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The Governors of New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware, the three US states with a regulated online gaming market, have reached an agreement to pool their online poker liquidity.
This will allow New Jersey poker players to compete online against players in Nevada and Delaware for the first time.
"New Jersey has been a pioneer in the development of authorized, regulated online gaming, which has been a budding success since its launch in late 2013,” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said.
"Pooling players with Nevada and Delaware will enhance annual revenue growth, attract new consumers, and create opportunities for players and Internet gaming operators. This agreement marks the beginning of a new and exciting chapter for online gaming, and we look forward to working with our partners in Nevada and Delaware in this endeavour."
Nevada and Delaware first created a shared poker liquidity pool in February 2014, although it only benefited London-listed gaming operator 888 as the only company licensed in both jurisdictions.
The addition of New Jersey to the pool will create larger jackpots and more playing opportunities, while also providing an incentive for operators to expand Internet gaming offerings in New Jersey, the governor's office said.
David Rebuck, Director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, added: "New Jersey stands prepared to approve a game offering for all three states as soon as an operator submits such a product for testing."
The tri-state agreement means that operators will be able to allow their customers to participate in games such as poker, tournaments, and progressive slot games with players in other states where they are licensed, subject to each state regulator approving the operator and its game software.
New Jersey remains the largest regulated iGaming market in the United States with 23 authorised websites, generating internet gaming win of $196.7m in 2016. This figure is expected to rise to $240m in 2017.

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Reasons Why You Should Change Your Oil Regularly
Your mechanics may have reminded you to get your oil changed on a regular basis. This is because delays in oil changes can lead to irreversible harm to the car, which could’ve been avoided by timely change. Oil is the most important part of a call which is required for smooth working.
Periodic oil changes are recommended for the proper working of the car, and it helps in reducing the chances of technical issues. Here are some of the reasons why you should get your oil changed regularly at Toronto Mobile Mechanic auto service in Mississauga.
- It helps the engine to perform better.
The components of car engines operate at high speeds, leading to friction among the parts and heat production. A periodic change of oil helps in lubricating the parts in the property, thereby reducing the damage caused by heat production of the engine. It also helps eliminate dirt particles and debris from the engine, making it perform faster. Old oil causes heating of the engine, which is responsible for shutting down. It can be prevented by providing fresh oil to the system.
- It helps in the reduction of emissions.
Periodic oil changes an eco-friendly Way to prevent dangerous emissions from the car. Old oil contains dirty particles, which lead to the production of harmful emissions from the engine. With the help of proper oil change, The car can help in preserving the environment by reducing toxic emissions.
- It gives better mileage.
The engine of your car can benefit a lot from periodic oil changes. Regularly changing your oil can help in giving better mileage of gas and helps in saving your money. Old oil causes friction in the engine, leading to more gas requirements. Your engine will work slower as well. With proper lubrication, you can use your car for a longer period with less gas.
- It improves the lifespan of your car’s engine.
If you want your car engine to last for a long time, it is suggested to change the oil regularly so that dirt and debris do not get accumulated in your engine. This will increase the efficiency of your engine and its lifespan so that you can enjoy your car for years to come.
- It helps to know about other defects in the car.
By changing your oil regularly, you can also check up on other repairs required in the car. The mechanics can tell you if there are other issues that need to be repaired and replaced.


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Rogers Rooftop Russian Club and Lounge is perfectly set on the terrace with splendid views of Creek on one side and Burj Khalifa on another. Our Resident DJ along with Russian Band, Go Go dancers and Belly dancer play all hit numbers.
Free Entry and Free Pool table
Location is based on the public transportation, parking, traffic & convenience
Ambiance is based on environment, interior, lighting, music, guests profile & reception
DJ is based on his profile, sound tracks played, guests friendly & keep the audience mood
Service is based on guest relation, quality of food & drinks server, friendly staff, behavior & security
Price is based on food, beverages & value for money on quality and service

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We also offer a Steering Kit for the JK axle swap, as well as OTA track bar kits for the XJ/ZJ and TJ/LJ and our HD Upper Control Arm Bracket to complete the setup. If you're planning to run a different axle using more stock style steering and track bar, our HD Stock Replacement Track bar mount will also work well. If you plan to run a sway bar our Over the Top sway bar brackets may also interest you.


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انقر للتحقيق An installation about time and decay.تحقق من عنوان ورل انتقل إلى الموقع
منصة بالقطعة خيار ثنائي ‘All beauteous thing for which we live
By laws of time and space decay
But oh, the very reason why
I clasp them, is because they die.’
تعليقه هنا – William Johnson Coryانقر هنا للتحقيق http://wilsonrelocation.com/?q=%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B3-%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A
تجد هنا Momentum shows the process of transience and the human incapability to overcome it. In a four meter wide container an algae enriched base is the stage for pigments to perform. Slowly, drops fall from glass pipes, onto the surface, pushing one another away as they touch. The result is an ever changing drawing, striking much resemblance with growth rings or sedimentation. By placing the glass pipes in a subsequent position, the once beautiful drawing is gently forced aside for a new one, thus creating an every changing timeline.
موقع لبيع الذهب After 14 hours (7 positions) the surface is filled with drawings. It is rendered clean by printing the entire surface onto paper. The glass pipes are put back in their premier position, only to start the process again. The algae base deteriorates over a period of 4 to 5 days, in which the pigments start to behave differently. Eventually, the pigments sink straight through the base to the bottom of the container and all that is left are printed timelines – like a photograph to a memory.
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Feb. 29, 2024
The Sahara Hits Vegas!
We all got to see glimpses of the Las Vegas Sphere during the Super Bowl a couple of weeks ago. BUT, very few saw the surprise addition atop it – our very own Sahara Advanced Sand Cyclone stealing the spotlight! You may be wondering how the Sahara Advanced Sand Cyclone achieved the honor of being featured on such an iconic Read more


