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Patents Roundup: Microsoft Stung, Microsoft's Troll Speaks to Facebook, Alternatives Considered, and USPTO Head Calls Patents "Monopolies"
Posted in America, Free/Libre Software, Law, Microsoft, Patents at 5:23 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Patent news from the past week or so
THIS is another long roundup of patent news that may affect software patents and patent trolls.
Patent Ambush and Extortion
Rambus, a recent pioneer in gigantic patent ambush [1, 2, 3, 4], has suddenly seen the red light, which is rare. It will not be getting its way with Nvidia.
Patent Office rejects Rambus claims against Nvidia
The additional eight claims are based on two patents that Rambus has asserted against Nvidia in litigation. This follows the USPTO's rejection last month of 41 other claims in seven patents that Rambus had asserted, Nvidia said.
This report from Eric Savitz talks about an extortion that has actually just worked.
Research In Motion (RIMM) this morning said it will pay $267.5 million as part of an agreement to settle all existing patent litigation with venture-backed Visto, which is now known as Good Technology.
FFII's president writes in response to this: "RIM pays 267 Millions USD to get rid of another patent troll [...] We need more patent trolls."
What he probably means to say is that by showing how utterly broken the patent system has become will there be greater pressure for change. Patent trolls are one symptom of an ill system
Some weeks ago we saw Microsoft's patent troll extorting Intuit, which is Microsoft's rival.
Guess who is buddies with Facebook's founder? It's the aforementioned patent troll, 'born' and raised (and funded) by Microsoft.
After leaving Microsoft, Myhrvold went into the patent business. His Intellectual Ventures works like this: Buy up patents, then use them to bludgeon large tech companies into forking over fees or making investments in Intellectual Ventures.
In the course of his short career, Zuckerberg, as a tipster reminded us, has accumulated a nice array of patents. They're related, as you might guess, to social networking and digital media. Could he use them against his rivals via Myhrvold, raising some money for Facebook in the process?
This is something to watch out for. Zuckerberg has been meeting and having fun with Microsoft executives for quite a few years.
Microsoft is not just a patent troll (by proxy). Here it is being hit from multiple directions, as the latest news ought to suggest:
i. Patent parasites sue Microsoft over Xbox Live (Microsoft too is a patent parasite)
Peter Hochstein and Jeffrey Tenenbaum (pricks) once patented a method of "communicating live while playing the same video game in separate locations" and have been milking their "idea" since 1994. In 2004, they went after both Sony and Microsoft, and in April of this year, scored a settlement with the former over the PS2′s online gaming network. Now they want more, and are focusing on Xbox Live.
ii. Apple, Microsoft, others sued over touchpad products
A case started in a US district court alleging that Microsoft, Apple and a host of other defendants have breached a patent relating to touchpad technology.
iii. Apple, Microsoft sued over iPod, Zune controls
Apple, LG, Microsoft, and 20 other companies are being sued for patent infringement by a Texas firm that claims to have invented the touchpad.
It was disappointing to find some more "innovation" propaganda published as an article in BusinessWeek ("innovation" is almost synonymous with patents in some contexts). And guess what? Only in page two does it say who the author is: "Bill Buxton is Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research and the author of Sketching User Experiences…"
Common practice for the business press. They let corporations do the 'reporting' or 'independent' 'analysis'. The sad thing is that most readers would neither notice nor mind. Business press: from the corporations, for the corporations, passed on to ordinary people ("consumers") to absorb.
Slated has written two essays, one of which is a general critique of intellectual monopolies.
In fact, I have often drawn this comparison before, because I see very little distinction between the practise of physical slavery, and the equally reprehensible practise of intellectual slavery. Indeed, the latter may actually be more sinister, since it assumes ownership and control of that which touches all of us, not just an unfortunate few, and is a form of subjugation which travels silently and invisibly throughout all of society, tainting us and compromising our liberties, infecting us with the disease of intellectual monopoly, thus assuming ownership of our minds. More bluntly, Intellectual Property is a cancer.
The second essay is his proposition of an alternative to patents.
Then every company in the world would be funding all research (and any other relevant industrial development included in the budget), and every company in the world would be entitled to utilise the results of that research without any further legal obligation or financial liability. No company would be at an immediate disadvantage due to R&D costs, and the need for patent protection would be completely dispensed with.
Even better, those who benefit most from this research, profit the most, and subsequently pay the most tax. This is not only demonstrably self-sustaining, but is even fair. And of course, it keeps capitalism under control too, thus stabilising the economy, and benefiting consumers.
The result is: No patents, no profiteering, a massive and guaranteed supply of research funds, academic freedom for all, and better prospects for industrial development and mankind's overall progress.
The only losers here, that I can see, are those who were unethically over-exploiting the current system anyway (patent trolls, and those engaged in the practise of so-called Hollywood Accounting).
There is also a new journal article about the peer-to-patent initiative. It takes an entirely different approach to tackling the real issues that are no longer just perceived ones.
The patenting of software has increased significantly. Regardless of any personal bias as to the existence of software patents, it is a trend that is unlikely to end anytime soon. As a result, the open source movement may be threatened by the proliferation of non-meritorious or overly broad patents. Peer-to-Patent provides a means for mitigating the limitations that may be placed upon the open source community by software patents, as the program allows the open source community to participate in the peer review of pending patent applications. Members of the open source community are knowledgeable, interested parties with a unique stake in the software patent debate and thus are capable of making a significant contribution to improving the current system.
USPTO Head: Patent Are Monopolies
The Mises blog asks, "Are Patents 'Monopolies'?"
On occasion you get some defender of patents who is upset when we use the m-word to describe these artificial state-granted monopoly rights. For example here one Dale Halling, a patent attorney (surprise!) posts about "The Myth that Patents are a Monopoly" and writes, " People who suggest a patent is a monopoly are not being intellectually honest and perpetuating a myth to advance a political agenda."
Now it is, indeed, clear that a patent is a monopoly grant to someone that permits them to charge above-market prices; this is exactly the goal of the patent law: to provide this monopoly profit to inventors so as to incentivize them to innovate and file for patents. And it is why, for example, Blackberry paid over $600 million to NTP in a recent patent suit; and it is why consumers will have to pay more for Blackberry services than they otherwise would, etc. Did NTP have "monopoly power" as defined by the government's antitrust scheme? I don't know. Probably not. But did they extort RIM/Blackberry by use of the government-granted patent monopoly? Of course.
David Kappos, the new head of the US patent office (whom we mentioned previously in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]), can be seen as responding to the above with the following immortal quote:
Mr. Kappos announced his opposition to business method patents last year by stating that "[y]ou're creating a new 20-year monopoly for no good reason." Thus, it is unclear where Mr. Kappos will attempt to draw the line between software and business method inventions worthy of patent protection.
Yes, that's right. Even the head of the USPTO openly admits that patents are a "20-year monopoly". Some proponents of software patents still deny this. Kappos is considered a strong proponent of the peer-to-patent initiative mentioned above.
Pro-Software Patents Lobby (Gartner et al)
Brian Prentice from the Gartner Group is an advocate of software patents, as we noted before [1, 2]. Whether it's part of the general policy at Gartner, well… it may hard to tell, but here he is again making it very explicit at Gartner.com: "Why We Need Software Patents"
I would much rather we embrace software patents and water down trade secret legislation than the other way around.
Microsoft's connection to the Gartner Group is a financial one by the way [1, 2, 3]. Gartner helps Microsoft fight against Free (libre) software.
Another Web site whose habitat remains rather similar is IP Watchdog, with the usual lobby for software patents, this time from another writer: "Is Software Patentable?"
As mentioned above, new, useful software is not always patentable. But some software must be patentable, or the long history of patents for manufacturing process and electronic devices cannot be sustained as software becomes central to these inventions.
There are more similar pieces (similar convictions) from the same site, e.g.:
i. Examiner Interview Changes Favor In Person Meeting
It seems that early last week a memo went out from the powers that be to the examiners handling Bilski-related applications, and in the memo it was explained that merely putting "computer implemented method" in the preamble of the claim is not something that will any longer work to overcome a patentable subject matter rejection under 35 U.S.C. 101. It seems that now you need to have "computer implemented method" in the preamble and there must also be positive recitation of "a computer" in the body of the claim.
ii. On the Road: Bilski Examiner Interview and CNN
I spent the better part of last week in Washington, DC conducting Examiner interviews for some of my clients that have pending software patent applications. The great news is that I believe we now have a handle on the ever changing Bilski ruling. I know it sounds like a misstatement to say that the Bilski ruling is ever-changing, but apparently, the reality of the situation is that when the Federal Circuit provides a ruling, it comes with little or no guidance for the Examiners to properly examine applications based on the ruling. The guidance comes from internal memos to Examiners from the PTO indicating how applications should now be examined based on Bilski.
As a site of lawyers, it is inclined to support more and more patents. The broader the scope, the higher the revenue. Science doesn't matter so much to them. Engineers are "pawns in the battle", to borrow a phrase from Microsoft evangelists.
Car Insurance Patent Trolls
There are reports circulating about patents that threaten even the car insurance businesses. [via Digital Majority]
Under a major decision handed down last fall, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit interpreted federal law to make it much more difficult to patent "business methods."
The so-called "Bilski" decision essentially ended a decade of looser standards the same court introduced in 1998 with a decision known as State Street. That ruling opened the floodgates for business-method patents like Amazon's one-click process to buy goods online.
See how much positive impact the decision In Re Bilski has had. Law.com has some more information about this Amazon patent in its new article, which starts by stating:
Ten years ago, Amazon.com riled the tech world when it sued Barnes & Noble with a patent on "1-click" buying. Critics cried that clicking once to order a book wasn't really an invention — and certainly not worthy of a patent. And it became the poster child for a patent system gone overboard.
Here is another new report about the car insurance patent. FFII's president remarks on it by saying: "Help Patent Trolls make their patents more resistant."
A Stamford patent agent and a Massachusetts actuary have paired to seek a patent on an insurance product aimed at promoting safety among teen motorists.
Mark Nowotarski, president of Markets, Patents & Alliances LLC, said today the U.S. Patent Office could rule by late June on their patent application (No. 20090063201) filed last October for the SoberTeen Driving Insurance product.
It's obviously a patent troll. On the "Ethics of Patent Trolling" (or lack thereof) The Prior Art blog has an article which states:
The nature of the claimed invention in these cases also raises serious questions about online rights. The Spangenberg companies, by suing hundreds of websites, have claimed a proprietary right over e-commerce itself. I'm not making that judgment based on an analysis of his patents—I'm making it based on the accusations in the lawsuits, filed against hundreds of companies that don't have anything apparent in common other than the fact that they sell stuff online. And while Spangenberg targets only big corporations, many of his imitators have no such scruples.
Patent trolls and software patents both need to go. Patent trolls are a useful excuse for reform that eliminates the latter. █
Novell, Patent Lawyers, and Gartner Group a Major Part of the Software Patents Problem
Intellectual Ventures Revisited as Facebook is Hoarding Patents; Apple Patents Other People's Ideas/Implementations
How India's Legal Rule Regarding Patents Gets 'Regulated' by the West, Facebook is Hoarding Software Patents
Microsoft Mouthpieces Put a Number on Microsoft 'Linux Tax'
Facebook Gives Data to Microsoft, Encourages Microsoft Lock-in, Expands to Seattle (Speculations/Rumours of Buyout)
IBM Will Never be the Same After Taking Software Patents Out of Its Holster
Misleading PR Campaign From Microsoft About "Open Source"
Kuhn Back in FSF Board of Directors, Addresses Cheap Shots from Microsoft MVP de Icaza
Patent Thug (Microsoft) Enters "Solution Linux" and Receives Mob Treatment; Durham Logistics Unmasked as Potential Intellectual Ventures Proxy
Facebook and Intellectual Ventures Revisited
Xbox 360 (Live) Users Banned, Buyers Flee
Gartner Group Wrong Again
Microsoft Analysts Mock Free Software and Praise Vista 7
Microsoft Abuse with Software Patents Carries on
Linux Foundation Lashes Out at Microsoft Over Attacks on GNU/Linux
Gartner Group is Attacking Free Software, Again
Patents Roundup: Microsoft. Apple, TiVo, IBM, and Lots More
Patents Roundup: Tuxera Came to Microsoft, TiVo Misbehaves, Updates on Facebook and Amazon
Mono Team Puts Microsoft's GPL-incompatible Licence and Patents-encumbered Software Inside GNU/Linux
The Microsoft Crowd Uses the Word Verdict to Throw FUD at ODF, More Spin Comes from Denmark
Patents Roundup: CityWare Under Siege, Kappos for Change We Can Believe in, and Skype
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zatoichi said,
I take strong exception to your characterization of Good Technologies as a "patent troll". Good has been making synchronization solutions for use with Exchange servers (don't start, people use them, there isn't a law against it) for more years than Research in Motion has been making Blackberries. Good made the first Exchange sync solution for Palm Os (and I worked for Palm from 2001-2003, so I'm in a position to speak authoritatively here.)
Whether you like or dislike patents, they exist, and if Good has one that RIM is infringing–and as I said, it seems quite likely that they might–and if RIM has refused to come to terms with them, then they have every right to settle it in court.

