A new concept from the card maker, Topps Living Set Baseball takes an open-ended approach to collecting MLB cards. Instead of a standard release that lasts for one year, the online-exclusive Topps Living Set Baseball has no end in sight.
While not confined to one specific duration or even a certain period of collecting, Topps Living Set Baseball pays tribute to the 1953 Topps design using high-resolution images of hand-drawn artwork from the legendary artist Mayumi Seto.
Of course, there are some rules. Printed on 16-point vintage stock, each card is sold for one week and three new cards are announced every week. Single cards sell for $7.99 and three-card sets go for $14.99.
View current Topps Living Set Baseball cards on Topps.
Also, the Topps Living Set Baseball checklist only includes one option for each player, unless that player is traded. So, there is no need to worry about a new Aaron Judge card every week of the set.
Card backs note the batting and fielding stats for the most recent year (when issued) and the lifetime stats from the same point in time, just like the 1953 set.
Starting after the century mark for the Topps Living Set Baseball checklist, Topps rolled out limited 10" x 14" prints for the previous 100 card images, with five issued per week. The Limited Edition Fine Art Prints come on premium cotton paper (1/64") showcasing detailed scans of the Mayumi Seto artwork. The base prints are hand-numbered to 100 copies and the price fluctuates based on the player. For instance, Aaron Judge is $64.99 and Joe Panik is $29.99. Each player also has a one-of-one Gold Foil Logo version signed by the artist and priced at $299.99 and up.
The Topps Living Set Baseball checklist is offered in standard order of release, listed in order of final print run, and also grouped by team.
Print runs (PR) will be added when announced. Each release includes 3-card set or individual cards.
Shop for Living Set Baseball cards on Topps.
Grouped by MLB team listed on the card.
Baltimore Orioles - 106 Cal Ripken Jr.
Boston Red Sox - 9 Jackie Bradley Jr.
San Diego Padres - 173 Fernando Tatis Jr.
Toronto Blue Jays - 74 Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
In order of total print run from highest to lowest.
Does anyone know if they will be releasing the print runs on these at weeks end?
How about the retired Set? Dead Set?
How is the print run different among the 3 cards? I thought they were purchased together.
Each week has a three-card bundle for $14.99 or you can purchase a card individually for $7.99.
I'm not a huge collector but having these cards to look forward to each week is awesome. One of a kind set that i feel alot of thought and effort is put i to into it since its only 3 players a week 156 a year. Classic boarder design with the vintage style backs are so smooth looking with the original artwork. Following the lowest print run will tell you how many true sets there are, and right now i think its under 3.5k. Crazy thinking that there will be that few of full sets for something that can run forever.
Trey can you tell me what pt size these cards are considered?
The Living Set cards are printed on 16pt vintage trading card stock.
Love the idea of the set and the look of the cards. A few early production hiccups as far as production quality on Topps end, but hopefully that will be ironed-out soon. Really looking forward to seeing more HOFers, Retired Players and gotta have some RC's!!!! GREAT SET!
I really like the idea of the set, but I've received my first three and the Castellanos card has some notable printing issues. The store I am purchasing from also had to return the Hoskins card for the same reason. Anyone else experiencing these problems?
Great set! As mentioned above a lot of thought and effort went into the design of the set. I hope they limit the number of retired players as I look more forward to current players and hopefully rookies.
I do wish it was a thicker card stock but understand why they went with the 16pt vintage as it was the thickness of the set in the 50s.
love this set…if the card stock was thicker it'd be even better, but they look great and different from the glut of cards issued these days….
Great set. But the Way they ship is awful .. so much damage to cards.
This is an awesome product. There's no autos, relics, or other gimmicks to the set. Just a good base set, with great artistic photos from a classic 50's card. The main reason it doesn't get 5 stars from me is because I'm Canadian and Topps makes me pay $10 US for shipping on every purchase every week. I understand the market in Canada is small, but there could be a bundle type of shipment that could possibly be sent out monthly at $10/month instead of $40.
I love the idea behind this and the card designs look great!
I was hesitant at first, but I really love the design and simplicity of the set. Is this going to be released each week indefinitely or will production pause during offseason?
These 2018 Topps Living Set cards are an absolute beautiful piece of artwork on a baseball card. I've collected every card released to date & now waiting on the latest ones in Hedges, Scherzer, Buehler, & Haniger to arrive.
Bought some on eBay & some on Topps. I've found out that if you wait a few days to a couple of weeks after release of each Living Card/Set eBay sellers seem to have them a bit cheaper than buying directly from Topps.
However, I should note that some sellers of these Living Sets/Cards are having problems receiving the cards in a timely fashion from Topps.
I had this happen to me on the Ronald Acuna card. The seller in which I purchased the card from on eBay listed a timeframe to ship/receive the card but Topps was very late in getting his Acuna Living Set cards to him.
Therefore I was waiting weeks & weeks before I finally received the Acuna card from him. He did send me one that was best centered & in a magnetic case for my troubles even though it wasn't his fault. Thanks.
Beautiful art. 1953 Topps design is one of my all time favorites. Really like the concept.
I really love this set, gives me something new to look forward to every week. The cards are classy and the set is manageable. Current sets are difficult to build a master set beyond the base set. The print runs are low making all the cards in the set truly limited. I haven't got any damaged cards. I will continue this set for as long as I can.
Wish I started collecting the first week this set released. Huge fan of the artwork and I like having something to look forward to in the mail every week.
I still cannot believe that scooter gennett hasn't been put in to any of Topps subset cards!?
I wish I started collecting the set from the 1st two or three weeks. those weeks are going to be tough to get, plus they are a bit expensive. I have all weeks starting with card #20 so my set will more likely be incomplete. picking up a few that I need.
a couple of things that I would like to know is will this set continue through the off season(November through February).
will the players that just had cards, will they be getting a new card and what if they go to another team like Murphy, Ramirez. I'm sure those fans would like to get them in their new unis b4 they get to a new team again.
No word on if the set runs 52 weeks a year or if there is an offseason. All players are eligible for one card per team, so any trades open them back up for being used again. However, given how many players remain, it is probably a bit early to expect repeat players already.
Trey, I think Topps said they are running this Living Set 52 weeks out if the year, Wow can you imagine how many cards we would have after 2 years of collecting and I do not see the price rising for the full set.
How can you not love collecting this set or 2 or 3 of them !!! Everything about this set is fantastic from the art work to the vintage design to the enjoyment of collecting. I would give it more stars if I could !
I am very happy that Topps has chosen to print these cards on a low quality card stock that will degenerate itself in 6-8 years….
Started with Babe set. Now I have 3 of the bottom 5 and 4 of the bottom 7 in terms of print run. The others come from the first few weeks. Maybe people were unaware then. I was. Probably too soon to tell what this means. Are people now becoming less interested? Is $15/week causing the lower numbers? The resale market on Ebay is all over the place. I think an undergraduate economics paper is here somewhere. Love the cards.
love this set. It's a great idea. Quality cards for sure.


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Q: SQL how to get data with out including it in the group by I have a table that has 3 columns in it. Date, Truck_id, Location. The table holds the data of what location each truck was in on each date and only gets a record added when a truck moves from one location to another. I am trying to write a query that will pull only the newest date for each tractor and then getting its location. But when I attempt to write this it forces me to either group by location or not get the location. What is the best way to go about this?
DATE       | Truck_id | Location
03/02/2017 | 3489     | MO
02/15/2017 | 1478     | IL
02/02/2017 | 3489     | TX
03/01/2017 | 3911     | NC
03/13/2017 | 3489     | TX
01/12/2017 | 3911     | TX
example data.
SQL i attempted
   SELECT
    MAX(date),
    tractor_id,
    location
FROM
    table
GROUP BY
    tractor_id,
    location

I was hoping it would show
03/13/2017 | 3489 | TX
02/15/2017 | 1478 | IL
03/01/2017 | 3911 | NC
But instead I get
03/02/2017 | 3489 | MO
02/15/2017 | 1478 | IL
03/13/2017 | 3489 | TX
03/01/2017 | 3911 | NC
01/12/2017 | 3911 | TX
I understand why it is working like this but I don't understand how to work around it.

