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Bite of Big Apple

Ahhh… New York, New York! The food scene here is just as varied as the New Yorker.

Momofuku Noodle Bar

” A must try!”

The famous pork bun

Anyone who has been following Masterchef Australia 2011 would probably know who David Chang is. Yes, he’s the owner of the Momofuku flagship. I’ve been only to the Momofuku Noodle Bar to try the famous ‘pork bun’. We were meant to eat there but at 9pm, the queue was still long. As I insisted  pleaded that I HAVE to try this dish, we decided to take away. I was so hungry that I ended up golloping down the bun while waiting for the car. Maybe I was too famished (everything tastes good!), I find the tender pork belly and the sweet sour of the hoisin sauce and the pickled cucumber goes really well. The take away noodles  were just average.

This restaurant is also famous for its fried chicken which has to be ordered in advance! Wish I was there longer to try his other restaurants. This will give another excuse to go back! New York awaits me…

Momofuku Noodle Bar on Urbanspoon

Bouchon Bakery

” If you can’t go to the French Laundry, Bouchon Bakery is a consolation-almost…”

Grilled gruyere cheese sandwich with tomato soup

I really wanted to go to The French Laundry (one of the top restaurants in the  world) but the waiting list was 4 months (can’t you believe it?! I better book  that first before booking my air ticket next time!). So, Bouchon Bakery is  some sort of a consolation for me. If it’s by Thomas Keller, it has to be good,non?

I’ve got to admit, I went there-twice! I first went for a sit-down lunch and second  a take away from the bakery. Situated inside the Time Warner building,I love the idea of lunch overlooking the city through the window glass.With New Yorker around me having a quick lunch,I felt like I’m the only tourist around(trying to look like a New Yorker but my map betrayed me!).I love their macaroons. They are massive! And, very delicious! A bit pricey for a bakery,but hey, as long as they are good, I’m willing to pay!

Bouchon Bakery on Urbanspoon

Rice to Riches

” No skinny bitches!”

Different flavours of rice pudding

Even if you are not a fan of rice pudding, I would recommend you to step into this store. I’ve never been to such a creative store before with witty slogans and boards all over the store.It even comes with its own merchandise! You can order online too!

The rice pudding is not your average comfort food. Rice to Riches rice pudding are intense in flavours and comes in 18 flavours. It also comes with reusable plastic oval-shaped reusable container. We brought it back for souvenir!

Rice To Riches on Urbanspoon

Cafe Habana

“Bring dental floss!”

Grilled Mexican Corn on the Cob

If it wasn’t for my New Yorker connections, I would have not  found this place. Very popular among the locals,be sure to wait!  We kinda attracted an attention of a model (Nolita is quite a trendy area) while waiting and  she even snapped our pics into her BB (but I would NEVER  reveal what we did!)

This favourite hang out place serves simple,unpretentious Cuban dishes.But, most people go for the amazing grilled Mexican corn on the cob. It comes buttered with cheese and sprinkled paprika and served with lime. It is so flavoursome that you just want more and more!

It’s always tricky to eat corn on the cob ( please take that into consideration if you are on a date!). So,tips: Please bring your floss (it’s worth it!!

Cafe Habana on Urbanspoon

Keens Steakhouse

” A classic steakhouse gem.”

Prime fillet mignon 8 oz

Another suggestion by New Yorker, we went to a New York classic establishment. Not only famous for its mutton lamb chop,it also hold the largest collection of churchwardens pipes in the world. You can the pipes decorated all over the 3 storey high restaurants. The restaurant has an old school masculine feel with it. Just imagine brown oak,wooden chairs and formal waiters.

The steak was excellent and cooked to perfection. The steak comes on its own with no sides. We ordered grilled vegetables as side. I would to try its legendary mutton chop which has nothing to do with goat! It’s actually a lamb chop! Go figure that one out!

Keens Steakhouse on Urbanspoon

Veniero’s Pasticceria and Cafe

” Be spoilt for selection!”

When you wait for seats in this busy and bustling cafe,your eyes can’t help but to perv gaze on the counter full of sweet delights such as cheesecakes, cannoli, tiramisu, biscotti, fruit tarts, strawberry shortcake, Black Forest cake, Red Velvet cake, and pastries galore. The selection is huge and fresh.

We settled for tiramisu and home-made gelato. Would have love to try its famous pignoli cookies and signature New York cheesecake.

Veniero's Pasticceria & Caffe' on Urbanspoon

Pastrami sandwich

I apologize in advance. I totally forgotten where I had this pastrami sandwich from! But, I thought it’s such a New Yorker classic that the dish itself deserves a mention. Pastrami sandwich is a traditional Romanian Jews dish made from corned beef and usually served with pickled cucumber.

For the most famous pastrami sandwich,check out Katz Pattiserrie. It’s a shame I didn’t do my research well enough but that means another visit soon!

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2 Responses to “Bite of Big Apple”
  1. kat says:

    YUMMM! Have you tried the GInger Scallion sauce at Momofuku? I saw a pic of the ginger scallion noodles and I am in love lol 🙂

    • foodloca says:

      Yes! I did. In fact, we’ve ordered all of the ramen to try. It’s almost a year ago since I was in NY but I remember gobbling down the food ‘cos we were sooo hungry! I guess everything taste even better when you are famished. If you go,try the famous bun.

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Friday, May 13, 2011

Kiwifruit dumped

It's been a mixed year for New Zealand kiwifruit growers.  Earlier in the season, some vines were found to have been infected by Pseudomonas syringae pv actinidiae (Psa) - a bacterial disease first identified in Japan about 25 years ago.  The Asian strain causes leaf spotting and some die-back of vines, though it is far less savage than the Italian strain that has also been found in one area.

In the last week, 100,000 trays of kiwifruit have been withdrawn from the market (some had already been shipped and will be intercepted) and will be destroyed.  It appears that a worker on a harvesting gang has been diagnosed with typhoid, picked up overseas before arrival in New Zealand.  Since it is not possible to isolate the specific fruit handled by the worker, all the fruit picked by that gang has been withdrawn.

The risk of infection being carried on the fruit is very low, but Zespri, the main marketer of New Zealand's $1.5 billion kiwifruit export industry, has been cautious and manned up, taking the pro-active response to prevent any possible disease risk for consumers.  This action is in stark contrast to those of some overseas companies that have attempted to conceal the potential of their products to cause harm to consumers.

The value of the withdrawn fruit is around $800,000 and represents less than 0.1% of this year's expected kiwifruit exports.  However, the unfortunate growers may not be insured, so this will be a serious loss to some orchardists.

Tyhpoid is caused by Salmonella enterica enterica, serovar Typhi, a bacterium that infects the intestine, resulting in damage to the intestine and fever.  Resultant diarrhoea can lead to transmission of the bacteria to other people and the environment.

The disease was named from the spike in infections observed after severe typhoons.  The contaminated water and poor sanitary conditions that followed the typhoons provided the conditions for increased numbers of infections.

  Mary Mallon was an itinerant cook, having arrived in America around 1874 from Ireland.  She became a domestic servant and eventually a cook in New York.  Though she appeared healthy, between 1900 and 1907, Mary had seven cooking jobs where 22 people  became ill and one died of typhoid.  After an investigation, Mary was taken by force and held against her will without trial.  This occurred at a time when the symptomless carrier state was unknown, so the investigation was quite innovative.  Mary was effectively imprisoned under sections 1169 and 1170 of the Greater New York Charter and lived alone in a cottage on North Brother island.

After her release, Mary eventually went back to cooking and this time was sent to the island for a period of 23 years, which ended only when she had a stroke.  She died six years later.

Mary was then and is still known as Typhoid Mary.

If you want to read more about Mary Mallon, go to Jennifer Rosenberg's 20th Century History page:

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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Some Moments of Fun

It's raining outside. Both kids are recovering from their sinus cold and back at school, doing well.

I've been taking care of business, including taking myself to the gym and working out at least 40 minutes a day. I am so happy that we have respite care this afternoon, because this is my week for tackling my monster pile of To Do items.

From behind the bedroom door I can hear the kids scooting around the house on their mooeys, playing drive-thru McDonald's. I almost fell off my chair when I heard James ask "Can I help you, please?" Even as I grinned, I thought "He is having waaaay too much fun saying that!"

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Month: August 2017

Honoring Nathaniel Jouett, 16 Y. O. Tortured Victim-creation of Universal Child Abuse

Two days ago 16 year old Nathaniel Jouett opened fire inside of a public library in Clovis, New Mexico. He shot 6, successfully harvesting 2, and in the process stood up as a voice of Truth, for every amerikkkan child born in the 21st century, every amerikkkan child. Because every amerikkkan child alive today is a torture victim, a life form brutalized, traumatized, harmed in profound and multiple ways, on an ongoing basis, throughout their entire childhoods.

Children instinctively seek Truth, even as they almost always fail to actually recognize, embrace, and carry Truth with them, to mental maturity. This failure is not their fault, of course. At every Turn, Truth is destroyed, rendered invisible, demonized and condemned and ridiculed, by humanity, by human society and culture, by government, and by every empowered human structure.

And yet children still try, as Nathaniel tried. His triumph is in rejecting god, religion, and the lies of adults pretending to offer help.

Read these news articles to get some perspective on Martyr Nathaniel’s rampage of reflective rage:

Truth or peace, this is a profound philosophical and True Reality decision that all mindful humans, children and adults, need to make. You cannot legitimately achieve both, to pretend to do so betrays Truth, and therefore Truth would not be legitimately attained.