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Nadine Lustre is Back & We're Here For It
Nadine Lustre is back with brand new music and we're here for it! The anticipated album, "Wildest Dreams" is set to drop October 31st just in time for her birthday. This marks her first visual album and just telling by her Instagram, you know it's going to be #aesthetics. The official teaser previewed a glimpse into Nadine's artistry and sonic adventure. The current single of the same name written by Nadine along with co-Careless Music artists KINGwAw, Haissam Morton (Massiah) released on October 16th and has over 175k streams on Spotify already.
Dannieboi chats with Nadine to talk about the album, her vision leading up to it, and what she wants fans to get out of these personal songs.
Wildest Dreams is inspired by her actual dreams and experiences
The songs on the album transcends mostly from Nadine's vivid dreams. Specifically, the song "Wildest Dreams" is about a hike she took to Sagada back in 2017.
Fans are going to have to "dig deep and dive into the lyrics"
Nadine said that the "Wildest Dreams" lyrics don't make sense, but what she saw on that hike made sense for her. She gave us a fun fact about the line, "I'm seeing purple in the sky, I fly so high, the sun is waving." The purple object she references is actually a purple mandala she brought with her on the hike. They were so high in the mountain that when the sun set, it looked as if it was waving to them. We'll have to definitely dissect each song on the album and catch these clues she's handing out.
The album isn't out yet, but we can already tell Nadine is about to serve us with music that's about to change the game
This new era she described as "a new Nadine emerging from the ashes like a phoenix." She explains how she grew as a songwriter with this project after years of being insecure about her writing. All we can say is, you're doing great sweetie!
She already has a few collaborations under her belt
Last year Nadine collaborated with rapper Ruby Ibarra on the track, "No 32" and another song called "Headspace" with Billy Davis, Curtismith, and Massiah. She said that these collabs worked because they "all had the same vibe and are passionate when it comes to music." It also helped that they became friends in the process, so everything just clicked effortlessly.
Nadine has great chemistry with the Careless Music team
We love hearing about supportive friends, but the Careless Music team are the definition of squad goals. Nadine said that because many of them were writers who worked on their songs, it made her want to step up her own game. When their first mixtape came out in 2018, the crew were hyped for all the songs to be released and celebrated together.
6. We asked Nadine if she were to take our Filgrimage series to anywhere in the Philippines as their ambassador where she would take them. Watch the interview to see where she chose. Where would you want Nadine to take you if you in the Philippines?
If you were to go on a @filgrimageseries trip with @nadine as your ambassador to the Philippines, where would you want her to take you? #Nadine of @carelessph talks about a meaningful location to her in this video. Watch the lives of 8 Fil-Am college students change when they visit the Philippines for a summer now airing on @iwanttfc & 10/24 available on @myxglobal & @kapamilyatfc. Check your local cable listings for info. #Filgrimage #SalamatPo
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We know this album is going to be wild and everyone is excited to hear it! Get your calendars marked for October 31st, put on your Halloween costume, and vibe out to Nadine's "Wildest Dream." Stay tuned for more info from her press con tomorrow! Keep tagging your questions with #nadinemyxglobal and thank you for helping us trend on twitter myxers & Naddicts. We appreciate you watching both Careless international interviews back to back.


