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Across the street from Micheltorena Elementary School is this 78-step staircase. If you stand back several feet at the bottom of the stairs, you can see hearts carefully painted on the vertical part of the steps. Gaily colored in rainbow hues, this hidden staircase in Los Angeles is a lesser-known part of the Silverlake neighborhood.
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PLM This Week: Dassault Systèmes and HTC Bring VR into Product Development
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Dassault Systèmes and HTC Bring VR into Product Development
While virtual reality (VR) has been redefining the way we look entertainment for a while, this technology is now also starting to find its uses in product development.
Dassault Systèmes, which prides itself on always being on the cutting edge, recently announced that users of the company's 3DEXPERIENCE platform now can strap on the HTC Vive Business Edition and interact with the system in a virtual reality environment.
In a press release, Dassault states that users such as industrial designers, mechanical engineers, marketers, project managers, and manufacturing planners can plug into an HTC Vive head-mounted display and work at their desktop with natural navigation in a stereoscopic virtual reality environment.
This new method of accessing, viewing and exploring a native virtual model on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform makes it easier to understand an object's depth, solidness and design in a way that cannot be achieved with a computer screen alone.
"The Vive Business Edition allows Dassault Systèmes' customers to use virtual reality at a large scale at low cost," said Hervé Fontaine, vice president of virtual reality enterprise and business development at HTC. "With the Vive's unique laser tracking system providing sub-millimeter precision and very low latency, it is an ideal fit for Dassault Systèmes' CATIA application users who can now check their work in real time as they modify their design."
IFS Completes MXI Acquisition
Swedish business software developer IFS announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Canadian aviation maintenance specialist MXI Technologies.
The company's solutions are primarily used within commercial airline and defense companies for third party maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) operations. MXI's software is touted as a "best-of-breed solution" when it comes to support and services.
According to IFS, the software will continue to be sold and marketed as a stand-alone solution, but it will also be integrated as a module in the IFS Applications ERP suite.
"IFS combined with MXI will be consolidated as world-leading aviation maintenance among operators, MROs and OEMs," said Alastair Sorbie, CEO of IFS.
IFS, which was acquired by private equity firm IQT last year, has stepped up its own pace of acquisitions. The MXI deal was announced on December 13 of last year, and while the amount is undisclosed, IFS acquisitions and strategy chief Fredrik vom Hofe stated in an interview with Reuters that this was the largest deal since 2003.
MXI operates globally, but is based in Ottawa, Canada, and has over 265 employees. Its software suite, Maintenix, is designed to help companies in the aviation industry take maximum advantage of their assets through standardized, optimized and predictive maintenance.
MXI's global customer base includes everything from small and medium sized businesses to large, global corporations with several thousand users. The company's most well-known customers include Southwest Airlines, Air France, KLM, Qantas, China Airlines, LATAM, Icelandair, NetJets, Boeing, BAE Systems, Saab, Pratt & Whitney and a number of air forces around the world.
"By taking advantage of MXI's deep industry knowledge, IFS supports new and existing customers to streamline their operations. The acquisition is in line with IFS's growth strategy and goal to become the world's leading provider of business solutions to global clients in the construction, service and product-focused industries," said Sorbie.
Centric Releases Version 6 of PLM Suite
Silicon Valley-based PLM developer Centric Software has released a large upgrade to its cloud-hosted PLM solution for retail and fashion companies. Version 6.0 includes major, broad-sweeping innovations, with more than 100 new features being added in the last six months.
The new version focuses on three areas: scalability and performance, decision making analytics and personalization of the interface.
Radically improved performance scaling, which makes it possible to manage more than 10,000 users on the system, while also storing terabytes of active data in the cloud — reportedly without negative effects on performance or user experience.
A new analytics tool called "Slicer," which lets users analyze seasons' or years' worth of information to answer questions about financial and supplier performance, costs or other complex queries requiring significant "what-iffing" and number crunching.
An interface makeover that changes the solution's look and feel, adding in new branding and personalization options, dashboards with widgets and charts to digest information at a glance, mass editing features to minimize clicks and many other improvements that make the solution easier to use.
"All innovations to Centric PLM are driven by interactions with our customers," explained Ron Watson, VP of products at Centric Software. "Our Customer Advisory Board gives us insight into their strategic and operational challenges and, along with input from our customer innovation partners, we use this valuable feedback to guide our roadmap. We are proud to say that our new release was recently given their enthusiastic stamp of approval."
SAP Launches Quick-Start Program for IoT
As previously reported, enterprise software giant SAP is investing heavily in the Internet of Things (IoT) -- and we're not talking about pocket change.
According to SAP, two billion euros will be spent on helping companies and the public sector take advantage of sensors, smart devices and large amounts of data, which can be turned into new business opportunities with the Internet of Things.
As part of this effort, SAP has launched "Leonardo," which is a quick-start program meant to connect people and processes with intelligent devices.
"Leonardo," the company said in a statement, "makes it easy and profitable for businesses of all types to get started with creating innovations for the Internet of Things."
The background to the SAP initiative is the explosive growth of data resulting from IoT and Industry 4.0 ventures in the world's industries. This is a train that the German ERP giant does not intend to miss.
The company has therefore put up a five-year budget for large investments in innovation, acquisitions, and a network of SAP research labs focused on the IoT. The plan is to accelerate the pace of innovation in the SAP solution portfolio, increase sales and marketing and to expand the service, support and interaction. With this venture, SAP also hopes to expand its network of IoT partners and start-ups - a market with an estimated turnover of 250 billion Euros by 2020.
"With billions of connected devices, we can transform society, economy and the environment, and SAP HANA is the computer platform that opens these possibilities of the Internet of Things. Today, we have an extensive investment that allows our customers to benefit from being connected in real time," said SAP's CEO, Bill McDermott.
This project has already resulted in a few changes to SAP's existing IoT portfolio. This includes several packages combining adaptive applications with applications for the analysis of large amounts of data, as well as connectivity for a variety of business and industry scenarios - everything from products, devices and infrastructures that communicate among themselves to fleets, markets and even humans.
Full Forklift Integration
An interesting example is a case coordinated by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), which incorporates positioning data and forklifts.
In a test project called "Track and Trace,", forklifts could be followed in real-time - with a precision measured in centimeters – while recording their position in large warehouses, airplane hangars and industrial premises.
The Bosch-founded start-up, "Zeno Track," follows the trucks with the help of cameras, GPS, laser scanners, radio and connected motion sensors. Data on the current location is supplied through Bosch's IoT cloud to the SAP "Insight Vehicle Application," which is a control system for vehicle fleets.
The bottom line is that with the help of this battery of products, software platforms and services, it is possible to intelligently manage the trucks in accordance with plans and maintenance schedules. According to SAP, this will reduce costs and increases efficiency.
Leonardo Set to Capture Smaller, Agile Actors
While SAP has traditionally been seen as a vendor focused on large enterprise solutions, Leonardo is being touted as something completely different.
The idea is to lower the barriers to entry to the IoT market, making it easier for companies to take the first steps towards implementing IoT technology. The solution can be described as an introductory offer for a quick-start program with ready scenarios, all at fixed costs.
With prototypes containing complete business cases for full-scale IoT strategies, and further proliferation and transparent fixed costs for software and service during the first year, Leonardo hopes to lower the threshold for the development journey.
SAP will hold its first global SAP Leonardo events and showcase the latest innovations in the Internet of Things and effective business strategies at CAPE EUROPE, 11-12 July, 2017 in Frankfurt.
ThingWorx Gets Top Marks in IoT Benchmark Report
PTC is seeing more and more evidence that ThingWorx, the company's IoT solution, has taken a leading position in the market.
Analyst Experton Group recently released its latest report, "Industry 4.0/Internet of Things Vendor Benchmark 2017," where for the second year in a row PTC is noted as one of two leaders in the highest "Leaders" quadrant.
