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Two Members Enjoy Unusually Pleasant CX Weather
Posted on November 27, 2016 by ACME-News
The “Dune ‘Cross” was the 3rd Round of the Welsh Cyclo-Cross League held at Pembrey on October 2nd. This was the event selected for the Club Off-Road Championship for 2016. Unfortunately only two Club members lined up at the start but the competition between them was no less keen. The weather conditions were very different to the “normal” CX rain and cold, Pembrey was bathed in sunshine.
Each lap was about 1.25 miles with a start on a long tarmac section leading onto a sharp left turn over sand followed by a section of twisting compact sand/gravel dirt tracks. After this more familiar CX terrain appeared with a short steep stepped run up section of about 20 yards, not too far but enough to force riders to to jump off and shoulder the bike in the traditional CX running fashion. More twisty compact tracks led into another steep bank which would see riders having to dismount for the final 10 yards. Jumping back on the bike the riders finished the lap with a fast flowing, rutted descent into the main grassy start/finish area.
As a result of the large numbers entering the race had been spilt so that Vets had a separate race start to Seniors and Youth riders. The Vets were then spilt up further, meaning that V50 Jeff Rees had to consider his tactics carefully because V40 Steve Davies would start 2 minutes in front of him. Jeff saw Steve get off to a decent start and had to wait what seemed like an eternity for the 2 minute gap before he could start from the second row which kept him out of the initial gridlock.
After the first half lap the V50 began picking off the back end of the V40’s on the stepped run section. Jeff felt that they it would not be too long before he was able to catch Steve. Jeff realised that Steve was having a good day as there was no sign of him after three laps. Eventually Jeff spotted the distinctive Acme Jersey in front of him and made the junction on the fast tarmac section. Trying to catch Steve off guard Jeff attacked but Steve latched onto his wheel as they weaved their way through the field. Luckily, Jeff says skilfully, he was able to nip past the rider in front when there was not enough room for Steve to follow. A big effort on the climb and a kamikaze descent saw him open a gap and “snap the elastic” For Jeff it was then a matter of staying focussed and avoiding mistakes to claim the off road title.
In the end Jeff finished 6th of 32 V50’s and Steve a creditable 47th from 65 V40’s, a great achievement in only his second CX season. Jeff ‘s result means that he is the Club Off-Road Champion for 2016. Well done to him.
Dean Climbs to Victory Once Again
The Hill Climb Championship was cancelled in 2015 because or poor weather conditions on both days, weather for the 2016 event could not have been more different. Under sunny blue skies on a warm September morning a mixed age range of Acme members fought out the Hill Climb Championship on the Barn Hill Climb between Tonyrefail and Penrhiwfer. This is a difficult 0.6 miles which starts on the hill but does have a flat section to finish off.
Ever present time keeping duo Roger and Margaret Evans took charge of the event after signage had been put in place by Wayne Morris and Chris Thomas.
At the start line all riders were supported by Mark Nicholls before they had to go it alone and fight gravity. First off was Mike Bevan, coming out of retirement, and raced off up the climb. Next off the start line, making a comeback to Club events after a long injury enforced break was Dave Roberts. Dave was followed by Rory Jenkins who, after a curtailed racing season, was up for this challenged. Last off the start line was favourite and Hill Climb Series Champion, Dean Cummings.
When the results were read out Dave Roberts posted a very creditable 3:12, not sure what the Vets Std would be on this course. Next best was the returning Mike Bevan with a solid 2:49 while youngster Rory Jenkins posted an excellent 2:10. But leading the field was favourite and Hill Climb Champion for 2016 Dean Cummings with a time of 2:00.
The R&M Trophy was presented to Dean by Club Chairman Jeff Matthews, though Dean decided not to take possession and have to cycle home with his prize.
Two Members Take ON WCA 50 Championship
On the 25th September Acme members were involved in the second WCA Championships of the month. It was back up to Raglan to ride the R50/1b Course for Simon Kinsey and Chris Woolley. . The East/West nature of the course means that riders go from a tail wind to a head wind at each turn, and riders will be aware that there is never a calm day.
Simon had already clinched the Club BAR Champion so this event was all about his personal goals, the main one being to “shave a few seconds off his PB”. Knowing this course and area well Simon knew he needed to use the first lap to gauge the conditions and his own form. Simon knew he could gain time on the first and third quarter but soon realised that he was not gaining the time which he would lose on the second and fourth quarter. In the end Simon missed his PB by 40s, posting a 2:13:35, in an honest assessment of he performance he realised the PB was not going to happen quite early on. Nevertheless, Simon has had an excellent competitive season and deserves his off-season break before he starts his winter preparations for next year.
Even with a later start Chris Woolley still had to contend with the changes in wind direction at each turn. Work and family commitments have limited Chris’s starts this season so he was determined to put in a good effort in the Championship event. In the end Chris posted a 2:02:01 – 24.59mph. This was a very good performance being only 2.47mins off his PB. This result makes Chris the Club 50 Mile Champion for 2016.
September is a Mix of Distances for Acme Racers
Posted on November 5, 2016 by ACME-News
September got off to a wet and windy start at the Sportzmad 10 on the R10/17 Course between Abergavenny and Raglan. Nadine Cannon was fortunate to have the first five miles dry but the rain and wind arrived for her return five. Despite the unfavourable conditions Nadine posted a PB of 23:56.
Neale Lewis, with a later start, had to contend with the poor conditions in both directions. His advice to members racing is to “pray to the sun god”. In the end Neale posted a very respectable 23:23.
Taking no time off for a rest this month Nadine Cannon was again on the R10/17 Course to compete in the Cardiff 100 10m TT. The weather was a bit wet at the start but she did see some sun towards the end of the ride. The conditions certainly suited her and she used her knowledge of the Course to come in 3rd Lady and post a PB of 23:24. It seems every time Nadine enters a 10 she is posting a new PB.
Also riding this event was Club member Neale Lewis, he was targeting a long 22 in the wet conditions and eventually posted a 23:01. This seems to complete Neale’s racing season as his target now is to “get fat and unfit over the winter then struggle to lose weight and get fit for May”. He looks to have used this training programme before.
The third Club member to enter this event was Jeff Rees, leaving home in quite pleasant conditions he arrived in Raglan in the mist and rain. This would be Jeff’s last TT of the season as he moves to the CX circuit. His recent rides had been a mix of roads, CX, MTB and a heavy roller session. Hoping for a finish between 23:30 and 24 he was a little concerned about the mixed build up, however, they appeared to have made no difference to his riding as he posted a 23:52. This is his 6th event on this course this season, which have all resulted in times between 23:48 and 23:53.
T wo days later and Nadine is racing again, now with the carrot of two weeks in Benidorm in front of her. This time it was the PTW 25 on the R25/3H Course based at Hirwaun. Taking advantage of the unusually perfect weather conditions, sunny and very little wind, Nadine posted yet another PB. In finishing as 4th Lady she finished in 57:01. Nadine’s first three 25’s this season were all just over the hour but as a result of hard work and determination she went under the hour at the end of July and has now posted four sub 1 hour 25’s.
Simon Kinsey really mixed up the distances during September, after his WCA 100m efforts he dropped the distance down to 30 m.. This was a VTTA(South Wales Group) event on the R30/7 Course, you guessed it, based on Raglan and Abergavenny. Conditions were ideal, warm with a little wind, and Simon reckoned he could complete in around 75-80 minutes, but quietly hoped to be in the lower part of the range. Simon’s PB over this distance was 1:29:38 two years ago on a much tougher course, so his expectations were high. In the end he posted an excellent 1:14:05 to put him the Club Standards range. Simon would recommend this distance to other members who are regularly competing in 25’s as it is only a small increase and this new course is much quicker than the Bynea course.
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Nailing it down
I've been going bonkers watching the Left defend Hezbollah, Lebanon, and any state that attacks Israel, while decrying Israel's response. And quite honestly, I've been so damn frustrated that I couldn't manage to put my thoughts into words.
Ace must've used some brainwave reading machine, because he nails my thoughts down rather nicely.
If the left consists of such kill-crazy super-terrorist-keyboard-warriors as they so often claim, who are really, really are eager to fight the "right war" against terror (generally defined as any war the US is not actually involved in, or about to enter), then why are they incapable of supporting Israel's war against a group which is
1) unambiguously terroristic,
2) without any legitimate claims to land (as Hamas might have),
3) supported and armed by Iran, the country they often claim is the country we should have fought instead of Iraq (of course, had we done so, they'd've said we should have fought Iraq instead),
4) provoked Israel into an unavoidable defensive War of Necessity, not a "War of Choice," by raining rockets upon its cities
5) is furthermore required by the UN -- the UN! -- to disarm and cease all illegal paramilitary attacks on Israel?
All the usual prerequisites the left usually lists for gaining their blessing for war are easily met here. And yet-- no blessing.
In essence, the Left has exposed itself to be bigger terrorism supporters than anything we at the Right could have guessed. There is no nuance here. Hezbollah fires rockets into civilian towns. That the wrong thing to do. Hezbollah targets civilians. That is the wrong thing to do. Hezbollah hides behind civilians, and bases their operations out of civilian areas such as apartment buildings, schools, and hospitals. That is the wrong thing to do! Israel is defending themselves from a group of terrorists who receive money and weapons from Iran and Syria, who target women and children, who kill as randomly as possible, who are operating illegally out of a sovereign nation in defiance of international law, the list goes on and on.
And yet, the Left, both international and here in America, do not, cannot, and will not support Israel's war against Hezbollah. A war that is needed to protect and defend the citizens of Israel.
If they cannot support this war, then it is clear to anyone with half a mind that they will not support any war against terrorism, and thus are on the side of the terrorists. Plain and simple. What was it that Orwell said? "A pacifist is essentially pro-fascist." Well, it's time to update that - "A pacifist is essentially pro-terrorist."
If you do nothing but prevent, hinder, or otherwise impede the war against a terrorist group, then you are pro-terrorist. When this country eventually ends, whether it be next year or the next millennium, it will be because of people like the American Left, who care more about their politics and gaining power than protecting this country from terrorists.
Labels: LoonyLefties, WoT
I hate to be a Yuppie
But all I can do is read this and go "Yup".
One of the most classic lines parenthood is; "You're known by the company you keep".
And when neighbors choose as their company those who are sworn to the destruction of America, whose blood oath entails forcing me and you to choose between converting to their perverted cult of a false religion, or paying a huge jizya (tax) in order to rent the right to live as an infidel, or worse, to be slaughtered like a beast in the field merely because they deem it fitting.......
.....When they choose them as their company, companions and allies, they have then declared their emnity towards me, my friends and loved ones, your neighbors and this Nation.
You can go read the rest.
Labels: Must Read, WoT
GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!
I'm in the wrong damn Army!
The Women of the IDF.
Mwuahahaaaa!
Make you sure you catch the last line.
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Quick Digest
See Ned Run. See Ned Run From Jane. Or not.
Key endorsement for Ned:
Not contented by slurring blacks, Lamont's people go for gays.
Meanwhile, Radical Muslims target children - protest in Cambridge imminent!!!
Dave, TVE, other bloggers
2,996: A Tribute to the Victims of 9/11
"This Says It All"
An Unsealed Room
Jane Hamsher.
Ironically, liberal blogs such as Eschaton and TalkLeft have criticized the use of blackface in other settings. And even more ironically, Hamsher herself went ballistic last fall when first lady Laura Bush made a reference to comedian Eddie Cantor, who gained a following with his blackface routine.
"Does the first lady not know who Eddie Cantor was?" Hamsher wrote. "Or does she actually think it's appropriate to invoke a comedian famous for appearing in blackface when talking about minority students, and then crack wise about their erstwhile future as criminals?"
Beltway Blogroll: Blogger Kills Lieberman Image At Lamont's Bidding
Hamsher, earlier this week:
UPDATE: Ned Lamont is lying about the nutroots and he.
Maxine Waters has gone silent, which is one good thing about this, I reckon.
RCOB
Tell me about border security again?
WASHINGTON — Undercover investigators entered the United States using fake documents repeatedly this year — including some cases in which Homeland Security Department agents didn't ask for identification.
At nine border crossings on the Mexico and Canadian borders, agents "never questioned the authenticity of the counterfeit documents," according to Government Accountability Office testimony to be released Wednesday
I'm speechless. I really am. After years of living in a world where people want to blow up Americans any way possible, the fact that these agents could easily get into this country just blows my mind.
What. The. HELL?!
Homeland Security spokesman Jarrod Agen said agents are trained to identify false birth certificates, driver's licenses and other documents. But he conceded that agents sometimes cannot verify more than 8,000 different kinds of currently acceptable IDs without significantly slowing border traffic.
Then simply narrow the list of accepted documents! WOW, WHAT A CONCEPT! I can't get into any other country without a passport. No other form of ID is acceptable. I can't stroll into Panama with just my driver's license. Why can't we enforce that same rule here? No passport, NO ENTRY!
It seems that people in the government still don't get it. If we don't have a secure border, then we cannot stop people from coming into America to kill us. Or run drugs. Or other contraband.
Gah. I think I'm done reading the news today. My blood pressure can't stand it.
Labels: Immigración, WoT
That's Same S**t, Different Day.
U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown may want to stick to reforming his own office and stop criticizing member states, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday.
Malloch Brown was quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday suggesting that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a terrorist organization.
"It's not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda," he said, according to a transcript of an interview.
And he wonders why most of America regards the U.N. much as they would regard a malignant tumor? Tell me, just what would make Mr. Brown call Hezbullah a terrorist organization? I mean, beyond the using civilians as human shields, beyond the daily rocket fire into civilian areas of Israel, beyond the calls for Israel's destruction, just what in the name of all that is holy would make Mr. Brown call Hezbullah a terrorist group?
My sweet God, what an asshat. My opinion of the U.N. drops with every passing day.
Labels: U.N. delenda est
Tropical Storm Update
Well, that was dissapointing.
TS Chris passed to the North of us, giving us nothing more than a few showers. We've gotten more rain on a normal day. We'll see if we get any more rain today, but I think it's safe to say that we won't be getting hit.
Israel hijacking TV and radio broadcasts
Neat:
A series of pictures and statements, apparently from Israeli-backed hackers, have appeared on Lebanon's Hezbollah-run television station, some showing pictures of corpses and others labelling the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, as a liar.
One of the images shown on al-Manar television portrayed the body of a fighter lying face-down, wearing khaki trousers with a text in Arabic beneath: "This is the photograph of a body of a member of Hezbollah's special forces."
I have wondered for years why we don't do this stuff, which, I guess, requires me to assume that we don't.
I mean, if American imaging machines can make Drew Barrymore deliver a flying roundhouse kick to the head of a 6'6" 245 pound man, they surely can make Osama bin Laden have sex with his brother.
Blackface of the day
What a bunch of assholes the Left are.
UPDATE: Graphic removed, without comment.
See it here: Michelle Malkin: Ned Lamont's favorite nutball
From a political discussion...
...at the Hockey's Future boards:
Hezbollah is using civillians (and UN observer posts) as shields. Or as you say, Hezbollah are firing rockets into Israel from positions next to apartment buildings. Or from within hospitals and schools, even. Or from playgrounds filled with smiling Hezbollese children. Take any or all of those statements as you like.
Israel is then bombing those Hezbollah-occupied positions.
I just don't understand what kind of person thinks it's ok to fire back in that situation.
It's that kind of thinking that causes many to type the words "We're doomed" these days.
Need a knife?
I've always stated that you need to support the companies that support you. So when I read this, I thought I'd pass it on.
POST FALLS -- Five area businesses were recently honored for their dedication toward employing veterans.
American Legion National Commander Thomas L. Bock presented special Employment of Veterans awards to Life Care Center of Coeur d'Alene and IMCO Recycling of Post Falls during the recent American Legion state convention at Templin's Red Lion Hotel in Post Falls. Ground Force Manufacturing of Post Falls earned the Small Employer of the Year award. The category was for businesses with less than 50 employees. Buck Knives of Post Falls won the Large Employer of the Year award for firms with more than 250 employees.
Buck knives recently relocated from California to Post Falls, Idaho. So what did they do to win this award?
• Buck Knives employed 276 at the time of the nomination and had 30 veterans (12 percent) on staff.
"Buck Knives has long been committed to providing employment opportunities for veterans, including the disabled," Shoeman said. "Patriotism has deep roots within the Buck family. It is clear that issues affecting our nation's veterans receive top priority with Buck Knives."
All local members of the 116th Engineer Battalion of the Idaho National Guard were presented a specially engraved knife upon return from combat duty in Iraq. The company also hosted a knife sale open to the public, with proceeds supporting troops and family members.
I know what kind of knife I'll be buying when I next need one.
Labels: The Good Guys win one
Murtha to be sued
The move by Wuterich is rare, as statements made by members of Congress generally are protected under the "speech or debate" clause in Article I, Section 6, of the Constitution. But legal experts said the clause grants immunity only for what lawmakers say in legislative proceedings and does not apply to news releases, speeches and other public comments.