Gamers always seem to get the hottest gear, and the A40 gaming headphone system from Astro is no exception. Sold as a complete kit with a headset and matching mixer, the $249 package lets you mix 5.1 game audio and communications audio independently to your liking, all without waking up your roommates. The daisy-chainable Dolby Digital processor / mixer also enables some other interesting features, like private comm channels for in-person Xbox 360 teams, and outboard surround processing from a PC. The headset itself features an adjustable boom mic and interchangable faceplates. Each is also available separately: the A40 headset is $199, while the mixer is $129, and it's all available on the 17th.


1. Type-c+micro 5pin dual-interface OTG cable can be used for TYPE-C mobile phone tablet computer, also for micro 5p mobile phone and tablet computer.
2. Incidentally, the adapter can also convert the micro 5p data cable into the TYPE-C data wire.
3. Connect OTG-enabled mobile phones or tablets, external mouse, keyboard, U disk and other devices.


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Spotlight on Gauteng Film Commission Project 'His Majesty's Building'
South Africa's Gauteng Film Commission (GFC) develops, promotes and coordinates the film and television production industry in what is said to be South Africa's wealthiest province, tasked with positioning the province as a world-class destination for filmmaking, as well as attracting local and international investments in the film and television industry there. by Tambay A. Obenson
Last fall, we announced plans by the Commission to create necessary awareness about its programs and ensuring brand visibility, making the decision to publicly announce the projects the Commission supports.
One of the feature films that the GFC is providing production support for, which Mzwandile Masina, the GFC's chief executive officer says he's "very excited about," is a crime drama titled His Majesty's Building.
The project comes from Mind Your Head Films in association with Happy Brown Babies Productions, and is described as follows:
Freddie who falls to his death from a high-rise building in Johannesburg. Lieutenant Fitzpatrick's detective unit finds a note in Freddie's loft, and the case is closed as a suicide. But Freddie's lover, Maria, hires private eye Dicke Dibe to investigate what she believes is a case of murder. A postmortem reveals a gunshot wound to Freddie's head. Dicke suspects Freddie was shot, then thrown off the building, and is determined to find the killer before he, or she, strikes again.
The GFC provided post-production support for His Majesty's Building, which is written and directed by Nhlanhla Masondo, produced by Sifiso Khanyile, and stars Luthuli Dlamini, Justin Strydom, Thishiwe Ziqubu, Jaques De Silva, Monageng Motshabi, Usha Khan, Denver Vraagom, Mayenzeke Baza, Ephrahim Gordon and Antonio Lyons.
The filmmakers tell me that the film is just about complete and will premiere in Johannesburg in early March.
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Films in Development
Africa » South Africa
Multichoice plans to make 52 local movies the next year
Multichoice is planning to produce 52 local movies and 29 local dramas within the next year. It also plans to increase its percentage of total general entertainment spend on local content to 45% by 2020, up from 40% this year. By James de Villiers
Barry Gilder's novel 'The List' optioned by Known Associates Entertainment
Author Barry Gilder's novel 'The List' has been optioned by Known Associates Entertainment for development as a feature film series and/or TV series. The book was published in September last year by Jacana Media.
The National Film and Video Foundations invitation to submit proposals for the Fiction Slate
The NFVF is pleased to announce that the call to submit proposals for the 4th fiction slate funding is open and would like to invite eligible production companies to submit proposals for the slate funding which will be awarded to three companies and will be administered over a period of three years.
So who actually owns the Fassie music rights?
Did musician-producer Sello "Chicco" Twala bite off more than he could chew by claiming he owns 75% of Brenda Fassie's music? This is a question experts in the music industry are asking after it emerged that he sold his publishing rights to Gallo Music for more than R700 000 in 2005.
Chicco Twala reveals that he was actually working on a Brenda Fassie movie
Chicco Twala, the music producer was interviewed on several radio stations and expressed his frustration at this entire Brenda Fassie project and how he and Bongani had an agreement to work on the Brenda Fassie movie. By Zee Dladla
Chicco Twala: Brenda Fassie is mine
Sello "Chicco" Twala is putting his foot down, vowing that a planned biopic about Brenda Fassie will not go ahead without his blessing. by Ntombizodwa Makhoba
Anant Singh To Produce Biopic Of Heart Transplant Pioneer Christiaan Barnard
Producer Anant Singh and his South Africa-based Videovision Entertainment have acquired the film rights to biography Heartbreaker: Christiaan Barnard And The First Heart Transplant. by Nancy Tartaglione


Was it a protest of President Trump's immigration policies or simply a protest of President Trump in Washington, D.C. on Saturday?
Protestors favored signs claiming that anyone they disagree with is a nazi. Especially Trump. They really like to link him with nazi imagery.
And it wasn't just adults, some protestors brought their children with them to take part and carry signs.
Although, the young child seen at the end of the video above really wasn't into it.
We like that kid a lot.