The Experton report identifies and analyzes 15 providers of IoT platforms. Of these 15 providers, Experton ranks six of them as being a "strong market player with very attractive product and service offerings." These providers are all included in the Leaders quadrant; but that being said, PTC is one of two top-rated providers.
Experton writes about the ThingWorx platform, which is central to PTC's IoT approach, stating that "it offers quick and easy ways to create IoT applications and dashboards, without requiring deep IT skills or long training times."
The report further notes that PTC's solution consists of modules that enable quick app design, good connectivity and also has capabilities for machine learning, augmented reality and integration with leading cloud platforms."
Moreover, Experton Group ranks PTC as the leader in the "Industrial Big Data Analytics."
One of PTC's advantages in this is that the company, with its PLM solutions, is much closer to the product development and production areas than any other IT provider, said Arnold Vogt, senior adviser at Experton Group.
In case you're interested in learning more about PTC, watch this space. We're currently in the process of editing a face-to-face interview that Verdi Ogewell did with PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann. The interview focuses on PTC's IoT bet, the new subscription-based business model and what it could mean for PTC, as well as a potential Ace up Heppelmann's sleeve.
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Thank You All and Happy New Year
I hope that you were able to celebrate the real joy God's presence among us, even though the situation was less than ideal this year because of the coronavirus. In some sense, perhaps we can identify even more with the Holy Family who also had to endure "less than ideal" conditions at Jesus' birth. We have been consistently praying for all those suffering from the coronavirus whether from illness, isolation, or anxiety. Now is also the time to pray for a Healthy New Year. Pope Francis has also made a special declaration, so it is also a good time to pray to St. Joseph. This is an excerpt from the Vatican website: www.vatican.va
In a new Apostolic Letter entitled Patris corde ("With a Father's Heart"), Pope Francis describes St. Joseph as a beloved father, a tender and loving father, an obedient father, an accepting father; a father who is creatively courageous, a working father, a father in the shadows.
The Letter marks the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pope Pius IX's declaration of St. Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. To celebrate the anniversary, Pope Francis has proclaimed a special "Year of St. Joseph," beginning on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 2020 and extending to the same feast in 2021.
At this time of year, I like to take the opportunity to thank those who made this year's celebration a worthy expression of faith. In particular I would like to recognize all of our musicians and cantors. Thank you to Mrs. Maria Lennon, our Music Director for all her time and effort in coordinating our worship while admirably handling various obstacles and restrictions due to the virus. I also traditionally thank the priests who have helped us out throughout the year including Msgr. Richard Bolger, Msgr. Jim McCoy, and Fr. Rich Connors, even though we haven't seen much of them this year. I also want to thank my friend, Fr. Tim Christy who has been able to help out quite a lot.
Special thanks to all the other Ministers of the Mass including our altar servers (both Student and Adult), Lectors, Ushers, and Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. Everyone had to make accommodations because of the virus and I am so grateful for your cooperation. Thank you also to those who help to count the collection and do other supportive things behind the scenes. Thank you also to Mrs. Carla Venditti, Mrs. Karen Baranowski and their team of helpers for working with a modified Christmas flower budget and making it look special for the Christmas season. Please remember to pray for all those names listed on our "Christmas Flowers" envelopes.
Your memorial envelopes will be placed in the manger for the duration of the Christmas Season. I also want to thank a student who has been responsible for recording our Sunday Masses, editing them, and putting them up on our website. Mr. Carter Junod has done an excellent job seeing that the people of the parish can still attend church virtually. I am also grateful to his parents, Joe and Kim Junod, who have helped him in this effort. Finally, I thank all who sent cards, gifts, and/or food to the rectory; your expressions of care, love and concern are sincerely appreciated. In addition I want to recognize and thank those who continue to make financial sacrifices for St. Joseph parish especially in these difficult circumstances. Your generosity at Christmas and throughout the year is a true testament to your faith and witness of God's blessings.
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TSA violates breast cancer mom with invasive, humiliating body search
Friday, December 16, 2016 by: Daniel Barker
Tags: abuses, breast cancer, Denise Albert, TSA
(Natural News) The American public continues to be harassed, groped and humiliated by the TSA on a daily basis at airport security screening checkpoints across the country, and although most incidents are never reported, every few months or so a new story hits the headlines reminding us just how invasive and insensitive their tactics can be.
The latest such case involved Denise Albert, breast cancer patient and co-host of The Moms radio show on SiriusXM.
Denise was traveling through Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on December 4 – as she has done many times in the past without incident – when she was subjected to harassment and an attempted "body cavity search in public" by TSA officers, an experience that left her in tears, feeling "violated" and "humiliated."
As usual, she had dutifully notified TSA about her condition – Denise has a metal port in her chest and must also carry medical cream – but this time, the officers decided to detain and harass her, even though she had removed the medical cream from her bag before going through the checkpoint.
From Denise's Facebook post describing the incident:
"I had already told them about my metal port and my medical cream which I removed from my bag for them to see and test as I have done on prior flights. I don't know what was different this time but TSA agents aggressively attempted to do a body cavity search in public."
The TSA agents took Denise to the side and asked her to remove her shoes, then told her that she would have to submit to a complete body pat-down "with pressure:"
"I should also point out that according to the TSA website, what these agents did was improper procedure – they are not allowed to touch skin and should be gentle over clothing (contradiction to what you hear on video). I should NOT have been required to remove shoes because of my medical condition and they were supposed to ask if I have a tender area and didn't and didn't listen when I told them I did."
'I have never been so humiliated or felt more violated in my life'
The ordeal lasted at least 20 minutes, with Denise forced to sit with her bare feet on a cold floor and endure an invasive body search in which one TSA agent "forceab[ly] and aggressively put her hands down my jeans in the back" and "attempted to do a body cavity search in public."
Part of the incident was recorded on video and posted on Denise's Facebook page.
After the incident, Denise filed a formal complaint with the TSA and made her story public. The TSA responded with an apology along with a promise to launch an investigation and "refresh training" for 3,000 LAX employees.
One can't help but wonder if Denise Albert would have received any response from the TSA at all if her story had not gone viral on Facebook and in the media.
Denise's experience was just the latest of several incidents this year in which the TSA violated the rights of travelers in an unacceptable and even violent manner.
TSA year in review 2016: Agents grope 10-year-old girl, beat up disabled 19-year-old
In January, for example, a 10-year-old girl's experience of being aggressively patted down at Raleigh-Durham International Airport was caught on video by her father and made public. In this case, the girl, who was wearing a long skirt, was patted down for a period of more than two minutes in a fashion that was – to say the least – "inappropriate."
And in June, a disabled 19-year-old girl on her way to be treated for a brain tumor was beaten bloody by TSA agents at Memphis International Airport after she became frightened and confused at the security checkpoint.
There have been many such extreme incidents, and an untold number of comparatively less serious but still humiliating violations of basic human rights carried out by TSA agents on a regular basis.
And considering the fact that the TSA is incapable of intercepting more than a tiny percentage of the faux-explosives and banned weapons sent through airport checkpoints by undercover agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – not to mention the yearly cost of funding the agency – one might easily wonder if it's all worth it to begin with.
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IWU Keio Exchange (Japan) (Outgoing Program) Featured
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Program Terms: Academic Year, Spring
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Illinois Wesleyan is one of a handful of small liberal arts colleges in the US with an exchange agreement with Keio University—a wonderful opportunity for IWU students to both interact with Keio students here in Bloomington and to then study alongside them in Tokyo.
Keio University in Tokyo is both one of the oldest and one of the top-ranked universities in Japan. A large research university, Keio has approximately 29,000 undergraduates—of which about 470 are international students.
IWU students may study at Keio for a spring semester or the full academic year, and with the choice of studying mainly Japanese language or a variety of English-taught courses in Japanese culture, history, politics, and business.
