The Spirit is Matter.

Matter is the Spirit.

So what’s a matter with you ?

Note: “It’ a very dark matter” … vis’a'vis Dan Winters’ assertation that the “Dark Matter” that physics theorises is actually emotions and consciousness .. the spirit in matter.

In a previous post I gave a solution to keeping the Compiz cube (Rotate Cube Plugin) zoomed out from the desktop. I thought it was a shame that you only really see it briefly when switching between desktops. The Cube really shows off Compiz with it’s ability to keep digital TV or video playing live within the 3D environment.

I used a hack using mouse button definitions in the X setup file, but now I’ve found the “right” way of doing this ! It involves sending a message to Compiz using the Dbus system …

dbus-send –type=method_call –dest=org.freedesktop.compiz /org/freedesktop/compiz/rotate/allscreens/initiate_button org.freedesktop.compiz.activate string:’root’ int32:`xwininfo -root | grep id: | awk ‘{ print $4 }’`

Executing that at the command line will immediately go into rotate cube mode “free rotate” using the mouse. To return back to the normal desktop press the escape key (Esc). The command can be linked to a keypress, or, as I have done, linked to a GUI button.

#!/usr/bin/wish

# Tk is the GUI language. Tcl is the programming language.
# See http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/intro.html

package require Tk

wm title . “Compiz UI”
frame .clipaste_frame -relief raised -bd 1
label .1 -text “Compiz Window Manager”
button .a -text “Mouse Particles” -command { exec /home/djbarney/compiz/showmouse }
button .b -text “Expo” -command { exec /home/djbarney/compiz/expo }
button .c -text “Rotate” -command { exec /home/djbarney/compiz/rotatecube }
pack .1 -side left
pack .a -side left
pack .b -side left
pack .c -side left

The Dbus command is contained in an external executable text file.

Vengeance is not power.

Anyone can take a life. That’s not power.

But to give life that is true power.

Despite the horrors and life taking that the Pharma and Medical industries partake in, maybe they are also half the key to the problem. As Yin is to Yang or half of that ripped in two bank note where the ID numbers have to match.

If people have committed crimes then they should be locked up and punished, but the huge Pharma and Medical infrastructures have the capability to save millions of life’s.

In the face of an Ultra Cynicism that has forgotten that the true power is to give life and not to take it, I will not give in. I will fight for what is right while I am still alive.

After making a post about the then upcoming Far Cry 2 a while ago, I have now had time to properly play this thing. I posted on the dev blog ages ago while they were asking for feedback …

As much as I like running around with guns, I wonder if you might try putting in some other elements that exploit the obvious power of this engine ? There’s so many times when an incredible atmosphere has been built up only to be ruined by the gun fire and explosions. Can we have extended atmospheric sequences / interaction AND the action ? I think the balance might give the action a lot more impact.

DJ Barney
Posted by DJBarney24, 2007-08-26 19:32:19

I’ve just been playing Far Cry 2 and extraordinarily this is exactly the balance they’ve put in, and I think I and them are right ! Battles suddenly seem loud and brutal, like sudddenly running across a Lion kill in the savannah.

Look further down the comments …

Very promising vision… creating a 50km^2 open world won’t be a simple task, I’m sure. I do have a suggestion though, just in case you haven’t already considered this possibility. Take for example the RPG game Oblivion: also a fantastic open world… The one thing, however, which I felt had a negative and disappointing effect on your sense of reality during game-play, was when you reached the outer boundaries of the map and ran into the inevitable ‘invisible wall’. That was kinda lame. So since you mentioned that your African savannah will be surrounded by an infinite Sahara-like desert acting as a border to the game environment, it would be cool to see something like your character marching out into the deadly desert. For those of us exploratory-type players who purposefully go searching for the games ‘limits’ they can actually head out into the desert. But, instead of an eventual ‘invisible wall,’ they’ll begin to slowly experience the actual effects of dehydration (once they exhaust the water supply which they carry on them) and eventually die in the sun of thirst…etc. I think that these types of effects in general, which would be faded into the ‘outer limits’ of an open game map, would really enhance the players sense of reality.

