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▪ king of Ghazna
in full  Yamin Al-daula Abuʾl-qasim Maḥmūd Ibn Sebüktigin
born 971
died April 30?, 1030, Ghazna

      sultan of the kingdom of Ghazna (Ghaznī) (998–1030), originally comprising modern Afghanistan and northeastern modern Iran but, through his conquests, eventually including northwestern India and most of Iran. He transformed his capital, Ghazna, into a cultural centre rivalling Baghdad.

      Maḥmūd was the son of Sebüktigin, a Turkish slave, who in 977 became ruler of Ghazna. When Maḥmūd ascended the throne in 998 at the age of 27, he already showed remarkable administrative ability and statesmanship. At the time of his accession, Ghazna was a small kingdom. The young and ambitious Maḥmūd aspired to be a great monarch, and in more than 20 successful expeditions he amassed the wealth with which to lay the foundation of a vast empire that eventually included Kashmir, the Punjab, and a great part of Iran.

      During the first two years of his reign Maḥmūd consolidated his position in Ghazna. Though an independent ruler, for political reasons he gave nominal allegiance to the ʿAbbāsid caliph in Baghdad, and the caliph, in return, recognized him as the legitimate ruler of the lands he occupied and encouraged him in his conquests.

      Maḥmūd is said to have vowed to invade India once a year and, in fact, led about 17 such expeditions. The first large-scale campaign began in 1001 and the last ended in 1026. The first expeditions were aimed against the Punjab and northeastern India, while in his last campaign Maḥmūd reached Somnāth on the southern coast of Gujarāt.

      His chief antagonist in northern India was Jaipāl, the ruler of the Punjab. When, in 1001, Maḥmūd marched on India at the head of 15,000 horse troops, Jaipāl met him with 12,000 horse troops, 30,000 foot soldiers, and 300 elephants. In a battle near Peshāwar the Indians, though superior in numbers and equipment, fell back under the onslaught of the Muslim horse, leaving behind 15,000 dead. After falling into the hands of the victors, Jaipāl, with 15 of his relatives and officers, was finally released. But the Raja could not bear his defeat, and after abdicating in favour of his son, Ānandpāl, he mounted his own funeral pyre and perished in the flames.

      Ānandpāl appealed to the other Indian rajas for help. Some replied in person, others sent armies. The Indian women sold their jewels to finance a huge army. When, at last, in 1008, Maḥmūd met the formidable force thus raised, the two armies lay facing each other between Und and Peshāwar for 40 days. The Sultan finally succeeded in enticing the Indians to attack him. A force of 30,000 Khokars, a fierce, primitive tribe, charged both flanks of the Sultan's army with such ferocity that Maḥmūd was about to call a retreat. But at this critical moment Ānandpāl's elephant, panic-stricken, took flight. The Indians, believing that their leader was turning tail, fled from the battlefield strewn with their dead and dying. This momentous victory facilitated Maḥmūd's advance into the heart of India.

      After annexing the Punjab, and returning with immense booty, the Sultan set about to transform Ghazna into a great centre of art and culture. He patronized scholars, established colleges, laid out gardens, and built mosques, palaces, and caravansaries. Maḥmūd's example was followed by his nobles and courtiers, and Ghazna soon was transformed into the most brilliant cultural centre in Central Asia.

      In 1024 the Sultan set out on his last famous expedition to the southern coast of Kāthiāwār along the Arabian Sea, where he sacked the city of Somnāth (Somnath) and its renowned Hindu temple. Maḥmūd returned home in 1026. The last years of his life he spent in fighting the Central Asian tribes threatening his empire.

      Maḥmūd was the first to carry the banner of Islām into the heart of India. To some Muslim writers he was a great champion of his faith, an inspired leader endowed with supernatural powers. Most Indian historians, on the other hand, emphasize his military exploits and depict him as “an insatiable invader and an intrepid marauder.” Neither view is correct. In his Indian expeditions he kept his sights set mainly on the fabulous wealth of India stored in its temples. Though a zealous champion of Islām, he never treated his Indian subjects harshly nor did he ever impose the Islāmic religion on them. He maintained a large contingent of Hindu troops, commanded by their own countrymen, whom he employed with great success against his religionists in Central Asia. Conversion to Islām was never a condition of service in the Sultan's army.

      Great as a warrior, the Sultan was no less eminent as a patron of art and literature. Attracted by his munificence and encouragement, many outstanding scholars settled in Ghazna, among them al-Bīrūnī, the mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and Sanskrit scholar, and Ferdowsī, the Persian author of the great epic poem Shāh-nāmeh. Maḥmūd's conquest of northern India furthered the exchange of trade and ideas between the Indian subcontinent and the Muslim world. It helped to disseminate Indian culture in foreign lands. Similarly, Muslim culture, which by now had assimilated and developed the cultures of such ancient peoples as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Syrians, found its way into India, and many Muslim scholars, writers, historians, and poets began to settle there.

Mohammad Ali

Additional Reading
Wolseley Haig in The Cambridge History of India, vol. 3 (1965), provides a reliable account of the Ghaznavid period. Ramesh Majumdar et al., An Advanced History of India, 3rd ed. (1967), includes a short sketch of this period. See also the relevant chapters in A Cultural History of Afghanistan by Mohammed Ali (1964); and S.M. Ikram and Percival Spear, The Cultural Heritage of Pakistan (1955).

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Veritas Volume Manager - Installation Guide

Veritas Volume Manager is also called (VVM or VxVM )

Features :
1) VVM is Available for - Windows. Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX.
2) Versions (3.1, 3.2, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0).

Installing Veritas Volume Manager
  1. Insert the Veritas volume manager software cdrom into
    the cdrom drive. If volume management is enabled, it will
    automatically mount to /cdrom/volume_manager3.5
    (depending on the precise release iteration, the exact path
    may differ in your case):

  2. Change to the directory containing the Veritas Volume Manager packages:
    # cd /cdrom/volume_manager3.5/pkgs

  3. Add the required packages.
    Note that the order specified is
    siginificant in that the VRTSvlic package must be first,
    the VRTSvxvm package must be second, and then any
    remaining packages:
    #pkgadd -d . VRTSvlic VRTSvxvm VRTSvmdoc \
    VRTSvmman VRTSob VRTSobgui VRTSvmpro \
    VRTSfspro VRTSvxfs VRTSfsdoc

Once the Installation is complete as you see below:

This machine must now be rebooted in order to ensure
sane operation. Execute
shutdown -y -i6 -g0
and wait for the "Console Login:" prompt.
# shutdown -y -i6 -g0

Give the above command as it appears in the console.

Once the system reboots, apply any Veritas volume manager
patches. At the time of this writing, there are no patches
for neither volume manager or filesystem. However, future
patches (and there will be patches ;-) can be obtained from
Note that the patch installation instructions may require
that a reboot be performed after the patch is installed

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Maze Runner…Questions and More Questions

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The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1)

The Maze Runner James Dashner Book1 Rating 4

I’ve been reading the Maze Runner series by James Dashner lately. I saw a preview for the movie when I went to Divergent (which was A-Mazing!) and knew I had to read the series before I’d allow myself to even think about going to the theatre. (The kid from Game of Thrones is in it, so it must be good, right?)

I finished Maze Runner in a day/night. I couldn’t stop reading it. Why were these kids stuck in a place with no conceivable way out except through a dangerous maze? Why didn’t they have their memories? Why was there now a girl in a previously all boys place? Basically I kept reading to find answers to all the questions, which honestly just lead to more questions….but I liked it.

Thomas, our main character, is a hero. He’s super smart, strong, and a born leader with a bit of a reckless streak. I do enjoy the other prominent characters in the series too, they all have very unique personalities. (I won’t go into details though because I don’t want to spoil Maze Runner for anyone.)

