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Pennine Bridleway – an epic on a fatbike
Posted on August 29, 2013 by terrahawk
The Pennine Bridleway is now a very long trail indeed. It will one day be much longer but for now it starts at Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria, winds its way through the Yorkshire Dales, into Lancashire and joins the Mary Townley Loop. It then continues south sort of past Oldham and into the Peak District, finally terminating at Middleton Top down near Matlock.
That's a long way and (apart from the billion or so gates in certain sections of the route that someone evidently thought were necessary) it's a triumph. It's also been ridden in one go by a few people and impressive records have been set.
So there I was at Kirkby Stephen last weekend, setting off to attempt to ride the entire 184 miles to Middleton Top which includes a hairy-chested 22,000 feet of vertical ascent. I was also in possession of the brilliant Salsa Beargrease fatbike, lovingly built and lent to me by Rich and Shona at Keep Pedalling. Believe it or not, fatbikes are BRILLIANT for big days out. Granted there are lighter bikes available but when flat-out speed isn't as important as "just taking in the views along the way" and you want to have a lot of giggly fun on the descents, you'll love one. Trust me 🙂
As much fun but a few pounds lighter than the Surly Moonlander I was riding a few weeks ago, the Beargrease is noticeably faster uphill and seemed easier to handle over rough terrain. I'd never ridden the northern section of the trail – the bit from the start to the Mary Townley – so I wanted to have done all that before it went dark. By the time I'd set off I only had 8 hours or so before sunset so I aws pushing my luck but my average speed, in spite of the 4" wide tyres, was pretty good and I was on schedule….
…until I got weak. I'm not sure why things suddenly got much, much harder but after 7 hours or so I started to feel like I'd been riding for much longer. I'd not been pushing the pace too hard so I assumed that it was a hangover from my last 24 hour race. My last 24 hour race was 4 weeks ago, but perhaps I'm taking longer to recover these days. Or maybe it was something else.
I've no idea what was wrong really, but one thing was certain – I still had 100 miles of mostly offroad and very hilly terrain to ride and I just didn't have the legs for it. I also knew that if I did carry on, I'd be spending longer than I could afford recovering from it.
Decision made, it was past midnight by now and I was stood in the middle of a deserted moor somewhere near Burnley. Bugger!
After 30 or so miles of bridleway, but mostly A roads through town centres full of Saturday night drunks I arrived back home. At first I was disappointed that I'd not made it to Middleton Top but now I'm chuffed that I'd ridden off road back home from Cumbria, the northern section of the PBW is no longer unfamiliar territory and I'm planning the next attempt in a few weeks.
3 thoughts on "Pennine Bridleway – an epic on a fatbike"
Keep Pedalling (@keep_pedalling) on August 30, 2013 at 7:08 am said:
Certainly is a cracking ride in big country :o)
mikehowarth on August 30, 2013 at 9:33 am said:
Sounds very reminiscent of my ride on the PBW last month. That said the scenery certainly keeps you entertained and the Beargrease certainly looks like an interesting ride!
Dominic Greyer on September 11, 2013 at 2:59 pm said:
This is a completely non-cycling related request but one that you may well be able to help out on! I spotted that your pic of the bike propped up against the Nob End sign was taken in 2008 – I was wondering if you've seen it recently? It's just that these signs have a habit of disappearing & it'd be great to know if it's still there or not!
Really appreciate your help & local knowledge!

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Q: ClassCastException from a PreferenceActivity I'm getting a classCastException every time I try to use this preference class, and I can't figure out why. Any help would be much appreciated. The line the crashes is the addPreferencesFromResources command.
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceActivity;

public class PreferenceManager extends PreferenceActivity {
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences); // This line crashes
    }
}

preference.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Preference xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
                <CheckBoxPreference
                        android:title="@string/startAnimation"
                        android:defaultValue="true"
                        android:summary="@string/startAnimationDescription"
                        android:key="startAnimation" />

</Preference>

Stack Trace
11-18 19:04:19.165: E/AndroidRuntime(1362): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.pearsonartphoto.psychictester/com.pearsonartphoto.psychictester.PreferenceManager}: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.preference.Preference
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2496)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2512)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2200(ActivityThread.java:119)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1863)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362): Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.preference.Preference
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.preference.GenericInflater.inflate(GenericInflater.java:320)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.preference.GenericInflater.inflate(GenericInflater.java:263)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.preference.PreferenceManager.inflateFromResource(PreferenceManager.java:254)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.preference.PreferenceActivity.addPreferencesFromResource(PreferenceActivity.java:253)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at com.pearsonartphoto.psychictester.PreferenceManager.onCreate(PreferenceManager.java:12)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2459)
11-18 19:04:19.175: E/AndroidRuntime(1362):     ... 11 more

A: The top element of the xml file should be PreferenceScreen not Preference
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <CheckBoxPreference
        android:key="pref_sync"
        android:title="@string/pref_sync"
        android:summary="@string/pref_sync_summ"
        android:defaultValue="true" />
    <ListPreference
        android:dependency="pref_sync"
        android:key="pref_syncConnectionType"
        android:title="@string/pref_syncConnectionType"
        android:dialogTitle="@string/pref_syncConnectionType"
        android:entries="@array/pref_syncConnectionTypes_entries"
        android:entryValues="@array/pref_syncConnectionTypes_values"
        android:defaultValue="@string/pref_syncConnectionTypes_default" />
</PreferenceScreen>

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'Bitcoin is #1 priority': NSA targeted cryptocurrency users globally, Snowden leaks show
Posted by Lou on March 21, 2018
Posted in: Criminology, Cryptocurrency, Money, NSA, Whistleblowers.
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The US National Security Agency targeted Bitcoin users around the world, according to classified documents released by Edward Snowden. The revelations strike a blow to the financial privacy of bitcoin users, academics warn.
The National Security Agency (NSA) managed to find ways to 'track down senders and receivers' of Bitcoins, according to an internal NSA report dated March 2013. The findings come from classified NSA documents, exposed by ex-CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden and first published by The Intercept.
Crucially, the tracking may also have involved amassing information from bitcoin users' computers. One NSA memo suggests that the NSA collected some Bitcoin users' password information, internet activity and MAC address, which is a type of unique device identification number.
Julian Assange ⌛ @JulianAssange
NSA: "Bitcoin #1 priority". Good work by @samfbiddle — but #Bitcoin'ers have suffered 4.5 years of attacks they didn't need to because @theintercept, WaPo and Guardian did not follow the @WikiLeaks model & continue to conceal most of the @Snowden archive
1:26 PM – 20 Mar 2018
Bitcoin is a digital currency which uses encryption to regulate its units of currency. From the outset, cryptocurrencies were designed to circumvent the control of banks and provide discretion for financial transactions. But they could not easily evade the attention of national governments, who take a keen interest in controlling flows of money.
