Though the crime rates in Canada have been steadily declining for the past two decades, harassment, assault and stalking still remain the most frequently committed offenses in the country. Multiple studies have also reflected that women are 3 times as likely to be the victims of these crimes as males. Filing a restraining order against these charges can be an effective way to deal with violent abusers and stalkers.
A restraining order or an order of protection is a civil mandate issued by the provincial court of your region that enforces the offender to maintain a secure distance from the person who has applied for the edict. The order can be filed by anyone who has qualms about their safety and can be issued ex-parte (without a formal notice to the charge).
Here’s a closer look at the reasons to file a restraining order:
When is a Restraining Order Appropriate?
Although this order can be filed by anyone under threat, the most common offences in which a restraining order is appropriate are:
Physical Abuse
Psychological Abuse
Emotional Abuse
Depletion of Assets
Violation of Intellectual Property
Your lawyer can help you understand these offences better and draft a suitable restraining order for you and your family.
Verifications Required for an Order
To obtain a restraining order promptly, it is crucial for the applicant to be clear about the reasons for which they are filing the order. Most courts do not issue a mandate restricting the behaviour of the offender if there is a lack of a clear proof of danger. The threat needs to be described distinctly and the claim needs to be supported by the statements of witnesses or another piece of tangible evidence.
It is crucial to be specific about the incidents, the frequency of the threats, their forms and the previous behaviour of the abuser. A skilled lawyer can help you substantiate your claim and find reasonable evidence to obtain the order promptly.
Conditions in a Restraining Order
A restraining order is usually filed to impose a specific amount of distance between the abuser and the victim. However, it can be enlisted to restrict certain actions of the abuser which adversely affect your safety and the safety of your friends and family.
A restraining order may limit actions like:
Prevent the abuser from coming closer than a distance of 500 metres or a measure specified in the order.
Prevent communication with you and the people enlisted in the order by any forms or means.
Prevent the abuser to visit the area of your work or residence.
The conditions mentioned in the restraining order need to be drafted very carefully as it determines the security of your family and the nature of its violation. The violations of a restraining order may be classified as civil misconduct or may result in the assignment of criminal charges to the abuser. It is highly recommended to consult an experienced personal injury lawyer to make sure the application is filed accurately.
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Certain personality traits such as low neuroticism, high positivity, benevolence and curiosity are closely linked to happiness.
Our personalities are not entirely malleable, but we can all do things to cultivate happiness-inducing qualities in ourselves.
by Dr. Pelin Kesebir
What would you say if I asked you what you need for greater contentment?
I doubt that many of you would respond with, “a better disposition." When it comes to increasing our happiness, rather than changing our internal qualities, most of us first think of changing our external conditions.
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This focus is understandable, as external conditions clearly impact our happiness. Were this not the case, we would not be observing dramatically different average happiness levels among world countries. That people in Finland are much more content with their lives than people in Afghanistan doubtlessly has something to do with the prevailing living conditions in these countries and cannot simply be explained by the dispositions of the Finns and the Afghans.
While external circumstances play an undeniable role in our happiness, a striking finding from the science of happiness is that this role is more limited than many of us imagine. Studies suggest that only about 10-15 percent of the variance in people's well-being can be attributed to external circumstances. Once people can meet their basic needs without difficulty, the effect of income on happiness starts to diminish and eventually reaches a satiation point, at which higher incomes no longer lead to greater well-being. If we already have a fairly decent and secure life, it appears that the “happiness returns” from improving our external conditions will be quite modest.
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Improving the conditions of our internal life—the habits of our mind and heart—on the other hand, turns out to hold a lot of promise as a happiness strategy. Data supports the age-old wisdom that the source of happiness lies within. A meta-analysis, for example, reports that personality traits—our habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving—account for 63 percent of the subjective well-being differences between people. We witness the effects of personality when two otherwise comparable people interpret and respond to the exact same life event—a break-up, a lay-off, or a pandemic—in quite different ways. One person might be psychologically crushed by these events and fall into despair, whereas another might maintain positivity and appreciate the new opportunities provided by these events.
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This example also illustrates why objective life conditions have only limited power in predicting subjective well-being. Everything that happens in the external world passes through our internal filters—filters shaped by our personality. It is those filters that process the raw material of life and transform it into greater or lesser happiness. Some of us have filters that are better equipped to produce happiness, and the important question then becomes: What kind of a personality is most conducive to happiness? What does research say about happiness and personality? What are those internal qualities that most distinguish happy and less happy people?
Low Neuroticism
Neuroticism, as a psychological term, refers to a predisposition to experience negative emotions. These emotions can include anxiety, sadness, anger, or guilt, and each of them are entirely natural and even the happiest of people get their share of these emotions. However, experiencing negative emotions too frequently, intensely, and well beyond what the situation calls for is incompatible with well-being. Research thus robustly links happiness to low levels of neuroticism.
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Like other personality traits, neuroticism is partially heritable and it would be wrong to assume that it is endlessly malleable. That said, we know that it is possible to reduce our neuroticism through psychological interventions such as therapy, psychoeducation, and mindfulness or meditation training. Leading a physically healthy lifestyle (e.g., exercise, adequate sleep, a nutritious diet) also helps us better regulate negative emotions.
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Positivity
Whereas neuroticism is the propensity to experience negative emotions, positivity can be thought of as the propensity to experience positive emotions (e.g., joy, love, hope, gratitude). Some scholars have defined positivity as “a pervasive mode of appraising, viewing, and perceiving life from a positive stance.” People high in this trait are good at seeing and appreciating the good in life, which serves as a powerful source of resilience in the face of adversity. Closely related to positivity is the trait of optimism, which represents a positive stance toward the future. Optimism, too, is linked to both psychological and physical well-being.
One way to cultivate greater positivity is to train ourselves to notice the good around us. Practicing gratitude would be effective for this purpose, as gratitude is about consistently orienting us to what is going well in our life. Another method to cultivate positivity is teaching our minds to look at things from a more constructive perspective. When things don’t go our way, the habit of asking certain questions can help to adopt this more charitable perspective—questions such as, “How can I turn this situation into something better?” or, “What are the lessons I can learn from this?”
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Benevolence
Research suggests that happier people have a more positive and prosocial orientation toward others. They possess qualities such as being loving, warm, benevolent, sincere, helpful, and generous. Healthy relationships are absolutely necessary to happiness and the aforementioned qualities serve their possessors partly by making such relationships possible. It appears that “being good” and “feeling good” are closely related, as many philosophers throughout the ages have argued. This link between virtuous qualities and happiness is an exciting discovery of the science of happiness.
