONFIG_FB_OMAP_CONSISTENT_DMA_SIZE=14 #in Device Drivers->Graphics support->Support for frame buffer devices->Consistent DMA memory size CONFIG_MPU_BRIDGE=m #in Device Drivers->DSP Bridge driver
TI binaries
In order to get the DSP binaries for multimedia processing you need to download TI's OpenMAX IL package. Once you have extracted the tarball you'll have to run the installer TI-OMX-Sample-Firmware-0.3-Linux-x86-Install and accept the license agreement.
You would end up with a bunch of binaries in
lib/dsp, copy them to your root filesystem at the same location (/lib/dsp).
ping test
If you want to test the DSP you can try the simple ping test provided in this package.
If you get an error like:
DSPNode_Allocate failed: 0x80008008
Then it's possible that the ping DSP socket node is not loaded. If you use 'baseimage.dof' you need to load it dynamically:
./dynreg.out -r pingdyn_3430.dll64P
On the other hand, 'ddspbase_tiomap3430.dof64P' has the node statically included, so there's no need to do that.
On the board use this to load the module:
modprobe bridgedriver base_img=/lib/dsp/baseimage.dof
There are two ways to compile your own DSP nodes; the official one which requires XDC tools, and the simplified one (which I prefer).
Download the dsp-bridge examples from the omapzoom project. Once you extract the main tarball you'll need to extract the individual tarballs on the same directory, so you have something like:
config.bld documents dsp mpu_api mpu_driver product.mak samplemakefile samples
DSP side
You'll need the C6x compiler, extract it in "/opt/dsp/cgt6x-6.0.22". The recommended version is v6.0.22.
You'll need the "DSP/BIOS" package and "RTSC/XDCtools" in order to compile the dsp-brige examples, you can download them from here. Here we will assume they are installed in "/opt/dsp".
Edit "product.mak" to match the version of your tools. Then run:
make -f samplemakefile .bridge_samples DD_XDCDIR=/opt/dsp/xdctools_3_10_02 SABIOS_DIR=/opt/dsp/bios_5_33_04/packages DEPOT=/opt/dsp
ARM side
You'll need to prepare a target directory:
export target=/tmp/dsp-target mkdir -p $target/lib
Also, build libbridge and libqos:
cd mpu_api/src make PREFIX=$target/.. CROSS=arm-linux- install
To build the examples:
cd samples/mpu/src make PREFIX=$target/.. CROSS=arm-linux- LIBINCLUDES=$target/lib LDPATH=$target/lib install
All you need will be on '/tmp/dsp-target'.
In order to develop dynamic dsp nodes you'll need a C6x compiler and doffbuild tools.
Apparently the only version that works is v6.0.16.
doffbuild tools
The only relevant tool is DLLcreate, which can be found in TI's omapzoom site, on the dspbridge_dsp package.
mkdir -p tmp tar -xf dspbridge_dsp.tar.gz -C tmp mv tmp/dsp/bdsptools/packages/ti/dspbridge/dsp/doffbuild /opt/doffbuild rm -rf tmp
This library is used by the user-space applications.
git clone git://github.com/felipec/libdspbridge.git cd libdspbridge make DESTDIR=$rootfs install
Example dsp node
Here is an example dsp node that is simply passing buffers back and forth.
git clone git://github.com/felipec/dsp-dummy.git make DSP_TOOLS=/opt/dsptools DSP_DOFFBUILD=/opt/doffbuild BRIDGE_DIR=../libdspbridge
As a result you'll have two binaries; dummy.dll64P for dsp-side, and dummy for arm-side.
To load the dynamic node:
/dspbridge/dynreg.out -r /lib/dsp/dummy.dll64P
Now you can run the dummy test application.

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"Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18
In "Against the Heathen," early Church Father Athanasius reveals that pride and haughtiness preceded man's fall into idolatry and paganism. A haughty spirit led them to make light of higher things, and deliberately disregarding what they knew to be true they began to seek in preference things in the lower or natural dimension. Thus they fell into worship of self, sexual pleasures and acquisition of status and things to the living God and higher things.
The truth as to evil said Athanasius,
"….is that it originates, and resides, in the perverted choice of the darkened soul" which, "materialized by forgetting God" and engrossed in lower things, "makes them into gods," and thereby "descends into a hopeless depth of delusion and superstition," whereby "they ceased to think that anything existed beyond what is seen, or that anything was good save things temporal and bodily; so turning away and forgetting that she was in the image of the good God, she no longer… sees God the Word after whose likeness she is made; but having departed from herself, imagines and feigns what is not (and then) advancing further in evil, they came to celebrate as gods the elements and the principles of which bodies are composed…." (Against the Heathen, New Advent)
Having descended into delusion and superstition they imagined they had no free will and further that "all that exists" is the natural dimension— a divine One Substance, watery abyss, chaos, or void, primordial matter, animated natural powers, forces, and deterministic laws, all of which they celebrated and attributed miraculous powers to. So for example, with the Egyptians' self-created Sun-God Ra, the divine abyss or One Substance out of which he evolved is Nu–primordial matter:
"I came into being from primordial matter…I made all the forms under which I appeared by means of (or out of) the god-soul which I raised up out of Nu (i.e., the primeval abyss of water.) (The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 243)
This is naturalism, or materialism, which is the belief that there is neither living God nor heavenly realm. There is only the natural dimension, thus evolutionary materialist Dr. Scott Todd wrote in the science journal 'Nature:'
"Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such a hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic." (Naturalism in the Light of Reality, Robert Gurney, creation.com, June 14, 2012)
Materialism is of the worldview of monism which is held in common by pantheism and spiritualism and dates back to pagan antiquity and was or is taught by all non-biblical thought systems.
Greek Stoics and Epicureans, for example, were materialistic monists and these two schools of natural science and evolution held the ancient world of thought in allegiance well into the Roman Empire. Epicureanism reigns supreme in our own age through modern evolutionary materialism, which is merely revamped and revised Epicureanism.
The pagan philosopher Epicurus (342-270 B.C.) believed in an infinite number of worlds, or parallel universes in the words of contemporary 'new' pagan materialists. Like his modern counterparts, Epicurus taught that there was no god or gods, first principles, moral law, souls and afterlife as all things on earth had evolved from the earth material.
Epicurus preferred lower things to higher things, as do his contemporary followers, thus he taught that "all that exists" is an eternally existing void and animated matter. This made human beings, their intelligence and volition, an evolved accident of chance. Reason is left, but reason is active only because sensations (i.e., firing of neurons, chemical interactions) stimulate it.
In modern "scientific" terms, the idea that brute matter spontaneously generated itself from nothing (void) in much the same way as Ra spontaneously generated himself from Nu is called abiogenesis. On the basis of this ancient mythological superstition, new-pagan evolutionary materialists assert that the living supernatural God, souls, spirits, angels, demons, heaven, hell and metaphysics do not exist.
As for 'modern' evolutionary theory, anthropologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, longtime director of the American Museum of Natural History reveals that Darwin is not its' originator but rather ancient pagans are. In the introduction to his history of evolutionism Osborn wrote:
"When I began the search for anticipations of the evolutionary theory….I was led back to the Greek natural philosophers and I was astonished to find how many of the pronounced and basic features of the Darwinian theory were anticipated even as far back as the seventh century B.C." (Osborn, From the Greeks to Darwin, p. xi)
Abiogenesis is such an obvious embarrassment that today some naturalists such as SETI researcher Paul Davies and Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA molecule, have abandoned it in favor of panspermia.
Panspermia is the idea that life on earth was accidentally seeded by meteorites containing the essential building blocks of life or perhaps by highly evolved extraterrestrials who for billions of years have been guiding the evolution of man. The extraterrestrial idea was favored by Arthur C. Clarke in his book, "Childhood's End" and a variation on this theme has recently been advanced by Davies, Crick, and Ralph Pudritz of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Davies has written seriously about the possibility of "alien bioengineering" that could be detected in the DNA of life on earth and suggests that citizen scientists and school students be enlisted to help search for evidence. (An Alien Code Close to Home: Seeking ET Beyond the Radio Silence, Astrobiology Magazine, Jeremy Hsu, 10/27/2011)
Pudritz theorizes that humans and aliens may share the same DNA which itself could be part of a universal structure "of the first genetic codes anywhere…." (Why Aliens Might Look Like You, Eddie Wren, dailymail.co.uk/ June 11, 2012)
Crick proposes a theory called "directed panspermia," the idea that,
"…life on earth may have begun when aliens from another planet sent a rocket ship containing spores to seed the earth."
