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One of many memorable moments from "Dr Frankenstein's Travelling Freakshow" at C Nova.
Here Julius M. Barker (Justin Cliffe) reprograms Bethilda the Bearded Lady (Georgina Harris), via an electric shock. Well, you don't want to pamper performers during Fringe? Method actors, indeed! ;-)
The last show is today (13th), so if you want to see it, be quick.
You can find out more about the show, here:
www.tinshedtheatrecompany.com/#!frankensteinfreakshow/cjvj
You can book tickets, here:
www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/dr-frankenstein-s-trave...
reprogram new hires
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In this elegant research vessel, Craig Venter set sail around the world to shotgun sequence the millions of viruses and bacteria in every spoonful of seawater. From the first five ocean samples, this team grew the number of known genes on the planet by 10x and the number of genes involved in solar energy conversion by 100x. The ocean microorganisms have evolved over a longer period of time and have pathways that are more efficient than photosynthesis.
Another discovery: every 200 miles across the open ocean, the microbial genes are up to 85% different. The oceans are not homogenous masses. They consist of myriad uncharted regions of ecological diversity… and the world’s largest genetic database.
From the collection of digital genomes, we are learning to decode and reprogram the information systems of biology. Like computer hackers, we can leverage a prior library of evolved code, assemblers and subsystems. Many of the radical applications lie outside of medicine.
At the Venter Institute, Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith are leading the Minimal Genome Project. They take the Mycoplasma genitalium from the human urogenital tract, and strip out 200 unnecessary genes, thereby creating a simple synthetic organism that can self-replicate (at about 300 genes). They plan to layer new functionality on to this artificial genome, by splicing cassettes of novel genes discovered in the oceans for energy conversion from sunlight. These synthetic cells have could be used for a variety of materials or energy applications, for example, to generate biofuels from the sun’s energy.
1. Twilight, las vacaciones en la Patagonia argentina y chilena.
2. El Paraguas Azul, el invierno italiano de Ceci en Como.
3. Tango, una parejita de bailarines de tango que se fue a vivir a Londres.
4. Cancelada y Reprogramada, el viaje de Flor a Europa y las cenizas del volcán que alargaron una semana su estadía en Como.
5. Lovely Rollei, la Rollei de mi viejo
6. Un lunes celeste y blanco I, la fiesta más importante de Rosario, el Día de la Bandera.
7. Cuidando la joyita, el Mega Encuentro de Autos y Motos que se realiza todos los años, una fiesta para fotografiar joyitas antiguas.
8. Secretos bien guardados, un viaje a Victoria para estrenar en la ruta al coche nuevo.
9. En el País de los Sueños, por fin pude asistir al Festival de Barriletes "Pintemos el Cielo", por distintas causas nunca lo había podido hacer.
10. El corderito, un encuentro en Huerta Grande con un excelente grupo de gente amiga.
11. Dancing to her Shadow, el casamiento de mi sobrina Julieta.
12. Viejas Amigas, el regalo de diciembre, la visita de Cecilia a Rosario, estuvo casi un mes con nosotros.
En resumen, mi 2010 fue mejor que mi 2009, espero que el próximo sea aun mejor.
Feliz 2011 para todos!!!!
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The Power Of The Subconscious Mind
The magic of positive thinking is real. Adopting behaviors like positive self talk and daily positive affirmations can change the brain's structure and ultimately influence the subconscious mind.
So how does the power of positive thinking work its magic in your mind? Together, the conscious and subconscious minds direct the show that is your life. So altering their function will lead to new and different ways of being. Let's begin with a few definitions:
The Subconscious Mind: It's worth noting that the "subconscious mind" I'm speaking of, is what Freud called the "unconscious mind". There is no subconscious mind in psychoanalysis. It is more of a new age, self development term.
So when referring to the subconscious mind, I'm talking about that part of the mind that stores feelings, perceptions, complexes, beliefs and desires that are all outside of our conscious awareness, yet have a powerful influence over the actions and behaviors we take in every moment.
The unconscious mind is associated with the dreaming, reflecting, meditating and sleeping state. It is intuitive, easily making associations and connections between thoughts, ideas and feelings. It does your perceiving and feeling.
The Conscious Mind: The conscious mind is the antithesis of the subconscious mind. It does all of your intellectual thinking.
It's the part of your mind responsible for your self-talk, the endless stream of mind chatter that can on occasion almost send you crazy. The conscious mind likes logical order and sequential information. It likes things to make sense, to have reason. At any one time, the conscious mind can manage awareness of about seven or eight bits of information.
The Magic Of Positive Thinking: The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind
While we like to think we have conscious control over what we attract, what we do in life, and how we behave, the truth is, the subconscious has most of the control. So when you aren't attracting what you want in life, it's an indication that unconsciously you have low expectations for yourself. Even if on a conscious level you make every effort to achieve something, unless your unconscious carries synergistic expectations, then it will be difficult to achieve.
The Magic Of Positive Thinking: Programming The Subconscious Mind
Information is received by the subconscious mind from the conscious mind. Your conscious mind perceives the world through your senses. It then attaches a judgment to these thoughts that creates a feeling. The feeling is then lodged into your unconscious mind as a belief.
Since all of your unconscious beliefs were first conscious thoughts, it stands to reason that you can change or reprogram your subconscious mind by actively adopting new thinking. This is where the magic of positive thinking comes into play!
Using The Magic Of Positive Thinking To Impact Your Life
Follow these steps to help with unleashing your mind's power using the power of your thoughts:
Become aware of your negative programming and beliefs. For example, perhaps growing up you were teased (as so many kids are) about a facial feature or your sports ability. And now, no matter what you do, you cannot see yourself as anything but ugly or anything but a klutz. In each of these cases, the negative beliefs you want to reprogram are "I am ugly" and "I am a klutz".
Activate the power of positive thinking: start feeding your conscious mind with new beliefs. At this stage, it's not important that you agree with your new belief, what's important is that it's motivating to you and you'd like to believe it to be true. So in each case, the new beliefs you would want to instill in yourself are "I am truly beautiful, inside and out" and "I am good at sports/I am comfortable in my body".
Continue feeding your mind stimulus that aligns with these statements. Meditation (especially binaural brain beat meditations and hypnosis are like super vitamins at this.) They help you achieve a relaxed state where its much easier to accept and integrate positive self talk. You can also incorporate positive daily affirmations and visualization exercises to help make change more rapid. Overtime, as you keep feeding yourself new positive stimulus the negative thoughts you've become so used to hearing will become quieter. Through repeated exposure to your new beliefs, you will start to change your perception of yourself in these areas. At first you'll notice the change in small things. Perhaps you'll decide to take up a sport or if you're belief was that you are ugly, perhaps you'll notice that you suddenly feel more sexy and confident and you might start to dress differently to reflect this.
The main point to remember is that you can practice the magic of positive thinking in your life by controlling what thoughts you focus on. It's not an over claim to say that positive thinking is one of the best self help solutions available. It can do wonders for your life.
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For more complicated projects, you may need to have a longer testing procedure in which case we can make multi-step testers that also keep the PCB held down with little ears!
(We totally saw this and stole the idea from someone online but we can't find the link anymore, sorry!)
The plastic pieces hold down the PCB against the pogo bed. This tester, when used with a little batch script, performs the following test:
1.Reprograms the board's fuses and flash with a bootloader (via the ISP port). For this part we're using the Arduino as an ISP programmer (there's a sketch that does this)
2. The computer then bootloads (via USB) a pin-by-pin testing program
3. Once the board indicates the test completed, the computer erases the testing program
see more at ladyada.net/make/pogojig/
As you can tell, I won NaNoWrimo by meeting my word count goal of 5,000 words with a novel inspired by a LEGO minifig, believe it or not! Here's the novel that I wrote, if you're interested!
Space Police System Log (Sector Twelve)Stardate 10.29.2110 11:00 AM GMT
>System accessed from portable pad 100198
>Portable pad 100198 info: Pad no longer exists
>Query to portable pad 100198 pertaining to identity
>Portable pad 100198 reply: “I’ve got a new recruit, so I had to give the recruit Hime’s old pad”
>Portable pad 100198 authenticity: Security access level Green permitted
>Security system access by portable pad 100198: Security code “Admin” entered
>New security status of portable pad 100198: Security level Red all areas accessible
>Portable pad 100198 request access to level 9.
>Portable pad 100198 request granted
>Portable pad 100198 has went offline.
>Weapon discharge in Level 9.
>Establish lockdown.
>Lockdown established.
>Portable pad 100198 online.
>Portable pad 100198 requests removal of lockdown.
>Portable pad 100198 request granted.
>Portable pad 100198 requests shutdown of all security systems.
>Query portable pad 100198 authentication code.
>Portable pad 100198 authentication code Piccadilly.
>Portable pad 100198 request granted.
>All security systems disabled.
>Weapon discharge in Level 9
>Operator 195 vitals zero.
>Medical units dispatched.
>Portable pad 100198 request: Cancel medic dispatch and do not call medical again.
>Portable pad 100198 request granted.
>All medical response circuits disabled.
>Medical assistance call 009 canceled.
>Weapons discharge in Level 9.
>Operator 004 vitals zero.
>Weapon type established: Walther Silenced Disintegrator S/N 009.
>ERROR: Portable pad 100198’s owner has not been issued with such a weapon.
>Weapons discharge in Level 9.
>Operator 894 vitals zero.
>Weapon type established: Walther Silenced Disintegrator S/N 008.
>ERROR: Portable pad 100198’s owner has not been issued with such a weapon.
>ERROR: Discharge of two different weapons of the “Pistol” class, one in each hand, is a recognized violation of Marksmanship Statute 8976.
>GENERAL ERROR CONDITION
>Portable pad 100198 has been disabled.
>All changes revert to fifth-to-last save.
>Security teams dispatched to Level 9.
>Owner of portable pad 100198 has been disabled.
>Large explosion of the type “Fission Bomb” has been detected.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 10.31.2110
I couldn’t decipher much of the system log, as I am not that good with computer language. From what I can piece together, it happened like this:
It was a cold, dark, dry Martian night in the Sector 12 station. Sergeant-at-Arms Kelby had just begun checking his third-quarter timesheets, when an old, disused pad (100198) started to hack into the system form the disused back entrance. Eventually, it managed to hack the security codes so that it carried Captain Piccadilly’s code! The operator of the pad used this to get into Level 9, our chaotic call center. Then, he/she opened fire on the cavernous room, filled to the gills with vidphone operators. We lost three operators at that instant. They were Susan Adams, “Acid” Wund, and Jon Baker. They were all at the top of their game, and much too young to die. The security cameras caught a glimpse of a completely black-clad figure dual-wielding banned Walther Disentegrators. I ran a face-match on this picture, and had no luck. The perp suddenly teleported out of there. A small orange and red object dropped, and then KA-WHAM!, no more feed or system logging. I instantly recognized the explosion type. It was a 1-2 megaton fission bomb, with about the yield of the one that destroyed Hiroshima. Thankfully, the system’s last gasp included activating the rad shields and sealing off every section. The system and all the other electronic devices went kaput, because the Keptin designers forgot to add shielding to their design. We had no deaths from the blast, but about 50 got concussion wounds, and all of the evidence was destroyed. I might mention that the café’s food suddenly tasted like a mouthful of brick dust. I can only hope the radiation didn’t affect Sector Twelve’s food stores. The case is nowhere near closed, though.
Chapter 2
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 988) Stardate 11.2.2110
Today started out well enough. I had just figured out a new lead on Case 987. By looking at what was visible of the perp’s face through the mask, I was able to figure out that the perp was the same species as the infamous mugger Slizer. It is definitely not Slizer, though, because he is safe and sound in Planet Lisa’s max-security prison. Then, the worst happened. Reports started filtering in that the Skaalgan, a warrior race, had rebelled against the good rule of the Galactic Republic. First, le me give you a bit of background on the Skaalgan.
The Skaalgan are categorized as a Type 12 species. Normal Earth composition air is quite toxic to them, so they have to wear chlorine-filled pressure suits off their home planet, Schvinge. They are also a traditionally violent race, so these methane suits, if punctured, also serve as a deadly gas bomb to Type 3 (oxy-breathing mammals like the Humans) species. At last count, they have orchestrated a baker’s dozen rebellions against the Republic. (source: Hyperwikipedia)
They appeared to have no reason other than “it was Bob’s birthday, and that means we go rebel against somebody”. Their main forces for the initial assault consisted of the Mustard Juggernauts, the deadliest combination of armor, gas suits, and weapons the galaxy has ever seen. The Mustard Juggernauts are armed with the deadly GE Minigun and the Heckler&Koch MP5. While outdated, the Minigun puts out an astonishing 3,000 rounds per minute, and the MP5 is astonishingly accurate. Our forces were only ray-shielded, so these “outdated” mass throwers came as quite a surprise. Their main spearheads were on three planets: Planet Lisa, a then-deserted asteroid, and Space Station EM-3. It was a complete massacre. The Space Police peacekeepers, using the completely wrong type of shielding, dropped like flies. We had to call in the Space Marines.
I didn’t hear much from HNN on the issue. It soon went deep black. I had to go through the official channels to get any information on the rebellion. From what I heard, it has already been resolved. It’s not my department, anyways…..
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.5.2110
I think I have a lead! The only place where Walther Disentegrators can be found is Jack Jeebs Pawn in Queens, New York. I have a void in my schedule tomorrow, so I think I’ll go to Queens to check this out. There’s also a few friends of mine up there that may have some information pertaining to the case. By the way, Sally has been acting up lately. I think she somehow got a copy of Windows Vista to run as a background emulator to relieve boredom, and it is bugging up the system like heck.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.6.2110
I am on the evening rocket back to HQ as I write this. The visit to Jeebs’ place was quite eventful. It’s fresh in my mind, so I’ll give you a play-by-play.
I walked into the pawn shop at high noon, with a spring in my step thanks to some spring-augmented stilts from a street vendor. I soon accidentally bumped my head on the chandelier. I asked Jeebs about the Walther disintegrators nicely, and then he unexpectedly tells me about these kids walking in and stealing every single bit of high-tech weaponry he has, including the Walther Disentegrators! Luckily, those kids frequented the shop, so Jeebs new exactly who they were. They were Derek Rodriguez and Alfred Lord, both 17. They lived in the Jamaica Estates apartments, room 131 and 342 respectively. I will have to file for a warrant to both interview and interrogate these kids about the robbery and where the disintegrators went.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.7.2110
Paperwork sucks eggplants. I had to go through a Trip Value Assessment, an after-action report, an incident report, a polygraph test, an appeal for a warrant, an overhead expense justification sheet for the spring-augmented stilts, and a part replacement chitty for Sally’s graphics chip (it had become infested with gremlins) just for those past two days! Arrghh!
Anyway, I pulled up the files on those kids. Nothing came up except for this odd code fragment from Sally.
>fuzzy wuzzies
That’s all. I think I need to replace the monitor again.
Chapter 3
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.8.2110
I finally got the warrant for search of the Jamaica Estates apartments, rooms 131 and 342. I am right in front of the building right now, so I’ll go ahead and log it. The log may prove crucial.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.8.2110 Supplemental
2:00 I am at the lobby.
2:01 I ask the receptionist which way I should head to get to room 131.
2:02 Receptionist: “Here’s a map, you should know how to use it.”
2:03 Note to self: Do not ask directions from the receptionist. Ever.
2:04 I am knocking at the door of room 131.
2:09 Nobody has answered.
2:10 I am using the ancient elevator in lieu of a turbolift to get to room 342.
2:15 I am knocking at the door of room 342.
2:16 I apparently am knocking at the front door of the Odd Species Embassy in New York, New York.
2:17 Something has gone seriously wrong. I appear to have entered a spatial disturbance.
2:18 Starfleet Lieutenant Commander Data answers the door. I ask him about the disturbance.
Data: “I have no idea as to what just happened. However, I am on vacation and am able to assist.
2:19 Data pulls out his tricorder and scans me.
Data: “You appear to have come from the year 2110. Welcome to the twenty-fourth century.”
2:20 Make that temporal disturbance. I hate it when Carl Sagan forgets to carry a number.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.8.2410
I have entered a temporal disturbance while knocking at the door of room 342 at the Jamaica Estates apartments in Queens, New York. I have acquired a helper in the form of Starfleet Lieutenant Data. He is an android with a positronic brain. I have no leads on either Incident 987 or how I am supposed to get out of here. Yikes. Of course, the fuzzy wuzzies may have something to do with that.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.12.2410
I just searched “fuzzie wuzzies” about a minute ago and it came up with some interesting results. Fuzzie wuzzies appears to be an asteroid in the next sector over with an odd temporal anomaly on its surface. I’m in the middle of coordinating an attempt to figure out which time and system it goes to.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.16.2110
I am not allowed to divulge the methods by which I got back because of the Prime Directive, but here I am. Everything’s good now, but the Jamaica Estates apartments are going to have to have a thorough scientific scan for anomalies. I hope I can interrogate the two kids while they’re waiting for their rooms to finish the scan. Meanwhile, back to Sally’s defective monitor…
Transcript of interview of Derek Rodriguez and Alfred Lord by SPSI Saxon Fletcher
Stardate 11.16.2110 2:00 PM
Saxon Fletcher: Do you happen to know anything about the temporal anomaly in Alfred Lord’s room?