The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner, #2)

The Scorch Trials Maze Runner Book 2 James Dashner Rating: 3.5

So here’s the gist of Maze Runner:

This group of kids is stuck in a maze where if they leave the center of it, the Glade, and don’t get back before the walls close them in at night, bad “things,” called Grievers, will kill them. Otherwise, if they stay in the Glade they get weekly supplies and have a system set up where different people work different parts of the Glade. Pretty nice right? This is all great until the girl shows up and their normal routine goes down the tube. Oh yeah, and everyone in the Glade has had their memory wiped…

We see everything from Thomas’s view and Thomas is full of questions. Fueled along by Thomas’s curiosity, this story flew by for me….and ended with more questions. So I hurried and got the second book in the series, The Scorch Trials, which also ended with more…yes, you got it, questions. However, I’m hooked and I desperately need the third book!

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Pitt-Johnstown Freshman Scholarship Guidelines

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Artificial Intelligence seen as a key technology to enable better balancing of UK’s energy market

Next generation AI techniques for energy demand response
Upside Energy and Heriot-Watt University have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant by Innovate UK to maximise the opportunities presented by the emerging energy demand response market.
The project will use machine learning, and distributed artificial intelligence methods to manage a portfolio of storage assets to provide real-time energy reserves to the grid.

Another great win – Smart Grid Technology of the Year 2016

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Upside Energy has been named on the Global Cleantech 100 (GCT100) Ones to Watch list.

Dr Graham Oakes, Founder and CEO of Upside Energy, said: “Making the Global Cleantech 100 Ones to Watch list is great recognition for the progress we’ve made over the last year.”

Upside delivers successful Innovate UK project

In 2015, the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, awarded £472k under the Localised Energy Systems competition to a consortium led by Upside Energy Ltd to build a cloud service that will help reduce the cost of energy in the UK while also reducing the environmental impact of energy generation.

The 18-month project was completed in September 2016. The consortium partners, including Upside Energy, Sharp Laboratories of Europe, The Schools of Mathematics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester and Enlight, are currently planning follow-on activities and partnerships, including ongoing participation in the revenue generating cloud service.

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Upside exceeded its target raise of £500,000 from ClearlySo’s extensive network of high-net-worth angel investors, along with support from industry leaders such as Ian Marchant, former CEO SSE, and Chris Joly from Vitol.

Innovate UK awards Balanced Energy Networks consortium £2.9m

Innovate UK has awarded £2.9m towards a £4m ICAX led consortium, including Upside Energy, to build a Balanced Energy Network at London South Bank University to demonstrate innovations in integrated energy supply chains.


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Abus Mini U-Locks

Abus locks is a classic example of German engineering, with over 80 years experience making locks, and some 50 years making bicycle specific lock mechanisms. As in, Abus had a u-lock on the market back when my parents were learning to ride on two wheels. At left is the $90 Granit Futura, a remarkably light mini u-lock at just 720 g with a high security rating, on par with other mini u-locks on the market at a significant weight savings. The shackle is a lightweight hardened steel alloy with the lock mechanism engaging both sides of the shackle, making it resistant to twisting and prying attacks, along with being near impossible to cut with anything but power tools in any sort of reasonable amount of time. The lock ships with two keys and a unique key code, allowing the end user to purchase replacement keys and order other Abus locks with the same key, making locking up that much easier. Two of these locks (one for the frame and rear wheel, one for the front wheel) would do a good job of keeping your bike yours in even the most theft prone cities.

The red U-Mini is a more affordable option at $65, with a bit beefier of a shackle and an extra 200 g or so of weight. The lower price point means that this lock is not compatible with the previously mentioned Abus key program, but that doens’t mean the lock mechanism itself is any less effective. This lock is less tech and more brute theft resistance through thick steel and the pick resistant key mech.

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“The bilateral ties between Iran and German nations are beyond economic relations and the JCPOA has paved the way for broadening and deepening the relations between the two countries and these opportunities for cooperation should be seized,” said Minister of Economics, Labour and Transport in German state of Lower Saxony, Olaf Lies, at a meeting with economy delegation of Iran’s Eastern Azerbaijan Province on Tuesday.

He maintained that the Islamic Republic of Iran was one of the economic powers of the Middle East which had expansive trade ties with Germany and Lower Saxony before the imposition of anti-Iran sanctions.

“We are eager to continue and develop the trend of relations with Iranian companies and this feeling is reciprocal as the Iranian partners are also willing to cooperate with German companies,” asserted the Lower Saxony’s State Minister for the Economy, Labour and Transport, “

Mr. Lies articulated that the victory of the JCPOA has created high expectations and the consequential merits of the deal should be taken advantage of.

“One of the big and important issues after the JCPOA is restoration of financial routines and banking transactions which need joint cooperation and endeavor to be resolved,” said Olaf Lies of Germany’s Lower Saxony, “Both of us, the two sides, are after proving the benefits of the way undertaken for brokering the JCPOA and the valuable results of it.”

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I have not completed research on the Ustica civil records in the last half of the 19th century.This appears to be when the Villante family came to Ustica.More information will be posted to the website as I gather information during the year.I do know that you have family still living in Palermo and Partinico.The mother of my cousin's was Rosaria Villante - surely some relatio n to you.

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The USTUR Tissue Donor Population

USTUR donors have typically worked at government sites where plutonium, americium, or uranium were processed. Many worked at these sites during the development of nuclear weapons or during the cold-war years. Some of these sites include Hanford, Rocky Flats, Los Alamos, Savannah River, Fernald and Mound.  More recent donors include uranium milling and mining workers as well as workers from privately owned plants that process actinide elements for industrial use.  There were 124 living registrants and 360 deceased USTUR donors as of April, 2006.

Donors are recruited through radiation protection or occupational medical departments at the sites where they work or have worked. These departments distribute brochures describing USTUR objectives and operations to workers (or former workers) who have been exposed to one or more of the actinide elements. Interested workers can call the USTUR 24-hour, toll-free phone number to request further information. Information packets and several forms are sent to the prospective registrant.  These forms include: a personal/medical history form, an authority for autopsy, a release for medical and health physics records, and a Registries information and informed consent agreement. The informed consent form assures that the worker understands the purposes of the USTUR and what course of action the USTUR will take upon his/her death. All forms are signed by the donor and a witness. The authority for autopsy form is also signed by the donor’s next-of-kin.  The forms are received and signed by the USTUR, and copies are sent to the new registrant along with a wallet card that identifies the registrant as a donor.

Autopsy and Tissue Analysis Procedures

The USTUR is usually notified of a registrant’s death or imminent death by a family member or by an attending physician who has been shown the donor identification card. If the family or next-of-kin opts not to allow an autopsy, there is no further contact by the Registries. If the family chooses to proceed, the USTUR arranges for an autopsy to be performed by a pathologist near the location of death. Instructions for collection of organ samples are sent to the pathologist along with shipping containers and copies of the Authority for Autopsy and Medical Release forms. The USTUR pays for the autopsy and associated costs, such as body transportation for the autopsy (if necessary) and sample shipping costs. With the exception of whole body donations, the body is returned to the family for burial or cremation; however, the USTUR does not pay for funeral or cremation expenses. An honorarium of $500.00 is extended to the next-of kin as a token of appreciation for their support of the USTUR program. The USTUR receives an autopsy report and a set of microscope slides prepared by the pathologist who performed the autopsy. The autopsy report is available to the family of the deceased donor by written request.

The donated organs are shipped to the National Human Radiobiological Tissue Repository (NHRTR) in Richland, WA where they are identified and divided into two portions. One portion is retained at the NHRTR for future use in molecular genetics studies and the other portion is sent to Severn Trent Laboratory for radiochemical analysis. Severn Trent Laboratory maintains a modern, state-of-the-art analytical laboratory next to the WSU-TriCities campus for measuring the organ contents of isotopes of plutonium, americium, uranium, thorium, and other actinides with a very high sensitivity. Their sophisticated methods and equipment are constantly tested with standard materials provided by the U. S. National Institutes of Standards and Technology to maintain high quality of measurements. The radiochemistry laboratory sends the results of the organ analyses to the USTUR administrative offices when they are completed. The results of radiochemical analyses are also available to the family of the deceased by written request.