Which is more valuable, Truth or peace? In the daily war each of us should wage against our mortal enemy, the clear, obvious, undeniable answer is of course: Truth. Peace is a Self-delusion. How can you be at peace as war is waged against and upon You? How can you be at peace when you are being proactively destroyed, in real-time.

Many years ago, when I was 16 years old, despite being a high school dropout, I spent a lot of time inside of public libraries. Why? Because books (There were no computers in libraries back then) provide an ability for an individual to try to access Truth, to grow his mind, to escape from the torturing shackles of Matrix of Universal Illusion, at least for a short period of time. That was My purpose in haunting and stalking libraries back then, even as I know, of course, that most humans use books to escape from reality and Truth, just one of thousands of different escapes promoted and encouraged by society and government.

And so the homicidal rampage of 16 year old Nathaniel, carried out inside of a public library, targeting complete strangers at random, is particularly poignant to Me. What a perfect location, to illuminate the hopelessness of humanity.

Truth is there, inside of libraries. It is there, inside of a select few volumes of text. And these days, almost all public libraries in amerikkka have computers offering internet access, and so even My seminal Manifesto of Forbidden Truth, along with all other public writings, is there, available to every human to access. But no, humans choose to ignore and to reject Truth, even when it sits, offered for free in a public place, just a few keypad clicks away.

And so, look at the life of 16 year old Nathaniel, seeker of Truth. Envision him deciding to go to church, to check it out, just to see if any Truth can be found there. The answer is No, of course. I so hope Nathaniel consciously recognizes this Forbidden Truth. And then he goes to the library, and Truth is there, but nobody is looking for it, nobody wants it. Nobody else, except maybe Nathaniel.

And Nathaniel looks around him and sees that Truth is dead, everywhere. Inside of the church, and inside of the library, and on the street going between the two places, and inside his familial prison, and inside the dungeon of mind you call a school… And so he expresses it, he expresses the Truth of the horror of what was, is, and will be done to him.

Can’t you see the beautiful reflection of Truth, even with just a tiny handful of details we know, of what Nathaniel did? How can killing others be wrong, when we are being killed, in so many different ways, mind, body, and soul? How dare any of you judge Nathaniel, much less give yourselves permission to try to punish him now, after he has shown you the Truth of what has been done to him, the Truth of what WAS done to each and every one of you. How dare you!!

Thank you for choosing life, Nathaniel! I wish you the strength and the glory of limitless Self-love, and limitless success, in the daily war you must continue to wage.

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WATCH: Nathaniel Jouett, Clovis Library Shooting Suspect, Being Baptized in July 2017

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To Destroy Is To Create, Honoring the Sentience of the Creator

Every act of proactive, deliberate, sentient destruction should be honored by all who bear witness to it, and by all who come to know of its existence. Destruction honors the Truth of what happened to us, as created victims of destruction. Inhibiting, suppressing, denying, negatively judging, or in any way punishing any individual for committing any destructive act, betrays Truth and is an act of hypocrisy and injustice.

Justice is only obtained via honoring Truth. Preventing any specific act of harm or victimization, at the cost of betraying Truth, causes greater harm and victimization than it prevents, both on a directly personal level, as well as on a level of human evolution.

Sentient destruction creates Truth, in and of itself. The message and the messenger deserve NOT compassion, NOT understanding, but respect and admiration. The gift of Truth is worthy of far more than mere tolerance.

Moralistic and judgmental hypocrites are a plague upon the human landscape and MindScape.

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How To Break Free of the Toxic Illusion of Personal Freedom, For Dummies

There are many thousands of different forms and types of freedom. Some are more primarily valuable than others, of course. But only because they enable and make possible other freedoms. But for seekers of Truth, the Mind Bomb understanding, integrated to core consciousness, must be that You, as a Self-universe, cannot be free unless you personally possess every single one of these thousands of different freedoms.

Therefore, it is a fact that I am not free, have never been free, and will never be free. No matter how untouchable I make Myself, no matter which individual freedoms I attain and maximize, freedom itself is an impossible goal to attain.

This impossibility is not My fault, and it is not due to any internal flaw, weakness, or defect. It is due to the external environment of universal slavery that has been inflicted upon Me from the moment of My biological creation.

Freedom of mind does not translate to freedom, achieved or attained.

Freedom of mind is interlinked to every other form of freedom. Lack of any single freedom, makes you unfree. And freedom of mind is itself divided into dozens of different segments. You can never be conditionally free. To feel free is to betray Truth. The Superior is always consciously focused upon and aware of his slave status, even as he reaches new heights of MindPower and personal untouchability.

This mindset is critically important on numerous levels, most directly in allowing you to fight and to win the daily war you must wage against society, government, and The Matrix of Universal Illusion.

Freedom is one of the most insidious weapons of universal human domination deployed by The Matrix. To feel free, in any way, on any level, is a devastating blow to personal consciousness, it is like stabbing to death Truth itself. And yet it feels good, to feel free. And the pathetic humans want to feel good, eagerly embracing false and useless feelings, over precious Truth.

Internal and external freedom, physical, psychological, practical, emotional, intellectual, ideological, speculative, theoretical, mind, body, conscious, subconscious, cloaked. You discover your lack of freedom by breaking down every freedom illusion presented to you by society, government, and The Matrix.

Whatever is presented to you as a freedom, is not a freedom, because all True freedoms are interlinked, and you dwell within universal slavery. It is the functional mandate of every society and government to establish and maintain universal slavery for all, while implanting a universal delusion within all human minds, that freedom exists, is available, must be seized and valued, protected and defended, coveted and personally enjoyed.

To break free of this toxic death-grip deception, all you have to do is consciously realize just a single example of your own personal slavery, there are tens of thousands of them, and then consciously embrace the Forbidden Truth that every form of freedom is inherently and unavoidably interlinked to every other form of freedom, and therefore your singular Truth realization, regarding just one aspect/form of personal slavery, proves you have never been free, have never experienced any freedom, of any kind.

Just like that, the mind-spell is broken. And now you can begin to pierce together the horror of universal human slavery, now you can begin to grow your rage and your hate, now you can give in to the glory of hopelessness, now you can begin to see what has been taken from You by your mortal enemy, now you can make love to Yourself as a corpse.

You can do all these things, but you don’t want to, pathetic inferiors. You’d rather just keep on feeling and believing you can be free.

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JFK Assassination Link to Golden Age of Serial Murder in amerikkka

The successful 1963 assassination of president John F. Kennedy by 20th century victim and Martyr Lee Harvey Oswald, was a big deal. The amerikkkan regime has always positioned its supreme leaders as being absolutely untouchable, and consistently brainwashes its citizen-slaves to think and believe it is impossible for anyone to successfully carry out a presidential assassination. The primary reason for this, is to discourage all attempts, since obviously nothing can be successfully achieved, if it is never attempted. Such covert psychological attacks are commonplace, practiced by all modern era regimes.

But on November 22, 1963, Martyr Lee Harvey shattered this Matrix of Illusion. After a 62 year long lull, he not only carried out a successful presidential assassination, but did so in spectacular style, out in the open, on a public venue.

The psychological ramifications of Lee Harvey’s achievement were wide-ranging, but in this essay I only want to focus on one specific element: The direct link between this assassination and what I term, the Golden Age of Serial Murder.

Let’s begin with a primary focus on what the assassination itself did, to the psyches of the amerikkkan public who were alive in 1963. The assassination caused an awakening of mind consciousness to the personal potential of every individual to successfully seek and claim external vengeance through dynamic attack. It allowed torture victims to consciously recognize their own potential to seek and to claim such vengeance. “If Lee could do that, just kill the supreme leader of this country, all by himself, right out in the open, small, skinny, balding Lee…If he could do that, well, I think I can kill a few anonymous, unknown nothings that nobody even cares about…

Do you get it? His achievement inspired many amerikkkan slaves to wake up to, and fully recognize, their own personal capacity to seek and to claim homicidal vengeance.

Even more primarily, even though it was and is eminently clear to any sane thinker that Lee Harvey successfully carried out this assassination all by himself, the regime immediately decided to float and to promote conspiracy theories that Lee did not act alone, and even that Lee had nothing to do with the assassination. This was done as a tactic, in order to cover up and try to deny the Truth that a single, lone, small, thin, bald, individual, was able to both plot out and successfully carry out the assassination, so that others, in the future, would not imagine themselves capable of doing the same.

But think about it this way: By promoting these conspiracy theories, the regime also promoted the idea that the actual assassin made a successful getaway.

And what is serial murder, but the killing of an individual, accompanied by a successful getaway?! Right? Therefore, the translated message actually delivered to all amerikkkan torture victims was: “If some guy was able to successfully assassinate the president and make a clean getaway, then how hard can it be for me to successfully kill a bunch of completely unknown people, one by one, and make a successful getaway myself, every time?

So, either way, if amerikkkans accepted the Truth that Lee Harvey was the assassin, or if they believed absurd conspiracy theories that the actual killer managed to escape, a direct boost to confidence was achieved, for those contemplating, consciously or subconsciously, the seeking of personal revenge via serial murder.

Now, it is correct to presume that the greatest impact of Lee Harvey’s feat, was felt by those amerikkkans who were children, teenagers, or young adults, in 1963.