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Well, it’s WorldCon weekend, and tonight is the night of the Hugo Awards. I’ve only been to one WorldCon before, at which I was a little bit of a cause celebre (that’s French for meme) because of my role in both explaining and skewering what we might call the, ah, alternatively righteous element in the community of science fiction and fantasy literature: those who believed their tastes were the same as objective truth, that their favorites (or indeed, their own works) were the only ones allowed to win awards, and that any other outcome meant the whole thing was rigged, rigged, rigged, I tell you. (WITCH HUNT!)
This is only my second WorldCon. I missed last year’s in Helsinki because of money and other external factors, but the year before that I made a point to go because that was the year of Sad Puppies Review Books and other satirical or analytical works. I knew I’d received many people’s nods for a Hugo Award, even if I didn’t quite make the shortlist, and I woke up the morning of the award ceremony the year before last feeling an overwhelming (and entirely unaccustomed) sense of humility in the face of how the fandom community had rallied against these gatekeepers, this ballot-stuffing clique of bullies who wanted to tell them what to read and who to like and what to do and who were determined to burn the whole concept of awards to the ground if we did not wholly surrender and give them everything they wanted. I wrote a blog post describing my thoughts and feelings about the whole thing.
It is a little bittersweet to read it now, as it is to read just about anything that touches on politics written in the fall of 2016. Before 2016, I would not have expected to be so close to a major industry award for non-fiction. After 2016, I found my always unconventional career taking a very different turn, one which I think my little skirmishes with the so-called Sad Puppies helped prepare me for. On November 8th, 2016, I found myself on Twitter, helping to explain what was happening. Then it kept happening, and it never stopped happening, and I have kept explaining. That’s not exactly a job, but it is certainly a calling, and it is, for now, how I pay my bills.
My burgeoning success as a political analyst, commentator, and all-around Weird Politics Mom on Twitter consumed so much of my attention that I didn’t have much to say about the Hugos last year. When I look at the two blog posts I linked above, though, I feel like that left things a little incomplete, that I didn’t have a finale for the little trilogy, full of pithy thoughts and wry observations about the final and saddest refutation of the Sad Puppies, when their influence died not with a bark but with a whimper.
But then, maybe silence was the appropriate way to mark that moment.
In any event, I am here at my second WorldCon, again on the morning of the Hugo Awards ceremony, and my thoughts are not on the puppies nor really on the awards but the convention itself. This is my second time at a convention larger than my beloved WisCon, and while this time I feel much more like a part of it and much less adrift in a sea of people… I’m now able to fully appreciate both how big a WorldCon is, and how it is big.
The people who sought first to steal and then downplay the awards insist that WorldCon is a little, piddly, rinky-dink little thing, because compared to one of the big media events like San Diego Comic Con or DragonCon… well, it’s just not at the same scale as those things. But it’s also not either of those things. It is its own things. It’s about all of science fiction and fantasy in every form insofar as it brings together people who love it in every form, but at the beginning and in the end it’s about books, which are intimate conversations between authors and readers.
And this is why WorldCon feels so huge to me: because I’m not here for movie spoilers and big announcements and I’m not here for an award, but I am here for the people. There may be more people at a media convention, but the attendees are just attendees. At a lit con, the attendees are the con. The people are the convention and the convention is the people, and if it were twice as long I could not possibly spend enough time with everyone I want to see.
I know (she said with all due modesty) that what I do right now is important to so many people. I know this because, among other indicators, I have had people come up to all weekend to tell me, “Thank you for what you do, it is so important.” And this is both uplifting and baffling to me, but I understand that even when I don’t know what to do with the information, it means something to the person saying it that they were able to say it. So more so than usual, I’ve been trying to keep myself available, make myself visible, make sure that anyone and everyone who want to find me and see me in person has the chance to do so.
But I know that for my best efforts, I’m going to get at least a few “I looked for you and couldn’t find you” messages, because that always happens, just as there are people I’ve been looking out for whom I haven’t seen.
That’s convention life, though. It is a sign of the health and vibrancy of the WorldCon community that even somebody on the fringes of it, as I am, can’t make all the connections she’d want to in the course of four days.
Back in 2016, I said that awards don’t matter so much as the genuine appreciation they represent matters. They’re a symbol, like a flag, and while a flag may stand for freedom the flag itself is not freedom. The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing.
Though I have recently become a bit more of a fiction writer again, I did very little in the speculative world in 2017 and I did not have the bandwidth to think much about stories or trophies. This year I have just started to kindle a bit of a spark of the old creativity and curiosity again, and in doing so I discovered what a wonderful thing a spark can be in the middle of a very long, very cold, and very dark night.
And so here is my insight for this year: the awards matter because they represent genuine appreciation, and the appreciation is genuine because it comes from people, from real people, a real community of people, a community of communities — some old, some newer, each diverse in different ways, each with their own competing and conflicting and even occasionally complementary tastes. This community is here at the convention and it is distributed somewhat haphazardly across the globe, wherever people are reading and writing and appreciating science fiction and fantasy literature published in the English language.
WorldCon is a concentration of that community, and the Hugo Awards are a concentration of WorldCon. The community is people, the convention is people, the awards are people, Soylent Green is people, and it is beautiful and it is glorious, even when the community stumbles.
If you have never peeked behind the curtain of a fandom convention, here is a key insight you must understand above all else: the best-run cons have just about enough time, money, resources, expertise, and personnel to not quite throw a convention, and then they do it anyway. When everything come together perfectly and for even a single shining moment it all just works, it’s like a perfect magic trick from the outside because the labor that goes into it is invisible. When there’s a false note or a missed step and something goes sideways or belly-up, those are the moments that the people in charge get the most recognition.
So while I will never not push a convention to do better — I think the essence of science fiction is being able to look at the world and imagine how it might be better — I think we do need to take a moment to recognize the miracle inherent in the fact that conventions get done at all, and then recognize that it is not a miracle, or if it is one, it is one that comes with great sacrifice on the part of people who, all things considered, probably wish they could just be attending the convention like the rest of us.
I am grateful to be here, I am grateful to be a part of this community. I am grateful for all the old friends I have been able to see and the new friends I am making. There is a song that says the latter is silver and the former gold, and if this is true then I have a positive embarrassment of riches, a hoard of treasure any dragon would envy.
My first WorldCon was a bit like a fairytale. I found myself at the legendary Hugo Losers’ Party hosted by the man himself, George R.R. Martin, not because I had lost a Hugo but because the puppies’ machinations had knocked me off the ballot, denying me the chance to even lose it. I was philosophical about this, because my works that had garnered the attention to get me within striking distance of the shortlist wouldn’t have existed without those same machinations, being a response to them. So I went to the convention with no expectations and yet the wildest ones I might have set would have been blown away.
I don’t know that I’ll ever be any closer to a Hugo Award than I was that year. My first Hugo Loser’s Party was probably my last one, too. My interests are eclectic and my career has been unconventional to say the least, and I just don’t see that kind of mainstream success for myself while I am called to do the work I’ve been doing on Twitter.
But even if it never happens, if I never find myself a Hugo winner or even an actual loser, I still had my moment, and if it happened in a way that seems ridiculous and impossible — nearly as ridiculous and impossible as throwing a convention in the first place — well, maybe that’s the only way it could have happened for me. I am, after all, a ridiculous and impossible woman.
I’m going to close this by noting once again that conventions are people, and that we go to conventions to see people. If I am one of the people you came here to see, you should know we are lighting out first thing tomorrow, slipping out for the airport like a thief in the very early morning. That means today is going to be your last chance say hello, introduce yourself, to talk about my writing or whatever’s on your mind, and if that is something you have a mind to do, I encourage you to do it.
Happy WorldCon, everybody.