Tokyo (which means "Eastern Capital"), with a population of over 13 million, is the capital city of Japan and also the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Home to over 50 Fortune 500 companies, more Michelin-starred restaurants than any other city, and the amazing Studio Ghibli, Tokyo is a global leader on many fronts. While there, you can ride it's 13 subway lines, visit the world's largest fish market, explore ancient temples and Japanese street fashion, and relax to the purrs of many cats in a Cat Cafe.
Keio University, located in the Minato area of Tokyo, dates back to 1858. Since the school's inception, Keio has continued to the idea of jitsugaku, which holds that one should not just acquire information from book learning, but should learn from real-life experiences in order to apply viable solutions to actual problems.
The University has multiple campuses, and your studies would mainly be done at the historic Mita Campus, home to the Center for Japanese Studies. However, some International Center courses are held on the Hiyoshi and Yagami campuses.
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IWU students can study at Keio University for a full academic year or for the spring semester (study at Keio only in the fall is not possible, as the semester overlaps the start of the spring semester at IWU). While there, students can participate in either the Keio international Program or the Japanese Language Program.
The Keio international Program (KIP) is suitable for undergraduate students who wish to focus on studying in various academic fields in English. Fields include economics, business, politics, history, culture, area studies, and the global community. KIP students with advanced Japanese proficiency may also focus on undergraduate courses taught in Japanese, offered by the Keio University faculties that are open to exchange students. In addition, they may choose to take up to four (4) Japanese language courses. The main purpose of KIP is for students to attend a wide range of Japanese Studies and/or International Studies Courses taught in English, and/or attend regular undergraduate courses taught in Japanese, rather than emphasizing the study of Japanese language.
The Japanese Language Program (JLP), offered by the Center for Japanese Studies, is for undergraduate and graduate students who would like to focus on Japanese language learning. The curriculum is designed to assist students in attaining the high level of Japanese proficiency required for research and other academic activities in specialized disciplines.
Keio assists students in arranging accommodation in Japan. Students are provided with a room at one of the student dormitories subsidized by Keio University. In some dormitories, weekday meals are included in the fee, and in others students are responsible for their own meals.
Students are required to pay rent through automatic debiting from their bank account each month. The monthly rent charged to students varies from ¥51,000– ¥78,000 (approximately $480–$735). Students will also be charged ¥20,000/$190 maintenance fee on their first month's rent. Deposits and key charge are not required.
IWU normally allows students to use all federal, state, and institutional aid, as well as any external scholarships, toward one semester of study abroad. Students who participate in an IWU Exchange Program are given the option to participate in a second abroad experience using their full aid package.
IWU has a home-school tuition policy, which means that students studying abroad pay the regular IWU tuition—unless the study abroad tuition is higher, in which case the student pays that higher cost. For the IWU Keio Exchange, students are charged only for the IWU tuition: housing costs are paid directly to Keio University. Students' regular financial aid package will be applied to IWU costs, and IWU will bill participants using the regular billing cycle.
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Spring 2019 Per Semester
Airfare $1300–$1600
Passport and Photos $110–$145
Room $1920–$3000
Meals* $1150–$2300
Local Transportation $300
Japanese Health Insurance $100
Personal Expenses/Miscellaneous* $2000


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Many MBA students struggle with their dissertation at the end of the year simply due to a lack of advance planning. In your final year, you should assess the dissertation requirements and actively track your progress towards the degree. It is also imperative that you have regular conversations with your academic supervisor in this regard, and create an estimated plan with timelines to keep you focused and gain clarity on long-term goals.
A great starting point is to review the topics completed in the modules and shortlist sections that appeal to you the most. Having a few MBA dissertation topics for consideration can go a long way in helping you figure out the tone and rationale you prefer to have for the dissertation eventually. Keep in mind, you should genuinely be interested and passionate about the area of study that you pick for your research, and be able to engage with it as a researcher. Speaking to other faculty members and peers also helps significantly when deciding on your dissertation from various angles.
Don't be afraid to approach faculty when you need dissertation help or want to brainstorm some ideas connected with your dissertation topic. While an MBA dissertation is meant to be an individual achievement to further your own understanding of the subject, an academic supervisor is there to fine-tune your arguments and give your clarity on the methodology you choose. It is useful therefore, to take their valuable inputs when required to polish the flow of your mba dissertation structure. Other supplemental resources for MBA dissertation assistance include guidebooks on dissertation writing and online support forums for student communities writing dissertations across different subject areas.
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THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK The Beatles, Acoustic Submarine
Some people think the idea of a soul in literature is a bit passé. A critique partner told me that. Thankfully, I disregarded her advice and wrote a novel about a guy who has to fight for control of his own soul. Don't we all have to fight for control of our soul from time-to-time?
I think soul is what moves Earth's 4.5 billion tiny little sparks through the universe. Soul gave us "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day..." and "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow....' Soul is why we distillers wait seven years for good bourbon.
Maybe soul, or a soul, is one of those things you don't notice until it's gone. That's kind of what happens to Preston Black in my novel. One day he wakes up, and life as he knows it is gone forever. His means of making music are taken from him by external forces. Without his old routine he's forced to make a change to pursue his passion or lose it.
Who better to guide Preston toward his grail than John Lennon, a man who seemed to spend the last ten years of his life searching for his own soul. Only recently have I started to see early John Lennon and late John Lennon as two totally separate entities. India is probably where the split began. John hooked up with Yoko just after returning to England. She was in the studio with him for most of The White Album sessions. Prior to Yoko he'd never had to choose. The Beatles were his soul.
During their time in Rishikesh with the Maharishi, The Beatles worked on thirty songs. Some were completed in India, some, like "Mean Mr. Mustard" and "Something" remained unfinished until the sessions for Abbey Road in 1969. Some, like "What's the New Mary Jane?" never appeared on any official releases. "Child of Nature" was reworked by Lennon as "Jealous Guy" and included on the album Imagine.
Most of what remained showed up on The Beatles, a.k.a. The White Album. (A month from now a purist is going to leave the comment, 'Um, there's no such album as The White Album. Did you mean...') In order of appearance, the India songs on The White Album are: Back in the U.S.S.R., Dear Prudence, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, I'm So Tired, Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon, Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, I Will, Julia, Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, Sexy Sadie, Revolution, and Cry Baby Cry. Demos of these songs recorded at George Harrison's estate just after everybody returned from England, and show up on a bootleg called the Esher Demos or the Esher Tapes. The White Album songs on this bootleg come from those sessions.
To me, the songs from India represent the last drop of life The Beatles were able to squeeze out of their collective soul.
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Do You Want to Know a Secret
I'm a Loser
I'm Looking Through You
We Can Work It Out
I'm Only Sleeping
The Fool on the Hill
The Happy Rishikesh Song
Child of Nature
Everyone Had a Hard Year
What's the New May Jane
Back in the USSR
Dear Prudence
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
Rocky Raccoon
Mother Nature's Son
I Lost My Little Girl
Teddy Boy
Mama, You've Been on My Mind
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Denmark officially bans bestiality
Food and Agriculture Minister Dan Jørgensen was behind the ban. Photo: Sonny Munk Carlsen/Scanpix
As of Tuesday it is no longer legal to have sex with animals in Denmark, bringing the country's bestiality laws in line with its neighbours.
A ban on bestiality passed parliament as expected, with all parties voting in favour of the ban with the exception of Liberal Alliance, which voted against the bill, and the Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten), which abstained.
The bill to outlaw animal sex was first introduced in October by Food and Agriculture Minister Dan Jørgensen, who said that allowing bestiality in Denmark was damaging the country's image.
"It's important that Denmark is not viewed as a country where sexual relations with animals are allowed," he said in February when the proposal began its way through parliament.