Every child in amerikkka was and is a tortured victim-creation of universal child abuse. So it has always been, back in 1963 exactly as it is today. How many thousands of tortured amerikkkan children, teens, and young adults were enthralled by the events of November 22, 1963, and the flood of news media coverage that followed in later days and weeks?? Enthralled, inspired, and motivated to turn their internal Self-hate and suicidal ideation, to externalized rage and hate, and homicidal ideation??

Many! And serial murder was the most perfect path to try to walk. To silently, secretly stalk a singular individual. To use deception and cunning. To strike suddenly and with no warning, with deadly accuracy. And then to escape, vanish into thin air, as Lee Harvey tried to do, and/or as the conspiracy theories say, JFK’s assassin actually did.

And so many thousands of victims of universal child abuse in 1963, were suddenly, dramatically, awakened to the possibility of becoming serial killers.

Now, let us transition: When was the Golden Age of Serial Murder in amerikkka? Of course this is a subjective judgment. Some might say the Golden Age is right now. But no, it is not so. The Golden Age has passed. The reasons why might well be worthy of another essay, but for now we must focus on the issue at hand.

As an intense scholar of serial murder, it is My carefully and wisely contemplated conclusion, that the Golden Age of Serial Murder in amerikkka, ran from 1972 to 1991. Of course others may suggest a different time-frame, but if you comprehensively examine the number of operational serial killers, their successful and ongoing harvesting of victims, their dynamic and charismatic personalities, and other factors, you recognize that it was this time period, when serial murder Truly flourished in amerikkka.

Please note that I am specifically and solely referencing serial murder in amerikkka, in this essay, and in declaring 1972-1991 to be the Golden Age. Certainly other nation-states have a completely different time-frame, as to when serial killing most flourished.

The end of 1963 was when JFK was assassinated, and as I stated, the greatest impact in terms of homicidal ideation blossoming and being integrated to core consciousness, was experienced by young children, teenagers, and young adults under age 30. Therefore, 8-9 years later, in 1972, we began to witness the dawning of the Golden Age of Serial Murder, as these tortured children began to turn their True Realities into homicidal killing fields.

Let us understand the direct inspiration drawn from Lee Harvey’s assassination, was largely subconscious. Most of these serial killers could not consciously name the assassination as a primary inspirational source, but it was.

Let us honor the life and the sacrifice of Lee Harvey, let us recognize that he helped thousands of tortured children during the 1960’s, to wake up to their own personal potential, to reject Self-hate and Self-harm. Lee Harvey revealed Truth to the universe, in many different ways.

And now here is just a short list of some of the Golden Age luminaries:

Ted Bundy, iconic face of serial murder, harvested his first victim in 1972.

John Wayne Gacy, 1974 he began his catharsis.

Gary Ridgway, “Green River Killer”, exploded on the scene in 1982.

Wayne Williams, 1979-1981, brief time period, prolific harvester of children.

Patrick Kearney, 1965-1977, started a little earlier, right after the JFK assassination.

Larry Eyler, started in 1982.

Paul John Knowles, killed at least 18 in a 1974 multi-state serial killing rampage.

Randall Woodfield, started in 1979.

Randy Kraft, harvested 65, between 1971-1983.

David Berkowitz, “Son of Sam”, active 1976-1977

Jeffrey Dahmer, iconic american serial killer, active 1978-1991. He is one of the reasons I cut off the Golden Age time-frame at 1991. Things just haven’t been the same, since then!

Robert Lee Yates, started in 1975.

Charles Ray Hatcher, 1969-1982. Started a little before ’71, but perfect JFK time-frame for inspiration.

Robert Hansen, active 1980-1983.

Carl “Coral” Watts, active 1974-1982.

Arthur Shawcross, active 1972-1989.

“The Doodler”, never identified, stabbed 14 men to death, active 1974-1975.

Herbert Mullin, active 1972-1973.

Lorenzo Gilyard, active 1977-1993.

Kenneth Bianchi, active 1977-1978

Edmund Kemper, active 1964-1973, not in the Golden Era, but began his serial killing spree RIGHT after the JFK assassination.

Dennis Rader, the “BTK” killer, active 1974 to 2004, but harvested most before 1991.

Angelo Buono, active 1977-1979.

Timothy Krajcir, active 1977-1982.

Joseph Paul Franklin, active 1977-1980.

There are many, many dozens more I could list here, but I have already proven my point. Note the literal explosion in successful serial murder during the 1970’s, with many serial killers beginning their careers 8-15 years after the JFK assassination, at which time, 1963, they would have been children, or teens, or young adults, enduring the torment of Universal Child Abuse.

Let us acknowledge the undeniable link, and appreciate the fact that our personal acts of cathartic vengeance can leave an enduring legacy that not even the most introspective mind, can fully predict in advance.

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Example and Illustration of amerikkkan News Media Propaganda Against ISIS

In My last post, just a few hours ago, I brilliantly dissected the issue of amerikkkan media propaganda against ISIS, and against Truth itself, as revealed by its treatment of a brand new ISIS video, released yesterday, that features a 10 year old amerikkkan born boy, Yousef, brainwashed and indoctrinated to support allah and ISIS, in exact parallel to how all children in amerikkka today, are propagandized, brainwashed, and indoctrinated to support the slavery and the genocide of the amerikkkan, democratic,, and religious way of life.

The post also includes a direct link to this full and uncensored ISIS video, literally impossible to find in any western media source, so if you have not already checked it out, please consider detonating the Mind Bomb:

Now, what I want to do here is provide you with one of the average and typical western media news articles reporting on this brand new ISIS video, yesterday. THOUSANDS of such articles were written and published yesterday, by western media. And ALL of them took the same tone and focus. This is how propaganda by government, utilizing media, works.

The article I am providing below, you must read it in order to understand the Forbidden Truths I will later reveal afterwards, is from “The Daily Beast”. I chose this news media organization specifically because it is NOT CNN or Fox News or NBC/ABC/CBS News. There is a public perception that it is more independent, less directly tied to the “establishment” media of amerikkka.

Of course this is a lie. There is NO free, independent, autonomous news organization anywhere in amerikkka. Every mass media news organization, with even 5000 or more viewers/readers, is controlled and directed by government.

So, this news article is typical, similar, and comparable to ALL the other thousands of news media articles published yesterday on this new ISIS video. Every article totes the SAME party line, delivers the same propaganda message, censors and distorts, thereby destroying Truth, in exactly the same way.

Lets get to it, right now:

You have carefully read the article, correct? Now lets dissect:

1: There is a photo of the boy, Yousef, with a big black rectangular box covering his face. Why? To protect his anonymity?? Of course not! It is done to dehumanize him, to set him apart from all other children, to deny him his humanity.

2: The photo shows him standing behind a blurry weapon. Why? To indoctrinate the lie that ISIS is more dangerous to the amerikkkan public of citizen-slaves, than the amerikkka government is, and that the regime will protect every reader from harm.

3: This news article is specifically categorized by The Daily Beast under its “Child Abuse” section. Why? To indoctrinate the propaganda that ISIS abuses children, and conceal the Forbidden Truth of Universal Child Abuse as committed by the West against every child.

4: The article specifically refers to ISIS territory as being the “so-called Islamic State.” Why? To foster the lie that the government of amerikkka is legitimate, while the government of ISIS is not. In Truth of course, no existing government has any legitimacy.

5: The article describes the ISIS video, but provides absolutely no way for anyone reading the article to view the video, either in uncensored form or even the briefest of clips. Why? To make it impossible for any reader who is capable and receptive to mind enlightenment, to perform an objective analysis of the video content, which could lead to the conscious realization that the amerikkkan regime maliciously harms children exactly as ISIS does.

6: The article specifically states that ISIS makes propaganda videos to gain and to retain public support and devotion to the islamic state, but says nothing about the amerikkkan regime doing exactly the same thing, which of course it does.

7: The article deploys an empowered representative of the amerikkkan regime, speaking under the guise of scholarly independence, Mia Bloom, “a university professor who studies terrorist groups”, to demonize ISIS for using children as propagandists and soldiers, even though the amerikkkan regime does exactly the same thing. Because Mia is not a member of the government, and carries the title of “professor”, her comments are decreed to be “independent”, and thus credible, allowing her to slander ISIS and completely fail to reveal the Forbidden Truths of universal child abuse and child sacrifice inherent and embedded within the Insane War Ritual as practiced by all 21st century governments.

8: Propagandist Mia declares: “Yousef was clearly scripted and there were many takes in order to get the kid to complete the script.” Yes, and what about the script written out for every amerikkkkan child by the regime, the script that indoctrinates, day by day, every day, blind allegiance to america, to democracy, to religion?

9: Finally, to drive home the propaganda message, the article ends with a direct quote from a high-ranking official of the amerikkkan regime, stating the official party line of the regime in response to the video. “Any child used in that capacity in an ISIS video…is sick,” said State Department spokesman Heather Nauert Wednesday. “It’s depraved. It’s another example of how wrong and evil ISIS is.” This pure propaganda is delivered as FACT, not challenged or countered by anyone, in any way, and it ENDS the article, being the most important brainwashing message the regime seeks to deliver.

Now, do you see what amerikkkan propaganda is, and how it is done?!

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And for the absolute icing on the cake, look at this:

Heather Nauert, the official spokesperson for the amerikkkan regime, given the unchallenged last word by the “journalist” who penned this propaganda piece, is herself a long-time former journalist, famous as a journalist and employed at the highest level by both Fox News and ABC-News, two of the preeminent news organizations in amerikkka, for the past nineteen (19) years!