Alfred Lord: Woops, sorry about that. It’s a leftover from when my whole family lived in the apartment and I wanted to keep my little sister out of my room. I really must recalibrate that thing.
Saxon Fletcher: What do you know about the thief of Jack Jeebs’s whole weapons stock?
Derek Rodriguez: His weapons stock has never been stolen, ever. I should know. He lies to any overly curious people so they don’t go spreading rumors that Jeebs has some illegal weapons. He only sells those illegal weapons to people threatening him with a much bigger gun or a permit, though.
Alfred Lord: His whole stock is intact. I bought a target blaster off him just yesterday.
Saxon Fletcher: Do you happen to know anything about a pair of Walther Disentegrators that disappeared from Jeebs’s store about two weeks ago?
Derek Rodriguez: He sold them to a light-green colored alien that looked a lot like that Slizer dude you see on the “Most Wanted” posters.
Saxon Fletcher: That’s all. Good day.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.17.2110
I had to go through more paperwork than ever today! I think the paper I used was about the yield from an entire tree. I had to go to a debriefing run by the Physicists that Formerly said Theoretical, make an absence excuse sheet, negotiate with Sally’s defective gremlin-catching lawyer, file an After-Action Report from the interview of Rodriguez and Lord, explain the Prime Directive to about fifty of my coworkers, go through a full bio scan, and last but not least, a cost-risk assessment for some utterly unrelated thing that accidentally got wired to me. I plan to quantify Rodriguez’s statement about Jeebs’s sales with my old pals at MiB, test out those stilts, and try to catch up on my doctorate of investigation.
CHAPTER 3
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.18.2110
I’m at the Queens MiB bureau as I write this. It appears that both the MiB have developed a lifespan-enhancing drug called “boosterspice” with no ill effects. This has Potential with a capital P. Sadly, I am not allowed to divulge any details about this breakthrough, or I would have to brain-wipe you. Anyways, I checked with K about Jeeb’s activities. Turns out the kids were right. Jeebs uses everything he can to keep the long arm of the law out of his shop. The MiB (or Mibbies as we call them in the amateur xenobiologist community) assigned me Agent J to help me out on the case, as they lost one of their own (“Acid” Wund, who was visiting). I’ve also been assigned an extremely potent version of the famed Noisy Cricket with a longer antenna to use if things get interesting. Here’s a play-by play log of our “visit” to Jeebs’s shop.
11:00 AM Agent J and I are exiting the Mibbie’s Queens Bureau through the west exit.
11:02 AM I see the street vendor that sold me those spring-loaded stilts. I thank him.
11:05 AM Agent J and I stop to talk to a pug. He quantifies the kid’s statement yet again.
11:15 AM J and I are waiting at the bus stop.
11:45 AM J and I are still waiting.
12:00 PM We get on the bus to MacDougal Street.
1:00 PM We get off the bus.
1:15 We are at the “Question of Time” jewelry shop, aka Jeebs’s shop.
1:16 Agent J: “Jeebs, let’s see the goods.”
1:17 Jeebs: “I don’t know nothing about any goods! I’m just a humble jewelry shop owner!”
1:18 Agent J: “Skip it. We know you have extraterrestrial weapons here.”
1:19 Jeebs pulls out a fearsome-looking shotgun and presses it to J’s head. It’s time for the Son of the Noisy Cricket.
1:20 I shoot the Noisy Cricket II at Jeeb’s head and simultaneously cause Jeeb’s head to disappear, the shotgun drops on the button that changes Jeebs’s shelves, and the recoil throws me back about 10 feet. “Noisy Cricket” my butt.
1:21 Jeebs: “You idiot! Do you know how much that stings?”
1:22 I ask Jeebs about the two Walther Disentegrators he sold a couple weeks ago.
1:23 Jeebs: “That guy said he was mafia. I can’t tell you anything”.
1:24 Agent J: “The mafia doesn’t have aliens.”
1:25 Jeebs: “Alright, fine. I don’t know his name, but I do know where he lives and what he is. He is a rouge Igor from Discworld, transported here by a temporal anomaly. He currently lives in the Jupiter sky colonies.
1:26 Me: “That pretty much seals it. All Igors call themselves Igor, so we know his name, location, and timeframe.”
1:27 Agent J and I are heading back to MiB HQ.
5:00 We are back at MiB HQ. I hate rush hour.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.19.2110
I am starting preparations for the trip to Jupiter to track down the Jovian Igor. I’ve collected a warrant, a small rocket-powered atmosphere skipper, and the pressure suits necessary so far. I’m in the process of figuring out a vehicle-mounted weapons system that won’t accidentally shoot through the gas envelopes of the colonies. My solution so far uses a combination of a railgun shooting small, thin-walled ampoules of hydrogen at an incredibly high speed. Theoretically, this design will have a darn-near unlimited ammo supply, given that the Jovian atmosphere is primarily made up of hydrogen. I just have to keep the whole atmosphere from going up in flames! Agent J has come through with some of the gadgets we are going to need, and my alma mater Clark County University has provided us with a prototype warp drive capable of going Warp 4. Now all we need is a vehicle to cram all this stuff in.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.20.2110
We’ve got a ship. It’s a robust cargo hauler called the Star Porter. I’ve got a configuration for everything. The railgun design has been fabbed and is in shipping, and I am trying to cram the CCU warp drive into Engineering. I’ve collected a crack crew. Now to get the muscle to operate the lifts right… Agent J is wrestling with installing the scanners and matter-energy reactor. I have also come up with another lead about the Jovian Igor. He lives in Sky Colony 4, near the equator.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.21.2110
Ha, all the keys I had to press were the two, the one, and the zero. Anyways, we’ve got everything ready and will be underway once the FAA gives us a clearance, which could be tomorrow or the next millennium, knowing how the FAA hates everyone. I’m trying to find more info on Sky Colony 4. Apparently, the fourth colony disappeared into the Big Red Spot about five years ago, yet its transponders are giving the “all clear” signal, and their locators are disabled. Rumors have been circulating that Four broke away from the Republic. This adds another SP team to my crew compliment, but they’re good people. Heading up SPSI Team TWO will be Special Operator Medvedev. He will have Agent K, Bob and a young upstart named Kirk under him.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.22.2110
We’ve got an FAA clearance at last. We launch tomorrow. All preparations are done.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.23.2110
We have launched. We are going to do a mid-trip refuel with a Ramses-class supertanker, net info dump near Asteroid AP Alpha, and finally detach the atmospheric hopper section, which contains the bridge, living quarters for the SP investigation units, and a gas envelope inflator. I also am riding the hopper down. When we hit the atmosphere, we will gather inflatable gasses for about a minute (sixty kilometers downwards), inflating the gas envelope as we go down. Once the gas envelope inflates, we will gain the designation Sky Rover One. We will make our way over to Five’s last known location, then deploy rocket hoppers in a spiral search pattern.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.24.2110
We have made it to the refuel point with the Ramses-class supertanker Star Provider.
No sight of her, yet, which is very weird. Meanwhile, the crew has been amusing themselves with the holodeck. They have been having as much fun with the constant power and picture tube repairs as with using it. Changing the picture tubes requires hooking into a safety line climbing rig and climbing a hundred-foot ladder of titanium-sheathed Net conduits to the projector. There, they have to input a thirty-two digit hexadecimal security code to gain access to the projector assembly. Once they replace it, they face a hundred-fifty foot rappel down to safety. It’s not for the queasy. The projector blows quite a lot, so they get a lot of chances. One of our engineers is testing a wing system to eliminate the rappel. He has went through five “Frequent Patient” cards at sickbay.
The power units are a whole different story. When they go down, all heck breaks lose. The subject has to suit up in full “battle rattle”, containing a deactivator pistol, a high-strength locator beacon, a holoresolver HUD, and a Scout power armor suit. Once down to the engineering levels, he has to literally do battle with the failing holoprojector computer. The computer generates random images, most used in battle training and therefore quite frightening. The subject uses his holoresolver HUD to check and see if the hologram can do any damage (the holodeck computer has been known to interface with the replicator at times) and takes the required action. If the hologram is innocuous, he adjusts his HUD to block it out and move on. If the hologram’s matter-energy settings are off and it looks to be malicious, the subject tries to access the shipwide network and shut that down. If not, he shoots it with the deactivator, which tells the computer to shut that image down. The computer has, on occasion, taken cues from early pre-warp two-dimensional “videogames” and have a life system, which causes the image to take multiple shots to shut down. To counter this, the arts department is working with the geeks to create higher-power weapons such as deactivator cannons. I think that, with the proper modifications, these weapons will be quite useful on Sky Colony Four. Once the subject has gotten to the central holodeck computer, he has to interface directly with it via his Net implant to reprogram it to accept the new power circuitry. This is incredibly tedious at the best of times, and utterly nauseating and terrifying when the computer is really on the fritz or in one of its moods. After he has reprogrammed it, he has to come back through the “stacks”, which contain, at total, fifteen thousand terabytes of data. He must not bump a single memory stack for fear of taking down life support or his locator beacon receiver software. The Adar designers, in their endless wisdom, made this a fun little labyrinth. Thankfully, we haven’t lost a man yet, but it took five hours until we heard from SP Investigation Team ONE Matrix Specialist Max “Job Title” Porkins.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.25.2110
We have finally sighted the Star Provider and refueled. The Bussard-Cherenkov balance refueling process is quite a spectacle, so I’ll relate the process to you.
First, the subject has to bleed off all its fuel. This is usually accomplished by having the refueling point when the subject is almost completely out of fuel, but the modified Star Porter is a bit different. Our modifications meant that the quad-blaster cannon gas reserves are in the previous main fuel tank, and the fuel is contained in MASSIVE external conformal fuel tanks (ECFTs). The ECFT designer forgot to add external dump valves. Additionally, our refuel point had to be when we were midway there, because that was the last refuel point until Jupiter. We could have lasted until we were three-quarters there, but then we would be dead in space with no refueling opportunity.
Our pilot accomplishes this by taking the Star Porter through VERY aggressive combat maneuvers. He first detaches the atmospheric hopper section so the crew doesn’t get nauseated, and then goes through about twenty barrel rolls. It worked, thankfully, and I didn’t have to ride shotgun on THAT stagecoach. Next, the atmospheric hopper pilot reattaches with the main section (taking up precious fuel, but the main section pilot made it within a kilometer). Next, the tanker takes down an umbilical and refuels each ECFT individually, a painstaking process. Finally, the tanker detaches. Anyways, we refueled well and are now going towards the Net dump.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.26.2110
We have made it to the Net dump but are having some problems. The conduits are overflowing and maxing out the processors. It’s definitely going to be interesting. The engineers have hacked up a solution, involving some duct tape and a welder. We’ll see how long that holds up. I’ve actually managed to dredge u some information regarding these rebel Igors. They actually have a secret society and are plotting to take over Jupiter. They have, so far, only been able to put one Igor in, our perp.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.27.2110
We are now separating the atmospheric section from the section with the warp drive.
T+1 The section has been successfully separated.
T+2 The section is in free fall.
T+3 The envelope has been inflated.
T+4 Redesignation: Sky Rover One.
T+5: Heading to the bearing of the last transmit from Five.
T+6: Preparing to offload rocket hoppers.
T+20: Last known position of Five reached. Initiating full sensor scan.
T+25: Faint signal heard spinwards. Deploying rocket hoppers one and two to investigate.
T+30: Rocket hoppers have reported that they have found Five. I’m heading in.
T+35: I have launched in Boarding One. I am really regretting not taking those drop sickness pills.
T+40: Boarding One has inflated its envelope and we are coming alongside Five.
T+41: Sending query.
T+42: Five has fired its railgun.
T+42: We are undertaking evasive maneuvers.
T+43: We are firing at Five’s weapons stations.
T+44: We have disabled Five’s weapons.
T+45: Coming alongside Five.
T+46: SPI teams ONE and TWO have boarded.
/end log
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.28.2110
We have tracked down the Jovian Igor and he is in jail, but it’s no fun if you, dear reader, do not know how it happened, so here goes!
It was an all-too-stormy day on Jupiter. The time: high noon. We had boarded the rebel Sky Colony Five via the good ship Boarding One and swept the colony like the old Navy SEALs. Suddenly, our old friend the Jovian Igor fired at my first officer Sgt. Novak. Sadly, the perpetrator was a dead shot. I set my trusty Noisy Cricket to “stun” and went after the direction of the shot, with Men In Black Agent J trailing close behind. Little did we know, the Igor had professional training. Like any good blaster sniper, he never shot from the same spot twice. With holographic decoys that we had set out earlier dropping like flies, it looked like a miniature D-Day, except for two details: We were on a blimp and using blasters. Agent J suggested using jetpacks, which we did. Thankfully, they were the new repulsor units. Taking energy from the batteries of the dearly deceased hologram units, we took to the air like so many birds. Trouble is, our flight skills weren’t all that good (both of us having barely passed Basic Jetpack Skills in primary), so we barely made it over the courthouse roof . These comedic antics acted as excellent evasive maneuvers, so we were never hit once. I pulled out my binoculars and had a look around. Surprisingly enough, the Igor was smack-dab in my sights. I took my Noisy Cricket off safety and fired. The recoil knocked me back about 10 feet, thus throwing off my gyros. I barely had enough time to compensate before I hit the ground. My jetpack busted, I had to chase the perp on foot. He ran up a fire escape, firing wildly (and missing) all the time. When he got up, he had to change blaster gas cells. I took the opportunity and fired. The infamous Jovian Igor was down. I took out a Styrette from my supplies and injected the Igor with an anesthetic, which would keep him out for at least 5 hours. Then the worst happened. Blaster fire started pouring in from all directions. It turned out that our little friend was not alone. I left the perp to the paddy wagon and dove for cover. Fortunately, his henchmen were not as well trained, firing from the same spot all the time. Agent J was able to take most of them out, but had to leave the ones better fortified to the Noisy Cricket, which was in possession of me. I found the first one near the radio shack. He was pretty well dug in there, with Dura Crete walls and a heavy ML42. One shot with that weapon, and I would have been dead. I saw him before he saw me, though, and took him out. One shot, and KABOOM! No more bunker! I moved on to the next one, who was snug as a bug I the armory. “This is going to be hard,” I thought to myself. Completely the opposite, this guy was the dumbest of them all. He barely fired and stood way out in the open, where I shot him with the Noisy Cricket. He was, without a question, disintegrated. I took a weapon with less recoil from the armory, as well as a new repulsor pack. Again, I took to the air, but with a little more confidence this time. I spotted the third and plinked a grenade into his hideout near the commissary. It failed to go off. I plinked another, ditto. The grenades must have been affected by the harsh Jupiter atmosphere. I landed and fired my Noisy Cricket at him, and he then went down. That was the last of them. I then went back to our base and we packed up and headed for home with the Jovian Igor safe behind bars.
Investigator Saxon Fletcher’s Case Log (Incident 987) Stardate 11.29.2110
We are en route back home. We have successfully reconnected with our warp drive section, made our Net dump, refueled from the atmosphere, and solved the dual mysteries of the Jovian Igor and the missing Sky Colony Five. It turns out that the Igor society hopped onto Five disguised as normal passengers and then executed a military coup. The colony turned off its transponder and went completely self sufficient from the Republic. I can’t wait to be done with all this running around!
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Image credit goes to ywp.NaNoWriMo .org. Used with permission.
Metalhead - Donatello's half-pint associate and technological creation. He is a feisty little Turtle-bot. He received a few upgrades since we last saw him, compelling the Turtles to test out his new moves. They all are impressed with him except for Leonardo, who is apparently still hesitant about Metalhead's dependability, was later convinced that he could indeed be trusted.
In the 1987 cartoon series, Metalhead first appeared in the episode "The Making of Metalhead" where it he imbued with thoughts and memories of the Turtles. This gave Metalhead an identity disorder until Donatello reprograms him to work for the Ninja Turtles. Metalhead replicated the voices of the Ninja Turtles, Shredder, and April O'Neil, meaning that Metalhead was voiced by Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen, Townsend Coleman, Dorian Harewood (who was filling in for James Avery at the time), and Renae Jacobs. In this appearance, He was only seen again when Donatello tries to get him to vacuum their TV room in the episode "Big Bug Blunder".
In the 2003 series, Metal Head was part of the final attack on the Tengu Shredder. Metal Head appears in the "Fast Forward" season episode The Journal. Metal Head also appears in TMNT: Back to the Sewer. He shows up in the episodes "Super Power Struggle" and "Wedding Bells and Bytes".
In the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Metalhead was created by Donatello from a salvaged Kraang droid as a way to upgrade "his" weapons. Donatello could control Metalhead via a NES-like controller while observing through a TV monitor since there are cameras in Metalhead's eyes. Donatello can also speak through Metalhead voice box.
While Metalhead proved to be nearly unstoppable in combat situations, he was far too clunky and heavy to properly sneak around. Later in the episode, when his brothers became overwhelmed, Donatello sent Metalhead in to take care of the krangg. He easily defeated the Kraang attacking them, knocking off the control antenna in the process. One Kraang realized that Metalhead was made from their technology and detached from its robot body where it opted to control Metalhead. The Kraang-controlled Metalhead and attacked the Ninja Turtles, nearly killing them until Donatello showed up in person. Donatello managed to defeat Metalhead by crashing a support pillar on it.