Bitcoin was the most assiduously targeted cryptocurrency, with a report from March 2013 stating that "Bitcoin is #1 priority," although other currencies such as Liberty Reserve were also on the agency's radar.
In order to track Bitcoin, the NSA used a programme called MONKEYROCKET, a sub-programme of OAKSTAR, which gathered data from the Middle East, Europe, South America, and Asia, according to the documents.
Part of this effort involved tricking targets into using privacy software that was actually funneling information directly to the agency.
Cryptocurrency mining malware infects over 500,000 PCs with NSA exploit
Financial privacy "is something that matters incredibly" to the Bitcoin community, Emin Gun Sirer, associate professor and co-director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts at Cornell University, told The Intercept. "People who are privacy-conscious will switch to privacy-oriented coins" after learning of the NSA's operations, he added.
The exact justification underpinning the surveillance remains unclear, although digital currencies such as bitcoin are known to pose numerous difficulties for security agencies because their anonymity means financial transactions cannot be monitored.
One NSA document states that the agency was "seeking to attract targets engaged in terrorism" which it could 'exploit'. However the memo goes on to say that "other targeted users will include those sought by NSA offices such as Int'l Crime & Narcotics, Follow-The-Money and Iran." which could indicate a wider purpose, beyond terrorism, for the tracking.
In a report also from March 2013, the NSA states that the anonymous nature of bitcoin currency means that it enables "organised crime and cyber targets" to move and to launder money.
In March 2018 it was revealed that illegal child abuse imagery was detected in Bitcoin's blockchain, according to a study from German researchers. The discovery could put cryptocurrency users at risk as anyone who downloads a blockchain can be held liable for illegal content.
READ MORE: US Fed will kill bitcoin eventually, investor warns
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have fallen significantly this year, leading some investors to fear the cryptocurrency bubble could burst in 2018. On Tuesday, Bitcoin was up 2.88 percent, trading near the $8,500 mark.
James Corbett: The Information-Industrial Complex (15 min)
Posted by Lou on December 21, 2017
Posted in: Banking cabal, CIA, Computer science, Cryptocurrency, Encryption, Espionage, Information-Industrial Complex, Internet, Knowledge, Military industrialized complex, Mind control, Monopolies, NSA, Social media, Surveillance society, USA, Video.
Half a century ago, outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term "military-industrial complex" to describe the fascistic collusion between the Pentagon and America's burgeoning armaments industry. But in our day and age we are witnessing the rise of a new collusion, one between the Pentagon and the tech industry that it helped to seed, that is committed to waging a covert war against people the world over. Now, in the 21st century, it is time to give this new threat a name: the information-industrial complex.
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The Collapse Of Media (And What You Can Do About It)
Posted by Lou on December 7, 2017
Posted in: CIA, Civilization, Corporatocracy, Journalism, Mainstream media, NSA.	Leave a comment
"…the global media industrial complex is designed to generate competing, polarized narratives around which different audiences coalesce into irreconcilable segregated communities; it reinforces beliefs without teaching critical thinking; it blunts an attitude of openness while promoting a banal left-right dichotomy that fuels a global culture of mindless consumerism."
"So most of what we read, watch and hear through the media is structurally conditioned by a network of special interests that are self-supported and self-sustained. This is why the distinction between fake news and real news is both illusory and dishonest."
Source: The Collapse Of Media (And What You Can Do About It) | Zero Hedge
Authored by Nafeez Ahmed and Andrew Markell via CounterPunch.org,
When a system enters into the final stage of its deterioration – whether that is an institutional system, a state, an empire, or the human body – all the important information flows that support coherent communication breakdown. In this final stage, if this situation is not corrected the system will collapse and die.
It has become obvious to nearly everyone that we have reached this stage on the planet and in our democratic institutions. We see how the absolute dysfunction of the global information architecture?—?represented in the intersection of mainstream media outlets, social technology platforms and giant digital aggregators?—?is generating widespread apathy, despair, insanity and madness at a scale that is terrifying.
And we are right to be terrified, because this situation is paralyzing us from taking the action required to solve global and local challenges. While liberals fight conservatives and conservatives fight liberals we lose precious time.
While progressives fight government, the corporations and the super-rich we drown in despair. While philanthropists, fueled by their own certainty and wealth, fight for justice or equality or for some poor hamlet in Africa we become apathetic and distracted from the real source of the problem. And while the president fights everyone and everyone fights the president, the collective goes mad.
In the background, however, the game of hoarding resources and not redistributing them accelerates; absorbing the sum total of our collective actions and commitments into a singular unacceptable future. There is only one way to avoid this fate; uncover the source of the disease and cure it by mobilizing solutions.
We are about to break down for you the source of this disease of information that is accelerating us to ecological and institutional collapse because once you see it, you will be free to act and build something else.
The Collapse of Democratic Institutions
Industrial civilization is in the throes of a great disruption, a systemic transition which could either lead to regression, crisis and collapse; or a new way of working and living, a new mode of prosperity, a new narrative of success.
The global media industrial complex is not equipped to address this great disruption to civilization-as-we-know-it. To the contrary, it is literally incapable of meaningfully processing information in such a way that it produces, for a significant percentage of the human population, real actionable knowledge? which can render humanity capable of transitioning successfully into the new era.
The global media industrial complex today compounds the problems we are facing.
It does this by providing, despite appearances, no knowledge at all. The prevailing model of media is to monopolize and manipulate information flows to produce beliefs and emotions that will allow giant aggregators to maximize 'clicks', to maximize advertising revenues, to maximize profits?—?for a few.
So rather than creating knowledge, the global media industrial complex is designed to generate competing, polarized narratives around which different audiences coalesce into irreconcilable segregated communities; it reinforces beliefs without teaching critical thinking; it blunts an attitude of openness while promoting a banal left-right dichotomy that fuels a global culture of mindless consumerism.
This prevailing media structure constrains the public's capacity to make intelligent decisions. And that allows global ecological, energy, economic, social and other challenges to accelerate, while we argue amongst ourselves about ideology.
The consequence is that information flows are inexorably linked to dominant processes of profit-maximization for a tiny minority; so much so, that people's relationship to information is managed as a control mechanism over attention and ideological persuasion.
The Monopolization of Media & Journalism
At the heart of our collapsing democratic institutions sits the global media industrial complex. If you are brave enough to look closely you will see that both 'free press' and 'fake news' outlets operate as a structural extension of an extreme form of predatory capitalism, using information to capture wealth for the few at the expense of the many, by capturing our minds. They are two sides of one coin that make the same people obscene piles of cash.
We only have to peer under the hood to see this fact staring us in the face.