Rodney A. Smolla, dean of the University of Richmond Law School and a libel expert, said yesterday that Wuterich would have the burden of proving that he is innocent and that Murtha's statements were false, but he added that the quotations appear to be actionable in court. He said the suit shows that Wuterich probably thinks he did nothing wrong.
"Part of the subtext of this is it's a showing of confidence and a preemptive strike of sorts," Smolla said. "The congressman's statement does not sound as if it is merely hyperbole or opinion or name-calling. Instead, it conveys the idea that the Marines violated professional standards and perhaps the law."
The questionable events at Qana in Lebanon sure do place Haditha in a different light, don't they?
Marine Names Murtha in Defamation Suit
Via Malkin comes the story of a Marine who's had enough of Murtha's BS.
A Marine Corps staff sergeant who led the squad accused of killing two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will file a lawsuit today in federal court in Washington claiming that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) defamed him when the congressman made public comments about the incident earlier this year.
Attorneys for Frank D. Wuterich, 26, argue in court papers that Murtha tarnished the Marine's reputation by telling news organizations in May that the Marine unit cracked after a roadside bomb killed one of its members and that the troops "killed innocent civilians in cold blood." Murtha also said repeatedly that the incident was covered up.
Since Murtha made these statements on every newscast that would have him, and not on the floor as part of a legislative session, there's a good chance this lawsuit has legs. And if it does, good. Murtha called those Marines murderers, thugs, and brutal animals without a shred of evidence to back up his accusations. Every chance he got, he slandered them endlessly. It's about time that someone reminds Murtha of a statement that he should have remembered from his own days as a Marine.
You don't fuck with the Marine Corps.
Murtha may have served in the Marines, but he's an EX-Marine. I don't think there's a Marine alive that would claim allegience to Murtha in any regard. Just think about the meaning of that statement.
Captain Ed reports that the IDF has captured Hezbullah terrorists in a hospital.
After several hours of intense fighting in and around the hospital in the eastern Lebanon town of Baalbek, which was built by Iran for the express purpose of treating Hizbullah operatives, IDF commando forces on Wednesday morning took a number of Hizbullah operatives captive.
An IAF helicopter dropped commando forces a short distance from the hospital late Tuesday night. The force was discovered as it moved towards the structure, where Hizbullah operatives were suspected of hiding. Several hours of gunfights ensued, and at least 10 Hizbullah guerrillas were reported killed. Another force was helicoptered in to extricate the commandos and provide backup for the mission.
But gosh, why would Hezbullah be operating out of a hospital? I mean, that's against the rules of war and stuff!
Feh. Hezbullah delights in the murder of civilians, and will do anything they can in order to cause more civilian deaths. After all, if they could get Israel to bomb their base of operations and then show a blown up hospital on Arab TV, they get the propaganda victory. They don't care how many innocent people die. Because they're worthless TERRORISTS!
Personally, I'm at the point where I think that not only should we be killing the terrorists, we should be killing anyone associated with the terrorists as a message to anyone who would support them. But then, I'm not in charge. Probably for the best.
And last, it looks like Floyd Landis got busted for doping.
Just damn.
If it turns out to be true, then as far as I'm concerned, we need to pound his ass into a pulp just as quickly as we rejoiced when he won. American loves a winner, but not one who cheats. That is, unless you're a San Francisco Giant's fan.
Look, steroids have been a problem for years. The NFL has had people juiced up to their eyeballs. Anyone remember Lyle Alzado? Guy was pumped on steroids for years, and it ended up killing him. Most people who juice have health problems later on in life, which is the most likely reason why Barry Bonds' knees are now as fragile as 300 year old paper. And as much as I hate to say it, Mark Maguire is in the same boat. Sammy Sosa? Can anyone else explain to me how a skinny little base-stealing kid bulks up quickly and has an acne problem that would make a teenage boy sympathetic? Steroids, man. He's juiced.
I think that the steroid problem goes a lot farther than any of us can guess. And the only way I can see it stopping is if we, the sports fans, turn our backs on anyone who is a confirmed doper. Just let them hang on their own petard. Protest your team hiring someone who's a doper. If they can't get the big bucks with their hormonally enhanced performance, then maybe they'll stop using it.
It could be a start, at least.
A little something from vacation
The Senate did something yesterday
Booyaka!
The US Senate approved legislation that would make 8.3 million acres (3.4 million hectares) of Gulf of Mexico coastline available for oil and natural gas drilling.
The bill, which passed by a vote of 71 to 25, would end a quarter-century ban against tapping the coastal waters for energy, and comes as Americans face ever-spiraling prices at the gas pump and to heat and cool their homes.
We'll see what happens in conference with the House.
This is the kind of thing Republicans should be running ads on, to disabuse "working families" (and union workers) of the notion that Democrats care about them.
US Senate backs opening protected US coastline to oil, gas drilling
Seen @ Gateway Pundit
Batten down the hatches
'cause I think I'm gonna get hit with this one.
Tropical Storm Chris, the third named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, developed early Tuesday near the Leeward Islands, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said.
Now, my family and I live in a concrete house that resembles a bomb shelter, so I doubt that we're going to be in any danger whatsoever. I also have a week's worth of fresh water saved up, and plenty of non-perishable food. However, knowing the quality of utility services down here, any storm stronger than a mouse fart is going to knock out power for a day or two. So, if I don't blog in the next couple of days, don't worry about me. I'm safe. I just don't have any electricity. I have a generator for my house, but that won't help the company that provides me with the internet.
Granted, I'll have to deal with all the Puerto Ricans who didn't plan ahead and are now completely SOL, but I think I can handle that.
More About Qana
Related to TVE's post below:
On the morning of July 30, according to the IDF, the air force came in three waves. In the first, between midnight and one in the morning, there was a strike at or near the building that eventually collapsed. There was a second strike at other targets far from the collapse building several hours later, and a third strike at around 7:30 in the morning. There too the nearest hit was some 460 meters away, according to the IDF. But first reports of a building collapse came only around 8 am.
Thus there was an unexplained 7 to 8 hour gap between the time of the helicopter strike and the building collapse. Brigadier General Amir Eshel, Head of the Air Force Headquarters, in a press briefing, told journalists that "the attack on the structure in the Qana village took place between midnight and one in the morning. The gap between the timing of the collapse of the building and the time of the strike on it is unclear."
I must admit I am having trouble keeping it all clear in my role as a part time analyst of the event (har). One of the things the "Hezbollah Staged It" crowd are saying is that the bodies show signs of rigor mortis in the early morning just an hour after the collapse. But what if the collapse occured at the initial strike "between midnight and one in the morning"? Then rigor mortis at 0900 would be consistent.
I guess this is where lack of intrepid and objective reporting adds to "the fog of war".
Who says the strike occured "between midnight and one in the morning"? Who says the building collpase occured at 0800 or thereabouts?
Who in the MSM are digging deep to cover this story?
Confederate Yankee: Were the Qana Bodies Staged?
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin gathers the research here.
A Truth Exploited By The Terrorist-Leftist Nexus
From David Galula's treatise on insurgency war via The Corner on National Review Online.
Propaganda and spin is always easier for an insurgent force:
"The asymmetrical situation has important effects on propaganda. The insurgent, having no responsibility, is free to use every trick; if necessary, he can lie, cheat, exaggerate. He is not obliged to prove; he is judged by what he promises, not by what he does. Consequently, propaganda is a powerful weapon for him. With no positive policy but with good propaganda, the insurgent may still win.
The counterinsurgent is tied to his responsibilities and to his past, and for him, facts speak louder than works. He is judged on what he does, not on what he says. If he lies, cheats, exaggerates, and does not prove, he may achieve some temporary successes, but at the price of being discredited for good. And he cannot cheat much unless his political structures are monolithic, for the legitimate opposition in his own camp would soon disclose his every psychological maneuver. For him, propaganda can be no more than a secondary weapon, valuable only if intended to inform and not to fool. A counterinsurgent can seldom cover bad or nonexistent policy with propaganda. "
The utter lack of accountability inherent in the nature of terror organizations is what lead President Bush to state that you are either with us or you are with the terrorists. An absolute truth, for by their very actions they demand to be dealt with by all civilized societies. Who is Hezbollah accountable to? Lebanon? They utilize Lebanese land and infrastructure. If the government of Lebanon is forced to provide Hezbollah these resources against their will, then Lebanon is a failed state incapable of reigning in the foriegn financed terror organization perched on their land and Israel's norther border. Iran and Syria are paying the terror group's bills. If Lebanon's intentions are pure, then we can strenthen their state and force Hezbollah to find another host. And if they have no willing host (or failed state to leach off of), they will eventually run out of resources and starve. If, on the other hand, they have a symbiotic relationship with the government of Lebanon, then they join Iran and Syria in waging a proxy war on their neighbor and all three governments must be held accountable for essentially waging a war by proxy.
That same lack of accountability is what lead to the creation of Article 28 of the 4th Geneva Convention:
The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.
As RD pointed out, anyone who hides in the midst of civilians to shield themselves from counter attack is responsible for the deaths of those they put in harms way. That is true in southern Lebanon, it is true in the al Anbar province in Iraq where insurgents attack our soldiers wearing civilian clothing and rush into civilian homes to evade capture, and it is true anywhere such tactics are employed.
Our soldiers are scrutinized in every possible way. In fighting for their lives, in holding captives caught in battle, in questioning captives, and in their very words and attitudes. They receive tepid and fickel support for performing near impossible tasks. Yet when is the last time you heard of a terrorist group being taken to account for the ghastly beheading of a captured soldier or civilian or for setting off bombs in crowded civilian areas or for the brutal torture and mutilation of a captive? You don't. And that is partly because there is no way to hold a stateless and often faceless and nameless foe to account, and partly because the only ones that could possibly hold them to account are OUR SOLDIERS. And they know it. And they TARGET and kill the very people they claim to fight on behalf of in order to further their goals. And they get away with it because people offer them the legitimacy EARNED by those who strive toward civility and are accountable to all. The terrorists know full well how to take advantage of this and the left willingly serves their cause by breathlessly covering incidents like Qana as the great human tragedy it is without telling you that Hezbollah had been firing rockets from Qana and then rushing to hide in civilian structures. Hezbollah is responsible for the deaths in Qana. If they cared about the people in souther Lebanon, they wouldn't use them as shields. And if the left concerned themselves with responsible dissent rather than the scorched earth variety they engage in almost exclusively then perhaps the civilian targeting, civilian shield using terrorists would be incapable of selling their deceptive propaganda, or at least much less capable. Buying into their ploys is bad enough. Today the left fabricates propaganda for them.
Posted by The Valiant Elephant at 23:27 No comments:
What Dave Said...
...Ben Stein-style:
Because it is impossible to beat a terrorist movement without using terror tactics, and we as a people of compassion and restraint, both in Israel and the U.S., will not use terror tactics even when survival is at stake, and this means we will not survive.
It is very much as if, after Pearl Harbor, after the bombing of London, we said, "We will fight the Japanese and the Nazis, but we will only use humane means, and we will show total restraint and will never kill civilians. And we will search our souls and agonize about every move."
The American Spectator: How to Lose to Terrorists
I, like Dave, am not agonizing about Qana.
We know, from e-mails discovered after the Israelis killed four UN observers at an outpost more than a week ago, that the UN "peacekeepers" had been overrun and held captive by Hizballah. The UN people wanted to get out of the path of the battle, but the Hizballah wouldn't let them leave. On Sunday morning, we awoke to the reports of horrific civilian casualties in the Lebanese town of Qana. Dozens of children are among the dead.
Qana, like many other villages in south Lebanon, was papered with Israeli leaflets warning the citizens to flee the impending battle. Israeli aircraft have been broadcasting warnings and the Israeli forces -- imitating what our Commando Solo aircraft did in Iraq before the 2003 invasion began -- were literally telephoning Lebanese in their homes asking them to get out of the line of fire. Thousands have not. Why?
Israel as George Bush
It reminds me of The Final Countdown, 1980, when F-14s from an American carrier were buzzing, and being buzzed by, World War Two era Zeros. The F-14s go head-to-head with the Zeros, who narrowly miss the F-14s with machine gun fire.
"What are we messing around with these guys for????", one of the F-14 pilots asks.
I am reminded of that.
Qana
Look, I'm about to sound pretty damn heartless right now, so if you're some bleeding heart Leftist, don't stick around unless you want to hear some unpleasant truths.
Hezbullah uses civilian as shields. They hide amongst them, they bury themselves in civilian areas, and they use civilian facilities as bases to attack Israel. They attack from apartment buildings, schools, and anywhere they think that Israel is afraid to counter-attack.
Add to this the fact that there are people in Lebanon who not only agree with what Hezbullah is doing, but actively work with them to further their goal.
So what do you get when you mix terrorists who use civilians as shields, with civilians who agreeably turn themselves into shields ?
You get civilian deaths, that's what you get.
The one constant in all of this is the fact that Israel must be allowed to defend herself. And despite what the Leftists think, they ARE defending themselves. Perhaps when Hezbullah stops firing rockets from the middle of apartment complexes, Israel won't have to drop a bomb on the people who are launching that rocket.
Do I want people to die? No, of course not. I can't think of any sane person who cheers for the death of innocents. But let's just keep in mind that the people responsible for those deaths are the terrorists who use apartment complexes as rocket-launching pads.
Don't blame Israel for defending herself. Blame the people who made in necessary.
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Deb Frisch...
...is still all over Jeff Goldstein and his family. What a cavedweller.
Hezbollah...
..., they loves them some human shields.
Marine does job, patriots react
Florida Marine metes out swift death in Iraq
Democratic Underpanters mete out swift condemnation in their air conditioned rooms
Back from vacation, glad to see Dave back online, quick linkz here:
Gateway Pundit does a wee bit more digging on this story:
(I took the time to draw a multiline box around the "key graf" because I found it interesting that "ADVERTISEMENT" appears right beneath it.)
If a drunken Mel Gibson did indeed call out...
Tragedy Presentation at Qana.
The Ravers are out in force: "Obviously not, so why hasn't USA done something about the misuse of their Apache helicopters used to deliver bombs, not to mention the bombs themselves?"
Confederate Yankee: "There Are No Civilians Here". Go see it.
Power Line ponders banners.
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Philip Jarvis Foster
Personal Information | Media | Sources | Event Map | All | PDF
Name Philip Jarvis Foster
Born Abt 1825 Deal, Kent, England
Christened 28 Sep 1825 Deal, Kent, England [1]
Occupation 1855 Deal, Kent, England
Philip Foster a Kentish Boatman
Other Roles 15 Aug 1896 Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
34 years invovement in Timaru Wesleyan Church including as a Local Preacher
Timaru Wesleyan Church and hardships of early local preachers - acknowledgement of Philip Foster
Business 6 Jan 1899 Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Retiring due to ill health after 27 years as tent and horse cover maker.
Tent and horse cover maker for 27 years retiring
Died 1 May 1899 Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand [2]
On May 1st, at Arthur St, Timaru
Member of the Timaru Wesleyan Church for 34 years
Buried 2 May 1899 Timaru Cemetery, Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand [3]
Philip Jarvis Foster died May 1st, 1899 aged 74.
Also Sarah, his wife, died June 10th 1913 aged 82.
Timaru Cemetery Headstone Philip and Sarah Foster
Person ID I19383 Frost Family
Family Sarah Tremere, b. Abt 1831, Deal, Kent, England , d. 11 Jun 1913, Waimate, Waimate District, Canterbury, New Zealand (Age ~ 82 years)
Married 25 Dec 1848 St Leonards Church, Deal, Kent, England
Immigration 4 Dec 1859 Lyttelton, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
The Regina, 676 tons, under command of Captain Thornton, sailed from London on 2nd September and arrived at Lyttelton on 4th December 1859 with 283 passengers. Including
Foster Philip 34 Mariner
Foster Sarah 28
Foster Mary Anna 9
Foster Elizabeth 7
Foster Robert 6
Foster Sarah 5
Foster Philip 2
Golden Wedding 25 Dec 1898 Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Foster-Tremere on 25th December, 1848 at St Leonard's Church
+ 1. Mary Hannah Foster, b. Abtr 1860, Deal, Kent, England
Immigration - The Regina, 676 tons, under command of Captain Thornton, sailed from London on 2nd September and arrived at Lyttelton on 4th December 1859 with 283 passengers. Including Foster Philip 34 Mariner Foster Sarah 28 Foster Mary Anna 9 Foster Elizabeth 7 Foster Robert 6 Foster Sarah 5 Foster Philip 2 - 4 Dec 1859 - Lyttelton, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Other Roles - 34 years invovement in Timaru Wesleyan Church including as a Local Preacher - 15 Aug 1896 - Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Golden Wedding - 25 Dec 1898 - Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Business - Retiring due to ill health after 27 years as tent and horse cover maker. - 6 Jan 1899 - Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Died - 1 May 1899 - Timaru, Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Buried - 2 May 1899 - Timaru Cemetery, Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand
[S322] Ancestry.com.au, England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (Reliability: 3), 28 Sep 1825.