He admits however that his theory only pushes the unresolvable problem of the origin of life out into deep space:
"This scenario still leaves open the question of who designed the designer [aliens] — how did life originally originate?" (Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature, 1981)
The Myth of Extraterrestrials
In his book, "Scientific Mythologies," James A. Herrick traces the 'aliens from outer-space' idea back to certain Renaissance astrologers, occultists, and mystics such as Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) who claimed to not only receive telepathic secrets from spirits but to have visited populated planets during out-of-body experiences.
Swedenborg's influence is far-reaching. From Kant to the occult theosophist Madame Blavatsky and points in between and on into our own time to psychologist J.B. Rhine, a vast array of science fiction writers (i.e., Clarke, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Steven Spielberg) and numerous evolutionary scientists.
Over time, Swedenborg's astral plane 'space travels' gave birth to what Herrick dubs "The Myth of the Extraterrestrial." As far back as the seventeenth century science fiction writers were imagining "the intelligent extraterrestrial visitor" and preparing the public to accept their existence. And accept them they have, for the twentieth century has witnessed a veritable population explosion in the alien domain, said Herrick. (p. 43)
In general, science fiction, like new-pagan evolutionary materialism, is neither particularly scientific nor futuristic. It is rather a regression to the mystical pagan origins of modern science that reappeared in the heart of Christendom during the Renaissance. In "The Abolition of Man" (1974) C.S. Lewis points out that the Renaissance reawakened a magical view of the world closely connected with pagan Gnostic sectarianism, Hermetic magic, astrology, Eastern pantheism and alchemical scientism . Accompanying all of this was evolution, occultism, Epicureanism, reincarnation and karma.
Evolution is both the antithesis of creation ex nihilo and the primary doctrine of both Eastern pantheism and Western scientific materialism, and so early on Lewis understood that both movements were merely two sides of the same pagan revival. Thus he argued that pantheism and materialism are not enemies in principle but rather cooperating philosophies united against the supernatural Creator, His Revelation, creation ex nihilo, all higher things, the linear view of history and Christian-based civilization.
What this means is that naturalism, abiogenesis, chance, natural selection, multiple universe and panspermia theories are but six contemporary adaptations of ancient pagan "idolatry, magic, occult mysticism and mythology." These six are of a whole host of fallacies derived from modern evolutionary thinking that have permeated the post-Christian West and American society giving birth to a "new" pagan religion of evolutionary science.
Fall of Western Civilization
Christendom and Protestant America arose on the wings of the Genesis account of creation ex nihilo, the Biblical view of man's sinful condition and God's Moral Law. Their subsequent fall was traced by Richard Weaver in his book, "Ideas Have Consequences," (1945).
In many ways Weaver's analysis parallels Athanasius' account of the fall of man. Weaver writes that 14th century Western man had made an "evil decision" to abandon his belief in the transcendent God and universals and thus the position that "there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man…" The consequences of the rejection of "higher things" were catastrophic:
"The denial of everything transcending experience means inevitably…the denial of truth. With the denial of objective truth there is no escape from the relativism of 'man is the measure of all things." (The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, George H. Nash, pp. 32-33)
"Now the soul of mankind, not satisfied with the devising of evil, began by degrees to venture upon what is worse still." Athanasius
Fueled by a corrupted motive of dominating and bull-dozing the real world so as to coerce other wills, Western apostates conceptually murdered the living God, sealed off the supernatural dimension and elevated Nature to the supreme reality. The doctrine of original sin was abandoned and replaced by the "goodness of man." With only the material realm of the senses held to be real, supernatural Christianity declined, the omniscient mind of human-gods arose, and pagan materialistic science became the most prestigious way to study man. With knowledge limited to the sensory realm, man's spiritual attributes—-soul, mind, conscience and volition—were soon lost in an endless cycle of reductionism and determinism. Man, created in the spiritual likeness of his supernatural Creator was lost. In his place stood the soulless human ape, an accidental emergent product of evolution and "earth material."
Fall of Western Man
From the Renaissance to our own time, a stunning spiritual transformation of consciousness has shifted Western and American thinking away from the supernatural God and biblical religion and toward the lower thing, the new pagan religion of evolution. In his book, "The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Tradition," James Herrick calls it the "New Religious Synthesis" and briefly outlines seven of its components:
1. History (as well as unchanging truth and moral absolutes) has no spiritual significance. This is because the idea of continuous evolutionary change makes them absurd.
2. The supremacy of omniscient reason, mystical mind-powers, intuition, and collective consciousness.
3. The spiritualization of science. Since the empirical study of the material universe employs reason to acquire knowledge, and reason is not physical but rather spiritual, today it is acknowledged that reason is in fact acquiring spiritual knowledge.
4. Animated nature (animism). The natural dimension is alive with energies, divine spirit, Zoe, god-soul, and consciousness.
5. Gnosis, or esoteric knowledge, the provenance of spiritual elites and extraordinarily gifted individuals, including some scientists.
6. Spiritual evolution. Through control and direction of their own spiritual evolution certain naturally selected humans are destined to realize unimaginable spiritual advances. Spiritual or conscious evolution leap frogs off of Darwin's' biological theory and will supposedly lead to actual human divinity.
7. Religious syncretism rooted in common mystical experiences and telepathic revelations from disembodied intelligences. (Herrick, pp. 33-35)
"But in his estate shall (Antichrist) honour the God of forces." Dan. 11:38
Under the New Religious Synthesis, the animated god-force called evolution is the principle miracle-producing power of the cosmos. Whether by way of abiogenesis or by accidental or directed panspermia, human beings are evolution's conscious products and can now achieve ever-higher levels of consciousness by directing their own evolution.
In the book, "The Aquarian Conspiracy," Marilyn Ferguson pointed out that the efficient direction of evolution requires "a mechanism for biological change more powerful than chance mutation" which will open "the possibility of rapid evolution in our time." (p. 148)
Some evolutionists now claim that this powerful mechanism is presently available to man from aliens who will solve mankind's problems and conduct man to a new "cosmic" age. Aliens are busily transforming the consciousness of abductees and other Westerners and through them teaching evolution, naturalism and occult New Age philosophy as well as warning of a coming planetary apocalypse and denying the living God, the supernatural dimension and Christian theism.
All of this has led French physicist and UFO researcher Dr. Jacques Vallee to conclude that something is happening to human consciousness that is causing a major shift in man's belief systems and his relationship to the concept of the invisible. Vallee believes that the same "powerful force' that influenced the human race in the past is influencing it again:
"…..human belief…is being controlled and conditioned, man's concepts are being rearranged, and we may be headed toward a massive change of human attitudes toward paranormal abilities and extraterrestrial life." (Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, Fr. Seraphim Rose, p. 109)
In light of this, Vallee proposes the hypothesis that there is a control system,
"… for human consciousness…I am suggesting that what takes place through close encounters with UFOs is control of human beliefs, control of the relationship between our consciousness and physical reality, and that this control has been in force throughout history…." (Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the Evolution Connection, Gary Bates, p. 158)
Frank Baumer concurs and observes that evolution has,
"….persuaded people to think of everything in nature as the fruit of a gradual growth rather than an original creation." The sweeping acceptance of evolutionary thinking means that it is "now difficult if not impossible for an educated man to conceive of a primitive revelation such as traditional Christianity taught, or even of an original natural religion from which men had declined." This difficulty arises because "in an evolving world, perfection obviously lay, not in the past, but in the future." (Religion and Rise of Skepticism, p. 147)
In occult terminology, transformation of consciousness is egregore, a concept representing a "thought form" (i.e., Richard Dawkins' memes) or "collective group mind," resulting from a psychic entity influencing the thoughts of a group of people. However, egregore derives from the Greek word for "watchers," leading the French occult magician Eliphas Levi (1810-1875) to identify egregore with the fallen angel 'fathers' of the nephilim. In Christian language, transformation of consciousness means "demonic outpouring.' Vallee's "powerful force" is a new demonic outpouring being loosed upon mankind.