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Australia set for worst harvest in 10 yrs
Alex Druce
October showers have brought some relief to farmers, but it's far too late for much of Australia's drought-ravaged cropping country, with rural analysts predicting the worst winter harvest in 10 years.
Rabobank's Winter Crop Production Outlook – titled Running On Empty – predicts Northern and Central NSW to cop it the hardest, with the state facing a nearly 60 per cent reduction in the wheat harvest, and more than an 80 per cent reduction in pulses.
Rabobank forecasts the overall 2018/19 national grains harvest to reach just 29.3 million tonnes, down 23 per cent on the previous year, following a "drought to rival the millennium drought", as well as severe overnight frosts in cropping regions.
Only increased harvest prospects in Western Australia – which is set to contribute more than half of the national winter crop for the first time in 20 years – has prevented the country from facing its lowest winter crop in two decades, the bank said.
"For vast regions of the eastern states, there will be no harvest, and where there is a harvest, yields will be anywhere between 30 per cent and 50 per cent down on average," the Winter Crop report says.
"Late, to no, season-opening rains, below-average to lowest-on average rainfall and above-average temperatures during the growing season have been coupled with damaging frost to reduce harvest volumes and affect grain quality."
Hardest hit will be central and northern NSW, where up to 80 per cent of certain planted areas will not be harvested for grain, as farmers look to alternative uses such as hay, silage and grazing.
The state is expected to see a 58 per cent drop in wheat production on last year, and 72 per cent drop below the five-year average, to 1.9 million tonnes.
NSW chickpeas and beans are expected to be hit even harder with pulses facing a 84 per cent production drop on the 2017/18 season, and 86 per cent from the five-year average, to 97,000 tonnes.
Rabobank had predicted an earlier and reduced national harvest in its October Agribusiness Monthly outlook, saying two years of below-average rainfall, as well as icy overnight conditions, and high livestock prices could see grain growers abandon weather-beaten crops and cash in on silage instead.
Rabobank agricultural analyst Wes Lefroy says higher prices will offset lower crop yields for some growers, they will deliver little solace to many with significantly-reduced, or no, yield prospects.
The bank also forecasts total Australian grain exports to drop by 50 per cent on last year, to 13.9 million tonnes, including a 50 per cent drop in wheat exports, a 48 per cent drop in barley exports, and a 41 per cent drop in canola exports.
Earlier in the month, NSW's peak ag lobby group called for maximum vigilance from border authorities in the increasing likelihood of grain being imported into the state because of the drought.
NSW Farmers' Grains Committee chair Matthew Madden said growers are anxious to ensure that the state's reputation for growing high-quality, disease free grain is not jeopardised in a rush to import grain from other states and overseas.
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Under the nose of a state that took peace for granted, members of two lesser-known radical organizations and sons of a millionaire spice trader conspired to carry out a mass carnage on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, an attack which has now been described as a reaction to the March 2019 attacks on two churches in New Zealand by a white supremacist. These radicals had pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State, identified suicide bombers, assembled suicide vests, and carried out synchronised attacks in multiple locations including churches and hotels with the intent of killing Christians. The attacks left 253 (according to revised estimates by the Sri Lankan authorities) people dead and a nation in shock.
Much of the focus in the aftermath of the attacks has been on the intelligence failure and the phenomenon of expanding radicalism. The wife of a suicide bomber, who herself had pledged baya'ah to the Islamic State, blew herself up, killing her unborn child and three other children, as the police forces raided their home. While investigation in the coming days and months may reveal some of the details of the preparations leading to the attack, whether that will prevent the next attack by Islamist radicals, is a bigger question.
Available profiles of eight of the nine suicide bombers involved in the attack reveal the usual trend that the foot soldiers of the Islamic State have come to be associated with since 2014. Many of them have been educated, a mix of middle-class and wealthy family members, and are highly radicalised who either teamed up or were influenced by the ideologues of the Islamic State to carry out mayhem. Such acts have been perpetrated in many countries in past years, with varying degrees of 'success'.
The 'mastermind' behind the attacks in Sri Lanka, preacher Zahran Hashim, had gone into hiding in 2017, after being accused by the police of causing violence between Muslim groups. One of the two brothers, Inshaf Ibrahim owned Colossus Copper, a manufacturing facility in an industrial estate in Colombo's east. The factory, investigators believe, was used to assemble the suicide vests used in the attack. Inshaf's brother Ilham had well known connections to National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ), a Sri Lankan Islamist group suspected of involvement in planning the attacks. Abdul Lathief Jameel, who failed in his task of carrying out an explosion at Colombo's Taj Samudra hotel and was killed by an accidental explosion in a small guest house, had studied in the UK and undertaken postgraduate studies in Australia before returning to settle in Sri Lanka. Inshaf's wife, Fatima Ibrahim, was more than complicit, having taken her life, along with those of her children's, by exploding her own suicide vest, rather than surrendering.
Unlike the lone terrorist in New Zealand, the Sri Lankan terrorists left no manifesto behind, leaving us to rely on the claims made by the Islamic State as well as the official statements to piece together the reason for the carnage. Several questions, however, still remain unanswered. Would Sri Lanka have been spared had the New Zealand attack not taken place? Do the Sri Lanka attacks underline the phenomenon of 'expanding radicalism' that seeks targets in countries where law-enforcement is lax? Were the inputs provided by Indian agencies comprehensive enough for the Sri Lankan authorities to act upon?
Sri Lanka has been on the edge over fears that there could be more bombers who could strike at a time of their choosing. The number of Islamic State suspects in Sri Lanka is estimated to be 130 to 140, of which approximately 76, including a Syrian national, have already been detained. Many of them could be NTJ members or those belonging to the Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim (JMI). Information on either the NTJ or the JMI is sketchy. The scale and sophistication in the attacks further point fingers at the involvement of foreign actors and hence, the spectre of a repeat of such attacks either in Sri Lanka or in a neighbouring South Asian country cannot be ruled out. The disintegration of its 'Caliphate' in Iraq and Syria has enabled the Islamic State to expand its sphere of attacks further afield.
Notwithstanding what the future holds, the terror attacks in Sri Lanka and New Zealand bare few uncomfortable facts. Terrorists can thrive under the nose of a complacent state, carry out attacks causing mass casualties, and be the cause and/or provide inspiration for a new set of attacks elsewhere. Their 'success' will not depend so much on the training that they have undergone but the level of radicalism that they have reached and organising abilities they possess. Since terrorism is a personal choice – bit of an aspirational pedestal to be climbed on by the radicalised – only an alert state can hope to minimise the impact of such attacks. Moreover, the state's response in the aftermath of the attacks would decidedly determine if it succeeds in uniting the society sought to be communally fractured by the terror attacks.
Abilities to counter terror will have to be developed gradually through a comprehensive policy involving resource investment and cooperation with regional as well as global powers. It is clear that Sri Lanka's victory over the LTTE, by means of mostly a conventional war laced with rampant human rights violations, did nothing to augment its capacities to deal with the terrorism of the Islamic State variety. A hard power approach now may further worsen the situation. (IPCS)
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Kiana Dupris Davis, 25, 9000 block of Southeast Morning Street, Hobe Sound; out-of-county warrant, Palm Beach County, violation of supervised own recognizance, possession of a controlled substance.
Cassandra Sonia Rosa, 21, Lantana; out-of-county warrants, Palm Beach County fraudulent use of credit card, fraudulent use of personal I.D. information, organized scheme to defraud.
Nathan James Haines, 22, Palm Beach Gardens; failure to stop/remain at crash involving injuries other than serious bodily injury.
Lucio Rosiles, 38, 100 block of Osceola Avenue, Fort Pierce; possession of a controlled substance (alprazolam) without a prescription.
Vicente Jimenez, 2600 block of Southwest Opechee Avenue, Port St. Lucie; out-of-county warrants, St. Lucie County, failure to appear, driving while license revoked, habitual traffic offender, willful/wanton reckless driving, resisting without violence.
Nicolas Alejandro Duran Angulo, 22, Coral Gables; out-of-county warrant, Monroe County, violation of probation, grand theft of motor vehicle.
Steven Joseph Chavis, 32, 500 block of 34th Terrace, Palm City; warrant for violation of injunction protection, two or more prior convictions on Oct. 23.
Amy Michelle Gray, 39, 3500 block of Southeast Cobia Way, Stuart; warrant for violation of probation, false statement for public aid.
Craig Cornelius Bunch, 38, 4800 block of Southeast Arthur Street, Stuart; warrant for violation of probation, possession of alprazolam.
Daniel Rich; 36, 8200 block of Southeast Rich Way, Hobe Sound; out-of-state warrant, fugitive from justice, Gwinnett County, Georgia, flight to avoid – simple assault, hindering emergency phone call, criminal mischief.
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Ignacy Ślusarczyk (ur. ok. 1830, zm. ok. 1870) – poeta ludowy.