Baptism Date 28 Sep 1825
Baptism Place Deal, Kent, England
Father Philip Foster
Mother Mary Foster
FHL Film Number 1786327
[S293] BDM NZ Historical Records, (http://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.identityservices.govt.nz/home/), 1899/3468 (Reliability: 3), 01/05/1899.
Foster Philip Jarvis Age at death 73Y
[S83] Cemetery Records, Timaru District Council, 2 May 1899.
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Please press the 'play' button to hear the mantra chanting of the abhisekham
The "Moola Brindavan" of His Holiness Sri Sathyavijaya Swamiji is situated on the banks of Kamandala Naga Nadi in Sathavijayanagaram village ( where the Arni Palaces are also located ), and which is about 2 miles from Arni in the North Arcot District of Tamil Nadu. Sri Sathyavijaya Swamiji is one of the illustrious descendants in the pontifical line of Sri Uthardi Mutt, the 23rd in that order since Madhavacharya.
The Brindavan is three centuries old . The village, which is itself named after the Sri Sathyavijaya Swamiji was actually formed after the installation of the shrine here by the then Jagirdar of Arni, a devout Madhava Brahmin himself , in accordance with the desire of the Swamiji.
It then became the headquarters of the Jaghirdars and was a flourishing Madhava Centre of Learning with many pundits of eminence in all branches of Sanskrit,largely owing to the patronage of the then Jaghirdars of Arni. Since its very beginning the Mutt was under the care of the Jagirdar as he was the head of the mutt and he made effective arrangements for the daily Poojas and the annual aradhanas of the Swamijis. Things went on smoothly till the Zamindars were abolished and the Jagir taken over by the Government. Funds then dried up and though the daily pujas are still being performed on a very small scale the annual aradhanas have suffered. As a result the upkeep of the premises and the renovation of the the mutt premises are in a a bad way. Furthermore, due to the Dravidian Government of Tamil Nadu, the Madhava Brahmins, who somehow or the other kept the mutt going, dispersed to other parts of India and the end of this mutt is not far off !! Unless of course Persis and Siddharth make it their Karma to do so.
Sri Sathya Veera Theertha
Srinivasa Rao Sahib (the 10th Jagirdar) did not have a son for a long time and yearned for one. Despite his visits to various temples, conducting yagnas and homams the wish remained unfulfilled. Until one day he was advised to seek the blessings of Sri Sathya Veera Thirtha , ( 25th in order of Sri Madhavacharya ). Though the Jagirdar was skeptical about the veracity of Sri Sathya Veera Theertha's
assurance that he would be blessed with a son within a year he was gratified that this did happen.The Jagirdar then invited Sri Sathya Veera Theertha to his court and presented him with many gifts and donations to his mutt. Though he named his son Srisathayaveera, the traditional name of Thirumala Rao Sahib was preserved. ( The photo above shows the Jagirdar giving his simhasana to the Swamiji and taking a seat on the ground to the swamijis right.)
Here are some photos taken in the year 2005 of the mutt and the performance of a Abhisekam.
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Sergio Pininfarina’s Great Ferraris at the Museo in Maranello
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Captain Walter Wanderwell's expedition
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Captain Walter Wanderwell, an adventurer, inventor and former sailor with an itch for world travel, conceived the notion of circling the globe by automobile. An emigrant from Poland, he changed his name from the un-pronounceable ‘Johannes Pieczynski’, to Wanderwell during a 1914 walking tour of America. This rugged individual was yet to meet Aloha, his young partner on this extraordinary odyssey, who would become the first woman to circle the globe in an automobile!
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UNISON Boycott of Histadrut Sabotaged by PGFTU's Shaher Saeed
Once Again Shaher Saeed Sabotages Solidarity Action Abroad
Once again the unelected leader of PGFTU has been allowed to sabotage solidarity action in other countries. Saeed is the trade union version of Mahmoud Abbas, always willing to dance to Israel's tune. The question is how long Palestinian trade unionists are prepared to allow a quisling to head their union and allow him to get away with undermining solidarity work.
I've written on Saeed's actions before but this time they have had a decisive effect in undermining the patient work of activists within Britain's second largest union UNISON.
Following the decision of the 2010 UNISON Conference to suspend relations with Israel’s racist ‘trade union’ Histadrut a delegation was sent to Israel and Palestine from 27th November to 3rd December 2010. What prompted this was Histadrut’s support for the murderous attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and its previous support for Operation Cast Lead, the genocidal attack on Gaza.
The delegation met members of Histadrut and its two public service affiliates. It also met the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions and other mixed unions and workers’ organisations within Israel. On the basis of talks between the delegation and Shaher Saeed, Secretary General of PGFTU, the delegation has recommended a resumption of relations with Histadrut in order to put pressure on them to take a more vocal public stance against the occupation and the settlements.
Although the report does not describe UNISON’s discussion with PGFTU there is little doubt that Shaher Saeed did not support a boycott of Histadrut for the simple reason that he never has supported a boycott. When fellow union members have pressurised him he has made statements to that effect, but gone back on them as soon as convenient.
This time Saeed has effectively undone the work of pro-Palestinian activists in UNISON by supporting the maintenance of relations with Histadrut. Although it is understandable that PGFTU has such relations, given the position it is in, there is no reason (apart from Histadrut threats) for it to oppose trade unions in other countries from implementing a boycott. When this arose earlier this year, PGFTU had to issue a ‘clarification’ of what Saeed had previously said. This time no amount of clarification will undo the damage that Saeed has done. As long as Palestinians are content to allow Saeed to operate as Secretary-General of PGFTU, although he has not been elected, then they will bear the consequence of having this stooge at their head.
The UNISON Report is quite clear.
‘The PGFTU in particular said that UNISON should maintain links with the Histadrut so that we could specifically put pressure on them to take a more vocal public stance against the occupation and the settlements.’
There is no doubt that this is what they were told and there is little point in quibbling about it. The points to make is that Shaher Saeed is no different from Mahmoud Abbas and the quislings running the Palestinian Authority whose security forces are specially trained by the USA with the purpose of repressing and torturing their own people.
Histadrut in the Report state that:
· They did not take a stance on wider political issues;
· They feel international relations with other trade unions should only be based on trade union related matters;
· They are unwilling to alienate members of theirs who do not support negotiations with the Palestinians; and,
· They fear international pressure on Histadrut would be used against them by the right wing in Israel.
Of course this is disingenous. Histadrut’s ex-building company Solel Boneh (all its enterprises were sold off in the 1980s and 1990s) helped build the settlements. It takes very political positions – support for Israel’s attack on other countries for example. It is true that they are unwilling to ‘alienate’ their own members who for the most part are even more racist and backward.
The Report proposes ‘critical engagement’. This seems very reminiscent of the ‘constructive engagement’ that Chester Crocker proposed and Thatcher and Reagan accepted for dealings with the Apartheid regime. It was founded on the belief that the Apartheid authorities would willingly dismantle the structures of racism. It was however not engagement, but Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment which persuaded white South Africans that their time was up.
A recent development has been a conference held in Ramallah on 30th April which founded the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. The statement they issued is here.
This makes it clear that the Palestinian trade union movement syupports a full boycott of Israel. It put relations with Histadrut in that context and called on international trades unions to sever all links.
It is accident that UNISON Executive have taken this opportunity not to rock the boat internationally. Motion 89 from the National Executive therefore advocates the same ‘critical engagement’ that Thatcher and Reagan pursued with South Africa (it was called ‘constructive engagement’ but the meaning is the same). It didn’t work then and it won’t work now. Racists don’t understand reasoned argument. The only thing that persuades them is pressure and force. Motion 89 can be read here.
U a brit ! want to lecture the Palestinians what's good for them
Tony Greenstein said...
Yup, I'm a Brit in solidarity with the Palestinians. I am not in solidarity with Palestinian quislings. I leave that kind of thing to Zionists like you Jack
I see u decide for the Palestinians who is good to be their leaders and who is not.
Well mister, British Colonialism never stops.
That's the way your OLD timers, looked at the world.
All the far east and Africa
Nothing has changed.
You are the same Racial colonist bigot.
As I said Jack, Zionists and colonialists have always had their favoured quisling and you are no exception.
Shaher Saeed is unelected. Abbas's term ran out over a year ago. Prime Minister Fayad has never been elected but is ex-World Bank.
Collaborators and quislings are your forte since you obviously like them, just as the Mufti was t he Palestinian 'leader' chosen by the British and Zionists in 1921.
Sure as u say, we are the "elder of Zion", we fix all the world.
We control everything.
The Media the Banks, we even chose Hitler.
More antisemite issues you like to add to the clear picture of what you are.
I loved the issue with the MUFTI.
Here is what I find only in the most antisemite blog, that I am sure you favor.
Zionist-Jews elected Adolf Hitler, also known as the Founder of Israel.
Al-Haj Mufti Amin al-Husseini for his resistance to the mass illegal immigration of European Jewry to British mandate Palestine.
former US President Jimmy Carter. who gave Camp David to Israel Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep. Tayyip Erdogan.
and of course the Holocaust denial organization "Institute for Historical Review" Haj Amin al Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem, has played in Zionist and Holocaust propaganda and was elected by the Jews.
racist David Duke claims the same.
And of course how can I forget, Lenni Brenner.
Those are great resources.
I am sure that in an intelectual debate you could convince everyone about those historical facts.
I haven't said you are an elder of Zion Jack. You said it. It's not my fault if the Zionist movement, with its secret lobbies and Aipac style organisations, and its talk of 'Jewish' lobbies wants to act as some caricature of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
I haven't been to the most anti-Semitic blog Jack. I'll leave that to you, but how would you know it's the most anti-Semitic unless you have visited all of them for your education?
If the anti-Semites take their cue from you on how important the Mufti was fine. It just shows how ignorant you are since the Mufti was a minor war criminal whose SS Divisions deserted in France, where they were sent for retraining. The only example of a rebellion among SS troops ever.
Not much of a war criminal and it isn't surprising. Arabs were even lower on the racial scale than Jews so your attempts to portray Arabs as supporters of the Nazis falls a bit flat.
More to the point why is it that there is not one Arab among the 'Righteous of Nations'. Even Robert Satloff of a Zionist think thank in Washington, compiled a lengthy report into how Arabs had in fact saved fellow Jews.
1% of Arab Jews under Nazi/Vichy occupation perished. Compare that with 90% in Poland and we see in its starkness the use of the Holocaust as a political weapon by Zionist scum like you. You justify the very racism that led to the Holocaust and apply it to the Arabs.
If you had even the trace of a conscience it would be sackcloth and ashes for life mate.
You sure said we are the "elder of Zion" as you mention that "Palestinian 'leader' chosen by the Zionists"
Your low intellect don't even get, that you use only Antisemite slogans and definition.
get some education, as what is the base of the "elder of Zion", that we JEWS (not Zionist ) rule the world, we JEWS CHOOSE leaders, that's exactly what you said about the Mufti.
Google Mufti and Zionist, you will find your way of thinking only in antisemite blogs.
You are defending the arabs, as I said anything bad about them, as your little brain cannot accept that me, a PROUD ZIONIST JEW, will say something good about the arabs.
well antisemite, I don't have anything bad to say about the arabs, on the contrary, I respect and appreciate and honor them much more then you, I feel much closer to them then to a jewish antisemite like you.
BTW using the word scum dosen't show you got brains .......
Clearly Jack doesn't understand irony, even given his limited command of English.
When European anti-Semites use the Protocols they think of Jewish conspiracies, when Arabs do so they think in terms of Zionist conspiracies because the Protocols seem to them a reasonable explanation behind the implantation of a settler European state in their midst.
In other words the social basis of European anti-Semitism doesn't exist in the Arab world. I'm sure you are capable of looking up the relevant passage in Gilbert Achcar's Arabs and the Holocaust, who incidentally was quoting Bernard Lewis. i assume you have heard of him.
Your praise for Arabs is touching!
But I made the point that Zionists, in particular Sir Herbert Samuel as High Commissioner, chose the Mufti above those who had defeated him in an election.
And of course the Zionist leadership in Palestine much preferred dealing with the Mufti than working with Istaqlal, an explicitly secular and anti-racist Palestinian party.
To all intents and purposes the Mufti displayed on the walls of that iniquitous organisation, Yad Vashem, is an apparition. That is why he is given his own wall. Not Heydrich, the 'engineer of the final solution, Himmler or Rosenberg but someone who was irrelevant to the workings of the Nazi machine.
So you can visit all the anti-Semitic sites you wish Jack. No doubt they will confirm all that Zionists have to say on the subject!
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Blockchain: India working on regulatory framework
Focus is on distributed ledger tech’s potential and need for shared infrastructure for different use cases
ByPaul Muir
The Indian government is working to establish a national framework to support the wider use cases of blockchain technology.
Sanjay Dhotre, the minister of state for electronics and IT (MeitY), on Wednesday said that the government is drafting an approach paper on the National Level Blockchain Framework that discusses the potential of distributed ledger technology and the need for a shared infrastructure for different use cases, Coindesk reported.
Dhotre made the announcement in a letter addressing questions about blockchain from members of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament.
In particular, MP Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma was asked whether the government had encouraged and conducted research into potential uses for blockchain technologies and if so, what the outcome of this research is.
In response, Dhotre wrote, “MeitY has identified Blockchain Technology as one of the important research areas having application potential in different domains such as Governance, Banking and Finance, Cyber Security and so on.”
According to the letter, the Indian government has already built the Distributed Centre of Excellence in Blockchain Technology, a project that develops and conducts research on blockchain technologies and their use cases.
The project is executed by government and research institutions, including the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology.
Under this initiative, the institutions have piloted a blockchain system for property registration at Shamshabad District, Telangana State, developed proof-of-concept solutions for Cloud Security Assurance, C-KYC and trade finance, said the Coindesk report.
Other ongoing projects include authentication of academic certificates with a proof-of-existence framework, and vehicle life cycle and hotel registry management.
There has been a slew of blockchain projects under development in India.
Last month, India’s information technology services provider Tech Mahindra announced it was teaming up with Netherlands-based blockchain application incubator Quantoz to provide secure digital payments.
Tata Consultancy Services has also launched a multi-brand consumer loyalty platform on R3’s enterprise blockchain, Corda, the same month.
India’s defense minister Rajnath Singh also stressed the potential use cases of blockchain in the defense industry in a public speech on November 4.
While the country might be embracing blockchain, it has created regulatory challenges for cryptocurrency businesses, reported Coindesk.
The government proposed fines and jail time for cryptocurrency use in July, and Facebook announced it would not launch its Calibra crypto wallet subsidiary in India due to regulatory issues.
In April 2018, the Reserve Bank of India, the country’s central bank, initiated a major crackdown on the trade and purchase of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin within its borders. RBI Deputy Governor Bibhu Kanungo declared that all RBI-regulated entities had to “stop having business relationships with entities dealing with virtual currencies forthwith and unwind the existing relationships in a period of three months’ time,” Cointelegraph reported.
This set a series of events in motion that would disrupt the blossoming crypto ecosystem in India. Crypto exchanges shut down due to regulatory pressure and crypto entrepreneurs were arrested. Despite this, in less than 18 months following the ban, Binance made the decision to buy out WazirX, India’s biggest crypto exchange.
Also read: Why China’s digital yuan is ‘a dictator’s dream’
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Paper 110
Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals
THE endowment of imperfect beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is the nature of the perfect ancestral Deity to universally and affectionately share these sufferings in loving companionship.
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As far as I am conversant with the affairs of a universe, I regard the love and devotion of a Thought Adjuster as the most truly divine affection in all creation. The love of the Sons in their ministry to the races is superb, but the devotion of an Adjuster to the individual is touchingly sublime, divinely Fatherlike. The Paradise Father has apparently reserved this form of personal contact with his individual creatures as an exclusive Creator prerogative. And there is nothing in all the universe of universes exactly comparable to the marvelous ministry of these impersonal entities that so fascinatingly indwell the children of the evolutionary planets.
1. Indwelling the Mortal Mind
Adjusters should not be thought of as living in the material brains of human beings. They are not organic parts of the physical creatures of the realms. The Thought Adjuster may more properly be envisaged as indwelling the mortal mind of man rather than as existing within the confines of a single physical organ. And indirectly and unrecognized the Adjuster is constantly communicating with the human subject, especially during those sublime experiences of the worshipful contact of mind with spirit in the superconsciousness.