A: You can use an INNER JOIN:
SELECT  t1.Truck_Id,
        t2.Max_Date,
        t1.Location
FROM YourTable t1
INNER JOIN (SELECT Truck_Id, MAX(Date) as Max_Date
            FROM YourTable
            GROUP BY Truck_Id) t2
    ON t1.Truck_Id = t2.Truck_Id
    AND t1.Date = t2.Max_Date
;

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as the Jazz Age was from the Civil War.
Once, children, We went to the Moon!
like a Tortoise beats a Hare.
Now we look to Mars.
We shall wreck the Earth and decamp to Mars!
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What It Takes to Shift From Competing to Creating
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, INSEAD Professors of Strategy and Co-Directors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute | September 26, 2017
Why nondisruptive creation is as important as disruption in seizing new growth.
In their just released book, BLUE OCEAN SHIFT, Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, creators of Blue Ocean Strategy, deliver the definitive guide to shifting yourself, your team and your organisation to new heights of confidence, market creation and growth. They show why nondisruptive creation is as important as disruption in seizing new growth, what leads to one over the other and why you'd be unwise not to understand this.
INSEAD Knowledge (IK): Chan and Renée, congratulations on your new book, Blue Ocean Shift, being released today. It's already been labeled a next 'blockbuster' and chosen by Apple iBooks as the best business book of the month. In a nutshell, what's it all about?
Kim and Mauborgne: BLUE OCEAN SHIFT addresses a key challenge facing virtually every organisation today. How to move yourself, your team and your organisation from competing to creating. Or, from cutthroat markets to wide open new markets in a way your people own and drive the process.
Think about it. What industry today doesn't face intense competition? Take retail. It's getting decimated. The competition is fierce. It's tough. It's rough. It's what we refer to as a bloody red ocean.
But the successful companies, they're not in those red oceans. They're moving into and creating new markets. What we think of as blue oceans.
The question is: How can all of us do that too?
This book lays out the path anyone can follow to get there, using proven steps.
IK: What does it take to make a successful shift?
Kim and Mauborgne: You need two things to shift. Without them you are going to struggle.
First, you need a roadmap. Because we all want to shift from compete to create, but we don't know how. So you need a roadmap with tools and guidance that anyone can apply.
Second, you need people. And by that, we mean you need people's confidence to act. If people don't have the confidence to act, your roadmap means nothing.
And that's what the book does. It gives you that roadmap and it shows you how to build people's confidence at every step so that they own and drive the process for success.
IK: Has any company actually applied the roadmap and proven steps laid out in the book to shift from competing to creating?
Kim and Mauborgne: Absolutely. Blue Ocean Shift shows real-world examples of organisations facing the same constraints we all face – be they politics, bureaucracy, limited resources – and applied the very tools and process outlined in the book to shift from competing to creating. You'll learn, for example, how a musical conductor applied the blue ocean shift process to create the "bravest orchestra in the world". He redefined what a youth orchestra means, from music excellence to ambassadors for peace, even inspiring Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish musicians to play together, all the while dealing with resource constraints, historical ethnic divides and poorly trained musicians.
There's the example of a hotel chain that applied the proven steps outlined in the book to break out of the highly competitive hotel industry – which is 'redder than red'– to create the new market of affordable luxury hotels offering five-star comfort at three-star prices. Today it has 90 percent occupancy rates, guest ratings called 'superb' and 'fabulous' on booking sites, as well as the lowest costs in the most chic locations. It's fast rolling out to major cities across the world.
The book also explains how a global, small-appliance company with more than 100 years of history turned an industry whose value was declining by 10 percent a year into a high-growth one. It did that by redefining its offering to such an extent it allows all of us today to make mouthwatering French fries with no frying and almost no oil. The upshot of its shift: Not only did demand grow by 40 percent, its stock price lifted by 5 percent. Oprah fell in love with the new offering and started tweeting that the product had "changed her life."
From prisons to toilet paper, healthcare to convenience stores, national governments to small nonprofits, new companies to established ones, Blue Ocean Shift shows you how they applied the process outlined in the book to shift from competing to creating in a way that brought their people along.
IK: You talk about creating new markets. How does that differ from disruption?
Kim and Mauborgne: Disruption matters. But as we discuss in the book, that's only half the picture of how new markets are created.
The other half, and we would argue the more important half, is what we call nondisruptive creation. What we mean by that is creating new markets where there once wasn't any.
Take the example of life coaching. Today it's a $2 billion industry. The second fastest growing profession in the United States after IT. But twenty years ago it didn't exist. That market didn't exist until someone had the idea to create a brand-new opportunity for people to improve the quality of their lives in a way they couldn't get from anywhere else. Life coaching didn't disrupt anyone. No one lost a job because of it. No company went out of business. Microfinance, Viagra, online dating, Sesame Street – those are just a few of the many market-creating moves created by nondisruptive creation.
As we lay out in the book, the opportunities for nondisruptive creation are huge. No executive or entrepreneur can afford to not understand this important, missing half of how new markets are created. That would be like shutting yourself from half of your opportunities to seize new growth, which no one should do. From a macroeconomic perspective, understanding nondisruptive creation is equally vital since it generates new growth and jobs without destroying existing jobs or companies, which is key.
IK: Last question. Big companies are increasingly buying their innovations, like the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, which recently purchased Bai Brands, makers of natural flavoured waters, instead of creating and opening up new markets themselves. What are your thoughts on that?
Kim and Mauborgne: It's great that a top company like Dr. Pepper Snapple recognises that it needs to go beyond competing to seize new growth and stay relevant. But instead of empowering its own 19,000 employees to do what it takes to move the company forward, which is to create, it empowers them to do what increasingly doesn't move the needle, which is to compete. That's why the company had to shell out close to $2 billion to purchase Bai Brands and stay relevant. This mismatch between what employees are empowered to do, and where profit and growth increasingly come from, is something that we believe many large companies need to address.
While the world has changed, employees in many companies remain aligned with the path to success in the past, which is competing. What firms would need to do now is shift and get their people attuned to the new market reality where creating new markets is the ticket to seize new growth. Just think of the message you are sending your employees about their value in the company if every opportunity to grow comes from people outside the company. How will they feel they are a vital part of their company's future? Blue Ocean Shift lays out the path to turn this around and shift.
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne are professors of strategy at INSEAD and co-directors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. They are the authors of the international bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy and the indispensable follow-up, BLUE OCEAN SHIFT – Beyond Competing: Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth, available 26 September 2017. For more on the authors' new book, visit http://www.blueoceanshift.com/. Learn more about the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Programme here.
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Conceptually and theoretically powerful
I just finished reading the book and highly recommend it to anyone interested in strategy and innovation - especially the new concept of nondisruptive creation versus disruptive innovation, and why nondisruptive creation is the more important half for creating new growth. The fascinating examples of non and for-profit organizations around the world that applied the process and the clear and concise guide on how to apply the tools and frameworks, make this a powerful book both practically and conceptually.
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#ExpertView: RSPCA: "Why landlords should allow tenants with pets"
| 19 March 2019
In this week's #ExpertView, The RSPCA tells us why it believes landlords should allow tenants with pets and what the incoming Deposit Cap could mean for pet deposits.
Pets are part of our families and with 49% of the UK population owning a pet, the RSPCA is urging landlords to consider accepting tenants and pets.
Pets are wonderful companions and can also bring us many benefits for our health and wellbeing.
For instance, dogs can ensure we exercise more and make us more sociable, and of course caring for any pet responsibly makes us more responsible individuals in general.
It can often be difficult for renters to find a landlord or housing authority who will accept active pets. The RSPCA believes it can be beneficial for both the tenant and the landlord to be open to renters who come with a much-loved pet as part of the family.
Here are some tips for setting up a good pet policy with your tenant/landlord:
Include a profile of your pet in your tenancy agreement - This should include details on whether as a tenant you have been allowed pets previously, the number of animals you have, details of your pet, their vaccinations, microchip information and whether they have been neutered.
Make it clear - The pet policy should include a clear statement that the owner is responsible for their pet's welfare, under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, it should also detail what will happen to the pet if the owner dies, or are sick and have to go to hospital. There should be clear guidance on which pets are allowed, where they are allowed and where they are not, and how many pets the tenant is allowed to have.
Responsible agreements - The tenant should ensure that their pets do not cause a nuisance or create anti-social behaviour. The landlord may also want to ask for a 'pet deposit', this is an extra sum of money which would cover any damage that a pet might cause, and if there is no damage, this money should be returned to the tenant at the end of the tenancy.
Recently, the government has announced a new law which puts a cap on the amount landlords can charge for deposits. Concerns have been raised that this could stop landlords charging a 'pet deposit' which would mean they may be less likely to accept pets.
David Bowles, the RSPCA's assistant director of Public Affairs, said: "The RSPCA encourages landlords to accept tenants with pets in their properties and don't believe this new law will prevent this occurring.
"We encourage landlords to allow tenants to take pets into homes as it causes a lot of distress and upset when families aren't able to take their pet with them, and charities such as the RSPCA are left picking up the pieces.
"We understand the need to curb excessive deposits demanded by landlords and will monitor this law to assess any consequences for pets.
"The Act will mean that landlords can charge a maximum of five weeks rental allowance for a deposit so this could still give landlords flexibility in adding a 'pet deposit' if needed.
"We also welcome the change to the Bill that exempts local or housing authorities from the Act when they are placing deposits on behalf of their tenants in private dwellings. The RSPCA has long encouraged local housing authorities to implement proactive policies on allowing pets in their properties and we hope this exemption will enable those tenants that have pets to keep the animals with them as they move."
Matt at the RSPCA's Keighley & Craven branch has been living in his rented home for the last nine years with his Yorkshire terrier Rooney.
Matt said: "I adopted Rooney from the RSPCA Keighley & Craven branch eight years ago which is how I got involved with volunteering for the charity. Rooney came from a home where his family had split up and they couldn't offer him the time and commitment he needed. I moved home myself around eight years ago and I experienced how difficult it was to find a landlord or letting agent who was willing to accept a pet. My current property was initially advertised as 'no pets' but the landlord actually changed his mind when I met him and asked if he would consider my dog. I did explain that I was a responsible pet owner and I offered to pay a higher security bond if required.
"It can be really difficult to persuade landlords to give you that initial chance and it would be great to see more landlords or letting agents having an open mind when it comes to pets. I think it's always worth asking if you can have a chat with the landlord to explain your situation and meet face to face if possible. Luckily, my landlord took a chance and allowed my dog in the property, this arrangement has worked out really well for both myself and the landlord who has gained a long-standing tenant who looks after the property.''
Find out more about the RSPCA here.
*These views are those of the author alone and do not necessarily reflect the view of TDS, its officers and employees.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has been looking out for animals since 1824.
Its vision is to live in a world where all animals are respected and treated with compassion.
Every day, with the help of our people and generous supporters, it takes steps to achieve its mission. From rescuing a stranded deer to changing the law, the RSPCA has already achieved so much and come so far.
The RSPCA is a registered charity in England and Wales. Charity number 219099.
About TDS
Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) is a government-approved scheme for the protection of tenancy deposits; TDS offers both Insured and Custodial protection and also provides fair adjudication for disputes that arise over the tenancy deposits that we protect.
We provide invaluable training in tenancy deposit protection and disputes for agents and landlords through the TDS Academy as well as joining with MOL to provide the Technical Award in Residential Tenancy Deposits.
TDS Insured Scheme: where a TDS member can hold the tenancy deposits as stakeholder during the term of the tenancy.
TDS Custodial Scheme: where TDS hold the deposit for the duration of the tenancy.
TDS Academy: TDS provides property professionals with invaluable training in tenancy deposit protection and tenancy deposit disputes.
TDS Northern Ireland: TDS is Northern Ireland's leading and only not for profit tenancy deposit protection scheme.
TDS can only comment on the process for our scheme, other deposit protection schemes may have a different process/require different steps. Content is correct at the time of writing.
ARLA|Propertymark: For agents who would like to stay up to date, you can contact Propertymark | ARLA at: join@propertymark.com. By being a member of Propertymark | ARLA you will be eligible for TDS Insured best headline rates.
RLA: If you are a landlord and would like to keep up to date with any changes that may affect you or your responsibilities, you can contact the RLA at: info@rla.org.uk and quote reference: dg715 to receive 25% off your first year's membership.
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Throughout the last half-century, the world has witnessed an expansion in female participation in politics and civil society. This trend has not yet emerged in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.[1]
Many countries in MENA, including Jordan, are undergoing a profound transformation. Popular movements in what has been named the Arab Spring have called for reforms to make governments more inclusive and more accountable for their performances, to extend social and economic freedoms, and to increase employment opportunities.
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) have been used extensively to mobilise the masses to take part in shaping the new history of their countries. Arab women who have been deprived of their rights to participate in decision making took this unique opportunity to take part in expressing their own views in the streets and the main squares in Arab capitals and others cites, from Tunisia to Yemen. Arab women became active in demonstrations.
Jordan was not an exception. ICTs gave a space to many Jordanian women to participate in political debates, and offered them a new and cheap medium to communicate on social, economic and cultural issues. It created a valuable platform and a loudspeaker for the voiceless.
Participation: Access, economic and political
The most recent survey on ICTs showed that Jordanians had nine million mobiles at the end of 2012, which means 120% of Jordanians have mobile phones. More than half of Jordanians have access to the internet.[2] There is also an increasing demand for social media: there were 2.653 million Facebook accounts opened by Jordanian users by the end of the same year, which makes Jordan number 57 by country in the ranking of all Facebook users. This amounts to 41% of the population. The number of Facebook users also grew by nearly 170,000 in the last six months. The largest user age group is currently 18-24, accounting for 40% of users, followed by the 25-34 age group; 58% of all Facebook users in Jordan are male and 42% are female. [3]