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Curiosity
Although it may come as surprising to some, curiosity is one of the personality traits that exhibits the strongest relations with life satisfaction. Happier people typically perceive the world as a rich and fascinating place and have many interests. It is not difficult to imagine how curiosity adds joy and zest to life. Curiosity is also characterized by low levels of self-focus: The individual’s attention is turned outside itself, which itself is linked to greater well-being. To cultivate greater levels of curiosity, we could set aside time to follow our interests and create opportunities for exploration and discovery in our lives.
Is It Possible to Change Our Personality?
Several lines of research suggest that personality change is possible, even if not easy. Although we cannot fashion a new personality from scratch, we can mold our personality in the direction we want. We may never become the most optimistic person that we know, but we can definitely become a more optimistic person than we currently are. Maybe procrastination will never completely disappear from our life, but it can visit us less frequently and for shorter periods.
Our work at the Center for Healthy Minds emphasizes the plasticity of well-being. We should know that the plasticity of well-being partly arises from the plasticity of personality. We have the potential to increase our happiness, no matter how small the changes we make to our personality. Such changes are worth striving for, because they would be a gift not only to ourselves, but also to the people around us, and ultimately the world.
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When it comes to TV program engagement, networks and advertisers see value in social media. One reason for that is because high Twitter activity around TV programs is indicative of high viewer engagement. Networks also turn to social media to understand how program-related buzz relates to audience tune-in, and advertisers and agencies have seen that paid media placements in highly social programs can significantly boost earned media for their brands.
But can we identify what makes a program social?
To find out, Nielsen started with the inherent characteristics of television programming, such as what type of network a program airs on and the average size of the live TV audience, setting out to investigate how networks, agencies and advertisers could leverage that information to anticipate how social a program will be, as well as identify whether a given program is under- or over-performing on Twitter.
To do this, Nielsen looked at 457 English- and Spanish-language prime-time series programs, measuring average Twitter activity and TV audiences for new episodes that aired from September 2014 to January 2015. Nielsen then created a model to estimate the average number of Tweets per episode for a program using eight program characteristics as variables.
At the onset of the analysis, Nielsen determined that it considered all of the characteristics it analyzed to be underlying program traits that networks and content producers could not easily change. As such, the traits did not include more movable levers, such as promotions activities or decisions on program content and quality.
All eight of the tested variables proved to be statistically significant. In other words, all eight had a relationship to the average volume of program-related Tweets sent each week for any given program.
In fact, this integrated model explained 67% of the variance in Twitter activity. Said another way, basic differences between programs, such as TV audience size and what type of series each program is, can explain the majority of the difference in Twitter volumes between programs. As one might expect, audience size alone (i.e., live audiences age 12-34 and 2-99) plays a large role in telling the level of Twitter activity around a program, explaining 51% of variance in average Tweets per episode.
This model can help gauge whether the amount of social activity that a show is generating is higher or lower than expected, given the basic traits of that program (for instance, how social should a one-hour broadcast drama that averages a live TV audience of 3 million people each week be?).
There are three ways that TV industry players can benefit from analyzing program characteristics to anticipate levels of social activity:
Networks, advertisers and agencies can anticipate how social a new program will be before it premieres.
As advertisers and agencies refine media plans and networks develop ad sales strategies, they can identify whether a program is under- or over-performing socially.
Network marketing teams can gauge opportunities to increase earned media around programs, focusing their efforts to lift social activity to—and beyond—the expected levels for any given program.
It’s notable that basic program traits can explain such a large percentage (two-thirds) of variance in Twitter activity. That also suggests that these basic traits do not explain all variance in performance. Other factors, such as content quality, promotion strategies or to what extent the cast is active on social media during airtime, could explain the remaining one-third of variance in performance. These remaining variables are levers that networks and content producers could potentially use to drive social activity.
Overall, these finding introduce opportunities to more holistically understand social TV behavior, while also setting up the potential for future testing to evaluate what other factors contribute to social success for certain programs and networks.
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On Saturday I get out for a bicycle ride and do laundry. It's a slow day. Later in the afternoon Person B_AIA calls and I pick him up at the train station. We hang out, grab dinner at Subway (because Person B_AIA likes Subway), and then we watch some television movies until late in the evening.
On Sunday I get up a bit late and get out fort he aquarium bicycle ride. During the ride I run into Karl (who I helped repair a flat tire a while ago) and we ride together until we go off on our separate ways. Back up the Los Angeles river there is a strong headwind so I get in a great strength workout. After a shower Person B_AIA grab a train for downtown Los Angeles. We walk around for a long time until we are both tired and head for home. (Other than getting to the King Eddy, we do not go down where the junkies, hookers, and homeless people congregate.) The rest of Sunday is slow as I'm worn out and Person B_AIA takes care of many text messages, emails, and sudoku games.
On Monday I have a productive day at work for the first day to start the new year. When I get home I have a great session with the weights where I sneak in a set at even higher weights. I expect to sleep well tonight. And I do for the first 5 hours. But then I wake up at 3:30 and cannot fall back asleep. At 4:30 I get up and mill around the house before getting out for a 46 minute run. And then I head for work and have another productive day.
Late on Tuesday Person B_AIA texts me and appears on my doorstep. Person B_AIA is getting around Los Angeles quite nicely using the trains and buses. And spending time in libraries and with other friends. When Person B_AIA goes to take a shower he comes into my rooma bit later and says, "You have no hot water". The tankless water heater is 6 months old but it has decided to take an exception. I reboot the controller and everything is okay again.
On Wednesday morning Person B_AIA heads for the buses and rails again as I ride off to work on the motorbike. It's a semi-productive day but I'm told that I should go to Boulder, Colorado next week for some testing. After the day at work I get in a very heavy session with the weights and figure I'll get in two more heavy workouts before taking next week off from lifting while I'm in Colorado.
On Thursday I don't get out and run before work. Instead I just get to work early, have a productive day, get told to go to Boulder for work on Monday, and then leave early. At hoe I have a great workout for abdominals and lower back and then relax. When Person B_AIA calls from the train station I go pick him up and we watch the end of the college football game. (It was, as usual for college football games, boring.)
On Friday I wake up and do some financial work and then get out cycling around the aquarium late in the morning when the sunshine is out. I'm a bit unmotivated today and just add a little bit to the typical ride. I do some web programming, sweep the floors, work on little errands around the house, and relax. I'm a bit tired today but I don't get down for a nap. Person B_AIA texts me and says that we should go out tonight. Thus later in the evening I get in a great session with the weights, pick up Person B_AIA on the way to a club, and arrive just after 11 pm. There are a lot of people at the club that I know so I'm able to occupy myself the entire night chatting with acquaintances. This is Person B_AIA's first visit to this club and he's having some fun but is tired. But we stay until closing time and then rush on home for sleep after 3 am.