I wish it were possible for me to help evolving mortals to achieve a better understanding and attain a fuller appreciation of the unselfish and superb work of the Adjusters living within them, who are so devoutly faithful to the task of fostering man’s spiritual welfare. These Monitors are efficient ministers to the higher phases of men’s minds; they are wise and experienced manipulators of the spiritual potential of the human intellect. These heavenly helpers are dedicated to the stupendous task of guiding you safely inward and upward to the celestial haven of happiness. These tireless toilers are consecrated to the future personification of the triumph of divine truth in your life everlasting. They are the watchful workers who pilot the God-conscious human mind away from the shoals of evil while expertly guiding the evolving soul of man toward the divine harbors of perfection on far-distant and eternal shores. The Adjusters are loving leaders, your safe and sure guides through the dark and uncertain mazes of your short earthly career; they are the patient teachers who so constantly urge their subjects forward in the paths of progressive perfection. They are the careful custodians of the sublime values of creature character. I wish you could love them more, co-operate with them more fully, and cherish them more affectionately.
Although the divine indwellers are chiefly concerned with your spiritual preparation for the next stage of the never-ending existence, they are also deeply interested in your temporal welfare and in your real achievements on earth. They are delighted to contribute to your health, happiness, and true prosperity. They are not indifferent to your success in all matters of planetary advancement which are not inimical to your future life of eternal progress.
Adjusters are interested in, and concerned with, your daily doings and the manifold details of your life just to the extent that these are influential in the determination of your significant temporal choices and vital spiritual decisions and, hence, are factors in the solution of your problem of soul survival and eternal progress. The Adjuster, while passive regarding purely temporal welfare, is divinely active concerning all the affairs of your eternal future.
The Adjuster remains with you in all disaster and through every sickness which does not wholly destroy the mentality. But how unkind knowingly to defile or otherwise deliberately to pollute the physical body, which must serve as the earthly tabernacle of this marvelous gift from God. All physical poisons greatly retard the efforts of the Adjuster to exalt the material mind, while the mental poisons of fear, anger, envy, jealousy, suspicion, and intolerance likewise tremendously interfere with the spiritual progress of the evolving soul.
Today you are passing through the period of the courtship of your Adjuster; and if you only prove faithful to the trust reposed in you by the divine spirit who seeks your mind and soul in eternal union, there will eventually ensue that morontia oneness, that supernal harmony, that cosmic co-ordination, that divine attunement, that celestial fusion, that never-ending blending of identity, that oneness of being which is so perfect and final that even the most experienced personalities can never segregate or recognize as separate identities the fusion partners—mortal man and divine Adjuster.
2. Adjusters and Human Will
When Thought Adjusters indwell human minds, they bring with them the model careers, the ideal lives, as determined and foreordained by themselves and the Personalized Adjusters of Divinington, which have been certified by the Personalized Adjuster of Urantia. Thus they begin work with a definite and predetermined plan for the intellectual and spiritual development of their human subjects, but it is not incumbent upon any human being to accept this plan. You are all subjects of predestination, but it is not foreordained that you must accept this divine predestination; you are at full liberty to reject any part or all of the Thought Adjusters’ program. It is their mission to effect such mind changes and to make such spiritual adjustments as you may willingly and intelligently authorize, to the end that they may gain more influence over the personality directionization; but under no circumstances do these divine Monitors ever take advantage of you or in any way arbitrarily influence you in your choices and decisions. The Adjusters respect your sovereignty of personality; they are always subservient to your will.
They are persistent, ingenious, and perfect in their methods of work, but they never do violence to the volitional selfhood of their hosts. No human being will ever be spiritualized by a divine Monitor against his will; survival is a gift of the Gods which must be desired by the creatures of time. In the final analysis, whatever the Adjuster has succeeded in doing for you, the records will show that the transformation has been accomplished with your co-operative consent; you will have been a willing partner with the Adjuster in the attainment of every step of the tremendous transformation of the ascension career.
The Adjuster is not trying to control your thinking, as such, but rather to spiritualize it, to eternalize it. Neither angels nor Adjusters are devoted directly to influencing human thought; that is your exclusive personality prerogative. The Adjusters are dedicated to improving, modifying, adjusting, and co-ordinating your thinking processes; but more especially and specifically they are devoted to the work of building up spiritual counterparts of your careers, morontia transcripts of your true advancing selves, for survival purposes.
Adjusters work in the spheres of the higher levels of the human mind, unceasingly seeking to produce morontia duplicates of every concept of the mortal intellect. There are, therefore, two realities which impinge upon, and are centered in, the human mind circuits: one, a mortal self evolved from the original plans of the Life Carriers, the other, an immortal entity from the high spheres of Divinington, an indwelling gift from God. But the mortal self is also a personal self; it has personality.
You as a personal creature have mind and will. The Adjuster as a prepersonal creature has premind and prewill. If you so fully conform to the Adjuster’s mind that you see eye to eye, then your minds become one, and you receive the reinforcement of the Adjuster’s mind. Subsequently, if your will orders and enforces the execution of the decisions of this new or combined mind, the Adjuster’s prepersonal will attains to personality expression through your decision, and as far as that particular project is concerned, you and the Adjuster are one. Your mind has attained to divinity attunement, and the Adjuster’s will has achieved personality expression.
To the extent that this identity is realized, you are mentally approaching the morontia order of existence. Morontia mind is a term signifying the substance and sum total of the co-operating minds of diversely material and spiritual natures. Morontia intellect, therefore, connotes a dual mind in the local universe dominated by one will. And with mortals this is a will, human in origin, which is becoming divine through man’s identification of the human mind with the mindedness of God.
3. Co-operation with the Adjuster
Adjusters are playing the sacred and superb game of the ages; they are engaged in one of the supreme adventures of time in space. And how happy they are when your co-operation permits them to lend assistance in your short struggles of time as they continue to prosecute their larger tasks of eternity. But usually, when your Adjuster attempts to communicate with you, the message is lost in the material currents of the energy streams of human mind; only occasionally do you catch an echo, a faint and distant echo, of the divine voice.
The success of your Adjuster in the enterprise of piloting you through the mortal life and bringing about your survival depends not so much on the theories of your beliefs as upon your decisions, determinations, and steadfast faith. All these movements of personality growth become powerful influences aiding in your advancement because they help you to co-operate with the Adjuster; they assist you in ceasing to resist. Thought Adjusters succeed or apparently fail in their terrestrial undertakings just in so far as mortals succeed or fail to co-operate with the scheme whereby they are to be advanced along the ascending path of perfection attainment. The secret of survival is wrapped up in the supreme human desire to be Godlike and in the associated willingness to do and be any and all things which are essential to the final attainment of that overmastering desire.
When we speak of an Adjuster’s success or failure, we are speaking in terms of human survival. Adjusters never fail; they are of the divine essence, and they always emerge triumphant in each of their undertakings.
I cannot but observe that so many of you spend so much time and thought on mere trifles of living, while you almost wholly overlook the more essential realities of everlasting import, those very accomplishments which are concerned with the development of a more harmonious working agreement between you and your Adjusters. The great goal of human existence is to attune to the divinity of the indwelling Adjuster; the great achievement of mortal life is the attainment of a true and understanding consecration to the eternal aims of the divine spirit who waits and works within your mind. But a devoted and determined effort to realize eternal destiny is wholly compatible with a lighthearted and joyous life and with a successful and honorable career on earth. Co-operation with the Thought Adjuster does not entail self-torture, mock piety, or hypocritical and ostentatious self-abasement; the ideal life is one of loving service rather than an existence of fearful apprehension.
Confusion, being puzzled, even sometimes discouraged and distracted, does not necessarily signify resistance to the leadings of the indwelling Adjuster. Such attitudes may sometimes connote lack of active co-operation with the divine Monitor and may, therefore, somewhat delay spiritual progress, but such intellectual emotional difficulties do not in the least interfere with the certain survival of the God-knowing soul. Ignorance alone can never prevent survival; neither can confusional doubts nor fearful uncertainty. Only conscious resistance to the Adjuster’s leading can prevent the survival of the evolving immortal soul.
You must not regard co-operation with your Adjuster as a particularly conscious process, for it is not; but your motives and your decisions, your faithful determinations and your supreme desires, do constitute real and effective co-operation. You can consciously augment Adjuster harmony by:
1. Choosing to respond to divine leading; sincerely basing the human life on the highest consciousness of truth, beauty, and goodness, and then co-ordinating these qualities of divinity through wisdom, worship, faith, and love.
2. Loving God and desiring to be like him—genuine recognition of the divine fatherhood and loving worship of the heavenly Parent.
3. Loving man and sincerely desiring to serve him—wholehearted recognition of the brotherhood of man coupled with an intelligent and wise affection for each of your fellow mortals.
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4. Joyful acceptance of cosmic citizenship—honest recognition of your progressive obligations to the Supreme Being, awareness of the interdependence of evolutionary man and evolving Deity. This is the birth of cosmic morality and the dawning realization of universal duty.
4. The Adjuster’s Work in the Mind
Adjusters are able to receive the continuous stream of cosmic intelligence coming in over the master circuits of time and space; they are in full touch with the spirit intelligence and energy of the universes. But these mighty indwellers are unable to transmit very much of this wealth of wisdom and truth to the minds of their mortal subjects because of the lack of commonness of nature and the absence of responsive recognition.
The Thought Adjuster is engaged in a constant effort so to spiritualize your mind as to evolve your morontia soul; but you yourself are mostly unconscious of this inner ministry. You are quite incapable of distinguishing the product of your own material intellect from that of the conjoint activities of your soul and the Adjuster.
Certain abrupt presentations of thoughts, conclusions, and other pictures of mind are sometimes the direct or indirect work of the Adjuster; but far more often they are the sudden emergence into consciousness of ideas which have been grouping themselves together in the submerged mental levels, natural and everyday occurrences of normal and ordinary psychic function inherent in the circuits of the evolving animal mind. (In contrast with these subconscious emanations, the revelations of the Adjuster appear through the realms of the superconscious.)
Trust all matters of mind beyond the dead level of consciousness to the custody of the Adjusters. In due time, if not in this world then on the mansion worlds, they will give good account of their stewardship, and eventually will they bring forth those meanings and values intrusted to their care and keeping. They will resurrect every worthy treasure of the mortal mind if you survive.
There exists a vast gulf between the human and the divine, between man and God. The Urantia races are so largely electrically and chemically controlled, so highly animallike in their common behavior, so emotional in their ordinary reactions, that it becomes exceedingly difficult for the Monitors to guide and direct them. You are so devoid of courageous decisions and consecrated co-operation that your indwelling Adjusters find it next to impossible to communicate directly with the human mind. Even when they do find it possible to flash a gleam of new truth to the evolving mortal soul, this spiritual revelation often so blinds the creature as to precipitate a convulsion of fanaticism or to initiate some other intellectual upheaval which results disastrously. Many a new religion and strange “ism” has arisen from the aborted, imperfect, misunderstood, and garbled communications of the Thought Adjusters.
For many thousands of years, so the records of Jerusem show, in each generation there have lived fewer and fewer beings who could function safely with self-acting Adjusters. This is an alarming picture, and the supervising personalities of Satania look with favor upon the proposals of some of your more immediate planetary supervisors who advocate the inauguration of measures designed to foster and conserve the higher spiritual types of the Urantia races.
5. Erroneous Concepts of Adjuster Guidance
Do not confuse and confound the mission and influence of the Adjuster with what is commonly called conscience; they are not directly related. Conscience is a human and purely psychic reaction. It is not to be despised, but it is hardly the voice of God to the soul, which indeed the Adjuster’s would be if such a voice could be heard. Conscience, rightly, admonishes you to do right; but the Adjuster, in addition, endeavors to tell you what truly is right; that is, when and as you are able to perceive the Monitor’s leading.
Man’s dream experiences, that disordered and disconnected parade of the un-co-ordinated sleeping mind, present adequate proof of the failure of the Adjusters to harmonize and associate the divergent factors of the mind of man. The Adjusters simply cannot, in a single lifetime, arbitrarily co-ordinate and synchronize two such unlike and diverse types of thinking as the human and the divine. When they do, as they sometimes have, such souls are translated directly to the mansion worlds without the necessity of passing through the experience of death.
During the slumber season the Adjuster attempts to achieve only that which the will of the indwelt personality has previously fully approved by the decisions and choosings which were made during times of fully wakeful consciousness, and which have thereby become lodged in the realms of the supermind, the liaison domain of human and divine interrelationship.
While their mortal hosts are asleep, the Adjusters try to register their creations in the higher levels of the material mind, and some of your grotesque dreams indicate their failure to make efficient contact. The absurdities of dream life not only testify to pressure of unexpressed emotions but also bear witness to the horrible distortion of the representations of the spiritual concepts presented by the Adjusters. Your own passions, urges, and other innate tendencies translate themselves into the picture and substitute their unexpressed desires for the divine messages which the indwellers are endeavoring to put into the psychic records during unconscious sleep.
It is extremely dangerous to postulate as to the Adjuster content of the dream life. The Adjusters do work during sleep, but your ordinary dream experiences are purely physiologic and psychologic phenomena. Likewise, it is hazardous to attempt the differentiation of the Adjusters’ concept registry from the more or less continuous and conscious reception of the dictations of mortal conscience. These are problems which will have to be solved through individual discrimination and personal decision. But a human being would do better to err in rejecting an Adjuster’s expression through believing it to be a purely human experience than to blunder into exalting a reaction of the mortal mind to the sphere of divine dignity. Remember, the influence of a Thought Adjuster is for the most part, though not wholly, a superconscious experience.
In varying degrees and increasingly as you ascend the psychic circles, sometimes directly, but more often indirectly, you do communicate with your Adjusters. But it is dangerous to entertain the idea that every new concept originating in the human mind is the dictation of the Adjuster. More often, in beings of your order, that which you accept as the Adjuster’s voice is in reality the emanation of your own intellect. This is dangerous ground, and every human being must settle these problems for himself in accordance with his natural human wisdom and superhuman insight.
The Adjuster of the human being through whom this communication is being made enjoys such a wide scope of activity chiefly because of this human’s almost complete indifference to any outward manifestations of the Adjuster’s inner presence; it is indeed fortunate that he remains consciously quite unconcerned about the entire procedure. He holds one of the highly experienced Adjusters of his day and generation, and yet his passive reaction to, and inactive concern toward, the phenomena associated with the presence in his mind of this versatile Adjuster is pronounced by the guardian of destiny to be a rare and fortuitous reaction. And all this constitutes a favorable co-ordination of influences, favorable both to the Adjuster in the higher sphere of action and to the human partner from the standpoints of health, efficiency, and tranquillity.
6. The Seven Psychic Circles
The sum total of personality realization on a material world is contained within the successive conquest of the seven psychic circles of mortal potentiality. Entrance upon the seventh circle marks the beginning of true human personality function. Completion of the first circle denotes the relative maturity of the mortal being. Though the traversal of the seven circles of cosmic growth does not equal fusion with the Adjuster, the mastery of these circles marks the attainment of those steps which are preliminary to Adjuster fusion.
The Adjuster is your equal partner in the attainment of the seven circles—the achievement of comparative mortal maturity. The Adjuster ascends the circles with you from the seventh to the first but progresses to the status of supremacy and self-activity quite independent of the active co-operation of the mortal mind.
The psychic circles are not exclusively intellectual, neither are they wholly morontial; they have to do with personality status, mind attainment, soul growth, and Adjuster attunement. The successful traversal of these levels demands the harmonious functioning of the entire personality, not merely of some one phase thereof. The growth of the parts does not equal the true maturation of the whole; the parts really grow in proportion to the expansion of the entire self—the whole self—material, intellectual, and spiritual.
When the development of the intellectual nature proceeds faster than that of the spiritual, such a situation renders communication with the Thought Adjuster both difficult and dangerous. Likewise, overspiritual development tends to produce a fanatical and perverted interpretation of the spirit leadings of the divine indweller. Lack of spiritual capacity makes it very difficult to transmit to such a material intellect the spiritual truths resident in the higher superconsciousness. It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function—when the physical, mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development—that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of such a being. By such a balanced growth does man ascend the circles of planetary progression one by one, from the seventh to the first.
The Adjusters are always near you and of you, but rarely can they speak directly, as another being, to you. Circle by circle your intellectual decisions, moral choosings, and spiritual development add to the ability of the Adjuster to function in your mind; circle by circle you thereby ascend from the lower stages of Adjuster association and mind attunement, so that the Adjuster is increasingly enabled to register his picturizations of destiny with augmenting vividness and conviction upon the evolving consciousness of this God-seeking mind-soul.
Every decision you make either impedes or facilitates the function of the Adjuster; likewise do these very decisions determine your advancement in the circles of human achievement. It is true that the supremacy of a decision, its crisis relationship, has a great deal to do with its circle-making influence; nevertheless, numbers of decisions, frequent repetitions, persistent repetitions, are also essential to the habit-forming certainty of such reactions.