In a later episode, Metalhead was rebuilt by Donatello where it aided the Ninja Turtles in the battle against the Kraang. Apparently now programmed with some degree of independence and operating without any sign of a direct controller, Metalhead drove the Shellraiser into the TCRI building lobby and subsequently attacked the Kraang guards while the Ninja Turtles used their new gliders to infiltrate the building from the roof.
Metalhead is reconfigured by Donatello in "Metalhead Rewired", in which he exhibits a personality similar to R2-D2 . After a battle with the Kraang goes awry, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael vote to terminate Metalhead, who quickly escapes before Donatello can do so. Metalhead is able to find a portal to a Kraang prison where many mutants from the series have been incarcerated. later Metalhead saves the turtles by staying behind to close the portal and later self destructs.
Weapons-
He has extending and rocket propelled punches and kick attacks, as well as a machine guns in his chest and rocket launchers. he also is programed and skilled with strong ninjutsu capabilities.
Video Games-
Metalhead appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time as the boss of the second level. Turtles in Time Re-Shelled; The instruction manual of the Super NES version of Turtles in Time erroneously refers to Metalhead as Mechaturtle.
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[Nota de Opinión] PUEBLA ALENTADOR… | Puebla FC Liga Bancomer MX
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Puebla., Puebla a 28 de Julio 2015
(Nota de Opinión) Carlos Caballero @crakcin
PUEBLA ALENTADOR.
Regreso el futbol que tanto esperábamos para disfrutar de la franja y ver su comportamiento en la liga, ahora en su nuevo horario domingo a las 5 de la tarde, pero antes nos dimos una vuelta por el estadio Cuauhtémoc para ver los avances en la remodelación desde adentro del inmueble y se percibe ya la colocación de asientos en una de las rampas que ya existían así como está prácticamente revocado el área de soles y plateas, ya listas para poner las butacas y la colocación de las nuevas rampas, para que tome mayor forma la nueva imagen del coloso de maravillas.
Al medio día las águilas del América visitaron a la sub 20 Poblana para inaugurar el apertura 2015, los primeros minutos fueron de mucha imprecisión por ambas escuadras digno de los nervios que provoca la primera jornada y poco a poco se fueron acomodando en la cancha.
Cuando mejor jugaba el Puebla y se asentaba en el terreno de juego una falta por la banda derecha en los linderos del área le dio una jugada a balón parado a los visitantes, que aplicaron jugada pre fabricada y un centro templado a segundo poste permitió que el defensor Jesús Veyna al minuto 25 rematara para dejar sin oportunidad al guardameta poblano Austin Guerrero, que mostro buenas cosas en su actuación y a mi parecer le podrá competir a Villaseñor por un puesto para ser el titular en la Copa.
La franja se fue al frente y con buen juego de conjunto se arrimó a la meta del América logrando dos ocasiones de peligro que no definieron los delanteros y antes del medio tiempo estuvo cerca el empate pero la defensa Águila salvo en la línea de gol.
En la segunda parte los dirigidos por Ángel Monares buscaban por todos los medios el empate pero conforme transcurría el partido no llegaba, busco con los relevos revolucionar el ataque pero no fructifico y en un descuido en la defensa de Diego Cruz, el delantero americanista es derribado en el área para que el central marcara penal y Sergio Rodríguez lo convertía en gol para el 2-0 al minuto 77 que pondría cifras definitivas.
En lo personal veo un buen trabajo en lo físico y me atrevo a decir que los resultados positivos llegaran para los juveniles enfranjados destacando el trabajo de Gary Ibarra, Diego Cruz, entre otros.
Tranquilo después de lo visto al medio día con los juveniles me alistaba para ver al primer equipo el cual después de lo mostrado en la Súper Copa MX me dejaba buenas sensaciones y que Pablo Marini ya logro plasmar su idea de juego en este grupo de guerreros.
Las cosas no iniciaban bien pues a los 3 minutos Andrés Andrade arrastraba el balón hasta el área recortando a Robert Herrera y dejando sin oportunidad a Campestrini, por un momento se pensó lo peor que se vendría una goleada del visitante, sin embargo la Franja tomo las riendas del encuentro, se hizo de la pelota en la media cancha con un gran trabajo de Robles, Torres, destacando Bermúdez y un magnifico Flavio Santos que fue la figura en la ofensiva Poblana.
El empate cayó en un tiro libre cobrado por Paco Torres y que se come el arquero Hugo Rodríguez, el buen momento de la franja se plasma con un pase de Flavio cuchareado entre los defensas centrales del América aprovechado por “Hobbit” Bermúdez para definir al ángulo y darle la voltereta al encuentro en tres minutos.
Parecía que así llegaría el descanso pero al 43 nuevamente Flavio Santos tomaba el balón y ponía un pase magistral para Alustiza quien entrando al área define con derecha cruzando el balón para el 3-1 y la euforia en el estadio universitario.
América para la parte complementaria mando a Darwin Quintero a la cancha, comenzó a tener mayor peligro y preocupando a la defensa Poblana sin embargo al minuto 50 Bermúdez se internó en el área y entre tres defensores americanistas les pinto la cara y le quebró la cintura a Pimentel para ponerle como con la mano un centro a Flavio que de cabeza vencía a Hugo Rodríguez para el 4-1 que ya era de locura.
Los visitantes heridos en su orgullo se fueron con todo al ataque y con el ingreso de Adrián Marín América metió en su cancha al Puebla, al 64 rendía frutos la presión cuando Quintero empujaba el balón a las redes poniendo 4-2 el marcador.
Las águilas se fueron con todo pero cuando superaban a la defensiva poblana se erguía la figura de Cristian Campestrini quien fue el héroe de la tarde al salvar 5 ocasiones de gol al menos siendo factor para beneficio del Puebla, destacando una atajada a tiro libre de Michel Arroyo que ya cantaban como gol.
Puebla contesto con un jugadon individual de Santos que estuvo a punto de hacer un golazo haciendo agua a la defensa visitante mandando su disparo encima del travesaño.
De ahí en adelante por más que intento el América no pudo hacer más y el Puebla se llevó su primera victoria y un aluvión anímico de grandes proporciones por lo que representa ganarle a los de Coapa y prepararse para su debut como Campeón de Copa MX ante Celaya.
Descansara en la jornada 2 ya que Rayados de Monterrey estrenara su estadio ante el Benfica de Portugal y dicho encuentro se reprograma para el 10 de octubre, y en la fecha 3 recibirá a los Pumas de la UNAM, puntos a considerar: mejorar principalmente en la zona defensiva donde les doy un voto de confianza a Araujo y Herrera pero será importante aplicarse de mejor manera y así perfeccionar su actuación en la cancha ya que por las bandas Carlos Gutiérrez y Oscar Rojas con buen desempeño se espera se consoliden de inmediato.
Para mí es muy alentador el inicio y se nota la mano de Marini y su cuerpo técnico, así como el compromiso de los jugadores que se quedaron y que llegaron, se está forjando de buena forma la Nueva Era.
Saludos y con gusto nos leemos la próxima.
LA OPINIÓN EXPRESADA EN ESTA COLUMNA ES RESPONSABILIDAD DE QUIEN LA ESCRIBE Y NO BUSCA GENERAR CONFLICTOS ENTRE LOS INVOLUCRADOS, SI NO GENERAR CONCIENCIA EN CADA LECTOR.
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When I went to film full program like it says on the wash menu it’s available the full platinum program wasn’t available the guy in the kiosk told me Wilcomatic engineers have not programmed it when they reprogram the system he was quite snotty to me over it to be honest with you we don’t do platinum here like it was a big problem so I just said give me the gold program then he said to me that all we do as a top program like I was stupid I said to him well it’s on your wash menu even says contactless payment an app payment is no app available and there’s no contactless available you might wanna correct your signage instead of having a couple customers asking for the full program that doesn’t even exist
Se aplaza debut de Chivas Los Ángeles Soccer en la Tercera División
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Puebla., Puebla a 20 de Agosto 2015
Se aplaza debut de Chivas Los Ángeles Soccer en la Tercera División
- El duelo de la jornada uno frente a Lobos BUAP, que habría de celebrarse este fin de semana, se reprogramó para el próximo miércoles 9 de septiembre
- Para no perder actividad, el Rebaño poblano disputará un cotejo amistoso este sábado a las 13:00 horas frente al Club Alpha
En mutuo acuerdo entre las directivas de Chivas Los Ángeles Soccer y Lobos BUAP, el duelo de la jornada uno de la temporada 2015-2016 en la Tercera División Profesional entre el Rebaño poblano y los universitarios cambió de fecha, por lo que ahora tendrá lugar el próximo miércoles 9 de septiembre en punto de las 11:00 horas en el estadio Universitario BUAP.
El cambio en la fecha del cotejo, que habría de disputarse este sábado a partir de las 11:00 horas en el inmueble estudiantil, fue avalado por la Rama de la Tercera División Profesional, y ante ello, el defensor rojiblanco, Jaime López, lamentó no poder entrar en acción este fin de semana frente a La Jauría, no obstante, sabe que una semana más de trabajo ayudará al cuadro a llegar mejor al inicio.
“Lamentablemente se suspendió, estábamos ya listo pero seguimos a la espera de este juego que creo es importante para la institución y más para nosotros, estamos conscientes de que esta semana nos va a ayudar más para trabajar y podernos preparar física y psicológicamente para enfrentar cualquier encuentro”, acotó el defensor.
En ese aspecto, el cuerpo técnico de Chivas Los Ángeles Soccer sabe que el tiempo apremia y pactó un juego amistoso que permitirá no perder el ritmo en esta semana adicional de pretemporada, por lo que este sábado en punto de las 13:00 horas se medirá al Club Alpha, equipo de la categoría que se ubica dentro del Grupo VI, en sus instalaciones deportivas de Xonaca.
“Estamos tranquilos porque nos ayuda a prepararnos más, buscar siempre nuestras debilidades y siempre mejorarlas semana a semana, un amistoso frente al Alpha, siempre es importante enfrentar partidos contra equipos de la misma división que nos ayuden a mejorar, a ver nuestras deficiencias, nos falta más definición a la hora de enfrentar las jugadas y disputar cada balón a muerte”, concluyó López Mendoza.
Por lo pronto, el Rebaño poblano seguirá a la espera de la emisión del calendario oficial de la campaña 2015-2016, en la que todo indica que Chivas Los Ángeles Soccer tendrá su debut el próximo sábado 29 de agosto en punto de las 15:00 horas en las instalaciones de la Ex Hacienda San José Maravillas dentro de las celebraciones de la fecha dos, ante rival por confirmar.
La opinión expresada en esta columna es responsabilidad de quien la escribe y no busca generar conflictos entre los involucrados, si no generar conciencia en cada lector.
Fotografía Cortesía Jefatura de Prensa Chivas Los Ángeles
En el apartado motor , se le a reprogramado la centralita, una válvula de descarga Forge 007, filtro de aire de alto caudal K&N y un “downpipe” Megan Racing. Con lo cual se a ganado un sustancial aporte de potencia extra para el corazón de este bonito golf, en el motor para darle un toque estético se a instalado una tapa de motor de carbono junto a un tapón de aceite de Audi R8.
En el chasis a simple vista se aprecia el modelo 0.05 de 3SDM en las medidas 8,5” para el eje delantero y 9,5” en el trasero acompañados por unos neumáticos Falken, y para mejorar la estabilidad y la estética se monta una suspensión de cuerpo roscado KW variante 2 junto a su barra estabilizadora.
En tema carrocería se optó por un alisado de anagramas y una calandra sin logo y la instalación de vinilo 3M efecto carbono para techo y capo, en las ópticas se decantó por unos preciosos pilotos modelo americano y se instalaron unos SML naranjas en la moldura delantera.
En el interior que ya de origen cuenta con unos magníficos Recaro a los cuales se les tapizo en cuero en un tono Rojo Rioja, y sigue la lista por un volante de Golf mk6 , pedales y reposapiés de TT y se a forrado muchas partes interiores con vinilo 3M en acabado carbono.
Aspectos generales del encuentro correspondiente a la segunda jornada reprogramada del Torneo Adecuación 2015 por el Campeonato Nacional de Categorias Menores, categoría Sub 14 de la Federación Venezolana de Fútbol, partido disputado entre los equipos Deportivo Tachira FC Vs FundacionPuente Real, realizado en la Cancha Sintetica de la UCAT, en San Cristobal, Estado Táchira en Venezuela, el 15 de diciembre de 2015 (Gennaro Pascale / Prensa Deportivo Tachira)
Final high-speed setup.
Specs:
Olympus E-PL3 camera in manual mode.
DIY adaptor to mount the Nikor AF105/2.8D macro lens.
Due to the lens-adaptor combination the crop factor in now 2.0
The 105mm macro lens has now an 210mm equivalent .
A DIY external shutter housing has the super fast Uniblitz VS14s shutter.
The shutter-lag is only 3.5ms, the opening time is 4.5 ms or 1/220 sec.
The combination Nikkor AF105/2.8D, the external shutter, and the adaptor to the Olympus camera give a macro ratio of 2.5:1.
A DIY HT module control the 65V to the external shutter. The high power current for the external shutter is supplied by a flash capacitor 740 uF/330V.
The 2 flashes are SB-80-DX types (or SB800). They works in TTL mode and are controlled via my hardware modules. Via the keyboard all settings can be changed and stored into a flash eeprom. So the flashes are all controlled from the controller and no more individual on the flashes itself.
The hardware core is a FPGA module from terasic, the DE0-nano. Very powerfull and small. All high-speed timings are controlled from this board. More then 81 I/O pins are used.
All modules in this unit can be reprogrammed via an USB connection.
For high-speed in-flight insects capture I use a laser system to know when an insects come in focus. This laser system is very accurate and quickly. In just 50 us I know when an insects stay infocus. Thereafter the high-speed external shutter is activated into 3.5 ms to take a picture. Even super fast flying insects at macro closeup stay in the picture frame with this ultra short detecton delay and shutter-lag.
The detector has a 128 pixel line array to readout the laserbeam. A distance change of only 0.25 mm can be seen by the line array. Each pixel has an 8 bit value. The value, the position and the noise can be set into the parameters for optimal picture capture. Even super small insects of 0.5mm can be detected at 500 mm from the macro lens and this into the super short time of only 50 us (1/20.000 sec)
I use a power-pack module to powerup all the hardware. The racing pack module gives 7.5V @ 4200 mA. Multiple DC/DC convertors converts this to the correct voltage with high efficience. More then 10 hours autonomy is provided.
Aspectos generales del encuentro reprogramado correspondiente a la octava jornada de la Tercera Division del Futbol Profesional Venezolano, torneo apertura 2016, entre los equipos Academia Deportiva El Nula Vs Deportivo Tachira FC, realizado en el estadio Pedro Regal Marquez de Santa Ana del Tachira, Estado Tachira en Venezuela, el 8 de mayo de 2016 (Gennaro Pascale Caicedo / Prensa Deportivo Tachira FC)
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Beyond routine lubrication and polishing of his RS-14U interface ENGLISHMAN requires no special maintenance except for frequent top-ups of laughing and kinky sex.
ENGLISHMAN gives years of faithful service and his sleek yet sturdy design ensures you will always feel a really fantastic connection.
----------- COPES WITH ALL TYPES OF OUTDATED CULTURAL HANGOVERS* -----------
Mother raised by her grandmother? Brainwashed into associating pleasure with sin? Trained by authority figures to see non-Slovenians simply as tourist cash-cows?
No problem. ENGLISHMAN's built-in Remedial Sex Education and Genuine Emotion Modules can cope with anything, from hysterical vadge and sluggish self-acceptance of non-intellectual parts of your body, to reckless spermbag baby factories and shallow, compensatory nymphomania.
-------------------------- MOVE ON FASTER WITH MAGIC MICKMASTER --------------------------
Maybe WHAT THE OTHERS WILL SAY is the reason you wound up trapped in half-baked respectable relationships, timid family slavedom, or single and still on the starting blocks years behind your peers.
A quick blast from ENGLISHMAN's turbo-power MickMaster and PROBLEM PARENTS, ugly leftovers, FELINE FILCHER-FANNIES, your brother's mates and other two-faced hard-to-remove friends will VANISH without trace - until you inexplicably invite them to return.
MickMaster can be reused to take the mick again and again until the pressure from BORING BASTARDS AND CLUELESS CONFORMITY is negligible.
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Thanks to his MOOCOW** patented menstrual monitoring ENGLISHMAN can handle the whole love spectrum, whether it's important decisions about pink teddy bears or seething bloody hatred and being to blame for everything.
However overwhelming your disadvantage as a Slovenian female, you'll be delighted with this revolutionary appliance. What you get is something to poke her, not a polka. Perfect timing - every time, based on the latest embedded Zorec-51 chip.
Best of all, by using your very own private lock-out code (Slovene) your secrets will be safe. You can undermine him even when he's right there in the room - without ENGLISHMAN having the faintest idea what you are going on about.
So that's the same as usual, then...except banking and bonking operations remain totally unaffected!!
There's even more good news. ENGLISHMAN is armed-forces-free, football-free and fishing-free. So no delightful munitions in the home to worry about, no incredible polyester fashion faux-pas and no maggots in the fridge - GUARANTEED!