On Saturday I'm up before 7 am and let the day warm up before starting activities. Before the morning's bicycle ride I prune all of the rose plants back to winter bareroot status. At mid-morning I get in a good bicycle ride and later watch football playoff games. Person B_AIA is a bit under the weather and sleeps most of the day. Later we get ice cream and this helps his throat feel better.
On Sunday morning I ride up the Los Angeles river trail and turn around when the legs say I need to. I drop Person B_AIA off at the train station, watch football playoff games, do some cleaning around the house, and get in a workout for the abdominals and lower back early in the evening. And then I pack for the work trip to Boulder, Colorado.
On Monday I'm awake at 4 am in order to give myself plenty of time in today's security environment to make a 7:30 flight from LAX to Denver.


"Macaroni & Cheese has been a staple on the dinner table for decades! The creative blend of cheeses in this comfort food is so smooth and delicious that any cheese lover will find it irresistible." - Cheryl Hart, Tillamook Cheese cookbook
Ingredients
8 Tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted Tillamook butter, divided
1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder, divided
3 cups (about 1/2 loaf) good white crusty bread, cut into 1/4 to 1/2-inch pieces
2 cups shredded Tillamook Vintage White Extra Sharp Cheddar cheese, divided
1/2 cup shredded Swiss cheese
1 1/4 cups shredded Romano cheese
2 teaspoons salt, divided
1 pound large uncooked rigatoni pasta
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 1/2 cups half-and-half (1 quart), room temperature
2 cups whole milk
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 to 1 teaspoon ground or whole red pepper flakes
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 cups shredded Tillamook Sharp Cheddar cheese
1 1/2 tablespoons freshly chopped parsley
Method
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
Butter and set aside a 9 by 13-inch casserole dish. To make the topping, melt 4 Tablespoons of butter with a 1/2 teaspoon of the garlic powder. Place the bread cubes in a medium bowl. Toss the melted garlic butter with the bread cubes and reserve.
Combine 1 cup of the Vintage White, 1/2 cup of the Swiss, and 1/4 of the Romano in a separate small bowl. Reserve for the topping.
Bring 6 quarts of water to a boil in a large pot. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons of salt and the pasta. Cook, according to package directions, to the al dente stage. Drain in a colander and reserve.
Prepare the sauce while the pasta is cooking. Melt 4 Tablespoons of butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the flour and cook for 3 minutes, whisking constantly. Gradually add the half-and-half and milk, and bring just to a boil, whisking constantly. Reduce the heat and simmer, whisking often, until the sauce slightly thickens, about 4 to 5 minutes.
Stir in the remaining garlic powder, salt, pepper flakes, and nutmeg. Add the remaining Vintage White, Swiss, Romano, and Sharp cheeses, stirring until the cheese is melted. Remove the pan from the heat. Fold the pasta into the cheese sauce.
Pour the mixture into a prepared baking dish. Sprinkle with the reserved cheese. Top with the bread-cube mixture. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the cheese is bubbly and the top begins to brown. Allow to stand for 5 minutes before serving. Garnish with the chopped parsley.
MY notes: Prepared and served this at our neighbor’s annual Halloween party, and it was a big hit. I actually used a little more extra sharp cheddar and swiss, and slightly less romano, just because that’s the ratio/taste I prefer. Though it comes from the Tillamook Cheese recipe book, you needn’t use all Tillamook products to pull it off. But make sure it’s good quality cheese, so it will melt more smoothly.
You’ll want to be sure your milk and cream are at room temperature, or when you add them into the pan to make the sauce, it could seize and turn lumpy. Won’t affect the taste, but it does change the texture.
We omitted the pepper flakes (since little goblins were going to be enjoying this dish, too) this time and skipped the parsley, since we were out and it’s more of a garnish. You could use other pastas, as the sauce is one that would be good with just about anything. But the shape and size of the rigatoni is perfect, because the cheese gets trapped inside the tubes of pasta and makes each bite even more decadent.


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Are you and your kids excited to be shedding winter boots and other heavy shoes very soon? According to Punxsutawney Phil, spring is right around the corner, and with spring comes light and bright footwear! I know that when I lived up north, I was itching to get into sandals as soon as possible. Once the mercury hit 50 degrees during the day, I’d be getting my toenails painted and letting them experience the chill of early spring by putting them in flip flops.
You might not be quite ready for flip-flops, but once the snow melts for good, you can put your winter boots away and get out your spring foot fashions. One of the first signs for me that spring was here was when I started taking out my Crocs. Because they’re made of a rubbery material, it was no problem if they got wet in April showers. They’re lightweight, unlike boots, and come in a wide variety of springy, bright colors. Crocs don’t just come in the “duck foot” clog shape that you might remember from when they first came out; they actually are now available in several styles. Here are a few:
Retro Flip Wedges: If you want to wear flip-flops but need a bit of height to your shoe, the Retro Flip Wedges will make your feet happy. They’re non-skid, so if it’s wet out, you won’t go sliding around once you step inside. They are also nicely textured on the insole, so you won’t feel like you’re falling out of your flip-flops. These are available in fuschia, black and navy, with green, fuschia and red accents, respectively.
Flats and Mary Janes: You can even wear Crocs to dress up a little bit when you choose flats or mary janes. These come in several types, from ballet flats to flats with a heel strap or a strap across the top of the foot, or both. Some styles have ventilation holes cut in and others are solid, so you can take your pick, depending on what you like. Some spring-like shades available include pinks, blues, greens, aqua and neutrals.
Character Clogs for Kids: The classic Croc clogs are very kid-friendly, and their comfort can’t be surpassed. Crocs offers a variety of cute cartoonish styles that kids love. Some examples include clogs with Legos or Mickey Mouse shapes on the Crocband, Disney Princess clogs, Hello Kitty clogs, Scooby Doo clogs and Barbie mary janes.
Loafers for Men: If your husband, father or other special man in your life wants the comfort of Crocs but doesn’t want to wear clogs, he can choose from a variety of comfortable loafers. These come in different materials. For example, the sole of the Cove Sport is molded croslite, but the top is water-resistant leather. The Islander Sport has a rugged look and is molded croslite throughout. The Waveseeker is croslite on the sole and stretchy rainbow polyester on top. You’ll be sure to find a Crocs shoe that fits his style!
Now is a great time to buy Crocs, because with the warmer weather just around the corner, you’ll be able to wear them on nice days very soon. Even better, you can save money with one of our Crocs coupons. Just click on the Crocs coupon code and enter the code in the pop-out window in the appropriate area when you check out of the Crocs.com website. http://www.shopaholicmommy.com/coupons/
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Tania B says:
February 22, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Ah, the poor maligned Crocs! They have gotten such a beating from folks lately. I still like the look though – I like the retro flip wedges myself.
Dandi D says:
February 22, 2013 at 2:18 pm
When my son was 9 months old he had the cutest little pair of Crocs ever!