In the US, six huge transnational conglomerates own the entirety of the mass media, including newspapers, magazines, publishers, TV networks, cable channels, Hollywood studios, music labels and popular websites: Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal.
In the UK, 71% of UK national newspapers are owned by just three giant corporations, while 80% of local newspapers are owned by a mere five companies.
Today, the world's largest media owner is Google, closely followed by Walt Disney, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and Facebook. Together, Google and Facebook monopolize one-fifth of global ad revenue. And all these corporations control the bulk of what we read, watch and hear, including online. They define our understanding of the world and ourselves.
Yet they reflect a tiny number of people who have a very narrow outlook on the world.
That's because these power structures are part of what one study in the journal PLoS One describes as a "network of global corporate control." The study authors, a team of systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, found that the world's most powerful 43,000 transnational corporations are dominated by a core 1,318 companies, further dominated by a "super-entity" of just 147 firms.
So most of what we read, watch and hear through the media is structurally conditioned by a network of special interests that are self-supported and self-sustained. This is why the distinction between fake news and real news is both illusory and dishonest. Due to this structure, virtually everything you encounter as 'news' functions a subtle or overt piece of propaganda that distracts you from the real activity that is driving the machinery. It matters little whether it comes from Mother Jones, the New York Times, Breitbart or Fox News – everything coming at you within this structure produces the debilitating effect of confusing your mind and stimulating your emotions into a complex mash-up of anger, resignation apathy and sloth.
Through the Google Glass
To understand the power of these special interests to monopolize information in service to their own vested ends, we need look no further than the story of world's largest media owner of all.
In January 2015, INSURGE broke the exclusive story of how Google was founded and evolved under the wing of the US intelligence community.
The report revealed that during his development of the core code behind the Google search engine as a Stanford University postgraduate student, Sergey Brin received seed-funding from a CIA and NSA-run research program, the Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS). The confirmation came from a former manager of the MDDS, Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, who is now the Louis A. Beecherl distinguished professor and executive director of the Cyber Security Research Institute at the University of Texas, Dallas.
This was not necessarily unusual?—?the intelligence community has long been involved in Silicon Valley for all sorts of obvious reasons. What's interesting is that you probably never knew about how this worked in relation to Google. And that says a great deal about the way the global media industrial complex operates. Her claims are corroborated by a reference to the MDDS programme in a paper co-authored by Brin and fellow Google co-founder Larry Page while at Stanford.
How the Media – All Media – Handles the Truth
This story was totally blacked out in the English-language media: except the US tech news site Gigaom, which recommended our investigation as follows:
"An interesting, if extremely dense, account of Google's longstanding interactions with US military and intelligence was published on Medium last week."
This has very important implications that deserve careful scrutiny: In short, the inside story of Google's seed-funding and founding by the CIA and NSA breaks into the open?—?but not a single English-language newspaper wants to cover or even acknowledge the story. Yet what could be bigger news, than one of the world's biggest 'news-facilitators' being so closely aligned with the US intelligence community at birth?
The lack of interest is not the result of a conspiracy. It's the predictable outcome of the fact that the global media industrial complex represents a highly centralized institutional structure that perpetuates a culture of slavish obedience to power.
The global media industrial complex largely obscures important knowledge about the very structure and nature of power. That's why this is probably the first time you've seen direct evidence that the most powerful media owner in the world, Google, was conceived with the support of the US intelligence community.
Power and Control Over Your Mind & Your Resources
This is not about whether Google is uniquely 'evil'. It's about a wider pattern of unacceptable ownership patterns and social networks across the media landscape.
Consider William Kennard. He served on the board of the New York Times, then became US Federal Communications Commission chairman. He then joined the Carlyle Group as Managing Director. Carlyle majority-owns Booz Allen Hamilton, the defense contractor managing NSA mass surveillance. After Kennard joined the Obama administration as US Ambassador to the EU, he pushed for the secretive, pro-corporate Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Consider John Bryson, Obama's Secretary of Commerce until 2012. In the preceding decade he sat on the board of the Walt Disney Company, which owns the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). He was simultaneously on the board of US defense contractor Boeing. Despite resigning from those positions after joining government, he held lucrative stock, option assets, and deferred-compensation plans with both Disney and Boeing.
Consider Aylwin Lewis, another Walt Disney Company director and simultaneous longtime director at Halliburton, one of the largest transnational oil services firms, formerly run by Dick Cheney. A Halliburton subsidiary, Houston-based KBR Inc., received $39.5 billion in Iraq related contracts over the last decade?—?many of which were no-bid deals.
Consider Douglas McCorkindale, a director of giant media conglomerate Gannett for decades, and head of various Gannet subsidiary spin-offs. Gannett is the largest US newspaper publisher measured by daily circulation, and owns major US TV stations, regional cable news networks, and radio stations. Yet for about a decade, McCorkindale also served as a director at the US defence giant, Lockhead Martin, resigning in April 2014.
Consider that these individuals, through their media and defense industry interests, profited directly from devastating wars enabled, effectively, by their own propaganda.
And notice that this is a bipartisan game, lavishly benefitting liberals and conservatives alike.
So the global crisis of information and the global Crisis of Civilization? – where we see an escalating convergence of political extremism, ecological destruction, and economic volatility, unravelling our societies and families, decapitating the hopes of our youth? – are clearly one and the same reality.
The commodification of information is part and parcel of the commodification of the planet.
This is a game where your mind, your attention and future are reduced to a worthless asset, traded through the markets until there is nothing left. But there is no need to accept this fate. All that is required is that you see it for what it is.
Once seen, new information and ideas can flow into your mind, new emotions can flow into your body, and you will be empowered to take action. If you see you can act. It becomes obvious that the only solution is to redesign the journalistic format such that new ideas and information lead to constructive action. It becomes obvious that to enliven the public sphere and restore our democratic institutions, we should facilitate the flow of money in media back to where it belongs; into the hands of both journalists and reader-participants committed to the creation of a just and sane future.
Top NSA Whistleblower Claims 'Russiagate' a Fake to Increase War-Spending
Posted by Lou on November 19, 2017
Posted in: Military, Military industrialized complex, Mind control, NSA, Political science, Propaganda, Russia, Russiagate, USA.	Leave a comment
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William Binney is the mathematician and Russia-specialist, who quit the NSA in 2001 as its global Technical Director for geopolitical analysis, because of the lying about, and manipulations of, intelligence, that he saw — distortions of intelligence by the George W. Bush Administration — in order to 'justify' systematic, massive, and all-encompassing, Government snooping into all Americans' private electronic communications. His, and some colleagues', efforts to get the Inspector General of the US Department of Defense to investigate the matter, produced FBI raids into their homes, and seizures of their computers, so as to remove incriminating evidence they might have against higher-ups. According to Binney, NSA's Director, Michael Hayden, had vetoed in August 2001 a far less intrusive and more effective system of signals-intelligence collection and analysis, which might have enabled the 9/11 attacks to be blocked — a more effective system that would have been less expensive, less intrusive, and not violated Americans' Constitutional rights. Hayden went on to head the CIA, until the end of George W. Bush's Presidency. Afterward, Hayden joined the Chertoff Group and other military-industrial-complex contractors of the US federal Government. There were no such rewards for any of the whistleblowers.
