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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 36
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 36
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Use of total patient data for indirect estimation of reference intervals for 40 clinical chemical analytes in Turkey
Tıp Fakültesi Makale Koleksiyonu
Iicol, Y.O.; Aslan, Diler.
URI: http://acikerisim.pau.edu.tr:8080/xmlui/handle/11499/4560
In the present study we used patient data to calculate laboratory-specific indirect reference intervals. These values were compared with reference intervals obtained for a healthy group according to recommendations of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine and manufacturer suggestions. Laboratory results (422,919 records) from all subjects of 18-45 years of age over a 1-year period were retrieved from our laboratory information system and indirect reference intervals for 40 common analytes were estimated using a modified Bhattacharya procedure. Indirect reference intervals for most of the biochemical analytes were comparable, with small differences in lower [alkaline phosphatase (ALP) (male), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), creatine kinase, iron (male), total iron-binding capacity, folic acid, calcium (female), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)], thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), total triiodothyronine (T3), direct bilirubin, apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I), glucose, homocysteine, total cholesterol, ferritin, total protein, ceruloplasmin, sodium, blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and uric acid (female)] and/or upper limits [albumin, ALP (male), amylase, apoA-I, creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB), total iron-binding capacity, phosphorus, glucose, total cholesterol, γ-glutamyltransferase (γ-GT), magnesium, total protein, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), total T3, ALP (male), ALT, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (male), direct bilirubin (male), creatine kinase, iron, folic acid (female), Lp(a), uric acid and triglycerides], to the reference intervals determined for healthy subjects in our laboratory. The indirect reference intervals, with the exception of a few parameters (creatinine, direct total bilirubin, calcium, BUN and potassium), were not similar to the reference intervals suggested by the manufacturers. We conclude that laboratory-specific reference intervals can be determined from stored data with a relatively easy and inexpensive method. Indirect reference intervals derived from stored data may be particularly suitable for the evaluation of results for the presenting population. © 2006 by Walter de Gruyter.
Tıp Fakültesi Makale Koleksiyonu [1580]
A multicenter nationwide reference intervals study for common biochemical analytes in Turkey using Abbott analyzers
Ozarda, Y.; Ichihara, K.; Aslan, D.; Aybek, H.; Ari, Z.; Taneli, F.; Coker, C.; Akan, P.; Sisman, A.R.; Bahceci, O.; Sezgin, N.; Demir, M.; Yucel, G.; Akbas, H.; Ozdem, S.; Polat, G.; Erbagci, A.B.; Orkmez, M.; Mete, N.; Evliyaoglu, O.; Kiyici, A.; Vatansev, H.; Ozturk, B.; Yucel, D.; Kayaalp, D.; Dogan, K.; Pinar, A.; Gurbilek, M.; Cetinkaya, C.D.; Akin, O.; Serdar, M.; Kurt, I.; Erdinc, S.; Kadicesme, O.; Ilhan, N.; Atali, D.S.; Bakan, E.; Polat, H.; Noyan, T.; Can, M.; Bedir, A.; Okuyucu, A.; Deger, O.; Agac, S.; Ademoglu, E.; Kaya, A.; Nogay, T.; Eren, N.; Dirican, M.; Tuncer, G.; Aykus, M.; Gunes, Y.; Ozmen, S.U.; Kawano, R.; Tezcan, S.; Demirpence, O.; Degirmen, E. (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014)
Background: A nationwide multicenter study was organized to establish reference intervals (RIs) in the Turkish population for 25 commonly tested biochemical analytes and to explore sources of variation in reference values, ...
Relationship between Fragmented QRS Complex and Aortic Stiffness in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients
Güçlü, A.; Nar, G.; Içli, A.; Özhan, Nail; Sezer, S. (S. Karger AG, 2017)
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the correlation between fragmented QRS complex (fQRS), aortic stiffness, and diastolic dysfunction in hemodialysis patients. Subjects and Methods: A sample of 56 patients who received ...
Severe metformin intoxication treated with prolonged haemodialyses and plasma exchange
Turkcuer, I.; Erdur, B.; Sari, I.; Yuksel, A.; Tura, P.; Yuksel, S. (2009)
BACKGROUND: Biguanides pose a significant risk of morbidity, mortality and permanent sequelae secondary to prolonged periods of hypoglycaemia. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the treatment of massive metformin overdose associated ...
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NHS ACTUALLY PAID AMBULANCE SERVICES TO DENY SERVICE
Patients' groups expressed horror at the "sick experiment" in which NHS managers have agreed to pay £38 for every casualty that ambulance staff "keep out of Accident and Emergency" (A&E) departments after a 999 call has been made.
The tactic is part of an attempt to manage increasing demand for emergency care amid failings in the GP out-of-hours system.
Documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph disclose that staff at Britain's largest ambulance service have been encouraged to maximise the organisation's income, by securing payments for diverting patients to telephone helplines.
The bonuses are among dozens of schemes being tried out by ambulance trusts across the country as they attempt to improve their emergency response times and help A&E departments meet controversial targets to treat all patients within four hours of arrival.
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EVERYONE'S HEALTHCARE YOUR HEALTH IS NOT THEIR FIRST CONCERN.
AS THIS ARTICLE PROVES, THEY IN FACT LOOK FOR WAYS TO DENY SERVICE AND SAVE THEMSELVES MONEY.
IN A FREE MARKET, HEALTH CARE PROVIDER LOOK FOR WAYS TO MAKE MONEY BY PROVIDING THE BEST SERVICE IN THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY.
IF THEY FAIL TO PROVIDE GOOD SERVICE, THEN THEY CAN LOSE THEIR CUSTOMERS OR RELATIONSHIP WITH DOCTORS.
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT IS THE SOLE PROVIDER, THE PUBIC HAS NO WHERE ELSE TO GO.
OBAMACARE WILL INEVITABLE LEAD TO THE SAME PROBLEMS THE NHS HAS.
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ZOA: OBAMA'S POLICIES ARE AN INSULT TO JEWS AND ISRAEL
HAARETZ:The Zionist Organization of America has called U.S. President Barack Obama's stance on Israel "an insult" to all Jews, in a statement released on Friday.
"We consider Obama?s actions an affront and an insult to all Jews in America and throughout all the world," the statement said.
The ZOA also suggested that Obama's behavior is biased against Israel.
"Obama apparently also made new and substantial demands of Israel while making no demands of the anti-peace regime of Mahmoud Abbas? Palestinian Authority," the statement said.
The ZOA has also demanded of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to apologize to New York constituents for falsely claiming, as a Senator, to support an undivided Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
The Zionist organization said that Clinton has misled them, and quoted her saying in 2007 that she supported Israel's right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, must never be questioned."
HILLARY LIED. AND OBAMA LIED.
THEY ARE NOT ON ISRAEL'S SIDE.
IT'S TIME FOR JEWS WHO VOTE DEMOCRAT TO STOP ALLOWING THEMSELVES TO BE DUPES OF THE LEFT.
JEWS MUST DECIDE WHOSE SIDE THEY'RE ON: ISRAEL'S OR THE LEFT'S.
YOU CANNOT BE A GOOD JEW A BAD ZIONIST.
YOU CANNOT BE A GOOD ZIONIST AND A GOOD DEMOCRAT.
JUST AS YOU CANNOT BE A GOOD AMERICAN AND A LEFTIST.
LEFTISM IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES.
AND LEFTISM IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO ZIONISM.
IT'S TIME TO CHOOSE.
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PHAROBAMA ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO ISRAEL FOR THE SHABBAT HAGADOL - THE SHABBAT BEFORE PESACH
OBAMA = ANTISEMITIC SCUM: Obama demands Netanyahu’s peace answers by Saturday
US hopes to get immediate Arab League approval for proximity talks; PA official: DC meetings ended without progress on east Jerusalem construction freeze.
... the US is demanding of Israel ... commitments by Saturday so it can take them to the Arab League meeting in Libya and receive that organization's backing for starting proximity talks.
... the administration’s treatment of Netanyahu during his meeting with Obama created the impression of a deep crisis in relations. As Jackson Diehl wrote in The Washington Post, the White House’s refusal to allow non-official photographers record the Obama-Netanyahu meeting, and the fact that no statement was issued afterward, led to the impression that “Netanyahu is being treated as if he were an unsavory Third World dictator, needed for strategic reasons but conspicuously held at arms length.”
According to various Israeli sources, the Obama administration is asking for Israel to commit to some type of limitation on building in east Jerusalem; to show a willingness to deal with the so-called core issues of borders, refugee and Jerusalem already in the indirect talks; and to agree to a number of confidence building measures, including the release of hundreds of Fatah prisoners.
There were also reports, not confirmed, that the administration had asked for a commitment to extend the moratorium on housing starts in the West Bank settlements beyond the 10-months originally declared.
One source in the Prime Minister’s Office said the goal of the dialogue with the US was to find a way to start the proximity talks and “put these problems behind us.”
The key problem with the US has to do with Jerusalem, with the administration making it clear in recent days that it did not accept Netanyahu’s declaration at the AIPAC conference on Monday evening that Jerusalem was not a settlement, but rather Israel’s capital, and that building would continue there.
SCREWING ISRAEL TO CURRY FAVOR WITH THE LIKES OF GADDAFY.
IF THAT ISN'T ANTISEMITIC, THEN NOTHING IS.
BUT TO DIO IT ON SHABBAT HAGDOL!?!? UNREAL. SHABBAT HAGADOL:
It was in Egypt that Israel celebrated the very first Shabbat Ha-Gadol on the tenth of Nissan, five days before their redemption. On that day, the Children of Israel were given their first commandment which applied only to that Shabbat, but not to future generations: On the tenth day of this month [Nissan]... each man should take a lamb for the household, a lamb for each home (Exodus 12:3).
ON THIS SHABBAT HAGDOL, OBAMA IS ASKING JEWS TO SACRIFICE JERUSALEM FOR THE ARABS.
UNREAL. ANTISEMITIC. AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. ONLY AN ANTISEMITE COULD DEMAND IT ON THISOF ALL DAYS.
MOST ISRAELIS KNOW THAT OBAMA IS ANTISEMITIC:
Just 9 percent of Jewish Israelis think US President Barack Obama’s administration is more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian, according to a Smith Research poll taken this week on behalf of The Jerusalem Post.
Forty-eight percent said that the Obama presidency favored the Palestinian side, 30% said his administration was neutral and 13% chose not to express an opinion for the survey, which has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.
The poll of a representative sample of 500 Israelis was conducted on Sunday and Monday after weeks of heightened tensions between Obama and Israel, but before the crisis intensified during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House.
I WISH THE JEWS HERE IN THE USA WOULD WAKE UP ALREADY!
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VEEP BIDEN: APPARENTLY BELIEVES IN GOD, BUT NOT HEAVEN OR AFTER-LIFE
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@markknoller At a fundraiser last night in Baltimore, VP Biden thanked God his late mother didn't hear him drop the F-bomb at the bill-signing Tuesday. 3/25 9:45 A.M. -
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OBAMA GLOATS AT BOOKSTORE
WHAT HE WAS DOING...
WHAT HE WAS THINKING...
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL...
SERIOUSLY FOLKS, ONE MAJOR REASON MOST PEOPLE THINK OBAMACARE SUCKS IS THAT THEY SEEMED TO USE UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT TO GET IT PASSED.
OBAMA IS A BULLY, AND PEOPLE DON'T LIKE BULLIES.
AND BULLIES SMIRK AND GLOAT LIKE HE DID AT THE BOOKSTORE.
OBAMA WILL GET HIS DUE THIS NOVEMBER.
ALL HIS LIES WILL COME BACK TO BITE HIM ON HIS ASS.
OBAMA HAS ONE BIG FAN:
BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE AND CIVIL RIGHTS WERE ALL BI-PARTISAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS NEWSBUSTERS, JON KYL AND JIM LEHRER
NEWSBUSTERS TODAY - THURSDAY:
PBS's Jim Lehrer on Tuesday wrongly accused Republicans of always being against major social legislation in this country including the Civil Rights Act, Social Security, and Medicare.
"[T]hrough history, recent history in particular, Republicans have opposed things like Social Security, Medicare, even civil rights legislation, but then, once they lost, they took some deep breaths and moved on, and then finally ended up embracing many of these major changes in -- in laws and in the way we do business here," the News Hour host amazingly said to his guest Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.).
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, and Kyl quickly corrected Lehrer.
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS ON TUESDAY:
In 1935 - the 74th congress - the US Senate had 69 Dems and 31 GOP’ers, so nearly 50% of the GOP was with the Soc Sec legislation. The House Had Democrats 322 and Republicans 103. So nearly 80% of the GOP in the House voted for the legislation.
In the 89th Congress - in 1965 - the Senate had 33 GOP’ers, so 33% voted for the Medicare legislation. The House had 136 GOP’ers so about 48% voted for it.
Civil Rights legislation had very high GOP %, too.
They were all bi-partisan. As was NAFTA - another huge piece of legislation.
Obamacare gets a big fat 0% of the GOP - and this says EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OBAMA.
INSTEAD OF BEHAVING LIKE THE POST-PARTISAN HE CLAIMED HE WAS DURING THE CAMPAIGN, AND CRAFTING POST-PARTISAN REFORM BILL, HE AND PELOSI AND REID RAMMED THROUGH A SOCIALIST BOONDOGGLE.
NOT ONLY DID OBAMA DISREGARD ANY POSSIBILITY OF BIPARTISANSHIP, HE ALSO IGNORED THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
INCREDIBLY: OBAMA AND REID AND PELOSI AND RAHM DID THIS AFTER THE ELECTION OF SCOTT BROWN.
