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Identity of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM)

This is what the Knights of Malta or Order of Malta or SMOM in brief, says about itself:
Mission of the Order

The Order of St John of Jerusalem is one of the oldest institutions of Western and Christian civilisation. Present in Palestine in around 1050, it is a lay religious Order, traditionally of military, chivalrous, noble nature. Its 12,500 members include Professed Friars and others who have made vows of obedience. The other Knights and Dames are lay members, devoted to the exercise of Christian virtue and charity. What distinguishes the Knights of Malta is their commitment to reaching their spiritual perfection within the Church and to expending their energies serving the poor and the sick.
The Order of Malta remains true to its inspiring principles, summarised in the motto "Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum", defence of the Faith and assistance to the poor and the suffering, which become reality through the voluntary work carried out by Dames and Knights in humanitarian assistance and medical and social activities. Today the Order carries out these activities in over 120 countries.

Characteristics of the Order

The Sovereign Order of Malta is a sovereign subject of international law, with its own constitution, passports, stamps, and public institutions. The 78th Grand Master, Fra' Andrew Bertie, was elected Head of the Order for life in 1988.

The Order has diplomatic relations with 100 countries - many of which non-Catholic - and missions to major European countries, as well as to European and international organisations. The Order of Malta is neutral, impartial and non-political, which is why it can successfully act as a mediator between States.

The Order and the Republic of Malta

The Order has recently returned to Malta, after signing an agreement with the Maltese Government which granted the Order the exclusive use of Fort St. Angelo for a term of 99 years. Located in the town of Birgu, the Fort belonged to the Knights from 1530 until the island was occupied by Napoleon in 1798. Today, after restoration, the Fort hosts historical and cultural activities related to the Order of Malta.
The hierarchy of the SMOM is as follows:
The three Classes

According to the Constitutional Charter, the members of the Order are divided into three Classes. The members are to conduct their lives in an exemplary manner in conformity with the teachings and precepts of the Church and to devote themselves to the humanitarian assistance activities of the Order.

Members of the First Class are Knights of Justice, or Professed Knights, and the Professed Conventual Chaplains, who have made vows of "poverty, chastity and obedience aspiring to perfection according to the Gospel". They are religious for all purposes of Canon Law but are not obliged to live in community.

The members of the Second Class, by virtue of the Promise of Obedience, are committed to living according to Christian principles and the inspiring principles of the Order. They are subdivided into three categories:

- Knights and Dames of Honour and Devotion in Obedience
- Knights and Dames of Grace and Devotion in Obedience
- Knights and Dames of Magistral Grace in Obedience

The Third Class consists of lay members who do not profess religious vows or the Promise, but who live according to the principles of the Church and the Order. They are divided into six categories:

- Knights and Dames of Honour and Devotion
- Conventual Chaplains ad honorem
- Knights and Dames of Grace and Devotion
- Magistral Chaplains
- Knights and Dames of Magistral Grace
- Donats (male and female) of Devotion

The requisites for admission to the various classes and categories are determined by the Code.

Unfortunately for the SMOM, its self-image is not shared by everybody. Let's address what more impartial and critical researchers say about the SMOM:

The Knights of Malta is a world organization with its threads weaving through business, banking, politics, the CIA, other intelligence organizations, P2, religion, education, law, military, think tanks, foundations, the United States Information Agency, the United Nations, and numerous other organizations. They are not the oldest but are one of the oldest branches of the Order of the Quest in existence. The world head of the Knights of Malta is elected for a life term, with the approval of the Pope. The Knights of Malta have their own Constitution and are sworn to work toward the establishment of a New World Order with the Pope at its head. Knights of Malta members are also powerful members of the CFR and the Trilateral Commission. (p.86)

The Knights of Malta ALL have diplomatic immunity. They can ship goods across borders without paying duty or undergoing customs check. Does that ring any bells? In any case, that is power. The Knights of Malta is held up by a backbone consisting of nobility. Nearly half of the 10,000 members belong to Europe's oldest and most powerful families. This cements the alliance between the Vatican and the "Black Nobility." The Black Nobility is mostly the rich and powerful of Europe. The head of the Black Nobility is the family that can claim direct descendancy from the last Roman emperor. Maybe now you can see that things are beginning to fall into their proper place. Membership in the Knights of Malta entails obedience to one's superior in THE ORDER and ultimately to the Pope. Therefore, a U.S. ambassador who is also a member of the Knights of Malta faces a conflict of interest. Why is this fact ignored? President Bush appointed Knight of Malta Thomas Melledy to the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican.

William Cooper's - Behold a Pale Horse (pp88-89)

In their investigations of the SMOM, LaRouche's associates "discovered to their surprise that the mere mention of its name inspires awe and terror in the minds of highly placed government officials, central bankers, senior military and business leaders, and senior diplomatic and intelligence executives," as recorded in a pamphlet issued by the LaRouche organization at the time, "The `Black International' Terrorist Assassination Plot to Kill Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr." The pamphlet further reported, "The power that the Order concentrates is primarily financial, through direct control of most of the Western world's leading investment houses" and far, far more. The pamphlet also noted, "A second source of power is an absolutely unmatched intelligence capability." Which is to say, the SMOM is a leading organizational arm of the Synarchy, bringing together the world's leading aristocrats, financiers, and particularly military and intelligence officials. Its members yearn for the ultramontane world which existed before the rise of sovereign nation-states during the Renaissance, which meant a loss of power and privilege of their families. To them, that vanished world is as if yesterday. Indeed, it has by no means entirely disappeared, but lives on, centered—like the Knights themselves—on the Venetian-descended "independent central banks" of virtually every nation in the world, as LaRouche has emphasized.

The Sovereign Military and Hospitaler Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, known also as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, or SMOM, is juridically, politically, and historically unique in the world today.

Representing initially the most powerful and reactionary segments of the European aristocracy, for nearly a thousand years beginning with the early crusades of the Twelfth Century, it has organized, funded, and led military operations against states and ideas deemed threatening to its power. It is probably safe to say that the several thousand Knights of SMOM, principally in Europe, North, Central, and South America, comprise the largest most consistently powerful and reactionary membership of any organization in the world today.

Although an exclusively [Roman] Catholic organization, in this century it has collaborated with, and given high awards to non-Catholic extremists in its current crusade against progressive forces in the West, the national liberation movements, and the socialist countries.

To be a Knight, one must not only be from wealthy, aristocratic lineage, one must also have a psychological worldview which is attracted to the "crusader mentality'' of these "warrior monks." Participating in SMOM Ñ including its initiation ceremonies and feudal ritual dress Ñ members embrace a certain caste/class mentality; they are sociologically and psychologically predisposed to function as the ''shock troops" of Catholic reaction. And this is precisely the historical role the Knights have played in the wars against Islam, against the Protestant "heresy,'' and against the Soviet ''Evil Empire."

SMOM's Sovereign Diplomacy

As its name suggests, SMOM is both a ''sovereign'' and, historically, a "military" organization. Its headquarters, occupying a square block in Rome at 68 Via Condotti, enjoys the extra-territorial legal status granted to an embassy of a sovereign state. The Italian police are not welcome on its territory, it issues its own stamps, and has formal diplomatic relations and exchanges ambassadors with a number of countries.