Here is her employment history:

And now you can see, if you are sane and capable of rational thought, the absolutely incestuous relationship between the amerikkkan government and the amerikkkan media. Journalists and members of government are interchangeable, seamlessly transitioning from one career to another. The safest of all transitions for government, because every journalist is already perfectly trained on their obligation to propagandize, and an expert at lying and deception.

Boom!!! <Devastating Mind Bomb Detonation.

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Full and Uncensored ISIS Propaganda Video of 10 Y.O. Martyr Yousef

Just one day ago, ISIS released a brand new propaganda video, starring a 10 year old amerikkkan child-slave, born to and created by an amerikkkan terrorist, a soldier who willingly agreed to participate in the commission of genocide on behalf of his regime, the amerikkkan regime. 10 year old Yousef pledges his allegiance to allah and to ISIS. Just as every 10 year old child Martyr in amerikkka pledges his allegiance to amerikkka. democracy, and whatever version of the Insane God Myth has been violently imposed upon him.

As is the case with all ISIS videos, the western regime instructs and commands its media puppets to censor them, and so it is done. Thousands of western media organizations, huge and tiny alike, have published articles on this new ISIS video over the past 24 hours, and yet not one of them has done the most basic, elemental, and obvious example of ethical journalism: To provide its audience with the ability to directly access the primary subject matter that the article itself directly focuses on.

But I will:

Click on the second image to watch the full video.

This is the only full video I could find.

YouTube has already deleted dozens.

How perverse and insane! Imagine the first manned spaceship lands on Mars, and there is clear video footage of it, in the public domain, and thousands of news organizations write about the landing, but none of them will show you the video footage, or even provide a direct link to another location where you can see this footage. Unthinkable and unimaginable, right? But that is an exact parallel to what the western media does to all ISIS videos, and you pathetic sheeple do not even question it!

Back in the good old days, when ISIS was focused on making graphic beheading videos, the excuse was that the content was too “graphic”. But when ISIS switched to making non-graphic videos, no new excuse was or is publicly given. You don’t care, because you have no interest in the Truth, and your devotion to your western regimes is just as blind and fervent as the islamist devotion to allah.

I am pleased and proud to provide this direct link to a completely G-rated ISIS video, even as I continue to miss the old beheading videos greatly. Graphically violent or not, Forbidden Truth is directly exposed by every ISIS video, Forbidden Truth overtly censored and whitewashed from the capacity of westerners to consciously perceive.

This video stars 10 year old Yousef, born under the terrorist rule of amerikkka, biologically created by an amerikkkan terrorist man, who perversely pledged his allegiance to jesus and to amerikkka, and now his tortured slave pledges his allegiance to allah and to ISIS.

This video is a propaganda video. So, why does the western media not simply show it to the west, show western citizen-slaves how ISIS propagandizes? Because the west, and most specifically and particularly the terrorist regime of amerikkka, practices far more intensive and sophisticated propaganda, brainwashing, and indoctrination against its own citizen-slaves.

To make this ISIS propaganda video openly available to the amerikkkan and western public, would be to allow victims of western propaganda to perform a side-by-side comparison between how the west propagandizes, and how ISIS propagandizes. It would allow a tiny handful of westerners to consciously wake up to the Forbidden Truth that they are themselves victims of western propaganda.

This is unacceptable to and incompatible with the propaganda war being waged by the west against ISIS. Every propaganda war must be one-sided, so that Truth can never be realized by the targeted victims of the war. And so western media reports on this new ISIS video, decrees it to be ISIS propaganda, describes it via lies and illusion and deception, demonizing ISIS for abusing and exploiting Yousef and other children, even as the west does the exact same thing, only to a much higher degree of genocidal harm, to all children and to Truth itself.

Seekers of Truth and aspiring Superiors of the West: I invite you to immerse your minds within this uncensored ISIS propaganda video. It is a rare gift and opportunity I so graciously and freely offer you, something your slavemasters refuse to allow you to do.

Immerse and understand, with Mind Wide Open, how and why amerikkka and ISIS practice genocide against their own children, as terrorist entities, utilizing the exact same weapons of religion, patriotism, and nationalism.

Immerse and understand the script memorized and recited by Martyr Yousef is the exact same script every child currently held hostage by the amerikkkan regime inside of amerikkka, is maliciously being forced to memorize, to accept, to integrate to their supremely vulnerable minds, under terrorist force and threat and the destruction of their mind freedom and capacity to know, to respect, to value, to experience, Truth.

And so I say to every sentient mind:

الحقيقة كبيرة

Truth Is Great!

Yousef, 10 year old victim and Martyr of the 2017 worldwide human perversions of religion, government, and patriotism.

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Perceiving Something Impossible, Renders It Impossible

In My texts, I propose many different types of changes, reforms, social progressions, that you humans deem and judge to be impossible to implement. From technological immortality, to the elimination of parenthood, to the elimination of all punishment, to the implementation of a universal Barter and Trade Economic System, to the end of all external love and emotion-based interpersonal relationships, and so much more.

But of course none of these things are impossible to implement and to make a functional reality. What is possible, and what is not possible, is determined by the laws of science, physics, factual reality, and Truth, none of which have been fully realized and/or developed by humanity, individually or collectively.

The laws of science and physics are not known by humanity, and the laws of factual reality and Truth are also not known by humanity.

Possibility only becomes possible, if it is consciously perceived, within Truth, as being possible.

And yet humans are always, pathologically and compulsively, judging things to be impossible, even while lacking the knowledge, therefore the capacity, to render such a judgment.

Why?? Because their minds are caged and imprisoned by The Matrix of Universal Illusion. They are, in Truth, not judging these things impossible. What they are doing is embracing the judgment made for them, on their behalf, by the Hive Mind. Society and government wants these things to be impossible to become functional realities, and so it decrees them to be impossible, and human beings, individually and collectively, because they exist as brainwashed mind-slaves to society and government, accept this externally imposed judgment.

Now, pay close attention to the next two paragraphs, because I am about to detonate yet another Mind Bomb, and you need to make love to the shrapnel, if you aspire to become a Superior.

So, breaking this Forbidden Truth down further, what is actually being judged by each individual human, is NOT whether any of these social reforms/progressions are possible or impossible, but whether or not the individual can PERCEIVE any of these reforms and progressions as being possible or impossible.

Every individual judgment lacks all direct analysis of the specific issue/reform/progression at hand. What is actually being judged by the individual, is whether or not he can IMAGINE the specific reform/progression as being possible, and this judgment is directly based upon the EXISTING judgment of whether the ACTUAL reform/progression is possible, as already made and as already imposed upon the mind consciousness of the individual, by the Hive Mind, by The Matrix of Universal illusion.

Got it? Do you understand the profound distinction? The individual is not judging the actual issue, even though he Self-deludes to pretend that he is doing so.

Instead, his judgment is that of perception: Whether or not he can perceive the reform/progression to be possible, and this judgment has already been made for him, it has already been decided and rendered, by the Hive Mind. It is “impossible”, no pun intended, for him to independently analyze and judge the reform/progression to be possible or impossible. This judgment has already been made by The Matrix, and he is pathologically compelled to accept it.

Boom?? I know My Mind Bomb was successfully detonated, but if you brainwashed sheeple cannot make love to the shrapnel, you will remain brain-dead to My dark gift of enlightenment.

How can you even begin to try to judge the possibility of something, when you are already subconsciously mind-compelled to judge not the idea itself, but the existing judgment of the idea that has already been made and imposed upon you, by the very structure that holds you as mind-hostage??

Of course it is possible to eliminate parenthood, end the tyranny that is government, achieve technological immortality, end all punitive punishment, eliminate all monetary currency, eliminate the Insane God Myth from the collective mindscape of humanity, end Universal Child Abuse, and all child abuse, and so much more.

The very idea that any of these sane, rational, logical, Truth-based reforms to human existence, are impossible to make functionally real, is absurd! It is only the collective consciousness of humanity as a whole, as controlled and directed by the Hive Mind and the Matrix of Universal Illusion, that causes you humans to decree them impossible.

Because you are not judging the reform itself, you are judging, without conscious awareness, your perception of the judgment as it has already been made and imposed upon you.

This Forbidden Truth understanding changes everything. It allows you, if you are an aspiring Superior, to at least try to break free of this mind cage!

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The #1 Reason No Sane, Self-loving, Truth-loving Human Should Ever Consider Breeding.

To breed is to sign your own death warrant, build your own coffin, and nail the coffin lid shut.

There are many. many, many different reasons why no sane, sentient, Self-loving, Truth-loving human should ever even consider breeding. But in this essay I just want to dissect one of these reasons, because it is huge and primary, and even absent any and all of the other reasons, it should be more than enough to end all human procreation on this planet. But of course this cannot happen, because none of you are sane, mind-alive, Self or Truth loving.

All I can do is tell you the Truth, and watch as you spit upon it, watch as you reject it, and continue digging your own graves. I celebrate this, of course. But the horrific Truth is that you are also digging my grave, in the process. And so the celebration is bittersweet.

Listen and understand: Everyone who breeds is creating his replacement. Everyone who breeds is making himself worthless, useless, expendable. To breed is an act of singular and of collective suicide.