Audrey says:
February 22, 2013 at 2:56 pm
My fiance loves the professional ones for work.
Christina Kelbel says:
February 22, 2013 at 4:30 pm
I love my Crocs, wear them all year round.
Chrystal D says:
February 22, 2013 at 5:21 pm
I have been wanting a pair of these for a long time! They have so many styles it’s hard for me to choose!
Paula V says:
February 22, 2013 at 8:12 pm
Sadly, I don’t break out the sandals and no sock shoes until it’s at least 80. My little toesies get cold. 🙂
Ari says:
February 22, 2013 at 9:49 pm
I’ve never actually worn Crocs, but I don’t see why they are so maligned. I’ve seen a lot of weird shoes out there, the Crocs are not that off the normalcy range. But I guess it’s all a matter of what one prefers. I think as long as Crocs are comfortable, I’d be fine wearing them. I’ll have to find a pair for myself soon.
Danna Wolf says:
February 22, 2013 at 11:50 pm
I’m not a huge fan of the appearance of Crocs, but I can’t deny that they are very comfortable.
Maddie K. says:
February 23, 2013 at 12:56 am
I think Crocs are just so ugly and would not wear them, however, having said that, I do have a pair of Croc flip flop sandals that I actually love because they are so comfortable. Ugly, but comfy..lol.
md kennedy says:
February 23, 2013 at 6:14 am
Although they are not pretty, I live in my “old-fashioned” original Crocs in the summer1
Lori Davis says:
February 23, 2013 at 8:41 am
My whole family loves Crocs. They are super comfortable!
Karen Hand says:
February 23, 2013 at 10:04 am
I am still wearing the original styled crocs that I have had for several years.
Lucero De La Tierra says:
February 24, 2013 at 10:53 pm
I never liked plastic shoes until my mom bought me a pair of croc like shoes. They are all worn out and I need to get a new pair. Guess it’s time to go to Gander Mountain or Dicks Sporting Goods to find some new ones. Actually, I’ve always wanted to try the ones that have the removable fuzzy liner.
Wanda Tracey says:
February 25, 2013 at 12:05 am
I have crocs now that are wedged and not only give me more height but are much softer to walk on.You feel like your floating in these because there is so much padding in the wedge.I love them.
Sam Dock says:
February 25, 2013 at 11:35 am
I love my crocks! They are so great and comfey and you really cant destroy them….unless you go over one with the mower 🙁 Sad day that was.
Amanda Greene-Lebeck says:
February 27, 2013 at 12:19 am
When I worked at a Nursing home, I worked 12 hour shifts and my feet would hurt so darn bad after work that I would cry. I had been a stay at home mom for a little over 3 years, so yeah they were hurting lol. My mom recommended I try a pair of crocs, and instantly they helped me. I went home, and yeah my feet were still sore but it no longer hurt to the point of me crying!!! Ever since I have owned a pair and so has my husband and daughter we all get new ones every year lol
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First of all, thank you so much, this skill is fun to use, I love it, it's damage is quite nice, and finally I feel like I can put focus on Water attunement over other types of attunement as a PvE Water mage!
SPEC EFFECTS:
The spell has an EXTREME cooldown of 60 seconds, but you can reduce this with Water Specialization
The spell has a 2 second cast time that can be reduced with Water Specialization
Here are the pros and Cons for now
PROS:
- High damage, as all water spells, the damage is quite high, which is nice!
- The attack speed debuff (-10% on a single stack, +0.5% per stack) can be applied 3 times!
- The attack speed debuff does not share a channel with Ice Fist / Ice arrow / Icy Puncture / Glacial Glissade
- The 20 range is quite good (as long as Banish undead, shorter than ice arrow/Solar Flare)
- The width of the cone is excellent!
CONS:
- The cooldown is INSANELY HIGH! 60 seconds without Water Spec, 45 seconds with lv40 Spec, 36 seconds with Lv80 spec, 30 seconds with Lv120 spec.
- The attack speed debuff is very short compared to the cooldown, which means managing the debuffs will be harder, and if you want to use this debuff correctly, you will need to consider when you use the spell
- The focus cost is quite high, but acceptable for an AoE.
In my opinion, this cooldown is really extreme, I was comparing similar skills in other trees, and most Damage spells that have a 30 second cooldown (the highest for damage spells I noticed) can be reduced to be lower than 30 seconds by their schools Specialization, meanwhile I can barely reach 30 seconds at 120 specialization, which is quite a high spec level for many.
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So, IMO this spell is a very good addition to the water tree, I think it deserves to have it's cooldown reviewed because 60 seconds is crazy, and I would love to see a new enchant for Tempestry gems on chest armor to increase its damage, like Solar flare does for sun Gems.
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Great overview, thanks!
Excited to see this skill in action, and I wonder if another option (instead of a chest enchant) might be something like 6% Cone of Cold Damage imbued jewels. Or whatever percentage is a reasonable tradeoff for losing 12 attunement (from the Imbued Tempestry Jewel one could otherwise use)
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Coswald_Dirthmire said: ↑
Great overview, thanks!
Excited to see this skill in action, and I wonder if another option (instead of a chest enchant) might be something like 6% Cone of Cold Damage imbued jewels. Or whatever percentage is a reasonable tradeoff for losing 12 attunement (from the Imbued Tempestry Jewel one could otherwise use)
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I agree, Jewels could be a nice alternative! I had crossed Gems off cause I feel like Gems is already a saturated category for water mages (well, there are only 3, but the 2 good ones, Greater Tempestry and Ice Arrow would be REALLY hard to beat)
Good idea!
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We'll keep our eye on it. The Frost Giant's Eye's stats have changed to affect Cone of Cold power... it will be a gem, 20% per pop. Talked to Chris just now, his intent is to keep it powerful and to encourage it to be used sparingly during key moments. We added a spec effect to increase the attack speed debuff a little as well which you might not have seen. But ya, not a jewel.
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We'll keep our eye on it. The Frost Giant's Eye's stats have changed to affect Cone of Cold power... it will be a gem, 20% per pop. Talked to Chris just now, his intent is to keep it powerful and to encourage it to be used sparingly during key moments. We added a spec effect to increase the attack speed debuff a little as well which you might not have seen. But ya, not a jewel.
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Guess it's time to multiwield wands like a madman, imagine the Hardened leather set, but with wands instead of daggers, for all these Gems you're making me
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encourage it to be used sparingly during key moments
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What does that even mean?
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What does that even mean?
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It's a big AoE, with an attack speed slow, so, my current ideas are
1. Use it against groups
2. Use it when my tank is about to get attacked by fast hitting things or lots of things
3. Rapidly throw out a 6/5/4 stack of it with high draw speed.
Not the kind of spell you use on a single target, with its high focus cost and cooldown, I won't be using this to kill the lone mob, and I'm quite probably making a set of wands or a staff just to use this spell, gonna swap to my CoC deck, burst it through, switch back to my more general wands.