REGULAR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP ALL THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME.,
UNREAL: OBAMA APPOINTS TRAITOROUS FOX TO GUARD NATIONAL SECURITY HENHOUSE
WZ:
I'm sure the Army brass is thrilled to have a traitorous scumbag from the NY Times watching over them...
(Powerline)- Solomon B. Watson IV was the top legal officer of the New York Times back in 2005 and 2006 when, notoriously, it published two stories compromising top-secret counter-terrorism programs.
... The Obama administration has now nominated Watson to be general counsel of the Army.
IF OBAMA WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM AND RADICAL LEFTIST WHO WANTED TO DESTROY THE USA, WOULD HE BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?
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UN Watch reports that the UN has willfully followed up on the Swedish press' own blood libel by adding it to the website of their alleged human rights council. Here's an item about this latest atrocity from the National Post:
Claims that Israel is trafficking the organs of dead Palestinians are printed in an official United Nations document, exposing the world body to charges it is doing the bidding of anti-Israel countries such as Iran and Libya.
The revelation comes as Iran and Libya are leading candidates for election this year to the UN Human Rights Council, which the world body bills as the world's foremost human rights monitoring group.
The election of Iran would be an affront to Canada, which each year leads a campaign in the UN General Assembly to have Iran's human rights record condemned -- invariably amid substantial opposition from Iranian sympathizer states such as Cuba, Venezuela and even Afghanistan.
Israel's organ trafficking claim is alleged by the Libya founded International Organization for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), whose website says it is "focused on the ideological systems of apartheid and Zionism."
Bernie Farber, the Canadian Jewish Congress chief executive, said the UN was involved in distributing allegations which reflect age-old "blood libels" accusing Jews of using human blood in certain of their rituals.
"Not only is there no proof, it is a take-off of the historical calumny of the Jewish blood libel, and that this is coming out under the auspices of the United Nations, and from an accredited UN organization, is breathtaking in its shame," Mr. Farber said.
It's not too hard to guess who led to the idea of putting this on their website and following up on one of the sickest things Scandanavia coughed up in recent years. No one with common sense should associate themselves with such revolting people.
The Jerusalem Post says:
Neuer told The Jerusalem Post that the UNHRC in the past has asked UN Watch to change the language in documents that UN Watch plans to submit, including in this session where UNHRC asked UN Watch to edit their words with reference to Iran and Libya.
If UN Watch can’t use the word “regime” when talking about Iran, then one would think that a “blood libel” would be unacceptable, Neuer said.
Allegations that Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians to harvest their organs were widely publicized this summer in an article written by Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom for the country’s largest circulated daily, Aftonbladet.
Israel has denied the story. Bostrom later admitted that he relied solely on the testimony of Palestinian families for his story.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said it was “outrageous” that the allegations were published on a UN Web site.
“The only organ that was stolen is in people’s brains,” said Palmor.
“The most preposterous, ridiculous and horrendous of all lies can gain respectability at the UN,” he warned.
“I am deeply revolted by the fact that anyone in their right mind can actually advance such horribly surrealistic accusations,” said Palmor.
But it's no longer surprising.
According to the NGO Eye on the UN, EAFORD was founded in Libya and accredited at the UN in 1981. Its Web site states that it has focused on the ideological systems of Apartheid and Zionism.
The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had no response to the matter.
Separately on Wednesday, the US chastised the UN Human Rights Council for its continued focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as it opposed four resolutions on that matter which the council passed.
Since the council’s inception in 2006, most of its resolutions censuring countries have focused on Israel.
US Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe told the council “it is too often exploited as a platform to single out Israel, which undermines its credibility.”
And that's one more reason why people with common sense should back away from the UN. Which, while we're on the subject, has by contrast allowed people like the following to get away with sodomy:
As the United Nations worked to restore peace and protect women and children in Africa’s troubled Cote d’Ivoire three years ago, it announced it was investigating “serious allegations of wide-spread sexual exploitation and abuse.”
Shockingly, the alleged perpetrators were with the U.N.—Moroccan troops serving as peacekeepers.
A confidential probe by U.N. and Moroccan investigators turned up evidence that 14 soldiers were involved, according to a person familiar with the matter; DNA analysis showed some of them had fathered children with the victims. But the U.N. has never disclosed the results of the investigation or whether any of the soldiers were punished.
The Moroccan government has stated that no conclusive evidence of abuse was found and that it dropped all charges.
And it figures that Morocco would likely excuse their actions too. That's the United Nazis for you, who consider Israel worse than Islamic-bred violence.
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HISTORY OF HURVA
If you'd like to read about the history of the Hurva Synagogue, which recently underwent reconstruction, here's an article about it, and even a radio report.
WOULD US JEWS HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA IF THEY KNEW HE WAS GONNA BE TOUGHER ON ISRAEL THAN JAMES BAKER!?
THEY WERE DUPED.
OBAMA HAS MORE IN COMMON WITH JAMES BAKER AND JEREMIAH WRIGHT THAN HE DOES WITH ANY PREVIOUS DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT - INCLUDING JIMMY CARTER.
OBAMA IS THE MOST ANTI-ISRAEL PRESIDENT EVER.
AS WE PREDICTED.
ISLAM AND NOT ISRAEL ENDANGERS US TROOPS
LEGAL INSURRECTION:
The "Israel Endangers U.S. Troops" Meme Grows
I told you this was coming. Increasingly, those who think Israel is to blame for the lack of peace in the Middle East, and who view pushing Israel back to barely defensible borders as the answer, have been pushing hard the meme that Israel is endangering U.S. troops.
Today, that meme is pushed by Robert Wright in the N.Y. Times:
America’s perceived support of — or at least acquiescence in — Israel’s more inflammatory policies endangers American troops abroad. In the long run, it will also endanger American civilians at home, funneling more terrorism in their direction.
...the original justification for al-Qaeda attacks on the U.S. was the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. U.S. troops remain there as well as in numerous other Muslim countries. So should we pull out all our troops from all Muslim countries?
And while we are at it, should we end our support for "moderate" Muslim governments because it angers the fanatics? The result of giving in to the Muslim "street" is an endless parade of appeasements and abandonment of friends.
APPEASING NEVER LED TO PEACE. NOT ONCE.
NEITHER CAN HARMING OUR ALLIES.
SO THE ANTI-ISRAEL ARGUMENT IS NOT ONLY ANTISEMITIC, IT'S BAD POLICY.
ARABS AND MUSLIMS HAVE KILLED US TROOPS.
ISRAELIS HAVE NOT.
THOSE WHO TARGET ISRAEL ARE WRONG - AND THEIR POLICIES WILL HARM US.
BAN KI MOON PEACE-PLAN ANNOUNCED BY UN!!!!
Sources close to the Secretary General of the UN have informed The Astute Bloggers that a comprehensive peace plan has been agreed upon by the Gang of Four.
According to this agreement Peace in Our Time, and the rescue of the Global Construction Industry, has been secured without the intervention of Extraterrestrial Forces.
It all started when New York Mayor Bloomberg agreed to a petition from the Haudenosaunee to cease contruction of Skyscrapers in New York. According to the Mayor's office, all existing Skyscrapers will be laid down and converted to Longhouses. As soon as the present owners can secure 120% financing via AIG, the entire portfolio of buildings constructed (illegally of course) since 1646 will be deeded to the Haudenosaunee.
Meanwhile, the Chinese have agreed with the Dalai Lama to cease all construction activity in Tibet, and commence their exit from the Occupied Territories at the beginning of the next Chinese New Year.
Remarkably, the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, has agreed to return 48% of Texas - also known as the Occupado - to Mexico. The Right of Return program for the 55 million Mexican descendants of the "Alamo 17" will continue unabated.
Regional differences of opinion, for example Kashmir; the border between Columbia and Venezuela; Kuril Islands; The Falklands etc. have been deemed of minor significance.
Therefore, if Israel would just surrender the whole world would be perfect.
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CHAVEZ DOES NOT NEED TO EXPROPRIATE
While the socialist regime in Venezuela has expropriated some land and oil assets - Chavez has other tools to use against capitalist interests.
For example, the government of Venezuela owes a Danish food supplier - ØK - approximately $100 million US dollars.
Chavez knows that the expropriation of ØK could upset the fragile food supply in Venezuela.
Meanwhile ØK cannot afford to quit Venezuela... and as long as Chavez can keep the Danes on the hook, he will have some certainty that at least part of the food supply chain will remain intact.
POLL: SHOULD SPITTING ON CONGRESSMEN BE A CRIME?
SUGGESTED FROM A POST BY GLENN:
Should spitting on a Congressman be a crime?answers
ACCUWEATHER EXPOSES GODARD'S BAD CLIMATE DATA
MUST SEE TV.
ACCORDING TO NASA'S GODARD, LAST WINTER WAS VERY WARM AT THE POLES.
BUT ACCUWEATHER'S JOE BASTARDI SHOWS THAT ACCORDING TO SATELLITE DATA, THERE'S ACTUALLY MORE ICE NOW THAN LAST YEAR.
THEREFORE, THE GODARD DATA MUST BE WRONG - PROBABLY "READJUSTED".
PERHAPS TO "HIDE THE DECLINE"!
VIA CLIMATE REALISTS.
SAUDI KINGDOM CALLS ISRAEL ARROGANT
AP:
Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel's "arrogant" policies in Jerusalem which it says are denying the rights of Arabs and Muslims in the holy city.
ASININE AND WRONG.ARABS AND CHRISTIANS AND JEWS ALL HAVE RIGHTS IN JERUSALEM.
SOMETHING WHICH WASN'T TRUE WHEN OTHERS CONTROLLED THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CITY.
BESIDES, I THINK IT'S REALLY RICH HOW THE SAUDIS AND OTHER FREAKIN' ARABS USE THE TERM "ARROGANT".
REMINDER TO ALL YOU UNCIVILIZED IGNORANT MISOGYNISTIC CAMEL-LOVING GOAT-FU**ING MOON-GOD WORSHIPING ARABS: ISRAEL WON THE WARS - ALL OF THEM.
IT IS NORMAL FOR VICTORS TO DICTATE TERMS TO THE VANQUISHED. THIS IS WHAT HISTORY LARGELY CONSISTS OF AND WHY WARS ARE FOUGHT.
UNLESS THE VICTORS ARE JEWS, APPARENTLY.
ISRAEL IS THE ONLY WINNER OF MAJOR WARS WHO WAS NOT ALLOWED TO DICTATE TERMS TO THE LOSERS.
INSTEAD, ISRAEL IS FORCED TO PLAY THE PEACE PROCESS SHUFFLE.
BY WHICH ISRAEL IS SUPPOSED TO DIE A SLOW DEATH FROM A THOUSAND LITTLE CUTS.
WELL I GOT NEWS FOR ALL YOU ANTI-SEMITES - OBAMA, FATAH, HAMAS, ALL OF YOU: IT WON'T HAPPEN.
HELP DEFEAT STUPAK!
CLICK BANNER AND DONATE!
WHILE DISPLAYING THEIR IGNORANCE AND THEIR CONTEMPT OF REAL DEBATE, CANADIAN LEFTISTS VIOLATE THE UN'S UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
ON THE MOST RECENT INSTANCE OF LEFT-WING THUGGERY, IN WHICH CANADA MUGGED ANN COUTLER:
MARK STEYN: In one of the oldest settled democracies on the planet, freedom of speech flickers very dimly.
To recap:
François Houle in his letter to Ann Coulter:
I would, however, like to inform you, or perhaps remind you, that our domestic laws, both provincial and federal, delineate freedom of expression (or “free speech”) in a manner that is somewhat different than the approach taken in the United States. I therefore encourage you to educate yourself, if need be, as to what is acceptable in Canada...
Dean Steacy, lead investigator of the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission:
Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value.
I guess this left-wing Canadian asshole never heard of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people, [...]
Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
BY CANCELLING THE COULTER EVENT CANADA VIOLATED HER RIGHTS AND TRAMPLED UPON THE UN'S DECLARATION.
THIS IS JUST MORE PROOF THAT THE LEFT LOVES SOCIALISM MORE THAN DEMOCRACY.
OBAMACARE AND THE LISBON TREATY: MORE PROOF THE TRANSNATIONALIST LEFT IS MORE COMMITTED TO SOCIALISM THAN DEMOCRACY
When the euroleft couldn't get their EUSSR Constitution passed the democratic way - when it was actually rejected at the polls, they bent the rules - or broke them - and used an UNDEMOCRATIC method.
WIKI ON THE EU CONSTITUTION:
The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE), (commonly referred to as the European Constitution or as the Constitutional Treaty), was an unratified international treaty intended to create a consolidated constitution for the European Union (EU). It would have replaced the existing European Union treaties with a single text, given legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and expanded Qualified Majority Voting into policy areas which had previously been decided by unanimity among member states.
The Treaty was signed on 29 October 2004 by representatives of the then 25 EU member states. It was later ratified by 18 member states, which included referendums endorsing it in Spain and Luxembourg. However the rejection of the document by French and Dutch voters in May and June 2005 brought the ratification process to an end.
WIKI ON THE LISBON TREATY:
All EU member states had to ratify the Treaty before it could enter into law. A national ratification was completed and registered when the instruments of ratification were lodged with the government of Italy. The month following the deposition of the last national ratification saw the Treaty enter into force across the EU.
Under the original timetable set by the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2007, the Treaty was scheduled to be fully ratified by the end of 2008, thus entering into force on 1 January 2009. This plan failed however, primarily due to the initial rejection of the Treaty in 2008 by the Irish electorate in a referendum, a decision which was reversed in a second referendum in 2009. Ireland, as required by its constitution, was the only member state to hold referendums on the Treaty. The Czech instrument of ratification was the last to be deposited in Rome on 13 November 2009.[18] Therefore, the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force on 1 December 2009.[19][20]
When the Left in the USA - led by Obama, Axelrod, Rahm, Reid and Pelosi - couldn't get their way democratically, they also bent or broke the rules.