Binney viewed Hillary Clinton as continuing George W. Bush's neoconservatism, and so, though reluctantly, voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
On November 15th, an interview of Binney was published at the Washingtonsblog news-site, titled "How to Instantly Prove (Or Disprove) Russian Hacking of US Election", in which Binney provides technical details to explain why he strongly believes that the Democratic Party's allegations, which say that Russia was the source of the leaks of information from the computers of the Democratic National Committee and from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta, are nothing more than intentional concoctions and distortions, which are backed and promoted by America's military-industrial complex, whose stock-values rise accordingly with the lies.
He believes,
there's a huge part of the story that the entire mainstream media is missing …
Specifically, Binney says that the NSA has long had in its computers information which can prove exactly who hacked the DNC … or instead prove that the DNC emails were leaked by a Democratic insider. …
And he stressed:
If the idiots in the intelligence community expect us to believe them after all the crap they have told us (like WMD's in Iraq and "no we don't collect data on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans") then they need to give clear proof of what they say. So far, they have failed to prove anything.
Which suggests they don't have proof and just want to war monger the US public into a second cold war with the Russians.
After all, there's lots and lots of money in that for the military-industrial-intelligence-governmental complex of incestuous relationships.
His technical explanation of how he came to this conclusion, is provided in that Washingtonsblog article. He doesn't think that the elements within the intelligence community which are promoting the Russiagate allegations can possibly be so stupid as to actually believe what they are saying. He claims that they know that what they are saying is false, because if it weren't false, then they could provide, to the public, evidence that it is true, and do it without violating anyone's rights, nor revealing any legitimate US national-security information.
Basically, he is saying that the keepers of the keys are blocking the public from the truth, because they know that the truth will expose the fact that they've been lying to the public, all along.
His technical explanation of the details employs a number of undefined terms, which aren't understandable to persons who are not themselves technically knowledgeable about the field, such as his saying:
First, from deep packet inspection, they would have the originator and ultimate recipient (IP) of the packets plus packet series 32 bit number identifier and all the housekeeping data showing the network segments/path and time to go though the network. And, of course, the number of packet bits. With this they would know to where and when the data passed.
From the data collection, they would have all the data as it existed in the server taken from. That's why I originally said if the FBI wanted Hillary's email, all they have to do is ask NSA for them.
All this is done by the Narus collection equipment in real time at line rates (620 mbps [mega bits per second,] for the STA-6400 and 10 gbps [giga bits per second] for the Insight equipment).
Binney explained what these numbers mean: Each Narus Insight device can monitor and record around 1,250,000 emails each second … or more than 39 trillion emails per year.
However, no one who is promoting the Russiagate allegations is taking him on, to debate Binney's allegations. Instead, all of the newsmedia are plastered with allegations of 'Russia's meddling in American democracy'.
There are people who know what the terms that Binney is using refer to. But, thus far, none of these people is saying that Binney is a liar. Instead, they've all just been ignoring him — and none of the major newsmedia have been inviting Binney and the promoters of the military-industrial-complex's position onto their forums in order to debate these issues in public. It's just like the situation was about 'Saddam's WMD,' in 2002 and 2003 prior to our invasion and destruction of Iraq as a supposed 'response' to the 9/11 attacks.
The Intercept Profits and Burns its Own Whistleblower
Posted by Lou on June 9, 2017
Posted in: Alternative media, Espionage, Hacking, ljf, NSA, Political science, Russia.	Leave a comment
I was one of those that perhaps looked to the Intercept as possibly one of the beacons of truth in the new media, than this comes out. Human behavior is human behavior. We should never ever trust anyone when it comes down to the truth. We have to figure it out ourselves. I wonder what Snowden thinks about these people. Mind you, this has nothing to do with him. But these fools are hurting the whatever passes for the left media these days.
Source: The Intercept Profits and Burns its Own Whistleblower | Covert Geopolitics
There's a twin problem with the pseudo-patriots in America today, i.e. pseudo-alternative media. Tracing its roots from The Guardian, Gleen Glenwald gained popularity when the NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden gave him and other mainstream journalists the Scoop of the Century, i.e. NSA massive surveillance.
Profiting heavily from the Edward Snowden NSA leak, the overlords at the pseudo alternative media The Intercept, which have made it a big business luring would be whistleblowers to leak everything they know through its own platform and enjoy subsequent stardom, has done it again. It burns its own leaker just so it could prove Russia is really hacking the US agencies with another worldwide exclusive release.
Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November's presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept.
The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the U.S. election and voting infrastructure. The report, dated May 5, 2017, is the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light.
While the document provides a rare window into the NSA's understanding of the mechanics of Russian hacking, it does not show the underlying "raw" intelligence on which the analysis is based. A U.S. intelligence officer who declined to be identified cautioned against drawing too big a conclusion from the document because a single analysis is not necessarily definitive.
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/
There are only two key phrases which any investigator would like to focus on from the above Intercept article:
"A U.S. intelligence officer…", and;
"… a single analysis is not necessarily definitive."
.. and the specific intelligence officer, which is sometimes called an intelligence analyst, is identified because there is only one specific person assigned to a specific task, which in turn is a security measure by itself.
But despite the "not necessarily definitive" clause which the NSA intelligence analyst has arrived at, the Intercept went on and published the leaked NSA document because it mentioned about Russian hacking, to the detriment of its source.
The Intercept article continues:
The report indicates that Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood. It states unequivocally in its summary statement that it was Russian military intelligence, specifically the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, that conducted the cyber attacks described in the document:
Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors … executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.
This NSA summary judgment is sharply at odds with Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial last week that Russia had interfered in foreign elections: "We never engaged in that on a state level, and have no intention of doing so." Putin, who had previously issued blanket denials that any such Russian meddling occurred, for the first time floated the possibility that freelance Russian hackers with "patriotic leanings" may have been responsible. The NSA report, on the contrary, displays no doubt that the cyber assault was carried out by the GRU.
We are not saying here that there are no Russian hackers, government employed or civilians, who are doing these activities because all governments that are currently engaged in a hybrid war against each other actually do. But it is only the NATO member states, and other Khazarian alliances, which are proven to be spying on each other.