Był parobkiem - wolarzem na folwarku w Psarach koło Krzeszowic. Twórczość jego weszła do literatury dzięki artykułowi J. Starkela Ignacy Ślusarczyk, poeta ludowy ("Dziennik Literacki" 1861 s. 134), w którym przytoczone zostały fragmenty utworów tego poety.

Ślusarczyk żywo reagował na wydarzenia polityczne – pisał wiersze nawiązujące do manifestacji warszawskich z roku 1861.

Bibliografia
Julian Krzyżanowski, Słownik folkloru polskiego, wyd. Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa 1965.

Polscy poeci ludowi

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Verizon Offers New, Entry-Level Consumer DSL Service for $14.95 a Month
NEW YORK --Making it easier for people to experience the benefits of broadband Internet access, Verizon today introduced a new high-speed consumer DSL service that's priced lower than many dial-up plans. With the new service, qualified customers get a maximum connection speed of up to 768 kilobits per second (Kbps) downstream and 128 Kbps upstream for just $14.95 a month with an annual service agreement, plus all the features and applications enjoyed by subscribers to Verizon's higher-speed consumer DSL services.
"We're breaking down the price barrier for people who want high-speed Internet service, but have not had a place for it in their budgets," said Bob Ingalls, president of Verizon's Retail Markets Group. "With speed that's faster than dial-up, and at a price that's lower than many dial-up service plans, our new service will promote the use of broadband, attract more subscribers to Verizon DSL and further increase our competitiveness with cable modem service providers."
Introduction of this new offering reflects recent FCC decisions that provide greater certainty about the regulatory environment for broadband services.
The new service is offered today to qualified customers who call 866-232-2831. It will also be available online at www.verizon.net on Aug. 24.
"Once a household experiences the benefits of broadband, they begin to want an even richer, more productive online experience," Ingalls said. "We're confident that many of the new customers we attract to our basic DSL service today will be our higher-speed DSL and fiber-based FiOS broadband subscribers in the future."
Verizon's unique alliances with the industry's most innovative content providers give Verizon DSL subscribers the ability to choose the online experience that best fits their needs.
The company today joined with Yahoo! to announce the launch of Verizon Yahoo! for DSL service. The new service includes premium Yahoo!® features valued at over $200 a year at no additional charge, including premium e-mail, 100 MB (megabytes) of storage, an all-in-one security suite and commercial-free LAUNCHcast Radio service.
"Our new DSL service and our alliance with Yahoo! reflect our commitment to offering Verizon broadband customers real choices and exceptional value," said Ingalls. "From the busy small business that shares large documents, to the young adult who enjoys online games, to the grandparents who enrich their e-mails with photos - Verizon offers a range of great speeds, affordable prices and superior content and services to meet every need."
Verizon already offers Verizon Online DSL service to qualifying consumers with maximum connection speeds of up to 3.0 megabits per second (Mbps) downstream and 768 Kbps upstream for as low as $19.95 a month for the first three months and $29.95 a month thereafter when purchased with an annual service agreement or in combination with a qualifying package of calling services from Verizon.
Business DSL plans are also available with both dynamic and static IP addresses, and maximum connection speeds of up to 768 Kbps/128 Kbps, 3.0 Mbps/768 Kbps, or 7.1 Mbps/768 Kbps, ranging in price from as low as $24.95 a month to $244.95 a month. Businesses can call 1-888-649-9500 to order these services.
The company offers three tiers of Verizon FiOS Internet Service for consumers. These fiber-optic based services come with downstream/upstream speeds of up to 5 Mbps/2 Mbps, 15 Mbps/2 Mbps and 30 Mbps/5 Mbps priced at $34.95, $44.95 and $179.95 a month, respectively, when purchased as part of a calling package from Verizon. Information about FiOS availability and service-ordering is available at www.verizon.com/fios.
All Verizon Online DSL service for consumers includes round-the-clock, live technical support, nine e-mail boxes, 10 MB of personal Web space equipped with Verizon's exclusive Site Builder tool, access to the world of online games from Wild Tangent and RealArcade, and other multimedia content and services.
With more than $71 billion in annual revenues, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) is one of the world's leading providers of communications services. Verizon has a diverse work force of more than 214,000 in four business units: Domestic Telecom provides customers based in 28 states with wireline and other telecommunications services, including broadband. Verizon Wireless owns and operates the nation's most reliable wireless network, serving 47.4 million voice and data customers across the United States. Information Services operates directory publishing businesses and provides electronic commerce services. International includes wireline and wireless operations and investments, primarily in the Americas and Europe. For more information, visit www.verizon.com.