---------------- WAIT NO LONGER! TRY ENGLISHMAN FREE FOR 28 NIGHTS! ----------------
ENGLISHMAN. You won't be disappointed.*** And in the remote event of underperformance simply reprogram your ENGLISHMAN in his well-known language. A technical explanation follows.
ENGLISHMAN's 126-bit memory is easily addressable by using the standard non-Boolean syntax [Alert] [Command] [Call Name] + {optional door slam}.
For the alert just get out your genitive clitics, for example "for fuck's sake", followed by your demands. Finally tag on some insulting epithets created using noun adjuncts, such as "meat head" and "arse face".
In this way the lady owner can not only tell him what he IS GOING TO/WILL BE DOING and OUGHT TO/SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING - tenses absent in Slovenian - but she'll be able to tell him with just three persons, three cases, two declensions and one sex.
We've bred around the globe to make ENGLISHMAN's language user friendly.
Because look where yours with four, six, ten and three has gotten you.
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*Excludes angry husbands, superstitions, so-called classical music and heavy metal
**Monitoring Of Ovulation Cycles Over Weeks
***Unless you want that...for a satisfyingly hollow victory you can share with your friends - then regret later - simply press the unit's Can't Win Button
Vic's idea of living dangerously is jumping off the bottom step. He is a laid back guy that likes to reprogram remote controls, collect shoe horns and eat candy corn. The one thing that really excites him is when someone comments on his prized possession - a bronzed Twinky.
Robot sculpture assembled from found objects by Brian Marshall - Wilmington, DE. Items included in my sculptures vary from vintage household kitchen items to recycled industrial scrap. Some of my favorite items to use are old oil cans, aluminum measuring spoons, electrical meters, retro blenders, anodized cups, and pencil sharpeners.
We could see the SWAT teams mobilizing around the building from the backalley we were in. Poor guys don't know what their in for. Me and Steph just kept running though the backalleys, getting away from those...those things and trying to collect ourselves. I have to say, i was holding back puking my guts out. Just the thought of running away like some coward makes me sick, actually doing it...good god. I've taken on shapeshifting freaks, plant monsters, and emotionally crushed children that could wipe out a city without even looking back, and these goofy cartoon/anime powered freaks have me running for the hills. Gaaahhh, DAMMIT! We found ourselves in, where else, another backalley. Battered, bruised, soaked, scratched and out of breath.
"Seriously, what just happened?"
"Oh, nothing. Nothing at all. Y'know, except for us getting DESTROYED by some element benders in crappy Power Ranger costumes!"
"W--we can't do this alone. We gotta get someone. Maybe Batman..."
"Not a chance. When we dropped Jackie off at the Batcave, batman was preparing to leave for some Justice League stuff or whatever. Poor Alfred is pretty much at the mercy of a psychic kid who's having a nerdgasm every time he blinks..."
"Wait, Jackie! Maybe he can help, after all he needs some time in the field, this could be what he---"
"Excuse me, but did you say 'Jackie'? As in Jackie Ludwig?"
Me and Steph are caught off guard by the voice. The fact that it knows Jackie's name is enough to surprise us. We then see the sorce of the voice walk out of the shadows from behind a dumpster. It's a older man in a brown coat and jeans, one hand wrapped in bandages, another clutching a suitcase. The expression on his face is the most nervous one I've seen. Someone's got a secret.....
"And you are?"
"I...I am Professor Kilmin. I'm the head Genetics Researcher at STAR labs. So, Jackie did find his way to you. Great! Is the child happy?"
".....Sure. And he didn't break out on his own, y'know. We sorta broke in and busted him out."
"Good! Good....he didn't deserve to be there anymore. He deserved far better after all he went through."
"You're gonna tell us why you're here, right? What's an uber-brainy Professor doing creeping around shady alleys, huh?"
"First off, I'd like to give my utmost apologizes. Everything you just went through is because of me to an extent. You just got done fighting a losing battle with a bunch of bizarre metahuans, correct?"
"And you know this how?"
"Because I'm the one who brought them into this world. They're clones of my creation."
"What!?"
"Why? Why the hell did you make these...whatever the hell they are? And seriously, why the stupid gimmicks!?"
'It wasn't all me, okay!? One night I was just working in my lab, before I know it some loon who thinks he's an alien is pointing a gun at my head. I gave him the clones to save myself, and programed their minds based off of a bunch of gaudy TV shows he showed me"
"Wait...Some loon who thinks hes alien?"
"Yes. Had a fishbowl on his head, a large purple cape, and an idiotic spacesuit that looked like it was from a 50's science fiction film."
A dead-on description that me and Steph knew too well. Me and her look at eachother and yell "BARADA!" I wonder if she felt as big of an idiot as I did. Seriously, this had him written all over it.
"YES! Now I remember, that's what he called himself! So, this isn't the first time he's caused trouble."
"Yeah, and don't let the stupid looks fool you. Guy's a A-list bag of Psycho."
"I've noticed. After he left and had the pyrokenetic clone do this to my hand, I learned that he shot down 7 guards in the building. You have to stop him, and bring the clones in! This isn't their fault, they don't deserve to die. If I can get them back, I can possibly reprogram their minds."
"Well, considering they just kicked our asses all over that comic-con, we've got nothing to bring them down. Any ideas, doc?"
"Actually, yes. You see, these clones actually have DNA based off that of Kryptonian origin. They do share the same weakness to Kyrptonite, but due to our genetic engineering, they have a bit more resistance to it. Here, in this suitcase is a pound of Kryptonite."
"So this'll only slow them down, huh?"
"Basically. But perhaps you can use their mental programming against them?..."
Metalhead - Donatello's half-pint associate and technological creation. He is a feisty little Turtle-bot. He received a few upgrades since we last saw him, compelling the Turtles to test out his new moves. They all are impressed with him except for Leonardo, who is apparently still hesitant about Metalhead's dependability, was later convinced that he could indeed be trusted.
In the 1987 cartoon series, Metalhead first appeared in the episode "The Making of Metalhead" where it he imbued with thoughts and memories of the Turtles. This gave Metalhead an identity disorder until Donatello reprograms him to work for the Ninja Turtles. Metalhead replicated the voices of the Ninja Turtles, Shredder, and April O'Neil, meaning that Metalhead was voiced by Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen, Townsend Coleman, Dorian Harewood (who was filling in for James Avery at the time), and Renae Jacobs. In this appearance, He was only seen again when Donatello tries to get him to vacuum their TV room in the episode "Big Bug Blunder".
In the 2003 series, Metal Head was part of the final attack on the Tengu Shredder. Metal Head appears in the "Fast Forward" season episode The Journal. Metal Head also appears in TMNT: Back to the Sewer. He shows up in the episodes "Super Power Struggle" and "Wedding Bells and Bytes".
In the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Metalhead was created by Donatello from a salvaged Kraang droid as a way to upgrade "his" weapons. Donatello could control Metalhead via a NES-like controller while observing through a TV monitor since there are cameras in Metalhead's eyes. Donatello can also speak through Metalhead voice box.
While Metalhead proved to be nearly unstoppable in combat situations, he was far too clunky and heavy to properly sneak around. Later in the episode, when his brothers became overwhelmed, Donatello sent Metalhead in to take care of the krangg. He easily defeated the Kraang attacking them, knocking off the control antenna in the process. One Kraang realized that Metalhead was made from their technology and detached from its robot body where it opted to control Metalhead. The Kraang-controlled Metalhead and attacked the Ninja Turtles, nearly killing them until Donatello showed up in person. Donatello managed to defeat Metalhead by crashing a support pillar on it.
In a later episode, Metalhead was rebuilt by Donatello where it aided the Ninja Turtles in the battle against the Kraang. Apparently now programmed with some degree of independence and operating without any sign of a direct controller, Metalhead drove the Shellraiser into the TCRI building lobby and subsequently attacked the Kraang guards while the Ninja Turtles used their new gliders to infiltrate the building from the roof.
Metalhead is reconfigured by Donatello in "Metalhead Rewired", in which he exhibits a personality similar to R2-D2 . After a battle with the Kraang goes awry, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael vote to terminate Metalhead, who quickly escapes before Donatello can do so. Metalhead is able to find a portal to a Kraang prison where many mutants from the series have been incarcerated. later Metalhead saves the turtles by staying behind to close the portal and later self destructs.
Weapons-
He has extending and rocket propelled punches and kick attacks, as well as a machine guns in his chest and rocket launchers. he also is programed and skilled with strong ninjutsu capabilities.
Video Games-
Metalhead appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time as the boss of the second level. Turtles in Time Re-Shelled; The instruction manual of the Super NES version of Turtles in Time erroneously refers to Metalhead as Mechaturtle.
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Aspectos generales del encuentro correspondiente a la septima jornada (Reprogramada) del Futbol Profesional Venezolano, entre los equipos FA El Vigia FC Vs Deportivo Tachira FC, realizado en el estadio Ramon "Gato" Hernandez de el Vigia, estado Merida en Venezuela, el 8 de mayo de 2014 (Gennaro Pascale Caicedo / Prensa Deportivo Tachira FC)
Metalhead - Donatello's half-pint associate and technological creation. He is a feisty little Turtle-bot. He received a few upgrades since we last saw him, compelling the Turtles to test out his new moves. They all are impressed with him except for Leonardo, who is apparently still hesitant about Metalhead's dependability, was later convinced that he could indeed be trusted.
In the 1987 cartoon series, Metalhead first appeared in the episode "The Making of Metalhead" where it he imbued with thoughts and memories of the Turtles. This gave Metalhead an identity disorder until Donatello reprograms him to work for the Ninja Turtles. Metalhead replicated the voices of the Ninja Turtles, Shredder, and April O'Neil, meaning that Metalhead was voiced by Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen, Townsend Coleman, Dorian Harewood (who was filling in for James Avery at the time), and Renae Jacobs. In this appearance, He was only seen again when Donatello tries to get him to vacuum their TV room in the episode "Big Bug Blunder".
In the 2003 series, Metal Head was part of the final attack on the Tengu Shredder. Metal Head appears in the "Fast Forward" season episode The Journal. Metal Head also appears in TMNT: Back to the Sewer. He shows up in the episodes "Super Power Struggle" and "Wedding Bells and Bytes".
In the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Metalhead was created by Donatello from a salvaged Kraang droid as a way to upgrade "his" weapons. Donatello could control Metalhead via a NES-like controller while observing through a TV monitor since there are cameras in Metalhead's eyes. Donatello can also speak through Metalhead voice box.
While Metalhead proved to be nearly unstoppable in combat situations, he was far too clunky and heavy to properly sneak around. Later in the episode, when his brothers became overwhelmed, Donatello sent Metalhead in to take care of the krangg. He easily defeated the Kraang attacking them, knocking off the control antenna in the process. One Kraang realized that Metalhead was made from their technology and detached from its robot body where it opted to control Metalhead. The Kraang-controlled Metalhead and attacked the Ninja Turtles, nearly killing them until Donatello showed up in person. Donatello managed to defeat Metalhead by crashing a support pillar on it.
In a later episode, Metalhead was rebuilt by Donatello where it aided the Ninja Turtles in the battle against the Kraang. Apparently now programmed with some degree of independence and operating without any sign of a direct controller, Metalhead drove the Shellraiser into the TCRI building lobby and subsequently attacked the Kraang guards while the Ninja Turtles used their new gliders to infiltrate the building from the roof.
Metalhead is reconfigured by Donatello in "Metalhead Rewired", in which he exhibits a personality similar to R2-D2 . After a battle with the Kraang goes awry, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael vote to terminate Metalhead, who quickly escapes before Donatello can do so. Metalhead is able to find a portal to a Kraang prison where many mutants from the series have been incarcerated. later Metalhead saves the turtles by staying behind to close the portal and later self destructs.
Weapons-
He has extending and rocket propelled punches and kick attacks, as well as a machine guns in his chest and rocket launchers. he also is programed and skilled with strong ninjutsu capabilities.
Video Games-
Metalhead appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time as the boss of the second level. Turtles in Time Re-Shelled; The instruction manual of the Super NES version of Turtles in Time erroneously refers to Metalhead as Mechaturtle.
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Before I start with some of the negatives I should say that this isn’t a bad hotel, however the owners think it is a 5 star hotel, it isn’t! It maybe that the facilities warrant that rating, but in terms of quality, it really isn’t.
The best part of the hotel is the pool area, there are several pools and there are always sunbeds available. We were there in January and the water was quite cold, but it was still a very pleasant place to relax. If you are a serious swimmer, you will have some problems, as the pools are very, very shallow.
The rooms are nice and large, but don’t be fooled by the brochures, with rooms overlooking the sea or the pool, as many of the rooms overlook roads or carparks.
The hotel food is fine, if you aren’t a vegetarian, although many of the items weren’t very warm (actually gone cold in many cases). The options for vegetarians were very limited, mainly to a vegetable pasta (with very few vegetables) and salad. When asked if there was a vegetarian main course my wife was directed back to the pasta, every day!!! To make matters worse, when they do serve a variety of vegetables they add bacon to them.
I don’t know how old the hotel is, but at a superficial level it looks fine, however it soon becomes apparent that things are wearing out. Rust in the bath, doors that don’t fit properly, rattles in windows, safe not working (even after allegedly being repaired), Lifts grinding to a halt and leaking plumbing. Perhaps the hotel’s main fault is it is all concrete and tiles with absolutely no sound deadening. From inside the room you can hear somebody in the corridor 100 metres away. On our last night the room above us had a ‘party’ until 3am and we could hear every word.
We also had an interesting problem due to strong winds. The rooms have tiled balconies with metal chairs and tables. This furniture is often worn and not stable so in the wind they wobble and tap (very loudly on the tiled floor). The noise from the empty room above us sounded like several drunk tap dancers, going all night. At the time I couldn’t understand why they couldn’t just send someone to move the balcony furniture, but instead we had to move rooms.
During our stay the staff were very courteous but not very effective. To be fair there is a difference in languages, but it did seem that they didn’t talk to each other.
First they lost my credit card details, so during the evening meal our table was surrounded by hotel staff demanding cash, eventually this was sorted and the management apologised, but it left us in the middle of a full restaurant feeling like criminals.
When we had the problem with the noises in the room we contact reception several times and they said they would send someone, but to get anything done we had to go to the reception. Even then they wouldn’t try to do what we asked and even though it was after midnight, they made us move rooms and we were expected to pack up all our things.
Also during the week we had to change, or reprogram keycards on at least a dozen occasions (no we didn’t keep them with our mobile phone).
Overall the hotel is in a good location, the pool and sunbed areas are great, but the building was obviously done on the cheap and is beginning to suffer. I can’t believe anyone who thinks this is a quality 5 star hotel has stayed in one, or even a good 4 star hotel.
Perhaps if you are on an all-inclusive holiday and you are ‘meat eater’, given a top floor room, overlooking the sea, at the end of a corridor, with no maintenance issues, no neighbours and don’t have interact with the staff you might have a 5 star experience.
VERNER consists of a handmade carbon-fiber chassis, six wheels and four motors. It’s controlled by a credit-card-size processor with wireless connectivity that permits two-way exchange of data on engine workload, sensors and wheel position. Its one-of-a-kind programming interface makes it possible to reprogram all components live while the vehicle is on the go. Users can try out many of these features for themselves during the demonstration.
Credit: Martin Hieslmair
As shown here, pancreatic cancer is associated with a vast desmoplastic reaction in which the connective tissue around the tumor thickens and scars. Tests similar to the one depicted here help distinguish between "good" and "bad" stromal reactions. Researchers hope this could allow the design of therapies that will reprogram tumor-stromal interaction. Cancerous cells are in red; nuclei are in blue; stroma/desmoplasia is in cyan; and stroma-specific markers are in yellow and green while marker overlays appear white.
This image was originally submitted as part of the 2016 NCI Cancer Close Up project and selected for exhibit.
See also visualsonline.cancer.gov/closeup2016.
Credit :Neelima Shah and Edna Cukierman, Fox Chase Cancer Center, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
As the President has stated, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the humanitarian crisis there is a top national security priority for the United States. In order to contain and combat it, we are partnering with the United Nations and other international partners to help the Governments of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Senegal respond just as we fortify our defenses at home. Every outbreak of Ebola over the past 40 years has been contained, and we are confident that this one can—and will be—as well.
Our strategy is predicated on four key goals:
· Controlling the epidemic at its source in West Africa;
· Mitigating second-order impacts, including blunting the economic, social, and political tolls in the region;
· Engaging and coordinating with a broader global audience; and
· Fortifying global health security infrastructure in the region and beyond.
The United States has applied a whole-of-government response to the epidemic, which we launched shortly after the first cases were reported in March. As part of this, we have dedicated additional resources across the federal government to address the crisis, committing more than $175 million to date. We continue to work with Congress to provide additional resources through appropriations and reprogramming efforts in order to be responsive to evolving resource needs on the ground. Just as the outbreak has worsened, our response will be commensurate with the challenge.
New Resources to Confront a Growing Challenge
The United States will leverage the unique capabilities of the U.S. military and broader uniformed services to help bring the epidemic under control. These efforts will entail command and control, logistics expertise, training, and engineering support.