So complete has the transformation been that the God of forces has successfully inverted the order of creation and reversed the direction of Biblical theism. With creation ex nihilo virtually replaced by evolution, it is now believed that men have not fallen from perfection but instead are gradually evolving upward from their ape beginnings toward greater and greater spiritual perfection. Self-perfecting man no longer needs the living, supernatural God as the idea of "conscious evolution" means he can save himself, and perhaps even attain god-hood.
"The gradual abasement of the Soul from Truth to Falsehood (is) by the abuse of her freedom of Choice." Athanasius
Two brilliant visionaries foresaw the stunning events we are witnessing today—the wholesale rejection of Truth tied to the fall of Westerners into idolatry and paganism influenced and directed by a demonic outpouring effecting a transformation of consciousness in tandem with the rise of the New Religious Synthesis. Each man in his own way predicted these events would usher in the end of the world and the appearance of the Antichrist. The two visionaries, Vladimir Soloviev (1850-1900), a brilliant Russian philosopher and theologian, and Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), an English Catholic priest, recorded their predictions in gripping novels—Soloviev in the "A Short Tale of the Antichrist" and Benson in "Lord of the World."
Benson saw through the scientific pretenses of new-pagan materialism and its' primary doctrine, evolutionary theory, leading him to describe it and its' ideological movement Communism as "quiet pantheism."
Benson predicted that evolutionary thinking would prepare Westerners and Americans not only to embrace the 'new' pagan religion but to worship and adore Antichrist, for this human-god (Mr. Felsenburgh) is the first perfected product of nature and evolutionary forces. Mr. Felsenburgh has arisen in America and he is,
"….the first perfect product of that new cosmopolitan creation to which the world has labored throughout its history…" (p 85)
He transfixes men, and they excitedly declare they have seen,
"…the Son of Man,' the 'Savior of the world,' we knew Him in our hearts as soon as we saw Him, as soon as He stood there. It was like a glory around his head (and now we) understand it all… It was He for whom we have waited so long; and He has come, bringing Peace and Goodwill in His hands." (pp. 85, 89)
Christianity failed, it divided people. But now Jehovah is gone. He never existed at all except as a hideous nightmare. Now at long last man's natural Savior has arisen:
"The reign of God has really begun (and) we are all partakers of God" because God is in everything, including all men…."Jehovah has fallen. He is in His grave." In His place is the evolved Son of Man, a god indeed and a man as well…"a god because human and a man because so divine." (ibid, pp. 93, 95)
Soloviev's predictions regarding events in our age are astonishing in their prescience, primarily because they not only offer an amazingly accurate glimpse into the mind of the super-man who will become the Antichrist but they also illustrate the real obstacle to salvation, the refusal by proud, willful men to recognize and admit to their sinful condition.
Prior to his transformation, Soloviev describes the proud super- man as outwardly just, but within he is full of pride and is morally reprehensible:
"…. He believes in God but loves nobody but himself. His relationship with Christ was quickly defined as one of superiority (for he will never) bow before Him like the most stupid of Christians (nor) mutter senselessly….'Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me'….'I, the bright genius, the superman! No, never!" (The Wrath of God: The Days of Antichrist, Livio Fanzaga, pp. 39-40)
As the super-mans' spiritual fall progresses, instead of the former cold rational respect for the living God and Christ:
"…..there was born and grew in his heart, first, a kind of terror, and then a burning, choking and corroding envy and furious breath-taking hatred." Devoured with envy of Jesus Christ he cries out "He rotted in the tomb, rotted like the lowest…" (ibid, pp. 40-41)
This is the moment the Evil One has been waiting for. He openly approaches the proud super-man and possesses him:
"He saw those piercing eyes and heard…a strange voice, toneless…stifled, and yet clear, metallic and absolutely soulless as though coming from a phonograph." Satan pours out his spirit, saying, "I ask nothing of you, and I will help you for your own sake…Receive my spirit…it gives birth to you in power. At these words…the superman's lips opened of themselves, two piercing eyes came quite close to his face, and he felt a sharp, frozen stream enter into him and fill his whole being. And at the same time he was conscious of a wonderful strength, energy, lightness and rapture." (p. 43)
Soloviev masterfully portrays a striking contrast between the apostles of Christ and the Antichrist. The former receive the power of the living God and are full of wisdom, truth, and courage while the latter receives the power of the devil and is full of nihilistic pride, lies, burning envy, murderous hate, blasphemy, cursing, resentment, deception, covetousness, and perversion.
The Antichrist, as described by Soloviev, suffers the same massively inflated pride and envy that transformed Lucifer into the devil. This same pride and envy animated the pantheist sorcerer Hegel, the neo-pagan Masonic Illuminati who planned and instigated the bloody French Revolution, as well as Karl Marx, Nietzsche, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, the West's "God is dead" theologians, America's Ruling Class, and many contemporary New World Order globalists.
The "New" Pagan Religion of Darkened Souls
"….human history can now be hesitantly traced back as an unbroken narrative to 4000 B.C. The facts must not, however, be twisted to suit the fallacy of necessary human progress. For the picture emerging….is one of the Fall of Man in historic terms as well as his rise; it is a picture …more of degradation than of success; it is a picture of monotheism breaking down into polytheism and of the struggle to return to monotheism. The establishment view of the history of religion gradually progressing from animism to polytheism, from polytheism to monotheism is the reverse of facts." (The God-Kings and the Titans: The New World Ascendancy in Ancient Times, James Baily, 1973, p. 296)
Evolution is a religion, said Michael Ruse. From the beginning it was a religion and this is true of evolution today. (Michael Ruse, former professor of philosophy and zoology at the University of Guelph, Canada, "How evolution became a religion: creationists correct?" National Post, pp. B1, B3, B7, May 13, 2000)
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. From the beginning this was true, and in these last days it is still true. Pride, haughtiness and envy are the common bonds linking Satan, the Antichrist, idolatry, paganism, the Religion of Evolution and all who have been and are being spiritually transformed by it. Thus when the Antichrist arrives, perhaps as a highly evolved extraterrestrial or as the Transcended Master Maitreya, all darkened souls will perversely celebrate him as the highly evolved god and man they foolishly believe they too will become.
Copyright 2012 Linda Kimball
Linda writes on worldview and related subjects.


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I don't Know what to say, This weeks episode did something .. I was on a course so did not have my phone with me , during lunch I had so many missed calls , It was from someone I had forgotten, How did they get hold of my phone number , don't know, but they left a message saying "Thanks" , then the Name of the person and an invitation to come for a occasion at their home, It was someone whose son had just become a lecturer. They use to live in a one room shed , that was laying empty at our place. My father had allowed them to live there and in return the man in the house use to look after the little garden my dad had.
I recorded the episode of SMJ and I am horrified at what I saw, I knew there is racism , casteism etc BUT at this level I did not know .. So many posts I have written , so many emails I got , comments where people have said a lot of things to me, Called me names , Called me a TRAITOR for writing about india .. WELL TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE who had a problem with me trying to talk of my nation .. Saying that I am trying to give a bad name to the nation.. let me tell them SHAME ON YOU PEOPLE. Look what is happening in the country and YOU MORONS are still saying what you are saying…
How can you talk about india shining when there is still ONE PERSON who has to get up and go and CLEAN YOUR SHIT.. manually.
As the person Mr. Wilson says Common wealth happened in spite of all the problems , I said in my previous post on tigers .. IF THE GOVT WANTS. things can change , Then why are they not doing it .. Is it not us being hypocrites , US being so bad, US not deserving to be called a HUMAN BEING.
It was hilarious to listen to people who said there is no racism, no untouchability, We indians are the MOST RACIST people, I tell you and we go on when others do the same to us because of the color of the skin, we shout hoarse if a white man says "PAKI" to us , what are we doing to our own countrymen.. the foreigners are at least not doing the same to their own countrymen..
WHICH GOD HAS SAID, WHICH RELIGION SAYS to have difference or treat other human being with such degradation ..
Mr. Stalin said it so nicely , is there casteism or racism in Islam .. ISLAM or SIKHISM or CHRISTIANITY does not teach Casteism .. BUT it is practised by muslims, Sikhs and Christians and others toooo
I am so angry watching this show, we call ourself HUMAN.. ARE WE .. look at what we do to our own people..