Jordan has adopted the National Strategy for Jordanian Women (2012-2015)[4] in order to increase women's participation in development. While Jordanian women achieve higher grades than men at all educational levels, the participation of women in the economic field does not exceed 15%, and unemployment amongst women (24%) is double that amongst men. [5] Females account for only 5% of ministerial positions, 13% of judiciary positions, and 12% of legislative positions.
While the government makes a point of emphasising its desire to push women forward in each sector, the experience on the ground is quite different. Jordanian women received their right to vote in 1974, but it took almost 20 years for a woman to become a member of parliament: Tujan Faisal was the first woman to be elected, in 1993. In a patriarchal society, which considers women as being inferior to men, Faisal reversed the traditional stereotype.
Who is Tujan Faisal?
After the democratisation process started in Jordan in 1989, Tujan Faisal, a prominent TV anchor, an unveiled blonde woman from the Circassian community, decided to run for office. In an Islamic and conservative country, Faisal became a victim of a smear campaign engineered by Islamists opposed to any participation by women in Jordanian public life. These activities were especially hostile to Faisal, who was an outspoken feminist and had published a newspaper article refuting Islamist interpretations of women's rights in Islam. A fatwa[6] declared her apostate, despite her devout Muslim beliefs, and Islamist activists tried to have her marriage rescinded. She was forced to stand trial, but the case was ultimately dismissed just before election day.
In the 1989 elections, no woman had succeeded in being elected to parliament. In response, Jordan introduced a 10% electoral quota for women to ensure women's representation in parliamentary and municipal elections. In the next elections, for the period 1993 to 1997, Faisal won a seat in the most competitive elite constituency in Amman. [7] She ran in the elections with a reform manifesto similar to what the "Harak" (the Jordanian version of the Arab Spring) demands now.
Tribal and Muslim MPs were shocked when they saw her entering the parliament wearing a short skirt with the minimum amount of clothing required by law. In the parliament, Faisal was a strong hero in fighting corruption, which she considers a cancer in Jordan.
Faisal is an icon in Jordan for many women and men. Many call her the "strongest man" in fighting corruption. She opposes such statements, but she understands their context in a patriarchal society.
In 2002 she wrote an article for a US-based website called Arab Times,[8] which is still blocked in Jordan, accusing the prime minister, Ali Abu al-Raghib, of having personally benefited from a new government policy that doubled the costs of car insurance.
The State Security Court sentenced her to 18 months in prison for spreading information harmful to the reputation of the state. Her jailing "coincided with the beginnings of the internet boom," she told me.[9] She added that "the broad local, Arab and international support I received forced my release." She went on a hunger strike for 29 days, and King Abdullah II pardoned her after she had served 100 days in prison.
"After my release (unconditional, because I refused all deals to stop or limit my media activities), and after I was prevented from running for parliament, I resumed my fight against corruption not only as a political writer, but also as a 'legislator' by discussing new laws in detail, the way I would have done in parliament," she said. "The interest of the media in the case was logically bound to go beyond freedom of speech, and look into the magnitude of the corruption that caused such an arrest," she added. She was banned from running in the 2003 elections for having been sentenced to prison.
At that time, Faisal was boycotted by the Jordanian media, as no media outlet dared to publish her articles. Nonetheless, from outside the walls of parliament, Faisal continued to campaign for women's rights and democracy in the country.
Faisal had also been prevented from continuing to teach at a private university. While she was banned by the state-controlled TV, radio and most printed media, the relatively uncontrolled internet space offered an outlet for her views. Many people believed that she had emigrated or was living in exile, she noted.
"[The internet] gave me a huge and unprecedented opportunity to express my opinions and ideas to people who want to receive information," she explained.[10] "The internet also gave me and is still giving me a hand in fighting cancer," she added. Faisal knows what cancer is, as she has been suffering from it for ten years – she covers her head with a modern hat because she is losing her hair.
"ICTs help people share information which leads to more transparency, and helps to fight another type of cancer, but one which is more dangerous to the state: corruption," said Faisal.[11] She added, "Corruption is the worst type of cancer."[12]
When the Arab Spring buds started in Tunisia and exploded in Egypt and Libya, the Spring was bound to impact on Jordan. On the day of the first big pan-Jordan rallies, in January 2011, Faisal was confined to bed suffering the effects of chemotherapy. Yet the demonstrators were shouting her name: "God bless your times, Toujan!"
If what is said about the patient's morale being a crucial factor in combating cancer is true, then that dose of people's love sustained over years of imposed intellectual exile in her home country was more effective than the chemotherapy, and its gentle touch outweighed the harshness of the medical treatment: "I felt the 'blessing', no less!" she said. [13]
Her fans number in the thousands. She appears frequently on Al Jazeera satellite TV. She also writes regularly for the Qatari daily Al Raya, which many Jordanian websites republish, and which has attracted a wide readership.
A carrot and stick approach
Faisal's is a representative story of a pioneering woman working tirelessly ahead of the Arab Spring. That phenomenon started three years ago already – when desperate Tunisian young people used new media in challenging a police regime. The wind of the Arab Spring has reached Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Jordan.
However, Jordan has been hesitant to make adjustments to its policies and implement changes to manage the new situation, and has also tried to keep control over new media. The country amended its constitution in 2011 in response to demands for political change; but in response to the new media influence, the government tried to pass new laws to control the new "technology for freedom". The Press and Publication Law constitutes the principal tool used by successive Jordanian governments to control the press. Law No. 18, 1998 was amended through Law No. 17 in 2011, which expanded the definition of "publication" to include "electronic means, digital or technical". This means that news websites are considered newspapers and the Press and Publication Law is applicable to news websites.
Officials also use the "carrot and stick" approach inter alia to interfere in web news content. One of the carrots is advertisement, and there are many examples of how government officials use a "soft containment" policy to control the press. [14]
Nevertheless, political news websites are flourishing in Jordan because "old media" is considered less free in reporting corruption and the wrongdoings of the government. There are more than 500 political news websites; 40 of these sites have formed a union.
Jordan has fallen to 121st place out of 135 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report for 2012. The country dropped four places following a decrease in the scores for the economic, education and political sub-indexes. [15]
Closing this gap will change the future of women – gender parity can no longer be treated as a superfluous concern. [16] To overcome the challenges, the Jordanian think tank institute SIGI-Jordan [17] suggests tackling three types of poverty that impact on women: a poverty of knowledge, a lack of available opportunities, and skills poverty.
The first step to overcome gender imbalance is deciding to do something about it. The internet is not only a means of communication, but a tool to support democratisation and development. It is also a vital tool for connecting people and acting as a forum for exchanging and sharing opinions and ideas. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter all offer a forum where information and materials are exchanged between millions of users daily.
In repressive societies, the internet provides new channels for voiceless minorities and vulnerable groups who have been deprived of access to the means of public communication. As the World Bank puts it in a report on gender equality in the Arab world: "Sitting on the sidelines waiting to be invited in is no longer an option... The sooner women have an equal opportunity to contribute, the sooner the region will benefit from this vast, untapped human potential." [18]
It is clear that ICTs are important tools for bridging the gender digital divide between men and women, and can play a vital role in women's empowerment. Democratisation will not be achieved without freedom of expression. Pluralism and diversity means many voices and not a one-note chorus. Recycling discourses to satisfy donors and improve their corporate image at home and abroad is not sustainable.
It is time to take into consideration the following steps in Jordan:
Explicit efforts are necessary to create opportunities for women in the public sphere and to facilitate greater participation by women in the political realm. This is a prerequisite to foster women's participation in politics.
New media are part of the information society and offer a huge opportunity to consolidate democracy and to promote development. The internet is a simple and cheap medium for communication and education and a vital tool in fighting for gender equality and defending women's rights, as well as ensuring that marginalised and vulnerable groups are not subject to discrimination. Internet access is an essential human right for every person in Jordan.
ICTs can empower women in achieving social, cultural and economic development. NGOs are encouraged to offer training to women in rural areas, particularly in the use of social media, such as blogging, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
[1] World Bank (2013) Opening Doors: Gender Equality and Development in the Middle East and North Africa, p. 52.
[2] www.trc.gov.jo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2335&lang=arab…
[3] www.alghad.com/index.php/article/613718.html
[4] docs.amanjordan.org/laws/jordan/rights_31/3531.html
[5] www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2012.pdf
[6] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatwa
[7] This means that she chose to run in the most difficult constituency in Jordan's capital.
[8] www.arabtimes.com. The article can be reached in countries that block it at: www.arabmail.de/16.3.02jordan.html
[9] An email from Faisal answering the writer's questions on 13 April 2013.
[11] www.filmirsad.com/opinions
[12] For more information on corruption in Jordan, see GISWatch 2012 - The internet and corruption, at: www.giswatch.org/en/country-report/internet-and-corruption/jordan
[13] An email from Faisal answering the writer's questions on 13 April 2013.
[14] www.alarrabnews.com/newsView.php?id=1170
[15] www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2012.pdf
[16] www.weforum.org/women-leaders-and-gender-parity
[17] www.sigi-jordan.org/pages/index.php?news=335
[18] www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/03/14/missing-voices-gender-equa…
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One of the benefits of being a reviewer is that, of the large number of products that pass through my listening room, occasionally there are those that I really would like to see take up more permanent residence. One of these was Wilson Audio Specialties' Alexia loudspeaker, which I reviewed in December 2013. "Its clarity, its uncolored, full-range balance, its flexibility in setup and optimization, and most of all its sheer musicality, are, if not unrivaled, rare," I wrote, and concluded: "If I were to retire tomorrow, the Wilson Alexia would be the speaker I would buy to provide the musical accompaniment to that retirement." Nothing I subsequently heard disabused me of that dream, though a couple of other speakers, in particular Vivid Audio's Giya G3 and KEF's Blade Two, joined the Alexia on my bucket list.
Having discontinued the MAXX3 loudspeaker ($68,000/pair in 2009, when I reviewed it), Wilson Audio needed to plug the resulting gaping hole between the Alexia ($48,500/pair) and the Alexandria XLF ($210,000/pair). Company founder Dave Wilson was busy with the limited-edition WAMM Master Chronosonic loudspeaker ($685,000/pair), so son Darryl Wilson set about creating a speaker with a retail price of about $100,000/pair. The result, the Alexx, finally came in at $109,000/pair.
It's been five years since David Wilson's X-1/Grand SLAMM speaker system invaded our audio consciousness with its 500W power capacity and very high (95dB/W) sensitivity (footnote 1). Capable of an earsplitting 123dB at 1m, with a bandwidth to match, this was one speaker system that refused to be ignored. The X-1 has since evolved to $70,000/pair Mk.II form. It now provides some flexibility of tonal balance for different room acoustics, and is distinguished by greater subtlety in its differentiation of timbre. Beneath the X-1 in Wilson's range comes the WATT/Puppy ensemble, now in its 5.1 iteration (footnote 2). The WATT/Puppy has survived for over 10 years, and sets a benchmark for the Wilson line at its $17,270 system price.
Though taller, narrower, deeper, more gracefully sculpted, and even more mantis-like than the MAXX Series 2 that I reviewed in the August 2005 Stereophile, at first glance the Wilson Audio Specialties MAXX Series 3 seems little more than a minor reworking of its predecessor with a major increase in price: from $44,900 to $68,000 per pair. But first looks can be deceiving. Take a closer, longer gaze—or, better yet, spend some time listening (especially if you've spent time with the MAXX 2)—and you'll quickly realize that while the familiar Wilson design concepts remain in play, the MAXX 3 is far more than a minor reworking of an older model.
I first encountered the work of Dave Wilson in the late 1970s. He was then a recording engineer responsible for some great-sounding records, including pianist Mark P. Wetch's Ragtime Razzmatazz (LP, Wilson Audio W-808), which quickly became one of my favorite system-demo records.
Then Wilson turned his attention to designing loudspeakers. His first model was the Wilson Audio Modular Monitor, reviewed for Stereophile by its then-publisher, Larry Archibald, in August 1983, who described it as "the most enjoyable speaker system I've listened to, and significantly valuable as a diagnostic tool." At $35,000/pair ($83,577 in today's dollars), the WAMM may have been the most expensive speaker then on the market.
Of the small number of times I have been totally swept away by listening to recorded music, a significant proportion have involved loudspeakers from Wilson Audio Specialties. It was my experience of their X-1/Grand SLAMM in the listening rooms of reviewer Martin Colloms, then-retailer Peter McGrath, designer Dan D'Agostino of Krell, and manufacturer Madrigal Audio Labs, that led me to name it my "Editor's Choice" for 1995 and join my vote with those of the Stereophile scribes to make it the magazine's "Loudspeaker of the Year." I wrote in my December 2001 "As We See It" about how a cross-country road trip had begun with a listen to the Cantus CD on the Wilson WAMMs in their designer's Utah listening room. And, as I wrote in my April column, auditioning Peter McGrath's 24-bit Nagra-D master tapes on Wilson MAXXes in the Halcro room was, for me, the highlight of the 2002 CES.
When I interviewed recording engineer Roy Halee (Simon and Garfunkel, The Byrds, The Lovin' Spoonful, etc.) at his home in Connecticut back in 1991, he pointed to his pair of monolithic Infinity IRS loudspeakers and said, "When I want to listen for pleasure, I listen to those." He then pointed to a pair of early-edition Wilson Audio Specialties WATT/Puppys in a second system set up in the corner of his large listening room. "When I want to hear what's on a recording I've made, I listen to those." It was obvious: Halee respected the Wilsons, but he loved the Infinitys. Not surprising, since Dave Wilson designed the WATT section to be a highly accurate portable monitor, and monitors are designed for respect, not love.
Synecdoche: That's what the Wilson WATT/Puppy is.
"Where do you want 'em?" Doug'n'David (of Stereophile's shipping and receiving, not your favorite morning drive-time talk radio co-hosts) had just wrestled over 500 lbs of cocooned Wilson WITT loudspeakers onto the floor of my garage. Like the Thiel CS7s I had parted with just a few weeks earlier, the WITTs came packed in solid, heavy wooden crates. The pained expressions on Doug'n'David's faces indicated that it was time for me to start reviewing minimonitors! The unpacking went more smoothly than I expected, but this is clearly a pair of loudspeakers that demand to be delivered, uncrated, and set up by a dealer.
How can a reviewer possibly put a value on a loudspeaker as costly as the Wilson Audio Specialties X-1/Grand SLAMM? When he reviewed Wilson's WATT 3/Puppy 2 system ($12,900-$16,000/pair, depending on finish) a few years back (footnote 1), John Atkinson said that it was "one of the more expensive loudspeakers around." The Grand SLAMM costs almost five times as much!
You've seen the ads from YG Acoustics: "The best loudspeaker on Earth. Period." It sounds arrogant. But come on—high-end audio has never been a field of shrinking violets. When Ivor Tiefenbrun of Linn announced that the turntable, not the cartridge or loudspeakers, dictated the sound quality of an audio system, that was a man convinced that he was right and taking on the world. And was Krell's Dan D'Agostino any less arrogant when, in 1980, he introduced the KSA-100 power amplifier? In a world where small size and high wattage were the norms, didn't it take a pair of big brass 'uns to bring out a honkin' huge slab of metal that put out only 100Wpc?