This page was last updated on May 1, 2007. usturwebmaster@tricity.wsu.edu

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Apple Orchard Field Trip

Today was Henry's first field trip - off to the apple orchard! He has been very excited about going, and Henry said that he had a great time. The only thing that was bad about it was that his patellas (knees) and tummy started to hurt because there was too much walking!

Learning all about apples

Henry's favorite part was watching the picked apples be emptied into the big crates. All of the apples are picked by hand at this orchard, Henry thought the fact that the picking bags opened at the bottom was the coolest!

Our first field trip picture together!

Henry and cousin Matthew - best buds!

Friday, September 24, 2010

Children's Museum

My sister invited us to joing her and the boys in going to the Children's Museum...the kids were thrilled since Curious George was there! They all kept busy as there was so much to see and do.

Meleah getting a little too friendly with George!

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Starting Preschool

We have started a new phase in life: Preschool!

Henry (and I) made it through his first week, and we are both excited about next week.

We took pictures on the first day, which was just an hour for Henry and I to go and see what the year would be like. It was so nice and sunny, plus Henry was willing, so we took the first pictures. I'm so glad that we did, Thursday it was raining and Henry wasn't as photogenic either.

Henry trying out the new activities at school.

The first official day, Henry with cousin Matthew. They are both enjoying the idea of having someone they know in their class and are already claiming to be friends too!

Henry and Matthew with their teacher Mrs. H!

Monday, September 6, 2010

A long time in coming!

So, here it is! Our summer in a post. We spent a lot of time at the cottage, so there are pictures from there, but there are a lot of others. As the kids grow older it has been fun to experience new things and activities with them. We had a lot of "firsts" and lots of FUN!

Our Anniversary - June 21 - 7 years!

The kids first smores - or as Meleah calls them "snores"

Henry's 4th birthday - a fish cake that was orange and turquiose - his favorite colors!

We went to the airport to watch the planes take off and land. We didn't see a lot, but enough to make the kids ask when we are going back everytime they see a plane.

Eating cupcakes with Auntie O, Levi, Reuben and Grandma!
I love to pick blueberries and this year I took the kids with me. There were SO many berries it was extremely easy to fill our buckets. I never told the kids that they could eat any before we got them home, and the didn't eat one. Honest little pickers!

Meleah called it "pickin' blues"
The kids on their "new" swing set! Daddy had a vision and made it a reality. The kids just love the new addition and it has provided hours of fun.

I have a crate full of recipe books (one of my favorite things) in my kitchen. The kids love to look at the pictures and empty the crates. This happens regularly every week.

A highlight of the cottage was the new beach that Grandpa and Grandma added this summer! Here are the grandkids atop the pile!

Meleah and I had our first official Girl's Night. Meleah got her ear's pierced and came out smiling. She was very brave, love the salon experience - and the sucker at the end! She couldn't wait to get home and show Daddy her new pretties, just like Cinderella!
We took a couple of field trips to the Frederik Meijer Garden's, the kids of course loved every minute of the playing, riding and sightseeing.

We headed out on a car cruise with the kids, courtesy of Grandpa's Chevelle. Henry of course loves this and has been going to car shows with Scott and his dad all summer. Meleah had her first ride around the block a few weeks ago and turns out she is going to love cars too. Getting to go cruising with all of us was an especially cool treat!

Henry was not thrilled that the camera came along.

We took this kids out on the boat to a different lake, and they got to enjoy the water there too. They love the waves that all of the boats made up on the beach, and were right at home in the water.

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Public Forum on Casino plan, Wed Feb 9 in Chinatown

UPDATE: Thanks to the many people who came out on Wednesday night despite hockey traffic and difficult parking. Bing Thom, Peter Ladner and Sandy Garossino gave great speeches, the crowd was fired up, and there is a high level of community commitment to fight this casino plan until it is stopped.

Observations from the meeting:

The stories of political corruption, backroom deals, faulty bidding processes and serious allegations of conflict of interest really angered the crowd;

The term “moratorium on gaming expansion”  received applause whenever it was spoken; this is in fact our next strategy, to demand that City Council sever the gaming expansion section from the Edgewater zoning application in which it is deeply buried, and put gaming expansion in Vancouver to a plebiscite or referendum of some kind;

People want a better vision for Vancouver, one that doesn’t involved addiction, crime, corruption – they want to see a more wholesome international image for our city, and they want better architecture and better urban planning.

Thanks for coming, everyone! Now it’s time to do your part – click the “What Can I Do” tab above, and write to Mayor and Council, and please show up on February 17!

With the exception of the Public Hearings on February 17 at City Hall, this will be the most important event in this fight against the planned downtown mega-casino. PLEASE ATTEND! Prominent Vancouver architect Bing Thom and publisher Peter Ladner will be giving the keynote speeches. Come down early and start the evening off with a dinner in Chinatown or Gastown!

If you plan to attend the public hearings over the casino, or even speak at them, you will find Wednesday’s Forum very informative. The story about the casino is fascinating – come hear it!

To download a PDF of our invitation that you can send out to your networks, click: Vancouver Not Vegas.

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Green Day

In this intimate live preview, "21st Century Breakdown" remains in "American Idiot"'s looming shadow.

Contrary to popular opinion, rock operas, once the height of pop ambition, didn’t exactly die with the extinction of vinyl. There’s a certain amount of hubris, though, when a band travels down that road paved with good intentions more than once. As borne out by this intimate live preview, “21st Century Breakdown” — a sequel of sorts to Green Day’s career-defining “American Idiot” — remains in its predecessor’s looming shadow.

The album, which just hit stores, is a bit fussy in its recorded form, a problem remedied in this stripped-down presentation. It’s also monochromatic, dark and steely, rife with shadows and lurching riffs, which work in its favor in concert. The songs, character sketches really, unfolded with surprising grace in this context, particularly “Last of the American Girls,” a lonely, lissome foray into the realm of female adolescence.

With the exception of “Know Your Enemy,” delivered here in short, sharp fashion, the new songs steered clear of the anthemic, defying the audience to pump its fists or sing along readily. The tone wasn’t purposefully downbeat — frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and two touring guitarists erected a compelling, shimmering wall of sound — but it was far more suited to the seated arenas the band will be hitting this summer.

The “encore” — really a second set of equal length — provided the release to counterbalance the tension built up during the evening’s first segment. Alternately aggressive, cathartic and just plain silly, the set featured material that spanned the band’s oeuvre, from hits like “Longview” to fan favorites like “She.” The sextet hit its stride most effectively on three-chord bulldozers, but Armstrong seemed more comfortable in the role of showman.

He has a great deal in common with John Mellencamp — the working class roots, the simmering Napoleon complex and, perhaps most importantly, the conflict between wanting to be taken seriously and needing to be the class clown. He manifested the latter most effectively in a knowingly goofy oldies medley anchored by a Branson-ready version of “Shout” — but peppered with a cappella renditions of tunes as offbeat as “Swanee” and “Baby Face.”

Those juxtapositions create something of a disconnect, but they also point to a light at the end of pomp-punk’s tunnel — one that Green Day has drawn a bead on with encouraging alacrity.

Green Day plays New York’s Madison Square Garden on July 26-27 and the Forum in Los Angeles on Aug. 25-26.

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Band: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool, Jason White, Jason Freese, Jeff Matika. Reviewed May 18, 2009.
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Scripted fare would be assailed for such depictions

The outrage expressed by some Italian-Americans over MTV’s “Jersey Shore” marks a late-in-coming epiphany about reality TV programs — namely, how many traffic in stereotypes that, in a scripted context, would result in the writers being crucified.