On November 13, 1951 Italian President Alcide de Gasperi recognized the diplomatic sovereignty of SMOM, although he held off formal exchange of diplomatic envoys.2 On January 11, 1983 the New York Daily News announced that,

"The Vatican and the order of the Knights of Malta, believed to be the smallest sovereign state in the world, have agreed to establish full diplomatic relations, a joint statement said today. "

President Reagan's Ambassador to the Vatican, William Wilson, is, coincidentally, a Knight of Malta.3

On September 5, 1984 French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson signed a formal protocol with SMOM for various cooperative projects including "aid to victims of conflicts."4 (See below on Americares.)

The Knights of St. John were founded in the late 11th Century, and rose to prominence in the First Crusade of 1095. In 1120, Pope Urban II officially recognized them as a military religious order, and for centuries they remained one of the most powerful military forces in Christendom, first from their headquarters on the island of Rhodes, and then on Malta, from which they were finally driven by Napoleon in the late 18th Century. The Knights were recognized as a sovereign state by a Hapsburg Emperor in the 16th Century. They remain a sovereign state, run from their headquarters at 68 Via Condotti in Rome. They maintain their own fleet of aircraft, have diplomatic relations with 92 nations as well as the United Nations and the Holy See, and enjoy diplomatic immunity. The order is entirely Roman Catholic, and its higher ranks must document an aristocratic lineage and coat-of-arms of at least three centuries. The Grand Master of the order is both a secular prince, and a cardinal of the Church. Reflecting its history, its membership is still heavily comprised of individuals with a military or intelligence background. Pope Pius XII ordered an investigation of this nominally Catholic organization in the 1950s. The Papal Commission charged, among other things, that the Order should not have the sovereignty of a state, and ordered modifications of the SMOM "to bring them into conformity with decisions of the Holy See." However, Pius XII died before the Order could be fully reined in.

In addition to the Roman Catholic SMOM, there are four Protestant orders of the Knights, all founded within the last 150 years or so, and all run by ruling houses of Europe. The Roman Catholic and Protestant orders effectively merged on Nov. 26, 1963, four days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Sovereign Head of the British Knights is Queen Elizabeth, while the Netherlands Knights were headed until his death by the former SS official, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, consort of Queen Juliana.

From: An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences," etc. by Albert G. Mackey, M.D., Thirty-Third Degree, Volume I, published by the Masonic History Company, Chicago, New York, & London, 1925, Volume One, pp. 392-95:

"This Order, which at various times in the progress of its history received the names of Knights Hospitalers, Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Rhodes, and lastly, Knights of Malta, was one of the most important of the religious and military orders of knighthood which sprang into existence during the Crusades which were instituted for the recovery of the Holy Land. It owes its origin to the Hospitalers of Jerusalem, that wholly religious and charitable Order which was established at Jerusalem, in 1048, by pious merchants of Amalfi for the succor of poor and distressed Latin pilgrims....
[big section on its history over nine centuries]

"The Organization of the Order in its days of prosperity was very complicated, partaking of both a monarchial and a republican character. Over all presided a Grand Master, who, although invested with extensive powers, was still controlled by the legislative action of the General Chapter....

"...There are now two bodies-one Catholic and the other Protestant, but each repudiates the other....
"The degree of Knight of Malta is conferred in the United States as "an appendant Order" in a Commandery of Knights Templar. There is a ritual attached to the degree, but very few are in possession of it, and it is generally communicated after the candidate has been created a Knights Templar...."
[end of quote]

The Knights of Malta are the militia of the Pope, and are sworn to total obedience by a blood oath which is taken extremely seriously and to the death. The Pope as the head of the Vatican is also the head of a foreign national power.

As a member of the Knights of Malta, and by virtue of your blood oath of obedience to the Pope, you are required to support to the death the desires of the head of the Order of the Knights of Malta-in this case, Pope Benedict XVI -over and above any other allegiance you may feel or pretend to feel toward any other loyalty-such as a loyalty to the Constitution for the united States of America.

Those who are presently members of the Knights of Malta must on penalty of death support those policies advocated by the Vatican. It is not hard for them to do this. They BELIEVE in these policies and principles. The polices which are espoused and proclaimed by the office of the Pope are as follows:
1. End of sovereignty for the United States and other countries.
2. End of absolute property rights.
3. End of all gun rights.
4. The new international economic Order (world government).
5. The redistribution of wealth and jobs.
6. Calls for nations to trust the United Nations.
7. Total disarmament.
8. Promote the United Nations as the hope for peace.
9. Promote UNESCO, the deadly educational and cultural arm of the United Nations.
10. Promote interdependence.
11. Support sanctions honoring Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-the New Age Humanist Priest.
12. Support the belief that the economic principle of traditional Christian or Catholic social doctrine is the economic principle of communism.
13. Promote the Pope as the acting go-between for the United States and the Soviet Union.

It doesn't really matter what kind of religious or political affiliation a member professes, when they take an oath as a Knight they are obligated by that blood oath of obedience to follow the political lead of the Vatican and will do so to their dying breath-as all good Knights of Malta do. Their first loyalty is to the Vatican, anything else is secondary.
Each and every member is under complete and total obedience to the Vatican's political ambitions.

The "Knights of Malta" are the militia of the Pope. In the book "Behold a Pale Horse" you will find research into this. It is one of the NWO SECRET SOCIETIES that are determined to overrun and destroy America. The Pope is not innocent of this either. The Pope wants to be the leader of the world. He meets with world leaders to promote "peace" as his means of public acceptance. It's a conspiracy of darkness.

Members include: Paul Cain, Mark Joyner, Benny Hinn, Bob Dole, William Casey, former director of the CIA, George H.W. Bush, Pat Buchanan,

The American Association of SMOM

In Europe SMOM's membership had been traditionally limited to those who could prove a requisite purity of noble blood for several generations. Nevertheless, as a concession to the rising political, economic, and military power of the United States, in 1927 SMOM agreed to incorporate an American National Association whose members were not obliged to prove their genealogical pedigree.

When the American Association of SMOM was created in 1927 the founding members included Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Edward L. Hearn, Nicholas F. Brady, Howard F. Carry, Patrick E. Crowley, James A. Farrell, James A. Fayne, Edward N. Hurley, James J. Phelan, Morgan J. O'Brien, John J. Raskob, and John D. Ryan.

By 1941 Francis Cardinal Spellman was listed as the "Grand Protector" and "Spiritual Advisor" of the Order, with John J. Raskob as Treasurer. Members included John Farrell, then President of U.S.Steel, Joseph P. Grace, and John D. Ryan. In 1934 Raskob, inspired by the French fascist Croix de Feu, and working closely with Morgan Bank's John Davis, had been a principal financier in the plot to organize a fascist coup in the U.S. The plan failed when General Smedley Butler, who had been set up to lead the project, denounced it.