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For those who are curious to know a little about these non-implemented features:Level 2/3 Wheeled, Half-Tracked, Tracked, Hovered, Legged and VTOL Propulsion:
These "special" propulsion are included in-game but not used, due to balancing reasons (Too many HP ,too lighty and expensive)Cyborg Jump Pack:
Cyborg that jumps, but only implemented in 1.11. If moving, only AA can shoot them. If you have dozens of HC Python Tracks and they spot about 10 Scourge Cyborgs moving, your tanks will be doomed to their deaths because they can't shoot them while the Jump Cyborgs are moving, only if they stop moving. Same apply to bases which have tons of defense but no AA stuff. Removed in 1.12 due to balance reasons.
Jump Cyborgs Available:
Jump Bunker Blaster
Jump Heavy Gunner
Jump Assault Gunner
Jump Needle Gunner
Jump Flashlight GunnerJammer Tower, Jammer Turret, Jammer Tower II, Jammer Turret II, Jammer Tower III, Jammer Turret III:
NEVER implemented as comented right now Hellfire and Hellfire Emplacement:
An incendiary version of the Howitzer. Enabled even right now, before implementing it, Pumpkin renamed it to Incendiary HowitzerDevastator Missile:
The Bunker Buster Missile! The bane of any defense in the battlefield! It's twice powerful than BB Rocket, but slower to reload, It have your VTOL variant too, which is more devastating. Only implemented in 1.12 patch. Removed because the art was not GPL.Earthshaker:
A SCUD-style missile launcher. Kill anything with ONE shot! Implemented only in the WZ Demo Version in GEX 3 game. You must use cheat (make all items available to use) to use it. Implemented in the Delphinio's NTW Mod as Condor MissileTornado Flak Turret:
A twin-barreled version of Cyclone Flak Turret. Only implemented in WZ Demo Version.Tornado AA Flak Site:
The Tornado NEVER had it's structure variant.Supergun:
A big twin-barreled super cannon! Only implemented in WZ Demo Version limited to defensive role. Implemented in NTW Mod as Super Twin Cannon, but can be mounted on vehicles and it's defensive structure is a bunker, not that crappy pit.NavaroneGun:
A big bunker with a twin heavy cannon barrels. Only implemented in Warzone Demo Version in GEX 3 by via cheats (make all items available), but a LOT buggy to build. NEVER used in Retail and GPL versions.Proximity Bomb Turret:
Was only implemented in an obscure mod. A suicidal turret that explodes everything within range. Difficult to balance, so never used in an un-modded game.Proximity Superbomb Turret:
Same as the previous one, but a lot more powerful.Dragon's Teeth:
The Dragon's Teeth version of the Tank Traps (like ones that trap tanks in World War II). Enabled in WZ Demo Version by via cheat, but never used in retail and freeware versions.Revenger Cyborg:
IMHO, it's a cyborg armed with Avenger missiles for AA role. Never implemented.Bunker Blaster Cyborg:
Cyborg armed with Bunker Buster rocket. Never implemented.Researches that were never implemented:
Automated Cyborg Repair Mk2
Automated Cyborg Repair Mk3
Automated Defenses Repair Mk2
Automated Defenses Repair Mk3
Base Structure Self-Repair
Automated Base Structure Repair Mk2
Automated Base Structure Repair Mk3
Automated Vehicle Repair Mk2
Automated Vehicle Repair Mk3
These weren't implemented because the Auto-Repair reserach combine all these in one. No need to create lots of Self-Repairing researchs, a major self-repairing technology is enough.
Mobile Repair Upgrade
Mobile Repair Upgrade Mk2
Mobile Repair Upgrades. Never implemented.
High Density Base Structure Materials
The tenth base structure upgrade. Never implemented
Self-Replicating Cyborg Production
Tenth Cyborg Factory Upgrade. Never implemented too.
Advanced Repair Facility
Advanced Repair Facility Mk2
Advanced Repair Facility Mk3
Tech Three Repair Facility Upgrade. The first one was implemented in Zarel's Rebalance Mod. The last 2 ones, NEVER.
I don't have an opinion about this, but maybe an upgrade that increase sensor range
Ionizing Turbine Engine
The last 2 vehicle/engine upgrades, but never implemented.
Special structures, that after you finish researching, you should build them, so they will gave you new technologies to research depending on each structures you gonna build.
Never implemented (as Zarel said) because having different research facilities for each type of research was deemed overly complex. Warzone is a strategy game, not "a research-facility-whack-a-mole game" rule.
This might be useful to stop anyone from research rushing, but people would hate this.
Advanced Warfare Laboratory
Laser Optics Laboratory
Advanced Materials Laboratory
High Energy Laboratory
Enjoy the list and imaginate these stuff implemented in Warzone one day
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“I don’t know where Bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.”
~George W. Bush, 3/13/02
So when Sean Hannity said that President Bush deserved the credit for killing bin Laden, it was rather petty and absurd considering Bush largely ignored the hunt for bin Laden to begin a war in Iraq. Everybody whose mind is tethered to reality knows that President Obama gave the order to get bin Laden.
But that’s not what Sean Hannity believes. He thinks President Obama didn’t want to get bin Laden at all. During his show on Fox on Tuesday, Hannity had an exchange with Republican pollster Frank Luntz in which Hannity declared that we would never have gotten bin Laden if President Obama had his way and that his foreign policy is weak.
HANNITY: “They’ve got a foreign policy that shows a lot of weakness. I know the President will say they got bin Laden, putting that aside.”
LUNTZ: “And the public gives him credit for that.”
HANNITY: “But it wouldn’t have happened if he had his way, and I think that could be proven as well on tapes.”
Here’s the video.
I’d really like to see Sean Hannity show proof that President Obama didn’t want to get bin Laden, but he’d have to hire Andrew Breitbart to edit a bunch of tapes. It was President Obama who re-focused America’s war effort on finding and killing the world’s number one terrorist and was the President who boldly ordered Seal Team Six to helicopter into Pakistan and take bin Laden down. It was a nearly flawless operation that occurred almost ten years after the September 11th attacks that brought down the World Trade Center. If George W. Bush were still President, bin Laden would still be a free man and al-Qaeda would still have it’s key leadership in place. Since killing bin Laden, President Obama has ordered the killings of many other top al-Qaeda and other terrorist operatives including:
• Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki: KILLED
• Al-Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri: KILLED
• Al-Qaeda deputy leader ‘Atiyah ‘Abd al-Rahman: KILLED
• Al-Quaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri: KILLED
• AQAP senior operative Ammar al-Wa’ili: KILLED
• AQAP senior operative Abu Ali al-Harithi: KILLED
• AQAP senior operative Ali Saleh Farhan: KILLED
• Al-Qa’ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul: KILLED
• Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud: KILLED
• Jemayah Islamiya operational planner Noordin Muhammad Top: KILLED
• AQEA planner Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan: KILLED
• Al-Qaeda operational commander Saleh al-Somali: KILLED
• Al-Qaeda operational commander ‘Abdallah Sa’id: KILLED
• Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul Ghani Beradar: CAPTURED
• Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqani: KILLED
• Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar: KILLED
• Al-Qaeda commander Hamza al-Jawfi: KILLED
• Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri: KILLED
• Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi: KILLED
• Al-Qaeda’s number three commander, Sheik Saeed al-Masri: KILLED
• Al-Qaeda senior external operations planner Abdullah Khorsani: KILLED
That’s an impressive list of terrorists who no longer pose a threat to the security of the American people because President Obama actually focused on the war on terror. And don’t forget that America helped Libyans take out brutal dictator and terror supporter Muammar Gadaffi on President Obama’s watch. Under George W. Bush, the war on terror was reduced to a secondary operation that lacked manpower and funding. All so Republicans could start a war in Iraq that has made us less safe by taking out the traditional enemy of Iran. Overall, Hannity has absolutely no proof that President Obama is weak on foreign policy. He’s also clearly lying when he says President Obama didn’t want to get bin Laden.