There is also a big difference between snooping and hacking. Monitoring and tampering of data like what the Deep State operatives did to a Qatari website is more aggressive. The Russians did not manipulate the results of last year's presidential election, like Google did with its Clinton-biased search results.
In fact, some of these "patriot" hackers have leaked about the preparatory manipulations done by Soros affiliated electoral systems prior to the said election, and it did not take a Russian hacker to inform the world what had actually occurred within the DNC camp to the detriment of the Bernie Sanders' campaign.
The Intercept is working closely with its twin platform, Democracy Now, and with its sister site Rappler in the Philippines is spreading dangerous leaks,
Classified Trump-Duterte Call Transcript Leaked by Deep State Stooges in the Philippines
… just so it could live up to its name, The Intercept.
Do Not Trust The Intercept or How To Burn A Source
Moon of Alabama | June 06, 2017
Yesterday The Intercept published a leaked five page NSA analysis about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. Its reporting outed the leaker of the NSA documents. That person, R.L. Winner, has now been arrested and is likely to be jailed for years if not for the rest of her life.
Intercepted source – R.L. Winner
FBI search (pdf) and arrest warrant (pdf) applications unveil irresponsible behavior by the Intercept's reporters and editors which neglected all operational security trade-craft that might have prevented the revealing of the source. It leaves one scratching one's head if this was intentional or just sheer incompetence. Either way – the incident confirms what skeptics had long determined: The Intercept is not a trustworthy outlet for leaking state secrets of public interests.
The Intercept was created to privatize the National Security Agency documents leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The documents proved that the NSA is hacking and copying nearly all electronic communication on this planet, that it was breaking laws that prohibited spying on U.S. citizen and that it sabotages on a large scale various kinds of commercial electronic equipment. Snowden gave copies of the NSA documents to a small number of journalists. One of them was Glenn Greenwald who now works at The Intercept. Only some 5% of the pages Snowden allegedly acquired and gave to reporters have been published. We have no idea what the unpublished pages would provide.
The Intercept, a subdivision of First Look Media, was founded by Pierre Omidyar, a major owner of the auctioning site eBay and its PayPal banking division. Omidyar is a billionaire and "philanthropist" who's (tax avoiding) Omidyar Network foundation is "investing" for "returns". Its microcredit project for farmers in India, in cooperation with people from the fascists RSS party, ended in an epidemic of suicides when the farmers were unable to pay back. The Omidyar Network also funded (fascist) regime change groups in Ukraine in cooperation with USAID. Omidyar had cozy relations with the Obama White House. Some of the held back NSA documents likely implicate Omidyar's PayPal.
The Intercept was funded with some $50 million from Omidyar. Its first hires were Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras – all involved in publishing the Snowden papers and other leaks. Its first piece was based on documents from the leaked NSA stack. It has since published on this or that but not in a regular media way. The Intercept pieces are usually heavily editorialized and tend to have a mainstream "liberal" to libertarian slant. Some were highly partisan anti-Syrian/pro-regime change propaganda. The website seems to have no regular publishing schedule at all. Between one and five piece per day get pushed out, only a few of them make public waves. Some of its later prominent hires (Ken Silverstein, Matt Taibbi) soon left and alleged that the place was run in a chaotic atmosphere and with improper and highly politicized editing. Despite its rich backing and allegedly high pay for its main journalists (Greenwald is said to receive between 250k and 1 million per year) the Intercept is begging for reader donations.
Yesterday's published story (with bylines of four(!) reporters) begins:
The NSA "intelligence report" the Intercept publishes alongside the piece does NOT show that "Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack". The document speaks of "cyber espionage operations" – i.e someone looked and maybe copied data but did not manipulate anything. Espionage via computer networks is something every nation in this world (and various private entities) do all the time. It is simply the collection of information. It is different from a "cyberattack" like Stuxnet which are intended to create large damage,
The "attack" by someone was standard spearfishing and some visual basic scripts to gain access to accounts of local election officials. Thee is no proof that any account was compromised. Any minor criminal hacker uses similar means. No damage is mentioned in the NSA analysis. The elections were not compromised by this operation. The document notes explicitly (p.5) that the operation used some techniques that distinguish it from other known Russian military intelligence operations. It was probably -if at all- done by someone else.
The reporters note that the document does not provide any raw intelligence. It is an analysis based on totally unknown material. It does not include any evidence for the claims it makes. The Intercept piece describes how the document was received and "verified":
The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, …
The NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence were both contacted for this article. Officials requested that we not publish or report on the top secret document and declined to comment on it. When informed that we intended to go ahead with this story, the NSA requested a number of redactions. The Intercept agreed to some of the redaction requests.
The piece quotes at length the well known cyber security expert Bruce Schneier. It neglects to reveal that Schneier is a major partisan for Clinton who very early on, in July 2016, jumped on her "Russia hacked the Democratic National Council" claim for which there is still no evidence whatsoever.
The Intercept story was published on June 5. On June 3 the FBI already received a search warrant (pdf) by the U.S. District court of southern Georgia for the home, car and computers of one Reality Leigh Winner, a 25 year old former military language specialist (Pashto, Dari, Farsi) who worked for a government contractor. In its application for the warrant the FBI asserted:
On or about May 24, 2017, a reporter for the News Outlet (the "Reporter") contacted another U.S. Government Agency affiliate with whom he has a prior relationship. This individual works for a contractor for the U.S. Government (the "Contractor"). The Reporter contacted the Contractor via text message and asked him to review certain documents. The Reporter told the Contractor that the Reporter had received the documents through the mail, and they were postmarked "Augusta. Georgia." WINNER resides in Augusta, Georgia. The Reporter believed that the documents were sent to him from someone working at the location where WINNER works. The Reporter took pictures of the documents and sent them to the Contractor. The Reporter asked the Contractor to determine the veracity of the documents. The Contractor informed the Reporter that he thought that the documents were fake. Nonetheless, the Contractor contacted the U.S. Government Agency on or about June 1, 2017, to inform the U.S. Government Agency of his interaction with the Reporter. Also on June I. 2017, the Reporter texted the Contractor and said that a U.S Government Agency official had verified that the document was real. …
To verify the leaked document the reporter contacted a person working for the government. He used insecure communication channels (SMS) that are known to be tapped. He provided additional meta-information about the leaker that was not necessary at all for the person asked to verify the documents.
It got worse:
On June I, 2017, the FBI was notified by the U.S. Government Agency that the U.S. Government Agency had been contacted by the News Outlet on May 30, 2017, regarding an upcoming story. The News Outlet informed the U.S Government Agency that it was in possession of what it believed to be a classified document authored by the U.S Government Agency. The News Outlet provided the U.S. Government Agency with a copy of this document. Subsequent analysis by the U.S. Government Agency confirmed that the document in the News Outlet's possession is intelligence reporting dated on or about May 5. 2017 (the "intelligence reporting"). This intelligence reporting is classified at the Top Secret level, … … 14. The U.S. Government Agency examined the document shared by the News Outlet and determined the pages of the intelligence reporting appeared to be folded and/or creased,suggesting they had been printed and hand-carried out of a secured space.