Posted by RedDragonRider, 2007-08-31 11:00:43

A feature that is also in there ! I’ve always disliked that myself. Hit the invisible wall, or even worse the instant kill zone. When you walk into the desert in FC2 you keep falling over from heat exhaustion. You can just about look around a bit, but continuing is physically impossible.

So congrats Ubi and FC2 dev team. You listened to the comments. Even the final game actually lives up to the early screen shots ! I am astounded by the game that I have bought and am heartened by a case where the game does live up to the hype… for once.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/nami-drug-money-laundering-is-illegal.html

NAMI – Drug Money Laundering is Illegal

The National Alliance for Mental Illness is the latest member of the psycho-pharmaceutical cartel whose Big Pharma money trail is under investigation by the US Senate Finance Committee, with Iowa’s Republican Senator Chuck Grassley leading the charge.

In an April 6, 2009 letter, Grassley asked NAMI to disclose all funding from drug makers and industry created foundations.

The director of MindFreedom International, David Oaks, says Senator Grassley deserves thanks for doing what NAMI’s board of directors has refused to do.

“MindFreedom has pointed out for years that NAMI is one of the main large mental health industry organizations to refuse to disclose, even to its own members, the amount of money they receive from the pharmaceutical industry,” he reports.

After receiving Grassley’s letter, NAMI’s executive director, Michael Fitzpatrick, sent out an email to many NAMI supporters and stated in part:  “NAMI does not engage in product promotion, endorsement, licensure or certification of any product, service or program owned by a corporate sponsor.”

On the popular website, Furious Seasons, Philip Dawdy was quick to point out the falsity of that claim. “Fitzpatrick has certainly engaged in product pimpery for J&J/Janssen,” he wrote in his daily blog. To substantiate his comment, Dawdy provided a link to previous blog written on December 21, 2006, in response to a press release put out by J&& promoting its Risperdal’s me-too drug, Invega, with Fitzpatrick touting the drug using his title of “Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness.”

“We are pleased that innovative delivery technologies are being applied to new treatments for schizophrenia,” said Fitzpatrick in the press release.

“New and efficacious treatment options, like INVEGA, provide significant opportunities for more people with schizophrenia to manage their disease as they work with their treatment teams to live more fulfilling and productive lives,” he stated.

At the time, Dawdy wrote in his blog: “Now, what the hell is the ED of NAMI doing in a company press release much less mouthing the product name in all-caps?”

”When I last talked with Fitzpatrick about two years ago, he assured me that NAMI National had really cut back on its pharma habit. So this is just disappointing,” he noted. Judging from the yearly grant reports of Eli Lilly and Pfizer, Dawdy has a right to be not only disappointed but outraged.

In the fourth quarter of 2008, Pfizer’s report shows NAMI received $132,000 for a campaign that best describes the funding aim of Big Pharma called the Campaign for the Mind of America.

NAMI groups across the country collectively received an additional $13,500 in the fourth quarter.

In the third quarter, Pfizer gave NAMI another $225,000 to fund the Campaign for the Mind of America. Various NAMI groups combined also received over $63,000 in other grants. During the first quarter of 2008, Pfizer gave three NAMI groups grants totaling $5,567.

In 2008, Pfizer also gave NAMI groups $20,500 for annual conferences, $7,500 for Mental Health Awareness, and over $50,000 more in other grants.

Eli Lilly’s grant reports show Lilly is also funding the Campaign for the Mind of America, to the tune of close to a half million dollars a year. NAMI received grants for $450,000 from Lilly for this specific program in both 2007 and 2008.

In addition, Lilly provides extra funding to groups all over the US for a campaign called “Walk for the Mind of America.”  In 2007, the gang’s walking money totaled $17,000 in the first quarter, $11,500 in the second and $13,000 combined for the third and fourth quarters.

For the year 2008, from first to last quarter, Lilly’s “Walk for the Mind” totals were: $11,500, $24,000, $12,500 and $2,000. Lilly’s 2008 report also shows a $350,000 grant for a program titled: In Our Own Voice.

In addition, the drug maker threw NAMI groups around the country over $90,000 to sponsor their annual conferences in 2007, and about double that amount for their annual meetings in 2008. The grant reports are filled with additional gifts to NAMI groups all over the US, too numerous to mention here.