In recent years, Denmark has been left geographically isolated as the only country not to ban bestiality. Sweden banned it in 2013, while Norway outlawed it in 2011. Sex with animals is also illegal in Germany. This has reportedly led to an underground animal sex tourism industry in Denmark, which was the subject of a Vice documentary in August 2014 that once again brought international attention to bestiality in Denmark.
The Danish Animal Ethics Council (Det Dyreetiske Råd) has argued against the need for a ban, saying that the nation's current laws – which allow bestiality except in cases where the animal can be proved to have suffered – are enough.
Jørgensen disagreed and said the time had come to implement a full ban.
"I have decided that we should ban sex with animals. That is happening for numerous reasons. The most important is that in the vast majority of cases it is an attack against the animals. And under all circumstances, any doubts about it should go to the animals' benefit. They naturally cannot say no to going along with it. Therefore, it should be banned," Jørgensen told Ekstra Bladet last year.
Bestiality is now punishable by up to one year in prison for a first offence or two years for repeat offenders. The bill also included restrictions on where dogs can be sold in an effort to cut down on impulse buys that are later regretted.
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Q: Correctly managing a user system i'm trying to build a platform that would eventually be a web page, android and ios app.
For my platform i want to be able to save data (about user credentials etc..)
I think that the way to do that will be to make a server that contains a db of all the data(?).
I would like to know what is the best way to approach this issue, what is the best way to build such a system (that contains data accessible via the internet) - should i go with SQL? FIREBASE? do i access the db directly? or do i access the server who accesses the db?
I have never worked with databases before, so any information about this would be very helpful, thanks!!

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I use Postnuke .750 and an error has just popped up yesterday when trying to log in.
And then you are redirected to the user.php page with out being logged in.
Has Dreamhost upgraded their php and its no longer compatable with the .750 version of postnuke?
I'm a php newbie so any help would be greatly appreciated.
To answer the first part of your question; DreamHost is currently rolling out PHP version 5.2.0 across their servers.
As to whether this update would cause your Postnuke error; There are reports of the PHP update causing issues with other scripts, but I haven't seen anything specific to Postnuke.
Such a thing is possible. DH has been rolling out PHP 5.2 on many server over the last few days, and I suppose that could have happened to your server and it might have ramifications for something in PostNuke.
Have you run a phpinfo() program to confirm what version of PHP your server is now running?
A little more info: If your server is in fact running php 5.2, there is a known issue that produces the results you are seeing.
The details, and a fix, are available on the Postnuke Forums.


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Barn Light Electric Receives 4th Straight Customer Service Award in Best of Houzz 2017
Home>Press Releases>Barn Light Electric Receives 4th Straight Customer Service Award in Best of Houzz 2017
TITUSVILLE, Fla. (January 17, 2017) — For the fourth year in a row,Barn Light Electrichas received a Best of Customer Service Award on Houzz®, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The Americanmanufacturer of vintage-inspired barn lighting was chosen by the more than 40 million monthly users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than one million active home building, remodeling, and design industry professionals.
The Best of Houzz awards are given annually in three categories: Design, Customer Service, and Photography. Customer Service honors are based on several factors including the number and quality of client reviews received in 2016. A "Best of Houzz 2017" badge appears on winners' profiles to help homeowners identify top-rated home professionals on Houzz.
"We are very grateful to Houzz for this honor and to our dedicated sales team that goes above and beyond to make sure every customer receives personal service and attention," says Bryan Scott, owner of Barn Light Electric.
"We are so pleased to award Best of Houzz 2017 to this incredible group of talented and customer-focused professionals," said Liza Hausman, vice president of Industry Marketing for Houzz. "Each of these businesses was singled out for recognition by our community of homeowners and design enthusiasts for helping to turn their home improvement dreams into reality."


Somehow, at some point you stopped being yourself, as if someone took your mind, body, personal relationships, work etc. and messed it all up. You find yourself asking questions like, "How did I get here, I used to be a different person?" In this list I've included some clues that your depression has reached a point of needing help, NOW. Here's a phrase I hear often from our Pastor, Ryan Smallwood at Aldersgate UMC, "It is okay to not be okay, but it's not okay to stay that way." With Depression, there is help and please remember, you don't have to stay that way.
If you are acting differently in 2 or more areas of your life, your life is severely impacted by your depression. For example, if you are unable to attend activities with your kids, and for 3 days straight you started to be late to work. Or if because of your depression you do not want to do things but also your productivity at work or during tasks at home have decreased.
If you have noticed that family members or friends no longer even ask for your help or for you to go someplace with them.
You notice that there are things that you used to do, that other people in the family start doing for you. Sometimes if someone is a depressed they will decrease normal activities, so those around them will start doing the things that need to be done, such as grocery shopping, cleaning, taking the kids to school, taking the dogs on walks or paying the bills, or mowing the lawn. The family might not ask you to do these things, or you might ask them "Can you do this for me just one time?" However, that one time becomes more than once.
Oftentimes, family members who are close to you notice that you have changed. They might have subtly said various things about your condition or asked questions about you needing to "see someone." They might tell a story about how a friend had a hard time and they started taking Prozac and now they feel better, or they see a certain counselor and their life has changed. My suggestion is that if someone is hinting that you're depressed, and that person is someone that you love and trust, you might want to listen to them. It might be hard but engage their concern and talk directly with them about your struggles.
If you're depressed you might cry more often. Many people are abuzz about how the new TV show, This is Us, makes them cry. But if you find yourself crying often, this is a key indicator that your depression is not managed and you might need more help.
You feel and treat yourself like you are "worthless." The main purpose a bully has is to make you feel like you are unworthy. Many people who are depressed feel unworthy and their self-talk becomes something like this "I don't know why God even made me." Or they say "I just ruin everyone's life." This is likely not true, and it is depression in the flesh talking instead of you. I hope you find a deeply rooted apology to yourself and find awareness in your strengths. Unfortunately, some people say things to themselves that they would never think of saying to other people, especially during an episode of depression.
People with depression often have sleep problems. Either they don't sleep much or they sleep too much. A common sign of depression is when someone wakes up 2 or more hours before they need to. After waking, someone who is depressed can have severely negative thinking patterns.
Weight gain or loss often occurs with depression. If someone who is depressed has lost or gained over 10 pounds in 1 month without trying, it is likely that this is rooted in worsening depression. Sometimes, people with severe depression say that food tastes differently, or that it has lost its flavor. Others become more ravenous and find themselves drawn to carb loaded foods and sugary foods.
9. Your primary care doctor and the staff now know your name.
Depression comes with physical symptoms. People often overlook this sign of depression. If you are getting more migranes, having asthma attacks more often, have unexplained pain, or if you're a woman and have significant menstral changes that are unrelated to a physical condition please consider that the main issue might be related to your depression.
This is usually a symptom more common in men and youth with depression but it can occur with women as well. Increased irritability is often swept under the rug and not linked by the average person to depression. When I ask someone if they are depressed they will often say, no I'm not depressed but I'm here because I'm mad at ________, _______, and _________. I have an anger issue.
If you have strongly considered or have started abusing alcohol or any other substance that you think might "help" with your depression, consider taking medication or seeing a therapist before you start or continue an addiction.
So, if you feel after reading this that your depression is significant and you have decided to get help here are some ways to take that first step. Increase your coping skills and self-care strategies. Studies show that exercise helps often as much as anti-depressants. Consider eating healthier and taking vitamins. Vitamin B helps with stress, and a good Omega 3 Fish Oil Supplement could help. There are other supplements but due to potential side effects of supplements, I'd strongly advise you to speak with someone who is skilled in understanding herbal medicine so the other options are excluded here. Push yourself to do activities that you enjoyed doing in the past that you have been avoiding. If nothing you can think of is working, schedule an appointment with your primary care physician. Discuss your symptoms and concerns and see what the physician feels about possibly prescribing medication and/or referring you to a Counselor.