The 1941 list also included Joseph J. Larkin. According to Charles Higham's Trading With the Enemy (see review in this issue),

Joseph J. Larkin . . . [vice-president of Chase Manhattan Bank in charge of European affairs] kept the Chase Bank open ....... in Nazi-occupied Paris throughout World War II.
.... [He] had received the Order of the Grand Cross of the Knights of Malta from Pope Pius XI in 1928. He was an ardent supporter of General Franco and, by extension, Hitler. Morgenthau first suspected him as a fascist sympathizer in Octoher 1936. ..... With the encouragement of Schacht, Larkin took on the Franco account and the Reichsbank account, though the Reichsbank was under the personal control of Hitler. ..... 7

With headquarters in Rome, the group is recognized by some 40 countries as the world's only landless sovereign nation. In that role the Knights mint coins, print stamps and issue passports to their diplomats. American network.

The U.S. membership of about 1,OOO-70 percent men - accounts for one tenth of the worldwide total. Nearly all are prominent in business, government or professional life and include such well-known figures as Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and Central Intelligence Agency Director William Casey.

At least two U.S. senators also are members: Republicans Jeremiah Denton of Alabama and Pete Domenici of New Mexico.

Other members active in conservative politics include former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, former Treasury Secretary William Simon and columnist William F. Buckley.

The president of the Knights' American branch is J. Peter Grace, chairman of the W.R. Grace Company, which provides a national focus for the organization by including seven other Knights on its board.

The main purpose of the Knights is to honor distinguished Catholics and raise money for charity, especially hospitals. But the close personal ties among members contribute to what some observers call a potent old-boy network of influential decision makers dedicated to thwarting Communism.

The annual induction ceremony for new members at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City is the only function of the U.S. chapter open to nonmembers.

Because many Knights and recipients of the Orders honors have worked in or around the CIA, critics sometimes suggest a link between the two.

But members deny any connection, noting that the pattern of conservative members with overseas ties emerges naturally from the order's role as an international defender of the church.

[...] most knights insist that SMOM is simply a charitable organization. The knights raise money for various philanthropic endeavors, particularly in areas of health care and international relief efforts. They still direct some of the infirmaries and hospitals they established centuries ago, in addition to running modern clinics, research centers, leprosariums and schools for the deaf and blind. SMOM administers a first aid station in St. Peter's Square and has sent volunteer medical personnel to the Muslim and Christian sections of war-torn Beirut.

But charity typifies only the public face of SMOM. In private ceremonies, the knights have decorated Nazi spies and CIA operatives.

Certain SMOM members have been involved in a litany of questionable activities, ranging from secret deals with organized crime to bloody coups in Latin America that have destroyed democratically elected governments.

They have played a significant role in spearheading the cold war revival and the emergence of the New Right in the U.S.

When Casey, Buckley, Luce and others dress in medieval garb, these modern crusaders rekindle the mystical mission to defeat all enemies of their notions of the church.

Who Are The Knights Of Malta?

The Knights of Malta are a Roman Catholic organization with quasi mystical practices used mainly to advance Vatican influences in the political sphere. It is more exclusive than the Roman Catholic 'Knights of Columbus' and is rooted somewhat in the ethos of the barbaric Knights Templar of the Crusader Period (so too are St. John's Ambulance service, but they are more secular and benign).

Unlike the OPUS DEI cult founded by the fascist Jesuit Jose Marie Escrive, the Knights of Malta confer honorary membership on non Catholics in certain circumstances as a means of forging relationship with persons of power and influence. Moriel and Jacob Prasch of course warn against this organization and we regard both it and the ecumenical agenda it fronts for as being sinister and incompatible with biblical Christianity.

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Vatican is NOT New World Order! The Top Secret Society of British aristocracy (check Carroll Quigley - REAL investigator and scientist) which direct and start NWO is Queen Elisabeth's Order of Garter, she gives Orders of Templars, NOT Pope, and she's also head of Anglican Church, The Most Venerable Order of The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem is society under direct of British Monarchy, there are oldest and most important PROTESTANT Knight Orders. I bet you even don't know differences between Templars and SMOM.

Carbonarism, most powerful Illuminati movement of The Rothschilds led by Carl Rothschild - was anti-Vatican, anti-papal, anti-catholic and anti-clerical movement condemned by Vatican and it's historical fact, so how New World Order can be Jesuit or Catholic? Because you read this in Fritz Springmeier or Texe Marrs books? You protestants can lie, but you knows anything about freemasonry and its history.

Vatican and NWO are completely opposet to each other. Even Russian Tsarist General to Russian prince Nicholas II Romanov and close friend to president Theodore Roosevelt in his book "The Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand" about bolshevik revolution, 2 world wars, Jewish Committee 300 (just like Coleman), Rothschilds and Illuminati says that NWO freemasonic plan is FIGHT with Vatican. Before you start promoting Jehova's Witnesses conspiracy theories, make sure the rumors are real.

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Read what Foreign Policy Review has to say about this then. "The Order" is short for "The Order of St. John of Jerusalem" which was news to me as well to be quite honest. My website covers this updated topic in full due to the late breaking nature of this piece of information. And 2 friends of people like Tom Posey, Dr. John L. Brady and Art Jones from America First and Civilian Military Assistance went to a Dallas JFK conference and befriended me in an attempt to find out what I knew about the role of the far right in the JFK assassination. Tom Posey was involved with Iran-Contra and even Tim McVeigh was involved with "The Order" as well as you will soon see in these articles.

PATCON and the Investigation of a "Sovereign Order" by the FBI

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Richard Bartholomew

PATCON and the FBI

Last month's Foreign Policy has an interesting article by J.M Berger on PATCON, an FBI investigation from the early 90s:

Starting in April 1991, three FBI agents posed as members of an invented racist militia group called the Veterans Aryan Movement. According to their cover story, VAM members robbed armored cars, using the proceeds to buy weapons and support racist extremism... Code-named PATCON, for "Patriot-conspiracy," the investigation would last more than two years, crossing state and organizational lines in search of intelligence on the so-called Patriot movement, the label applied to a wildly diverse collection of racist, ultra-libertarian, right-wing and/or pro-gun activists and extremists who, over the years, have found common cause in their suspicion and fear of the federal government.
Berger discovered PATCON as the result of a Freedom of Information request in 2007; he has also published a fuller account through the New America Foundation. Despite PATCON investigators making links with a number of individuals, Timothy McVeigh "apparently flew under the radar", and no arrests ever resulted from PATCON's activity.

From the same location, Grady led the "Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem," or simply the Order of St. John, a fraternal organization with a "prophetic mission" that claimed to trace its roots to a Roman Catholic religious order from the Middle Ages...
It should be noted that the "Sovereign Order" is distinct both from the group called "The Order" and from other organisations using the "St John of Jerusalem" name (see below).

...An informant reported that Grady claimed "to have been a founding member of The Order"... In turn, several members of The Order had been members of APRA.
...In meetings between Grady and [Civilian Materiel Assistance] members earlier in 1992, discussions were held about creating six-man terrorist cells that would carry out "acts of violence" including attacks on "microwave, radio, telephone, electric and TV towers and then nuclear power plants," FBI reports said. Assassinations would be carried out against "Congressional leaders, Jewish leaders and neighborhood leaders of black gangs."

