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'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Trailer
UK Release Date: 13th December 2013
Stars: Peter Jackson (director), Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Luke Evans, Cate Blanchett, Evangeline Lilly, Richard Armitage, Hugo Weaving, Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Stephen Fry
Plot: The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
The new Middle Earth trilogy began last year with An Unexpected Journey which, in my opinion, came nowhere close to touching the Lord of the Rings films and could have been a lot better, the slow pace at which events unravelled being the most alarming concern. However, it built a nice platform for the next films to advance on.
With this trailer it certainly looks as though things will be a bit more action heavy and faster paced. We get glimpses of fight scenes, the reappearance of Legolas and completely new character Tauriel (although how much fans of the source material will like her remains to be seen) and we're also treated (or not) to seeing pretty much every character in the film jumping.
I think I do watch this trailer with a lot of cynicism, I felt hugely let down when watching An Unexpected Journey because it was so far apart from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The CGI here used for Smaug as well does not look as good as it should do in this kind of big budget movie.
I hope that upon release I am proved wrong and that Smaug looks great and the film will be exciting and action packed! It probably says a lot for this trailer that the most exciting thing, for me, was the return of Orland Bloom. And when that's exciting, you know things are bad.
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What to Watch – December 2012
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Here are a collection of trailers for, what I think are, the best movies to be released in the UK this month and will be well worth a watch!
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS – 5th December
This is something I have been looking forward to since I first saw the trailer. An exciting cast that combines Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson and Christopher Walken all brought together by Martin McDonagh in his In Bruges follow up.
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – 13th December
This is obviously the biggest film to be released this month and I've said enough about it already in previous posts so here is just one of the many TV spots for the epic Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings prequel.
SMASHED – 14th December
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and the brilliant Aaron Paul play a married couple whose bond is solely built on their love of alcohol. Their marriage is put to the test when the wife decides to get sober. Smashed has already been adored by critics and could serve as a little treat this December.
LIFE OF PI – 20th December
I was more than a little dubious when I watched the first trailer for Ang Lee's adaptation of the epic novel but with the release of this second trailer I don't see how anyone can doubt this. A clear Oscar contender for sure.
PITCH PERFECT – 21st December
Anna Kendrick stars (and sings on the soundtrack) in this obviously Glee inspired musical that has gone down well with critics and audiences alike in America. I found the trailer a lot funnier than I thought that I would and it does look really really fun.
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Step Aside Peter Jackson…
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Now this isn't the usual type of thing that I write about because, for a start, it's not a real movie. But this was too hard to resist.
Last week a trailer was released for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Now, a trailer has emerged for a film entitled The Hobbit: There And Back Again, but this film comes with a difference: it is a film put together by children aged between 8 – 13 at Tower House School in London.
This was part of their school project that actually consisted of making a full length feature (90 minutes) version of JRR Tolkien's famous novel. The school, which is where Tom Hardy and Robert Pattinson came from, is putting on special viewings of the full project but the one minute trailer has won audiences all over the internet as it recaptures everybody's sense of imagination and creativity that has since been destroyed after leaving their childhood behind.
The star is 13 year old Joey Whittaker who spends most of the trailer as Bilbo Baggins looking incredibly surprised at every event that happens, even when he is sitting at his dining table in his own home… by himself. The trailer manages to make everybody wish that, for just one day, they too could be children again.
Albeit Tower House School is a prep school but if more schools across England made their pupils do projects like this it is likely to hold their interest a lot more!
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News of the Week (19/09/12) – Guardians of the Galaxy & Silver Linings Playbook
So, this is the movie news that should have been posted yesterday, however I got slightly side tracked by the fact that there was a new trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey being released and I was so excited and highly anticipating that trailer that I forgot to post this. So let's all just pretend it's on time and bathe in the news of the past week.
First up, director news, both joining projects and possibly leaving projects too. James Gunn, after plenty of speculation, has officially been announced as the director of Guardians of the Galaxy, probably Marvel's most ambitious movie to date. Gunn recently directed Super which received mixed reviews from critics and failed to make any impact at all on the box office. More worryingly is that Gunn will also be re-writing the script: Gunn's previous writing credits include Scooby Doo and Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. However, Joss Whedon has said that he has complete faith in Gunn's vision for Guardians of the Galaxy and that can only be good news!
The internet is rife with rumours of the directorial departure over at FOX of Rupert Wyatt from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the sequel to the rather surprisingly very good Rise of the Planet of the Apes. There have been a few shake ups over at FOX recently and the rumours are now that Wyatt will be leaving the sequel because he is not confident that he can both produce a top quality film and meet the release date which FOX announced as May 23rd 2014. This is a real shame if the rumours are true because Wyatt did a great job of directing the first instalment; he had a very difficult job to do and he managed to pull the story together and get real emotion from most of the characters. The choice of his replacement could be make of break for the new Apes franchise.
Over at the Toronto International Film Festival the awards were given out as the festival drew to a close and there was a surprise winner for the People's Choice Award. This is a pretty important award because in the past The King's Speech and Slumdog Millionaire both won this award and went on to be huge successes and obviously clean up at the Oscars. The winner this year was Silver Linings Playbook, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. While I thought the trailer looked very good I wasn't sure what to expect from the whole film but early signs suggest this is going to be a fantastic film, even though I doubt it will do as well at the box office as those previous winners.
The other little tid bits of news this week include the announcement that Universal has planned fir sequels to both Ted and The Bourne Legacy. The fact that The Bourne Legacy is getting a sequel should come as no surprise although it received mixed reviews from critics and mainstream audiences. With Ted getting a sequel this is clearly just a money making scheme by Universal as one film was definitely enough. And finally there has been an announcement made on who will be singing the theme tune to this years James Bond film Skyfall. After months of speculation Adele has finally been confirmed to have been given the honour. A perfect choice.
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ALL NEW Trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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UK Release Date: 14th December 2012.
Stars: Peter Jackson (director), Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Evangeline Lilly, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis.
Plot: A curious Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, journeys to the Lonely Mountain with a vigorous group of Dwarves to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug.
So far there has been a divide amongst Tolkien fans and film fans in general about how good The Hobbit will turn out to be. With reports that previous footage was criticised for being like a television show rather than a blockbuster film coupled with disappointing promo stills that led me to question whether Martin Freeman was the right choice for Bilbo Baggins, I will admit that I have been worried about this.
After the first trailer a few months ago was released with not a lot of footage and just music played over the top of images it is great to see that this second trailer restores all hope for this new trilogy set in Middle Earth. There are scenes introducing our new heroes, the dwarves, led by the brilliant British actor Richard Armitage, who I hope will have an ever growing presence in the film and glimpses of returning characters including Elrond, Galadriel and Gollum.
The set pieces even in the trailer show you how big An Unexpected Journey will be with landscapes going on for miles and miles. The action looks great and Martin Freeman has put to bed all of my fears about his performance. Middle Earth captured the imagination of millions when Lord of the Rings was released and if An Unexpected Journey turns out to be anywhere near as good as Fellowship of the Ring then I think everyone will soon be rather happy that this will be a trilogy instead of two films.
I think The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey looks terrific!