The U.S. Government Agency conducted an internal audit to determine who accessed the intelligence reporting since its publication. The U.S. Government Agency determined that six individuals printed this reporting. These six individuals included WINNER. A further audit of the six individuals' desk computers revealed that WINNER had e-mail contact with the News Outlet. The audit did not reveal that any of the other individuals had e-mail contact with the News Outlet.
The source that provided the document had no operational security at all. She printed the document on a government printer. All (color) printers and photo copiers print nearly invisible (yellow) patters on each page that allow to identify the printer used by its serial number. The source used email from her workplace to communicate. Ms. Winner is young, inexperienced and probably not very bright. (She is also said to be Clinton partisan.) She may not have known better.
But a reporter at The Intercept should know a bit or two about operational security. Sending (and publishing) the leaked documents as finely scanned PDF's (which include (de) the printer code) to the NSA to let the NSA verify them was incredibly stupid. Typically one only summarize these or at least converts them into a neutral, none traceable form. Instead the reporters provided at several points and without any need the evidence that led to the unmasking of their source. Wikileaks is offering $10,000 for the exposure and firing of the person responsible for this.
It is also highly questionable why the Intercept contacted the NSA seven days(!) before publishing its piece. Giving the government such a long reaction time may lead to preemptive selective leaks by the government to other news outlets to defuse the not yet published damaging one. It may give the government time to delete evidence or to unveil leakers. The Intercept certainly knows this. It had been burned by such behavior when the National Counterterrorism Center spoiled an Intercept scoop by giving a polished version to the Associate Press. Back then the Intercept editor John Cook promised to give government agencies no longer than 30 minutes for future replies. In this case it gave the NSA seven days!
Besides the failure(?) of The Intercept there are other concerns to note.
Why has a 25 year old language specialist for Afghanistan access to Top Secret NSA analysis of espionage in the U.S. election? Where was the "need to know"?
Could this espionage -if it happened- have been part of a different plan by whomever? Consider:
@mattblaze
Simple way to hack elections: Compromise some county offices & systems. Do nothing. If election doesn't go your way, reveal that you hacked.
10:52 PM – 5 Jun 2017
More additional question are asked in this thread.
The lessons learned from this catastrophic -for the source- leak:
Start thinking of good op-sec before you think of leaking.
Computer access gets logged. Do not leave any suspicious (log) trace at your workplace (or anywhere else).
Do not provide any trace from your immediate workplace or any personal metadata with the leaked material.
And last but certainly not least:
Do not trust The Intercept.
Posted by b on June 6, 2017 at 06:09 AM | Permalink
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/06/do-not-trust-the-intercept-or-how-to-burn-a-source.html
Top USA National Security Officials Admit Turkey Coup
Posted in: CIA, Intelligence, New World Order, NSA, Political science, Russia, Syria, Turkey, War.	1 Comment
Source: Top USA National Security Officials Admit Turkey Coup | New Eastern Outlook
http://journal-neo.org
Author: F. William Engdahl
While the Obama Administration and the CIA officially cling to the fig leaf lie that US intelligence was innocent of any involvement in the failed July 15 coup d' etat attempt by the CIA-run Fethullah Gülen organization in Turkey, the truth is coming out from senior US intelligence insiders themselves. It reflects a huge internal faction struggle within US leading circles in what by all accounts is shaping to be the most bizarre Presidential election year in American history.
The first admission that US intelligence had their hand in the anti-Erdogan coup, a coup launched just days after Erdogan announced a major strategic shift away from NATO and towards Russia, came from Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski is one of the most senior members of the US intelligence establishment, a former Obama Presidential adviser and former National Security Council architect of the Jimmy Carter 1979 Mujahideen Afghanistan terror operations against the Soviet forces in that country.
In a Twitter tweet from his own blog, Brzezinski wrote a precis of a new article he wrote for The American Interest magazine. He writes, "The US backing of the attempted coup against the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a grave mistake that could deliver a major blow to the US reputation." That's definitely putting it mildly given what's unfolding in Turkey since July 15.
Brzezinski went on to write, "Turkey was on the verge of reconsidering its foreign policy after failure in the Syria during the last five years, and the US miscalculation in supporting the coup and hosting its leader (Fethullah Gülen, now in CIA-arranged exile in Pennsylvania-w.e.) was so serious that it is no longer possible to put the blame on once-US-ally Turkey if it turns its back on US and rethink (sic) its policies." He continues, "A potential Russia-Turkey-Iran coalition would create an opportunity to solve the Syrian crisis. If Erdogan had the smallest bit of wisdom, he should have come to the understanding that he could not make an independent credibility with the help of some 'decayed' Arab countries," no doubt referring to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the prime financiers of the Syrian terror war against Assad since 2011.
Brzezinski, who together with Henry Kissinger was one of the foremost US foreign policy strategists of the postwar period, the founding Executive Director of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, and one who still today presumably retains Top Secret clearance access to US intelligence reports, was expressing his fury at the utter incompetence of US intelligence in managing the Turkey relationship. Notably, the person in the US State Department directly responsible for not only the disastrous US coup in February, 2014 in Ukraine, but also for Turkey, is the hapless neo-con perpetual warrior-ess, Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland, wife of neo-con Robert Kagan.
Brzezinski's candid critique was followed up by an even more detailed expose of US intelligence ties to Fethullah Gülen, charged by the Turkish government with treason and backing the July 15 coup. In a guest article in the EU online mgazine EurActiv.com dated 17 August, 2016, Arthur H. Hughes confirms the intimate links between Gülen and the CIA, noting that "Gülen fled to the US with the assistance of the diplomat Morton Abramovitz, CIA agents Graham Fuller and George Fidas, and the above-mentioned Fr. Alexander Karloutsos."
Gülen CIA friend Bartholomew I
Hughes' article is a bombshell in many respects, and most definitely in his detailing of the intimate ties between the CIA, Gülen and the current Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, current Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch. Hughes described the above-mentioned Father Alexander Karloutsos:
"…one of the members of the American-Israeli lobby in the Constantinople Patriarchate is Father Alexander Karloutsos, Public Affairs Officer close to Archbishop Demetrios (of America-w.e.). Thanks to his ties with high-level officials and Greek-American billionaires, he is basically the only person who controls the money flows from the US to the Phanar (the Greek Orthodox part of Istanbul-w.e.), and that gives him wide possibilities of exerting pressure upon the Ecumenical Patriarchate. On the other hand, Karloutsos is also in good relations with former CIA Director George Tenet, and with the preacher Fethullah Gülen cooperating with the American intelligence."