65 years have gone by since our independence and WE claim of so much happening , so much development or progress.. Let me tell you ladies and gentleman all this development progress is NO GOOD if we have so many problems AND PROBLEMS , we have A LOT OF THEM.. It is time to get together and stand together and make a NOISE .. A NOISE THAT will make the DEAF hear for believe it or not , our leaders , our office bearers are no other than DEAF.. they don't hear anything Till a loud noise is made ..
It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear, with these immortal words uttered on a similar occasion by Valiant, a French anarchist martyr, do we strongly justify this action of ours.
This is how the above notice was put all over the nation in those days of the british RAJ.. signed by
Balraj Commander-in-Chief (Balraj was the pseudonym of Chandra Shekhar Azaad , The commander-in-chief of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (army))
I am sorry to say we are more worried about the black money and Lot of STUPID PROBLEMS, ( I am sure all those who visit me know what I am pointing at) , or other things BUT When and WHO will fight for the basic things.
Where are the Baba Ramdev's to fight for the development of the people who are looked down upon, where are the Anna Hazare's to fight for them. All these people go on how Gandhi did this or wanted that.. WELL then what the hell are you GANDHIANS doing.. if you are telling me that things can't change or it will take time to change then PLEASE SIR.. RESIGN from your POST and get lost .. I am sure there are people out there who can make sure things can change.
There is a person Mr. Wilson who has been fighting for the right of human scavengers for the last 25 years .. DID ANYONE know about him , I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT HIM.. But I am sure everyone knows Anna ji, Baba Ramdev ji , we probably even know there PA's name , the kejriwals etc .. BUT NOT many know of Mr. Wilson. (tell me you are reading this post , did you know, that is if you have reached so far here :))
I Feel disgraceful and feel like a Hypocrite myself.. who all feel the same way tell me ?
From 1993 to 2012 no case has been registered , yet a law has been passed, STILL people are working cleaning manually .. ARE WE STILL INDIA SHINING!!!!!!!!!!!!
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE movie was made which showed about the use of Toilets , I read so many blogs , so many comments where people said oh how or why was this shown, this is not right , it showed india in a bad picture , How the director has done something wrong .. HEY TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE.. Watch the episode of Satyamev Jayate IT IS A TRUTH, that still happens in india. People are doing it because we are making them do it..
As Mr. Wilson says "I Dont want your tears , I dont want your pity, Iwant your ANGER about this system, Given your anger CHANGE WILL COME, Unless there is anger how can everything change " ?
I say that too MAKE THAT NOISE , WAKE THE DEAF..
The reason why I started this post with the phone call is to TELL you , that we can make a difference if EACH of us helps ONE person or ONE family to come up, that is enough, and THAT Is all that we need to do .. HELP just ONE FAMILY and when we all do that… thats when india will be SHINING…..
THIS MAY SOUND WRONG .. BUT ALL THOSE WHO ARE READING THIS POST ( and made it here), I WOULD REQUEST YOU DO GIVE ME YOUR VIEWS GOOD OR BAD , I DONT CARE BECAUSE I KNOW ABOUT MYSELF AND WHERE I STAND, DONT JUST AS USUAL READ AND WALK AWAY or PRESS THE LIKE BUTTON or PROMOTE THIS POST WITH YOUR VOTE (that does not help) .. DO SOMETHING FOR A CHANGE .. BRING OUT THAT INNER VOICE ,EVEN IF IT SAYS "BIKRAM SHUTUP- AND CLOSE THIS BLOG".. BUT FOR THE SAKE OF GOD SPEAK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Avignon ävēnyôN´ [key], city (1990 pop. 86,440), capital of Vaucluse dept., SE France, on the Rhône River. It is a farm market with a wine trade and a great variety of manufactures. Located in (but never a part of) the Comtat Venaissin, it was the papal see during the Babylonian captivity, from 1309 to 1378 (see papacy), and the residence of several antipopes from 1378 to 1408 (see Schism, Great). Pope Clement VI bought (1348) full title to Avignon from the countess of Provence. After the Great Schism, Avignon was nominally ruled by papal legates, but the citizens actually governed themselves. The city became an archiepiscopal see in 1475. In 1791, after a plebiscite, it was incorporated into France. One of the loveliest of French cities, Avignon is surrounded by ramparts (12th and 14th cent.) and has many old churches. The beautiful Gothic papal palace was built (14th cent.) atop a hill to serve as residence, fortress, and church. A fragment of a 12th-century bridge across the Rhône remains. Avignon was celebrated by Petrarch, who resided at the court of Clement VI. The city has a well-known theater festival.
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Jay-Z, Mel Gibson's financial information reportedly leaked
LOS ANGELES – Authorities and celebrities were grappling Monday with how to respond to a website that posted what appears to be private financial information about top government officials and stars such as Jay-Z and Mel Gibson.
Los Angeles police and the FBI said they were aware of the pages but declined to confirm they were investigating the site, which posted purported federal Social Security numbers and credit reports of the leaders of both agencies. Pages posted on Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not include credit reports but included addresses and other sensitive information.
Social Security numbers posted on Gibson, Jay-Z and others matched records in public databases.
The site, which bore an internet suffix originally assigned to the Soviet Union, remained active Monday afternoon. It did not state how the information was obtained or why the 11 people targeted on the site were selected, describing the records only as "secret files."
Its existence was first reported Monday by celebrity website TMZ.
FBI Director Robert Mueller and Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck were among those targeted, as were celebrities Beyonce Knowles, Ashton Kutcher, Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton.
Several of the purported credit reports appear to have been generated last week.
Representatives for each person targeted either declined to comment on the accuracy of the information that was posted, or they did not return messages seeking comment.
Several of the pages featured unflattering pictures of the celebrities or government officials whose information was posted.
The site's page on Beck includes a taunting reference to former officer Christopher Dorner, who was killed in a shootout after killing four people over several days last month. Beck's page included the message "(hash)YouCantCornerTheDorner" and an image of a woman protesting police corruption.
While government officials often have to disclose details on their finances -- and celebrity divorces sometimes feature public financial data -- the information posted online exceeds those disclosures.
Social Security numbers are rarely included in public records anymore because they can be used for identity theft.


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The difference between "and" and "or" could undo the Federal Reserve. At its meeting Dec. 12 the Federal Open Market Committee replaced its estimated duration for low interest rates with thresholds for the unemployment rate and inflation. If reality makes the two measures diverge, the new approach could prove rocky for markets. Last time around, the Fed suggested it would keep short-term rates near zero until at least mid-2015. Now, it's replacing that with the idea that its loose monetary policy probably won't change while unemployment is above 6.5 percent, inflation a year or two out is forecast to be below 2.5 percent, and long-term inflation expectations are under control. That's "and" rather than "or." In theory, that means crossing any one of these thresholds - vague as the last one is - could have the Fed rethinking its policy. But it's easy to read this as saying the Fed won't tighten policy unless all these indicators are the wrong side of the thresholds. That could breed confusion if, say, unemployment continues declining only slowly, as it has for the last two years or so, while inflation quickly gathers steam. Plus as the relevant economic indicators approach the Fed's thresholds, market responses could be odd. A drop in the unemployment rate that brought it within range of the threshold ought to be good economic news, but investors might fear a withdrawal of easy money by the U.S. central bank and react badly instead. Then there's the Fed's ramping-up of quantitative easing, or bond-buying. Chairman Ben Bernanke made clear that he is worried about the possible negative economic impact of the so-called fiscal cliff, the tax increases and cost cuts that could come on Jan. 1 if Congress can't agree otherwise. While he knows the Fed alone can't offset that, it's also surely a factor in flooding markets with yet more cheap money. If those fiscal shifts do happen, the United States will suddenly need to borrow less. The Congressional Budget Office reckons the deficit would fall to under $400 billion in the year to September 2014. But the Fed would be trying to buy $540 billion of Treasury securities every year. That conflict between monetary and fiscal policy is another potential source of confusion. Add the new focus on specific economic indicators and Bernanke could easily find he has set the stage for volatility, rather than the Fed's desired stability, in financial markets. Read more at Reuters Breakingviews.