Berger's account includes details of an APRA convention in the wake of Ruby Ridge at Grady's compound in 1992, where several speeches were videotaped:

He told the rapt crowd that they should hope for the opportunity to "die as martyrs" and urged them to prepare for death.

100-page website blog: JFK - The Final Solution (Red Scares, White Power and Blue Death) the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Foreign Policy Magazine - PATCON and the FBI

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Michael Richards and his dog, Pepper.

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“Ever since my accident, I ask people one question: In the last few days, have you looked at your phone while driving?” Richards probed. “There aren’t too many people who can look me in the eye and tell me ‘no.’ And, they do it because they think they’re too smart.

“The next time you think you’re too smart, ask yourself if you can drive and text with one arm,” Richards advised. “Forget dying. Dying isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you. You may have to live with the consequences of your actions.”

For Richards, this was a hard lesson to learn. Not only did he have to overcome the significant physical challenges of losing part of his left arm, he had to come to terms with his new lifestyle both mentally and emotionally. His life and the lives of his family members were forever changed because of 1.7 seconds in time.

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Richards and his son, Matthew, and pets.

“Everything became crystal clear,” Richards recalled. “In what I thought were my last moments, I thought about what kind of person I was. Was I bitter, or loving and caring? Did I say everything I wanted to say to people? I was sad about all the things I might be missing out on. In moments like that, you bargain with God for more time.”

As it turns out, God was listening.

“I think that you don’t really know how to live until you face your own mortality,” Richards mused. “I believe the reason that I’m alive today is because God has a purpose for me.”

Seven months and 11 surgeries later, did Richards let this tragedy hold him back from returning to work and doing what he loves? Heck, no! He’s a walking, talking, rig-driving spitfire … and a cautionary tale of the perils of distracted driving.

Richards has made it his mission to be a source of inspiration and education for his local community. He’s spoken in several schools and churches, encouraging people to lead a safer life.

“I want young people to stand up to their parents or peers and tell them not to text and drive,” Richards declared. “And, I want adults to do the same. The message is: Don’t take your life, or the lives of others nearby, into your hands by being distracted for even one second. If that message helps save just one person, then I’m happy.”

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Low natural gas prices is not good news for our local land here in PA.
They will be drilling M.S. gas wells like crazy now, especially with coal being struck out of the equation because it isn't clean, and oil being struck out because we can't drill in ANWR because we might kill a few mosquitoes (Aren't they on the Endangered Species List?). And most of all because we can't build Nuclear, because we're too afraid of the atom.

So PA loses.

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After 30 months, countless TV appearances, and $80 million spent on an extravagant PR campaign, T. Boone Pickens has finally admitted the obvious: The wind energy business isn't a very good one.

The Dallas-based entrepreneur, who has relentlessly promoted his "Pickens Plan" since July 4, 2008, announced earlier this month that he's abandoning the wind business to focus on natural gas.

Two years ago, natural gas prices were spiking and Mr. Pickens figured they'd stay high. He placed a $2 billion order for wind turbines with General Electric. Shortly afterward, he began selling the Pickens Plan. The United States, he claimed, is "the Saudi Arabia of wind," and wind energy is an essential part of the cure for the curse of imported oil.

Voters and politicians embraced the folksy billionaire's plan. Last year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he had joined "the Pickens church," and Al Gore said he wished that more business leaders would emulate Mr. Pickens and be willing to "throw themselves into the fight for the future of our country."

Alas, market forces ruined the Pickens Plan. Mr. Pickens should have shorted wind. Instead, he went long and now he's stuck holding a slew of turbines he can't use because low natural gas prices have made wind energy uneconomic in the U.S., despite federal subsidies that amount to $6.44 for every 1 million British thermal units (BTUs) produced by wind turbines. As the former corporate raider explained a few days ago, growth in the wind energy industry "just isn't gonna happen" if natural gas prices remain depressed.

In 2008, shortly after he launched his plan, Mr. Pickens said that for wind energy to be competitive, natural gas prices must be at least $9 per million BTUs. In March of this year, he was still hawking wind energy, but he'd lowered his price threshold, saying "The place where it works best is with natural gas at $7."

That may be true. But on the spot market natural gas now sells for about $4 per million BTUs. In other words, the free-market price for natural gas is about two-thirds of the subsidy given to wind. Yet wind energy still isn't competitive in the open market.

Despite wind's lousy economics, the lame duck Congress recently passed a one-year extension of the investment tax credit for renewable energy projects. That might save a few "green" jobs.

But at the same time that Congress was voting to continue the wind subsidies, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs reported that property tax breaks for wind projects in the Lone Star State cost nearly $1.6 million per job. That green job ripoff is happening in Texas, America's biggest natural gas producer.

Today's low natural gas prices are a direct result of the drilling industry's newfound ability to unlock methane from shale beds. These lower prices are great for consumers but terrible for the wind business. Through the first three quarters of 2010, only 1,600 megawatts of new wind capacity were installed in the U.S., a decline of 72% when compared to the same period in 2009, and the smallest number since 2006. Some wind industry analysts are predicting that new wind generation installations will fall again, by as much as 50%, in 2011.

There's more bad news on the horizon for Mr. Pickens and others who have placed big bets on wind: Low natural gas prices may persist for years. Last month, the International Energy Agency's chief economist, Fatih Birol, said that the world is oversupplied with gas and that "the gas glut will be with us 10 more years." The market for natural-gas futures is predicting that gas prices will stay below $6 until 2017.

So what is Mr. Pickens planning to do with all the wind turbines he ordered? He's hoping to foist them on ratepayers in Canada, because that country has mandates that require consumers to buy more expensive renewable electricity.

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Sunday, August 7, 2011

handmade for Baby J

My husband and I will be having our first son any time now and here are a few things I have been making while the time passes...

This Blast Off pillow was at pottery barn for kids but I decided to had a few more colors to my hand stitched design

A hooded blanket with robotos and rocket! It's very soft on the inside.

Our colorful high chair and my handmade breastfeeding cover :0)

A rocket car seat cover.

Organic burp cloths with space fabric theme.

Okay, my dad made this one. This idea came from Ellie and Elliot and I just loved the apple idea but it was way to expensive!

Visual imagery mobile inner layer
second layer
Hanging. Sorry it's blurry.

My 1st attempt to make a mobile. Space...for my husband

and Clover listening to Baby J :-) She loves my belly

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Katie Morris said...

Enjoy the rest of your pregnancy! I love all the stuff you picked out for your son, it's really cool! Good luck with the nursing cover up! My son gets mad when he is covered up so I never use the one I bought. Of course if I had used it right away he would probably be used to it. Anyway, congratulations, enjoy it, hoping for a safe and quick labor and delivery for you!


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Struck by tragedy at an early age, Meri Palmer escaped into the only world she understood. Within the virtual realm of online gaming, she lived a life filled with mythical creatures and thrilling adventures, where she was strong, powerful, clever, and beautiful—everything she believed she wasn't in real life. As the years went by, her desire to cling to her cherished fantasyland only grew stronger.