It is difficult precisely to define the seven levels of human progression, for the reason that these levels are personal; they are variable for each individual and are apparently determined by the growth capacity of each human being. The conquest of these levels of cosmic evolution is reflected in three ways:
1. Adjuster attunement. The spiritizing mind nears the Adjuster presence proportional to circle attainment.
2. Soul evolution. The emergence of the morontia soul indicates the extent and depth of circle mastery.
3. Personality reality. The degree of selfhood reality is directly determined by circle conquest. Persons become more real as they ascend from the seventh to the first level of mortal existence.
As the circles are traversed, the child of material evolution is growing into the mature human of immortal potentiality. The shadowy reality of the embryonic nature of a seventh circler is giving way to the clearer manifestation of the emerging morontia nature of a local universe citizen.
While it is impossible precisely to define the seven levels, or psychic circles, of human growth, it is permissible to suggest the minimum and maximum limits of these stages of maturity realization:
The seventh circle. This level is entered when human beings develop the powers of personal choice, individual decision, moral responsibility, and the capacity for the attainment of spiritual individuality. This signifies the united function of the seven adjutant mind-spirits under the direction of the spirit of wisdom, the encircuitment of the mortal creature in the influence of the Holy Spirit, and, on Urantia, the first functioning of the Spirit of Truth, together with the reception of a Thought Adjuster in the mortal mind. Entrance upon the seventh circle constitutes a mortal creature a truly potential citizen of the local universe.
The third circle. The Adjuster’s work is much more effective after the human ascender attains the third circle and receives a personal seraphic guardian of destiny. While there is no apparent concert of effort between the Adjuster and the seraphic guardian, nonetheless there is to be observed an unmistakable improvement in all phases of cosmic achievement and spiritual development subsequent to the assignment of the personal seraphic attendant. When the third circle is attained, the Adjuster endeavors to morontiaize the mind of man during the remainder of the mortal life span, to make the remaining circles, and achieve the final stage of the divine-human association before natural death dissolves the unique partnership.
The first circle. The Adjuster cannot, ordinarily, speak directly and immediately with you until you attain the first and final circle of progressive mortal achievement. This level represents the highest possible realization of mind-Adjuster relationship in the human experience prior to the liberation of the evolving morontia soul from the habiliments of the material body. Concerning mind, emotions, and cosmic insight, this achievement of the first psychic circle is the nearest possible approach of material mind and spirit Adjuster in human experience.
Perhaps these psychic circles of mortal progression would be better denominated cosmic levels—actual meaning grasps and value realizations of progressive approach to the morontia consciousness of initial relationship of the evolutionary soul with the emerging Supreme Being. And it is this very relationship that makes it forever impossible fully to explain the significance of the cosmic circles to the material mind. These circle attainments are only relatively related to God-consciousness. A seventh or sixth circler can be almost as truly God-knowing—sonship conscious—as a second or first circler, but such lower circle beings are far less conscious of experiential relation to the Supreme Being, universe citizenship. The attainment of these cosmic circles will become a part of the ascenders’ experience on the mansion worlds if they fail of such achievement before natural death.
The motivation of faith makes experiential the full realization of man’s sonship with God, but action, completion of decisions, is essential to the evolutionary attainment of consciousness of progressive kinship with the cosmic actuality of the Supreme Being. Faith transmutes potentials to actuals in the spiritual world, but potentials become actuals in the finite realms of the Supreme only by and through the realization of choice-experience. But choosing to do the will of God joins spiritual faith to material decisions in personality action and thus supplies a divine and spiritual fulcrum for the more effective functioning of the human and material leverage of God-hunger. Such a wise co-ordination of material and spiritual forces greatly augments both cosmic realization of the Supreme and morontia comprehension of the Paradise Deities.
The mastery of the cosmic circles is related to the quantitative growth of the morontia soul, the comprehension of supreme meanings. But the qualitative status of this immortal soul is wholly dependent on the grasp of living faith upon the Paradise-potential fact-value that mortal man is a son of the eternal God. Therefore does a seventh circler go on to the mansion worlds to attain further quantitative realization of cosmic growth just as does a second or even a first circler.
There is only an indirect relation between cosmic-circle attainment and actual spiritual religious experience; such attainments are reciprocal and therefore mutually beneficial. Purely spiritual development may have little to do with planetary material prosperity, but circle attainment always augments the potential of human success and mortal achievement.
From the seventh to the third circle there occurs increased and unified action of the seven adjutant mind-spirits in the task of weaning the mortal mind from its dependence on the realities of the material life mechanisms preparatory to increased introduction to morontia levels of experience. From the third circle onward the adjutant influence progressively diminishes.
The seven circles embrace mortal experience extending from the highest purely animal level to the lowest actual contactual morontia level of self-consciousness as a personality experience. The mastery of the first cosmic circle signalizes the attainment of premorontia mortal maturity and marks the termination of the conjoint ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits as an exclusive influence of mind action in the human personality. Beyond the first circle, mind becomes increasingly akin to the intelligence of the morontia stage of evolution, the conjoined ministry of the cosmic mind and the superadjutant endowment of the Creative Spirit of a local universe.
The great days in the individual careers of Adjusters are: first, when the human subject breaks through into the third psychic circle, thus insuring the Monitor’s self-activity and increased range of function (provided the indweller was not already self-acting); then, when the human partner attains the first psychic circle, and they are thereby enabled to intercommunicate, at least to some degree; and last, when they are finally and eternally fused.
7. The Attainment of Immortality
The achievement of the seven cosmic circles does not equal Adjuster fusion. There are many mortals living on Urantia who have attained their circles; but fusion depends on yet other greater and more sublime spiritual achievements, upon the attainment of a final and complete attunement of the mortal will with the will of God as it is resident in the Thought Adjuster.
When a human being has completed the circles of cosmic achievement, and further, when the final choosing of the mortal will permits the Adjuster to complete the association of human identity with the morontial soul during evolutionary and physical life, then do such consummated liaisons of soul and Adjuster go on independently to the mansion worlds, and there is issued the mandate from Uversa which provides for the immediate fusion of the Adjuster and the morontial soul. This fusion during physical life instantly consumes the material body; the human beings who might witness such a spectacle would only observe the translating mortal disappear “in chariots of fire.”
Most Adjusters who have translated their subjects from Urantia were highly experienced and of record as previous indwellers of numerous mortals on other spheres. Remember, Adjusters gain valuable indwelling experience on planets of the loan order; it does not follow that Adjusters only gain experience for advanced work in those mortal subjects who fail to survive.
Subsequent to mortal fusion the Adjusters share your destiny and experience; they are you. After the fusion of the immortal morontia soul and the associated Adjuster, all of the experience and all of the values of the one eventually become the possession of the other, so that the two are actually one entity. In a certain sense, this new being is of the eternal past as well as for the eternal future. All that was once human in the surviving soul and all that is experientially divine in the Adjuster now become the actual possession of the new and ever-ascending universe personality. But on each universe level the Adjuster can endow the new creature only with those attributes which are meaningful and of value on that level. An absolute oneness with the divine Monitor, a complete exhaustion of the endowment of an Adjuster, can only be achieved in eternity subsequent to the final attainment of the Universal Father, the Father of spirits, ever the source of these divine gifts.
When the evolving soul and the divine Adjuster are finally and eternally fused, each gains all of the experiencible qualities of the other. This co-ordinate personality possesses all of the experiential memory of survival once held by the ancestral mortal mind and then resident in the morontia soul, and in addition thereto this potential finaliter embraces all the experiential memory of the Adjuster throughout the mortal indwellings of all time. But it will require an eternity of the future for an Adjuster ever completely to endow the personality partnership with the meanings and values which the divine Monitor carries forward from the eternity of the past.
But with the vast majority of Urantians the Adjuster must patiently await the arrival of death deliverance; must await the liberation of the emerging soul from the well-nigh complete domination of the energy patterns and chemical forces inherent in your material order of existence. The chief difficulty you experience in contacting with your Adjusters consists in this very inherent material nature. So few mortals are real thinkers; you do not spiritually develop and discipline your minds to the point of favorable liaison with the divine Adjusters. The ear of the human mind is almost deaf to the spiritual pleas which the Adjuster translates from the manifold messages of the universal broadcasts of love proceeding from the Father of mercies. The Adjuster finds it almost impossible to register these inspiring spirit leadings in an animal mind so completely dominated by the chemical and electrical forces inherent in your physical natures.
Adjusters rejoice to make contact with the mortal mind; but they must be patient through the long years of silent sojourn during which they are unable to break through animal resistance and directly communicate with you. The higher the Thought Adjusters ascend in the scale of service, the more efficient they become. But never can they greet you, in the flesh, with the same full, sympathetic, and expressionful affection as they will when you discern them mind to mind on the mansion worlds.
During mortal life the material body and mind separate you from your Adjuster and prevent free communication; subsequent to death, after the eternal fusion, you and the Adjuster are one—you are not distinguishable as separate beings—and thus there exists no need for communication as you would understand it.
While the voice of the Adjuster is ever within you, most of you will hear it seldom during a lifetime. Human beings below the third and second circles of attainment rarely hear the Adjuster’s direct voice except in moments of supreme desire, in a supreme situation, and consequent upon a supreme decision.
During the making and breaking of a contact between the mortal mind of a destiny reservist and the planetary supervisors, sometimes the indwelling Adjuster is so situated that it becomes possible to transmit a message to the mortal partner. Not long since, on Urantia, such a message was transmitted by a self-acting Adjuster to the human associate, a member of the reserve corps of destiny. This message was introduced by these words: “And now, without injury or jeopardy to the subject of my solicitous devotion and without intent to overchastise or discourage, for me, make record of this my plea to him.” Then followed a beautifully touching and appealing admonition. Among other things, the Adjuster pleaded “that he more faithfully give me his sincere co-operation, more cheerfully endure the tasks of my emplacement, more faithfully carry out the program of my arrangement, more patiently go through the trials of my selection, more persistently and cheerfully tread the path of my choosing, more humbly receive credit that may accrue as a result of my ceaseless endeavors—thus transmit my admonition to the man of my indwelling. Upon him I bestow the supreme devotion and affection of a divine spirit. And say further to my beloved subject that I will function with wisdom and power until the very end, until the last earth struggle is over; I will be true to my personality trust. And I exhort him to survival, not to disappoint me, not to deprive me of the reward of my patient and intense struggle. On the human will our achievement of personality depends. Circle by circle I have patiently ascended this human mind, and I have testimony that I am meeting the approval of the chief of my kind. Circle by circle I am passing on to judgment. I await with pleasure and without apprehension the roll call of destiny; I am prepared to submit all to the tribunals of the Ancients of Days.”
[Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.]
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The Planetary Rebellion
THE problems associated with human existence on Urantia are impossible of understanding without a knowledge of certain great epochs of the past, notably the occurrence and consequences of the planetary rebellion. Although this upheaval did not seriously interfere with the progress of organic evolution, it did markedly modify the course of social evolution and of spiritual development. The entire superphysical history of the planet was profoundly influenced by this devastating calamity.
1. The Caligastia Betrayal
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For three hundred thousand years Caligastia had been in charge of Urantia when Satan, Lucifer’s assistant, made one of his periodic inspection calls. And when Satan arrived on the planet, his appearance in no way resembled your caricatures of his nefarious majesty. He was, and still is, a Lanonandek Son of great brilliance. “And no marvel, for Satan himself is a brilliant creature of light.”
In the course of this inspection Satan informed Caligastia of Lucifer’s then proposed “Declaration of Liberty,” and as we now know, the Prince agreed to betray the planet upon the announcement of the rebellion. The loyal universe personalities look with peculiar disdain upon Prince Caligastia because of this premeditated betrayal of trust. The Creator Son voiced this contempt when he said: “You are like your leader, Lucifer, and you have sinfully perpetuated his iniquity. He was a falsifier from the beginning of his self-exaltation because he abode not in the truth.”
In all the administrative work of a local universe no high trust is deemed more sacred than that reposed in a Planetary Prince who assumes responsibility for the welfare and guidance of the evolving mortals on a newly inhabited world. And of all forms of evil, none are more destructive of personality status than betrayal of trust and disloyalty to one’s confiding friends. In committing this deliberate sin, Caligastia so completely distorted his personality that his mind has never since been able fully to regain its equilibrium.
There are many ways of looking at sin, but from the universe philosophic viewpoint sin is the attitude of a personality who is knowingly resisting cosmic reality. Error might be regarded as a misconception or distortion of reality. Evil is a partial realization of, or maladjustment to, universe realities. But sin is a purposeful resistance to divine reality—a conscious choosing to oppose spiritual progress—while iniquity consists in an open and persistent defiance of recognized reality and signifies such a degree of personality disintegration as to border on cosmic insanity.
Error suggests lack of intellectual keenness; evil, deficiency of wisdom; sin, abject spiritual poverty; but iniquity is indicative of vanishing personality control.
And when sin has so many times been chosen and so often been repeated, it may become habitual. Habitual sinners can easily become iniquitous, become wholehearted rebels against the universe and all of its divine realities. While all manner of sins may be forgiven, we doubt whether the established iniquiter would ever sincerely experience sorrow for his misdeeds or accept forgiveness for his sins.
2. The Outbreak of Rebellion
Shortly after Satan’s inspection and when the planetary administration was on the eve of the realization of great things on Urantia, one day, midwinter of the northern continents, Caligastia held a prolonged conference with his associate, Daligastia, after which the latter called the ten councils of Urantia in session extraordinary. This assembly was opened with the statement that Prince Caligastia was about to proclaim himself absolute sovereign of Urantia and demanded that all administrative groups abdicate by resigning all of their functions and powers into the hands of Daligastia as trustee, pending the reorganization of the planetary government and the subsequent redistribution of these offices of administrative authority.
The presentation of this astounding demand was followed by the masterly appeal of Van, chairman of the supreme council of co-ordination. This distinguished administrator and able jurist branded the proposed course of Caligastia as an act bordering on planetary rebellion and appealed to his conferees to abstain from all participation until an appeal could be taken to Lucifer, the System Sovereign of Satania; and he won the support of the entire staff. Accordingly, appeal was taken to Jerusem, and forthwith came back the orders designating Caligastia as supreme sovereign on Urantia and commanding absolute and unquestioning allegiance to his mandates. And it was in reply to this amazing message that the noble Van made his memorable address of seven hours’ length in which he formally drew his indictment of Daligastia, Caligastia, and Lucifer as standing in contempt of the sovereignty of the universe of Nebadon; and he appealed to the Most Highs of Edentia for support and confirmation.
Meantime the system circuits had been severed; Urantia was isolated. Every group of celestial life on the planet found itself suddenly and without warning isolated, utterly cut off from all outside counsel and advice.
Daligastia formally proclaimed Caligastia “God of Urantia and supreme over all.” With this proclamation before them, the issues were clearly drawn; and each group drew off by itself and began deliberations, discussions destined eventually to determine the fate of every superhuman personality on the planet.
Seraphim and cherubim and other celestial beings were involved in the decisions of this bitter struggle, this long and sinful conflict. Many superhuman groups that chanced to be on Urantia at the time of its isolation were detained here and, like the seraphim and their associates, were compelled to choose between sin and righteousness—between the ways of Lucifer and the will of the unseen Father.
For more than seven years this struggle continued. Not until every personality concerned had made a final decision, would or did the authorities of Edentia interfere or intervene. Not until then did Van and his loyal associates receive vindication and release from their prolonged anxiety and intolerable suspense.
3. The Seven Crucial Years
The outbreak of rebellion on Jerusem, the capital of Satania, was broadcast by the Melchizedek council. The emergency Melchizedeks were immediately dispatched to Jerusem, and Gabriel volunteered to act as the representative of the Creator Son, whose authority had been challenged. With this broadcast of the fact of rebellion in Satania the system was isolated, quarantined, from her sister systems. There was “war in heaven,” the headquarters of Satania, and it spread to every planet in the local system.
On Urantia forty members of the corporeal staff of one hundred (including Van) refused to join the insurrection. Many of the staff’s human assistants (modified and otherwise) were also brave and noble defenders of Michael and his universe government. There was a terrible loss of personalities among seraphim and cherubim. Almost one half of the administrator and transition seraphim assigned to the planet joined their leader and Daligastia in support of the cause of Lucifer. Forty thousand one hundred and nineteen of the primary midway creatures joined hands with Caligastia, but the remainder of these beings remained true to their trust.
The traitorous Prince marshaled the disloyal midway creatures and other groups of rebel personalities and organized them to execute his bidding, while Van assembled the loyal midwayers and other faithful groups and began the great battle for the salvation of the planetary staff and other marooned celestial personalities.
During the times of this struggle the loyalists dwelt in an unwalled and poorly protected settlement a few miles to the east of Dalamatia, but their dwellings were guarded day and night by the alert and ever-watchful loyal midway creatures, and they had possession of the priceless tree of life.
Upon the outbreak of rebellion, loyal cherubim and seraphim, with the aid of three faithful midwayers, assumed the custody of the tree of life and permitted only the forty loyalists of the staff and their associated modified mortals to partake of the fruit and leaves of this energy plant. There were fifty-six of these modified Andonite associates of the staff, sixteen of the Andonite attendants of the disloyal staff refusing to go into rebellion with their masters.