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Home Finance US Banks Not Prepared For Another Financial Crisis
US Banks Not Prepared For Another Financial Crisis
US Banks Not Prepared For Another Financial Crisis.
Five out of eight of the biggest US banks not prepared. Do not have credible plans for winding down operations during a crisis without the help of public money, federal regulators said on Wednesday.
Bank Living Wills Rejected By Federal Reserve and FDIC. BANKS NOT PREPARED
Federal Reserve and FDIC reject living wills of Wells Fargo, Bank of America and three others that dont meet requirements to avoid another bailout.
Some of the USs biggest banks still lack a proper plan for bankruptcy, in the event of another major financial crisis, US regulators said on Wednesday.
In the wake of the great recession banks were required to come up with living wills to prove they had a credible plan for bankruptcy that would not require another bailout from the taxpayers.
But after reviewing the plans of five institutions JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon and State Street Corp the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) have determined that the banks have yet to meet that requirement.
The goal to end too big to fail and protect the American taxpayers by ending bailouts remains just that: only a goal, said Thomas Hoenig, FDIC vice-chairman.
The banks are to submit revised proposals by 1 October.
According to feedback from the regulators, one of the main concerns with JP Morgans proposal was the banks liquidity in a time of need. Regulators were concerned the bank would not be able to shift money around to fund some of its operation during a time of stress or bankruptcy.
Obviously we were disappointed, said Marianne Lake, JP Morgans chief financial officer. The most important thing is that we work with our regulators to understand their feedback in more detail.
Bank of America also needs better processes for estimating its liquidity needs, the regulators said. And while Wells Fargo was deemed to have firm-wide, high-quality liquid assets, regulators raised concerns over quality control, senior management oversight, and recovery and resolutions planning staffing.
In its statement, Wells Fargo said it was disappointed its plan was determined to have deficiencies but the feedback was constructive and valuable to our resolution planning process.
If these banks do not submit acceptable plans by October, regulators could impose sanctions such as higher capital requirements and restrictions on growth.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley also received their feedback on Wednesday. While Goldman Sachss plan passed muster with the Fed, it was deemed wanting by the FDIC. Morgan Stanley, on the other hand, did not meet the legal standards according to the Fed, but the FDIC gave a more positive assessment.
Citigroup was the only bank whose plan was accepted by both agencies. It too, however, received feedback containing shortcomings that it has to fix by July 2017.
The regulators rejections of a handful of banks living wills is likely to fuel criticism that the banks are still too big to fail and could force another huge taxpayer bailout should there be another major financial crisis.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has previously said that if elected president he would try to break up big banks. However, when pushed on exactly how he intended to do that by the New York Daily News editorial board, the Vermont senator struggled to provide a detailed answer.
The process of drafting living wills was introduced in the Dodd-Frank rules brought in by Congress after the financial crisis in order to tackle the systemic risks posed by the collapse of the financial industry.
The process of drawing up the wills is ongoing and that the banking industry is committed to working with the regulators, said John Dearie, CEO of Financial Services Forum a trade group that represents 16 of the largest banks with the exception of Wells Fargo.
No financial company should be considered too big to fail. The principal regulators have said that there has been substantial progress in their ability to resolve the largest US financial institutions, Dearie said. The Dodd-Frank Act clearly mandates that taxpayer funds can never again be accessed nor should they. Thus, it is in the best interest of the industry that all large institutions have credible resolutions plans and, with that in mind, institutions will continue to work to address the technical shortcomings identified in this round of regulatory feedback.
Proposals by Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and UBS are still under review.
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The Earlham program works with the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD) to create a semester of rigorous academic work, language study, cultural immersion, contemplative practice, and field research. The IBD was established by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1973 and is a prestigious center for advanced studies and practice. IBD provides the teachers and lecturers for the program. Students will attend classes at the Sarah Campus of IBD and will have an opportunity to experience the daily life of the Tibetan community in Dharamsala.
Dharamsala is located in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. With numerous Buddhist temples, monasteries and leading meditation teachers in residence, Dharamsala attracts thousands of visitors, pilgrims, world leaders as well as university students and scholars of Tibetan Buddhism who go to hear the Dalai Lama's public teaching as well as to conduct research.
During the first part of the program students will live with Tibetan roommates while on the Sarah campus and will take most meals in the cafeterias. During the second part of the program students will live with Tibetan families in McLeod Ganj, the community immediately surrounding the IBD. During the program students participate in weekly fieldtrips, celebrate several important Tibetan and Indian holidays, and attend numerous cultural events.
Click here to apply online for the Tibetan Studies Program.
Students will earn a total of 18 semester credits for the successful completion of the program. Grades will be sent to the Earlham Registrar and will be included in the GPA. Students must complete the entire semester in Dharamsala to receive academic credit for the program.
Tibetan History, Tibetan Culture, Tibetan Arts, 4 Credits Students will learn the cultural and political history of Tibet leading up to and through the Chinese invasion of the 1950s, and will have opportunities to learn about and participate in aspects of Tibetan music, dance, and theatre as it has been preserved in diaspora.
Tibetan Language 101, 4 Credits - This course is intended as an introduction to modern spoken and written Tibetan. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand and speak colloquial Tibetan at the novice level, write the classical dbu can script, and read simple passages.
Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy and Practice, 4 Credits This course covers the three "vehicles" of the Buddhist tradition: the Theravadin vehicle of original Buddhism; the Mayahana ("Great Vehicle") school, with its emphasis on psychology, philosophy, compassion, and ethics; and the Vajrayana ("Diamond Vehicle") or tantric school that was uniquely transmitted to and preserved in Tibet over many centuries. A study of and participation in various Buddhist meditation techniques is an important aspect of the course.
Independent Research Project: Selected Topics, 3 Credits Students will choose a topic of Tibetan Studies that aligns with their particular area(s) of interest and engage in intensive research on that topic, culminating in a public presentation of findings.
Action, Reflection, Identity, 3 Credits - Students will integrate their knowledge and understanding of contemporary Tibetan culture in diaspora by volunteering at one of the many service organizations that can be found in the Dharamsala area. Past participants have volunteered at the Tibetan Government in Exile, the Tibetan Medical College, the office for Tibetan political refugees, Tibetan women's and environmental organizations, the Tibetan Library and Archives, Tibetan schools, and other such institutions.
Students accepted to the Tibetan Studies Program are required to participate in Cross-Cultural Explorations - Pre (1 credit) prior to departure and Cross-Cultural Explorations - Post (1 credit) after they return. Pre-departure sessions are designed to prepare students for the cross-cultural experience and will include readings, activities, films, lectures, and discussions with former participants of the program. A weekend retreat is part of this course. Students and parents will receive a Handbook of important information prior to the program. Following return to campus, students will participate in a 7-week course that will guide them in processing, analyzing and building upon their off-campus experience. Credit for Cross-Cultural Explorations - Pre is dependent upon successful completion of the semester program.
The program will cost the same as one semester of on-campus charges, tuition, fees, room and board. The program covers academic and educational costs, and includes required field excursions and other group activities as well as room and board while on the academic portion of the program. Students on financial aid may apply their aid to one Earlham or Earlham-approved off-campus program during their college career.
Each student should plan for additional money to cover round-trip airfare, personal expenses such as passport and books, visa application, and all costs for the independent travel period. Passport and visa are required for travel to India.