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Meet Brody: The Dog That Can Whisper on Command
Your dog may be able to sit, roll over and speak, but can your dog whisper?
By ALLIE KESSEL
Holly Stephens
Brody, the dog that talks and whispers.
— -- Your dog may be able to sit, roll over and speak, but can your dog whisper?
Unlike most dogs, Brody, a 5-year-old beagle-heeler mix, can whisper on command.
"Brody is like a human!" said owner Holly Stephens. "He is so sweet and smart and he is also extremely polite."
Dogs Flip Out for Levitating Hot Dogs
Dogs Do Love Their Owners: 'Love Hormone' Makes Dogs Man's Best Friend, Study Says
Stephens, a language arts teacher for middle school students in Woodlands, Texas, said she often tries to teach Brody new tricks.
"It's the teacher in me," explained Stephens. "I wanted to be able to tell my students that if a dog could learn to whisper, then they could whisper too."
What's even more impressive is it took Stephens less than an hour to teach Brody how to whisper.
"He is such a fast learner," said Stephens. "We have always thought it was weird that he seems to understand what we're saying. He knows what 'gentle' means, so I just kept saying 'gentle' and eventually he got it."
This is the first of unusual tricks Stephens has tried to teach Brody, but she said it won't stop here.
"I took a vote with my students and they want me to teach him to get a drink out of the refrigerator," she said.