Lilly is the most prolific funder of front groups obviously because it has the largest drug portfolio to peddle, with Zyprexa, Prozac, Cymbalta, and Symbyax, a combination of Prozac and Zyprexa, as well as the ADHD drug Strattera.

Pfizer markets Zoloft, the antipsychotic, Geodon, and Chantix, a smoking cessation drug. The company also markets Viagra, a big seller in part, likely due to the all the sexual side effects of psychiatric drugs.

The leaders of these “non-profit” drug pushing operations are also well compensated. In 2006, for a 35 hour work week, Michael Fitzpatrick, was paid a salary of $212,281 and another $10,090 in employee benefit contributions and deferred compensation plans, according to NAMI’s 2006 Tax Form 990

In her new book, Side Effects, Alison Bass reports the story of how the president of NAMI from 2002 to 2004, Jim McNulty, failed to disclose that he was being paid thousands of dollars from drug companies for promoting their products to NAMI members and others at various speaking engagements.

“In a particularly intriguing twist,” she writes on her website blog, “McNulty laundered this drug company money through a state chapter of NAMI.”  Bass further explains:

“This is how the scheme worked, according to McNulty himself and others in the know. He would be paid thousands of dollars to speak about the benefits of various antidepressants — McNulty himself suffered from depression — and rather than pay him directly, companies such as Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, Pfizer, the maker of Zoloft, and GlaxoSmithKline, which made Paxil, would give his speaking fees to the Rhode Island chapter of NAMI, which would then cut McNulty a check.”

Senator Grassley has his work cut out for him now that he’s zeroing in on Big Pharma front groups because there are several with drug money laundering operations every bit as flagrant as NAMI’s. He might want to check out Mental Health America next, formerly known as the National Mental Health Association.

The group’s 2002 tax returns show the CEO and President, Michael Faenza, received compensation of $306,727, and another $35,275 in contributions to employee benefit plans and deferred compensation that year, for a 35 hour work week.

This operation has a Campaign for America’s Mental Health. Pfizer’s 2008 report lists a one grant for $200,000 and another for $300,000 to fund it. In light of the psycho-pharmaceutical cartel’s push for Congress to pass the Mother’s Act to set the stage for the screening of pregnant women for a long list of “anxiety” and “mood” disorders, the most worrisome gift to Mental Health America is Pfizer’s donation of $20,000 to a Georgia group for: Project Healthy Moms: Education for Prevention/Treatment for Perinatal Depression Disorders, in the fourth quarter of 2008. Among the largest of countless donations from Lilly in 2008, Mental Health America received one grant worth $600,000 in the second quarter.

The group’s 2006 annual report shows it received over $1 million each from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lilly and Wyeth. Janssen and Pfizer gave between $500,000 and $1,000,000, and AstraZeneca and Forest Labs donated between $100,000 and $499,000. GlaxoSmithKline gave between $50,000 and $100,000 in 2006.

Evelyn Pringle

(Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Scoop Independent News)

I’d like to see this posted everywhere. Chalked on the pavement. Written in the sky.

Speech by Dr. Rath,
Kerkrade, the Netherlands
April 4, 2009

Speech by Dr. RathThis week we all witnessed at the G-20 conference in London, how fiercely the global battle between the status quo and the forces of change is being fought.

The status quo, represented by the multi-trillion dollar investment businesses of petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals – in short, the oil and drug cartel – is represented by its current political stakeholders France’s Nicholas Sarkozy and Germany’s Angela Merkel.

The forces of change at the G20 are being led by the president of the United States, Barack Obama, who has just been voted into office by the American people with a clear mandate to end the tyranny of oil and replace it with renewable forms of energy.

The G20 dispute is not primarily about mastering the economic crisis. The issue at stake for the cartel and its political stakeholders is much bigger. What is at stake is the very survival of its multi-trillion dollar investment business with oil.

One does not need to be an economist to understand what will happen if under the new US administration the auto city of Detroit starts mass production of hydrogen cars – that is cars using water as energy. Once that happens, people around the world will understand that this very same energy from water can heat their houses, light their cities and energize their public transport.