· U.S. Africa Command will set up a Joint Force Command headquartered in Monrovia, Liberia, to provide regional command and control support to U.S. military activities and facilitate coordination with U.S. government and international relief efforts. A general from U.S. Army Africa, the Army component of U.S. Africa Command, will lead this effort, which will involve an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces.
· U.S. Africa Command will establish a regional intermediate staging base (ISB) to facilitate and expedite the transportation of equipment, supplies and personnel. Of the U.S. forces taking part in this response, many will be stationed at the ISB.
· Command engineers will build additional Ebola Treatment Units in affected areas, and the U.S. Government will help recruit and organize medical personnel to staff them.
· Additionally, the Command will establish a site to train up to 500 health care providers per week, enabling healthcare workers to safely provide direct medical care to patients.
· The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is preparing to deploy 65 Commissioned Corps officers to Liberia to manage and staff a previously announced Department of Defense (DoD) hospital to care for healthcare workers who become ill. The deployment roster will consist of administrators, clinicians, and support staff.
Simple and scalable strategies that complement the use of Ebola Treatment Units are urgently required to disrupt the disease’s transmission. A community- and home-based strategy that supports household and communities is a critical step to moving forward:
· USAID is supporting a Community Care Campaign, which will provide communities and households with protection kits, appropriate information and training on how to protect themselves and their loved ones. In partnership with the United Nations Children Fund, the Paul Allen Family Foundation, and other key partners, we will immediately target the 400,000 most vulnerable households in Liberia. The package will subsequently be scaled to cover the country and the broader region.
· As part of this effort, this week, USAID will airlift 50,000 home health care kits from Denmark to Liberia to be hand-delivered to distant communities by trained youth volunteers.
A Complement to Efforts To-Date
Applying this whole-of-government approach, we have been engaged on this outbreak since March when the first cases were reported in West Africa. We currently have in the affected countries more than 100 specialists from multiple U.S. departments and agencies, including the Departments of State and Health and Human Services (HHS), the CDC, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and DoD. We also are working intensively on this effort with the United Nations, including the World Health Organization, the governments of the affected countries, and other partners, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Norway, the Africa Union, and European Union.
· To date we have spent more than $100 million to address this challenge, including the purchase of personal protective equipment, mobile labs, logistics and relief commodities, and support for community health workers. USAID also has announced plans to make available up to $75 million in additional funding to increase the number of Ebola treatment units, provide more personal protective equipment, airlift additional medical and emergency supplies, and support other Ebola response activities in collaboration with the UN, including the World Health Organization, and international partners.
· CDC has provided on the ground expertise in the largest international response in its history. More than 100 CDC personnel are on the ground in West Africa, and hundreds of personnel at their Emergency Operations Center in Atlanta have provided around the clock logistics, staffing, communication, analytics, management, and other support functions. The Administration has asked Congress for an additional $30 million to send additional response workers from the CDC as well as lab supplies and equipment
· In August, USAID deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to West Africa to coordinate and prioritize the U.S. government’s response to the outbreak. The DART assesses and identifies priority needs and coordinates key areas of the response, such as planning, operations, and logistics. The 28-member DART team is comprised of staff from USAID, CDC, DoD, and the U.S. Forest Service. The DART will be airlifting 130,000 sets of personal protective equipment to ensure that health care workers have the resources needed to safely do their jobs. The DART is also in the process of procuring generators that will provide electricity to Ebola treatment units and other response facilities.
· The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is developing an investigational Ebola vaccine, including recently starting phase 1 clinical trials, as well as supporting efforts to develop additional Ebola antivirals and therapeutics candidates. The Administration has asked Congress for an additional $58 million to support the development and manufacturing of Ebola therapeutic and vaccine candidates through Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
· In addition to the measures announced today, DoD plans to send a field-deployable hospital to Liberia and has provided more than 10,000 Ebola test kits to the Liberian Institute of Biological Research and to Sierra Leone's Kenema Government Hospital. DoD also has provided personal protective equipment and training to local medical professionals in affected regions.
· DoD also has requested to reprogram $500 million in Fiscal Year 2014 Overseas Contingency Operations funds for humanitarian assistance, a portion of which will be used to fulfill requirements identified by CDC, USAID, the Joint Staff, and U.S. Africa Command to provide military air transportation of DoD and non-DoD personnel and supplies; medical treatment facilities (e.g. isolation units), personnel protective equipment, and medical supplies; logistics and engineering support, and; subject matter experts in support of sanitation and mortuary affairs.
· DoD’s Cooperative Threat Reduction program is redirecting $25 million to provide personal protective equipment and laboratory reagents, support for technical advisors, and other requests as validated by the DART. DoD has also requested to reprogram an additional $60 million to enable the CTR program to address urgent biosafety, biosecurity, and biosurveillance needs in the three countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak, as well as bolster the capabilities of neighboring countries and other partners in Africa.
· Last month, USAID airlifted more than 16 tons of medical supplies and emergency equipment to Liberia, including: 10,000 sets of personal protective equipment, two water treatment units and two portable water tanks capable of storing 10,000 liters each, and 100 rolls of plastic sheeting which can be used in the construction of Ebola treatment units. Additionally, in late August the DART airlifted 5,000 body bags to step up support for the safe removal and transport of the bodies of Ebola victims and 500 infrared thermometers to bolster Ebola screening efforts. These supplies will be distributed and used by the WHO and Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
· USAID and the State Department are providing up to $10 million to support the deployment of an African Union mission sending more than 100 health care workers to the region. The State Department also has encouraged other governments to increase assistance; coordinate delivery of critical resources, including personnel, equipment, and medical supplies; and encourage airlines operating in the region to maintain or reinstate service while ensuring appropriate precautions.
· Additionally, the State Department has supported public education efforts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea regarding prevention and treatment of the disease. The effort has included radio and television messages in local languages, the production of nearly 100 billboards and thousands of posters, program support to local non-governmental organizations and a special song commissioned by a popular local musician.
· Earlier this month, President Obama released a message to the people of West Africa to reinforce the facts and dispel myths surrounding Ebola. The video was transcribed into French, Portuguese, and other local languages and was distributed to television and radio stations across the region. Tens of thousands of West Africans viewed or listened to the message.
Screening Efforts Overseas
In addition to our efforts to help the affected West African countries bring this outbreak under control, we have taken steps to fortify against the introduction of Ebola cases into the United States. It is important to note that Ebola is not highly contagious like the flu; to the contrary, the virus is spread through direct contact with the blood or body fluids of a symptomatic individual.
· CDC is working closely with Customs and Border Protection and other partners at ports of entry—primarily international airports—to use routine processes to identify travelers who show signs of infectious disease. In response to the outbreak, these processes have been enhanced through guidance and training. If a sick traveler is identified during or after a flight, the traveler will be immediately isolated, and CDC will conduct an investigation of exposed travelers and work with the airline, federal partners, and state and local health departments to notify them and take any necessary public health action.
· CDC is assisting with exit screening and communication efforts in West Africa to prevent sick travelers from boarding planes. It also has issued interim guidance about Ebola virus infection for airline flight crews, cleaning personnel, and cargo personnel.
· CDC also has issued advice for colleges, universities, and students about study abroad, foreign exchange, and other education-related travel, as well as advice for students who have recently traveled from a country in which an Ebola outbreak is occurring. Similarly, CDC has developed recommendations for humanitarian aid workers traveling to Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreaks in these countries. The recommendations include steps to take before departure, during travel, and upon return to the United States.
Preparedness at Home
Despite the tragic epidemic in West Africa, U.S. health professionals agree it is highly unlikely that we would experience an Ebola outbreak here in the United States, given our robust health care infrastructure and rapid response capabilities. Nevertheless, we have taken extra measures to prevent the unintentional importation of cases into the United States, and if a patient does make it here, our national health system has the capacity and expertise to quickly detect and contain this disease.
· CDC has worked to enhance surveillance and laboratory testing capacity in states to detect cases and improve case finding. CDC is developing guidance and tools for health departments to conduct public health investigations and improve health communication and continues to update recommendations for healthcare infection control and other measures to prevent the disease from spreading. Similarly, HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and CDC are providing guidance documents to hospitals and other health care partners to support preparedness for a possible Ebola case.
· CDC also has prepared U.S. healthcare facilities and emergency medical service systems to safely manage a patient with suspected Ebola virus disease. CDC communicates with healthcare workers on an ongoing basis through the Health Alert Network, the Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity, and a variety of other existing tools and mechanisms. CDC developed Interim Guidance for Monitoring and Movement of Persons with Ebola Virus Disease Exposure to provide public health authorities and other partners with a framework for evaluating people’s level of exposure to Ebola and initiating appropriate public health actions on the basis of exposure level and clinical assessment.
· The Food and Drug Administration is monitoring for fraudulent products and false product claims related to the Ebola virus and is prepared to take enforcement actions, as warranted, to protect the public health.
Securing the Future
The Ebola epidemic reminds us that our global efforts to build the capacity to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to infectious disease threats like Ebola have never been more vital. In February, we came together with nations around the world to launch the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) as a five year effort to accelerate action.
· CDC is contributing to the GHSA by partnering with nations around the world to help them establish measurable global health security capacity. This includes core CDC partnership programs like the Global Disease Detection Centers and Field Epidemiology Training Program, which enable the laboratory systems, disease surveillance workforce, emergency operations center capacity, and biosafety and biosecurity best practices required to counter Ebola and other biological threats.
· Over the next five years the United States has committed to working with at least 30 partner countries to invest in model systems to advance the Global Health Security agenda. CDC and DoD will work with other U.S. agencies and partner countries to establish emergency operations centers, build information systems, and strengthen laboratory security to mitigate biological threats and build partner capacity.
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I had a fun lunch with Drew Endy today, and with a local iGEM team on Friday.
Here you see my souvenirs, a cartoon primer and a page from the Registry. Don’t lick it, as each yellow spot is a paper blot of DNA. With a special hole punch, you grab the DNA and splice it into E.Coli, the common bacteria in our intestines.
iGEM is the “International Genetically Engineered Machines” contest, where teenage kids reprogram bacteria to smell better or perform various feats, from digital logic with flashing oscillators, to glowing arsenic detectors to biofilms that record pictures (a self-developing "E.Coliroid" if you will).
Each year the projects get more ambitious, as the biological parts are added to the "open source" library of BioBricks.
Recent grand prize winners were from Slovenia and Peking.
Drew is a co-founder of iGEM and a brilliant speaker on synthetic biology. I last saw him when he was still at MIT, and I put together a panel with George Church and Rodney Brooks.
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24: Live Another Day, also known as Day 9, is a 24 limited event television series consisting of twelve episodes that premiered on May 5, 2014, and concluded on July 14, 2014, airing on Fox.[4] Sky 1 simulcast the premiere on May 6 in the United Kingdom and Ireland but switched to Wednesday nights for the rest of the episodes.[5] It began airing in Australia on Network Ten on May 12, 2014.[6] Set four years after the events of season 8, it adheres to the real time concept of covering the events of a 24-hour period and begins and ends at 11:00 a.m. However, there is a 12-hour time jump within the final episode.[7][8]
Season nine takes place four years after season 8. James Heller, now President, is negotiating a treaty in London, where a hacker collective preaching free information has enlisted the help of Chloe O'Brian. Jack Bauer, who has been tracking the activities of Chloe's group while living in exile, resurfaces when he hears of an imminent attempt on Heller's life.[9][10]
There are two main acts in Live Another Day:
Margot Al-Harazi gains control of six US drones and uses them to attack London.
Cheng Zhi attacks his former country China with hijacked American weapons bringing the two countries to the brink of war.
Major subplots[edit]
Jack Bauer disapproves of the group Chloe O'Brian has joined.
Margot Al-Harazi grows suspicious of where her daughter's loyalties lie.
James Heller tries to manage a crisis amid the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Mark Boudreau opens himself up to blackmail by forging Heller's signature.
Kate Morgan has been led to believe that her husband committed treason by selling state secrets.
Circumstances reunite Jack and Audrey after nearly a decade.
America's plans for a treaty are derailed when they lose control of their own weapons.
Cheng Zhi partners with the Russians who are looking for Jack.
While anti-drone protesters gather outside the American embassy where James Heller is staying, agents at a CIA outpost in London find and apprehend Jack Bauer. Due to her husband's conviction, Kate Morgan is being forced to hand in her badge. However, she gets herself reinstated when she realizes that Jack is infiltrating the CIA to gain access to Chloe O'Brian. Kate is too late to intervene and Jack breaks Chloe out of interrogation with the help of his friend Belcheck. Still distrustful of Chloe, Jack follows her to Open Cell, an organization that specializes in leaking government documents. He explains that he is on the trail of Derrick Yates, a former Open Cell member who has become involved in an assassination attempt on James Heller. The attempt is revealed to involve drones when he programs an unmanned aerial vehicle to fire on British and American troops. The pilot, Chris Tanner, is falsely arrested on murder charges.
Jack and Chloe learn that Yates' device has been taken by Margot Al-Harazi, a known terrorist trying to avenge the death of her husband. When their attempt to capture her daughter Simone fails, Jack breaks into the American embassy to analyze Tanner's flight key and prove that the threat is imminent. Jack locks himself in a room with three hostages and tries to upload the data to Open Cell's leader, Adrian Cross. Marines break in before the upload finishes but Kate Morgan is able to place him in CIA custody instead. In the President's quarters, Chief of Staff Mark Boudreau expresses concerns that Bauer is a terrorist and drafts an agreement for extraditing him to Russia. Suspecting that dementia has clouded Heller's judgement, he forges the President's signature and vows to protect his wife Audrey from any further pain related to Bauer. Jack is ultimately proven right when Margot Al-Harazi broadcasts a video calling for Heller to turn himself in or face attacks on London from six US drones.
Margot executes her daughter's lover Navid when he tries to sabotage the attacks. Leaving her son Ian to pilot the drones, she sends Simone to silence Navid's family. When a missile kills several CIA operatives, Heller authorizes Bauer to go undercover with an arms dealer known for working with Al-Harazi. From transaction records, they are able to track Simone and see that she has been struck by traffic in her pursuit of Navid's niece. When Margot learns that Simone is being interrogated in the hospital, she sends a drone to destroy it. Jack and Kate escape with Simone and convince her to reveal Margot's last known whereabouts. The subsequent raid uncovers enough information to give Chloe access to the drone's camera. Meanwhile, CIA analyst Jordan Reed uncovers evidence that Kate's husband Adam Morgan may have been innocent all along. Station Chief Steve Navarro arranges to have him killed in order to cover up his own involvement in selling intel to China and framing Morgan. The assassination does not go as planned and leads to the deaths of both Agent Reed and the hitman.
With Margot's deadline approaching, Heller decides to turn himself in and put an end to the civilian losses. Jack delivers his friend to a stadium of Margot's choosing but convinces him to turn back when Chloe devises a plan to loop the video feed. Thinking that Heller is still inside, Margot and Ian fire on Wembley Stadium and then sink five of the six rogue drones. Upon learning that Heller is alive, Margot and Ian try to attack Waterloo station with the last drone. Jack arrives with a CIA team before this can happen and kills both of them. Jack takes Yates' device back to the CIA to be analyzed. Upon arriving, he learns that Jordan's body has been found and identifies the second body as an assassin working for Navarro. Before Jack can apprehend him, Navarro escapes with the device and delivers it to Adrian Cross. Adrian explains to Chloe that some underground dealings with China are needed to finance their activism and takes her to an Open Cell chapter. They find that all of their colleagues have been murdered by Cheng Zhi, who wants to reprogram the override to start a war between the US and China. Cheng kills Adrian, kidnaps Chloe and fabricates a torpedo launch order that sinks a Chinese carrier.
Russian operative Anatol Stolnavich contacts Mark Boudreau about the rendition order. When Boudreau tries to withdraw it, Stolnavich threatens to reveal that the signature has been forged. Boudreau co-operates and gives him access to a frequency used by Bauer. As a result, Jack is attacked by Russians on his way to retrieve the override and Cheng has time to escape. Upon discovering that his encrypted frequency has leaked beyond the White House, Bauer confronts Boudreau and tells him that Russia will benefit if the US and China go to war. After apologizing to the President, Boudreau assists in the raid of a Russian diplomatic compound. He distracts Stolnavich long enough for Jack and Kate to break in but Stolnavich dies in the ensuing struggle. Audrey meets with a contact of hers, the daughter of a high-ranking Chinese official, hoping to convince her that the naval attacks were perpetrated by Cheng and not the American government. Even though Cheng is unable to stop Chloe from escaping, he uses a sniper and has Audrey's secret service guards killed. He contacts Bauer saying that Audrey will die unless he gets safe passage out of England.
From the files in Stolnavich's compound Jack finds out how Cheng is planning to escape and sends Kate to rescue Audrey without attracting attention. Chloe re-establishes contact with Jack and sets up satellite surveillance of the freighter that Cheng has boarded. While Jack and Belcheck raid the ship, Kate eliminates the sniper and tells them that Audrey is safe. However, a second shooter in the area fires several shots and Audrey dies in Kate's arms. Devastated by her loss, Jack kills all of Cheng's bodyguards and transmits proof of Cheng's whereabouts to President Heller and President Wei. He kills Cheng immediately after the authenticity is verified. As the military advances are called off, Jack sees that Chloe has gone missing again and Heller is told that his daughter is dead. Twelve hours later, Jack surrenders himself to Russian agents in exchange for Chloe's freedom, Mark awaits trial for his efforts to save Audrey from Jack's influence, and James is left to mourn Audrey's death as his memories fade away.