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Westminster Bookstore has a great deal on Tim Keller's newest book, Galatians for You. They're offering a single copy for $11. If you're ordering five or more copies, each copy is $10.
However, if you'd like to pay nothing for the book, head over to Steve McCoy's blog and enter his giveaway!
I've always liked Anberlin because of their ability to combine shimmering vocals and fantastic guitar licks into a heavy rock song. They are a talented, tight, engaging band, and when you listen to their albums the talent shines through. Even though I'm not a huge metal fan, I'm big on melodies and musically interesting songs, which is why I enjoy listening to Anberlin.
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Just how BIG is a dragon? The most widespread numbers in fandom come from the error-filled "Dragonlover's Guide to Pern" which says that dragons are between 20 meters (for small greens) and 45 meters (for Lessa's queen, Ramoth). However, if you look at Ramoth on the cover of "Dragonflight" you'll notice that she is closer to 45 feet than 45 meters (148 1/2 feet).
Based on the book covers and the descriptions in the books themselves, Rocky Crater Weyrhold has settled on the following size charts. The first one lists the size ranges for adult dragons at RCW, and the second lists the average size of our dragons from hatchling to adulthood. In both cases, the dragon's wingspan is roughly equal to its length x 1.66, then rounded off to the nearest whole number.


I hit a bit of low point yesterday, as I you may have noticed. Wailing about being forsaken at a lonely train station with no train arriving to take me to the next stop of my life and then wailing some more about not being able to be happy in the Now. Then some of you dropped by to offer some comfort and consolation. And a weird string of aha moments followed.
First, theacquiescentsoul reminded me that I had something going for me, and that something was self-care. He was right. Self-care is something that I have discovered a while back as being very healing. I had just forgotten about that.
The best thing about self-care, though, I only realized yesterday, is that you cannot do it in the past or the future. Think about it. There is no way to do it backwards or forwards. You can only do it in the Now. So what better way to keep myself anchored in the present moment when my mind wants to flee it and take refuge in an imagined perfect future, than self-care?
So I vowed to take a bath and watch a movie to give my mind some rest. I let in steaming hot water, added some bath salt, lit some candles and browsed through Netflix. My eyes quickly caught the title of a movie I had watched before: Self/Less. How fitting, I thought. At least I'm not alone, all Self-less. So I watched it.
It's about a very rich but very ill man who knows he's about to die very soon. So he decides to use a very new, not yet approved and totally illegal medical technology that basically consists of transplanting his consciousness into another human body.
The procedure is a bit disorienting. You have some weird flash-backs. Also, your body doesn't function that well yet. You have to learn everything from scratch like a baby: How to walk, how to control your muscles, how to get your body to do what you want it to do. It takes a while.
Just relax and have some fun for a while. You've earned it.
Admittedly, this is not the most sophisticated line I've ever quoted from a movie. But yesterday evening it hit straight home with me for obvious reasons. You have to admit it's pretty fitting.
Get some rest after you've been through a lot, relax and have some fun.
Never live someone else's life.
I went to bed pondering that. And this morning I woke up and suddenly had an epiphany. You know which one?
I'm gonna quit waiting for that train that might never come anyhow, turn around and just plain simply leave this god-forsaken station right now.
It seems I'm not the only one to ever have been in this kind of rut. And not the first one to decide to just let the train go and have some fun. How is that for confirmation?!
And you know what else? I kind of bet that once I do that, this train station of mine will just evaporate as if it had never been there. Because maybe it really never was. Maybe it was just a product of my imagination all along. An optical illusion, a flash-back from my previous life, my previous preferred way of getting from one place to another.
Using mass transportation on pre-assigned tracks to pre-assigned stations.
And I'm starting to wonder: If this station of mine isn't the place where I belong, maybe it still is the place where I was supposed to be, needed to be for a while, a rather long one, to realize precisely that… That I don't belong there. That the station isn't for me anymore. And that the train never was.
I'm choosing a different mode of transport now. My very own individualized one.
They've been here with me all along. I just didn't notice. I will ask them where they want to go, truly and excitedly want to go right now. And then just trust their guidance, set myself in motion and see where they take me. One step at a time.
So yes, Des, I think I found my ticket out of there. Turns out I had it in my pocket all along.
First, thank you so much for mentioning me in your post and I am glad you were able to find a moment of peace.
Secondly, your attention to living in The Now is incredibly inspiring to me and it is a concept I forget far too often, but I'm glad you brought attention to it. It reminds me to spend more time in The Now, rather then the past and future.
You're very welcome. But the privilege is all mine. If you hadn't dropped that line about self-care my evening would have unfolded quite differently, I'm sure. I'm so glad you nudged me in that more self-caring direction.
I very much hope that self-care will do for you what it did for me, too. That is to find some comfort in the most unlikely places. Sometimes those place are just so awful so that at some point we just cannot stand to stay there any longer. Maybe this is what this dreadful period is all about in the first place. It's not about getting somewhere. But getting out of something.
This morning I'm happy to read that theacquiescentsoul had the courage and intuition to offer some valuable insight. Sometimes a "nudge" is all we need to turn into an entirely different direction. Maybe today the train station just becomes a memory of that long stopover between destinations.
That's a really nice way to put it: a memory of a long stopover between destinations. I like that! And yes, a nudge is helpful. Often way more helpful than a big shove or a warning sign or whatever else might be intrusive.
As cliche' as it sounds, we're right where we need to be at the moment. I resisted this statement thinking it's so overused and new age-e. But for whatever reason, I've found it to be true. We're on the same "train track." i call it the life journey. And you're not alone on the train or the journey, we're with you too. I'll share another favorite, "We're all just walking each other home." Knowing we have colleagues on the journey sure makes all these experiences just a little bit easier to work through.
What a great quote: We're all just walking each other home. It reminds me of a block post I wrote on Kintsugi, this Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold dust. One reader commented: Maybe we just get broken by others so that we can piece ourselves back together differently, less perfect but more authentic. Or something like that. I also have to admit that there always is something to those overused lines, if we like it or not. As so many others before us had the same realisation. Strange, though, that we always seem to have to find out for ourselves. I guess, you can't learn about life by reading a book about it. You have to live it.
Sounds like great progress! Keep going now.
Thank you for your encouragement, as always. This helps!
My pleasure, so glad it helps!
I'm glad you're feeling better! And yes, I think the key is to realize that we are often exactly where we are supposed to be, and it's okay to just relax and enjoy it. And when the time comes that we want to move on, we don't need to wait for any "train." As you said, we just use our own feet and start walking towards where we want to be, often in the company of others.
Thank you, Ann, yes I'm feeling a bit better and hope it will last for a while. It certainly helps to change perspective. And the company of others is very comforting, too. Thanks for stopping by!