THEY LIED, CHEATED, AND BRIBED THEIR WAY TO VICTORY.
IT IS THE FIRST MAJOR PIECE OF LEGISLATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY WHICH IS NOT BI-PARTISAN.
This tells you everything you need to know about them.
It's why they have fundamentally more in common with Chavez and Che than Washington or Lincoln.
The MAJORITY of people are JUSTIFIABLY pissed off.
We will VOTE ACCORDINGLY and teach then a lesson this November.
LATEST BILLBOARD: LIBERTY. MISS ME YET?
CBS poll: 60% favor the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to investigate Sestakgate
Issa is all over SESTAKGATE - it seems Obama's White House may have committed multiple felonies when they offered Sestak a federal job not to challenge Arlen Specter.
CBS has a poll at the link; here are the results so far:
Do you think special prosecutor should be called to investigate the White House on Rep. Joe Sestak's claim that he was offered a federal job in exchange for dropping out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary?
Yes. 60%
No. 40%
Update: 6:10pm:
Yes 96%
SESTAKGATE - it might very well be what save the USA from 4 years of Obama.
YES: SESTAKGATE IS PROBABLY IMPEACHABLE. IF WE GET A GOP CONGRESS!
MY MANTRA FOR THE NEXT CONGRESS - THE 112TH CONGRESS: reveal, repeal, and replace Obamacare - AND THEN IMPEACH OBAMA!
BIBI DEFUSES JERUSALEM CRISIS: ISSUES AN EXECUTIVE ORDER FOR OBAMA
SERIOUSLY: Jerusalem will never be divided again - despite what Fatah and Hamas and Obama want.
NYTimes admits Obamacare is really about income redistribution - IOW: SOCIALISM!
The truth comes out - on the front-page of the NYTIMES:
In Health Care Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality
By DAVID LEONHARDT
The health care bill is the government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since it began rising in the 1970s.
CONVENIENTLY THEY PUBLISH THIS THE DAY AFTER IT WAS SIGNED.
It will not stand.
Full round up here.
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ERDOGAN UNDESERVEDLY GETS AWARD FROM UN
Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center writes about how the UN has once again shown why it's worthless and atrocious - they gave a Rafik Hariri memorial award to Tayyip Erdogan, who's not only already showing why he doesn't deserve it, but is a friend of Syria's, the very autocracy that had Hariri murderered in the first place:
The first winner is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Of course, Erdogan is an Islamist who is an ally of Syria, the murderer of Hariri.
Why did Erdogan get the $200,000 award? According to the announcement, the reason is that he organized the first conference of mayors that led to the creation of a worldwide organization of mayors, thus creating another round of meetings so that the budgets of cities can be spent on plane fare and luxury hotels for mayors to travel around the world. How's that for making the lives of urban people better?
Apparently, the fact that Erdogan is closely cooperating with the people who killed Hariri, after whom the award was named, did not strike the panel as ironic.
And of course Erdogan has also taken Turkey into alignment with Iran and Hizballah, the other forces which are trying to control Hariri's country and against whom the late prime minister fought.
What they've done is to invalidate their own so-called award, and show it's all a sham and a joke. Such utterly disgusting people.
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PALIN: "Stand tall, America. Real change is coming!"
With the president signing this unwanted and “transformative” government takeover of our health care system today with promises impossible to keep, let’s not get discouraged. Don’t get demoralized. Get organized!
... We’re paying particular attention to those House members who voted in favor of Obamacare and represent districts that Senator John McCain and I carried during the 2008 election ... we’ll be working to make sure that those who replace them are Commonsense Conservatives.
... This is just the first salvo in a fight to elect people across the nation who will bring common sense to Washington. Please go to sarahpac.com and join me in the fight. Stand tall, America. Real change is coming!
OBAMACARE: A PYRRHIC VICTORY
A Pyrrhic victory (pronounced /ˈpɪrɪk/) is a victory with such devastating cost to the victor, it carries the implication that another such will ultimately cause defeat.
The phrase is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC during the Pyrrhic War.
SOUNDS TO ME LIKE OBAMACARE IS GONNA BE PYRRHIC.
DOUBLY SO BECAUSE IT WILL EITHER BE THROWN OUT BY THE SCOTUS OR REPEALED AND REPLACED BY THE GOP.
OBAMACARE: OBAMA'S MASK IS OFF; SCOTT BROWN'S HELMET IS ON
THE CORNER:
Brown: ‘Important’ to Repeal [Robert Costa]
Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) tells National Review Online that it’s “important” for the GOP to fight to repeal Obamacare.
“It has morphed into this total takeover, with a complete lack of bipartisan support,” he says. “People are disgusted with the process. If the Democrats keep doing what they’re doing, they’ll be disregarding the will of the voters.”
Brown adds that anger about Obamacare is not just growing amongst conservatives.
“I don’t think it’s just conservatives,” he says. “I think that is the mistake folks are making. Many Americans are upset about the process, the overspending, the lack of accountability, the backroom deals, the Medicare cuts, and the takeover of student loans.”
MORE FROM DINOCRAT: THE OLD DAYS THEN, AND NOW...
The Washington Examiner describes how things were when Social Security and Medicare were passed in a truly bi-partisan fashion — 64% of GOP senators and 80% of Republican congressmen supported Social Security, for example:
both of those landmark programs were approved with strong bipartisan support in both the Senate and House.
The Senate vote on Social Security in 1935 was 77-6, with 64 Democrats being joined by 14 Republicans.
In the House, the 373 votes for Social Security included 77 Republicans.
When Medicare passed in 1965, the 68-21 Senate vote included 13 Republicans, while 65 Republicans were among the 313 affirmative House votes.
Perhaps it is no wonder then that ramming through the healthcare bill has not helped Obama’s poll ratings. CNN: “health care was the policy area that drew the second highest negative rating, with 58 percent registering disapproval. The highest negative rating was 62 percent for his handling of the federal deficit.”
CONTRARY TO AL SHARPTON'S VIEW, OBAMA DID NOT RUN AS A SOCIALIST.
WHEN OBAMA WAS CALLED ONE BY JOE THE PLUMBER HE SCOFFED AT JOE AND THE MSM SCOFFED WITH HIM.
PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE GAVE THE TALL BARITONE WITH THE BRIGHT SMILE AND CALM TONE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
THEY RIGHTLY FEEL BURNED. ESPECIALLY THAT THIS CAME AFTER SCOTT BROWN'S ELECTION.
WELL, OBAMA SOWED THE WIND.
NOW HE AND THE DEMOCRATS WILL REAP THE WHIRLWIND.
THE FORCES THAT ELECTED SCOTT BROWN ARE NOT DISSIPATING; THEY ARE GATHERING STRENGTH:
Scott Brown's victory still is lighting up the day
Scott Brown's victory is still lighting up the day
And our goal goes shining on
Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
Our goal is shining on
He captured Massachusetts with pickup truck and truth
He frightened old Mizz Coakley till she trembled
They thought he was a loser, but now they’re the ones who’re through
Scott Brown won because we all want to be free,
And our goal is shining on!
The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down
On the win of old Scott Brown
We will drink Tea in the morning, We will drink Tea in the night
We will drink Tea in the darkness, We will drink Tea by light
We'll drink Tea before voting, And we'll drink Tea for the fight!
OUR GOAL IS SHINING ON!
OIL WITHOUT END: PLATE TECTONICS AND FOSSIL FUEL THEORIES DEBUNKED
Peak oil depends on the BELIEF that the amount of oil on Earth oil is limited because is a by-product of biological decomposition - a fossil fuel.
The traditional theory argues that oil is biogenic and only found is certain specific geological areas.
There are several problems with this theory. One is that more and more oil is being found several miles beneath the surface of the Earth well below where dinosaurs roamed and miles from where dead plankton ever sank.
There's a competing theory - ABIOGENIC OIL - it's a minority theory now, but that may soon change. (This is how science progresses: Once plate-tectonics was a minority theory. SO was the meteor explanation for the massive dinosaur extinctions. Both are dominant now.)
The abiogenic hypothesis argues that petroleum was formed from deep carbon deposits, perhaps dating to the formation of the Earth. The presence of methane on Saturn's moon Titan is cited as evidence supporting the formation of hydrocarbons without biology. Supporters of the abiogenic hypothesis suggest that a great deal more petroleum exists on Earth than commonly thought, and that petroleum may originate from carbon-bearing fluids that migrate upward from the mantle.
Although the abiogenic hypothesis was accepted by some geologists in the former Soviet Union, most geologists now consider the biogenic formation of petroleum[1] Although evidence exists for abiogenic formation of methane and hydrocarbon gases within the Earth,[2][3] studies indicate they are not produced in commercially significant quantities (i.e. a median abiogenic hydrocarbon content in extracted hydrocarbon gases of 0.02%).[4] The abiogenic origin of petroleum has also recently been reviewed in detail by Glasby, who raises a number of objections, including that there is no direct evidence to date of abiogenic petroleum (liquid crude oil and long-chain hydrocarbon compounds).[1] scientifically supported.
Although the biogenic theory for petroleum was first proposed by Georg Agricola in the 16th century, various abiogenic hypotheses were proposed in the nineteenth century, most notably by Alexander von Humboldt, the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev and the French chemist Marcellin Berthelot. Since that time, the abiogenic hypotheses have lost ground to the view that petroleum is a fossil fuel.
Abiogenic hypotheses were revived in the last half of the twentieth century by Russian and Ukrainian scientists, and more interest was generated in the West by the publication in 1999 of The Deep Hot Biosphere by Thomas Gold. Gold cited the discovery of thermophile bacteria in the Earth's crust as new support for the postulate that these bacteria could explain the existence of certain biomarkers in extracted petroleum.[5]
Certain chemicals found in naturally occurring petroleum contain chemical and structural similarities to compounds found within many living organisms. These include terpenoids, terpenes, pristane, phytane, cholestane, chlorins and porphyrins, which are large, chelating molecules in the same family as heme and chlorophyll. Materials which suggest certain biological processes include tetracyclic diterpane and oleanane.
The presence of these chemicals in crude oil is assumed to be as a result of the inclusion of biological material in the oil. This is predicated upon the theory that these chemicals are released by kerogen during the production of hydrocarbon oils.
However, since the advent of abiogenic hypothesis, the veracity of these assumptions has been called into question and new lines of evidence used to provide alternative explanations. Some are provided by many scientists from around the world including Russia.
The geological argument for abiogenic oil
Given the known occurrence of methane and the probable catalysis of methane into higher atomic weight hydrocarbon molecules, the abiogenic hypothesis considers the following to be key observations in support;
The serpentinite synthesis, graphite synthesis and spinel catalysation models prove the process is viable [22][27]
The likelihood that abiogenic oil seeping up from the mantle is trapped beneath sediments which effectively seal mantle-tapping faults [26]
Mass-balance calculations for supergiant oilfields which argue that the calculated source rock could not have supplied the reservoir with the known accumulation of oil, implying deep recharge (Kudryavtsev, 1951)
Incidental evidence
The proponents of abiogenic oil use several arguments which draw on a variety of natural phenomena in order to support the hypothesis
The modelling of some researchers which shows the Earth was accreted at relatively low temperature, thereby perhaps preserving primordial carbon deposits within the mantle, to drive abiogenic hydrocarbon production [49]
The presence of methane within the gases and fluids of mid-ocean ridge spreadingD centre hydrothermal fields[50]
THE ABIOGENIC SIDE OF THE "BIOGENIC VERSUS ABIOGENIC DEBATE" HAS A NEW ALLY: THE EXPANDING EARTH THEORY (EXCERPT):
Persistent Geo-Blunder Discovered: Huge Boost for Oil and Gas Exploration
For decades, an unsuspected geological blunder has limited crucial technical understanding of how, where and why petroleum and natural gas deposits form. Exposing and correcting that vital mistake offer the promise of new insights and potentially vast new energy-resource discoveries.
Since the 1930s, the idea of mantle convection has been inextricably rooted in common geological interpretations of the Earth's dynamics. In a paper just published in the March 25, 2010 issue of Current Science, San Diego geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon of Transdyne Corporation discloses a very serious problem with the prevailing concept of convection in the Earth's mantle and reveals the profound implications on oil and gas exploration.
For decades geologists and geophysicists have assumed that convection occurs within the Earth's mantle. But according to Herndon's discovery, Earth-mantle convection is physically impossible. As he explains in his paper, the mantle is compressed by its own weight and the weight of the crust, so that its bottom is about 62% more dense than the top. The negligible amount of thermal expansion that might occur at the bottom, less than 1%, cannot cause bottom-mantle matter to float to the surface or make the mantle top-heavy, necessary conditions for convection.
Herndon's discovery has revolutionary implications for geologists, who have for decades misapplied mathematical convection-justification relationships to the gravity-compressed mantle; such relationships are only valid for incompressible fluids.
Familiar topical names, such as Pangaea, Gondwanaland and Plate Tectonics, will begin to fade into history, replaced by a more correct 21st Century understanding of geology and geodynamics without mantle convection.
In Herndon's view, virtually all major geological activity is the consequence of a single process: Earth-crust fragmentation - splitting the Earth's crust to form new surface area to accommodate decompression-increased planetary volume.
Crustal fragmentation, called rifting, provides all of the crucial components for petroleum-deposit formation: basin, reservoir, source, and seal. Rifting causes the formation of deep basins, as presently occurring in the Afar triangle of Northeastern Africa. Augmented by heat channeled upwards from deep within the Earth, uplift from sub-surface swelling can sequester sea-flooded lands to form halite evaporate deposits, lead to dome formation, and can make elevated land susceptible to erosion processes, thus providing sedimentary material for reservoir rock in-filling of basins. Moreover, crustal fragmentation potentially exposes deep basins to sources of abiotic mantle methane and, although still controversial, methane-derived hydrocarbons.