Characters[edit]
24: Live Another Day main cast: (from left to right) Michael Wincott, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Giles Matthey, Benjamin Bratt, Yvonne Strahovski, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Kiefer Sutherland, William Devane, Kim Raver, and Tate Donovan
For a more thorough list, see List of 24 characters#24: Live Another Day.
Starring[edit]
Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer (12 episodes)
Yvonne Strahovski as Kate Morgan (12 episodes)
Tate Donovan as Mark Boudreau (12 episodes)
Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe O'Brian (12 episodes)
William Devane as President James Heller (12 episodes)
Gbenga Akinnagbe as Erik Ritter (11 episodes)
Giles Matthey as Jordan Reed (9 episodes)
Michael Wincott as Adrian Cross (10 episodes)
Benjamin Bratt as Steve Navarro (10 episodes)
Kim Raver as Audrey Boudreau (12 episodes)
Guest starring[edit]
Ross McCall as Ron Clark (9 episodes)
Branko Tomović as Belcheck (9 episodes)
Michelle Fairley as Margot Al-Harazi (8 episodes)
Stephen Fry as Prime Minister Alastair Davies (8 episodes)
Emily Berrington as Simone Al-Harazi (7 episodes)
Mandeep Dhillon as Chell (7 episodes)
Liam Garrigan as Ian Al-Harazi (7 episodes)
James Allenby-Kirk as Stosh (7 episodes)
Colin Salmon as General Coburn (7 episodes)
Charles Furness as Pete (6 episodes)
Miranda Raison as Caroline Fowlds (6 episodes)
Adam Sinclair as Gavin Leonard (6 episodes)
Stanley Townsend as Anatol Stolnavich (5 episodes)
John Boyega as Lieutenant Chris Tanner (4 episodes)
Sacha Dhawan as Naveed Shabazz (4 episodes)
Alex Lanipekun as James Harman (3 episodes)
Tzi Ma as Cheng Zhi (3 episodes)
Joseph Millson as Derrick Yates (3 episodes)
Duncan Pow as Captain Greg Denovo (3 episodes)
Philip Winchester as Colonel Shaw (3 episodes)
Tamer Hassan as Aron Bashir / Basher (2 episodes)
Alec Newman as Kevin Cordero (2 episodes)
James Puddephatt as Ken (2 episodes)
David Yip as President Wei (2 episodes)
Aksel Hennie as Karl Rask (1 episode)
Alison Pargeter as Lydia (1 episode)
Production[edit]
In May 2013, Deadline.com first reported that Fox was considering a limited-run "event series" for 24 based on a concept by Howard Gordon, after failed efforts to produce the 24 feature film and the cancellation of Kiefer Sutherland's series Touch. David Fury confirmed on Twitter that he would also be involved, pulling "double duty" with Gordon's new series Tyrant.[11] The following week, Fox officially announced 24: Live Another Day, a limited-run series of twelve episodes that would feature the return of Jack Bauer. Fox CEO Kevin Reilly said that the series would essentially represent the twelve "most important" hours of a typical 24 season, with jumps forward between hours as needed. As with the rest of Fox's push into event programming, the production will have "a big scope and top talent and top marketing budgets."[12]
In the press release, Gordon said:[12]
Jack Bauer has always been an exciting, thrilling character, and I confess that I've missed him. I think the audience has too. The character has evolved through the years, and this new and exciting event series format is perfect to tell the next chapter of his story and continue to reflect how the world is changing. Fans can rest assured that the Jack they know and love will be back.
Kiefer Sutherland, who was confirmed to executive produce and star in the new series, added:[12]
The response to 24 is unlike anything I have ever experienced as an actor before. To have the chance to reunite with the character, Jack Bauer, is like finding a lost friend. The story ideas from Howard Gordon are exciting and fresh, and will not disappoint. Great thanks to 20th Century Fox Television, Imagine Television and the FOX network for this opportunity. Make no mistake, my goal is to knock your socks off. See you soon.
In June 2013, it was announced that former 24 director Jon Cassar was signed on as executive producer and director of Live Another Day,[13] directing six of the twelve episodes.[14] The remaining six episodes were given to former 24 director and producer Milan Cheylov, and new 24 directors, Adam Kane and Omar Madha.[15][16][17] Executive producers and writers Robert Cochran, Manny Coto and Evan Katz were also announced to return.[18] Sean Callery returned as the music composer for the series.[19]
The writing process began on July 1, 2013, with David Fury pitching the first episode, which was tentatively titled "6:30-7:30".[20] On July 11, 2013, executive producer Brian Grazer announced in an interview that the 24 miniseries would "be a limited series that would then spin off into a series itself. Fox is doing it, Fox studio and Fox network, and we're totally thrilled by that."[21] In October 2013, it was confirmed the series would be set and filmed in London, England, United Kingdom.[22] Pre-production and location scouting by the crew, including Jon Cassar, began in November 2013.[23] The production offices for Live Another Day were based in the Gillette Building in west London, previously used for Red 2.[24] Production began on January 6, 2014.[25]
In a May 2014 press release, Fox billed the eighth episode as the franchise's 200th episode.[26]
Trailer[edit]
A promotional video was shot on January 22, 2014, with filming beginning for the series on January 26.[27][28] The first teaser for the show aired on Sky1 on January 21, 2014, but did not show any new footage.[29] The first American trailer, titled "Street Chaos", followed four 10-second teasers during Super Bowl XLVIII on February 2, 2014, but didn't show any footage from the series. Also, a promotional image was sent to Entertainment Weekly on February 20, 2014.[30]
In March, another promo with actual footage was released, showing the President of the United States arriving in London; Bauer being spotted there on camera by the CIA; and him telling Chloe that "there's no going home" for him.[31] A 20-minute preview of Live Another Day was released by Fox on April 7[32] and broadcast on May 3.[33]
Casting[edit]
Kiefer Sutherland was immediately cast as Jack Bauer on May 13, 2013.[12] Mary Lynn Rajskub was announced as the second official cast member in August 2013, reprising her role as Chloe O'Brian.[18] In October 2013, it was confirmed that Kim Raver and William Devane would reprise their roles as Audrey Raines and James Heller, respectively.[34]
The first new character to be cast was Michael Wincott's hacker character Adrian Cross.[35] One month later, two more characters were added to the cast: CIA agents Erik Ritter and Jordan Reed played by Gbenga Akinnagbe and Giles Matthey respectively.[36] On December 19, 2013, it was announced that three-time Primetime Emmy Award winner Judy Davis had joined the cast as the villain Margot Al-Harazi.[37] However, Davis later exited the role for "personal family matters";[38] the role was recast with Michelle Fairley.[39] On January 13, at a TCA panel discussing the show, it was announced that Yvonne Strahovski would play CIA Agent Kate Morgan.[40] Benjamin Bratt was cast as her boss Steve Navarro.[41]
On January 21, Tate Donovan was cast as Heller's Chief of Staff and the husband of Audrey Raines, Mark Boudreau.[42] On January 24, Stephen Fry was cast as the British Prime Minister Trevor Davies,[43] later renamed Alastair Davies. On the same day, relatively unknown actor Charles Furness was cast in a "small guest part"[44] as Peter, a member of Chloe's hacker group. On January 26, Ross McCall was revealed to have acted in Live Another Day by Jon Cassar[45] playing Ron Clark, assistant of Mark Boudreau. The next day, John Boyega was announced to be playing drone pilot Chris Tanner.[46] Among the last actors to have his role announced was Colin Salmon playing U.S. General Coburn.[47]
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I obtained this 91 2dr XJ back in September of 2011. It spent its previous life as a well maintained Hillsbourough County Park Services Vehicle. Took alot of work to get my hands on this XJ. This is the first year that the High Output 4.0L engine design was used. It has the AW4 automatic, and 3.55 Chrysler 8.25 rear axle. Only options are the A/C, drivetrain, vinyl flooring, and instrument cluster. This XJ is 2WD. When I got it, it had a completely stock, mushy, worn out 260,000 mile suspension, Chrysler LHS aluminum alloy 16" wheels and tires that kinda resemble skate wheels. Yea, you know the ones ;) So far, it got a complete 5k mile 6.5 inch Rough Country suspension lift (which was free because I told my boy that his wife was gonna nag him to death because she wouldnt be able to get in and out of their 96 XJ Country 2wd 4dr with their daughter). After having it on his XJ for about 8 months he calls me up with this deal. His offer: I trade him my entirely tired 206k mile suspension, worn out front brake system, pitted wheels and dry rotted tires for his 5k mile suspension, 15x8 black 8 hole wheels (also 5k miles), and a set of worn 31x10.50 15 Michelin LTX tires, fresh open diff 3.55 Dana 30 front axle from a 96 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 2 new hub assemblies, new rotors, pads, calipers, ball joints, and steering linkage. 4 brand new ranco shocks, adjustable upper and lower control arms, 6.5" drop pitman arm, taller coil springs, sway bar disconnect kit, adjustable track bar, full rear leaf springs, 2 position shackles, and Rancho shocks The deal: I can have all of that which is probably valued around $1600, but I have to do all of the work swapping the suspensions between the XJ's. Uh, music to my ears here! Hhmmm....my tired ass and shot stock suspension and shoes for your brand new suspension and shoes? Done deal!! You cant beat that deal with a wet noodle! Took me a couple days to get it all done with the much appreciated help of a few true friends! Thanks again guys! It has since been swapped and I love it. Since then ive fixed this and that, like replaced the fuel tank, fuel pump (5x before I got one that wouldnt die on me in within a few days), put some ProComp X-terrain 33x12.5 15" tires, (traded a used low mileage, transmission control solenoid for a 91 Caravan for all 4 tires), changed the rear axle due to the crosspin being sheared in 2 from doing burnouts with above mentioned ProComps lol. The entire rear brake system was replaced. Energy Suspension poly sway bar frame bracket bushings and greaseable brackets. Water pump, radiator and hoses, heater hoses, control valve was deleted, new Champion Coppers, DuraLast wires, distibutor cap and rotor button, universal joints, alternator, o2 sensor, Thrush glasspack muffler and rear section of the exhaust, Class III hitch, H4 headlight conversion, it has a single run safety hoop between the front and rear seats, 4 brand new Scoshe 6.5" Hi Def speakers, and Pioneer DEH-4000 series CD player, new door glass, red led flood light like the police use for dome lights up front and one white one in the cargo area, and blue mood lighting under the dash. I also fabricated 1x1" steel square into lowering blocks for the transmission crossmember to eliminate the driveline vibration (thats why it has new u joints ;) ), removed the factory crossmember alignment bolts and used GM TH4L60E bellhousing to case bolts as replacements, no more vibration! New motor and transmission mounts, repaired the stripped trans drain plug that leaked like a strainer, thermostat, starter, battery, Mossy Oak seat covers and a gel steering wheel cover lol. Cant forget the creature comforts now can we? Future plans include finding a 4wd AW4 transmission, rebuild it myself and upgrade the servo system, reprogram and upgrade the valvebody to eliminate any design weaknesses, QuadraTrac 249j AWD transfer case from a Grand Cherokee Limited, upgrade the rear axle to Ford 8.8 axle with 4.10 gears and limited slip from a newer 4x4 Ranger, LockRite diff and 4.10 gears in the Dana 30 front housing. Bushwacker cut out fender flares to accomodate the 37x15.50 15" mud tires. Make some additions to the safety hoop to make it a full cage and help stiffen the XJ's unibody construction up. 3 more inches of lift and it will either get a long arm suspension kit or a custom fabricated 4 link setup front and rear, also converting the rear suspension over to coil spring like its big brother, the 93-98 ZJ Grand Cherokee. HID bulb upgrade (the reason for the H4 bulb conversion). A sub and amp. Ram Air Snorkel system. Perfomance throttle body and spacer. Swap the 91 intake manifold out for a 99 and newer 4.0 PowerTech intake manifold (i hear it drastically out performs and outflows the original H.O. design producing much better low end torque response, better top end performance, economy, and a crisper throttle response). Crane Cams cam and lifter kit. Eliminate the catalytic converter. Upgrade the charging system with 2 Optima Yellow Top batteries. Mean Green 140 amp alternator. 20 gallon foam filled fuel cell. Upgrade, convert and replace the entire HVAC system. MSD Super Conducter 8.8mm plug wires, E3 spark plugs, MSD factory replacement performance ignition coil (relocated to fire wall to protect it from engine vibrations, MSD 6 series Off Road 4x4 cd ignition box with Soft-Rev in place, Alabama Cylinder Head's Performane 4.0L cylinder head, roller rockers, stroke the engine with an older 4.2L crankshaft, .030 over SpeedPro hyperuetectic aluminum slugs with the DuroShield skirt coating, file fit SpeedPro Chrome Moly piston rings, and Eagle H-beam connecting rods. ARP fasteners to hold the engine together. Piggyback performane computer programmer and chip, custom 2.5" diameter stainless steel exhaust system from the Banks Performance Stainless Steel Exhaust Header to the stainless single inlet, dual outlet Flowmaster DeltaFlow 40 series 3 chamber muffler (I want it loud, not annoying). Maybe a set of AutoMeter C2 series performance gauges. Just dont know where to mount them, especially if I purchase the C2 5" Monster Tach with shift light. A few other odds and ends not worth mentioning lol. I think that about covers it. Oh, and one more thing. The carnage that is the front end of eep jr is the result of eep jr's alter ego, Booshigi. Goes on a rampage on fully moon lit nights and stalks and kills poor innocent young pine trees to satisfy his trail lust. Its sad really, the episodes get worse eat time Booshigi is allowed to roam free, and this time it was so bad that a strong, more mature pine tree fought back, breaking Booshigi's jaw and knocking his front teeth out. Rumor has it that Booshigi has been in seclusion, healing from his wounds, getting stronger by the day, his anger increasingly growing stonger as he readies himself for the battle that will ensue. Haha, hahahaha, BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stay tuned for future episodes of Dr. eep and Mr. Booshigi
The cells in green are skin cells directly reprogrammed into heart muscle cells. The red indicates a protein that is unique to heart muscle. The technique used to reprogram the skin cells into heart cells could one day be used to mend heart muscle damaged by disease or heart attack.
The image was taken in the laboratory of Deepak Srivastava at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease.
Learn more about CIRM-funded stem cell research: www.cirm.ca.gov.
Aspectos generales del encuentro correspondiente a la primera jornada (Reprogramada) del Torneo Nacional de Interclubes, categoria sub-16, grupo 16, de la Federación Venezolana de Fútbol, partido disputado entre los equipos Deportivo Tachira FC y Escuela RED de Rubio, realizado en la Cancha Sintetica de la UCAT en San Cristobal, Estado Táchira en Venezuela, el 25 de enero (Gennaro Pascale Caicedo / Prensa Deportivo Tachira)
Intern Steven Snell (foreground) at Brookhaven Lab's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), where he is helping reprogram the cooling system that supports experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Metalhead - Donatello's half-pint associate and technological creation. He is a feisty little Turtle-bot. He received a few upgrades since we last saw him, compelling the Turtles to test out his new moves. They all are impressed with him except for Leonardo, who is apparently still hesitant about Metalhead's dependability, was later convinced that he could indeed be trusted.
In the 1987 cartoon series, Metalhead first appeared in the episode "The Making of Metalhead" where it he imbued with thoughts and memories of the Turtles. This gave Metalhead an identity disorder until Donatello reprograms him to work for the Ninja Turtles. Metalhead replicated the voices of the Ninja Turtles, Shredder, and April O'Neil, meaning that Metalhead was voiced by Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen, Townsend Coleman, Dorian Harewood (who was filling in for James Avery at the time), and Renae Jacobs. In this appearance, He was only seen again when Donatello tries to get him to vacuum their TV room in the episode "Big Bug Blunder".
In the 2003 series, Metal Head was part of the final attack on the Tengu Shredder. Metal Head appears in the "Fast Forward" season episode The Journal. Metal Head also appears in TMNT: Back to the Sewer. He shows up in the episodes "Super Power Struggle" and "Wedding Bells and Bytes".
In the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Metalhead was created by Donatello from a salvaged Kraang droid as a way to upgrade "his" weapons. Donatello could control Metalhead via a NES-like controller while observing through a TV monitor since there are cameras in Metalhead's eyes. Donatello can also speak through Metalhead voice box.
While Metalhead proved to be nearly unstoppable in combat situations, he was far too clunky and heavy to properly sneak around. Later in the episode, when his brothers became overwhelmed, Donatello sent Metalhead in to take care of the krangg. He easily defeated the Kraang attacking them, knocking off the control antenna in the process. One Kraang realized that Metalhead was made from their technology and detached from its robot body where it opted to control Metalhead. The Kraang-controlled Metalhead and attacked the Ninja Turtles, nearly killing them until Donatello showed up in person. Donatello managed to defeat Metalhead by crashing a support pillar on it.
In a later episode, Metalhead was rebuilt by Donatello where it aided the Ninja Turtles in the battle against the Kraang. Apparently now programmed with some degree of independence and operating without any sign of a direct controller, Metalhead drove the Shellraiser into the TCRI building lobby and subsequently attacked the Kraang guards while the Ninja Turtles used their new gliders to infiltrate the building from the roof.