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Everybody's Doing It:
Buddhism and Popular Culture
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What is art? What isn't! Everything we do (and don't do) has its art. Somewhere along the line, however, somebody sorted and divided everything into two heaps, "high" and "low" ("fine" and "popular"). It was a political thing, I guess, but hey, that's another story.
This boundary's unwritten, but as divisive as that between East and West. So, if you're studying Shakespeare, da Vinci, or Beethoven, there are walls of books for study. But arts of haiku and tanka, tangka and sumi-e, shakuhachi and the Tibetan Dance of the Skeleton Lords, have been relatively unknown in the West. Interestingly, their ultimate purpose is to go beyond words, putting us in direct contact with reality, in the here and now. No need for walls of books. (What else can we say?!)
Call them skillful means. Vehicles of the Way. Opportunities for awakening mind and heart, and for expressing that awakening. In that sense, Buddhist arts are all popular arts: anyone can appreciate them. As in any art, appreciation is amplified by understanding the basic recipes, the formal game rules. But first, pick your art form. In Japanese, "do" means way, and it applies to chado (tea way) and chikudo (bamboo way), kado (flower way) and kyudo (archery way). And so we hear now too about the Way of Pooh and the zen of changing diapers. Indeed, where's the museum of things that aren't art?! Where's the temple of things not to worship?! It's all meditation ~ which is an art.
Buddha at the Movies
[ excerpted with permission from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism2nd edition, by Gary Gach, © 2004. ]
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Looking back, the most popular art form the twentieth century bequeathed to posterity was š movies! Nothing goes around the world like a ticket to the movies. This holds for TV, too, also speaking the universal language of cinema but on a much reduced scale. As mystic movie maven and filmmaker Stephen Simon says, "Movies are the most electrifying communications medium ever devised and the natural conduit for inspiring ourselves to look into the eternal issues of who we are and why we are here." So, of course, this has its Buddhist lights, and we can break that down two ways: film itself as Buddhist, and Buddhist films.
Now Playing: Film as Buddhist
Whatever's playing, I always enjoy the hush that settles in when the lights dim before the show. The sheer act of gathering together with fellow villagers for some storytelling around a campfire (the flickering lights and shadows on a movie screen) has primal roots, deep within the sacred. And film can, in and of itself, provide an apt model for our mundane consciousness; conscious of something„but what? Illusion, quite often. Plato once described the unexamined life in terms akin to sitting in a theater never aware of the projection booth where the images come from; instead, we take what we're seeing for reality. So it is, the Buddha shows, with the projections of our own minds, which we take as the reality of our experience.
There's a visual metaphor in Buddha's motto: "Come and see!" Vipassana: clear seeing into the nature of things. Burmese vipassana master Sayadaw U Pandita notes that when we watch a movie, the process can be like insight meditation. Each has four phases:
- Appearance of object
- Directing of attention
- Close observation
In insight meditation, 1) we focus attention on our belly, say, which leads to 2) appearance of rising and falling of the abdomen, followed by 3) noting the process and our feelings, then 4) discovering special characteristics and how they actually behave, not how we think they do.
Watching a movie, 1) we focus attention on the screen, which leads to 2) appearance of characters and scenes, followed by 3) making out what's happening by observing carefully, then 4) discovering the plot and appreciating the movie.
Cinema provides another metaphor: for reality's Eternal Now. I remember once sitting behind a five-year-old and an adult at a matinee, and every ten minutes or so the kid would ask the adult, "What's happening now?" and the adult would answer, "Now they're getting to know each other." Or "Now they're going to get married." Or "Now they're on their honeymoon." If you think about it, every moment in a movie is (like life) always about "now." Continuous present tense. (Even flashbacks.) And this Film Now can be elastic, instead of like clock time: 10 minutes compressed into 3, or 3 stretched out into 10 (very reminiscent of quite a few sitting meditations I've had). Indeed, the more familiar we become with the eternal nowness of time, the more we sense its elasticity.
Our minds are elastic in the same way. A good analogy is space. As with time, movies are always breaking the ancient Aristotelian Unity of Time and Place (everything unfolding in linear "real time," 1-2-3). A film opens space out like a jigsaw puzzle, constantly changing locations and points of views. So, as audiences, when we're film's space-without-particular-locality, we're also experiencing the limitless possibility of emptiness, and of our own mind. Felt everywhere but nowhere to be seen.
When I attended UCLA, film was defined as having two roots: fiction and documentary. But a student at that time, named Jim Morrison, pointed to a third stream, which could be called magical cinema. Such popular art forms as tarot cards, spells, woodblocks, and magic lantern slide shows inspired the invention of movies. This third-stream, pre-cinematic visual element is also present in early Buddhist books and manuscripts, Tibetan devotional art (tangka), and the Zen sequence of ten images known as the ox-herding pictures representing stages of practice (like a film storyboard).
Fiction films are usually a neatly patterned karma tale. For an interesting meditation sometime, buy a ticket to a movie you otherwise don't care about and walk in on the middle (at a multiplex this is easy to do). Then stay for the beginning up until you walked in. You'll see how everything that happened in the second half was a result of the characters' actions in the first half. (You can also try this at home, fast-forwarding into the middle, starting from there, then returning to the beginning.) See karma, study dharma.
Here's another meditation. Watch actors in groups scenes when they're not saying or doing anything, and see if they're compassionately making the other actors look good. Movies can nourish our compassion, as well. Typically, we hope it all turns out ok, and so identify beyond our selves (which is what compassion means, feeling with), identifying with the other characters. And without compassion, we'd be aware we're sitting in our chairs the entire time. And this is a secret part of the fun of watching movies: sitting there in our jeans and T-shirt, and at the same time being superstars, 33-feet tall, and sliding back and forth between the two realms. ("Great kiss! Please pass the popcorn.")
Any permanent, substantial identity is a fiction. In ancient Greek theater, the actors wore big masks called persona. Thus what is a real person? In the Zen-influenced dance-theater called Noh, wooden masks even change expressions as the wearer shows them in different angles and shades of lighting.
If we stop to think about this further, we see that when we're engrossed in a movie our ability to exchange our self with others' reveals the basic insubstantiality of self. It's conditonal on the factors of the story. This is how a great actor such as Laurence Olivier could say, late in life, acting didn't teach him to "get in touch with himself" but, rather, it taught him how he'd no idea who he was, really, having realized his heart's potential for being so many different people. Drama teaches that, given the circumstances, we could change who we thought we were in a second. Like they say, there but for fortune go you or I.
"š the metaphor of movie for life is an interesting one. The frames go by so quickly that we retain the illusion of continuity and are distracted from the light that shines steadily through each frame."
- Robert Aitken Roshi
"š If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen."
- Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Our Everyday Life Is Like a Movie
But film can never duplicate what I see when I settle on my cushion and look into my own mind screen. This is particularly true in insight meditation, when visualization is personalized. And it's a key feature in Tibetan Buddhism, where visualization empowers us to realize our unity with sacred energies by identifying with pictorial images of deities embodying them„and then recognizing their intrinsic emptiness (returning back to the empty movie screen). And the cosmic implications of Pure Land devotions reveals realms that are inconceivable. Cinema's painting with light pales besides the recognition that we are bodies of light, interbeaming and intergleaming on the luminous mandala of Indra's infinite net of light.
Is Gone with the Wind About Impermanence?: Buddhist FilmsThere isn't an Oscar for Spiritual Cinema, at least not yet, but tens of millions of people enjoy it when they see it. Themes include the nature of reality and identity and time, mythic quests, and the power of love. Within this unofficial genre, there are Buddhist films a-plenty, as testified to by the International Buddhist Film Festival. Their first call for entries in 2003 pulled in 300 films, from around the planet.
My personal all-time favorite has a longish title, Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East? a koan which is asking, in effect, "What is the meaning of Buddhism?" " Is it worthwhile?" A young man renounces city life and makes his way to a remote Korean mountain monastery. The first words we finally hear are, "There is no beginning, no middle, no end." It took producer-writer-director-editor Bae Young-kyun five years to put this intimate spiritual epic together, and it's deservedly made it to the top of many Top Ten lists since. The 2001 of zen films. G. G. says "Check it out."
More films of Buddhist interest include The Razor's Edge (compare the 1946 and 1984 versions), Afterlife (1998), Caravan (a.k.a. Himalaya) (1999), Jacob's Ladder (adapted from The Tibetan Book of the Dead, 1990), Beyond Rangoon (1995), Enlightenment Guaranteed (2000), Fearless (1993), Heaven and Earth (1993), Oseam, and Samsara (2003).
Documentaries include The Jew in the Lotus (1996), Peace Is Every Step, The Saltmen of Tibet (1998), Chasing Buddha, Genghis Blues, Jews and Buddhism: Belief Amended, Faith Revealed (1999), Regret to Inform (2000), Rivers and Tides (2001, Words of My Perfect Teacher, Home Street Home (2003), and Ellen Bruno's films about Tibetan, Burmese/Thai, and Cambodian women (Satya, Sacrifice, and Samsara).
There are dozens of Buddhist films from Japan. Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1956) is a response to the search to find spiritual meaning after the destruction wrought by war. We see a Japanese soldier injured in Burma at the end of World War II. A Buddhist monk takes care of him, and he returns to his military unit in Buddhist robes. In the films of Yasujiro Ozu (Early Summer, The End of Summer, etc.), the Buddhism's implied rather than explicit. A character doesn't experience a climax so much as undergo a subtle change that enables them to appreciate the suchness of things. And we mustn't forget Rashomon (1950), in which a monk hears of one event told from different points of view.
Hollywood films can have unintended Buddhist themes, such as It's a Wonderful Life, in which we see what life would be like if one single person hadn't lived, revealing how each person affects everyone else. A film worth seeing more than once is Groundhog Day (1993), in which one man relives the same day 10,000 times until he gets it right. (Paul Schindler has compiled a lucid, deep portal to explorations of the film's spiritual resonance shedding light on the interface of spirituality and cinema in general, as well as the unique message of this film in particular.) George Lucas refused to specify whether The Force referred to by Yoda in Star Wars stands for the Tao, the Holy Spirit, Buddha-mind, etc., nor whether Luke Skywalker's journey represented the Buddha's. After all, the motto in Hollywood has been: "If you want to send a message, use Western Union." A more recent phenomena was the Matrix trilogy, with threads from several traditions. (Question, when does a luminous message outweigh violence served up piping hot?)
Recent films about Tibet, such as Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Kundun (1998), and Windhorse (1999), have come a long way from the Hollywood moonshine stereotypes of Lost Horizon (1937). Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha (1993) crosscut the life of the Buddha (played by Keanu Reeves) with the fictional story of a contemporary boy in Seattle thought to be a reincarnated Tibetan lama. Plus, there are now such documentaries as Anguish of Tibet and Wheel of Time (2003). And, from nearby Bhutan, The Cup (2000) was the first film made by a Buddhist lama, Khyentse Norbu, who followed his debut with Travellers & Magicians (2003).
And there are films in which Buddhist elements pop up like weeds between cracks in concrete, such as in the 1993 biopic about Tina Turner, What's Love Got To Do With It. Just one line in a movie can be undeniably Buddhist, such as in Monsters, Inc., when Mike says to Scully (about Boo), "Oh no!, now that you've given it a name, you'll become attached to it!"
For filmmakers, new technology is raising the bar to entry. It's relatively easy to shoot a video, edit it on a home computer, and put it up on a Web site. As the media octopus expands, I hope it's not idle speculation to anticipate the eventual reality of a Buddhist TV channel, as there is in Amsterdam as well as Korea. I want my B-TV! Meanwhile, I'll just wait š and sit on my cushion, set my mindscreen up, and inquire into what's projected there. (Please pass the popcorn.)
"What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once and that's it. Well, you know, don't you want to be part of the experience? You know, what the hell, it's not all a drag. And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Geez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts.'"
~ Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters-->
Apparently this topic of Buddha + cinema is becoming popular, as evidenced by the International Buddhist Film Festival, and Stephen Simon's growing Spiritual Cinema community, as well as growing online discussion. As to the latter, our favorite Top Five:
- Paul Schindler's rich yet lucid coverage of Groundhog Day is a classic interpretative text on a film about a man who relives that same day 10,000 times ... until he gets it right.
- Dick Dillon's compilation of cinematic interpretations of Buddhism at his portal, buddhism.about.com
- Yiu Chan's write up of Anna and the King
- Mauro Sanchez' inimitable Dharmawood (rhymes with Hollywood)
- Stephen Simon's Mystical Movies is a must-visit site by someone who not only appreciates that spirituality is a genre, but has contributed such classics as What Dreams May Come.
- PLUS: Gary Gach's Screening as Event is an evolving repository of Notes Towards a Phenomnology of Film ... necessary since film is not just reels of celluloid in metal cans.
Extra credit : Plato proposes an allegory of life being like a cave/( which resonates with the set-up of cinema (echoed in such films as The Truman Show, (a riff on the Platonic conception of simulacra).) the apparatus : interrestingly, the camera and the projector are essentially the same. )
Music may be the oldest of human arts, requiring only a hand beating on a knee, or a solo voice. And it's perennially new, being created in the present moment; as jazzman Eric Dolphy once said, "Music's in the air. You can never have it back."
jump to Play It Again, Samadhi!
~ Musical Meditation
Music's a present-ation, making present. So it's Buddhist to the degree it attunes us to the freedom and fullness of the present moment, and its impermanence.
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Along the Path
Broaden your horizons. If you've never listened to World Music (sitar, African drums, flamenco, etc.), now's your chance. New rhythms, harmonies, melodies, and scales seem strange at first, then eventually familiar as an old friend from far away. Follow how a single note can slide, wander, and go boing in elastic, mind-bending ways. Let your body and soul become one big ear. Be one with the musicians and the music, feeling each note resonate in your heart. And with your hands in meditation you, offer silent applause every moment.
Each land has its own musical flavor. I find Korean music invigorating, for example, once you get accustomed to its tendency to zigzag like a hummingbird or dragonfly. Vietnamese chanting, such as recorded by the monks and nuns of Plum Village, is, to me, one of the most soulful sounds on the planet. But the dharma has one taste. Let's spotlight some traditional and some newer Buddhist examples.
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Giving Buddhism Its ChantsSinging in the shower isn't exactly essential but just fun to do. A little icing on the cake of life. But why do you suppose we sound so good in the shower? Because the tiles create a little extra reverb. And that reverb is what human self-awareness is, really. Icing on the cake. Other living things have awareness, but we humans are aware that we're aware. Wired with an extra layer of filigree. An addition of cortex to our brains. Maybe that, too, is another reason why we like singing in the shower! The self-awareness factor.
Mindfulness Exercise #93: Listening to any music, follow your breath, and note how the music moves it, taking us out of ourselves and bringing us back.
In and of itself, music is a mystery. Where did it come from? Who knows. We just do it, anyway, humming a little tune just because we like to hum. Maybe we're serenading the microorganisms. Joining the music of the spheres. Vocalizing the deep rhythms of life that surges in each cell of our protoplasm and throughout the galaxies.
The idea of the music of the spheres (a perfectly harmonious music, thought by Pythagoras and other philosophers to be produced by the movement of celestial bodies) may not be so far-fetched, now that we know that matter is really energy. Tibetan Buddhism has an ancient notion of bija mantra, "seed sounds," with physical properties when pronounced. A guru gives a student a special bija mantra upon initiation, but Om is a universal one, for example.
In this light, Buddhist skillful means we've already mentioned that reverberate with the music of the spheres are deity invocation, recitation, and mantra practice. Whether it's the Heart Sutra, or the name of Amitabha Buddha or of the Lotus Sutra, chanting in community makes it even more powerful.
"Music is part of life, not separate from it, and life itself is musical, with its rhythms, variations on themes, episodes, fugues, counterpoints, cadences, silences, and tonalities. When we listen to music, we are contemplating the very structures and colours that make up our own lives."
~ Thomas Moore
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
~ Aldous Huxley
If you haven't heard Tibetan chanting before, check out the CD by the Gyuto Monks to get a sample of this unusually deep-toned vibrational resonance. The monks chant two octaves below C, a feat unrivalled in Western music. Such tones of low vibration travel farther and through more obstacles than high-frequency sound. Asian and African elephants communicate long-distance using this "silent thunder." Whales can communicate this way from Newfoundland to Puerto Rico (what might they be saying?). Actually, the monks chant so that you can hear the overtones in just one note ~ they're actually singing a chord! Sanskrit scholar and poet Andrew Schelling has described it as "craggy guttural prayer, like the sound of stones crumbling down a mountain precipice ... comforting to hear as your own mother's voice, but above that, almost on wings, a distinctly audible angel's tone, sublime as its originating note is terrifying."
Now, a common mantra exercise you can practice to center yourself is breathing in and on the out-breath chanting "Aum." Feel its one syllable form three waves: ahhhh, as your breath releases, ooooouhh expressing your calm and peace, and sealing it off with your lips, mmmmmmm. Then do it again, slower, longer, calmer, and lower; then one more time. Over time, see if you can let the chant come from way back down deep in your throat and resonate in your belly. Close your eyes. Follow it with your mind.
Blowing ZenThe oldest wind instrument on the planet may be the Australian dijeridu, long wooden trumpets whose continuous traditions date back at least 30,000 years. Tibet has a similar length horn made of copper, ten feet long, said to represent the strength of the earth. It's often played with shorter horns representing the delicacy of the heavens, bringing these two forces into balance in the mind of the listener.
Hon ne: "root"/"sound," inner voice. The Japanese word for meditative music, honkyoku, can mean the original tuning for a particular instrument, but can also be read as "sounds from the origin."
The word for the Japanese zen flute, shakuhachi, means 54.5 centimeters, referring to its length. The Japanese word for playing shakuhachi, suizen, means "blowing zen" (just as zazen means sitting zen). No duality: sitting is zen, blowing is zen, it's all meditation.
If the long horn's unique to Tibetan Buddhism, so is the Japanese flute called the shakuhachi truly zen. Made of the root of thick timber-strength bamboo, its sound is made by blowing perpendicularly across the end, rather than directly down into the flute. Just as it takes time to learn how to sit zen, or serve tea, or make one line with a bamboo brush, so with blowing one note on the shakuhachi: the hard-earned result, in both cases, can express the player's distinct signature. The sound is hauntingly like a voice and all its moods but, as with a rock garden, abstracted somehow.
Listening to shakuhachi, I wonder where else have I heard the sound of thunder echoing within precipitous peaks, the cry of distant deer, and the voices of cranes as the young ones leave the nest? The music is also reminiscent of haiku and zen brush scrolls, as well as Debussy's impressionism (evoking fireworks, goldfish, dancing snowflakes, gardens in the rain, and so on).
Rhythm isn't foot-stompingly obvious, but there's always a pulse or heart rhythm. There's a melodic line, but sometimes the notes seem placed at random, like an act of nature. Each note's variable, the listener's mind slows down to pay due attention to each one, and, like good jazz, you're continually surprised to find where it's going next. Just like life.
Country 'n' Eastern, and Other SoundtracksIf you have the opportunity, go hear a live concert of shakuhachi or Tibetan chant, that's how such acoustic music's intended to be experienced. Meanwhile, everything's becoming available electronically, and the selection can be dizzying.
One of my favorite genres is country 'n' eastern, which is country 'n' western plus Eastern influences. Jimmy Dale Gilmore and Joe Ely are two good examples. My flat-footed favorite is Butch Hancock, composer of such mindful ditties as "My Mind's Got a Mind of Its Own" and "Just a Wave, Not the Ocean."
For your Buddhist listening pleasure, I heartily recommend two more composer-musicians who've both done double duty with soundtracks: Kitaro and Philip Glass. Shelved under "New Age" somewhere in between Enya and Yanni (say those two names together fast, three times), Japanese composer-musician Kitaro ("Man of Many Joys") interweaves traditional Eastern instruments with electronic synthesizers to make ever-unfolding, soundscapes to heartily, mindfully hum along to. I recommend Mandala, for starters.
Contemporary lyrics with Buddhist meanings, intended or otherwise: the Beastie Boys' "Bodhisattva Vow" and "The Update," Steely Dan's "Bodhisattva" and "Roll Back the Meaning," Donovan's "The Way" and "The Evernow" (from Sutras), George and Ira Gershwin's "I've Got Plenty of Nothing," Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now," Malvina Reynolds', "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" John Lennon's "Imagine," Lennon and McCartney's "Give Peace a Chance," Natalie Merchant's "All I Want," Alanis Morisette's "All I Really Want," REM's "Everybody Hurts," Patti Smith and Tom Shanrahan's "1959," and Van Morrison's "Hymns to the Silence."
On first listen, Philip Glass's music might sound like something's stuck. Actually, he weaves wonderful soundscapes out of very small, rhythmic, repeated haiku-like fragments. He has a huge body of work, but start anywhere: string quartets, violin concerto and symphonies, operas, and film scores. Listening to Glass is meditation.
So, to sum up: sing in the shower. Join a choir or a recitation sangha. Serenade the spheres. Listen, and you shall hear. Stay in tune!
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CHARLOTTE, NC, November 18, 2021. A Gaston County, North Carolina resident filed a lawsuit against Charlotte-based CPI Security Systems, Inc. and CPI CEO Kenneth Gill on November 16, 2021. The lawsuit alleges the plaintiff, Kelley Phelps, was terminated from her job at CPI in retaliation for objecting to CPI’s racist practices, including racist comments by CEO Kenneth Gill. At the time of her termination, Phelps was the highest-ranking Black manager at CPI and had been employed with the company for over 20 years.
CPI’s CEO was the focus of community protest in June 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, after Gill sent an e-mail that went viral in which he stated community members should “spend [their] time in a more productive way” and that a “better use of time” would be “to focus on the black-on-black crime.” Following widespread media coverage of Gill’s statements, numerous corporate customers of CPI, including the Charlotte Hornets, Carolina Panthers, Bojangles, and the YMCA, dropped CPI as a vendor. Many CPI employees staged a walkout and threatened to quit en masse.
According to the lawsuit, after Gill’s e-mail went viral, Gill was privately dismissive of the public outcry and stated: “This is just the next story. It’ll blow over.” Phelps, then CPI’s Customer Call Center Director, became so frustrated with the company’s inaction on racial issues that she gave notice of her intent to resign but was persuaded by CPI executives to stay. The lawsuit alleges that CPI then asked Phelps to meet with former Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Chief of Police Kerr Putney, whom CPI had recently hired as its new Community and Government Relations consultant, to discuss CPI’s racial culture. Phelps alleges she discussed racist comments and actions at CPI, including statements by CEO Gill, and proposed remedial action. CPI terminated her shortly thereafter.
The lawsuit alleges other discriminatory practices by CPI, including discriminating against its own customers by running credit checks on those in neighborhoods with high Black populations, and discriminating against its Black employees by allowing customers to choose the race of CPI field technicians. Gill also reportedly stated at an executive meeting that a deeply-tanned white manager would “have to sit at the back of the bus” if he got any darker.
Phelps brings claims against CPI for race discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981. In addition, Phelps asserts claims under North Carolina common law for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy. Phelps is represented in her lawsuit by Nina Pirrotti of Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Fitzgerald & Pirrotti, P.C., of New Haven, Connecticut, and the Law Office of Faith Herndon of Durham, North Carolina.