HERNDON SUMMARIZES PLATE TECTONIC THEORY:
The popularity of plate tectonics arises from its seeming to explain major features of the ocean floor, but popularity is not a measure of scientific correctness. Science is a logical process, not a democratic process.
Plate tectonic theory is based upon the idea that ocean floor, continuously produced at mid-oceanic ridges, as illustrated at left, moves like a conveyer belt, ultimately being “subducted” and re-circulated by assumed convection currents in the mantle, as illustrated at right [3-5].
Indeed, compelling evidence, e.g., seafloor magnetic striations, exists to support the idea of seafloor being continuously produced at mid-oceanic ridges and moving away from the ridges. The magnetic stripes are symmetrical on each side of the ridge and are older in age the greater distance from the ridge. Moreover, ocean floor is observed to plunge downward into oceanic trenches.
Herndon ... found a serious problem [6]. Indeed, the critical assumption of mantle convection is truly the Achilles heel of plate tectonics.
When a fluid is heated from beneath, it expands becoming lighter, less dense, than the fluid above it. This top-heavy arrangement is unstable, so fluid motions result as the fluid attempts to restore stability. The top-heavy arrangement occurs because the temperature at the bottom is hotter than at the top. This is convection. Not only is the Earth’s mantle not a fluid, but the weight of over-burden rock causes compression within the mantle, which increases with depth. Matter at the bottom of the mantle is about 62% more dense than at the top, as shown in the figure at right. Heating bottom-rock causes a miniscule increase in volume, hence miniscule decrease in density, much, much less than 1%. This is far, far too little to make the "parcel" of bottom-mantle light enough to float to the top, not enough to make the mantle top-heavy; the result is no mantle-convection at all.
Often Earth-mantle convection is (wrongly) "justified" by calculating a high Rayleigh Number. But, as discovered by J. Marvin Herndon, Lord Rayleigh's derivation was based upon constant density and, thus, is not applicable to the Earth's mantle [6].
So, unequivocally, plate tectonics theory is not correct. Why? Because the crucial underlying part is physically impossible, which means that plate tectonics theory is wrong. That might not be surprising as plate tectonics is an incomplete theory, a theory without an energy source to power geodynamic activity.
HE GOES ON:
n 1933, Ott C. Hilgenberg ... published his idea that in the distant past for some unknown reason the Earth was smaller, without ocean basins, and that subsequently the Earth expanded [7,8]. The photo at left shows a series of globes made by Hilgenberg to illustrate his idea. An alternative to plate tectonics theory, Earth expansion theory, as espoused by S. Warren Carey [9, 10] and others, has met with resistance because of the lack of knowledge of an energy source of sufficient magnitude and because it is based upon the idea that Earth expansion occurs mainly along mid-oceanic ridges and thus occurred during the last 180 million years, as the oldest ocean floor is no older than that [11].
... The principal impediment to the idea of Earth expansion has been the lack of knowledge of a mechanism that could provide the necessary energy [13, 14] without departing from the known physical laws of nature [15]. In 1982, Adrian E. Scheidegger [16] stated concisely the prevailing view: "Thus, if expansion on the postulated scale occurred at all, a completely unknown energy source must be found."
Recognizing that neither plate tectonics theory nor Earth expansion theory is an adequate description of the dynamics of the Earth as a whole, J. Marvin Herndon proposed a new geodynamic theory, called Whole-Earth Decompression Dynamics [12], which reconciles certain elements of those two seemingly divergent theories into one unified theory of Earth dynamics. Moreover, Herndon disclosed a completely unknown energy source, which follows from fundamental considerations related to planetary formation [17-20], that is sufficient to power geodynamics.
USE THE LINK TO READ HIS THEORY.
HERE IS A SIMPLE YET COMPELLING VIDEO OF WHAT THE EXPANDING EARTH THEORY LOOKS LIKE:
AND HERE IS THE FIRST OF A 14 PART LECTURE ON THE SUBJECT:
I THINK THE THEORY IS INTRIGUING, INF NOT COMPELLING.
IT EXPLAINS A LOT OF THINGS THAT THE CURRENTLY DOMINANT THEORIES DO NOT.
AND IT WOULD MEAN WE ARE NOT GOING TO RUN OUT OF OIL OR GAS.
Confirmed: false flag racists at Sunnyvale Tea Party, 7-09
With our Democrat dominated media accusing Tea Partiers of shouting the N-word at two black Congressmen in D.C. on Saturday (shouts which cannot be heard on video of the scene), it is worth noting that a cadre of leftists were seen shouting racial slurs at a Sunnyvale CA Tea Party last summer.
I posted at the time about this cadre's "pretend false flag" operation, where they shouted things that cleverly identified themselves as false flaggers. That is, they were being honest about only pretending to be Tea Partiers, somewhat in the vein of the conservative Protest Warrior group:
Sunnyvale dirt-bagger, brandishing homosexual slurs at the crowd (never newsworthy).
But it turns out they went beyond this "honest" false flag operation, as reported in the comments of last summer's post:
I was at the San Jose Tea party and these two assholes were yelling deport all brown people at anyone that stopped in front of them, trying to alienate the mexican-americans driving by or in the crowd.
I can confirm the "deport all brown people" shouts. I wasn't in position at the time to see who it came from so I left it out of my post, but apparently it was the dirt-baggers in the photo above.
The Iranian fellow in front is named Karim Mansouri. The blonde fellow with him was calling himself Derek Andrew when I first encountered him and his cohorts outside the Marine recruiting station in Mountain View. Now he calls himself Derek Andrew Kalim (or Kalimi):
Derek was upset at what he claimed were my mis-characterizations, which is ironic in the light of what turns out to be his genuine false-flag operation. In retrospect, I was much too easy on the whole group.
If there was any racial slur shouted in Washington the other day, it was almost certainly a Derek Andrew type false-flag: one half of an implicit conspiracy between activists and the media to slander their political opposition. More likely there was no epithet at all, just a lie by Representatives Cleaver and Lewis that was amplified by our dishonest media. (The Hill's air-headed social-scene reporter, Christina Wilkie, added a spitting charge and called the inaudible N-words an "assault.")
Our Democrat Congressmen do not need the assistance of activists to conspire with the Christina Wilkies of the world in slandering conservatives, but they will gladly make use of whatever help they can get. Thus Tea Partiers should try to positively identify any false flaggers they come across. The more we document, the less they can lie.
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GREENBERG TO OBAMA: ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT
STAN GREENBERG'S ADVICE TO OBAMA:
create some jobs — that would be a true game changer.
HOW, BY WAVING HIS MAGIC WAND!?!?
OBAMA'S POLICIES ARE RETARDING ECONOMIC GROWTH. THE FAILURE OF THE PORKULUS AND HIS ADMINISTRATIONS UNWILLINGNESS TO HELP BUSINESSES IS ONE MAJOR REASON OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE DOING SO BADLY.
IF OBAMA WANTS TO CREATE JOBS, ALL HE HAS TO DO IS REPEAL HIS POLICIES AND PASS GOP POLICIES
IT'S THE WIND, STUPID!
CHANGES IN WIND PATTERNS CAUSING ARCTIC ICE LOSS.
THE SURGE - DOMESTIC VERSION
When things looked bad in Iraq, Bush didn't tuck tail and run; he SURGED.
Obama and Hillary and Biden and Kerry opposed The Surge.
They wanted to tuck tail and run, but they lost that political battle - because Bush as Commander in Chief could manage the War - and The Surge worked.
Iraq was saved.
Now - right here in the USA - things look bad: the Left just passed Obamacare, the biggest increase in govenment power since Executive Order 9066 and maybe the worst legislation since the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
But we aren't gonna tuck tail and run like liberals.
We're gonna SURGE - between now and Novmeber we're gonna Surge and we're gonna CLEAN HOUSE.
It's gona be sweet.
OBAMA, ALITO, VOLSTEAD AND OBAMACARE
At the SOTU, Obama rudely attacked the SCOTUS for knocking down a key provision of McCain-Feingold because it was... er um UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
There had been a written dissent (by JP Stevens), but Obama evidently wasn't satisfied with that and felt the need to directly attack the Court to their faces during his SOTU.
It was rude. It was unprecedented. It was hypocritical; (after all, Obama and the left are always saying that the Constitution is a living document; therefore it means whatever the Court says it means).
SO, WHY DID OBAMA DO IT!!?
Two reasons:
First, Obama and his new Senior White House Counsel Bob Bauer - who is nothing but a slimy election law lawyer - know that they will have to utilize every stinking crooked Chicago Machine trick in the book to hang-on this November. And Obama was pissed that the SCOTUS was leveling the playing field for Obama's opposition.
Second, Obama was trying to intimidate the SCOTUS with the expectation that if Obamacare passed, that it would go to the Court. Obama was drawing a line in the sand, trying to exert as much intimidating power as he could.
Too bad for Obama Alito wasn't having any of it - neither him or Roberts. Or Thomas or Scalia.
Which means, Obamacare will come down to Kennedy.
And there's non predicting how this man will ever vote.
In this case, there's only one correct way to vote: the mandate is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
WHY AM I SO SURE?
If a statute was good enough, then the anti-alcohol lobby would have only needed something like the Volstead Act and wouldn't have needed to pass or have passed the 18th Amendment in order to PROHIBIT the sale of alcohol. The 18th Amendment is what gave force to the Volstead Act.
THEREFORE: the Left needs to pass a constitutional amendment before Obamacare can be enforced.
It should take the court about 10 minutes to overturn Obamacare.
THE MANTRA FOR NOVEMBER: THIS WASN'T THE CHANGE ANYONE WANTED
THE LIST OF OBAMINATIONS IS LONG AND SO IS THE MANTRA FOR NOVEMBER:
OBAMACARE -
AND THE CORNHUSKER KICKBACK
THE STUPAK EXECUTIVE ORDER
THE UAW EXEMPTIONS
THE MASSA COVER-UP
THE SESTAK COVER-UP
THE WALPIN COVER-UP
THE PORKULUS
HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT
AND A SKYROCKETING DEFICIT
THIS WASN'T THE CHANGE ANYONE WANTED.
DID OBAMA COMMIT AN IMPEACHABLE ACT AND IS THERE ALREADY A COVER UP?
THE WHITE HOUSE OFFERED SESTAK A JOB TO STAY OUT OF THE PA SENATE RACE.
SESTAK SAID AS MUCH IN AN INTERVIEW - BUT HAS SINCE CLAMMED UP - SINCE FINDING OUT IT WAS A CRIME.
LOTT:
if Sestak’s allegation is true, administration officials may have violated a federal statute which makes it a crime for a government employee to use his authority “for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate” for certain offices, including Senate seats.
EVEN ARLEN SPECTER KNOWS THAT THIS MAY HAVE LED THE WHITE HOUSE TO COMMIT A FELONY.
WHAT DID GIBBS KNOW ANDS WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?
WHAT DID OBAMA KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?
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SGK Rebrands As Global Packaging And Brand Experience Provider
By: Matthews International Corporation via PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- SGK, a division of Matthews International Corporation, unveiled an updated brand identity today to reflect its repositioning as a global packaging and brand experience provider that simplifies marketing, amplifies brands and delivers value. The company has simplified its own portfolio of brands, integrating the expertise within its Anthem, Brandimage, IDL, Marque and Schawk brands which will go to market as SGK starting in early 2021.
The rebranding coincides with a far-reaching organizational re-design, encompassing changes to operating structure, technologies, processes and people, including performance and recruiting programs, all designed to drive greater levels of creativity, efficiency and flexibility. It is the most comprehensive change to the division's business model in its history.
According to Gary R. Kohl, president of SGK, "We are a very different business than we were even last year, and a vastly different business than we were ten years ago. Our heritage in packaging production will always be something we are proud of and an area in which we will continue to innovate on behalf of our clients with our growing investment in technology and automation. Uniting our brands around one mission and one vision will give our clients the seamless, global experience the market demands today."
Added Kohl, "Our rebranding was also an opportunity to mobilize our diverse talent and our deep expertise along the packaging and brand experience development processes—from idea through implementation—while aligning our operations tightly with our new go-to-market strategy. Our rebrand is not cosmetic. It is a better reflection of our ambitions as a business, our heritage, and the journey we are taking with our diverse global teams."
Mary Bartel, senior vice president of marketing at SGK noted that: "Our market research confirmed that aligning our portfolio of brands would allow the marketplace to more easily navigate our extraordinary service offering. Integrating the expertise of our creative and production brands has reframed our capabilities along a journey that begins with defining solutions for our clients and transforming brands."
Delphine Dauge, managing director of SGK's creative office in Paris, one of many in the SGK global creative and brand experience network, noted: "The creation of our new visual identity elevates our position in the marketplace as a leader and the strength of the monogram invites people to think of SGK more creatively. The monogram acts as a prism through which to view the new SGK and all the expertise we bring to the marketplace today and tomorrow. Our talented multicultural creative experts from around the world worked as a single unified team to bring the new SGK brand to life."
SGK is a global packaging and brand experience company. From idea to implementation, we deliver packaging solutions and brand experiences that give brands the freedom to speak louder, scale faster and grow stronger. We simplify marketing and amplify brands to deliver value. We have more than 6,500 employees and 1,500+ clients worldwide and advise thousands of the world's greatest brands. SGK is a division of Matthews International Corporation. (NASDAQ GSM: MATW) Visit SGK at: https://www.sgkinc.com/
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China Sentences 6 Expats for Drugs 💀 Canadian Gets Death Penalty
Expat RightsTue, May 21, 2019 4:37am URL:
A court in southern China handed down sentences Tuesday to at least six foreigners involved in an international methamphetamine operation, including a Canadian given the death penalty.