But when Meri meets Morgan, equal parts gorgeous and goofball, she begins to wonder if the time has finally come to rejoin the so-called real world. Channeling the bravery of her fairy warrior alter ego, Meri slowly lets Morgan beyond the protective walls she’s built around her heart. Just as she finds a comfortable groove in an uncertain world, Morgan succumbs to insecurities of his own, leaving her lost and confused. Through her battle to regain her equilibrium, Meri will discover that even in reality, things aren’t always what they seem.

Will Meri win the battle raging in her heart and summon the will to rescue her knight in shining armor? Or will she give in to the fear and find her game over?

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Glynis never expected in her wildest dreams to be a writer. After thirteen years in the Human Resources Industry, she decided to stay at home with her two amazing sons. Ever in search of a project, she was inspired to write the story of how she met and married her wonderfully romantic French husband, Sebastien, in six short months. The end result became her first novel, French Twist. As this was just the beginning of their epic love story, Glynis continued to chronicle their adventures in the sequel, French Toast, and the final installment in the series, French Fry. After she finished milking her life story for all it was worth, she decided to write straight-up fiction with Gamer Girl, which infuses her beloved chick lit with a hint of fantasy.

When Glynis is not writing, she is trying to keep the peace amongst the three men and two cats in her life, finding missing body parts (Lego pieces are small!), supervising a myriad of homework assignments and keeping a tenuous hold on her sanity by consuming whatever chocolate is in the vicinity.

Q.  What inspires your writing?

A. Initially, my writing was inspired by my life. I had never planned to be an author, but after I left my job as a human resources manager to become a stay-at-home-mom, I found myself in need of a project. (Once my youngest decided sleep was actually necessary.) I had often been told that the whirlwind romance I experienced with my husband would make a great movie, but I had a better idea—I would write a book! It was daunting at first, but eventually I found my path and French Twist was born. Since our epic tale couldn’t be contained in just one book, I ended up writing a trilogy. And it seems I’m still not quite done, because I’m planning to write a holiday novella for the series later this year.

However, I’m about to release my first work of complete fiction, Gamer Girl, which was inspired by watching a documentary about the origin of video games. I’m a true believer that inspiration can come from anywhere.

Q.  What is your favorite thing about being a writer?

A. Making people laugh! Nothing brings a smile to my face like coming across a review in which the reader has laughed out loud. I particularly love the ones where the person confesses to making a spectacle of themselves in public. (Then you can be sure you earned a good, hearty laugh!) I crack myself up as I write my books, so knowing I brought the same feeling to a reader is priceless!

Q.  What is the toughest part of being a writer?

A. The toughest part for me is finding the time to write when I’m feeling inspired. I can’t tell you how many times I sit down to write, but nothing comes out right or I have tons of ideas, but can’t find time to get to my computer. It almost feels like the planets have to align for me to be able to get some worthwhile writing done. Those voices in my head can be really unpredictable!

Q.  If you could not be writer, what would you do/be?
A. What an excellent question! I’ve already been down the road of social work and human resources, so if I were to veer away from writing, I would like to do something a bit more fun. I spend a lot of my spare time baking delicious treats for my boys (and half the neighborhood), so I think I would start a small baking business out of my home. I have a friend who is a real estate attorney and bakes cakes as a side business, so why not? Anything is possible!

Q.  What would the story of your life be entitled?
A. Lucky Girl. I have certainly had my share of problems—a severe case of scoliosis, divorced parents, self-esteem issues, etc.but everything worked out in the end. My back healed, I gained an amazing stepfather, and my family helped me find the courage to embrace life. With the support of my incredible husband and two angelic sons, I became a writer, which has enriched my life more than I could begin to describe. And I’m supposed to be good with words!

Q.  What is your favorite book of all time?
A. This is a very difficult question. After a lot of thought, I would have to say Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. My mother gave me this book when I was seven and it sparked a lifelong love of reading. I spent my childhood getting lost in Anne’s adventures (there were eight books of glorious material!), wishing I could live life as fully as she did. These days I do my best to channel her bravery.

Q.  Which character from ANY book are you most like?

A. I fancy myself a slightly toned down Bridget Jones. I’m neurotic, I don’t always think things through before I do them and I definitely have the capacity for zany activities. I also like to think I’m as cute and lovable as I find her to be.

Q.  What character from all of your book are you most like?
A. This one is far too easy for me. I am Sydney Bennett/Durand from my books. Well, for the most part. While everyone else in my family got a small makeover for the books (I really did make them look good!), I exaggerated my neuroses just a bit. In retrospect, perhaps I should have left my personality as is. Sydney has been touted as “intense” on her best days. You live, you learn!

Q.  Which book would you love to take a weekend vacation inside of?

A. Hands down, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I would love to explore Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and any other place I could travel to within my limited timeframe. Truth be told, I probably wouldn’t make it out of the castle. There would be so many places to go and people (and ghosts) to see!

Q.  What is your favorite season?
A. I love fall. The crisp air, the gorgeous leaves and the beautiful clothes. I get bundled up in a cozy sweater, bust out my favorite boots and head to the nearest orchard to pick baskets of delicious apples and chow down on cider doughnuts. I lived in California for over ten years and went through serious season withdrawal. Thank goodness we moved back to New York!

Q.  What inspired your book cover(s)?  Or what is your favorite book cover and why?

A. I’m lucky enough to have an extremely talented sister who designs all my covers. I give her a basic idea of what I want and she makes it look even better than I could have imagined. I’m particularly impressed with her latest coverGamer Girl. She is such a whiz with images, colors and fonts. She draws everything herself and arranges it in a way which reels those readers in! Then I have to pull them the rest of the way with my thrilling synopsis.

Q.  Tell me something funny that happened while on a book tour or while promoting your book.

A. One of my favorite things about publishing books based on my life is having people ask which events were true and which were “embellished.” While I have been lucky enough to live an exciting life, not all of the elements lend to a great story, so things did have to be altered to some degree. (I did confess to giving my family a bit of a makeover earlier, didn’t I?) The best part of promoting my books has been seeing the anticipation in people’s faces (or hearing it in their words online) when they ask about some of the most outrageous scenes in my books. What’s even better? Getting to tell them yes, that crazy event actually took place—and I lived to tell about it!

Q.  Are you working on something new?

A. My fourth book, Gamer Girl, will come out on May 31st. Once I finished the initial promotion, I plan to write French Roast, a holiday novella to continue my French Twist series. This one will be a little harder for me to write as it will deal with a tragic event in my life, but I’m hoping it will be a cathartic experience. And if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to help others deal with their grief. After all, laughter through tears can be quite healing.

Q.  Anything you want to say to followers of this blog or those that are just stopping by?

A. Thank you so much for taking the time to find out a little about me! I would love to hear from you, so feel free to stop by my blog ( or my Facebook page ( to introduce yourself.

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Papercrafts Essentials Issue 52!