Undergraduate students in good standing with the College may apply. Students on academic probation are not eligible to participate. A student's eligibility for this program may also be affected by being placed on disciplinary probation. Majors from all disciplines are welcome. Selection will be conducted by a student and faculty committee.


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The UK's post-Brexit trade relationship with the EU: Through a glass, darkly
L Alan Winters 18 December 2018
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In this post, Alan Winters argues that uncertainty will continue whether or not the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement is approved by Parliament.
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The Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and the Political Declaration are being presented as a means to end the uncertainty about the UK's future relationship with Europe. But in an explainer for the ESRC's UK in a Changing Europe, I argue that this is not the case. Uncertainty will continue regardless of what happens to the Withdrawal Agreement.
Briefly, I argue that, if the Withdrawal Agreement is approved by Parliament and the EU:
The backstop it mandates requires a customs union between the UK and the EU and that most EU regulations for goods will apply in Northern Ireland. However, there is no regulatory alignment between the rest of the UK and the EU and so, if the backstop came into operation, there would be border formalities both in the Irish Sea and as UK goods entered the EU via any other route.
Negotiating a trade agreement with the EU will take a lot longer than the 21 months allowed for it in the Withdrawal Agreement, not least because every EU member state has a veto over trade agreements.
The Political Declaration that defines the parameters for that negotiation is imprecise in critical places and is, anyway, non-binding.
However, neither would rejecting the Withdrawal Agreement resolve the uncertainty. There is a wide range of possible outcomes all but one of which impose serious economic harm and/or require further negotiation. The option that involves least uncertainty and cost would be to remain within the EU; however, trying to achieve that outcome involves both significant political risks and the risk of 'no deal' if the attempt failed.
'Through a glass, darkly' is biblical – 1 Corinthians 13:12 – and is interpreted as meaning that we can see only imprecisely and via a mirror, but that, in the end, all will become clear. Seems about the best we can hope for.
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"Fair forms and hoary seers of ages put, and in one mighty sepulcher."
"My twin, let us scan the past; let us draw aside the curtain of bygone ages, and see the record of the Book of Life, mirror of all events, sights, sounds, shapes, all things. We can do this, because we are karmaless, deathless, and are at one with the Father of Being, seeing, knowing as he knows, because He is in us."
Man's course upward to God is so blind, so untaught, instinctively like the sunward turning vine. I had so confidently, in the Sagum, taken a step irrevocable, except for Mendocus; and then had fallen again into blind darkness, despair, but instinctively true to law and to Elizabeth, the object of my efforts--so upward, till at last I had gained the immortal heights. So had my alter ago, Phyris. Down below were the deserts of life, and fair appearing fruits, apples of Sodom. These ashes are good, for they cause the soul to essay the heights.
Poseid, and all the lives, had meted us a large share of gall fruit, but our errors required it, and Karma is a sure paymaster.
Sin begot karma and karma had exacted pay. Thus had I, for I am not relating Phyris' history, given up hopes, happiness, as one gives his open veins in the Sahara to quench the thirst of his friend. 2 By this abdication I had lost my life and found it again. Karma, as the long record showed, was not always requiring pay; for every good act I had ever done I saw that I had been fully paid in kind my every jot. These were providences and benefices of life. There is no accident in life; allow that a man may die "by accident" and no man could be sure whether the ensuing night might not find the earth dropping into, or else away from, the sun; or, seeing the sun set, could feel sure it would rise again. All things, small or great, are ordered. Not always from any pre-existent incarnation; sometimes from one's last year's or yesterday's action the fruit springs. In short, I, we, saw that the lesson of life was, "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," cause and effect. There are those who will make cavilling argument, contend that "accident does exist, and all is not order." I argue not, for "they that have ears to hear" will understand. One cannot see over a mountain range save he stand on a taller peak. To the greater vision, accident is but an are of design, and disorder is but an arc of order.
397:1 St. Matthew v: 17-18.
397:2 St. John xv: 13.
Again we looked over Atlantis, and saw many things else. The Zailm time possessed a peculiar interest. I saw that dim, distant past, a past old in the earth and ancient when Earth was yet a babe in the cradle of time. Atl, chiefest of the prehistoric races, numbering at home in Poseid, and abroad in the colonies, almost three hundred millions of souls; Atl, known through the olden earth as Atlan, Queen of the Seas," and her people as "Children of Incal," i. e., "Of the Sun," and as the "Sons of God." How are the mighty fallen! For now I behold her ancient site as part of the bed of the restless sea, covered with ocean ooze and slime, and to be known as the haunt of man only through the clear vision of the perfected eyes which scan astral records. Again the scene was presented so that we saw it as the eyes of my poor, weak, and pitifully mortal personality of Zailm had seen it. There was stately Caiphul, the Royal; and there, far away, and not so stately, Marzeus, its towers and turrets and chimneystacks and lofty buildings marking where had stood the greatest of Atlan manufacturing centers, where the machine shops and the mills had been which supplied Poseid with vailx, and naims, and all sorts of machines and instruments; with the products of the looms, the cereals and endless articles of use, and of art. Over a million artisans there by day, but by night scarce fifty thousand, all gone by car or vailx to their homes anywhere from fifty to a hundred miles away, a few minutes' ride. And all this to perish because of man's iniquity, a few short hundreds of years later. Here and there I caught glimpses of canals, distributing either natural rivers or streams, or the product of aqua-aerial generators, such as Zailm had a small model of in his last days in Umaur.
And the sunshine follows he rain."
There are a varying number of people always in the world; now more, now less; for as a soul comes to Earth (having been in devachan) a soul passes from Earth into devachan. But now two come while one goes, or two go while one comes, relatively. Wherefore the world is apparently encroaching upon the sources of supply, or again the supply of all things exceeds demand. But only a fixed number of Human Rays went forth from the Father, and only so many have Life, or ever will have. But these come and go as the tides ebb and flow, now on Earth, now in Heaven. Malthusians need not fear.
Zailm had been my personality.
But I should deal with the past, not with the future. The seeds of corruption sown in the hearts of men by the Evil One, master over Mainin, germinated and throve, and then began, some centuries after the time of Gwauxln and Zailm, a long, steadily downward course which weakened the self-respect, manhood and womanhood of Poseid, a loss revealed in countless ways, culminating in national depravity and ruin.
"What wouldst thou with it?"
"Naught, forsooth! I know thou wouldst throw it at yon blasphemer, if thou hadst courage!"
"Courage, I lack not," was the sullen reply.
A voice in the surging crowd now called out that the blasphemer of religion ought to be sacrificed on the Teo, Stone, and her heart given to the Maxin.
"Listen to that! The people and the Incali would be with thee," said the wanton. "Throw the piece, and see if perchance thou mightest not reach the game."
The ecclesiastic raised his hand back, and poised the missile, while the crowd nearest him gazed with eager eyes. Then the cruel bit of pottery hurtled through the air towards the fair speaker overhead. Her temple was presented, and the missile she might have avoided had she noted its coming, struck full on the dainty mark. With a cry of pain she threw up her hands, reeled, and then fell outwards, downwards, the twenty feet to the hard pavement below. The crowd, which had hushed an instant, now uttered fierce growls, and those nearest ran to the victim of the coward priest. Several of the sacerdotal caste picked the poor body up, and carrying it by the feet, arms and hair, quite as if the assault had been preconcerted, instead of being the work of one miserable fiend, started off to the Incalithlon, whose vast pyramid loomed not far away.