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The Jiangmen Intermediate People’s Court in southern Guangdong province sentenced 11 people who produced more than 63 kilograms (139 pounds) of methamphetamine, an illegal drug.
Among them were one American and four Mexicans, who were all given life sentences or death sentences suspended by a period of two years.
The court statement did not make clear which individual received what sentence, nor did it give their full names,
The Canadian sentenced to death was identified as “Fan Wei,” but it was unclear whether that’s the person’s legal name.
A person identified as Wu Ziping, whose nationality was not specified, was also handed the death sentence.
According to the court, Fan Wei and Wu conspired to manufacture and sell the drugs in 2012, and brought the others – described as “drug-making technicians” – on board.
Between July and November of that year, the court says, the group set up a “den” in Guangdong’s Taishan city, where they produced and sold more than 63 kilograms of methamphetamine and 365.9 grams of dimethyl amphetamine.
In a separate drug smuggling case, China sentenced Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg to death in a sudden retrial January – one month after Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained on vague national security allegations.
China has also suspended the license of two major Canadian canola exporters, alleging that officials discovered hazardous organisms in canola seed shipments.
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8.113.46500.4 : Isomerization
4.1034.143290.135 : Addition
2.130.10.10 : Methylamine Dehydrogenase; Chain H Catalytic domain
1jof
2.130.10.10 : Methylamine Dehydrogenase; Chain H D00039 M00329
P38677 Carboxy-cis,cis-muconate cyclase
3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate lactonizing enzyme
CMLE
XP_957686.1 (Protein)
XM_952593.1 (DNA/RNA sequence)
PF10282 (Lactonase)
Carboxy-cis,cis-muconate cyclase
3-Carboxymuconate cyclase
P38677 CMLE_NEUCR 3-Carboxy-2,5-dihydro-5-oxofuran-2-acetate = 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate. Homotetramer. Does not require divalent cations for activity.
MAP00362 Benzoate degradation via hydroxylation
C01163 C04553 I00068
3-Carboxy-cis,cis-muconate 3-Carboxy-2,5-dihydro-5-oxofuran-2-acetate 3-carboxy-2,5-dihydro-5-oxofuran-2-enolate
carboxyl group carboxyl group,aromatic ring (with hetero atoms other than nitrogen atoms)
1jofA00
Unbound Unbound Unbound
1jofB00
1jofC00
1jofD00
1jofE00
1jofF00
1jofG00
1jofH00
HIS 148;ARG 196;GLU 212;ARG 274
J Bacteriol
Mazur P, Henzel WJ, Mattoo S, Kozarich JW
3-Carboxy-cis,cis-muconate lactonizing enzyme from Neurospora crassa: an alternate cycloisomerase motif.
Glumoff T, Helin S, Mazur P, Kozarich JW, Goldman A
Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate lactonizing enzyme from Neurospora crassa.
Merckel MC, Kajander T, Deacon AM, Thompson A, Grossmann JG, Kalkkinen N, Goldman A
3-Carboxy-cis,cis-muconate lactonizing enzyme from Neurospora crassa: MAD phasing with 80 selenomethionines.
Kajander T, Merckel MC, Thompson A, Deacon AM, Mazur P, Kozarich JW, Goldman A
The structure of Neurospora crassa 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate lactonizing enzyme, a beta propeller cycloisomerase.
According to the literature [3] and [4], the muconate lactonizing enzymes (MLEs) convert cis,cis-muconates into muconolactones, as a part of the beta-ketoadipate pathway. This pathway consists of two branches, catechol (MLEs; E.C. 5.5.1.1) and protocatechuate (3-carboxy-cis,cis-MLEs or CMLEs; E.C. 5.5.1.2) (see [3] and [4]).
Moreover, MLEs can be classified into three evolutionarily distinct classes (see [3] and [4]). Firstly, bacterial MLEs catalyze a syn addition, using a Mn2+ cofactor with a TIM barrel fold as the catalitic domain (D00282 in EzCatDB). Secondly, bacterial CMLEs (PDB;1q5n) catalyze an anti addition, without metal cofactor on a fold, which is related to class II fumarase (T00086) family (CATH 1.20.200.10). Thirdly, both eukaryotic MLEs and CMLEs catalyze a syn addition, without metal cofactor. This entry belongs to the CMLEs in the third class.
According to the literature [4], this enzyme catalyzes an intramolecular addition reaction and an isomerization, through an enolate intermediate, as follows:
(A) Addition of carboxylate oxygen to the C4 double-bonded carbon, forming an enolate intermediate:
(A1) The sidechains of Arg196 and Arg274 seem to modulate and increase the nucleophilicity of the C1 carboxylate of the substrate, 3-carboxylate-cis,cis-muconate, by interacting with it.
(A2) The C1 carboxylate oxygen makes a nucleophilic attack on the C4 (sp2) carbon, whereas Glu212 acts as a general acid to protonate the C6 carboxylate. The reactions lead to the formation of an enolate intermediate.
(B) Isomerization; Shift of double-bond position (from C=C-O to C-C=O):
(B1) His148 seems to act as a general acid to protonate the C5 carbon in the enolate intermediate. (Here, Glu212 must act as a general base to deprotonate the C6 enolate oxygen. Otherwise, it must be difficult to convert the enolate intermediate to the product.)
## Although the literature [4] described His148 as a general base, it seems to act as a general acid in the forward reaction (from the substrate to product). However, it will be a genral base in the reverse reaction.
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Arts,Cities and Countries
AKAA – Also Known As Africa is the first contemporary art and design fair focused on Africa in France And reinforce its commitment to showcasing contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora.
Decoexplorer following our commitment to contemporary African art, are delighted to announce that the 2020 edition of AKAA will take place exceptionally this year, under the glass roof of the Atelier Richelieu, in the Palais-Royal district, from 13 to 15 November. This 5th edition features twenty-one exhibitors from France, other European countries and Africa, yet one American curator,
AKAA is the only fair in France to spotlight artists working on this market and has to develop something here even if it’s smaller than 1-54 in London
The fair, redesigned in this exceptional context, will therefore offer a more intimate format to welcome exhibitors and visitors in the best conditions and to refocus on the sustainability of a market in full development. Access to AKAA will be by invitation only. The dialogue and the relationship between the gallery and its clientele will be privileged, in order to favour networking and projects for artists, and to continue to strengthen the market of contemporary African art in Paris.
Several highlights and meetings will be offered throughout the fair to enrich the visiting experience.
“I would be very happy to integrate those kinds of [higher calibre] artists and the more established we get, the more feasible it would be to get the participation of those [more renowned] galleries,” says Victoria Mann, the founder of AKAA.“It’s a long-term process. The idea is to open up the fair to other contemporary art scenes in the Middle East and Latin America that are in one way or another connected to the African continent because I don’t think that having a strictly African art fair is sustainable.”
Affordable discoveries by upcoming artists are aplenty from collages by Helina Metaferia, born in the US to Ethiopian parents, and mixed media works by the Bahamas-born, London-based Alexandria Robinson, both at Nomad Gallery (Brussels), to Ugandan artist Ocom Adonias’s charcoal drawings on newspaper collages at Afriart Gallery, Kampala.
Yet some dealers have suggested that AKAA could benefit from being held during Fiac in October and needs to attract more serious collectors to enable more expensive works to be sold. “Unlike 1-54 and Art Lagos, AKAA is missing premiere branding and if the audience isn’t looking for big prices, it’s difficult for the galleries to break even so it needs to work harder to attract collectors from other European cities such as Amsterdam and Berlin,” says Daudi Karungi from Afriart Gallery.
AKAA will return to the Carreau du Temple for its sixth edition in November 2021
The art director is Armelle Dakouo. For more information, visit www.akaafair.com / contact@akaafair.com
Art, Contemporary African Art, Featured, Festival, Modern Art, Museums, Paris, Primitive art
This exhibition, featuring more than 100 pieces and curated by Luis Puelles and Lourdes Moreno, explores how masks changed the representation of the human figure in modern art. Initially having a traditional, festive use linked to carnivals and fancy-dress costume, which lingered on in early avant-garde art in depictions of characters from the Commedia dell’arte, masks came to be identified with the grotesque in Goya’s work and emerged as a reference for portraying the face in modern art as a result of the influence of ethnographic masks of non-European cultures in the early 20th century.
Mirroring the sequence of a metamorphosis, the exhibition examines how masks were used in art as something absolute, beyond their well-known traditional associations with rituals, magic, the theatre and costume, showing how they went from being objects to artistic images. It traces the evolution of masks from physical objects –tangible elements placed over faces to conceal or replace them – to the gradual abandonment of the presence behind them, eventually leading to their loss of materiality and independence from the face and, ultimately, to the merging of mask and face into a new and ambiguous identity in modern portraiture.
Supernatural masks. The artists of the early avant-garde period became increasingly interested in non-western ritual masks as sources of inspiration for shattering the codes of figurative representation and imbuing works with new meanings and varied nterpretations. Modern artists’ espousal of the aesthetic principles associated with the ‘primitive’ – simplicity, coarseness, spirituality, a hieratic appearance –marked the abandonment of the academic conventions of beauty and harmony and from then onwards the mask acted as a modern synthesis of the human face.
CARNIVAL FOLLIES
Over the course of history artists have turned to masks and fancy-dress costume as strategies for shaping new identities. Carnival celebrations are a paradigmatic example of the collective release of irrational urges through masks. They are a means of subverting the rules and giving free rein to the most basic instincts. We find similar strategies in the theatre, where characters wear masks and are protected by a physical barrier between reality and appearance, in a universe that combines the grotesque, the comic and caricature.
TRANSFIGURED FACES
As the last link in the genealogical chain of the presence of masks in the complex modern identity, we find portraits where faces function as ‘inhuman’ masks, with no communicative depth. The triumph of subjectivity, the absence of dogmas and loss of interest in achieving likeness gave rise to a repertoire of identities that were ambiguous, fragmented, disfigured, alienated or concealed by makeup. These ‘faceless’ portraits are an appropriate expression of today’s contradictory society.
Bilingual catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition
The catalogue, illustrated with 147 colour plates, includes texts by the exhibition curators Luis Puelles Romero, Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the UMA, Lourdes Moreno, Director of the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga, and contributions from the Museum’s curatorial team.
In the following links you can see two videos of the exhibition:
https://www.carmenthyssenmalaga.org/multimedia/video/161
https://www.carmenthyssenmalaga.org/exposiciones/2020/Mascaras/vv/visita_virtual.html
Museo Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Málaga From 28 July 2020 to 10 January 2021
Julio Gonzalez. Máscara austera. 1940
Pablo Picasso. Etude ‘trois femmes’. 1908
Walt Kuhn, Boy with chistera, 1948
Featured, Malaga, Masks, Modern Art, Museums, Primitive art
Arts,History of Africa,People
Fanti doll, clearly related in form ton the Ashanti akua ba. It has been claimed that both types of doll are Ashanti, and that the round-headed type is worn when girls is desired and the rectangular-headed type when a boy is wanted, but in fact they are the work of different peoples.
Africa, Art, Ashanti, Ashanti culture, Dolls, Featured, FRante, Modern Art, Primitive art
History of Africa,People
BERBERS
2 Apr , 2020
Unknown protagonists silenced by official sources, the Berbers (or Imazighen, as they prefer to be known) are the group of peoples who since ancient times occupied almost all of North Africa, from the Siwa oasis (west of Egypt) to the Atlantic Ocean, including the Canary Islands, and from the Mediterranean to the south border of the Sahara.
Throughout history they have gone by many other names (Mauri, Libu, Numidians, Gaetuli, Garamantes…) reflecting their internal, geographical, and cultural plurality.
The Imazighen have witnessed numerous migrations, colonisations, and invasions. All have enriched their identity, while reducing their population through assimilationist policies.
However, the Berbers survive. It is calculated that there are currently over 35 million Berber, 20 million in Morocco, while the European and American diaspora account for several million
The Amazigh identity or identities are today reflected above all in their language, TAMAZIGHT, in its different variations (Tarifit. Tashelhit, Tamahaq…). It is also reflected in their awareness of sharing a common legacy of traditions, celebrations, and customs, and finally in their willingness to accept this legacy as their own.
From the late 11th century, major dynasties from North Africa such as the Almoravid (lamțūna) and then the Almohad (masmuda) tried to reunify the Islamic West, reinterpreting Is lam and homogenising and highlighting the Amazigh language ge and culture which became driving forces for Islamisation. However, the influence of the Imazighen did not end there.
At the height of the hegemony of the feudal kingdoms, from the 13th century, a new power came into play, the Marinids. The ties between this emirate with its seat in Fez and that of the Nasrid in Granada were solid, with mutual influences and extensive exchanges. This can be observed in the Alhambra and the major institutional constructions (madrasa, maristan, gates…) but also in everyday ceramic goods. It has even been argued that a Maghrebisation took place in Granada.
Africa, Explore, Featured, Fez, Islam, Morocco, Museums, North of Africa, Primitive art
16 Jan , 2020
Contemporanea was founded in 1996 as an organization which promotes art through activities and culture programs in Spain and worldwide. Mario Martin Pareja and Dumia Medina are the Directors.