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It is nice to hear of the cone of cold. I do know an ice mage who left the game due to his ice would no longer have a freeze effect. PVE and PVP have always had some interference with players abilities. To have a strong character almost always sends a question if it is op'd or not so we lose players who want to enjoy the game and see their characters get strong but oh no this will effect pvp right? Well still wishing that the devs can manage it all but alas a game can't be all at all. It has to chose and in the meantime we lose those players who don't care about PVP and while I've always thought we should be able to have both the decisions to effect the character skills and stats instead of allowing pvp gear and items to separate the two has sadly been the case for this game. So just some thoughts on characters skills and stats. I'm so sorry to have lost our little ice mage.
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Mark me as slow? I fail to see what benefit the cone of cold gives me over ice fist. Without scaling of the 15 second attack speed, I can do a better job by using ice fist several times for the duration of effect much more efficiently than trying to use cone of cold. Am I missing something? I started training this skill but wondering if it is just a waste of experience. I am Melee, water spec, 200 plus attunement. Plus (as an off side, perhaps bug comment), I see no mob speed attenuation at all but still needs more testing for me to be sure. Ice fist gives both an attack and movement speed debuff for nearly a minute duration at 120 skill level.
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Mark me as slow? I fail to see what benefit the cone of cold gives me over ice fist. Without scaling of the 15 second attack speed, I can do a better job by using ice fist several times for the duration of effect much more efficiently than trying to use cone of cold. Am I missing something? I started training this skill but wondering if it is just a waste of experience. I am Melee, water spec, 200 plus attunement. Plus (as an off side, perhaps bug comment), I see no mob speed attenuation at all but still needs more testing for me to be sure. Ice fist gives both an attack and movement speed debuff for nearly a minute duration at 120 skill level.
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The difference is Ice fist is a close range, 1-3 target max spell, Cone of Cold is a 20m cone AoE, big difference.
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The difference is Ice fist is a close range, 1-3 target max spell, Cone of Cold is a 20m cone AoE, big difference.
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I understand that. My point is that I can throw ice fist to control a large group, controlling essentially all for over a minute, whereas cone of fist just reduces attack speed once in that time with movement speed untouched. Thus all the mobs are on me at no reduced movement rate and 15 seconds later they are at full capacity. Ice fist allows me to control movement AND attack speed in the same amount of time for up to 20 mobs and as a melee character and that is huge. I was looking forward to cone of cold, but have stopped training unless the debuff gains in duration with training and spec. Even then the movement speed difference is a deal breaker for me. Perhaps in a group setting having one person spamming cone of cold one could benefit the group from archer and mage attacks somewhat. I visualize being able to do better running around with ice fist in a group setting, slowing movement and speed for the mobs and being more effective in a support mode.
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I understand that. My point is that I can throw ice fist to control a large group, controlling essentially all for over a minute, whereas cone of fist just reduces attack speed once in that time with movement speed untouched. Thus all the mobs are on me at no reduced movement rate and 15 seconds later they are at full capacity. Ice fist allows me to control movement AND attack speed in the same amount of time for up to 20 mobs and as a melee character and that is huge. I was looking forward to cone of cold, but have stopped training unless the debuff gains in duration with training and spec. Even then the movement speed difference is a deal breaker for me. Perhaps in a group setting having one person spamming cone of cold one could benefit the group from archer and mage attacks somewhat. I visualize being able to do better running around with ice fist in a group setting, slowing movement and speed for the mobs and being more effective in a support mode.
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Well that's the difference between you and me, and where this spell has much more utility for me. I am playing as a mage, so I barely get to cast Ice Fist ever, because they dont usually reach me, since i can blink away/run away. Meanwhile Cone of Cold does some quite decent damage at a fairly large distance. For me, Cone of Cold is much more useful than Ice fist. It is a mages spell, not a melee's spell
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Well that's the difference between you and me, and where this spell has much more utility for me. I am playing as a mage, so I barely get to cast Ice Fist ever, because they dont usually reach me, since i can blink away/run away. Meanwhile Cone of Cold does some quite decent damage at a fairly large distance. For me, Cone of Cold is much more useful than Ice fist. It is a mages spell, not a melee's spell
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You are right, being melee I don't appreciate the mage perspective. I am a polearm and ice specialist, and thus am disappointed with cone of cold. It has no use for a melee character, and a bummer for me. However, ice fist is extremely valuable, hence my spec in that school. One question for my own education: Does the cone of cold work well for you against ranged mobs (being that they are usually separate from the group)? Do you aim the cone through melee mobs towards the distant archer or mage ?
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You are right, being melee I don't appreciate the mage perspective. I am a polearm and ice specialist, and thus am disappointed with cone of cold. It has no use for a melee character, and a bummer for me. However, ice fist is extremely valuable, hence my spec in that school. One question for my own education: Does the cone of cold work well for you against ranged mobs (being that they are usually separate from the group)? Do you aim the cone through melee mobs towards the distant archer or mage ?
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I try to make sure the ranged mobs are in a 90 degree window in front of me, and usually it hits them all, usually aiming at the melee in front of me yes. It has been very good at clearing large groups in scenes like the Panopticon, The Rise and Outlaw's run.
This picture is a single blast of Cone of Cold hitting 5 targets. It is good.
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This picture is a single blast of Cone of Cold hitting 5 targets. It is good.
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is that with spec? what are your levels on cone and spec (if spec)? i plan on adding this spell to a spam stack i use when i am playing as an air mage.
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I try to make sure the ranged mobs are in a 90 degree window in front of me, and usually it hits them all, usually aiming at the melee in front of me yes. It has been very good at clearing large groups in scenes like the Panopticon, The Rise and Outlaw's run.
This picture is a single blast of Cone of Cold hitting 5 targets. It is good.
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I wish Multi Shot were actually useful like that.
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What lv is your multishot? How much strength does your avatar have? Look you use the multishot damage+ food? The multishot+ masterwork?
I've seen Multishot do as much damage from some archers, it's up there!
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That is with 354 attunement, 120 spec, 120+ Cone of Cold, and Ice shield for the spell crit damage +.
I don't think it's that great of a spell off spec and off attunement, at 60 seconds of cooldown, it won't be great, but I'm curious to know if you still like it!
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I've seen Multishot do as much damage from some archers, it's up there!
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At one time it was rather over-powered. That's not the case anymore. It's actually under-powered now.
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My Multi Shot skill is 130, Ranged Combat is 150. I know that I could focus more on Multi Shot power, but that would be at the expense of other things, and it's simply not worth it.
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The mandates did not seem to deter the sizeable crowd that streamed into the lobby. There were people of all ages — and all levels of attire, including a couple who appeared to be dressed for Halloween. The overall experience felt safe. And the shared positive energy — the performing arts center was buzzing with enthusiasm — made it feel even better.