"See!" said Phyris, "the first human sacrifice in Caiphul! Me, even me, they slew, for trying to stem the tide of depravity and ecclesiastical criminality. I repeated to them the prophecy of the Maxin, and they heeded not, but slew me. For that woman was my personality when I reincarnated, three thousand years after thou, as Zailm, did leave me, as Anzimee."
With a strange ecstacy of crime, the priests, scarce an instant pausing, placed the still unconscious victim on the Teo. Then the chief priest, still called the Incalix, stepped from the Holy Seat, as it once had truly been. By the side of the victim he stopped and profaned not God, but Man, by a prayer to God; for no man can injure God except through injuring Man. Then he threw open the gray robe and bared the white breast. Swiftly he raised aloft the keen edged knife, then smote. A shudder shook the reviving victim, who was about recovering consciousness. The murderer then tore out the quivering heart and cast it into the Unfed Light, where it disappeared and made no sign. Then the flesh was divided piecemeal amongst the murderous crowd, together with the bloodstained garments. But the most of the blood had run into a depression in the Teo, made for sacrificial blood. To this the priests added liquor, and in maddened frenzy quaffed the mixture from golden goblets. The scene was sickening, and I felt my very being revolt! And that poor murdered woman, a virgin--who had given her life to rescue her nation from sin--that was she, who had long centuries before been Anzimee, and now was Phyris, part of myself, and I part of her being, for our Spirit was one reunited. I could forgive the crime I looked back upon, for the criminals knew not what they did. And they have suffered for it, and yet shall suffer, for it is their karma. When Death, the conqueror of all mortals, garnered his harvest in Atl, these souls, which had sown sin and grown tares. were reaped by the Great Reaper, and the tares were sown with the good wheat when next those souls reincarnated. And they have had to glean and uproot as they could, and so must continue to tear up the evil weeds till every one be uprooted. Then will they have atoned unto God. There is time enough, lives enough, but O friends, none to waste!
After this human sacrifice the thirst for blood which the people manifested became unappeasable. They demanded the life of the priest who struck down the woman, for they were not yet accustomed to the rights the Incali had so newly arrogated, those of human sacrifice. They claimed that he had really murdered the woman, that they were unprepared to go so far, that therefore he who threw the missile must die. The tumult became so violent, and insurrection seemed so imminent, that the wretched priest was dragged out and offered by his fellows as the woman had been. But now came the denouement. When the high priest turned to cast the heart of the last victim into the Maxin, he staggered as if struck, his hand fell by his side, the heart dropped on the pavement, and the stricken man fell forward unconscious! The tall taper of the Unfed Light was gone; the Maxin book was gone! In its place stood a human form, that of a Son of the Solitude. In his left hand was a sword, in his right a pen.
"Behold, the day of destruction is at hand which was foretold ages age! Atlan shall won be no more beheld by the sun in his whole course for the sea shall swallow you all! Attend ye!"
Then the dread apparition vanished. But the Unfed Light came not again. The people fled, shrieking, leaving the priest who had fainted lying on the floor. It was as well, for when venturesome ones came into the Incalithlon many days later he still lay as he fell, for he was dead. In his greater knowledge, for wicked as he was he yet was chief, he knew, sorcerer that he was, that there really was a power of right which was destined to bring the corruption of Poseid low and uproot the hideous mockery of sin enslaving the nation. And in his knowledge his soul had gone forth from his body in desperate fear, to return no more.
But the stupid sensualism of the masses, finding that after a few years nothing terrible occurred, gradually lapsed till worse than before, for human sacrifices became common, lust, gluttony and drunkenness ran riot, and the moral night's deep darkness closed in yet more blackly.
"Bowed their tall heads to the plain."
A crevice opened close by the vessel of refuge, and the river which, half a mile wide, had flowed past to the ocean, fifty miles away, now poured with a mighty roar into the opening. For three days this awful turmoil continued. A man came, beseeching for admittance. But Nepth said: "Nay, thou wouldst never believe in other days. I told thee then this land should sink under the seas, and thou didst revile me. Now go thy way and tell all thou dost meet that 'Nepth spake truly.'"
Three days of horror, and three nights. Death stalked through the land, for the mountains fell on the plains and floods swept unrestrained. But the worst was to come. On the morning of the fourth day it seemed as if the rains of heaven would drown all, yet the thundering and turmoil was not lessened. The gates of heaven and of the great deep were yet to be broken, and the continent, yea, much also of the world to be drowned. The people not yet destroyed were myriad, and were gathered in the high places. Suddenly it seemed as if the foundations of the world were withdrawn, for by one frightful, universal motion the lands left unflooded began to sink. With never a pause to the hideous, sickening sensation, all things sank, down, down, down--one, two, a dozen feet! Then a period of rest. The rains, which came in sheets, instead of drops; the wild blasts of furious wind; the sinking motion-all ceased while men might count a score. One score, two, three, yet no resumption. The wretched people, hidden in such poor shelter as they could find and dared avail themselves of, began to breathe easier--perhaps the fearful ruin was at last stayed! But, no! A slight tremble, scarcely noticeable after the mad three days, and then with one swift leap down to death the great continent of Atlantis sank as a stone sinks in water! Not a paltry dozen feet, nor even a hundred, but almost a mile it sunk at one horrible bound!
Nepth? In the middle of the third day his vessel of refuge had floated to the ocean on an outgoing rush of the floods, and there the winds had carried him until, when Atl sped down to death, he and his storm-beaten ark were a couple of hundred miles away. A very few other people had been similarly forced seawards, and these, after weary weeks, at last came around the southern promontory of Africa, and drifted northeasterly, to land on the west coast of Umaur. Here, too, the destruction had left but a few miserable survivors. But the few hundreds thus left founded the race which, repopulating that land, was found by Pizarro after many centuries upon centuries had elapsed. And a few thus became many. They would not permit blood sacrifice, but yet, like Nepth, offered fruits to Incal, and retained the name, slightly modified, so as to be Inca, a name bestowed upon their rulers. A few survivors landed further north, and repopulated the land conquered by Cortez, the Spaniard, a few short centuries ago. But these heeded not the lesson, for no sooner were they landed on the desolated shores than they slew a woman as a thanksgiving for their escape. But Nepth? For many days his vessel drifted over the silent seas, with only the ceaseless roar of rain upon the roof to break the stillness. At last the vessel grounded. He knew not where he was, for he was an ignorant man. But the aspect of things was changed wholly. When at last he descended, and let loose his living freight, though he knew it not, he was in Asia. This land had not suffered as other lands, but yet floods had covered all the western part of Asia. The eastern portions, and what there was of Europe and America, had not remained inundated after the quick subsidence of the enormous tidal-wave, which, thirteen hundred feet in height, swept outward from Atlantis' site upon the recoil of the engulfing ocean. Thus closed the scene for us; the great deluge was over.