How Bernanke Has Set the Stage for Volatility


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The other day, I had my writing group over for dinner so they could
eviscerate discuss my new book The Boy Who Loved Birds, which I am still considering erasing forever. It was one of those perfect evenings in Minnesota – pleasantly warm with a gentle breeze, all blossom and fragrance and birdsong and green, green, green, green. My back yard bumps right out onto park land, so from the table on the patio, you look out onto a green slope and a green field and a tangle of woods and a swollen creek with a charming footbridge arching prettily over the water. If you look up idyllic in the dictionary, I'm pretty sure it says Kelly Barnhill's goddamned patio.
Anyway, somewhere between the tortellini and the wine and the orange popsicles, a scene unfolded before us – familiar enough to me, but my comrades were stunned by it. A troop of shirtless boys – a couple with hand-torn strips of cloth tied around their heads in makeshift headbands – came tramping down the hill, passing by the yard and heading over to the fallen down willow tree by the water's edge. The boys in my neighborhood call it "The Fort" or "The Village". The girls call it "The Fairy Tree". Obviously, the girls have the correct name, but we try not to make the boys feel bad about it.
Two of the littler girls trailed behind. To the untrained eye, it looked like they were tagging along. For those of us in the know, it is clear that they are there to a.) be in charge and b.) collect evidence for future tattling, blackmailing or politicking. They stopped on the hill to roll down it – boys and girls together. When they got to the bottom, they stood as if this was the most normal way possible to travel downhill, and proceeded to march across the field.
"Hey kids!" I called out to them.
"Hey Kelly," the kids called back. Or some of them did anyway. My son ignored me entirely. They tramped by and disappeared into the green.
My writing group turned to me.
"You live in a damn Norman Rockwell painting," they said.
"Is it like this all the time?" they wondered.
And the thing is? On my block, yes. It is like this all the time. Kids wander this way and that – from back yard to tangled wood to alley to bridge to riverbank to field to garage to basement to somebody's kitchen to back yard and back to the field. They travel on bikes, on scooters, on roller blades, on skateboards and on foot. When the field floods they bring out paddle boards or kayaks. Sometimes they try to wrestle giant carp swimming in the shallow waters covering the grass. From time to time, parents will text or call with the whereabouts of this child or that child. If I am looking for my son, for example, I'll check with the parents across the street, and if they don't know, I'll ask the parents next door to them, and if they don't know I'll check with the family down the block, and if they don't know, I rely on the fact that I can call out really really loud (it's one of the perks of being a former singer – I project) and eventually my son hears me and comes home.
The kids here. They run wild. It is good that they run wild.
"Do you want to just tell your kids that they're not allowed to grow up to be messed up? Do you tell them look at what we have provided for you! It's perfect!"
Unfortunately, even the most idyllic childhood doesn't rescue us from having our own dark nights of the soul. Pain – physical, emotional, spiritual – is inevitable. We were born broken. We will die broken. We will be broken along the way. However, I like to think that this little kid paradise tucked into Minneapolis will give them something special as they muddle their way through the perils of childhoods into the skins of the men and women that they will become. I hope that the wild children that they are right now remains an essential part of who they will be. I hope that, even when they are old, that their souls are still muddy, grubby, grass-stained, sweaty, hard-muscled, bright-eyed, and still utterly, utterly wild.
One of the benefits of the feral childhood – because, let's be clear. That's what they have. Sure they brush their teeth when they are told and do their homework on command and clean their rooms when under duress and come in for dinner after only the seventh or eighth warning, but they are far from domesticated – is that they have this opportunity to claim the world that they inhabit. This is a powerful thing for a child – something unavailable to them when they're at school or baseball practice or church or grandma's house. When they roll down the hill and tramp across the field, there is no rule that they do not negotiate and agree on among themselves. There are no clocks or watches. There are no gold stars or percent marks or work books. Heck, there aren't even shirts half the time.
In the green world, there is only now.
In the green world, there is only us.
Here are my hands, the children say. They belong to me.
Here is the grass, their voices shout. It belongs to me as well.
Here is this stick. It was made for my hands. Here are my arms. And my muscles. They were made to wave this stick around. There is no truth but motion. There is no rule but play. There is no reality outside of myself and this stick and this mud and this tree and this water and this green. This is the only world that matters.
Here is this field they say. It belongs to us. Here is the creek. It also belongs to us. And so does the sky and everything under it. How good – how very good it is to be THIS boy. And THIS girl. This very one.
There is no greater thing on earth than a child in motion. Bless you, my children. Bless all of you. May you own the world forever.


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Allworx, the product division of InSciTek Microsystems, Inc., has a story that would likely resonate with many startup companies. Its history goes back to 1998, when a group of talented engineers embarked on a product development consulting business and then began gathering the various support systems that would be required to keep their business running at top performance. Before long, they had plenty of clients and a talented staff, but they lacked the voice- and data-communications systems that would keep everyone connected. So they embarked on a product search, and ended up with three—a phone system, a network, and some group software—in addition to having to negotiate with both the phone company and an Internet provider for network connections. After the frustrations of system installations and configurations settled down, they concluded that their experience was much more difficult than it should have been, providing the inspiration for a new product line called Allworx—the all-in-one communications system for telephones, PC network, and team productivity.
The Allworx product line includes three models, the 6X, 10X, and 24X, which share three common architectural elements: a telephone system that is VoIP capable, a network system that combines multiple data communication functions, and advanced applications for group productivity. The telephone system includes PBX features that would typically be found on a more expensive system, including: customizable automated attendants, call detail logging, support for multiple sites and remote users; call routing when out of the office, an eight-seat conference bridge, least-cost routing to either PSTN or VoIP carriers, support for inbound/outbound fax calls, voicemail, and support for both analog and IP telephones. The network system includes: an automated backup system that covers the shared files, contacts, messaging system and system files; an e-mail server; a firewall that employs the Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) technique; a LAN network server; WAN/Internet access, including DSL, cable modem, dial-up, or T-1 connection options; plus Internet hosting, supporting both the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
Optional advanced applications, sold separately, are designed to meet specific office productivity requirements. The Call Assistant allows operators or receptionists to monitor the state of every line in the system, and to dispatch calls by answering, transferring, parking or sending them to voicemail. The Call Queuing package allows incoming calls to be distributed across multiple queues, such as sales, technical support, and so on, with individual phones having the ability to answer multiple queues. The Internet Call Access option allows calls to be placed via the Internet through an Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP). The Virtual Private Network (VPN) software allows users to gain access to the firewall-protected side of the company's network from remote locations. The Calendaring package enables users to view co-workers' schedules and to automatically be reminded of upcoming meetings and project schedules.
The three Allworx models are distinguished by the number of trunks and end users that they support. The entry-level Allworx 6X system is designed for companies with up to 30 users with voicemail boxes, plus an additional 30 extensions for common areas such as conference rooms, and up to 30 incoming central office lines. For VoIP services, the system is compatible with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The Allworx 10X system is designed to support up to 100 users in any combination of analog and IP telephones, plus an additional 100 extensions for common areas and as many as 33 incoming central office lines. This system is also compatible with SIP, and can support site-to-site communication via the Internet without ITSP connections. The high-end Allworx 24X is designed to support up to 100 users in any combination of analog and IP telephones, plus an additional 100 extensions for common areas. This system provides for a number of incoming central office lines, including T-1 and ISDN types, with support for a number of central office switches (5ESS, DMS-100, and others). This system also supports SIP, and has the same capabilities of the smaller units, such as conference bridges, multi-site support, ITSP support, and so on. In addition to the "all-in-one" configuration, the Allworx features can be delivered at a cost of less than $500 per user.
Further details on the Allworx architecture and products can be found at www.allworx.com. Our next tutorial will continue our examination of vendors' architectures.
Copyright Acknowledgement: © 2006 DigiNet ® Corporation, All Rights Reserved
Author's Biography
Mark A. Miller, P.E. is President of DigiNet ® Corporation, a Denver-based consulting engineering firm. He is the author of many books on networking technologies, including Voice over IP Technologies, and Internet Technologies Handbook, both published by John Wiley & Sons.


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How to Fight Your Way to a Better Marriage
- Whitney Hopler Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2012 19 Nov
Editor's Note: The following is a report on the practical applications of Dr. Greg Smalley's new book, Fight Your Way to a Better Marriage: How Healthy Conflict Can Take You to Deeper Levels of Intimacy (Howard Books, 2012).