Recognize how common depression is, 1 in every 5 people have an ongoing mental health condition. Seeing a Counselor and taking medication is often the best most holistic form of treatment which gets the best results. You or your spouse might have access to an Employment Assistance Program (EAP) which will help with 3-6 sessions or more of FREE COUNSELING per incident, per year. Check your health insurance plan before paying for out of pocket counseling sessions. EAP sometimes covers help for family members who are wanting to help the person with depression. If you are not the one that has Depression but someone else in your family needs love and support and you don't know what to do, consider using your EAP program for this.
Please note that sometimes there are drawbacks to getting a formal diagnosis and sometimes when you would like insurance to pay for physician or counseling services a qualifying diagnosis needs to be made to justify medical necessity. If you have concerns, some alternatives exist. To know your options, address these concerns up front with your doctor or counselor.


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Posted on May 15, 2012 by sanitycleaver
There is no doubt about it, the bad guy is always the coolest character in any story. A good villain electrifies any story and breathes it life.
Darth Vader gave all the spice to Star Wars. Without the Joker, the Batman franchise would be equivalent to a fistful of valium. And heaven forbid, try think of Starcraft without the Zerg.
So here I introduce the villains that I feel have made the world of Magic: the Gathering a more interesting place. Who they are- both as characters and in-game icons- and how they bought something special to the game by harrowing players, destroying worlds, and ruining lives.
What assholes.
MARIT LAGE & THE ELDRAZI
Ultimately we don't know much about these characters. All we have are vague inklings of their ability to pulverize the known universe, whilst they go lazing about pretending to be trapped under icebergs or large stacks of D&D dice. Anything relating to having actual personalities is entirely absent (hey, it feels like I'm describing some of my ex-girlfriends!)
But that's kind of the point. Unfathomable, unfeeling and utterly alien, the dormant elder evil has been a staple of pop culture ever since some canny editor decided H.P. Lovecraft was onto something. Since then, for better or worse, Cthulhu clones have been popping up in gaming franchises everywhere. And in Magic: the Gathering they've popped up for the better.
The Eldrazi and Marit Lage are easily the largest and most powerful creatures in the game, but the real spice they added was the way they were introduced. Both were teased out into existence by snippets of text and allusions on various cards, giving players sanity-devouring glimpses of their existence and what they were capable of. The real 'sleeping monster' vibe. It brought them to life in players' imaginations long before the horror of their reality was finally revealed. Sanity-devouring horror, everything being left to the imagination… it still feels like I'm talking about ex-girlfriends.
Of all of Magic's villains, none have the poise and refinement of Baron Sengir. He looks more like he belongs in an upper class cosplay party scoffing down caviar than he does terrorizing the denizens of Ulgrotha.
The Baron decided to build the Dark Barony after he was stranded on the remote plane following a planeswalker duel. From there he sent his tendrils out into the realms and kingdoms of Ulgrotha, and by means both subtle and brutal, he bent them to his will. He granted the human rogue Eron the Relentless immortality and set him up as king of the goblins. He kidnapped the daughter of the Dwarven king and bound her into service as a vampire- after ransacking the dwarven kingdom of course. When the paladins of Aysen dared raise a hand against him, he transformed their champion Ihsan into a shade, bound to a life of eternal torture. And when the planeswalkers Feroz and Serra finally decided it might be a good idea to stop him, he diplomatically suggested 'they look the other way'.
The Baron owes his fame and place on this prestigious list for what he did for the imaginations of the Magic players of the time. Sengir Vampire was one of the nastiest creatures of its era, and then out of nowhere came their mysterious lord. He did everything a Sengir could do but better, and introduced Tribal to an iconic creature type without a tribe (like seriously without a tribe- there were no other pre-errata vampires in Homelands). He gave meaning to the word 'Sengir'.
See, 'Serra' and 'Sengir' were just words Richard Garfield thought were LoL so he stacked them onto Magic's creatures to make them sound cool. Then Homelands came along and gave them meaning. Sure, the set was complete shit and I would've used it as toilet paper if the card edges weren't so sharp, but the story and setting set a bar for Magic's creative development. And central to that setting was Baron Sengir. As a result many old school players still have a soft spot in their hearts for him.
Little has been heard of Ulgrotha for centuries, but at last note the Baron's vampire armies were stronger than ever and marching off into the night. How cool is it when the bad guys win?
GREVEN IL-VEC
If there's one thing every right and proper villain needs it's a big fugly meathead henchman. An intimidating tank with the strength of a mountain and the IQ of an eggplant.
Magic has seen its good share of meathead henchmen, but none compare to Greven il-Vec.
Greven has a special place in the hearts of many Magic players, as he was the first right and proper villain to get released in card form as soon Magic began forcing its storylines down player's throats like castor oil. People who played during Antiquities had no real idea who Urza and Mishra were, but everyone knew about Greven il-Vec. So naturally Greven had a certain mystique about him already, and this was exemplified by the actual abilities of his card. Sure, 7/5 fear pales compared to some of today's monsters, but back then it was something special.
But beyond being a meathead, Greven is one big mess of buggered up emotions. I mean, Hatred has a close-up of his face for artwork. How much more character insight do you need?
Constantly tortured and absolved of his free will by line after line of cruel masters, Greven in turn exacted an equal amount of pain on those around him. His life was nothing but one long saga of pain and cruelty. One would feel almost sorry for him if he wasn't such a badass.
He carried out his work with relish. He hounded the Weatherlight relentlessly, killed members of his own crew, and tortured Tahngarth and Eladamri to within an inch of their lives. But the whole time he was having his strings continuously being pulled by the sadistic Volrath. And when Greven finally had a chance of his own free will and was offered Evincarship of Rath, he turned around and said 'yeah nah, I kinda just like bashing stuff'. Coward to boot!
His sad life finally ended in climax of the Phyrexian invasion when he was speared in the gut by his nemesis Tahngarth.
THE MIRARI
Yes, a legendary Christmas tree decoration gets a place on the list of Magic's greatest villains.
Fact is, within the grand scope of Magic's history, few things have gone on to cause as much damage as the Mirari. It had fantastic wish-granting capabilities, and the power to make the deepest desires of all who possessed it become real. But all at terrible cost. And for anyone wise and insightful enough to resist, the Mirari could conveniently transform all common sense into obsession with its ownership. Trouble brewing!
The device was manufactured by the planeswalker Karn, and in a real 'oops' moment was dropped onto the continent of Otaria.
Discovered in an abandoned mansion, the real trouble began when the Cabal Patriarch put it up as a prize in a pit-fighting tournament and it fell into the hands of Lieutenant Kirtar. From there it corrupted Kirtar into decimating the entire Order, the Cephalid Emperor Aboshan into flooding a third of Otaria, the Dementia Summoner Chainer into unleashing tides of dementia horrors and levelling Cabal City, and the hero Kamahl into uniting a bloodthirsty barbarian army bent on conquest. All of whom died from what they unleashed bar Kamahl, who only snapped out of it after mortally wounding his sister when she opposed his plans. He finally disposed of the Mirari by attaching it to the hilt of his sword and burying it in the heart of the Krosan forest.
But it didn't end there. A wave of powerful mutating energy began to radiate out from the Mirari and slowly creep across Otaria, twisting and warping the continent's inhabitants into nightmare versions of their former selves. Massive devastation ensued and all finally came to head when Kamahl travelled back into Krosa to retrieve his sword and use it to kill the false god Karona. At that point Karn popped up and took back the Mirari to his plane of Argentum humbly mumbling 'yeah sorry about the mess'.
You'd think that'd be the end wouldn't you? But Karn went on to prove he had thickshake for brains by fashioning the Mirari into a sentient organism and leaving it in charge Argentum while he went off travelling. The result?
Memnarch.
One of the most diabolically fruitcake villains Magic has ever seen.