Reality has largely gotten a pass because it ostensibly reflects “reality” — overlooking how participants are depicted as “characters” in much the way fictional personalities are. Tellingly, a recent Newsweek column titled “Kings of Queens” that focused on dramedies like “Glee” and “Ugly Betty” in examining resurgent gay stereotyping gave short shrift to all the royalty conspicuously displayed at Bravo.

Ignoring reality’s excesses, however, misses the artifice built into such fare. Not only can producers employ editing techniques to carefully craft the stories they want to tell, but they’re provided plenty of choices by the wannabe famous, who surely understand by now that outlandish and exaggerated behavior usually pays off in maximum exposure.

The latest offense against a minority group arrives courtesy of VH1. “Let’s Talk About Pep” and “Fantasia for Real” follow musical acts Sandra “Pepa” Denton and “American Idol” contestant Fantasia. They’re not-so-subtly presented as an American-American sitcom block, approximating UPN’s “Girlfriends” and a single-mom comedy, respectively.

In “Fantasia,” the characters include the singer’s 28-year-old brother, Teeny, a committed moocher who test drives expensive cars and responds with horror at the suggestion he get a job. Certainly, few sitcom writers would dare construct a similar portrait of a shiftless black man circa 2010, yet he’s seemingly designed to become the show’s breakout player.

Not all reality-TV stereotypes are equally negative, but they do squeeze into the sort of little boxes that have been rightfully ridiculed in the past.

Gays, for example, almost invariably possess an enviable knowledge of fashion, cooking and decorating — presuming the “Queer eye” is inherently superior to its straight counterpart. Yet watch enough reality in this genre and you’ll notice less-laudatory traits as well, among them a tendency to become hysterical under pressure (see Oxygen’s “Addicted to Beauty”) and relentless cattiness that regularly lurches into the snide.

Nevertheless, subsets of minority communities — in some instances no doubt amused by rough-hewn images of themselves — embrace such programs, which in today’s fragmented marketplace can be enough to render them commercially viable.

A less-settling prospect is that less-educated audiences are also tuning in, and perhaps drawing unflattering conclusions based on narrow stereotypes.

Admittedly, unscripted TV has wallowed in such imagery for years, but the shift has evolved in subtle ways.

Programs like “Jerry Springer” and other daytime talk and court shows portray an under-class full of knuckle-dragging cretins, obligingly indulging in affairs and disputes that lead to heated arguments and fisticuffs — the better to be lectured by the hosts.

Even more than drama, reality TV relies on this kind of lazy shorthand, leading to a flat-screen world where blondes are airheads and minorities are too-often shown fleeing from the cops (the latest offender in the latter camp being “Steven Seagal Lawman,” an A&E series set in a depressed part of Louisiana).

The difference is that daytime TV churned out an ever-changing array of characters, whereas series like “Flavor of Love” and “Jersey Shore” are more insidious. Key participants represent an ongoing franchise, as opposed to mere bystanders granted 15 minutes of exposure. As such, their excesses are serialized and in success, magnified.

Moreover, in instances where celebrities (fallen or pseudo) are involved, they can be directly invested in the shows as producers — adding to the incentive to hit their mark, as it were, and play a predetermined part.

As the Newsweek piece concluded, there’s room for broadly drawn characters provided that’s not all the audience sees: “It’s not that gay men and women should pretend to be straight, or file down all their fabulously spiky edges. … The key is balance.”

But if fleshed-out minority roles are sometimes scarce in the scripted realm, thanks to reality TV’s hyperbolic habits, they remain virtually nonexistent there. And whatever alibis they might offer, unscripted producers know precisely what messages they’re sending — from the haughty salons of Beverly Hills and mean streets of Jefferson Parish to the beer-soaked beaches of the Jersey shore.

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Reality TV Impact Report
Courtesy of E!

NBCUniversal Intl. has launched Hayu — its next generation, subscription video-on-demand reality service. Hayu, which NBCU claimed is the first all-reality service of its kind, is curated and fully integrated with social media. It will launch in March in the U.K., Ireland and Australia on a full array of devices (mobile, tablet, laptop and connected TV) at

The streaming service will include a free one-month trial for more than 3,000 episodes of reality content. New episodes will be added to the service every week, the majority of which will debut on the same day as they premiere in the U.S., with 500-plus episodes added to the service each year. A host of series never seen before in the U.K., Ireland and Australia will be available via full box sets.

The shows featured will include “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and its spin-offs, along with “The Real Housewives,” “Million Dollar Listing” and “Top Chef” franchises, “I Am Cait,” “Made in Chelsea,” “Flipping Out,” “Shahs of Sunset,” “The Millionaire Matchmaker,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (in the U.K. and Ireland) and “Don’t Tell the Bride” (U.K. and Ireland).

Kevin MacLellan, chairman of NBCUniversal Intl., commented: “NBCUniversal’s expertise as the foremost producer of reality programming — along with the obvious popularity of the genre — was the trigger for launching Hayu. We know that reality content is a primary driver of social interaction and that fans of reality TV significantly over-index in online viewing. We set out to build a service that elegantly combines the best high-end reality shows with the most popular social media and digital news platforms. Uniquely in Hayu, fans can find it all in one place.”

The monthly, no-contract fee to access the full range of content is priced at £3.99 ($5.77) in the U.K., €4.99 ($5.64) in Ireland and A$5.99 ($4.22) in Australia, beginning with a free one-month trial.

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The Infinity Factory: Robert Anton Wilson, Genesis P-Orridge and me

From early 1997 to sometime mid-1999 I had a talkshow called The Infinity Factory that was produced at, the increasingly legendary “Internet TV Network,” creative madhouse and party central of downtown New York during the high-flying Silicon Alley dotcom years. (Ondi TImoner’s new Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary, We Live in Public chronicles the rise and fall of Pseudo founder Josh Harris and it’s a fascinating film, a movie well worth going out of your way to catch. Watch my interview with Ondi here).

The Infinity Factory was taped every Sunday evening at 8pm with a few exceptions. It was produced by Vanessa Weinberg who also DJ’d and mixed the show live. Vanessa was extraordinarily in tune with how the conversations were flowing and added an intricate bed of trippy music, samples and sound loops under what were often extremely psychedelic conversations to begin with—like this episode, with Robert Anton Wilson and Genesis P-Orridge. This show dates, I think, from Fall of 1997. When it was originally netcast it was when most people still had 56k modems and the video quality was fairly awful. Don’t get me wrong, it was pretty cool to be able to do something like this back then and there was a real “pirate radio” aspect to it as well that greatly appealed to me, but in truth it looked more like flickery animation than it did actual video. And it was the size of a postage stamp. There were probably well over 100 shows, each of them around 50 minutes, but I really can’t say for sure how many there were. Most of them are probably lost.

Pseudo had several floors, first two then three, in the no-frills building where Jeff Koons and Mark Kostabi still have their art studios, on the corner of Houston and Broadway. One floor had the business people and the producer’s offices and on the floor with the studio—which is where all the parties were—Josh Harris had his own apartment in the back. Each Sunday night, I’d usually I’d see him, cigar in hand, either leaving or returning from a poker game. It was, if memory serves on the 12th floor and this building had the scariest elevator I have, ever, ever used. It was super slow and extremely rickety. If I made it up and down in one piece each week, I breathed a sigh of relief, let me tell you. When someone especially heavy was waiting for the elevator, I’d opt to use the steps, even if it was twelve long flights. Seriously, you took your life into your own hand with this elevator. I don’t know why Jeff Koons puts up with it. (Composer Gershon Kingsley, who was a guest on the show once, told me that taking that elevator and getting off at Pseudo was like entering Dante’s Inferno except that you went up instead of down. I don’t think he was joking)

The studio itself was basically set up like a radio station but with these cheapo cameras that were the size of cigarette packs on pivots that were cut with this jerry-rigged Radio Shack thumb switch with three clunky buttons. The hosts had to do this themselves—cut between cameras—in the beginning. It was really distracting when you were trying to concentrate on what someone was saying (I might be doing it here, but I don think I was). I had some fun guests on the Infinity Factory including a pre-Boing Boing David Pescovitz, Adam Parfrey of Feral House infamy, painter Paul Laffoley, my late and very missed friend Dr. Mario Pazzaglini, R.U. Sirius, Grant Morrison, Joe Coleman and Bob Wilson, who was on a couple of times. Genesis P-Orridge, Douglas Rushkoff, Howard Bloom and conspiracy theory writers Kenn Thomas and Robert Sterling were all frequent guests.