Metalhead is reconfigured by Donatello in "Metalhead Rewired", in which he exhibits a personality similar to R2-D2 . After a battle with the Kraang goes awry, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael vote to terminate Metalhead, who quickly escapes before Donatello can do so. Metalhead is able to find a portal to a Kraang prison where many mutants from the series have been incarcerated. later Metalhead saves the turtles by staying behind to close the portal and later self destructs.
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He has extending and rocket propelled punches and kick attacks, as well as a machine guns in his chest and rocket launchers. he also is programed and skilled with strong ninjutsu capabilities.
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Metalhead appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time as the boss of the second level. Turtles in Time Re-Shelled; The instruction manual of the Super NES version of Turtles in Time erroneously refers to Metalhead as Mechaturtle.
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Before I start with some of the negatives I should say that this isn’t a bad hotel, however the owners think it is a 5 star hotel, it isn’t! It maybe that the facilities warrant that rating, but in terms of quality, it really isn’t.
The best part of the hotel is the pool area, there are several pools and there are always sunbeds available. We were there in January and the water was quite cold, but it was still a very pleasant place to relax. If you are a serious swimmer, you will have some problems, as the pools are very, very shallow.
The rooms are nice and large, but don’t be fooled by the brochures, with rooms overlooking the sea or the pool, as many of the rooms overlook roads or carparks.
The hotel food is fine, if you aren’t a vegetarian, although many of the items weren’t very warm (actually gone cold in many cases). The options for vegetarians were very limited, mainly to a vegetable pasta (with very few vegetables) and salad. When asked if there was a vegetarian main course my wife was directed back to the pasta, every day!!! To make matters worse, when they do serve a variety of vegetables they add bacon to them.
I don’t know how old the hotel is, but at a superficial level it looks fine, however it soon becomes apparent that things are wearing out. Rust in the bath, doors that don’t fit properly, rattles in windows, safe not working (even after allegedly being repaired), Lifts grinding to a halt and leaking plumbing. Perhaps the hotel’s main fault is it is all concrete and tiles with absolutely no sound deadening. From inside the room you can hear somebody in the corridor 100 metres away. On our last night the room above us had a ‘party’ until 3am and we could hear every word.
We also had an interesting problem due to strong winds. The rooms have tiled balconies with metal chairs and tables. This furniture is often worn and not stable so in the wind they wobble and tap (very loudly on the tiled floor). The noise from the empty room above us sounded like several drunk tap dancers, going all night. At the time I couldn’t understand why they couldn’t just send someone to move the balcony furniture, but instead we had to move rooms.
During our stay the staff were very courteous but not very effective. To be fair there is a difference in languages, but it did seem that they didn’t talk to each other.
First they lost my credit card details, so during the evening meal our table was surrounded by hotel staff demanding cash, eventually this was sorted and the management apologised, but it left us in the middle of a full restaurant feeling like criminals.
When we had the problem with the noises in the room we contact reception several times and they said they would send someone, but to get anything done we had to go to the reception. Even then they wouldn’t try to do what we asked and even though it was after midnight, they made us move rooms and we were expected to pack up all our things.
Also during the week we had to change, or reprogram keycards on at least a dozen occasions (no we didn’t keep them with our mobile phone).
Overall the hotel is in a good location, the pool and sunbed areas are great, but the building was obviously done on the cheap and is beginning to suffer. I can’t believe anyone who thinks this is a quality 5 star hotel has stayed in one, or even a good 4 star hotel.
Perhaps if you are on an all-inclusive holiday and you are ‘meat eater’, given a top floor room, overlooking the sea, at the end of a corridor, with no maintenance issues, no neighbours and don’t have interact with the staff you might have a 5 star experience.
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There is a tremendous amount of new activity emerging and the energies are wilder than any E- Ticket rollercoaster ride at Disneyland. (For those of you that remember the E Ticket!) Over the last months a new level of Starseed Awakening has appeared and made itself presently known to those that have stewardship (leadership) agreements during the Ascension Cycle. Many have been abruptly awakenened into their next level of “identity” and stimulated to begin to comprehend their upcoming role on this planet, while others have been quietly reassigned. These reassignments may feel as though all on the horizon has shifted (as last month’s Vantage Point” newsletter has described), or you may be in preparation for the shift and your reality will change at the drop of a hat, if it has not already. We have started to get into the “groove” to understand that our lives necessitate constant micro- adjustments and change that may and can happen at every moment. This is because we are experiencing collapsing fields of probable realities very quickly these days, as we move into simultaneous time field experience..
This is a smaller niche of beings I am addressing now, and you “know” who you are.
The Stewardship of the Plan
For those of us that have accepted Stewardship and Representation for the Cosmic Sovereign Law and Divine Plan of this Planet, where we are best “served” can change our location or shift our realities quite a lot. We now belong to the Plan and separate interests or ego desires will fall to the wayside. (You will not feel like doing anything else, as your drive to be God in Action will supercede your personality program) Your energetic resonance has increased so much again during March that your personal sphere of influence is dramatically impacting the fields around you. People and animals will now stare at you when you walk by because their soul being remembers this field of energy from somewhere else in time..
Right now is a pinnacle timeline moving the human race into the phase of eons, which we could consider as the “final conflict” drama..
This phase of eons beginning for our Starseed Planetary Stewardship Group is where the peddle hits the “meddle.” Your personal meddle will be tested for faith, strength and soul integrity in the face off with your negative ego and the 3D illusions that have been implanted or entrained in you. This is to ferret out, in every way, anywhere you may have a weakness of faith, as you must become single pointed in your focus now..
Spiritual Maturity
One pointed devotion and vigilance is required for the perfection in this spiritual path to return to the One. This is applying non-negotiable spirituality, the wisdom and maturity to accept and acknowledge your responsibility to your soul, to humanity at this time. This is about applying your personal will to the dedication it takes to fully surrender to the will of God and the Divine Plan, especially in the face of adversity and challenge. We will need to gather all of our lightworker tools and unify with each other in groups..
And this is why.
Our group soul work has changed the future timelines fields and many of us now exist connected outside of the controllers field of “atomic harness”. This is not pleasing to this group and so targeting or negotiating with the Starseeds in the standard “controller” fashion has begun acceleration. The standard controller program is a task force which uses manipulation to influence the principle of “divide and conquer”. They are aware if they keep us separate and in spiritual ego we will lose our group unity power. It is absolutely crucial you are hyperaware and vigilant if you are leading groups to be aware of this program (task force) operating to divide our Light Family and Starseed Network. They will attempt to lure Powerful Leaders of Light into temptation programs in order to corrupt their integrity. Those who do not accept the bait will be discredited or accused by others. Under no circumstance accept those beliefs or statements using division, separation or spiritual ego of comparison or judgment. Attempt to educate and support to empower your groups using principles of resonance to allow each being to discern aligned energies and to choose within themselves. Support people to understand that imposing oneself on another in any way is antichrist behavior and is actively manipulated and holographically inserted by the dark energies..
(Example: you know someone and you feel that you received a psychic impression about their field of energy. You did not receive permission from them to scan their field, however you are very intuitive and you happen to get a lot of information about them. It seems important and you are caring, so you contact this person and decide to tell them of your psychic discoveries. You may decide to tell them you saw evil spirits and attachments sucking their energy. You may want to help them clear these things and decide to tell them what you saw. The person may go into fear and exacerbate all the negativity that YOU JUST WERE MANIPULATED TO PLACE IN THEM, without your conscious participation. This unravels astral tags, cords, inserts and other implants the dark manipulated you to direct energetically to this person. This is what I refer to as “Fishing” with a bait hook and is a common “astral faux pas” the dark uses to manipulate the lightworkers. This my dears is an EGO PITFALL and absolutely must be avoided. Do not intrude, scan, or impose your energies on another unless you have been directly requested or asked to do so. If you are the recipient of this unsolicited attention DO NOT ENGAGE and if guided do not respond. Prayers of goodwill sent to which the person can receive as a blessing in any way they choose is an entirely different story.)..
Refrain from engaging in gossip or saying negative things about another spiritual leader. Most of us have no idea what that person has undergone in order to be in that position, and we should apply compassion before judgment. All of us that are accepting group leadership energy dynamics are HERE for a specific purpose, for the utilization of certain code and to be the light beacon for the beings that are needed for that specific genetic configuration. You will find a huge variation of method and modality available to each and every classroom of being that exists here. We must apply the future memory of our knowledge to know all paths lead back to the One. ( At some point in time!)..
Counterforce Methods
However, our discernment will need to be assessed in greater ways as we must recognize one of the great Universal Laws operating in this Time Matrix system. As we move forward be aware of the “Pairs of Opposites Principle” and allow a neutral association as a response to it. Consciously remove and clear all emotional conflict with the pairs of opposites/polarity when it comes up. This will become increasingly evident during these times that …All is Responded to with Polarity..
We must comprehend during this “Final Conflict” that with the Power of the Eternal Light exemplified and embodied, the Dark will respond in its likeness with its counterforce.
Further, it will respond in a Powerful Illusion that you must Deny as the “Truth”..
For this, you will be required to master navigating the Realm of 3D, The Realm of Ego Illusions.
The counterforce uses methodology surrounding the following:
• Manipulation of earth frequencies through scalar waves, mind control and chemtrails
• Enforcing psychological/energetic barriers that separate planetary races as well as galactic races from each other
• Disconnecting DNA through many ways such as enforcing technology that breaks down the Human DNA code, such as genetically modified foods, pharmaceuticals, vaccinations, poisoned air, water and food supply.
• Encouraging race war conflicts and division through projections of prejudice, greed, sex, religion, as well as by creating resentments in survival or base human emotional frequencies.
• Controlling use of fear aimed at inciting the instinctual levels of primal urges and those required for survival - such as addictions, sexual manipulations (2nd chakra), food, water, money, shelter, gas prices, etc.
(1st chakra)
• Creating False leaders or prophets for the masses to be swayed, either to trust or be a scapegoat for a “problem”.
• Influencing the mass energy fields to a condition or desired outcome of mass opinion or frenzy- such as news, media exploits, etc.
• Rewarding those who obey and punishing those who do not
• Saying you are free when you are really enslaved
• In short - Divide and Conquer - Separation and Polarity consciousness.
Time to Unify..
Through your accelerated “trial by fire” initiations (many catapulted by the Sirian Activations that began last July) you have become a finely tuned instrument for God Source and now you KNOW what the Truth Vibration really Is. The Truth Vibration is experienced as a direct cognition or cellular knowingness, it does not source from mind fields.
Attempt to feel information as where it is sourcing or impulsing from, can you feel it inside your core being and heart or do you feel it as voices coming from inside or around your head?
Our soul mission is to Unify all creation with Unity consciousness vibration (The Universal Frequency of Love and Cosmic Christ Intelligences) as we can heal the internal separation by synthesizing the polarities of our 3D electromagnetism into the zero point or neutral field. Remember the Zero Point or Neutral field is the God Matrix, the Energetic Core and Source of all Creation, the Still Point of Wholeness..
Our God Consciousness is not polarized, yet our physical body is (for most of us, except the Embodied Avatars) This is a physical body requirement in order to exist within these fields of 3D reality. The Lightworkers have been working to heal and lay the groundwork of Soul Biological Encodements so advanced consciousness could increasingly incarnate here and further transmute the physical bodies out of the polarity schism. This is why we have been consistently requested to anchor and embody our soul light codes and to remember to reconnect to god consciousness while in physical form. This is specifically designed to evolve the human race physical “system” we incarnated into so that the body will have the capacity to accept the frequencies of the Universal Cosmic Intelligence. This is Unity consciousness (and beyond) and contains the energetic reality of the human race’s experiential Sovereignty in the Kingdoms. (This reality and our true sustaining source is way beyond the finite space matrices created from the controller’s parasitic use of our planet and the enslavement of our race..
Remember as we are healing the polarity in our body, it is represented as an Electrical (male principle, right side) and a Magnetic (female principle, left side) field that operates separately when you are born into 3D. Your consciousness will still be subject to be filtered through your body and your perceptions will be distorted in this inherent physical polarity. This will give you tendency to process data in binary thinking, (either/or, good/bad, etc) and experience all of the human projections of polarized thinking. We can improve these states of perception through the higher awareness of applying the Universal Law of One or when we anchor higher levels of our god light consciousness. As we ever increase our light quotient and frequency we achieve more balanced states of perception, thinking and the energetic processing of data. However, this way of processing and thinking is not fully eradicated until we have merged and are physically existing in a full neutral field. ( remember the neutral field has the power to override the system programming) We can only experience its “concept” from our relative level of polarity, not able to have the fully embodied experiential reality. So a way to explain this is we can only think of Unity from where we exist relative to our consciousness ability to perceive while embodied. Our experience of Unity is Infinite and will adjust relatively as we expand into ever higher frequency fields. This is also a spiritual goal of our Ascension Plan, biological ascension merging us into the neutral fields of our “completion” as divine beings, embodying the Cosmic Christ Intelligences. This will be a full system override of all false matrices and illusions in existence..
Be the Word
We are largely still in the belief that we ARE the physical body system and its programmed structure of enslavement. In the interim we must use principles that are the energetic reality of Oneness until we are actually healed and merged to experience the actual Oneness as an energetic reality inside our being and in our world. This is referred to as “Be-ing the Word”.
A way to Be the Word is to hold and train yourself to be in full presence in the moment. When you are knocked out of the state - taking deep inhale breaths of 4 counts, hold 4 counts, exhale four counts will help you come back into the now..
A simple way to Be the Word is to say with full presence after your breathing, I Am God. I Am Sovereign. I Am Free. I Am the Law of One Made Manifest.
Practice saying, feeling, sensing and being the frequency of these words. Work with your Cosmic Christ Shield (12D Shield exercise) and tune into the Transharmonic Pillar. The Transharmomic Pillar is the Timeline Portal with access to the Ascension B or Cosmic Christ Intelligences. ( As well as the Guardian races of our Star Families) This helps to entrain our physical systems to the energetic reality of our God consciousness. Also, this will allow our God consciousness to faster evolve our bodies and reprogram our physical “systems” to hold this zero point/neutral frequency. Nothing can manipulate us when we are standing in our power, clarity and purpose..
However we will find our human parts, such as our physical systems when exhausted, or less consciously aware family members can and will be potential weakness in maintaining your power. The external energies are extremely chaotic and we will continue to need to find our center and ways to balance ourselves. Many of us in the cities will need to find refuge in the nature of Trees and Forestry as well as soaking in the ocean and bodies of water. This counter acts the excessive amounts of EMF activity in the environment and soothes your physical system. Also there has been guidance that Tall Trees have an energetic signature that hide your coordinates and give an actively serving Starseed a much needed “respite” from the energetic deluge.
(Personally, I will be investigating this!)
During this phase of time, we will need to be impeccable with honoring our personal truth in the face of adversity, being honest with ourselves and aligning to serve our physical needs of rest and recovery. We will have the creative solutions present to get what is needed however it will be manifested way outside of any thought process you have had in the past. Expect miracles as a way of life..
Trinitized Family
There is a new level of emerging “family units” (that contain advanced consciousness children) accepting a group role to initiate the Trinitized Form as an energetic principle of “trinity” to exist within the entire family itself. This is a bit exhausting of a task as not all of the members of the family unit may be at the same vibrational level, so the one that is densest will have the most catching up to do and will be experiencing an overwhelm. ( Usually this is one of the parents) Emotional purging, and dropping density symptoms such as the “kundalini flu” will be an overall pattern present in the family. The Group Family Trinity will be a harmonically “averaged” group energy field that when stabilized will strengthen the overall family unit in a very powerful way. For now, it will create a feeling of sequester or separation from other families as if you are existing within your own magic bubble. This is similar to the standard isolation we undergo during the “spiritual ascension” lightbody building process. When we are integrating, social interactions with others is kept to a bare minimum as if you have a sign on your forehead that says ”Do not talk to me!” Obsolete 3D structures and those beings totally immersed in those structures will be weeded out from interaction with your family. Much of this will happen naturally as such as a growing apart and “drift off” type of pattern. This is not from any source of “judgment” it will be necessitated because of the “frequency split” that is transpiring. It will be abundantly clear who and what resonates with your family unit and what does not. If there are some strange dynamics happening in your family, try to relax into the transformation and stay out of worry. Know that your children have agreed to participate in these changes and the instability may be a part of the evolutionary change..
Unification Points in the Sovereignty Grid
Many of us in the Starseed Planetary Stewardship/Leadership Group are now getting impulsed and directed with the next level of our group projects. The focus now will be on the “Unification Principle” and each of us depending on our personal lens of perception and lineage, will be guided to facilitate a body of work or a group/community project. Some of us will need to travel extensively while others will do this in their own demographic community and host others from out of town. The overall objective is to create Unification points on the Sovereignty Grid to strengthen, expand and create a network of support for our Families of Light, both on the inner and outer planes. We will need (as a group) to unify ourselves and lay the groundwork to create the new value system for the New Earth energetic reality. This is the comprehension of the Universal Laws of creation (God Energy Physics and Principles) and being in harmony with All of Life. This will be learning the principles of the new paradigm value system and beginning to create a structure to support them as we move forward to actually experience this as an emerging energetic reality. We will need to remember that this project will be responded to with “Polarity” and to be vigilant with our discernment and listening to our feeling senses for resonance..