He has produced more than 50 exhibitions such as “Apocalypse”, with Keith Haring and Williams Burroughs; “Seguir vivo”, with Michel Houellebecq and Masbedo; “Andy Warhol, Pietro Psaier & The Factory: Pop Icons”; “USA Today: An Approach to 21st Century American Art”; “Gráfika. A Collections of Prints by the Artists of Beautiful Losers”; “Ryan McGinley. Yearbook”; “Lydia Lunch. A Retrospective”; “Gráfika. 30 Artists from Young Spain”; “Duffy. Retrospective”; “Richard Kern. Naked and Famous”, “Steve Schapiro. Retrospectiva”, “C215. Sobre todo, los objetos”, “Suite 1742. John Lennon & Yoko Ono”, “Madonna. El nacimiento de un mito” “Nirvana. 20 Años”, “From Sex To Punk”, “Duffy. Bowie Series”, among others.
As editor it has also produced books (Lydia Lunch, Michel Houellebecq, William S. Burroughs) or limited edition prints and objects (Richard Kern, Tim Biskup, C215, Miss Van, Lydia Lunch, Jim Houser, René Peña, Victor Castillo, Valeriano López, Chema López, Jacobo Castellano, Boris Hoppek, etc.).
Contemporanea also collaborates with other Museums and Art Centers in musical, spoken word and performing activities. It has worked with entities such as Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona (CCCB); La Casa Encendida (Madrid); Fundación para las Artes (Valladolid); DA2-Domus Artium (Salamanca); Espai D’Art (Castellon); Es Baluard (Majorca); José Saramago Foundation, Audi Foundation Beirut, etc.
Art, Featured, Museums, Primitive art, Shops
Kifwebe
Mask from the BaSongye, whose Word for mask, kifwebe, is commonly applied by collectors to this type of mask. The male mask embody the power of sorcery and perform spectacular feats to induce fear in the spectators.
Art, Ethnic Patterns, Explore, Featured, Mask, Museums, Primitive art, Tribal
Fanti doll, clearly related in form ton the Ashanti akua ba. It has been claimed that both types of doll are Ashanti, and that the round-headed type is worn when girls is desired and the rectangular-headed type when a boy is wanted, but in fact they are the work of diferent peoples.
Art, Ashanti culture, colours, Dolls, Ethnic Patterns, Explore, Fante people, Featured, Ghana, Home Decor, Museums, Primitive art, Shops, Tribal
Ba Kota reliquary
Wooden figures covered with brass or copper sheeting are placed by the BaKota over a package containing simple bones of outstanding ancestors. The form was developed to display as much of the valuable metal as possible. (Juan Gris made a copy of one in cardboard in 1922)
BaKota People, Cameroon, Ethnic Patterns, Explore, Featured, Home Decor, Juan Gris, Modern Art, Museums, Primitive art, Tribal
Mumuye people statuettes
Figure from northern Nigeria have been made by a Mumuye. A remarkable feature of the style is the way in wich the arms and even the abdomen of one piece are used to enclose space within the sculpture.
Art, Ethnic Patterns, Explore, Featured, Modern Art, Museums, Nigeria, Primitive art, Sculpture, Tribal
Punu masks
2 Feb , 2018
White faced mask of type used by the BaKota, BaLumbo, BaPunu, Mpongwe and several other tribes. Documented pieces have been collected among all these peoples. Among th BaPunu the wearer dances on sitis
Africa, Art, Cameroon, colours, Ethnic Patterns, Explore, Featured, Home Decor, Modern Art, Museums, Primitive art, Punu people, Tribal, White
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Louisville softball takes major step toward program’s 1st league crown
Posted on May 5, 2015 by Tony Ciniglio
Emma Detamore threw a one-hitter with nine strikeouts to help Louisville beat Flintridge Sacred Heart 7-3 to take a big step toward program’s first league title.
It wasn’t the start Emma Detamore anticipated Tuesday, but an impressive finish by the Louisville softball team strengthened its aspirations for the program’s first Sunshine League title.
After facing a two-run, first-inning deficit against Flintridge Sacred Heart, the Portland State-bound Detamore regrouped to pitch a one-hitter with nine strikeouts and Louisville scored the final four runs in a 7-3 victory at Pierce College.
“I’m so excited and so proud of all these girls because we all continue to push ourselves every day and it’s really humbling to know it’s all paying off,” said Detamore, who retired 12 of the final 13 batters she faced.
“(After the first inning) I just had to remember that my defense was going to be there behind me and that I wasn’t out there all by myself. I knew as long as I did half and they did half, we’d be OK. I didn’t do my best at the plate, but they more than made up for it and they really picked me up.”
Shawna Smith had three hits with a run and an RBI, Peyton Anton hit an inside-the-park home run and Annamia Bresin added a triple, double, two runs and an RBI for Louisville (16-9, 5-0), which took a 3-2 lead in the third on a two-run double by Jordan Cleary.
“For me, winning this is everything and to come back the way we did is a really powerful feeling,” said Bresin, who drove in Delaney Cohen for a 4-3 lead in the fourth.
“Last year we didn’t do too well, so to be in first is really cool. It’s a really proud feeling for all of us.”
Kaitlin Powers had the lone hit for Flintridge Sacred Heart (12-8, 4-2) against Detamore (15-7) in the first and tied the score 3-3 in the fourth when she tagged from third on a pop out to the catcher and beat the throw home.
Ali Pfahler had a hit and a run, Kelsey Venuti scored and Taylor Gorjestani drove in a run on a squeeze bunt for Louisville, which plays Thursday against Immaculate Heart at Pierce College seeking at least a share of the league title.
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The Subtle Knife
Posted On : Jan 21, 2021 Published By : Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife Lost in a new world Lyra finds Will a boy on the run a murderer a worthy and welcome ally For this is a world where soul eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of
Title: The Subtle Knife
Author: Philip Pullman
Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will a boy on the run, a murderer a worthy and welcome ally For this is a world where soul eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels.Each is searching Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power And neitherLost in a new world, Lyra finds Will a boy on the run, a murderer a worthy and welcome ally For this is a world where soul eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels.Each is searching Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, and their destinies are bound together until they are split apart.
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About "Philip Pullman"
In 1946, acclaimed author Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, into a Protestant family Although his beloved grandfather was an Anglican priest, Pullman became an atheist in his teenage years He graduated from Exeter College in Oxford with a degree in English, and spent 23 years as a teacher while working on publishing 13 books and numerous short stories Pullman has received many awards for his literature, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal for exceptional children s literature in 1996, and the Carnegie of Carnegies in 2006 He is most famous for his His Dark Materials trilogy, a series of young adult fantasy novels which feature freethought themes The novels cast organized religion as the series villain Pullman told The New York Times in 2000 When you look at what C.S Lewis is saying, his message is so anti life, so cruel, so unjust The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt At one point, the old professor says, It s all in Plato meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second rate copy of something much better I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife He argues for a republic of heaven here on Earth.In 2007, the first novel of the His Dark Materials trilogy was adopted into the motion picture The Golden Compass by New Line Cinema Many churches and Christian organizations, including the Catholic League, called for a boycott of the film due to the books atheist themes While the film was successful in Europe and moderately received in the United States, the other two books in the trilogy were not be adapted into film, possibly due to pressure from the Catholic Church When questioned about the anti church views in His Dark Materials, Pullman explains in an interview for Third Way UK It comes from history It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning the Catholics It comes from the insensate pursuit of innocent and crazy old women, and from the Puritans in America burning and hanging the witches and it comes not only from the Christian church but also from the Taliban Every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don t accept him Wherever you look in history, you find that It s still going on Feb 2002 Pullman has received many threats by ardent believers over his choice of subject matter.More ffrf news day dayitems itenpedia wiki Philip_Prandomhouse features p.on Philip Pullman db name nm1099514
235 thoughts on “The Subtle Knife”
Bookdragon Sean
When I read this the first time I completely overlooked a main component of the book. I approached it as if was the second book in the series, a massive mistake. I wrote a review criticising the fact that the novel felt awkward; it had no beginning or end: it just felt like the typical content you’d find in the middle of the story. The ironic point of this is that most critics take the trilogy as one whole book, rather than three separate works. And this really is the best way to approach the [...]
The second entry in a trilogy is often, in my opinion, the best. The author doesn't have to introduce the universe or the characters, as they did in the first installment, but they don't need to worry about wrapping up all the plot points either. Instead, the focus can be on 'the good stuff': elaborating on the story, teasing us more, giving action, chopping off Luke's hand and so on. Instead of the good stuff, in The Subtle Knife I feel as though we've had a bait and switch pulled on us.In The [...]
¡Ese FINAL!!! te deja con la NECESIDAD de saber que sigue.Estos no son libros infantiles, no se que se le metió al editor o a quien se lo ocurrió la brillante idea de clasificarlos de esa forma, pero a mi parecer que tengamos por protagonistas a niños no hace que el libro ipso facto sea infantil. Esta vez el centro de la historia, al parecer, es la búsqueda del padre de Will, pero una vez mas Pullman nos muestra que su trama es mas complicada de lo que aparenta ser. Los puentes entre los mu [...]
Cait • A Page with a View
I love the world(s), but this is where the series starts getting too weird for me. I'm just not huge on the anti-religion theme like at times it takes away from the actual story with its intensity. I absolutely love when books can mess around with theoretical physics or philosophy, so there were still some aspects I had fun with. But the religion stuff stuck out really awkwardly for me and was hard to get past. I'm still a big fan of the witches, Lyra, Will, and the worldbuilding in general, tho [...]
David Schaafsma
I share this review again in the fall of 2017 as a fourth volume (though Pullman later wrote two companion pieces to the trilogy, entitled Lyra's Oxford, and Once Upon a Time in the North), The Book of Dust, has been released, to encourage all ages to read. As with most great "children's" books, there are a range of levels on which Pullman is working. He's taking on the Roman Catholic view of reality, C.S. Lewis (in The Chronicles of Narnia), and is in conversation with John Milton, whose Paradi [...]
I am not a fan of forwarded emails. They frustrate me, because they usually come from the same group of people, people I like a great deal but who never send me a normal "hey, how's it going?" message. Just "Support our Troops" or "Tell every woman you know she's special" or "Microsoft is running a test and if you send this you could get a check for $1,000!" When I see the letters FWD in the subject line, I usually simply delete it.I lost track of the number of emails I received telling me about [...]
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #1), Philip Pullman تاریخ نخستین خوانش: دهم ماه آگوست سال 2008 میلادیعنوان: نیروی اهریمنی اش کتاب دوم - خنجر ظریف؛ نویسنده: فلیپ پولمن؛ مترجم: فرزاد فربد؛ تهران، کتاب پنجره، 1384، 1385، در پنج جلدکتاب اول شامل دو جلد بخش اول و دوم: سپیده ی شمالی [...]
Candace Wynell McHann
Way back at the end of November/beginning of December of good ol' 2007, I read Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass. Why? Well, because there was all that talk about how it got made into a movie. I read the book, and found it very thought provoking. As for the movie it's a watered down version of Pullman's work, but not bad for the most part. I mean, I don't think it would go over too well with audiences who haven't read to book to know that Lyra's friend Roger is killed by Lord Asreil and that [...]
Weird like the Wizard of Oz, magical like Harry Potter, and interesting, unlike "Chronicles of Narnia." The symbolism is so agog, so strange Obviously, it makes for a great young adult novel!!
Shayantani Das
Two very strange things happened last week. I gave I Am Half Sick Of Shadows: A Flavia De Luce Novel two stars and am now giving this book five star. It is strange because the former book’s protagonist, my dear Flavia De Luce is my favorite obstinate pre teen. On the contrary, Lyra, another stubborn, precocious, pre-teen absolutely annoyed me in the previous book. Right now though, I can not for the life of me imagine why I did not like the first novel and Lyra. Well, at least I adore her righ [...]
Amy | shoutame
The second in the trilogy and possibly my favourite out of the three.
For a moment, just imagine that after reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone you were so enthralled by the protagonist (even if you weren't bare with me), his friends and the entire world that has been established. It has moral undertones, but at it's heart it is a fun fantasy novel. Then you pick up Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and suddenly Harry has been downgraded as a protagonist in favor of Dan, our brand new second main character. He's super awesome and whatnot and sort o [...]
Just as fantastic all these years later. Still shocking, still clever, still more grown up than a lot of 'adult' books out there. This book doesn't shy away, doesn't talk down, and definitely doesn't disappoint.
In this case, the high rating is not for the actual quality of the book (that is very good btw), but for all that it meant to me while I was growing up.
Xime García
Reseña de "Luces del Norte" (La Materia Oscura 1)Reseña de "El Catalejo Lacado" (La Materia Oscura 3)¿Habéis intervenido en la evolución humana?SÍ.¿Por qué?VENGANZA.Este segundo libro me gustó muchísimo más que el primero. Se dieron muchos giros, conocimos nuevos personajes y arribamos a nuevos mundos. Todo lo planteado en Luces del Norte gana mayor terreno (diría que colosal) y todo lo que pensábamos que podía ser de una forma, termina siendo de otra.Sin embargo, puedo ver por qu� [...]
Much like the city of Citagazze, The Subtle Knife is the crossroads between Northern Lights and The Amber Spyglass, and as such I think it's unfair to judge it as a single novel. It introduces the wonderful characters of Will and Mary, and brings the whole concept of multiple worlds into play. We also see small hints of the rebellion that will be raged across the worlds, but more importantly we see the beginnings of Lyra and Will. In Will we see someone who's had responsibility thrust upon them [...]
What I did like about this book is that it starts with Lyra, a girl we have become acquainted with from another world, meeting Will, a boy from our world. Bringing the fantasy into our own reality was surreal and interesting. But only for a minute and then it became a bore. The story was slow and at some points stopped altogether to allow Pullman his theological preachings of anti-church and anti-god. If the story had been metaphorical I would have enjoyed it more, but it became less fiction and [...]
Why, no, I have never read His Dark Materials before. It was not a thing in Poland and after seeing that nonsensical film I was not exactly inspired to read it. However, when I was in New Your a few weeks ago, my friend there practically forced these books on me. And then it got really cold, the water in our pipes froze and reading some good children's fantasy novel seemed like the best idea.This series is definitely improving as it goes on. I liked this better than the first part. The first few [...]