Then Phyris and I turned to other phases of the mysterious, past. These, though not less interesting, may not enter these pages. Rai Gwauxln was come to be Mendocus, while Rai Ernon of Suern was with us now, Mol Lang. Sohma was that, Son of the Solitude whom I took on my vailx when I was Zailm, away from Suern. So we saw the interweaving of the life lines. Then we saw the course of the lost soul, Mainin, from remote ages when Atlantis was not known in the earth, a sin-laden man then, until we found him, serving Satan, an outcast from human ranks, blasted thence by that Son of God, "first fruit of them that (had reincarnated) slept."
Looking, we saw that early Rai of Poseid, him of the Maxin Stone and the Unfed Light, the Lawgiver. We knew him for the Christ, illumining man then, and later as Buddha, and again overshining that greater than Buddha, the Nazarene. "Before Abraham was, I am." Whosoever the Christ-Spirit entereth into and abideth in, becometh a Son of God, and equal with Gautama; but into no one will it enter who doth not travel the Path. That mighty One blasted Mainin. Yet we saw that because Mainin had crossed our life then, I was thereby made the instrument of mercy to him by Christ, and that occasion was yet to come.
Back of the time of Zailm we gazed upon a scene on the great continent of Lemuria, or Lemorus. We saw a great house built of stone, standing on a grassy sward, a plain, over which roamed herds of cattle, and queer little horses, having three toes to each foot and high shoulders. Far to the east was a blue mountain range, beyond that a great ocean. But between the manse and mountains flashed a silvery lake. Within the house were many people, servitors all to two people, a woman and her son. Gloom overspread all faces, the gloom of blood. To a chief among subordinates the son gave orders. This slave, grim, ferocious, a very incarnation of cruelty, attracted my notice. His brown skin was swarthy, his hands talon-like. Only a breech-cloth apparelled him. Receiving his orders, he disappeared, but soon came again, pushing two manacled people, plainly of a different race from any there. One was a youth, lithe, erect, rather haughty of mien, his hair brown, his features symmetrical; that individuality of twenty-three thousand years ago is now Sohma. The other captive was a fair girl, sister to the youth, it seemed. Her beauty was delicate, but voluptuous. The fierce, cruel eyes, gleaming like live coals from under the shaggy brows of the master of the house, lighted with admiration as he saw the girl. His heavy-set figure, his coarse jaw, thick neck, and round, shaven head, all fitted him to be master of the brutish crowd around him. This man extended his hand as if to touch the captive maiden. She shrank away, and drew her figure erect in a queenly scorn.
"Ha! Unyielding as ever!" quoth the master. "We shall see."
He nodded to the chief slave, who threw the captive boy on a sort of altar beside him. He bound him. But the victim said firmly: "Sister, yield not; die first." Her eyes shone with an awful light of horror.
"Stop his voice," exclaimed the master; and the slave, nothing loath, cut out the poor boy's tongue!
"Beast!" hissed the girl to the master.
"The gods say that the girl also must die."
"Say they so? By all the powers I will not obey," shouted the master. "Not though my troops of war fail, and the King fails!"
"My son," said the priestess, "thou mayest not avoid this sacrifice and live, say the gods."
"No? Then the gods be served. Give me that knife." He felt its keen edge, and then asked, without taking his eyes from the weapon, "Say the gods yet so?"
"Even yet," said the priestess.
"Accept, ye gods, this sacrifice."
An instant the knife glittered overhead, the next he had buried it in his own heart. So had the heart that knew no mercy yielded to love; the stern warrior was dead. The gods must have blood, he thought, but he gave his own. What personality was he, was the girl, dead from horror? Myself! and Phyris!
400:1 II. Peter iii: 10.
CHAPTER V. "MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN"
Again the dead past revealed another scene. I saw myself in the person of an ill-fed, ill-treated slave, ever hungry, wretched, too much so to feel resentment. I died hungry, and then had a devachan of seeming realization of my wants. 'Then again rebirth, and through a karma not here to be explained, the new man had ease, wealth, plenty. But a physical karma pursued, and he was ever hungry in the midst of plentitude, and lazy when action was necessary. This state begot disease, and the product of (in his previous life) "man's inhumanity to man," was afflicted with cancer of the stomach. This killed the ferocious appetite, and the sybarite, free of this, set to work to cure himself. Finding he must fail, he sought comfort in religion, and went forth to the wilderness to become a religious hermit. Now, a hermit's life is one of uselessness to mankind. In that lone state my individuality lost opportunities to cultivate moral strength by worldly contact, and behold me after death come again to life as Zailm, weak enough to sin with Lolix and beget then a karma that lasted, with newly got vigor, till only a few years ago, punishing me more bitterly than death, as thou, knowest. If Zailm, had sorrow, thou knowest he had also joy. So every life-karma is made up of sunshine and shadow. "A tooth for a tooth?" Yea! But also "for a kiss a kiss."
Looking along the line of life's yesterdays the reason became apparent why all the wondrous attainments of Poseid had ceased and left no sign, why Atla, which metaphorically held aloft the world into the light of science, had sunk beneath the waters and gone down into deep, mysterious caverns, to be hidden in an ignorance greater than that which shadowed Pompeii and Herculaneum from subsequent centuries.
Natural decadence tells the story. As the centuries succeeding the time of the great Rai Gwauxln lapsed, ten, fifteen, twenty and more, the nation came to a greater glory of mechanics, of science, and of Physical condition than even Gwauxln's time had known. One by one the scholars found that those things which had always been possible only through mechanical contrivance were more easily accomplished by purely psychic means; they learned it was possible to divest themselves of the flesh, and in astral body go whither they would and appear, instant as the electric current, at any distance. They learned that they could perform material actions when they had thus projected themselves. Then it was that the cruder methods, vailx and naim, and all else similar, were suffered to lapse into that semi-forgetfulness of the Suerni; and exactly as they, so the mass of Poseidi depended on the priesthood for all these things. For only the few exalted minds could thus reach out into the deeper night-side of Nature; the many must remain in the lesser places. Inevitably then came corruption of power; the few were masters, and the many had no recourse, because the master of psychics is invulnerable to the laws of physicality when wielded by men less than he.
Then, indeed, was the day come when ripeness was on the land and on the people. The ripe pear can not keep perfect, but at the heart begins a decay that spreads from core to cortex, and lo, the end. So in Poseid, at the core began the outward-spreading rot. That core was the education of the people. Whenever earth's nations shall cease to educate the coming generation, decay shall begin for the people. In Poseid the few had attained such exalted knowledge of natural forces that the many could not hope to overtake them. Then, discontented with the comparatively poor education themselves had, they suffered all its marvels to wane. Thus, ere thirty centuries after Gwauxln the Poseid race was as Suern, but more corrupt, and lust, appetite, passion and power had laid fatal grasp on the proudest people the earth has ever known. How little dost thou realize when thou readest in Hebrew Scriptures of the destruction of the cities of the Plain it is the account, of the doom of Marzeus and Terna, destroyed by the Navaz forces they had forgotten how to control That destruction heralded that of the continent, nine centuries later. A, ye! Poseid arose to an altitude which the wildest dreams of science have not predicted for the modern world; arose, flourished and decayed, in the fullness of cyclic times. And America is Poseid come again, reincarnated, and shall see its scientific people repeat, but on a higher plane, the attainments of Atla. As the centuries pass it shall see the successive enfleshment of those souls which in Atla, made that land proud, prouder, proudest. But it shall do more, for America hath developed that soul-element which, when her people were Poseidi, was first faintly traced. So, though repeating, it shall do more--it shall have all Atla's marvels wedded to the glorious soul foreseen for mankind by Him of Nazareth. It shall flourish so, and then, in the fullness of its time, decay. But that shall not be for four and a half centurial decades.