Too often, couples worry that the conflict they go through together is a sign that their marriages are in trouble. But conflict – which is inevitable in any close relationship between two people – isn't always harmful. Conflict can actually be helpful to spouses who learn how to use it as a tool to strengthen their marriages.
So stop worrying about the arguments between you and your spouse and start making conflict work for you rather than against you. Here's how you can fight your way to a better marriage:
Recognize the gems buried within healthy conflict. Some of the many ways that healthy conflict can benefit your marriage include: alerting you and your spouse to problems and helping you both face those issues rather than denying or avoiding them; giving you both opportunities to break old, ineffective patterns; humbling you both and inviting God to pour grace into your lives; giving you each insight into your personal issues and need for healing; and bringing you closer together as you listen understand, and validate each other.
Break the reactive cycle. When you and your spouse push each other's emotional buttons when discussing sensitive issues during arguments, you both can get caught in an unhealthy cycle of reacting to each other with negative emotions like fear and anger, spinning around but never actually resolving your conflict. To break that cycle, identify the buttons that your spouse pushes in you when you're arguing about different issues. For example, arguments about money may push buttons that relate to feeling insecure or controlled. Reflect on how a recent conflict between you and your spouse made you feel about yourself. In the process, you'll discover which of your emotional buttons got pushed during that conflict. Keep in mind that the disagreements you have with your spouse go much deeper than just the surface issues of money, chores, children, sex, work, time together, relationships with in-laws, etc. The root causes are the emotional issues that those arguments expose.
Replace lies with the truth. Behind every argument you and your spouse ever have are lies that have entered your minds because of emotional wounds you've each suffered. Seek healing by identifying what attitudes you each have that don't reflect biblical truth. Pray for the wisdom you need to discern what lies you've believed, and then ask the Holy Spirit to renew your mind, and read and meditate on the Bible to fill your mind with the truth. Going forward, have the confidence that you never need to be controlled by lies again. Make a habit of reminding yourselves about God's deep and unconditional love for you, and of relying on the help God offers you to grow stronger every day.
Learn how to respond rather than react to what your spouse says. When you simply react during a conflict, only negative behavior (such as anger, defensiveness, or withdrawing) results. But when you refuse to give in to a knee-jerk reaction and instead take a break from the argument to calm down and pray for the Holy Spirit's help, you can respond in positive ways (such as with self-control, kindness, and gentleness) that will strengthen your marriage and help you work out a thoughtful solution to the problem.
Change the way you think about your spouse. Recognize that many of the negative attitudes you have about your spouse don't actually reflect the truth of God's perspective on him or her. Spend some time in prayer, asking God to show you how Satan is trying to twist your mind against your spouse and what deceptions you have brought into your marriage. Pray for an open mind and the humility you need to always keep in mind that you could be wrong in any argument, to give your spouse the benefit of the doubt, and to better understand your spouse's point of view. Rather than just focusing on your spouse's negative behavior, make a point of noticing his or her positive behavior as well. Ask your spouse to explain something he or she said or did that bothered you, so you can correct any wrong assumptions you may have made about it.
Seek healing for a hardened heart. If your heart has become hardened toward your spouse (so that you no longer feel love toward him or her or motivation to work on your marriage), ask God to heal your heart by filling it with His love.
Open your heart to your spouse. When your spouse pushes your emotional buttons, decide to respond rather than react. Take a break for about 20 minutes before resuming the discussion with your spouse, and during that time, identify the specific emotions you're feeling. Then pray, asking questions like these: "What is the truth about my emotions?", "What is the truth about me?", "Is what my wife/husband is saying about me true?", "What lie is Satan trying to write on my heart?", "What do I need to take responsibility for?", and "Who is the person I want to be in this moment – the person God created me to be?". Then ask Jesus to give you His peace, which will guard your mind and allow you to open your heart to your spouse when re-engaging in the discussion. When your heart is open, God's love will flow through it.
Create an emotionally safe marriage. Ask God to help you recognize your spouse's incredible value and to honor and cherish him or her. Treat your spouse as someone who is valuable by allowing your spouse to share his or her deepest thoughts and feelings with you without fear of judgment or criticism, knowing that you will accept and love him or her no matter what. When your spouse is in pain, show compassion through kind and gentle words and actions.
Communicate well. After you each have opened your hearts to each other, listen to each other, seek to understand each other, validate each other, empathize with each other, and apologize to and forgive each other.
Work together as a team. Seek win-win solutions to your arguments – solutions about which both of you feel good. Keep asking each other questions about what's important to each of you and why until you come up potential solutions. Then pray, asking God to guide you all to the best solution that will benefit both of you.
Adapted from Fight Your Way to a Better Marriage: How Healthy Conflict Can Take You to Deeper Levels of Intimacy, copyright 2012 by Dr. Greg Smalley. Published by Howard Books, Brentwood, Tn., http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/howard.
Dr. Greg Smalley serves as Executive Director of Marriage and Family Formation at Focus on the Family. Prior to joining Focus, Smalley worked for the Center for Relationship Enrichment at John Brown University and as president of the National Institute of Marriage. He is the author of 11 books, including The DNA of Relationships, The DNA of Parent and Teen Relationships, and The Wholehearted Marriage. Greg lives in Colorado with his wife Erin and their four children.
Whitney Hopler is a freelance writer and editor who serves as both a Crosswalk.com contributing writer and the editor of About.com's site on angels and miracles. Contact Whitney at: email@example.com to send in a true story of an angelic encounter or a miraculous experience like an answered prayer.
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Well, it appears 'The Simpsons' still won't be going anywhere in the foreseeable future. Fox has officially renewed the long running animated sitcom for a 26th season. You can read the press release regarding the announcement after the jump.
Immediately below you can read the press release detailing the announcement of the renewal.
RECORD-SETTING 26TH SEASON PICK-UP OF "THE Simpsons"
"Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Airs This Sunday, October 6, on FOX
FOX has picked up THE Simpsons for a historic 26th season, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, Chairman of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company.
"For more than a quarter of a century, THE Simpsons has captured the hearts and minds of fans in a way that transcends ages, languages and cultures," said Reilly. "This groundbreaking series is not only the longest-running scripted show in television history, it's one of the greatest sitcoms of our time, and I'm looking forward to yet another landmark season."
Last Sunday's THE Simpsons' 25th season premiere ranked as the No. 1 entertainment program of the night among Adults 18-49 and was up +12% from last season's average.
On the next all-new episode, THE SIMPSONS' annual Halloween special, "Treehouse of Horror XXIV," airing this Sunday, Oct. 6 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX, director, screenwriter, producer and novelist Guillermo del Toro ("Pacific Rim," "Pan's Labyrinth") resurrects monsters and classic characters from horror films throughout history for the opening couch gag. Then, in the first of three spine-tingling tales, Homer travels around Springfield wreaking havoc in a rhyming spoof of a popular children's tale. In "Dead and Shoulders" Bart is beheaded during a kite accident, his head is attached to Lisa's body and they must live together as one. The final frightening tale, "Freaks no Geeks," features Mr. Burns' traveling circus, The Burnsum and Bailey Circus, which has stopped in Springfieldland in the 1930s. Trapeze artist Marge and Strong Man Homer are performers, and things go awry when circus freak Moe starts to make advances towards Marge.
About THE SIMPSONS:
The longest-running scripted show in television history, THE SIMPSONS exploded into a cultural phenomenon in 1990 and has remained one of the most groundbreaking and innovative entertainment franchises, recognizable throughout the world. Currently in production on its record-annihilating 25th season, THE SIMPSONS has won 28 Emmy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012 for the theatrical short "The Longest Daycare." It has been the subject of a hit feature film, created a revolutionary virtual coaster ride at Universal Studios, received a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been honored with five U.S. postal stamps personally designed by creator Matt Groening. Named the "Best Show of the 20th Century" by Time magazine, THE SIMPSONS was also named "Greatest American Sitcom" by Entertainment Weekly in 2013.
THE SIMPSONS is a Gracie Films Production in association with 20th Century Fox Television. James L. Brooks, Matt Groening and Al Jean are the executive producers. Film Roman, a Starz Media Company, is the animation house.


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's wife exchanged 1,200 text messages and phone calls with the CEO of a dietary supplement company in less than two years, including 52 in one day, according to evidence presented Friday intended to contradict the businessman's claim their relationship was strictly business.