I thought that you might like to have a peep at my latest cards to hit Papercraft Essentials Issue 52. I was given the Pink Parfett papers and Forever Friends clear stickers to create seven cards for mothers day. This one is teamed with Kraft card and Sage Shadow card stock. I have used Kraft card, pink taffeta ribbon and greeting rub ons on this one.Ohhh this one made the cover! YEAH! Always feels good to see something you have made on the cover! I have used some pink card stock, oval punches and my nestabilities on this one.This one is really cute I think! I have used the scallop circle & circle punches on this with some Elegant Eggplant card and a greeting rub on. This is super simple, just some green card and a printed greeting. I love this one, would be great for any little princess too.....I have used a printed greeting and my scallop oval punch as well. Finally this is made using my SU tag punches and various different card colours. The greeting has been printed and secured with some gems. I hope you like them and will back on Sunday with my challenge card, and next week I will also be giving you a peep at my last round of online classes.

  1. Oooh these are lovely Zoe! clever you!
    J x

  2. Pretty cards! Well done for making the front cover. Love the way you've incorporated lots of SU stuff too!!

  3. Wow Zoe, you have been busy, these are all fab. Well done on your magazine feature and making the front cover too!
    Love Sarita xx

  4. Oh these are too cute, Mrs Wonka!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a comment on my blog. I may even let you have a choccy from my husbands chocolate factory!!!!! Mrs Wonka x


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Observation 165386: Julella vitrispora (Cooke & Harkness) M.E. Barr
When: 2014-05-17
Who: zaca
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Notes: Julella vitrispora is not new to me: I found it three times in the past (observation 96835, observation 110037, observation 113597) and in the Notes of the last observation I wrote “It seems a widespread species at this and neighbor locations”. Recently I found a specimen of what now I think to be another species of the genus Julella. Once arriving to this suspicion I decide to look in the neighbor places for other specimens and for samples of Julella vitrispora. I did it yesterday and today. Yesterday I found several samples of Julella vitrispora, as can be seen in the photo with the composition of the specimens observeed; Today I found other specimens of the other species (I believe) which will be considered in a forthcomming observation. Meanwhile the first specimen of that other species of Julella is to be consider in observation 165436, which I already created and soon will develop.

I have selected one of the several samples of Julella vitrispora to analyse, having in mind a comparision with the one in observation 165436.
Here are some of the conclusions obtained:
- Spot tests all negative (C-, K-, KC-);
- The thalli of all the specimens are similar and as the previously observed: continuous, more or less immersed in the substrate, whitish-greywish, dull and very smooth;
- Perithecia immersed when young and becoming only few immersed when mature;
- Involeucrum dark-brown; ascomatal wall dark brown to black, inexistent at the bottom of the hamathecium;
- Hamathecium formed by branched (pseudo?)paraphyses anastomosing at the top;
- No alga was observed;
- Asci clavate to almost cilindrical, 2 mature measured: 97 × 26 um and 103 × 25 um;
- Ascospores muriform, long ellipsoid with average dimensions: Me = 26.9 × 12.1 um; Qe = 2.2 (N=23), in the ranges: 22.5 – 30.7 × 10-13.7 um.
I attach a photo of the specimen analyzed and plenty of photos with the details of the observation.

Edited on May 19, 2014
In the above text the name Julella lactea was substituted by Julella vitrispora on the account of the following:

I decided to change the name of the species in this and my former observations on the genus Julella (observation 96835, observation 110037, observation 113597) on the account of the references I collected for this genus (see below). The matter is that all these references, are unanimous in that J. lactea and J. vitrispora only differ in the number of spores per ascus, 2 to 6 in the former and 8 for the latter; As in all my microscopic observations I found 8 spores per ascus, the correct name to apply is J. vitrispora.

1) A. Aptroot and P.P.G. van der Boom;
Strigula lateralis spec. nov. with notes on the genus Julella (Ascomycetes);
Mycotaxon 56:1-8 (1995).

2) André Aptroot, Robert Lücking, Harrie J.M. Sipman, Loengrin Umaña, José Luis Chaves;
Pyrenocarpous lichens with bitunicate asci – A first assessment of the lichen biodiversity inventory in Costa Rica;
Bibliotheca Lichenologica Band 97, 1-162 (2008).

3) Margaret E. Barr;
On Julella, Delacourea, and Decaisnella, three dictyosporous genera described by J. H. Fabre;
Sydowia, Annales Mycologici Ser. II 38:11-19 (1985).

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Composition of the specimens observed;
Photo of the specimen analyzed;
Microscopy 1: Perithecial section;
Microscopy 2: Perithecial section;
Microscopy 3: Inside the perithecium; A- Involeucrum, B- Ascomatal wall and exciple, C- Bottom of perithecium;
Microscopy 4: Immersed perithecia;
Microscopy 6: Asci and spores.

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By: zaca
2014-05-17 20:17:09 CDT (-0400)

I inserted plenty of material in this observation.

hence that website:
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2014-05-17 11:40:15 CDT (-0400)

Ways of Enlichenment? ;)

There are hallucinagenic lichens!
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I love the montage of specimens!

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Written by Mike Hohnen on October 8, 2013

Organisers behind the recently announced EDM festival The Plot have confirmed yet another artist set to feature on the inaugural lineup, with Australia’s own Gold Fields now appearing on the official event poster.

UPDATE: The full inaugural lineup for The Plot has dropped – details here!

This means the lineup has now grown to three confirmed acts. Gold Fields join Hayden James, who confirmed his involvement via Twitter last week, and Miami Horror who announced their place on the bill back in September.

Much of the lineup is actually hidden in plain sight, with festival organisers yesterday revealing that we needn’t look any further than Flume‘s “Australian Sound” playlist, which the EDM prodigy released last month.