Hydrogen energy is not new. Every plant, every animal and every single cell in the human body uses this form of energy to produce its biological energy supply. Moreover, 40 years ago, the first human beings reached the moon using hydrogen energy to propel the Apollo rockets.

The transition from the age of carbon energy (oil) to hydrogen energy (water) will solve the energy crisis of this planet for all future generations.

If the people of America and its new administration successfully launch this transition, it will inevitably end the global dependency on oil – as well as the unlimited profits for the Rockefellers and other oil barons.

But even bigger than the economic consequences of this transition will be the political fall-out. The people of the world are already waking up to the sobering fact that energy is not the only field where their illiteracy was the precondition for exploitation.

Millions of people are waiting to join us in the mission that brought us together at this meeting – the need to overcome the devastating consequences of the pharmaceutical “business with disease.”

The cartel knows that once their two main economic legs – the oil and the drug businesses – are recognized by millions of people as a fraud, their rule over this planet is over. No fraud of that magnitude can survive in any democratic society. The only way these fraudulent business models could be continued, is under a global dictatorship.

In spring 2009 the global plan of the cartel is lying in front of us for everyone to see:

A global dictatorship led by key cartel nations, France and Germany, ready to use every economic, political and even military means – including the use of French nuclear weapons – to cement the continued rule of the oil and drug cartel. Under the pretext of fighting the economic crisis, Sarkozy and Merkel cry for a “global economic government.” But what they really mean is to create the first step towards a global dictatorship on behalf of the interests that brought them to power, the oil and drug cartel. That was the background of the battle fought this week at the G-20 between the status quo and the forces of change under US President Obama.

We need to understand this critical moment in the history of mankind. We need to understand that the battle between humanity and the forces of evil has reached a new culmination. But it is not only our responsibility to see the dangers of this situation.

The article continues.

Viva Life ! Against death. The Empire of Lies is falling.

So that’s how you do it. Anything considered “politically incorrect” is shoved off into the “mental health” corner. Mad. Deranged, foaming at the mouth “conspiracy theories”, so you can politely relax at your past forgetting dinner parties.

Look. I’m not going to rub your face in it. I like seeing people enjoying themselves at dinner parties ! But, see, this has got to stop. This wilful destruction of memory. Ancient Greece disappears, the Egyptians. Evolutionary theory. Being nice to one another. It all gets thrown out so you can sweep it all under the carpet.

It only happens in China. The War on Terrorism is an elaborate shoe checking exercise at airports. Everyone has our best interests at heart .. and everything works out in the end .. so don’t worry OK.

Keiner warum darum Frag nicht warum … don’t question why.

(Thanks to Ts4EVER on FH forums for correcting my German)

Having been confused by this myself I’ve also seen the same confusion elsewhere. One criticism being that Compiz slows down productivity and is only “eye candy” because it hogs the system and slows things down. This does not have to be the case and Compiz already has a mechanism built in to manage what is a valid criticism.

Profiles !

In “CompizConfig Settings Manager” go to Preferences (bottom left of window). You should be on the “Profile and Backend” tab. You can create and remove profiles using the plus and minus buttons. On my system I had to use the Flat File backend as GConf did not seem to save the profiles, although that just may be something to do with my system. Don’t worry about not having Desktop Integration. At least with my usage I noticed no difference. Anyway, GConf may work for you so you may have it.

So now test the profiles. Switch between two of them with known settings and go back to the main window and check the plugins are being turned on and off. Working ? Good.

With that functional you can now create uber system hogging Compiz vs pick and choose Compiz. I created a “Zoom only” profile because I find the very fast enhanced zoom useful on my desktop. With only the most minimal plugins and effects turned on for my desktop it is almost as fast as when Compiz is turned off (this is on a medium end AMD Sempron 3000+ CPU and Nvidia FX5200). Another profile has some of the more flashy but slightly system hogging effects turned on for when I don’t mind if the desktop slows a little.

No doubt there are other combinations of the more production enhancing plugins that can be enabled using profiles that do not hog the system and allow the enhanced GUI management features to be used to their full effect.

So that’s the end of my Compiz blog post. I hope it allows more people to properly tune Compiz. Like any piece of hot technology … like a fine car .. it needs looking after !