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Theatergoers head from the lobby into the theater at The Straz center to see the musical comedy, "Tootsie." [ DIRK SHADD | Times ]
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SCIENTISTS have traced mysterious radio signals detected on Earth to a dead star within our Milky Way galaxy.
The millisecond-long burst of radiation was emitted by a magnestar – a type of star with an extremely powerful magnetic field – roughly 14,000 light-years away, according to a study.
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A mysterious burst of radio signals detected on Earth has been traced back to a magnetar within our Milky Way galaxy. Pictured is an artist impression of a magnestar
Known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), signals such as this have baffled scientists for years and typically originate from far beyond the Milky Way.
Their origins are unknown. Some think the energetic waves are the result of cosmic explosions, while others have controversially suggested they're signals sent by aliens.
Picked up by radio telescopes worldwide in April, the FRB examined in the new study was the first to be detected from inside the Milky Way.
Astronomers traced it back to a magnetar called SGR 1935+2154, potentially settling the debate on where FRBs come from.
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Some experts have controversially suggested that Fast Radio Bursts are signals sent by aliensCredit: BBC Handout
"This is the first ever observational connection between magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts," said astrophysicist Dr Sandro Mereghetti of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Italy.
"It truly is a major discovery, and helps to bring the origin of these mysterious phenomena into focus."
Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) are intense pulses of radio waves that last no longer than the blink of an eye and produce the energy of millions of Suns.
More than 100 FRBs have been discovered to date, but only a handful have repeated, and fewer still in a predictable pattern.
This makes them notoriously difficult to study, meaning their origins have eluded scientists since the signals were first detected in 2007.
For the new study, carried out by an international team, researchers analysed data from the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL satellite.
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Fast Radio Bursts typically originate from outside our galaxyCredit: NASA
They found that the burst from the magnetar SGR was weaker than FRBs detected from outside our galaxy.
Magnestars are a type of neutron star – collapsed remnants of stars that sport powerful magnetic fields.
Sometimes, their magnetic fields can warp the star's shape and trigger eruptions of huge bursts of radiation in what scientists call a "starquake".
Very few starquakes have been detected by scientists, and fewer still have been caught emitting radio waves.
Following the detection of the April FRB, a number of scientists suggested it had come from SGR 1935+2154, a theory confirmed by the new study.
"This is a very intriguing result and supports the association between FRBs and magnetars," Dr Mereghetti told ScienceAlert earlier this year.
What are FRBs, and why are they important?
Here's what you need to know...
FRBs, or fast radio bursts, are a mysterious space phenomenon
They're very quick radio bursts that last just a few milliseconds (or thousandths of seconds)
They're detected as huge spikes of energy that change in strength over time
The first one was discovered back in 2007, found by looking back through space survey data
Lots of FRBs have been found since then
There's also one FRB source that is sending out repeated bursts – and no one is quite sure why
In fact, scientists have struggled to explain exactly what causes any FRB in the first place
Theories include rapidly rotating neutron stars, black holes, and even alien life
FRBs are important simply because they're so baffling to experts
Unlocking the secrets of what causes them will give us a much better understanding of what goes on beyond our galaxy
And if it does turn out that some other life-form is causing these FRBs, it would be a world-changing discovery
Though the evidence now points strongly in favour of magnestars being the source of all FRBs, the study is not conclusive.
It's possible other stellar phenomena may also lead to the eruption of the mysterious signals.
That could mean the dying embers of a huge star, black holes, or something never before detected by humans.
At least one scientist has suggested the signals could be produced by alien spaceships. However, the majority of experts disagree with this theory.
Whatever their origins, FRBs have the potential to be a new tool that we can use to understand the structure of matter in the universe.
The radio bursts were first discovered in 2007, so small even steps toward understanding their source offers big excitement for astronomers.
Scientist Seth Shostak from the SETI Institutes explains what Fast Radio Bursts are
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A boa constrictor with a length of 2.3 meters crawls at a speed of 0.5 m / s. A parrot jumps along the boa constrictor
univerkov | August 28, 2021 | education
A boa constrictor with a length of 2.3 meters crawls at a speed of 0.5 m / s. A parrot jumps along the boa constrictor on the ground at a speed of 0.6 m / s. How many seconds does it take for a parrot to jump from tail to head of a boa constrictor?
To find the time spent by the parrot to move along the boa constrictor, we will use the formula: t = L / ΔV = L / (Vп – Vу).
The values of the variables: L – the length of the boa constrictor (L = 2.3 m); Vp is the jumping speed of the parrot (Vp = 0.6 m / s); Vу – the speed of movement of the boa constrictor (Vу = 0.5 m / s).
Calculation: t = L / (Vу + Vп) = 2.3 / (0.6 – 0.5) = 23 s.
Answer: A parrot can jump from tail to head of a boa constrictor in 23 seconds.
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Virgin Care is supporting a new community hub to help the most vulnerable people in Bath and North East Somerset during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virgin Care, a health and social services provider, teamed up with the NHS, Bath & North East Somerset council and local third sector organisation 3SG to set up a Compassionate Community hub.
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The hub works closely with food banks and volunteers to ensure people can access direct support when they need it. The team handled 1,000 calls in the first week of operation and made more than 500 referrals to experts and volunteers from people needing help with food, mental health, wellbeing and welfare.
They also helped more than 50 vulnerable people, including 12 urgent food and medication deliveries to their doorsteps.
The team also contacted more than 200 people in the district who need to be shielded and are therefore unable to leave their homes for 12 weeks, due to them being at very high risk of severe illness from Covid-19 because of an underlying health condition.
The hub can help those most in need with:
Delivery of urgent supplies
A friendly phone call
Collection of medication
Money matters and work
Mental wellbeing (including loneliness, low mood, anxiety)
Advice on keeping fit
Housing issues
Supporting your family
Food and cooking
Understanding public health advice
Kirsty Matthews, Managing Director, Virgin Care, Bath and North East Somerset Community Health and Care Services, said: “This is an amazing example of collaboration across different organisations and shows how we can all pull together in a time of crisis to support the communities we serve. The amazing people volunteering and working as part of the hub are a credit to their organisations and BaNES.”
Councillor Dine Romero, council leader, said: “It’s testament to the community spirit in Bath and North East Somerset that we are all pulling together to support those most in need through this extraordinary time. I would like to thank 3SG, Virgin Care, our other partners and all the volunteers for working tirelessly to ensure people are getting the food and medications they need. They are making a huge difference to vulnerable people’s ability to cope with the pandemic.”
The Compassionate Community telephone line is 0300 247 0050 and is open seven days a week from 9am to 5pm.