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Kamikaze attacks — known as "special attacks" by Japan — were an infamous tactic designed to not only destroy American ships but also strike fear in the Allied navies.
But two months before the first kamikaze attacks were carried out at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in Oct. 1944, a Japanese transport pilot pitched the idea of a kamikaze super weapon, the Oka "Cherry Blossom" Type 11 plane.
While the Oka was technically a plane, it was more like a pilot-guided missile. It was a 4,700-pound aircraft that contained 2,600 pounds of high explosives. That left only 2,100 pounds for the body, armor-piercing nose cone, and three rocket engines.
The Oka was carried by a mother plane — usually a Betty medium-bomber — to a launch point within 23 miles of its target. The Oka pilot would then squeeze into the craft and strap himself in while a crew member on the bomber would lock the cockpit closed.
After it was released, the Oka glided most of the way to its target from high-altitude. Once the Oka got close to a naval ship, it would ignite the engines and race at its target.
Hitting the enemy ship at up to 576 mph, it punched right through most armor and detonated its 2,600-pound payload inside the ship.
Yokosuka MXY-7 Oka (Credits: Wikipedia/ Jarek Tuszynski)
While those 2,600 pounds of explosives gave the kamikaze a big boom when it hit its target, the small control surfaces and extreme speed made it very hard to aim.
The Oka's commonly made it past enemy defenses and outran pursuing fighters, but they sometimes missed their target entirely.
Also, the bombers carrying the Oka were susceptible to attack. While carrying the massive weapon, the planes lost maneuverability, range, and speed. The first thing a Betty with an Oka was supposed to do if it came under attack was drop the Oka and attempt to evade the fighters.
Oka carried under the belly of a Betty of 721st Naval Air Group (Credits: Wikipedia)
This led to another problem for the Oka pilots. When the bomber crews felt a route was too dangerous, they'd often order the Oka pilot into the suicide plane early and launch it.
The pilot would be left sitting in the cockpit, piloting his coffin into the ocean with no chance at destroying a target.
In the end, the more than 850 Oka 11s produced sank only one ship and damaged six others. Longer range variants were produced that could fly up to 81 miles. They would have been a serious threat to Navy ships during an invasion, but none ever saw combat.
Today, a number of Oka survive in museums. One Oka type 22, the longer range model, still exists and is housed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
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How much does your makeup regime change form winter to summer?
The most common change in our makeup ritual to transition from winter to summer would be the shades we use, especially for eyeshadows and lipsticks. It's not a rule but winter trends tend to go towards the darker, bold shades; while in summer they tend to go towards golds and tropical ones. But there are some changes that in my opinion are even more important to make. So with that in mind here are my tips on what to take out and what to incorporate in your kit for your everyday makeup now that summer is near.
Just like you use less layers of clothing in summer to feel lighter and let your skin breathe and feel fresh, you should also use less layers when doing your makeup in the warmer months. The same "science" applies, you want to let your skin breathe. We usually sweat in summer and having too many layers blocks sweat from leaving your skin causing clogged pores and producing bacteria that can turn into acne breakouts.
So for your daily makeup routine, I would suggest skipping primers, using more cream products rather than powders. I love using cream blush it gives such a natural effect since they are designed to blend perfectly into your skin and seem as if the color is coming out of your skin and not sitting on top of it. Use tinted moisturizers or bb creams instead of heavy full coverage foundations, this will give you a very natural look and since their formulas are lighter, they give your skin a chance to breathe. If you are going out at night or attending an event and want your makeup to last longer, primers and powders are always a good choice. I'm talking specifically about everyday makeup when you are going to be exposed to the sun.
I always love to have glowing skin. I'm not only talking about using powder highlighters, as I mentioned before any powder products you can substitute with creams will always give you a better result when going for a dewy, fresh look. A highlighter is a great example of this, using cream highlighters give the effect of a natural glow.
Cream eyeshadows and shadow sticks (which also have a creamy formula) are very easy to apply and they look amazing, they too blend flawlessly and appear to be part of the skin.
So don't be afraid to use moisturizers and creams, it's all in the application.
Get ready to go from snow to glow!


The Spartan 7W Executive is a five-place all metal monoplane that features retractable landing gear and a luxurious interior. The Executive was designed to be fast and comfortable with extensive insulation to lower cabin noise levels. Executives were used for business and personal transportation, and set a new standard for speed and style. The overall level of technology and performance was comparable to the best fighter airplanes of the day, and this was reflected in a high cost – a factory-new Executive cost $23,500 in 1937. NC13993 is the second production aircraft of just 34 built, and is the only example with a control stick instead of a control wheel. It was used extensively for factory flight-testing. George Mennen used to spray aftershave into the exhaust when he flew, to help advertise his products.
Built by the Spartan Aircraft Company, Tulsa, OK. ATC # 628 granted on 2-15-37, expired 10-20-41.
Serial No 7W-19 was a $30,000 customized aircraft built in 1939 for King Ghazi of Iraq as "Eagle of Iraq" (registration YI-SOF). The aircraft went to the RAF as AX666 in 1940. The aircraft became a training aid in 1941.


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Q: Regex finding youtubes links in  deleting hashtags posted before I'm currently working on a project which require to convert a youtube link to an iframe in a Post. My regex can do that.
However, before doing this, I have a few plugins that transform hashtags # in  and same with links like http://blablabla.bla
My problem here is that my regex transforms every hashtags posted before the youtube video and remove it. I think it comes from the .* at the beggining of my regex but I'm not really sure. I don't really know how to fix my it...
Here is my regex in regex101. But the hashtag link is not included in the full match, so right now i'm not sure of anything...
https://regex101.com/r/Myuyoq/3
Any help, clue or advise appreciated :)
PS : Here is my code right now if it can help understand better...
    const postContent = brify(hashtagify(linkify(usedPost.content || '', {
      className: 'linkified',
      defaultProtocol: 'https',
      target: {
         url: '_blank'
      }
    })))

    const re = /(<a .*(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtube\.com|youtu\.be)\/(?:watch\?v=)?([a-zA-Z0-9_;-]+)?(&list=[a-zA-Z0-9_;-]*)*<\/a>)/g,
    vid = '<iframe width="551" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/$2" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>';
    const contentYoutube = postContent.replace(re, vid)

A: .* at the beginning makes your regex match the very first <a and then eat up everything till the final </a> preceded by the desired href. In order to fix it, change . to [^<] to exclude any other tag from match:
(<a [^<]*(?:http:\/\/|https:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtube\.com|youtu\.be)\/(?:watch\?v=)?([a-zA-Z0-9_;-]+)<\/a>)
    ^^^^
    Use this instead of .