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This is a difficult review to write. The point of Music Thing over the last few years has been to celebrate hardware when all around were defecting to the sensible, practical world of software synths and in-the-box mixing. Celebrating hardware not because it's better, but because it looks cool and is nice to have around. The best hardware is ambitious, bonkers, knob-covered and over engineered; where no switch is left unilluminated and there's always a joystick. Synths should be modular and/or white. Sequencers should be analog and involve copious blinkenlights. We should remember the mega synths of the past - the Yamaha CS80, the ARP 2600, the Roland Jupiter 8, the Moog Modular, and we should remember the crazy experiments of the early digital era - Dave Smith's gnarly Prophet VS.
Here, then, is one machine that does all that. The Arturia Origin is a big white synthesizer. It has a hand rest like an old studio console or an MPC60 (unfortunately curved steel, not pleather, but still...) It's made in France, of all places. It's a digital modular synth, containing models of oscillators and filters from Moog, Arp, Roland and Yamaha, plus a VS-style wavetable section. Editing is done on a little colour screen surrounded by knobs and buttons - just like the one on the prototype PPG Realizer - the German machine that anticipated soft synths and virtual analog long before it was possible.
So why am I not in love with the Arturia Origin? Why am I writing this, rather than playing with the thing? How come I've already taken the top off to have a look inside and see how it all works? Because the Origin has crossed that line - it's not a hardware synth, it's a computer in a box covered in knobs.
Please remember this isn't a real review. This isn't Sound on Sound. I've lived with this box for days, not weeks. I'm not a real musician, I haven't read the manual properly - most of what I say is ill-informed prejudice.
The trouble starts when you turn it on, after first plugging it in, using the OEM external power supply that must have cost 99p. (Seriously, a £1900 hardware synth only really makes sense if you're playing live. An external PSU only makes sense if you're desperately trying to cut costs. If Behringer can manage a proper internal universal PSU in £70 mixers, why can't you?) Anyway, when you turn it on, it takes 30+ seconds to boot. Because it's a computer in a box.
No, it isn't a literal PC in a box like an Open Labs Neko or a Hartman Neuron, so it will have taken serious R&D investment to design and build. The hardware was designed - in 2005 - by Wave Idea, a French company who make MIDI interfaces. What's frustrating about the Origin is that it's a computer in a box pretending to be an analog synth... and nothing more.
The presets are nice enough, although it's a shame that combining 40 years of synth design produces a bunch of trance noises. The switch-covered interface means its rather too easy to turn off the layers of reverb and chorus on all the presets. It's a bit unfair, but does leaves many of the patches sounding weedy and thin.
The fun bit is building new patches - delving in to that glorious vintage toolkit. And it's easy enough. You control the whole process through one one those big encoders with a push switch. I found it quick enough to patch together a basic VS - four wavetable oscillators, mixed by the joystick and running through (why not?) parallel CS80 and Jupiter filters. I like the little design features - the Yamaha filters look like knobs on a CS80.
The thing is - and here's where I'm so conflicted - I just wanted a mouse and a decent-sized screen (oh, the shame of it). I'd much rather have the beautifully realised screen-based Nord Modular editor - which reproduces the reach-and-grab simplicity of a real modular synth, while allowing for endless complexity. Because patching a modular synth is more than rearranging a few filters and oscillators. It's about weird connections - putting control signals through audio effects, building oscillators from envelope generators. The Origin is not a tinkerer's paradise. Apart from anything else, the modules are so restricted - no sample player, no FM, no granular synthesis, nothing that's been invented since 1986. And it's a completely closed system - it doesn't run VSTs or allow users to develop their own modules.
Perhaps there are hidden depths to the Origin - hidden away in menus I missed, or planned in future upgrades. It does much more than the £190 Analog Factory software/controller combo which presumably contains all the same synthesis algorithms. Unfortunately it costs as much as Analog Factory and a brand new mid-range MacBook Pro. That is a very, very big ask.
The Origin is a wonderful thing. It looks good, it feels good. I'm sure it's not overpriced for what it is - a boutique, limited-run machine with a lot of custom hardware and software. But I can't imagine who would be willing to pay £1,900 for it. It's too digital for an analog fetishist, too analog for a sound experimentalist. The potential of this box is immense - DSP power + screen + knobs + blinkenlights + wooden end panels. But at the moment it's just - tragically - boring.

interesting point tom re where is the line between software and hardware ... in fact it's exactly the crossing of this line that has always steered my away from the roland mv .. as an mpc fan i've always been curious about the mv and have nearly cornered one many times .. only to realise it's just going to feel too much like software and pony software at that .. in a box
not because it's better, but because it looks cool and is nice to have around.

that sounds like the perfect philosophy for life in general

I think you just killed the Origin's buzz.

The boot up time is insane, especially when you can close your laptop and open it up whenever you need. it.

I'm not sure that the startup time is a show-stopper, though. My Kurzweill takes some serious time to startup, too.
From a technical point of view, DSP-based synths or effect units have all been "computers in a box" for ages - the sound is generated and altered digitally on a single general-purpose processor, then sent to a D/A converter at the end of the chain. Just like what happens with software synths played through an audio interface...

Beside the brand of DSP, the Origin's guts are no different from those of a Virus. What could make them feel more or less "softwary" or "hardwary" is just the OS (boot time, latency, reliability) and the user interface.
Great review, lets hear some sounds!
I think I see the problem - no analogue VU meter! Seriously though, I think many musicians will like the idea of assembling a new synth from a few favourite building blocks - the 'what if factor'. As I'm not a musician, it's not enough for me. I need to connect the VCO to the toaster, toaster to Mr Fusion, kneebone to the thighbone, from time to time.
re ; slabman said "I need to connect the VCO to the toaster, toaster to Mr Fusion, kneebone to the thighbone, from time to time."

I think I must marry you!
I think it looks interesting but it's way too pricey! I also think a good synth is a reliable synth. I can switch on my 20 years old cheap second hand Kawai K1 and it works like new. Will this thing still be around in 2028?
It's main problem is that for the price you could buy a real modular synth.
I think you may be a little optimistic thinking you can buy a real modular synth for this price...
gosh .. it's not even a very interesting boot-up sequence, they should let you play pong or something while it's doing it

and why so long? it doesn't have a hard drive or anything so that os must be loading from some kind of solid state medium .. maybe it's compressed on rom and is expanded into ram or something?

as for the "looks cool and is nice to have around" philosophy i agree wholeheartedly when it comes to things like muscle cars, automatic weapons, girls in bikinis etc but if a music making machine aint .. well helping you make no music then you gotta think again surely?
My Doepfer modular cost me less than the Origin.
My Andromeda cost me less than the Origin.
And, just to point out I'm not an analogue fetishist: my Machinedrum, Monomachine and Virus TI each cost me less than the Origin.

So far, I'm not tempted!
I'm not defending this thing by any means - I've got my own doubts but... this thing is barely out yet and I've seen almost an unbelievably unified wave of negative stuff about it. Maybe we just mad it's so expensive? I'd love to try it out and see for myself whether the Origin really deserves thumbs down, because it seems all expensive stuff out there gets grilled no matter what.
"Celebrating hardware not because it's better, but because it looks cool and is nice to have around."

And so we get to the heart of the matter. How can you not see the hypocrisy of your own actions? You don't want new, exciting, "Better" hardware or technology.

So Origin doesn't make any. Instead, they recycle the same old, same old into something that "looks cool" and is "nice to have around": in other words, passes the guitar center OMG lust test. And you are surprised that the performance is disappointing? That you asked for eye candy and you got eye candy?
Tom, thanks for not being afraid to post your honest opinion! Respect++
It's a good day when everyone agrees with you, and I'm not going to break that chain. I can't really think of anything to say, that you didn't cover. I especially like to one comment about the Nord Modular; that's a DSP synth that does manage to capture the magic of modularity. I also appreciated the comment by Jyoti Mishra on cost comparisons, I'd rather have some of the pieces he mentioned over the Origin. It is a strange feeling when you know you should like something, but you don't.
I agree.. this is a "miss". I hope it doesnt sink Arturia because I do like the Minimoog V quite a lot. Its not a real Mini but I can make some niiiice sounds on it.
Tom - I spent a couple of hours on the Origin last night after I got it back from you..

The short version of my reply is that I think you spent too much time unscrewing & photographing the Origin and taking a video of the start up time.. You may have found the presets a little uninspiring at first, but a little tweaking will get you some better results, which is probably more to the point.

It's a shame you didn't get on with it, but I get the feeling you may have got more out of it with some more time.