Does anyone know if Vonage has a virtual PBX feature, are about to come up with one soon?
If not, which other services do? I am currently a Vonage user and looking for this feature as well.
You must use them for internet, but the reason is so they can guarentee voice quality (QoS).
Here is a link to another thread on this same issue.
I'm curious how long you have been using Easy Office Phone? Their rates are considerably higher then most other solutions. How would you rate the quality of service? Have you called support yet? I have to say that the list of features is quite impressive.
I started using them about 4 months ago because I run a small business and have 2 other employees who work from home. We each have an extension and can answer the incoming calls from our respective home offices. The quality is really good, just as good as my landline was. We were assigned an account manager and I can call him whenever I have questions or need help. We pay $49.99 per phone line for unlimited long distance in north america.
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject: $49?
SMALL BUSINESS PLAN $49.95 / month This is a great plan for companies who make a lot of local calls. Local calling and incoming calls are included in your plan on your first phone line. You can still receive more than one phone call at a time or you can purchase additional unlimited local phone lines.
True enough. We just told our account manager that we were not interested unless it was unlimited long distance and he said that was fine. Actually he said that they were supposed to be comming out with an unlimited long distance package for businesses in the next month or so.
I have never heard of easy office phone but I have heard of Junction Networks. They have been around for at least 3 years and they exclusively provide business Voip service. I think they are partnered with some big Voip providers.
Anyway, they sell a hosted pbx service that is 100% sip compatible so you can use any sip phone or soft phone. It is totally flexible so you can log in from anywhere and on multiple phones too.
Everything they sell is a la carte, so there are not "unlimited" plans. But, my experience with many clients tells me that the unlimited plans end up costing more than per minute.
They have a great hosted pbx plan for $39.95 which includes all of the virtual pbx functionality PLUS 5 voice mailboxes. If you need more mailboxes, they are a measly $2 per month. Extensions and users are free. So, you can have tons of people with extensions and simply get them voice mailboxes if needed. It's really cheap.
Check them out. There is a free 30 day trial of the hosted pbx service.
We use a Virtual PBX in our office and have been very well pleased with the service. We have not had any service issues and the company we use is very helpful and they have been for us as our company has grown over the past 2 years. At first I was a bit skeptical of the "Hosted PBX/Virtual PBX" idea but I am really glad I decided to go with it. It takes away a major burden in having to maintain a traditional phone system.
I have recommended these guys to several entrepreneur friends of mine and just thought I would post this for anyone looking for a good, stable company!
Virtual PBX has been very essential for providing excellent communication tool for small and growing business enterprise. Virtual PBX has advanced telecommunication features which helps to ease complex calls.


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HardwareBanter > Video Cards > Nvidia Videocards > OT... any UK gamers prolly heard about....
View Full Version : OT... any UK gamers prolly heard about....
August 10th 04, 04:31 PM
The 17 old bloke who stabbed a 14 year old to death... the initial media storm
reported that the perp was obsessed with "Manhunt"...and this lead to a few
major stores removing it from their shelves....
Well...turns out....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/04/manhunt_murder_claim/
"The copy of the computer game Manhunt that was discovered during the
investigation into the murder of a 14-year-old boy was not the possession of the
killer but the victim, it has emerged.
UK retailers Dixons and Game both pulled the title from their stores' shelves
last week after the parents of the murdered boy, Stefan Pakeerah, alleged that
his murderer, Warren LeBlanc, 17, was "obsessed" by the grisly game and that it
had inspired has murderous actions.
The victims father dubbed Manhunt "a manual for murder".
It was widely reported by the mainstream press, online and TV media that the
game had been found in LeBlanc's bedroom.
However, today it emerged that Leicestershire police found the game in
Pakeerah's room, not LeBlanc's, GamesIndustry.biz reports.
"The video game was not found in Warren LeBlanc's room, it was found in Stefan
Pakeerah's room," a police spokesperson said today. "Leicestershire Constabulary
stands by its response that police investigations did not uncover any
connections to the video game, the motive for the incident was robbery."
Police believe LeBlanc murdered Pakeerah, whom he knew, to obtain money to pay
back a drug-related debt.
LeBlanc's assumed possession of Manhunt raised the questions as to how a
17-year-old was able to get hold of the game. The game carries an 18
certificate, so it is illegal to sell it to anyone under that age. Now it has
emerged that the game was owned by the 14-year-old Pakeerah, that question has
not gone away. ®"
so..in conclusion..WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK?????!!!!
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> so..in conclusion..WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK?????!!!!
Exactly. Thats the press for you, quick to jump on the bandwagon, slow to
report the facts.
Jethro[AGHL]
So having the game doesn't make you a killer.. it gets you killed.
Ok that's even worse. :-)
Jethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Pinger
Reply Email: jeff (at) tibben (dot) ca
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> Well...turns out....
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/04/manhunt_murder_claim/
I feel sorry for the parent who lost their kid, but come on, it is a lame
excuse for not looking after your kid properly and put the blame randomly on
somebody else, they must be stupid.


Coleoftheball: Revlon matte and lacquer balms. Worth the hype?
Definitely wary of matte lips given how dry mine are but I've heard such great things about these. That purple/pink is so gorgeous! Perfect spring shade!
These look so nice. Showy looks especially beautiful on you! I can't wait until pay day so I can grab some! The only hard thing is going to be picking what colours to get.
They look absolutely stunning on you! Especially the purple toned one. I must get one this pay day!


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Talk to Eluzterp at the Slime Cave east of Almuj.
Eluzterp: Oh, hey! You, adventurer over there! Would you mind helping me?
Eluzterp: You see, this cave behind me has been troubling me for a very long time now.
Eluzterp: There are special slimes that live in there, and they drop a certain goo that is rumored to be a delecacy when brewed into a potion!
Eluzterp: They are called Gooey Slimes, and should be at the very back.
Eluzterp: However, the slimes are quite powerful. I've spent weeks standing outside this cave, sending other adventurers in to get this goo.
Eluzterp: None of them have returned though. Hopefully you can do it.
Eluzterp: If you decide to help me, you'll need to obtain a special device for retrieving it.
Eluzterp: My cousin, Yodbon, who lives in Almuj, can make it for you. He should be living in a house in front of the bank.
Eluzterp: I'll need [8 Slimey Goo] for the potions.
Eluzterp: You'll be rewarded if you assist me.
Talk to Yodbon in Almuj.
Yodbon: Sent by Eluzterp, they always say. What's that idjit gone an' done now?
Yodbon: Anyways, for me to make you a scooper you'll need to get [5 Glass Bottle].
Yodbon: Come back to me once you've gotten ahold of them.
Bring back 5 Soft Sand to Yodbon.
Yodbon: ..There you go. G'luck on whatever crazy act that Eluzterp has you doing.
Enter the Slime Cave behind Eluzterp and collect 8 Slimey Goo.
Eluzterp: Great, you're back! I've been anticipating your return.
Eluzterp: Hmm, everything seems to be in order. Good!
Eluzterp: Thank you very much. Here's the reward I promised.


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El Redoutable fue un navío francés de guerra; el segundo de nueve buques de la marina francesa en portar dicho nombre.

Fue botado el 31 de mayo de 1791 como Suffren (en honor al almirante Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez), y fue renombrado Redoutable («Temible») el 20 de mayo de 1794. Participó en la batalla de Trafalgar comandado por el capitán Lucas. Formó parte de la escuadra franco-española que el 21 de octubre de 1805 se enfrentó con la escuadra inglesa. Embarcaba 74 cañones.

Historial

En la batalla  de Trafalgar formaba parte del centro de la escuadra y libró el más encarnizado combate al lado del buque insignia, el Bucentaure francés y cerca del Santísima Trinidad español.