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BLUESFEST 2021 ALL SET TO GO TO COVID SAFE PARTERNSHIPS KEEP LIVE MUSIC EVENTS GOING .
In a major win for the Australian music industry, the much-loved Byron Bay Bluesfest music event will make its COVID-safe return this Easter, with performances from an all-Aussie line-up of artists set to reinvigorate the local live music scene.
There’s one other major all-Aussie element to Bluesfest this year: the behind-the-scenes technology and products keeping the event COVID-safe, developed by Australian company Aeris Environmental.
The environmentally friendly Aeris Defence solution – used to clean, disinfect, and protect the site over the entire festival period – not only kills the COVID-19 virus, but gives residual surface protection against COVID-19 for up to seven days.
Bluesfest is the first major live music event of its kind to be staged in a post-COVID Australia, and organisers worked closely with government officials and departments to develop a comprehensive COVID-19 safety plan.
“Bluesfest is an amazing showcase of Australian talent and we are proud to be able to support the COVID-safe reopening of this truly iconic event,” said Maurie Stang, Aeris Environmental founder and Chairman.
“Many other events and industries will look to Bluesfest’s approach as a blueprint for a way to restart in a COVID-safe world. Festival goers who visit Bluesfest this year can have peace of mind that regular cleaning of surfaces using Aeris’ unique and non-toxic products will not only kill COVID-19, but also provide residual surface protection for the duration of the event. Importantly, the guests, staff and talent will be using the state-of-the-art Aeris ActiSan hand sanitisers throughout the event, with rapid action and outstanding skin compatibility ensuring high compliance.” said Mr Stang.
Seats, hand basins, ticket booths, VIP areas and stages will be among the many surfaces disinfected using Aeris Environmental’s non-toxic products at this year’s Bluesfest.
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“With a considered and holistic view of protecting surfaces, skin and the air we breathe against the spread of COVID-19 and other diseases and bacteria, Australia’s business, events and tourism industries can reopen with confidence.”
Peter Noble OAM, the Festival Director of Bluesfest said that “Music is a universal form of communication, and we must support our local artists and events to kick start this industry which is at the soul of our society.”