It’s nice to see these shows popping again now, after so many years, as larger HD YouTube files. These shows were taped off Manhattan Cable and probably represent the best versions around. If the master tapes do still exist, they’d be in Josh’s storage space amongst 10,000 hours of other Pseudo programming and I doubt very much they have been cataloged! On television only in New York City (and maybe later in Brooklyn) The Infinity Factory was on a fairly low number on the Time-Warner cable box, so if you were flipping channels at 10:30 on Thursday night and you lived in Manhattan, you were going to see me. This was at the time George Clooney was still on E.R. and it amused me to no end that people watching that show or MTV’s The Real World and channel surfing would—inevitably—find themselves looking at my freaky show.

The morning after it was on the Manhattan Cable for first time I was asked “What do you do for a living? I saw you on TV last night” or some variation on that theme by four people in my apartment building who had never spoken to me before. Overnight I had become as famous as… Robin Byrd or Al Goldstein!

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Richard Metzger interviews Ondi Timoner, two time Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning director of DiG! and the new doc We Live in Public about Josh Harris, “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of.” A dotcom millionaire known for throwing wild parties, Harris had a desire for ever more elaborate social engineering events, culminating in Quiet: We Live in Public, a month long party held in December of 1999. Quiet saw more than 100 artists and weirdos under one roof in lower Manhattan in a Japanese style capsule hotel and captured the results with over 100 cameras. Nothing was off limits, not showers, not the bathroom, not sex, nothing. The participants also had to submit to fascistic psychological interrogations. Fun! After this, Harris and his girlfriend did a similar experiment which saw them webcasting their lives 24/7, ending the relationship and resulting in Harris’ nervous breakdown. Shot at Mahalo Studios, special thanks to Jason Calacanis and Alex Miller. Cut live by Alex Miller. Edited by Bradley Novicoff. Produced by Bradley Novicoff and Tara McGinley.

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Transmedia ARTE About:Kate 01

On April 27, 2013, ARTE broadcast the first of 14 weekly episodes of the new transmedia series “About:Kate”. The project incorporates various social platforms, user-generated content and a dedicated second-screen app. The series follows the life of the former art student Kate who just turned 30. Kate lost herself in the digital world and feels unable to cope with her own life now. Therefore she institutionalize herself into a psychiatric hospital. During her stay in this mental institution, she keeps posting and commenting on Facebook.  […]


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Who owns Britain? Biggest landowners agree to reveal scale of holdings

Source:    The British paper - "The Independant"

Title:    Who owns Britain? Biggest landowners agree to reveal scale of holdings -  Part I
By:   Robert Verkaik, Law Editor

Date:   9 April 2007

Before reading this article, please, please, first watch this video all the way through to understand these next three articles you are going to read.   This video is the best job i have seen in laying out exactly how this all works in the most scholarly presentation.    Its a foundation for understanding all of what is happening to us globally.   Then please read the rest of this article and the next two in this series.

A complete picture of who owns modern Britain is to be created as part of the biggest survey of land ownership since William the Conqueror commissioned the Domesday Book nearly a thousand years ago.

But the task is enormous as 40 per cent of land in England and Wales has not been registered by its owners. More than half of all rural land and rural buildings are unregistered.

Under the ambitious scheme sponsored by the Government, some of the country's oldest and most secretive families are to reveal the full scale of their private estates. The Queen and the Prince of Wales are among the biggest landowners who are co-operating with the Land Registry's attempt to plot every acre of land in England and Wales.

English aristocratic families, including those of the Duke of Norfolk and the Duke of Bedford, who between them own 70,000 acres in the Home Counties, are also believed to have given details of their land ownership.

Ministers have given officers for the Land Registry permission to consult on tightening the rules for compulsory registration, which they hope will lead to all land in England and Wales being registered.

Land that has not been sold or mortgaged does not have to be registered and so many landowners whose property has not changed hands for a hundred years have been able to keep their ownership secret.

Since the time of William the Conqueror there have been various attempts to write a full account of the ownership of Britain. But it was not until the 19th century that the state began to take a serious interest in collating the details of the ownership of property.

Despite the introduction of a series of new registration laws, millions of titles to land have escaped legal registration - much of this property is owned by the aristocracy and those families who were once referred to as the landed gentry.

The Land Registry, a government agency, intends to finish the job started by William the Conqueror. By adopting a combination of compulsory and voluntary registration systems, the Land Registry hopes to avoid having to implement a fully mandatory scheme to force all landowners to register their titles and their legal interests.

Peter Collis, the chief land registrar of England and Wales, said he believes up to four million land titles remain unregistered. "We have managed to increase registration by 12 per cent [in the past five years] and so are reaching our targets. But it may be that we can't persuade some landowners of the benefits of registration. Then we have to ask what should we do in that situation."

Mr Collis said the registry had taken legal advice about bringing in legislation to force all landowners to register their land. But he said: "It would be difficult to see how you could make this human-rights compliant, especially if the sanction would be the confiscation of the land from the owner."

The new proposals would only extend compulsory registration to cases in which trustees of either land or property were newly appointed.

Mr Collis said the registry had successfully persuaded some of Britain's biggest landowners, including the National Trust, the Church of England, some Oxbridge colleges, the Forestry Commission and the Ministry of Defence to surrender details of their land. Nevertheless, it is thought there is a stubborn rump of refusnik landowners who may find it difficult to prove they have title to property or believe the land is subject to a competing claim from another family member. They will want to avoid public registration. Other landowners, particularly very private celebrities or aristocrats, may not want to give details of their properties and land which would be made available on a public register.

The register not only reveals the owner of the land but also shows details of registered mortgages and other financial burdens, covenants and easements which benefit or adversely affect the property. When Tony and Cherie Blair bought their £3.6m home in Connaught Square, London, two years ago, details of their mortgage were only made available through inquiries to the Land Registry.

But Mr Collis says landowners need to weigh up the perceived threat to privacy or a possible challenge to title against the greater advantages of registration. "Once the land is registered, it means the title is guaranteed and the land is legally protected. Having all land registered will bring a comprehensive database to the property market that benefits everyone."

Now officers working for the registry have begun targeting groups of unregistered landowners by offering them incentives to encourage voluntary registration. Those registering land for the first time are being given a 25 per cent discount on fees.

While most of urban Britain has been registered, countryside ownership remains largely unmapped. Without a comprehensive database of land ownership, the Land Registry will be unable to support its online search service, which it is planning to roll out across the country.

The Land Registry in England and Wales is the world's largest property database, helping to underpin the economy by guaranteeing ownership of many billions of pounds worth of property. As the government department responsible for maintaining the Land Register for England and Wales, its mission is to provide the world's best service for guaranteeing ownership of land and facilitating property transactions.

The biggest estates

The current Duke of Norfolk is His Grace Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk, who succeeded his father, Miles Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, in 2002. These Catholic estates run to 16,000 acres mostly around Arundel Castle and are the largest in Sussex. The Duke owns a further 30,000 acres outside of Sussex. They have never been documented. A spokeswoman for the Duke said that he was co-operating with the Land Registry but was unable to say how much work had been done in registering the land.