Throughout the seven crucial years of the Caligastia rebellion, Van was wholly devoted to the work of ministry to his loyal army of men, midwayers, and angels. The spiritual insight and moral steadfastness which enabled Van to maintain such an unshakable attitude of loyalty to the universe government was the product of clear thinking, wise reasoning, logical judgment, sincere motivation, unselfish purpose, intelligent loyalty, experiential memory, disciplined character, and the unquestioning dedication of his personality to the doing of the will of the Father in Paradise.
This seven years of waiting was a time of heart searching and soul discipline. Such crises in the affairs of a universe demonstrate the tremendous influence of mind as a factor in spiritual choosing. Education, training, and experience are factors in most of the vital decisions of all evolutionary moral creatures. But it is entirely possible for the indwelling spirit to make direct contact with the decision-determining powers of the human personality so as to empower the fully consecrated will of the creature to perform amazing acts of loyal devotion to the will and the way of the Father in Paradise. And this is just what occurred in the experience of Amadon, the modified human associate of Van.
Amadon is the outstanding human hero of the Lucifer rebellion. This male descendant of Andon and Fonta was one of the one hundred who contributed life plasm to the Prince’s staff, and ever since that event he had been attached to Van as his associate and human assistant. Amadon elected to stand with his chief throughout the long and trying struggle. And it was an inspiring sight to behold this child of the evolutionary races standing unmoved by the sophistries of Daligastia while throughout the seven-year struggle he and his loyal associates resisted with unyielding fortitude all of the deceptive teachings of the brilliant Caligastia.
Caligastia, with a maximum of intelligence and a vast experience in universe affairs, went astray—embraced sin. Amadon, with a minimum of intelligence and utterly devoid of universe experience, remained steadfast in the service of the universe and in loyalty to his associate. Van utilized both mind and spirit in a magnificent and effective combination of intellectual determination and spiritual insight, thereby achieving an experiential level of personality realization of the highest attainable order. Mind and spirit, when fully united, are potential for the creation of superhuman values, even morontia realities.
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There is no end to the recital of the stirring events of these tragic days. But at last the final decision of the last personality was made, and then, but only then, did a Most High of Edentia arrive with the emergency Melchizedeks to seize authority on Urantia. The Caligastia panoramic reign-records on Jerusem were obliterated, and the probationary era of planetary rehabilitation was inaugurated.
4. The Caligastia One Hundred after Rebellion
When the final roll was called, the corporeal members of the Prince’s staff were found to have aligned themselves as follows: Van and his entire court of co-ordination had remained loyal. Ang and three members of the food council had survived. The board of animal husbandry were all swept into rebellion as were all of the animal-conquest advisers. Fad and five members of the educational faculty were saved. Nod and all of the commission on industry and trade joined Caligastia. Hap and the entire college of revealed religion remained loyal with Van and his noble band. Lut and the whole board of health were lost. The council of art and science remained loyal in its entirety, but Tut and the commission on tribal government all went astray. Thus were forty out of the one hundred saved, later to be transferred to Jerusem, where they resumed their Paradise journey.
The sixty members of the planetary staff who went into rebellion chose Nod as their leader. They worked wholeheartedly for the rebel Prince but soon discovered that they were deprived of the sustenance of the system life circuits. They awakened to the fact that they had been degraded to the status of mortal beings. They were indeed superhuman but, at the same time, material and mortal. In an effort to increase their numbers, Daligastia ordered immediate resort to sexual reproduction, knowing full well that the original sixty and their forty-four modified Andonite associates were doomed to suffer extinction by death, sooner or later. After the fall of Dalamatia the disloyal staff migrated to the north and the east. Their descendants were long known as the Nodites, and their dwelling place as “the land of Nod.”
The presence of these extraordinary supermen and superwomen, stranded by rebellion and presently mating with the sons and daughters of earth, easily gave origin to those traditional stories of the gods coming down to mate with mortals. And thus originated the thousand and one legends of a mythical nature, but founded on the facts of the postrebellion days, which later found a place in the folk tales and traditions of the various peoples whose ancestors had participated in these contacts with the Nodites and their descendants.
The staff rebels, deprived of spiritual sustenance, eventually died a natural death. And much of the subsequent idolatry of the human races grew out of the desire to perpetuate the memory of these highly honored beings of the days of Caligastia.
When the staff of one hundred came to Urantia, they were temporarily detached from their Thought Adjusters. Immediately upon the arrival of the Melchizedek receivers the loyal personalities (except Van) were returned to Jerusem and were reunited with their waiting Adjusters. We know not the fate of the sixty staff rebels; their Adjusters still tarry on Jerusem. Matters will undoubtedly rest as they now are until the entire Lucifer rebellion is finally adjudicated and the fate of all participants decreed.
It was very difficult for such beings as angels and midwayers to conceive of brilliant and trusted rulers like Caligastia and Daligastia going astray—committing traitorous sin. Those beings who fell into sin—they did not deliberately or premeditatedly enter upon rebellion—were misled by their superiors, deceived by their trusted leaders. It was likewise easy to win the support of the primitive-minded evolutionary mortals.
The vast majority of all human and superhuman beings who were victims of the Lucifer rebellion on Jerusem and the various misled planets have long since heartily repented of their folly; and we truly believe that all such sincere penitents will in some manner be rehabilitated and restored to some phase of universe service when the Ancients of Days finally complete the adjudication of the affairs of the Satania rebellion, which they have so recently begun.
5. Immediate Results of Rebellion
Great confusion reigned in Dalamatia and thereabout for almost fifty years after the instigation of rebellion. The complete and radical reorganization of the whole world was attempted; revolution displaced evolution as the policy of cultural advancement and racial improvement. Among the superior and partially trained sojourners in and near Dalamatia there appeared a sudden advancement in cultural status, but when these new and radical methods were attempted on the outlying peoples, indescribable confusion and racial pandemonium was the immediate result. Liberty was quickly translated into license by the half-evolved primitive men of those days.
Very soon after the rebellion the entire staff of sedition were engaged in energetic defense of the city against the hordes of semisavages who besieged its walls as a result of the doctrines of liberty which had been prematurely taught them. And years before the beautiful headquarters went down beneath the southern waves, the misled and mistaught tribes of the Dalamatia hinterland had already swept down in semisavage assault on the splendid city, driving the secession staff and their associates northward.
The Caligastia scheme for the immediate reconstruction of human society in accordance with his ideas of individual freedom and group liberties, proved a swift and more or less complete failure. Society quickly sank back to its old biologic level, and the forward struggle began all over, starting not very far in advance of where it was at the beginning of the Caligastia regime, this upheaval having left the world in confusion worse confounded.
One hundred and sixty-two years after the rebellion a tidal wave swept up over Dalamatia, and the planetary headquarters sank beneath the waters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge until almost every vestige of the noble culture of those splendid ages had been obliterated.
When the first capital of the world was engulfed, it harbored only the lowest types of the Sangik races of Urantia, renegades who had already converted the Father’s temple into a shrine dedicated to Nog, the false god of light and fire.
6. Van—The Steadfast
The followers of Van early withdrew to the highlands west of India, where they were exempt from attacks by the confused races of the lowlands, and from which place of retirement they planned for the rehabilitation of the world as their early Badonite predecessors had once all unwittingly worked for the welfare of mankind just before the days of the birth of the Sangik tribes.
Before the arrival of the Melchizedek receivers, Van placed the administration of human affairs in the hands of ten commissions of four each, groups identical with those of the Prince’s regime. The senior resident Life Carriers assumed temporary leadership of this council of forty, which functioned throughout the seven years of waiting. Similar groups of Amadonites assumed these responsibilities when the thirty-nine loyal staff members returned to Jerusem.
These Amadonites were derived from the group of 144 loyal Andonites to which Amadon belonged, and who have become known by his name. This group comprised thirty-nine men and one hundred and five women. Fifty-six of this number were of immortality status, and all (except Amadon) were translated along with the loyal members of the staff. The remainder of this noble band continued on earth to the end of their mortal days under the leadership of Van and Amadon. They were the biologic leaven which multiplied and continued to furnish leadership for the world down through the long dark ages of the postrebellion era.
Van was left on Urantia until the time of Adam, remaining as titular head of all superhuman personalities functioning on the planet. He and Amadon were sustained by the technique of the tree of life in conjunction with the specialized life ministry of the Melchizedeks for over one hundred and fifty thousand years.
The affairs of Urantia were for a long time administered by a council of planetary receivers, twelve Melchizedeks, confirmed by the mandate of the senior constellation ruler, the Most High Father of Norlatiadek. Associated with the Melchizedek receivers was an advisory council consisting of: one of the loyal aids of the fallen Prince, the two resident Life Carriers, a Trinitized Son in apprenticeship training, a volunteer Teacher Son, a Brilliant Evening Star of Avalon (periodically), the chiefs of seraphim and cherubim, advisers from two neighboring planets, the director general of subordinate angelic life, and Van, the commander in chief of the midway creatures. And thus was Urantia governed and administered until the arrival of Adam. It is not strange that the courageous and loyal Van was assigned a place on the council of planetary receivers which for so long administered the affairs of Urantia.
The twelve Melchizedek receivers of Urantia did heroic work. They preserved the remnants of civilization, and their planetary policies were faithfully executed by Van. Within one thousand years after the rebellion he had more than three hundred and fifty advanced groups scattered abroad in the world. These outposts of civilization consisted largely of the descendants of the loyal Andonites slightly admixed with the Sangik races, particularly the blue men, and with the Nodites.
Notwithstanding the terrible setback of rebellion there were many good strains of biologic promise on earth. Under the supervision of the Melchizedek receivers, Van and Amadon continued the work of fostering the natural evolution of the human race, carrying forward the physical evolution of man until it reached that culminating attainment which warranted the dispatch of a Material Son and Daughter to Urantia.
Van and Amadon remained on earth until shortly after the arrival of Adam and Eve. Some years thereafter they were translated to Jerusem, where Van was reunited with his waiting Adjuster. Van now serves in behalf of Urantia while awaiting the order to go forward on the long, long trail to Paradise perfection and the unrevealed destiny of the assembling Corps of Mortal Finality.
It should be recorded that, when Van appealed to the Most Highs of Edentia after Lucifer had sustained Caligastia on Urantia, the Constellation Fathers dispatched an immediate decision sustaining Van on every point of his contention. This verdict failed to reach him because the planetary circuits of communication were severed while it was in transit. Only recently was this actual ruling discovered lodged in the possession of a relay energy transmitter where it had been marooned ever since the isolation of Urantia. Without this discovery, made as the result of the investigations of the Urantia midwayers, the release of this decision would have awaited the restoration of Urantia to the constellation circuits. And this apparent accident of interplanetary communication was possible because energy transmitters can receive and transmit intelligence, but they cannot initiate communication.
The technical status of Van on the legal records of Satania was not actually and finally settled until this ruling of the Edentia Fathers was recorded on Jerusem.
7. Remote Repercussions of Sin
The personal (centripetal) consequences of the creature’s willful and persistent rejection of light are both inevitable and individual and are of concern only to Deity and to that personal creature. Such a soul-destroying harvest of iniquity is the inner reaping of the iniquitous will creature.
But not so with the external repercussions of sin: The impersonal (centrifugal) consequences of embraced sin are both inevitable and collective, being of concern to every creature functioning within the affect-range of such events.
By fifty thousand years after the collapse of the planetary administration, earthly affairs were so disorganized and retarded that the human race had gained very little over the general evolutionary status existing at the time of Caligastia’s arrival three hundred and fifty thousand years previously. In certain respects progress had been made; in other directions much ground had been lost.
Sin is never purely local in its effects. The administrative sectors of the universes are organismal; the plight of one personality must to a certain extent be shared by all. Sin, being an attitude of the person toward reality, is destined to exhibit its inherent negativistic harvest upon any and all related levels of universe values. But the full consequences of erroneous thinking, evil-doing, or sinful planning are experienced only on the level of actual performance. The transgression of universe law may be fatal in the physical realm without seriously involving the mind or impairing the spiritual experience. Sin is fraught with fatal consequences to personality survival only when it is the attitude of the whole being, when it stands for the choosing of the mind and the willing of the soul.
Evil and sin visit their consequences in material and social realms and may sometimes even retard spiritual progress on certain levels of universe reality, but never does the sin of any being rob another of the realization of the divine right of personality survival. Eternal survival can be jeopardized only by the decisions of the mind and the choice of the soul of the individual himself.
Sin on Urantia did very little to delay biologic evolution, but it did operate to deprive the mortal races of the full benefit of the Adamic inheritance. Sin enormously retards intellectual development, moral growth, social progress, and mass spiritual attainment. But it does not prevent the highest spiritual achievement by any individual who chooses to know God and sincerely do his divine will.
Caligastia rebelled, Adam and Eve did default, but no mortal subsequently born on Urantia has suffered in his personal spiritual experience because of these blunders. Every mortal born on Urantia since Caligastia’s rebellion has been in some manner time-penalized, but the future welfare of such souls has never been in the least eternity-jeopardized. No person is ever made to suffer vital spiritual deprivation because of the sin of another. Sin is wholly personal as to moral guilt or spiritual consequences, notwithstanding its far-flung repercussions in administrative, intellectual, and social domains.
While we cannot fathom the wisdom that permits such catastrophes, we can always discern the beneficial outworking of these local disturbances as they are reflected out upon the universe at large.
8. The Human Hero of the Rebellion
The Lucifer rebellion was withstood by many courageous beings on the various worlds of Satania; but the records of Salvington portray Amadon as the outstanding character of the entire system in his glorious rejection of the flood tides of sedition and in his unswerving devotion to Van—they stood together unmoved in their loyalty to the supremacy of the invisible Father and his Son Michael.
At the time of these momentous transactions I was stationed on Edentia, and I am still conscious of the exhilaration I experienced as I perused the Salvington broadcasts which told from day to day of the unbelievable steadfastness, the transcendent devotion, and the exquisite loyalty of this onetime semisavage springing from the experimental and original stock of the Andonic race.
From Edentia up through Salvington and even on to Uversa, for seven long years the first inquiry of all subordinate celestial life regarding the Satania rebellion, ever and always, was: “What of Amadon of Urantia, does he still stand unmoved?”
If the Lucifer rebellion has handicapped the local system and its fallen worlds, if the loss of this Son and his misled associates has temporarily hampered the progress of the constellation of Norlatiadek, then weigh the effect of the far-flung presentation of the inspiring performance of this one child of nature and his determined band of 143 comrades in standing steadfast for the higher concepts of universe management and administration in the face of such tremendous and adverse pressure exerted by his disloyal superiors. And let me assure you, this has already done more good in the universe of Nebadon and the superuniverse of Orvonton than can ever be outweighed by the sum total of all the evil and sorrow of the Lucifer rebellion.
And all this is a beautifully touching and superbly magnificent illumination of the wisdom of the Father’s universal plan for mobilizing the Corps of Mortal Finality on Paradise and for recruiting this vast group of mysterious servants of the future largely from the common clay of the mortals of ascending progression—just such mortals as the impregnable Amadon.
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Inside Windows
An In-Depth Look into the Win32 Portable Executable File Format, Part 1
Matt Pietrek
From the February 2002 issue of MSDN Magazine
This article assumes you're familiar with C++ and Win32
Level of Difficulty 1 2 3
Download the code for this article: PE.exe (98KB)
SUMMARY A good understanding of the Portable Executable (PE) file format leads to a good understanding of the operating system. If you know what's in your DLLs and EXEs, you'll be a more knowledgeable programmer. This article, the first of a two-part series, looks at the changes to the PE format that have occurred over the last few years, along with an overview of the format itself.
After this update, the author discusses how the PE format fits into applications written for .NET, PE file sections, RVAs, the DataDirectory, and the importing of functions. An appendix includes lists of the relevant image header structures and their descriptions.
long time ago, in a galaxy far away, I wrote one of my first articles for Microsoft Systems Journal (now MSDN® Magazine). The article, "Peering Inside the PE: A Tour of the Win32 Portable Executable File Format," turned out to be more popular than I had expected. To this day, I still hear from people (even within Microsoft) who use that article, which is still available from the MSDN Library. Unfortunately, the problem with articles is that they're static. The world of Win32® has changed quite a bit in the intervening years, and the article is severely dated. I'll remedy that situation in a two-part article starting this month.
You might be wondering why you should care about the executable file format. The answer is the same now as it was then: an operating system's executable format and data structures reveal quite a bit about the underlying operating system. By understanding what's in your EXEs and DLLs, you'll find that you've become a better programmer all around.
Sure, you could learn a lot of what I'll tell you by reading the Microsoft specification. However, like most specs, it sacrifices readability for completeness. My focus in this article will be to explain the most relevant parts of the story, while filling in the hows and whys that don't fit neatly into a formal specification. In addition, I have some goodies in this article that don't seem to appear in any official Microsoft documentation.