More information on the hub can be found at https://www.3sg.org.uk/pages/compassionate-community-covid-19
Virgin Care also collaborated with Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Unite, the Virgin Group’s foundation, to fly a special charter flight from Shanghai to London, bringing in ventilators, essential medical supplies and PPE equipment on behalf of the Department of Health to support NHS staff to care for patients.
In addition, Virgin Money Giving have set up a dedicated #ClapForOurCarers donation page. This is part of the Official NHS Charities COVID-19 Urgent Appeal, which has raised over £27 million so far. Donations through Virgin Money Giving to the appeal will fund a wide range of support for NHS employees and volunteers on the frontlines.


This is the third and last of a series of columns on the coming global assault on the Trump administration and the larger populist movement by the leftist elites.
The first article discussed the central role of the social justice narrative in the war against Trump and conservatives generally.
The second exposed George Soros' "Purple Revolution" strategy, predicted three battlefield tactics that it will used domestically, and offered three tactics for American patriots to counter those threats.
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This column predicts how the elites will operate in the international community to define the Trump government as a "fascist regime" and offers tactics to counter that foreign threat.
While there have been a series of presidential candidates with varying degrees of populist leanings and support, from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan, it was Donald Trump who staged the ultimate populist revolt, which continues to climb in strength and reach. Now, for the first time, the U.S. elites have been completely outmaneuvered in the domestic context and will be forced to turn to an international-based strategy to try and take down the Trump administration. Thus, the Soros "Purple Revolution" will combine and integrate both domestic and foreign activists, non-governmental entities (NGOs) and media, with a heavy reliance on foreign powers.
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This is what I predict their foreign anti-Trump campaign will likely involve:
1) The formation of something like a "government in exile," very likely headed by Barack Obama, that will increasingly be portrayed in the international media as the legitimate voice of the American people. I wouldn't be surprised to see Obama take the helm at the United Nations after Jan. 20 or at some strategic later point, or launch a new globalist organization based at or near the U.N. in New York, or in the EU (probably Brussels or Berlin). In any event, I predict that Obama will be by far the most politically active and meddlesome ex-president in U.S. history. We got a hint of that in a recent BBC article quoting Obama as saying he may "comment as a citizen" on the Trump administration after the transition period is completed.
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2) A propaganda campaign on the theme of human rights, casting various globalist leaders as paternal monitors "concerned that the 'xenophobic' and nationalistic tone and example set by the Trump administration has led to a dramatic deterioration of human rights around the world." The culpability for every human rights infringement in foreign nations in the coming months and years will be laid at the feet of President Trump and the "climate of hate and fear" he has created. Just as they will do on the domestic front, the elites will build an international case against Trump on the theme that his administration is a "fascist" regime. That has already begun, as evidenced by this story on a supposed rise in Hitler Youth in Great Britain. Look for a steady stream of such stories from leftist media.
3) A high-profile litigation campaign in various international legal bodies citing violations of various treaties by the Trump administration and leaders of other populist-trending nations. The goal will be to showcase the supposed value and importance of global governance by highlighting the flaws and dangers of Trump's "America First" doctrine.
This is how American patriots can counter these tactics:
1) We should immediately develop systems for international networking at the grass-roots level for conservative populists from around the world to share information, strategies and tactics for exposing the deceptions and dirty tricks of the leftists. Social media efforts should actively work to create transnational links among like-minded conservatives, and U.S. conservative groups should integrate leaders and activists from foreign countries into their speaker lineups at conferences and in media coverage. American conservatives should widen the scope of their political radar to become more familiar with world affairs, using information sources outside the control of the political left (which is harder to do regarding foreign affairs, but you can't trust market-dominators CNN or the BBC on international matters any more than on domestic issues).
Because so much of the Purple Revolution strategy will depend on the leftist global media, and because so many media organs were exposed as partisans and propagandists during the Trump/Clinton election season, we should immediately launch an international campaign to demand journalistic integrity in all media organizations and to set standards for how their integrity can be measured. These should include a requirement of ideological balance in the newsrooms and editorial boards of all secular media that purport to be neutral, and transparency by these organizations to community-based non-governmental citizen oversight committees. I would also like to see a YELP-like online rating system for media organizations and for individual journalists.
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2) Regarding the "Trump equals Hitler" meme and campaign, it must be remembered that Hitler's Nazi Party was at its core a homo-fascist cult and that homosexuals have also dominated the Neo-Nazi movement since the fall of the Third Reich. Kevin Abrams and I have thoroughly documented this in our book "The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party," and even the far-left Huffington Post has acknowledged it.
Thus, the rise of Nazism in Europe has nothing to do with authentic populism, but represents a strategic internal shift of assets and tactics in the global LGBT movement (from Communism toward National Socialism) – designed to assist the Soros "Purple Revolution" in its campaign of character assassination of the Trump administration (and similar conservative governments in Europe and around the world) by providing the examples of "fascism" needed for prosecution in the court of world opinion. This will be similar to the service provided by homosexual Nazi leader Frank Collins who led the infamous Nazi march through a community of Holocaust survivors in Skokie, Illinois, in 1977 (but was later jailed for sex with a pair of 10-year-old boys).
Torah-faithful Jewish media and individuals will be our best allies in countering this tactic, and we should encourage them to take an active part in sabotaging the leftist propaganda campaign.
3. In my view there is no greater threat to the concept of national sovereignty and the actual sovereignty of the United States than the International Criminal Court (ICC) and similar entities that purport to hold jurisdiction over American citizens. The world community has proved itself capable of convening special judicial councils in extraordinary circumstances such as the prosecution of the Nazi leaders at Nuremberg. The permanent and perpetual ICC, however, is a European-based key component and building block of the one world government envisioned by the elites, in which judges, unaccountable to the people of the world, attempt to establish "international law" binding upon all of us. It should be a priority of the international populist movement to de-legitimize the ICC and similar entities and demand that legal matters of international concern be subject to citizen-approved policies protecting national sovereignty.
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Lastly, we should be on guard against the trend of globalization generally and the many forms it has taken, because each step in the direction of global government strengthens the powers that wish to subjugate us. The move toward a cashless society, the control of monetary policy by an unaccountable and opaque central banking system, the continued de-Christianization of laws and social institutions in Western nations, the worldwide usurpation of marriage-based culture by the "sexual freedom" agenda, the invocation of foreign legal norms in U.S. federal courts, the adoption of United Nations population control measures such as Agenda 21 and the sale of American infrastructure to foreign governments are just a few ways in which we are slowly being transformed – ways not mentioned much (or at all) by the Trump campaign during the election but equally important to the conservative populist cause.
In the oath of naturalization President Obama continues to mock by his open endorsement of illegal immigration, every new citizen promises to protect the U.S. Constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic. We who were born citizens and have been freshly reinvigorated by the hope of truly restoring America to its former greatness should embrace that oath in our hearts today – and act upon it in the coming weeks, months and years with enthusiasm and resolve!