Demo: https://regex101.com/r/Myuyoq/5
P.S.
You failed to show the error in your regex101.com example because the a tags where on separate line and . does not match newline characters. You could place the a tags on the same line to demonstrate what was intended:
https://regex101.com/r/Myuyoq/4

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The Light of Truth as Revealed in the Holy Scriptures
By Levi Rightmyer
Now although this is the last vial of the seven which fills up the wrath of God, yet no repentance is manifest among the transgressors upon whom these plagues are poured out. The reason of this is that this is the stumbling block of Israel's iniquity, and the time has come when God will pass by them no more, but will pass through them. Therefore their hearts are hardened even as the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh and the Egyptians that they might go on and perish.
Even when a third part of the children of wickedness are killed by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of the mouths of the commanders of the horses, as set forth under the sixth trumpet, it is added, 'And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and of wood, which neither can see, nor hear nor walk; neither repented they of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts" (Rev. 9:20-21).
"IT IS DONE" (REV. 16:17)
When the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air, it is said, "And there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven (that is out of the body of Christ, those which constitute the true Temple not made with hands) from the throne." The throne of the Lord was in the Tabernacle, and after in the Temple. Answering to this as a type, the throne of the Father himself will be in the Temple made without hands that is in the body of Christ made perfect, in which the Father himself dwells as in a tent, and it is from the throne in this Temple where the Father sits that the great voice comes forth saying, "It is done."
When the seven angels pour out the seven vials which contain the seven last plagues in which is filled up the wrath of God, and when the judgments which these plagues set forth are finished, the rebellious house will be no more; their lands will be again and for the last time desolate, their cities will be broken down and left without an inhabitant; Jerusalem will be a desolation, and the Temple burned up with fire, and it is there and then where these ominous words apply, "It is done."
JOHN SHOWN THE JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT
HARLOT (Rev. 17-18)
Who the harlot is The wilderness -"Sitting upon many waters Her daughters - The beast that was, and was not - His career Seven heads - Seven kings That The eighth king - Ten horns — Their work· great city ·Fall of Babylon Her wickedness" Come out of her, my people"- Retribution visited upon her― Lamentations for her — Is this destruction final? —" Much people in heaven" rejoice.
"And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters; with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness; and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication."
We learn from the Holy Scriptures that this harlot is neither a Gentile city nor a Gentile people at all, but on the contrary is Jerusalem and the people of Israel when they have again corrupted themselves in the future. and done worse than their fathers in the past, even as they are addressed by the Prophet Ezekiel in the words of the Lord saying, "Wherefore, O harlot, hear the words of the Lord." This name the Lord, in this verse, gives to Jerusalem and her children after describing how he found her, and what he did for her, and decked her with ornaments, and put bracelets upon her hands, and a chain upon her neck, and a jewel upon her forehead, and earrings in her ears, and a beautiful crown upon her head, and the Lord continues saying, "Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver, and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk and broidered work." And as to her food,
he says, "Thou didst eat fine flour, and honey and oil, and thou wast exceeding beautiful and didst prosper into a kingdom. And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty for it was perfect through my comeliness which I had put upon thee."
From this high and exalted position which Jerusalem will attain to in the latter days, she will degenerate into a harlot and her evil works in departing from the Lord and going after her lovers and seeking to other gods are most graphically and forcibly described in this same sixteenth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel, after which the Lord adds in the same place, verse 30, saying, "How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious, whorish woman."
Now one of the seven angels which had the seven vials carried John away in the spirit into the wilderness to see the condition and position of this same imperious whorish woman and the judgment that should immediately overtake her, just as it is described from verse thirty-five to forty-one of this same chapter in Ezekiel's prophecy that we have been considering. John saw her in the wilderness of the people, a moral wilderness of men who knew not God, in Jerusalem; and he saw her there as he says, first, "sitting upon many waters" (verse 1); second, " sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast, . . . having seven heads and ten horns" (verse 3); third, John adds, "The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth" (verse 9).
Now insomuch as the woman does not sit upon three different things but upon one thing, therefore if we can find a true interpretation of one of the things upon which she sitteth, that would furnish us with an interpretation of the whole, even as John was informed by the angel, as it is written in verse 15, saying, "The waters which thou sawest, where the whore (the imperious whorish woman) sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues." This is Gog and all his multitude, or as the angel said to John, Ia scarlet coloured beast with seven heads and ten horns," and her sitting and riding upon this beast is spoken of by the Prophet Isaiah as "staying upon the Assyrian." The meaning of this saying is apparent by what follows it, namely, "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more stay upon him (the Assyrian) that smote them, but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth (Isa. 10:20).
Now to stay upon the Lord," is to put their trust in him and rely upon the Lord for help in time of trouble. Even so, to stay upon the Assyrian is to put their trust in him for help and protection. Staying upon the Assyrian is symbolized in the Revelation by the woman sitting upon many waters, and upon a scarlet coloured beast with seven heads and ten horns, and sitting upon seven mountains. She stays upon them for their aid and assistance.
And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth." It might be well to remark here before we go further that Protestant writers and teachers from Luther down to the present time maintain that the harlot of Revelation is the Pope of Rome and his people, the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes called the "mother church." But these Protestant teachers are very short-sighted people, for by so doing they stultify and condemn themselves, even like the scribes and Pharisees who said, "If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets." "Wherefore," Jesus said unto them, "ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets." Even so with the writers and teachers of the Protestant churches. They say that the Roman Catholic Church is the harlot spoken of in the Book of the Revelation, but they do not appear to see where this lands them, for this harlot is a mother, and has daughters, and her daughters are harlots
like herself, for she is called the mother of harlots. Therefore if the Catholic church is the harlot, then the Protestant churches, which came originally out of her, must be the daughters. They call themselves Protestants, that is protesters against the errors of the "mother church" and they trace their origin back to the Reformation and call themselves reformers. But what are they reformers of? Why, the errors in the mother church. But while Protestants protest against many things in the Roman Catholic Church which they hold to be wrong, nevertheless in nearly all the leading features of their faith and works they are agreed. For instance, the ministry in all of these great religious bodies is tugging away and pulling on the same rope, all trying to save what they call men's immortal souls. Now as men have no such things as immortal souls to save, it follows that the combined effort and labors of Protestant and Catholic priests, as well as the priests in the great religious systems of the world, go for nothing, and all the money that is spent in these religious bodies to that end, is thrown away. And the religious teachers who hold these errors have no power to either understand or to interpret the Scriptures.
But laying aside this spurious interpretation of this oracle of God, by which Protestant ministers attempt to foist upon the Catholic church the odium of being the harlot spoken of in the seventeenth chapter of the Book of the Revelation and elsewhere, we may say that, notwithstanding, both the Protestant and Catholic churches and their spiritual guides of the present day are subject to the veil that is spread over all nations, yet in neither of these great religious bodies is this harlot to be found; but instead, it is a manifestation in a future age, and not then among Gentiles but in the midst of the rebellious house of Israel in their own land.
THE DAUGHTERS OF THE HARLOT
The daughters of the harlot are those nations in the latter days who mingle themselves with the house of Israel and who worship their gods, and who coöperate with God's evil family to trample his truth underfoot, to defile his holy house, the Temple, and to slay the righteous and shed the innocent blood. These nations, therefore, drink of the golden cup which she holds in her hand, which is full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication, or as Jeremiah testifies, "The nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad" (51:7). These nations therefore are themselves called women by the Prophet Ezekiel, who says of idolatrous Israel, She became famous among women (23:10); again, "They shall execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women (Ezek. 16:41); and again, "That all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness" (Ezek. 23:48). These nations coquette with faithless Israel, they drink of her wine, for which reason, after God has given to his own people the cup of his fury to drink thereof all the dregs of the same, the nations will be compelled to wring out the wine thereof, and drink it.
John says (verses 6-7), "I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw, I wondered with great astonishment." That is, when he saw this gorgeous spectacle, he wondered with great admiration, mingled with astonishment; accord
ingly the angel said unto him, "Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will show thee the mystery of the woman and the beast which carrieth her, which hath seven heads and ten horns."
THE MYSTERY OF THE WOMAN AND THE BEAST (REV. 17:8–14)
These mysteries, or riddles, of the woman and the beast can only be solved by the aid of the prophets. Therefore we read what the angel said to Daniel concerning the doings and movements of the beast at the time of the end, under the name of the king of the north, saying, "And at the time of the end shall the king of the south (the king of Egypt) push at him (at the king of Israel); and the king of the north (the Assyrian) shall come against him (that is against the king of Israel also) like a whirlwind with chariots. and with horsemen and with many ships; and he (the Assyrian) shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land (the land of Palestine) and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape, but he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas, in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him" (Dan. 11:40-45).
This prophecy constitutes the basis and furnishes the materials out of which comes the mystery of the woman and the mystery of the beast, as the angel stated it to John, saying in verse 8, "The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition."
THE BEAST THAT WAS
That is, he was king over Israel when he came up out of the sea and overflowed the land of Israel, and when the dragon king of Israel as a military necessity surrendered to him his power, and his seat (his throne) and great authority; then the Assyrian was their king. This is the time that "he was."
AND WAS NOT "
After the king of the north, the beast, has been established in Jerusalem as king, there will yet be the refractory Ethiopian head to be slain to death and conquered and brought into line, and Egypt also, which has been a strong antagonist of the king of the north, must be conquered, robbed, and spoiled (Dan. 11:42-43). Immediately after the beast leaves Jerusalem to go down into the bottomless pit of nations to chastise Ethiopia and to destroy Egypt, the king of Israel revolts and plucks up three of the horns of the beast by the roots, Edom, Moab, and Ammon, and subjects them to his own power (Dan. 11:41-44; Isa. 11:14). While this condition of things continues, the beast "is not," that is to say, he is not at this time king over


Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas published a research note on Monday in which he explored the complexity of Ford's "restructuring roadmap" under the company's new CEO Jim Hackett.
Ford has been steadily profitable since the recovery from the financial crisis began and avoided the bailouts and bankruptcies that befell General Motors and Chrysler in 2009, so one might ask why Ford needs to restructure. But Hackett is new on the job, and Ford's stock has been lagging the market and its sector, so a restructuring is what investors seem to be calling for.
The goal is to generate $12 billion in cost savings by 2022. Jonas scrutinizes a range of options, from layoffs to financial write-downs, but buried in the note is this: "We believe many of Ford's restructuring actions are meant to ensure the fitness of the company's operations during a highly uncertain time which may include a reduced value of its products in the second-hand market, particularly as Ford and its peers introduce superior technologies in critical areas such as connectivity, propulsion and automation."
Henry Ford seated in his first Ford automobile on Grand Boulevard, Detroit in September of 1896.
ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Three-quarter view of a 1908 Model T Ford. Undated photograph.
Sir Harry Lauder sits proudly in his 1914 Ford Model T 'sporty' touring car which sold for $550, complete with equipment.
(Original Caption) View of a Ford touring car with passengers, 1923.
Actors ZaSu Pitts and Ford Sterling pose for this still from the 1927 version of Casey at the Bat. Pitts played the role of Camille, and Sterling played the role of O'Dowd.
(Original Caption) 1929- Picture shows a Ford Town Car. Cloche hatted model is sitting on the running board.
Photo of an early Ford automobile. Ca. 1900s.
The Lincoln was, and still is, one of the luxury cars of the Ford Motor Company.
(Original Caption) 1928- Picture shows the 1928 Ford model A automobile.
(Original Caption) 1940 Ford Deluxe V-8 Coupe.
Ford's 1955 Thunderbird features all steel convenience and safety with high performance. It has roll up windows, a telescopic steering column, and is available as either a hard top or a convertible.
Replacing the Boss 429 and Boss 302, the 1971 Boss 351 Mustang features a competition suspension package and a potent 351-cubic-inch Cleveland engine.
1978-Ford Motor Company's Country Squire Station Wagon.
Man inspects a new Ford Motors Company car that has just come off the final assembly line.
(Original Caption) 11/10/50-Dearborn, Michigan: The custom four-door Sedan, featuring Fordomatic drive, has new refinements in styling to emphasize distinctive body lines. The new models have a dual spinner radiator grille, long wraparound bumpers and new ornamentation.
"Fitness" is Hackett's terms for what Ford needs to do, taken from an investor presentation he gave earlier this month after his first 100 days in the job.
There's quite a nightmare scenario embedded in Jonas' wording. He suggests that when radically new and different vehicles, like electric and self-driving vehicles, begin to hit the market, the cars that lack these technologies will be abandoned. This will leave carmakers holding the bag for the plunging residual values of their "Auto 1.0" products.
It might not happen, of course. Electric cars were supposed to be on their way to 15%-20% of the global market by now; they currently make up about 1%. Self-driving vehicles are still largely in the experimental phase, and it's unclear whether consumers will be willing to shell out the thousands of dollars needed to equip existing vehicles with even just advanced cruise control, of the type that Tesla and Cadillac have rolled out.
But the markets want Ford to be ready for a used-car apocalypse regardless. And in fact that preparation might be valuable, as the used-car market is becoming flooded with vehicles that were sold during the record years of 2015 and 2016, when over 34 million new vehicles rolled off dealer lots in the US alone.
Ford shares were trading down slightly on Monday, to $12.