Brigid ✩ Cool Ninja Sharpshooter ✩
So, I'm re-reading this trilogy for the first time in like twelve years! I was curious to see what my stance on it would be after all this time. I remember loving the first book as a kid and then being a little iffy about books two and three and well, I think I liked this second installment a bit more as an adult, but I do still feel it's not quite as strong as the first book.There are still a lot of things I love about The Subtle Knife:• The world-building continues to be very entrancing, es [...]
This second volume of His Dark Materials introduced a couple of new characters such as young Will, who becomes Lyra's friend. Lyra has crossed the bridge between the worlds at the end of the last book and landed in a city of another where there are no adults, apparently because of specters. Shortly later she meets Will, who has had it hard in his very own way what with his sick mother and missing father. For some reason, the alethiometer tells Lyra to help him find his father.Through Will, Lyra [...]
notgettingenough
LaterIt is so surprising to me that the thing I found vastly irritating right at page one of the first of this series - the daemon - so quickly captivated me. You have this daemon in you, all of us, just as the story goes. And as a child it is anything, it has the fantastical vision that children have, there is nothing to stop it. But then we mostly grow up and we mostly lose the idea that we can do anything, we lose imagination, we lose the unconscious bravery of our childhood, we lose the intr [...]
Jan-Maat
It has been a while since a book last left me with the desire to have my head trepanned and to become a shaman. And I suppose these days it is difficult to get on the training course and who knows if the pension scheme will be all that it was cracked out to be?Reading I thought this business of the human mind and the flow of consciousness through a multiplicity of universes reminded me of something else. As always it takes some days for this kind of thought to percolate down to the answer - I re [...]
When I first read this book I was young enough to still pronounce the 'b' in 'subtle', and now I can't look at this book without doing it again. I still think it sounds better that way - it gives the word a sort of dull power that I think depicts the mysterious magic of the knife much better than the silly, flippant 'suttle'. Saying 'sub-tle' opens up previously-unimagined worlds which extend indefinitely into the distance. And this is what is good about this series. I've come up with a list of [...]
The strangest thing about Phillip Pullman's The Subtle Knife is that it doesn't feel like the second book in a series, making me wonder whether Pullman first wrote this in conjunction with The Amber Spyglass, then wrote The Golden Compass as a prequel, which then became the first book in the series once they were published. Not that it matters. What matters is that The Subtle Knife is too fast, too plot driven, and too much "a set-up" book to be an effective second book in the trilogy. Second bo [...]
I am rereading the trilogy before commencing the Book of Dust. Just as wonderful on a reread. I barely remembered it but a scene between Lee Scoresby and his daemon made me cry as it did the first time.Wonderful series. Recommended, but start with Northern Lights.
Executive Summary: I liked this better than the first one, but I still don't seem to love this series like so many others.Audiobook: The audio book was fantastic again. Not only the story narration but all of the voice readers make this a great choice in audio.Full ReviewSo this book adds a second protagonist named Will whose seemingly from our world. I find him more likable than most of the other characters, including Lyra, but that's not saying very much. I just don't like most of the characte [...]
The Subtle Knife which is the second volume in His Dark Materials trilogy fails to live up to the first installment.In Nothern Lights (or The Golden Compass, as it was titled in the US) readers were treated to a rich alternative universe. It was clear that the Philip Pullman had an active imagination and was good at constructing his worlds just as any good fantasy author.That's one of the reasons why I didn't enjoy this volume as much as the first one. As it was stated that the books will take p [...]
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CQ Adds International News Column, Names AA6TS International Editor
(Hicksville, NY January 29, 2013) – CQ magazine will be adding a monthly international news column as of its April edition, magazine editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, announced today. It will be coordinated by new International Editor Tom Smerk, AA6TS.
"A growing number of our readers and our fans on social media are from outside the United States," noted Moseson, "particularly with the addition of our digital edition, which eliminates the high cost of international postage."
"We'll be calling the column 'CQ World Wide,' " Moseson continued, and our goals will be to both better serve our international audience and to bring more news of ham radio activities around the world to our prime reader base in the U.S."
Tom Smerk, AA6TS, CQ magazine's
new International Editor
Smerk lives in Dulzura, California and has been active in ham radio off-and-on since 1988. For the past 25 years, he has taught business information technology for the San Diego Community College District. He is also a professional musician and formerly taught music as well. Tom enjoys 2-meter communications to keep in touch with friends during his commute to and from work; and after work, he can usually be found on the HF bands enjoying both voice and digital communications. Tom has written on various topics including business management, music and ham radio. He is active in ARES®, SKYWARN®, RACES, California Disaster Corps and CERT, and is a volunteer examiner as well. A committed lifelong learner, Tom’s greatest joy is helping new hams enjoy the hobby.
Hams with news of events and activities outside the United States are urged to contact Tom at <aa6ts@cq-amateur-radio.com>.
Posted by CQ Newsroom at 11:57 AM
Feb. 1 Application Deadline for ARRL Foundation Scholarships
Students interested in applying for scholarships administered by the ARRL Foundation have only until February 1 to submit their applications. The ARRL Foundation administers more than 70 scholarships, ranging in value from $500 to $10,000. Information and applications are available from the ARRL Foundation website at <http://www.arrl.org/scholarship-program>.
Reminder: US Postal Rates Rise Again on Jan. 27
The cost of mailing a first-class letter, a postcard or a package within the United States will increase on January 27, as will the cost of flat-rate Priority Mail packages. First-class postage rises to 46 cents for the first ounce and postcards will now cost 33 cents each to mail. The ARRL Letter notes that this is the third hike for postcards in less than two years.
The US Postal Service will also be introducing a "Global Forever Stamp" to complement its current domestic version, which will remain valid for one ounce of international postage regardless of future rate increases. The initial cost of the Global Forever Stamp is $1.10.
Boy Scouts OK Amateur Radio Operator Uniform Patch
Youth and adult members of the Boy Scouts of America who hold FCC amateur radio licenses may now wear a special "rating strip" on their scout uniforms. According the the ARRL Letter, the strip recognizes the Scout or Scouter’s availability as an Amateur Radio operator for communication services for events and activities, as well as emergencies. This follows last year's introduction of a Morse code interpreter strip.
FCC Commissioner Clyburn Confirmed for New Term
The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Obama's re-nomination of Mignon Clyburn as an FCC Commissioner. It will be her first full five-year term. Clyburn was initially appointed in 2009 to fill an unexpired term. Calling her re-appointment "an extraordinary honor," Clyburn said she was "humbled" by the Senate's confirmation. Her appointment is retroactive to June, 2012, when her initial term expired.
ARRL: Amateur Licenses Remain at All-Time High in 2012
ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, reported that the ranks of amateur radio operators in the United States have continued to grow at a "healthy" clip, ending the year 2012 with a record-high 709,575 licensees.
According to the ARRL Letter, Somma said the number of new licenses issued in 2012 was more than 3000 higher than in 2011, and that amateur radio in the U.S. has grown by 7% in the past four years. The fourth call district continues to be home to the greatest number of hams (140,000), followed by the sixth call area (100,000).
Congress Removes Export Prohibition on Satellites
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 -- passed by Congress in late December and signed by President Obama on January 2 -- removes a restriction that has essentially shut down international cooperation for building amateur satellites in the past decade.
Under the old law, satellites and their component parts were considered to be "munitions" and their export to other countries was severely limited. This made it impossible for amateur satellite organizations in different countries to work together on major projects (for example, the last big amateur satellite, Phase 3D, was built jointly by AMSAT groups in the U.S., Germany and other countries).
The new law restricts satellite exports only to China, North Korea and countries identified as state sponsors of terrorism, as well as those under trade embargoes. A recommendation from the departments of state and defense said the old law impeded the ability of American satellite builders to work with international partners while "providing no noticeable benefit to national security."
Final Comment Deadline Approaching on WRC-07 Implementation
The FCC's proposals for implementing the final acts of the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07) -- including two items of interest to amateurs -- is moving along toward its comment deadlines. The initial comment deadline is February 25 and reply comments will be accepted until March 27.
According to the ARRL, the items relating to ham radio are proposals to upgrade the amateur radio allocation in the top half of the 160-meter band (1900-2000 kHz) from secondary to primary, and a section seeking comment on whether a new secondary amateur allocation at 135.7-137.8 kHz would be compatible with power line carrier systems used by utilities to monitor and control the power grid.
The proceeding is ET Docket No. 12-338, and the ARRL says paragraphs 13-24 are the ones relating to ham radio.
AMSAT Website Hacked, Taken Offline
AMSAT-NA reports that its main <www.amsat.org> website was the victim of a cyberattack in mid-January. The amateur satellite organization said some of the website's data, including non-public information, was posted on other publicly-available websites. However, it said neither the AMSAT store nor the Fox project website were compromised and @amsat.org e-mail service was not affected, either.
To protect against the possibility that unwanted or illegal material was uploaded to the website at the time of the attack, the main website was shut down and an upgrade effort that was already in progress was accelerated. There was no word at press time as to when the site would again be fully functional.
AMSAT Receives Matching Fund Challenge for Fox Contributions
The AMSAT News Service reports that the organization has received a matching fund challenge of up to $25,000 from an anonymous donor to help encourage contributions to the Fox satellite project. Fox is expected to be launched by NASA later this year, and while the launch itself will be free, contributions are still needed to pay for costs of development and construction.
6-Meter Beacon from Antarctica?
An Australian ham who's spending a year working in Antarctica is planning to put a 6-meter beacon on the air as well as operating HF and satellites.
Mid-summer at Australia's Mawson Station in Antarctica.
VK6JJJ plans to operate from there for the next year, and
to set up a 6-meter beacon as well.
(Australian government webcam photo)
The AMSAT News Service says Craig Hayhow, VK6JJJ, will be working at the Australian Antarctic Territory station at Mawson, and will be operating ham radio in his spare time at VK0JJJ. He is expected to arrive on February 10.
The 6-meter beacon, VK0RTM, would be used to test propagation from Antarctica on the "magic band."
FCC Proposes Citizens Broadband Service at 3.5 GHz
The FCC is proposing the creation of a "Citizens Broadband Service" on 100 MHz of the 3.5 GHz band to accommodate "small cell and database technologies."
According to Newsline, the proposed service would operate between 3550 and 3650 MHz and would include three "tiers" of service: "Incumbent Access," which would protect current users of the band, including the Fixed Satellite Service and certain federal users; "Priority Access" for specific users such as hospitals, utilities or state/local governments; and finally, "General Authorized Access," which would permit "opportunistic use … for a variety of residential, business and enterprise purposes."
Providers using the new service - if it is created - would need to be licensed, and the Notice of Proposed Rule Making -- FCC 12-148 -- says they would be licensed under Part 95, which currently governs CB, the Family Radio Service (FRS) and the Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS). Comment deadlines had not been announced as of press time.
CQ DX Hall of Famer Wayne Mills, N7NG, Named CQ Magazine DX Editor
(Hicksville, NY January 22, 2013) – Renowned DXer, DXpeditioner and contester Wayne Mills, N7NG, of Jackson, Wyoming, has been named CQ magazine's DX Editor, magazine Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, announced today. Mills - a 1999 inductee into the CQ DX Hall of Fame - succeeds Carl Smith, N4AA, who has stepped down after writing the magazine's DX column for 13 years.
Licensed in 1953 at age 11, Wayne began DXing in 1956 and went on his first DXpedition in 1985. He was part of the ZA1A team that reintroduced amateur radio to Albania in 1991, and the inaugural operation from the newly-independent Republic of Kosovo in 2008. From 2000 to 2007, Wayne was manager of the ARRL's Membership Services Department and worked on developing the Logbook of the World electronic confirmation system. Wayne also set several contesting records over the years, but says he considers himself much more of a DXer than a contester.
"I am looking forward to working closely with Wayne," said CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, "and to sharing with our readers his depth of knowledge and first-hand experience with so many aspects of DXing. We at CQ also thank Carl for his many contributions to the magazine and to all of amateur radio over the past 13 years. We wish him all the best in the future."
"Following in Carl's footsteps will be difficult," noted Mills, "but going forward as the new CQ DX column editor, I will attempt to discuss items of current interest such as DXpedition funding, pileup behavior and maybe the many aspects of remote control DXing."
Mills will begin writing the CQ DX column as of the magazine's April 2013 issue.
CQ News: Ron Ochu, KO0Z, Named CQ Magazine Beginners Editor
(Hicksville, NY January 14, 2013) – Ron Ochu, KO0Z, of Girard, Illinois, has been named Beginners Editor of CQ Amateur Radio magazine, Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, announced today. He will begin writing the "Learning Curve" column as of the April 2013 issue. Ochu succeeds Rich Arland, K7SZ, who stepped down after a decade of writing various columns for several CQ Communications magazines.
Ochu is a recently-retired high school English teacher and ham radio license instructor. A ham since 1974, he has held an Extra Class license since 1982. His ham radio interests include DXing, antennas, VHF/UHF/SHF, RTTY and contesting, but notes that "nothing beats a good, down to earth ragchew with a fellow ham." In addition to ham radio, Ron enjoys photography, reading and spending time with his grandchildren. His wife, Debbie, is KC9ULA.
CQ Editor Rich Moseson said, "I am looking forward to working with Ron. His wide-ranging interests and experience both as a teacher and in working with new hams should be just the right formula for the 'Learning Curve' column, which is aimed both at new hams and at more experienced hams learning new aspects of the hobby."
"My hope is to encourage readers to discover and to experience, first hand, the many many avenues for growth and personal satisfaction that our hobby makes available," said Ochu. "I hope that my passion will be evident and perhaps even a little contagious!"