Obsessed with attaining planeswalker status this confused and tormented being refashioned the plane of Argentum into Mirrodin, which functioned as his own personal terrarium for growing potential planeswalkers. He finally indentified the spark he wanted in Glissa Sunseeker and from there cruelly hounded her until she finally sacrificed her spark to deactivate him. At that point Karn appeared once again with another 'yeah oops sorry' and melted Memnarch's body back down to its original Mirari core. Which he then placed in the care of Glissa, Geth and Slobad.
A lot's happened on Mirrodin since, but the Mirari still exists somewhere. And one would worry as two of its original caretakers are now Phyrexian generals and the third 'fell' into a crevasse.
And for anyone who doubts the Mirari's power, it has been represented as a card more times than any other single candidate on this list.
Yeah, try argue with those.
CROVAX
Ah, the 'fallen hero' archetype. Every half-decent fantasy franchise has to have one. That character that starts off pure as driven snow (or at least mediocre), and then through a series of hapless happenings turns into an irreconcilable badass.
Well in the world of Magic: the Gathering that guy is Crovax.
A nobleman from Urborg (not exactly prime real estate to begin with), he decided to join the Weatherlight crew to escape his parents, and took his family's guardian angel Selenia along with him. You know, because he was in love. While out globe-trotting, a pair of Phyrexian demons invaded his home and killed his parents. Arriving too late, Crovax blamed himself for his family's death and sought comfort in the arms of Selenia, who gave him the 'let's just be friends' line instead. Furious, he smashed the artifact binding her to his family. Doing so cursed him to destroy everything he ever loves, and Selenia vanished off to Rath leaving Crovax all alone to become mentally unhinged.
Later on, when the Weatherlight picked him up again and they voyaged to Rath, Crovax witnessed Selenia attacking them along with the Predator. This betrayal pushed him into a fury and he vowed revenge. Finally finding her and facing her inside the Stronghold, he fought her and delivered the killing blow. By killing the love of his life the curse was fulfilled and Crovax became a vampire.
From there he actively tried to undermine the Weatherlight's campaign on Rath, but was discovered by the cat warrior Mirri. In the fight that ensued the two fell overboard as the Weatherlight made its escape, and Crovax finished Mirri off. Alone and abandoned once more, Crovax settled down to die.
But the agents of Phyrexia had other plans, and he was whisked away and re-engineered into something more than human, more than vampire, and sent back to Rath to claim the empty seat of Evincar.
To prove himself against the other candidates he led an army of Phyrexians against the elves of Skyshroud, a failed campaign he made up for by slaughtering some 6,000 hostages by impaling them on flowstone spikes- an undeniable show of his ruthlessness. Now a frontrunner for Evincar, he finally claimed the throne after defeating Rath's former ruler Volrath, who appeared out of nowhere to take back what was formerly his.
Now Evincar of Rath, Crovax oversaw the final stages of the Phyrexian invasion from the commander's seat. As the Rathi Overlay got underway and the whole plane teleported itself over his ancestral home of Urborg, Crovax's depravities reached new heights. He resurrected his murdered parents and uses them as puppets for his own amusement. He used the ploy of a resurrected lover to betray Gerrard to Yawgmoth, and as a reward was given the resurrected Squee, which Crovax delighted in being able to kill over and over again. All the while coordinating the Phyrexians as they laid waste to Dominaria.
Crovax ultimately met his fate when Gerrard escaped from the clutches of Yawgmoth, and as the two former friends confronted each other, Gerrard sliced Crovax in two.
Nicol Bolas is the ultimate bad boy of Magic. And what better candidate for ultimate bad boy than the oldest and most powerful being in the multiverse?
Like most old people, Nicol Bolas spends a lot of time whinging about how things aren't like they were 'back in his day'.
But unlike most old people, Bolas is far from content sitting around playing scrabble and feeding ducks.
No, he wants those damn good old days back again- those good old days before the Mending (aka that time rift crap from Time Spiral), when all the planeswalkers were immortal and omnipotent. Those were the days.
Nicol Bolas's planeswalker spark ignited when he emerged victorious from the Elder Dragon War, the oldest known event on the Magic: the Gathering calendar. Some thousands of years later he stumbled across Dominaria, and became intent on having his own slice. He favoured the kingdom of Madara, for its rich red, black and blue mana lines. There he established himself as the Madaran God-Emperor, in a tyrannical reign that lasted 400 years until he was killed by his treacherous pawn Tetsuo Umezawa.
However a ghostly revenant of Bolas remained, and lingered in the Madaran kingdom. Sensing salvation when the Dominarian time rifts appeared, Bolas stole Venser's latent planeswalker spark and travelled to Kamigawa to take his revenge on the entire Umezawa line.
Upon his return to Dominaria he was ambushed by the planeswalker Leshrac, and after winning an epic battle he used Leshrac's life to close the Madaran rift. Shortly after Bolas left Dominaria believing the collapse of the multiverse was imminent, equipped with a plan to preserve himself should that happen.
But thanks to Jeska's Mending spell it didn't. However the nature of the planeswalker spark was changed forever.
Pissed off about no longer being immortal and omnipotent, Bolas became hellbent on getting all of that back again. His first port of call was Alara, where he orchestrated the Conflux as a way to regain much of his power. Although ultimately foiled by Ajani Goldmane, Bolas did manage to harvest much of the Maelstrom's essence prior to their battle.
Shortly after it was revealed he orchestrated the release of the Eldrazi on Zendikar, and had an unknown influence on the rise of Phyrexia on Mirrodin. He also re-established the sinister Planar Consortium, and is currently known to show significant interest in Liliana's Chain Veil.
Bolas is the ultimate evil mastermind, known to always have several ongoing schemes and be able to think three steps ahead of everyone else. He has his finger in every pie and many of the more dire machinations of the multiverse are ultimately overseen by Bolas.
He is responsible for the deaths of several 'walkers (most notably Leshrac and Ugin), and has held several others under his control (most notably Sarkhan, Tezzeret, and at one time Liliana). He even has his own private plane to serve as a supervillian lair.
But unfortunately for Bolas, a lot of the time his plans are foiled by the charitable deeds of the other 'walkers. But that doesn't stop him, for he possesses the trait of tenacity. Yeah, he does go about yelling 'I'll get you next time!' a lot, but no matter how many times Bolas is forced to abandon some foiled plan he's always got two new ones up his sleeve. Just like a real supervillian.
PHYREXIA
Phyrexia rounds out the current 'Big Three' villains (the other two being the Eldrazi and Nicol Bolas), and has the longest history of antagonizing the worlds of Magic: the Gathering. When any old school player thinks of evil, he thinks of Phyrexia.
Phyrexia is not a single villain, nor an army, nor a plane. It is a force. Leaders come and go, organisms evolve and mutate, even its dogma changes. Broken down to its base element it is nothing but yucky black oil. But one thing is for sure- whatever shape it takes it exists purely to corrupt and consume. No matter what happens there always seem to be traces of it growing and festering somewhere. It's like the bathroom mould of the multiverse.
But Phyrexia was not always evil. A very long time ago Phyrexia was the name of a simple mechanical plane, not unlike Mirrodin. It owes its place on this list entirely thanks to one man:
Yawgmoth.
Undoubtedly the biggest badass Magic has ever seen and its primary antagonist for many, many years. The impact he and his Phyrexians had upon the games' canon is immeasurable. Magic without Yawgmoth would be like Lord of the Rings without Sauron- one long boring tea party. Where you sit around discussing bathroom mould perhaps.
He was once a member of the Thran, an ancient and incredibly advanced human civilization. Something of an ancient doctor, he spent his youth travelling about unleashing noxious plagues on other nations. You know, for 'study purposes'. Then through a series of devious and seriously unethical actions he managed to manipulate his way into a place on the Thran High Council. An event he celebrated by imprisoning all the other councillors. And amongst his political manoeuvrings he managed to con a rather thick planeswalker into giving him his own plane. That plane was the metal world of Phyrexia and Yawgmoth bonded with its core, becoming its god.