The Duchy of Lancaster traces its origins back to 1265, when King Henry lll made a grant of land to his son Edmund. Valued at around £341m, the estate is held in trust for the sovereign of the day in his or her role as Duke of Lancaster. Its 18,700 hectares across England and Wales range from the Savoy Estate in London to the Goathland Estate in Yorkshire and include urban developments, historic buildings, farmland and areas of natural beauty. The Duchy expects to register all the land within the next two years. Completed registration includes the Salwick Estate and the Myerscough Estate (1,100 hectares). Vyrner Speakman, register development manager at Land Registry's Lancashire office, has worked with the Duchy of Lancaster for several years. "I had suggested a method of dealing with encroaching registrations on the tidal creeks to the Duchy and they were very keen to explore it," she says. "They were also receptive to the idea that registration would better protect their interests."

Durham Cathedral and its holdings are the latest properties to be mapped under the registration programme. The dean and chapter own 2,470 acres across the diocese, between the Tees and Tyne rivers, including the prime cathedral site on Durham's central peninsula.

Although ownership has remained largely unchallenged since the building of the cathedral more than 900 years ago, the dean and chapter has decided to register with the Land Registry. The chapter land agent, Jon Williams, said: "Durham Cathedral has owned property for hundreds of years. While we don't have any doubt about the ownership of the land, this is making it watertight and ensuring its availability for future transactions, not that the dean and chapter is preparing any particular sale."

The Duchy of Cornwall's 54,764 hectares are spread across 23 counties, mainly in the south-west of England. Created in 1337 by Edward III for his son and heir, Edward the Black Prince, the Duchy provides a private income for the Prince of Wales (last year £14.1m). Tax is paid on a voluntary basis. Its assets are currently valued at around £561m. The voluntary registration of the estate has been under way since 2003 and is more than half completed. Dartmoor was fully registered in summer 2006, by which time the Isles of Scilly were almost complete. The Duchy of Cornwall declined to say how much of the estates had been registered or how much Prince Charles intended to register.

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The Virginia Beach Council of PTAs presents the Principles of American Citizenship Award Program for 2015-2016:

1) SELECTION: Each school should submit one nomination per month for consideration. The PTA President and the Principal should decide on the selection process at their school. Council’s selection will be based upon how closely the student exemplifies the character trait. Although only one nomination per month may be forwarded, recognition of ALL nominated students is encouraged at the school level (i.e. certificate at a PTA meeting, name published in the PTA and/or school newsletter, etc.). All schools are encouraged to participate monthly. A minimum of three timely nominations per year are required to meet the criteria for the Exemplary Award. Nominations must be placed in the PONY by the deadlines below.

2) NOMINATION FORM: The Nomination Form has been created to keep on file and should be reproduced as needed for each month’s submission. No other form will be accepted. Additional sheets may be attached to the Nomination Form if necessary.

3) WRITE-UP: The nomination write-up should support the student’s qualifications, particularly with regard to the character trait for the month. Be sure to cite specific examples. Please include the student’s accomplishments and why he/she is deserving of the award.

4) DEADLINES: Please PONY your Student Nomination Form by the deadline each month to Erica Prosser @ Rosemont Elementary School. The submission deadlines are as follows:

October 3
(September – Responsibility)
November 7
(October – Diligence)
December 5
(November – Respect)
January 9
(December – Kindness)
February 6
(January – Fairness)
March 5
(February – Honesty)
April 9
(March – Cooperation)
May 7
(April – Self Control)
May 30
(May – Trustworthiness)

5) WINNERS: One elementary, middle, and high school winner will be chosen each month from the nominations received. Winning schools will be contacted by phone and/or by email. Winners’ names will appear on the VB Council website and/or newsletter. Arrangements will be made with each school to deliver awards for presentation at a convenient date and time.

6) CONTACT INFORMATION: If you have questions, please contact VB Council PAC Chair, Erica Prosser at . All nominations must be sent via PONY mail.

Responsibility: being accountable for one’s behavior

Diligence: completing work with care and steady effort

Respect: showing honor and high regard for a person or thing

Kindness: being sympathetic, caring, and considerate of others

Fairness: displaying impartiality and granting equal treatment

Honesty: exhibiting truthfulness and sincerity

Cooperation: working together for the good of a common purpose

Self-control: keeping one’s own emotions, desires, and actions restrained

Trustworthiness: earning a sense of reliability and confidence from others


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Version 1.1315
2 months ago

  • NEW Dev Support for can edit admin settings

  • Version 1.1314
    2 months ago

    This update will help with fraudulent language submissions, plus it lets me easilly see what changes were made exactly, so faster language updates

  • Overhauled the language submission

  • Version 1.1313
    3 months ago
    Data sync load manager overhaul

    This update should give vast improvements for newly joined players and servers net ussage. It redistributes the chunks more directly per players instead of global chunking. If some players might have had crashes on join, this will fix that up.

  • Overhauled sync load manager, will give a lot more stability

  • Fixed a few dev commands

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  • NEW On setting changed hook (shared)

  • NEW Dev support for getting a list of all VCMod settings

  • NEW Dev support for setting all VCMod settings

  • Version 1.1311
    3 months ago
    Data networking overhaul

    Spent all day recoding the data sync system. It should be about 20x faster from today on.

  • NEW Fresh new data sync system

  • New methods to compress the data

  • Data is not sent in less chunks due to the new compression method

  • NEW Dynamic range sync, before this update all data synced at once no matter where you were on the map You will not only sync with the data you need

  • NEW Model sync caching, model name will not be needed to be resynced on each model now

  • Version 1.131
    3 months ago

  • Added new translations for the upcoming update

  • Version 1.1309
    4 months ago

  • Fixed an issue with the key overrides not showing at times

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    4 months ago

  • Added support for multiple light controllers per each light

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    6 months ago

  • Fixed issue high amount of lights per vehicle, which was caused by int size, increased it

  • Version 1.1306
    6 months ago

  • NEW Added debug tools to help debug future issues

  • Fixed a few errors

  • Version 1.1305
    7 months ago

  • Fixed a serious issue that was not allowing servers with changing/odd time zones to work correctly. ("Localized" error).

  • Version 1.1304
    7 months ago
    Controls override feature

    This update brings a very much requested new feature to VCMod - ability to override players settings by server staff. Admins can override any control, including the hold key.

  • NEW Server control override

  • Redone a large portion of the control system

  • Optimization for menu systems

  • Unable to edit commands if they are overwritten

  • Visual representation of players controls in the menu if its overwritten

  • Version 1.1303
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  • Fixed some issue with bodygroups and specific light sequences.

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    10 months ago

  • NEW Added "Add new language" button

  • Changed how the language tool behaves

  • Changed positions of buttons

  • Version 1.1301
    10 months ago

    This update brings additions to the core light engine. Lights are not capable to more relative to individual vehicle part.

  • NEW Support for new vehicle types, such as bikes and other advanced vehicles.

  • Version 1.13
    10 months ago

  • Language now loads properly serverside before contacting web-server

  • Full language web-server sync is now active

  • Removed languages will notw delete for server and players

  • Older language revisions will no longer be kept

  • Version 1.1299
    10 months ago
    Language overhaul

    For the past few weeks I have been redoing the language feature of VCMod. The old system used alot of net traffic and alot of translations were simply unnoticed by me, since there was no web-server database support for them. New system only downloads data that is needed, instead of every time. Meaning around 20% less traffic dedicated to simply transfering language data.

  • Fixed all firetruck back seat switching issues

  • NEW Language overhauled

  • Language net traffic reduced by 20x (yes, I did tests)

  • All language data is now stored locally

  • NEW Added language revisions

  • NEW Web-server compatibility. Language changes will not be ignored anymore.