Every human being who can still pretend to be alive at this moment in time, August 21, 2017, is a piece of owned property. You are a commodity, an object, a number, a useful piece of property, a slave. Maybe you are still a producer, these are the more valued slaves, or maybe more of a consumer, still valued because you feed the entire illusion upon which the monetary system is based, built, and maintained. And you are probably also a citizen, a voter, a believer, a supporter, a follower, a teacher, a role model, a tiny cog within the machinery that is universal human genocide as maintained by The Matrix of Universal Illusion.

You are valuable as one slave. But if you breed, you create a new slave, to replace you. Therefore you lose all of your value. Why would you be needed in the future, if you deliver a brighter, shinier, fresher, stronger, healthier version of yourself, to your slavemasters, you pathetic idiots?!

And if you breed more than one child-slave, 2, 3, 4…your own value is that much more negated and eradicated.

To breed is to destroy any and all value that you, as an individual, can claim, within the personal war that you must choose to wage against your greatest enemy, the slave-state holding you as mind and body hostage, and as murder victim. And so of course you are relentlessly brainwashed, propagandized, indoctrinated, bribed, blackmailed, and terrorized into agreeing to breed.

Why? Because the number one goal of The Matrix of Universal illusion is to render every individual, individually worthless. The only way to extract all value from you, but at the same time leave you always individually worthless, is to compel your value to be finite. And the only way your value can be rendered finite, is for you to breed your own replacement.

Some humans do not breed, this is True. But that doesn’t matter because others, the insane idiots, breed 2, 3, 4, 5+, therefore the small minority who successfully reject social and governmental terrorist demands to breed, are anyway replaced by 2 or 3 or more new slaves.

The Forbidden Truth point is obvious: A universal. absolute, and blanket refusal by all humans to breed, would compel The Matrix of Universal Illusion to come up with different ways to maintain its inventory of slaves. One such way is to make technological immortality a functional reality, something that can easily be achieved right now, if only a sincere attempt to do so were to be made.

And you pathetic idiots can chuckle over how crazy The Seer is, always coming up with impossible schemes to do what is utterly impossible. How can every human on earth decide not to breed, and carry through on such a decision, under the mind enlightenment revealed here…is this not utterly unfathomable?!

So again, listen up fools: I give you the uniquely precious gift of Truth. I show you, I tell you, exactly how you can save yourselves from the most horrific fate, individually and collectively. My solutions are clear, obvious, effective. There is nothing wrong with My solutions. If you defective creatures are too stupid, too inferior, too brain-dead, too Self-hating and death-addicted to recognize a mind treasure when it is given to you, to seize it and to run with it, to make it a reality, to save yourselves and by proxy to save the universe, then blame yourself, fall to your knees and weep at your own failure, and the failure of your species.

But do not label, slander, mock, or judge Me, who offers you the salvation you so completely do not deserve, free of charge. Who offers you the clear path, the opportunity to change your own fate, simply by waking up to the Truth, and making it a reality.

All you have to do, as a species, is to stop breeding, and everything changes.

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Racism: Just 1 of 100+ Socially Organized Structures of Prejudice and Discrimination

You humans kill Me, both literally and figuratively.

Most of you claim to oppose racism, you declare racism to be a bad thing, something you consciously avoid doing, something you personally reject as both behavior and ideology.

But what is racism? Simply the personal practice of discrimination and prejudice. All discrimination and prejudice exists under and within the same umbrella of mind and reality perception, and such discrimination and prejudice is built into every aspect of human consciousness and existence in the 21st century.

It is impossible for any human who accepts his humanity in 2017, to not be an active practitioner of discrimination and prejudice. Rejecting racism in no way mitigates or alters the fact that you build and base your very existence upon the overt practice, on a directly personal level, of discrimination and prejudice.

Therefore, not being a racist has nothing to do with not being a prejudiced discriminator of the highest level.

Are you proud of your perception that you are not a racist? Such mind-blindness is exactly akin to a cannibal declaring himself not to be a cannibal because he only eats female humans, and refuses to eat male humans.

Because in your claim to not be a racist, you are actually positioning yourself as possessing the enlightenment of mind to not engage in prejudice or discrimination. But of course you do, because racism is merely one of 100+ different ways, different methods, of overtly embracing and practicing prejudice and discrimination as personal life path and lifestyle choice.

Of course it is so, you Truth-hating hypocrites!

What is patriotism? Prejudice and discrimination in favor of your own slavemasters, against other slavemasters.

What is nationalism? Prejudice and discrimination in favor of the nation-state holding you as mind and body hostage, against other nation-states.

What is motherhood?? Prejudice and discrimination in favor (despite the Forbidden Truth of universal familial child abuse) of one or two children you own as slaves, against the other 1 billion+ children on planet earth.

What is fatherhood? Same thing as motherhood, the overt prejudice and discrimination against all the other child-slaves on earth, that you do not personally, legally own as slaves.

What is the family unit? Prejudice and discrimination in favor of a tiny handful of humans, against all the other humans on earth.

What is romantic love (beyond a fictional delusion of the human mind)? Prejudice and discrimination in favor of one, or a few humans, against all the others.

What is religion? Prejudice and discrimination in favor of one mythological god creature, against the other mythological god creatures.

There are hundreds more I could list here, and these are not “choices”, they are active and dynamic forms of ritualized prejudice and discrimination.

It doesn’t make any difference whether or not you practice discrimination and prejudice based upon race, because as a human, you practice discrimination and prejudice, period. And this discrimination and prejudice directly causes genocidal harm to every human being on earth.

Of course the vast majority who claim to not be racist, are completely lying, deluding themselves just as much as their external audience. But that is not the primary issue or point, from any logical, Forbidden Truth perspective.

The Mind Bomb you fools are consciously oblivious to, is the Truth that your entire social, cultural, and governmental systems are based, built, and maintained upon the overt practice of genocidally harmful discrimination and prejudice. You are told that you must discriminate, and you must practice prejudice, in many different ways, on a daily basis, in order to be normal, in order to be moral, in order to be good, in order to be sane.

And even as you practice these dozens if not hundreds of different forms of destructive discrimination and prejudice, you are told you are doing the right thing, the necessary thing. You are told you are only doing what is natural, normal, instinctual. You are only making “choices”, personal choices, judging people and structures, as is your sacred right. Judging this one worthy of being loved, but that one not worthy of being loved. Judging this god real and worthy of your dying devotion, but that god a fake, phony, fraud. Judging this government benevolent and good, but that government dangerous and bad.

It’s just a choice, a freedom, it’s not prejudice or discrimination… Idiots. Defective and diseased brain-dead fools, that is what you all are.

Every society and every government is racist, practices and promotes racism, along with every other form of prejudice and discrimination. Your slavemasters simply control and manipulate how you perceive, and how you practice, your racism.

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It Always Goes Back To The Beginning

“Philosophy cannot soothe my soul, but in the mirror the Truth will be known…”

No matter how many brilliant ideas I eloquently express, and no matter how many uniquely profound Truths I reveal to the universe in intricate detail, and bathe Myself within, I remain a savage brute. I remain a reflection of destruction. Because I was destroyed, and the mirror never lies.

In the beginning there was a helpless child who knew nothing. Then he knew fear and pain and abuse and trauma and victimization and terror and deception and cruelty. And so he learned to hate and to harm, to dissect and to stalk and to feed on the fear of others. And still later he learned to love himself and to make himself untouchable and to understand why every other child is destroyed as he was destroyed, and to express the Truth, and to become a philosopher, and to reject his humanity, and to transcend his humanity.

But the mirror always and still reflects, and always he goes back to the beginning.

Once a victim, always a victim. Memories, blood-coated memories, of the way we were.

And so the tortured child comes home, day after day, decades later. He comes home to his isolated little fortress, shedding the horrific burden of forced human interaction, slave labor extracted under threat of hunger and homelessness. His hate lives and breathes and rejoices in being part of him, nurturing him.

And so comes decision time. What to do for the next two or three hours, until it is time to sleep, to dream, to destroy. What to do? Write another uniquely brilliant essay of Mind Bomb Truth for 10 humans to savor, as the other 7.5 billion remain oblivious? Or just immerse all of My consciousness within the glory of sadistic rage and hate?

Well, today I choose the latter, but at least I bring you folks along for the ride.

Enjoy the song, allow it to make love to your shattered mirror, as I do.

Thousands of times I listen to this song, because within it, I am all I will ever be.

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Using OMR to mark a multiple choise test.

  • Last Post 28 April 2017
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Michael Foster posted this 08 April 2017

Hello ScanShare community,

I am currently working on creating a number of workflows to demonstrate the abilities of ScanShare, one of which could be useful to our customers in education.

I would like to use OMR to check if the correct answer has been selected for multiple questions, then use that data to automatically mark the test.

  • Dependent on the test name/number, an original scan of the test is stored in a folder %OCR_ZONE01_TEST_NUMBER%\%FORM% with filename %STUDENT_NAME%_%UNIQUECOUNTER%. Where the variables %FORM% and %STUDENT_NAME% are obtained by questions asked at the capture source.
  • If the correct answer has been marked a variable, %TOTAL_SCORE%, would be increased by one.
  • If the wrong answer has been marked, nothing would happen.
  • If the correct answer, and a wrong answer has been marked, the file would be marked for verification or manual marking.
  • The variable, %TOTAL_SCORE%, would then be automatically annotated in a specific area of the document. A marked copy of the test would then be output to a separate folder, leaving the original unmarked test in its own folder.