I might give many more life scenes. Let these suffice. Turn now to our present.
The reunion of the semi-egoii is one in which, after the mighty ordeal of the Great Crisis, the souls of the feminine and masculine elements become on the same plane; both are perfect. This is the marriage made in heaven. Become so that each thinks, wills and expresses itself the same in all ways simultaneously, the two alter egoii are then one, having a feminine, negative, and a masculine, positive, aspect. Then these two potentials unite and receive the Spirit, or I AM, which was always undivided, and which illumined each soul of its pair equally. So is this last union. Thus Phyris is me, living, being, immanent, and speaks this message with me; is I, and yet, mysterious truth, is herself! Likewise I am her and yet again, myself. I speak, and it is she; she speaks and it is I; for we are one being, one spirit, androgyne, perfect. Yet not perfect as our Father is, for He is perfect as Conditionless Being, but our perfection is that of a part, because we are all of God, but not He of any one of us. Indeed, were this not true, then our attainment of perfection, Jesus' attainment of it, or any child of the Father, would find in its realization annihilation. But only the soul that sins is cast into the second death, fated to the Sisyphic round till it does succeed. Perfection may be conditionless in all respects save that it is not that of the whole. And because we each axe parts, therefore are we forever attracted to the Father, who is sum of all parts, and this attraction is to onward Being. And we are ever attracted to the other parts, both those which are peer and those which are less. It is because the part is forever drawn to the sum that there is no death, save in defying and abandoning all hold on the Whole. Perfection of a part but draws it nearer to the Whole, and perfection of the Whole compels It to depend on each of Its parts. There may be change; there is no death. And there may be extinction of personality, the erring soul may perish, and itself and deeds he annihilated, but the Spirit from the Father dieth not. If for thy soul thou wouldst have eternal life; if thou wouldst not see thy soul, that product of untold ages of time, lost in the second Death, and thyself, oh Spirit, child of our Father, doomed to recreate another soul to lay as acceptable offering before our Lord, then subdue it, subdue thy soul, at--one it to God through Jesus Christ our Lord, by recognizing that it is His, given Him by God, made by thee to serve the Creator. If thou make thy soul serve thee in His service, thou hast it eternally. But if thou serve it thou shalt lose it and have to make another during coming aeons.
Wilt thou follow the Path. even as I have pointed out to thee that it leadeth to the Kingdom? Be sure of thyself ere thou dost embrace occult learning, lest it prove a veritable Bridge of Mirzah, full of fatal pitfalls for thy feet. Better shun the Secret Wisdom than fail, for strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto Being, and few there be that find it.
Knowest thou me? A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, but a corrupt tree. Wilt thou hew me down and cast me into the fire, who testifieth concerning the Spirit? "Not every one that sayeth Lord, Lord, shall enter into Heaven," but he that doeth the will of my Father in Heaven. The time is brief.
I have spoken. Peace be with thee.


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As of about now, I have listened to my music collection for a sum stretch of 19 weeks, 2 days, 4 hours, 46 minutes and 34 seconds. Thereabouts. That's about 4200 songs with a total play count of 49,855… 49,856, given one just finished playing while I wrote that. So a little under 12 plays per song, on average. Last time I recorded these stats, that I can find, was back in May of last year, on the 20th. At that point, my play count was 37,093, with a total listening time of a little over 14 weeks. So in the 9 months, 14 days, 9 hours, 11 minutes and 58 seconds since then, I've spent roughly 4 weeks, 6 days, 20 hours, 14 minutes and 34 seconds listening to my music (ostensibly). That equates to around 12% of my life during that period (18% if you discount time spent sleeping).
Not really that much… at least, not as much as I'd expected. Two hours and 53 minutes a day, roughly. I listened to music quite a bit at work for the first … what was it? Six months? I dunno… anyway, the first little while I was there, before I moved into my office and could do away with headphones. I still listen to music at home, some of the time, and occasionally in the evenings at work after F2 goes home..
And in the car, though that'll end soon enough given how the weather's improving. It's still pretty cool by the time I leave at night, but it's at least tolerable now. Soon enough I'll dust off ye ol' bicycle.


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Nokia's new Fellows - exceptional people, remarkable research
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced a new group of Nokia Fellows, recognizing their contributions and ongoing work to push the boundaries of technological and scientific research.
Nokia Fellows are a community of individuals who are respected both externally and within the company as true masters within their respective technology fields.
Five Fellows have been selected based on a variety of demanding criteria including: scientific and technology know-how, recognition in their fields of expertise, coaching and influencing skills, cross-functional experience, strategic thinking, industry awareness, business or functional experience, innovation impact, stakeholder engagement and reflection of Nokia values. The list of Fellows will be further expanded in the future.
The appointed Nokia Fellows are:
Timo Ali-Vehmas, Nokia Technologies. Timo has over 30 years' experience in DSP-based consumer devices R&D and in the mobile devices business. He is recognized as an overall expert in ICT technologies. He played vital roles in the creation of the first GSM mobile device and first 3G/WCDMA mobile devices. He established a process in the radio communication laboratory in the Nokia Research Center which continues to have a remarkable impact on radio technology evolution globally.
Timo participates actively in various forums covering, for example, spectrum management issues in Finland, cloud development for the EU and the future of standardization. He serves as Chairman of the Board of the Nokia Foundation.
Over the last decade, Timo has been leading, researching and practicing Ecosystems Intelligence and Implementation, focusing on a large number of standardization and industry collaboration projects in areas relevant to Nokia. He will be developing ecosystem strategies for the emerging 5G and in new business initiatives.
Timo holds a Master of Science degree in telecommunications and digital signal processing and is currently pursuing his PhD studies.
Amitava Ghosh, Nokia Networks Technology & Innovation. Amitava is a recognized leader in the area of Wireless Communications, and was elected IEEE Fellow in 2015. He co-authored the book "Essentials of LTE and LTE-A", has written several chapters of industry books and is a reviewer of many other titles. He holds more than 60 issued patents and has 30 patents pending. All of these are licensed, and many are standards essential and generate considerable licensing revenue. He is author or co-author of approximately 90 IEEE conference and journal papers, which have received more than 3,000 citations.
Amitava has been involved in 3GPP standardization since 1998. His key tasks include co-developing, driving and promoting Nokia Radio Research, Concepts and Visions. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
Harri Holma, Nokia Networks Technology & Innovation. Harri is one of the best-known and respected individuals in the wireless domain. He has edited seven of the best-selling books about 3G, 3G evolution and 4G LTE/LTE-Advanced, and has currently started work on a 5G book. He meets actively with customers and gives public presentations on his topics of expertise. He has more than 30 patents, several of them 3GPP essential. Harri joined Nokia Research Center 1994 and completed his MSc from Aalto University. Harri finalized his PhD work about radio network performance in 2003.