George Tenet, a close ally of the Clinton political machine is a Greek-American former head of CIA during the time of Bill Clinton and also George W. Bush. The Clintons are both on record praising Fethullah Gülen. It seems to be a cozy network of CIA-Gülen-Constantinople Patriarchate-Clintons, all financed with "money from Greek-American billionaires."
Arthur H. Hughes is not a casual commentator on events in Turkey and the Middle East. He was US Ambassador to Yemen in the 1990's during the Clinton Presidency, then Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia, and was Deputy Chief of Mission in Tel Aviv. His linking of Gülen to the CIA and to the Constantinople Patriarchate points to one of the least-public and most influential covert CIA-run networks in the world, the anti-Moscow Orthodox Patriarchate of Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople. Hughes suggests that if Erdogan and the Turkish government are serious about dealing with future coup threats, they should put the Constintanople Patriarchate under the magnifying glass.
As I've documented in my book, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy, Graham E. Fuller and George Fidas, both decades-long senior CIA officials managed to secure an extraordinary permanent residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, over the loud formal objections of the US State Department, in 1999, when Gülen was about to be charged by the Turkish authorities for inciting treason.
Most recently, Fuller felt compelled to write on his blog that, indeed he did help Gülen obtain a US green card, but that no, Gülen was not behind the failed July 15 coup. However Turkish reports place Fuller and another senior CIA ally, Henri J. Barkey, at a luxury hotel on one of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, some twenty minutes from Istanbul the night of the failed coup. In a subsequent appearance at a Washington think tank forum held by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a neo-con address whose chairman is former CIA director, neo-con James Woolsey III, Barkey and his host tried to make a feeble joke about his presence in Istanbul the night of the coup and his ties to Gülen.
For once, Brzezinski is right.
The CIA-Gülen coup d'etat attempt to topple Erdogan after his turn towards rapprochement with Moscow was "a grave mistake." The consequences, aside from a massive crackkdown on Gülen networks and media inside Turkey, include an open dialogue of Erdogan and the Turkish government of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım with Russia and now with Iran, about a "solution" to the Syrian war that would include Bashar al-Assad as at least a transition figure.
The Erdogan pivot East since the failed CIA coup has forced the Pentagon to quietly remove its nuclear warheads from Turkey's Incirlik airbase near the Syrian border to Romania. At the same time, Turkey's Prime Minister on August 20 stated to the media that Russia could possibly use Turkey's Incirlik Airbase if necessary, something that certainly produced more acute gas pains in Langley, Foggy Bottom (the more than fitting name for the US State Department headquarters), and the Obama White House.
July 15 may go down in history as one of the most decisive defeats of American global power projection, of the so-called New World Order of David Rockefeller and friends. If so, not a minute too soon for the prospect of a more peaceful world.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook."


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Harmony of Movement and Thought
The Colourful World of Zhang He
Imagine natural forms, full of promise, bursting into life that never fades. You're beginning to understand the appeal of Zhang He's explosive abstractions. He uses oil paint so thick it looks like solid bouquets of colour.
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There are echoes of the Québecois Automatistes movement in Zhang's sculptural brushstrokes, spontaneous and bold expressions of qi. There's also a deep memory of American abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock. Yet Zhang's work has a distinctly Chinese character — what some experts term 'calligraphic'.
For Zhang, Abstract Expressionism and the Automatistes were departure points in his career. Other inspirations include Helen Frankenthaler, Chaim Soutine, and Egon Schiele.
Born in Shenyang in the Year of the Rabbit, 1963, Zhang studied art and stage design before embarking on his painterly journey. He came to Montréal with his wife in 1998 and stayed. There is more than a little performance in his creative process. He is tremendously physical and works at a grand scale as you can see in images of his studio.
Like a Tornado, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 36 x 2.5 inches - Zhang He
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Though reproductions of his art are beautiful, only face-to-canvas experiences truly convey the depth of Zhang's work. Haute is delighted to be able to announce an exhibition in collaboration with Zhang He's Vancouver representatives, Kostuik Gallery at the Hollybridge presentation centre in Richmond. The exhibition will open on January 23rd and run through Chinese New Year.
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So, it was my first time visiting to Mr. Ho's Fine Foods two months ago. It was during a birthday dinner of one of meatball-online's best friend.
And now, do enjoy what we had there!
Originated from Kuala Lumpur and currently extend their business to East Malaysia.
Very cozy restaurant for alcoholic drinks and meal.
Chopped tomatoes, herbs, seafood and cheese.
I had this dish and the flavour of tomatoes were covered the whole pasta which I don't favour much.
The highlight of Mr. Ho's Fine Foods!
Tender pork meat with sauce!
Overall, dishes served by Mr. Ho's Fine Foods are fine. In fact, they added a generous amount of ingredients that made the whole dish seem flavour-ish. Furthermore, some of the dishes might be too oily for some of us. And yet, there's guests who commented both tasty and not. Anyway, thumbs up for the Roasted Pork!
Golden corns! Love those! It is pretty rare to see just plain corns like this for sides.


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Focusing mainly on works from developing countries in Asia and Africa this Fine Arts Museum has collections from hundreds of contemporary artists from nearly 60 countries. These include paintings, sculptures, photographs, ceramics and textiles. Established in 1980 and renovated in 2005, this is one of the largest fine Arts museums in the Middle East. In addition to the permanent collection the gallery also regularly hosts temporary exhibitions and cultural events. Find out about upcoming cultural events and exhibitions from the gallery website calendar. The gallery is comprised of two buildings with a small park in between them. The gift shop and the cafe are in separate buildings.
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Genre: African American Women's Fiction
Studious Paige Turner has all the necessary qualifications to succeed. But in this corporate world of innuendos and obscured language, lines become quickly blurred. Words like "teamwork" and "team player" make or break careers.
Wittily written with hard-won insights Law Firm Confidential is one of those gems of a fiction debut that you'll want to talk about! A quasi-cautionary novella about how career development is a process, as opposed to an exact science with Yonsei adding plenty of sex and curveballs to the mix.
With Yonsei in fine voice, her narrator is Paige Turner and it's her raucous odyssey of career moves we follow as she reflects on her past whilst setting out on a road trip that will see her start afresh.
That Yonsei knows so much about the legal world gives her novella a payload boost and the degree of authenticity it wouldn't have been so good without. With Paige possessing the insights you'd expect from someone in her profession this all makes for a rock-solid foundation but it's Paige's autobiographical stamp combined with Yonsei's razor-sharp wit that will keep you turning the pages.