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We saw the Droid X in an OnStar commercial way back in October running the car service’s new Android app, but now we’re seeing it as bold as ever in magazines. The photo above, sent in at almost the same time by two readers, was featured in Popular Science and as you can tell, is a full 2-page spread showcasing one of our favorite family members.
Another Droid appearance. Keep sending these in!
Cheers MrBob and @MrKLove1!
A new episode of NBC’s Community is airing, well right now, and in the opening scene a Droid X was featured. Add it to the list of Droid Appearances that we’ll continue to track as long as our favorites devices keep gettin’ the love!
Cheers Dean (pic), Jack and Brian!
Another day and another Droid appearance on a major network’s show. During the last minute of episode 2 on “No Ordinary Family”, our beloved OG is used by someone who is obviously evil to let their boss know that a job had been completed. What exactly was that job? Oh, just for him to use his special powers to take a gun from a police officer and then shoot them with it while walking out the front door. Yikes.
Be sure to submit any Droid appearances here!
Maybe we should start up a “DROID Appearances” category on this site since we love covering them so much. In the latest sighting, the original Droid gets some major face time on another episode of Castle. In the show, a boy is kidnapped and an OG is left in his place to provide clues to the cops and father. The kidnapper sends videos, texts and other fun clues all through our beloved Droid. (more…)
You can’t go 5 minutes anymore without seeing the Droid X in either a commercial, TV show or other big screen showcase and that trend continued last night when our favorite family member showed up in an episode of CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother.” Since I missed the episode, I’m not going to give you a play-by-play of the action and will instead leave you searching your DVR for the fun.
Keep sending these in everyone!
Is there a better way to kick off a Monday morning than with a Droid X making an appearance in a Stoli commercial? While we’ve seen some random commercials before, like the Robitussin one, this Stoli spot just feels odd. See for yourself after the jump. (more…)
The Droid X continues is TV appearance domination, this time with a starring role in the new Robitussin commercial. Feeling sick? Jump on your DX and head to robitussin.com to figure out what kind of medicine you need! Or you could just drink an Emergen-C, plenty of water and sleep instead of masking your cold with weird chemicals? Blurry commercial I snagged after the break. (more…)
Duracell has a new product on the market called the MyGrid and in their latest commercial, they feature a variety of phones charging on it, but most notably is the pink, yes pink Motorola Droid. It looks like Duracell had enough money to fork out for the Blackberry name, but not our family member’s. Anyone want a pink Droid?
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The Blade Runner franchise has always been (and continues to be) a technical powerhouse. Here are some ways to pull off the film’s cutting-edge effects.
Top Image via Warner Brothers.
The Blade Runner franchise has always been known for it’s use of practical (and non-practical) effects, and it has always been regarded as one of the most legendary examples of how to merge the two to realistic and superior results.
With Blade Runner 2049, director Denis Villeneuve carried the franchise torch into the 21st century with respectful nods to the special effects and visual processes of the original. In the below video, Villeneuve discusses his contempt for working on empty green screen stages and being locked into the pre-visualized camera movements — so he made sure from the beginning that they would be working practically as much as possible.
Video via Vice.
Aside from achieving a more realistic result from a special effects perspective, this approach also creates a much better atmosphere for actors to work in and become a part of the physical world.
“That set is a massive practical set. It also has a great number of visual effects, and also miniatures that combine to create the world that you see on film. But as an audience you’re watching most of that performance taking place in a real actual environment.” —Andrew A. Kosove, Producer, Bladerunner 2049
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In the Vice video, production designer Dennis Gassner shows off the “trash mesa” — an old soccer field filled with piles of metal scraps and textured, rubberized foam. Interestingly enough, it appears that its entire function was to serve as a texture and lighting reference for creating special effects.
This is an interesting example of how to create your own textures and looks. Sometimes you have to build a field of futuristic trash to see what a field of futuristic trash should look like.
The modern approach to making stellar visual effects is the same approach that has always worked. Using practical textures, lighting, and sets can really help you achieve the look you’re going for — this is the formula that has brought the most legendary visual effects-driven films their success.
While you may not have the big budgets and teams that Villeneuve had to work with, you can still find ways to emulate some of his process in your own work.
Here are a few examples of some visual tricks and effects inspired by the Blade Runner franchise that you can pull off in Adobe Premiere and After Effects.
Create Blade Runner-Inspired Eyes in After Effects
In this After Affects tutorial, you can use the tracking tools and some masking to create the look of the replicant eyes from the first Blade Runner — or you can also create the creepy gray-eyed look of Jared Leto‘s Niander Wallace. Using this tutorial, you can learn methods that will benefit you beyond just these effects — you can use eye tracking to do a lot of really interesting things.
Create the Blade Runner 2049 Desert Look In After Effects
In this tutorial by Film Riot, learn how to create one of the most iconic looks from the new Blade Runner movie. Aside from some very aggressive color correction techniques, this tutorial features some really interesting approaches to using any environment to create another one. Similar to the special effects approach in the film itself, the Film Riot team found a way to use real textures and elements in conjunction with non-practical ones to create their look — including one really great use of a drone shot.
Create a Sci-Fi Hologram Inspired By Blade Runner 2049 In Premiere Pro
In this Premiere Pro tutorial, the team at Cinecom shows you how to do some creative things with masking and chroma-keying to achieve some of the holographic/hologram looks from Blade Runner 2049. Beyond achieving a similar effect to what you see in the movie, you can also use this method to do all kinds of other things. Perhaps you’d like to clone your actor, or have a fist fight with a ghost. All of it is possible using the methods in this tutorial.
Interface HUD Elements Pack
If you need some sci-fi inspired heads-up-display elements to add to your projects, check out the Interface HUD pack. This pack contains over 400 elements that you can use to build displays and effects — and add tons of detail to your sci-fi projects.
Have you used any of these techniques in your own projects? Let us know in the comments.