Se enfrentó en primer lugar al buque insignia de la escuadra inglesa, el , en inferioridad de condiciones, puesto que el navío inglés contaba con 104 cañones. Para solventar la desventaja del número de cañones, el Redoutable produjo un considerable aumento del nivel de disparos de fusilería y granadas e intentó el abordaje del HMS Victory. Posteriormente sufrió el fuego de otros navíos de la armada inglesa que acudieron a socorrer a su buque insignia, principalmente del . Uno de los tiradores del Redoutable consiguió acabar con la vida del almirante inglés Horatio Nelson.

El navío  acudió en ayuda del Redoutable, pero éste, desarbolado y con un gran número de bajas (487 muertos y 81 heridos de una tripulación de 634 hombres), tuvo que rendirse y fue apresado. Estaba tan destrozado que se hundió a consecuencia de los daños sufridos o porque le prendieron fuego.

Referencias

Navíos de línea de Francia
Navíos de línea
Buques de guerra de Francia

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El Sulfato de potasio es la sal potásica del ácido sulfúrico. Su fórmula mineral se denomina arcanita. Se suele emplear como fertilizante inorgánico de origen mineral (placerita). En la industria alimentaria suele emplearse con el código: E 515.

Historia
Fue descubierto en el siglo XIV y posteriormente descrito por los químicos Johann Rudolf Glauber y Robert Boyle y se denominaba arcanuni o sal duplicatum. Fue conocido también vitriolic tartar y Glaser's salt o sal polychrestum Glaseri denominado de esta forma también por el farmacéutico Christopher Glaser que lo preparó como fármaco.

Propiedades
Se trata de un sólido cristalino soluble en agua. Estable en condiciones normales de almacenamiento.

Síntesis
La producción industrial se obtiene atacando el cloruro de potasio con ácido sulfúrico concentrado a elevadas temperaturas (500-600 °C) en un horno, la reacción produce el sulfato de potasio y libera ácido clorhídrico que deberá ser recuperado ya que es sumamente tóxico y afecta sensiblemente el medio ambiente.

La reacción de síntesis es la siguiente:

H2SO4 + 2KCl   ---->    K2SO4 + 2HCl.

Fuentes naturales
Las formas minerales del sulfato potásico, como la arcanita, es relativamente raro. Las fuentes naturales de sulfato potásico son aquellas sales que poseen grandes cantidades de magnesio. Los minerales son:

 Kainita, MgSO4·KCl·H2O
 Schönita, K2SO4·MgSO4·6H2O
 Leonita, K2SO4·MgSO4·4H2O
 Langbeinita, K2SO4·2MgSO4
 Glaserita, K3Na(SO4)2
 Polihalita, K2SO4·MgSO4·2CaSO4·2H2O

Véase también
 Sulfato de sodio

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 IPCS International Programme on Chemical Safety Ficha internacional de seguridad (en español)
 Usos Sulfato de Potasio Usos Sulfato de Potasio

Compuestos de potasio
Sulfatos
Fertilizantes


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Hello everyone and welcome to a post that is a little different to usual. Today I thought I would talk a little bit about my mascara journey and struggles, in the hope that clawing my way out of a mascara rut is something that may help some of you.


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I loved your answers!! I'm so behind in tag, but I'm looking forward to this one!! Thank you!
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	private readonly Dictionary<string, PackedArchiveFile> files;

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package net.liquidpineapple.pang.objects;

import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;

import lombok.Getter;
import net.liquidpineapple.pang.Application;
import net.liquidpineapple.pang.gui.TimeSystem;

/**
 * Created by Tim on 9-9-2016.
 * Class that represents the hook system in the game.
 */
@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
public class HookAndRope extends GameObject {

  private final double maxY;
  private double dy = 3; //specify upspeed rope here.
  @Getter
  private Player player;
  private int removeDelay = 0;
  private int removeMoment = -1;
  // Because I want to check this hasn't changed,
  // but it should never be an actual time if it hasn't been set. -1 is a impossible time.

  /**
   * Constructor for the HookAndRope class
   *
   * @param startX - Xlocation where the hook should go up.
   * @param maxY   - Maximum height the rope should go up to.
   */
  public HookAndRope(double startX, double maxY, Player player, int removeDelay) {
    super(player.getPlayerScheme().getBeamTextureName(), startX, 600);
    this.maxY = maxY;
    this.player = player;
    this.removeDelay = removeDelay;
  }

  /**
   * Method to move the hook upwards.
   */
  public void move() {
    ypos -= dy;

    //if ypos reaches 0, the top of the frame has been reached,
    // and ypos should go to boardHeight again
    if (ypos <= maxY && removeMoment == -1) {
      removeMoment = TimeSystem.getTime() - removeDelay;
      dy = 0;
    }
    if (TimeSystem.getTime() == removeMoment) {
      player.activeHooks--;
      Application.getBoard().getCurrentScreen().objectList.remove(this);
    }
  }

  /**
   * method to update the position of the hook,
   * iff its in use.
   */
  public void doUpdate() {
    super.doUpdate();
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}


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Frank Twyman  (17 November 1876 – 6 March 1959) was a British designer of optical instruments and co-inventor of the Twyman–Green interferometer.

Early life
Twyman was born in Canterbury, Kent, England on 17 November 1876, the seventh child of nine to Jane Lefevre and ropemaker George Edmund Twyman. He attended Simon Langton School before doing an electrical engineering course at Finsbury Technical College, followed by a Siemens scholarship at Central Technical College in London. In 1897 he co-authored his first scientific paper.

Career
Twyman worked briefly for the Fowler Waring Cables Company testing telephone cables, before beginning work in 1898 for optical instrument manufacturing firm Adam Hilger as an assistant to Otto Hilger. Following the death of Otto Hilger, Twyman became managing director of the firm. He remained in post until 1946 when he became chairman.

Until 1910 he managed the design and construction of all of the firms new equipment. This included a deviation wavelength spectrometer and a spectrograph made using quartz rather than glass to enable the observation of the ultraviolet spectrum.

Between 1918 and 1923 with foreman Alfred Green he developed the Twyman–Green interferometer, based on the Michelson interferometer, and used principally for testing optical equipment.

In 1924 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1926 he was awarded both the Duddell Medal of the Physical Society and the John Price Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute.

In 1942 he published the book Prism and Lens Making. In 1956 he won the Gold medal of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.

He also advised the firm E. R. Watts and Son until they merged in 1948 with Adam Hilger Ltd. to form Hilger & Watts Ltd. He remained an advisor to Hilger & Watts until his death.

Personal life
In 1906 Twyman married Phillipine Katherine Elisabeth Hilger, daughter of Otto Hilger. They went on to have four children together. In 1956 he authored a book on his family history, An East Kent Family. He also wrote a pamphlet of his views on economics, and a book on apprenticeships.

He died at home on 6 March 1959 in St Pancras, London.

Books

References

Optical engineers
1876 births
1959 deaths
People from Canterbury
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Institute of Physics