Right at that time all the other nations of Dominaria rocked up on the Thran's doorstep demanding Yawgmoth's head. In the global war that followed, Yawgmoth would drag Thran civilians back to Phyrexia and re-engineer them into mechanical killing machines and send them back to slaughter his enemies. Along with clouds of noxious plagues. Yawgmoth's dominance was close to assured until his former lover, tired of the whole bad-boy thing, destroyed the Phyrexian portal, and locked Yawgmoth out of Dominaria forever.
Or so she thought. Over thousands of years Yawgmoth sent his menace out from Phyrexia to conquer other worlds, but his dream was always to take Dominaria. His dream almost came true when the brothers Urza and Mishra accidentally reactivated the original Phyrexian portal. Yawgmoth sent through the praetor Gix and a select group of sleeper agents to engineer a war between the two capable of decimating the plane enough to allow Phyrexian re-entry. He was almost successful, but the brother Urza got clued in on the whole thing thanks to a defective sleeper agent named Xantcha. He realized Phyrexia was behind the corruption of his brother Mishra and the damn whole war. Swearing revenge for all the chaos that had been caused, his planeswalker spark ignited.
But the plan had failed and Yawgmoth was still locked out of Dominaria. Seeing infiltration didn't work, Yawgmoth this time decided to opt for an all-out invasion. The plan took thousands of years of preparation, and despite Yawgmoth's best efforts and most talented assassins, Urza managed to warn the rest of Dominaria. He assembled a collection of artifacts, the Legacy, which had the sole purpose of killing Yawgmoth.
After 9000 years, and the corruption of thousands of other worlds and slaughter of millions of innocents, Yawgmoth's plan finally reached fruition and he set foot in Dominaria once again. But Urza was waiting for him and unleashed the full power of the Legacy, destroying the machine god forever.
But unlike Yawgmoth, Phyrexia did not die.
A trace of Phyrexia's essence manifested itself as a glistening oil and stuck itself to Karn like chewing gum. With his planeswalker spark ignited by Yawgmoth's death, Karn in turn accidentally transferred the oil to Mirrodin where it corrupted the mind of Memnarch and eventually led to the downfall of the plane.
Seeking to fix things up, Karn got infected himself and became the new Father of Machines for a while, taking Yawgmoth's place. Although liberated by the planeswalkers Koth, Elspeth and Venser, Karn only barely escaped with his life and has since vowed to crush the threat of Phyrexia once and for all.
So Phyrexia has risen anew, with a host of new leaders, new organisms, new methods and new dogma. But the prime directive remains the same. Corrupt. Consume. And when it escapes its current containment it's going to be one big reunion big party for the whole multiverse.
VOLRATH
For many years Volrath served Yawgmoth as Envincar of Rath. It was his job to oversee the plane and prepare it for its upcoming role in the Phyrexian invasion. A cruel and ruthless leader, he enslaved nations and killed thousands, and his cold intelligence and natural shapeshifting abilities allowed him to slip through any net. Add to this an entire plane of resources at his disposal and you have one hell of a badass. He served as Magic's face of evil for several years, and was the arch-nemesis of the hero Gerrard Capashen.
Undoubtedly one of Magic's most sadistic villains, Volrath derived pleasure from torturing his enemies, and had a particular soft spot for causing mental anguish. He subjected Tahngarth to a extreme makeover Phyrexian-style, twisting the once proud minotaur into a deformed horror. He trapped the silver golem Karn- a pacifist who abhorred taking another's life- in a tilting room full of shrieking moggs, so whenever the room tilted, Karn would slide across the floor, squashing hapless moggs as he did so. He even killed Starke il-Vec disguised as his daughter Takara, to add that crushing sting of betrayal.
And in true sadistic bastard style, Volrath's hobby wasn't limited to his enemies. He conducted twisted experiments on his subjects, using processes so excruciating that only one subject was known to actually survive. That subject was Greven il-Vec, who eventually became Volrath's second in command. Even so Volrath would always find some excuse to torture and humiliate him.
But above all, Volrath had it in for Gerrard and Starke.
Along with being Evincar, Yawgmoth charged Volrath with acquiring the Legacy, the collection of artifacts left by Urza and the only thing capable of killing Yawgmoth. Something currently in Gerrard's possession.
Volrath lured Gerrard into Rath by kidnapping the Weathlight's captain Sisay. His end goal was to capture the Legacy for Yawgmoth and Gerrard for himself. But things did not go to plan, and Gerrard evaded all of Volrath's traps and succeeded in rescuing his friends, the Legacy, and Starke's daughter Takara. At that point Volrath confronted Gerrard directly, and Gerrard slew him before escaping to Mercadia with his crew.
However Volrath was not dead. The 'Volrath' Gerrard had killed back in the Stronghold was nothing but a shapeshifter clone, and the real Volrath was walking amongst them disguised as none other than Takara. In a quiet moment, Volrath took his revenge on Starke by slicing his throat. Finding Starke dead, Gerrard and Sisay caught on to Volrath's disguise, and somehow bested him in battle enough to make a hasty exit on the Weatherlight.
Returning to Rath, Volrath found the Phyrexian Inner Circle had put the Evincarship up for grabs due to his unexplained absence. He now faced a series of challengers for the throne, and despite being the most powerful candidate, Volrath was eventually beaten in battle by Crovax and stripped of his Phyrexian powers. He was executed at dawn by Crovax himself just as the Rathi Overlay began.
LIM-DUL
Lim-Dul the Necromancer had an almost totalitarian presence throughout Ice Age. Magic never really had any huge villains before him, and Lim-Dul was plastered all over the set.
But Lim-Dul was not an individual identity, but rather a fusion of identities with mutually corresponding ambitions. 'Lim-Dul' just happened to be the name of the body they were inhabiting. At one point at least.
The original Lim-Dul was nothing more than a lowly foot soldier in Kjeldor's army. Guilty of desertion, he was about to die in the snow when he stumbled across the ruby ring of Mairsil the Pretender and figured if he was going to die he might as well do it wearing jewellery. Putting it on, Mairsil, who was trapped in the ring, added vodka to Lim-Dul's orange and together the two became one collective entity.
Back in the dark years following the Brothers' War, Mairsil the Pretender was a particularly power-hungry wizard who became obsessed with opening up a portal to Phyrexia so he could sample its dark powers. He imprisoned the archmage Ith and used his essence to power an array of artifacts designed to force open the portal. With the last specks of his sanity and the help of the archmage Jodah, Ith managed to escape and kill Mairsil. Mairsil had a back-up plan however, and his essence escaped into a ruby ring.
Picked up by Lim-Dul millennia later, Mairsil's spirit fused with the soldier and transferred across the archmage's powers. Together they became Lim-Dul the Necromancer, the primary antagonist during Dominaria's Ice Age. A power player in local politics, Lim-Dul's machinations kept the nations of Kjeld and Balduvia smashing each other up while he built up a sizable zombie army reanimating their dead, always painting himself as the lesser evil.
But even so he was only halfway down the bullying chain. The zombie army was a commission job for two evil planeswalkers, Leshrac and Tevesh Szat, who intended to use it to conquer the distant plane of Shandalar. And then there was the spirit of Mairsil to compete with.
At times the identities competing for Lim-Dul would become almost schizophrenic in their actions. For example, the revenge- obsessed Mairsil forced Lim-Dul into kidnapping his old nemesis Jodah, but through Lim-Dul Leshrac put Jodah onto researching distant Shandalar instead, whilst the last fragments of Lim-Dul himself got Jodah to secretly gather up planeswalker-killing tips so he could at least be free of Leshrac.
But even though he was a Francis Dolarhyde level of bonkers, Lim-Dul as a whole actually functioned quite effectively.