Antero Taivalsaari, Nokia Technologies. Antero is best known as the father of Mobile Java (Java(TM) Platform, Micro Edition, Java ME) - the first truly cross-platform mobile application platform that kick-started the application revolution on mobile phones. Antero is the original author of the K Virtual Machine (KVM) - the system that led to the development of Java ME platform in Sun Microsystems.
Antero is the co-author of three books, author or co-author of approximately 60 refereed scientific publications in international conferences and journals, and recipient of twelve U.S. patents primarily in the area of virtual machines and user interface technologies. He is an invited speaker and workshop organizer for numerous major scientific conferences.
In 2006, Antero refocused his work on web technologies, web application platforms and cloud computing. In Nokia Technologies Antero is regarded as the most senior cloud expert. As of summer 2015, he is a Distinguished Architect, Cloud Software, in the Digital Health team of Nokia Technologies. He holds a Doctoral degree in Computer Science (University of Jyväskylä, 1994).
Antti Toskala, Nokia Networks Technology & Innovation. Antti has been recognized for his contribution of over 100 IPR filings with essential patents, mostly for WCDMA/HSPA technology and LTE. He is highly regarded in his field.
Antti has written books on HSPA (in collaboration with T-Mobile USA) and LTE small cells (in collaboration with AT&T), and is currently writing a 5G book (together with NTT Docomo). Earlier he authored a number of books on LTE, HSPA and WCDMA. Since 2000, he has been teaching LTE/LTE-Advanced courses at the University of Oxford.
Antti regularly receives invitations to speak at industry events and was the winner of the 2010 LTE award at the annual LTE world Summit. He is regularly involved in urgent standardization topics with key customers and partner collaborations. In 3GPP his role is recognized role in TGS RAN (HSPA/LTE, and now 5G), and he is active in forums such as the 5G Interest Group.
Antti holds a Master's degree in Electrical engineering and has 21 years' experience in the industry.
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Fifty-three individuals had applied for the position of Snowmass fire chief as of late afternoon on Wednesday, the deadline for applications.
The applicants hail from across the country, with "some from the state of Colorado and some from as far as Dubai," said interim Chief John Mele.
The search process for the Snowmass-Wildcat Fire Protection District's new leader is still in its preliminary stages, Mele said. A selection committee including the district board of directors, Mele, Capt. Jeff Edelson and physician adviser Gregory Balko will review the applications, but the decision to hire someone ultimately lies with the board. The board next meets at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Snowmass-Wildcat is a paid fire department. The fire chief-district manager position was advertised with a starting salary of $113,836 and a benefits package including a two-bedroom Meadow Ranch residence.


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Nokia revives the legendary 6310 telephone with a bigger, curvy show
There was some extent in historical past, no less than in my thoughts, when Nokia 6310 was the very best telephone you could possibly get. Extra superior than the 3xxx collection and but not as cumbersome because the Communicator, the Nokia 6310 was the telephone to get within the early aughts if cash was no object, and getting issues executed was the precedence.
Now, HMD World, which owns the Nokia model, has launched a remake of the Nokia 6310 below the identical title. As is typical of Nokia's remakes, it is an inexpensive, little, primary telephone that type of seems to be like the unique (extra on that later) however has been up to date to be extra usable at this time.
By way of specs, this implies the Nokia 6310 has a 2.8-inch show with curvy edges, a numerical keypad, 8MB of RAM, 16MB of storage (expandable to 32GB by way of microSD playing cards), a rear 0.3-megapixel digital camera, and FM radio. Sure, it's extremely, very primary.
One benefit of a telephone so simple as this one is that its 1,150mAh battery can final for "weeks" between expenses — identical to the one on the unique 6310.
Whip up this child out of pocket, and actually nobody will know that it is a remake of the outdated Nokia 6310.
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The design, sadly, has little to do with the unique Nokia 6310. That telephone had a three-tone look (it got here in a few flavors; my favourite was the sunshine gray/darkish gray/gold combo) which, whereas clearly outdated, nonetheless appears to say "I am a flagship system for severe businessmen," or one thing like that.
The brand new 6310 bears virtually no likeness to the outdated one — the form of the system is completely different, the buttons are completely different, even the colour schemes are completely different (the brand new telephone is available in 4 colours: darkish inexperienced, yellow, black, and (solely in India) mild blue).
The brand new Nokia 6310 and the outdated Nokia 6310 (pictured; technically, it is a 6310i however they're very related) aren't precisely peas in a pod.
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The brand new Nokia has revived a number of of its outdated, well-known telephones like this. I preferred the Nokia 3310, which was pretty just like the unique, however was underwhelmed with the Nokia 8110, also called the Matrix telephone. These two gadgets, nevertheless, no less than bore some resemblance to their forefathers; the brand new Nokia 6310 is just like the outdated one solely in title. OK, there may be one different factor: The brand new telephone additionally has Snake.
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Alongside the brand new 6310, Nokia additionally launched a few new smartphones.
The Nokia C30 is an entry-level system operating Android Go together with a 6.82-inch show, a 13-megapixel digital camera on the again, a 5-megapixel selfie digital camera on the entrance, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage (expandable as much as 256GB by way of a microSD card). The telephone's spotlight is its 6,000mAh battery, which ought to hold the telephone operating for "as much as three days."
Nokia C30 is an inexpensive smartphone with a large battery.
The Nokia XR20 is a rugged smartphone made to MIL-STD-810H commonplace and with IP68 water and dirt resistance, which means it should not break once you drop it or submerge it underwater.
Nokia XR20 is the model's most sturdy smartphone but.
It has a 6.67-inch show, a 48/13-megapixel digital camera, an 8-megapixel selfie digital camera, 4/6GB of RAM, 64/128GB of storage (expandable as much as 512GB by way of a microSD card), and a 4,630mAh battery.
Availability dates for these gadgets have not been introduced but, however we all know the costs within the UK and Europe. The Nokia 6310 will price £49.99 ($69) within the UK and 40 EUR in Europe, the Nokia C30 can be out there for £99 ($136) within the UK and 99 EUR in Europe. The Nokia XR20 will price £399 ($549) within the UK for the 4/64GB model, and £449 ($618) for the 6/128GB model. The typical value for this mannequin can be 499 EUR in Europe, Nokia says.
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By Ephraim Adiele | Associate Editor on June 25, 2015
Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representative
All Progressives Congress (APC) members in the House of Representatives have all but declared a full scale war on the party leadership as more members have kicked against moves to impose principal officers.
For the second consecutive day, Speaker Yakubu Dogara blocked the reading of a letter by the National Chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun on the nomination of principal officers for the House, a move that was supported by members from Yobe and Kebbi States.
Vanguard reports that APC members from the North-Central and South-East zones gave Oyegun some stick for being insensitive to the principles of Federal character.
According to feelers Oyegun and the APC leadership had recommended Femi Gbajabiamila (South-West) as House Leader, Mohammed Monguno (North-East) as Chief Whip; Alhassan Doguro (North-West) as Deputy Leader; and Pally Iriase (South-South) as Deputy Whip.