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"Foot in the door" by American Goy
by American Goy for his "World"
Skurwienie in polish, ssucziwijenie(as close a phonetic spelling as I can manage in russian) - loose translation "to make someone else your bitch bitch; verb".
Driving to work the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I overheard on NPR this story: there is a protest planned today against the TSA advanced scanning whatever you want to call it.
The gist of the piece on my radio was this:
NPR: many people are worried about these protests and worry about them slowing down the holiday (thanksgiving, american family holiday) travel. Here's a random person who sees absolutely nothing wrong with the TSA scans.
A (clueless, picked out of a crowd) woman came on and said that she just wants to get home, that this is for our safety, yada yada.
At this moment i turned off the radio, while screaming at it (yes, I do have high blood pressure).
Bought and paid for advert story - on NPR, no less, imagine that (what is the world coming to, oy).
The bad protesters, who slow down the (good, obedient) people's travel plans.
Protests of TSA airport pat-downs, body scanners don't delay Thanksgiving travel, Washington Post, November 25, 2010
The tone of the article's title is congratulatory, euphoric even:
Hooray, the inhuman system grinds on!
Total failure of (isolated, bad, yucky) protesters versus the (abused, exasperated, humble, just doing my job) TSA workers (officers?), to the positive (relief, cheering, clapping) reaction of the normal travellers who just want to get to see their families - stripping naked for weird strangers in uniform or being sexually groped is just part of the "new reality".
Protesters showed up in ones and twos, but not in the predicted battalions.
They held up signs, passed out leaflets damning the government and delayed virtually nobody.
A win for the (groping, death of privacy, Orwellian) democracy!
From New York to Los Angeles - in Atlanta, Kansas City, Phoenix, San Diego, St. Louis, Seattle and at all three major airports in the Washington region - hundreds of thousands of people launched their holiday travels without falling afoul of airport security or the clamorous minority(...)
Clamorous minority indeed.
Don't mind the brown shirts on the streets, just go along, don't stick out, just fade into the crowd, maybe the people in uniform will not bother me but that young man over there - he looks suspicious to me anyway, maybe I should tell the authorities to grope him.
Don't touch my junk: TSA workers face a tough job, Associated Press, November 23 2010
They've been called molesters, threatened with violence and ordered not to touch "my junk." One woman headbutted a TSA officer who was searching her laptop. Other screeners report being punched, kicked and shoved during pat-downs.
My god, the poor dears.
All they try to do is to condition the American public for further skurwienies (plural of singular skurwienie) - the next, already lined up - humiliations soon to come.
Security officers know the new searches are more invasive but want Thanksgiving travelers to keep in mind they are just doing their jobs to keep people safe.
We are doing it for you.
"We just want the public to understand that we're not perverts," said screener Ricky D. McCoy, who heads a local TSA union for Illinois and Wisconsin.
The handsome, nice men in their black uniforms and fancy runes on their collars were the nicest, good educated, well behaved men with a tough job to do. And sadly, they were also misunderstood by the public...
To be sure, most passengers are docile when going through an airport's security checkpoint, though McCoy said the atmosphere has changed in the past two weeks.
Most Americans are cowardly, honorless, just trying-to-go-about-my-business types, although in the past two weeks strains are showing and it becomes clear that you can only push - admittedly pathetic - people of this nation only so far.
Last week, for instance, McCoy explained the search to a passenger. "The guy looked me straight in the face and said, 'I don't know what I might do to you if you touch me,'" said McCoy.
McCoy stared the man down and told the passenger that touching an officer would be the worst mistake he's ever made because authorities would be called. The search went smoothly.
The authority figure stared the man down, making him feel big and powerful (a feature, a perk, also of the men in black uniforms some 70 odd years ago in a far away land called the 3rd Reich, and also a common occurrence during the 1917 through 1989 when dealing with the 'officers of state security', called variously Cheka, NKVD, MGB, KGB in an exotic, magical place called the Soviet Union).
Then he threatened the man with all the power of the state (in our modern Yoo Ess of Ey, this means a tasering and/or a beatdown by "the servants of the public", the police).
The intimidated man was then humiliated by having his balls and penis fondled, as well as having his ass rubbed.
"About 10 minutes later his wife came back and apologized for what he said," McCoy said.
The wife, terrified that the agent would inform a police officer or his co-workers or boss about the man, and at the least lead to her husband's arrest and legal fees of hundreds of thousands of dollars (at the worst a tasering, beat down and resisting arrest, with a rather large chance of resulting in life changing injuries - broken ribs, bones, face etc), quickly assuaged herself in front of the important man in uniform - a man who could, at his whim, make her husband lose his liberty, his health and cost her thousands of dollars.
The man was not vindictive - the nice young man in uniform was a pleasant fella, and was satisfied first with humiliating her husband and then with her pleading with him for her husband's life.
The new pat-downs began about a month ago, and early on, an officer was assaulted. Since the story made headlines, McCoy said officers at least six times have been punched, pushed or shoved after they explained what would be happening.
I for one am A-OK with strange men touching my penis, fondling my balls and patting my butt.
"We have major problems because basically TSA never educated the public on what was going on," McCoy said. "Our agency pretty much just threw the new search techniques out there."
That was by design.
Informing the public a few weeks before the launch of the groping by uniformed men of your private body parts (pardon - advanced screening technique) would launch a national discussion, would make the media cover it, would make the total strangeness of it all imprint itself on the American psyche.
Launching it with nary a warning placed on the public allowed the rulers to present the public with a fait accompli - also to put an Orwellian twist on the idiot sheep masses.
Of course, you don't have to be molested - you can opt for complete strangers to see you completely naked under a powerful x-ray machine. It's your choice, citizen!
... Or perhaps not, as the "security officers" may and can choose to pat you down "advancedly" anyway - for your own protection, of course.
Opt Out of a Body Scan? Then Brace Yourself, The New York Times, November 1, 2010.
Mr. Delahorne said: "They had one of the T.S.A. staff announcing loudly: 'Take everything out of your pockets. If you have a wallet, take it out. A handkerchief, out.' I asked the guy, 'Can you explain the reason for the new process?' He said there was nothing new. 'We have always done this.'
In case you missed it, launching this on the public with no warning was by design.
Oceania was always at war with EastAsia.
The purpose of this whole exercise is skurwienie - ssucziwinije - to make you into a bitch.
To get you ready for the further humiliation to come.
This should be self explanatory to you, because if you are reading this blog I believe you are at least somewhat intelligent, but i will explain just in case.
The foot in the door technique
Pretty decent Wikipedia article on this tried and tested psychological technique,
In an early study, a team of psychologists telephoned housewives in California and asked if the women would answer a few questions about the household products they used. Three days later, the psychologists called again. This time, they asked if they could send five or six men into the house to go through cupboards and storage places as part of a 2-hr enumeration of household products. The investigators found these women were more than twice as likely to agree to the 2-hr request than a group of housewives asked only the larger request.
This is painfully obvious, but let me explain using painfully obvious language so that there is no misunderstanding between us here.
Americans are being trained, like dogs, to conform to their masters' wishes.
First small things are asked - wiggle the tail, roll over, let me fondle your balls and play with your penis.
But once that is done, bigger requests and actions will be expected.
And, like the TSA homosexual gropings (nothing against gay men per se, sorry if I offended you) those new requests, humiliations, skurwienie - will not be advertised beforehand.
They will be sprung upon you, the cowardly, pathetic American public, with no warning whatsoever.
But hark! The making-you-into-a-bitch (obedient, ever ready to serve, unsurprised by any of the master's wishes) is working quite well.
First, there are no protests - and the full force of the state (taser, beatings, jail, fines) will be used to back up the inhuman requests.
Second, if someone is protesting, that someone should not be surprised if the resistance and disdain to their actions come not from the men and women in uniform, but from their fellow citizens standing in line behind them :
Quit causing trouble, asshole!
Just do what they say, we are late already!
What the hell is your problem man, just let him grope you and move on!
Someone arrest that man!
And the skurwienie - ssucziwinije - proceeds apiece...
Suka.
Kurwa.
Bitch.
You know?
An american citizen (written with a small "a" and small "c" on purpose).
Homework for you - research what other countries subject their citizens to either be wholly x-rayed and/or sexually groped all over your body.
The answer might surprise you!
Labels: american goy, TSA porno scanners and sexual assaults
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Home to school transport in disarray
Posted by Rob Parsons | Updated 2021-09-08
Liberal Democrat councillors joined parents in expressing dismay at the collapse of parts of the home to school transport contract. Cllr David Tutt, Leader of the Liberal Democrat group explains:
"The Conservative administration that runs the County Council decided to re-tender the contract for home to school transport. The Canterbury based company who won the contract could then not deliver two of the routes as they apparently had insufficient vehicles, drivers and passenger assistants or any backup vehicles in the case of a breakdown. Two parts of the contract then had to be cancelled leaving parents in the lurch."
Councillor Sarah Osborne adds:
"This shambles has left parents, including parents of some of our most vulnerable children, faced with uncertainty and confusion at the start of the school term. We have heard that some children were not collected at all. Our children have been through enough disruption in the last year without this inept contract management. The Conservatives need to sort this out as a top priority."


Abstract: A new approach for elliptical waveguide analysis is presented in this paper. This approach applies the global method of a differential quadrature (DQ) to discretize the Helmholtz equation and then reduces it into an eigenvalue equation system. All the cutoff wavelengths from low- to high-order modes can be simultaneously obtained from the eigenvalues of the equation system. The present solver is general, which can be applied to elliptical waveguides with arbitrary ellipticity. It is demonstrated in this paper that the DQ results are in excellent agreement with theoretical values using just a few grid points and, thus, requiring very small computational effort.


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So hows everyone friday night?
Ay @Thomas Ryan got any designs im in the mood of making pins.
Fresh kicks and gold chains but lives in the projects.
Lmao that such a great idea.
Good luck you guys ill take pepper spray.
that would be a great vinyl sticker.
I was just giving @Kevin FL ideas.
Ill eventually get into flyers and business cards.
They are just manipulative self loathing cockroaches.
Jewish privilege is our problem not "white privilege"
Lol one that owns a pet monkey friend.
And has its hair dyed green .
My friend blake's radio show.
I havent yet went to a rally.
I wish i can go to one.
no distance i live way down south Florida.
yea and my car isnt too good.
Is there a Florida chapter?
maybe at rallies ill bump into some.
and figuring out the meaning to life.
savitri devi was an national socialist greek descent she did alot for animal activism and she viewed Hitler as an avatar.
She was into hinduism and her famous works was the lighting and the sun. She wrote to GLR and he responded she was really respected by William pierce and GLR.
She is one of my idols she did alot for the movement.
I usually dont know other people that likes her style of National socialism.
i want to lose weight make more shekels and remove some cringy tattoos. And perhaps join some movement.
did you guys ever had a cringy street punk phase?
i have like 100000 band shirts.
this one goy had an absurd patch and i was like hey what band is that.


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