Anyway - I'm taking the Origin to Music Live in Birmingham now if anyone wants to come and see it in the flesh (excuse the plug please)

I'd seriously urge people to try it themselves before forming an opinion based on an opinion. As someone who got a chance to play with one of these well before it was released and refined, I'd say its pretty essential to give it more than a few days to be able to start forming a fair opinion on it. It's more than the sum of its parts.

In response to any idea this this is a 'limited' box - I have coaxed an astonishing variety of sounds from a Juno 60, and this is infinitely more complex. It is not a Nord Modular, nor is it trying to be as such. The key joy (for me, anyway, in addition to not having to use a mouse) is the tone. Literally the quality of the sound. I love the Juno 60 for that. And I bloody loved what I've got out of the origin...I don't know if its the AD converters or the software (the process of "converting" the original arturia VSTs to work on Origin means rewriting them). In a literal sense, it sounded better than any other digital machine I've tried. Including a computer - which it most certainly isn't.

Its menu systems are unique to the machine, and will take some getting used to. With a week or more, you become very fast at getting the results you want. That's when it opens into pure tinkerland. That's when it starts to come alive. To write it off because it takes 40 seconds to start up is more than missing the point. Any old modular will take longer than that to get warm and stable.

Also, wise man say never ever judge a synth by its presets.
I'm sure AlexT and StephenParker meant to explain that they both work for Arbiter, the UK distributors of the Origin.
I'm not a real musician, I haven't read the manual properly - most of what I say is ill-informed prejudice.

So maybe you could just STFU. Do you have the ears to hear what's actually amazing in this synth ?

If you had experiment further that the booting time and general look'n feel, you may have noticed its warm, earthy sounding. That's not just marketing !

The quality is provided mostly by the Oscillator module and that's where most of DSP power goes.

And no, the Origin's guts are not the same that those of the Virus.
It sounds *way* less digital and its presets do not need to be overcrowded with effects to sound interesting. As with analog gear.

I've seen an ABX comparison between an Origin and a JP-8, they could not be differenciated. But the Origin is much more that "the same old thing", and it's sad that you find it "boring".
From an engineering standpoint, it's often better to have the power supply external to the synth than inside it. I know wall warts are a PITA, but most audio equipment designers aren't power supply engineers and often don't seem to be able to implement proper grounding/shielding systems when there's a SMPS inside the box.
what do you expect from a critic, and a non-musician at that? some kind of resounding endorsement?

if you gave a handfull of nuts and bolts to a hairstylist, they will also say "wtf? this is bullshit"

but give those nuts and bolts to a carpenter and they will say "yeh, i can do something with this"

i could give a rats ass whether a peice of gear inspires "gear lust" or not.. thats not the fucking point - go buy a life instead

i dont particularly care about this "review" just as i dont ask the dude selling burgers at McDonalds to take a look at the laptop repair im working on

does this mean im better than you? yes.. yes it does - this entire comment is just more pointless wank to add to this giant circle jerk
Maybe some inspired hacker will liberate this device with some true metal bashing custom firmware in time?
...I used to work for Arbiter. I actually just really like the Origin.
sorry - i left the arbiter url in my id, so I thought that would cover it, but yes, I work for Arbiter and I distribute Arturia..

Steve Parker
(Music Technology Manager
Arbiter Group)
i gotta get my hands on this thing. thats all i gotta say. im actually considering the possibility of buying this thing.

why ?

because its like reaktor as hardware, and no other device exist like that on the market besides a modular system. im waiting on one to show up in a pro shop in berlin. when i test it, ill be back to report my findings. this review ripped it, but in the end, its all about testing it yourself.
"Reaktor as hardware"?

If only...
You haven't seen my MC-909 booting up. That's long.
@ Steve Parker - the tone? it's an open secret in the soft synth business that Arturia's synths have some of the worst tone out there, of the pro's. GMedia, WayOutWare, NI, even some of the amateurs on K-v-R leave Arturia's synths way behind when it comes to oscillator and filter tone.
Wow! - what a mixed set of comments.

I'm in two minds as to whether or not to buy an Origin, but am put off by the fact that the "world-wide launch" was on the 7th May 2008 and we're alomost in 2009 and I still can't find someone to sell it to me (in the UK)! And let's face it, you need to be able to test this baby before spending that kind of money!

Should I buy an Origin or a new Synergy mega-fast computer with a load of soft synths or an MKS80 with MPG programmer or a Prophet 08 rack and MKS80?
@FUDing Anonymous:

Wrong. You might read that on KVR though.
I'm not sure that the startup time is a show-stopper, though. My Kurzweill takes some serious time to startup, too.
This is exactly what shits me about my Roland V-Synth XT. It takes about that long to get started into V-Synth mode. The other 2 modes are rather quick though.
There isn't anything you can do on this thing, that you can't do on another groovebox machine at a far lower cost.

the demo songs on their site are quite sub par for what they're charging for this thing.
i tried to use arturia stuff before but it sounds fucking awful, its funny their whole thing is supposedly emulating old synths cos they couldn;t be further away if they tried, srsly ive used 5 quid shareware vsts that are way warmer. they just slap yamaha or moog all over it and somehow people believe its as good, probably all people who never owned these synths to begin with.

Well.. I've read a lot of negative comments there, but at the end of the day, its all down to the user, and how they use it and what they wish to do with it.
Personally, something shiny and covered in controllers always gets my attention, but in recent time, I've been hankering for a bit of audio carnage, and I did myself buy a nord modular, but found it quite a learning curve to get my head round. I moved that on a couple of months ago, and took the plunge on the arturia.. It seems a bit more straight forward than the nord, maybe not as quite as flexible (I too am one for wiring the Mr fusion through the washine machine on a wool cycle and seeing what it will do to my filter frequencies.. So 'm looking forward to having a bit of a play with the jigsaw side of this too.. It's supposed to be arriving today... Where is it!!
(By the way, I didnt pay anywhere near the £1900 for it, or the £1700 that its currently trading for here)
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It’s Steak and Seafood time at Copper Blues in the Village at Blue and once again they are offering their spectacular menu.  We’ve also got links to some great brunch options for Easter and Mother’s Day plus some great family activities for Easter Weekend.  Just around the corner is the Georgian Sound Festival at the end of April as well as the Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors Club 9th Annual Convention.

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Tip: Clean As You Go

"Clean as you go" is the first tip my mom taught me.  If cleaning the kitchen were an Olympic sport, my mom would take home the gold!  She has the kitchen completely spotless before we sit down to eat.  She is amazing!

Here are the tips my mom taught me to follow when I cook:

1. Before you start cooking, fill the sink with warm soapy water.  As you dirty dishes, wash them immediately.

2. Keep a dish cloth handy, so you can wipe up spills as you make them.

3. Put away ingredients after you are finished using them.

Following these simple steps will make cooking even more enjoyable!

  1. i think my husband would love it if i did this...but i cook and he cleans and he says i make a grand mess of the kitchen LOL

  2. It sounds to me like you two have a great deal going in the kitchen. Cooking is so much more fun than cleaning!

  3. Great advice. Your mom had it right. I seldom manage to have the kitchen clean before I sit down to eat but it is nice to get at least some of the clean up out of the way before a meal. That cuts down on a lot of potential disappointment!

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