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Earnshaw History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The present generation of the Earnshaw family is only the most recent to bear a name that dates back to the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. Their name comes from having lived in or near a woods where golden eagles lived. Earnshaw is a compound of the Old English words earn and sceaga. Earn was the Old English name for the golden eagles, and sceaga was a word that meant forest or wilderness. The original bearer of this name must have lived in or near a woods noted for its eagle population. Interestingly, the modern word erne is the name of the sea eagle, a related but separate species of bird to the golden eagle. Golden eagles are very rare in the British Isles today, but in the Middle Ages they were a common bird of prey. Their range was in the northern part of the island, and they were particularly fond of mountainous terrain. Most golden eagles were found in the Pennines and in the Scottish Highlands.
Early Origins of the Earnshaw family
The surname Earnshaw was first found in Yorkshire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
Early History of the Earnshaw family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Earnshaw research. Another 92 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 131 and 1316 are included under the topic Early Earnshaw History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Earnshaw Spelling Variations
Until the dictionary, an invention of only the last few hundred years, the English language lacked any comprehensive system of spelling rules. Consequently, spelling variations in names are frequently found in early Anglo-Saxon and later Anglo-Norman documents. One person's name was often spelled several different ways over a lifetime. The recorded variations of Earnshaw include Earnshaw, Earnshawe, Ernshaw, Earnshay and others.
Early Notables of the Earnshaw family (pre 1700)
More information is included under the topic Early Earnshaw Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
In the United States, the name Earnshaw is the 17,792nd most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name.
Thousands of English families boarded ships sailing to the New World in the hope of escaping the unrest found in England at this time. Although the search for opportunity and freedom from persecution abroad took the lives of many because of the cramped conditions and unsanitary nature of the vessels, the opportunity perceived in the growing colonies of North America beckoned. Many of the settlers who survived the journey went on to make important contributions to the transplanted cultures of their adopted countries. The Earnshaw were among these contributors, for they have been located in early North American records:
Earnshaw Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:
Earnshaw Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

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Traveling with kids demands more preparation, especially about their needs and the right places to see during the vacation, including visiting green spaces in Singapore. You also can get some great places to see while traveling to Singapore with kids.
You should bring the kids there so that they will enjoy the vacation much more. Not only shopping malls and amusement parks, Singapore also have green spaces that are perfect for the kids to explore and learn the nature.
Green Spaces in Singapore
Green spaces are a necessity in any city, especially in densely populated ones like Singapore. Besides serving as recreational areas for local residents, green spaces can also be attractive tourist destinations for foreigners. Here are the green spaces in Singapore that you must visit.
Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden
This green spaces in Singapore is the first one dedicated for kids and it is perfect for the energetic kids. The children can learn about nature and burn their energy off in this garden. The educational areas in this garden are designed very interesting for kids, like the stations of Magic of Photosynthesis and the sensory garden.
Besides, the children also can have many other fun activities at the playground, interactive stations, and the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The garden also features the tree house slides, maze, sandpit to play and get dirty, as well as the waterworks that let them soak into it.
If you get hungry while you are in the garden area, try the Kidz Café that is specially made for the children, with the special menu for kids as well as the tiny chairs and tables. For the adults, try the nice coffee of the café to help to keep up with the children.
In addition, you also can try another great cup of coffee in the Cluny Court’s Da PaoloGastronomia, it is located at the opposite of Botanic Gardens MRT station. The garden is free to visit. Don’t forget to wear hats and sunscreen or just visit the garden in the early morning or the late afternoon to avoid the hot sunny day.
Children Garden of the Far East Organization
It is a children’s garden in the Marina Bay complex as the part of the Gardens by the Bay. The amazing garden has a typical design for 1-12 years old children. Consisting two areas, the children can explore the garden and learn the nature based on their age.
For the kids less than 6 years old, the wet and dry playground is separated with the older children’s by dense gardens, so that they are not disturbed each other. In the older children’s area, the garden features rainforest tree houses surrounded by climbing ropes, twisting slide, and spider net. A water area is also another feature of the garden for enjoying cool off time.
It must be fun to bring your kids to travel especially to green spaces in Singapore. Booking the flight tickets in advance to get cheaper airfares. Visit Airpaz, a website where cheap tickets are offered every day.


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NEW BRITAIN - Nestled in the industrial park is the city‚Äôs newest retreat - Alvarium Beer Company, opening this weekend.
Located at 365 John Downey Drive, it is the first brewery to operate in New Britain since the closing of the Cremo Brewing Company in the 1950s.
In Latin, ‚ÄúAlvarium‚ÄĚ means ‚Äúbeehive,‚ÄĚ a homage to the City of New Britain‚Äôs motto: ‚ÄúIndustry fills the hive and enjoys the honey.‚ÄĚ
Owners Mike Larson, Chris DeGasero and Brian Bugnacki founded the company in 2016. Each brings a different skill and expertise to the partnership.
DeGasero is no stranger to brewing, having worked as a brew master and assistant brewer at the Cambridge House Brewpub in Granby and at City Steam in Hartford. He also apprenticed at 508 Gastropub and Brewery and Chelsea Brewing in New York.
Larson has a mechanical engineering degree and more than a decade of experience working in operations.
Bugnacki, who has a degree from the University of Hartford‚Äôs Barney School of Business, serves as the brains behind the company‚Äôs marketing.
In March, they began a Kickstarter campaign with the goal to raise $15,000. Within nine hours of starting the campaign they met their goal. Just a few weeks later they more than doubled that amount with $35,300.
What makes the brewery unique, Larson said, is that the bar sits on 10,000 pounds of steel all reclaimed and the bar itself is made of reclaimed red oak.
Alvarium will have 13 different taps, two will be specifically devoted to nitro - one which will have cold brew coffee and the other will be on a rotating basis. Another tap will be cider from New England Cider Company in Wallingford, and the rest will be beer brewed in-house.
The trio said they will cater to styles that are trending, but also try other things.
‚ÄúThe most exciting part is trying a style you‚Äôve never had before and it opens your eyes and makes you even more excited to say: ‚ÄėHey, what else is out there that I haven‚Äôt tried before?‚Äô We want to have that experience for our customers,‚ÄĚ said DeGasero.
The 5,000 square feet of brewing space and tap room features a rustic setting for socializing, an outdoor patio, custom honeycomb lighting, games, a digital menu system that shows customers the current beers on tap, hot (and to-go) local kielbasa from Brian‚Äôs father, Dennis, owner of Bugnacki‚Äôs Specialty meats, fresh Bavarian pretzels from Pretzel Haus of West Hartford and Avery‚Äôs Soda of New Britain. Guests are welcomed to bring their own food too.
The brewery also plans to have food trucks from the area and other special events like a dog adoption event in the fall and an upcoming fundraiser for the New Britain High School Band.
A public grand opening celebration will be held Saturday, from noon to 10 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 7 p.m. at 365 John Downey Drive, Suite B.
The owners urge the public to follow Alvarium on social media or check the company‚Äôs website for an updated daily list of what‚Äôs on tap, Alvariumbeer.com or @alvariumbeer.