As Jonnie Williams took the stand a third day in the corruption trial of McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, the defense took aim at his credibility as a star prosecution witness. Williams has detailed some $165,000 in gifts and loans he showered upon the family, including a Rolex watch and a joy ride in his Ferrari. He has said he did not consider them friends, was not romantically involved with the first lady and thought it would help promote his business.
On Friday, Williams acknowledged frequent calls and texts with Maureen McDonnell but said the majority of it was about getting her help to promote his company's products. Soon after, attorney William Burck showed an email Maureen McDonnell sent to Williams the day an earthquake hit Virginia: "I just felt the EARTH MOVE AND I WASN'T HAVING SEX!!!!"
The McDonnells are charged in a 14-count federal indictment with taking more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from the former Star Scientific Inc. CEO in exchange for their help promoting his company's products, primarily the dietary supplement Anatabloc. If convicted, they could face decades in prison.
Williams, who has been granted immunity, was by turns forgetful, frustrated and funny as he was grilled about whether the former governor and onetime rising GOP star asked for or was aware of the gifts requested by Maureen McDonnell.
In particular, attorney Henry Asbill pressed Williams on whether Bob McDonnell was aware that Williams had purchased $20,000 worth of luxury clothes and accessories for Maureen during a Manhattan shopping spree in 2011.
Williams said he assumed the governor would have seen the shopping bags and known about the shopping trip — an assumption Asbill pressed.
"You didn't know whether he saw the bags or not, do you?" Asbill asked.
He also asked whether Bob McDonnell had thanked Williams for paying for Maureen's shopping spree. Williams said no.
"Now that would have been really awkward," Williams said.
According to phone records produced by Burck, Williams and Maureen McDonnell exchanged 52 texts on a single day in 2011. The records showed eight texts between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. on another day, though Williams said they never communicated in the middle of the night.
Burck said earlier in the week that Maureen McDonnell developed a "crush" on Williams and had been deceived into believing he cared for her.
The defense attacked Williams' credibility on other fronts too, pointing to inconsistencies in his statements to authorities during the investigation. Williams said that when he was first interviewed without a lawyer present in January 2013, he told the FBI and state police that he and McDonnell were golfing buddies and that he had neither requested nor expected anything from the governor.
He said that when an officer asked him whether he would be willing to wear a wire, he stopped the meeting and called his lawyers.
"At that point, my thought was the governor could be in trouble and I could be in trouble," Williams said.
He had a harder time remembering what he told investigators at subsequent meetings after he received immunity, answering several questions with "I don't recall."
In an apparent move to stress Williams' showy, free-spending ways, Burck asked about a gathering at a resort where Williams bought a $5,000 bottle of cognac to share with three other men and poured the last little bit of the liquor into a fire pit.
"I was curious what it would do," he said.
Williams became agitated when Burck asked him about the designer clothes he bought for Maureen McDonnell. After the investigation began, she returned the items along with a letter saying she hoped Williams' daughters would enjoy them or that they could be donated to charity. Prosecutors have charged her with obstruction, saying she implied they were simply loaned to her.
Burck asked Williams repeatedly whether there was anything in the letter explicitly saying they had an agreement, and Williams struggled to answer.
"I'm having trouble with you moving me around something that's not true," he said.
He said it didn't make sense that Maureen McDonnell would suggest is daughters could use the clothes. They both wear a size 0, he said.
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From Nature magazine
Bacteria living naturally within the gut provide a gateway to flab, according to a few reports this week. These bacteria may explain how antibiotics fatten farm animals and perhaps people too, and how certain genes predispose organisms to obesity.
In a study published 22 August in Nature, researchers mimicked what farmers have been doing for decades to fatten up their livestock: they fed young mice a steady low dose of antibiotics. The antibiotics altered the composition of bacteria in the guts of the mice and also changed how the bacteria broke down nutrients. The bacteria in treated mice activated more genes that turn carbohydrates into short-chain fatty acids, and they turned on genes related to lipid conversion in the liver. Presumably, these shifts in molecular pathway enable fat build-up. Just as farm animals get fat, the antibiotic-fed mice put on weight.
Martin Blaser, a microbiologist at New York University in New York, says that parents might unknowingly be promoting a similar phenomenon when they treat common ailments and ear infections in their children. To back that idea up, he points to another study he authored. The study, published on 21 August, found that a disproportionate number of 11,000 kids in the United Kingdom who were overweight by the time they were 3 years old had taken antibiotics within their first 6 months of life.
"Antibiotics are extremely important drugs," Blaser says, "but especially when given early in life, I believe they come at a cost that parents, doctors and patients should be aware of."
Microbes also seem to be an accomplice in genetically induced pudginess, according to a study published today in Nature Immunology. When researchers rid mice of a gene encoding a gut molecule called lymphotoxin, segmented filamentous bacteria overwhelmed the normal microbial community. These bacteria may gobble up excess fat like tapeworms — the mice remained thin no matter what they ate. What's more, mice with lymphotoxin intact were able to keep their slim figures when the researchers implanted the segmented filamentous bacteria in their guts.
Although the papers provide tantalizing links, Peter Turnbaugh, a microbiologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says that there's more work to be done before microbes enter the limelight in the fight against obesity. "These studies suggest mechanisms by which different bacteria promote adiposity, but they don't fully define pathways," he says. "What really excites me about these papers is that now we have two new mouse models to do the follow-up experiments."
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on August 27, 2012.


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Table of Contents:
Accession strategies for the environment
Outline of the Community (European Union) legislation about Accession strategies for the environment
These categories group together and put in context the legislative and non-legislative initiatives which deal with the same topic.
Enlargement > Enlargement 2004 and 2007
Accession strategies for the environment
1) Objective
Commission strategy on the incorporation of the environmental Community acquis into the legislation of the candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
2) Community Measure
Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe of 20 May 1998 on accession strategies for the environment: meeting the challenge of enlargement with the candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
3) Contents
The Commission communication sets out the Union's pre-accession strategy for the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Its aim is to supplement the Partnerships for accession and to help the candidate countries improve their national programmes for the adoption of the Community acquis.
The Commission focuses on the environmental issues which affect the ten Central and Eastern European candidates, but not Cyprus, which will be dealt with in a separate document in view of the island's special situation.
Enlargement of the Union to include the CEEC is an environmental challenge on a scale which cannot be compared to previous accessions. There is a large gap between levels of protection in the EU Member States and the CEEC. Full compliance with the Community's environmental acquis will probably be achievable only in the long term. However, integration of these countries will provide a considerable increase in biodiversity within Europe in view of their vast areas of unspoilt nature.
The Commission has drawn up a special strategy within the framework of Agenda 2000. In its view, the candidate countries should define and start implementing realistic national strategies before accession to bring about gradual alignment in the long term. This strategy must include priority areas of action, key objectives to be attained by the date of accession, and timetables for the subsequent achievement of compliance. The communication therefore sets out details to be taken into account by the candidate countries when drafting their national policies.
The challenges to be met by the Central and Eastern European countries are of several kinds:
- the legislative challenge: transposition of the environmental acquis requires a preliminary comprehensive analysis of the laws of the CEEC in order that priorities may be established;
- the institutional challenge: the candidate countries need to strengthen their administrative structures, become more efficient and coordinate the departments responsible for managing environment policy;
- the financial challenge: the formulation of financing strategies is essential and should be given immediate priority (region-wide estimates put the total investment costs of meeting the environmental acquis at EUR 100-120 billion).
The main sector-specific challenges:
- air pollution: this is largely due to emissions from stationary sources (power plants and district heating installations). The first step must be to identify zones and agglomerations where EU limits are being exceeded; it is equally important to modernise refineries so that they comply with European standards;
- waste management: steps for the approximation of legislation have accelerated in some countries since 1997 (national investment programmes, modernisation of incinerators);
- water pollution: major investment programmes to improve drinking water quality and waste water management are under way in most of the countries; however, little progress has been made in transposing and applying the "nitrates" Directive;
- industrial pollution control and risk management: this area needs special attention on the part of the candidate countries since they have numerous heavily-polluting industrial and energy production facilities (transposition and implementation of the "Seveso" Directive would considerably reduce the risk of serious accidents);
- nuclear safety and radiation protection: all of the countries have recently adopted a basic law, which needs to be supplemented by additional legislation in order to ensure full transposition (this legislation is also required in countries which do not produce nuclear power).