Thanks to Jodah and the task mage Jaya Ballard, the kingdoms of Kjeld and Balduvia finally took heed of the threat and turned on Lim-Dul's zombie horde, incurring heavy losses upon it. Furious at seeing his cultivated army destroyed, Leshrac sliced the ring off Lim-Dul's hand and dragged the screaming necromancer off to Shandalar.
But that was not the end of Lim-Dul. His and Mairsil's essences fused and duplicated, one existing in Lim-Dul's body and the other in Mairsil's ring.
On Shandalar Leshrac used Lim-Dul to reconstruct the zombie army and the conquest began anew. City after city fell until Lim-Dul faced the wizard Azar in battle, and by some quirk of magic fused himself into Azar's body, adding another identity to his impressive collection. The body of Azar was eventually slain, but Lim-Dul's contained essence managed to resurrect it to start the conquest all over again. Finally a coven of wizards managed to extract Lim-Dul and whoever else was in there and imprison them in an artifact. Many years later this artifact was destroyed, and what happened to this part of Lim-Dul's essence is unknown.
Meanwhile on Dominaria Jaya Ballard found herself in possession of pretty ruby ring. Over the next twenty years the combined spirits of Lim-Dul and Mairsil began to insinuate into her unconscious, and at the perfect moment made a comeback. Stabbing Jodah in the neck, Lim-Dul/Mairsil/Jaya used his blood to animate a host of Phyrexian war machines and raze the city of Soldev before being struck by Jodah's mirror. Enchanted by the planeswalker Freyalise, the mirror ignited Jaya's planeswalker spark, the ignition finally purging Lim-Dul and Mairsil's spirit from Dominaria forever.
Of everyone on this list, Lim-Dul is the most empathizable villain. Although he committed all sorts of atrocities and was mad as a box of parrots, on some level Lim-Dul was always human. You could never like him, but you would love to hate him.
Sure, he doesn't rack up the kill count that some of the other villains on this list have, but it just goes to show you don't have to threaten utter annihilation to be a good villain. You just need to be bad enough to despise, human enough to empathize, have some unique quirks, and never ever stop causing trouble.
MARK ROSEWATER
Of all the villains of Magic: the Gathering, none are more insidious than Mark Rosewater.
Long before the Phyrexian invasion, long before the Weatherlight, back when print media actually existed, Mark Rosewater ran a column in the Duelist called 'Magic: the Puzzling'. The column featured a series of puzzles featuring fictional Magic gameplay scenarios that were designed to make you hate yourself.
Proving himself to be of truly dark ambition, he reached the top of the corporate ladder, becoming Magic's Lead Designer. Since then the atrocities he has committed and dreams he has crushed are innumerable. Here's a list of are some of his more insufferable crimes:
Steals my dream job away from me
Prints Goatnapper in Lorwyn without printing any goats
Fails to properly playtest Jace the Mind Sculptor's +2 ability
Prints Bitterblossom
Fails to print a Legendary Werewolf in Innistrad
Opens up 'Great Designer Search' to US residents only
Opens up 'Great Designer Search 2' to US residents only
Missing Gruul, Orzhov and Izzet rares from Guildpact
Despite all common sense, continues to print blue cards
Engages in hate-filled vendetta against Hornet Sting
Umezawa's Jitte
Rejects my Facebook friend request
All horrific deeds, but you may be asking, what does he do to deserve his place on this list? Surely scouring a world of life with an unstoppable cyber-zombie army is far worse than not printing a goat!
But you're kind of missing the point. And that is that when Yawgmoth unleashes a plague or Nicol Bolas screws some mindwrenched pawn, the victim is a fictional character. You're not involved at all. You're just reading a book or some flavour text and going 'LoL'. But when Mark Rosewater does something, the victim is you.
So whenever something as outrageous as Bitterblossom gets printed and you lose out on Top 8 because of it, or your hard-won booster pack reveals a Moonlace, then naturally it's all MaRo's fault!
Yes ok, he isn't responsible for everything that goes and turds Magic up, R&D as a collective does that. But Mark Rosewater is the head of R&D, and its most vocal member, so naturally the easiest one to blame.
And sure, he actually is a decent enough person to admit his mistakes. And somewhat kind enough to help out the community. But don't you think you could do a better job?
Of course you do. Mark Rosewater's only got your dream job because they haven't discovered you yet. You and your plans for eight mana instants scribbled on the back of bus tickets. Everyone knows once Wizards sees them you'll be in the top job immediately. Hell, 'Prepaid Return' might even make it as a new mechanic!
But instead, you're stuck where you are, stacking shelves or filling up spreadsheets while that bastard gets paid to design Magic cards. It's true- bad guys really do get to have all the fun.
Mark Rosewater is Magic's biggest villain, because when he affects Magic: the Gathering he affects you, and your fun, and your life.
But face it, there not being a legendary Werewolf in Innistrad is just nitpicky in the grand scheme of things. Really, MaRo is actually doing a great job of running R&D, and we're all just a little jealous he gets to make Magic for a living.
Petr Joura 2012
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9 Responses to Top 10 Magic: the Gathering Villains
savetun says:
Awesome list, very comprehensive, and i have to say, the inclusion of your No.1 was a brilliant idé. kudos!
MarkusAR says:
An excellent read, both funny and nostalgy-inducing! Also, so much stuff I didn't know about these iconic characters, like most of the Lim-Dul stuff.
Sol'Kanar says:
How on earth is the Mirari more represented on card art than the Phyrexians?
sanitycleaver says:
*Actual cards, designed to represent the individual within the scope of the game mechanics.
If it were card art or nonindividual members of a faction then of course Phyrexia would win.
prosopagnostic says:
Correction: Aaron Forsythe is the head of R&D. Mark Rosewater is in charge of design only.
Torrichelli says:
No way in hell Lim-Dul is ahead of Yawgmoth (who really, should have gotten the title nod instead of Phyrexia) or Nicol Bolas.
ocknarf says:
No mention of volrath being vuel, just to add salt to that wound? 🙂
adolphus22 says:
Very nice read, enjoyed it and learn some new things too!
kewlfrogz says:
I was inspired by the read and have made cards to go along side your Commander in the Commander format, I call it Master and Commander. They are meant to be drawn randomly or built around, your choice. They can only come out with your Commander and leave play when the Commander does.
I used http://www.mtgcardmaker.com/ to make them.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_fjHAejOI0_RlA1OEhMRk1tTWM&usp=sharing
Yes, they are OP. No, I do not care about balance, WotC doesn't, why should I?


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An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile oils, ethereal oils, aetherolea, or simply as the "oil of" the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove. An oil is "essential" in the sense that it carries a distinctive scent, or essence, of the plant. Essential oils do not form a distinctive category for any medical, pharmacological, or culinary purpose. They are not essential for health.
As the use of essential oils has declined in evidence-based medicine, one must consult older textbooks for much information on their use. Modern works are less inclined to generalize; rather than refer to "essential oils" as a class at all, they prefer to discuss specific compounds, such as methyl salicylate, rather than "oil of wintergreen".
The earliest recorded mention of the techniques and methods used to produce essential oils is believed to be that of Ibn al-Baitar (1188–1248), an Andalusian physician, pharmacist and chemist.
Today, most common essential oils — such as lavender, peppermint, and eucalyptus — are distilled. Raw plant material, consisting of the flowers, leaves, wood, bark, roots, seeds, or peel, is put into an alembic (distillation apparatus) over water. As the water is heated, the steam passes through the plant material, vaporizing the volatile compounds. The vapors flow through a coil, where they condense back to liquid, which is then collected in the receiving vessel.
The recondensed water is referred to as a hydrosol, hydrolat, herbal distillate or plant water essence, which may be sold as another fragrant product. Popular hydrosols include rose water, lavender water, lemon balm, clary sage and orange blossom water. The use of herbal distillates in cosmetics is increasing. Some plant hydrosols have unpleasant smells and are therefore not sold.