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New Delhi (Aryavarth) India is witnessing the weakest hiring sentiment in 15 years with just 3 per cent companies planning to add staff in the next three months, a survey of over 800 employers said on Tuesday.
According to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey, that covered 813 firms across India, Indian employers report cautious hiring plans for the final quarter of 2020.
As per the survey, 7 per cent of employers anticipate an increase in payrolls, 3 per cent forecast a decrease and 54 per cent expect no change. Once the data is adjusted to allow for seasonal variation, the Outlook stands at 3 per cent, it said.
“Hiring sentiment is the weakest since the survey began 15 years ago, remaining relatively stable when compared with the previous quarter, but declining by 16 percentage points in comparison with this time one year ago,” the survey said.
The strongest hiring pace is recorded in the small-sized organisations followed by the medium-sized and large-sized firms. From a region perspective, north and east regions indicate a more positive outlook compared to the west and south, the survey said.
“Post the ‘right-sizing’ exercise aligning themselves to the current market demands, organisations are now looking at improving productivity, new forms of employee engagement, getting furloughed employees back and implementation of technology,” said Sandeep Gulati, Group Managing Director of ManpowerGroup India.
These factors are influencing the employment trends this quarter, he added.
Gulati further said that “the government is also trying to ease the burden on corporate India by providing various sops from production-linked incentives to changes in the labour law and leniency on tax returns. We hope to see the impact of these reforms in the subsequent quarters”.
The survey further said that nearly 44 per cent of employers reported that they may return to pre-COVID-19 hiring within the next nine months whereas 42 per cent are unsure about returning back to normalcy from the hiring perspective.
When asked about existing members of the workforce that have been placed on job retention or furlough scheme, 42 per cent of companies suggest they plan to bring them back with reduced hours, however, 3 per cent indicate these staff will be let go.
Globally, employers in 22 of the 43 countries and territories surveyed by ManpowerGroup expect to add to payrolls in the period up to the end of December 2020. In 16 countries and territories, employers expect to reduce payrolls, while flat hiring activity is forecast in five.
The strongest labour markets are expected in Taiwan, the United States, Turkey, Japan and Greece, while the weakest hiring intentions are reported in Panama, Costa Rica, South Africa, Colombia and the UK.
“Interviewing was carried out during the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 outbreak. The survey findings for the fourth quarter of 2020 are likely to reflect the impact of the global health emergency, and maybe notably different from previous quarters,” it noted.


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International Research Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vol.5 (1),pp. 13-16, January 2020
Available online at https://www.journalissues.org/IRJMBS/
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Intramural ectopic pancreatic tissue of the stomach: An uncommon origin of a non-cancerous gastric tumour
Chiriatti E*1, Papazarkadas X2, Koliakos E3, Kuckzma P1 Pezzetta E1 and Martinet O1
1Department of General Surgery, Hospital Riviera – Chablais (HRC), Montreux, Switzerland.
2Department of General Surgery, Hospital of Valais (CHVR), Sion, Switzerland.
3Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Vaud (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
*Corresponding Author: E-mail enricakir(at)hotmail.it
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Ectopic pancreatic tissue is often incidentally encounter during abdominal surgery. We report a case of an incidental finding during a laparoscopic appendectomy, the approach to diagnosis and management of this. A 32 year-old woman was diagnosed with an intramural pre-pyloric mass during a laparoscopic appendectomy. The mass was not visible on a subsequent computed tomography. Upper esophagho-gastro-duodenoscopy was normal. The intramural mass was confirmed by an endoscopic sonography and the fine needle biopsy showed a specific inflammatory cells. A laparoscopic wedge resection was realized. Histopathologic examination confirmed the diagnosis of an ectopic pancreatic tissue. Despite the plethora of diagnostic modalities available, a definitive diagnosis for heterotopic pancreas often remains elusive, requiring more invasive diagnostic means. Although ample information is available in literature, there are currently no evidence-based guidelines regarding diagnosis and management of heterotopic pancreas.
Key words: Heterotopic pancreas, aberrant pancreas, pancreatic heterotopia, abdominal surgery, appendectomy, pancreas, gastrointestinal surgery

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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) information
People with Down syndrome are more susceptible to developing severe symptoms from COVID-19, which could lead to hospitalisation.
If you are sick and think you have symptoms of COVID-19, seek medical advice, and get tested. If you want to talk to someone about your symptoms or if you need information about COVID-19 or COVID-19 vaccines, call the National coronavirus and COVID-19 vaccine helpline on 1800 020 080.
If you are concerned about your health or the health of a family member with Down syndrome, consult a medical professional.
You can also use the COVID-19 Symptom Checker. The Symptom Checker website asks you a series of questions to help you find out if you need medical help.


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A Master of Science in Engineering Oral Examination for Stanley John will be held on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 9:00 a.m.in Harold Tam Ming Wing, Room-E41A.
The thesis title is "Modelling of Unresolved Bathymetry in Tidal Flow Simulations".
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Senate Republicans lost a dogged fight Wednesday to smother a proposal requiring schools to include information about emergency contraception and condoms in sex-education courses.
Sen. Shawn Mitchell of Broomfield said the measure imposes a curriculum of “condoms, consummation and copulation.” And Sen. Nancy Spence of Centennial warned that kids will have to see “condoms on bananas.”
Democrats killed Republican amendments to the bill one after the other, including one requiring schools to teach “when conception begins.”
“For me, this bill is really a pro-life bill,” said Sen. Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont. “It’s about reducing unintended pregnancy and abortion.”
House Bill 1292 won initial passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate and will get a final vote as early as today. The measure already has passed the House. The bill says school districts should emphasize abstinence in sex-ed courses but must include science-based facts about sexually transmitted diseases and birth control.
The measure has an opt-out provision if parents, educators and school board members in a district want to teach only abstinence.
About 12,130 girls younger than 18 become pregnant in Colorado every year – about one girl an hour, said bill sponsor Sen. Sue Windels, D-Arvada. Twenty percent of those pregnancies are aborted, she said.
The legislation encourages school boards to collaborate with parents and teachers to develop an up-to-date sex-education curriculum, she said.
“It’s something that people tend to avoid because nobody feels comfortable talking about sex,” Windels said. “This is the way we’re going to open the door.”
Sen. Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, called out Democrats for mandating a sex-ed curriculum after the legislature killed his bill imposing math and science graduation requirements. “We have our priorities way out of whack,” he said. “It’s an embarrassment.”
Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray, tried to amend the bill to exempt all 42 school districts in his Senate district. And Sen. Scott Renfroe, R-Greeley, tried to exempt Weld County schools. Both amendments were defeated.
Teenage mothers testified in favor of more modern sex-ed courses during hearings before the House and Senate education committees.
Sen. Bob Bacon, D-Fort Collins, said he was touched by the testimony of a girl struggling to support her 2-year-old daughter at age 15.
“For that young woman, and for many young women like that, I’m going to vote for this bill,” he said.
Said Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver: “We have an MTV culture. We have a ‘Girls Gone Wild’ culture. We need school boards to understand this is a matter of statewide concern.”
Staff writer Jennifer Brown can be reached at 303-954-1593 or firstname.lastname@example.org.