Let me give you just a few examples of what has changed since I wrote the article in 1994. Since 16-bit Windows® is history, there's no need to compare and contrast the format to the Win16 New Executable format. Another welcome departure from the scene is Win32s®. This was the abomination that ran Win32 binaries very shakily atop Windows 3.1.
Back then, Windows 95 (codenamed "Chicago" at the time) wasn't even released. Windows NT® was still at version 3.5, and the linker gurus at Microsoft hadn't yet started getting aggressive with their optimizations. However, there were MIPS and DEC Alpha implementations of Windows NT that added to the story.
And what about all the new things that have come along since that article? 64-bit Windows introduces its own variation of the Portable Executable (PE) format. Windows CE adds all sorts of new processor types. Optimizations such as delay loading of DLLs, section merging, and binding were still over the horizon. There are many new things to shoehorn into the story.
And let's not forget about Microsoft® .NET. Where does it fit in? To the operating system, .NET executables are just plain old Win32 executable files. However, the .NET runtime recognizes data within these executable files as the metadata and intermediate language that are so central to .NET. In this article, I'll knock on the door of the .NET metadata format, but save a thorough survey of its full splendor for a subsequent article.
And if all these additions and subtractions to the world of Win32 weren't enough justification to remake the article with modern day special effects, there are also errors in the original piece that make me cringe. For example, my description of Thread Local Storage (TLS) support was way out in left field. Likewise, my description of the date/time stamp DWORD used throughout the file format is accurate only if you live in the Pacific time zone!
In addition, many things that were true then are incorrect now. I had stated that the .rdata section wasn't really used for anything important. Today, it certainly is. I also said that the .idata section is a read/write section, which has been found to be most untrue by people trying to do API interception today.
Along with a complete update of the PE format story in this article, I've also overhauled the PEDUMP program, which displays the contents of PE files. PEDUMP can be compiled and run on both the x86 and IA-64 platforms, and can dump both 32 and 64-bit PE files. Most importantly, full source code for PEDUMP is available for download fropm the link at the top of this article, so you have a working example of the concepts and data structures described here.
Overview of the PE File Format
Microsoft introduced the PE File format, more commonly known as the PE format, as part of the original Win32 specifications. However, PE files are derived from the earlier Common Object File Format (COFF) found on VAX/VMS. This makes sense since much of the original Windows NT team came from Digital Equipment Corporation. It was natural for these developers to use existing code to quickly bootstrap the new Windows NT platform.
The term "Portable Executable" was chosen because the intent was to have a common file format for all flavors of Windows, on all supported CPUs. To a large extent, this goal has been achieved with the same format used on Windows NT and descendants, Windows 95 and descendants, and Windows CE.
OBJ files emitted by Microsoft compilers use the COFF format. You can get an idea of how old the COFF format is by looking at some of its fields, which use octal encoding! COFF OBJ files have many data structures and enumerations in common with PE files, and I'll mention some of them as I go along.
The addition of 64-bit Windows required just a few modifications to the PE format. This new format is called PE32+. No new fields were added, and only one field in the PE format was deleted. The remaining changes are simply the widening of certain fields from 32 bits to 64 bits. In most of these cases, you can write code that simply works with both 32 and 64-bit PE files. The Windows header files have the magic pixie dust to make the differences invisible to most C++-based code.
The distinction between EXE and DLL files is entirely one of semantics. They both use the exact same PE format. The only difference is a single bit that indicates if the file should be treated as an EXE or as a DLL. Even the DLL file extension is artificial. You can have DLLs with entirely different extensions—for instance .OCX controls and Control Panel applets (.CPL files) are DLLs.
A very handy aspect of PE files is that the data structures on disk are the same data structures used in memory. Loading an executable into memory (for example, by calling LoadLibrary) is primarily a matter of mapping certain ranges of a PE file into the address space. Thus, a data structure like the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS (which I'll examine later) is identical on disk and in memory. The key point is that if you know how to find something in a PE file, you can almost certainly find the same information when the file is loaded in memory.
It's important to note that PE files are not just mapped into memory as a single memory-mapped file. Instead, the Windows loader looks at the PE file and decides what portions of the file to map in. This mapping is consistent in that higher offsets in the file correspond to higher memory addresses when mapped into memory. The offset of an item in the disk file may differ from its offset once loaded into memory. However, all the information is present to allow you to make the translation from disk offset to memory offset (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 Offsets
When PE files are loaded into memory via the Windows loader, the in-memory version is known as a module. The starting address where the file mapping begins is called an HMODULE. This is a point worth remembering: given an HMODULE, you know what data structure to expect at that address, and you can use that knowledge to find all the other data structures in memory. This powerful capability can be exploited for other purposes such as API interception. (To be completely accurate, an HMODULE isn't the same as the load address under Windows CE, but that's a story for yet another day.)
A module in memory represents all the code, data, and resources from an executable file that is needed by a process. Other parts of a PE file may be read, but not mapped in (for instance, relocations). Some parts may not be mapped in at all, for example, when debug information is placed at the end of the file. A field in the PE header tells the system how much memory needs to be set aside for mapping the executable into memory. Data that won't be mapped in is placed at the end of the file, past any parts that will be mapped in.
The central location where the PE format (as well as COFF files) is described is WINNT.H. Within this header file, you'll find nearly every structure definition, enumeration, and #define needed to work with PE files or the equivalent structures in memory. Sure, there is documentation elsewhere. MSDN has the "Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification," for instance (see the October 2001 MSDN CD under Specifications). But WINNT.H is the final word on what PE files look like.
There are many tools for examining PE files. Among them are Dumpbin from Visual Studio, and Depends from the Platform SDK. I particularly like Depends because it has a very succinct way of examining a file's imports and exports. A great free PE viewer is PEBrowse Professional, from Smidgeonsoft (http://www.smidgeonsoft.com). The PEDUMP program included with this article is also very comprehensive, and does almost everything Dumpbin does.
From an API standpoint, the primary mechanism provided by Microsoft for reading and modifying PE files is IMAGEHLP.DLL.
Before I start looking at the specifics of PE files, it's worthwhile to first review a few basic concepts that thread their way through the entire subject of PE files. In the following sections, I will discuss PE file sections, relative virtual addresses (RVAs), the data directory, and how functions are imported.
PE File Sections
A PE file section represents code or data of some sort. While code is just code, there are multiple types of data. Besides read/write program data (such as global variables), other types of data in sections include API import and export tables, resources, and relocations. Each section has its own set of in-memory attributes, including whether the section contains code, whether it's read-only or read/write, and whether the data in the section is shared between all processes using the executable.
Generally speaking, all the code or data in a section is logically related in some way. At a minimum, there are usually at least two sections in a PE file: one for code, the other for data. Commonly, there's at least one other type of data section in a PE file. I'll look at the various kinds of sections in Part 2 of this article next month.
Each section has a distinct name. This name is intended to convey the purpose of the section. For example, a section called .rdata indicates a read-only data section. Section names are used solely for the benefit of humans, and are insignificant to the operating system. A section named FOOBAR is just as valid as a section called .text. Microsoft typically prefixes their section names with a period, but it's not a requirement. For years, the Borland linker used section names like CODE and DATA.
While compilers have a standard set of sections that they generate, there's nothing magical about them. You can create and name your own sections, and the linker happily includes them in the executable. In Visual C++, you can tell the compiler to insert code or data into a section that you name with #pragma statements. For instance, the statement
#pragma data_seg( "MY_DATA" )
causes all data emitted by Visual C++ to go into a section called MY_DATA, rather than the default .data section. Most programs are fine using the default sections emitted by the compiler, but occasionally you may have funky requirements which necessitate putting code or data into a separate section.
Sections don't spring fully formed from the linker; rather, they start out in OBJ files, usually placed there by the compiler. The linker's job is to combine all the required sections from OBJ files and libraries into the appropriate final section in the PE file. For example, each OBJ file in your project probably has at least a .text section, which contains code. The linker takes all the sections named .text from the various OBJ files and combines them into a single .text section in the PE file. Likewise, all the sections named .data from the various OBJs are combined into a single .data section in the PE file. Code and data from .LIB files are also typically included in an executable, but that subject is outside the scope of this article.
There is a rather complete set of rules that linkers follow to decide which sections to combine and how. I gave an introduction to the linker algorithms in the July 1997 Under The Hood column in MSJ. A section in an OBJ file may be intended for the linker's use, and not make it into the final executable. A section like this would be intended for the compiler to pass information to the linker.
Sections have two alignment values, one within the disk file and the other in memory. The PE file header specifies both of these values, which can differ. Each section starts at an offset that's some multiple of the alignment value. For instance, in the PE file, a typical alignment would be 0x200. Thus, every section begins at a file offset that's a multiple of 0x200.
Once mapped into memory, sections always start on at least a page boundary. That is, when a PE section is mapped into memory, the first byte of each section corresponds to a memory page. On x86 CPUs, pages are 4KB aligned, while on the IA-64, they're 8KB aligned. The following code shows a snippet of PEDUMP output for the .text and .data section of the Windows XP KERNEL32.DLL.
Section Table
01 .text VirtSize: 00074658 VirtAddr: 00001000
raw data offs: 00000400 raw data size: 00074800
02 .data VirtSize: 000028CA VirtAddr: 00076000
raw data offs: 00074C00 raw data size: 00002400
The .text section is at offset 0x400 in the PE file and will be 0x1000 bytes above the load address of KERNEL32 in memory. Likewise, the .data section is at file offset 0x74C00 and will be 0x76000 bytes above KERNEL32's load address in memory.
It's possible to create PE files in which the sections start at the same offset in the file as they start from the load address in memory. This makes for larger executables, but can speed loading under Windows 9x or Windows Me. The default /OPT:WIN98 linker option (introduced in Visual Studio 6.0) causes PE files to be created this way. In Visual Studio® .NET, the linker may or may not use /OPT:NOWIN98, depending on whether the file is small enough.
An interesting linker feature is the ability to merge sections. If two sections have similar, compatible attributes, they can usually be combined into a single section at link time. This is done via the linker /merge switch. For instance, the following linker option combines the .rdata and .text sections into a single section called .text:
/MERGE:.rdata=.text
The advantage to merging sections is that it saves space, both on disk and in memory. At a minimum, each section occupies one page in memory. If you can reduce the number of sections in an executable from four to three, there's a decent chance you'll use one less page of memory. Of course, this depends on whether the unused space at the end of the two merged sections adds up to a page.
Things can get interesting when you're merging sections, as there are no hard and fast rules as to what's allowed. For example, it's OK to merge .rdata into .text, but you shouldn't merge .rsrc, .reloc, or .pdata into other sections. Prior to Visual Studio .NET, you could merge .idata into other sections. In Visual Studio .NET, this is not allowed, but the linker often merges parts of the .idata into other sections, such as .rdata, when doing a release build.
Since portions of the imports data are written to by the Windows loader when they are loaded into memory, you might wonder how they can be put in a read-only section. This situation works because at load time the system can temporarily set the attributes of the pages containing the imports data to read/write. Once the imports table is initialized, the pages are then set back to their original protection attributes.
Relative Virtual Addresses
In an executable file, there are many places where an in-memory address needs to be specified. For instance, the address of a global variable is needed when referencing it. PE files can load just about anywhere in the process address space. While they do have a preferred load address, you can't rely on the executable file actually loading there. For this reason, it's important to have some way of specifying addresses that are independent of where the executable file loads.
To avoid having hardcoded memory addresses in PE files, RVAs are used. An RVA is simply an offset in memory, relative to where the PE file was loaded. For instance, consider an EXE file loaded at address 0x400000, with its code section at address 0x401000. The RVA of the code section would be:
(target address) 0x401000 - (load address)0x400000 = (RVA)0x1000.
To convert an RVA to an actual address, simply reverse the process: add the RVA to the actual load address to find the actual memory address. Incidentally, the actual memory address is called a Virtual Address (VA) in PE parlance. Another way to think of a VA is that it's an RVA with the preferred load address added in. Don't forget the earlier point I made that a load address is the same as the HMODULE.
Want to go spelunking through some arbitrary DLL's data structures in memory? Here's how. Call GetModuleHandle with the name of the DLL. The HMODULE that's returned is just a load address; you can apply your knowledge of the PE file structures to find anything you want within the module.
The Data Directory
There are many data structures within executable files that need to be quickly located. Some obvious examples are the imports, exports, resources, and base relocations. All of these well-known data structures are found in a consistent manner, and the location is known as the DataDirectory.
The DataDirectory is an array of 16 structures. Each array entry has a predefined meaning for what it refers to. The IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_ xxx #defines are array indexes into the DataDirectory (from 0 to 15). Figure 2 describes what each of the IMAGE_DATA_DIRECTORY_xxx values refers to. A more detailed description of many of the pointed-to data structures will be included in Part 2 of this article.
Importing Functions
When you use code or data from another DLL, you're importing it. When any PE file loads, one of the jobs of the Windows loader is to locate all the imported functions and data and make those addresses available to the file being loaded. I'll save the detailed discussion of data structures used to accomplish this for Part 2 of this article, but it's worth going over the concepts here at a high level.
When you link directly against the code and data of another DLL, you're implicitly linking against the DLL. You don't have to do anything to make the addresses of the imported APIs available to your code. The loader takes care of it all. The alternative is explicit linking. This means explicitly making sure that the target DLL is loaded and then looking up the address of the APIs. This is almost always done via the LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress APIs.
When you implicitly link against an API, LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress-like code still executes, but the loader does it for you automatically. The loader also ensures that any additional DLLs needed by the PE file being loaded are also loaded. For instance, every normal program created with Visual C++® links against KERNEL32.DLL. KERNEL32.DLL in turn imports functions from NTDLL.DLL. Likewise, if you import from GDI32.DLL, it will have dependencies on the USER32, ADVAPI32, NTDLL, and KERNEL32 DLLs, which the loader makes sure are loaded and all imports resolved. (Visual Basic 6.0 and the Microsoft .NET executables directly link against a different DLL than KERNEL32, but the same principles apply.)
When implicitly linking, the resolution process for the main EXE file and all its dependent DLLs occurs when the program first starts. If there are any problems (for example, a referenced DLL that can't be found), the process is aborted.
Visual C++ 6.0 added the delayload feature, which is a hybrid between implicit linking and explicit linking. When you delayload against a DLL, the linker emits something that looks very similar to the data for a regular imported DLL. However, the operating system ignores this data. Instead, the first time a call to one of the delayloaded APIs occurs, special stubs added by the linker cause the DLL to be loaded (if it's not already in memory), followed by a call to GetProcAddress to locate the called API. Additional magic makes it so that subsequent calls to the API are just as efficient as if the API had been imported normally.
Within a PE file, there's an array of data structures, one per imported DLL. Each of these structures gives the name of the imported DLL and points to an array of function pointers. The array of function pointers is known as the import address table (IAT). Each imported API has its own reserved spot in the IAT where the address of the imported function is written by the Windows loader. This last point is particularly important: once a module is loaded, the IAT contains the address that is invoked when calling imported APIs.
The beauty of the IAT is that there's just one place in a PE file where an imported API's address is stored. No matter how many source files you scatter calls to a given API through, all the calls go through the same function pointer in the IAT.
Let's examine what the call to an imported API looks like. There are two cases to consider: the efficient way and inefficient way. In the best case, a call to an imported API looks like this:
CALL DWORD PTR [0x00405030]
If you're not familiar with x86 assembly language, this is a call through a function pointer. Whatever DWORD-sized value is at 0x405030 is where the CALL instruction will send control. In the previous example, address 0x405030 lies within the IAT.
The less efficient call to an imported API looks like this:
CALL 0x0040100C
0x0040100C:
JMP DWORD PTR [0x00405030]
In this situation, the CALL transfers control to a small stub. The stub is a JMP to the address whose value is at 0x405030. Again, remember that 0x405030 is an entry within the IAT. In a nutshell, the less efficient imported API call uses five bytes of additional code, and takes longer to execute because of the extra JMP.
You're probably wondering why the less efficient method would ever be used. There's a good explanation. Left to its own devices, the compiler can't distinguish between imported API calls and ordinary functions within the same module. As such, the compiler emits a CALL instruction of the form
CALL XXXXXXXX
where XXXXXXXX is an actual code address that will be filled in by the linker later. Note that this last CALL instruction isn't through a function pointer. Rather, it's an actual code address. To keep the cosmic karma in balance, the linker needs to have a chunk of code to substitute for XXXXXXXX. The simplest way to do this is to make the call point to a JMP stub, like you just saw.
Where does the JMP stub come from? Surprisingly, it comes from the import library for the imported function. If you were to examine an import library, and examine the code associated with the imported API name, you'd see that it's a JMP stub like the one just shown. What this means is that by default, in the absence of any intervention, imported API calls will use the less efficient form.