The Commission has come up with a set of priority objectives which will help the candidate countries draw up their National Programmes for the Adoption of the Acquis (NPAA). These priorities must be determined on the basis of a detailed analysis of the environmental situation in each country. The Commission believes that all these countries have serious problems relating to:
- air pollution;
- water pollution;
- waste management.
The candidate countries must fill in the gaps in their legislation and administrative rules to improve the environment while at the same time improving the economy and competitiveness. On this subject, the Commission's 1997 Staff Working Paper "Guide to the approximation of the European Union environmental legislation" identifies the main problems faced by the candidate countries and describes the steps to be taken.
When developing their National Programmes, the candidate countries therefore need to consider:
- how programmes to promote energy efficiency, cleaner technologies and waste minimisation and recycling can be integrated into their national economic and sectoral policies;
- how industrial and agricultural production can be guided towards sustainable development;
- how the environmental gains can be maintained during the transition period.
Application of the environmental acquis will require the creation of costly infrastructure for:
- the supply of drinking water;
- waste water management;
- large combustion plants;
- waste management.
Since it is generally less costly to introduce pollution reduction measures as an integral part of a new physical investment than to retrofit existing installations, Agenda 2000 states that "all new investments should comply with the acquis". Community funding will be conditional on compliance with this requirement. The international financing institutions should be encouraged to apply this condition as well.
The candidate countries must themselves mobilise the resources they need to implement the environmental acquis. However, the Community and the Member States (bilateral programmes) have an important role to play.
The Commission has in particular intensified its efforts in the environmental sector through the Phare programme and by encouraging the candidate countries which so wish to participate in the Community financial instrument for the environment (LIFE).
Community pre-accession assistance for the environment has increased considerably since the year 2000, in particular through the instrument for structural policies for pre-accession (ISPA), which is concerned with the environment and transport.
To enable resources to be used efficiently, it is important to coordinate, focus and target outside aid. The Commission has therefore decided to broaden the dialogue and cooperation with the Member States and the international financial institutions. It will also provide both legal and administrative technical assistance and advice to the candidate countries regarding implementation of the environmental acquis.
Enlargement offers challenges and opportunities for the environment not only in the candidate countries, but for Europe as a whole. It should therefore be seen as part of the process of sustainable development by integration of environmental issues into all policy areas.
4) Deadline For Implementation Of The Legislation In The Member States
Not applicable
5) Date Of Entry Into Force (If Different From The Above)
Not applicable
6) References
COM(98) 294 final
Not published in the Official Journal
7) Follow-Up Work
Communication –COM (2001) 304
Communication from the Commission of 8 June 2001 on the challenge of environmental financing in the candidate countries.
The purpose of this communication is to help the candidate countries draw up credible financing plans and identify sources of financing for the necessary environmental investments. It starts by citing the key environmental directives requiring heavy investment (see Annex 1). It recommends that candidate countries start by deciding on their investment priorities, both between and within environment-related sectors. Criteria are set out for consideration during prioritisation. The communication tells candidate countries how to produce investment programmes. It also indicates the various sources of investment and how accessible they are.


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Mmm, mmm, mmm, that orange and blue Kool-Aid must have been mighty tasty. Josh Evans knows why his Gator mates didn't show up for the Sugar Bowl.
"I think we had a lot of distractions," he said. "People were feeling sorry for themselves they weren't in the national championship. Personally, myself, I don't feel like we all bought in as a team for that game and really gave it our all.
"We didn't play Gator football – and you saw the result."
That dream was over before the SECCG was played. December must have been a helluva long month for those guys.


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Twitter has joined the Linux Foundation, making its commitment to open source software just a bit more official. Like many operators of high-traffic websites, Twitter relies on open source throughout its data centers, with Linux servers hosting workloads and software projects that make it easier to handle big data and serve up Web content.
The Linux Foundation funds development of the Linux kernel and acts as an emissary on behalf of the technology, while relying on corporate sponsorship from many prominent IT companies that use or build open source software. Twitter joined as a silver member, paying $15,000 for the privilege. The Linux Foundation announced Twitter's membership today as it gears up for next week's annual LinuxCon conference in San Diego.
Twitter courted controversy with developers recently with API changes that impose new restrictions on developers of third-party applications. But Twitter Open Source Manager Chris Aniszczyk said joining the Linux Foundation is unrelated and has been in the works for a while.
Twitter is no newbie in the open source world. It uses MySQL to store tweets, and develops its own publicly released fork. Twitter likewise makes heavy use of Memcached and releases its own fork called Twemcache. Cassandra, Hadoop, Lucene, and Pig are other open source tools used within Twitter's infrastructure. Open source projects created by Twitter include Iago, a load generator for testing services before they hit production; Zipkin, a distributed tracing system; and Scalding, a Scala library that makes it easier to write MapReduce jobs in Hadoop. Twitter is also a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation and recently joined the World Wide Web Consortium.
Twitter joining the Linux Foundation shows "just how important Linux is becoming to so many of these large scale-out Internet companies that essentially run on Linux and are working to build their infrastructure almost entirely on open source software," Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin told Ars.
Google is another big Web company that is part of the foundation. One missing name is Facebook, but Zemlin hopes to get Mark Zuckerberg and team on board as well. "We would love to have them as a member," Zemlin said. "They do participate in our events around the Open Compute Project so that's a good thing. Their business runs on Linux as well."


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NOTICE: This application is no longer supported by the developer. Some of the features will be integrated into SpeedView in the following months. Sorry for the inconvenience.
InDrive is a unique application that combines car mode functionality with an advanced trip computer and deep Poweramp integration. With one-touch access to the most useful features on your phone, this app is your perfect driving companion!
*** This is a free 30-day trial version. In order to continue using the app after this period, you will need to purchase the InDrive Unlocker.
InDrive makes it very easy to launch your favorite applications, directly dial numbers, view your trip information and control music playback*. It will auto launch when placed in a compatible car dock. If you don't have a physical car dock, InDrive provides an option to force your phone into car mode, which will allow the app to override the Home button. Please note that for this feature to work properly on Android 2.x and higher, you have to set InDrive as the default car dock app. To do this, simply check the "Enable car mode" option in the settings and follow the instructions. This only needs to be done once.
NOTE FOR ANDROID 4.2.x USERS: Unfortunately, it appears that Google has removed dock home support in Android 4.2. Pressing the Home button will now return you to the launcher screen instead of InDrive or other car home app of choice. If you want this feature back, please vote for the following issue: code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39662
Trip computer features:
* Street address
* Speedometer (mph, km/h or knots)
* Heading
* Battery level
* Weather (Fahrenheit or Celsius)
* Odometer
* Time traveled (total / driving / stopped)
* Average speed (total / driving)
* Max speed
* Elevation
* Time of day
Startup options:
• Enable car mode (Force the phone into car mode like it had been placed in the car dock)
• Check GPS status (Open the location settings screen if GPS is disabled)
• Turn on Bluetooth
• Disable Wi-Fi
• Set media volume (Does not affect the ringtone volume)
• Set screen brightness (Will override the automatic brightness setting if necessary)
Other settings:
• Keep screen on (Prevent the screen from locking while the app is running)
• Disable auto rotation (Turn this option on when driving on bumpy roads)
• Turn on speakerphone
• Mute notification sounds
• Vibrate on press
• Minimum accuracy
• Filter the GPS speed
• Run in the background
• Enable track logging
• Exit on undock
KNOWN ISSUES: If you are experiencing a problem where the app randomly closes without any errors, try disabling integration with Poweramp in the app settings. This is a confirmed problem in Poweramp that unfortunately affects InDrive due to the link between two applications. It should be fixed in the next Poweramp update.
BATTERY USAGE: This app is very battery intensive when used with the default settings. When not connected to a power source, please uncheck the "Keep screen on" option in the app settings.
NOTE ON PERMISSIONS: InDrive requires access to several system features, such as GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, audio settings, and also to the SD card in order to write temporary log files and map images (these will be deleted on uninstall). It also requires a permission to directly call phone numbers for the shortcuts screen to work properly.
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Current Version : 1.3.3
Requires Android : 2.2 and up