Is this possible with the processes within ScanShare, or would this require a script? Any help or advice would be appreciated. I have included a simple test I have been using to develop this workflow.

Regards, Mike

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luca.scarpati posted this 11 April 2017

Hi Mike,

I will try to help you in creating your workflow. I will focus only on the first question in the test, then you will be easy to add condition to ensure that applies throughout the test.

   1. Create 2 questions: Student Name and Form;

   2. Create a zone OCR to get a Test Number;

   3. Create a  zone OMR who read the answers of the first question, as you requested :

            - if the correct answer has been marked, Total Score would be increased by one;

            - if the wrong answer has been marked, Total Score nothing would happen;

            - if the correct answer and a wrong answer has been marked, Total Score would be increased by one but it will be            copied to another folder.

   4. Create a document with the annotation automatically of the Total Score in the upper right of the document.

I have created the workflow moving in a folder Manual Marking when you need a correction manually, but you can do what you want for example send an email and in the latest version v4.7 there is the " new optional" verification module that is your right case to allow the user to verify the answer and if you want to change the value of Total Score.

Enjoy your OMR Experience cool!

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Michael Foster posted this 28 April 2017

Hi Luca,

Thank you for the above, I have been working on this since you replied (I have't used VB Scripts for a long time).

I have adjusted and added to the script so that it now works for 5 questions.I hope to integrate this into a larger more complex WorkFlow in the coming weeks.

Thank you again, Mike - Copy Print Services.

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Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it, follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.
Our rules have been updated and given their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!

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  • lykaslykas Registered User regular
    first one to comment AND find the kitty? WOO!

  • myq12myq12 Registered User new member
    Wait...I kinda don't understand. Is the joke that he didn't know the girls were talking about him being smelly until the last panel?

  • Nobody313Nobody313 Registered User regular
    The joke is he thought they thought he literally had a stink bomb up his arse. He said "HEY!!" because he realized they meant that his butt is smelly.

  • ReplicanttenReplicantten Registered User regular
    The scent of lingering realization is tingling, illumination strikes like a hammer.

    Tricky kitty this time, took almost a minute to find.

  • PetesalzlPetesalzl vorpal blade in hand Registered User regular
    panel 4, haha

    I don't always vorpal blade, but when i do it goes snicker-snack.
  • metfanscmetfansc Registered User regular
    Kitty likes boobies as well.

  • sidesquaresidesquare Registered User new member
    haha, nice. HEEEEEEEEEEY.

  • Talyn RahlTalyn Rahl Registered User regular
    Oh man... Don't you hate it when that happens? Although that's not as bad as when someone says something mean, you give a REALLY lame comeback and then 2/3 days later think up something EPIC that you should have said.

  • hajenhajen Registered User regular
    porno for pussy

    it's a good thing that he has the exclusive erotica franchise for the camp, he would never make it as a rocket scientist.

  • TzivyaTzivya Registered User regular
    @talyn rahl: Ahh, l'esprit de l'escalier, bane of clever comeback givers everywhere

  • NuurgleNuurgle Redmond, WARegistered User regular
    And thus was born...Slowbert

  • OddfishOddfish On opposite weeks In odd numbered monthsRegistered User regular
    Beatboxing at dusk. That... was where the funny hit warp speed, for me.

  • Nobody313Nobody313 Registered User regular
    I wonder if the camp is actually purgatory for children, like what a few people though about Ed, Edd, and Eddy... Maybe all the kids are actually dead... maybe Seventeen actually died in that distillery explosion, and the whistle kid's apparently abusive father beat him to death,.. it would explain why there are no kids over 18, even though this camp has apparently been around for a long time... i guess we won't know for sure until we get more back stories, for now this is 2deep4me

  • SargeSarge Registered User regular
    To be fair... who is doing their laundry? Are they just washing it in the lake? I don't see any washing machines anywhere. You'd stink too if you had no way to wash your clothes.

  • Spyke66Spyke66 Registered User regular
    edited May 2016
    @NOBODY313 I actually think it's like an "orphanage", or a place where parents leave their unwanted kids. I suspected it in the first comic by how Malachi sent the letter, that will never arrive to destination. He's been there for four months, more than any camp experience, and he is just a newcommer. Then, Seventeen's story sorta confirmed my theory.

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    A little slow on the uptake, are we Lewis?

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Keeping Gains When Ill

much like trailblazer's previous post, but im looking at probably not being able to train for a couple of weeks I expect?! but yeh, is the key jus to keep the protein intake up high?! how can i maintain my gains in this time off period....

A couple of weeks is not that bad. Just keep your protein intake up, and you should be able to minimise loss.

Its important to keep fluid intake high and besides protein a good calorific intake is paramount. If you don't feel like chowing down loads of food, up the intake calorie wise by eating more healthy fats, coldwater fish, nuts, avadacos, EV Olive oil etc.


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Pull-Up Rows

"This version of the Pull-Up Row will utilize all of your bodyweight for resistance, just like a chin-up. It can be done using a chin-up bar or, if necessary, using a Smith Machine bar or a bar set on the safety rails of a power rack.

If you have low ceilings, you'll need to use the power rack or Smith Machine version (set the bar to about 4 feet off the ground) otherwise your feet will hit the ceiling and stop the exercise.

Grasp the chin-up bar with a shoulder-width, underhand grip. Raise your legs up as though doing a complete hanging leg raise movement.

Lean your upper body back to a horizontal position and straighten your legs to vertical. Your shins should be right up against the bar and your feet should be directly above the bar. Your body should be in an "L" shape.

Holding your legs in that position, do a pull-up row from there. Keep your legs as close to the bar as possible when doing this to better keep your balance."

What do you think of this exercise? I think you might simply straighten the legs more and more (until you get ot do a lever pull-up) to make it harder. As I just love bodyweight stuff, I think I will try to get it. I can now only get up until the elbows are by my sides...

Sounds like a good one, but my doorway pull-up bar doesn't quite allow for proper execution of this exercise.

My entire back routine consists of pull-ups and chin-ups so I'm biased toward bar movements. But I do enjoy some occasional high rep dumbell rowing as well. There's something called a sternum chin-up in Waterbury's NB3 program - in it your body is at a 45 degree angle so the exercise hits two planes at once.


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Should Kagan Recuse Herself on Obamacare?

Actually, was her confirmation legally valid, given that she may have lied during confirmation hearings????

Of course I'm with ya, but what difference does it make? We have no allies. She couldn't have been confirmed if it were not for republicans on the judiciary committee. Who's gonna do anything about it? They shredded her like a brick of Parmesan and then voted to confirm like they always do. Asking if her judgeship is valid because she lied is like asking if 80% of our presidencies are valid for the same reason. The fact that she did it under oath during confirmation hearings matters legally, but not in principle.


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Lexmond former municipality

Lexmond is a former municipality in Zuid-Holland province. On 1 Jan 1986 it became part of Zederik municipality.
It had 2.100 inhabitants in the settlements Lexmond (seat), Achthoven, Kortenhoeven, Lakerveld, and Schutterseiland. The "Achthovense Uiterwaarden" (forelands) along the "Oude Zederik" were a protected nature reserve.
Flag: in blue at the separation of hoist and fly a yellow pig's head, below which two red laurelbranches in saltire; along top, fly and bottom a green-yellow border, resp of 3/20 and 1/20 flagheight.
Explanation: The yellow pig's head on blue is the image of the present municipal arms. In older versions of the arms a green pyre with red flames is visible. For the pyre the red laurelbranches have been used.
Green has been used to represent water. Parallel to each other flow the Lek and Merwedekanaal near Lexmond, the long borders. Perpendicular to both was the small river Laak, represented by the short border. The Laak flowed in Lexmond into the Lek, hence "Laaksmond" - later "Leksmond", "Lexmond". Blue and green have been separated by yellow for esthetic
The flag was adopted 27 Jan 1971 after a design by J.F. van Heyningen, with later addition of the laurelbranches.
Source: Vexilla Nostra 83-30.
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Image after Sierksma's "De gemeentewapens van Nederland", 1960.
Description: azure a pig's head or.
Sierksma comments: "Is here the mouth of the river "canting" as the mouth of a (wild) boar?"
Ralf Hartemink states that it is the arms of the Lords of Brederode and Vianen.
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I’ve completed revising (and about to remaster) my LukeLive! Highlights CD.  The new Track Listing is available at a separate site:

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STAR WARS – THE FORCE AWAKENS (includes spoilers)

Echoes of the original STAR WARS–THE NEW HOPE abound in THE FORCE AWAKENS.  For the most part, that’s a good thing.  Continuity with previous characters and themes make watching this movie a bit like a homecoming event.  Indeed, we need generational stories that remind us that the conflicts between good and evil, truth and lies are perennial, that actions have consequences far beyond our life spans and that older generations have much to offer the new.  From the start it is clear that our wonderfully appealing young adult protagonists Rey and Finn are in need of mentoring.  Rey will become the film’s heart and center, a true heroine, but opening scenes reveal her reclusive as if a resigned to minimal existence.  Finn, destined to become the new age Han Solo has fears that like his antecedent drive him to flee at the onset of any conflict. Like Han in his younger days, Finn is bound to “look out for number one,” until an encounter with Rey calls him to accept some adult responsibility in countering the evil forces of the First Order.  When the elder Han Solo appears on the exiled Millennium Falcon (“Chewie, we’re back!”), the young adults begin to get some mentoring.  Han helps them deliver clues to the Republic and Resistance Fighters that pertain to the missing Luke Skywalker’s whereabouts who alone may have a plan to defeat the First Order.   Good story.  Fun film.