The details of the letter was said to have enraged members of the House from North-Central and South-East to kick.It was also gathered that even in the North West, where Gbajabiamila had previously had a strong support base during the speakership tussle, majority of the members have reversed their support as they claim that Gbajabiamila's emergence as House Leader would make the South West hold two major positions – Deputy Speaker and House Leader.
A source in the house said: "Those who were backing him have seen reality and many of them are now going behind him to pledge loyalty to the speaker. Even more, many of them are saying that it is not possible for his zone to get two positions while the South-South and South-East get nothing."
Another source said: "Many members are now faced with the stark reality that committee positions are about to be shared, and members want to get favourable positions."
The North Central caucus in the House, led by Ahman Pategi of Kwara State, who was flanked by about 20 members from the zone said: "We are also amazed by the directive of the party to the leadership of the House to take necessary action on the purported choice by the party, which we see as a clear usurpation of the powers of the zonal caucuses and their members as guaranteed by the constitution and the standing rules of the House of Representatives.
"We, therefore, strongly reject the purported selection by the party which we see as being in conflict with the principle of the federal character as enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic.
"It will be inconsiderate of the party to consider North-East and South-West that had produced the Speaker and Deputy Speaker for other positions. The exclusion of two zones is not acceptable."
Pategi also said that the region has refused to be left out on the offices considering the strength of their 40 members.The South East caucus of the APC, led by Austine Chukwukere (Ideato South/Ideato North) and John Chike Okeafor (Okigwe South, Imo State) said: "We can't stand here and allow the party sweep us out."Chukwukere further stressed that if the South-East was not included in the appointment of principal officers, the House members would not have the moral courage to convince people from their various constituencies and the region as a whole that the party was fair to every Nigerian.
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In Carte Blanche, James Bond is a veteran of the Afghan war and becomes a member of a post 9/11 elite organization that operates independent of the Ministry of Defence. Headquarters gleans information about a planned attack so Agent 007 is called to action once again, but this time he's been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission to protect the Realm. The modern-day secret agent travels to Dubai which is the first time the United Arab Emirates has been featured in a James Bond novel.
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Les Cahiers Rouges, March 1938. Translated by Mitch Abidor (MIA).
Unfailingly attached to the class struggle principles inscribed in the fundamental charter of the Socialist Party, the "Revolutionary Left" repudiates National Unity in whatever form it presents itself.
Consequently, it condemns the violation of the promises made in 1936 and the disastrous crowning of a policy of weakness and abdication (that has just been sanctioned by the vote of the National Committee).
The "Revolutionary Left" refuses to evaluate the external situation in any other way than as a function of the class interests of the proletariat. It proclaims that there is no obligation of national defense for the mass of workers as long as the latter have not conquered the economic and political leadership of the country.
It denounces the capitalist and imperialist character of the so-called ideological oppositions. It underlines the fact that the interference of the fascist states in revolutionary Spain – in struggle for its national independence and social liberation – did not provoke an attempt at "National Unity" that the events in Central Europe would seem to render indispensable.
The "Revolutionary Left" categorically refuses to associate itself in this political alliance with a selfish and blind bourgeoisie, which built the monstrous Versailles treaty, forged Hitlerism with its own hands, and consequently provoked the arms race and considerably worsened the threat of war, that blood dupery of the proletariat.
It considers that the decision taken corresponds neither to the real will of the party's militants, nor the superior interests of the proletariat, nor the effective defense of freedom and peace.
Only a bold offensive of the popular masses of France, guided by their class organizations, against those truly responsible for the tragic situation that is unfurling, can still protect freedom and peace.
Only the immediate expropriation of economic and financial oligarchies favorable to international fascism can protect our freedoms.
Only the redistribution of the sources of primary materials torn from capitalism can remove fascist imperialism's social base and protect peace.
The "Revolutionary Left" proclaims its determination to remain attached under all circumstances to international socialism, to its revolutionary solutions and to the lessons of working class experience over the last twenty years, during which all attempts at the collaboration of the proletariat with its bourgeoisie have led to the weakening of the socialist movement, terrible defeats, and the inevitable triumph of its worst fascist enemies.


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We presented the first results of our case study in Amersfoort at the Sharing Event organised by the URBACT Secretariat, on the evening of the 8 October 2014 !The event took place in the former wine cellar, now host to an organic market, to start ups, social economy experimentation and various types of events (including weddings ) – la Halles des Tanneurs, in the still very Brusseleir neighbourhood of Brussels.
The objective of the event was to bring in participants of the Open days going on through the whole week in order to present them with the results of our workstreams, but also to entertain them. The master word was therefore to have fun and relax ! All this while enjoying the inputs from the capitalisation process.
So, how did the evening proceed ? Accompanied with chamber music, we started with appetizers : each of the workstreams have 2 minutes for a pitch on the main course it was provided. We then « animated » our main course, which was prolonged with discussions with the participants. We ended up the evening with a burst of energy on the dance floor.
During our « main course » we organised a living exhibition. The principle was straightforward and participatory : we presented some statements from people encountered during our visit to Amersfoort – relating to the integration of social innovation in city governance, as well as pictures of key projects, on paper boards.
We presented each of these boards to the audience. There were then two rules : the participants were asked not to wait for the end of a point/case presentation to discuss it with their neighbours and when they started being annoyed to hold an exhibition board, they were asked not to leave it on the floor but to pass it to someone else, explaining it. With this experience, we intended to picture a process of social innovation building on human factor, self-organization, people empowerment, trust and mutual help. Also, we sought to make practitioners and experts experience the way we could enable social innovation … or as in our case – to make a 'living ears-to-mouth exhibition' with all the passing participants.
At first, the participants entered shyly in the room, standing and waiting for something to happen. Maybe some were just coming to collect the red sticker that would enable them to get a gift at the end of the evening ! The boards were distributed one after the other, and the participants were holding them. Slowly, the started exchanging them, giving them to newcomers.
Those arriving after the beginning seemed stumbled but got into the rhythm and in the end, filled the entire room, everybody holding one of the 33 boards. The discussions really kicked off at the end of the presentation when the participants exchanged on their own experiences, brought in new insights, distributed business cards (networking was part of the objectives of the evening!) and stayed until deserts in the room. This living exhibition really made the story of Amersfoort concrete and accessible, linking to other experiences and leading to the wish to investigate it even more !
We shall present the results from this case study as well as that o f the visit to Gdansk during our final meeting on 28 October in Brussels. Do not hesitate ot inform us if you would like to join and hear more about our case or even the methodology !


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Dennis and Charlie stand guard at the entrance to their laser tag base waiting to ambush the legendary "Big Mo," but Dennis begins to ponder the reasons they play laser tag and if their pursuit of a victory is worth their effort.
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Several friends own Paddy's Pub, a neighborhood bar in Philadelphia, and try to find their way in the world of work and relationships. But often, they can't get out of their own way, leading to uncomfortable situations, which usually worsen before improving. The gang includes twin siblings Dennis and Sweet Dee Reynolds, along with their longtime friends, Charlie Kelly and Ronald "Mac" McDonald. Charlie lives with Frank, Dennis and Sweet Dee's father, who has left his cheating, money-grabbing wife in an attempt to redeem himself after a history of doing business with sketchy people.
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