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How much does car removal cost in Sydney?
By Metal Force Recycling
On 17 May, 2021
If you have a redundant vehicle that requires a cars removals service, approach a car removal yard.
If you have a redundant vehicle that requires a cars removals service, approach a car removal yard. Alternatively, some companies mainly serve in vehicle towing; they would charge anywhere from $100 to $1500. The charges would depend on where your car is located to where it needs to be transported.
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The most renowned car buyers Sydney provides are the ones that cater to all regions across the State. Metal Force Recycling, for instance, will drive its truck towing vehicle from its main branch to any part of the city. This car wrecking company will provide free cars removals services. They will also pay you cash for cars that are damaged, unwanted, and old, scrap, or turned to junk.
So, it depends on the company whose services you select for car removal. While some will charge you, others will pay you a premium amount. Metal Force Recycling and similar firms operate as licensed car removal and wrecking companies. They work to remove your vehicle and sell the usable auto parts for a profit. Therefore, you get to share in their gains as a car owner. The amount this company will pay can go up to $9,000 or higher depending on the details you share.
They accept all kinds of vehicles, be it an SUV, four-wheel drive, minivan, utility van, truck, buses, and so on. Therefore, redundant cars are not as useless as their functions. They can still earn you a sizeable profit once they turn to junk.
Therefore, you can use the services of a towing company if you want your car transported from one site to another. However, for a permanent sale, there’s no reason why you can’t opt for a cars removals company.


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A man appears on the hood of a truck in the middle of a muddy forest holding two things - a roll of toilet paper and a shattaf asking a simple question, do you wash or wipe? He proposes that there is a “smarter way” to clean up after bathroom usage that is far superior to toilet paper or “the other way” which he will demonstrate. The driver of the car appears and begins to attempt to wipe his car clean with toilet paper, drawing on visual comparison’s to another kind of mess. Wiping doesn’t work, which leads to the narrator introducing shattaf, a bidet water hose. The puns throughout the script are made to reiterate the argument that there is no comparison to using water and asks viewers to join in the cause to share the film with brands that have yet to install a shattaf.
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Rehlat is a travel booking application that understood the needs and anxieties of the Middle Eastern traveler. One of the biggest anxieties of travel for the Arab community is hygiene after bathroom usage, as toilet paper is not enough to rinse off. In fact, when Arabs travel abroad they compensate for the lack of a Shattaf with home-made alternatives like plastic water bottles, wet wipes, and other less convenient options. The excuse when a case for a shattaf is made, is that toilet paper is enough, however scientific studies have proven that even beyond its negative effect on the environment, the usage of toilet paper in isolation of water is unhygienic and sets the stage for irritability and infections. Because of the nature of how a shattaf is used, the topic is not something that would ever be discussed publicly in the culture.
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Text on screen in Arabic: Line 1: The second trial Line 2: So to the billions of people out there, Line 3: There actually is a much smarter way to do this. Narrator: Now, there are two ways to go about things. The smart way and the other way. And to the dirty old birds out there, let me help you stop living a life of misery and tell you this: There is no gray area. If there is, it’s a made up term used by overbearing mothers who want to make their below-average kids feel good about themselves. Speaking of things we wish we don’t have to deal with, I bring you the obvious solution to some of life’s daily matters before anything hits the fan. Narrator: It’s a good thing that I have that one thing that washes away all the residue you never want to have in your car, throughout your day or anywhere in between. No matter how discreet, comfortable or convenient. Behold. The all-new shataf. Now before we unload, let me show you how some - including you yourself used to clean up this mess. Narrator: Wiping never does the trick. Think about it. Narrator: Do you wipe or wash away your sins? Cartoons singing/chanting: Wash! Narrator: Do you wipe or wash your hands clean of someone? Cartoons singing/chanting: Wash! Narrator: And what do you use when you’re doing all that?!? Driver: Water! Narrator: Water! Man: Water! Toilet Paper Mummies: Water! Rugby Players: Water! Wolf howling: Water! Narrator: Now this, this is how you rinse away all that residue Don’t take the fourth element of nature for granted Narrator: Here is a demonstration to show you just how easy it is to install the Shattaf led by an amateur plumber, with the toilet stall, on a moving car, because a regular demonstration would have been far too easy. Narrator: If you believe the demonstration changed your mind about a concept that could change your life tag your favorite destination with this hashtag (hashtag appears: #WashvsWipe) and bring them over to the other side, where obvious is just so much better. Text on screen in Arabic: The official platform for the Middle Eastern traveler Rehlat.com Sign-Off: Rehlat Logo Animation


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SOA: Debunking 3 Common Myths
What is SOA's relationship to object-oriented technology, distributed systems, and Web services?
by Tarak Modi
September 1, 2004
Imagine this scenario: Two software professionals are fraternizing over drinks at a cocktail party. One of the software professionals starts describing her product's architecture, and upon seeing a slightly perplexed look on the other professional's face, proudly states that it is a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The look of confusion transforms into one of admiration and satisfaction. After all, everyone knows what an SOA is, right?
Like any other technology that is "better than sliced bread," SOA has its fair share of myths. I'll dispel three common myths surrounding SOA, so that in the worst case, these myths won't manifest themselves as poor architecture or design decisions during an SOA implementation.
Myth 1: SOA is an Object-Oriented Technology
Many eons ago, software developers used a methodology called Structured Programming, which involved continuously dividing the initial problem into smaller pieces until each piece was ultimately implemented as a procedure. You could combine multiple procedures into reusable libraries. A distinguishing characteristic of the procedures was the large number and size of the parameters passed to the procedure call.
Over time, this style was replaced by object-oriented (OO) and then component-based programming. Objects and components that represented real-world concepts and exposed fine-grained properties through getter/setter methods replaced procedures. Today, the world revolves around SOA, and programmers have naturally carried their OO skills to this new realm.
This is a big mistake. The natural tendency is to assume that SOA evolved from OO and is therefore an OO technology. This is a fallacy. SOA has nothing to do with objects and components. It is all about service providers, service consumers, and the services offered by the provider to the consumer. Consumers couldn't care less whether these services are OO or not.
Furthermore, because most SOAs are deployed in a distributed environment (Myth 2 discusses this), creating OO-type services can hurt performance significantly. I have seen many IT teams expose fine-grained objects—such as Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) components in a J2EE world—and then wonder why their applications face scalability and performance challenges. The correct way to do this would be to introduce an orchestration layer (also known as a Session Façade or a Business Delegate) that exposes services and in turn uses the fine-grained objects.
The net take-away is that services in an SOA are not distributed objects in OO. In fact, you might think of an SOA as a structured layer on top of an OO system.