  • Servers will now only download missing languages or those of highier revisions

  • Each player stores his own local language data

  • Player language data is now updated on joining of server, if needed

  • Redid the language editor, no more "Save" button, added some more explanation

  • You can now see what revision what language is

  • NEW If a language is outdated random player will be asked for help (if he is using that language)

  • Anyone can alter language from the server, need to be aproved first

  • Specific people do not need web-server acceptance and can update languages live

  • Languages will now be synced to all players without having to restart the server

  • Languages now update automatically every 6 hours

  • Plans to add an option to check all contributers of a specific language.

  • Removed the "Privilages" administrator settings tab

  • NEW Added "Core options" administrator settings tab

  • NEW Added a way to reload all addons within the "Core options" tab

  • NEW Added a way to clear all VCMod cached data within the "Core options" tab

  • NEW Added a way to manually request an update to language data from the "Core options" tab

  • Added in 10 more textures that will make some lights look more detailed

  • Removed some ScriptFodder focused code to SF addons instead of shared

  • Version 1.1298
    10 months ago

  • Restructured how VCMod database works, VCMod loading and vehicle data load times should be increased

  • Version 1.1297
    11 months ago

  • Fixed the horn option to work correctly again

  • Version 1.1296
    11 months ago

  • Fixed up data transfer order. This should improve net traffic ALOT, and some other issues.

  • Version 1.1295
    11 months ago

  • Changed how the circle light type behaves.

  • Version 1.1294
    11 months ago

  • Some optimization

  • Fixed rare error when in confliction with another addon

  • Version 1.1293
    11 months ago

  • Added compatibility with "Courts" addon.

  • Version 1.1292
    12 months ago

  • * Changed some stuff in the sync section

  • * Optimised the sync abit

  • * Overhauling it little by little

  • Version 1.1291
    12 months ago
    Initial logging update

    From this update VCMod changelog recording has been started.

  • NEW Changelog ingame viewer

  • NEW Data changes ingame viewer

  • Random code updates


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Okara Falafel

What you need:

4 cups cooked okara (I cook mine with my soy milk and then drain)
2 large cloves garlic
1 tablespoons chili powder
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoons sesame seeds
1 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 medium onion
1 cup parsley
1 cup water
1 1/2 cups flour

What you do:

Place 1 cup of the okara and the next 10 ingredients in a blender (if using a Vita Mix set low speed #7 - you don't want it pulverised).
Pour out and mix well the contents of the blender with the rest of the okara and the flour.
Make into small to medium size balls (half dollar size) and fry in 1 inch of oil: 4 min on one side and 4 on the other until golden brown. I use a deep fryer and take them out after about 4 min/golden brown.
Serve on flat bread with thinly shaved cabbage or lettuce, tomato and vegan ranch dressing.
2 cups of dried soy beans makes about 4+ cups of okara.

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  • This was great! I've made it twice now and my family all love it too. It's become a go-to for all that leftover okara. Thanks!

Hi, I'd like to try making these, but I don't understand about having to cook the okara first. Do you use wet okara from the soymilk maker, and isn't that already cooked?

Delicious! Great to find a recipe that highlights the okara rather than just blending it into bread. These were a lot like the "akra" that I used to eat in W Africa that were also made of beans. They served them sandwiched in fresh bread and topped with onions soaked in chili oil.

Wow, I'm really surprised this has no comments. I was really skeptical of a falafel recipe that doesn't use chickpeas, but I had a giant pile of okara staring me in the face and not enough ingredients to make bread with it, so I decided to make this, which I did have all the ingredients for except the chili powder (I halved the recipe, and substituted the chili powder with something like 1/2 tsp of cayenne and a few dashes of regular black pepper). I also used whole wheat flour because it was all I had.

These are seriously good. I've tried several okara recipes that sucked. But these were really yummy. I shaped mine into little patties instead of balls so I can heat them up later and eat them like little burgers. 5 stars

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Fantasy’s Jazz-Blues: Bobby Timmons, Red Garland and Hampton Hawes

By Brian L. Knight

The blues are an integral component to jazz and without the earlier development of the blues; jazz may have never come to fruition. The close relationship is best displayed when visiting a record store, invariably one will find jazz and blues lumped together in the same section. In addition, the two music forms are lumped together at festivals such as the ones in New Orleans, Ann Arbor and Burlington. Jazz and blues are considered true American art forms (although roots can be traced to Africa) and their simple beginnings have created close to two centuries worth of exciting music. Over the years, musicians have flirted with both styles. Blues maestros have tinkered with jazz while jazz musicians always seem to return to the blues.

The blues finds its roots in American history and especially African-American history. Blues music incarnated in the form of work songs, field hollers or Arhoolies that the plantation workers and slaves sang. In most cases, the songs were structured by "call & response", in which there was a lead singer who was followed by a chorus. The call & response was a societal characteristic of African tribes that eventually made its way across the Atlantic Ocean and transformed into early American work songs. The "call & response" also served as spiritual role in African society, which segued into American religious and gospel music. From both it’s laboring and spiritual aspects, the "call & response" eventually was translated into a musical form known as blues. The lament of slavery, labor or homesickness contributed to the lyrical content of the blues while the call & response format contributed to the structure of blues music. This is most evident by early blues guitarists who sang a lyrical verse and then answered with an instrumental verse on their guitar.

The "call & response" vocal/guitar format, which was popularized by early blues musicians such as Son House and Robert Johnson, paved the way for the standard 12-bar blues format in 4/4 time. This format was characterized by a set of lyrics, which was repeated and then followed by a final rhyming lyric. For instance: " Oh Lord, I feel ill; Oh Lord, I feel ill; Please Lord, Give me a hangover pill." Each of these lyric sets would comprise 4 bars (i.e. a steady beat of counting 1-2-3-4 and then repeating two more times). Although blues artists often extended or shortened the bars, it was through this loosely structured format that permitted jazz to evolve.

Jazz musicians elaborated upon the 12 bar format which allowed for additional space for exploration within a tune. Instead of regulating themselves to just 4 bars, jazz musicians stretched out beyond the limits of the blues. Jazz artists employ characteristics of the blues by improvising and exploring over the repetitive 8, 12 or 16 bar chord sequences. As a result, jazz often has more complex time signatures such as 7/4 time signatures. This is why the blues sound more rigid and jazz possesses more fluidity. In addition, jazz also incorporated African polyrhythms into its music. Instead of a steady blues backbeat, jazz musicians borrowed the African concept of laying beats on top of each other, which resulted in a set of complex rhythms that allowed for new musical directions.

As jazz developed into America’s premier music form, it never lost touch with its blues roots. The term "Bluenote", which represents the tonal sound of the blues, has become a symbol of jazz though New York City’s Bluenote Club and Bluenote Records. In addition, many artists continuously revisit the blues when they record albums or play live. For instance, one of Miles Davis’ most popular tunes was "All Blues" which can be found on his 1959 album Kind of Blue. Over the years, the blues have become synonymous with the guitar. From the Delta acoustic blues of Robert Johnson to the electricity of Luther Allison, it has been the guitarists who have made their instruments sing the blues. Well, it wasn’t all guitars as California’s Fantasy Records will attest. As part of its jazz-blues series, Fantasy re-released the blues works of some of the jazz’s greatest pianists.

Historically, piano playing has been indirectly associated with the blues through popular playing styles such as Ragtime, Barrelhouse, Honky-tonk and Boogie-Woogie. All of these styles by an aggressive approach to playing the piano keys. Jazz pianists have also made incursions into the blues through jazz styles such as soul jazz, bop, and hard bop. The following pianists made the marks on the jazz arena, yet in the process, they never strayed too far from the blues.