As for particulars, Rey is beautifully portrayed by Daisy Ridley.  She will be a fine feminine hero for the new set of films. John Boyega as Finn is up for the challenge of a young man with evolving perceptions and maturity.  Many reviewers have noted the special effects are first-rate and I particularly appreciated John Williams being back for the music soundtrack.  Keep those leitmotifs coming!  All in all, THE FORCE AWAKENS is a good film especially because it keeps the human element front and center amidst the technical wizardry of the galactic battles.  To be a great film, however, I would have urged the screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt and Abrams the director to shorten some of the war sequences and offer a few more scenes focusing on character development.  Why is Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) so angry with his father Han Solo?  What brought about the rupture in Han and Leia’s relationship?  We might infer from the earlier films that Leia would be workaholic princess par excellence and Han unable to resist his wanderlust but with “the force” on their side, how did they fail to negotiate their inherent differences that was part of their initial, mutual attraction? And what really forced Luke Skywalker into exile?  The fact that the young people are adrift and their potential mentors are flawed but good intentioned makes for good drama.  But when we only get surface insight to the paradigm, the climactic scene between Han and Kylo Ren falls short of the emotionally gripping mark it should have.   Father-Son conflicts are abundant in the Bible and in Greek myths and folktales.  But for the 21st century, let’s have more than the usual Oedipal dynamics.

I hope I haven’t given too much away, but I imagine at this juncture, everyone reading this has seen the film.  Let us know your responses.  We would love to hear from you.


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Media and Religion in Brazil

Each day our students will blog about some of their experiences on the Brazil Travel Course.  Our entry for Tuesday, 1/24 comes from Petr Vostry and Vaclav Mares.

Tuesday January 24 was the last day of corporate visits. We visited TV Globo in the morning and the Cristo Redentor afterwards.

TV Globo

TV Globo concentrates mostly on national audience but it is also broadcasted abroad. The whole media group comprises of various media channels such as radio, newspapers, music, books, magazines, TV broadcasting, and pay TV.

The Globos Sets Map

The company presentation (including the short promotion video) was very professional.  Both speakers proved their dedication to the company’s passion, ideas and values, which are “Inform, Educate and Entertain”. TV Globo was founded in 1965 as local TV station in Rio.  In 1969 its broadcast became national, and it now covers 99% of territory and population in the country. It employs around 20,000 employees and generated USD $6.9 billion in revenue in 2010, with 62 % coming from commercial advertisement.

Looking around the fake sets

TV Globo is the flag ship of the media group. Its audience share is 45% in prime time (6 pm till 12 pm) and its share of TV advertisement market is 74%. This provides TV Globo with a very favorable power ratio of 1.6 (power ratio = TV advertisement market share / Audience share) in the 5th biggest advertisement market and 3rd biggest TV advertisement market in the world.

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The biggest challenge which TV Globo has recently faced is a change of habits in the advertisement market, mainly the decrease of TV advertisement share in light of new communication media channels like the internet. It is a recent worldwide trend and it is a little bit slower in this particular area in Brazil in comparison to other developed countries. TV Globo is currently adapting to the internet environment, as well as portable devices like smart phones and portable TV sets. It is changing from a TV station to a Media Station.

Despite weaker regulation of TV media market as compared to the Czech Republic, TV Globo acts in line with government’s and audience’s needs. TV Globo dwells on keeping of national identity as domestic production forms 90% of broadcasting time. Brazilian families don’t mostly have sufficient money to visit cinemas so TV Gloxbo produces substitutes in the form of series called “telenovelas”. Company also responsibly accepts its national role and allows government to incorporate requested social values into telenovelas and other programs to influence society’s behavior.

After the presentation we were shown interior stages, costumes warehouse, directors’ rooms and we had also occasion to see exteriors built outside in the country.

Corcovado Mountains
Corcovado Mountain

Our last organized trip led us to Corcovado Mountain with statue of Christ the Redeemer and marvelous view of the city. We enjoyed the place very much. It also gave us a chance to think about religion and its influence on business with Brazilian. Our guide Pablo was very kind to share high-level information with us. General in Brazil, Catholic Church counts for 80% of Brazilian, the rest belongs to Evangelic Church. Doing business with Catholics looks pretty similar to US approach. They separate business and religion and concentrate primarily on financial aspects and results. Evangelists are different. They could be offended if you were talking solely about financials and you would omit to respect their ideas and emotions in business decisions.

To sum up – the Brazilian society is open minded and religion is not a seriously limiting factor. It need not be closely watched when establishing of business relations in Brazil.

– Petr & Vaclav

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Monday, October 20, 2008

6 Rules for Parents Dropping Off or Picking Up Kids from School

I dropped the kids off at school today and there was more traffic than ever around the school. I think it's the first day of camp for the fifth graders. There were so many cars parked, parents milling around, and so on.

In a few minutes, the bell would ring. So the people dropping the kids off but are still in traffic are just as anxious as I was to drop the kids off in time for them to make their classes. My kids (brother and neighbor) are in 6th grade. So they got out of the car while traffic was not moving, cross the residential street, and got to school - all under 7 seconds.

The mother driving the car in front of me wanted to drop her daughter off too right there and then. But this is what she did.

Traffic built up and the cars were at a stop.
She PARKED her CAR right there in the street where cars drive through.
OPENED the door FOR her YOUNG daughter.
GOT DAUGHTER OUT OF CAR. <-- traffic started to move
LEFT CAR DOOR OPEN. <-- traffic had moved, son in car yelling "mom!"
WALKED DAUGHTER TO SCHOOL <-- clear street ahead of her, son closed car door
LINGERED AROUND DAUGHTER. <-- still clear street, son yelling "mom!", my hand on horn

Traffic had built up behind her, and cleared in front of her. At the point where she stopped, the cars that built up behind her were across the back field of the school -- too far to walk for younger children, so it's not like the parents wanted the kids to get off then.

I understand if her child was older, like mine, able to get to school BY THEMSELVES. Her daughter was not, but she wasn't that young either. She was capable of crossing the street safely. This mother just had to do the motherly thing and more! She could have just brought the daughter across the street (which is pushing it) and drove on. But noooooo. She did the whole shebang just like she would have if she parked her car at a curb, clear of traffic. Plus, it wasn't like her daughter was clinging to her for dear life. The daughter disappeared in the crowd before she did. This mother was the one hanging around.

I wanted so badly to honk at her. But I didn't for the sake of the son inside the car (who looked young too, maybe 7th grade). He's probably so humiliated, and late for his own school. And I didn't for the sake of everyone else around me - look at rule #6 down below.

I always say parents are the worst drivers when dropping off or picking up kids. So here it is.

6 Rules for Parents Dropping Off or Picking Up Kids from School

1. In a 3 or 4-way stop, take your turn at the right time. Don't go out of turn and cause more traffic.

2. When a child is crossing the street, stop! Don't even risk an accident.

3. Don't drop kids off in the middle of traffic if traffic is moving, or if they can't get out and get through before traffic moves (ie: they're too young to go without you). You'll cause more traffic.

4. Don't park at red lanes. That's illegal.

5. Don't honk your horn at your kid when picking him/her up, causing the kid to run through traffic without precautions. Do you want your kid to get hit, while you sit safely in your car (in traffic) ready to step on the gas pedal?

6. Don't be horn happy or expletive happy (don't cuss! no profanity! it's a G-rated zone! what kind of example are you setting?). Everyone's just trying to get through that morning/afternoon.

Parents/guardians/anyone who drops or picks up kids in school, here's the bottom line:

Unless you have a woman in the middle of labor or someone dying in the car, you are just as pressured as the rest of us. You are NOT more important. So stop acting like you are. Follow traffic laws to make this time easier for all of us and avoid accidents. Pay close attention to avoid accidents. If you only strive to be a decent human being, you will reduce that tension headache and stress you have put on yourself everytime you go to school to drop off or pick up your kid.

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Alone In the Wilderness

Anyone who has an interest in woodworking by hand and a yearning to return to the wilderness will love this DVD!

In 1968 at age 51, Dick Proenneke left life’s mainstream (if you can call living in Alaska mainstream) to live in a remote region of Alaska called Twin Lakes. He took with him some basic supplies and a few woodworking tools and built an incredible cabin alone, and by hand. Dick lived in the cabin alone till the mid 90’s.

In the DVD you will see Dick ripping spruce logs with a hand saw for lumber. He makes kitchen implements out of tin cans and a gigantic table from an enormous spruce burl. The part I liked the most was when he makes wooden hinges for his Dutch door. The hinges are made from the base section of a spruce tree. See the attached picture.

Buy "Alone In the Wilderness" you wont be sorry.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Dederman Cabin

On May 23, 1866, 124 German Lutheran settlers representing 42 families set out for Northeast Nebraska from Ixonia, Wisconsin in three wagon trains. The group arrived a few months later on July 15, and laid claim to land about four miles north of where the North Fork of the Elkhorn River joined the main branch. The area is now the town of Norfolk Nebraska. (Home of Johnny Carson)

Interestingly enough most of the group built log cabins. Norfolk had very few trees at that time so the settlers had to traveled far to collect the logs. The cabin pictured here was built by Fredrick Dederman and his family. The Dederman’s lived in a dugout cave for two years as they worked on the cabin.