Massive Light-Body Integrations
If you are experiencing total exhaustion and needing a lot of sleep, please know that you are not alone. Since the March Equinox Activation we have been undergoing another level of personality dissolution and physical body adjustments and attunements. Since we have accelerated the timelines in March (The New Vantage Point) for many of us it necessitated an aggressive upgrade for our physical self. There is a sprouting of the wings of the Mer-ka-ba layers that I have been consistently observing in our galactic family. Also the zero point field energetic gridworks are being prepared as well as further miasmatic clean ups. All we need to greet the particle acceleration to smoothly run in our bodies (thank you Aurora) and blend the particle and anti particle systems and stations of our identity is happening now. Many of us have chosen this physical identity to be the immortal body of Ascension and our Last Embodied Ascended Form and its Consciousness Identity is working with us personally, along with many other evolution teams. It is interesting for me (with my lineage) to observe that many of these stations of Identity are sourcing or affiliated with the Egyptian 18th Dynastic period..
This has been a long missive of which I hope you have found empowering and supportive. We do not have the luxury to be or to act in denial of our responsibility any longer. It is the time of our mastery and return to this Earth to reclaim the divine inheritance and liberation for all human beings. I am deeply humbled and grateful to be among you and call you my family.
Stay in the luminosity of your heart and soul path! We are here as One!..
Love, Lisa Renee
Metalhead - Donatello's half-pint associate and technological creation. He is a feisty little Turtle-bot. He received a few upgrades since we last saw him, compelling the Turtles to test out his new moves. They all are impressed with him except for Leonardo, who is apparently still hesitant about Metalhead's dependability, was later convinced that he could indeed be trusted.
In the 1987 cartoon series, Metalhead first appeared in the episode "The Making of Metalhead" where it he imbued with thoughts and memories of the Turtles. This gave Metalhead an identity disorder until Donatello reprograms him to work for the Ninja Turtles. Metalhead replicated the voices of the Ninja Turtles, Shredder, and April O'Neil, meaning that Metalhead was voiced by Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen, Townsend Coleman, Dorian Harewood (who was filling in for James Avery at the time), and Renae Jacobs. In this appearance, He was only seen again when Donatello tries to get him to vacuum their TV room in the episode "Big Bug Blunder".
In the 2003 series, Metal Head was part of the final attack on the Tengu Shredder. Metal Head appears in the "Fast Forward" season episode The Journal. Metal Head also appears in TMNT: Back to the Sewer. He shows up in the episodes "Super Power Struggle" and "Wedding Bells and Bytes".
In the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Metalhead was created by Donatello from a salvaged Kraang droid as a way to upgrade "his" weapons. Donatello could control Metalhead via a NES-like controller while observing through a TV monitor since there are cameras in Metalhead's eyes. Donatello can also speak through Metalhead voice box.
While Metalhead proved to be nearly unstoppable in combat situations, he was far too clunky and heavy to properly sneak around. Later in the episode, when his brothers became overwhelmed, Donatello sent Metalhead in to take care of the krangg. He easily defeated the Kraang attacking them, knocking off the control antenna in the process. One Kraang realized that Metalhead was made from their technology and detached from its robot body where it opted to control Metalhead. The Kraang-controlled Metalhead and attacked the Ninja Turtles, nearly killing them until Donatello showed up in person. Donatello managed to defeat Metalhead by crashing a support pillar on it.
In a later episode, Metalhead was rebuilt by Donatello where it aided the Ninja Turtles in the battle against the Kraang. Apparently now programmed with some degree of independence and operating without any sign of a direct controller, Metalhead drove the Shellraiser into the TCRI building lobby and subsequently attacked the Kraang guards while the Ninja Turtles used their new gliders to infiltrate the building from the roof.
Metalhead is reconfigured by Donatello in "Metalhead Rewired", in which he exhibits a personality similar to R2-D2 . After a battle with the Kraang goes awry, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael vote to terminate Metalhead, who quickly escapes before Donatello can do so. Metalhead is able to find a portal to a Kraang prison where many mutants from the series have been incarcerated. later Metalhead saves the turtles by staying behind to close the portal and later self destructs.
Weapons-
He has extending and rocket propelled punches and kick attacks, as well as a machine guns in his chest and rocket launchers. he also is programed and skilled with strong ninjutsu capabilities.
Video Games-
Metalhead appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time as the boss of the second level. Turtles in Time Re-Shelled; The instruction manual of the Super NES version of Turtles in Time erroneously refers to Metalhead as Mechaturtle.
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Aspectos generales del encuentro correspondiente a la segunda jornada reprogramada del Torneo Adecuación 2015 por el Campeonato Nacional de Categorias Menores, categoría Sub 14 de la Federación Venezolana de Fútbol, partido disputado entre los equipos Deportivo Tachira FC Vs FundacionPuente Real, realizado en la Cancha Sintetica de la UCAT, en San Cristobal, Estado Táchira en Venezuela, el 15 de diciembre de 2015 (Gennaro Pascale / Prensa Deportivo Tachira)
Lowenstark's Backlog: 05-21-20XX
Forgot to mention this, despite it's importance to yours truly... I ran into Stephan, former CEO of Midian's Ashagi Corp branch. He runs a hotel now. The best part? I had been screwing this guy over for MONTHS in TOTAL secrecy... and FINALLY I had the opportunity to openly mock him.
After our little verbal soire came a truly odd happening... the next day, Stephan's wife apparently insists I come over for dinner. So uhh... what the hell?
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Stephan Frontenac offers a nod to Laz as he sees the man walk in. In the last months he heard a lot about this philantropist who believed in helping the poor of Midian. Stephan scowled at him as soon as his back was turned, it was people like Laz and his brotherhood of doo gooder engineers that made life more difficult for Stephan, and his wallet less full. He grabs another Devil's poison and down it and says to Beth "What? that no one shot anyone yet?"
Lazarus Lowenstark is looking at David when his eyes slide to Stephan, "Holy crap... Stephan? Long time no harass man! Glad you're out of Ashagi yet? Grew weary of me stealing your projects and reprogramming em'?"
Beth Latynina blinks to the comment on shooting hoping not as does not want someones brains splattered to dress again," no just things.." vague for an moment as looks across to people that just came in frowning for an moment to call to the man had seen in church many times," reprogram what?"
Stephan Frontenac takes a few steps towards Lazarus and says with a confident grin "Lazarus Lowenstark, a pleasure. I've heard great things about your accomplishments building on other peoples work, or was that stealing other peoples work? I'm glad to see though that you are being put to good use as a sewer rat now? Maybe the graffiti on the walls can give you ideas on how to improve Midian City some more?"
Sagira Lowenstark clenched her fists. She did all that she could to keep from snarling at Stephan. What the HELL was that about? She'd wait patiently for permission to order a drink, not saying a word.
Lazarus Lowenstark was about to respond to David when Stephan stepped up. Laz actually pumped his fist. "NICE! We get villain and hero banter. Twist your moustache, Stephan. Twist it. you know you want to. Yes, I did love building many loving and faithful members of the League from the people you kidnapped off the street and tried to reprogram. See, I'm a honey over vinigar guy. Or is that a honey on flies guy? I can't remember. Anyway, yeah. I gotta dmit, it feels so GOOD to be open with you like this. Ahh... Kat, and Kat again. And QUen. And that Bat Hybrid... oh the list goes on and on. You really are a scumbag, sir. Touche."
Stephan Frontenac chuckles once at Lazarus' words, twisting the hairs on his short goatee above his lip. He actually has a rather smug smile "Well thank you, it's a world that belongs to scum bags that know which ass to suck. Jsut look at our happy mayor, how many trains do you think he let up his ass to get himself and Midian City where it is today?" He turns his head to Sagira and smiles and asks dismissively "Is she for sale? The hotel needs some more bedtime pillows, our buisness clients keep breaking them."
Sagira Lowenstark mumbled softly to herself, the meds Jon gave her finally wearing off. "Something strong, please...." She lowers her voice, her tone playful. "Anything to drown out the battle of wits with an unarmed person..." That tone would quickly fade as she heard what Stephan had said. Head would turn slowly, offering a sickeningly sweet smile paired with a deathly glare. "Sir, I'm quite sure I'd break them instead of the other way around." She tried to be as polite as possible, but that had hit a nerve. She was her father's daughter, after all.
Reinhardt Stenvaag walked into the club, pausing only long enough to spot Laz and headed for the man. He removed the leash from where it was cliped to his belt, holding it out to him.. as if it burned through the leather gloves he wore. He said nothing.
Lazarus Lowenstark is grinning broadly, each word said by Stephan only increasing it's measure. "YES! That's the spirit. Use the person you assume I care for to twist a verbal knife in my gut. CLASSIC villain. Ahh, this is too rich." He turns sharply, pointing at Sagira, "I warned you about that. This man is an upstanding member of the World UNion. You mind how you speak to him." He turns back, grin returning rapidly, "Anyway, she's a little mouthy, but that's okay. She makes amazing cookies. Where was I? Oh right... you were twisting the knife, and I was gonna say..." He snaps his fingers, thinking, "Oh, right- " He pauses, takes the leash, and nods, "Thanks Destro." Then back to STephan, about to continue...
Reinhardt Stenvaag looks to Laz "you know.. I remember that cartoon from my childhood.." he muttered, more to himself.
Stephan Frontenac suddenly realises the references Laz was making, comparing him to a 20th century cloaked french villain. He thinks about that a moment, wondering how he would look with a pointed mustache and laughs "Well, no hard feelings", and lifts a glas of devils poison and downs it "to the subway and being able to abuse people legally on shorter notice now."
Sagira Lowenstark turned to Laz, keeping that same sweet tone. "My apologies, Aba. I wasn't aware that he was such an 'outstanding member'. I'll be sure to watch my tongue." Ya, right.
Lazarus Lowenstark tugs Jolene closer, unconsciously keeping her as close as he can considering what had occured outside. He nods to Stephan, smirk still on his face. "Well, we had some good old times, Stephan. Those were the days." He gestures about, "No politics. No rules. No carefully guarded tongues.. just hero and villain, clashing in a war of technology." He shakes his head fondly, "Good old days. But, alas the days are changing are they not? You run a Motel Six. I tickle Thomas the Tank Engine. Oh well." he salutes with his beer, "To your good health sir."
Stephan Frontenac raises his glass to Laz's toast and replies with a friendly tone, but obviously serious "And to your brain and body dissected for the profit of the rich and priveledged of this world."
Lazarus Lowenstark barked a laugh, and hisses a "yess..." He looks to Stephan as if spying a beloved character from a childhood TV show. He shakes his head, chcukling, "Oh it's perfect. That's it, I'm coming to Leviathan more." he chuckles, "Dissected.. I love this guy."
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Basic math of father and daughter relationships :)
Esta foto la tomé en mi estudio. Son mi marido y mi hija, abrazados. La cara de Zoe estaba iluminada por la computadora, a la que estaba sentado mi hijo (su hermano mellizo, Luka), mirando el gangam style de Pocoyó.
Zoe tiene 4 años y es el cascabel de la casa, nuestra muñeca chiquita y picarona. Ama los rompecabezas (armaba los de 200 piezas a los 2 años y medio) y el arte (tenemos la casa llena de sus dibujos), y se vuelve loca por la tecnología (ve un smartphone o un tablet y se vuelve loca, lo reprograma, modifica y hace lo que quiere en dos segundos). Ama las hadas, los animales y pintarse y disfrazarse con vestidos de princesa enormes y rimbombantes. Para su cumpleaños y navidad nos pidió un perro grande y negro, y como papá noel no se lo trajo le gusta recordarnoslo de vez en cuando :)
Aspectos generales del encuentro correspondiente a la segunda jornada reprogramada del Torneo Adecuación 2015 por el Campeonato Nacional de Categorias Menores, categoría Sub 16 de la Federación Venezolana de Fútbol, partido disputado entre los equipos Deportivo Tachira FC Vs FundacionPuente Real, realizado en la Cancha Sintetica de la UCAT, en San Cristobal, Estado Táchira en Venezuela, el 15 de diciembre de 2015 (Gennaro Pascale / Prensa Deportivo Tachira)
Not one of my images. This is from the review by Nasim Mansurov of Photography Life. It's just a beautiful thing, as is the D4. My only issues with the camera are the native base ISO of 200 and the fact that none of the controls can be programmed for one handed manual ISO changes. That's a big one for me, which I can adjust on all my other camera bodies (D4, D750 and D810 can all reprogram the video record button.) Nikon are now putting an ISO button next to the shutter button of the D5, D850 and D500, where it should have been all along.
Ever had to change the ISO manually with a heavy 70-200 F2.8 lens hanging off the front of this? It's not much fun. Your lens mount is going to be under stress and it's so unnecessary. The D3s ISO button is on the grip at the bottom. It's a 2 handed operation to change it. Of course you can leave the camera in AUTO ISO but I almost never use that. Auto ISO gets it wrong so often.
If anyone knows a way around this issue please leave a comment below.
It would be great if Nikon added a firmware update to allow users to reprogram the PV or FN buttons for ISO change but that isn't going to happen. Nikon doesn't really make useful firmware updates, just minor correctional ones. It's one of the downsides of the Nikon system. They want you to buy one of their expensive new cameras, not update the firmware of superseded models. As far as I'm aware, Fuji take the opposite approach, where their firmware updates genuinely improve the operation of the camera and they actually listen to their customers.
It would also be great if Nikon released a firmware update for all their higher end cameras to add U1 and U2 settings to the mode dial. That they haven't done this after years of people begging them to do so is simply ridiculous.
photographylife.com/recommended-nikon-d850-settings
"I have tried to be organized with my pro-grade Nikon cameras in the past and failed – the above limitations just make memory banks useless for me. The thing is, it is not that hard to get this fixed, as it is just a firmware change. All Nikon needs to do is add a few options like U1 and U2 to the camera MODE button, then allow saving all camera settings into these memory banks (including autofocus settings) and the problem is solved! I don’t know why Nikon keeps pushing the same useless banks over and over again to the pro-grade DSLRs…"
Nasim Mansurov
Strobist info:
SB800 hand held 8 inches (20cms) above subjects in DIY mini softbox and triggered via CLS.
These are my ISP programmers. The one on the right is a JeeNode V4 with the Jeelabs flash programmer installed. I thought this was a bit of a waste of a full wireless enabled JeeNode, so I bought one of the cheaper and smaller (non wireless) JeeNode SMD boards.
The plan was to build the FTDI interface for the SMD board, then slide the flashboard down on top of that sandwiching it (which is why the pins and headers on the prototype board are all trimmed/filed, it allowed everything to connect nicely).
Unfortunately the regulator on the SMD board didn't survive the construction, so I had to add a full sized one on the prototype board instead... And then I thought I might as well wire up the pins I need to make it an ISP programmer in its own right...
The more eagle eyed (and geeky) amongst you might notice the lack of a reset capacitor on the FTDI connector I made for the SMD board... This is deliberate. I don't want to accidentally reprogram this board when it's supposed to be providing the protocol conversion interface so I can program something else.
So to reprogram this you either have to go through the cunning timing acrobatics of the original arduino board, or use the other ISP programmer (which is exactly how I loaded the AVR ISP software onto it).
So now I have two!
I used a Seeed Studio Arduino clone for this. No reason, really - I just wanted to try it out. It happened to have a convenient socket for serial, which used to connect the Bluetooth controller. This lets me easily remove it to reprogram the board.
Project details and source: staticfree.info/projects/rfid_front_door/
I hacked a power switch into my programmer instead of the silly little jumper that I lost about 5 minutes after receiving the kit. The switch turns on/off power to the chip being programmed.
With it on, the programmer can be used as a low-current power supply to, say, a chip in a prototype board. Or with it off, the programmer can be used to reprogram a chip in a fully powered, production, environment.
Aspectos generales del encuentro correspondiente a la segunda jornada reprogramada del Torneo Adecuación 2015 por el Campeonato Nacional de Categorias Menores, categoría Sub 14 de la Federación Venezolana de Fútbol, partido disputado entre los equipos Deportivo Tachira FC Vs FundacionPuente Real, realizado en la Cancha Sintetica de la UCAT, en San Cristobal, Estado Táchira en Venezuela, el 15 de diciembre de 2015 (Gennaro Pascale / Prensa Deportivo Tachira)
And yes, believe it, the nails are my own. - But.. it takes YEARS to reprogram the bodys motor movements not to break them all the time (Kung fu helps) and the back side of this is *sulk* - Perhaps you have tryed to have fake nails attached? It feels SO good, feminine and you actually FEEL more sexy :oP - But when you as I allways have long nails, the feeling not only disappear COMPLETELY, it just gets "normal" until one breaks and you feel disabled, and in a way "naked" and confined. But it hasn't happend for ½ a year now. - Just remember.. it takes YEARS and TEARS, but you can do EXACTLY what you want, don´t let ANYONE tell you different. Especially not, real girls. - Show me one IRL with nails like mine, I havn't seen one in all my life! -
ADVICE -> Don´t try to be like women, be better, be.. a Tranny ;o)