Bobby Timmons/Moanin’ Blues

Bobby Timmons comes from a long line of Philadelphia jazz greats – John Coltrane, Philly Joe Jones, Pat Martino, and Jimmy McGriff. On a musical level, Philadelphia has always churned out the soul and gospel; Bobby Timmons was no exception to the rule. Along with other great pianists such as Les McCann, Ramsey Lewis, and Gene Harris, the playing of Bobby Timmons was an important chapter in the development of soul jazz. By incorporating elements of soul, gospel and R&B into the already exploratory/improvisational aspects of the bop sound, Timmons created an incredibly upbeat, groovy sound. This compilation covers most of Timmons short career (he died of liver disease at age 38). Three of the tracks come from Timmons’ first solo effort This Here is Bobby Timmons, which features the trio of Timmons, bassist Sam Jones and drummer Jimmy Cobb. In addition to six original compositions, the original album and this compilation contains three songs that Timmons wrote with other outfits. Moanin, which was originally written when Timmons was with Art Blakely’s Jazz Messengers, and This Here and Dat Dere were written while Timmons was with the Cannonball Adderly. There are also two tracks (So Tired and Soul Time) from 1960’s Soul Time in which Timmons is backed by trumpeter Blue Mitchell, bassist Keter Betts and drummer Art Blakely. Trick Hips and Milt Jackson’s Bag’s Groove come from his 1964 album Workin Out. Know Not One and Born To Be Blue arrive from the 1963 album, Born To Be Blue, which display the less funky side of Timmons and the more straightforward bop jazz.

Hampton Hawes/Blues The Most

While Bobby Timmons was known for his soul-jazz, Hampton Hawes remained true to the bop style of jazz. Hampton Hawes was born on November 13, 1928; the same date at other great performers such as jazz drummer Idris Muhammad (1939) and bluesman John Hammond (1942); and an obscure writer from an small New England paper. Hawes was the definitive West Coast jazz player. He was born in Los Angeles, he gigged with great west coasters such as Wardell Gray, Art Pepper, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, he often played with Shorty Rogers' Lighthouse All-Stars and he eventually died in Los Angeles. One of Hawes’ defining moments was when he met the great Charlie Parker at the Hi-De-Ho Club in Los Angeles. Like so many other players, Hawes was ensnared by the innovative playing of Bird and Hawes emulated Parker in his own piano playing. Hawes’ love for Parker is displayed on this album with a version of Yardbird Suite which was recorded in 1958 with guitarist Barney Kessel, drummer Shelly Manne and Red Mitchell. This is the only case on the album where Hawes’ doesn’t perform one of his own songs. It seems fitting that he chose to play a Bird tune. Unfortunately for Hawes, he also emulated Parker’s heroine habits which culminated with Hawes’ incarceration from 1958 –1963. Drug addiction was also a problem shared by fellow West Coasters and Parker fans such as Chet Baker and Art Pepper. Hawes was finally released from prison when John F. Kennedy pardoned him in 1963.

Red Garland/ Red’s Blues

Like Hampton Hawes, Red Garland felt connected to his hometown. As Hawes had his Los Angeles, Red Garland loved Dallas where he was born in 1923 and died in 1984. Garland did not attain fame by his geographic disposition but by his unique approach to playing the piano keys. Unlike other jazz pianists, Garland employed a piano style that emitted bell like sounds. This style was called the block chord style and it was accomplished by the left and right hand playing simultaneously. The traditional method was to use the right hand to play the melody while the left hand provided accompaniment. The block chord approach somewhat limited the harmonic range of the piano, which left Garland to master the blues. Red’s Blues displays Garland’s love the blues with songs such as The P.C. Blues, which was named after bassist Paul Chambers; Ahmad’s Blues, which was a tribute to pianist Ahmad Jamal and was originally recorded while Garland was a member of the Miles Davis Quintet; and St, James’ Infirmary, a traditional blues song popularized by Louis Armstrong. Birk’s Work, which was recorded in November of 1957, features Donald Byrd on trumpet and John Coltrane on saxophone.

After listening to these albums, a major preconception about the blues is eliminated. The blues are often characterized as being simply tales of lament or sorrow. Although many blues songs have recounted tales of lost loves or one’s unluckiness, these themes are not an essential component to the blues equation. This fact is exemplified by these three jazz pianists and the obvious lack of vocals and lyricism in there songs proves that lament is not required to play the blues. Despite the lack of vocals, these jazz-blues tunes have are quickly associated with passion. Upon listening to the pianists, one can really feel the emotion that is put into the pieces. Either through instrumentation or lyricism, the blues have always tugged at both the listeners and player’s inner soul. After listening to these albums, you will feel the tugging as well.


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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Embraceable you

it is a new season, the Autumn starts on this side of our good old planet the colours are just marvellous, the apples are ripe (very important to me:))
I hope you'll be able to take few minutes to enjoy Melody's video, it's really beautiful.
Have a wonderful day!

Embraceable you

let go
you won’t fall
you’re not alone
there’s me
my arms around you
my heart next to your heart
there’s you
embraceable you
there’s so much more
to look forward to
even when we part
warmth stays in the heart
let go
you won’t fall

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☆sapphire said...

"Embraceable you" warms my heart. Thank you, Vesna. The song and video images are really beautiful and nice!!

Vesna said...

I'll be seeing today a Japanese movie "Noruwei no mori"
I'll be thinking of you dear Sapphire, thank you so much for visiting


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We all know that cats are a little sneaky - getting that treat, sneaking up on their prey, covering their feces.  Cats are especially deceptive in the way they hide their illnesses.  Cats are derived from solitary hunting felines.  If they show signs of illness or pain, another solitary hunter may take over their territory - by force.  Our domestic felines have good historical reasons for hiding their illnesses, but it makes it very difficult for owners (and even veterinarians) to evaluate feline health.  Compounding this problem is that it’s hard for owners to recognize gradual changes that can indicate serious underlying disease.  Going to the litter box a little more often, drinking a little more, grooming less frequently, or losing a small amount of weight can all indicate underlying disease.

The conundrum this creates makes it vital for cats to receive regular office visits.  With the help of your veterinarian, you can not only help establish what normal is for your feline friend, but you can recognize when something abnormal is happening.  Our basic evaluation is designed to recognize these gradual feline changes - has the weight changed since the last visit, how do the teeth and gums look, have litter box habits changed?  Any indication of compromise can lead your veterinarian to proceed with blood work (chemistry, complete blood count, and T4), blood pressure monitoring, or even a urinalysis.  These tests can help us identify underlying problems like hyperthyroidism, kidney disease, liver failure, or diabetes.  All of these issues are treatable with appropriate monitoring and treatment can vastly improve your cat’s quality of life.

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Types of Auto Repair Software

When it comes to auto repair software, most features are available as a suite for less than you could purchase each of the individual pieces. However, if you do not need all of the features and only need one or two then it may be better for you to simply purchase what you need, but what are some of the different types?

POS Software

Auto POS software is similar to what is used at your local supermarket but is specifically built for mechanics. Even if you do not purchase a suite many of these programs have an inventory tracker built in. This will allow you to track your shop’s inventory without having to manually track it. Your employees will simply enter the item as they use it and it will be subtracted from the inventory list.

Repair Software

With everything going digital it is no surprise that repair manuals have as well. Auto repair software includes repair instructions for many different jobs on many different makes and models. This can make things easier when you have an uncommon car come in needing repairs. If your staff is not familiar with them and you do not have a manual, this could be a problem, but with an auto repair program, you have all of the information you need available to you. Many also include repair videos to make it even easier to use.

Diagnostic Software

As more and more jobs in your vehicle are controlled by the computer diagnostic software is becoming more and more important. This software will allow you to scan for codes with much greater accuracy and detail than a simple OBDII scan will. This software will interface with the vehicle’s OBDII port and can pull codes from the ECU and compare them against its database to give you specific problems as well as common fixes.

If you own a small mechanic shop, then chances are your business could benefit from finding the right software for your needs. While suites do cost more, you also get many more features, and it will cost less in most cases that piecing one together from individual programs.

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