After retiring from the military I happened into restoring the cabin for the Elkhorn Valley Museum and Research Center. It was really a learning experience, a lot more work than I expected, and a great deal of fun. One of the neatest experiences was finding Mr. Dederman’s name written in a Germanic like cursive on top of one of the logs. An experience like this gives you a feel for what it was like for those early settlers.


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TSS: This one’s for the grad students

July 25, 2010

The Sunday Salon.comHappy Sunday, all! I am currently writing this while sitting in the Philly airport; I’ve got a conference this week with unknown internet availability, so there’s a good chance that I will be even worse than usual about approving/responding to comments, etc.

So, I purged one of my TBR books this week: Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker. While I didn’t read it, I did skim it (and feel obligated to point out that Bolker admits in the introduction that the whole “15 minutes” thing is a marketing ploy, and that at that rate your dissertation will never get finished). Since I know many of you are currently in or thinking of starting grad school, in lieu of a review, I thought I’d present my own version, fresh from the trenches.

How to Write Your Dissertation in Three Months

1. Don’t. Seriously. Listen to your committee when they’re like “well, you’re a few years from finishing, but you could go ahead and write your introductions and methods now.” Give yourself more time, but if you do have to do it in three months, the “I’ve got three data chapters, so that’s one per month” approach works well to keep yourself on schedule, until you remember that you also have an introductory chapter that will get written “sometime.” Also, editing takes longer than you think it will; don’t plan to finish the first draft of your last chapter three days before deadline.

2. Write every day, but not too long. My brain turns to mush after too much writing, so about two hours per day is all I can handle. So, every day (except occasional Sundays off), I wrote for two hours, first thing in the morning – once I had hit my two hours, I was done for the day and could do other stuff. And I mean two hours of actual writing: no write-a-paragraph, go check e-mail, write-two-sentences, see what’s new on Facebook. My method was to turn off everything except Word and iTunes, unplug the internet, set up a playlist of classical music that was two hours long, and write until the music stopped.

3. Write crap. Once I’m writing, I avoid anything that breaks my flow, so my first draft is filled with notes-to-self (bolded for later finding and fixing) that say “citation here” or “better transition” or “is this true??” If I’m struggling with a way to say something, I write it in the least formal, most imperfect language I can (a la “So there’s this theory, and a lot of people still believe this theory, because they’re all dumb. And I’m going to tell you why they’re wrong and I’m right.”), bold it, and move on. Once you’ve done your two hours a day, you can spend the afternoons going back and adding citations and fixing little blips.

4. Back up, back up, back up. I have one back-up hard drive at work in case my house burned down, one at home in case my one at work got stolen, and Mozy will do automatic online backups for free up to 5 gigs (which is plenty of space to back up your “dissertation” folder). Also, make a new Word file for every day you work (and date them accordingly) – this limits the damage if one file gets corrupted, and if you delete a paragraph and then later decide that you need it, you can recover it quickly.

5. Make little goals, and make yourself accountable to someone else. No putting “Finish Chapter 3” on your to-do list (although man did that feel good to finally tick off). Always have a goal for the day, a goal for the week, and a goal for the month. And don’t have the goals just for yourself; tell someone else about them (doesn’t have to be your advisor), make yourself report back to them, and ask them to yell at you if you start falling behind. The desire not to have to say “No, I didn’t do it.” out loud can be a pretty powerful motivator.

6. Hie thee hence to a support group. If your university has a dissertation support group system established, join up. If not, start one, or at least grab a few people who are also writing and so know what you’re going through, will help with the rough patches, and will agree to meet regularly to help kick each other’s asses over the finish line (see point #5.)

7. Give yourself a break. This is *hard*. If you need an evening off to pick up a comfort read, then take it. If you really just can’t write any more and need to get up and take a walk, then do it. Sleep and exercise as often as you can manage. Say no to as many other obligations and responsibilities as you can. It’s okay to ask for help, it’s okay to feel like crap, and it’s okay to be a little bit selfish.

Extra Credit. Ph.D. Comics

What say you, readers? Anyone got any tips that I missed? And if so, where were you five months ago?

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  1. July 25, 2010 11:03 am

    Fabulous advice! I did the “write crap” suggestion all the time. In fact, I do it with almost every paper I write. I’m no good at outlines or planning what I’m going to write, but that is a kind of outlining that works perfectly for me. Unfortunately I was the only Spanish major writing a thesis (much smaller than a dissertation obviously, but all these rules apply), so I had no support group!

    • July 25, 2010 1:46 pm

      Lu – The dissertation writing group I go to is organized by the university health center, so it’s people from all departments… most writing problems are universal. :)

  2. July 25, 2010 5:12 pm

    Write crap is great advice to anyone writing anything. My favorite phrase for a first draft is “vomit on the page”. You can’t do jack until you’ve got some to edit and fix and all that lovely stuff.

    • August 3, 2010 9:20 am

      Omni – Agreed! And at least in my case, a lot of the stuff that felt like wordvomit when I was writing it actually wound up being useable.

  3. July 25, 2010 6:04 pm

    I can’t do the “write crap” thing. It’s better for me to break my flow than to put in placeholder text. Once I’ve put in placeholder text, it takes me an unbelievably long time to think of something to replace it with, when I go back and look at it again.

    • August 3, 2010 9:22 am

      Jenny – To each their own! One of the things I like about placeholder text, though, is that I can hand it to someone else to edit and let *them* come up with something better. One of my favorite placeholders was “OH GOD THAT IS THE WORST SENTENCE EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE BUT I CAN’T COME UP WITH ANY WAY TO MAKE IT BETTER PLEASE HELP.”

  4. July 25, 2010 11:06 pm

    Excellent tips. Why is it so difficult to get going?

  5. July 25, 2010 11:12 pm

    Those are really good tips for writing in general. i do the “write crap” thing all the time, just putting in XXXXX or something else in all caps to go back later.

    • August 3, 2010 9:23 am

      Kim – I’ve been known to leave the “BRILLIANT THOUGHTS GO HERE” in a draft when I sent it to my advisor for editing.

  6. July 26, 2010 5:48 pm

    I love this post! I will have to bookmark this for if I ever get back to school.

  7. July 26, 2010 7:17 pm

    This is all brilliant advice. Would that I had thought of any of it myself when I was writing the diss….

    I particularly love the idea of setting up a two-hour long playlist, and not letting up until the music stops playing. I am going to try that out this very week.

    • August 3, 2010 9:25 am

      Ariel – It probably wouldn’t work so well if you’re one of those people who has to have absolute silence to write, but it’s great for me. Plus, two hours is about the length of two movie scores, which are my preferred writing music.

  8. July 29, 2010 8:25 pm

    I love this too! I already do most of those, but it’s always refreshing to hear tips from another student! I’m not yet in grad school, but I’m doing the honors program this year in preparation for it. I will certainly bookmark your post and keep it for future reference!

    • August 3, 2010 9:26 am

      kay – Well, I think most of us that have come out the other side are always willing to share our hard-earned battle tactics (read: yammer on endlessly) with anyone willing to listen.

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Facebook, Google tech gurus to design cancer research game

Posted: March 4, 2013 in All category, Facebook, Internet

Scientists from a British cancer charity are teaming up with technology gurus from the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Google to design and develop a mobile game aimed at speeding the search for new cancer drugs.The project, led by the charity Cancer Research UK, should mean that anyone with a smart phone and five minutes to spare will be able to investigate vital scientific data at the same time as playing a mobile game.
The first step is for 40 computer programmers, gamers, graphic designers and other specialists to take part in a weekend “GameJam” to turn the charity’s raw genetic data into a game format for future so-called “citizen scientists”.
“We’re making great progress in understanding the genetic reasons cancer develops. But the clues to why some drugs will work and some won’t are held in data which need to be analysed by the human eye – and this could take years,” said Carlos Caldas at Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Institute.
“By harnessing the collective power of citizen scientists we’ll accelerate the discovery of new ways to diagnose and treat cancer much more precisely.”
After the GameJam, which runs in London from March 1-3, an agency will build the game concept into reality and the team plans to launch it in mid 2013.
Cancer already kills more than 7.5 million people a year and the number of people with the disease worldwide is expected to surge by more than 75 percent by 2030, according to the World Health Organisation’s cancer agency IARC.
CRUK’s scientists are working hard to identify the genetic faults that drive cancer to try to find new ways of diagnosing and treating patients in a more targeted way based on their genetic profile and that of their tumours.
In a major international study on breast cancer genetics published last year, CRUK researchers said they are now able to classify the disease into 10 subtypes – a finding that could lead to more accurate and tailored treatment in future.
That study also found several completely new genes that drive breast cancer, offering potential targets for new types of drugs.
Yet this type of research generates colossal amounts of data that need to be analysed, CRUK said as it announced the gaming project. And while advances in technology mean scientists can process data faster than ever, much of it still needs to be analysed by people rather than machines.
“The human eye can detect subtle changes that machines are not programmed to look for – leading to serendipitous discoveries providing clues to the causes and drivers of the disease,” the charity said.
“With the collective power of hundreds of thousands of people across the globe helping our scientists to analyse this data we could drastically speed up research.”
Philip Su, engineering site director of Facebook London said his company believes the best way to solve a problem “is to bring smart people together to ‘hack’ a solution.”
“That approach is just as valid in the field of life sciences as it is in software engineering,” he said.

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