Lines like "My interpretation of QuickBooks was based on how fast I could book a flight on Expedia.com" will have you laughing out loud whilst others like "I had become conscious and aware enough to choose what I paid attention to and how I construct meaning from experience" will certainly give way to a good deal of reflection. Add more than a few raunchy encounters to the mix and what Yonsei leaves us with is a wild, imaginative and valuable read that's hard to put down.
Definitely one to have on your reading radar Law Firm Confidential is highly recommended.
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Have you ever seen a home run live? The excitement that fills the stadium is electric! That same excitement comes alive too when a marketing campaign goes viral. With today's digital means, we can easily see when something goes viral, not just in the stats, but in the sales too! So, how do you hit a home run? We're here today to let you in on our secrets to hit a home run in digital marketing by having a HIGHLY successful campaign.
It's that simple. You're thinking…"that's it?" Yes. In it's most simple form, digital marketing successes come from doing these three things, just like playing baseball.
A major league baseball player is not born overnight. These careers often start in neighborhood leagues with tee ball. Only after years of playing school and community sports, are players even at a skill level to be considered for a major league team. Even then, most players start out on farm teams. The only way they progress and stand out in their sport is by practicing. All of the skills learned from even back with tee ball apply and build upon each other. Tee ball, catch with dad in the back yard, hours of team practices, and more are all foundations that allow a player to be successful in baseball.
The same is true with digital marketing. You have to practice and build the foundations in order to be successful. Has your brand built the foundations to be successful? Do you have the website in place to direct prospects to? Do you have landing pages set up for your campaigns? Do you have a social media presence and authority built up? Do you have proper branding and marketing materials created? It comes down to being prepared for handling new clients that walk in your door from a campaign. If you don't have the foundations in place, you may have a successful campaign, but not one that converts to sales. You may do more damage than good by promoting a brand that is confusing and flawed. You have to get your foundations in place first!
Successful baseball players may hit many home runs in their career, but they also have hit many "average" hits, foul balls, or even missed good balls. The key is, that they are playing in the first place! You can't hit a home run when you're not even holding a bat!
Digital marketing is the same way. Not every email campaign will go viral. Not every social media campaign will make it out of the park, or go viral online. Not every display ad campaign will clear the bases. But, you have to be doing something in order to have a chance at hitting a home run with digital marketing. And let's not discount the value that all of these other campaigns have even if they don't "go viral." Businesses learn valuable intel on their audience, build rapport with customers, and build their brand with every digital marketing campaign they do. You can win baseball games without ever hitting a home run, so let's not discount the value of any good "hit." Success is made up activities, that when put together as a whole, result in something measurable.
Remember that thrill we got when we witnessed a home run? Remember that thrill when your email marketing campaign went gangbusters? We know that excitement too. We've seen it happen. Now, remember what happened next? The game kept going on. You see, one home run hit will not win a game. You need to get multiple successful people back to home plate to get enough points to win.
Digital marketing works a lot like baseball, as we've seen. When you have a viral campaign, you have to keep going. Ride that momentum and learn from the success you just had in order to make home runs in your digital marketing more common than before.
Ultimately, a home run or one GREAT marketing campaign will not make or break you. That's why we focus on multi-channel strategies, retargeting, and long-term strategies in digital marketing. We know that you have to have the foundations in place in order to play at the level you need. Then, you can play to win in digital marketing and know how to hit home runs more often!
Kevin Layton is CEO of Data-Dynamix, a premier source of demographic data, a go-to partner for delivering digital marketing campaigns and experts in advertising sales training that was ranked 1,226 on the 2015 Inc. 5000. The company partners with a litany of top-tier ad agencies and media groups across newspaper, radio and television. Layton, author of the upcoming book, "Building Your Digital Marketing Machine," is also a revered inspirational speaker on digital marketing, international business and business strategy. Reach him online at www.data-dynamix.com or via Twitter @DataDynamix1.


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Wow, it's hot in Hong Kong! When we were here in May it was just steamy, now it's downright unpleasant. Thats not the only thing that changes quickly in Hong Kong: a bakery and Vegetarian Restaurant that we loved on our first trip were closed on our second visit – only two months later. The pace of change in China is quick.
A second trip to Hong Kong is required for us on this trip, and very welcome, we loved it first time around. Hong Kong is also the only city we can fly from to get to Africa on our OneWorld Explorer ticket, so here we are.
The timing couldn't be better. Hong Kong is hosting the Barclays Asia Cup this year, and Liverpool FC (my favorite English team) is playing. Tickets weren't available online, so there was some chewing of fingernails when we go in. The first games were the same day we arrived. So we sprinted from the airport to our room to the stadium without tickets, but still got in to see Portsmouth v. Fulham and Liverpool v. South China FC.
Other activities involved visiting the Avenue of the Stars. It's kind of like the Hollywood walk of fame – hand prints in concrete – but it's for Hong Kong Kung Fu stars, and theres a statue of Bruce Lee.
We also took the Cable Car up to Victoria Peak while we weren't waiting on the elevator at Miradoor Mansion (where we were staying in a cubby hole) for about a quarter of the time we were there (or so it seemed).
We love Hong Kong and hope to visit again real soon – you should too!


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Bloody Thursdays 2020-2021 Season, Join Us on ZOOM
Sep 14, 2020 | Bloody Thursday, Events
Out of caution and due to limits on public gatherings, Friends of Mystery will be hosting our Bloody Thursday 2020-2021 speaker series online using ZOOM.
Though we're sad we won't have the opportunity to meet and mingle with our speakers and guests in person, going online does have its benefits. In addition to protecting the health of our participants, we will be able to serve attendees from literally around the world. And when possible, we will record the events, which means even if you can't make it at the scheduled time, you will be able to watch later at your convenience.
Our season will open on October 1, 2020 with Spotted Owl winner Robert Dugoni. Then in November, Robert C. Donnelly will join us. Robert, our March 2020 guest, graciously agreed to postpone as we worked to come to terms with the pandemic.
In 2021 we'll be joined by Chris Holm, Katrina Niidas Holm, and Cara Black, who also had to postpone last season. We have one more guest in the works and will announce them soon.
We look forward to seeing you this year. Be on the lookout for our next Blood-Letter, as well as more details about our upcoming events.
Looking ahead to the 2021-2022 Season, we've decided to continue on Zoom for the September and November events. We then hope to return to in-person events in January 2022—though we'll hold off making the final decision until we see how circumstances unfold in the coming months.
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Our 2021-2022 Season opens on September 23rd with a panel featuring Tracy Clark, Mary Keliikoa, and Elle Marr. Then in November we welcome Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush in conversation. Announcements of our 2022 events will happen soon!
At present, Bloody Thursdays will be continue to be hosted online with Zoom. Sign-up for our newsletter to get more details.
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