CQ Now on Twitter - Follow us!
CQ magazine has opened a Twitter account, which will be used to alert followers to news and other information of interest to amateur radio operators. All are invited to follow us at @deCQCQCQ.
TONIGHT: WRO-Pop'Comm Live Internet Chat
The WRO-Pop'Comm January 2013 Live Internet Chat will be held tonight, Sunday, January 13 beginning @ 8 p.m. Eastern time (0100 UTC Monday). Visit: <http://www.WorldRadioOnline.blogspot.com/ >. Hope to see you there.
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Text, Email Notifications Now Available For Courts To Communicate With Jurors
Posted on October 7, 2020 by Curt Kovener
Jackson and Scott County trial courts can now send text and email reminders, cancellations, and rescheduling notices to jurors. The Supreme Court’s Office of Court Technology added these enhancements to its Jury Management System, used by courts in 81 of Indiana’s 92 counties.
Eight counties began piloting the court-to-juror messaging feature in November of last year. Courts in Clark, Floyd, Hendricks, Howard, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Madison, and Monroe counties sent over 1,000 text messages and email notifications to nearly 20 jury panels during the pilot phase, which ended in March 2020, according to Kathryn Dolan, spokesperson for the Indiana Supreme Court.
While courts have remained open during the pandemic, COVID-19 temporarily halted jury trials and other non-emergency operations beginning in March 2020. As jury trials resume, trial courts are adapting to ensure a safe environment for staff, the public, case participants, and those called for jury duty. Measures may include social distancing, videoconferencing, more frequent cleaning, and now real-time communication with potential and selected jurors.
Jurors opt in for the text and email notifications by responding to a USPS mailed questionnaire sent with the summons from the court.
“Getting both the summons and request for information together should reassure potential jurors that they are receiving legitimate notifications from the court,” said Dolan.
Since jurors are randomly selected for jury pools, they must opt into the text or email notification feature each time they are selected into a new jury pool. Those who do not opt in to receive text and email notifications are still required to appear for jury duty, she said
More than 1,200 jury trials take place in Indiana each year. The Supreme Court partners with the Department of Revenue and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to annually create a comprehensive list of potential jurors. The list is made available to every county free of charge. Benefits of the JMS include randomly selecting jurors, assigning and overseeing jury panels, managing claims to pay jurors, and directly updating data to improve subsequent years’ jury lists.
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Tariff Notice 6572
Spring Calling Features Promotion
The Commission approves, on a final basis, Bell Canada's application to introduce the Spring Calling Features Promotion which will offer existing single-line residential customers, who subscribe to any of the eligible SmartTouch services or bundles, a rebate equivalent to one month subscription or $10, from 9 May to 23 June 2001.
Bell Canada filed the application on 16 March 2001 to revise Items 2025, 2165, 2170, 2220 and 4699 of its General Tariff.
The Commission received no comments with respect to the application.
The application was approved on an interim basis in Order CRTC 2001-289, dated 11 April 2001.
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Courtesy of Wikipedia: Galgos represented in the church of San Baudelio of Berlanga, Soria
The origin of the Galgo is somewhat mysterious. It is believed that they began with the medium-sized sighthounds that accompanied the Celtic migration into the Iberian Peninsula, circa 600 BC. The Romans continued with the traditional use of these hunting dogs during their reign. And later from the 8th to 15th centuries, they were used by the Moors, who also shaped the breed a bit by bringing in bloodlines such as the Podenco Ibicenco and the Sloughi.
For the longest time Galgos were owned predominately by the aristocracy. There were laws in place to punish those who stole or killed one of these magnificent hunters. Through the developing centuries Galgo ownership became more wide spread among the social hierarchy, until they were mostly found in the smaller provincial Spanish villages.
Today, the Galgo breed has fallen from a beloved, respected and sought after possession, to something akin to a "tool" or piece of equipment that is to be discarded and destroyed after it is no longer useful. There is not a specific reason for this drop in favor, however changes to the political climate, social equality, and a decreased dependency on subsistence hunting for survival are all likely contributors.
Now, the Galgo is used as a "sports hunter" for trophies and prizes. They are bred indiscriminately and profusely to produce the fastest, most capable dog. Any that cannot compete at a winning level are discarded. The horror here is that the "discarding" has been unchecked and commonly includes any of the following methods: abandonment, kill shelters (perreras), shooting, hanging, throwing off cliffs or down wells, and other atrocities. The "lucky" ones are on the streets and in the perreras; these are the ones that have the chance to be rescued by the few rescue groups and sanctuaries in the country.
It is estimated that somewhere between 40,000 to 60,000 Galgos are abandoned or killed every year. It is difficult to get an accurate number as several smaller rescues and individuals do not report the animals to the authorities. Due to the current unfavorable conditions and opinions of the Spanish public, the rescues have a difficult time finding pet homes for the dogs within their own country. Therefore, most of them have developed relationships with sighthound groups in other countries and do their best to place dogs with those groups.
The Spanish rescues are fighting a very serious battle. They have to rescue those they can, provide medical care, provide their daily care, and work to find homes for them. (Some of these dogs have been waiting years to be adopted!) They have to deal with a government that has laws in place for animal welfare, but that see no political advantage to enforcing those laws except in the most extreme cases. They have to fight to educate a public that has grown accustomed to these treatments as normal and culturally acceptable. They are working hard to educate the younger generations through school programs of the importance of these and all animal lives. Some groups are working with the Galgueros (the hunters/owners) to educate them about their responsibilities to these animals, and to take the dogs before they are injured or abandoned.
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Dr. Steingass: '...changes this adverse feeling into astonishment and admiration.'
Francis Joseph Steingass (March 16, 1825, Frankfurt am Main – January 1903) was a British linguist and orientalist of German Jewish descent. He completed his education, including the Ph.D., in Munich, Germany. Later he was professor of Modern Languages at Birmingham, Professor of Modern Languages and Resident Lecturer on Arabic Languages, Literature & Law at the Oriental Institute, Woking.
He knew 14 languages, including Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. He published a number of Persian-English, Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionaries.
''A work, then, which calls forth so powerful and seemingly incompatible emotions even in the distant reader - distant as to time, and still more so as mental development - a work which not only conquers the repugnance which he may begin its perusal, but changes this adverse feeling into astonishment and admiration... indeed and a problem of the highest interest to every thoughtful observer of the destinies of mankind. ”
(Quoted in T.P. Hughes' Dictionary of Islam, pp. 526-7.)
''Here, therefore, its merits as a literary production should perhaps not be measured by some preconceived maxims of subjective and aesthetic taste, but by the effects which it produced in Muhammad's contemporaries and fellow countrymen. If it spoke so powerfully and convincingly to the hearts of his hearers as to weld hitherto centrifugal and antagonistic elements into one compact and well organised body, animated by ideas far beyond those which had until now ruled the Arabian mind, then its eloquence was perfect, simply because it created a civilised nation out of savage tribes, and shot a fresh woof into the old warp of history. ”
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KIRK LORANGE
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Canadian slide guitarist Kirk Lorange arrived in Australia in 1974 where he has lived ever since, becoming a citizen in the early '90s. He has contributed to scores of album tracks, dozens of TV and film soundtracks, countless commercials, and played in too many line-ups to name. Through his own album No Apostrophe and songs like Richard Clapton's "Deep Water" and Mark Hunter's "Big City Talk", his distinctive sound has become engrained in the fabric of Australian Rock Music.
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Behold the breathtaking weakness of the Empire!
Leif 1. maj 2019 0
Of The Saker
The Empire has suffered painful defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq, but one has to admit that these are “tough” countries to crack. The Empire also appears to have lost control of Libya, but that is another complex country which is very hard to control. We also saw all the pathetic huffing and puffing with the DPRK. But, let’s be honest, the USA never stood a chance to bully the DPRK into submission, nevermind invading or regime-changing it. Syria was much weaker, but here Russia, Iran and Hezbollah did a world class job of repelling all the AngloZionist attacks, political and military. Besides, I for one will never blame Trump for not listening to Bolton and not triggering WWIII over Syria (yet?)
But Venezuela?!
No Hezbollah or Iran backing Maduro there. And Venezuela is way too far away from Russia to allow her to do what she did in Syria. In fact, Venezuela is in the proverbial “backyard” of the USA and is surrounded by hostile puppet regimes. And yet, tonight, it appears that the US puppet Guaidó has failed in his coup attempt.
Moon of Alabama did a great job covering the events of the day, so I will refer you to the excellent article “Venezuela – Random Guyaidó’s New Coup Attempt Turns Out to Be A Dangerous Joke“. I fully concur that today’s coup was both a joke and very dangerous.
Russian readers can also check out this article by Vzgliad which also gives a lot of interesting details, including the fact that Guaidó launched his coup from the Colombian Embassy in Caracas (see here for a machine translation).
But the thing which amazes me most tonight is the truly breathtakingly pathetic weakness of the clowns who launched this latest failed operation: Pompeo and Mr MAGA. Check them out:
Let’s begin with Pompeo.
According to him, the coup failed because of Russia (what else is new?)! Not only that, but Maduro had already decided to run to Cuba, but then the Russians stopped him.
So are we to believe that the coup was a stunning success, yet another feather to the CIA’s “hat” of failed successful covert operations? Apparently so.
After all, why would Maduro want to run unless he realized that the situation was hopeless?
But then “Russia” called him and told him to stay put. The conversation must gone something like this:
Putin: Mr Maduro – you don’t need to worry about a thing. Just do what we tell you and stay put.
Maduro: but my people hate me! They all turned against me! The military is behind the coup!
Putin: no, no, it’s all under control, just stay put.
Maduro: but the mob will lynch me if I stay!!!!
Putin: no worries, nobody will touch you.
Does that dialog look credible to you? I sure hope not! I think that anybody with a modicum of intelligence ought to realize that Maduro’s decision to stay in place could only have been based on one of two possible considerations:
The coup has failed and Maduro is safe or
The coup is successful and Maduro will stay and fight till his last breath (like Allende did)
But tonight Maduro is safe in Caracas and the coup plotters are on the run.
The truth is that only a loser and imbecile like Pompeo could come up with such a lame excuse in a desperate attempt to “cover his ass” and blame his failure on the Neocon’s favorite scapegoat: Russia.
Now let’s check what his boss had to say:
Trump does not blame Russia. Instead, he blames Cuba!
I don’t know what kind of silly scenarios Mr MAGA ran in his head to come up with “the Cubans did it” but that is even more ridiculous than “the Russians did it”. Reading this “tweets” (how appropriate for this bird-brain!) one could get the impression that the Cubans launched a full-scale military attack (involving both the Cuban military and “militias”) and that they orchestrated a brutal crack-down on the Venezuelan people.
In the real world, however, Cuba did nothing of the sort.
But, really, who cares?!
In the Empire of Illusions fact don’t matter. At least to the leaders of the AngloZionist Empire who continue to believe that only spin matters.
In the case of Venezuela, spin alone failed.
According to the typical scenario revealed to us by John Perkins, the next step should be a full-scale US invasion. And yes, he is right, that would be what the Empire would have done in its heyday. But nowadays?
Check out this interesting news snippet: Eric Prince wants Blackwater to send 5,000 mercenaries to Venezuela (does anybody know why and how these clowns came up with the 5,000 figure? First Bolton, now Prince. Do they *really* think that this is enough?!).
The point is not whether Prince will ever get to send mercenaries to Venezuela or whether the Trump administration is inclined to accept this offer. The point is that Prince would have never made this offer in the first place if the US military was up to the task. It is not, and Prince knows that very well.
The military stands by the Constitutional government of Venezuela
As for Maduro, he seems to have the support not only of a majority of his people, but of the Venezuelan armed forces. As for the armed forces, they are clearly enjoying the support of the people.
This is a very bad combination for the Empire. Here is why:
Yes, Venezuela has immense problems. And yes, both Chavez and Maduro have made mistakes. But this is not about Chavez or Maduro, this is about the rule of law inside and outside Venezuela. This is about the people of Venezuela, even the suffering ones, not willing to renounce the sovereignty of their country. Yes, Chavez did not solve all of Venezuela’s problems, but to deliver the country to the Empire would mean crushing any hope of true, real, people power. The Venezuelan people apparently have no illusions about their Yankee neighbors and they don’t want the Empire-style “democracy” to turn Venezuela into the next Libya.
I should never say never, and God only knows what tomorrow (May 1st) will bring (Guaido has called for a mass protests) but my gut feeling is that the Empire “injected” itself into Venezuela just enough to trigger an immune reaction, like a vaccine, but not enough to infect Venezuela with a toxin powerful enough to kill it.
In the meantime, US aircraft carriers are in the Mediterranean trying to scare Russia, Syria and Iran all at the same time. I can just imagine the disgusted contempt with which this latest sabre-rattling with outdated hardware is received in Moscow, Damascus or Tehran. Even Hezbollah remains utterly unimpressed.
The truth is that the only people who have not come to the realization that the Empire is broken and defeated are the rulers of the Neocon deep state and those who still watch the legacy Ziomedia.
By now everybody else has realized who utterly impotent the Empire has become.
The Empire only *appears* to be strong. In reality it is weak, confused, clueless and, most importantly, run by a sad gang of incompetent thugs who think that they can scare everybody into submission in spite of not having won a single significant war since 1945. The inability to break the will of the people of Venezuela is only the latest symptom of this mind-boggling weakness.
I will leave the last word to this charming lady who really said it all:
PS: warning – totally off topic! I just wanted to let you all know that I am doing well, all I need is a time to rest and re-charge the batteries. I want to thank you all for your kind words and wishes: you touched my heart in a way I will never be able to put in words. All I can say is “thank you!” for your kindness. The Saker
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