Logically, the next question to ask is how to get the optimized form. The answer comes in the form of a hint you give to the compiler. The __declspec(dllimport) function modifier tells the compiler that the function resides in another DLL and that the compiler should generate this instruction
CALL DWORD PTR [XXXXXXXX]
rather than this one:
In addition, the compiler emits information telling the linker to resolve the function pointer portion of the instruction to a symbol named __imp_functionname. For instance, if you were calling MyFunction, the symbol name would be __imp_MyFunction. Looking in an import library, you'll see that in addition to the regular symbol name, there's also a symbol with the __imp__ prefix on it. This __imp__ symbol resolves directly to the IAT entry, rather than to the JMP stub.
So what does this mean in your everyday life? If you're writing exported functions and providing a .H file for them, remember to use the __declspec(dllimport) modifier with the function:
__declspec(dllimport) void Foo(void);
If you look at the Windows system header files, you'll find that they use __declspec(dllimport) for the Windows APIs. It's not easy to see this, but if you search for the DECLSPEC_IMPORT macro defined in WINNT.H, and which is used in files such as WinBase.H, you'll see how __declspec(dllimport) is prepended to the system API declarations.
PE File Structure
Now let's dig into the actual format of PE files. I'll start from the beginning of the file, and describe the data structures that are present in every PE file. Afterwards, I'll describe the more specialized data structures (such as imports or resources) that reside within a PE's sections. All of the data structures that I'll discuss below are defined in WINNT.H, unless otherwise noted.
In many cases, there are matching 32 and 64-bit data structures—for example, IMAGE_NT_HEADERS32 and IMAGE_NT_HEADERS64. These structures are almost always identical, except for some widened fields in the 64-bit versions. If you're trying to write portable code, there are #defines in WINNT.H which select the appropriate 32 or 64-bit structures and alias them to a size-agnostic name (in the previous example, it would be IMAGE_NT_HEADERS). The structure selected depends on which mode you're compiling for (specifically, whether _WIN64 is defined or not). You should only need to use the 32 or 64-bit specific versions of the structures if you're working with a PE file with size characteristics that are different from those of the platform you're compiling for.
The MS-DOS Header
Every PE file begins with a small MS-DOS® executable. The need for this stub executable arose in the early days of Windows, before a significant number of consumers were running it. When executed on a machine without Windows, the program could at least print out a message saying that Windows was required to run the executable.
The first bytes of a PE file begin with the traditional MS-DOS header, called an IMAGE_DOS_HEADER. The only two values of any importance are e_magic and e_lfanew. The e_lfanew field contains the file offset of the PE header. The e_magic field (a WORD) needs to be set to the value 0x5A4D. There's a #define for this value, named IMAGE_DOS_SIGNATURE. In ASCII representation, 0x5A4D is MZ, the initials of Mark Zbikowski, one of the original architects of MS-DOS.
The IMAGE_NT_HEADERS Header
The IMAGE_NT_HEADERS structure is the primary location where specifics of the PE file are stored. Its offset is given by the e_lfanew field in the IMAGE_DOS_HEADER at the beginning of the file. There are actually two versions of the IMAGE_NT_HEADER structure, one for 32-bit executables and the other for 64-bit versions. The differences are so minor that I'll consider them to be the same for the purposes of this discussion. The only correct, Microsoft-approved way of differentiating between the two formats is via the value of the Magic field in the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER (described shortly).
An IMAGE_NT_HEADER is comprised of three fields:
typedef struct _IMAGE_NT_HEADERS {
DWORD Signature;
IMAGE_FILE_HEADER FileHeader;
IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER32 OptionalHeader;
} IMAGE_NT_HEADERS32, *PIMAGE_NT_HEADERS32;
In a valid PE file, the Signature field is set to the value 0x00004550, which in ASCII is "PE00". A #define, IMAGE_NT_SIGNATURE, is defined for this value. The second field, a struct of type IMAGE_FILE_HEADER, predates PE files. It contains some basic information about the file; most importantly, a field describing the size of the optional data that follows it. In PE files, this optional data is very much required, but is still called the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER.
Figure 3 shows the fields of the IMAGE_FILE_HEADER structure, with additional notes for the fields. This structure can also be found at the very beginning of COFF OBJ files. Figure 4 lists the common values of IMAGE_FILE_xxx. Figure 5 shows the members of the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER structure.
The DataDirectory array at the end of the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADERs is the address book for important locations within the executable. Each DataDirectory entry looks like this:
typedef struct _IMAGE_DATA_DIRECTORY {
DWORD VirtualAddress; // RVA of the data
DWORD Size; // Size of the data
The Section Table
Immediately following the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS is the section table. The section table is an array of IMAGE_SECTION_HEADERs structures. An IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER provides information about its associated section, including location, length, and characteristics. Figure 6 contains a description of the IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER fields. The number of IMAGE_SECTION_HEADER structures is given by the IMAGE_NT_HEADERS.FileHeader.NumberOfSections field.
The file alignment of sections in the executable file can have a significant impact on the resulting file size. In Visual Studio 6.0, the linker defaulted to a section alignment of 4KB, unless /OPT:NOWIN98 or the /ALIGN switch was used. The Visual Studio .NET linker, while still defaulting to /OPT:WIN98, determines if the executable is below a certain size and if that is the case uses 0x200-byte alignment.
Another interesting alignment comes from the .NET file specification. It says that .NET executables should have an in-memory alignment of 8KB, rather than the expected 4KB for x86 binaries. This is to ensure that .NET executables built with x86 entry point code can still run under IA-64. If the in-memory section alignment were 4KB, the IA-64 loader wouldn't be able to load the file, since pages are 8KB on 64-bit Windows.
That's it for the headers of PE files. In Part 2 of this article I'll continue the tour of portable executable files by looking at commonly encountered sections. Then I'll describe the major data structures within those sections, including imports, exports, and resources. And finally, I'll go over the source for the updated and vastly improved PEDUMP.
For related articles see:
Part 2 of this series
Peering Inside the PE: A Tour of the Win32 Portable Executable File Format
For background information see:
The Common Object File Format (COFF)
Matt Pietrek is an independent writer, consultant, and trainer. He was the lead architect for Compuware/NuMega's Bounds Checker product line for eight years and has authored three books on Windows system programming. His Web site, at http://www.wheaty.net, has a FAQ page and information on previous columns and articles.
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Green paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017
The government should replace its “deeply flawed and inaccurate” disability benefits assessments with an in-house system – based on the social model – that understands the barriers faced by Deaf and disabled people, according to a disabled people’s organisation.
Inclusion London said the government’s Improving Lives green paper on work, health and disability had missed the chance to base its social security policy on a social model approach and move away from one based on the “discredited” biopsychosocial model.
In its response to the government’s consultation on its green paper, Inclusion London calls on ministers to replace the assessment processes for both employment and support allowance (ESA) and personal independence payment (PIP).
It warns that Deaf and disabled people will be moved further from employment because of the green paper’s failure to reform the “failing” assessment systems, and reverse the imminent cuts to payments to new ESA claimants placed in the work-related activity group (WRAG).
It calls on the government to halt its plans to cut the WRAG payments – due to be implemented next month – and instead carry out an independent review to assess what the impact of the cuts will be, including increased costs to the NHS and social care.
Otherwise, it warns, there is “a strong danger that serious harm could be done to disabled people and their families”.
Inclusion London says the green paper implies that if disabled people “are encouraged to think more positively about work and nudged to change their behaviour they will be able to successfully find and stay in employment, regardless of the effects of living with their impairment”.
But by “overplaying the effectiveness of coercive approaches”, it says, the government’s biopsychosocial approach will move Deaf and disabled people further from the labour market, and cause “considerable and unnecessary suffering”.
And it warns that continuing to target policy on cutting social security spending, regardless of the needs of Deaf and disabled people, will “ultimately waste resources while retrogressing our rights”.
It says the government has “overlooked” the “substantive” barriers to work caused by the lack of independent living support, cuts to mental health services, and “damaging” changes to the Access to Work (AtW) scheme, which have seen “a focus on reducing support”, hostile advisers and a new cap on high-cost packages.
It also warns that the failure to address the social care funding crisis – including the ongoing impact of the closure of the Independent Living Fund – will “unquestionably” lead to the government missing its target of halving the disability employment gap.
Among its recommendations is for the government to set up an independent living taskforce that would develop proposals for a national system of support that was independent of local authorities.
It calls for ministers to reverse the tightening of the eligibility criteria for the mobility component of PIP, which they cut from 50 metres to 20 metres.
And it calls on the Department for Work and Pensions to expand AtW, allowing it to be used by those carrying out voluntary work, and reverse the changes that have “undermined [its] effectiveness”.
Inclusion London also says it is “extremely concerned” about the “damaging effects of linking therapeutic interventions and treatment to employment outcomes”.
It says that both mental health professionals and service-users “have been vocal in their concerns about the dangers of co-locating job/work coaches in health or mental health treatment settings”, with the fear that disabled people will avoid seeking the treatment they need because of their fear of benefit cuts.
It also urges the government to scrap all benefits sanctions, or at least provide an exemption for all disabled people.
It provides 12 case studies from one of its member organisations of disabled people whose mental health has been harmed by discriminatory sanctions, or threats of sanctions, linked to being forced to use DWP’s Universal Jobmatch online job-searching service.
Instead of backing away from such sanctions, the green paper now threatens to impose “mandatory” requirements on those in the ESA support group.
Inclusion London says that any participation in work-focused activity offered to claimants in the support group “must be strictly voluntary”.
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BSF Gets its 1st Woman Combat Officer in the 51 Year History of the Border Security Force
Tanushree Pareek became the first woman combat officer to be commissioned in the 51-year history of the BSF, the country's largest border guarding force.
Pareek (25) also led the passing out parade of 67 trainee officers that was reviewed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the Border Security Force camp at Tekanpur near here.
Pareek, a resident of Rajasthan's Bikaner, is the first woman to join the force in the officer rank after she was selected in the all-India exam conducted by the UPSC in 2014.
The Home Minister himself put the rank stars on the shoulders of Pareek during the piping ceremony.
The force had begun induction of woman officers in 2013.
She will now be posted to command a unit along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab.
While praising the first woman "field officer" of the 2.5-lakh-strong force, Singh said the Centre has chalked out a new roadmap to strengthen border security and it plans to seal Indian borders with Bangladesh and Pakistan.
He added the BSF has built 73 border outposts, out of 76 such border structures constructed in recent times.
Lauding the force raised in 1965, Singh said BSF has changed the rules of engagement at the international borders and now it is a "known entity" in the neighbouring countries.
While paying his tributes to the personnel of the force killed in the line of duty, the minister said government is planning for an effective grievance redressal mechanism in the forces.
"The forces are coming forward with such mechanisms," he said.
He praised the BSF saying it is the only force after the Indian military which operates on land, water and air as it has a dedicated air and water wing apart from foot soldiers.
"BSF is not only the first line of defence but also the first wall of defence," he said.
The trainee officers, who passed out today, have undergone 52-week training in battle craft, intelligence gathering and other border guarding tasks before being commissioned into the force in the entry rank of Assistant Commandant.
Out of 67, 51 are direct entry officers while 16 have joined the officer ranks on promotion.
During his visit to the Tekanpur camp, Singh also watched a demonstration of PAVA shell firing at the Tear Smoke Unit (TSU) of the force.
The shells were prepared at the TSU and sent to Kashmir Valley for security forces as an alternative to pellet guns to control protests and stone pelters.
The BSF is primarily tasked to guard two of the most sensitive Indian frontiers with Pakistan and Bangladesh while it is extensively deployed for conducting anti-Naxal operations and rendering other duties in the internal security domain.
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First things first: "The Copperroof War" appears as a reprint in the current (and, sadly, last) issue of Labyrinth Inhabitant. Go check it out!
Second things second: It's that time of [insert time cycle here], where I look at my list of stories that I ought to finish one of these days, and instead of thinking about ways to finish them, I do a first line meme. I meant to refresh my list at the beginning of the year, but life (read: classes) got in the way. So here's what I ought to be writing, in no particular order.
"The Improbable Library of Asmodeus Foster"
Rosamund Solomon found the body in a footnote on page 217.
Weirdly, I see that the exact page with the body-containing footnote has changed from 216 to 217 and back to 216 (and now back to 217) in various drafts of this story. That's not important. What is important is that the murderer's identity has also changed in each draft, and I'm not really satisfied with any of them. So, back to the sketch pad or whatever.
"The Basilisk and Sophia Kadare"
If, as Sophia Kadare claims, all poems are serpants, the sonnet sequence of Pasiphae Isaac is a basilisk.
Sophia Kadare is a literary critic attempting an interpretation of the famously lethal sonnet sequence of Pasiphae Isaac.
"The Ninety-Nine Houses of Irene Dobrokost"
No first line yet. Hebene Yacob attempts to steal a house from Irene Dobrokost, who owns every abandoned building in the city. Also, ghouls.
"All in a Hot and Copper Sky"
I have written her a thousand letters.
Dolores remembers her lover, Socorro Mariner, the Queen of Mars. The first line keeps changing, as does the format. Is this a diary, or a reminiscence, or an interview, or a letter? And how did everyone get to Mars in the first place?
"The Small Rain Down Can Rain"
"We think there might be some interest," Stephen said, "in a posthumous collection."
Laura travels through time, gathering poems for her sister Daphne's final collection. Someone is following her. Who are they, and what do they want with Daphne? I'm not quite sure.
"There was no King in Israel"
The girl called Requiem follows Levi to the edge of camp.
Post-apocalyptic retelling of the last chapters of Judges. The current draft is missing quite a bit of backstory, but I like what I've got. Now who'd be interested in publishing this...?
"Babel," "Danae," "Actaeon"
Some nights, when I grow weary of lying awake and listening to the incomprehensible murmuring of the world, I leave the city sleeping in its whithered gardens and go to the ruins of the Tower.
He likes the Owl best.
Over the burbling of the expresso machine behind the bakery counter, he hears the dogs.
Three retellings, one Biblical, two from Ovid. One magic realism, one fantasy, one--Lovecraftian? I have first drafts of all of them, and like what I see. Now, who'd be interested in publishing these...?
"The Dead Women of Bajos Court," "The Women of Arcadio Leon," "The Riverland"
Four dead women live in four gray houses at the end of Bajos Court.
My body is a map of places Arcadio Leon has loved.
Sixty-four miles past the Junction, the land becomes a red and vibrant place.
A Bluebeard story, a haunted(?) film strip, and man-eating lions. I've made no significant progress on these three stories since November.
"The Unbinding of Artemis Kale," "The Gardens of Revenant Road," "The Memory of Philippa Lune"
Lady Saraband burst into the tent. "Artemis is pregnant."
After the war, a woman calling herself Gethsemane Armand came into Moses Johnson's cafe and asked about the place at the end of Revenant Road.
They bought the house on Pall Street because it was where Anabeth Bellcross had died.
A murdered escape artist, a war criminal on the run, and a historian who can remember everything except her own life--and happens to be the prime witness in a murder trail. All of these are in the final brush-up and submit stage. Yay!
"Frankincense and Myrrh" [working title]
Balthazar was dead.
Vashti, Melchior's wife, tells us about the final years of the Three Kings. I love the magi, but the current draft of this story is rediculously cheesy. I also need a title.
"Cafe Macondo"
The scanner bipped, an ascending four-note scale of disapproval. "Sorry, ma'am," I said. "This coffee isn't in our system. It's from an alternate dimension."
Interdimensional coffee and the line between wishes and reality. Based on true events. Ready(?) to be typed up and submitted.
"The Reconstitution of [Museum Name]"
At precisely 4:00, Winter closed her pocketwatch and drew her pistol in one fluid motion.
Winter and her followers kidnap an entire museum to reclaim the artifacts that were stolen from her people. Action! Adventure! Archaeology! Missing corpses! Also, clockwork docents.
"Hunger Lake"
The morning they buried our father, Bel found wolf tracks in the ice over Hunger Lake.
A dying woman returns to her childhood home. When a stranger becomes trapped there in a snowstorm, Madeline must confront the truth about her sister's death. I've got to get this one finished and submitted before February. Wish me luck!
"The Butterfly Garden of Eliott Stone" alt, "Eliott Stone, Queen of the Butterflies"
No first line yet. Or rather, too many first lines (and scenes) to narrow down. The Queen's new summer home forces Eliott to leave the house where she has lived since she was fifteen. Little do the villagers know, the fate of the kingdom of butterflies is at stake. Okay, this one's seriously weird.
editing, first lines, writing
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Selected Fiction Online
In the City of Kites and Crows
Palingenesis
What Hands Like Ours Can Do
All in a Hot and Copper Sky
And This is the Song It Sings
The Suicide's Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition
How Many Miles to Babylon?
The Gardens of Landler Abbey
Lessons from a Clockwork Queen
The Celebrated Carousel of the Margravine of Blois
All the King's Monsters
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